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FIGHTING IN CANTON,

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 1927.

`ATTEMPT TO USURP, LI TSAI HSIN'S AUTHORITY,

DARING. COUP BY THE IRONSIDES.

TELEGRAPH. COMMUNICATION CUT.

Various reasons are given to account for the serious fighting- which -occurred late on Wednesday night and carly Thursday morning between troops stationed in Canton, but all reports tend to show that it was ab outbreak of the long suppressed rivalry among the followers of General Li Tsui Hsin and General Chang Fat Fui

General Li Tsai Hain left with Mr. Wang Ching Wei for Shangbai on Wednesday morning and it was announced that General Chang Fať Fui, who had come to Hong Kong a few days previously, had accompanied them and had been given $30,000 in order that he might go abroad to study." This scented to suggest that sound precautions had been taken to prevent any disturbance in Canton during Li Tsai Hsin's absence.

It-would-appear-now, however,-that-the report of Chang Fat Fui's departure was untrue. He is said to be still in Hong Kong but whether or no he had any influence, direct or indirect, upon events in Canton on Thursday is unknown. All that is definitely established is that as soon as L Teai Hain's back was turned, before he had been away for twelve hours, action of subordinate cficers led to a confict which put the City into an uproar.

General Li Tsai, Hsin feit General Wong Shiu Hung, the Kwangsi military leader, in charge of the province and it is stated that the ight was commenced by some of Chang Fat Fui's soldiers attempting to capture him and his chief subordinate General Chan Chai Tong while they were in their "private residences. It was a daring coup and if it is successful it will naturally lead to import ant changes in military control. It is feared now that troops belonging to the two factions, stationed outside of the City, may be drawn into the turmoil.

HOW THE TROUBLE

STARTED.

[FROM OUR OWN 'CORRESPONDENT.}

CANTON, Thursday,

At about 3 4.m. this morcing General Wong Ki Cheung-and General Chu Fai Yat (Commuis- sioner of Police in Canton) both of the 2nd Route Army (the Iron- sides) sent troops to the residences of General Wong Shiu Hung and General Chan Chai Tong, in the

Eut Cheung-Maloo-sad Tungshan respectively, with a view to cap. turing these Generals (Li. Teal

Hain's representatives).

The bodyguards of the two Generals were disarmed and it is rumoured that the Generals them selves were taken prisoners,

Following this troops from the Ironsides were dispatched to dis- arm all the Kangai troops station. ed in Canton with the result that fighting started at 6 am. It con

nued until 10a.m. when Aring ceased for a while, but recom- nienced shortly afterwards...

At 12 noon (when this telegram was "sent) the fight was still in progress.

ANOTHER

F

DRIVEN OUT.

PLOTTERS SUPREME AT

THE MOMENT.

'PROSPECT OF MORE FIGHTING.

ADVICE TO TRADERS TO

CARRY ON.

[VROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]

LATER

› The whereabouts of General Wong Shiu Hung, acting commas der-in-chief of the armies in Kwang tung, was uncertain late yesterday afternoon, after the coup d'etat of the morning, in which Generals Wong Kie Cheung, Li Fuk Lam, sit Ngak joined

IL

Followers of Generals Li Tsai Hsin and Wong Shiu Hung are scat- tered in many parts of Kwangtung. especially in the Northern Districts, and as Whampoa, where there are sone 6,000 endets looking to Gen- eral Li Tssi sia as their Com-j mandant, These forces may turn the tide, and there is also a pos- Ribility of Generals Pei Tsung Hsi and Li. Chung Jen, of Kwangsi, supporting Li Tsai Hain and Wong Shin Hung. In the fight early yesterday morning in Canton, both the homes of Generals Li Tsai Hsin and Wong Shiu Hung were search rd, anil during the resistance offer ed, several bodyguards of these militarists were shot:

15 RICE JUNKS

ATTACKED.

TWO SUNK AND THE REST CAPTURED.

TWENTY-THREE LIVES LOST.

PIRATES' HAUL VALUED AT

$50,000.

[FROM QUE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT: ]

The armed guards on the junks offered resistance, but were unsuc. cessful. Two of the junks were sunk carrying 23. members of the crew with them, and the remaining ceasels were captured.

It is estimated that the pirates secured cargo worth $60,000

HONG KONG BOY SCOUTS.

NEW ORDINANCE

INTRODUCED,

DOGS ORDINANCE PASSED,

MEETING OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative

Some fifteen junks, loaded with Council was held yesterday after- ried imported from Hong Kong noon. H.E. The Ocer Adminis- day near Laichow. were "attached by pirates on Moatering the Government (Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, U.M.G.), presided. There were also present H.E. The General Officer Commanding the Troops (31ajor-Gen. C. C. Luard), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. M E. R. Hallifax), the Attorney- General (Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp). the Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer), the Captain Superintendent of Police (Hon. Mr. ED. C. Wolfe), Director of Public Works (on. Mr. H. T. Jackman), the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North), the Hon. Sir Shouson. Chow, Hon. Mr. W. E L. Shenton, Hon. Mr. D. G. I. Bernard, Hon. Mr. R. II. Kote-

$1,000 CLAIM SUCCEEDS.

BILL OF SALE VALID. YESTERDAY'S SUMMARY

COURT JUDGMENT, At the Summary Court yesterday, the Paisne Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) delivered judgment in a case which came before him earlier this week regarding a claim for $1,000, when the validity of a bill of sale wall, Hon. Mr. A. C.. Hynes, the was questioned. Among the leading Kuomintang. The plaintin was Ip Pun, pro-E. W. Hamilton (Deputy Clerk of Hon. Mr. J. Owen lughes and Mr. right wing members detained by the prietar of Messrs J. Gilba Com- forces, of Wong Kic Cheung yester-pany, motor-cnr accessory "dealers, Councils). day were President Tai Chi Tao, cf the Sun Yat Sen University: Com Singh and Kartar Singh the sum

REPORT.missioner Chen Shih Jer of the

WONG SHIU HUNG CAPTURED.

A FEW OF HIS BODYGUARDS

KILLED.

[snou a CORRESPONDENT.}

On Wednesday at 6 pin. many groups of men from the Public Protection Corps (Police) were sent out to the different maloos to

Burenu of Reconstruction, and Secretary Hu Chun Lin of the Political Council, who are consider ed supporters of General Li. Teni Asia.

In the struggle at Canton, the names of Li Taai Hsin, Chang Fat Fui, and Mr. Wang Ching Wei ap- peared only indirectly, and officially these three names were not con- nected with the affair.

not

The surprise in Canton is that the coup has happened, as it was forecast some time ago, but that General Li Fuk Lam has also joined the left wing in the Kuo-

uintang.

and be claimed from Sapooran.

of $1.000, for damages sustained by reason of the defendants convert- ing two motor cars to their own use, to which the plaintiff claimed he was entitled.

Boy Scouts.

The "Attorney-General moved the first reading of a bill intituled "An Ordinance to further and protect the activities of the Boy Scouts' Mr. L. D. Turner was for plain- Association, and to incorporate the tif, and Mr. D. McCallum repre- Iong Kong Branch thereof. sented the defendants.

He

The case for the plaintiff was said: In view of the speeches 'made that he advanced $1,000 to Mr. L. at the annual meeting of the long Hei San, the proprietor of the Kong Branch of the Boy Scouts' Wanchai Garage, on the security

of a bill of sale, the schedule of Association, which were reported which included the cars in ques-in the Press that morning, it seems tion. The garage went bankrupt and plaintiff found the cars innecessary to say anything about possession of the defendants, who the aims and activities of that on their side held that they had movement. Everyone knows some- bought then and refused to hand thing of those nims and activities, them over.. Originally the claim was in-respect of one car, but later and they have always met with the writ was amended to include complete approval. The object of two cars.

this Bill is to protect the moves must people scented that something had been bought over by General said that the question at issue was ment in Hong Kong" against un-

Giving judgment," His Lordship

search the pedestrians for arms. This, gave cause for alarm, and

was brewing. **

AL 3

MONEY SPENT AND FEW

-GASUALTIES-~~

different hotels to arrest all the Kwangsi officials they could find.

At General Wong Shiu Hung's headquarters all the soldiers were tion he will receive when he reaches disarmed, with very little resist Shanghai. The supporters of the

Kwangsi group may hold him re

Members of Labour Unions were very active and pamphlets denounc- ing General Wong Shiu Hung were distributed. All shops in the east ern part of the city (the bund) ance. are closed and soldiers of the 2nd A few of his bodyguards were sponsible for the coup in Canton,

(the Ironsides) are posted killed during the attack on... his op all streets. The Shameen gates | bouse. General Wong. Shiu Hung are closed.

LI FUK LAM

It is rumoured that Generals Fuk Lam and Sit Ngok have also joined hands with the Ironsides.

At about noon General Wong Ki Cheung sont troops to control the Canton telegraph office and further cables will not be allowed. Fight- ing continue.

ÄNOTHER VERSION.

and niany officials under him were Arrested, all of whom he taker PASSENGERS BY THE back to the Shiu Hing Wai Koon (General Wong Ki Cheung's head, quarters).

WHERE IS WONG SHIU HUNG?

'TAISHAN."

CHINESE OPINION,

The success

the formation of

The casualty list in Canton was not large, as practically every unit

Wong Kie Cheung long before the not the amount of damages, but the desirable imitations. a.m. yesterday morning departure of General Li for Shang liability. The first question to de- of the Boy Scout movement is a three squnds of soldiers owning hal

cide was whether the plaintiff, who allegiance to General Chang Faz Fui

In the official statement made based his claim on the bill of sale, temptation to Cheung, one squad to the head-manders Wong Kie Cheung and Li ale or not. were sent out by General Wong Ki over the signatures of Corps Con was the grantee of a valid bill of small local organisations borrowing Hie Lordship added the titles and badges and other quarters of General Wong Shiu Fuk Lam, and Division Commander that he had considered the bill of Stung iu So Po Hung, the second Sit Ngok, General Wong Shiu Hang sale very carefully with the authori- features of the original movement, squad to the residence of the same has been accused of having in ties, and, in his opinion, it was a but not subject to the control of General in Kut Cheung Maloo, and trigued to force, Mr. Wang Ching good bill of sale.. the third to the headquarters, of Wei and. General Li Tsai Hsin out

the central authority, Imitation Wong Yuk Cho, a General in the of Canton. The statement advised it could be held that the defen- may be Battery but flattery is

The only other point was whether Kwangsi army, at the Wui Lau the people to resume business as daats acquired the cars from the generally bad, and may sometimes Bridge..

asual, saying that the problem of grantor of the bill of sale in the be very embarrassing. Some of Palice were also sent to the getting rid of Wong Shu Hung ordinary course of the grantor's these local bodies which might be

bad been solved.

business. As he had intimated Friends of Mr. Wang Ching Wei previously, he did not consider that formed might not be bad in them- are now worrying about the recepthey did acquire the cars in that selves, but they would lack the manner. He would therefore give strict discipline and the careful judgment for the plaintiff against both the defendants fer the amount organisation of the original Boy claimed and costs.

Scouts movement, and they might Speaking on the question of costs, tend to confusion and to the dis Mr. McCallum said that in any

Other local event it was necessary for the sipation of energy. defendants to bring this action into independent, organisations might be Court to assess the actual damages distinctly bad in their tendency incurred. The writ at first had relation to one car only, which the because they might be "used for grantee of the bill of sale valued political and militaristic purposes. from $400 to $500. As the case The Boy Scout movement, as every- proceeded. His Lordship came to The passengers returning to Hong the conclusion that another car one knows is zet political and it Kong by the ss. Taishan last night covered by the bill of sale could be is not militaristic. This Bilf, there- A report from another source says were generally of the opinion that included in the writ if it was in there, proposes to protect the welf that General Wong Shiu Hung left General Chang Fat Fui's absence tended to bring the damages to known title of Boy Scouts and the Canton at 11 p.m. on Wednesday from Canton was a "blind" and $1,000. for Wong Sha from whence ho took that he had full knowledge of what

Mr. McCallum claimed that in Chinese equivalent. It also pro a train to go up to the North River was going to happen.

consequence of this plaintiff would teets the present Boy Scouts' Asso [FROM A CHINESE "CORRESPONDENT.]

An eye witness told a Daily be disentitled to costs up to the It is learned that Tai Kwai To Preis representative that the fight-time of the amendment.

ciation in the use of the badges Another version of the fracas and Chu Ka Wah (members of the ing was very fierce. Both sides His Lordship commented that the and emblems which are employed among the rival troops in Canton Political Council) who recently re were determined to gain the day costs in respect of the claim for by it. It also proposes to incor- states that it was the intention of turned from Shanghai, have aise and hundreds of dead bodies were $500 were the same for $1,000.

porate the local branch of the some brother otheers of Division been arrested. The headquarters seen in the streets. The casualties, Mr. Turner: Yes, my Lord. Commander Muh Pei Nan,. of the of General Chan Chai Tong in the however, were mostly innocent His Lordship: I don't think you Association in order that it may 4th Army, to disann the men of East Bund were also surrounded pedestrians who were hit by stray will get any additional costs by more conveniently hold the pro- General Wong Shiu Hung and that and all the soldiers disarmed.

bullets. [According to Canton cor- reason of that, Commander Muh himself desired At Tai Luk. Po, a battalion of respondents, as stated above, there also to mutiny against General Kwangsi troops offered some resist were few casualties Castong Wong Shiu Hung, the acting oficer ance but were ultimately disarmed soldiers.] commanding the troops in Canton Generals Li Fuk Lam and Sit during the temporary. absence of Ngok, who had joined hands with General Li Teni Hin. Division the Ironsides, disarmed two batta- Commander Muh is nominally alions of Kwangsi troops Woak subordinate of General Wong Ki Sha and Sai Chuen. Cheung, a representative of Gen- In the afternoon fighting ceased eral Chang Fat Fui in Canton, in the city, but at Lung Ngan Tung Therefore, indirectly, it may be it broke out again between the said that the present conflict is one troops of General Wong Ki Cheung

MORPHIA TRAFFIC. between supporters of General Li and Kwangai men

The Ordinance to make provision | Taai Hein and followers of Chang

POREIGNERS CHARGED. Fat Fui Nominally all are subject

for regulating the keeping of dogs to the Military Council in Canton,

Alleged to have undertakes to Both Chang and Li have troops

$3,500,000 for the

payment of of morphia, J. Christic and C. portation and spread of rabies was outside Canton City and it is fear-

Fung Chuk Man, the Chief of bonuses to the unemployed on their Bluhm were charged at the Central read a second and third time and ed they may be drawn into action.

Staff to General Li Tsai Hsin, and disbandment. During the conflict among the ex-Minister of Finance, managed to enough and the Canton Authorities fore Mr. It. E Lindsell.

This sum is not Magistracy yesterday morning be passed. rival troops the Western Suburb esenye.

Are now considering making 0 Christie, who described himself, was cut off from the Eastern, and

levy upon property owners for a asa kerosene agent, and Bluhm, when the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon morning, express for Hong Kong on a sight-sighting their properties.

sum equal to one month's rent of calling himself a mining engineer, was about to start, some troops tour, but when the express left, It is thought that an additional Gordon Leask Mr. H, King were both defended by Mr. J. A tried to hold it back, but a confer only half of the number had aut $1,500,000 may be raised in this ence resulted in allowing the train ceeded in reaching the Tai-sha-tse way. Property owners whose pre appeared for the prosecution.

Director of Criminal Intelligence, to proceed as usual. A group of station. It was presumed that mises have been returned to them The case was remanded for a some 25 students from Chungshan those residing on the West could after occupation by the strikers week and bail in the sum of $2,000 ture totalling $117,445 were agreed University were to have departed not get to the East without meeting will be expected to pay three each, $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in "(Continued at fact of next catuum interference on the way.

security, was fixed"

district,

DISBANDMENT OF STRIKERS.

.

Mr. McCallum: It is entirely at perty of the branch. I understand the your Lordship's discretion. I may that most, or many at least, of the

have been inclined to consent to Colonial branches of the Associa

MORE MONEY REQUIRED. [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT:]

Canton merchants, together with

judgment for a reasonable sum, but tions have already secured the "ad- $1,000 was out of the question.

vantages of incorporation by Ordi- nance.

His Lordship: You might "have paid the money into Court mightn't you? No. I will give judgment for the plaintiff with coste,

The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.

The Dogs Ordinance.

During the fight the Telephone those at Swatow, Kongmoon, Fat- Co., the Telegraph Office and the shan and other cities were respon "Wireless Station" were controlled sible for raising something like procuro and supply 20 kilograms and for the prevention of the im-

by men from the Ironsides.

months-ront

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