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·LOCAL: AND GENERAL.

MONDAY JUNE

BANDIT CAPTIVES.

STORY.

1928

hurasaing the bandits. On April 21, the outlawa were in a desperate situation as they were fast running short of ammunition. The plot of stopping the Blue Express and holding the foreign passeligere until the bandits demands were WHOLLY granted, was conceived. The

HONGKONG INTERVIEW..

OUTRAGE POLITICAL

It is reported that the Italian Major R. A. Allen, of the U.S.A, nission quarters at Walchow have Medical Corps, Station Hospital, been bombed by an acroplane be- Fort William McKinley, 9 miles longing to Sun Yat-sen's army, from Manila, Province of Riezals Two women are stated to have been P. I., towards the end of April seriously wounded while the buil ding suffered considerable dam age. It is also stated that previous to this, a hospital maintained by the same mission was damaged by gun-fire.

our Cook-too namerons to man unable to name 'ono. tion. They contain all-that-man unable to speak dogmatically of the growth of Communism in England,

The returna of notifiable MAJOR : ALLEN'S STIRRING does not want, from Blackwood beyond venturing the belief that it cabinets to liberty cretonnea; occa has no real root in the country, disease for the 24 hours ending on menigitis I, puerperal faver f. All sionally there is a twin bed, and a What the Hon. Member was uning June 23 are smallpox is enteric 2, front-door mat has on occasions at was probably the Socialist Bun the patients are Chinese. For the day schools scattered throughout the 48 hours ending June 24, the figures been known to be included. The land. The Precepts adopted by the replague 1; smallpox 3. enteric price varies from $2,000 to $4,000 Socialist. Sunday Schools deserve 3, meningitis 1, puerperal fever 2. LINCHENG heccording to the desire of the third citation as furnishing an adequate One Indian is down with enteric; kind of flat to get the first kind, answer to the slanders which have the other sufferers are Chinese.

often been thrown against them by The second variety is not so numer-febrile ortons.” They run as ous is the first and depends upon follows the acquisitiveness of speculators,Love your schoolfellows, who will be your fellow-workmen in life. the state of politics in Canton nudd, 2-Love leaming, which is the what is peculiarly known as the food of the mind; be as grateful, to housing problem. When thoy your teacher an to your parents.

3-Make every day holy by good begin to arise fattites, this be their cognomen, are known to arise and useful deeds and kindly actions 4.Honour good men, by cour In sheer desperation and teous to all men, bow down to nono, with determined looks do they sally. Do not hate or speak evil of forth and track. They, track the guyone. Do not be revengeful, but stand up for your rights and resist contractor whose 'flond' is busy

oppression, making bricks whilst the tonnut 6-Do not be cowardly. Ben cries, and then they stalk, the friend to the weak and love justice. 7-Remember that all the good architect to his unarchitectural

things of the earth are produced by looking den where he is laying labour. Whoever enjoys that solid financial foundation of dollar without working for them is stealing concrete which later on will take the bread of the workers,

8.Observe and think in order to him to the haven where he would discover the truth. Do not believe or 60 ago, be and which is not Finally the, OWNER AGENT is beavered;

moment their plans had been com pleted and the captives were, safe within the hill stronghold Sun Mela yau did what he could to mitigate the discomfort of the surroundings. Asked whether the harrowing des tails that had appeared in the obtained two months furlough to Shanghai. papers as to sickness visit North China, Corea and Japan, among the captives and the filthy On Saturday, May 5, Major Allen, surroundings, were true. Major his wife and their 12 year-old son Allen said: "As far as sickness Robert left Shanghai by the "Blue among our party was concerned, Express for Tientsin. At 2.30 there was little rent ground for a.m., on Saturday the trait was complaint except. In the case of derailed near Lincheng, Shantung Mr. Musso, Naturally the sanitary In connection with the attempt

a number of Chiffese and foreign and flies became fairly thick.as made some months ago to murder Province, by a party of bandits and arrangements were most primitive General Chan Wing-hsin, son of passengers, after being roughly soon as the hot weather set in. the ex-Civil Governor of Canton, handled were marched off into cap Sun Mei-yau, however, saw that Mr. Chan Chik-yu, the police have tivity in the hills. Mrs. Allen with water was carried up for us: increased the reward for informa Mrs. Pinge, unable to keep the intins so that we could tion leading to the arrest of the would be assassin from $1,000 to pice set by the bandits, were keep ourselves fairly clean and $2,000. General Chan was shot in abandoned and left by the road free of vernin. The bandits, It Glenealy while riding in a chair side about 7 am, but fortunately appears, are not in the habit of bath- soldiers. Robert after a gruelling with a vengeance. The sickness and only left hospital about a week we picked up " by a party of ing and they were vermin. ridden experience even for a vigorous was among the Chinese prisoners.

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BIRTH.

ANNETT-On June 16, 1923, at Paris, to Mr. and Mrs. N. A.

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MARRIAGE.

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C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Hong-

preside, Then loud barism,

kong, was to know of one com........

10-Look forward to the day the speakers included Miss cries are beard in the land, much

Smith, M. Middleton' when all inen and women will be E. good Stephens Blue binek spilt free citizens of one fatherland and Principal. St. Stephen's Girls' and the Residents Association arises live together as brothers and sisters College: Miss Tak Hing Shin, First Chinese student Welfare Work, and is assured officially that the in reace and righteousness.

It is probable that like skimmed London School of Economics; and matter is receiving attention. The

milk which masquerades as crean, Rev. E. W. L. Martin, St. Stephen's third kind of flat follows on the these precepts are not quite what College. others. He is always following on they seem, and that they are more or after them. The wante places of words to cloak the teaching against the peninsula are not for him. The which Bir John Butcher fulminates

We can only hope not. wideness and the solitude of Shatin and Taipo bore him. Their beauty is lost, upon him, otherwise would The go there and build himself at least a 'matshed. As R. L. Steven- son might well have said: "What flats these mortals be..*

or thenover doceive yourself or others.

prisoner of the bandit leader. When we Allon was kept a Do not think that those who Victoria, Hongkong and South released on the fourth day. Major Tze-Kou, the original stronghold Alas! too

love their own country-must hate China Diocesan Association was to

agreed to the release of himself were 10 prisoners, including two- and despise other nations, or wish be held June 5, at 3 p.m., in Lon- until May 30, when the outlaws were moyed to this place there es a sign of good faith in connec The adults, among whom. were for war, which is a remnant of harden. Sir Claud Severn, B. and Mr. W.R. Smith, of Manchester, lads (of abmit 16) a; d 18 children. tion with the negotiations then some suffering from plithisis, proceeding between the bandit were removed to some other leader and Mr. Roy Anderson spot the day after our arrival. and the representatives of the enough and though clothed (presumably acting for Tsac Kun) The children all appeared healthy Chinese Government. With a view in rags they evidently hid of obtaining the considered opinion not been stinted as regards food." of a man, who from his training. was certainly not likely to speak without well weighing his words, a China Mail representative called at the Hongkong Hotel, on Satur day night, and asked Major Allen for an interview. At the outset it was agreed that the furrowing details of the train-wreck and the march to the bandit stmaghold be passed over as "no longer being of news value."

The Longer View.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The body of Chu Fuk-tai, a Chinese student who was drowned while bathing of the Praya nearthe Harbour Office yesterday, has been recovered.

Motor-car no. 228, owned by Mr. Mackenzie of the Standard Oil The Lincheng affair, naturally Co., and driven by an Indian perhaps, has called forth a good chauffeur, accidentally knocked deal of loose writing in the Northern down a Chinese boy in Connaught papers. The interview granted by Road yesterday. Major Allen to the China Mail is,

THE

B00IAL AND PERSONAL.

The engagement is announced of Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonsire, and the Hon. James Stuart, son of the Earl of Moray,

Major-General Leonard Wood, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, with his party, was ex- pected to arrive in Shanghai on President Plerce" on the str. Friday.

Major H. E. Priestley, C.M.G., RA.M.C., has been granted leave. of absence on urgent private affairs

therefore, all the more valuable. Through not heeding the traffic from June 5 to September 4, 1973. Considering the hardships he under-constable's signal, a Chinese cyclist with permission to proceed from citizens it is America's own concern. went, Major Allen might well have ran into actor bus No. 614 at the Singapore to the United Kingdom Then America suddenly proclaimed inveighed against bis fate. On the corner of Nathan and Haiphong her intsution of applying her dry laws contrary, we find him calmly dis-Reads yesterday afternoon. The Hof only to United States vessels cussing the situation and even cycle was badly damaged.

evincing sympathy for the bandit

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motor:,

General Chan

visit

from Bandit Camp.

Major Allen, U.S.A. On Arrival

CARELESS WITH ARMS.

Major Allen stated that the bandit rank and file were.com- posed chiefly of ex-soldiers who still retained their uniform trousers. A large number of them, he was told, had at one time served in Horan Province, but failing to obtain payment of arrears in pay they had given up soldiering In despair and had returned to the parental roof in Shantung. In some way they had run foul of General Tien, possibly becaus they objected to serving in his army." In cons sequence, he had made their lives a burden and they had been forced to join the ban dits in order to obtain a full fice-bowl." Many of them were anxious to return to the land," but realised that would be g possible so long as General Tion held the Tuchonship of Shanling?

The Bishop of Victoria left the Colony, on Saturday for a to Shiuhing and Nanning; but to all vessels in United States tender and his nephews, bounded While the "Fatshan" was on his return he expects to leave territorial waters. Naturally the from their homes at the whim of bound for Canton on Friday night, for Pakhoi and Yunnanfureturning other maritime nations made strong one of China's petty war-lords. a Chinese passenger, believed to be towards the end of August. The Bishop is responsible for the over- WILKEN-KENT.-On 23rd, June protests. Britain has still before After bis release Major Allen visited a young waiter employed in

Peking, where naturally he Yaumati restaurant, jumped oversight of the work of the Chinese Hwa-sheng at the British Consulate, Tsing the House of Commons a bill, mak- exchanged ideas with the military board. All efforts to rescue him Church Chung

Kung-Hui in each of these places. tao, Eric Wilken of the Hong- kongand Shanghai Bankinging it obligatory for all passenger attaches and members of the failed.

News agency

The Duchess of Aosta, who: on: Corporation, younger son of ship in British waters to carry "Diplomatic Corps.

Messrs. John D. Humphreys reports to the contrary, the despatch Major and Mrs. Wilken of Re- ading, to Doris Essington Kent, reasonable quantity of liquer." of foreign troops to rescue the cap- & Son, general managers of the learning of the illness of her son, elder daughter of Capt. and Should this bill become law, Bri-tives was never contemplated. Had Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., adver- the Duke of Spoleto, left Italy for Mrs W. E. Kent of Shanghai.tain's legal position would be they been sent in the first place. tise with regard to season tickets, China nearly missed her steamer. all they could have done would have effective from July 1. Details will On her journey from. Rome the equally sound as America's. But

been to try and surround the bandit be found in the advertisement on train officials forgot to detach her coach, and she awoke nearing the bill will not become law stronghold in the hopes that the page 5.

Turin instead of Marseilles.c

The leader of the gang into Britain has a sense of humour robber chief would subinit to á dis

caught the steamer after a-race by whose hands we fell," said Major The launching of the $.5, PEPLOW On June 19, 1926 at which will prevent her from pre-play of force. From present know

Allen," was Sun Mel-yau, formerly Shanghai, Walter

a respectable member of society James Peplow, only son of Mr. and cipitating trouble with America. ledge, however, it is unlikely that Langshan," built to the order of be any better terman would have been the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Mrs. Peplow, aged 10 months Moreover, the problem, can

Kwing-ming, who has been hounded out of house reached. In fact the bandit chief Steamboat Co., Ld. by the Hong- and 8 days.

threshed out without introducing held the tramps throughout. Had kong and Whampoa Dock Co., former Civil Governor and Com- and home by the Tuchun of Shan-

Major Allen, after visit to barber, TUGWELL.-On June 19, 1923, at

left Hongkong for Swatow, says can be placed in his statement." Shanghai, Mrs. Anita de Mans-needless issues. France already has the leader of the foreign force issued Ld. takes place at Kowloon Docks mander-in-Chief of Kwangtung has tung, General Tien, if any credence field Tugwell.

a law making it an offence to deprive an ultimatuma-always provided he on Tuesday, 3rd July, at 11.30 am the local Wah Isse Yat Po. He is Major Allen appears satisfied that in company with Mr. Tung of the stated to have lived in Hongkong anti-foreign feeling had no connecBoard of Communications. The French seamen of their wine ration had the upper band-the bandits

would either have replied with a Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie at the house of a Mr. Li, since his tion with the action of Sun Mel presidential ear, in the background and this is enough to bring the threat to kill the prisoners or told & Co., as agents for the P. & O.S. defeat last year. The report goes yau. During his captivity. Major conveyed Majar Allen to Tintain. The China Mail, whole question to a head. The the attackers to do their worst. The N. Co, announce that the 6s on to say that he left this house in Allen had many opportunities for

Though these soldiers were fair- problem, we have said, bristles with sole object of the abduction was to sicilia" will be despatched for a motor car for Shaukiwan where conversation with Sun Mel-yau comedy. You saw that lovely little enable the bundit leader to dictate London, via ports on June 30 at he went on a motor-boat on which and his two nephews. These

his own teams to the Tuchun of noon. Full particulars will be he proceeded to the ss. Wah three it was easy to see, belonged ly well acquainted with ordinary touch about bootleggera having Shantung. Even when his terme found in our advertisements Sun." Prior to his departure, the to the aristocracy of China, said company drill, it was evident that ship is reported to have received Major Allen. The moment we they had never received instruction offered to fill one big liner's cellars were conceded the bandit leader columns.

Instructions from a certain general reached the stronghold of the in handling firearms. Rifles and with liquor for the return journey demanded that a foreigner Mr. Roy Anderson-guarantee their ful.

motor-car driven by Miss in Swatow to carry General Chan bandit leader, we received respect revolvers were loosed off indis able treatment considering all criminately not with a view to scare outside the 8-mile limit. The comic mont. The foreigners who tele Gladys Kong, of No. 1, Yur Wah to Swatow

things. Our march up to the the captives-ammunition was too Nearing America's 3-mile limit, element is very welcome, for with graphed resolutions to their home Street, yesterday, collided with a the "Lapland's" passengers, we are out it the dispute might soon government signally failed to realize the lays contonio, of No. Victoria BC, is becoming quite stronghold naturally was forced, scarce for that but through lack of become Very heated Foreign that no government could be 14, Mosque Street, and her child. a suburb of Hongkong. A breezy because soldiers were in pursuit proper knowledge regarding the Hold, succeeded in emptying the bar.

Major and Mrs Allen and their This feat suggests many beautiful nations naturally find it hard to expected to require its nationals. The chair coolies suffered slight letter from one of Hongkong and at times shots were exchanged mechanism of the weapons with

mentions the following as being over our heads, but fortunately Captain Allen, Super loss of their lives for the suppression, ed a shaking..

ing within easy reach and the Chinese do not shine as marks- thoughts. One pictures the herole accept a law which penalises their captive in bandit hands, to risk the abrasions and Mrs. Antonio receive well-known residents just received We could hear the bullets whist- which they were armed, sald shorts of the noble band, fighting ships and does not strike one blow of banditry in China. It is true à

A workwoman employed at whom it is possible to see and chat men One of the bandits was son sall "by sa President Wilson sot only against the power of the at the smugglers who infest the fareign: fores could have been sent grape but also against time. One-mile limit. Indeed, if the offer to the rescue, but owing to the long the new Pedder Street building with about old times Dr, and severely wounded in the groin, today for Manila, forced to line of communications to be guard yesterday placed two baskets of Mrs. Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs. E.A.M. but received most tender treatment abandon their holiday, owing to the goes them flushed, unsteady-but to the "Berengaria" can be taken ed, it is doubtful Whether the cap- earth on the workmen's Hift. The Williams, Mrs. Findlay Miller and at the hands of his comrades being bandits having relleved them of all triumphant. They have our admin-seriously, those gentry soom-likely tives would have been released from bar support snapped with the family, Mrs. Moss and family, Bar. carried by them for many miles their ready cash valuables and -

to benefit greatly from the new sooner. Though the foreignara result that the lift crashed to the and Mrs. Hurley, Commander With the exception of Sur travellers cheques,

a quid pro quo floor, The woman lost herbalance Noble, R.N., Mr. M. P. Beattie, Mr Mel-yan the leader and his The United States Army Regula tion and (whisper it not!) our envy

and Mrs. E, A. Aucott; and Mr. nephews,-- our captors were tions prohibit any officer on the McHoffic. Also Mr. D. E. Donnels the very lowest type of humanity.active list making statements for too. But one shudders to think law. Which is absurd

ley who is expecting Mrs. Donnel- They, however, did a lot for us in publication regarding the military. camp and en route, carrying the aspect of such incidents as the ley and familyser k

leg weary over difficult places and Lincheng outrage: Without in any Our local massage amans seem t to be a law unto themselves, says The many friends of Inspector furnishing some of us with ponics way infringing Army Regulations, the NC D. News, At any rate Garrod, who recently went home, or donkeys. My son was placed on however Major Allen was in a 4 donkey, and though frequently position to clear up many points they are so in as far as their deal will be glad to hear that the populas threatened by the bandit in charge that have remained obscure regard logs with English are concerned Inspector is in fine fettle and wilton of him, he was never roughly hand-ing the political Importance of the One who has just completed a cheerily of his many comings and led Some of the captives, who affair. These are dealt with in

circulated that he had cancer finds. local course in the art advertises goinge. The rumour erroneously showed temper, had a bad time and our editoriad columns..

one American newspaper man was her qualifications thus ****

A Will exprienced Woman used no foundation in fact, which is rather badly beaten up

good news, Heds in the hands

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FLATS:

have lost face, will eventually bo paid by and fell after the lift. She was China The humiliation, although badly bruised.. exasperating, cost no lives. Some day China's leaders will realize that he who laughs laat, laughs best. v.

Of the letting of many flute there their utmost and still leave many is no end, and much buying of formi caaka intact. Would the Company ture doth make us mnd. There are Sunday Schools.

ince the liquor must go over two kinds of fate three even Hir John Butcher, a member of board if not consumed would tho furnished, unfurnished, and the Patliament, recently introduced to

the notice of the House of Com preach pany then reduce prices or even people that want them or live in mana, a Bill directed provide free drinks? The question is them. The first are generally to being of a rebel spin wastly intriguing--and vastly amus found in Kowloon, the second like disaffection agai ang. Indeed it is absurd. But is wise, and the third also. By their the constitution Commumst schi mot the whole business absurd? flate shall ye know them. The first First you have this fanatical laws kind of flats are as the sands upon Sundsys Wyhile it le limited to America's the sea-shore, or the attributes of were taliced

A Primer, Vibrator to Knock Both The Gentlemans Ladys

of Dr Hanger al Bert LAITETNO RANSOM undergoldg special treatment, for nor1⁄4llen stated, *If they tire out and Makes enlarged glands. Already the pain question, that at

all events has disappeared and the ex-In- bandite set a price: Omar here, the spector sleeps well. He has bought the foreign captives

uk of a fint house in Portsmouth where affair was political

Bode, It appears sold

be hopes to settle down -VE