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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927.

MYSTERY CLEARED.

(Continued from Page 1.)

brigade at Yungkee; or were they

“TRAFFIC JAM ”

HOUSE OF LORDS.

4

POSITION IN AMERICAN ELECTION.

also disarmed by the Ironsides. COOLIDGE TO BE NOMINATED. from Canton?

New York, Sunday.

Mr. Chauncey Depew predicts

GOVERNMENT AND REFORM BILL.

AN EVASIVE ANSWER

Rugby, Yesterday.

THE CHINA MAIL,

A PEKING ARREST.

"CHINA TIMES"› SCRIBE DETAINED.

SEIZURE OF LITERATURE.

Shadows Before.

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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."

Entertainments.

To-day H.K.A.D.C. presents "Bulldog

Drummond," Theatre

| Royal, 9.15 p.m.

To-day Tea Dance at Cafe Re- gent, 4.30 to 6.30 p.m.; dinner dan- sant, B p.m.

To Meet Kwangsi Advance.

Peking. Nov, 8. Reports having reached Canton

In the House of Commons the! Mr. Pan Shao-kao, Peking cor- that the division of Kwangal sol that although there will be a "traffic Prime Minister (Mr. S. Baldwin) respondent of the "China Times," «liers under Lt.-General Chan jam" of Presidential candidates the Chai-tong, which is marching Republicana will nominate President was asked whether it was the in-one of the leading Chinese dailies To-day-World Theatre; "The

in Shanghai, was arrested by Night Club," 5.15 and 0.30 p.m. from Swatow westwards to coun- Coolidge. The nomination conven- tention of the Government to pre-

To-day-Star Theatre; "New ter-attack the Ironsides at Can- tion will go into recess till Presi-sent a Bill next session for the re- police at ten o'clock on Wednesday Brooms."

night, when he was returning ton, has reached-the-area-bedant Coolidge should have consider form of the House of Lords,

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "What from a bathhouse outside Chien Price Glory." tween Swatow and Bias Bay; the ed fully what will amount to a un- Mr. Baldwin said that he was Men. Mr. Pan was accosted by Ironside chiefs have accordingly anfsous call for him to stand again not at present in a position to make two policemen and asked

November 28-Social gathering to proof members of the Church of Eng- ordered their 25th division to pro-

According to the "National Re-

duce the despatches which he in-land Men's Society, in St. John's | ceed eastwards from the East River to check the Kwangsi ad-assed the Editors and politicians public Magazine," which has can-

Asked further whether the mat-tended to file to his paper in Cathedral Hall, 5.45 p.m.

November 23-Private dance at vance. Latest news is that the

under consideration, or Shanghai. He complied with the 25th division has gone on from all over the country, Mr. Hoover ter was Walchow and is nearing the and Mr. Al Smith, Governor of New whether, no action would be taken, requeat, but despite the fact that Central British School, 8.30 p.m.

November 24-26-World Theatre; the despatches carried nothing de-

"The Man On The Box." scout parties of the Kwanusi York, will lead the Republicans and Mr. Baldwin said that it was trimental to the Northern cause,

Democratics, respectively, to the obviously under consideration.-be was requested to go to the police ages For Wives."

November 24-26-Star Theatre; Presidential campaign. Neuter's British Wireless Service.

November 24 "Romanticist American Service.

Music" at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

November

column.

SHIPS SEARCHED.

Ironsides' Vigilance at Bocca Tigris.

Abnormal conditions prevail at night on the Canton and West Rivera owing to vigilance main- tained by the Ironsides against

the Kwangsi military party,

“TR X”

HUNGARIAN BONDS CASE.

Paris, Yesterday,

The British s.s. "Kanchow" ELEVEN ARRESTS, REPORTED. (Captain E. Fisher) reports that on passage up to Canton from Hong Kong, the ship was order- ed to stop off Bocca Tigris Forts and was boarded and searched by

Armed Chinese soldiers.

"Norwegian Ship. Too. The Norwegian s.s. "Maud," also from Hong Kong, did not heave to when the signal was made and was forced to stop by shots being fired across her bows. On the way down from Canton yesterday, the "Kanchow" was again ordered to stop and had to submit to search, after which she was allowed to proceed.

IN POLITICS.

Ironsides Put Leftist Ideas in Motion.

an statement on the subject,

SHARPSHOOTERS.

DETAILS OF NEW POLICE RESERVE.

25-Dance in En-

80--St. Andrew's

yamen for a talk. Up to two o'clock this afternoon, Mr. Pan still held in the police quarters. Efforts are being made by his friends to secure his release on ball. gincers Institute.

November The "China Times" is controlled! by Shanghai Chinese banks and is Society's Annual Ball at City Hall, regarded as a progressive organ, 19.30 p.m.

December 9-At Theatre Royal It counts among its contributors

opening performance of "Merrie Mr. Liang Chi-chan, Dr. Hu Shih England," 0 p.m. AN EXCELLENT RESPONSE. and other Chinese intellectual lead-|

December 10-Dance at the ers active in the literary revolu-Peak Club with Lyric Band In at-

tendance, 9.15 p.m.

In connection with the announce- tion. ment in Police Reserve orders re-

At 11 o'clock last night police "Mr. X" appeared in what le call-cently about the proposed formation and detectives searched the pre- ed the Hungarian bonds case

of a Sharpshooters' Company of the mises of the Ta Fei Photographer which is an attempt to sell $10,000,- Reserves, Lieut. Comdr. Hartford, at Shih Toa Hutung and arrested 000 worth of Hungarian forged Deputy Superintendent of Police the proprietor of the studio. A of Kuomintang (Reserves), this morning made a large quantity statement to Press representatives literature is alleged to have also

been seized."Kuo Wen."

securities.

There are already eleven arrests,

including a French Consular official

at Central Police Station. and a Czecho-Slovak banker and his

Commander Hartford said that! It is even rumoured that; French Parliamentarians may be he had received a satisfactory res- ponse from the public since the pub-

800.

Involved.

It is believed that "Mr. X" con-lication of the announcement, and ceals the identity of a former pre-applications have already come in fect, who was formerly Chief Secre- from several gentlemen resident in! tary to the Miniater of Finance. Hong Kong who are expert shots. He is being treated with the utmost consideration, having been taken in

The Sharpshooters Company which has thus been formed will be

CHINA'S. ARREST.

PLENTIFUL AMMUNITION

LACKING.

REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS.

Mr. Putnam Wenle writes from Peking to the "Shanghai Times":- The military action is, however,

Meeting. November 29-Annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Horti- cultural Society in the Board Room of Measra. Jardine, Matheson, & Co., Ltd., 5.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous. To-day Practice Dance for City St. Andrew's Ball' Hall, from 5.30 to 7 p.m.

November 23-Tenth practice of the Reel Club, at Helena May In- stitute, 5,30 pm.

at the

November 23-Laying of founda- tion. stone of the now Wanchal Wesleyan bullding.

BRIBE OFFERED ?

CRIMINAL SESSIONS OPIUM CASE.

a private motor car to Sante Prison, the same as the one in existence in where another prisoner has been Shanghai with which the Hon. Mr. allotted him as batman, which is E. D. C. Wolfe, Captain Superinten-

NEW TERRITORIES AFFAIR. Having strengthened their con-unprecedented. He is also pormit-dent of Police, was favourably im- trol of government and party or- ted to sample a costly menu from a pressed during his recent visit but one of the battles that are now!

An alleged offer of a bribe to ganisations in Canton, the Iron-neighbouring restaurant instead of there. Mr. Wolfe lost no time in being fought. There is the moral

securing details, and has put the battle as well: for the unrest which three Indian police officers who had sides are setting in motion ma- prison fare.--Reuter.

Paris, Later. scheme to the test hore, with the is stirring all men is just as Im-discovered a quantity of opium chinery which will make the ad-

portant. Far and wide this factor formed the subject of a charge ministration conform with lines Although the name of the mys- excellent result mentioned above. which Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the terious personage, arrested in con-i The idea of the scheme, Com-can be seen working, set in motion against Yu Tat at the Criminal Sessions this morning, the case Leftist leader at Shanghai, nection with the forged Hungarian mander Hartford explained, is to by obscure causes difficult to define being hoard by Mr. Justice J. R. strongly advocated before he left bonds, has not been divulged, it is get together all gentlemen who are but springing primarily from a wood.

Mr. H. K. Holmes prosecuted 'for: Canton.

authoritatively stated that he is not expert shots with the rifle, and any-vague appreciation that Chinese Civil and military direction will the person originally alluded to. one who has that one qualification civilisation has collapsed. In years the Crown and Mr. Hing Shing-lo

will most cer- defended. be exercised by the members of Moreover, he is not a high official will be given the opportunity of to come historians

The facts as disclosed in the

were jolning the newly formed Company.tainly find much that is similar be-

that the Indian the Nationalist political council-Reuter. who are, incidentally, all Leftists.

No other qualifications will be re-tween this period following the fall evidence A local breach of the Nationalist

quired, and it is emphasised that of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and Folice officers had reason to believe that a quantity of opium was to be the overthrow of the famous Han brought by car to Un Long village there will be no drills and no Supervisory Council is being

dynasty two thousand years ago. (New Territories) and they conse established, Mr. Wang having!

parades.

We are only in the 16th year quently concealed themselves. literally fought tooth and nail to

On the arrival of a car one man

COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

make the council the governing SECOND STAGE OF TRIP TO

AFRICA. body of Nationalist China,

ARMY IN INDIA.

J

NOT TO BE PERMANENTLY BASED.

to

SERVICE IN SINGAPORE.

The Company will be a uniform-

one.

ed body under their own Command-since the Manchus were driven to ing Officer, and, needless to say, the abdicate; yet already an American got out and, as he was not carry- so absessed ing anything, the constables did not Company will be an international Senator has become

with the idea that the period of the interfere with him, but approached London, Yesterday. Sir Alan and Lady Cobham Bew

Applications so far received have Three Kingdoms which divided the the car and interrogated the man soner). They found a basket in Bordeaux from Southampton been from retired naval and mili-country for generations after the who was driving the car (the pri- yesterday or the second stage of taxy men and others who had sery-Han dynasty fall, must be relieved the front seat and asked the driver their 20,000 mile aerial surveyed in various Volunteer forces. under a recognised system of re- whose property it was.

According to the evidence of one flight round Africa. British Wire This, Commander Hartford said, is glonal governments that he is less Service.

the type of men that is required to preaching it as an inevitability far policeman, the driver stated he did not know and another Police wit- A Perfect Landing. London, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday. form the Company, and it is ob- and wide.

The descendants of the Yellow Dess anid the reply was that it be- In the House of Commons, Mr.

Sir Alan Cobham, who is flying vious that a Company of auch men Griffiths asked whether it was conto Africa to make an aerial survey require no further instructions and Bonnets those provincial bands longed to the man who had got out The police officers searched the templated that part of the British Army should be permanently based of that continent, left the French can be considered an efficient unit which spring to life everywhere and of the car.

Naval Base at Hourtin, near Bor in the Police Reserves, hence the de- preach revolt when, the rule totters basket and found that it contained in India for use at any time in India or the Far East to augment deaux this morning and reached cision to hold no drills and parades. are certainly with us to-day; but five parcels of opium which the

He Marseilles this afternoon.

Anyone interested in the Com-whether the parallel is complete in driver of the car maintained was the Singapore Naval Base.

pany, and is an expert shot, is re- other respects may be doubted. For only "Chinese medicine of a called attention to a resolution by affected a perfect landing in the

middle of harbour. the Indian Legislative Assembly in

He will probably leave to-quested to communicate with Com- in spite of the peculiar topography quality, worth about $1 a catty." March, 1921, on the Esser report,

the mander Hartford at the Central of the present war, in apite of the Eventually, the driver said to the which was accepted by the Gov

powerful element than ever existed "the Government will not give you anything: I will give you $100." ernment of India, that they alone Mediterranean, and is expected to Police Station when full particulars amazing secrecy, there is a more officers (according to the evidence) in the past operating in China to-No money was, however, produced should be responsible for the Ad- make a stop at Ajaccio, Corsica. will be supplied.

British Wireless Service.

day.

and in fact the driver was later Modern arms cannot be conjured found to have only $3 in his pos- up out of a void; ammunition can session.

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ministration of the Army in India. Under The Earl of Winterton, Secretary of State for India, re plied that no such proposal as in- dicated in the first part was being considered. He added that he was unaware of the resolution passed by the Assembly in the terms quoted. Reuter.

INDIAN REFORMS. BOYCOTT MOVEMENT AGAINST COMMISSION.

morrow

morning to

Cross

INDIAN FLIGHT.

MCINTOSH AND ENGINE TROUBLE.

London, Yesterday. Reuter's Agency learns that Cap

HIT BY A TRAIN?

DEATH OF CHINESE IN A TUNNEL.

only be manufactured in limited The officers refused the bribe and quantities except in one arsenal. drove the car toward Au Tau police Admitting that all other things are station. Shortly before arriving. equal and that big battalions are there the prisoner again reopened the rule, plentiful ammunition is the question of the bribe, stating that the Indians were very foolish not. Chang Tso-lin is the only man and that the Chinese detectives A Chinese ́aged about 50 years well-furnished with military sup would let oplum and pistols, "go tain Meintosh did not descend in

of engine was yesterday found dead in the plea; Chang Teo-lin alone, can through." He asked that if they manufacture field-guns and how-were afraid to take $100 they trouble, but the weather conditions No. 5 railway tunnel at Taipokau.itzers and trench-mortars and should take one of the parcels of rendered progress impossible. When discovered at 6.30 am, the rifles on a large scale. In the great opium and leave him the rest The Indians still refused man had already been dead for Mukden arsenal, on which £15,000,- some hours.

000 sterling has been spent in five listen and took the prisoner to the

Police Station where he was charg It is thought that he had been years, night and day work is Dred with offering the bribe. In a hit and killed by the Kowloon-ceeding uninterruptedly.

statement, the prisoner denied that Canton train.

Poland

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Reuter.

CONFERENCE DEMANDED.

New Delhi, Yesterday, The Punjab Khilafat Committee are unanimously in favour of a boycott of the Statutory Commis- sion, and they are demanding al Plenary Round-Table Conference.

The Punjab Congress Committee has also resolved in favour of boycott:

on

account

SAFE FLYING.

· AIR MINISTRY AND NEW METHODS.

a

HOVERING AIR MACHINE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

On the contrary, a meeting of the

depressed classes at Poona adopted The British Air Ministry la

a resolution of appreciation of the

devoting special attention to the

how much the opium was worth,

The case is proceeding.

to

If the others have prepared sur- he had offered the bribe and said The body was removed by the prises which he did not dream of, that the question of $100 arose out he has prepared for war on a scale of one of the Indians asking him police to the public mortuary.

they have never thought possible. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to show the efficacy of this one

Woman resembles the ape more factor; for it will not be until well into 1028 that arms and ammuni- than does the man, for her legs are usually shorter and her. Jaruns tion will begin to run short except longer Professor Arthur Thom- in Mukden where there are reserves son at the Royal Academy.

PRICE OF FOOD.

appointment of an all-European methods of ensuring safety in fly- BIG Commission-Reuter.

ing.

Batisfactory tests, made with

A GREAT FUTURE. Handley Page automatic airsists,

TRADE VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA.

PLEA FOR EMIGRATION.

Rugby, Yesterday.

The majority of the delegates of the British Chambers of Com merce, who have been meeting at

are likely to load, to the speedy

adaptation of this device to most

types of British aircraft.

REPORTEDpiled-up sufficient for several years

REDUCTIONS

IN PEKING.

continuous warfare. When re- The German Railway Adminis- plenishment is seen to be impossible tration and the Great Western Raff- Peking, Nov. 8, in the other provinces, a new aspect way, says "Modern Transport," have Price reductions ranging from will begin to dawn, Auto-sugges-arranged for a member of the staff The Air Ministry has also acquire two dollars to ten cents were detien, which is the prime political of each undertaking to spend from the other company. The first two, directed in quite different channels ed plane of a hovering air machine elded upon at a general meeting of factor in Chiua-to-day, will be 12 to 18 months in the service of are Herr Hardt and Mr. LJ Lean' known as a helicogyre invented by local dealers In foodstuffs held on from what have been highly popular (Paddington). an Italian engineer named Kitorio Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Chow since 1925. Isacco British Wireless Service. Thsiao, chairman of the Peking

Rice Merchants' Guild presided and

Gig Bagarren said that in view of the request of

Capetown representatives of the GET RID OF THE TORMENT OF the police authorities, and also of commercial bodies of South Africa

RHEUMATISM. the cessation of military trans. Owing to the deprecations of and other parts of the Empire, No need to keep on suffering the portation on the Peking Mukden some 200 Behramavendis (who are were back in England to-day torment and pain of rheumation, when railway which has resulted in large homeless wanderers) and the vari-

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