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TROOPS SWEEP

MARTIAL LAW STOPS SHANGHAI RIOTS

GANDHI GROWS

WEAKER AFTER 82 HOURS FAST

India Partien Fail To

OLICE FIGHT WITH 6,000 Reach Agreement.

FAST FREHONGKEW STRIKERS

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duce some excellent racing.

Fields will be big, excel- lent entries being received in all the events, especially the Junk Bay Handicap, which has attracted 28 "D" Class ponies. The Picnic Bay Stakes for "E" Class ponies ridden by Novices has 21 en tries while the Junk Bay Handicap, "C" Class has 24 entries.

WOMEN IN DEMONSTRATIONS

(From Our Own Correspondent),

Shanghai, To-day.

Police fought with mobs of angry rioters here yesterday and in Hongkew and Chapei marilal law was declared owing to the men acing situation and the danger of clashes between the workers and Japanese bluejacket patrols.

There were numerous sporadie riots yesterday afternoon and the trouble continued to-day, women playing a conspicuous part.

HUNGER STRIKE SPREADS.

Poona To-day

Negotiation between Caste Hindus and depressed class lead- ers have yielded and anticipated agreement. The leaders announce they are unable to begin the drafting.

Mahatma Gandhi's meanwhile, is becoming weaker He is suffering from nam giddiness and is finding in keeping his eyes open eighty-two hour

Fears for the recovery much-loved leader of

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The demonstrations, which assumed an ugly nature latterly, pre-politics and thought are ceded the allegedly Communist-inspired.strike in the silk filatares spread. Daily the people are des of Chapel and Hongkew, many of which have Japanese financial claring in increasing backing, it is understood.

The turf, promises to be in fine STRIKE NEARER condition and times should be fast. SETTLEMENT AS

WAGES ARE SET

Form has changed considerably in the case of several prominent can- didates and it will not be surprising

TO

FRESH VICTORIES

CHINESE VOLUNTEERS IN MANCHURIA. Anali of the 4th Route Righteous and Braye Army in Man- who are staging, rèsi stance against Japanese in- are seen moving to a village near Hainmin

FIRST CHINESE.

FIRM OPERATES

PACIFIC FLEET

LOW RATES IN FORCE.

sympathetic hunger strikes." Liner "Kwang Chow" To In ten filatures, 6,000 workers Gandhi issued a statement last

Arrive Here Soon. smashed machinery and threw night appealing to the people of rocks and other missiles at India to refrain from fasting in police who attempted to inter-sympathy with him, insisting vene. The task of the officers alternatively that they set about

The China-America Steamship was made difficult by the pre- doing their utmost to remove the sence of numerous women among bogey of "untouchability It Company, almost entirely con- the rioting bodies, and it was was hoped that agreement as to trolled by Chinese share-holders, difficult to deal with them as the representation of the De has commenced operations on with the men.

pressed Classes might be reach the Pacific, and the first of its "Down with the capitalists,"ed yesterday, but the difficulties trans-ocean vessels, the .. Kwang Chow, will arrive in Hong the first mobs of rioters shouted, now appear insurmountable.

Kong shortly. as they invaded the filature pre- Reuter. mises and commenced their acts of vandalism. And later, when the police came, they changed London, To-day.their cry: "The Red Army is The settlement of the wage coming to help us," they scream- mainly on the Aggregate Stakes and the Corroboree Handicap, the latter question in the manufacturing ed. "The Red soldiers will help event being for Australian ponies, section of the Lancashire cotton the labourers." "B" class. The Aggregate Stakes industry, on a basis of a reduc

if some good substantial dividends

are returned. The majority of the local jockeys are riding, and a few new faces are expected in the Novices race.

The Aggregate. Staken..

The interest of the day centres

Eight-Day Negotiations In Cotton Trade.

WORK TO RESUME, SOON.

PRINCE OF WALES AT COPENHAGEN.

Busy Day On Eve Of Martial Law Enforced.

The Ceremony. tion of wages equivalent to In Hongkew the situation as- "over six furlongs is sure to pro-

London, To-day. duce some fast contenders, but it 1/84d. in a Pound, was reached aumed an alarming aspect when

after eight days' negotiations strikers commenced parading the H.R.H, the Prince of Wales, who is practically certain that - Mr. Reidy's Bag and Baggage will carry by a sub-committee representa- streets, and revolutionary hand, will perform the opening ceremony

tive of both sides.

bills were scattered about. Mar at the British Trade Exhibition in

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At present, the company is operating three ahips out of San Francisco and between Hong

Canton. These thips are officer- ed by Europeans and carry first- class passengers only. The rate of passage is $120.

The vessel will not visit Japanese ports and the crossing from Hong Kong or Shanghai will require 23 days..

S.S. Kwang Chow, is a 10,000-

JAPANESE FLIERS HOP OFF FOR PACIFIC FLIGHT.

Three-Leg Journey Started Via

Northern Route.

"Tokyo, To-day Hochi plane manned by the pilot, Baba, a navigator

Homma, and a radio operator, Inoshita, hopped off from Samushiro at 5.35 o'clock this morning in an attempt to cross the Pacific.

The aviators are using the Northern Route and intend to land in San Francisco, making the fightin three hops. Reuter

GARRISON FALLS

Shwangchengpu Beset By Advancing Armies

· LARGE FORCE NEAR HARBIN.

Fierce Fighting In Many" Sectors of North.

Kokko Harbin, To-day. The Russian press states that anti-Manchukuo troops have defeated" the Manchn kuo garrison and have oeen- piedy Shwangchenghalang, near Shwangchengpu. It is also reported that 3,000 anti- Manchukuos have surrounded and are attacking Shwang chengpu

Chinese rumours say that large forces of anti-Manchu- knos are closing in on Hare. bin and are now within seven miles to the north of the city.

The Japanese · · military authorities do not conf these reports, but many de- fensive barbed wire entangle- ments have been erected yon- terday and to-day, particu larly in the New Town Renter

For the past several weeks the activities of the Volunteers and regular army units in the north have been

more than one occasion crown-» ed with

cently

Army under hai and the

(Contin

OPENING CEREMONY loyalists

OF KCC TO DAY.

Full Programme.

"After a week's postponement the on a Temporary offices, which have Kowloon Cricket Club's new pavilion of golf yesterday afternoon course near the capital. Last night not yet been opened, are to be will be officially opened by Mrs be attended a banquet given by the established in the Gloucester w T. Southern at 4.80 p.m. this British Legation, at which members Building here and Mr. Tong

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afternoon.

of the Danish Royal Family, and Wing-in, former president of cricket match between the Kow- Cabinet Ministers, were also pres the Tung Wah Hospital, has been "Cricket Club, and Mr. H... B. appointed Hong Kong agent of sent-British Wireless Service,

Hancock's XI will commence at 2 the line.

pm, while the K.C.C. Jawn bowlers It is likely that the activities will be opposed to a Combined Hong of the company will be extended Kong side, including a rink from farther afield as time goes on, Government House, commences and that its ships will make a 8.15 p. An invitation dannel strong bid for freight on the dance will be held at 9p.m. and Pacific.

will be continued until 2 a.m. to the strains of Mickey Bouss's Band.

off the premier points. Eve's The Committee is now meeting tial law was subsequently declar- Copenhagen to-day, played a round ton ship. Boxing Eve will no doubt prove a strong challenger in the hands of with a view to settling the ed.

still pending question of reip- (Continued on. Page 14.) Mr. E. O. Butler.

statement of strikers. It is stat Another event which will produced the sub-committee will SIR ROBERT HO TUNG good times from classy candidates, Is the Island Bay Handicap for "A continue until late at night, if

SEES VON PAPEN. and "E" Classes. Both Wild Life necessary, with the hope of and Racing Boy will carry a great agreeing and so "cleaning the

slate." deal of the public's money, and the

General resumption of work latter-named, if ridden by Mr. Leo Frost, the champion jockey, should on September 26 is considered

Berlin, Yesterday. bring home the bacon. He should most unlikely, as employers ex-

pect to call a meeting on Septem start a hot favourite.

Sir Robert Ho Tung had a long ber 27 to ratify the agreement conversation with Chancellor von reached in Committee. However, Papen yesterday on Sino-German the end of the dispute is now in relations and was received by sight. Reuter,

President Von Hindenburg dur-j The Hong Kong dollar declined ing the morning, deng

in value standing at 1/8 this Later he gave an address in morning, after remaining steady at Chinese for a sound-film, lunch 1/4 yesterday. ing with officials of the Fore

ces dropped consider

(Continued on Page 14.)

WOMBAT'S SELECTIONS.

FIRST RACE LA.

Bag & Baggage.

Boxing Eve

Gold Key.

IST RACE

Wild Life: Racing Boy. Don.

2ND RACE

The Rainbow. Manza. Mermaid:

3RD RACE

Deveron, Navy Hall, California.

4TH RACE ·

Chio

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Mistletoe Helvellyn

6TH RACERS

Mon Talls

Blue Love,

(Continued on. Page 14.)

NEW GOVERNMENT

APPOINTMENTS.

DOLLAR DECLINES AS POUND RISES,

Silver Generally In Weaker

TSK State,

Office and other ministers and in bly D dustrialista. V

He hopes the visit will stimu-

Mr. H. R. Butters To Be late Sino-German trade. Ren-

Magistrate,

Appointments contained in the current issue of the Government Gazette are as follows —

Dr. Au King to be an Inspector

of Schools, vice-Dr. Douglas Laing, resigned, with effect from Septem ber the a

Mr. Henry Robert Butters to be Police Magistrate, effect from Mond 26.97

The name of Garton has been ad

ter.

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Record Altitude Prot

AQUATIC MEETING FOR OCTOBER 16.

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