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NOT FINISHED.

SHANSI STILL FIGHTING.

ALARM IN PEKING.

FENGTIEN GUNS & MONEY.

MILLION DOLLARS FOR CITY.

Peking is still said to be alarmed over the developments in the region within fifty miles south of the city, in which the defence against Shanai rover columns has been "wobbly." Shanel is not yet beaten.

LAWN BOWLS.

Kowloon Bowling Green Club Beaten..

SHANGHAI'S "POSSIBLE."

Club's Flattering Start Not Sustained.

[By Short Hend."].

MORE TROOPS.

New Arrivals At Canton

FROM SWATOW FRONT:

| Four Different Armed Forces Now

In The City.

PRICE 83.00 Per Month.

DEMAND ON BANK.

Tupan And Salt Funds.

NO NEWS LOCALLY.

Banky

$60,000;

Canton, Yesterday.

Chefoo, Yesterday..... In and around-Chinton »troops

General -- Chang Tsung-chang, In Kowloon yesterday there was a hopeful feeling that the have been moving about exter the pro-Fengtien tupan of Shan- tung province, has demanded pay- Bowling Green Club would emulsively. ate the example of their offspring, Five transports, all full of ment to him of $60,000 by the the Kowloon Dock Recreation troops, arrived in Canton River Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- Club, and just get ahead of a late on Monday afternoon and an- ing Corporation out of the Salt Shanghal four. The local Club in chored off Wongsha (where the Gabelle's deposits. cluded three ex-interporters in terminus of the Canton-Hankow The demand has not been com- their team in Farrell, Holland and Railway, Kwangtung section, is plied with. Although the situa-

Jover the consequences of Chang ex-runner-up in the Open Singles trict of the city,

Two Ships Commandeered. Championship of the Colony. The

Tsung-chang's, failure to obtain visiting four comprised Malcolm, Two of the transports are river the funds,

steamers which have been com- The local Commander of the There was a fair attendance of guese flag and the other is under martial law at Chefoo, has already

banks for the Shantung Govern-

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IDLE MONEY

CANTON DEPOSITS HERE.

LITTLE IN LOCAL LOAN.

WAITING FOR A "BOOM."

SOUND SECURITIES IGNORED.

Canton's immediate interest in the Hong Kong money market appears to have eased this week but large deposits are still down

hero.

Fengtien, however, claims to be winning on the two major sec- Russell (Skip), besides. Muir, in situated), near the western dis- tion is quiet, uneasiness is felt Treasurer, levied the loan of $10,000,000 from the merchants and

tors, one of which (the southern) is cut off from Feking by opera- tions in the danger zone further north, nearer Peking.

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When the Canton Government, or their previous Provincial

bankers, some of the latter diverted their spare cash to Hong Kong. An estimate which is considered reliable is that at least a sum

No. 1, Richards, No. 2, Brierleymandeered. One files the Portu-Chinese Navy, who administera! of $5,000,000 was sent down.

A reward of $1,000,000 has been offered for the capture of Tal-No. 3, and Aitkenhead, skip. yuan, Shanai's capital.

fang is retiring.

CHOCHOW SHELLED.

Reading between the lines of despatches to hand overnight, it is apparent that danger to Peking has not been relieved,

Operations between the Feng- tien defenders and the Shansi rover units, on that part of the Peking-Hankow Railway from Peking to 60 miles southwards, have not ceased.

On the northern sector (along the Peking-Suiyuan Railway), the Fengtien army is at least holding its own if not progressing.

· THE NATIONALISTS.

Outpost Skirmishes With the Nationaliste.

when the game started shortly Wireless.

the afternoon,

NO TROUBLE.

Why All the Generals Are Agreeing

[The local offices of the Hong

There was talk of some of this being offered for the Hong Kong

LOCAL INQUIRIES.

The report adds that firms deal- ing in sessimum seed, yarn and up-country produce have failed, the total indebtedness being, about $600,000. A sugar dealer has also failed for $40,000.

A Nam Pak Hong firm which

also deals in sugar, after making a profit of nearly $800,000 last year, has closed its doors, follow. ing a slump in prices of Java Bugar.

Nationalist reinforcements are advancing north and Sun Chuan- bowlers from all over the Colony Chinese registry-British Naval received $60,000 from the Chinese Government loan which was over-aubscribed the first day.

after three o'clock, and, their [Note: The troops arriving at ment. The demand at the Hong number was augmented later in Canton are under General Wong Kong Bank was made after the

Excellent ar- Shiu-hung, governor of Kwangsi payment by the Chinese banks. rangements had been made for province and an ally of General Li British Naval Wireless. the match, although the chairs Chai-sum of Canton. They have along one side of the green might come back from Swatow and the

From inquiries in Canton and Dally Press" (Kung Sheung Yat have been placed to avoid the East River basih, ostensibly on Kong and Shanghai Banking.Cor-

their way back to Kwangsi, via poration had received no advices among the native bankers in Hong Fo), by the Canton Government's strong glare of the sun.

from Chefoo or the Shanghai Kong, the "China Mail" under- lean of $10,000,000 which follow- The green itself was in the best the West River.]

office regarding the demands made stande that owners of the moneyed the banknote crisis. condition I have seen it this sea-

at Chefoo when the "China Mail" diverted from Canton did not ap son. It may be recalled that at

inquired this morning. According ply to any appreciable extent for A break in the fall of snow has the beginning of the League

to a Bank official; only a very small allotment of the loan. enabled Fengtien to bring up games both greens were in rather

amount of the Salt: Gabelle funds At the present the Canton mer- cavalry and other units towards a bad way, and after one had to

ia kept at the Hong Kong and chants' funds are lying idle in Kalgan.

be overhauled the other was

No trouble is expected in Can-Shanghal Bank at Chefoo, the Hong Kong, earning about 2 or 3 given a similar treatment. By dint of hard work Mr. R. Duncan, ton even though troops of four greater part of it being deposited per cent. per annum. Sound in- As already explained in the

who is once more supervising this general are in the city. Harmony with the Chinese Banks, the Hong vestments and good securities "China Mail," the Shansi mobile

important detail, provided a very still exists between General Li Kong and Shanghai Bank being have failed to attract the Canton columns while their main army

fast green yesterday more in Chai-sum (commander-in-chief), used chiefly for purposes of re-merchants.

Shiu-hung of mitting....

Willing to Walt. st. 'was falling back, southwards-

keeping with the Shanghai greens General Wong wheeled northwards and outflank- War intelligence from Chinese than any that the visitors have Kwangsi, General Chang Fah-hui Another Report.

In conversation with a "China London, Yesterday. ed the Fengtien forces, striking at sources is that Marshal Sun yet played upon, the Kowloon of the Ironsides and General Li

Mail"

Canton correspondent, a Fook-lum of Hong. their rear in a number of thrusts Chuan-fang has given up Ming-Dock green not excepted.

The British cruiser "Vindic-banker who has funds in Hong The new "temporary" was coun- along branch lines of the Pek-kwang. (a town on the Tientsin-

cil at Canton is to centralise mili- tive" arrived at Chefoo yesterday Kong said that he preferred not ing-Hankow Railway.

Pukow Railway) which is about 80 miles from Nanking as the First blood went to the Bowl-tary power and the headquarters morning to afford protection, to tie up his money in Hong Kong ing Green after good work by of the 8th Route (L Chai-sum's) should necessity arise, to the as something may turn up in Can- crow flies.

Outpost skirmishes between Farrell Richards, Muir, and and 2nd Front (Chang Fah-hui) local branch of the Hong Kong ton in the near future. Whereas the Northerners and the Nation-Holland. Malcolm and Farrell may be abolished to pave the way and Shanghai Bank, which the investment in Hong Kong might

then started a regular duel which towards amalgamation...

Shantung authorities threatened bring in 8 per cent. per annum, if alists have been reported.

to raid if the balance of the salt not more, Canton financiers will was sustained for about half a 1,000 Gunners Arrivals,

revenue deposited there was not be satisfied with temporary in dozen heads. In the second head,

After having concentrated his handed to them before: Monday. come around 3 per cent. if the however, Holland got shot, only men

at Canton, General Wong Under the existing arrangement cash is available at any moment to be beaten by Brierley and it Shiu-hung again announces that a portion of the provincial salt re for a boom in Canton which might was left to Russell to trail the he will march back to Kwangsi venue, the bulk of which had easily pay 12 per cent. or more. jack for a couple. The third head forthwith, taking his army with been paid to local authorities, was "It is the uncertain outlook that Further batches of Nationalist was burned by Russell when him.

reserved for provincial administs keeping surplus cash out of troops have been sent over to Shanghai lay probably one, and Units of the 9th and 4th brig-tration expenses and the service Canton," added the speaker, "and Pukow, on the north bank of the in the replay good shots were ades under Wong Shiu-hung have of foreign loans. It was to obtain native interest rates are high." Yangtaze, presumably for service sent up by Farrell, Malcolm, arrived from the North River and this reserved amount that the up the Tientsin-Pulcow Railway Brierley, and Russell, the latter are quartered at Wongsha and Shantung authorities, instead of against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang saving a couple with his last wood. elsewhere.

taking the matter through appro of the Fengtien alliance.

Shansi Firmly Entrenched. In spite of this danger to their long line of communications along the railway, Fengtlen claims to have made further progress on the principal front of the south- ern sector.

A Chinese cable from Peking Baya that the Shansi main army is entrenched in a line running from north to south, parallel with the Peking-Hankow Railway and astride the Shansi Railway which forms the connection with Tai- yuan, the capital of Shansi.

the

Marshal Sun Chuan-fang is con- centrating at Pengpu (also on the railway), which is 60 miles above Mingkwang.

Troops Leave For Front.

Nanking, Yesterday.

Prize of $1,000,000. Fengtien admits that Shansi forces are in a very strong position along this line and that they will be hard to dislodge.

Another cable, which may be connected with the foregoing, Naval Wireless. quotes the Fengtien leaders as offering $1,000,000 as a reward to the divisions succeeding in cap- turing Taiyuan which is at least 14th Nationalist Army crossed 130 miles behind the line were the Yangtaze to the Grand Canal Fengtion says the Shansi army is making a determined stand.

6 INCH MORTARS.“

Fengtlen's Big Guns Brought to Danger Zone.

Fighting in the danger zone (a radius of 50 miles south of Pek--- ing) has been severe.

A Fengtien despatch throws light on the desperate struggle for Chochow, a city 45 miles south of Peking, with a population of about 160,000.

After ejecting the Shansi plain- clothes men, the Fengtien garri- son left on the approach of a strong Shansi rover column sup- ported by artillery.

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A Third of City Destroyed. Strong Fengtien reinforce- ments were brought up to force. the issue. It is not known whe ther the reinforcements came from the main frönt to the south, or were sent out by Peking from the north...

Points on the Game..

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ELEMENT OF RISK.

What is Needed to Interest Chinese.

ITALIAN "REDS.”

HEAVILY SENTENCED IN ROME

Rome, Yesterday,

A special military court har severely sentenced three Communist ex-deputies and six other Communist prisoners who were charged with active Communist and subversive propaganda in Rome last year.

The ex-deputies Molinelli and Innamorati were sentenced to 14 Ex-Deputy years imprisonment. Grieco, who escaped from Italy, was Acntenced in default to 17 years; Ravagnan, ex-editor of "Lunita,” a Communist paper to three years and the others each, to eight years and six months; two others were sentenced to aix years.

These sentences are the first under the drastic anti-communist

laws enacted last year.

G prisoners were also heavily fined. Reuter,

EARL CARROLL.

RELEASE FROM PRISON. RECOMMENDED.

Washington, Yesterday, The Attorney General has approv-

The first good shot in the next More Ironsides have arrived in priate channels, made threats, to Other Nationalist troops have head came from Farrell, who was Canton from the North, by the raid the British bank premises. arrived here by the Shanghai- rested out by Malcolm but the Canton-Hankow Railway. These British Wireless Service. Nanking Railway. British eventual counter was put in by comprise the 1st artillery brigade Muir, and Russell added another. (over 1,000 strong) with ten

"In normal times, a good deal Malcolm next sent up a couple of field guns and a company of en-

of support for the Hong Kong Chinklang Position.

woods in front, only for Muir to gineers.

share market, came from Canton Chinkiang, Yesterday.

garrison have been made, detach-by way of the native banks,” said Ironsides Help Canton. The previous report that the roll in between them for shot, but

Commander Hn Chien has been ments of troops moving out. No stockbroker this morning. Brierley came away with a "bobby dazzler and Russell tipped in an-displaced by the Ironsides as de- thing untoward has occurred, "Shares or property without an other for the visitors probably be fence commissioner of Walchow. British Naval Wireless: cause he felt in a generous mood It was alleged some time ago that Li Chai-sum have been leaving is an abundance of money in the (Note: Troops loyal to General element of speculation do not in- terest the average Chinese. There at the moment! Aitkenhead was Canton doubted his full obedience,

native banks and a good deal more hoarded. Rates of interest are not high but it is difficult to obed a recommendation by the Police Board for the release on parole from tain funds for anything.

Atlanta Penitentiary of the well- "Where there is no risk the re-known theatrical producer, Earl turn is small. And where there Carroll, who is serving a sentence is risk now, capitalists are afraid of year's imprisonment in connect- of being stuck."

tion with a dinner given him in which a chorus girl was 'stated to be bathed in a tub of champagne.--. Renter's American Service.

General Chu Pei-teh of the Nationalist: Army, who in tra velling with his bodyguarda as passenger on a Yanglaze Bri- 'tish ship.

the hero of the next head, getting This is not the first instance of Swatow for Canton.] there with his last' wood. The the Ironsides taking action to in- next head was of no account save crease the authority of Canton for the fact that the only bowlers and can be construed as further were on the Shanghai side, but evidence of harmony between the the position was just reversed in various factions.

the succeeding head. Good work Native Shipping Suspended. was next done by Malcolm, Brier- Observers are of the opinion

POLITICS & LABOUR.

Police Issue Notice Against Billeting.

A proposal has been made that

ley and Aitkenhead, the latter that although there are four the Canton branch of the political getting a couple out of four "big" generals at Canton, there is council appoint a special tribunal shots for his side. Shanghai sufficient territory and scope for to deal with political offenders, again lay in the following head, all. Hence there will be no need

50 YEARS RECORD,

Views of Chairman, Chinese Chamber.

but Russell again saved by taking for them to clash and it will be to says the "Hong Kong Evening

Post. the jack and giving his side a their joint interests to keep down couple

minor, dissatisfied elements, and Canton Police Commissioner that Notice has been given by the

"In my fifty years' experience "We Are Eight."- preserve order

Native shipping on the East both the military and labour of business in Hong Kong," said The 11th head proved the un- doing of the Bowling Green Club. River is reported as suspended to must in future, may rent for Mr. Li Yau-tsun, chairman of the Farrell was short and next heavy, avold requisition by either side in billeting on private property. Hong Kong Chinese General Muir was twice heavy as was the incident at Walchow city, Failure to pay, says the notice, Chamber of Commerce, "I have Holland. Russell found a port which stagis on the banks of the will result in ejectment not asen money so cheap or rates

BERLIN STRIKE.

MINERS DEMAND HIGHER" WAGEBA

Berlin, Yesterday, A strike involving, 80,000 miners has begun In the Halle district.

and then was just a shade narrow East Rivervet saptamani The new Agriculture and Lg/of interest so low. The miners demand a ten per cent,

Swatow Changed

Swatow, Yesterday, Further small changes in the

(Continsad of fool of mirt

TROOPS LEAVE "KARMALA" TAKES CAMERON-

TANS TO-DAYAZA

remainder of: the Ist ann who did not leave BY

In connection with comman-bour Commissioner is devising Mr Li was Interviewed yester-increase in wages Reuter and through, the result being that Shanghal had no trouble fix col deering of craft elsewhere, the means to regulate demonstrations day by a vernacular news agency lecting the whole eight! From owners guild intends to protest by farmers and artisans with a following a rumour that there this point on the local Club scored to the Government

view to preventing riots and was financial stringency in the

Colony, A street fights. T

Labour unions which severed It is to be expected, Mr. Lire in only three wheads and were

connections with the Labour. Der marked, that banks will not give well-beaten side

legates Congress last spring, fol- advances to everybody. Those lowing the Government's vanti! who had failed to obtain loans will Red coup, are again being amiliar, say that there is a shortage of Car ed. The Congress has been active money, but well known firms can

always get assistance for bona Hom of late with the rise Leftist

ide trade. prestige in Canton po bas petitioned for the relea members imprisoned since the Bightest

Fengtien shelled three of Cho (on the North bank) is not cor chow's three gates, and one ob rect. The troops went up-river

Good Team Work. Berver says that 150 millimetre to Nanking, which is 46 miles field guns and 6 inch mortars above. Chinklang.

Once again the Shanghai were used in addition to smaller Partly through the departure of quartette showed good team work, gune Refugees from the city tops from Chinklang, some of which, of course, is not surpris say that a third of the houses has the buildings inside the British when It is known that they Concession which were formerly ball from the same Club in been destroyed. #y

lcolm According to Fengtien's ver occupied by the military have now Shan slon, the Shansi rovers replied been vacated. British Naval with their guns but were forced to retire westwards.WA The Northern Sector. Intelligence from Peking is that the railway track in the dan- ger zone is being repaired: Dám age to parta further south, where the main strengths first faced end ther has also been made

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