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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1931.

FINAL BLOW TO RED

HORDES.

National Troops Wipe Hunghu Bandits.

COMPLETELY ROUTED.

Canton, Yesterday. The Government troops under General Heu Yuan-chuan succeeded last Sunday in annihilating the main body of bandits in Hung-

S.S. TJIKINI,

TIVENTY-FOUR YEARS ON THE CHINA RUN.

After 24 years on the Java-China) run, the s.. Tjikini, of the Java-! China-Japan Lijn, is going into the hands of the shipbreakors. She leaves Hong Kong to-morrow morn- Ing for Osaka, Japan, it was learn- ed from the local office of the J.C.J.Lthis morning, having been sold to Japanese firm for break- ing up??

LIQUOR FORCE IN THE

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Secretary of States Quotes Milton.

"RIDICULOUS MOUSE.”

New York, Yesterday, Sonator Borah's comment on the

The Tikini completed her last run from Java to China when she arrived in Hong Kong harbour laat Wickersham report is that, while Sunday morning, since when she will be most satisfactory to sup the conclusions of the Commission hu, on the southern border had been anchored at Quarry Bay.

of Hupeh. This Is regard She had been on the regular Java-porters of prohibition, the conclu- ed as a final blow to the Red China run of the J.C.J.L. until two slons of Individual commissioners hordes in that sector. The troops years ago when she was held as re- will be mest satisfactory to its under Yung Ching-feng, Hau Teh-serve ship, taking up the schedule opponents. t8o, Liu Pul-shu and Han Chang of other vessels of the Company as chun have been instructed to search occasion arose for them to go into for the bandit remnants in the re-dock.

gion, while General Hau himaelf is According to Lloyds register, the naw attending to the rehabilitation Tjikini has

a tonnage of 4,597 taak.

She was built in 1907 (2,888 net), by the Kon. Maats, de Schelde, Flushing, for the J.C.J.L, and at the time of her completion was one of the most modern vessels to come out East.

Rebels Repulsed, Due to the fall of all strategic points and to the pressure of Gov- ernment forces, the Hunghu bandits had attempted in soveral occasions to break up the Government attack, Her dimensions are: Length with the object of Joining forces 378.0, breadth 49.5, depth 19.6. with the Communists under Ho The port of registry was Batavis, Lung on the Hunan border, but and, of course, she flee the Dutch were repeatedly repulsed by the flag.

troops who left them no opening to į escape. The bandits in Hunghu RELIGION BY RADIO. are therefore in danger of being completely routed,

Pressure Continues. Following the serious defeat suf- fered by the Reds' in Hunghu, the Hankow Provisional Headquarters |

Lung.

B.B.C. FRAISED BY CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Rugby, Yesterday.

"The torpedoing of

the report by individual commis- soners leaves the document with-

out force or effect."

The former Secretary of State, Colby, quoted Mr. Bambridge Milton, "Chaos as the umpire sits." Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler re- ferred to Horace's "ridiculous mouse."

Press Comments.

The Herald Tribune devotes a ten page supplement to the report.

The New York World, has a hugo cartoon which shows a prohibition reformer in funeral garb marching towards the setting sun.

The New York Times in a leader emphasises that six out of eleven commissioners agreed to some form of modification of the liquor laws, and says Mr. Hoover, by not re- commending the report to Con- gress, has committed the Repub-i lean party to thoroughgoing, unyielding and impossible policy of enforcing prohibition conflict nearer.--Reuter's American Service.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR.

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have ordered General Hsu Yuan- A message expressing apprecia- chuan to continue the pressure intion of the Broadcast of Religious order to effect a liquidation of the Services was sent to-day to the outlaws. The Hunan troops under British Broadcasting Corporation Li Kuo and the 4th National divi- by the Upper House of the Con- sion under Chen Cheng have also vocation of Canterbury. The sub- been instructed to launch a joint ect came before the Bishops on attack on the Communists under Ho the report, of a special Committee, FAIR TO BE HELD IN SPECIAL which stated that in Committee they considered that in their judg- Wal-yung Again Falla ́ According to military circles, ment the effect of Religious Broad-

The Hon. Inspector-General of Wah-yung district on the northern casting been exceedingly valuable.

-British Wireless Service.

Police (the Hon. Mr. E, D. C. border of Hunan again fell last

Wolfe, C.MG.), in an official cir- Saturday into the hands of Com Chi-tsp came into action with 3,000 cular, states that arrangments have munist-bandits under Ho and Tuan.

for the Chinese New With the aid of airplanes, the units Reds at a place between Wangpoh been made under General Chang Ying are now and Wangchiatien last Sunday. As Year Fair to be held in the restrict- aiming at the recapture of that dis- result of a sharp encounter, 300 ed area, including the following

Communists were killed and 200 streets:-Bonham Strand, Man Wal were captured, leaving some Lane, Hillier Street, Mercer Street, 10,000 refugees, who were sub- Burd Street, Wing Lok Street, and Because Ho Heung-koo, the sister Aequently rescued by the troops for cards and other small articles: of Red leader Ho Lung, who has The bandits are taking their flight the portion of Wellington Street, command of 3,000-9,000 bandits in a north-westerly direction. between Queen's Road Central and fleeing from Hokfung to Li-tain,

War Minister Leaves,

Pottinger Street.

trict.

Kung-an Threatened.

the Fair to be held at the re

All previous arrangements for

fore, are automatically cancelled.

is threatening Kung-an and Shek- In view of General Chu Pei-tch, haou on the southern border of the chief of staff of President Hupeh, General Ho Chien, chair- Chiang, being unable to proceed to clamation, Wanchai, as stated be man of Hunan, has. instructed his the Kiangst front on account of forces to move on to various something important requiring his strategic position for their interpresence in the Capital General Ho ception.

Ying-ching, the war minister, will Red's Defeat.

proceed to direct the operations in The Nationaliste under. Helao his stead.Canton News Agency.

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