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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1924.

PALLEGED CANNIBAL.

STRANGE YARN FROM

CANTON.

CROWDS NEAR MUSEUM.

CANTON REDS.

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CELEBRATE BOLSHEVIK DAY OF FESTIVITY.

WAN BUN PRESENT?

Canton, November 9.

As briefly reported in Satur. From Our Own Correspondent.) day's "China Mall," a rumour had | got around thai a Chinese woman. the wife of a Canton official, with cannibal tendencies, had come down to live in Hongkong. The pernacular papers assured us that no alarm need be felt as the rumour was groundless.

On Friday, the Chinese Army turned out in full force at the Pub lie Park, to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the Russian Soviet.

Rumour says that Dr. Sun Yat- Nobody knows exactly how then attended in person to congratu yarn started although one person ate the Russians who turned ont volunteered the following to for the occasion, the latter includ- "Mail" reporter:---

ing, it is said, one officers, from the Soviet sinop "Vorovsky," which lies at Whampon.

This lady had been living in Canton for some years and had made it a practice of engagidy servant girls whom she fatted up till they were fit to become steak for her. An amah who joined her establishment probed around, the house when a mui taai was missed and discovered the pile of bones. She fled from a doom that might have overtaken her and it gradu- ally became known, that the woman was a cannibal.

Al any mate, the roads. between the Park and the Government Wharf at the East Bund, wera heavily guarded.

Many little paper flags bearing! inscriptions extolling Bolshevik ideals and reading (broadly) "Down with the Capitalists," "Sovietiam must come into its own," were distributed.

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To get out of the way of the Canton detectives and the better 4to satisfy her omnivorous-taxics.--(From

she came down to Hongkong and began to engage amahs, by the score, so the story runs.

etc..

Yunnan Leaders.

Our Own Correspondent:)-

Canton November B. Like-the-fable-last year of the

General Fan Shek-aang and mirror in a Macao pawnshop, Teut-General Tan Hang-chiu, the Yunniese leaders, are stated to which foretold the typhoon- calamity, there is nothing in theve left Canton this morning, for story. Nevertheless many people uk Tan, a town on the Canton- were talking about it yesterday, Kowloon Railway and close to the

East River. while other crowds gathered

For days there has been much round the Museum, or rather, the gossip about their desire for im fountain steps so as to be at a mediate repatriation to their rative -safe-distance from-the-man-eating- province Their avown-has-been jut down as bluff so as to get finds out of the Canton Govern- nent as their revenue from the public has diminished through

woman.

Instead. of pointing to a Sikh policeman in future, Chinese mothers will probably talk about this cannibal lady to keep their business not taking its propor fretful children quiet.

Crowd At Museum.

COUT2. This latest report of their going to the scene of war is

A large crowd of Chinese, invalery. General Lin is due to

several hundred strong, compris-return to-morrow..

ing mostly women and children, assembled outside the City Hall on Saturday afternoon to see the "cannibal" who, according to in- formation received by them, hail been captured and placed on view at the Museum. Despite the assurances of the watchman and others at the City Hall that no such person was on exhibition at the Museum, the people were not to be got rid of easily and were bhanging round the place until late in the afternoon.

LITTLE “HSU."

HAS GRIEVANCE AGAINST LOCAL PRESS.

Little Hsn. or. General Hau Shu-laeng to give him his proper designation, has written a letter in Chinese, comprising several folios, to the Editor of the "Chinn Mail. According to these people, the He starts off by saying that re man-eater was supposed to have ports of his statements, published been transformed into a man within the Hongkong newspapers dur a tail in addition.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHANGES OF PERSONNEL AFFECTING THE EAST.

ing the past few days, were mostly far from the truth. The alleged state- ments which he says have been af- tributed to him were that. Wu Pei- fn was an efficient military officer; the like of whom would not be seen again in Chine, that Peng Yu- hsiang was a cunning and mean mn and that Tuan Ch'i-jui, now [not having a single reliable body. guard, should not re-enter official Under dute of October 9, the e-without being-associated with

the China Wa Pei-fi. Correspondent of Express and Telegrupals," writes: The only interviews published in Lieutenant L. B. A. Mujendie the "China Mail were on the and Lichtenant W. L. Berridge, Friday on which “Little" Hau ar- on joining the Titania," Hong-rived in Hongkong from Shanghai. kong, in December, will assume No such statements were put down command of submarines of the as having enmuted from the flotilly there. The decision of the general.

Adminity to raise the strength of "To the compse of his letter, the submarine flotilla is the out. "Little” Han also says that namer- come of the necessity for having a ous friends have called on him dur- bigger force of under-water craft uning his stay here and he could not that station. Although local con- very well refrain from discussing ditions there have lustened the pre- the political situation, hence the parations, the decision to do so was arising of the reports referred to. come to some time ago.

Ticut-Colonel Bond; C.M.G., D.8.0.. from second in command of the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, Singapore, has been posted to the command of the 1st

None of the gossip the general refers to was published in the "China Mail.*?

Battalion at Derry, on promotion. | STUDENT'S SWORD-STICK,

the

He served with distinction in the South African War and in the late war:earning the D.B.O.in the first-mentioned war, and C.M.G., the brever step of lieuten- ant colonel and two,severe wounds in the latter one.

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OWNER FINED FOR POSSESSION.

PUKA OF JONURANCE.

Unlawful possession of a sword" walking stick was the charge pre- ferred against Chinese med Mak Hung-clung at the Centrul Magistracy, before Mr. N. L. Smith this morning.

On vacating the command of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Sussexi Regiment the other day, Lieuten *ant-Colonel Bellamy, D.S.0. received a very fine "send-off. He was accompanied to the Mid- land Railway Station-en route to Liverpool-by the regimental band Mr. W. L. Lensk, who appeared and a large number of the officers to defend, pleaded guilty to a tech- and men, who wished him "good nical offence, and naked His Wor- Jack,"

Certainly, a more popular ship to take a lenient view of the officer never rode at the head of the case. The solicitors stated that old 35th Foot.

his client had just graduated from The "Weymouth,” which has a University in France and was on been employed most of this year in his way to Peking to take up a carrying relief crews to varions for Government appointment there. eign stations, is due lane on the He was proceeding to Macao for a 10th inst., from the East Indies short stay when the sword stick Station. She will clean up and was found in his possession at the get ready for another Enstward wharf yesterday morning." bound run-this tirue to the China 1 PLEA OF IGNORANCE, Station--with a new crow for the

It was pointed oint to the Magia. light cruiser "Despatch, which trite that such sticks were in pom- will shortly complete her maiden non usa in France and other 'commission' there.

places and the defendant would Commoned Gunner C. B. never have brought the stick nature Thompson and Gunner A-Hin Hongkong had in know that it Wood, have been ordered to join was against the regulations. The the "Tamar" and the Mongolia" defendant had not been in the Est respectively early in December,for 10 yentand did not even Bignal Boatswait 1 C.Hopkins possess a mowledge of Cantonese. las been ordered to join the His Worship was satisfied wi “Hawkion," flagship of the Ching the explanation and imposed (s Station: car from the 28th inst, “I nominal fine of $35."

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SOME OF SATURDAY'S WINNERS.

Above is a picture of Mr. H. Birkett, holding Hartfield, the joint property of himself and Mr. C. Gordon Mackie. This pony, ridden by Mr. G. H. Gibson, ran a dead-heat with. Kashmir in the Shek-O Handicap, on Saturday. Two races later, he carried Mr. G. Harriman to victory in the Stanley Plate.

Kashmir, the property of Mr. L. Dunbar. After running Hartfield.to a dead-heat in. the third event on Saturday, with Mr. E. L.. Davies in the saddle, this pony, ridden by. Mr. G. Harriman, won the Shatin Handicap despite a penalty of 7lbs. for his previous victory.

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