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Battles Along Kiangsi Frontier,

WUCHANG IN BAD PLIGHT?

The proceedings in connection Shot by sniper and having fallen Evidence, of the cruelty display- with the brutal murder which o-to the deck. Lt.Com. Acheson, ed, by the men who boarded the Sup Chuan-fang Forced to Fight curred on the premises of the RN in

H.Making vessel of his employer, kill- China Commercial Co. in Con- "Cockchafer" at Wanhaien, directed the latter and threw all others naught Rond drew to a conclusion ed operations for over two hours overboard' was given at the Sessions this morning by the small boy who Altogether

Sessions this as he lay eh his back. British at the Criminal warships are to be added to the morning when a fellow office boy who was on the "Kiave," also dis- escape by means of a swim of over Lt. Ridge of H.M.S. "Cockchafer," was the only one of the party to China Squadron under Vice of the scussed was found guilty

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PLAIN: "OR BROGUE STYLE

[By Our Special Correspondent.

rival sides in Kiangs seem to be After a lull of several days, the

now fighting in earnest A report published in the "China

The piracy in question took placej Mad last week stuted that all the west of Cheung Chau island and Wu Pei-fu, Marshal Sun Chuan- In spite of urgent appeals by These comprise the afferaft car

whunded and dead were recovered three men appear to answer the fang attempted to maintain neu- rier "Hermes: four craisers, one

Prisoner In Box.

except Commander Darley of H.M.Scharse against them of piracy. flotilla leadery seven modern des-

trality in his five provinces. The prisoner went into the box Despatch," who was in charge.. a The small lad, in evidence, stated troyers; and one submarind this morning and stated that he has subsequently transpired that that he recognised the first prisoner southerners have seriously enter- Latest reports are that the The Admiralty's decision is, of had no knowledge of the events the bodies of three Naval ratings as the man who boarded the boated Kiangst province, being in op- course, made as the result of of the night in question. He had were not retrieved:

and killed his employer. series of recent incidents in differ-gone to bed and the next thing

He re-position to the garrison along the cognised him as the prisoner had whole of the western boundary ent parts of China,

he remembered was waking up It has been estimated that the been fishing in company with his between Hunan and Kiangsi The official communique with the dead body of the deceas-relative strengths of the forces eh-witness's employer and owed his

Near the Yangtse valley, the ed before him.

gaged in the fight were 110 British employer money. His employer Nationalists are making for Wu- The following ships have been In reply to questions he said and 20,000 Chinese.

had gone to demand the money back suen: Further south along the ordered to Hong Kong by the Ad-"when struck the deceased 1 Lt.-Com: Acheson, on the from prisoner a few days before Kwangtung border, they miralty to place themselves under could not quite have known what "Cockchafer." had just given the the piracy. the orders of the Commander-in-1 was doing."

The small boy gave evidence of columns; their objective Being.

marching forward Border for action, and stepped Chief, Chine Station:

Further questioned prisoner to the ladder leading to the bridge, the attack by the Arst prisoner on presumed to be Nanchang, the Stated that he had been fully con-when one of the sharp-shooters, his employer and of the conduct selous of what he had done when specially detailed to mark the out of the others to the women when

capital of Klangsi. they robbed them." They threw at a number of inland towns, San Engagements have been fought The found the deceased's body ly-eers, got him through the back.

ing'in front of him. He had wash The Bullet fortunately passed them overboard and, by means of

Chuan-fang's garrison mostly ed his hands, changed his clothes, hugh his belt and Ro was defect-poles kept them from clinging on falling back until the arrival of taken some other clothing away

to the rudder.

reinforcements.. Witness identified the second pri- and gone to the pawn shop to two hours the gallant commander goner s8 taking part in the piracy.fang has entered into an alliance It is agreed that Sun Chuan- raise money to enable him to get lay on his back directing opera He did not recoghise the third pri- with the Fengtien party of the

North-East.

H.M.S. "Hermes!"

HMS. "Yarmouth""".

H.M.S. "Dartmouth."

H.M.S. "Carysfort." H.M.S. "Castor." H.M.S... "Keppel.: H.M.S. "Verity." H.M.S. "Veteran:"

H.M.S. "Witherington." H.M.S. "Wishart." H.M.S. "Wivern."

H.M.S. "Wolsey."

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H.M.S. Woolston," H.M. S/M. L DRIF H.M.S. "Hermes" came out last year and left on the tension being eased. The announcement that she was to return was made by Reuter on September 12.

Way.

on

ed and missed a vital part.

He fell to the deck, and for over

soner.

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1.

in

New Terror for Wuchang. Grenades have been used by

tions." This concluding the case as re- According to the "Central Chin Asked how far away the boat of gards evidence. Mr. H. S. Fitz Post," which gathered these "per-another witress was at the time roy addressed the court and jury asonal details when the wounded re-(this other witness had stated that on behalf of the prisoner, submit-turned to. Hankow, Commander he identified the three prisoners as the, Nationalists in their assault ting that the man was so un- Darley, just before his fall, seems those taking part in the robbery on Wuchang city, causing great balanced as a consequence" of the to have given orders to the gun witness said that this man's, beat destruction. fear of leprosy preying on his boats to open fire. mind that he did not know whe-

must have been 200 fathoms away,This latest. phase of the siege ther he was doing right or wrong

Looking for Casualties, at the time.

has given rise to colourful des- Lieut. Ridge was last seen to fall Expert evidence of the locality of patches. when the act was committed... The "Carysfort" and "Castor"

riddled with bullets after most gal-the spot where the piracy. took Two or three parts of the city left Home a few days ago.

Mr. Fitzroy submitted that the lantly holding a way full of place was given by Capt. 4. The.

N. are said to be in flames. original intention with regard to very fact that the prisoner had armed men.

Seator who stated that having] Civilian casualties arg When his body was recovered been taken to the spot. he took numerous 80 it is stated that these two cruisers, the "Dart-had to raise money to get away" mouth" and "Yarmouth"" was and had not even clothes to go there were 15. wounds.

bearings. The spot was four miles many dead are lying in heaps and that they were to bring out re with showed that the act could For a full hour the "Kiawo routside British waters. (If the at-left unburied. liefs. Then it was stated that not have been premeditated Hemained grappled to the Wanilu," tack had been made in British Wanton destruction is also al- should their services be required, submitted that the evidence show-not only receiving the Are of the waters no charge of piracy would they would remain on the station, ed clearly that the act was dut to hundreds on board but also of the have been possible as there is no Now comes the latest decision, a sudden homicidal tendency over thousands on the foreshore and provision for it in our local laws).

H.M.'s S/M L.27" was to have which the prisoner had no control those throughout the city as well, come with the cruisers to replace

Insane Acts? one formerly on the Station.

The "Keppel and the seven

4

Was the act of putting a dupli- dead man and a basket of clothes

It speaks most significantly of the Fallantry of the little band whe

leged."

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The populace is believed to be near starvation owing to the cut- Brutal Attack,

ting off of communications" and Opening the case yesterday, orders by the beleaguered garri- Mr. Dyer Ball said that a number son to allow nobody in or out.. of boats were fishing west of Japanese merchants and mis-

destroyers are all on the Mediter-cating machine on the head of the Being compelled to loose her gripCheung Chau. when the boat be- sionaries are reported to have!

ranean station,

"

remained that a second time, after

for while, the "Kiawo" Wis It is interesting to note that in returned from the laundry on the brought back in an heroic endeavour longing to the first prisoner went pleaded with the defending gen- recent years destroyers were not body, the act of a sane man? ask-to secure the wounded and the dead alongside, the first prisoner jumperals for permission for Chinese

He submitted belonging to her little complementing on to the other boat with a to leave the city. assigned to the China Fleet which led Mr. Fitzroy.

The bodies of Commander Darley chopper in his hand. He struck

On Other Fronts. comprised cruisers, sloops, river-that they indicated one thing

down the master and two other! On the Kwangtung-Fukien BBC- gunboats, submarines and mother-only and that was that the pri and three ratings were not

men attacked the women and tor, Man Kwans (irregulars or ships, auxiliaries, &c.

searched their pockets and with-semi-bandits who style them- The presence of the flying act was committed.

out more ado threw them over the selves the People's Army) arej is a post-war develop

side into the sea. The robbers again reported active but it is not decamped with several articles of known who they are siding with. "jewellery.

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soner was insane at the time the

The Attorney-General in sum-

covered.

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ming up for the Crown, said that had passed through his prison the prisoner might have beener's) mind suffering from an obsession that

Actual Evidence."

A lad who was on the boat at Fukien is still concentrating his;

The was afflicted with leprosy but] His Lordship dealt with the the time of the attack jumped troops on this border.

it was, clear from the medical and medical evidence. Dr. McKenny's overboard and swam about a Marshal Wu Pei-fu has moved. other evidence that he was not amounted practically to a positive mile, landing on a rocky island his headquarters to Chengchow. insane. The prisoner had cher-statement that he did not believe and being picked up the next day He promises a counter-offensive ished for a long time a grievance that the man could have been in- by a fishing boat.

this week with his personal direc- against the deceased man and he sane. Dr. Craig's admitted mere The master of a fishing boat tion of the centre, consisting of submitted that the murder had ly the possibility of it and Dr. which was in the locality at the fresh troops from the North. In making application this marn- been deliberate and intentional. Cheung's was to the effect that time gave evidence stating that His objective is surmised to be ing for reconsideration of a sen- For the first time in the course the obsession might have develop-he saw the first prisoner's bont the relief of Wuchang. tence of a fine of $1,000 or six of the hearings of the case and of ed into homicidal mania months hard labour imposed on a the statements by the prisoner

go alongside the other and shortly The Fengtien warlords in Pek- In conclusion, His Lordship afterwards heard cries of "save ing and the North-East are still Chinese by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at they had heard that morning from stated that the onus of proof that life He became scared and left the Central Magistracy, on a charge the prisoner himself that he did the prisoner had been insane at the locality." of possession of a small quantity not know what he was doing when the time the act was committed

of opium," Mr. D. McCallum atress-

a carrier.

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talking of sending a big expedi- tion south but little has been done during the week-end.

MORALE IMPROVES.

Food Supply Sufficient for Several Weeks.

In answer to questions witness ed the point that the man was only he struck the deceased. The pri- was on the defence. The fact that said that he recognised all three. soner had made two statements prisoner committed, the act was prisoners, although his boat was His Worship remarked that re- prior to that in which there was not in dispute and a verdict of not 100 fathoms away at the time. He had known all three prisoners ceivers were held to be worse than no mention of such a thing and guilty was not open to them.

The jury retired at 12.55 and for some years. thieves themselves, and if there in which he had gone into the

returned at 1.40 finding the pri- were few of them there would be affair in complete detail.

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C. (in-!) soner guilty and recommending structed by Deacons)" appeared The Attorney-General conclud him to mercy, r loss thieving. Similarly, in opitum

Hankow, Sept. 14. cases, if there were- no carriersed by stating that the care which

for first prisoner, Mr. H. G. Very accurate information has there would be less opium smug-the prisoner had taken in cover-commendation would be forward- Stokes and Master) for the second cerning the situation inside the His Lordship said that the re-Sheldon (instructed by Johnson, come from several sources con gling, for the actual smugglers were ing up his tracks after the act was ed to the proper quarters. the carriers.

not the sign of the acts of an in- Mr. McCallum replied that con- sane man.

... falderation had to be given to the

fact that the smugglers employed: people of the unintelligent class to His Lordship in summing up had become intimate and that as said that the jury would appre-a consequence he (the prisoner)

carry oplum for them.

His Worship said he was unable

to alter the sentence already passed.

THE WEATHER.

Summing Up.

KOWLOON BUS» INCIDENT.

lady riding

and Mr. T. Addia (instructed by city of Wuchang. The morale of Prisonce's Delusion,

Hastings, Dennys and Bowley) the Northern soldiers inside the The prisoner's allegations that for the third.

city which at first was very low. the murdered man had introduced

has steadily risen as the success. him to a woman with whom he

of their defence has continued. The reports of violence done to ciate the danger of allowing mere had noticed symptoms developing in a richsha at Chatham Road yes- yang has also stirred them. It

A Portuguese

Northerners in Hankow and Han- ly the pics of "uncontrolable im- on his skin which he was told was terday morning had a narrow is also believed that the supply of pulse" to turn away the responsi-the beginning of leprosy were re-Lascape when his vehicle was over rice held by the army of the de bility of a man's act in taking the ferred to at yesterday afternoon's turned in a collision with a motor fence is sufficient to last, several life of a fellow. For a plea of hearing.

|·bus, belonging to the Kaf. Taekweeks. For the 24 hours ending at 10 that kind to succeed it must be

While the civilian food supply a.m." to-day, the official rainfall clearly proved that the prisoner Shortly after making the ac- Motor Bus Company,

Although thrown down on the is of necessity limited there is no figure was 2.12 Inches, which gives was suffering from a disease of quaintance of the woman in ques-

the mind which prevented him tion, prisoner had stated, he roadway, the ricsha coolic, also actual state of starvation as yet. (a total to date of 82.65 inches from appreciating the nature and suffered from skin trouble, his escaped with a few bruises. Pick-Every effort is being made by

against an average of 78.06 inches

Forecast until noon to-morrow quality of the act committed. skin being "as if ants were bitinging up his fare again, the coolie every possible agency in Hankow East or variable winds, moderate The statement that he was not him. He went to a doctor who continued on his journey as if to forestall such a altuation. Foreigners Still Safe." been made for the first time that him medicine for it. As he had

One Chiness case of enteric fever outside the walls have been re- Observatory report at 11.40 am.morning and in a statement made never heard of a case of leprosy --Pressure, has increased moderate only two days after the events being cured he got angry with the (hold) in the city was reported fly over central Japan and decreuard he had gone into minute detalls deceased for having introduced to the Medical Officer of Health on moderately from Shanghal to Che as to what had happened between him to the woman. He woke the Sunday. foo Changes elsewhere are amall. his going to bed and, finding the deceased up on the night of the A depression has formed over the deceased's body on the ground alleged murder and asked him 19, Queen's Road C 1st floor of low pressure extends from Indo-versation between himself and the (the prisoner) and the woman to lower Yangtze Valley and a trough He had gone into details of a conf he had purposely brought him

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