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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

AT 25 KNOTS.

NEW STEAMER.

TRIPLE EXPANSION TURBINES TO BE USED.

SPEED RECORD.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT SOON TO BE MADE

WAR SCARE.

EVACUATION OF PEITAIHO.

U.S. WARNING.

Fighting Expected Near Summer Resort.

JAPAN HELPING GENERAL CHANG 7

FELSTEAD OUT OF ST. LEGER.

GONE LAME?

SIR HUGO CUNLIFFE OWEN'S DERBY WINNER.

· LOCAL PRICES.

SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S CHANNEL CROSSING ENGLAND'S AVIATION "PATSY" HENDREN'S

POSITION

RUMOURS !

MAY NOT RETURN TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE.

OFFICIAL DENIAL.

London, Yesterday.

· BORODIN ARRESTED:

Chinese Action, in Harbin

EXPERIMENTS.

[COPING WITH AIR SERVICE. INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT.

3,000 RUNS.

TOP SCORER.

NOTTS AND LANCASHIRE WIN

MATCHES EASILY.

VISITORS LOSE.

London, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. "Patsy" Hendren, in scoring Sir Hugo Cunliffe Owen's colt It is officially stated that there To-morrow, the first passenger The preparations for a British 94 for the M.C.C. against York Felstead, which won the is no truth in the rumours as to ship, to be equipped with triple attempt to beat the world's air shire, completed his 8,000 runs Derby this year

has been the probable resignation of Sir expansion turbines, leaves New speed record of 818 miles an for the season

hour, set up by the Italian, Major None of the County results scratched from the St. Austen Chamberlain, and it is de haven on her maiden voyage to De Bernardi, are nearly complete, given below are remarkable. Owing to the proximity of hostilities between the Nationalist Leger, the last of the Classic

Dieppe. She is called "Worthing" and an attempt will be made at Notts easily disposed of lowly Flight-Lieutenant Glamorganshire and with equal Calshot by allies and the Northern remnants, American citizens resident at races. For the past two or three

and is of 2,800 tons and has been Darcy Greig in about three facility Lancashire took the Peitaiho, the well-known summer resort not far from Peking, have weeks the horse has been under

specially built for the Cross-weeks over the course along points in their match with Derby- been warned to evacuate forthwith. British persons have also suspicion on account of lameness,

Channel Service.

The West Indies went, which Flight Lieutenant Kinkead shire,

before an all-England been told that they are to prepare to leave the place at a moment's British Wireless Service.

Glass-enclosed lounge decks was flying when he was killed in down

notice.

Following are Frank Haytor's

which also has two restaurants, last year are a feature of the "Worthing an attempt to break the record eleven.

Sussex beat Easex on first 12 cabins de luxe and exceptional-

Greig is carrying out exhaus-innings. Sussex 588 (Bowley Latest advice from the war zone indicates that the Nationalists latest "prices"~~~ are using units belonging to Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian Gen-100/6

ly large sleeping, salcons and tive tests with a Supermarine 188) and 302 for 8 (J. Parks 148 drawing rooms for women pas Napier 5 seaplane, which is to not out). - eral," and that they are contemplating an advance against the posi- / 50/1

sengers.

make the flight, tions which the Northerners have held ever since they gave up 40/1

The machine is of the same The vessel cost roughly type as that used by Flight 66/1

£200,000. Peking.

Lieutenant Webster, when he At full speed she steams 25 won the Schneider trophy last knots, which makes her one of the year and was actually taken to world's fastest passenger ships. Venice with other British 'planes

British Wireless Service.

as reserve for the race.

General Chang Tsung-chang, who is at the head of the North- erners, is still using a Japanese merchantman as a transport, In this connection it is interesting to note a cable published by a local vernacular paper to the effect that Ispan has arranged to help Chang Taung-chang with money and munitions costing a large sum.

7/1

66/1

11/4

6/1

12/1

25/1

20/1

ADVANCE ON NORTHERNERS.

33/1

14/1

25/1

The inference behind such a tinue but the area is still occupied) statement is that Japan wishes the by Manchurian `forces.

26/1

25/1

88/1

Northern Army to remain buffer between the Nationalists In

CO A

General Attack.

14/1

Shanghai, Yesterday,

· 14/1

China Proper and the Japanese General Pei Chung-hei (one of the 201 It is authoritatively stated that 14/1 interests in Manchuria. Messages big four of the Kwangel National 20/1 50/1 given below will show that the ista) is issuing an order for a gen- Northerners' forlorn hope in Shan-era! attack against the Northern tung has falled.

Peking, Yesterday. Minor fighting has been report- ed between a Nationalist force led by General Pao Tseng-hko (under the direction of Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian, General") on the

An unusual photo of Feng, Ya-halang, the "Christian Gen-

sral," who appears here un- shaved and wearing a rough straw hat which he uses when in the field.

one hand, and Northern troops in the north-east of Chihlf.

The Nationalists are advancing. The Northerners under General Chang Tsung-chang (virtually their commander-in-chief). withdrawing from Lutal towards the Tongshan mining area, where all in still quiet.

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remnants in three days. He is conferring with the Shans; Nationallat generals in Tientsin to-day. The first stage will be to capture Lutai.

It is understood that a raiding party from the north is already threatening Ningho, which is to the east of Lutai.

General Chang Tsung-chang is reported to be at Kaiping, where he has established his headquar- ters-Reuter.

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SHANTUNG'S FATE.

Now in Nationalist Handa. Once More.

Shanghai, Yesterday, According to Japanese reports, owing to the sympathy shown to the Nationalist movement by Northern troops at Tsingtao (the port of Shantung province), the local Northern commander has gone over to the Nationalists The result is that the whole of Shantung, now owes allegiance to the Nationalist Government. This is expected to totally upset the plans of General Chang Tsung- chang to transfer his army from Chinwangtao to Shantung ins an effort to re-establish his authority in Shantung-Reuter.

Northerners Revolt.

Peking Yesterday.

Northern troops belonging to

Reports from Harbin are to the effect that Comrade Borodin, .Bk. Watch the once very influential leader of the Chinese Nationalist move ..Buland.

ment when it was limited to Camelford. South China, and whole believ Constant S. ed to be responsible for the pre- sent Mongolian invasion of Cyclonic.

North Manchuria, has been a Dombey. rested at the Hotel Moderne. 177 Fairway. Kitaiskaia-street. Harbin by the .Flamingo. Chinese Occupation Commission

er, Gen. Ting Chao, W. .G. Warily. Gauntlet. Hereward.clared that there is every pros

pect of him returning to the For- ..J. O'London. eign Office in restored health.

.Ledore. Unofficial political opinion, Luvaneran, however, is convinced that Sir Marconi'gm Austen has too long delayed the

O'Curry rest he needed and is discussing Pharamond. the possibility of Mr. Baldwin Potocki. being obliged to seek for a new Ran. Singh. Foreign Secretary Reuter .R. Minstrel.

Sartellus: THE PEACE PACT. Sun'y Trace. | Y

Wheedler. EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT'S RE-

∙PLY TO INVITATION;

FINE HERE.

Typhoon Moving on Amoy,

MR. KELLOGG 8AILS.

Cairo, Yesterday:

The Egyptian Government, In Ita reply, accepts the American Invita=" West or variable winds, moder-tion to adhere to the Kellogg Pact, ate, fine to cloudy, is the forecast but, according to the newspapers, until noon to-morrow.

It is made clear that this does not

Pressure is high to the north east of Japan and low over south- west Manchuria.

The typhoon is about 150 miles east-south-east of Koshun, mov- Ing towards S. Formoss and Amoy.

The following telegram was re- ceived from the Manila Observa- tory at 9.00 a.m. to-day.

Manila 4th. 4:15 p.m. Typhoon in about 125 deg. E. and 21 deg. Lat. N. moving N.W.

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[This places the typhoon off the Santo Domingo Islands, head- ing for the coast between Amoy and Foockow.]

RHINELAND.

NEGOTIATIONS EXPECTED BE- .TWEEN GERMANY & FRANCE.

"NOTHING YET FIXED.

Geneva, Yesterday. Nothing has yet been fixed as

mean acceptance of the reservations made by any Power....

For New York.

Cherbourg, Yesterday.

FRENCH FLIGHT.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK.

"LAND IN MOROCCO.

Le Bourget, Yesterday.

one-engined monoplane.

Later.

a

It now appears that the destina- tion of Angolant and Lefevre is

Essex 476 (Russell 182). M.C.C. drew with Yorkshire. Yorkshire 294 and 263 for 4.": M.C.C. 878 for 8. declared (Hendren 94)

Worcestershire beat Hamp shire on first inninga.

Worcester 259 (Wright 101) and 277. ANNEMANG M

The aeroplane has, in the lan guage of the Royal Air Force, been. "Cleaned up" with a view to Rants 238 (Root 7 for 78) and increasing its maximum speed 228 for 8 (Mead 108 not cut). and has reached 817-miles an hour Notts beat Glamorganshire by without being "all out." It is 10 wickets, D hoped a speed of between $25 and Glamorgan. 224 (Bell 105) and. 380 miles an hour will be reach- 163 (Voce 7 for 67).

ed during the official test, Notts 886 (Lilley 110 not out)

An English eleven beat the West Indies by four wickets.

West Indies 212 and 271. England 198 and 288 for. 6. (Woolley 161)

Lancashire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 49 runs... Derby 222 and 90.0 Lance. 861-Reuter.

The French airmen, Sergeants Endurance Tests, and 2 for 0

Another interesting develop Assolant and Lefevre, started at 7 ment in British aviation is short am, on a fight to New York in ly expected. The assembly stage is now being reached in an at- tempt to evolve British aircraft capable of remaining in the air for three days and three nights continuously and by the end of this month preliminary flight tests may be made. The machine,

First Since 1925: which is a Fairey-Napier mono- The honour of being the first plane, is being fitted with the batsman to complete 8,000 runs latest apier Lion engine and re for the pengon the first since presents-e departure from gen- 1925 was gained by Hendren in eral British practice in that the match between Yorkshire and monoplane form instead of the the Marylebone. Cricket Club at biplane has been chosen.

Scarborough to-day British The present endurance record, Wireless Service

GENEVA DEADLOCK.

Nobody Desires to Say Anything!

Geneva, Yesterday,

An unprecedented dead end has

been reached in the League Aheld by Germany, was set up in [Hobbs, of Surrey, made, 3,024 July when Risticz and Zimmer-runs in the 1925 season, whilst sembly, the chairman announcing man, in a Junker's monoplane, re- Hendren himself scored 3,010 two that nobody had put down his mained in the air for 651⁄2 years previously.]*

hours Mr. Kellogs left for New York name to speak on the Secretary aboard the s.. "Leviathan" on

General's annual report. The which also

was the airman, Mr."

chairman threw the meeting open Charles Levine, who la also a passenger.

to discussion, but nobody rose to speak, so he finally announced, amid

amusement,

that morrow's sitting was cancelled unless the names of speakers were handed in to-night-Reuter.

More Adherents,

Washington, Yesterday.

The Governments of Egypt, Abyssinia, Portugal, Sweden and Venizuela have informed the United States Government to-day that they intend to adhere to the Kellogg Pact-Reuter'e American Service. ~

Sofia, Yesterday.

to

The Government has decided to uncertainThey will decide their adhere to the Kellogg Pack-Reu- ultimate courasi : according to wea- ter.

ther conditions when they reach the Azores. If the weather is bad"they may possibly make for Dakar.

Hotel Keeper's Son

COMMUNAL RIOTS.

DEPLORABLE STATE OF

PAFFAIRS IN INDIA.

MORE MURDERS.

Calcutta, Kesterday.

Le Bourget, Yesterday.

While in a sense the British ex-FIFTH OF THE FIVE. periment is a challenge to foreign endurance records, It is under- the Air Ministry is to further re- stood that the main purpose of HM.S. “CORNWALL” ARRIVES

TO-DAY. search upon long endurance which may have great practical value in COUNTY CLASS CRUISERS. bases of the Empire British view of the scattered strategic p

Wireless Service.

LOCALS LOSE.

BOWLERS BEATEN, AT SHANGHAL,

THE TURNING POINT--

The fifth of the "Washington Treaty," county-class, 10,000 tons cruisers in H.M.S. "Cornwall" ar- rived at Hong Kong about ten o'clock this morning to join the China Station. The

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Under command of Captain The Hon. W. S. Leveson-Gower, D.S.O.; "Cornwall" crossed the Atlantic, showed the flag in South |American round Cape Horn and Shanghai, To-day then sailed north to Honolulu to The Hong Kong bowls Interport attend the celebrations in hon ers failed to maintain their win of Captain Cook, the discoverer ning form when they met the of the Hawaiian Islands. There was much speculation as to Junior Golf Club, the visitors los Like her four afster ships, the identity of a figure, clad in a ing by 25 shots to 18.Cornwall carries eight 8 inch sweater and furtively peeping out At the seventh head Hong Kong guns The others areKent" General Chang Teung-chang re rogards the opening of conver

of a cabin window of the seroplane ware leading by eight shots to one, (the new flagship), "Berwick," cently in occupation of the Chefoo ations between M. Briand and the It is established that 11 were started on theft Trans-Atlantic put on five. This turned the game, Acording to the Navy List, s

| in ~ which : Assolant: and › Lefevre but in the eleventh the Golf Club "Cumberland'." and "Suffolk.”- district have revolted and the Na-German Chancellor, Herr Mueller, killed and 84 injured in the tionalist flag has been hoisted at concerning the complete evacuation Kharagpur communal rioting journey. If proved to be Armand the visitors falling well below their holder of the Victoria Cross is on Chefoo, Lalchow, Lungkow, and of the Rhineland, which Germany Police firing accounted for 1 Hill Lotti, the son of a hotel proprietor, opening playing form. Teams board "Cornwall this being L

The revolting Northerners were requested a month ago. The meeted and 2 injured. Furthermore, 4 who had forbidden his son to join were

ing, however, will not be long Mahommedans were found mur the fight, which is considered as Junior G.C.

Hong Kong.

gone over to the Nationalisteed to make the first move. under a General Fang who has delayed. Herr Mueller is expect: dered in one of the houses raided tantamount to suicide. But Armand Raitt

while another 8 bodies were eluded the crowd, including a pri McAllister The German delegates, considered overnight.

found to-day apparently murdervate detective, and boarded the Braid

plane at night time. that the time is now rips for settle-

Casualties in India. Since 1926,

All three belong to the: Stade ment, especially after the conclu-

Francalos: Japanese Cruiser Proceeding to'; sion of the Locarno agre its, the

Replying to a Investigate.

smooth operation

Dawes Legislative Assembly, plan and the signature of the Crerar, a me Kellorg PactRe

Hwanghalen, Chefoo is quiet.

British Naval Wirelesa..

SHIP FIRED' ON.

Japanese Investigation. Peking,

Americkfi` nationals at Peital- ho, which is near the scene of operations, have been ordered to A Japanese crui evacuate forthwith. (and to enter troyer have left Tientsin or Peking) for safety. Investigate the

British residents of Peitaiho “Kaiko" Mara”.. have been warned to prepare and as well as fired on by hold themselves in readiness for

ter. leaving at short notice [Note:

General Chang Tsung-chang's

transport, the 4.8. ““Matsura Maru”

returned from Lun

tung: province, to

with troops and munit

elled

FLOODS IN KOREA.

HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST IN

→TUMEN VALLEY –

ting

WORST FOR MANY YEARS;

ber of the Executive Connell said that 149: persons shad been killed And 1,845 injured In since July 17A, 1926.

Brown

Chapman Laing

Drysdale Re Muir Mak

The

is the first time that any on. orts Club has been represented in own

tookofe

the clubmates

-programme & onday still holds goodr correspondent,

SAD LOSSES.

DEATHS OF TWO WELL KNOWN MEN

Comdr. G. C. Steele

FALSE ALARM.

SERAPH" AND MYTHICAL

TO PIRATES;

OR HAVE BIRDS FLOWNE

HMS. “Seraph,'... one of the destroyers on the China Station, returned to harbour this morning after a thirty-six hours" vigil,

At about 8.30 on Monday night, she steamed out after the crew had been reca from,, shore leave Word

by the auth

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