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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925.

BATTLE.

WHOLE PROVINCE BEING INVOLVED.

INCREASED FIRING...

Decisive Engagement Believed Imminent.

Increased fring which is thought to presage a big battle in a tay or two is the principal feature of latest reports from Canton.

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3,000 MORE. Shanghai Strike Spreads.

MINOR INCIDENTS.

SHOTS FIRED OVER INSPECTOR'S HEAD.

(Reuter's 'Servios.)

Once more the interruption to of the casualties caused by the..

Shanghai, June 9. telegraphic communication is bombardment on Saturday after- Three thousand workers em hindering the gathering of news.noop and in the city during theployed by Messi, Butterfield and However, if there had been any sniping from Honam. Altogether Swire struck to-day at Pootung. sonsational development.

or so They were mostly casual workers, the there have been a dozen

There have been a number of Naval authorities would have Chinese non-combatants killed in- certainly been informed by wire-the various parts of the city and minor incidents such as leyst. Our Canton correspondent on the Bund. The round that fell throwing at American naval men writes up to the hour of the mail in the Public Purk has left a big at the border bridge.

The Chinese police were with closing yesterday afternoon. The cavity there. Senior Officer of the West River,

difficulty persuaded to interfere reported also yesterday afternoon, by wireless, that there had been little change but that snipping was on the increase.

Large growds have been down to the water-front watching the Canton steamers arrive with full loads of refugees. Thers his been no recurrence of trouble, but the police have men out to look after the recruits arriving from Hai- phong for the Yunnanese. Some

qf these have been unfavourably, received while a waiting tran- shipment to Canten have been threatened by the coolie classes. Their number will Bttle effect the trend of events.

Many refugees continue to arrive. A large number would like to leave Honum but cinnot Ecross the river as the ferries have

censed to run.

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Shots at Ships.

Canton night boats return- ing to Hongkong this morning report having been fired on from the shore early yesterday morn- ing in the neighbourhood of the village of Chung Chow, Collinson Reach, (not, of course, to be con- fused with Cheung Chau near- "Hongkong).

The shots were rifle shots and one report attributes them to bands of outlaws (still wearing the soldiers' uniform of the army from which they have deserted for their own purposes) who were noticed at the spot the previous,

The Red Navy is still more or less inactive although their guns are trained on Canton and all the vessels have steam up.

There have been no more strug- gles for Dutch Folly which is new vacant and untenable by either side.

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A fair amount of damage has been done to buildings on and near the Bund.

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Not the least important of the measures. which, in Mr. Austen Chamberlain's words will make Hongkong still further one of the "ply" of the Colonial Service is the recently established health Bure, the working of which was described to a “China Mail" representative this morning by the RCM.0,

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Dr. B. Addison represented infectious disease! This would be the Colay at the conference held of great help to those responsible at Singapore two months ago as a for the health of the Colony, said mind-result of which the Epidemiologi- the P.C.M.O., as before, they had cal Intelligence Bureau was estab-not been able to keep in touch lished for the purpose of collecting with what was happening. and disseminating information Approached this morning and regarding the health conditions at asked how the system was work- the principal ports of the Faring, Dr. Addison said that it was East

The Chinese merchant volun- teer's actually fired shots over the heud of Inspector Beale while the latter was on holeback on the Municipal Road.

Cables to North. The Eastern Extension" Tele- graph Co. notifies that the delay on telegrams for Shanghai and beyond has now been removed.

On his arriva back in Hong- kong he told a "China Mail re presentative that he was to act as the disseminator and collector for Hongkong and that he would receive news each week from other ports as to exactly what was happening there in regard to

HUGE AIRSHIP NOSES ABOUT IN FOG FOR MOORING MAST.

A Router cable from Washington to-day reports that the airship "Los Angeles" was compulled

to, abandon a flight owing to engine trouble and could not And her mooring mast on account of fog. Our photograph shows the "Los Angeles,"

Shameen's Safety.

day. The locality in question is, (From Our Own Correspondent. Danes Island, part of the larger Whampoa groups. Collinson Reach is not usually used by the boats but this has been necessary since the outbreak of hostilities because of the position the gun-boats have taken up at Canton.

Told to Stop, The Ko Chow (Captain Eb. Jones) was the first bont to pass the spot. She was keeping close to the shore and the shots were fired from almost point-blank| range, loud demands being mide at the same time for the ship to stop. Captain Jones, however, ordered full steam ahead and got clear of land without apparently any harm being done to passen- gers or ship. A Chinese patrol launch which at that moment came down the river proceeded to the spol where the firing had come from and fired four shots from its

guns,

Canton, Monday, p.m. To-day the river steamers are not going alongside their wharves as these have been declared to be in the war zone. They are at anchor in the stream off Shameen. All the foreign gunboats--three British two American, two French and one Japanese-re standing by..

Marines Landed.

Shanghal. June 8. Two hundred marines from H.I.J.M.S. Tatsuta landed this morning.

A Bishop's Views.

and also the non-passage of a The Bishop of St. Albans, number of proposed Municipal speaking at the Diocesan confer- and trade regulations. ence, said they must not lay all the blame for the disturbances They in Chins on Bolshevism. are largely due to the appalling conditions prevailing in industry in China and the fact that many Europeans have sought to make money from China without con- sidering the native.

proving of the greatest possible use. At present nothing but the report of the nature of the disense and the number of deaths (or the recording of a clean bill of health as the case might be) was sent, but it was hoped that when the system was more firmly establish ed reports would be made of the nature of the steps taken to com-1 but the disease and the measure) of success which had attended them.

The number of ports making use of the Bureau was continually growing and his weekly cable from Singapore now included statistics from porta in Australia, said Dr. Addison, He himself sent of a cable to Singapore once a week telling them what was happening, and this was despatch-

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The Bureau was being made use of, said the P.C.M.O.. by ports in Japan, Shanghai, French Indo- China, Siam, the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Aus- tralia, Singapore, Penang, and British India, in fact practically

over India.

Two Japanese gun-boats from the Yangtze have left for Shang- hai. Four Japanese destroyers have arrived, two of which have The conference passed a resolu-gone up river to protect for

It is interesting to recall that tion declaring that greater sacri- eigners at Yangtze ports. Allies of the Cantonese Com-fices must be made by the Church The student demonstration at this matter of the incidence of munists are coming down the at Home in order to further Foochow was a fiasco, owing to epidemic diseases formed the sub- West River. Their artillery has foreign missionary effort.

the Tupan's' precautionaryject of debate at the Medical Con- ference recently held at Hongkong been finding its mark and shots have passed over Shameen which

and Dr. Lim, one of the first is still immune from immediate

students to graduate from the danger.

Hongkong University, who has since interested himself in mat- ters of health primarily in re- lation to Shanghai, had some interesting comments to make.

Firing Increases. After the lull of last night, the Yunnanese have been renewing and increasing their sniping at Honam and the Cantonese on that side have replied hotly. I am in- formed that the Yunnanese will try to keep up a barrage till they Apparently the patrol boat did can effect a landing in the Red not long remain in the neighbour-st-onghold, but without artillery hood for when the other night it will be very difficult for them to boats including the Canton-Macao do so. Although the firing has 3.s. Hangcheong (Capt. Jenkins) increased, the effect has decreased reached the spot thay were as both sides are taking good subjected to an even more intense cover behind their sandbags and | fire (the Tung On being hit on the barricades. -

starboard). They all turned back, waiting until daylight when they negotiated the spot with no fur- ther untoward, et occurring.

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Civilians Killed.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

(Continued on page 9.)

Labour Protest.

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measures.

Geneva, June 8.

Chinkiang, Tsingtao. Kiukiang The question of the Shanghai and Hankow are now quiet, shooting incidents was raised at While there have been no dis- a meeting of the workers' dele- turbances at Shanghai, the strike gates of the International Labour situation is unchanged.. Defence Fur Conference in a statement signed measures are continuing. by Mr. Joshi (India); Mr. Lawson ther arrivals of naval men have (Australia) and Mr. Suzuki enabled the authorities to lighten Dr. Lim pointed out that in

these days of rapid communica- | ■ (Japan) submitted to the Chair, the duties of the volunteers.

tion and means of communication man.

Diplomatic Investigation.

Peking. June 8. the control of infectious diseases, The latter deblared the ques

Reports from Nanking indicate instead of being a matter of pure- tion could not be raised in conference under standing orders, that the situation there is becom-ly local significance, had become a

subject of international concern,! whereupon the meeting resolved ing more serious.

A telegram from Taiyuanfu Improved means of communica- to despatch through the Amster dam International a message of states that rioters wrecked the tion had resulted in bringing to the workers of local agency of the Asiatic Petro- cities and nations into clober sympathy China.

leum Company, smashing win-touch, but this had not been with- Strikers' Demands.

dows and tearing down the sign. out its attendant evils, as it had Shanghai, June 8. It is understood that Chang introduced diseases into terri- Various Chinese Commercial Tso-lin contemplates issuing a tories where they had been hon- The fight would have and Student Unions met in the circuiar telegram advising the existent. Chinese Chamber of Commerce students to refrain from acts of to be waged on a world wide basis

Dr. Lim.

STOP PRESS. last evening. They passed seven-violence pending diplomatic laves. if there was to be success, said

SHANGHAI STRIKE.

Seamen Join Students. (Reuter's Service.)

affected.

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teen resolutions, which were tigation.

Members of the diplomatie handed to the Chinese delegates. They include four demands, which delegation left for Shanghai this the strikers consider essential as morning by the "blue express." preliminaries to official negotia-It is stated that they will not sit tions.

as a commission nor take formal They are: (1) The cancella- evidence, but make independent tion of a state of emergency; (2) Investigations returning within a the withdrawal of the marinas; few days with their report, (3) the release of the arrested rioters; and (4) the restoration of closed schools

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Hankow, June 8.

A telegram from Kiuklang saya

Shanghai, June 9.

The directors of the local Three hundred Chinese sosmen

Chinese Bankers' Association this (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) on six Butterfield & Swire coastal

morsing decided: Firstly, to and river ateamers at Shanghai

Apologies Sought. telegraph to the Chinese banks at went on strike yesterday evening. Other resolutions reveal wide Shanghai urging them to support Ocean-going steamers are not aspirations, including the early the students; secondly, to tele- cancellation of extra-territorial graph to public bodies urging Japanese lines are also meeting ity; that the British and Japanese them to pursue the present agita that all the coolies struck, work difficulties and are considering re- Ministers meanwhile should tion to the end; thirdly, to furnish to-day. Canton, Monday, a.m.

placing the Chinese crews with apologise to the Chinese Govern- $10,000 strike relief funds; The agent of the Indo-China Towards yesterday evening, Japanese.

ment and guarantee no further fourthly, to advise native banks to Steam Navigation Company does cross-river firing descreased and Jardine, Matheson & Co. report similar action; the abolition of the refrain from co-operating finan- not recommend passengers to last night was somewhat unreat but no actual crew strike. Mixed Court; the appointment of cially with the foreign banks proceed to Kuling. quieter. This development is A Jardine coaster sailed yesterday high Chinese offious to the Muni concerned. ⠀ considered to be the usual lull nightA

cipal Police Chinese representa before the storm. Hourly, the The strike of the dockers hastion on the Shanghal - Municipal campaign is becoming more in-interrupted dock work Very Council, in accordance with the tricate and an initial success little cargo is moving because the amounts paid in taxes payment would do much to bring in the Chinese banks and shipping hongs | of damages to the dependants of waverers in on the victors" side. which finance and handle cargo those killed or injured in the

Particulars have been obtained are closed down.

strike; payment of qusfæess losses

Trouble at Kaifeng,

Kalfeng, June 8. The students here have gone out” A Chiness, received injuries to on a sympathetic strike. There is his head in a motor secident at growing intensity against for Queen's Road Central: yesterday. eigners and the situation is most. The motor car did not stop and so

serious,

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TANG YUK, Danrur, the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

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