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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927:

MARTIAL LAW.

PRESS & LEAGUE.

ZAGHLUL PASHA.

at Geneva.

PERIOD OF CO-OPERATION.

Southerners at Chinkiang Prepare For Attack. Newspaper Experts Meet

.

NO NEWS OF SUN.

Former Prominent Canton · Official at Nanking.

SHANGHAI POLITICAL AND MILITARY MUDDLE.

Martial law has been declared at Chinkiang, the Nationalist forces who are in possession of the place evidently preparing for the coming of the Northerners, who are somewhere in the vicinity on the other bank of the Yungtaze, south of Yangchow. No news dur- ing the past few days has been received of the Sun Chuan-fang army which was reported to be in this locality.

Desultory firing continues from both banks of the river at Nanking, though so far the Northerners have made no attempt to cross from Pukow.

The latest development in the Nanking-Hankow amalgamation is the arrival in the former place of Mr. Sun Fo, the son of the late Sun Yat-sen and a former prominent official in the Borodin-Eugene Chen regime at Hankow.

The British air forces in China are to be withdrawn as soon as possible, though no definite date is given. This official announce- ment contradicts the Shanghai report to the effect that they were to be withdrawn this month. Decision is in the hands of the author- ities on the spot.

BRITISH AIR FORCES.

Nanking, Yesterday. The due between the Northern and Southern forces at Pukow and Nanking respectively continues. About seventy rounds were fired from Pukow yesterday, mainly at the Southerners' gun emplace ment at Liva Hill and the Ferry Railway Station.

One station shed in Nanking was hit and burnt down. The Southerners replied from Lion Hill with a few shots.

More troops have arrived from up-river. Convoys between. Nan- king and Chinking were not fired on on Monday and Tuesday.

Martial Law.

Chinkiang, Yesterday. Martial law has been declared and movement of shipping during the night is forbidden.

Surprise at Wuhu.

Wuhu, Yesterday. Troops of the 37th Army have arrived here. Their arrival was somewhat of a surprise as there is no threat from the North in this area, but it is understood that they they have been placed out of

to make a counter-attack upon the Fengtien faction immediately. Nor is it easy for them, to realise a union including General Feng Yu-hsiung against the Fenztien faction. The Fengtien faction, taking advantage of this op

vade Human, but Shansi, whatever

CHEKIANG UNEASY.

Disillusionment Concerning the

Nationalists.

To Fill Them.

PREMIER AND CANADA.

Famous Egyptian Leader Dead.

FOUNDER OF "WAFD.”

N. LAZARUS.

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RAIL DISASTER.

C. N. C. STRIKE.

11 Killed, 50 Injured Near Why Negotiations Were

Sevenoaks.

Re-opened.

TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE.'

CHINESE INFLUENCE?

Protection Of News & Professional Mr. Baldwin's Fine Tribute To The Agitator Who Rose To Be Prime Pieces Of Woman's Body Collected Question of Payment Up To Date

Facilities.

Geneva, Yesterday.

where the

Dominion.

London, Yesterday.

Minister

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the China Navigation Company and the engineers and officers who are on strike, the view is being freely expressed that the first of next month will see the ships back on the run again.

In A Sack.

Of Strike. Cairo, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday.

Although there is no official The death has taken place of A very important conference of

The Premier and Mrs. Baldwin Zaghlul Pasha.-Reuter.

It is reported that 10 persons news locally regarding the con- Press experts from all over the arrived at Southampton this | Sand Pasha Zoghlul, the Prime were killed and 20 injured in the versations which are proceeding world. held under the auspices of afternoon in the liner "Empress of Minister of Egypt, has in every derailment of a Southern Railway in Shanghal as a result of the re- Reformation Hall, the League of Nations, opened at Scotland" from their Canadian respect had a remarkable career train from London to Deal near opening of negotiations between

as the following review of his Sevenoaks.

Rails Torn Up. Assembly of the League meets tour. Both spoite very highly of activities, written a little while

Lord Burnham, pre- the way they had been received in ago, ahows. yearly.. siding, said the functions of news- Canada.

The engine and all except three He was born some 76 years ago carriages turned turtle. The rails papers affecting conditions of the

Addressing Preas representa

at Biana, in the Delta, and studied were torn up and twisted. supply and demand of commodi-

at and passed through the Un- pullman ecoach swung round right ties was of such increasing im- tives, the Premier said, "I have iversity of Al Azhar, where he across the track and was portance that the Economic Con- had a very strenuous time but it made the acquaintance of the pletely smashed. Eleven were

Shelkh killed and 30 injured. has been a wonderful experience, afterwards celebrated and I have enjoyed every minute Mohamed Abdu. The two came of it. It is just 32 days since we sailed from Southampton. In that time we have travelled by steamer, train and motorcar near-

Lord Burnh

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ly 11,000 miles, an average of 340 miles a day. During the 19 days) we were actually in Canada we visited all her nine provinces, and you must remember that one

Zoghiul Pasha.

Gruesome Scones,

com-

It is stated that the re-opening of negotiations was due largely to Chinese with considerable finan cial interests involved bringing pressure to bear.

A passenger aboard. the train

One of the points over which it said that the first intimation of is stated. there is likely to be con- anything wrong was a sudden siderable discussion is as to whe rocking while the train was trather in respect of officers whose velling at a high speed, and a sud-articles expired after the strike den grinding and tearing noise as the Company should pay up to the though the train had jumped the date of the strike or up to the date metals. The train wobbled and of expiry of articles.

then there was a térrific and deaf-

ening, crash. All were thrown The officers claim that as they from their seats. There followed were not allowed to sign off until the piercing shrieks of frightened the expiry of the articles and women and children. Several were therefore prevented from doctors who were aboard render. getting alternative work if they ed first aid and nurses, ambul- had the opportunity, they are en- ances and police seemed to spring titled to be paid up to the expira- from nowhere Sawa, hammers tion of the articles. The Company and crowbars were used to extri-hitherto has paid only up to the cate the victims. A young date of the beginning of the woman's legs had to be amputated strike. before she could be extricated. Another was so mutilated that pieces of the body were picked up and placed in a sack.-Reuter.

Canadian province ay be three under the influence of the notor times the size of the whole Bri-lous Sheikh Gamal ed Din el «AUNTY J.-WALKER.” tish Isles. In those 19 days I Afghani, one-time Prime Minister of Afghanistan, who undertook made 26 public speeches.

POLICE STATION.

"In some ways my visit was ex- a mission to awaken the people NOVEL NOTICE AT CENTRAL ceptional. It was a very great of the Orient, and was chased privilege to travel with the Prince from country to country' on of Wales and Prince George, than account of his revolutionary

TALE OF A COAT.

TWO CHINESE CLAIM CLOTHING.

"EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE."

A coolie was this morning Issued by the "Bureau of Pub- charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell

YOU HELPED TO SAVE

portunity, may attempt to inference of the League must change there may occur in the devote more attention to them situation, will stick to its principle it wanted to increase commercial of maintaining peace and order intercourse and break down the barriers of national exclusiveness. within the province."-Toho.

The Conference will deal with Press rates by cable, wireless and telegraphic codes; the protection of news; and professional facili- whom I could wish no better tra- preachings. They took prominent lic Safety, Police Department," at the Central Magistracy with ties for journalists.

velling companions. Then it was part in the Arabist rebellion of and signed by "Aunty J. Walker" the larceny of a coat and a pair 1882, and for their activities were a placard is now hung in a pro- of trousers belonging to work- arrested and punished in Kasr el minent position in the Traffic mon employed by the Sang Lea Nil Barracks. While Mohamed Office at the Central Police StaArm of contractors. The cloth- Abdu, who died in 1905, adhered tion. It bears the following ing was hung outside a matshed to his religious profession and legend: became eventually one of the most enlightened Grand Muftis Egypt has ever known, Saad Pasha turned his attention to the law. He practised for many years at the Native Bar, where his eloquence and intelligence soon brought him to the front, and in 1893 he became Counsellor of the Native Court of Appeal.

It was, perhaps, but natural that gifted men like Saad Pasha and his brother Fathi, whose premature death robbed Egypt of a great litterateur and juriscon- sult, should be attracted to an intellectual centre such as the salon held at that period by that advanced and

Lord Burnham said he was Kashing, Che., Aug. 8. convinced that the League in Foreigners are frequently seen summoning the conference, does on the S. H. & N. Railway going not wish to enroll journalists to to Hangchow, Mokanshan and its service. It was not a question other points in the interior. Mail at any time of organising pro- service seems to be regular. Chin-paganda for the League, but while ese constantly ask! "What do the object of the meeting was to the foreign newspapers say " formulate definite and technical After inspecting premises now proposals by authorised represen- in charge of Chinese caretakers, tatives of the Press, its work your correspondent called on would have results and reactions merchants, bankers, teachers and leading to a better understanding the way of operations here owing labour contractors. There was a and more equitable conceptions of to their mutinous tendències. manifest tension and uneasiness International policies.

Large numbers of troops have in all quarters. The air of en- "We are definitely entering a passed through down-river. They thusiasm and buoyancy noted in period of co-operation with the are reported to be the 21st Army, previous visits had disappeared. League for the common use of unarmed---British Naval Wire In trying to probe local feeling, counsel and conciliation on an I-questioned the sanest, soberest assured basis of self-reliance and Chinese of my acquaintance that self-respect." Reuter.

less.

Confusion at Shanghai.

Shanghai, Yesterday. The military and political tua- tion remains confused.

General Hoi Ng-ming is believed to be in control-British Naval Wireless.

To Face Northerners.

Kiukiang, Yesterday..

I could find (many are absent) and the results may be summaris-

Telegraphic Rates.

The Press Conference passed a

ed as follows:-"You foreigners resolution in favour of the prior- have had your time of anxiety; it ity of Press telegrams and urgent is now up to us who live here to Press messages at double rates feel uneasy. We passed more or compared with ordinary Press less riskily through the Lu Yung- telegrama...

hsiang and Chi Hsieh-yuan wars, A Chinese delegate spoke in the Hsia Chino revolt, the coming favour of cheaper rates between

The Premier.

Troops continue to pass through and going of Sun Chuan-fang's China and Europe and the aboli- the first time a Premier of Great to meet the Northern fnenace in Northern armies, the welcome ar- tion of censorship in times of Britain had visited one of the herself a very cultured lady, hel the Nanking neighbourhood. Gen-rival of Nationalists from the peace... eral Tang Shen-cha has arrived. south and elsewhere. We are British Naval Wireless,

A Japanese advocated special now in the throes of disillusion-Press rates for urgent messages Slogans and formulas and cheap rates for deferred tele- have not yet established any grams-Reuter. sense of security. We have had the best silk crop in 20 years selling at the lowest price im-

Anking, Yesterday. ment. Troops commanded by Ho Chen have arrived and have camped three miles below the town.--Bri- tish Naval Wireless.

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234 Persons from Death 2,911 from serious injury in 1924,

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Crossing streets at crossings Looking both ways Driving carefully Inspecting brakes often Keep up the good work!

FAIR WEATHER.

LOCATION OF THE

TYPHOON...

POLICE RESERVE.

TO NEW UNIT.

in Morrison Hill to dry and the coolie, after collecting them, wrapped them up in his own coat and calmly walked away with the parcel tucked under his arm. A Chinese detective was suspicious of the man and stopped him. The coolie said that he was taking the clothing to wash at Wongnei- chong. Enquiries were made in the vicinity, with the result that the two contractor's workmen re- cognised the clothing as their property.

Before the Magistrate the coolie claimed the clothing as his own property.

Bought Ready Made.

The owner of the trousers first went into the witness box and identified that piece of clothing as his... He said that he had bought it ready made from the Kwong Sang tallor's shop.

The accused still insisted that the trousers were his and also claimed that he had bought it at. Kwang Sang's.

enlightened "South winds, moderate; fair" woman, the late Princess Nazli. is the official weather forecast He became one of her most until noon to-morrow. assiduous visitors, and it was The typhoon appears to be through her that he was brought nearly stationary about 800 miles to the notice of Mustaph Pasha east of Aparri. Another typhoon Fahmy (Prime Minister from has formed to the S.E. of Guam. 1895 to 1908), whose daughter, Dominions during his term of married in 1896. office."

Remarking that it was remark- Appointments.

able that they should both be Ten years later, at the sugges- Speaking of the agricultura}} and mineral possibilities of tion of Lord Cromer, who, as he

customers of the same tailor, the Canada, the Premier said they said in his farewell speech, had FLYING SQUAD TRANSFERRED Magistrate called for evidence

with regard to the coat. were humanly speaking, unlimit marked Saad Pasha down as a

The identification of the coat ed, Yet in spite of some thickly man who would be heard of in the populated areas and great manu- near future, he was appointed The following Police Reserve was more conclusive, the owner facturing cities, such as Montreal Minister of Education, and in orders are issued by the Hon. claiming that the coat he had British Air Forces.

aginable. Our fields promise an against family, brother against and Toronto, there are over the 1910 he became Minister of Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.P.- lost had five missing stitches on abundant rice crop, fruits and brother, class against class, real whole Dominion only three people Justice, in which capacity it fell The Motor Cyclist Section of the right sleeve. The coat in London, Yesterday,

our market trouble will arrive

to a square mile. No date has been fixed for the vegetables gorge

to him to plead before the Gen- the Special Constabulary, (Fly- Court was examined, and the sleeve was withdrawal of the British air places, but we are not happy in The one grain of comfort that

"Then you will begin to see why eral Assembly the case for the ing Squad), is hereby disbanded stitchings on the

found to have in fact been forces from China, but it is hoped, the uncertainty that prevails. came out of the various discus- Canada's problem is so different extension of the concession held to date August 24, 1927.

The Slough of Despond. sions was to this effect. Few if from our own. I did not hear of by the Suez Canal Company, The Motor Cyclist Section of broken. When pressed for specific rea- any real Red Russians have ex-any serious problem in the rein which that body rejected with the Police Reserve, (Flying When the coat was shown to sons a well-informed resident re-ploited the province in person. tions between capital and labour but one dissentient voice. His Squad), is hereby formed as the accused, he remarked that marked; "Nanking mandates are Whatever the tinge, tone or type over there. Canada has plenty of career in the Cabinet was, how from the same date and will take his coat also had a few missing are vague, of Communism does come in, will elbow-room. for both. She needs with the air, the place of the above the oldest on the same she thin are vague, Local administration be the transmitted kind or a those men and money. We have agreement with the Khedive,

members of

Mr. Lindsell remarked that it diluted with variable elements, home brew product. To offset got to find the means of bringing Abbas Hilmy II, who, resenting "Flying Squad' who do not in was a very extraordinary coin- Individua! Initiative hesitant, the novelty of experimental Com-willing hands and the open spaces the domineering and overbearing tend to turn over the new "Flying cidence. Yen Hsi-shan, referring to the re- mass mentality sluggish, ir munism as a political principle is together." attitude of his Minister, com- Squad" are to return their und Asked if he had any witness to tirement of General Chiang Kai- responsive, despondent.

the sinister shadow of potential The Fremier added: "If I may plained to Lord Kitchener, who form and equipment to the Cen call, the accused replied in the shek, said as follows:-

"As a result of General Chiang Chekiang at the moment seems to old scores with persons of in-acteristics of the Canadian people: Saad Pasha did not long re- The Flying Squad" is an Inter- He was convicted on both

tral Police Station. negative. The one thing most feared in personal enemies waiting to settle mention one or two striking char- made him resign, Kai-shek's retirement, the Che-be the emergence of Communism fluence they are these the open-hearted main inactive, however, and national Company and any gen- klang party of the Nanking There is enough sympathy inside There were rumours of Che welcome they give a visitor from when in 1918 the Legislative Astlemen possessing a motor cycle charges of larceny and sentenced Government may shut itself up in the province to co-operate with kiang independence again, but the Old Country, the keenness to sembly was created, he stood for is eligible to join. All informa The jail terms are to run con to 14 days jail on each count. Chekiang with General Chiang outsiders to make trouble, not this was not emphasized in hear, and to hear tympathetically, election. So great was the in- tion can be obtained from me Kai-shek, while the remainder yet enough to dominate. It was memory of previous disastrous about our probibus and the way fluence he already at that date either by writing or by a person-

currently may be led by General Li Tsung- bad enough to have northern war- experience, ;; DAN

we are fighting through them, enjoyed with the people that he al interview at my office at the den and co-operate with the Wu-lords chasing each other back and the only happy looking person their vigorous optimism about was returned for no less than Central Police Station, Han faction. But even if a comforth over the territory, but when on a side street was a youngster their own country, and their con- three constituencies, and promise ware offected between the Cheklang people become them-whose entire costume consisted of fidence in the future and stability elected by the Assembly as one

(Sd) G B. HARTFORD, Nanking and Wu-Han factioné," it sélyes so divided that neighbour is fresh air and a smile. C. of the British Empire, British of its Vice-Presidents, fa practically impossible for them | against - neighbour and family Daily News' Correspondent.

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they will be withdrawn as soon as

possible. The final decision is left

Statement By Yen.

to the authorities on the spot

Peking, Aug. 15,

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