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WAR IN NORTH.

EMPIRE DEFENCE.

Another Victory For Wu Pei-fu.

Training Officers In Strategy.

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Intended for Communist Union?

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DRIVE AGAINST "REDS."

Peking, Jan. 11.

NEW COLLEGE OPENS,

Rugby, Jan. 17.

It is officially reported from There assembled for the first! Chengchow that Marshal Wu Pei-time to-day the new College of fu's troops have captured Sher-Defence set up by the instigation chow and are driving the Kuomin-fof the Committee of Imperial chun back to Lingpao. It is anti-Defence. cipated that Honan province will The object of the formation of soon be cleared of the Kuomin- the college is to train officers and ¡chun.

civilian officials of the three Ser. vices--the Navy, Army and Air Force-in the broadest aspect of

Chenchow is in the north-west of Honan province (Wu Pei-fu's territory) which was recently in-strategy. vaded by the Kuominchun.

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These men would have a vital part to play in any organisation put in motion on mobilisation.

NEIGHBOURHOOD SHAKEN.

New York, Jan, 17.

A clockwork bomb exploded in the doorway of the Italian Con- sulate. The whole neighbourhood was shaken, windows being smashed; but there. casualties.

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were no

The police, who have arrested, a man and charged him with com plicity in the outrage express the opinion that the bomb was in- tended for the headquarters of the furriers' union, which is in the same building as the con- sulate.

The union has been described There are thirty places in the college and twelve are being re-by the American Federation of served for officers from the Lebour as being "dominated by Communist influences.-Reuter's American Service,

The Kuominchun (ie., the Na- tional Army) is commanded by the Christian Genoral, Feng Yu- hsiang, professedly allied to the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) and fighting the same enemy. Dominions.

After relieving the siege of

The subjects studied will be

and Sian, the Kuominchun advanced naval

litary history.. rapidly into Honan and there political influences, strategy, were hopes that they would join economics, Supplies, imperial hands with the Southerners near wireless coramunication and sq Hankow.

forth..

The result aimed at is the crea- tion of a combined General Staff for the Empire.

POSITION EXPLAINED.

Where the Latest Battles Are Fought..

From the above message, it is evident that Wu Pei-fu has start- ed a drive against the so-called Reds" in the North and the Reuter gable published yesterday indicated that he was also coun- ter-attacking the Nationalists. But as emphasised yesterday!" these messages all emänate from Chengehow, which is Wu Pei-fu's headquarters."

VISIT TO MALTA.

PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION

MISSION.

Rugby, Jan. 17. A delegation of the Empire Parliamentary Association will leave London

to-morrow

for

The Commandant of the Col- lege will be furnished every two years by the respective services, The First"Commandant is Vice-. Admiral Sir Hubert Richmond Malta in response to an invitation of the branch of the association British Wireless Service.

there..

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PEER AND WIFE.

BOTH DIE THE SAME NIGHT.

VISCOUNT BEARSTED'S CAREER.

Chinese tables to hand during the past week all pointed to Wu

London, Jan. 17. Pei-fu having successfully resist.

The death is announced of Vis. ed the Kuominchun and that he was energetically preparing to count Bearsted, whose wife also Prohibition of exchange of clubbed letters between Hong Kong and make another bid against the died last night.-Reuter. the following countries: China, Netherland Indies, Federated Malay Cantonese, to his South States and Straits Settlements which was to come into force on the

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Travelling by train to Syracuse, the members will proceed thence to the island in the British war ship. "Bryony."

The delegation includes Lord Peel, First Commissioner of Works, who is the Chairman, Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, and five other Conservative mem- bers of Parliament, four" Labour M.P's and one Liberal-British Wireless Service.

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Hong Kong, 12th January, 1927.

Director.

Marcus Samuel, the first Vis-HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD. 1st January, 1927, will not come into force until the 1st April, 1927: In Chekiang province (ie.,count Bearsted, travelled widely On and after Sunday 16th January the Radio Counter on the 3rd auch further east and at the in the Far East and Japan.

He introduced the transport of: Floor of the G.P.O. will be closed, and will be transferred together mouth of the Yangtse River), with the Radio Telegraph Offee to the 1st Floor of the G.P.O. Build- Marshal Sun Chuan-fang is öppetroleum in bulk through the pany has been changed to REISS)! ing. The Counter at the Radio Telegraph Office will be open day and posed to "native" troops who. Suez Canal, and was knight- MASSEY & CO!, LID;

H.M.S. night for the acceptance of radio telegrame.

services to have gone over to Canton. There ed for The entrance to the Building is at the. Des Voeux Road-Pedder is no evidence that the National "Victorious" in 1898. Street corner.

in the ist Armies are actually The doors will be closed after 10 p.m. but admittance muy beeld in Chekiang, against Sun don from 1891 to 1902, he be 'Alderman of the City of Lon-

obtained by ringing the night-bell.

Chuan-fang's Northerners from came Lord Mayor in 1902 and

held that post for one year. Shanghai.

On the other hand, a cable this Having developed large oil- mowing states that there is fur-fields in the Far East, he received the dissent in Wu Pei-fu's camp, an official vote of thanks frors the one of his leading generals being Lord Commissioner of the one cid Regal Engine and Chassis, Empress of Russia suspected of flirting with General Admiralty in May 1915 for and one old Fire Brigade Engine, Sphinx.

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Tenders will be opened at noon. Mishima Maru

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CANTON'S RETREAT.

Menace on Shanghai Further Removed.

Operations leading up to the recapture of Ningpo during the week-end by Marshal Sun Chuan- fang are referred to by the "Shanghai Times" as follows:--

Shanghai, Jan. 13, 1.30 p.m.

Occupation of Shaohsing by 4.80 p.m. Marshal Sun Chiap-fang's forces bp.m. and the retreat of the main Can- 8.30 a.m. tonese force from Yenchow to Lanchi, their original point of concentration, are developments in the Chekiang war situation favouring Marshal Sun's cause and thrusting further back the pmCantonese menace to Shanghai.

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"Cantonese in Danger.". The invaders from the South are likely to be "bottled if the present movement of Klangsu troops continues. Marching by rapid stages from Wenchow, Gen- eral Chow Fu-yén, former Gov- ernor of Fukien and ally of Mar- ahal Sun, has brought up his army to a point as far north as Kinhwa. He is reported to be leading an army of 6,000 men in the field and another 7,000 höld- ing Taichow. The advance of his field army is likely to result in a junction with Marshal Sun's army! near Lanchi and the "bottling up' Lof the Cantonese.

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