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WAR PREPARATIONS CONTINUE.

WEST RIVER TOWNS BECOME ARMED CAMPS.

WHICH WAY WILL KWANGSI GENERALS FIGHT?

IRONSIDES HOLD KEY TO SITUATION.

The Canton Government continues to move every available man and ship to meet the menaco from Kwangsi. The whole situa- tion is obscure. Several of the Kwangsi lenderna, notably Lui Woon 'Im, one of the most important, may declare for Nanking and seriously embarass the Anti-Chiang Kai Shek party.

It would appear that the "Ironsides" hold the key to the situation. The. Kwangsi forces are awaiting these supposedly for- midable allies, but if the reported defeat of Chang Fat Fui's men be confirmed it looks as if the whole trouble will enlla par.

The news from Wuchow is particularly conflicting. Lui Woon Im. According to one report, is there with 20,000 men and will surrender the place to Canton. A naval wireless message seems to confirm this, but if Warhow falls, it will be a great blow to the immigrant party.

PEI CHUNG HSÌ TO TAKE COMMAND?

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An interesting report is that Pei Chung Hi, one of the beat fighting generals in China, who figured prominently in the recent Inter-Kwang war, will take command of the Kwangsi forces. Pei wan, one of the Big Four of the Kwangsi clique and a strong op ponent of the extremists. It will be interesting to see how he and“ the semi-Communist Chang Fat Fui hit it off! SKIRMISHES ON THE WEST

RIVER.

A BIG CONFLICT IMMINENT.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,}

CANTON, October 2

War on a large scale looms ahead and sharp skirmishes between the Kwangtung and Kwangsi forces tre reported from Fungchun on the West River, near the borders of the two provinces. A number of gun bents sailed up River to-day and all the principal towns on the North and West Rivers such as Shiubing, Samehui, Dosing, Fungchun. Pai Nai, Kongmoon and Ying Tak, have the appearance of military camps. The Canton-Samshii Railway bas been taken over entirely for military. transport and civilian passengers have to travel by boat,

FALL OF WUCHOW EXPECTED.

AMERICAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO LEAVE.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.]

It is anticipated that the occupa tion of Wuchow will take place in the near future by Cantonese forces, Hostilities are not expected.

The American Consul has been advised evacuate, American women and children,

to

CANTON TROOPS ON THE

MOVE.

BRITISH CAPTAIN'S REPORT.

Captain Trott. of the Taibing. which left Wuchow on Tuesday evening. arriving here yesterday NANKING REINFORCEMENTS afternoon reports that at Wuchow

DELAYED.

The advance units of the Nanking troops promised by Chiang Kai Shek did not arrive in Canton to- day nu expected. It is thought that

they will be here to-morrow (Thurs- <day) and they will at once be sent to the West River district. They

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ull is quiet,

There is a big concentration of Kwangtung forcee at Dosing, eight gunboats being anchored off the ramshackle little town. It is said that nearly 20,000 troops have been concentrated there, and between Dosing and Samshui Captain Trott reports that a large number of

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1929.

The

PEI CHUNG HSI TO COM- MAND IN KWANGSI.

TRIPLE ADVANCE ON KWANG- TUNG PLANNED.

2 A.M. IN TEMPLE A COMPLAINANT'S

STREET.

ENGINEER FINED FOR

DAMAGING RICKSHA. ·

- MAGISTRATE'S TRIBUTE TO

RICKSHA COOLIES.

ABSENCE.

CAUSES LARCENY CHARGE TO FAIL.

COUNTRYMEN ROBBED AND

HUSTLEDZ··

Two Chinese were charged before

According to the vornicular Prese that redoubtable soldier Pei Chung Hsi, who came within an ace of capturing Canton in the last inter.

A. T. Gibbison, an engineer, Kwang war, is going to take com- who was summoned for assaulting Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon mand again of the Kwangsi forces. ja riekaba coolic and maliciously Magistracy yesterday with stealing An ex-leader of

cushion the Kwangsi damaging the

and sido | 845 from the person of an unknown screens of the rickaba was convict- sa in Shanghai Street on Sept. Clique is supposed to be backing ed on the second rount, fined 81319, and offering a bribe of $5 each Fei asocially.

and ordered to pay $3 compensato a Chinese detective,:

His tion to the rickana coolie.

Detective-Sergeant Fitches Was in charge of the case, and Mr. A. Worship found that the assault charge must be dismissed for lack. Hall appeared for the defen- of corroborative evidence.

daat.

According to reports from Wa. the Kwange leaders are chów awaiting the arrival of the Iroa- sides when they will launch a triple attack on Kwungtung.

The 5th Division and the 1st Brigade will advance from Wechow along the West River, the 37th Division will make Kwongning, ri Weichap, its objective, while the 16th Division will advance from Watlam on Loting. The primary objective will be Samshui, the terminus of the Canton-3amshui Railway and one of the strategic keys to Canton.

Of these troops, however, the 10th Division is under Lui Woon Im who is supposed to be support ing the Nanking cause

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THE OPPOSING FORCES.

WHERE THE TROOPS ARE·

STATIONED.

According to the vernacular Press the total number of the Kwangtung troops is 45,000 while, the combined forces of the Kwaugai troops and the Ironsides is about $7,000. The Kwangtung Brigade under Colonel Chen Wei Yuen which was dispatched to southern Futien for the suppression of the Reds has been recalled and will be increased A division, with General Tai Kik as its commander. When the Nan king troops arrive, the Kwangsi troops and the "Ironsides" will be greatly cutnumbered. The fol lowing list shows the troops of the Two Kwangs and the localities where they are quartered. How the Kwangsi forces will align them selvez is unknown, especially the 16th Division."

Most of the Kwangtubg troops, as stated above, have been moved to the West River districts.

Kwangtung Forces. The 50th Division under Yu Hon Mou in the North River districts.

The 60th Division under Troi Ting Kai in the East River districts. The 61st Division under Chiang Kwong Nai at Swalew.

The 2nd Division under Heung Hon Ping at the West River dis

tricts.

The ard Division under Li Yang King at Canton.

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Kwangsi, Forces, The 15th Division under Li Ming Shui at Nanning.

The 57th Division under Yang Teng Fai at Liuchow.

The 16th Division under Lui Woon Im at Watlam.

The lat Independent Brigade under Hau Kai Ming at Liuchow.

The 2nd Independent Brigade under Meng Chi at Sunchow, under Hsu Fai Sang at Lungchow.

The 1st Independent Regiment The 2nd Independent Regiment under Chang Yin Man at Posch.

The 3rd Independent Regiment

are being sent for the special pur junks-packed with soldiers-had under Wong Yat at Paseh.

pose of invading Kwangsi, after the main resistance has been broken and purging the province." At present, however, they will co- operate with the Kwangtung troops either in front of. Wuchow against the Ironsides."

UNCERTAINTIES OF THE

SITUATION.

or

The attitude of several of the Kwangsi leaders is obscure." General Yu Tak Pak, the Chairman of the Kwangsi Government, is reported to be hostile to Nanking", and two of the principal military officers are said to have gone over. General Lui Woon Im, who is in command at Wuchow and has some 20,000 men under him is still on the side of the Central Government, according to all reports. Wuchow is quiet but the whole population is apprehensive and trade is nearly dend.

been passed.

Communist Arrested.

MALARIA DANGERS.

CHINESE CONTRACTING

FIRM FINED.

According to evidence already given, the incident in question occurred at the junction of Temple Street and Bowring Street at about 9 am on August 97.

The defendant approached the complainant's ricksha which was the last of a queue of eight and demanded hire. The coolie refused because he was not the first in the queue and did not wish to create bad feeling amongst the other coolies. The defendant was stated to have kicked the coolie and torn the side screens, then knocked the ricksha over and walked away with the cushion, which eventually, he tore before throwing it away.

Outlining his case, Sergt. Fitches said that Chinese detective noticed three Chinese, two whom were the defendants, behaving in a suspicious manner, in Shanghai Street on the day in question." "He followed them and saw them ap proach a Chinese, evidently of the country type. One hustled him on gaeside and as he turned the other snatched his wallet. The old man was bewildered or the moment and the defendants ran off. Tag deter- tive, gave chase, and passing the man he enquired quietly how much he had lost. The man replied $43 in notes, whereupon, the detective told him to remain where he was wrile ne obased the defendants.

He chased the defendants for a considerable distance and finally they ran up & stairway in Portland Street, The detective stayed at the bottom for about half an hour and thea only the two defendants

Argument in Charge Boom. Sub-Inspector E. J. Cotton, who was at the Yaumati Police Station when the detendnat came to the Station, said that when he was call ed down to the charge room, the de. tendant was walking up and down, The defendant insisted on charging came down. The second was dress. one of the coolies whom he saided in other clothes and wore clogs, had refused hire, Witness said The detective arrested them. that he naked the defendant what

Bribery? his idea. was in picking the lasi On the way to the Station, the ricksha in the queue. Defendant are defendant attempted to bribe replied, My reason is the constable with a 85 note, and myself."

later the second defendant did the Babe, They returned to where the complainant had been left, but he could not be found.

inspector Cotton said that he then went into the charge against the ricksha coolie and refused it He told Mr. Gibbison that if he was not satisfied he could see the Chief Inspector.

Soon after this, ricksha cushion and a cover screen were brought into the charge room. The front of the cushion was we: and complain- ant made an allegation agaiast hr. Gibbison with regard to it, The cushion was not otherwise dam aged.

Mr. Hall protested that the charge was bad in law. The de fendants were charged with lar ceny and unless the complainant could be produced the ebarge must fail.

His Worship replied that he had had his doubts also, but Sergeant Fitebes stated that he wished to quote an authority.

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A Dangerous Policy.

The cover wasn't torn but the

Mr. Hall replied that he would side screen had a long slit down it.

Later in the charge room when like to know of this authority, but the charge against the ricksha at the same time, the essential coolie had been refused, defendant point, was the claim by the owner, said, "I'll take the law into my and up to the present no such per. own hands. I don't care what son existed. It was a dangerous have done. If I had had a box of policy to follow. The detective matches I would have set fire to might have had a grudge against the defendants and framed the it."

charge.

His Worship said that he had gone into the question: already and in drafting the charge from the found Indictment Ordinance he that it was inmaterial for the com-* plainant"to appear in person.

Inspector Cotton went on to say that the argument then stopped and he suggested that deferant should get on home, Witness took down the defendant's address but later he found it a false one.

Defendant asked witness if he had seen any marks on the com- plainant. Witness replied that nothing was said about an assault by the complainant and he (witful possession. ness) did not examine him.

Defendant then remarked that he denied the alleged damage to the ricksha.

In anewer to his Worship who asked if the tear on the screen was nouceuble, witness said that when the screen was brought into the charge room it was badly torn. It would have taken a new piece of cloth to mend it.

Lotting Down the Foreign Community.

In convicting the defendant on the second count, his Worship re- marked that he held that malicious the damage had been done to cushion and the screen of the rick- aha. "It is a very unfortunate

Mr. Hall said that such un indict ment should have been followed by an alternative charge of." unlaw

His Worship remarked that he did not know how Sergt Fitches was going to prove the $43, but he would hear the evidence. If the larceny case fell, then the other charges must also be dropped.

After the evidence had been heard, his Worship, dismissed the two charges and the alleged bribery. money was returned to the defen. dants.

DAYLIGHT ARMED ROBBERY. YAUMATI FLAT RANSACKED.

A military picket boarded the

A daring daylight armed rob- Taihing during a delay of an hour

thing this," said his Worship. It bery was carried out in Yaumati strikes me as being bad bebaviour, yesterday afternoon. and a half at Dosing and arrested

A report to the police by the The Secretary of the Yue Ho Such behaviour, I think, is likely Hing contracting ärm, was sum-

to give these ricksha coolies a bad tenant of 424, Shanghai Street, Chinese passenger whom they need before Mr. T. S. Whyte impression of the foreign "com-

was to the effect that at about 2 declared was a communist. As far Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy munity. By actions such as this, P., & Chinese came to her fint on

yesterday for failing to hate a as the Taihing was concerned this mosquito auisance in pools of water munity.

you let down the foreign com.the third floor stating that he He did wished to rent a cubicle. not agree to the price she asked was the only incident.

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"From everything I heard," said Mr. Trott, there is likely to be pretty sharp fighting at any time."

Trade While You Can.

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malaria.

they

should

be

No arrests have been made.

very

on their premises at the junction Ricksha Coolles's Fine Lot of Men. and he left. Be returned a minute of Peking and Nathan Roads.

Sanitary Inspector J. Gellatly "These ricksha coolies are, to later and on complainant opening prosecuted and the defendant ad my mind, a very fine set of fel the door four men entered. They mitted that the nuisance was not lowe, law-abiding and good natured, curried revolvers and, held the in.. entirely abated but that kerosene and none of them have ever been mates up, forcing them into the had been poured into the pools. before me for a dishonest offence, rear cubicle where they bound and The Sanitary Inspector said that but only for trivial traffic offences; gagged them. The mea stayed for

result of and the nuisance Was

properly about. half an hour during which time they ransacked the fat and drainage facilities. treated.” inadequate, "Cargoes from Wuchow have Something had been done but the

$107 in His Worship went on to say that left taking with them been very good lately," he added, effort was not entirely successful. some time ago, au. Army Major re- money and jewellery. "we had a full ship day including. His Worship imposed a Ane of marked to his Worship that he seventy-two pigs. It looks as if 85 and made an order for the would like nothing better than to nuisance to be abated within 24 be able to train a battalion of they are doing all they can in the hours. He pointed out that it was ricksha coolies and make a regi Mr. Gibbison retorted that as for way of trade before the storm a serious matter and that hundreds ment of them. Hie Worship con- the ricksha coolies being breaks. There are a good many of people might be infected with idered that as a very high, com- fine fellows," that he had recently pliment and most people would seen two ricksha poolie take away passengers especially from Sam.

Also in Chatham Road. share the opinion that they were a three dollar notes from two Ameri can sailors whom they deposited at shui, as the railway has, of course,

Mesara Hang Yick & Company, good set of fellows.

Blake Pier. "I call that fleecing," been taken over by the military.

eontractors, were also summoned

"Pretty Hard Kate." On the other hand the ship is for the same

His Worship also remarked that remarked that defendant.

H: Worship enquired how the premises at the junction of Chat-they had a pretty hard life. In going up pretty well empty.

ham Road and Mody Road. The the last five years the competition defendant knew that they were defendant said the pools were un

of the 'hus services, must have given 83. Defendant replied that he weat up and asked the sailors der a heap of boards.

made it very difficult for them to Inspector Gellatly said that the

earn a living, but they will work and they said that they had riden for half an hour, and that they nuisance was so had that they had hard to

get an extra 10 centa

gave $3, but, the coolies wanted received complaints and had to kumshuar.It is very unfortunate destroy the larvae themselves that the defendant had treated the more. Even if the pools were underneath ricksha coolie in this way," con- boards they could be a breeding cluded his Worship.

A fine of 815 was imposed with ground for mosquitoes.

the order to pay the ricksba coolie

compensation. (Continued at font of next column).

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IN CANTON. Martial law is being enforced in Canten. The streets are being. vigorously patrolled and armoured

There had been no rush of, re- cars are passing up and down the streets most hours of the night. fugees from Wuchow" and with re- Government buildings are heavily gard to the Naval, Wireless mca guarded and hotels, lodging houses sage, published above, Mr. Trott and hospitals are being watched by said that they had brought down uniformed police and plain clothes no European passengers, but the inen. Nocturnal pedestrians are 'message had evidently been issued frequently searched. So far all in after the Taihing had left for Hong -quiet,

Kong.

offence at their

A fine of $25 was imposed with an order for the nuisance to be abated within 24 hours.

As for making fine soldiers. His Worship sharply silenced the defendant remarking, "We won't go into that, but there are many others, including myself, who know them to be fine fellowe."

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