1927-09-02 — Page 1

Effective August 1, 1927, we announce our appointment as Distributors for Hong Kong and South China of the.... following products of the General Motors Corporation.

་

BUICK MOTOR CARS

OLDSMOBILE MOTOR CARS

G. M. C. MOTOR TRUCKS

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

38, Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley.

China Mail

N. LAZARUS. Hong Kong's Only European Optician

Established Over Forty Years Manager: Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A.

Registered Optometrist (Canada).

BIAS BAY RAID.

No. 25,655

1

Five British Warships Take Part in Demonstration.

500 MEN LANDED.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.

IN OUR BLOB DAYS. TROOPS IN CHINA.

Why We Like Dancing And Music.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

British Withdrawals Explained.

HONG KONG TO SHANGHAI.

Pirates' Houses Destroyed in Two Inland Villages. Polar Regions Suggested As White All Sections Of "A" Reserve To Be

INHABITANTS ON HILLSIDE WATCH DEMOLITION.

British Naval vessels made a second expedition to Bias Bay, the pirate retreat near Hong Kong, on Thursday morning, following the receipt of information regarding the seizure of the as. "Yatshing" by pirates. Five men-o'-war, the "Hermes," "Danne," "Foxglove," "Sirdar," and "Argus," participated. Aeroplanes were in attend

ance.

The pirate-infested villages of Chung Pai and Fan Lo Kong were visited. Forty-five houses were destroyed in the former, and five in the latter. There were no casualties on efther side. The landing party numbered 500...

Settlements.

Re-Transferred.

London, Yesterday. The War Office announces that

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

BUDGET SUMMARY.

Chief Items For The Busy Man.

1926 REVENUE DOWN.

Bathing Beaches And Other Schemes Held Up.

The following are the main, points, summarised, made by the Colonial Secretary in introducing the Budget yesterday.

balance of $1,400,000.

London, Yesterday. At the meeting of the British Association Dr. G. P. Bidder, in the forthcoming troop withdraw his presidential address to the als from Shanghai will for a time zoology section, on "ancient his be counterbalanced by a replace- tory of sponges and animals," ment from troops in Hong Kong

The year 1926 was started traced man's origin more remote and adds that all sections of "A" with a Surplus Balance of than Sir A. Keith's anthropoids, Reservist called up in January $3,486,290.

Dr. Bidder said: "If we had will be re-transferred to the Re. | The estimated deficit on this been higher animals averaging serve by the end of the year, when year's working is 31,802,257 to be 10 generations yearly for the withdrawal is expected to be met from an estimated liquid 10,000,000,000 generations may 1,000,000,000 years then some completed. Reuter.

Gradual Reduction, have brought us from jellyfish to

London, Yesterday. men. We owe our appreciation The War Office announces a for dancing poetry and music and gradual reduction of British our sense of rhythm to the actions troops in the Far East will com we made when we were only tiny mence in about a fortnight, but lobs of jelly millions of years any such reduction will not im-

Sir J. B. Henderson, presiding at the Engineering Section, said that with the aid of invention there were no limits to the power

ago."

The aim of the expedition on this occasion was to pick out de- finite pirate retreats and destroy them. Because the villagers at Chung Pai would not divulge these residences, they had to suffer more extensive damage to their property. As on the former occa- sion, notices were left behind warning the inhabitants that in the event of any further seizures of British ships the visits would be re-jof man. History in the past cen- peated.

AN OBLIGING ELDER.

The expedition, which consisted of H.M.S. "Hermes," "Danae," "Foxglove," and "Sirdar." left local water at about four o'clock

Bias Bay. Altogether, it appears, fifty houses were destroyed. Both villages were more or less desert

tury showed he was succeeding beyond belief. His success would be continued and was bound markedly to affect the future type of man.

Dr. Rudmosebrown, presiding in the Geography Section, said that emigrants of the future would be induced to settle in the polar regions. There was no real evidence that white races were ed when the party arrived, which suited to permanent transference on the morning of Thursday, seems to show that the landing to the Tropics. Long before they September 1, and steamed for forces were expected. As a mat found a sure footing in the troples 'four hours in the direction of Blaster of fact, information was the coloured races would have Bay. At 8 s.m. the larger ships gleaned by some detectives from effectively occupied the warmer had to anchor owing to lack of the villagers that, after, the "Sol- lands, hence the whites must turn water. The objectives were the viken" piracy, a raid was expect towards the pole in the search for known pirate-villages of Chung ed, and for some days the people new homes. He forecasted a Pai and Fan Lo Kong, and the in- camped on the hillside. This is scattered population of reindeer tention was to destroy the houses what they were doing when the and musk ox farmers in the of individual pirates, as bandita expedition made its appearance Arctic, Canada, Siberis, Green- who had been engaged in recent on Thursday.

land and Spitzbergen one hundred piracies were known to be living

years hence.-Reuter. in these villages.

The landing party comprised 500, and the first boat disembark ed at 10.40 a.m., landing its force near the village of Hai Chau which was destroyed in the first raid. A walk of three-quarters of a mile brought the party to the village of Chung Pal, the first ob- jective.

Met By Elder!

On passing through the village on the sea shore the landing force was met by the Elder of the place, who assured the officers in charge that it was not his village that was harbouring pirates, He offered to conduct them to Chung Pai, and his services were &c. cepted. Upon approaching the latter village, the Elder collected the chiefs of Chung Pai together and handed the leaders of the ex- pedition over to them!

There was a certain amount of

parley between the Chinese and

the leader of the landing party,

Capt. Mackinnon, of H.M.S. "Danae," Mr. Wolfe, the C.S.P., and others, and it soon became evident that these village heads would not disclose the residences of the pirates, Instructions were therefore given for the blowing up of some of the houses on the edge of the village. Then it was that the location of the pirate's haunts was divulged, and five

were

A Dead Pirate.

Junks in the vicinity of the shore salled rapidly away on the approach of the landing parties. Ten, however, were found an- chored and these were destroyed. The demolition in Chung Pai, the first village attacked, WAS certainly

extensive than in the other. This,

more

IN THE NEWS.

ITEMS FROM TO-DAY'S POLICE REPORT.

WELCH TO LEAVE.

Depart On "Herminius'

To-morrow.

PENINSULA HOTEL VACATED.

The 1st Battalion.the. Welch Regiment is leaving the Colony to-morrow on the "Her- minius.", bound for Shanghai where they will relieve the 1st het for Malta in a few days time. Devons, who are leaving Shang-

given up by the military from The Peninsula Hotel will be

to-morrow, the Scots Gards be ing accommodated elsewhere in the Colony. It is undersd that there will be several changes in the accommodation of troops locally the Northants being transferred from the Shadehlupo Camp to quarters in Hong Kong.

Liquor duties during the year were $850,000 below ex. pectations and opium and stamp revenue was down. estimated at $20,108,390 and ex- The revenue for next year is penditure at $22,188,045. To meet this deficit it is expected to

have liquid balances of $2,416,- 406 available at the end of the year,

The Government will not for the present be able to entertain appeals for financing schemes of private or semi-official bodies.

The only changes contemplated

YANGTSZE

PUZZLE.

Conflicting Reports of Happenings in Nanking.

SOUTH CLAIM VICTORY.

Not Certain If Northerners Are Still in Pukow.

MR. C. C. WU ON FUSION OF GOVERNMENTS.

Shanghai, Yesterday. Pukow Northerners after unsuccessful attempts to cross the River, have retreated together with the defeated troops which re- turned from the southern bank and have suffered many casualties,

The Southerners have succeeded in repulsing their enemies, and are now pursuing them across the River to Pukow. The Northerners who succeeded in occupying Lungtan and the Chaihar Hill have also been totally defeated. General Ho Ying-yan and General Pel Sung- hai are proceeding to Lungtan to inspect the fighting area and plau-. ning to repossess the northern bank.

stopped work and are busy with their removal to Nanking,

All departments of the Hankow Nationalist Government have

WHAT OF SUN CHUAN-FANG?

Shanghai, Yesterday.

town the Southerners have with-'

While according to foreign re-drawn most of their troops. in the revenue are an increase in ports the Northerners are grad-Lungtan.-British Wireless Ser- There has been heavy fighting at

an increas in survey fees for fees at Government schools and ually working their way vice.

steamships and steam launches. across the Yangtaze, the Nation- The Proposed Aerodrome, alist headquarters assert that the Money raised by the $5,000,000 Northerners evacuated, Pukow, loan which is to be issued in owing to reinforcements from Hong Kong at 6 per cent. is to Hankow threatening to cut off be devoted mainly to the Shing Sun Chuan-fang from the allies Mun water scheme and the re-

mainder for the construction of a by cutting the Tientsin-Pukow civil and military apfodrome at rallway at Pengpu. Kai Tack Reclamation, of which cost the Imperial Government is

Shanghai, Yesterday.

proposing to bear three-quarters. | Nationalist headquarters and Statements regarding the pro-nounce that Mr. C. C. Wu arrived posed construction of a new re-at Shanghai to-day after a trip servoir at Aberdeen, the re-up the Yangtaze to Kiukiang building of the General Civil

..gamation

Attempt to Kill General Pe The "Shanghai Times" of last Saturday reports:--

The Shanghai-Nanking rail- An Ting and Lu Ke Pang (about way was cut at a point between 80 l from Shanghai) late an Thursday night in what is re- garded as an attempt to wreck the train bearing General Pei Chung-hsi to Nanking and to bring about the death of the Nationalist military leader.

Another train, however, was

20 persons injured, according to wrecked, five cars overturned and Chinese reports. Several of the injured are reported to have died

Hospital and the proposed new where he found an earnest desire Vehicular Ferry from Jordan on the part of both the civil and mediately affect the strength of Road, Kowloon to the V.R.C. military members of both the later. the British forces in Shanghai, are shortly to be made. These Nanking and Wuhan Govern- General Fel left the Shanghai where withdrawals will for a time and other schemes such as the ments to obliterate all differences. North Station on Thursday night. be made good by replacement proposed improvement to the "The way is now paved for the shortly after 10, on from troops now in Hong Kong. water front at Kowloon point and amalgamation of the two Govern- train. He carried a body- a special of bathing ments," Wu announced, adding guard of 210 picked soldiers. It Troops detailed for withdrawal the improvement are the 1st Field Brigade Royal facilities in the Colony are tem- that a full session of the Kuomin- is believed in

Chinese circles. Artillery, 1st Battalion, Devon-porarily held up until the tang will be held at Nanking on that the movements of the Gen- shire Regiment, and the 19th In- Colony's finances justify embark- September 16, when formal amal-eral were carefully noted and A Chinese merchant living at the fantry Brigade, comprising the ing on them. it is en phasised, was be-Tang Wo Boarding House in Con Brigade Headquarters, 1st Bat-!

will take place.news of his departure wired cause the inhabitants refused to naught Road Central had reported talion, Green Howards, 1st Bat- creased by

The Police Force is to be in Reuter.

ahead to those lying in wait say which were pirate haunts, to the police the theft from his

seven additional Conflicting Reports. to cut the railway line at About 45 houses were destroyed room last night of jewellery worth talian Border Regiment, 1st Bat. Lance Sergeanta.

Shanghai, Yesterday. the lonely point between An in Chung Pai and the five de- $107.

talion, Middlesex Regiment and!

Colony's Malarial Problem, finitely-known pirate retreats in,

1st Battalion Cameronians.

The necessity for a more consolidate positions gained on the In a resolute attempt to con-

Ting and Lu Ka Pang. Fan Lo Kong. In the latter

Fortunately, for General Pei, Besides these there will be such plete scheme for combatting village one house which was Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, has reductions in staffs and ancillary malaria in the Colony is stressed South bank of the Yangtze, the however, an ordinary passenger pointed out as a pirate residence reported to the police that some services as may be rendered pos- and it was indicated that provi Northerners are still massing train was despatched over the was spared upon an officer going time between 11 p.m., on August sible by the withdrawal of com- sion had been made for appoint- troops and bringing up heavy line for Nanking a short time be- inside and discovering the owner; stole from her bedroom a gold wrist of the 1st Battalion Devonshire research officer with a small staff 81 and 7 am, yesterday someone batant units. With the exception ing a specially trained malaria

artillery.

fore the departure of his train.

The passenger train, travelling watch worth $45.

at a moderate rate of speed, ran into the cut Une, the wreck re- sulting. News of the wreck was wired back and General Pei's Shanghai. It is understood that train halted shortly after leaving Fei has established quarters in a small town not far distant from Shanghai and is waiting until the

Mrs. T. F. Felcher of No. 6

Reports are conflicting as to the to investigate and advise on the degree of success attending these work to be undertaken. In view operations,

a pirate, dead in his coffin. I appears that he had been killed

Regiment, which will embark for in a quarrel just before the land-

Malta, and the 1st Field Brigade ing party arrived.

A 70-year-old Chinese woman

Royal Artillery for India, all the of the great progress made in Cholera at Nanking. Great care was taken by the living in the Kowloon City Road at units to be withdrawn will return other parts of the world in com- landing forces to preserve jossing into the harbour at the Yaumati

tempted to commit suicide by jump- to England.

Nanking, Yesterday. batting the ravages of malaria, it Mr. C. C. Wu, Commissioner houses and the property adjoin- typhoon sneiter. She was rescu- ments the withdrawal will be com- the Colonial Secretary, that 80 Shanghai in a British steamer.

According to present arrange was a "standing" reproach, said for Foreign Affairs, has gone to ing them. Animals were also re-ed by the crew of a cinder junk and pleted approximately by the end little improvement had been moved from the scene of any removed to the Government. Civil of this year and within the same made in this Colony. firing operations,

Hospital.

The Landing. difficult

The landing was an extremely Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the handily carried out without inci- a Chinese was charged with the operation, and was Cerral Magistracy this morning, dent. The expedition's activities unlawful possession of 500 taels of were hampered by the flight of raw

An epidemic of cholera has period section "A" Reservists who! It is intended to use the Vic broken out and appears to be were called up in January last toria Hospital for men as well as spreading will be transferred to the reserve, for women as it is more suitable

A shell from the Northern British Naval Wireless..

than the G.C.H. for Europeans forts at Tiger Hill struck Hogee and there is now sufficient ac- Godown and ricocheted into the commodation.

river, doing little damage. Provision has been made for The Southerners, under Hoying

time, as all had to be done be- pleaded guilty and was fined tween tides. There was not suf- $10,000 or nine months' hard These happened to be amongst mollah all the pirates' houses

charged and destroyed. ficient time, therefore,. to de labour. the best built and most ornately that were discovered. Notices furnished in the village, and were empty at the time.”

were left behind, as on the pre- Superintendent of Police took neaulting Indian Sub-Inspector Naud Chung Pal was entered at: 11.20 vous occasion, pointing out that hand in chasing the animals from Singh, Officer in Charge of Guards, Colony is referred to and it was Woosung a.m. and the first house was fired should another British ship be around a house which was on board the ship at 4.15 p.m., indicated that provision has been at 11.25. The village was vacated pirated the landing forces would doomed as a pirate haunt. The yesterday. The case was adjournmade for installing a short wave

gallant officer, discovered a fulled.

INDIAN GUARD CHARGED. non-Government oplum. He

At the Central Magistracy be the staffing and fitting up of the Chen, claim a complete victory fore Major C. Willson this morn-newly built King's College (Bon-over the Northerners at Lung ing, Mooran Singh, an Indian ham Road) which is temporarily tah. Guard of the . "Charles occupied by the military, Hardouin," was charged with as-

Radio Development. Radio development

at noon. There were no

on either side.

Fan Lo Koalties

FAIR WEATHER

Chinkiang, Yesterday.' Chinese warships are much in in the evidence between Chinkiang and

Hankow Currency.

line is repaired. The same line

is also reported to have been cut Repair gangs were hurriedly on the Soochow side of Nanking. despatched to make the necessary repairs,

Eugene Chen For Moscow. Reliable information has come to hand to the effect that Mr. Eugene Chen, Nationalist Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, has left China for Geneva vis Moscow. Mr. Chen will represent the Nationalist Government of China at the conference of the League of Nations, which will be held in Geneva in September."

return.

transmitter and receiver to en

Hankow, Yesterday. The landing party was in com- grown pig in a well-made sty, but mand of Capt. Mackinnon, of all efforts to remove the animal

able commercial messages to be The local currency situation is Mr. Chen departed from Wu H.M.S. "Danae," who was ac-ware in vain. Eventually Mr.

sent to and from the United serious. L Kingdom.

han about two weeks ago, an- The landing party then march-companied by Messrs. Wolfe and Wolfe had to fetch some yams and

"S. winds, moderate, fair, is the It has been decided by the strengthen the Nanking forces Kuling to join his two daughters Troop movements down river to nouncing that he was going to ed to the second objective, the King, Hong Kong Police, and a thus entice the plg out. Then, cal weather forecast until noon Secretary of State for the in resisting the attacks of the there. It was later revealed, village of Fan Lo Kong, a, scat party of 18 detectives: The ac- however, it became frightened wedge of high pressure

to-morrow. der Krank tered community of 10,000 goals, tual expedition, at the outset, and, ignoring the yams rushed tenda northward from the Philip sent the formation of a Royal

Colonies to postpone for the pre- Northerners continue.

however, that he did not go to Here there was no hesitation on Was in charge of Capt. Eliott, of away with a squeal, diving bet-pines to Formosa. The N China Naval Volunteer Reserve in Hong

Changsha, Yesterday

Shanghai, says the "Hankow the part of what inhabitants HMS. "Hermes" Whilst the tween the legs of a marine and depression fa now central near Kong,

A trial is being made with a

Herald. there were left in pointing out the raidh was in operation, nearly upsetting the man Chefoor EPRES

De Another armoured car is to be connection with this a Trade De Hankow in July with M. Borodin view to re-opening trade and inak Mr. Chen's two sons, who left. pirate houses, and five were des- however, H.M.S. "Argus" which a

to Shanghai when

The "Yatshing." troyed. As in the first village, by the Commander-in-Chief, ar- been ascertained that the 6.8, night, another concert for Service may be one on the island and one purchased for the Volunteer De these residences were amongst

recalled As a result of the raid it has. At the City Hall on Saturday fence Corpe, in order that there legation has arrived. British to travel through the Mongolian

Naval Wireless

desert to Russia, are reported to the best in the place,

rived, and Capt. Palmer, being "Yatahing was not taken into men, arranged by Mrs Young on the peninsula.

have reached Moscow, waiting The first house was fired at 1.10 the senior naval officer, took Bias Bay when she was pirated husband, ls to be given. The pro-

Northern Crossing. ---

for the arrival of their father p.m., and the expedition com command. During the operations the other day, but into Tai Chau ramme will appear in our issue

London, Yesterday. menced retiring. at 2 p.m. Re aeroplanes kept a surveillance Inlet, which is on the south of the arranged for cigarettes and other lapsed outside? No: 92 Connaught ed the Yangtaza by Nanking and

there. to-morrow. The organisers have

Telegrame from China atate embarkation was started at 2.20, over the spot but were not called Bay. From this inlet there is prizes in connection with

An elderly Chinese suddenly col that the Northerners have cross- completed at 2.40 and the ships upon to interferea loris and narow creek up which number" tickets

Road Central' yesterday after weighed from Blas Bay at 5.30 20 C.S.P. PIZ small craft can get to within a

and died within a few minutes, bank from Morrison

oon, are in possession of the south

My Lai Ying-ming manager of p.m., returning to local waters. As a matter of fact it was an few miles of the village of Fan

Death was apparently dile, to na Wulungshan,They have cut the Connaught Road Central was thir int to the Tai Lo Tin Boarding House, Fifty Houses Destroyed. entirely peacefully conducted Lo Kong, from whence it is cer

tural causes. The body was re Such, in bald, outline, is theid. The only adventure of any tain the Yatching piratea

moved to the public mortuary I

Aconsiderable force morning fined $250 by MR story of the second naval raid on kind was when the Captain came, mens

post-mo emy examination esto:

has also been concentratedop Lindsell for allowing the pla

Chinklang from which be used for linmoral purposes.

TO-DAY'S D

The closing

demands