"
SHANSI TROOPS
SUFFER HEAVILY IN COUNTER-ATTACK.
LARGE BATCHES OF SHANSI PRISONERS IN PEKING. INTERNMENT CAMPS BEING ERECTED.
MARSHAL FENG ASKS FOR SOUTHERN
REINFORCEMENTS.
SHANSI RAIDING PARTIES BEING ROUNDED-UP.
FOOCHOW NOT
QUITE SO PEACEFUL
AS RECENTLY REPORTED.
Shansi troops suffered 4,000 casualties in a counter-attack which they launched near Suauwhofu on Tuesday.
Fengtien troops have established contact with Chihli-Shantung troops near Shaichischwang.
Peking is greeting internment camps for the large number of Shansi prisoners arriving in batches.
Mrge. Wu is still detained at Ticantsin native city. ground that she is a British subject the British General at Tientsin, it is reported, has protested to the regarding her detention.
On the Consul-
Chinese
Foschos, judging by a telegram to hand last night, is by no means so tranquil as she was recently reported to be.
THE SHANSI-FENGTIEN HOSTILITIES.
REPORTS. FROM THE FRONTS.
[TEROLIGE REUTER'S AGLICY.]
Pexio, October 13th.
The Shansi General, Shang Chun, is reported to have launched a heavy counter-attack
near Suan whafu on Tuenlay but was repulsed after severe fighting with 4,000 casualties.
Fengtien troops, have established contact with Chihli-Shantang troops
CHINESE TROOPS CLASH
AT FOOCHOW.
BUSINESS PARALYSED.
(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY."}
Foocnow, October 13th.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14th, 1927.
THE LATEST TRANS- ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
NOTHING HEARD OF THE "AMERICAN GIRL"
ANXIETY AS TO MISS RUTH ELDER AND CO-PILOT.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] ·
"New"Yox, Oct. 13th: Anxiety is felt as to the fate of the Elder motoplane, of which nothing has been heard since Tues, day night, when it was reported that it was 425 miles cast of New Yirk.
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Four Atlantic liners, at various stages of the crossing, have re- ported negatively, though they kept a good look-out.
İTEROCOL RECTER'S AGENCY.] Excitement at Le Bourgal.
PARIA, Oct. 12th.
In anticipation of the arrival of the Elder machine, special polier were sent to Le Bourget, where a crowd of Pressmen had gathereu early in the morning. But nothing has been heard of the monoplane though Le Bourget wireless opera- tors have been continuously alert and the searchlights around Paris have been very active.
[The following telegram appeared in yesterday's Daily Presti-
ROOSEVELT FIELD, Oct. 11th. Miss Ruth Elder, with Captain George Haldeman as a co-pilot and navigator, has started on a non- stop fight to Paris in the dere plane American Girl.
There are
score of ocean liners in the path
Miss Elder's aeroplane is a bright A clash accurred in the city be-yellow monoplane, and is equipped
with a small wireless set with tween General Tang Hsu Ching's range of 25 miles.
the newly-arrived And troops
to be followed. Nationalist forces. The engagement was indecisive, and commercial re- presentatives are attempting to negotiate peace.
Shops are closed and business is wear Shaichinchwang on the Peking piralysed. Foreigners are safe. Hankow front.
REINFORCEMENTS.
(Wah T Tat Pao.)
Shansi railing parties have caused | MARSHAL FENG ASKS FOR some-trouble at Chochow and else where, but the Ankuochun autho ris state that they are only in small numbers and the Commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie has been successfully rounding them up.
Liu Chen Hua, famous as the defender during the long siege of Sianiu by Feng Yu Hsiang, and who afterwards went over sto Feng Yu Hsinng is reported to be negotiating with the Chihli and Shantung leaders at Kveitenfu.
Chi Yen "Peng denies the Chi- nese reports that his brother, Chen Yun Ao has been executed... He states that the latter is at Ying- chow (Anhui) reorganising bis "forces.
Shansi Prisoners. In Peking.
PERINO, October 12th.
oners arriving.
The aviators carry sandwiches, esice, beef tea and fruit. Missi Eller is dressed in golfing attire and both fliers are also wearing fur-lined one-piece flying suits as worn by army airmen for protection against the cold.
Miss Elder is.23 years of age and is from Old Lakeland, Florida. She is a licensed pilot and her married name is Mra. Lyle Womack.
The plane carries 520 gallons of petrol, estimated to be sufficient for 4,400 miles. Both Aliers are equip pod with rubber life suits.]
HANGCHOW AND THE
COMMUNISTS.
SHANGHAI, October 13th. Marshal Feng Yu Halang has telegraphed to the Nanking Govern. ment to the effect that he has con cluded an agreement with General | WARNING TO ALL CLASSES. Yen Shih Shan with regard to co- operation in the war against Chang THO Lin, and requesting that Sauthern reinforcements in immed- ately despatched to the Tientsin- Pakow Railway.
A PROPOSED LOAN.
(Fuh Tez Fut Puo.)
SHANGHAI, October 13th.'
OFFICIALS AND THE CURE
FOR BOLSHEVISM.
11
OBITUARY.
MR. WILLIAM LE QUEUX.
|INGOVON «REW CHE'S AGENCY.]
The
Lospon, Oct. lath. death is announced, at Kaacke, Belgium, of Mr. William Le Queus, the well-known English novelist.
BIG BRAZILIAN LOAN.
£7,000,000 TO BE OFFERED IN LONDON.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Krasy, October 19th. Particulars of a big Brazilian loan are published. £7,000,000 are offered for subscription in this country. This is a part of an issue of £8,730,000 of Brazilian, 6j per cent. bonds, the balance of which will be offered in Holland, Switzer- At the same
[Mr. William Tufnell Le Quex. who was born in "London in 1884. was the author of a very large number of more or less highly sen sational novels. He first studied painting in Paris, but forsook the Quartier Latin to become a jour. alist and novelist. He made a tour through France and Germany on .time 11 approximately similar
loot and travelled extensively in other parts. Among his novels may be mentioned Secrets of Monte Carlo (1909), "German" Spies in
(1015), England
Rasputin, the Rascal Monk" (1020), "The Broad- cast Mystery (1924)}
INDIAN RAILWAY
STRIKERS.
2
ADOPTED PASSIVE
RESISTANCE,
FUTILE AGITATORS.
[THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.}
CALCUTTA, October 12th. When the Bengal-Nagpur Rail- way workshops were re-opened, out 2000 men presenting themselves; 5,000 resorted to a policy of passive resistance, entering the workshops
not doing any work.. Agitators unsuccessfully attempt-
ed to persuade the whole workshop
staff not to accept payment of their
August wages, and the discharged
men to refuse a settlement of their CASES.
IRISH FREE STATE MINISTRY.
land and Sweden.
nmount of external sinking fund bonds, namely G.$41,800.000 is being offered in New York.' Bonds are offered at 911 per cent. and the issue is expected to be promptly ever subscribed”.
CONFLAGRATION IN AN
AMERICAN CITY.
BUILDINGS DYNAMITED.
A DOZEN BLOCKS IN RUINS."
- [RCUTER'S ¿MERICAN SERVICE}
"New York, October 12th. Fire threatened to destroy Ocean City, but was finally controlled by dynamiting all buildings in the path
the flames.
Nearly every house ja a dczen blocks in the centre of the city
lies in rains,
BRITISH TRADE.
BOARD OF TRADE FIGURES."
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] -
PETROL RATE WAR.
SALES OF ALLEGED SOVIET STOCKS IN INDIA.
DEALERS HOARD FOR RISE.
(THROUGH REVİKA'R AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Oct. 12th.
A petrol rates war has begun here, and as a result the price has fallen by one rupee four aanas per unit of eight gallons.
It is alleged that the Standard Oil Company of New York has procured large stocks consented by the Soviet Government, which. the company is ellering for sale in Bombay and Calcutta, consequently the Asiatic Pétroleum Compsay, the Burna O. and. Indo-British Oil Companies have reduced their
-rates.
Dealers are said to be having large quantities, and are said to be boarding stocks, hoping for big profts after the rate war, which is unlikely to last long.
REAL LIFE SHERLOCK HOLMES.
DEATH OF SCOTLAND YARD CHIEF.
SOME FAMOUS CRIMES RECALLED.
BRAZIL'S COFFEE.
COMMEMORATING ITS INTRO- DUCTION INTO COUNTRY.
EXHIBITION BEING HELD.
(REUTEN'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
SAS Parto, Oct. 13th.. The President opened an exhibi- tion in the Palace of Industries commemorating the Bi-Centenary of the introduction of coffee into Brazil. The exhibition, will last till November 12th and will include a conference on the production and marketing of coffee. Colonisation Other and Agricultural Credits. interesting features will be the opening of the Avenue de Cafe here and the erection of a commerofa. tive monument at Campings,
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. COMMITTEES AT WORK. THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
GENEVA
The Assembly of the League is now devoting its energies to com- mittee work Altogether there are six committees, and some delegates sit on two or three of them. Some of the committees meet in the morn ings and some in the afternoons, That dealing with the Budget of the Secretarias for 1999 showed that it amounts to 21,379,629 Swiss francs (about £987,000) "
The International Labour Office costs 8,000,000 Swiss francs. The Permanent Court of International Justice eosts 2,171,164 Swiss francs. The
from Budget has risen 21,000,000 Swiss franes in 1921 to nearly 25,000,000, the increase being due to the development of the work of the League, in particular of its economic organisation."
an
A London paper to hand reports the death of exSuperintendent John McCarthy, one of the famous detectives at Scotland Yard, and
At the Second Commission to-day for some years chief of the Criminal the question of "the creation of international cinema uader Investigation Department. Mr. Me- the auspices of the League, Carthy, who had been in failing to be financed by Italy, came. health for the past month, was 6ance thright the subject was consideration. M. Loucheur, years of age and retired in 1918
cne for the Intellectual Co-opera- years' alter thirty-six Rucax, October 19th,
Born of Irish parents, he joined the tion Department, which has its According to the Board of Trade police force as a constable, and headquarters in Paris, and is fin French Government. figures exports fer September were spent five years in the uniformed by the
There seems to be jealousy between valued at 00.487,000 being an inbranch. His ability and astuteness
two Governments as to who is to l crease of £1,077,000 compared with quickly gained for him an appoint- Minister of Finance, Posts and August and of 20,807,000 compared went in the central criminal do. the centre of intellectual attraction.
The discussion was adjourned... Telegraphs: Me Ernest Blythe. with September last year, The, in
THE NEW COSGRAVE
CABINET.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Drutis, October 12th. Mr. Cosgrave has reconstructed the Cabinet, with the following appointment
service.
Minister of Defence: Mr. Des-crease over last September when, and after serving for a
+
mond Fitzgerald.
Minister of Education: Mr. John M. O'Sullivan.
Minister af Industry and Foreign Minister: Mr. McGilligan.
Minister of Agriculture: Mr. Lonnor Hogan.
Minister of Fisheries: Mr. Finian Lynth.
Local Government: Mr. Richard J. Mulcahy.
Minister of Justice Mr. Kenney.
FOR
AN AUSTRIAN LOAN AUTHORISED.
:
The
PRODUCTIVE PURPOSES."
THROUGH REGTER'S MORCY.]
Hangchow, in these autumn. days, presents a very striking con trast to the period which ushered in the Spring. With the advent! of the Revolutionary Army. th. whole city became a whirlpool of ribald gaiety, and the spirit of relebration seized and possessed the populace. At that time, the people responded like wax to the new régime, in its early enruak. In connection with the proposed. Now, the glow of Revolutionary
LONDON, October 12th. committee "of guarantor Ioan from the Manchurian Railway ardour is dying down; a reaction Company to Marshal Chang Tso has set in with mistrust, suspicion States of the Austrian Reconstruc- and defection becoming manifesttion Loan met in London, and de- cided to authorise "Austria to raise Several interamen: camps are Lin, Mr. Yamamoto, the Director- on every hand
The people are as friendly and a loan to the maximum amount being prepared around Peking to General of the Company, interview. cope with the large batches of pria-ed Marshal Chang on the 11th inst. delightful as ever, but they seern of 25,000,000 Austrian achillings to be up against difficulties which | (£21,000,000) for productive pür- Mr. Yamamoto said that Japanese are great as well ag numerous poses, for example electrification Many are being enterprises in Manchurian territory The journey, by railway, was very and
other developments, federal sent to Tientsin, It is understood had resulted and that the develop enjoyable. A good service is main railways, and improvements in the
of prosperity and that the develop-tained and every traia seems postal and telegraph services. that they will later be despatched ment of its natural resources and crowded to the
After its commercial expansion had bere passing Lunghus, to the vicinity to Mukden.
fited both Chinese and Japanese. of Sungkiang, the buzz of conver- evident that Marshal Chang is reported to have ation chiefly centred round the It is considered
POLICE PRECAUTIONS. Shunsi's attack and easy defeat expressed agreement with the state exciting disarmament which was
enaeted
days previously. bay not only ended the stalement Mr. Yomonoto left Peking for Shot riddled coaches and waggons [TEROVCE REUTER'S AGENCY.] .. of recent months in the north, but Japan yesterday night.
came under observation en route, and there can be no doubt the am-
DELHI, October 12th." bushed trains were dealt with in Police precautions are being
rigorous and uncompromising taken in all important cities follow I understand several ing the murder of Swami Sataya civilians met their death through ann, who was stabbed by a Moslem stray shots.
on October 10th in Rajpala, which was followed by the murder of an- The Evil Of Commprisin, Judging from the wall posters, other Hindu in Lahore.
Satayanand's assailant was
has immensely strengthened Mar-
shal Chang Tso Lin's power and
prestige.
It is anticipated that Feng Yu
Hsiang will soon be driven from
iment.
MME. C. C. WU STILL DETAINED.
(Wah Tsz-Tat Pio.)
Է.
SHANGHAI, October 13th Madame C. C. Wu is still detain-
Honan, and it is possible, also fromed by the Tientsia Chinese autho
MAATг.
Some
utmost.
INDIAN FACTION FEELING.
Ben-
the coal strike was in progress in chided an advance of £3,576,000 in ccal exports and £2,672,000 in iron and steel exports.
After declining for some months imports went up with a bound dur- ing September. The total for that month was £101,427,000, This was an advance of £11,027,000 compared with August and with last Septem-. ber.
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time as a detective,constable The Slavery Convention. he was transferred to Bew street. The Sixth Committee dealt with where he was concerned in the the Slavery Convention. Speaking World's Great Marrings Associa- at the comunittee, the Maharaja "of tion frauds and other famous Kapurthala (India) said he was cares. Leaving Bew-street berried the League had an opportunity turned to the Yard, where he after this year of devoting a short time wards remained.
Beau Brummell,
to the consideration of one of the most important single achieve
he
Urlane and courteous, a capitalments of last year's Astently, "and asked permission to correct a Ingüist, and so well dressed that
misunderstanding for which the at one time he was known as "Beau Indian delegation last year was Brummell," Mr. McCarthy was en- advertently responsible. The leader
Imports of conl showed a red- tion of £7,723,0D compared with last September and iron and stee!gaged in nearly all the important of the delegation had in his speech
imports were less by £906,000.
criminal
BRITISH CABINET.
(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
RUGBY, October 19th. The first Cabinet meeting, since | of night. the end of August was held to-day when preliminary discussions took of matters place on 4 number which would occupy Parliament when it reassembles in November.
IMPORTED GLOVES.
-
TO BEAR MARK OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
J
Sidney Street.
cases during the last on the Slavery Convention referred to the Kingdom of Nepal, which thirty years. As a uniformed ser- geant be played a part in the had,
80,000 slaves, and attri Muswell-hill murder, when a recluse, tion of cute completed the libera- named Smith, who was believed to buted this to the influence of the. have hidden large quantities of gold Tea
of Nepal liberate the in the house, was killed in the dead tention As a matter of fact the in- The identity of one of slaves was announced before the the two men convicted of the criue Nepalese authorities knew of the was first established by Mr. Me-steps the League was taking, and Carthy discovering that the wick he made the statement so that that of a child's lantern was made from Government could receive the credit A woman's garment, the rest of due to it.
The which was found in the house of
Maharaja of Kapurthala one of the prisoners.
stated that two events of, import-, ance occurred in India during the last twelve months. (1). The Khan' Many of his cases involved phy of Kalat had finally succeeded in sical danger of the gravést kind, abolishing all forms of private pro- and it was noticed that during the perty in human beings (2) The Sidney-street affair he strolled un- Government of Burma last winter across that thoroughfare sent two expeditions to the extreme arinel Rucay, October 12th. An application that importral when the siege was at its height Enat of India to secure the libera gloves should bear the mark of the and kicked open the door behind tion of slaves. The expedition was men were successful, though, owing to the country of origin has been made to which the besieged
dangerous nature of the operations. a Board of Trade committee. There desperately selling their lives.
Another case to engage his atten-
one British officer, an Indian was no opposition, the only question being when the order to that effect tion was the theft of the £83,000 non-commissioned officer, and one should come into fores, allowing necklace which had been sent Indian follower lost their lives.. time for stocks to be cleared. The from Paris in a registered postal Regarding Kalat the speaker said
When the package was
that slavery no longer existed in Kalat State. Committee will report to the Board Packet.
The transition was of Trade which will presumably opened in Hatton-garden it was
found that sugar had been substi- made without danger or disturbance make the required order.
tuted for the pearls. Ultimately of the social and economic con- the necklace was found in a small ditions and there was no danger of box in the gutter in North London, a return to the former conditions.
Dr. Nansen (Norway) said that and the gang which had plotted the Bailey Mr. McCarthy alto arrest to send in reports and he thanked `[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
ed Voisin, n
pork butcher, of Rethe British Government for having
of Kent-square. fer the murder taken the lead in sending reports. WINNIPEG, Oct. 19th The resolution passed by the Madame Gerard, and it was his He regretted there was no report by
Abyssinia or by Sierra Leone.
Sir Hilton Young, referring to Conservative-convention, criticis kill as a Linguist that played a ing the present regime's immigra- prominent part in bringing the the question of Sierra Leone, said care to a successful end. He travel- tion policy, and suggesting re- with Britain, has been referred number of delicate cases with judg- enexpected decision of the Supreme of Justice of the Protectorate back to the resolution committee. Tent and skill, and also accom-
a hiatus was dis Sierra Leone, a forms and improved co-operationed the Continent, and conducted a it was a fact that, owing to the.. panied Royalty on foreign tours after the Winnipe delegate had and watched over the safety of discovered in the legislation of that moved for the deletion of the tinguished visitors to this country of slavery in certain conditions pos Protectorate which made the status words "exclusion of races" incap-
He attended the present King in able of ready assimilation.".
Sir George Foster suggested that there might be a more courteous. way of expressing Canada's feeling
CANADA'S IMMIGRATION.
Shensi, while the Mukden party are rities. As she is a British subject the evils of Communism are still tenced to fourteen: years' vigorous THE EXCLUSION QUESTION.theft was dealt with "at the Old last year various Powers were asked
the British Consul-General at Tien of the opinion that the Southerners, tsin protested to the Chinesi seeing the Northern strength, and rities on the 11th inst.
in view of the financia! stringency
of the South, will not attempt a campaign against the Nocth, but possibly a way will be opened for sume form of compromise all over
China.
Snowfall Interferos With Hostilities.
Sasa, October 13th. The war on the Peking-Suiyuan Railway has been temporarily sus pended owing to a heavy fall of snow. Both at Suenwha and Kalgan Little ness about fighting is ported.
kept well before the public gaze imprisonment.
tho.
A new official communication, ou
[NAVAL WIRELEEN. ]
21
Martial Law Declared At Changsha
31
CHANGSHA, October 12th.
of the Communist Party.
Pundit Indri, son of the late
ver-
the same subject, has been issued Hindu leader, Swami Shradbanand, and posted on the doors of the has been arrested and charged with homes and shops. It is a stringent anti-Moslem articles in the warning against barbouring agents nacular paper, drjun, and has beer.
Labour processions and demon- liberated on bail of £15,000. A Labour meeting was held here strations are being staged at fre with the object of again starting quent intervals: it is a new role FRENCH FLIGHT TO INDIA the Labour Union. The gathering for the artisan.
In consequence of this martial has been declared.
The Kluklang Conference."
KICKIANG, October 12th.
Chief Commissioner C. C. Wu, to-
of
POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT MONTH.
[THROUGH BEUTES 8. AGENCY.]
MARSEILLES, October 12th. The airmen Arrachart and Rig- not have postponed their fight to India until November, "to allow towards so large proportion of the Spanish. monarch by means of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone,
full time for the final adjustment of the world's population. their engine."
These open-air took place in the Public Hall and celebrations are thoracghly enjor: in the middle of the proceedinga aed by the workmen who give vent bombing incident occurred but there to a whirl of war, whoops and a torrent of high pitched expostula- are no details as to casualties...
LIDES.
The labourers are mould- ing a cup of retribution, deep and large, and no wonder the masters look upon these unions as nothing more than engines of mischief.
Bobbed Hair Fashion. gether with Mr. Sun Fo and others, Generally speaking trade is not have left here for Nanking, on their
DUTCH BANKRATE. way back from their Conference with brisk, and many business coacetat are struggling to keep afloat. For the Hankow party.
RAISED TO, PER CENT General Hsu Chung Shih and turntely, the crops are excceding- is a substantial drop in the price
(THROUGH, ZECZER'S AGENCY. 1 others have departed for Shanghai ly bountiful this year and, there
of rice. On a busy thoroughfare
AMSTERDAM, October 12th. barber gleefully superintend." General Chu Yu Pa, Topan of Chibli,
The Netherlands Bank has raised has telegraphed to the Nanking, Ichang, and other Yanging the erection of his new shop Peking Government that his troops tsze ports are reported to be quiet, sign- Hairdresser for Ladies and its discount rate from three, and a The bobbed hair half per cent..to four, and a half are moving towards Honen in four no untowards incidents having oc Gentlemen."
fashion is still going strong. curred.
per cent.... directions.
According to a Japanese report General Yen Shih Shan has decid ed to concentrate his.. forces ni Niangtaz kuan Pass from the Kin Han and Tsingting-Tairuan Rail
WAYA.
Yangtaze Ports Quiet.
SHANGHAI, October 19th.
BAW
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Madrid on the occasion of the wedsible, but the Imperial Government, diag of King Alfonso, and Queen on hearing of the decision, im attempt was made on the life of hiatus good by calling an official
meeting of the legislative body of Victoria Eugenie, when a dastardly mediately took steps to man, im
a bomb thrown at his carriage.
for emergency an Irishman Mr. McCarthy had an and legislation intimate knowledge of the various mensures we now. being pushed
Ireland,
forward to rapid conclusion. At the Central Magistracy yester political movements in day, a Chinere was charged with and his services tore of great as
Two Chinese were charged befora making false statement with regard distance to the authorities in this to the affairs of the Hing Yip Co., country. When he retired he was Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Kennedy Town, with intent to appointed liaison officer hetween Magistracy yesterday with harbour- the Secret Bervice and the Metro- ing a girl of 14. The defendants further defraud. There was a
in respect of a sum of 81,030 politan Police, and for the first said that they did not entice the charge alleged to have been embezzled from time, the appointment included the girl to run away from home; she the firm. Defendant was remanded provision of a special suite of had only been to their house to for one week, bail bing allowed at offices in Scotland Yard, which he seek shelter on October 8 and 9.
The case was adjourned. 810,000.
retained.until his death.r
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