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AT KONGMOON.
No Demonstration as Communists Have Fled.
[From Our Own Correspondent.] Pakkai, Konginoon, April 19. There was hardly any need for an anti-Commanist coup by the
From Swatow it is learned that Japan is the same, as the others the Communists cut the port's already published, though couch- water supply and railway to ed in friendlier terms. In addi Chiu-chow-fu but that the tion it expresses the hope that authorities are pusuing the fugi-Japan will in the near future take tives.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
Kiangsi Extremists Torturę
Moderates.
Shanghai, April 19. The situation is steadily grow- Cantonese authorities at Konging worse. The whole of Kiang- moon as the Extremists all took | si has now passed out of the con- to flight.
trol of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek Special precautions were taken into the hands of th: extremists. by the Police and military but In Kiukiang and Nanchang the there was no clash. The anti- extremists are seizing and bind- foreign demonstration never tooking all they dislike. Many of place and the situation is quiet.
their victims are being suspended Foreigners are now ignored. in the air. A rope, which is pass- They are not ill-treated in any
ed round a pulley fixed in the ceil way or subjected to boycott. ing is fastened to their ankles.
Foreign schools and hospitals are temporarily closed (following the Ching Ming holidays) and the Presbyterian missionaries have been evacuated.
The women and children of staffs of the Chinese. Maritime Customs and foreign firms left some time ago when valuable for- eign property was all removed for safety.
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CANTON QUIET.
Merchants More Confident: Business Resumes.
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Latest information received by the "China Mail indicates that Canton is quiet and that. general- ly, order is being restored in the interior of Kwangtung province.
Attention is now directed to wards dealing with the prisoners arrested in Good Friday's coup against the Extremists.
Shipments of cargo, both im- port and export, were resumed yesterday on the conclusion of the Easter holidays and the mer- chants feel more confident.
North of Canton, the Peasants' Corps has been disarmed in many places.
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up the question of unilateral, Treaty Revision "with a view to removing the root cause of all Sino-Foreign friction."-Reuter.
BAND AT THE STAR.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. E-B. Ferrers, D.S.O., and officers, The Balid of the 1st Bn. Camero- nians will give its final performance at the Star Theatre this evening at 9.30. By popular request the Band will play "A Southern Wedding."
The feature film is a Universali picture "The Old Soak."
NOTICES.
The etins are then pulled up THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, with their heads hanging down- wards.
Others have their faces beaten in the teeth and nose being broken by 'sticks. The extremists are circulating photographs of these tortures for the purpose of intimidation.-Reuter.
Belgian Assaulted.
Shanghai, April 19, According to a message from Hankow dated the 14th there is
HONG KONG.
BOYS, will be admitted on MONDAY and TUESDAY, next April 26th and 27th.
TEW BOYS, BOARDERS & DAY
The Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE, M. A. OXON, Headmaster.
Hong Kong, 20th April, 1927,
still no protection outside the Bri- HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER tish Concession for foreigners.
A Belgian, Mr. A. V. Lubis was assaulted by coolies on the water-
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front and had his clothes nearly T MEETING of Members of the torn off, He only escaped owing HONG KONG GENERAL CHAN- to the misapprehension of a policeman who thought Mr. Labis's passport meant he was a Russian.
The British Consulate is being established
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steamer "Siangtan,"
Sixteen Chinese were executed for *circulating counter-pro- paganda and strike-breaking. Reuter.
The Nationalists Notes.
Tokyo, April 19. Regarding the Five-Power Note, the Nationalist's reply to!
BER OF COMMERCE will be held on THURSDAY, 28th April, 1927, at 4 p.m., in the CITY HALL, for the following purposes:-
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 81st December, 1926,
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Hong Kong, 20th April, 1927.
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