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ISHED 大英九月十九號 禮拜五付 中華民國庚午年七月廿七日

1845.

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

CONFLICTING STORIES FROM

It

that

THE NORTH.

DESPERATE FIGHTING.

Nanking, To-day.

·BARCELONA ON STRIKE.

Newspaper Men' Arrested.

NA POLITICAL AFFAIR ?

Barcelona Yesterday.

AMOY RENDITION.

EARLY RETURN TO CHINA.

AGREEMENT REACHED.

London, Yesterday.

It is authoritatively stated that

a Chinese-British Agreement has been reached. whereby Great Bri-

is officially announced Marshal Chang Hsuch- liang has issued Д circular telegram announcing Manchuria'a intervention in the civil war and ordering the Northerners to suspend operations immediately and await a acter. peaceful settlement of the political The managers and editora of There has been situation otherwise Manchuria is the newspapers Solidaridad have prepared to take strong measures been prrested. and the paper has against the Northerners,

been suppressed,

A general strike... has been detain will return, the-treaty port of clared, which the Government dea Amoy to China on the same terms cribes as being of a political char-jas Chinkiang was returned last

year.

Chinkiang since its rendition, and no trouble in

it is presumed that the same state of affairs will reign at Amoy.

It is reported that Chang Hsueh- A warrant has been issued for Hang is sending 140,000 troops to the arrest of the Strike Commit- China has agreed to lend build- Peking and Tientsin of whom tee of the Building and Transport ings on the island of Liukungtao 40,000 left Mukden for Tientsin Workers' Union, but the members as a Summer, resort and as a yesterday.

are in hiding.

Ennatorium for the British Navy, Yen Hul-shan Retires.

The streets are deserted and and also for drill and rife prac Marshal Yen Hai-shan issued

insanitary, but the troops are

tice. circular telegram yesterday an- now cleaning them,

A report from a Chinese source nouncing his retirement from The Governor has given plenary in Nanking that an agreement powers for detachments of troops has been reached with Nanking It is reported that the Govern-and hundreds of civil guards to regarding the British share of the ment forces from the Peking-Han be drafted in-Reuter,

Boxer Indemnity is denied in Lon- don. Reuter,

politics.

a

kow Railway are at present twenty

miles south of Loyang (Honanfu) | Lunghai and Peking-Hankow Rail- an important station on the Lung-way fronts the Nationalists launch- hai Rallway. If Loyang is cap-ed attacks against the allies by tured it will be most difficult for three routes, beginning on the 7th Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang's troops inst., continuous fighting raging to retreat to Shensi.-Reuter. day and night for ten days.

Collapse Imminent.

The official news agency states that the political and military col- lapse of the Northern Coalition is imminent.

The enemy dropped several thon- sand poison-gas imbs, under cover. of which they repeatedly attacked.

The Northerners counter-attacked

WORLD HEALTH.

LEAGUE ORGANISATION'S REPORT.

TROPICAL MEDICINE.

Rugby. Yesterday. The report of the health or

and hurled hand-grenades when giniantion of the League of Na-| they reached the enemy trenches.

tions was presented by Miss Susari The fighting was especially des-Lawrence, Parliamentary Secre-: perate on the 12th, 14th, 15th and tary to the British Health Minis- 16th inst.

try to the Second Committee of

"While the military situation in Honan is daily becoming worse, Coalition politicians în Peking have been thunderstruck by a message from Yen Hsi-shan declaring that) Finally, the enemy was repulsed the League at Geneva to-day and he can no longer function as Chair-leaving 20,000 dead on the battle-unanimously adopted. man of the recently inaugurated fields. Northern Government in view of the developments Increasingly un- favourable to the Coalition.

The news agency adds that a message from Mukden states that Chang Hsuch-liang has issued ordera for 20,000 Manchurian troops stationed at Shanhaikwan to prepare for mobilisation, in con- firmation of which the President of the Judicial Yuan states that the Central Government has just re- ceived a telegram from Mukden re- porting that Chang Hauch-liang has decided to move his troops within the Great Wall.

י

Miss Lawrence particularly A Buffer State?

mentioned the great progress made Shanghai, Yesterday. in children's health in. Great Bri Following a conference of the tain by school hygiene, and the Manchurian leaders at Mukden, the benefits of the study of tropical rolling-stock being accumulated at medicine. British Wireless Ser- Shanhaikwan is lending colour to vice. the local, reports that Chang Hsueh- liang is planning to intervene. In the civil war in order to bring pressure on a peaceful settlement.

Concerning the above possibility, the first step may be that Chang Haueb-liang will take over the control of the Peking and Tientsin areas by mutual consent of the combatants, thus acting as a buffer during the negotiations.

The Other, Side,

Peking, Yesterday. Meanwhile bath Peking .an'l Yen Hsi-shan, after a conference Nanking report severe continuous with Feng Yu-halang at Changteh, fighting during the past week, the returned to Shihchlachuang, whence Northerners claiming. that 20,000

FRENCH BUDGET.

TAXPAYERS' HAPPY LOT.

'Paris, Yesterday. The Ministers of the Council'z Budget proposal for 1931-1932 amounts to 50,100 million francs.

It is proposed to impose no fur- ther burdens on the taxpayers, and there will even be, for the first time. since 1926, a cat, amounting to 300

he issued a communique, dated Nationalist troops were killed.-million franc inoxpenditure. September 17, stating that on the Reuter.

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