1927-09-10 — Page 7

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927.

CHINA NEWS,

(Continued from Page 1.)

Glen. Ho Ying-ching. Doubt has been expressed as to the attitude of General Ho Ying. ching, commander of the 1st, Ng-

CANTONESE BANDITS, ROYAL DAUGHTER.

NIGHT ATTACK ON SHUNTAK

CIA VILLAGE

A HAPPY_EVENT IN JAPAN.

GALLANT DEFENCE.

NOW TWO PRINCESSES.

THE CHINA MAIL

Shanghai, To-day. A Tokyo message states that the Empress of Japan has given birth to a daughter-Reuter,

Several, hundred strong, a notori- ilonalist Army. He is a staunch one band of Cantonese bandita fafl- Back The Intent report is that he the oilk producing district of Shun- partisan of General Chiang, Kaled in a night attack on a village in has withdrawn his army to the tak, wch is situated in the heart eastern end of the railway from of the fertile West River deita and H.I.M. the Emperor of Japan, Nanking to Shanghai, concentrat is close to Canton,

is the 128rd Emperor, and was ing on Soochow and on, the out- The robbers were well · armed. skirts of Shangbal.

The element of surprise gave them Further news is available about an advantage, but the stubborn re- vil- the visit of Mr. Wang Ching-wal sistance of the few hundred to Shanghai (reported by Reuter lagers was successful. yesterday), He was accompanied by General Bol Chung-hal, General

Villagers Prepare Defence. Some days ago, the outlaws made

Li Tsung-jen and others mention-a demand on the village of Sheung- ed in yesterday's cable. The gen- chung for $25,000, this being ac erala referred to are on the Nan- companted with threats of divers king side and the message hints penalties.

that they are co-operating with Instead of collecting the money the Wu-Han politicians in, attempts to bus off the marauders, the ip- ing a reconciliation in the Kuqmin- habitants assembled all the arms tang. Incidentally, the distin, available, Ong night this week, guished party travelled In an the bandits stole up and launched their attack. A creek running by armoured train.

Mr. Wang. Ching-wal's immediate the village nerves as a moat on the objective la to secure the attend- edge which was a strong gate. ance of the Nanking politicians (who left with General Chiang Kal-shek) at the peace conference -on September 16.- He suggests that at the conference the power of the Nationalist Party should be rektored to its highest level,

WANG AND TANG.

Respective Powers of Wu-In

Chiefs.

Whampoa Cadets in Shanghal are reported to have issued a manifesto denouncing Genral Chiang Kat shek and supping Mr. Wang Ching-wai.

This is conVES In a cable to the "Hong Kong, vening Post"

General Chiang Kai-shek first achieved fame as commander of

Preliminary Barrage Fails. After having poured kerosine on the gate, the attackers set fire to the structure. Then followed A pre- liminary barrage which was met with volley after volley from the de-

fenders.

The fight lasted several hours and the robbers retired when they could; find no weak link in the village de- fences,

A LONDON FIRE.

1912.

Emperor Yoshihito,

PRIDE OF DETROIT" could be used for fuel or wire-

(Continued from Pags 1,3-

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Science Necded. But more stringent tests were greatly needed In view of the carrying out engine tests. The stupendous task of flying the rocker heads of the nine, cylinders Atlantic. No machine should be were taken off and a thorough in allowed to start unless it had a vestigation made. In the course of reasonable chance of reaching the teate the engine had to be the other aide. We had now he effort of pallide the propellor human and mechanical endurance started, up several times and the thought, reached the limit of

against the very considerable.com pression appeared to be taking the in the present stage of aerial last ounce of strength ont of Schlee.

developments.. Offers of help were, howevers, de-

The pioneers of flying: had clined with thanks. -

conquered the air by their cour age and, magnificent engines. Simply. Designed, Machine.

Science must. now step in and The monoplane itself is not by teach us how to use the air. Lord any means so large as was expected. Thomson, in conclusion, express- Its simplicity of design appeared to

be the chief item of comment among ed the belief that the solution of the flying officers around, all of the Atlantic problem would be whom were keenly interested in reached with the airship rather every detail of the machine. Of a than the aeroplane. - British striking yellow colour, the "Pride of Wireless Service.. Detrolt" bears its name, together

Three Fatalities.

London, Yesterday, With the loss of the aero-

with the City crest and arme, RCTOS the body and all over the structure are the signatures ap- pended by spectators at places of call-many with facetious com- planes "Sir John Carling" with ments appended...

the English men Capt. Tully and Lieut. Medcalf, aboard no less

Hop to Shanghat.

The aviators appeared particular-than three aeroplanes with their ly anxious in conversation between occupants have met with disaster werk as to details of the lay of the during the pask week in attempts land between here and Shanghal to fly the Atlantic. The other and in Shanghai itself. A.may was two machines are the British put at their disposal by the aero-aeroplane "Saint Raphael," with drome officials and it was indicated Colonel Michin, Captain Lealie that if they thought it probable that Hamilton and Princess Lowen- they would land on the race-course stein Wertheim, and the Amer- in the afternoon it would be as well ican aeroplane, "Old Glory," order that the course should be with the airmen Lloyd Bertaud) clear of sports players....

and Hill and the journalist Payne.

for Shanghai to be informed in

H.E. The Governor Present,

It being night, the villagers did not dare venture out into the-dark| to give chase but next morning they found evidence of considerably born on August 31, 1879. He was heavy casualties, inflicted on the proclaimed, Crown Prince on

In view of this record it is be- bandits.

August 31, 1888 when the Em- During the three hours in which ing strongly urged both

in peror was nine years old. He suc- the aviators were busily engaged on ceeded to the throne on July 30, their work, a steady drizzle was Europe and America that no maintained but few of the onlookers more attempts should be made to Her Imperial Majesty Sada-ko, left the seene and their numbers fly. the Atlantic this year parti- on June 25, 1884; 4th were swalled by several local reef-cularly as the chances of favour- the "Invincible endets.” leading FOUR FACTORY GIRLS LOSE daughter of the late Prince Michi- dents who made the journey to able weather have practically dis Kowloon City after office hours. appeared with the coming of Sept- take Kujo, the Grand Order of H. E. the Governor and Lady ember. Wood and Schiller, who Clementi were among those who

are now at Harbour Grace, New- motored out.

|foundland, have been appealed About 6.30 p.m. the work Was completed and the nirmen express-to by their backers and others el themselves as satisfied that the not to go on with their project jdefect, had been remedited.

to fly to Windsor, England.— British Wireless Service.

THEIR LIVES.

these troops on to the field in Kwangtung by virtue of his posi tion as principal of the military academy at Whampon, near Canton. Since then, the Cadets have been divided into several politicnt fac tions, some, loyal to their old Pancras. chieftain, some opposed to him, and The back of the butlling faces others on the side of the Com-Regent's Canal, into which thei Was afire, girls, whose clothing munists.

Some of the girls were) sprang.

London, Yesterday, Four girls were killed in a fire) which occurred at the works of the Film Waste Products, Limited, St.)

Mr. Wang, Ching-wai,

As one of the Wu-Han political rescued by a passing barge-Reu- Teaders, Mr. Wang Ching-wai was ter. opposed to General Chiang Kai- shek,

the

"A Ball of Flame." Fourteen men and girls on The Cadets are not now the premises were burned at the St. Pancras fre. Six girls in one room, famous unit they were two years were singing at their work, wind- There is little else of importance ing films, when, in the wards of a survivor a "ball flame like a great

ago.

to record in the political cauldron football seemed to burst, filling the at Nanking, where the opposing room with n mass of flames." Two factions are striving for positions near the door escaped but others in the new combined Nationalist were trapped in a back room, where Government. Attention is focussed the bodies were afterwards found. on the immediate, actions of Mr. Clouds of smoke poured out of the Wang Ching-wai and his Wu-Han windows and the flames shot up to political colleagues but a great deal the sky. As the adjoining wharves depends on the attitude of General were filled with hay, straw, and Tang Seng-chi, the "strong man" timber it was feared the whole of Wu-Han, and his military col-street would be involved but 20 fire leagues.

engines were quickly on the spot and soon controlled the blaze. The flames and fumes nearly

WUCHOW RAIDED.

Coups By Cantonese

Allies.

over-

powered the workers in the adjoin-

ing studio of one Nogi, a Japanese

a

born

It was decided to moor, the plane as it stood on the aerodrome and when the final work of washing the structure with petrol and putting the covers on had been completed! the aviators anounced themselves

Canadian Ban

London, Yesterday,

Mr. McKenzie King, Canadian

as in the hands of their fellow avia- Premier, has intimated that tors and hosts. They particularly legislation is likely to be intro- wished to sleep near the aerodiome duced next session to prohibit and eventually accepted the hoa-fights across the Atlantic from pitality of the Kai Tack nerodrome Canada. He believes public omelals to sleep on the premises.

opposed to Interview, Mr. Brock, the pilot, opinion is described their "hop" from Rah-hazardous risks. Koon to Hanoi. They originally had no intention of calling at the

Levine Determined,

such

latter, place but as they were still Mr. Kinkade, technical expert | "going strong on arriving at of the Wright aeronautical cor- Bangkok they decided to omit itporation, left London for New from their schedule.

York. After a final attempt to

shot at it,'

Between Bangkok and Hanoi fly- ing conditions were none too good persuade Mr. Levine to abandon owing to the density of the clouds his trans-Atlantic. flight this and the incidence of fog. "We had year. He refused to give Levine a difficult job," said Mr. Brock, In a certificate of airworthiness for winding around the mountain the "Miss Columbia" on account passes at the low flying clouds of the unfavourable weather: forced us down. We were so low at Levine, interviewed, said that if Empress Sada-ko. times that only fifteen or twenty the weather cleared by Septem- lacquer worker. They managed to the Chrysanthemum.

feet separated us from the moun- Entered tain topa, but we were never in any ber. 15 he and Hinchcliffe would scramble out of, the windows and down the drainpipe. Some landed Women's Higher Normal School danger of having to make a forced start the flight, Allies of the 'Canton Govern- on the deck of a barge, which in 1888; entered the elementary landing. It is true, however, that

Berlin, Yesterday: ment carried out anti-Red coups boatman, pushed alongside when he course of the Peeress's School on we had to turn round a couple of

Various German airmen have. simultaneously in Wuchow and saw the flames. Others swam the September 11, 1890; advanced to times and go back and make another been preparing for months past Nanking on Wednesday, the news canal. Six of the injured were the secondary course of the Mr. Brock continued that the en- for flights to the United States reaching Hong Kong from these taken to hospital-Reuter.

Peeresa's School on September 11, gine was in perfect condition on from Germany. They decided to | 1896; graduated from the same arrival at Hanol after twelve hours abandon the attempts this year on August 29, 1889. Married His continued flight. The head winds in view of unfavourable weather, Majesty and Proclaimed Crown between, Hanol and Hong Kong had Princess on May 10, 1900; pro-forced their average speed down to claimed the Empress on July 30, 80 miles an hour. They had no difficulty, in picking out the landing ground. There are living five other child-Mr. Brock added that there was

A purse of $25,000 which was ren, four Princes and one Prin- nothing radically wrong with the to have been given to the first cess, Nagako.].

engine when they landed and they flyers to land at Boston after a had now satisfied themselves that trans-Atlantic flight has been it was in good order and ready for withdrawn. The trustees, assign the resumption of the fight to-as the reason the unseasonable morrow.

weather.Reuter's American Ser-

Kwangsi ports yesterday.

Raids were made on lines simi- lar to those adopted in Canton on Good Friday but no resistance was offered either at Wuchow, on the West River, or at Nanning, fur- ther up-country.

COMMUNIST. ARRESTED.

ATTEMPTED TO INCITE FRENCH TROOPS.

Paris, Yesterday.

River. steamboats due to leave for Hong Kong and Canton were held up by the authorities to pre- Duclo, the communist deputy, vent fugitives getting through who was recently sentenced the cordon.

by the Court of Appeal to eight Early in the morning, detach-months' imprisonment and a fine of ments were sent out by the Gar-Fres. 500 for attempting to incite rison Commissioner and visits troops to mutiny but did not.serve his sentence, has been arrested at were made to some of the labour Tarbes. Reuter... unions.

One report puts the number of

arrests in Wuchow at more than

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1912; --

COMING WEDDING.

The forthcoming, marriage is announced ofHarold Fowler Marshall, electrical engineer, of 691 Avenue Foch, Shanghai, to Dorothy Bingham Chambers, of "Blaire Athol, Southport, Eng- land, en roue to the Colony, by the 8.8. "Sarpedon

two hundred. About forty were by the higher officials, are still ab- rounded up in Nanning and, it is sent from duty but the invaders stated, twelve alleged agitators have yet to enter. the port, were shot forthwith:-

From up-country towns word. Executions in Canton, has been received that the ad- Eleven prisoners, detained on vancing force of up to 2,000 charges of plotting against the strong-split up into several small Canton Government, were shot in detachments--was still active in Canton on Thursday afternoon. taking possession of straegic An armoured car and two motor points, one of which is 24 hours cars were used to escort. the men distant from Swatew. by motor is the official weather forecast before the firing squad..

launch...

CLOUDY WEATHER.

N.E. winds, moderate, cloudy,

until noon to-morrow,

Local quarantine restrictions in

These eleven men were arrest- Nothing definite has been heard ed in a raid on a new printing of the main "Red" army which is establishment in the 'eastern part believed to have entered Kwang- of the city, the Police alleging tung province from the north with that they were engaged in circu- Swatow as its objective. The posed against arrivals from Hai lating propaganda against the ad- smaller force in the hinterland of phos on account of cholera have ministration,

Swatow can be considered the been. Withdrawn...

OTHER. FLIGHTS,

Feeling Against More Attempts.

Reuter.

Boston Money Withdrawn.

Boston, Yesterday:

vice."

.:

Flight: Abandoned... NewYork, Yesterday... The "Royal Windsor" flight has been abandoned, American Service.

Reuter's

London, Yesterday. Lord Thomson, who was for- merly British Secretary for Air to-day gave his views on the subject to the London "Evening News." He said. "I cannot see that anything is to be learned from further flights at present. It has already been proved that men are brave but we knew that before. It has been shown that a plane can fly 3,000 miles without stopping, but it can do it just as easily above land. Lord Thomson considered, how- ever, that, Atlantic flights could hardly be stopped by legislation. Men deliberately courted danger. [General Wong Shiu-hung is main body's vanguard but, pre- in charge of Kwangel province, sumably, a great distance separ Among pictures sold at do not think land planes in which Wuchow and Nanning|ates the two forces.-****

Mesars, Christie's, Raeburn's should be allowed to make, the are situated. General Li Chaf

Canton Intelligence C portrait of Lady Miller of attempt at all. They do not are often lasting, for which reason Reports have been published in Glenlee, second wife of Sir give the flyers a chance if the It. is wide to take care of one's per- Canton to the effect that quiet Thomas Miller, Lord President machine comes down in the sonal appearance and to avold pim- now prevails in the Chao-Mat diss of the Court of Session, realised oceano Every trans-Atlantic ply, blotched skin or Ill-smelling tricts (the hinterland of Swatow): £8,570

plane should be reaplane frequently arise from intestina! breathi Both these troubles most Wireless should be compulsory torpidity, which can easily be over. To sacrifice all wireless equip came by the use, when needed, of ment of the only way of calling Pinkettes. These dainty little laxa for help in the wastes of the tives i dispel "constipation, banish Atlantic passengers should be alok headaches billous attacks: for Adden

red by vertigo, relieve Piles. Your chemist take sells Pinkettts, or 60 cents the vial, post free, from Dr Williams Medi- be cine Co., 60 Klangse Road, Bhang,

sum, the commander-in-chief.at Canton, is working very closely with General Wong Shin-hung,

FATE OF SWATOW...

Advancing Force of 2,000.

Men.

The Industrial, and Commer-ek cial Daily Press" (Kung Sheung S Yat Po") states that strict mar. tial law is being observed in Wed- chow city, her

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Mystery surrounds the fate of | On the other hand, there la ́s Swatow which, this week had hint that General Li Chal sum, beeniin danger of an invasion by commander-in-chief at Canton alleged "Red" troops alded by may decide to sacrifice Swa bandits,

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