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HANKOW DEFENCE.

18

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927.

PARIS AGAIN!

Russian General Making Byrd Safely Crosses The

Stand.

"NOTHING TO CAPTURE."

Atlantic.

MILLIGAN/LOSES.

Badly Battered By Walker

FIGHT STOPS IN 10TH ROUND.

London, June 30.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

COAST STRIKE.

Attempts to Bridge The Gulf.

A NOTE OF OPTIMISM.

LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only EardiT

Established Over Fa Manager Ralph A. Cool

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STRANGE DEATH.

Spectacular Financier Dealings.

STOCK EXCHANGE PANIC: COURSE KEPT BY WIRELESS.

Although of opinion that it is

London, June 30. Cherbourg, June '30. Hankow, June 30.

A large crowd at Olympia watch too soon yet after the final There has been a sensation on Throughout the flight Com-! General Gallen, military ad-mander Byrd kept in wirelessed the weighing in or Walker and breach for events so to have the Stock Exchange, owing to the visor to the Hankow party, is communication with the land Milligan for to-nighter ihr for the shaped themselves as to be confusion arising out of the sud- reported to be making prepara- and ships which gave him his world's middleweigh idiopship vourable to the immediate ending den death in mysterious circum- Both were well inside the weight. of the deadlock between the stances yesterday of James tions for the defence of Hankow

The fight began at 46 p.r. He is now reported to be at a Walker rushed in and scored with China Navigation Company and White, the former bricklayer, one against the Nationalist expedi-bearings.

their officers regarding the ten of the most spectacular finan tion which General Chiang Kai-position 35 miles north of Land's

per cent. reduction in pay, anciers of the century, whose gigan- shek is stated to be organising, in

End.-Reuter.

official of the striking Officers' tic multi-million operations addition to his renewal of opera-

Guild when seen by a "China ranged from land trusts and tions against the North.

Mail" representative this morn-theatres to efforts to corner large ing was optimistic as to a com-industrial companies' shares. paratively early settlement.

The shares of all the companies Every effort is being made, he in which he was interested have said, to arrive at a solution which fallen heavily, especially British would be compatible with the offi-Controlled Oilfields, in which he is cers' case and bridge the acute reported to have been committed difference as to its merits, which to the extent of £1,000,000. has led to the strike.

The Westminster Bank has ap-

General Gallen has asserted that, in the event of the defeat of the Hankow Croojs, there will be nothing left in Hankow making its capture by the North worth while British Naval Wireless.

1

MOSCOW AND CHINA.

Bukharin's Idle Talk About Traitors.

Lands Near Paris.

London, July 1. Commander Byrd has landed at Issy near Paris. Reuter.

ed

Earlier News.

Chatham, Mass., June 30.

A radio message has been pick- up signed by Commander airmen Byrd stating that the have seen neither land nor water since four o'clock yesterday after. noon, on account of the dense fog und clouds covering an enormous urea.-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.-

Moscow, June 30. Writing in the "Pravda," M.

A Tour of Europe. Bukharin, analysing the situation

Paris, June 30. Chamberlin and Lovine ar- in China, points out that in spite of the strengthened position of rived at Le Bourget by air from the Nanking Government as a re: Switzerland and were welcomed sult of the alliance with Marshal by their wives with large bou. Feng Yu-hsiang, the Wuhan Gov-quets, also by the American ernment is carrying on the strug Charge d'Affaires, the French gle to rid itself of traitors within authorities and cinematogra- the Kuomintang and

the phers. Nationalist Government and the The airmen arrived just in loosening of the powerful workers time to attend the inauguration and peasants movement.

of a granite memorial to Captain Lindbergh's landing at Le Bour- get. Reuter.

The Soviet Government sees no reason to abandori relations with the Nanking Government, just as it does not refuse to have rela- tions with the bourgeois govern- ments of the East and West.- Reuter.

EARLIER MESSAGES.

in Betreat.

Shanghai, Jupe 30. Reports from Tsinanfu show that the Nationalist advance on Shantung is progressing and that the Northerners are retreating along the Tientsin-Pukow railway

In the meantime, it is the in-plied for a receivership in the tention of the officers (providing Beecham Trust, of which White the Company is agreeable) to was the Chairman, which is in- maintain as many of their num-debted to the Bank for over ber on board as may be required { £450,000.

for the discharge of cargo or to Scores of White's followers are take control in an emergency, faced with ruin owing to the re- such as the approach of a typhoonsultant slump.

or the taking of the ship into The financier was found dead in It his home with an empty, chloro- Dock for necessary repairs.

la also. essential, if the ships' en-form bottle at the bedside. gines are to be properly cared for He left a note saying: "Good- and guarded against possible in-bye and "good luck."-Reuter.

Confidence Returning.

Later: Nervousness on the Stock "Ex-:{

White's death was followed by a change in the morning owing to

partly attributed to the fact that slightly more confident feeling

*

a left and a right. Muligan, with terference, that competent men a couple of lefts, opened Walker's should be regularly on duty for in-

spection purposes. eye wound.

In the second round Milligan It is understood that both the with a left and a right to Walker's Guild and the Company regard head caused him to half slip. On the strike as in the nature of a his rising Milligan thrice scored to domestic dispute and, as no essen- Pacific Flight.

the chin.without response..

tial public service has been para- Wheelerfield, June 30.

Milligan set the pace and was The squadron of aeroplanes clever and elusives He was ahead lysed, it is not the intention to financial difficulties among

the day. sent out to meet Maitland, failed on points at the end of the fourth issue statements to the Press members were revealed during

Such statements, it is considered, to find him with the result that round.

might be open to misinterpreta- alone.

Later: his monoplane arrived

towel tion by those members of the Walker beat M The airman was welcomed by the

hound rufic unacquainted with the Governor and Admiral John Mac-being thrown in th

and sweepthell as volgt: Walker Janded

arrived 26 Yointly Yout towers and native emblems of jaw in the fifth. E greeting. The airmen were very

The referee, in the sixth, caution-done to prejudice negotiations.

Milligan hungry as they were unable to ed both for holding. find their coffee and sandwiches carried by the plane.-Reuter's American Service.

..

Not to Fly Back.

Washington, June 30. to Yenchow, endeavouring to The war department has decid- consolidate their position on the ed that Maitland and Hegenberger Chieh-Ho River south of Yenchow are not to fly back to the United in order to hold up Chiang Kai-States. The plane will be left shek's troops who have appeared at Hawaii for flights between the fifteen miles south-west of the re-islands as it is of a type much gion of the Grand Canal.

needed there.-Reuters' Ameri- can Service.

The Southerners are progress ing in the face of great difficulties as the Northerners are tearing up the railway tracks and destroying the pumping-stations.

Both forces are sustaining fair-

ly heavy losses. *

As a result of rumours of a Northern defeat Tsinanfu

is

panicky.. Local bank notes are

The Defence Line.

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NEW RULES PASSED UNDER ORDINANCE.

Additional rules made by the

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SHOT AS A SPY.

Morcow Terror Claims Woman Vichin

Moscow, June 10.

A woman named Helen Vishnevskaya, accused of spy- ing for Poland, was sentenced to death at Khatkav and shot forthwith. Reuter.

The return of confidence is re-

flected in the improvement of the quotations of most of the secur tien principally, affected by the BEAMS Alune, pular skicuter

seems also to point to the fact that Britain's representative was more or less "out."

Walker, whose picture (a new one) appears on this page, appar- ently took the fight very serious- ly, and in no way discounted the worth of his Scottish op- ponent, habit "into

A

which 80 many champions fall- until they meet 踣

better

man.

When he arrived in Lon-

don he said: "This is my first

James White has four nes only in "Who's Who," where he is described as Managing Director of the Beecham Trust, Ltd.,, arid Chairman of George Edwardes (Daly's Theatre), Ltd. He was born at Rochdale in 1878. His

fair, W.1.

address was 21, Park Street, May-

PUBLIC MONEY.

HONG KONG'S FINANCIAL POSITION.

Ássels. The referee had reached counting more if he had won. There is an Subsidiary Coins eight when the towel was thrown uncommon disparity in these Advances

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Terribly: Battered.

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visit to Great Britain, and I am A credit balance of $4,474,923.41 made a twohanded onslaught but not worried about the climate, on February 81 is revealed in the Walker retaliated severely with and of course it will not be my latest statement of the Colony's According to blows to head and body. He thrice fault if I lose. What you can be financial position.

certain of is that the spectators to-day's "Government Gazette," the scored to the head.

a fight." And, it balance of assets and Habilities on Milligan was: down for two will see

February 28 was $4,221,657.15, and at sixty-five per cent. discount.-Governor In Council under the

counts of eight in the seventh seems, they certainly did! from right and left hooks.

For going to England to defend the revenue from March 1 to 31 Reuter. 13

Pank Tramway Ordinance. are as

Milligan scored a left to the jaw his title Walker was guaranteed was $1,689,742.94, making a total of $5,911,380.09. The expenditure in the eighth but was down twice £23,000, the largest reward ever during the same follows:-

period WDB Peking, June 30.

paid to a pugilist in Europe. $1,486,466.68, leaving a balance of No passenger carriage shall be for seven in the ninth. The third and fourth Fengtion used in the tramway, or continued

Then in the tenth Walked scored Tommy gets a paltry £4,500, and 34,174,923.41.

would not have received much armies are transferring from the in use, unless and until the inner with a terrific right to the jaw. Yellow River front to Tsangchow, faces of the brake jaws are sixty miles south of Tientsin roughened by chisel cross cuta. for the purpose of strengthening. The inner faces of the brake jaws in. the defence line and establishing of the passenger carriages shall be themselves between Tsangchow by the Superintendent Engineer at sulected to careful examination

In a titanic struggle Milligan have been tempted from the Unit- House Service Account und Paoting-fu.—Reuter.

(P.W.D.) If from any flattered his supporters up to the ed States if he could not command Unallocated Unallocated cause the roughened surface has fifth round He showed terrific at least as much as he would re- become smooth such faces shall be speed and his blows seemed to ceive in his native land for a re-roughened in manner aforesaid have plenty of power behind championship bout. And you Investment Account ..

can't blame him. before. the carriage is again used them, the

Lorry Haulage Ac- on the tramway. The causa, of

Attendance figures and other In the sixth round, however, his smoothing shall be ascertained and deliveries, became rather wild details such as the number of Balance at Banks removed if practicable.

The faces of the centre rail, and he left himself open, Walker rounds agreed upon, etc., have not where the gradient exceeds 1 in 3, seizing the opportunity to shake been cabled, but it may be taken for granted that on Thursday shall be roughened by chisel cross him with left and right books: It has been decided to form an cuts; the roughened faces shall be Thereafter the American, hit-night there were more people at Deposits not Available $1,372, 46237 International Company of the treated with a coating of tar apting with tremendous, power, Olympia than ever before. By Goal Account Hong Kong Police Reserve open plied whilst hot.

made Milligan a chopping block, using every inch of available Postal Agencies to all nationalities except those The roughened faces of the cen- but the Scot continued to fight space; accommodation for 13,300 Suspense Account ... belonging to Companies already tre rail shall be subjented to a care with indomitable spirit until, tex: spectators was provided. Every Crown Agents Current formed or in process of formation ful examination by the Superinten-ily battered with blood gushing seat was reserved, and prices of Adjustment of Ex- (ie., Chinese, Indian and Portu- dent Engineer at least once a week; rom his mouth, he was lifted admission ranged from £1 to £10, the latter being for ringside! guese). Service will be of one any smoothing shall be remedied as from the canvas-Reuter.

places. year a duration, and the intention soon as practicable by re-roughen-

A Surprise.

According to a London mess- to have always in readiness aing in manner aforesaid and by

"Stalwart" writes: Tommy age published a little while ago, body of trained, uniform men to gain treating with a coating of assist the regular Police Force in tar applied whilst hot. The cause Milligand defeat at the hands of Bombardier "Billy" Wells, who is

of emoothing shall be ascertained Mickey Walker, who thus retains now near the forty line, was to A comparative statement of the the case of emergency. .

Training will comprise simple and removed if practicable."

the world's middleweight cham- attempt a "come back on the Colony's revenue and expenditure [squad and arms drill and a series

pionship will come as a surprise night of the Walker-Milligan for the period ended March 31 to many followers of the Noble night, meeting a youngster named gives the following returns

Estimates for 1927-$21,007;307; Art, particulbely so when the Sandwina, a German boxer who revenue from March 1 to 31.-- method of it is considered. From has appeared at the Ring and 31,689,742.94; revenue for same the meagre cables published other London resorts as 'n heavy-month of preceding year. above it appears that the Scots weight. Jack Hood beat this 81,662,784.68; actual revenue to lad was simply outpunched from youth, if I remember rightly March 31.-$4,953,185.88; and re- Moscow, June: 80, the fifth round onward, although rather easily, though I do not Venue for same period of previous There has been a violent, earth we are told he was leading well think it at all wise of "Billy," a year, $4,869.668.10. quake in the Crimea. Considerable on points up to the end of the lovable fellow, to attempt the

Expediture, Assures appeared in buildings in fourth. We all know Milligan for task. As Tom Berry discovered Estimates for 1987.-$22,314, 02: the cities and there have been big a dour and "never-say-die fight the other day, and as others auch expenditure from March 1 to si landslides the mountains. At

|#1,436;456.68; expenditure for the Simais the "Mouk Rock" has fallen er, so it must be taken that he as Jeffries and "Kid" Lewis have me month of the preceding year at the sea. A former palace of was in a bad way in the tenth discovered, a "come back after a 1,883,478.50; actual axpenditu the Khans of Behchisarai has been round when the towel came float-long lay off is a dificult thing to to March 138,964,560.65; and considerably damaged. There have ing from his corner. The referee accomplish, Anno Domini is the expenditure for the same period of bean no casualties. Reuteri having reached the eighth second chief opponent,

the previous year$4,816,668.34,

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