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TIENTSINNER'S COMMENT.

Mr. W. V. Pennell, Late Of The Colony.

UNLUCKY 13! ·

Thirteen Wedding Guests.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Bride And Bridegroom Among The Victims.

Altoona, Penn., To-day. Thirteen guests at the wedding

CHINA'S WAR.

An Anomalous State Of Affairs.

BOTH ADVANCING.

North And South Rear Now In Danger.

uncommon in

Mr. W. V. Pennell, one time

Peking, Yesterday. newspaperman and well known

The rival forces in Shantung footballer of Hong Kong and now of a wealthy quarryman at Krepa- province are reaching an anomal- with the "Peking and Tientsin chalk County, Blair, were inciner- ous position not Times," has just returned north ated in a fire which destroyed the Chinese warfare.. after a visit to the Colony and house.

While the Nanking Nationalists Canton. Writing in the "P. and The dead include the bride and are apparently advancing north- T. Times" of April 6, he says:- bridegroom; also a mother and six ward along the Tientsin-Pukow Reuter's American Railway, General Sun Chuan- On a Saturday afternoon I made children, pilgrimage to the old, happy, Service.

hunting-grounds at Happy Valley.

The famillar Club ground had SOCIAL SCIENCE.

changed beyond recognition..

RADICALISM.

There was at best only a rude JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND shelter there a decade ago. Now the ground is completely surround-

ed with high bamboo stands, cepi

'VARSITY OPPOSITION.

Tokyo, Yesterday.

fang's Northerners continue to advance southward. Thus, each side is threatening the other's rear.

On Another Front.

In connection with movements on the Shantung-Honan front, 'General Sun' Chuan-fang has re- ported to Peking by a cable offi-

eral";----

able of giving seating accommo- dailon to several thousand specta- ! tors. The Hong Kong Chinese Though the Government appears cially claiming the following vic- took slowly to Soccer. A dozen anxious to make a wholesale clear. tories against the Kuominchun, of ridical professors and which is the Nationalist allied years ago the two teania which had ance been organised were of junior rank students, and to curtall the study army under the "Christian Gen- only, quite incapable of giving of sociał acience, opposition

Capture of Fengtion (Feng- either the Club or any of the gar- against these drastic measures is rison teams a good game. The in-voiced in sections of the Press, hsien ?, in the west of Shantung)

educationalists terest of the Chinese public was while many

are on April 14; correspondingly small. When knee equally opposed.

One of his Northern divisiona trouble temporarily put me out of It le indicative of the growing occupled Peihsien on April 16; active play, and I became Hon. feeling in this respect that the also that his vanguards have Secretary of the Football Associa-heads of the Kyoto University have reached Tangshan (on the Lung- tion and League, it fell to my lot decided to oppose the Govern- Hai Railway);

to organise and referee the first ment's proposal to dismiss the and that his men annihilated

radical "International" in the Colony, be- well-known

professor three Kuominchun brigades at tween China and India. There Kawakami. They also oppose the Kuyuch.-Reuter. were not more than a few score expulsion of radical students and Chinese spectators along the lines, the dissolution of social science To-day a match of that description groups till thorough investigations would attract six or more thou- have been made.

re-

sands, to the stands, while the hills Other seats of learning are overlooking the ground would be ported to be taking a similar stand. swarming. with people. It was my-Reuter. pleasure to assist in the fostering

NATIVE MURDERER TO BE EXECUTED.

of the game among the Chinese, SOLOMON ISLANDS. and I was as naively delighted at the display of the South Chinn Athletic (who beat the K.O.S.B.'s) { by two clear goals, as I was at the immediate recognition and cordial welcome accorded me by old play. jers who are now officials of the

Athletic.

Tulagi, Yesterday,

Another Report.

Shanghai, Yesterday. General Sun Chuan-fang's Northern troops attacked from the north-east and gained a foot- ing on the Yellow River, also oc- cupying Kweiteh.-British Naval Wireless.

Note: The attack probably refers to the drive westward along the Lung-Hai Railway against the "Christian General"} in Honan province. Kweiteh is on the Lung-Hai Railway, in Honan, The ring-leader of the Solomon i.e., further along the line of ad- Islands murderers, Basiana, has vance than Tangshan (mentioned been sentenced to death.-Reuter. by Reuter.] Soccer evidently has gained Д

native [The Solomon Islands

was recently great hold in Hong Kong, not only ringleader Basiana

even captured by a stratagem, by un- among the Chinese, but

Hankow, Yesterday. among the foreigners, with whom armed native volunteers, six miles; Several thousands of National- bas been ist troops, under local leaders, Rugger is now apparently a bad from Sinarango, and

have left Hankow, going up the second, though this was not true lodged in jail.

Hankow's Help.

of pre-War times. Many of the Basiana, who had been deserted Peking-Hankow Railway to Ho most august lights of the Govern- by his fellow clansmen, was bound nan province to join the campaign ment, including the G.O.C. and with cane layers and handed over against the North-British Naval the senior unofficial member of the to the authorities at the coast. The Wireless. Executive Council, watched the natives have celebrated the event game. But it was the attitude of by holding a dance.

the Chinese spectators that

most A party under white command;

arrested nie. Most good foot- has captured 44 natives suspected

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I

Wei I-san.

General Wei I-san (formerly of

With

Hankow, Yesterday.

ballers have tasted of the sweets of complicity in the massacre of the Northern Army), who com- of hero-worship at some time in the Commissioner and his party mands the 30th Nationalist Army their careers. And a Home crowd some weeks ago.

can go wild with excitement at an A further search is being made important cup-tie. But I cannot for Chief Norgu, who is believed remember such enthusiasm as the to be one of the ringleaders.] Chinese (and they were of all

classes and even of both sexes)

(under the Wu-Han Nationalists) left Ichang, overland for the northern front, on April 14.-Bri- tish Naval Wireless..

[Note: Ichang is in west Hupeh, on the Yangtze River, 370 miles above Hankow. General

evineed when the Athletic emerg- foreigners meet Chinese than when Wei tried to raise $500,000 from

the

two Chinese teams meet

one, an-

Too Much Money! There is, unfortunately,

the Ichang merchants before de parture.]

ed from many critical periode in the first half, and then get on top other! of their opponente and soundly

Marshal Li Chai-sum of Can- beat them. One could see men

ton, on his return from Nanking lifting their hand up and clapping

too this morning, told the "China them frantically for minutes at much money in the game in Hong Mail" that the Wu-Han National- time. Here at last is relief from Kong now. I have no foolish pre- ists were to assist Nanking in the the perhaps necessary scourge of judices against professionalism. war against the North. The two inferiority complex. The But when thousands of dollars are immediately preceding messages pupils have proved as good if not collected in, gate-money while the bear this statement out. better than their local teachers, game is still in its infancy among for the South China Athletic are the Chinese an element

"Christian General"

the local Champions. And great in which is deplorable. A sound

Hanków, Yesterday. the exultation.

amateur foundation is the best as- Travellers from Honan (the durance of the future. Upon it province controlled by the "Chris- It is not altogther harmless, of professionalism can asfely be rear- tian General") state that at the ed later on. The Hong Kong F.C. front where the Nationalist `allies course. The issue of a match is a used to bave a struggle to carry on oppose the Northerners, General (matter of overweening importance.

Chung-lin (hitherto in my time. This

Football and "Prestige."

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It has become even a question of shared their ground with the Ath-,"Christian General's" right hand][

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letic, and have a share in the gate man) is said to have broken away players

that from the Nationalist cause-Bri- themselves are idolised and in one receipts. It is safe to say

Shansi Front.`

or two cases glaringly play to the their portion of any one large gate tish Naval Wireless. gallery. The true spirit of sports-is greater than the entire revenue

Hankow, Yesterday. manship is but dimly understood of the Club before the War! There

Travellers from Taiyuanfu, beyond the touch-line. A fallen is no professionalism in this Club, opponent who rolls on the ground of course. But, they do not know capital of Shansi province (Gen- In pain too oftea arouses derision what to do with the enormous eral Yen Hsi-shan of which is a on rising. But the long process amount of money that has come to Nationalist ally), report that the of discipline has started. There them. The Athletic, however, are Northern troops are attacking the is bound to be trouble with spec- making a business of the game, so Shanal lines and that there is tatora at this stage. Some of I was fold. However, it is not the severe fighting. British. Naval us can remember having mud only thing which the Chinese do Wireless. thrown at us by crestfallen aup- the other way. I have no doubt porters of the other side at Home. the game will grow downward and

Nanking, Yesterday. The love of the game for Itself that in time the schoolboys of the Three thousand Nationalist alone, and admiration of deft work South will be the means of spread troops have crossed from Pukow, manship whether by one's own side ing the game to every little vil-on the north bank of the Yang- or their opponents, develop very lage, where it will played entire taze, back to Nanking, on the slowly, but they will come. As it ly for the game itself and the en south bank-British Nayal Wire-

Nanking Movements.

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