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China Mail

No. 25,971

TONGSHAN TAKEN.

NORTHERNERS DRIVEN OUT.

FOREIGNERS SAFE.

Surprise Attack By the Nationalist Forces.

KAILAN MINES UNDER PROTECTION.

Late yesterday afternoon, the mining town of Tongshan in the extreme-north-east of China Proper was taken by surprise by the

Nationalists.

EBD

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FIRE ON THAMES EMBANKMENT.

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2 MORE WINS FOR ROWDY STUDENTS AT 2,000,000 JEWS SAID A BIG BLAZE NEAR

HONG KONG.

AT SHANGHAI,

TUNNEL ELECTRIC LIGHT CABLE; CLOSE BOWLS MATCHES OVER

FUSES.

THE WEEK END.

TEAMS AND SCORES...

Shanghai, Yesterday.

FIREMEN IN GAS MASKS.

London, Yesterday,

SHANGHAL

TO BE STARVING.“

13 MORE ARRESTED. NANKING-RD. SUNDAY TALKS REPEATED.

POLICE MET WITH VOLLEYS.

Shanghai, Yesterday,

REPORTED DYING,

CANTON.

LIVES LOST.

FONG CHUEN.

REFERENCES MADE AT JEWISH | FULLY 100 HOUSES BURNT AT

CONFERENCE.

THE SOVIET SYSTEM.

London, Yesterday.

STARTS IN "FAN TAN" SALOON.

Owing to defective electric wires, An unusual fire occurred last Hong Kong are maintaining Apparently emboldened by the Two million Jews are dying of a big fire broke out at Fong Chuen, night underneath the Tharpes em- their "end" here, having won a fact that the demonstrators ar- starvation in the Ukraine, accord- a suburb of Canton, in the carly bankment, when an electric light couple of matches over the week rested in Nanking-road, who have ing to an official Soviet statement cable, carried in the tunnel under end. The first, a very good game, hitherto evaded punishment ow-given in a report presented at the hours of Sept. 8. Over a hundred the footpath, fused and caused was against the Shanghai Recrea-ing to the Provisional Court annual conference of the Federa houses were burnt with some loss dense volumes of acrid smoke to tion Club, which was beaten by muddle as to who shall hear the tion of Jewish Relief Organisa- of life. It is estimated that the loss

four shots. The second was case (the Judges declaring the tions. in London to-day.

ls estimated at more a lakh of del- spread from the shafts,

Firemen, in gas-masks, worked against the Hongkew Bowls Chinese military should deal with On the contrary the crisis in lars.. by the light of searchlights and, 'Club, the visitors winning by five the matter while the Municipal Poland has appreciably subsided.

The Are broke out from a "fam Police contend that the Provision- Sir Wm. Joynson-Hicks wrote tan" saloon, and, in a moment, the at one time, it was feared that the shots after an even struggle. gas mains nearby would be reach- Teams :---

al Court is the competent author- that the magnitude the work in S.C.R.

ity), a score or more of "stud- the Ukraine was obvious, but he names burst through the roof. The Finally, a fire float on the river Phillipo (S.)

ents" repeated last Sunday's per- was convinced that the Federa-houses in the neighbourhood were pumped water into the tunnel and Storms

formance in Nanking-road this tion's efforts would meet with the soon involved and the flames got a strong hold before the fire brigades the flames were subdued.-British Wagstaffe

morning and staged an impromptu success they deserved. Madar

meeting for the purpose of ac-

Charles Batho- Wireless Service.

(Lord arrived. The blaze started at 8 am 22 quainting passers-by with the Mayor of London), sent greet and it was not put until 6.25 a.m.

Many of the houses involved were Hongkew B.C.

tenets of Bolshevism by distributings on behalf of the City, and

Caught unawares, the Northern defenders fired about twenty shells from their armoured train and then infantry fighting followed. ed-but the foreigners are safe as is the defended area which in- cludes the Kailan Mining Administration's property.

As the 1st Battalion Beds. and Herts, are in Tongshan, foreign- ers outside the "safety, zone" have been warned by their respective diplomatic or consular officers to enter the zone for safety. Four American warships have arrived at Chinwangtao, the port of the mining area.

Confusion followed the fall of Tongshan, rolling stock being congested in two stations of the Peking-Mukden Railway.

The Nationalists are pushing westward toward the boundary between China Proper and Manchuria. Meanwhile, the Manchurian troops who occupied positions behind the defeated Northerners con. tinue to withdraw back to their own territory,

U.S. DESTROYERS ARRIVE.

Tongshan, Yesterday. About 1,000 troops of the 1st division of the 12th Nationalist Army reached Tongshan at 5 p.m. to-day (Sunday) after an expect ed rapid enveloping movement. This division marched to the north-west of Tongshan, to the rear of the Northern defenders' lines and then swooped down on the mining town.

PEACE PACT.

INTERESTING STATEMENT BY." JIX." DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH."

London, Yesterday.

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, in a speech at Hunterston, Ayrshire, after em- phasising that the Cabinet was at unity on the subject of safeguard- ing, warned his hearers not to ex- pect too much from the Kellogg Pact. All the nations of the

H.K. Chapman (S.) Grimmitt Hollands Laing

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418 Our Own Correspondent.

TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

Sir

ing coloured pamphlets with the said that the position of a Jewry bullt of wood and about ten of them usual diatribes against unequal in the Ukraine had caused him were matsheds. Loss of life is re- treaties, and voicing considerable grief and concern.

ported but the exact number ean- opposition against the local or- Mr. Hakam Gaster, the Chair- not be ascertained at prosent.. 25 ganisation of the Nationalist man, in opening his address, de-

Party.

clared they had nothing to do The Police riot squad was call- with the political aspect of the ed out but was met with a volley Soviet regime but with the conse- of stones and general debris. quences of the stem which Several passing trams suffered drove artisans and small shop- broken windows, and a number of keepers out of their positions.—

Reuter. onlookers suffered contusions.

moderate, fair, is the official fore: Westerly or variable winds, cast until noon to-morrow.

The northern depression has moved into the sea of Japan. The typhoon is situated about 200 miles weet of the Bonins moving slowly N.N.W.

maintain the strictest neutrality world were still armed to the between the contending Chinese teeth, and the pact must be fol- forces.

It is generally anticipated that lowed up and translated into action by a further diminution of the remnants of the Northern armaments. Army will shortly retire from

He declared that the Anglo- Tongshan, but the British author French Agreement was in the ities do not anticipate serious trouble at Tongshan either from direction merely of defensive as 28 FORMER EMPLOYEES RAISE the retreating Northerners or the against offensive warfare. He advancing Nationalists.

MING YUEN CASE.

ACTION.

The demonstrators finally dis- persed after thirteen of their number had been arrested, includ- ing three women.-Reuter.

AT. 2.45 A.M.

WAITING ON A FRIEND IN A GARDEN.

́SIX MONTHS' “HARD.”.

TRACK TRAGEDY.

CAR CRASHES AMONG SPECTATORS.

MANY VICTIMS.

Milan, 'Yesterday.

WHY HE CALLED.

AT MRS, CAPELL'S HOUSE IN KOWLOON.

SIX WEEKS "HARD.""

For the larceny of three pieces of iron from the Hang Sun building contractors at Kimberley-road, Kowloon, an unemployed carpenter waa on Saturday sentonced by Mr. W. Schofield (at the Kowloon Magis- tracy) to six weeks' hard labour.

The iron was stated to have been During the motor race for the stolen from the contractor's shed European Grand Prix on the Monza opposite Knutsford-terrace. After Sentence of six months' hard track a Talbot driven by Materassi helping himself to the iron, the ac- labour Was on Saturday pass at 125 miles an hour..grazed an-cused visited the house of Mrs. ed by Mr. W. Schofield other car, overturned and crashed Capell under the pretext that he WAGES CLAIM.

(at the Kowloon Magistracy) on a among the spectatore. There were was from the Gas Company. Ac- Most of the foreigners who particular Power, but the British

Chinese who was found in the gar- several victims. Materassi is dy-cused presented what purported to have been spending a holiday at Government owed a duty to the

be a pass to the house "boy" and The case in which 28, former em- den of No. 7, Cameron-road, Kowing,

Frenchman Wina.

then proceeded to the roof of the sion but the attacking troops Peitaiho are believed now to have country in dealing with disarma-ployees of the Ming Yuen Gardens loon, with Intent to commit a felony, Chiron,, of France, driving & house. The "boy" showed the avoided the foreign settlements returned. Owing to difficulties in ment to deal with the fundamen-are summoning Leung Sik-pan, de- at 2.45 am. last Friday. and the defended area of the travel a special ship, the "King- tal question of the safety of the scribed as a director of the gar- Accused admitted being in the Bugatti, won the Grand Prix inpass" to his mistress who sent for mines.

sing," brought back about 500 on nation and trade routes. dens, to recover the sum of $789.20 garden, but denied felonious intent. three hours 42 minutes 8.8/5 the police on discovering that it Then one of the guns on a Saturday.-Reuter.

He concluded: "The Kellogg representing. wages due to them, He was waiting for a friend with seconds, averaging 169.698 kilo was a form containing some metex Northern armoured train opened

Initial Success.

readings, Pact was signed not only by the again occupied Mr. R. E. Lindsell's whom he was going to sleep metres per hour. fire with about twenty shells and

Accused, who admitted that he Infantry fighting was in progress

Peking, Yesterday, civilised nations of the world, but attention at the Central Magistracy at N. 6 Cameron-road.

The police stated that on a win-

Nineteen were killed and 26 In-was not employed by the Gas Com- General Pei Chung-hsi's sub-also by Soviet Russia, yet the this morning. between the attackers and defen-

ordinate, Li Pin-haien, claims that latter was simultaneously doing At the previous hearing, Mr. dow sill, on which accused had been jured. Materassi is dead-Reuter.pany, said he picked the form up ders, mostly in the Chinese quar-after several hours' fighting, he its best to foment revolution in J. M. d'Almada Remedios, who ap- sitting, were found a pair of female Britain and in every other, civil-peared for the defence, `claimed trousers. The garment had been captured Fengjen at he states, are advancing along the Sept. 8. Other Nationalist forces, ised country." railway to Tongshan.--Reuter.

Tongshan was quickly sur- rounded by the Nationalist divi-

ter,

Retreat by Night. Foreigners at Tongshan have been warned to move inside the defended area for safety.

The retreat-westward of the Northern Army continues from the mining towns of Kaiping and Tongshan, mostly by rail.

Wali and Kuysh stations are congested, there being seventeen trains at the latter place.

Five armoured trains were in Tongshan station when the Na- tionalist surprise division arrived

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THE YANGTSZE.

TROOPSHIPS MOVING UP AND DOWN.

EFFECT ON SITUATION.

did not want to discuss this agreement with reference to any

'PLANE MISSING.

BELIEVED LOST IN THE NORTH SEA.

that he had no case to answer aajhanging on a line in the basement his client, was not a director of the and could have been easily pulled gardena as alleged by the com-out by putting a hand through the plainants, and was therefore not] bars of the window. liable.

2

Later.

18 INCH GUNS.

FOR THE NEW SINGAPORE BASE.

* London, Saturday. The "Daily News" atates that

In the street. He had entered

Mrs. Capell's house by mistake, being under the impression that it was the house in which a fellow carpenter was working... He want led to borrow a tool from this man.

'BUS ROW.

A LITTLE SQUABBLE.

A 'bus conductor employed by the Kowloon Motor Bus Co., was com plainant, before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur day, in a case in which M. Vellla, a musician, was summoned for as sault.

In support of his contention, Mr. Berlin, Yesterday. The death is Remedios said that he had looked announced, from a sudden paralytic three 18 inch guns constructed up the gardens' list of directora stroke at his brother's house here, experimentally during the War MUSICIAN AND 'BUSMAN HAVE FROM THE " ARGUS." at, the Registrar's Office, and of Count Brockdorf. Frantzau, the are being shipped to Singapore on. Leung as agent of the management German ambassador to Moscow. B.cargo steamer for defence of London, Yesterday. of the gardens, and therefore they The late Count was Foreign Minis- the Singapore Base. The Air Ministry announces looked to him for payment of ter in: 1919 and went to Paris to

The guns are 60 feet long. Nanking, Yesterday.that as a result of the presumed wages due to them. None of the receive the Peace terms. He re-weigh nearly 150 tons, and fire a Twe Chinese transports and the descent in the North Sea on other people formerly connected fused to sign the Versailles Treaty, 3,388 lbs. projectile-Reuter. but these are now all clear (pre China Merchant Steam Navigation September 6 of the Blackburn with the management of the gar- returned to Berlin and resigned. sumably, having been evacuated Co.'s B.B. "Kiangahun," which has aircraft number 422 of the flight dens could now be found in the Reuter. by the Northerners).

After the fall of Tongshan,

been chartered to the Nationalist attached to His Majesty's air- Colony. General Chu Yu-pu of the North-Army for use as a troopship, have craft carrier "Argus," Pilot Off- This morning Mr. Remedios said

New York, Sept. 8-Bankers Samuel Hatton, Naval that he would agree to the case ern Army was reported to be at Balled up the Yangtsze with ap-cer Wali and General Chang Tsung-proximately 4,000 troops on board. Lieutenant Charles Sheldon Booth proceeding on

the understanding are watching with close interest the The destination is believed to be and a telegraphist are reported that it would

decline in sterling on the exchange chang, commander-in-chief,

not prejudica. hia at

market. To-day the quotation

Rugby, Sept. 9.. contention that Leung was Kuych. The Northern troops are Kiukiang, in Klangel province. missing.

not

Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig expected to fall back further British Naval Wireless,

The "Argus" is at present at Hlable. He put in the alternate de touched the year's low level, $4.85 during the night,

[Note: In the China Mail's" Invergordon. The missing aero-fence that the complainants had to the Sound. This indicates the will make his attempt to beat the

a reconnaissance i

SPEED RECORD.

THE BRITISH ATTEMPT AT

CALSHOT.

The charge was admitted. According to the complainant, he was sitting on the front seat of a bus when defendant came in and sat next to him, partly on his leg. When complainant pushed Vallla

U.S. Destroyers Arrive. opinion, these 4,000 men are going plane left on

flight on Thursday evening and reimbursed themselves from the possibility of renewed importations world's speed record of 818 m.p.h. away, the latter struck him on the back to Kiangsi, after war service, failed to return. All efforts to proceeds of the sale of the stock of gold from Britain. Reuters on a Supermarine Napier racing mouth. Earlier. merely for garrison duty; but it

In-trade of the syndicate which American Service. The Tongshan mining area is should be borne in mind that, go- trace her have hitherto been un-had run the gardens.

Still Slender Hope.

reached seven miles west of

(that is, from) Tongahan.

Canton threat against the south`of Kiangsi.]

Yang Sen's Preserves.

Wanhalen, Saturday.

successful-Reuter.

This

stock-in-trade comprised

seaplane on about September 22. Defendant's story was that as the The attempt will be made at Cal-bus was turning, he accidentally shot, Southampton Water British fell against the complainant and the latter pushed him. Some pushing Wireless Service. -*

followed on both sides. Then com- plainant bit his finger, whereupon defendant struck him.

POLA NEGRI.

སྐ -

HORSE IN FRANCE.

‚· Satisfied that there had been

quiet. The Manchurian units behind the Northerners'

ing on previous reports, they may lines continue to retire to the north of

be reinforcements for anti-Com-i A British Wireless message states minerals, furniture, atensils, etc. witness said that he did not think the Great Wall.

munist work, or the supposed an- that the slender hope that the crew

After the Gardens Closed, that the sale of minerals and tea The Nationalist advance has swer by Nanking to the mythical has been rescued by some vessel not One of the claimants, in the wit belonging to the original Company equipped with wireless is still main-ness box, said that, after the gar-could have amounted to more than tained but the search by naval craft dens were closed down, they went $100. THE STAR THROWN FROM HER fault on both sides, the Magistrate failed to discover any trace. to the Secretariat for Chinese Mr. Lindsell remarked that in an admitted The "Argus" is at present at Affairs and were given authority any case there was

Paris, Sept. 9. The Chinese steamer "Fushun" tioned in the Cromarty Firth, to carry on the business themselves sum of $100 which must be knock-

The film star Pola Negri has is, away from) Tongshan for arrived here from Kwelfou, full of Roesshire, and Air-Marshal Sir in an effort to raise money for ed out of the cinimid

their reimbursement. For this Mr. Remedios pressed for a full been seriously hurt by being thrown another seven miles, keeping 14 troops under General Yang Fe Hugh Trenchard has hurried there purpose, the 28 claimants had to statement of all the stock-in-trade from her horse walle riding in the

bring in fresh stocks of cakes, etc., belonging to the original Company Bois de Boulogne-Beuter,

After carrying on for, 10 days which had been disposed of by the they found they had loet money to claimants. He said that for all the goods

On the other hand, the main force of the Northern Army is withdrawing eastward of (that

yuan...

miles between itself and the Nationalist vanguard. The main force is heading eastward from that part of the Yangtze be The 8.8. Wu Hsing" arrived along the Peking-Mukden Raillow Wanhsien with some troops... way to the vicinity of Luan- chow,

General Woo Hsin-kwang is now Four American destroyers holding Kwelfou for General Yang arrived at Chinwangtao (the Sen, he warlord of the district. port of the mining sone) on. British Naval Wireless. - Sept. 8.--British Nayal Wire-

Tess.

1st Beds, & Herts. Present;

Peking, Yesterday.

tortfordshire for a

Regiment, which was sent to Tongshan from Wei- hai-wel on June 25, is still thero And has taken the usual precau tions for the defence" of foreign life⠀⠀⠀ and property. It has been

RAF. BOATS.

Min Min Batavia, Yesterday.

Four of the Royal Air Force flying boats have arrived here,

Reuter

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR:

The closing rate of the dollar on given the usual instructions to demand, to-day was 2/0 1/16.

In a seaplane."

THE L55.

THE GOVERNMENTS GRATI- TUDE TO THE SOVIETS

bound the parties over in the sum of $100 each to keep the peace for 12 months. In addition, Vella had to pay the conductor $15 as com pensation.

An Indian watchman of the A.P. Co.'s, Installation In Causeway.

so they decided to give up. might amount to $200 or oven $800, New York, Yesterday Mrs. Bay, was yesterday wounded in In reply to Mr. Remedios, the and it was prejudicing the defence Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of the abdomen by s sharp instrument witness admitted that during the if the claimants were not made to the aviator, has left for Turkey in a fight over a card dispute. 10 days he and the other claimants account for every thing aboard the liner "Conte Grande" Several watchmen were engaged in London, Yesterday, had carried on business in the gar- The witness said that he could to teach chemistry In a womers the game. The alleged assallent, The Norwegian Minister, Dr. dens they had disposed of some of not give the statement required by college there. She is accompanied named Sald Wall, was charged be Urbye, has expressed to M. the minerale and tea left behind Mr. Remedios because the books by Miss Alice Morrow, sister of fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cens Litvinoff, on behalf of the British by the original Company which ran were kept by a man named Wong Dwight Morrow, the American tral Magistracy this Government, their gratitude for the the gardens. This stock had been Man, who was not Included in the Ambassador to Mexico, who will act aspector Shannon kindness, attention and assistance mixed-up with the stock brought in claim. Witness Alleged that this as hostess to the college Reuter's Indian guards, repo rendered by the Soviet authorities' by the claimante and the takings man was a relative of the com- American Service

injured man, would have in horybad for and

In connection with the removal of recorded together, so that it was plainant.

the bodies of the British sailors impossible for witness to dow say Mr Remedies said that he was Mr. Los Luk-chew," a member of asked för. rem who lost their lives in the submar- how much of the original - Come able to produce the man Wong Man the Provincial Council at Canton, the case was fixed ine 165British Wirelena Ser-pany's stock had been disposed of. in Court

2078 l'arrived" hère from Candon Com |-Wednesday." Defende ~Pressed by the Magistrato, the The case was adjourned,

Saturday night on private affaire, à ed ball in the sum of $250;