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NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS FIGHTING IN ANHUI.

PENGPU OCCUPIED BY SOUTHERN TROOPS? ATTEMPT TO EFFECT A JUNCTION ON LUNGHAI RAILWAY.

WANG CHING WEI EN ROUTE TO NANKING. GENERAL HO INTERVIEWED IN SHANGHAI,

ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT STARTED IN FENGTIEN.

The venue of hostilities has been once again shifted from the banks of the Yangtze to the vicinity of Pengpu, Anhui, where, it would appear, the Southerners are, so far, wing the better of the exchanges.

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General Chang The Chang. the Northern warlord, is to proceed to suchow to co-operate with General Sun Chuan Fang in the defence of the Tientsin-Pukow railway,

Though General Ho Ying Chien's troops are or have been £ghting like fury in the vicinity of Pengpu, the General himself seems to be sojourning in Shanghai "for health reasons." Inter- viewed, General Ho said that as soon as he recovered he would return to Nanking, from which city he some time ago made: a somewhat abrupt departure an learning of the approaching visit of the Hankow "Moderates," Wang Ching Wei, Sun Fo, etc. As a sturdy supporter of Chiang Kai Shek, it is interesting to note that General Ho is of opinion that Chinng is unlikely to resume. his former post birt that he will probably "travel in Europe." H.M.S." ARGUS'

HEAVY FIRING NEAR

PENGPU. PLANES FOR SHANGHAI.

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(THROUGE BETTER'S AGENCY.]

(Wah Tr Fat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 8th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1927,

Savaн, Sept. 5th. Six Air Force aeroplanes from H.M.S. Argue landed this after- noon and are being taken to the Racecourse Aerodrome this evening.vanced" to Anhui from Hankow,

THE NORTHERNERS' POLICY.

(Wah Ti: Fat Pao.)-

Disappointed by

The Southerners, who bave ad.

A PIRATE CHIEF'S

DEMAND.

$2,000 A MONTH, OPIUM AND

SINGLETS.

-When the a.. Tuiler, which is on the Hong Kong-Canton "run, reached Kongmoon yesterday, the ship's compradore received a letter by post from someone who affirmed that be was a pirate "chief."

The burden of the letter was a ghastly threat to the compradore and the ship's company generally that he (the pirate chief) would either pirate the ship or have it

THE POLITICAL WHAT THE TRADES LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

STORM IN

PARIS.

THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR

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EXPLAINS."

M. BRIAND SATISFIED.-

(THROUGH RETRE'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, Sept. 3th, Rakowsky's minifesto is the ont- standing tople in the newspapers. Rakowsky, who is absent from Paris taking the cure. has published a long explanation," in which he declares that when signing the manifesto be contemplated the pos- sibility of war against the Soviets, and consequently this in no way concerned France whose attitude

towards Russia his Government

UNIONISTS WANT.

CONTROL OF BRITAIN AND

ITS RESOURCES."

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Losnos, Sept.. 5th Mr. Hicks, in his presidential address at the Trades Unions' Con- gress at Edinburgh, said that Trade Unionism today was more united and stronger than it was last year. The Congress would consider how to adapt the movement to the coa-

ditions created by the reactionary Trade Disputes Act. It was their M. Briand interviewed at imperative duty to prepara for the Geneva, said that he was satisfied return of a Labour Government with Chicheria's disavowal and

blown up by a mine if the com-regarded as peaceable. pradore did not agree to pay him $2,000 monthly (duration of pay

NEW PRESIDENT OF ASSEMBLY.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

Geneva, Sept. `stb.. Senor Guani (Uruguay) has been elected President of the League of Nations' Asembly.

The Task of Disarmament, The task of achieving disarme ment was only accomplishable by stages, some of which had already been passed, and the League had not failed, declared Senor Villegas (Chile), presiding at the opening of the League's Assembly." He was of opinion that the problem, was solvable along the lines adopted at the recent conference.

Senor Villegas dwelt on the League's growing universality and its high prestige, which invested necessary to bring peace and order

U.S. COLONEL'S SUICIDE.

SHOOTS HIMSELF IN SHANGHAL.

FrmOUGH REETER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, September wh Colonel Charles Hill, command- ing the Fourth Regiment of United States Marine at Shanghai, com- mitted suicide this morning.

He is reported to have been suffering from ill-health.

Colonel F. D. Kilgore assumes command in his place.

Further Details,

LATER. Colonel Hill was found in his bed, where he had shot himself through the mouth with an Army pistal.

ment not mentioned and apparent- Rakowsky's action, and that he does Pledged to give the people real the Council with the authority Maru, which is due at Honolulu

ly unlimited) together with, a quantity of opium and a bundle of

singlets.

HONG KONG-CANTON STEAMERS.

are engaging Sun Chuan Fang's.. forces at and near Pengpu. Heavy firing is taking place at Waiyuca, west of Pengpp. A report, not yet conarmed, says that General Ho Chien's troops have occupied Peog-

SHANGHAI, Sept. 5th.

Sun Chuaa pu General Ho is aiming at effect Fang's defeat in his attempts to ing a meeting with Feng Yu. Hsiang cross the Yangtaze, the Fengtieneseat. Lunghai Railway.

leaders have decided to change their aggressive policy for one of self-defence in Shantung, Chihli and the Three Eastern Provinces, They will not conduct a-campaign against Feng Yu Hsiang in Honan.

Interviewed by Pressmen, General

Ho Ying Chien, Chiang Kai Shek's

decision was

DETAINED YESTERDAY.

"LUNGSHAN" FIRED AT FROM WHAMPOA FORTS.

Anxiety was felt last night when the s.3. Lungshan and cther vessels or the Hong Kong-Canton run did not return to Hong Kong at the usual time-10 o'clock.

When, at 12.43, the Lungahan tied up at the wharf, it was ex- plained that the delay was caused

by the vessel having to anchor off At. 11 Ankuochan conference,

the Macno forts owing to lack of baid yesterday, o reached to order General Chang water caused by the ebb tide.

An Exciting Incident. Taung Chang to proceed to Hau-

It appears that when the Lung chow in order to co-operate with Sun Chuan Fang in the defence of

aban was passing the Whampoa the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.

forts she was fired it, presumably

Mr. Wang Ching Wei and other

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not wish to interpret the incident ownership and control of Britain and all its resources. But Trade as a step towards rupture.

Unionists must learn to deal with NEW ITALIAN 10,000-TON CRUISER.

HITCH AT THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY.

(THRQUGA REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LEGEOEN, Sept. 3th.

A hitch occurred at the сете monious munching of the new 10,000- ton cruiser Trento, which stuck 40 yards down the slipway.

Squads of workmen are attemp:- ing to dislodge her.

THE WARSAW SHOOTING

INCIDENT.

THE SOVIET NERVOUS.

[THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, September 4th. Public opinion has been arotzed by the shooting incident at War- saw, when a Russian, who sought a passport, and attacked a minor official at the Soviet Legation with A knife, was shot dead by the let- ter.

The Investia regards he occur rence as "a new link in the sys.:

into political life.

There will be a military funeral sad the body will be sent home,

Colorel Hill's wife is on her way to China, aboard the s.s. Siberia. to-morrow. The American military officials are attempting to stop her. and advising her to return to. America.

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Colonel Hill arrived in Shanghai

the problems of management by MR. W. CHURCHILL in February from San Diego, bring

making the fullest use of the machinery for joint consultation and negotiation between employers and employed.

INTERNATIONAL AIR MEETING.

SCANDINAVIAN SUCCESSES..

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

OPTIMISTIC.

IMPORTANT STATEMENT ON NATIONAL FINANCES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE?

RUGBY, September 4th. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Winston Churchill, apenting in Scotland yesterday, said that the national finances, despite last year's industrial upheaval, had stood the strain.

H

ing the 4th U.S. Regiment He had saffered very bad health since.

Deceased had previously served in

Asiatic waters-in the Boxer Rebel.

and, later, in the Philippines.

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OBITUARY.

A GREAT ENGLISH JUDGE.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Rugby, September 4th. Lord Coleridge, former High Court Judge of the King's Bench División, died today, at the age of 70.

COPENHAGEN,, Sept. 4th... "We shall come through the

[Baron Coleridge (a title created French, British, Danish and consequences of that trouble within 1873), was born in 1851, aucceed- Swedish machines were included out having to reimpose any of the ing his father in the Barony in Educated at Eton and £40,0000,000 of direct taxation re- 1894. in the thirty aeroplanes that committed by the present Government ing up law, he became & E.G. in Trinity College, Oxford, and tak-

peted in an international air meet-in 1825, or any of the £20,000,000 1892.

Lord Coleridge recently resigned ing bere, before 100,000 spectators, of indirect taxation remitted by

Court of Justice, King's Bench There is every expectation that Division: His retirement was a comprising speed, altitude and the Labour Government in 1994 his office as a Judge of the High we shall be able to provide every source of regret both to the Bar manoeuvre flights.

panny of our debts under the sink and to the public. He had not had

good health for some years. As ing fand all of the immense total Judge, appointed to the Beach in of £85,000,000 set apart for that 1907, he had a long and varied ex- perience of judicial work, in which purpose this year."

his law was generally sound and These Anancial facts had econo-his judgments were an example to Erlind (Denmark) was loopingmic reactions upon the life of the his colleagues in purity of English

The three speed races were won respectively by Lersen (Denmark), Lindner (Sweden), and Attachort (France).

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stout supporter, said that his so- Hankow leaders are on their way by Chinese soldiers. Some 200 tematic campaign to provoke new the loop when he crashed, and his nation. The most notable had been diction. He presided in 1917, with

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journ in Shanghai at present' was entirely owing to health reasons. As soon as he recovered, he would return to Nanking. General Ho thought the arrival of Tan Yen Kai and Sun Fora: Nanking indicated the possibility of co-operation be. tween Nanking and Hankow. They have, after great effort, advised the five Nanking leaders (Hu Han Min, Tsai Wu Chi Fei, Li Shek Ching. Yuen Pui and Chang Ching Kiang)

to Nanking from Hankow by the cruiser Chuo Chin.

[NÁVAL WIRELESS.]

The Southern Victory Below Nanking.

NAXXING, Sept. 3rd.

were

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the

Wos

complications with the, object of

destroyed, Erlind frustrating

recently-opened machice Polish-Russian negotiations," and escaping with a broken leg. declares that this interpretation is confirmed by other circumstances, especially the alarming reports of CAPT COURTNEY AWAIT the creation of an anti-Soviet al ING GOOD WEATHER.

shots are believed to have beca fired, but, though the ship was hit, serious luckily there casualties. An Indian guard is said to have been hit on the foot by a bullet, while a Chinese deck passen-liance at Geneva..

The Southern victory below Nan-ger had his umbrella shot out of his king is confirmed by Chinese and hand. large numbers of Northern prisoners

haye been brought into the city.

The officers aboard were very Wuhan troops are reported to be reticent regarding the incident, arranging to attack lines of com- which, however, was being freely to retain their respective offices; inmunication set up by the Northern-discussed by the passengers.

ers through Anhwei.

[THROUGH BÈCTER'S AGENCY.}

Shots at Woosung.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 5th.

од

TIENTSIN HOTEL MANA-. GER'S ARREST.

Although five shells fell in the NOT KIDNAPPED JUST

VITED TO EXPLAIN." vicinity of Woosung forts September 3rd, there were casualties.

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order that negotiations for reamal- gamating the two Kuomintang fac- "tions might proceed speedily. General Ho said that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek would not resume office although popular support for him was evident. He would most likely travel in Europe.

movement Ап anti "Japanece started in Fengtiem recently. On

Four Northern Ganerala Shot

NANKING, Sept. stb. the 4th inst. a popular demonstra- tion organised by the General

About 10,000 Northern prisoners Chamber of Commerce and partiare at present at Nanking.. cipated by other classes, numbering about 40,000 people, paraded the city.

THE JHANSI BRIGADE.

AN "INTERNATIONAL' TRIBUTE.

· [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]"

Bcaar, Sept. 4th.

When the Indian regiments of

THE WORLD'S COTTON

CONSUMPTION." ·

AMERICAN PRODUCT HAS. INCREASED DEMAND.

· [THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]

TO CONTINUE THE FLIGHT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

the steady diminution in the cost of living, by nearly one-third, which meant an extension of real wages, and which lightened pres- sure in every home throughout the country.

As for the housing problem, be fore Parliament completed its

course in 1929, one million Dew hauses, accommodating five or six million persons, would have been constructed, with State assistance, during the life of the present Government.

the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the first Court which was constitut- ed under the Benefices Act, 1888 and afterwards he tried the futile claim by a man named Tooth to the Waterford peerage.

Deceased is succeeded by his son, the Hon. Geoffrey Coleridge, who was born in 1877, and is a Captain in the 4th (Reserve) Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment.].

ADMIRAL KATO,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, September 5th, The death is reported from Japan of Admiral Baron Sadakichi_Kato, who was commander of the Japan- esc naval forces at the siege of

Ruary, Sept. 4th.- Captain Courtney, who left Ply mouth yesterday for the Azores THE 13TH ANNIVERSARY. Tsingtao in the late war.

with a navigator, a méchanic, and Mr. Elwood Hosmer, a Canadian passenger, on the first stage in the westward trans-Atlantic flight, en- countered bad weather, with strong headwinds,

LONDON, September 4th. The International Federation of Master Cottonspinners Associations state that the world's cotton con- "IN-sumption for the year ended July 31st was 25,882,000 bales, compared with 24,681,0000 the previous year.

The consumption of American cotton was 16,777,000 bales, being an increase of 2,047,000 bales; of East Indian cotton 5,19%,000, a dether improves crease of 375,000; of Egyptian 1,007,000, an increase of 88,000; and

PEKING, August 20th.

"In connection with the arreat of Wu Chin Chai, manager of the Great Northern Hotel in "Tientsin, It is reported that four Northern by agents of General Chu. Yu Pu, Generals were shot yesterday, in the official explanation is that Wa cluding General Li Pao Chang. was not abducted from the Japanese. The Northerners apparently have Concession but was simply invited evacuated Pukow, and the South

to explain to the military the dis--

of sundries 3,901,900, & decrease of 357,000.

LONDON-INDIA BEAM

WIRELESS. *

and descended.

Corunna, in Spain.

LEAGUE FINANCE

COMMITTEE.

AN AMERICAN APPOINTED.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

GERMAN COLOURS AT THE

DOW

CENOTAPH.

TROPICAL MEDICINE

CONGRESS.

DECEMBER MEETING IN INDIA.

The Cenotaph in Whiteball and the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey shared in

ALLAHABAD. the tributes which were paid on at

August 4th in memory of the an Arrangements are proceeding for niversary of the declaration of the seventh congress of the Far war. Perhaps for the first time, Eastern Association for Tropical After He will continue when the weathe blue and yellow colours of the Medicine next" December,

Republic of Germany were seen at the first week of the scientific the Cenotaph, where wreath sessions, beginning about December from the Cologne station of the 5th, the congress will split into two German Airways Combine was main bodies, each for a conducted Waltair, 0114 going to placed in memory of Captain F. tour,

Coonoor, Ootacámund L. Barnard, a pilot during the Madras, war, who was killed last week at and Mysore, and the other to.. Bristol.

Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow, and Thirteen years have passed, and Delhi. At. Delhi the party will there *are approximately probably split into three one sec. 700,000 ex-Servicemen still umem- tion visiting Kasanli, another ployed, according to the statement Lahore, and the third remaining made by Captain Willcox, of the at Delhi.. Reassembling at Agra, British Legion, whose work in the northern main body will pro belping the ex-Service men is well ceed to Bombay. The party on the known. The total amount ex- northern tour is likely to number GENEVA, Sept. 4th,

pended upon the relief of distress 120, including interpreters. The Council of the League of among other ranks is 2791,662," Rugar, Sept. 4th."

Bald Captain Willcox.

The Mr.

Jere number of cases assisted is A Shaukiwan trading junk The Anglo-Indian Beam Wire-Nations has appointed.

large sums in making loans, large Macao was boarded by the police less Service opens for public traffic mish Smith, of Boston, & member 2,950,000. We have also spent turning here on has a ver on Tuesday.

It places London in direct wire of the financial committes of the and amall, while" in emigration and subsequently detained, 60 jars work we have assisted 601 men, 470 of Chinese wines on which duty had women, and 1,250 children, We not been paid being found on

out--such assistance,- would have craft, were charged on remand be. have helped 30,709 men who, with board. The two owners of the been found on the Embankment fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the As regards officers, in 1926 £130,000 Central Police Court yesterday was expended in various forms of morning and each was fined 850, assistance. We spent £17,000 in with the alternative of fourteen

officers on their feet and £19,000 the confiscation of the wines and of to save 4,000 non-disabled officers, the junk was made on a ralice: from-destitution."

application.

erners are planning crossing to the appearance of the $800,000 belong PUBLIC SERVICE NOW OPEN. north bank above and below Nauing to the Nanking branch of the

Chibli Provincial Bank. General Sun Chuan Fang is re-

king.

the Jhansi Brigade, who were the ported to be concentrating at

Erst British troops to arrive at Tungchow. Shanghai as part of the defence force, left that. port for India yes- terday, they received an interna tional send-off.

General appreciation has been widely expressed of their services. during severe winter and in ex tremely trying circumstances, when the Settlement was in danger of being over-run by defeated-Chinese Boldiers.

Yesterday, American

WIRELESS.

Hankow Communists Wire London

44Comrades," -Harrow, Sept. 3rd.

It is reported that Communist agents here have cabled to London

"Wu, was manager of the Nanking branch when the Southern city was still held by General Chang Tanig Chang last spring. Chu instructed him to take $500,000 to Hanchow when the Northern troops evacuat ed the city. It is alleged that since then Wa has failed to turn the

[SEITIGE WIRELESS SERVICE]

less communication with Bombay, League. and will be available for telegrams Mr. Smith is a former commis to all destinations in India, Burma, sier of the League organisation Ceylon, the Persian Gulf and Siam

In addition to a reduction in the which, a few years ago, was ap-

marinca, to arrange. demonstrations there money over to Chu-but-used it to rates for public traffic, the beam pointed in connection with inancial helping to keep 2,700 disabled ex-days-hard “labour.~ An order for

Japanese troops and civilians cheer-

twopence half-penny-sword-for Press messages., ed the departing troops enthusias urging the withdrawal of British open a modern hotel in the Japanese service offers a reduced rate of

Concession.-Heio Wens tically from the wharf

troops from China

reconstruction problem in Europe "after" the war.

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