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No. 25,711 HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1927,

NO COUP AT HANKOW YET.

TANG SENG CHI SAFE.

KUOMINCHUN ADVANCING.

FENGTIEN TROOPS RETIRE.

In the absence of news from reliable sources that a coup has been effected at Hankow, it has to be presumed that although a crisis may be approaching, there has been no development there as sug- gested by Nanking.

It is difficult to say what the Nanking armies are doing, political factions in Nanking and Shanghai are agitating for the turn of General Chiang Kai-shek.

A GREAT STRATEGIST.

but

WANTON ATTACK. PIRATES ACTIVE.

Incessant Fire on A.P.C. Watchman Approached

Boat.

1

ARMED MEN IN SAMPAN.

4

British. Naval Guard Replies Effectively.

Canton, Yesterday.

The naval guard opened fire and three of the attackers in the the sampan were killed or drowned.--

the

on West River.

GUNBOATS WANTED,

Promise Of Share Of Profit

GOOD WEATHER

CANTON'S POLICY

N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician— Established Over Forty Years Manager:-Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A.

Registered Optometrist (Canada).

SHIP

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

“MUTINY” ON

Troops Give Trouble Near Shanghai.

FOREIGNERS ASSAULTED,

Question of a Hankow Expedition.

MAY NOT EVENTUATE.

Alleged Plot Against The Railway..

Besten By Mutineers With

Made Planks

Shanghai, Nov. §.

CHAPEL DISASTER.

'Some Gruesome 'Details Reported.

À RESOUNDING CRASH.

Timbers Interlocked With Bodies.

cross-

How a man who Tepresented Just as he convinced the "Iron-

Shanghai, To-day. An armed guard placed aboard himself to be the agent of West sides" to his political views short- A "mutiny among passengers

Details of the King Shin Wutai the A.P.C. boat Yuen Ting" River pirates approached, and ly after they had returned from 'and what threatened to be an ex catastrophe at Chapel Increase the reports say I mutilated] this morning was then threatened, a watchman on Hankow, General Li Chal-sum tremely unpleasant incident took horrors, whilst some obliged to open fire to silence an board a small ship has been just (the Commander-in-Chief at Can- place yesterday morning in the that the collapse was followed by a ton) has now induced Mr. Wang, Whangpoo on board the San Poh rush to the single staircase follow- attack by a body of armed men related in Hong Kong, ashore and also in a sampan, re-

The vessel concerto la'the very Ching-wei (leader of the Leftist atr. "Hain Ning Heiso" shortlying on a shout of "Fire".

after her departure from Shang- The state of the building bears sulting in casualties amongst the old type river stedhibont "Wo politicians) to agree with him. latter.

Kwai," which plies between Hong Mr. Wang's latest pet theory hai at 8 o'clock with 250 unkempt out the original Reuter account. The incident occurred at the Kong and Wuchow. She is under was the calling of a conference in and unpaid Chinese troops on Women overcrowded a 40-ft, square eastern entrance of Junction the Chinese flag and has no pas-opposition to the Nanking Gov- board bound for Foochow. For room. The applauding and jump-

West senger licence..

ernment. Nanking has declared tunately the soldiers were un-ingap and down. set the floor In other zones, the allies of Nanking are making progress at the Chainel (connecting the

River with the Canton river). Arriving at Samshui on the last war on General Tang Seng-chi of armed.

vibrating, pulling out the expense of the Fengtien combination.

Owing to recent attacks on Bri- down trip, one of the Chinese Hankow. And General Li has or- They were in charge of a Chin-beams.

a naval watchmen was spoken to by a dered an expedition against Han- ese General and began to raise a Of most importance is the despatch relating to the counter-offen-tish craft in this area

disturbance shortly before the The upper floor tore loose with a sive by the Kuominchun, under Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Chris-guard was placed on board the visitor from shore. The latter kow, to assist Nanking.

At resounding crash, followed up im- There are indications that Mr. steamer reached Woosung. A.P.C. at Kulo (western entrance said that he was acting on be tian general") in Honan province, with startling results.

of the channel),

half of pirates who wished to rob Wang has come round to General the No. 2 Buoy, 40 of them creat-mediately by a second crash caused The precaution proved justi- the ship. If the watchman gave Li's view, and there is a possibi ed a fracas on the bridge and took by the collapse of the first floor.

Whilst the 'fied as, a few hours after leaving assistance, he would receive a lity that General Li will not prose- control of the ship.

The Municipal police officers 'ar- re- Kulo, a sampan containing nine share of the profits.

cute war against Hankow. In ship was steaming ahead fullrived within five minutes but they Jarmed men put out from the When the, watchman refused, that event, Canton will be in for a speed, these soldiers dropped an wore waved-away, the Chapel Police shore and opened an intensive fire the man is stated to have gone period of progress, with co-opera- chor and though no damage was and Fire Brigade carrying out the on the A.P.C. boat. A crowd of off, muttering dire threats. A re-tion between the military and the recorded as the result of this, con-rescue work, a task which was most about twenty men collected on port was made to those in charge politicians, but with the military siderable anxiety resulted as the gruesome and most difficult, the

wielding the real power.

ship went aground on the bank timbers being interlocked. the beach from which the sani- pan had put off.

Explosives Seized. near the buoy.

Bodies wore intermingled with When it became evident that splintered flooring and joists, and Just before the express train left Canton one day last week for the soldiers demanded to return buried under tons of debris heaped Reuter and Chinese observers Nationalist authorities at

The weather report issued by Kowloon, the railway guards to Shanghai and that they were from 12 to 76 feet high, arms and

Royal Observatory this acting on information-seized a refusing to proceed to Foochow, agree that the "Christian Gen- once prosperous town of Ihing, British Naval Wireless.

[There is no A.P.C. craft "Yuen morning stated:-

quantity of high explosives which because they had expected to be legs protruding, and the screams of eral," by a series of strokes, has which is west of Shanghai. regained in a few daya territory The Communist rising, there Ting" in this area but several of The anticyilone over China has had been secreted in one of the paid and had not been, Capt. B. U. woman and girls filling the air.

strengthened slightly. are engaged in

good waggons.

The majority of the victims were A plot against Johanson, the Norwegian mate, which had taken the (pro-Feng-has been quelled. The leader of similar names

Fresh monsoon may be

ex: the Canton-Kowloon Railway succeeded in quieting the disorder girls of from 10 to 18 years, but tien) Shantung troops about a the women's department of the A.P.C. work, about that

pected along the EE cotat of is British boats have recently been China and over the N. China Sea.

(Chinese section) administration with a promise to return. Once all the waiters in the restaurant on month to gain,

Communists, whose name

near the Eastern en-

is alleged, and it is also suspected turned round, the ship retraced the ground floor were killed. Hitherto the Shantung army Chow, has been captured and fired on

Forecast:-N. winds, fresh:

that a number of "reactionaries" her course and when the men-of- The Chinese authorities state. "had penetrated about 100 miles paraded around, the town after trance of the Channel and trou- fine. westward into Honan, along the both hands had been cut off. ble was recently experienced at

were lying in wait along the line. war anchored in the Yangtsepoo that the flooring was very weak and An order has been issued by the district were sighted, the "mutin totally unitted for mass meetings, Lung-Hai Railway, which is 'south The damage caused by Com- Dosing, up the West River, when of the Yellow River. (North of munist excesses, is at A.P.C. craft were detained until and the "Wo Kwai" came down Canton Police authorities to the ecrs," including the "General," although most popular for this pur the Yellow River, the Shantung $105,000, and it is thought that the arrival of a British gunboat.] to Hong Kong without anything effect that anybody who sella or took to flight with a purpose, the pose.--Reuter. troops still hold the advantage). ten years will pass before. Thing

happening.

acts as a receiver of stolen goods latter hiding himself in a locked Brains of the Attack recovers."Hong Kong Evening

will be subject to the death pen cabin until this unforeseen.com.

· Rice Junk-BE Exerting pressure

Following

by alty

Papasante plication was safely piaty = Dure unda both Post.". on flanks, the Kuominehun delivered

pirates on the Canton delta, Reinforcements are peing sent ing the disturbance, however, a a frontal attack and threw buck

on junks with rice from Hong by, the Kwang tung provincial Gov-foreign passenger, Mr. Linnestad, the invading Shantung army to

Kong, a number of rice merchants crnment against the rebels who and the Chief Officer. Hansen,

Charged before Mr. R. E. Lind- a line close to the boundary be

Chinkiang, Yesterday.

are reported to have petitioned have rise in considerable num- were both handled roughly by the tween Honan and Shantung.

The regiment to which the the Canton Government to assign bers in the Limehow district, in soldiers who, it is understood, self this morning with breaking in- with to the backyard of No. 8, Landale Chinese soldier's belonged who gunboats for protection work. the south-west of the province, beat the two foreigners General Lu Chung-lin was the

Street at 2.30 a.m, on Saturday, a out the unprovoked

planks. near Pakhoi. General Tang Seng-chi of Han-carried inspiration of the counter-offen-

Chinese said that he entered the When the ship arrived at the place to get a pair of trousers ANOTHER FISHING JUNK

Anti-British Boycott. give. He has fought the Feng kow is withdrawing troops from assault on two British A.P.C..em-

On Saturday there were no Chinese Bund in Nantac, the which were hanging there. RAIDED. tien allies before, distinguishing exposed positions down-river, and ployees who were visiting the

more seizures by pickets of the Chinese authorities came on marking that the accused was very himself as a crategist in the de- the activities of opposing fac-A.P.C. building in the British

REPORT OF THE MASTER. Canton Boycott Society of Bri- board and arrested the two lead-frank about it, the Magistrate pass- fence of Peking and of, Nankow (tions up-river do not seem to cause Concession, has been withdrawn

tish goods either in junks or iners who were put in irons and ed sentence of four weeks hard him any anxiety. He is sitting to Nanking and the Concession is

sent to Lunghwa. tight and strengthening

Arriving in his now, almost entirely evacuated.-

port yesterday, shops. the master of a fishing junk re-! This was due to the steamboats hands against danger from east British Naval Wireless.

ported to the police that his vessel from Hong Kong carrying very and west.

wan pirated at Tautau

last little cargo that might have come Saturday, and a cargo of salt fish under the attention of the pickets, A. “MARMON” CAR, hai and the remaining two cars stolen.

Faks.

Desperate Fighting.

Peking, Saturday,

In spite of official reports that the (pro-Fengtlen) Shantung troops have been uniformly successful in Honan province, it

put

NO ANXIETY.

Tang Seng-chi's Position at Hankow.

370 Miles Up-River.

Wanhsien, Yesterday. General Yang Sen has modified

is persistently stated in Chinese his anti-British attitude and re- eircles that the picture has been ceived the Commanding Officer of overdrawn. Vernacular papera H.M.S. "Teal" yesterday in al and other Chinese sources report friendly manner. He stated that that Gen. Chang Taung-chang's he is leaving for Ichang shortly, main (Shantung) army, after having definitely allied himself weeks of desperate fighting, has with the 2nd Army. British been thrown back, and that Mar- Naval Wireless. sbal Feng Yu-hsiang's Kuomin- chun has recaptured Kaifeng, to The east of which heavy fighting is now going on-Reuter.

.CHINKIANG ASSAULT.

Regiment Withdrawn to Nanking.

་

area.

QUEEN OF SPAIN,

ARRIVAL IN LONDON WITH DAUGHTERS.

GUEST OF PRINCESS, BEATRICE.,

.

who have now confined them- The fishing boat left Wallng selves to watching outside the

near Sanmel at 6 a.m., on Friday with a cargo of salt fish for long examination shed of the Customs

House. Kong. She had a crew of thirty

SUBJECT OF A COURT ACTION.

WANTSAI GARAGE ECHO.

The ownership of a "Marmon"

labour,

"A ̈FRANK THIEF.

Re-

were in a garage in Lansdale Street. In the later place they found the first defendant with others, amongst them believed to be the second defendant, and the plaintiff, through his solicitor, then produced the bill of sale and demanded that the cars should be. handed over to him. The first de-

which included 14 men, six women. Still, small lots of British and ten children, and an armament cargoes went through unmolest- of four gingalls, two rifles andjed, but it is not known if any about ten pounds gunpowder. "squeeze" was paid.

Everything went well until 4 Clearances in Hong Kong of motor car was the subject of dis- o'clock that afternoon when the British goods from godowns repute in a Summary Court case fendant refused to do so and pro-

was sailing in a westerly main satisfactory..

No Change. strange boat was seen approaching

Canton, Saturday. the fishing junk from the open sea.

There is no change in the It rapidly overhauled the other, and when some 500 yards off, she situation. The boycott continues. opened fire on her prey. Fire was-British Naval Wireless. returned by the fishing junk but

Rugby, Yesterday. Queen of Spain, with her two Note: Ichang is 370 miles daughters, Princess Beatrice and above Hankow and Wanhsien is Princess Maria Christina, arrived boat

The 2nd Army is in London yesterday evening. direction off Taufan. Suddenly a further up. under Lt-Gen. Lu Tl-ping, who hus révolted against General Tang Seng-chi of Hankow. Tang Seng- chi has sent an expedition up the Talk of War and Question of

Yangtsze, against the 2nd Army, Leadership. Little of note has occurred on and General Yang Sen is going the lower Yangtsze to show that down river, the Nanking up-river expedition against Hankow. against Hankow has been active Yang Sen and the 2nd Army now!

of late.

NANKING'S AIMS.

"

from Szechuan, Nominally,

ohey Nanking, in opposition to

Meanwhile, the Nanking lead-Hankow.]

ers are engaged in "discussions"

with Mr. Wang Ching-wei at Can-

ton, in connection with issues of

Hankow. War Council.

Hankow, Saturday.

The authorities at Hankow,,

the Nationalist Party, and meet- under General Tang Seng-chi, tings have been held in Shanghai have organised, their own War and Nanking, where approval was Council which is to be the high- expressed for the return of Genest military authority in the Gov. eral Chiang Kai-shek to the lead-ernment.. ership of the Nationalist armies, It is announced that this Coun

Money and Men Wanted. cil will function until the fourth Nanking claims to be pushing plenary session of the Kuomiri- back the (pro-Fengtien) army of tang Council is held: Marshal Sun Chuan-fang in The organisation of the War Kiangsu, but an independent re- Council was authorised by the port hints at the discomfiture of Hankow branch political council the Nanking troops.

-"Hong Kong Evening Post." Whilst their ally, the "Christian [Note: Formation of a War General," is gaining ground at the Council at Hankow, on the lines expense of the Fengtien group, adopted recently at Canton, is a the Nanking warlords may be sequel to the split with Nanking They were met at Victoria Station yearning for another drive where the plenary session should by The Majesties King. George and against Sun Chuan-fang, but it have been held.]

remains to be seen if they can

spare either the money or men.

Losses & Withdrawal?

Chinkiang, Yesterday.

Preparations are being made

NO CHANGE.

Lull in War Between Shansi and Fengtien.

Queen of Spain.

Queen Mary and Princess Beatrice.

"THE DAILY BITE.”

she was no match for the better

MOSCOW'S NEWSPAPERS

armed pirate bont which eventual SOVIET EXTOLLED. ly came alongside, and fifteen men boarded the Hong Kong boat. They were all armed with rifles and revolvers and had no difficulty in overpowering the flahermen, Two of the male members of the fishing boat's crew took fright when the pirates clambered on board and jumped into the geomy

VERBIAGE.

STALIN'S BIG CLAIM.

Moscow, Yesterday.

this morning when Ip Pun, of the duced a document which purport- Bank of Canton Building, claim-fed to be a receipt for monies paid jed from Sapooran Singh and Kar- for the purchase of four motor tar Singh $1,000 damages for the cars, of which that with which conversion by the defendants for the Court was concerned was one. their own use of a motor car to Similar demands had been made which plaintiff claimed he was en- by the plaintiff subsequently and titled.

the first defendant had refused

Mr. L. D. Turner was for plain-to, comply. tiff and Mr. D. McCallum for de- Mr. McCallum, for the defence, ¡fendant.

indicated that one of his pleas Mr. Turner stated that the would be that the bill of sale was. plaintiff advanced to Mr. Li Hoi-void as offending against the Bills sang, alias Li Hoi-kee on Septem- of Sale Ordinance in so far as in her 9, 1926, $1,000 on the security that Ordinance a special form of of a bill of sale, the schedule of bill of sale was set out and the

The tenth anniversary of the re-which included the first item for bill of sale in question did not Following the usual procedure, volution was afgualised by enlarga “Marmon" motor car. There comply with the statutory form. the piratea drove the crew of the ed editions of the newspapers, ex-were four motor cars involved be- fishing boat into the hold and re-tolling the schiavemente of the longing to Mr. Li Hoi-kee, who mained in full possession of the past ten years.

Vessel until the following morning when they pushed off in their own boat, taking with them salt' fish worth $700, and the junk's orma- ment and other property valued at $970,

A subsequent report was made to the police to the effect that the two men who jumped overboard from the fishing junk were rescued by a Hokla boat and brought back to Hong Kong.

CHOPPER AS WEAPON.

They are staying at Kensington As the result of a fight between Palace as the guests of Princess two Chinese at Shaukiwan, one Their visit will extend man attacked the other with a chop- Beatrice. for two or three weeks-British per inflicting a head wound which Wireless Service.

necessitated the injured man's re- moval to the Goverment Civil Hos- for the retirement of pro-Nanking No change is reported in the

pital where he is being detained. Nationalist forces who are report-war between Fengtien and Shan-

The assailant was charged be- ed to have suffered heavy losses in si province, the latter being also the north of Kiangau. Large allied with Nanking.

The eight-year-old daughter of fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen- numbers of junka are being.com- A lull has set in on the south Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Remedies, No.tral Magistracy, this morning and mandeered with a view to the ern sector (near the junction of yesterday bitten by a dog owned by

657 Nathan Road, Kowloon, was remanded until Wedbaday. withdrawal of troops. British the Peking-Hankow and Shansi Mr. Harris of No. 618 Nathan Naval Wireless,

Railways). On the northern Road. The little girl was attended Bector, the Fengtien troops have by Dr. Wong while the dog was ⠀ - Shanghai, Saturday, taken Tatung, 76 miles inside the captured and faken to Mataukok

Order has been restored by the Shansi frontier,

for observation.

MN: Communist Excesses.

TODAY'S DOLLAR

Value of Cars. Evidence was then called for

was trading as the Wanchal Gar- the plaintiff, who said that when

M. Stalin concludes an article in age. The car in question was he advanced the money he valued public hire car and was left in the the four cars at $4,000. and the possession of the guarantor of the

bill of sale (Mr. Li Hoi-kee).

{particular one on which the writ

A few months ago, stated Mr. Was issued at $1,800. When he Turner, two of the cars were sold last saw the car he valued it at and sent to Shanghai by the $700.

His Honour (Mr. Justice J. R. guarantor, unknown to the guarantee, the plaintiff in this Wood) said that part of the do action. On September 22 last, fendants' case was that plaintiff. the guarantee heard that the was not entitled to recover more Wantsai Garage was in bank-than the value of the car and, ruptcy and that the premises had after discussion, His Honour.. been seized by the Official Re-allowed the writ to be altered to celver. He had been receiving in- include the second car in the terest on the amount advanced in plaintiff's claim.

the meantime and only one month Asked what the value of the was in arrears. Plaintiff con- second car was when he saw it at sulted his solicitors and was ad- the garage in Landale Street, the vised that a right of seizure had plaintiff placed it at $450. arisen out of the bill of sale owing In the course.of cross-examina to the bankruptcy of the guaran- tion, the plaintiff agreed that the JOSEPH STALIN tor. In consequence, plaintiff, ac rate of interest charged for the

the "Pravda" on the world-wide In-companied by himself (Mr. loan in question (4 per cent. per fluence of Bolshevism, adding: "The Turner) and the Oficial Receiver, Chinese lunar month) was high, revolution heralds the victory of went to the garage to look for the but stated that Li Hoi-kee bad Marxism over reformiam, Leninism motor cars..

been perfectly willing to pay It over Social Democracy, and the Cars Sent To Shanghai.25, After the hearing of further over the They then found that two. of evidence the case was adjourned

the cars had been sent to Shang- until the 14th inst

The closing rate of the dollar, Third International on demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16. second. Reuter