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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1924.

CHEKIANG-KIANGSU WAR.

HOSTILITIES OPENED BUT FIGHTING

CLOSE TO SHANGHAI HEAVY SO FAR.

NOT

FRENCH MARINES IN SETTLEMENT.

Foreign Warships Prepared.

THE CHINA MAIL

INTERPORT CRICKET.

ARMISTICE WEEK CONTEST.

SELECTION COMMITTEE,

Mr... S. Greenhill, honorary secretary of the Hongkong Cricket Club, has kindly favoured the China Mail with the names of

fice Wieś.

JUSTICE IN HAITI.

SIX EDITORS IN PRISON IN NEGRO REPUBLIC,

the

I do not suppose that in these have at the experience of seeing days of free preas, many people" six editors in prison at the same time and in the some prison, says Lady Dorothy Mills in Sélection the "r embers of the

I had this Committee for the Interport Cricket "Morning Post." Miel (es) to be played in Armis-perience last month at Port-au- Prince, pital of the Island of Halli, cononly, known as the Black Republic" in the West Iudice, one of the only two negro Republics in the world. And these gentlemen were under deten- tion for no common breach of the law, but for over-zealousness, for taking their editorial mission too conscientiously't ....

The following gentlemen have been asked to serve and have They are authorised

to add to their number:-

Mr. R. Hancock Mr. T. E. Pearce, L. God. 1. A. Robertson and Mr. A. E Wood.

Outside of what has come over, the press cables. there is little

com ented A private mesange to a news from Shanghai as to the Sination. Hongkong resident, however. gives ground for belief that some understanding has been reached between-the-Foreign diplomats and the contending Chinese leaders whereby there will be small risk to foreign residents provided ordinary precautions are taker. The message referred to is from a married man with family who is living at some distance from Shinghai. The presence of so many foreign warships in Shanghai will probably act as a deterrent in the lawless clements:among the Chinese troops.

Fighting Not Heavy. Shanghai, September 1. Fighting up to the present has aut been heavy.

Thefe is a risk of a general con- flagration if the Manchurian Herator, Chang Tsu-lin enters the conflict on the side of the Anfr [party.

Every precaution is being taken

Tatsuia-En Route to protect the Foreign Settlement.- Mighty French marines have!

Tokyo, September 3. been landed in the French Con- HIJ.M.S. cruiser. “Tatsulu" Already there are 5 has left for Shanghai, carrying Vession. British, 6 American, 2 French, 4150 troops... Japanese and one Italian worships

in Shanghai:

Press Comment.

All four, are meinbers of the Hongkong Cricket Club and Mr. Wood is also captain of the Civil

Service Cricket Club.

BROKER'S CLAIM. ··

Haiti, since she ejected the French early in 1800, has been a notbed of political strife.. In earlier days such strife expressed itself mainly in unguinary revolu- tions Since the occupation, in 1914, by the Americans, who, in return for a big loan, are trying to *RUNNING ERRANDS FOR force their own idea of things. revolutions have been suppressed, and the fovernment, represented by u coloured President and two Chambers, is run largely by American suggestion.

NOTHING."

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dun't know al other people but, defendants Blessrs ikams and Parker of King's Building) cannot expect me to have my full meals of rice is no and then run errands for them for nothing," said Hon Shiunn, a

"TUR PRESS, DANG," Hence its 'unpopularity There more fervent patriot, no keener politician than the Haitian negro, and the Haitian editor has

INTERPORT POLO,

ROSY CHANCES FOR NEXT SATURDAY.

FONIES AND MEN FIT,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 4. Both the Hongkong polo players and the ponies to participate in the match against Shanghai, on Saturday, are as fit as hands can nake them.

There is every prospect that the Attendance on Saturday will beat. all previous records.

of Shanghai, the visitors team- Though the odds are in favour work is superfor to that of the home side. Thla superiority may well carry Capt. Neville's mica to victory

Shanghai is extending splendid cospitality to the visiting team.

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"LOCAL AND GENERAL

"During the voyage of the Sardinia from Shanghal and ports, a man died on board from cute cardiac failure. The *Achilles" from Milke reports that there was a death on board from apoplexy,

A Chinese coolle was charged

after travelling on the foot-board

the Japanese Fleet is at Sasebo,ing war, on Friday last, the "N.-C. who was platatif in an action in of his write confrère. There are from Taikoo Dock Yard to Shau- | In addition, a large portion of. I commenting on the impend broker of Messrs. Alex Ross & Cnot the fine diplomatic elusiveness with refusing to pay his tram-fare,

within 20 hours steaming of Daily News" said editorially:-

Shanghai,

Volunteers Fifteen hundred have been ordered to stand by.

Wa Has Hand.

And when the

editorial feeling diduly runs away with itself, the prosiding spirit is sent to prison!

í

the Summary Court this morning. With the publication to-day of

The broker claimed from Messts, five or six Haitian newspapers, ofkiwan yesterday. He was fined our special correspondent's extra- Dickson and Parker a sum of one or, at most, two sheets apiece: $15 or two weeks hard labour, by ordinarily interesting interview $65.60 for brokerage alleged to be and a circulation to match, and Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central with Marshal Chi Hsieh-ypan of due on a business transaction-a every one of them is "again the Magistracy thle morning. Nanking, there can be no longer sale of 60 tons of corrugated mild Govenment. An exclusive Shanghai message any doubt as to where matters steel bars valued at $6,560 which,

For theft of a jacket and a to the "Daily Bulletin" reads:- stand between Kiangsu and Che as stated, had duly arrived, been

compass from 114, Ki Lung Street Wu Pei-fu is providing support kiang. Marshal Chi has spoken delivered and for which payment

I was given permission to visit | yesterday, an unemployed Chinese in more ways than one, and the with a frankness and sincerity had been made by the purchasers. prodigality of his assistance is which admits no question of his the plaintiff. In his address he six

Mr. C. H. Lyson appeared for the prison, and saw the suffering was sentenced to three weeks' Attired in blue and white hard labour, by Mr. E. W. shown in the large number of meaning. He has, so to speak, explained the claim by saying that striped cotton coats and trousers, Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis- troops he is prepared to send to pushed the peace-makers out of one per cent. commission was due. they took the air in a small, court- tracy this morning. Chi Haich-yuan's assistance. doors and is determined on action. Plaintiff made the statement, Vard barred off for the common It is a fact that the financial For upwards of ten years, he says, referred to above, in the course herd of vagabonds, and petty condition of the province of we have been talking of unification of cross-examination by Mr. E.S.C pilferers; and whereas the common Madison," named John M. C. An arrival by the "President Kiangsu-is-very-precarious, and by peace and nothing has come of Brooks-who-represented the de- herd sleep ten in a cell, these Fallon, was charged with having that only by the funds furnished it but more disruption and dis-fendants.

political offenders have a cell no visible means of subsistence, at spicce and a slightly more elabor the Hongkong Magistracy this te menu. Some of them had been morning. Mr. Lindaoli, the

by Wu Pei-fu will Chi Hsieh-yuan order. "I am a man of peace. If Evidence was still being taken be able to conduct-the-war- we could unify China by peaceful jas our reporter left the Court.

The question arises how far Wu methods, I should favour them. Pel-fu's resources will go, and to But one grows despairing as the what extent they will be needed years pass and the state of the

in a few weeks, some for many Magistrate, committed him to the months, and one was awaiting au house of detention. Defendant indefinitely postponed trial. They stated that his money and pass varied in colour" from dark port had been stolen at Kobe. Ho mahogany to pale café au lait, and said he came from. New York with had keen intelligent negraid faces. the intention to proceed to Sydney, One of them at sight of me took off his striped cap smilingly, and cried, "Ban jour, Madame.

the incarcerated editors, and that ar STRIFFED OF CONTRABAND. from patriotic motives the heroic i had tried hard to get permission creature was resolutely declining

talk with them, urgently to be so used. prompted thereto. by those journalistic sympathizers still at The rumour spread like wildfre large, but it was denied me. I through the town, and grow in up the authorities feared that magnitude, till it was asserted my sympathies might go out too that the bullock bad spoken, that strongly to, and express themselves it had breathed the name ** Joliboia" too freely concerning, my brothers in heartrending accents. of the pen. At least one of the journalistic fraternity who give me hospitality and help 10 IDY researches in Haiti had done & sentence in prison.

UNSHAKEN BELIEF.

ii case he himself is forced to country becomes steadily worse. man for whom he has so deep an throw his troops into action to The time comes when there must animosity. Are we really about to break the advance of Chang Tso-be action. In pursuance of this witness a fight to a finish at last, lin, who may open war to support conviction Marshal Chi ie con- the final "show-down" in China? his ostensible ally, Lu Yung centrating an overwhelming force. If we venture to express the hope hsiang.

which includes large numbers of that we are, it is with full con- It is possible that Chi Hsieh-Chihli troops sent to him by Mar-sciousness of the heavy toll which yuan commands 100,000 men, but shal Wu Pei-fu, in the regions of the conflict must impose on all the Wu Fel-fu is definitely sending Soochow and Quinsan. It appears Chinese people. Surely it is a more from Anhui, probably 80.000. that it is not his Intention, as choice of evils, and nothing eculd It is pretty certain that they hitherto supposed, to attack Che well be worse than the continued will reach Nanking within three kiang from across the Taihu in lawlessness, brigandage, and per- or four days.

the direction of Huthow and soul suffering, which now blights Chi Hsich-yuan might open the Kashing: in respect of these he every home and blocks every offensive without waiting for stands strictly on the defensive avenue of progress in China. them, but relying on their support His great objectivo is Luinghua, There is one aspect of what if the tide turns against him. the Arsenal, the whole of the Marshal Chi says in which the

By evening, when I saw the bull, The bulk of Chi Hsieh yuan's Shanghai district: these, he says, foreigners of Shanghai are deeply

there was a crowd of some three or troops are on the Quinsan front, are the cause of all friction and concerned and on which they have

four hundred people surrounding but he has a big force, around in them lies the success or failure a right to make their voices heard,

the waste-patch, and the Pro- Marshal Chi says, in effect, that

sident's wife herself bad motored Thing, westward of the Taihu of his plans. Lake. in which region at two It is no departure from the im- Shanghai is a hotbed of political These gentlemen all have the down to see it. At that moment, points he has 10,000.

partiality which we wish to pre-intrigue, which more than any halo of a martyr to the Haitian as a last resource to dislodge it, Later. serve in the present conflict to say other place contributes to keep patriot in the street, and lurid they were trying to boist the poor More troops moved down yester- that there is much in what Mar-China in a state of chaos. That is stories were told me of the treat beast into a truck. But in vain, shal Chi states. Let us, for one what the foreign community of ment, alleged to be mated out to and it remained all night, till in day.

moment, emphasize that in this Shanghat has long felt and the them. In particular I was told of the morning they shot it. Strict Censorship.

particular quarrol, it is especially thing which it deeply resents, how me had been humiliated by stories in this afternoon's papers, Later. the duty of foreigners to remain while at the same time it does not being stripped and left naked in the under the titles of "Boeuf à la Communication with Shanghai neutral. The relationships of see how it may be prevented. It sun for hours, but the truth, when Moda," Le Boen que perle," is now severed. -

Shanghai with Marshal Chi and is probably no exaggeration to say I run it to earth, was merely that, etc., made great merriment among suspected of secreting the more educated Haitians, bot No telegrams are accepted for Marshal Lu have always been that since the famous plottings of rightly Shanghai except viu Chefoo. Imost agreeably cordial; and Huang Hsiang, Chen Chi-mel, and money and inflammatory literature the crowd in the street and the A strict censorship is being among the rulars of provinces in Sun Yat-sen, which culminated in snuggled in from outside, he had country people in from the moun- exercised over telegrams and the Chins, they hold a deservedly high the Revolution of 1918, no import been searched and stripped of his tains firmly continued to believe in

contraband:

the "Voodoo bull,' Post Office.

reputation for enlightenment and ant conspiracy or cabal has occur-

At rather, amusing instance hap The conditions of the imprisoned Chi Haieb-yuan is reported to administrative ability. Therefore, red in China which was not have secured six aeroplanes from the only feeling of foreigners in engineered from the asylum of pened one afternoon, when a editors did not look to me too bad. Nanyuan.

this unhappy crisis must be one Shanghai; and when the Kuomin-bullock that was being driven to and I have often wondered since of Foreign Warships.

of regret that the circumstances tang in Canton wrote to the the shuughterhouse of the prison what they thought during the long on a days and nights; whether they took up a strong position of China do not allow two such Shanghai branch the manifesto waste patch at & street corner and brooded only on their political Already the following warships men to compound their differences which we published a few weeks resisted all efforts to remove it. grievancen, or whether they some are at or off Shanghai:-(British) for the benefit of the country ago, with the injunction under no Among a hundred or so multi- times spared a deprecating thought "Cricket,'

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"Bee," "Despatch." otherwise than by force of arms, conditions to make any trouble in coloured loafers who gathered to the nepiring contributors they "Durban " and "Hawkins." But without entering into the Shanghai and emphasizing its per-round the rumour grew that the had nipped in the bud, to the (American) Isabel," "Doric," causes of the position, or express-petual desire to be on good terms animal had been poisoned with a paragraphs they had underpaid, or Tracay," "S. Thompson, Ding one word of commant upon with foreigners, the plain English view to feeding M. Jolibois, one of the manuscripts they had rejected ! Edwards," "Barker," and "Whip-them, it is without dispute an of the statement was undoubtedly (French) "Color" and anomaly that the district of that if Kuomintang meo made Jules Ferry." (Japanese) Shanghai, the jewel of Kiangsu, as themselves obnoxious in Shanghai, "Hira." "Tone," "Tatsuta," and Marshal Chi calls it, should be they would promptly be expoiled "Jiji.". (Italian) “Libia.” under the control of a ruler in from it, and would find it most

ple."

BEHIND THE GUNS.,

The

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No Barrier To Refugees. whose domains it does, not lie. inconvenient to be deprived of It is understood that there is Furthermore, inasmuch as such a such excellent shelter for the to be no barrier to refugees com- position cannot but cause per- hatching of their plots. Now it. ing into the Foreign Settlement,petual friction, there is a great may again be emphasized that neither to unarmed soldiers unless deal in the contention that if the Shanghai is a commercial com- they are b unmanageable num: question cannot be settled by munity, founded for the purpose bers, in which case the question peaceful means, it had better be of commerce, and most anxious to will be reconsidered.

fought out once for all than con- avoid political complications. Our tinue to create a fresh scare every difficulty has been, and is, that in Hostilities Start;

Blx months.

the present state of China we may Shanghai, September 3.

The one point of doubt is whe hesitate to hand over the repre- The fighting has begun 15 miles ther the question will really be sentatives of one Chinese political from Bhanghai between the rival fought out. Wars in China have party to those of any other, So forces of Kiangsu and Chekiang, an unfruitful habit of continuing long as they behave themselves as the former attempting to obtain only up to a certain point and then peaceable citizens, we can no more control of Shanghai. Lu Yung fizzling out in a compromise which interfere with their presence here, halang, the Military Governor of antisfies pubody. In the present than with peaceful shopireeppra. Kiangsu holds the line from the instance 1 Marahal Chi's Cam and ricahn coolies. If there were, Yangtare La-Talhy Lake Thapaign succeda, and Marshal Lu, however, a government which all. troops of the two provinces are the last Anfu chlaftain in Central China upheld, the situation would reported to be 100,000 strong, but China, is ousted from Cheliang; it be greatly simplified, and we do each is re-enforcing from other appears; inevitable that a mighty not suppose that the government provinces Chi Haleb y fan is sup clash must ensue between Marahat would find any reluctance on ported by the Chill party headed Wu Fel-fu and Marshal Chang Shanghai's part to assist it in the

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