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"IRONSIDES" AND THE NORTH RIVER.

KWANGSI CAMPAIGN A FEINT..

"CANTON THE PRIZE OF WAR.

Extremely conflicting views con tinue to be received with regard to the Ironside campaign. The

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.

BIG FIRE IN HONAM, THE HARBOUR PIPE

FIRE BRIGADE HELPLESS.

LINE.

MILITARY MAGAZINE SAVED.

GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE.

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

CANTON, Nov. 14.

A fire, which involved several blocka of houses, shops, and factories, besides a number of small shipyards, broke out on Wednesday night in

"

SPECIAL JOINTS ARRIVE BY PATROCLUS.

On making inquiries at the Public Works Department with regard to the progress of work on

sentative was informed by the Hon.

"A MISERABLE SCOUNDREL."

"INFORMER IN TROUBLE.

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"NOT A CREDIT TO

HONG KONG”

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT.

IN AID OF ST. PETER'S Y.M. CLUB.

St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club ought to have realised a quito The complainants have suffered useful little sum as a result of the tough without a miserable around concert of Chamber Music, arrang rel, like you trying to swindle themed for their funds by Mr. Harry cut of their money," said Mr. T. Ore, and given in the Cathedral S. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magis-Hall yesterday, for the audience

attack on Kweilin and the threat Chung How, Honam, and raged the Harbour Pipe Line, our rep tracy yesterday when he sentenced was, considerably larger than that

for over five hours practically un checked. It was only the stillness of the night, which prevented what

even more

to Wuchow seem to have been in the nature of a feint to draw the Kwangtung forces from defence of the North River and the Canton night have been on Hankow. Railway. The "Ironsides" serious disaster, for the Honam are now heading in that direction Military Headquarters where thou and, according to some reports have sands of hand grenades and large reached two points on the North quantities of ammunition are stor ed, was not far off. As it was the River.

There is no news yet of any fight-fire only attacked houses largely ing but Kwangtung troops are built of wood belonging to a poor "being rushed to the critical area quarter and stopped next to the and the Canton Military authorities Kwangtung Cement Factory in have received from Nanking thirty which is the Military Headquarters. The fire offered an amazing and machine guns ten pieces of heavy artillery and two bombing aero-spectacular sight from Canter, the planes.

sky being red with flames and the Despite their recent optimism town brightly illuminated. As soon there is no doubt of the gravity as the fire was noticed every avail. wih which the Canton Government able froman in Canton crossed the now views the situation.

river but as there was no possibility

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AN OPTIMISTIC CANTON

AVIATOR.

Air. W, T. Creasy, C.B.E, that the Pipes that have arrived are being

welded, and the arrival of the

special joints is being awaited before pipe laying on the Harbour bed can be started.

It is understood, however, that the special joints in question are on board the 1.8. Patroclus, which arrived yesterday evening.

Chinese to one years hard labour usually to be found at any except en two charges of obtaining money by false pretencts.

Sub-Inspector James Was ід charge of the case and told the agistrate that the defendant had obtained money from two different families on the pretence of helping them to recover lost relatives. In

each case he failed to return alte:

the money was handed over.

In the first case the defendant had got in touch with a family who had The laad connections both inte believe that he could recover het lost their son. He led the mother Hong Kong (where Statue Square child, and they sirompanied him to "up") and in Kowloon (across the Kowloon Railway Station where they were to take the train for the Railway) are making good pro- Shimehun. The defendant received gress and there is no reason to 82.30 for the train fare and was not suppose that the work will not be eren again. completed early next year, already announced,

of getting the engines neroas, and JOHN GALSWORTHY'S

Hoam has little or no apparatus of its own, very little help could be given. The steam launch attached to the Canton Fire Department did admirable work in pumping water.

Both sides are issuing the usual war propaganda and we give, for what it is worth the following from the river to supply the hoses, report from one of its aviators of the Canton fire cagines, which issued by the Canton Aviation] had been brought across the river. A number of private, hand pumps were also brought into action, but the flames burned so fiercely that little could be done.

Bureau:-

"Accompanied by Mr. Chen Yau Sing and Chang Tze Suen, I left Muchow at 8.55 a.m, on the morn ing of the 10th inst. We flew over Chaoping, Pinglok, Yangshu. Kwei- lis, Yiling. Lingchuen and Hingen, and discovered that the rebels are retreating towards Kaishou from lingon on the right bank of the Kwei Kiang to the north of Kweilin.

the rebels was at the most ve

I Chung How is this morning a heap of ashes spreading over an area of more than one nile square. The blocks of busy, shops, constituting

PLAYS.

PROFESSOR SIMPSON'S ABLE LECTURE.

A KEY TO ENGLISH LIFE FOR CHINESE STUDENTS.

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John

The "Harbouring"" Junk, In the second case, the defendant Biet a woman living in Canton Road who had lost her young brother, a 6. He told her that he knew al

about kidnappers and where they

lived. He took her on board a junk in the harbour, to which he declared, stolen children were gen- erally taken. The child, however, could not be found and the defen- dant then suggested that he should go to Shatin and Tripo where he knew of other places where kidnap ped children might be found. He the woman, did not see him again. was given 86.30 for train fare but The Magistrate registered à con viction in each case.

"A Charining Record." Professor R. K. M. Simpson in

Producing the defendants' poliet lecturing to the University Arts record, Sub-Inspector James refer

red to it as Association last night on

quite a charming one. It showed six previous con- Galsworthy's plays said that thesevictions for stealing and larceny by twenty dramas might be described trick, for which defendant had re as magnificent sociological mu-ceived a total of two years' im

the market for the floating popula, sum. Six of them dealt with Prisonment and 4 strokes of the Lirch. He is a Hong Kong boy," remarked Inspector James, but

the Helena May Institute concerta. I think that possibly it is to these excellent Helens May Musicales that, indirectly this better audience ia due, for they have done much to popularise chamber music in the Colony. Even a year ago it would not have seemed surprising to find about thirty people present at last night's concert. This seeming in difference used to be very discourag-

ing to the local ladies and gentle- men who so willingly came forward and gave their services when any concert was given for charitablo purposes, and it is very pleasing to find that the people of Hong Kong seem to have turned over a new leaf" in this direction, and realised that by staying away they were denying themselves a great deal of pleasure.

Last night's concert opened with a trio (the 2nd and 4th movementa of Beethoven's Fourth Trio) for piano,, 'cello and violin. Mr. Ore was at the piano, Mr. Bonenfant played the 'cello and Major Mac Nair the violin. Mr. Ore's playing all through the evening was of the technical corrections which we ex-! pect from him, but he seems to have acquired a lightness and an addi- tional colour" of touch which! makes his playing much more inter- esting. Mr. Bonenfant and Major MacNair acquitted themselves well,

in particular from the violin, and there were some charming passages

all very much in his violin Sonata (Franck) which came later.

In that place the totz number of tium and ship workers in this part judicial investigation, and the thousand and they appeared to be/of Canton, were all reduced to punishment of crime, three with not exactly a credit to Hong Kong Major MacNair was to please us exceedingly weary, We dropped ashes, as were a number of ship-marriage; family life, social dus- large quantities of eirculars and yards for junks and small steam leaflets which they picked up and read. Then we left Hingon and launches. The number of houses and few for about fifty minutes but we shops and factories, destroyed is not did not see any more rebels. Hence, known yet, but believed to be up- we flew back to Wuchow.

ward of several hundred. The Llosses are being investigated by the

Pulice.

(Signed) Y MAN YING.

"" IRONSIDES" LEAVE

KWANGSI?

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Castoy, Nov. 14. After a short but fierce struggle in the vicinity of Pinglok, the

The course of the fire is not known. Some people say it started in a lumber shop and was due to carelessness-others give a different

story.

toins and business were each the subject of two plays, religion and politics were the themes of two more partly humourous. and a further two were poetic and

He is still under Police supervision and bas to report at the Mongkek Police Station at regular intervals," The Inspector also remarked that prisoner was very well known to the Police, having victimised near- ly every Chinese detective in the force, by selling information Compared With Edgar Wallace. about returned banishees.'

In sentencing the defendant to Like Edgar Wallace, the populareix months' hard labour on each playwright and novelist, John Gals charge, the Magistrate remarked worthy dealt largely with crime and that the sentence was inadequate in

In

it

was interesting to contrast the methods of the two men, Edgar Wallace the main point was. who had committed the crime. The criminal was brilliant and audacious, the police were dull but dogged and they won in the end, because they were right and that was the conclusion of the whok matter. Galsworthy takes crime as problem. He is not sensational, SCHOOL-know who did the crime and the questions are raised as to what should be done to the criminal and why did he commit the crime,

"Ironsides" withdrew to Hingon, TAXICAB MYSTERY. 1 Ning and Ningchun in the ex- treme north of Kwangel. This "re-

treat" was, however, a part of

of

“DISAPPEARING

GIRLS.

AND A BEWILDERED POLICEMAN,

"

An Indian traffic constable at the

In Justice" a clerk commits forgery. Should be prosecuted 1 The senior partner decides in the eirnumstances he must. The man is tried. Should the facts be considër-

or the man's personality, his motives, his state of mind when the

their plan for the invasion Kwangtung for after giving their adversaries the impression that they would march down the Kwei River with Wuchow as their objec- dive, they quickly turned north- ward to the Kwangsi-Hunan border and made for Kwangtung. The junction of Queen's Read and whereabouts of the main body of Fedder Street sustained a shock the Ironsides, and how near they yesterday morning and so did prison, he comes out, his old ure to Kwangtung are not known, many onlookers-when a taxicab Reports state that their vanguard pulled up at the corner of Flower is very near Lingshan and Yang. Street and a bevy of Chinese shan, two important cities on the schoolgirl-with wide-legged trou Little North River; but it is also sers and pigtails aawing—alighted, said that they are stiil far away: from there.

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view of the defendant's record nod character.

Afraid of Being Killed.

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On hearing the sentence, the puisoner began to wail and plead or mercy. He loudly declared that be would be killed by the many long term and life prisoners" who had been sent to jail on his information when he worked for,the police. They had threatened to kill him if he ever met him in jail!

It was with some difficuity that the Court Sergeant pulled the shouting prisoner away from the railings of the dock.

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LOCAL ESTATES.

GRANTED.

BEQUESTS TO SERVANTS,

The vocalists of the evening were Mr. Li Chor Chi, the well-known local tenor, and, Mra. D. J. Valen- tine. Is Mrs Valentine a new- comer to the Colony or have I simply never had the pleasure of listening to her before? She gave us two contralto songs, but I be- Heve that her voice would sound, to even better advantage if she allowed it to be a mezzo-soprano. Some of her high notes are delight- ful in their roundness of tone, clarity and the apparent case with which she produces them, but her low-notes tend to be timid and fogged at times. She has a clear voice which could be heard per- fectly at the back of the hall. I hope that now I have made her ac- quaintance I shall bear Mrs. Valen- tine sing often.

Mr. Ore gave us two piano solos of which the second Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" was very well received indeed. He played ret is done? The judge upholds the LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION the end in a particularly pleasing the light dancing passages towards low as it stands, the man is sent

manner, an encore in response to prolongued applause was given. In employers do their best for him, but he lapses again, because his

the latter part of the programme Mr. Bonenfant played two 'cello spirit is broken and the prison taint

solos from Fauré which were 'much sticks. In the end he kills himself. So the audience goes home to

Mr. Alexander Walters Barclay, enjoyed, and as a finale Madame ponder, has the clerk had justice formerly engineer on board the s.s... This item, Spanish Cap Bononiant played a piano duet with Is Justice possible? What of our August 20, 1927, left Hong Kong riccio (Rimsky Korsakoff), was cor Kutsang, who died at Glasgow on One-two-three-four-hve-six-seven-prison system 1: The matter has not estate worth $7,500. In his will Mr. tainly one of the most successful of

been cleared up in the last act, after Barclay leaves everything to his the programme and sent the audi eight-nine. 241

the Wallace manner.

Galsworthys plays were

ence home very well pleased with father who lives at No. 50, Grant theme but did not offer solutions. If a playa." They presented problems, Testament Testamentar has been

Street, Grenoch. Re-sealing of their entertainment.

E.M.B. solution were offered then one bad chief engineer, of Messrs. Butter-Fourth Trio, 2nd and 4th

granted to Mr. Robert Barclay,

von-

ters were not heroes and heroines,

The Programme.

The policeman counted twelve NORTH RIVER DEFENCES. passengers alighting from the cab and then, adjusting his belt and Troop movements and other mili

pulling his revolver holster the propaganda play. The charac-field & Swire. tary activities in the North River dently, walked across to investi- but people of ordinary life, neither

Local estate to the value of districts certainly suggest that the "Ironsides" are heading for that

gate, for he remembered that the wholly good or wholly bad, but 843,400 was left by Mrs. Kilsum el cab was only licensed to carry four generally with the good predominat, Arculli, lale of No. 153, Wengnei-2-Song, Serenata. direction in force. Major-General

ing. Galsworthy, like all greas chong Road. Letters of administra. Tan Tao Yuea's troops have been passengers at the most.

dramatists set out to teach. Hetion have been granted to the eldest 3-Piano Sole: Half-way across the road, he was amused also, but that was incident: Mr. F. M. el Arculli (son), Katma daughter, Ray Hill el Areulli. aware of two startling facts. First. al. The Grock drama taught other points on the North River forly, at least twenty girls had de Christianity, and the moderna, like (daughters) bave renounced their morals and religion, the mediavel,el Aroulli and Rabima el Arculli Pingshek, a strategic point on, the scended from the taxi and others Ibsen, Shaw and Galsworthy socio-clains and titles to administration

ordered to leave Shiukwan and

were evideatly about to clamber logy. The theme play had, in part,

Secondly, there should have revived the theatre in Europe.

out.

north-western border of Kwang. tung. The 59th Division under Yu Jal Mow is moving up to Lingshan in the north-western corner of the Province. Two pontoon bridges are being built in Yingtak on the North stead, there were only a dozen or

50 smiling onlookers.

been quite a coterie of schoolgirla congregated on the pavement. In-

of the estate.

Mrs. Kathleen Rose, otherwise known as Mrs. Katherine Moore A-Man With a Lantern, Iste of Grosvenor Hotel, North Parade, Bath, who died in April 10 Galsworthy in an allegory com this year, left local estate valued. pared himself to a man in a dark at 262,300. Bums ranging from £30. and dangerous road, with a lan to £30 were left by the deceased to River,

tern, throwing light, but not her various servants. Re-sealing of Here was a pretty mystery! General Chen Tsai Tong hea

mending the road.

probate has been granted to Mr. The whole thing was explained, He was an author particularly D. J. Lewis of Messrs. Johnston ordered all Cantonese troops in however, when the limb of the suited to Chinese readers for the Stokea and Master, who is attorney. Kwangsi to leave the Province at lay" reached the taxi and found excellence of his English, the for the executor, Mr. Austin once for the Little North River that, its passengers did not exceed naturalness of his dialogue and the Michael King of London.

the authorised number and thear light he throw on English character districts in Kwangtung where the were enjoying an impromptu game and customs.

Ng Ping Wa altar Ng Ting Chang who died intestate on July situation is considered critical, the of tag by "chasing each other in He did not spare our weaknesses 12, 1928, left Hong Kong estate: defence, of Kwangsi being left toe door of the cab and out at but at least he showed the average worth 248,300. Letters of adminis General Lui Woon Im and other The game ceased abruptly whenglishmen as humane, a lover of iration have been granted to the justice ye kindly and good widow, To Yuk, Lam, living at Kwangei Generals,

natured.

Kowloon Tonz

the other

the officer reached the scene.

Movements. Beethoven. (Mesars. H. Ore, J. L. P. MacNair and C. Bonenfant).

..Mascagni. (Mr. Li Chor Chi).

(a) Two Preludes... Chopin.: (6) Hungarian Rhapsody...Liszt.

(Mr. H. Ore).;

1.-Song: Eses at Blue"

Chaminade. 5.-Violin-Sonata: 1st and 4th (Mr. D. J. Valentine).

Movements ... Franek. (Messra. J. L. P. MacNair and H. Ore).

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Interval, Bong; Torna Amore"

Bazzi-Peccia (Mr. Li Cher Chi).

(a) Elegs ta

7.-Cello Bolo:

Fauré. (b) Berceuse Fauré.

(Mr. C. Bonenfant), 8-Song: "A Summer Night"

Goring Thomas, (Mr. D. J. Valentine). 8-Piano Duet: Spanish Cap-

riccio (Mme. C. Bonenfant and Mr.

Rimsky Korsakoft.

H. Ore).

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