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No. 25,673 HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927.

Further Activities of Latest Shanghai Commander.

STILL DISARMING RIVALS.

No Opposition From Suspected Troops.

OFFICERS BEING TRANSFERRED.

Although the process of disarming potential rivals is being continued by General Ho Ying-ching at Chiakiang, little anxiety is entertained now as to the effect of the coup on Shanghai.

Dissatisfaction is reported in General Ho Ying-ching's own army but he is reported to have the situation in hand. One despatch is that he has had to disarm one of his units posted near Shanghai.

MASSED FORCES AT WUHU.

Chinklang, Yesterday. The process of disarming and demobilising the 31st Army is proceeding in Chinking as well as Shanghai, the reason being their declared sympathy with the North-British Naval Wireless.

Three People's Principles with the 'honest members of the Nan- king party."

N. LAZARUS

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TUNNEY

WINS.

A "RED" INVASION. WANTS A DIVORCE. DIED FOR MANKIND.

Eastern Kwangtung · Threatened.

CANTON TROOPS MASSING,

By Battle Imminent On The Han River.

1

Constance Talmadge as Heroism of Prof. Adrian

Petitioner.

Stokes.

A SECOND FAILURE.

YELLOW FEVER VICTIM.

Retains Championship By Victory on Points.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Husband, Friend of Prince, is a: On Verge Of Epoch Making Women "Fans”. Affect "Prize Fight" Fashions.

“Fine Gentleman.”

Discovery When Strack Down."

London, Yesterday,

NEW CODE OF RING RULES.

London, Yesterday. Canton troops are massing in

The film star Constance It is now revealed that Pro- fairly large numbers in the ex-Talmadge, is petitioning, at fessor Adrian Stokes, who has

History repeated itself at Soldiers Field, Chicage, yesterday treme east of Kwangtung pro- Edinburgh for a divorce from died at Lagos, was on the eve of vince, in preparation for an her second husband, Captain an epoch making discovery when evening. Gene Tunney again fought Jack Dempsey for the world's

William Mackintosh, whom she struck down by yellow fever... invasion by the "Red" army.

married in February last year. He went out last May to West heavyweight championship, and again he won on points at the end Last week news came through Constance's first husband was Africa to engage in research work of the stipulated distance-ten rounds,

: The fight created more interest than any other encounter of· that the "Reds" were in Fukien John Pialoglou, a rich tobacco as a member of the Rockefeller province and appeared to be mak- manufacturer, They eloped, had] Commission on Yellow Fever. In modern times, though few women were present.

a friendly separation and were one of his last letters he an- ing for Amoy. Later intelligence divorced within two years.nounced that he had made quite of rules were put into force. is that they have again crossed Mackintosh is a personal definite and substantial progress the provincial frontier and enter- friend of the Prince of Wales and towards solving the problem of aide-de-camp to Lord the transmission of yellow fever ed Kwangtung by following the was

Willingdon when he was gov- and ite actual causative organism, Ting River (a tributary of the ernor of Bombay. Petitioner at He had done what had not been Han River which reaches the sea the time of the friendly separa- done out there before. He had at Swatow).

"It is absolutely incorrect to Hankow Banknotes Used. say that the two Governments are At Yungting, on the Fukien combining. The Nationalist Party side of the border, 3,000 "Red"

tion" from Mackintosh last year said he is one of the finest gentle- men she had ever met, but "wel like different things. I want my art to be unfettered."

has only one central headquarters soldiers detained fifty well-to-do Petitioner's address is given [About 200 miles west of and one central government.

The Government at Nanking men from whom they extracted a as Los Angeles and respondent's Shanghai, Chinktang is a flour- ishing port on the south (right) is false and it therefore must be considerable sum of money. De-as Paris, but his domicile is

Scotland. Reuter: Lank of the Yangtze River, wiped out..

preciated notes of the Hankow

now being used as a base by "Chiang Kai-shek is the one Government were forced on the the Nationalist troops on the person responsible for all the de-populace. Then they made a east sector, along the Grand cisions and actions of the Nan-forced march and entered Tai Po Canal. It is on the railway be king Government." tween Shanghai and Nanking.

One of to-day's cables gives whence the Canton garrison of

two brigades retired. In his last offensive, Marshal the strength of the Wu-Han Sun Chuan-fang made deter army at Wuhu as 40,000 men with mined efforts to secure a foot- General Ho Chien (35th Army) ing near Chinkiang but was fin-as the senior officer in the field." ally beaten back,]

REASON UNKNOWN.

Disarmed Officers Transferred Elsewhere.

General Ho Ying-ching is stat- ed to have disarmed one of the units in the 1st Army.

AT CHENGCHOW.

Swatow's new Defence Com missioner (a nominee of General | Li Chai-sum of Canton) is taking a fairly strong force, equipped with pom-poms and other light artillery, up the Han River to

"Christian General's" Position in stem the invasion.

Honan.

Rumours are current about the "Reds" having taken one or two other towns.

RUBBER OUTPUT.

EXPORT REDUCTION -

RUMOUR.

HOME COMMENT.

London, Yesterday.

MORE TROOPS FOR HONG KONG.

ter.

An elaborate code

WILL TUNNEY RETIRE?

·

Chicago, To-day. The latest weights are Tunney. Tunney won on points.-Reu-18st. 9lbs., Dempsey 14st Olbs.

Later Notwithstanding the fact that Elaborate Rules.

the betting in the Tunney- Dozens of searchlights around Dempsey fight alightly favours The "China Mail" understands the stadium added rays to 35 sus the latter, a' canvass of opinion.. drafts for the Queen's and North-pended are lamps, throwing the undertaken by the Associated ampton Regiments and the Scots ring into sharp relief against an Press among 70 of the World's

Guards will be coming to the indistinct, sea of surrounding expert Pressmen assembled to Colony in the near future. The faces.

describe the encounter, shows troopship "Dorsetshire" is due in

Only a small proportion were that a substantial majority be- December (around Christmas)

affecting the Lieve that the champion will retain with 202 of the Queen's and about women, mostly

his title. The general prospect is an equal number of Northamp-,

that it will be a close and sensa--- tons, and approximately a similar number for both regiments will

tional fight between a resourceful come in February. These troops

champion full of confidence and a will be drawn from the foreign-

reckless punch-throwing chal- service battalions in Egypt and

lenger substantially Improved home Depots.. About 100 Scots

over his dismal form of last Sept- Guardsmen are due to arrive in

tember February from the regimental Depot.

A rumour in the rubber mar- ket to the effer that the Govern- succeeded – in transmitting the ment intended to reduce the ex-disease to young chimpanzees by portable allowance to 50 per cent. infecting them from the blood of and simultaneously carry out & human patients. He had also suc reassessment of estates has been ceeded in infecting chimpanzees featured in several newspaper, with yellow fever by means of City correspondents declaring mosquitoes which had been fed on that the restriction scheme has human patients.

Feng at Chengchow.

Hankow, Yesterday. From Swatow, supplies and Feng Yu-hsiang is reported to munitions are being rushed up by have resumed control at Cheng-railway to Chiu-chow. chow.

Line in Three Sectors. Whether it was part of his coup of Finance, has left Hankow and C. C. Cheng, Acting Minister

Territory facing the "Red" line in "annexing" Shanghai to pave the way for the return of Chiang there is considerable apprehen- is divided into three sectors, each been for a long time weakened He added: "We have our fishi Kai-shek, is unknown. One resion over depreciating currency. of which is delegated to a differ- owing to the manner in which hooked. It is now just a matter port says that the troops of this Communist posters have ap-ent commander.

it has been operated.

of landing him. Unless we are From Canton it is learned that. The "Morning Post" says it is careless or the tackles break, that unit were under suspicion.

peared all over the city urging However, they were disarmed that the Wu-Han Government be about 15,000 Nationalist troops obvious that the scheme contain-is only a question of time. The are being assembled along the ed loopholes through which un-time may be years, but it must without difficulty and unit head- overthrown.

East River region and in the expected quantities of rubber come." quarters has been closed, ́ ́.

Hankow Normal. The situation appears to be hinterland of Swatow, extending were escaping

all the way up to the boundary

The officers, from commanders

dealt with but some of them may be transferred to other armies at Shanghai or Napking.

of brigades downwards, are being | normal following the shooting with Fukien. These are divided clares that many estates which the loss of this fearless pioneer in The "Westminster Gazette" de It is not yet known whether incident. It appears

that ma-

medical research will mean the chine gun fire was opened by into many brigades, very few of should be restricted to 60 per loss of a secret of incalculable

which are up to strength. gunboats as well as Japanese

cent. were actually turning out value in fighting yellow fever. It sentries' rifle fire following the doubtful as the units belong to their capacit

Unity of command is also between 80 and 100 per cent. of is hoped, however, that the dis wounding of the Japanese sailor on guard-British Naval Wire-Kwangsi, to General Chien Ta

General Wong Shiu-hung of

coveries may be worked cut by less.

his colleagues engaged at Lagos, -British Wireless Service. [Chengchow is in the north chun (pro-Chiang Kai-shek) and of Honan province and south of to General Li Chai-sum. the Yellow River, on the junc- tion of Peking-Hankow and Lung-Hai Railways.

A later cable, which must be ac- cepted with reserve, is that other brigades in the let Army are dia- satisfied and that consequences may follow,

ARMY OF 40,000

Tang Seng-chi Bitter Against Chiang Kai-shek.

General Tang Seng-chi of Han- kow and the other generals of the Wu-Han faction are still stated to be concentrating troops at Wuhu to launch an offensive against Chekiang province, which is held by partisans of Chiang Kai-shek.

Wuhu is on the south (right)

bank of the Yangtze, in Anhui

Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Chris- tian general," had been report ed as having lost Chengchow but if he is still astride the rail- way and his position is safe for the time being.]

DOUBTFUL VICTORY.

Nationalists Claim Capture of Kuchen

HIT BIG BROTHER.

YOUNG SCOUNDREL SENT ·

TO JAIL

When a Chinese youth was this morning charged before Mr.. R. E. Lindsell with assaulting his elder brother, inflicting a wound on the forehead with a shoemaker's knife,

R.A.F. FLIGHT.

TRIP TO AUSTRALIA PLANNED.

London, Yesterday.

BANDIT ROUND-UP.

CANTON AUTHORITIES TAKE

ACTION.

ALL PARTIES UNITED.-

GENE TUNNEY

"prize fight fashion of leather coats and red hats.

An elaborate code of new re gulations, had been drafted to en- sure a fair decision and avoid dis putes, providing for a consulta- tion between the referee and judges with members of the Box- ing Board, while a doctor was in attendance to investigate any claim of a foul. Moreover, two special slow motion film cameras. It is learned that the planned

were focussed at different angles, fight of R.AF, flying boats over

Spasmodic efforts by the author Receive Cheques To-day, .. 25,000 miles to Singapore and

This morning both fighters re- Australia will start from Catte ties to cope with the bandit evil in watter, Plymouth, on October 17. by various sources,

Rickard posted with the Illinois Kwangtung province are reported ceived their cheques, which Tex Lahden, Yesterday. An effective, if not commonly he said that his brother was always Royal Air Force 25,000 miles the Pun U authorities and may gold dollars, and Dempsey a Plans have been made for the used, method has been employed by Athletic Club a fortnight ago, Tunney gets-exactly a million beating him, and yesterday he could Gain of further ground on the not stand it any longer, so he reflight to Singapore and Australia with advantage, be adopted else province, about a hundred miles Tientsin-Pukow Railway by the tallated. The police said that the to start froin Cattewater, Ply where Troops were sent to round round sum of Gold 8450,000.

The Weighing In. above Nanking. The Wu-Han Nationalists, is claimed in a des- complainant "got on to the the mouth, on October 17. Group up a bandit leader who, the his outposts are outside Wuhu and, a patch from Nanking but the in- fandant because he was lazy and Capt. Cave Brawn Cave will be mish leaving two hours five than Dempsey weighed in at 192% tittle further down is territory formation given is open to doubt. would not work. He also mixed in command, Four all-metal pursuere at bay. The fugitive than ibs and Tunney at 18914. held by the Nanking faction. The It is maintained that the Na- with bad companions, the de- will be used for the light. When bush, the troops waited. Days critics and is four pounds less Southampton Napier flying boats Not wishing to risk a possible Dempsey's weight surprised the inference of this report is that tionalists, on the western sector The Magistrate told Tang Seng-chi (or the Wu-Han of the Yangtsze front, have cap-fendant that bis brother was more the British machines reach Aud passed and nothing occurred. The than was predicted. This is ac- army) plans to attack Chlang tured Kuchen after two days ly trying to keep him in the tralia they will be joined by two authorities thereupon, arrested cepted us an indication of the ex- Kai-shek in preference to Nau- stubborn fighting, followed by straight and narrow path, and if flying boats of the same we several well-to-do clensman of the champion's excellent condition king.

skirmishes in the streets of the he had been beaten at all, he de which have been built in this bandit chief and these will be de The doctor declared him a re- "The Man Responsible.” town lasting a few hours, served it because he was a scoun country for the Australian Air and until the erring one is forced markable specimen with no trace

tó Burrender by pressure being A verbatim version of a speech

The capture is attributed to the drel. In any case, he (defendant) Force and these will accompany | brought to bear on him by other of high blood pressure. He was by General Tang Seng-chi at 7th and 83rd Armies, of the Nan with such a dangerous instrument had no cause to attack his brother

clanemen.VERTAA Wuhu has reached Hong Kong.king faction.

and remarking that he thought. a He was very bitter against Chiang

fail term would do the defendant Kai-shek whom he denounced as: Kuchen is further up the good, Mr. Lindsell passed, men- the one man responsible for the Tientsin-Pukow Railway than tence of 14 days' hard labour split in the Nationalist Party, | Pengpu, which is a considerable

Position Explained.

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them around Australia..

took shelter a cave on a hill.

supremely self-confident and The flight to Australia has

danced the Charleston- In his * Henan Declaration. TAM

hotel been arranged in order to gain Not to be behind the times, Gen- experience with flying bosta on a cral, Li Fook-lam); has leaved fra

Tunney is 81⁄2 lbs.” more than mobile basis away from a fixed schems of operations in territory when he won the title last year. base. — British Wireless Service, under his control - He has been

Measurements, mate "governor"" of Honam (that part

Dempsey of Canton on the opposite side of 27

21 years the River) for years,

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tachmen itha, 5th yArmy: (which

At that time, the Wu-Han army distance from the Yangtsze. Ku was adopting a belligerent atti-chen is about twenty miles north tude towards Nanking but, since of Pengpu. There has been no system, saya a report from Wu- then, danger to Hupeh and Hunan news of Pengpu falling into the chow, the port of the province. AMERICAN TO N. Z. In the Namhol district, a do- provinces has resulted in the re-hands of the Nationalists Ac General Wong Shiu-hung, wh call to Hankow of General Tang cordingly, it is difficult to see how controls the province, is an Song-chi. Some of his sayings the Nationalists could have got up of General Li Chai-sum of Can- were to Kuchen. Pangpu has been the ton

"It is not correct to say that base of the Northerners front the Wu-Han and Nanking Govern-line and its capture would surely ments are combining. The Wu- have been reported.

Han Government is moving. Its

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It is estimated that between 150,000 to 170,000 spectators will | watch the contest. from kēkts,

some of which are a furlong. from the 20-foot ring; and the sccupants of which will need high-power binoculars to get even a glimpse of the fighters. These seats are G.$40 each and are the last minute demand for accommo dation from which the promoter, Tex Rickard, is likely to realise his hope of a $8,000,000 house:

The fight will begin between 9.80 and 10.80 p.m., Chicago day- light time. W

The Arrangements.

A total of 161,000 persons were expected to attend the battle and the total gate receipt probably ex- ceeded $8,000,000. The advance seat sales reached a total of more than $2,000,000, and as the day of the fight drew nearer, the ticket agents were swamped with orders.

Being centrally located, Chicago attracted thousands of fight fans from the weat who would not have attended had the site of the battle been located in an eastern

PROMOTER'S PLANS.

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that this will be tha ght I will have to take said Rickard. ext year I hope

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