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SHANTUNG GENERAL ORDERS RELEASE OF MRS. C. C. WU.

PEKING AUTHORITIES AND THE BOBBED-HAIR GIRLS

TWO HANKOW “ CRUISERS" HELD UP BY NANKING.

LD UP BY NANKING.

RABBLE!! REDS APPEAR IN YISING

·AND DEFY NANKING AUTHORITIES.

General Chang Taung Chang, Shantung's Tupan and sturdy supporter of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, has ordered the Peking Police to release the wife of Dr. C. C.; Wa, who has been in custody in. Tientsin for some time past.

Bebled hair is not in favour with the Peking authorities who, according to the vernacular Prest, are imposing a monthly tax of # upon those women who are adopting the modern style of feminine hair-dressing.

The Fengtientse are still engaged in a severe struggle in Chihli with the Shansi troops, the heaviest fighting at present evidently taking once at Hwulu.

Apparently the Nanking authorities are yet finished with their troubles with the Reds," is they have recently had to send troops to keep a large contingent of these riff-raff in order.at Yisarig

HANKOW IN A DEPLORABLE | SHANTUNG FORCES CLAIM

CONDITION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FURTHER SUCCESSES.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEKING-November 3edl Marshal Chang Tsung Chang officially reports further sucesses against Feng Yu Hsiang.

Haxow, November-ard, With the Labour Utions very active and labour restless as the result of the lack of employment due to strikes and trade depression, Shantung forers north of the the rise in the get of living, Yellow River, have eaptured Wei- through the deprciation of paper wel after defeating Marshal Feng's money with which" Haph is flooded troops, who are retreating to Siu- and with tikusands of unpaid, 'ansiang, while Shantung troops are disciplined and leaderless soldiers operating in the centre of "Honnn. and no, visible authority, the im- They have captured Sochow, an the Peking. mediate prospects of Hanhow are important point on

Hankow Hailway. Meanwhile the giving, cause for apprehension..

Reliable information is to the

mai army is still engaged in a effect that Tring Seng Chi is expect desperate battle to the west of momentarily with 60,000 Hunanese troops, leaving 100,000 others in the vicinity of Wuhan more leng leader- less

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, 1927.

LINER & CROWDED GRIM TRAGEDY OF A

FERRY COLLIDE.

FERRY REDUCED TO MATCHWOOD,

FEARED HEAVY

CASUALTIES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

JAPANESE SMACK.

DRIFTING IN THE PACIFIC FOR MONTHS;

POIGNANT NOTE.

[TERDUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.1

“SUBTLE INFLU- ENCES IN SOUTH AMERICA.

WHAT THE U.S. AMBASSADOR, TO PERU REPORTS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.

SEVENOAKS RAIL-WORLD'S LAST WAY DISASTER. GREAT MOUNTAIN

RANGE.

INQUEST INTO ITS CAUSE.

JURY'S INTERESTING RIDER.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY!]"

WASHINGTON, Nov. gnd.

·SEATTLE, November, 3rd,

"Subtié infuences" einanating

LONDON, November 3rd. SYDNEY, November 3rd.

A note.

scribbled in Japanese on from Britain, Russia and other railway disaster resulted in a ver

The inquest into the Sevenoaks The liner Tahiti and a harbour a piece of cedarwood was found countries were alleged to be work. diet of accidental death. The jury, ferry steamer crowded with passen-aboard the Japanese fishing racking to undermine confidence in in a rider, expressed the opinion gers have collided.

The ferry was reduced to match wood, and it is feared that there have been serious casualties. far only four bodies have been

covered.

TRADE BARRIERS CONFERENCE.

A FIVE-YEAR CONVENTION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] »

It shows the terrible nature of the sufferings of the crew of .13.

The note was written on March Sooth and states that the boat left re- Misaki on December 19th, 1926. The engine broke down and the right bushels of rice on board were soon exhausted. No ships passed us. All hope gone. Death only to be awaited" Bodies and bones found account for ten of the crew, and it is thought that the remaining three were lost at sen or jumped overs board to end their sufferings.

[The above telegram refers to the LONDON, November 3rd. fishing sack found a few days ago The Trade Barriers Conference drifting off the Washington coast had before it the draft of an inter-with two dead men aboard.] national five year convention on the abolition of import and export prohibitions.

*

The restrictions provide for the abolition of all such restrictions, subject to certain exceptions.

The signatories also undertake not to impose any further such. restrictions for six months after the enforciment of the agreement.

The convention provides against the adoption of disguised; pro hibitions and restrictions in.

GERMANY'S NEW PENAL CODE.

NO ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]-

BERLIN, November 2nd.

A Reichstag Committee is con-

South American countries in the that the cause of derailment had United States, according to a, ve- not been proved by the evidence. part made by the IS. Ambassador They added that they did not con- to Peru, Mr. Mites Poindexter when sider the class of engine known, as he called on President. Coolidge.

the River type was suitable for fast traffic owing to its rolling on the Mr. Poindexter said that such

track." propaganda took the form of

The Jury, exonerated both driver criticisms of America's "shylock and fireman from all blame. ways" and also its attitude towards- Philippine independence and it' policy in China.

FRANCE'S REPLY TO AMERICA'S NOTE,

PROVISIONAL REGIME PEND ING.COMMERCIAL TREATY,"

#

[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, Nov. 2od. The French reply to the recent American Note, concerning the new tariff, was communicated to the American Charge d'Affaires this evening.

It proposes the establishment of a provisional régime pending the

ANGLO-PERSIAN -OIL CO.

NET PROFIT FOR YEAR EXCEEDS #250,000,

{THROCAS REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 2nd. Sir John Cadinas, presiding at the annual meeting of the Anglo- Persian Oil Co., pointed out that the excessive production of the United States and the larger ex- ports from Russia were necessarily disquieting factors but fortunately the Anglo-Perseian Co. were not impelled to over-produce. He men- tioned that the net profit for the year exceeded £230,000, and warned shareholders that unless there was a radical change in prices, profits in the current year were likely te be reduced.

DISCOVERED IN NORTH-

́ ́EAST SIBERIA,

DESCRIBED BY RUSSIAN EXPLORER

(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Nov. 2nd,

Siberia of last year, which resulted The expedition to North-East

in the discovery of what is probably the last great mountain range out: che globe, is described by the plorer. Serges Obruchey, in the Geographical Journal.

CX-

. The minantains are 23 mile long. and 180 miles broad, thus hoing larger in area than the Caucasus, while they have altitudes of 10,700 feet, being the greatest in North Siberia, excepting the Kamchatka volcanoes.

The Russian Geographical Society: have called the new mountains, which lie in a great promontory to the" est of the river Lena, the Cherki Range, in memory of the well-known geologist.

"AUTHOR'S RETURN FROM DEATH.

PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE

DESCRIBED.

SILVERY CORD."

returned to authorship last year, Major Bernard Hamilton, who

after twenty-five years'. Abance from it, with a romance of the

makes a tremendous psychic claim French Revolution, The Giant,””.

forty years ago, his exo left his Time" (Hurst and Blackett).

He avers that on one occasion, body and for a time flested in mid-

ed to leave Haukow for Changsha Chungmow, the objective being eluding the imposition of mark,sidering the new Penal Code, and conclusion of a Commercial Treaty. pressed the Persians admiration in a new book," One World at

Ichang 'Evacuated. The second Hunauese "Army, hav- ing evacuated lehang have gone to Hengehow. Yang Sen's troops entered Ichang yesterday, but it is expected that they will continue their advance down-river:

NANKING TROOPS MAKE- A BIG HAUL.

(Woh Tez Tat Pho)

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3rd. General Cha› Sai Kwei, General Chu Pei Teb's subordinate, bas

Chenchow, an important junction or other formalities and conditions Serial-Democratic mution to abolish have rejected by 17 votes to 11 the on the Peking-Hankow and Lang- hai Railway.

the death penalty.

THE STRUGGLE FOR

HWULU.

(Wah 71z Vut Pao.)

as to restrictions not abolished. There comprise those safeguarding. public health and security, with regard to traffic in animals, plants, and arms; but is stipulated that these shall not be applied so as to coustitute arbitrary discrimination between foreign countries subject to the same conditions or act as

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3rd. The Fengtienese are still engasa ing in battle with the Shansi troops in their attempt to take Hwula, west of Shihchiachuang..

conetuled restriction in inter national trade,

The text of the whole series of reservations is published, indicat A large rabble, branding them sclvea as Reds and armed with able to sign the Convention at ing that fr of the defigates are

rifles, appeared in Yising, southern Kiangsu, in defiance of

in

present.

RUSSO PERSIAN -PACT.

RATIFIED BY THE PRAESIDIUM.

States enjoy the same rates as prior France suggests that the United

to September 6th except as regards articles on which less than the minimum rates were paid and would

DOW

The Persian "Imperial Conimis sioner, Mirzaeissa Khán Farz, ex

Persia wherein they operate. He for the manner which the Com pany had developed in the part of suggested that the Company found schools with the co-operation of the Persian Ministry of Instruction, in an inaccessible part of Persia where the benefits of education were unavailable.....

EARLIER DWELLERS IN IRAK.

come under the minimum schedule. France, in return, res quests the discontinuance of in- vestigations carried on by American agents at Freach, exporters' pre- mises, a rescission of the restric-EXQUISITE PAINTING AND Kons placed on aanitary grounds upon the entry of French agricul tural and pharmaceutical products, the settlement of certain fiscal mat Moscow, November 2nd. The Praesidium of the Central ters now in dispute and the drop- Exeentive Committee hare raised ping of the "réprisals daties re-

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:

G

POTTERY

INTERESTING ARCHEOLO. GICAL DISCOVERY,

on the other side."

Ee had been for months interest- ed in Theosophy.

One night, in the black dark, 1 woke up suddenly, surprised, in utter borror.

"w

"Fierce Lagers. were at IDX throat. They tore and dlung and struggled to throttle me..", . It was anything but a dream, I bore the marks in the morning-the claw marks of the Dweller on the Threshold.'

The next night I awoke. I was broad awake. Let there he no

I doule of that. Wählen wake.

the normal state."

the Russo-Persian Guarantee Pact cently decreed by Federal authori-highly cultured race intimately re- that from the region of the.

the Nanking authorities. On the "BOLSHEVIST EXECUTION.and appended documents, lat inst. the Xanking troops hurried

to the city and surrounded them.

ER" AT OLD. BAILEY.

wired to the Nanking Military The Reds put up a stout resistance, WITNESS IN A LIBEL ACTION Council from Kiukiang that this

heavy firing continuing for almost

troops held up two Hunkow ergizers two days. Citimately the Nan- on the Upper Yangisze. On board were some 2,000 soldiers of Generalking troops rushed into the city and Tang Seng Chi. They were held engaged in street fighting, which

prisoners while a great hail of am- | munition was also unde.

resulted in the Rede being com- pletely annihilated..

The 14th Nanking Army Corps A report from Ichang says that!

have gone to Kiangsi. They plan the 2nd Nanking Army Corps occu- pied Chingchow, south-east of to effect a juncture with those Can- Ichang, on the 1st ult. They are tauese troops who Kare of late continuing to march down-river to marched into the Southern Huran wards Hankow. Some of General ecction to attuck Hunan.. Liu Chao Lung's troops have aur rendered to the Nanking side.

General Chang Tsung Chang, has telegraphed to Peking ordering the Peking Police Department to re- fcase Dr. C. C. Wu's wife.

have

P

TATUNG TAKEN. -

CHARHAR TROOPS CAPTURE IT, YESTERDAY.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEKING, November 3rd: a month unless she petitions to the is officially reported that police authority that she will grow Charhar troops entered Talung this her hair again.

morning.

The Peking authorities luunched a novel tax with a view to prohibiting women from bobbing. their hair. Every bobbed-hair girl or woman will be subject to pay 22

It

FRANCE AND ITALY. U.S. MARINES IN

"THE QUAT D'ORSAY AND

SIGNOR TITTONI'S STATEMENT.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]·

NICARAGUA.

TAKE PART IN A COMBINED, ACTION.

(REUTERS AMIRICAN SERVICE.]

AGAINST COMMUNISTS.

(THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'

LONDON, Nov, 2nd.

A thick-aet swarthy man, with drooping moustaches, who was re-

ferred to as a Bolshevist execu- tiouer," and other Soviet officials, including a member of the Ogpu (Cheka) were aniong the numerous

EMPLOYMENT OF

COMPULSORY LABOUR.

STATEMENT, BY LABOUR OFFICE SPOKESMAN.

(THROUGH, AICTER'S AGENCY.]

ties.

JERUSALEM. Six thousand years ago northern He was lying on his back, fully Mesopotamia was peopled by" a conscious, when he became aware lated to the earlest known in diaphragm there was arising It is suggested that the decrees habitants of Susa, according to milky film which in almost Trak, undertaken with the objectly about three feet above my body. survey of the whole of northern pyramid state concentrated dense- of obtaining information about the race responsible for the Kirkuk tablets recently found by Professor Cheira of the University of Penn- sylvania.

- Strong Light, "L

filaments and knitting all (as it At the top of these diaphanous

might be the top of a bell tent) was a strong light..

"Into, this mode of light my conscimmers passed. My identity was no longer with the body. My real self was hovering-floating in mid-air.

enforcing this provisional regime could be adopted immediately...

As regards an eventual definite agreement the French Government are prepared to negotiate but are disinclined to make a final arrange-

Dr. E. H. Se ser, annual pro- fessor of the American School of ment until acquainted with the re- Oriental Research in Bagdad, sult of the inquiries into the com- Guggenheim Research Fellow, and parative cost of production in the a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvanis, dur- United States and France.

ing a visit to Jerusalem sum Subject to that reservation, marized the results of his eight France is prepared to grant the months Juvestigations into thely-out of the body,

origin of the Kirkuk tableti. United States the most favoured Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsie in a perfectly detached way. It "I looked down upon that body nution clause in proportion as College, Philadelphia, generously was an object like the bed, that France obtains fresh outlets for her supposted this important piece of was all, but attached to me by ↑

excavation

definite funicle-a wavering cord, products from Washington...

of silvery light.

"The results are rüther satisfae tory, I think," Dr. Speiser said. In the first place a rection of the Near East, practically unknown

GENEVA, Nov. 2nd. Kussian witnesses for the defence The Internatioanl Labour Office on the seven day of the trial of spokesman, Mr. Grinishaw, in a Harry Pollitt, Dick Beech and statement before the Mandates' Thomas Stradwick, who are charged Commission, outlining the views of at the Old Bailey with libelling the Native Labour Commission, TEAPOT DOME CASE. until recently, was studied ar David Scott, a seaman, in the namely, said that compulsory labour Tuternational Seafarer, published should only be employed in esten- Ly the National Minority Movement tial public works and should be of whom defendants are members. paid out of local rates and should Scott has been prominent against not exceed 48 hours' weekly and Communist meetings in England

since his return a year ago from 60 days annually, save in excep. Russia, where he was imprisoned. tional cases.

He made statutory declaration

with regard to his treatment the Mr. Grimshaw also stated that. National Union of Seamen on his the Labour Ofice would submit its return, after which the Internation-

NEW TRIAL AND ANOTHER JURY,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN REEVICE)

The

سميم

I-the real ego-was-definite-

"There came moment:

a most solemn

"I was now quite aware that I chaeologically, The fact that had the opportunity, then - and northern link is almost exclusive there, of passing out of the body, inhabited by Kurds was aaway into the Spirit-world, if the serious obstacle in the way of body, away into the Spirit-worldy erker archeologists, In the if the real ego (out of the body). course of the survey it was posible so desired. to determine that northern Mesopo tamia was peopled about 3,000

I was actually in the psychic world, not in the physical

al Seafarer accused Scatt of dis- completed report at the 1929 Con. Teapot Dome ease, bave resulted geometrical designs exquisitely The whole being of my true

reputable criminal conduct while inference. Russia

AMERICAN INDUSTRIES..

THE INDEX · NUMBER.

[DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

in mis-trial being declared and all the evidence hitherto presented must be re-heard by a new jury,

ed.

ego now out of the body-was suffused by a divine and trastful confidence. There was no horror, no aversion. On the contrary, all was sweetness and light.".

years ago by n highly cultured acc WASHINGTON, Nov. 2nd.

intimately related to the earliest I knew that I had only to ex- known inhabitants of Susa.. These press my volition, and that I charges of irregularity people used fint implements al- should, to the world, dic, and brought against the jury in the most exclusively nad produced very pass out.' away from all material fine pottery with characteristic

things.

painted in black ord red.

It can be accurately determin- that the authors of that early civilization were neither. Semitic nor of Indo-European stock. Nor were they Bumerian. We are con

But Major Hamilton decided not. fronted with the very interesting possibility that we have here the to pass over. He had a duty in original race of the Near East, this world to perform. The fact that the remains of the

"Blivery. Cord." same people are found from Sardes

The decision made, instantly. to Susa, to cite a well known the filaments collapsed. My con- phrase, is certainly instructive.

DANES CONCLUDE LOAN WITH AMERICAN BANKS.

-(THROUGH :REVIER'S · ADENCY.}-

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 2nd. The Danish Landbank has con-

ACITATORS IN INDIA.

POLICE MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS. PARIS, November 3rd. Referring to the statement of |

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]. Signor Tittoni, the Petit PureRIFIL says that it is stated at the Quai

DEL¤1, Nov. 2nd, d'Orsay that the agreement between

The police have searched houses M. Briand and Signor Tittoni last

A combined force of the United at Lahore, Allahabad and Cawn- year referred only to the question

pore and scized proscribed litera of capitulations in the French zone States Marines and Nicaraguan ture, revolvers and materials for October is 12:397 compared with cluded an agreement with American and did not involve a modification "National Guard" claim casualties the manufacture of bombs. Several 12.7370 a year ago. Oils, naval banks for the loan of G.85,300,000 of the principle of Italy's renuncia-of: 60 followers of the Liberal arrests were made.

stores and building materials bave at 5 per cent, the proceeds from tion of any claims upon Morocco, General Sanding in an angngement [A recent message, referred too as agreed in the Treaty of 2012, yesterday. Two of the National the acizure of documents in a raid decreased while others have increas which will be applied to the con- signed by M. Poincare and Signor Guard were killed and one United in Calcutta, indicating widespread ed. Fruits, coal and chemicals are version of the 6 per cent. Loan of Tittoni

States marine wounded.

sedition.].

unchanged.

MANAGUA, November 3rd.

New "Ponk, Nov. 2nd. Bradstreet's index number for

1925.

We hope to resume work to scious identity passed down the ward the end of September," Dr. silvery cord of light into the body. Speiser said. "Any further in- "Theosophy had served my pur formation on the subject can only pose. The fact was established for be furnished by excavations I me. There was a zoal, an actual, have selected a mound about 16 spiritual life, miles northeast of Mosul which looks very promising. The rest,

of course, remains to be seen." C. 8. Monitor,

This certainty is the pervading note of the complicated tome of 300 pages which Major Hamilton now gives to the world.