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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1933.

NITE OFFERED SZECHUAN WAR

ENDED

FHEERO CLUB

Ament House

leeting. LA EL ASKS FOR

* SUPPORT

A co site on the cor- been offield Arcade has

ner of

the Government,

Liu Wen-hui Totally Defeated.

LIU SHU-ENG MEANS TO SUPPRESS BANDITS

Hankow, To-day.

THE CHINA MAIL:

“MURDER GROUPS To-Day's Short Story,

IN MANCHURIA

Assassination Blots Alleged.

SUSPICIOUS ARRIVALS

Changchun, To-day.

A HORSEMAN

IN THE SKY

By Ambrose Bierce.

Several "murder „groups” have

NE sunny afternoon in the wondered how the road which found O 1861, Peace has been restored In Sze-entered Manchuria lately, with the

intention of assassination of pro- soldier lay in a clump of laurel into it. chuan, according to the latest mes-minent Manelfukuo and Japanese by the side of a road in Western No country is so wild and difficult sage from Chungking.

officials in Changchun, Mukden and Virginia. He lay at full length, but men will make it a theatre of other centres, according to reports upon his stomach, his feet rest war: concealed in the forest at the said to have been received here from Ing upon the toes, his head upon bottom of that military rat-trap, in the left forearm. His extended whish half a hundred men in pos

But for the somewhat starved an army to submission, lay

for the P of building a new

The long-drawn internecine war club-house Cheera Clau, between Liu Shung and Liu Wen

50 hui was definitely concluded re-

which fast has done

י

on condition they put up building costin least $25,000, and appealed

whole com. munity of Hong to

And money to build-reatly needed Club for the Semen.

ited military leaders.

The local authorities received an official message from General Liu Shu-eng on Wednesday stating that he had held a conference that day Lady Peel and fenry Pollock with the military leaders of the were supported E. the G.0.C. various route armies in Szechuen. Major-General Otorrett, Com-and it was anticipated that a ban- modore Frank Elite Bishop of dit-suppression campaign would be Victoria Et. Renald Owen launched as

soon as possible, Hall). His Bonoui J. R. Wood Central News Agency.

"Humiliation Day" On Monday.

SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF MUKDEN INCIDENT.

ment.

much for mefit of the men cently, following the defeat of Lin private sources. of His 's Services in Wen-hui's army who offered a stub- It is alleged that the conspiratom right hand loosely grasped his session of the exits might have Hong Kon

born resistance along the Minare stated to be timing their plana rifle. At a me at Government. Kinng River which eventually col for September 18, the second anni- methodical disposition of his five regiments of Federal infantry. House Ye Lady Peel, lapsed in face of a combined at-versary of the Japanese occupation limbs and a slight rhythmic They had marched all the previous wife of H. Governor, Sir, tack by land, water and air by Liu of Mukden.

movement of the cartridge box at day and night and were resting. At William Peintioned that a shu-eng and his allied troops.

Police in the various ports are the back of his belt. he might nightfall they would take to the road sum of at le6,000 would be required for uilding.

Now, with the elimination of Liu making a more detailed examination have been thought to be dead, again, climb to the place where their Lady Peel oned

Wen-hui, Liu Shu-eng in availing of all arrivals from China, and all He was asleep at his post of duty, unfaithful sentry now slept, and, that the himself of the opportunity of em- persons believed to possess anti-But if detected he would be dead descending the other slope of the Government Hered a site on barking on a pacification and ban- Manchukuo affliations are being shortly afterward, that being the ridge, fall upon a camp of the enemy the corner of mafield Arende, dit-suppression campaign Sze- closely watched.—-Reuter,

just and legal penalty of his at about midnight. Their hope was: crime.

[to surprise it, for the road led to chuan in co- operation with his al-

The clump of laurel in, which the the rear of it. In case of failure criminal lay was in the angle of their position would be perilous in the road which, after ascending, would should accident or vigilance the extreme; and fail they surely Bouthward, a steep goclivity to that point, turned sharply to the west apprise the enemy of the more running along the summit for per haps one hundred yards. There Shanghai, To-day. it turned southward again and While the Japanese declare that went zigzagging downward through on of wealthy parents, An only to-day is a festival in memory of the forest. At the salient of that child, and had known such ease and the recognition of Manchukuo by second angle was a large flat rock, cultivation and high living as wealth Japan last year, the Chinese peo-jutting out from the ridge to the and taste were able to command in

as northward, overlooking the deep

the mountain country of Western humiliation day in memory of the valley from which the road ascend Virginia. His home was but a few "Mukden Incident," which led to ad. The rock capped a high cliff; miles from where he now lay. One the annexation of Manchuria by a stone dropped from fla outer morning he had risen from the Japan.

edge would have fallen sheer down-breakfast table and said, quietly and The Kuomintang party organe as ward one thousand feet to the tops) well as popular bodies in Nanking, of the pines. The angle where the gravely "Father, a Union regiment Shanghai, Tientsin and other cities soldier lay was on another spur of has arrived at Grafton. I am going in China will hold memorial meet the same cliff. Had he been awake. ings on that day.-Central News he would have commanded a view, Agency.

not only of the short arm of the road and the jutting rock but of the entire profile of the cliff below it. It might well have made him giddy to look,

(Chief Justice). Sqender P. C. Wood, R.A.F., the

Dr. R. H. REHABILITATION OF ple will observe September 18

Kotewall, the Hon,, Shou-KON

+

HSINKIANG.

Chow and Mr. J. L-Pherson.

Others present ided Lady Pollock, Mrs. O. C. rett. Mrs. Mr. Lo Wen-kan Confers

With Officials.

J. R. Wood, Mrs. Tiniger. N. V. Halward. Mr and

D. W.

Tratman, Mra. Ke... Lieut. Fisher, R.N., Mr. M., Mr. T.

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS.

Nanking. To-day. According to a message from

E. Pearce, Lieut. Col. 1. Mur row, Mr. P. E. Barker, J. B. Ross, Mrs. Douglas Je, Mrs. Tehun, Heinkiang, Dr. Lo Wen-kan, haa at Tehus, been busily occupied in confer- ences with Mr. Liu Wen-Jung,

Bentley, Mrs. J. H. Th, Mr.ince his arrival A. G. W Tickle, MC. Alabaster, Mrs. Fiddea-Won, Mr.

G.

A. Brearley, Mr. B. W, Mr. Civil Governor of sinklang, and

D. C. Wilson, Hon. Mr. Gordon General Shueng Shih-chal, Defence -estley Commissioner of Hsinking, TC.

Mackie, Mr. and Mrs.

Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, a. Dr.arding the rehabilitation S. W. Tao, Hon. T. Nchau, Messrs. Li Yau-tean, Ham- province.

of the

Plane for the construction

of

KING FEISAL'S FUNERAL.

Iraq Ensign At Half Mast On H.M. Ships. tong, Lo Cheung-ahul. Kw Suf highways and other means of com-

Flage on all His Majesty's ships Jau, Tang Shut-kin, Foo Silok Kon-snug,

of educa- in the harbour are flying at half Sum

munication, promotion Pak-ming Ho

tion among the Mohammedan and mail until sunset, as a mark of re Leung, M. K. Lo Pun gne, Chinese masses, and the encour-spect to the late King Feisal of Leung Patyu, Ng Wah, Lin- chun, Chan Lim-pak, Chau ingement of agricultural coloniea-Iraq, whose funeral takes place at

dia-Baghdad to-day. tion in sparsely populated tricts, have been closely discuZB-

chee, Tam Woon-Long.

Lady Peel's Speech. said. I

Lady Peel

ed,

he

you to come to Liz

asked

Dr. Le's visit to Hainklang bas meeting this afternoon to arran greatly helped to eliminate the for the buliding of Д "Chee existing misunderstanding among Club." As you all know, it the racial groups. Central Newa very sad when we had to leave tt Agency.

City Hall last year: we could fin no suitable building in the Tow

and so had to close.

Government has now offered us a site on the corner near Beacons. field Arcade, on condition that we put up a backling costing at least $25,000. Government will give us a lease of five years (at $1 a year, rent) and I understand that there will be no difficulty in having this

QUIET RESTORED

IN LUENTUNG.

Rehabilitation Work To Be Started.

The Iraq national ensign is being flown ni half mast.

also

LOCAL ESTATES.

Mr. G. E. Ellams Leaves $31,000.

MANY EUROPEAN ESTATES.

George Ernest Ellams, late Secre

tary of the Hong Kong Canton and Tientsin, To-day. Macao Steamboat Company Ltd., According to a statement made who died at the Canosas Hospital Mr. Chien Chung-chek, member on July 18, 1983, left local estate the Luentung Retrocession Com- sworn at $31,000.

The country was wooded every- where except at the bottom of the valley to the northward, where

The sleeping sentinel in the clump- of laurel was a young Virginian. named Carter Druse. He was the

to join it."

pin

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be “Phantas," by Oliver Onions.

The father lifted his leonine head, there was a small natural meadow looked at the son a moment in through which flowed a stream scarcely visible from the rim. This open ground hardly larger than an but was dooryard, several scres in ¦ extent. -- groen Was more vivid, than {that of the enclosing forest. cliffs similar to those upon which critical condition; at the best she Away beyond it rose a line of giant tor. Your mother, as the physician has informed you, is in a most we are supposed to stand in our cannot be with us longer than a survey of the savage scene, and

{few weeks, but that time is precious. through which the road had some how made its climb to the summit. would be better not to disturb

her." The configuration of the valley, in- deed, was such that from our point. of observation it seemed entirely shut in, and one could not but have

"Go Carter. valley's silence, and replied:

looked and, whatever may occur, do what ordinary you conceive to be your duty, Vir |ginia, to which you are a frattor, really

must get on without you. Should Ite

we both live to the end of the war, we will speak further of the mat-

So Carter Druse, bowing re-

verently to his father, who returned the salute with a stately courtesy which masked a breaking heart, left the home of his childhood to go. soldiering. By conscience and

CATHEDRAL FUND. Courage, by deeds of devotion and

Donations Now Total $2,310.

The following donations to St.

lease extended when necessary, The covering authority of the mission, who has just completed a Probate has been granted to John's Cathedral Restoration Fund Secretary of State is necessary, but ur of inspection of the Luentong Charles Bernard Brown, Chartered have been received:- it is anticipated that this will be stricts, railway traffic in Luen Accountant. given.

T. M. Gregory. Letters of administration in the Nell E. Elliott tupy has resumed normal condi-l

should be run

Total to date

I am very anxious at the Clubs and the administration of the estate of William Alexander Stopani, Mr. and Mrs. L. Carter:

as before by the various districts is being carried mercantile assistant, who died in Mac and Mike Ladies of Hong Kong. Mrs. Lewis o smoothly except in a certain, tostate at the Matilda Hospital on and Mrs. Bellamy, I m sorry to area eaat of Chinwangtao, where May 20, 1988, leaving $2,100, have

Previously acknowledged say, are not here this afternoon, and has still fif

(been granted to Alice Fraser Smith but early this year they said they would undertake to run the Club conditions

With the resumption of normal Maitland

there the with a Ladies Committed It will, Government will be

Chinese James Simpson, late of Cumbras of course, be under the auspices of start rehabilitation wor

able to View, Innellan, Argyllshire, Scot the Y.M.C.A., but will be in the further handicap.

without land, who died on February 28, 1932, hands of a Ladies Committee,

ntral News left local estate sworn at $18,900..

An application by Denia Henry Blake, solleitor, the lawful attorney

It is clear that a two-storey

Agency.

News In Brief.

daring, he-soon' commended himself to his fellows and 'his' officers; and, it was to these qualities and to some knowledge of the country thatTM he ewed his selection for his present] perilous duty at the extreme out- post. Nevertheless, fatigue bad been stronger than resolution and he had fallen asleep. What good or

bad angel came in a dream to rouse

20

hin from his state of crime who

„10-

shall say? Without a movement,

20

20

2,240

without a sound, in the profound silence and the languor of the late } afternoon," some invisible messenger of the fate touched with unsealing finger the eyes of his consciousness whispered into the ear of his spirit the mysterious awakening | word which no human lips have ever spoken, no hüman memory ever haa recalled. He quietly raised his fore- head from his arm and looked be

Building will be necessary, in order Meetings, that our Association will of Elsia Simpson, widow executrix Mrs. Ronald Hall, wife of thetween the masking stems of the to ensure the required accommoda-be only too pleased that the Chero of the will for resealing the certified Bishop of Victoria, has arrived in Jaurels, instinctively closing his tion, and the cost of such a build-(formerly known, as the Naval and copy of the will, has been granted, the Colony and will be welcomed right hand about the stock of this ing will probably be between $30, and Miltary Y.M.C.A.) should be Florence Fanny McClatchie, spin-st a reception in her honour at the rifo 000 and $85,000,

started once again under the ster, hate of 4, South Row, Green- Helena May Institute on Monday His first deeling was a keen I now make an appeal to the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. wich, Kent, and formerly " of 21,

artistic delight. On a colossal whole community of Hong Kong to I am happy to be able to ang Craigerne, Road, Blackheath, Kent,

pedestal, the clift, motionless at the and the money to build this great nounce that our General Sacratary; who died on February 24, 1938, left The quarantine - restrictions im- extreme edge of the capping "rock ly needed Club for the service men Mr. J. L. McPherson, who has had local estate valued at $5,800. Dosed by the Government who are out here away from their a wide experience of, building planeig An Application by George Gwin Stralis Sattlements against homes. It mijoes an enormous and costs in this Colony, has very nett: Noble Tinson, solicitor, the from Hors difference to these men to have a kindly promised to place his mar lawful, attorney, for resealing the small-box have been happy and cheerful place to za to vices at the disposal of any Build-certified copy of the probate, has where they may talk of their ing Committes which may be here been granted b homes to women who understand after formed. I feel confident too PA Chinese Estates, -and can sympathise with them,"

that we can at all times", rely) Letters of administration upon the friendly co-operation of estate QË

$1.000 Donation:

I wish to thank Mr, Tang Ship the Honourable the Director of Kin for his great sympathy and In-Public Works and of the Omeerk terent, and for the most generous of his department:"

gift he has sent me of $1.00}\Lor Two items of ̧good-newaz the Cheero Club, and I appeal to been mentioned by Lady Pont everyone in, the Colony to help to her appochi

build and equip this Club. Also

**Bir Henry Pollock's

Bir Henry Pollock stats

President of M

Conddently

precious discuss

The first I

A Chinese youth, Fu 16,5 foundela

bau

harply outlined against the was an equestrian statue of im

dignity, The Agure of the mán. sat the figure of the horse, Herly but with the

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