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PENGPU

FALLS.

Confirmation of Chiang Kai-shek's Reverse.

CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT 7,000. ·

Fighting Soon Expected on

Other Fronts.

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SUN'S MEN MAKE ARMED ATTACK ON LUNGHUA.

Confirmation of the fall of Pengpu ig contained in this morning's

Naval Wireless news.

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PIRATE'S VICTIM.

Capt. W. McIntosh Dies At Home.

THE "TUNGCHOW” OUTRAGE.

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Sacco and Vanzetti To Meet Fate To-morrow.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CRIME.

The Judge Refuses To Revoke Sentence.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON AND BOMBS IN CHICAGO.

The last pages of the famous Sacco-Vanzetti' case are being written. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts has decided that they

From another source it is learned that General Chiang Kai-shek with eight inch guns in addition to for Great Britain the Schneider best-known and most popular must die in the electric chair to-morrow. Both are known the world

active.

Since the conviction of these two men, their associates and 'co-

are classed among the red radicals, have tried to defeat the enda thinkers, socialists, communists, Internationalists and others who

of justice by acts of reprisals, bombing American embassies and consulates in Italy, France, Britain and in several South American countries. New crimes are recorded in to-day's cables published

Rapid City, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday, Telegrahpic advice has been President Coolidge has ap Prass representatives were rechived of the death at Epping, proved a navy programme involv- allowed to see today at the Cal-near London, recently, of Cap- ing the probable construction of shot Air Station two of the stain William McIntosh, one of the 12 cruisers of 10,000 tons armed planes which will attempt to win eight 10,000 ton ships now under Cup at Venice in September. shipmasters on the China Coast.

over for their radicalism, and have been convicted for the murder is very perturbed regarding the reverse., He is still at Nanking and construction.Reuter.

These seaplanes were a super-He retired from China in the early Napier and a Gloster Napier IV.

of a shoe factory paymaster and his guard in April, 1920, the assall- is engaged in frequent consultations with his military chiefs con-

summer of last year, after being Great precautions have been in the service of the China Navi-ants escaping in an automobile with several thousand dollars. cerning the situation. Casualties at Pengpu are put at 7,000.

taken to ensure secrece regard- Fighting is soon expected on other fronts. Tension exists at Michael Grusenberg, alias Brown, ing these racing machines and gation Company for 80 years.

Berg and Borodin, with his neither their speed not technical Yangchow and Chinklang, where Sun Chunn-fang's agents are very several motor cars, especially con- details are divulged by correspon-mand of the China Navigation Captain McIntosh was in com- structed for Kansu and Gobi dents. They are, however, the Chitrails, his six subordinates and fastest that have over been bullt Co.'s str. "Tungchow" when that The Nanking Government's ban on the "North China Daily his sarsaparilla, have all flopped in this country and it is believed vessel was pirated a few hours out News" appears to have been lifted.

out of the Hankow.tangle into a that Great Britain has a splendid of Wei-hal-wel on December 28, mouse trap prepared for them by chance of winning the Schneider 1925, and his death is believed to Feng Yu-hsiang at Sianfu in Cup.

be a direct aftermath of the Shensi,

According to the local report, Italian winning machine was 246

Last year the speed of the wounds he received on the occa- which we accept with hesitation miles an hour, and those two Bri-sion of the piracy. It will be re- left for Hankow on Tuesday, an and reserve, the Christian Gen- tish planes are declared to be membered that the "Tungchow,"

Monday eral let Borodin get as far west much swifter.

which was on a voyage from attempt on Chu's life on having falled:

as Sianfu only that he might be

A feature of machines are 12 Shanghai to Tientsin at the time The situation between Kluklang well removed from his friends and Nanchang meagrely reported, and then had him seized and held cylinder Napier engines which are the pirates attacked her, was although it is intimated that the as a bustage against the release stated to be the last word in taken to Blas Bay. Captain troops have split, one party having by Moscow certain other host-mechanical perfection. They are

SHANGHAI PROPAGANDA FUND.

Nanking, Yesterday. Pengpu has been captured by the Northerners, according to re- liable reports received here to- day.

A number of wounded have re-

turned from the north. Locally announced their allegiance to the

there is an amount of unrest both

in civil and military circles.

Silver Embargo Lifted.

Shanghai, yesterday.

The embargo on the export of

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below.

RUMANIAN OFFERS HIS LIFE.

It is claimed that in New York alone half-a-million are ready to down-tools.

The most elaborate police pre-

where. cautions are being taken every-

Advices from South America. describe agitation at Panama, Asuncion, Guayaquil, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

The protest strikes in Uruguay

silver to the outports has been 6,000 troops from Hankow arrived territory without holding him up the Air Force in addition to mech.the service of the China Naviga- to-morrow night organised by been moved to the vicinity of

lifted by order of the Nanking Ministry of Finance,

Nanchang Re-taken.

General Chang Fa-kuei has re- occupied Nanchang and General Yeh Ting and Ho Lung are re- treating southward with 20,000 -men-Reuter.

+

Check at Pengpu.

smaller number from down-river for something is an opinion brought two field guna and military that will also be almost unani- stores. Most of the concentrated mously endorsed, and these con- troops are living in junks, some siderations incline us to put faith! have bilieta ashore, while others in the report. who had invaded the Concession It seems, however, that the are reported to have been removed story has come through, with by their superiora.

phenomenal speed. It would not Northern Underground Work. ·

be like the "secretive Feng to. Tension exists at Yangchow and

Shanghai, yesterday. Chinklang and the civilian popula-broadcast it until he had given The latest reliable reports show tion is worried as to when fighting the situation a lot of thought and that Chiang Kai-shek has receiv-will begin in these river ports. One had had some telegraphic cor- ed a severe check in the neigh-report, from a reliable source, has respondence with Moscow, while bourhood of Pengpu (Anhwei), it that 8,000 men disembarked at neither Borodin nor sympathisers suffering 7,000 casualties. 1,000 Chinkiang from the north bank of would be permitted to wire an wounded have already arrived at the Yangtse, while another report, account of their predicament if somewhat garbled, states that 20,000| troops left the place for Seochow. Feng did not want it known. It The figure probably has one cipher is too good a story to keep, but too many and should be 2,000. Feel- demonstrations of emotion ought ing is running high and it is under- to be held in reserve by friends stood that the non-military element and enemies alike until there is

and a portion of the rank and file confirmation of it.

Pukow. Reuter.

"Communist” Plot in Hankow.

Hankow, Aug. 3, The communists in Wuhan are now doing their utmost to establish fresh activities with Wuchang as their base.

They are, taking advantage of Madame Sun Yat-sen's statement which was made public some time ago, strongly urging that in order

BAN LIFTED?

of the soldiers-is disturbed as to

It Nationalists War on Newspaper, the future trend of events.

Says the "North China Daily News" of August 5:---

The following is a translation

WAS IT SUICIDE?,

PASSAGES BETWEEN COUNSEL AND WITNESS.

TO-DAY'S COURT INCIDENTS.

ter,

Another Appeal.

Bombs in Chicago.

Chicago, Yesterday.

CHICKEN CRUSHER.

im

34 FOWLS IN A SMALL CRATE.

OWNER FINED,

Sentence to Stand. Dedham (Massachusetts), Yesterday. Judge Thayer, has refused to Red cause and the other having ages who are members of the amazingly compact and light, McIntosh was removed to hospital

Vanzetti or to issue a stay of joined the anti- Communistic group. Feng family and were held in though they develop astonishing at Hong Kong, but despite the revoke the sentence on Sacco and best surgical attention it became execution. Reuter's American Other Yangtsze ports are quiet. As rail and telegraphic commanica- Russia when he returned with power.

In the contest for the Schneidernecessary to amputate his left Service. tion is Interrupted between the fresh Red support as a guarantee British Naval Wireless.

Other Yangtaze ports are quiet. cities, the real complexion of the of his fidelity to the cause. That Cup Britain has never before been leg, and he never wholly recover

Meetings In Britain. factions is somewhat obscured. the Christian General. would be represented by service officers,

London, Yesterday. Fighting Expected.

quite capable of this trick all will but this time six officers of the ed from the operation.

Came Out in 1895.

There will be a night-long vigil are assuming serious proportions. Information received in. Shang- agree, and that he would scarcely Royal Air Force will go out to hai yesterday is to the effect that have let Borodin traverse his Italy to act as pilots. They will be He came to Shanghai in 1895 in outside the American Embassy Several regiments of troops have

accompanied by 27 mechanics of in Kiukiang on Thursday, while a

tion Co., and was appointed to nis demonstrators against the sen- Montevideo where no newspapers anice from the aeroplane firms.

Air Vice-Marthal Scarlett will first command in 1902. Since tences on Sacco and Vanzetti, are appearing-Reuter's Amer-

Similar eleventh-hour protest can Service, be in command. British Wireless then till the time of the "Tung meetings are being held through- chow" piracy he had been in

Paris, Yesterday. Service.

The exercise of clemency in the charge, of various vessels of the out Britain wherever there are company's fleet. He had been on United States consulates.--Reu case of Sacco and Vanzetti resta the Tientsin run for many years,

on Mr. Fuller, Governor of Bucharest, Yesterday, Massachusetts, not on President and was very popular among the travelling public, with whom he A disabled Rumanian soldier Coolidge, who has no legal power had a reputation for unfailing named Crangu called on the over the condemned of any State, Before American Legation to offer his Preparations for the execution Courtesy and efficiency. he took over the "Tungchow," he life to save Sacco-Reuter. at midnight have been completed. had command of the "Fengtien,"

Guards have been doubled round another of the Tientsin boats and

the prison and have mounted the Boston, Yesterday. one which, like the "Tungchow,"

roof.-Reuter. has been on the run for many - Sacco and Vanzetti's counsel There were a few passages years.

have filed an appeal against the He was in command of the str.decision of the Massachusetts between counsel and a witness and one between counsel and His "Yingchow" some years ago when Supreme Court denying a writ of This is another effort of Lordship at the resumption at that vessel broke her propeller error. the Criminal Sessions this morn-shaft between Amoy and Manila, the defence to utilise the State ing of the trial of a Chinese on a and it was owing to his fino sea courts.to the utmost before apply- charge of the murder of his wife manship that his ship was ing to the Federal courts.

manoeuvred into a position where Reuter's American Service. definitely known than Sun Chuan-

at Castle Peak,

The case for the Crown is that she could be picked up. He is fang'e agents, plentifully supplied

Two Chinese were this morning prisoner. murdered his wife by stated to have been in command with funds, are operating round

The Catholic church in the charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Yangchow.-"N. C. D. Newa." of the order on which the local strangling her and that of the of a troopship during the war.

Captain McIntosh came of a Armed Attack at Lunghus.

post office has acted in refusing defence is that the woman com-

seafaring family, his father hav-centre of a pariah inhabited by at the Central Magistracy with Shanghai, Aug. 5. this paper ordinary mail facili-mitted suicide by hanging.

The passages in Court this ing been chief engineer of the 150,000 Italians was bombed and cruelty to 34 chickens by crowding A few brief details have trans-ties. A newspaper, with the con-

Inspector Macdonald said that pired of an encounter between adence reposed in it which its morning centred chiefly around Douglas str. "Namos" when that the pillars and windows shate them in to a small crate large

previously been, flooded with

some of the chickens were riding the beginning of the week at China Daily News," neither left on the neck in cases of hang-of the bloodiest affairs of modern handbills advertising a Sacco on the backs of others. The de armed force which took place at readers place in the "North- medical theofles as to the marks ill-fated ship was pirated, in one tered. The neighbourhood had enough to contain only 20 fowia times, south of Hong Kong in vanzetti protest meeting. fendants had two empty crates in Lunghua In view of the need fabricates news nor disseminates ing or homicide.

Dr. J. E. Dovey, Medical Offi, 1891. His grandfather is also Reuter's American Service.

their handcart, but were too lazy The knowingly. for men at the front the Shanghal fabrications

cer in charge of Kowloon believed to have been a sea-faring

to transfer the fowls.. district has been largely depleted greatest possible scrutiny is given mortuary, was cross-examined by man; and to have come to China

The first defendant having un of its garrison, and accordingly all reports, and, where it seems Mr. F. C. Jenkin (for the Crown) in the early 'fifties or 'forties.

dertaken responsibility as the man in charge of the cart, the other de only about 800 men are at pre- neccessary, our readers are cau- regarding his statement that Captain McIntosh himself was sent stationed at Lunghua. It is tioned against too literal accept- thought that this small numbérance of the facts stated. That the there was a deep circular mark all born in Glasgow in 1869, It is not Tube Station at 10 o'clock, this fendant was discharged. induced an enemy to make his truths we publish are a source of round the neck of the deceased know whether he has any near

Defendant's excuse was that he the building was shaken. Frag was on the point of transferring attack.

When he retired from service ments of an amateurish bomb the chickens to the other crates. discomfort to the Nationalists avewoman, in a horizontal position, relatives living. This attack came off either on have not the slightest doubt. It is and that the rope was knotted the one and only suitable means. Monday or Tuesday night, and al- proved by the order which about half an inch below the of the China Navigation Co. last were found in the cloakroom when an Indian constable arrested year he was dealt with most gen- wall, which was crackedReu- him and his foki in Wanchai Road. Having ascertained that the It has transpired that the com- though details of the actual fight follows: The Shanghai Fostal thyroid cartiledges.

Counsel quoted various medical erously by the company in whose ter

chickens had been brought from munists had been planning aing are not available, it trans Commission's Office,

Stupid Joke. great massacre in Wuhan, for the pires that the attacking force was

the Satyingpun market and were In pursuance of a telegram authorities to Dr. Dovey, asking service he had received the dis ability which ultimately was to

Rugby, Yesterday.

Intended for the Sookumpoq end of last month, and many driven off, not, however, before dated the 29th ultimo from the him if he agreed with them.

Mr. Jenkin Do you agree end to his death.

Some alarm was caused to-day market, Mr Lindsell remarked that weapons for the purpose were two of the defenders were killed. Commander-in-Chief, stating that (quoting); that it is an error to

by the explosion of a bomb at the it had taken the defendant a long concealed in different places, but In the meantime six of the at- "as the "North-China Daily

Aldwych Tube Station in London. time to realise the necessity of the plot was discovered by the tacking party were wounded. News" has fabricated and pub- suppose that want of oblique- authorities and the arrest of a It was at first rumoured that lished news items with the view as in the impression left on the

the attack was the work of Com- of rousing distrust and causing neck can offer any evidence in if the noose is a running, one, the The explosion took place at 10 separating the chickens. He had I will be a horizontal one." Do Aldwych Station is one of the to his destination at the time of his The communists, having failed munists, but this version in dissension and thereby prejudic. favour of the at having been resultant groove (in the neck) o'clock in the morning, but the covered more that half the distance

homicidal."

least busy stations of the metro- this endeavour, Bre now discredited. It le believed that ing (the execution of our mili

A fine of $10 was imposed. Witness was proceeding to you agree with that statement by polls and was practically empty at contemplating the enforcement of they are not organised for such tary plans, and as the continuous

agree, with qualification, when a medical authority?

the time. No one was hurt and a general strike of labourers, exploits locally. The theory now dissemination of such news can- His Lordship Interposed and Witness: No.. Martial law is still being enforced held in that they were men of not possibly be tolerated, besides said that if witness qualified the

beyond scratches on the walls and Pressed as to under what other the shattering of some plaster, no Sun Chuan-fang's army. When writing to the Ministry of For staternent he did not agree with qircumstances, with a running damage was done. At first it was Hankow Troops.

that army withdrew from this eign Affairs to take serious it

noose, the groove would be thought the explosion was the Shanghai, Aug. 6. province various bodies were left diplomatic action on the matter, Witness persisted that he horizontal one, witness said only work of sympathisers with Sacco That subtle undercurrents are behind, and although it was re- you are hereby ordered to detain

and Vanzetti; the condemned moving in the vicinity of Hankow is evident, when one reads between Dorted that they had been absorb the "North-China Daily News!! agreed with qualification in the case of strangulation, the lines of despatches which have ed into Chiang Kai-shek's army, from transmission etc.; we have His Lordship's Opinion. There were several passages Italians awaiting execution in

His Lordships Personally, I between counsel as to witness's America. Investigations, how-bail of 3250 this morning, pleaded arrived in Shanghai in the last day it is known that such has not the honour to forward this Order or two. It seems that the authori been the case with a great num to your office for notice and think the statement is obviously qualifications of answers, ever, showed that the bomb was guilty before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Counsel appeared to think that not of a destructive character. It to charges of keeping a pepful lot ties are embarrassed in view of her of them. In the circum-execution by stopping the trans wrong for Cas alleged dissatisfaction among their stances it is now thought that mission by post of the said Mr. Jenkin. Oh, I did not know Mr. Dovey was evading giving a was of a home-made kind and con- tery depot at No: 249 Des Vaux troops and movements of Nanking this was an attempt on the part "North China Daily News" Im your Lordship had any medical direct answer and commented:Tsisted of an explosive substance in Road West, and unlawful posses- soldiery. Kluktang also is restless of Marshal Sun's old troops, to mediately from date, Please qualifications; by Lam in a post- have never met you before, Mr. mustard tin. The railway com-ion of 168 pópíu lottery tickets. and T. V. Soong is reported to have

tion to convince on a Dovey, but I can assure you this any regard the incident merely Sergeant Whant told the Magis arrived in Hankow from Kluklang take advantage of the situation. reply and oblige.

There wereller in court at is no case of my baiting you as a stupid practical Joke Bri-trate that the depot was opened Governmental financial stress is It is said that a sum of $400,-

tish Wireless Service

some four months ago, and it was the time and His Lordship 'com- Witness replied: that, although Indicated from the reports that they 000 has arrived in Shanghai to

large concern, according to in- have sequestered exchanged all be used as propaganda, for Sun

mented that he wanted the mat- he could go a certain way with 24 One Day Strikes.

formation he had received from the the sliver from the native banks, Chuan-fang.WI

tar taken entirely serionály, the medical authorities quoted, he

Chineen, detectively and tendered the fermer holders Borodin Mystery.

10 Witness was asked the follow, had to qualify a certain of the

ing.qu

by Mr Jen We statements made in the light" of In cases ut hanging, wherever his medical experience

The case is proceeding.***

The Shanghai Chinese Post Office appear to have lifted the ban imposed on the mailing of the "North China Daily News," properly stamped coples up to Saturday last, August 6, being received in Hong Kong this morning.

to save the nation, communism is

number of the plotters ensued.

in

here. "Toko."..

noter from the Central

Attempt on Chun Word has reached Shangbal] From Kiukiang it is learned that through scandalised Red channels

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YANG HU (Seal), CHEN CHUN (Seal));

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR The closing rate of the dollar,

Chu Pei-teh and Wang Ching-wel (says the "N.C.D.N.) that on demand, to-day was 1/11 3/18, the knots (front/back!

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"Amateurish" Bomb.

London, Yesterday.

"A bomb exploded at Aldwych

morning. Nobody was hurt but

New York Yesterday, Socialists' and '. Com throughout America are one-day strikes in Bacco Vanzetti arecu

arrest.

A LOTTERY SHOP.

CHINESE PROPRIETOR PARE FINED $200.2

A Chinese who was out on police

The Magistrate fined the accused $100 on each of the two charges. tha The lottery tickets were ordered

to be confiscated.