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'Chan May Now Return.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY: MAY 9, 1942.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANT.

Trouble on the “Kinshan."

The air-cushion of which we Our Canton correspondent says There has been trouble behear so much in all kinds of it is reported that Sun Yat-sentwon the Indian watchmen and mechanical devices and in. has consented to the suggestion Chinese coolies aboard the Hong-struments, not to mention the that Chan King-ming be antrusted tong, Canton and Macao Steam-cushion in our rubber heals, is by with the protection of the East bost Company's vessel Kinsban, no means a new or an original River, and that all the former as a result of which the Cargo invention. Many insects bare officials may be reinstated in their Coolies Guild, enlisting the them, and especially the grass- positions provided the movements sympathy of other guilds, de hopper, which was in existence of Chan's troops are subject to manded that the chief officer, during the carboniferous period the orders of the Civil Governor. Lieut. Gibson, R. N., be dismissed. | when coal was formed. All softer It is stated that Chan may now Thin the Company refused to do, parts of an insect are enclosed in return to Canton,

but has removed him to anotherà more or less hardened cover- Our correspondent further re-ship.

ing, which is commonly called ports that on the day on which he The Company's version is that the outer skeleton. Within this lett for Shiukwan, Sun Yat-sen | when a quarrel was in progress, skeleton all muscles and meaty issued a mandate ordering the Lieut. Gibson came on the

parts are formed and, when troops to assemble at that place scene and ordered the coolies the

grasshopper lands after as soon as possible and to attempt to another part of the ship-jumping, it would receive a slight to seiza Kiangsu in fifteen days. This one of the coolies camo at jar, if no means of absorbing it It is reported that already 30,000 him with a hook, as if to attack were provided. troops have reached Shiukwan.;him, and the officer hit him in A report from Wuchow states selfdefence. As Lieut. Gibson that a general store established turned to walk away, one of the A controversy as to the relative by Cantones in Nanning has coolies hit him on the back of merits of boys and women in been rabbed of all its stocks, the head with a cargo book, church choirs does not seem to Talda: about $200,000, by a indicting a scalp wound some have taken note of the substitutes large gang of deserting Kwangsi three taches in length. Luckily, for conventional choristers adopt- troops, most of the Cantonese the wound was not of a serious ed by some American churches. employees being killed.

Expedition Plans.

The following items are from today's Coatan Times:-

DAIRY FARM NEWS. J. T. SHAW

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"Daisy" Butter "Dairymaid" Shamrock"

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nature and Mr. Gibson was able Calvary Reformed Church, Phila- THE DAIRY FARM, IDE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

to carry on with his duties.

delphis, some time ago tried a

Eleut. Gibson, who has been in choir of boy whistlers to lead the the employ of the Company for singing, and Lincoln Baptist five years, bas now been trans-Church, Cincinnati, installed a

Sun Yat-sen and staff arrived atferred to the Sut Tai, which is on choir of birds. Forty canaries Shiukwan on the 6th. It is re-the Macao run. ported that he will review the

troops of the Expeditionary armies in Shinkwan on the 13th} and 14th.

PROFESSOR'S SUIT.

Coolie Sentenced for Theft.

were hung in cages about the church, and trained to chirp to the accompaniment of the organ. Singing birds, are kept in Trinity Methodist Church, Toronto, but they are allowed to warble at will.

General Li Lieb chun, Com- mander of more than sity battal ions of Yunnan and Kiangsi

To raise badly-needed funds, troops and chief of staff to Suni

the head-coolie employed at the Yatsen. has been appointed Commander-in-chief of the Cen-Hongkong Eniversity surrepti-history.

tue second count.

MADAME JOFFRE AND CHANG TSO-LIN.

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HOME COMMENT ON CHINESE SITUATION.

Sun Yat-sen Backs the Wrong Horse.

{ Reuter's Service.)

(Continued From page 19

rms is that it has given no excuse to foreign interest to send forces to China to exact preposterous indemnities for damages. The upshot

of the fighting gives little hope of the consolidation of Chios. Her

The Task Before Wu Pei-fu.

London, May 5.

Dalla eyes have 醬 romantic The first eyes were tral force of the Northern Ex-tiously disposed of a suit of white hopeless failures, and a great deal duck which had been entrusted to of money was spent on experi-, pedition. The arguards of General Li's forces have arrived him by Professor Digby to send meats. The cleverest glass, toy- at Namyung on the northern to the wash. After having pat off workers in the Kingdom were embarrassing enquiries time engaged, but all to no purpose. border of this province, and have received orders from Sun Yat-after time he had to disappear Finally the attempt to make them sen to attack Kiangsi province, of before these enquiries assumed a was given up. After that a toy

However a manufacturer, by a more pressing form. which Chan Kwang-guan is the detective who was put on the case, chance, met a man, utterly im- tuchuo.

According to latest news obtraced the coolie to bis hiding poverished by drink and in the tained from the Northern Er-place and be was charged before last stages of consumption, who

Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning. held the secret of the process for} pedition Headquarters, General

The washerman was produced making dolls eyes.

He was Heu Sung-chi is saking command of the left wing of the Ex. & witness to say that he had willing to sell this secret for tea never remembered or recorded pounds. Eagerly the manu- peditionary forces and General Wang Tai-wai has been appoint-aving received a suit of white facturer paid the price, but so

duck from the defendant.

incoherent were the dying man's ed to command the right wing.

His Worship was satisfied as to directions that it was impossible These forces will soon march to the evidence given by the pro-to follow them. Io desperation ward Hunao province. The left wing includes the whole bodysecution and sentences the de- the Birmingham manufacturer fendant to two months hard went to the inventor's garret and of the Second Cantonese Army labour on the charge of larceny saw the process in actual opera-

London, May 8. which has been recognized as ands fine of $10, or 14 days, caltion. Before half a dozen of the Ecod fighting force. Coder the

The Manchester Guaritan, in the course of an editorial comment, eyes have been made the secret says Sun Yat-sen has apparently backed the wrong horse and must commsad of the Commander-in- chief of the right wing, General aurches were brought before of dolls'

A number of masters of steam was grasped, and the manufactura no readjust his diplomacy. The important fact about the fighting Wang Tai-wai, are more than Condr. Beckwith. R. N.. at the jestablished. forty battalions of Cantonese

Matine Court this morning. Boldiers.

charged with failing to observe, | A piano tuner in Wabash, In-great unifying raind has yet to come. The First and Second Divisions the rules of the road. Fines discs, found a new use for his of the Cantonese Arms will also ranging from $20 to $30 were telephone when be tuned a piano take part in the coming expedition in posed, the Magistrate remark by long distance." The piano against the North. The troops ing that the practice is becoming had been sold to a customer many's work will not be complete until Chanz-Tas-lin is at least driven The Times, in a leader on "China's Opportunity," says Wa Pei- of the First Division under

a dangerous menace to the safe miles away. The purchaser General Liang Hung kai sre

back into Manchuria. It points out that Chang Tso-lin has long navigation of the harbour.

called up to say the instrument been in close relations with the Japanese and says it will be interest- quartering & Shiukwan waiting

bad got out of tune. The for Sun's order of general advance-

ing to see how the connection will serve him at this moment of lost men'. The Second Division of

resourceful piano man replied prestige. Wa Pei-fu is primarily a soldier, and a very capable one, the Canton Army is still in

that he could tone it over the as things go in China, but he has yet to win his spars as a states. Canton, and is to leave the city

telephone, Nate after note was man. The task before him is difficult and there is a risk that he within five days. General Tai

accordingly struck on the cus-will become the tool of politicians. It is his iramediate duty to Yung-fur,

tomer's piano, and as the instruendeavour to come to an agreement with the Southern Party and, in brigade A mander of the division. will be

meat stood near the telephone, co-operation therewith, to nominates Government which shall have the sound of each note was trans the allegiance of the North and South. appointed as acting commander. prior to the return of General Madame Joffre's most thrilling mitted with perfect distinctness Hsung Hsu-lin. the Commander experience in the Orient was to the listening piano tuner at According to the schedule of the when she and Marshal Jofre Wabash. Expedition Headquarters, the were the guests of Chang Tso-lin told over the telephone how to First and Second Divisions will at Makden, according to a feature change the tension in order to accompany the Headquarters of interview in the Seattle Tims, correct the imperfections, and the the Northern Expedition. Large given Miss Dora Dean when the piano was rounded repeatedly and quantities of ammunition and Jolie party reached thers from readjustments were made until it

The armness of Belgian's attitude toward Russia is voiced by other military supplies are being Shanghai. This is what the was once more in perfect tune.

M. Theunis, who, interviewed by the Matin declared that he had no transported from Canton to Shiu French Marshal's wife is reported

He would not confidence in docoments signed by the Soviets. kwan and from Shiukwan to the as saying: different military camps. Mr. Hu

A remarkable tribute has been badge on the question of private property, hoped that the Con- "What Madame Joffre de-paid by the Bulgarian Govern- ference would engender new confidence but feared that such con- Yi bar been appointed head of the scribes as her most wonderful ex- ment to Mr. James David Adence was very remote. The newspapers this morning are fall Transportation Bureau of the Experience in Chine occurred in Bourchier. the distinguisbed

of rumours regarding Genoa. For example, the Journal states that peditionary Headquarters. Mukden. Manchuria, where she special correspondent and cham the Russians and Czecho-Slovaks initialled a Treaty on May 3

and Marshal Joffre were the pion of the Balkan peoples. by imilar to the Russo-German agreement.

A more improbable quets of honourata banquet given the issue on the anniversary of rumcur in the same paper is that Mr. Lloyd George is contemplating by Chang Tso-lin, a former bandit his death of chief and now one of the most memorative postage stamps de certain publishers have offered £3,000,

set of com- resigning from politics in order to write his memoirs for which powerful warlords in Northern dicated to his memory. The China," the story says.

"Madame Joffre was seated on different denominations.

Bourchier stamps are in dice royal tiger skin during the ban of them (30, 50st, and 1 leva) quet B.bind her stood a gigantic present the likeness of the famous

Simla, May 8. bandit soldier, holding in each Balkan correspondent after an

There is frean agrarian trouble among the Bhils of Sirohi, who hand a drawn resolver.

early portrait, while two others last month were punished for refusal to pay taxes. Three thou- "Behind Marshall Joffre stood (10 and 20 stotinki) show kim sand concentrated in defiance of the authorities and were dispersed a second soldier similarly armed. dressed in the national costume by the military, fleeing to the hills after eleven had been killed. Bebird Chang Teo-lin stood of a Bulgarian peasant, which be

Bombay, May 8, third.

delighted to affect. A view of - The Provincial Liberal Conference presided over by Sastri "Scattered around the roam Bourchier's last resting place, the passed a resolution of staunch adherence to constitutional means, and stationed at the doors and ancient Monastery of Rilo, on the urging acceleration of pace towards complete self-government, with windows could be seen other South Bulgarian coast, adorns immediate steps to introduce full and responsible government in the members of the host's bodyguard the four remaining stamps of the provinces, and demanding reduction of military expenditure. On their faces a look of expectant series. watching in their hands more revolvers which they moved sug gestively at the slightest noise.

DAY BY DAY.

com.

An accidental fall into the harbour from the Central Praya led to a Chinese being taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday.

A meat track knocked down a Chinese woman at Jubilee Street yesterday. She suffered injuries to the left arm which necessitated her removal to the Government Civil Hospitel.

For being the outside launch of two others, alongside the star board gangway of the China, on April 25th. the master of the Sang Lea was at the Marine Court, before Comdr. Beckwith this morning, fined $10, or, in defauit, sentenced to 14 days' hard labour.

BEQUEST FOR CHINA INLAND

MISSION.

French Marshal's Wife

Nervous.

The customer Was

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"Chang Teo-lin was a wonder-his soldiers promptly and feeds ful host, courteous, well bred, them on the best of the land, but thoughtful of every detail for his like the feudal lords whose guests' pleasure, said Mme. Joffre. modern counterpart he is, be has Small, quiet, almost mild in his enemies.

minners, was this man, said to "Yes, Chang Teo-lin waS & bare been the fiercest bandit in wonderful host, but after dining Mr. Alexander Miller, & well-Northern China, and now in a with him it is easy to understand known West African merchant, position to dictate to the rule osfe bow Damocles fait when he saw left £1,219,000. He bequeathed his nation if he so desires. the sword above his bead- £1,000 to the China Inland Mission.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

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INDIAN AFFAIRS.

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THE IRISH TRUCE,

Paris, May 8.

London, May 8.

In accordance with the decisions of the IRA. Officer's Coo

ference, the anti-Treaty forces are evacuating the port offices recently seized in Dublin and 108 prisoners captured by the pro- Treaty forces at Kilkenny have been unconditionally released.

JIM LARKIN RE-ARRESTED.

London, May 8.

A New York states that Jim Larkin, whose release was re- Chang Tao-lin is reputed to suspended by a single bair-Mme. ported yesterday, was immediately rearrested on an old indictmentTM bire enormous wealth. He pays Joffre remarked."

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