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ON TO FUKIEN.

CHANG KAI-SHEK'S NEXT MOVE.

LULL IN SOUTH.

No further news is to hand re- garding the East River situation. but the opinion is held in some quarters, that General Chang Kai- shek may lead his victorious troops into the southern part of Fukien, where, it is sad a big revenue can he collected at this time of the year. He may also keep up the pursuit

of the enemy with the purpose of entire annihilation of the Yuct

DAMASCUS AFFAIR. LAUNCH SEIZED. REVOLVER ACCIDENTS.

OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT.

ONLY MODERATE MEASURES.

Paris, Nov. 4, An official account of the events] at Damascus has been issued by the

Foreign Office. Based on the

CRUISER INTERCEPTS

PICKETS.

HAUL OF ARMS. News is to hand of the seizure of picket launch, with arms and

COOLIE INJURED AT POLICE

HEADQUARTERS.

5, 1925.

An alarming incident occurred at the Central Police Station yesterday, when, through the ac- cidental discharge of a revolver.}, a coolie was shot in the leg and

日九十月九

PEACE TALK.

PEKING CONFERENCE

POSSIBLE.

|GOVERNMENT MOVE

Hankow, Nov. 5. The vernacular newspapers state

Present prices of the FTRAIGHT – EIGHT 5-passenger PACKARD -MOTOR” CARRIAGES"

are as shown below":

Touring

Sedan.....

G$3,750

G. $4,750

Sedon-Lin:ousine.. G. $4,850

Toscriptive literature, and completo information on request.

THE DRAGON MOTOR

CAR CO., LTD.

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PRIESTS ESCAPE.

AMERICANS ELUDE BANDITS.

STRIKE OUTLOOK.

NO SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT.

LATEST MEETING.

The question of the continuation. the strike and boycott has agnio

COMING TO HONGKONG.

Further to our report yesterday that two American priests-the Rev. Father Thomas A., O'Molin and the Rev. Otto A. Rauschenbach-of of the Maryknoll Mission at Kong- bandits on St. John's Island, which ing to news to hand to-day, but at lies south of Hongkong on the the moment there" appears no pre- direct route to Hoihow, it has since

report of General Sarrall, it says/cargo, by a Chinesa cruiser operat- later had to be removed to hospital, that the Peking Government has moon, had been seized and held by Deen discussed in Canton, accord-

It appears that at the time of the summoned representatives of Gen- two bands on October 18th entered ing in Southern waters. the Chagour and Medan quarters, It appears that the launch was mishap two of the police armour-eral Feng Yu-hsiang, Marshat or's coolics were engaged in Chang Tso-lir and General Haine and overwhelmed the police. Their on the way from Chinshan, near numbers were swollen by would-be Macao, to Canton, being in charge cleaning revolvers in the cage Yao-nan to a Peace Conference at looters and the French established two picket officers, when she where these arms are kept in the the capital.

"charge room, before their dis- In this connection, there is some barrage round the European encountered the Chinese cruiser tribution to the police constables Chinese apprehension regarding the

Haichow, which signalled to her to going on duty. One of the coolies quarter.

a revolver real attitude of General Hsiao Yao The insurgents on October 19th stop. An effort was made by the neglected to unload resumed their firing and attempted launch to get away, but she was before cleaning it, and the acci- nan, and the gradual gathering at dental touching of the, trigger Hankow of units of the 18th Divi- to invade other quarters, when the promptly brought up by a shot was sufficient to cause a shot to be French Command, anxious to avoid from the cruiser, which compelled discharged. The bullet struck his son, who are Hapeh troops recogni- companion in the right thigh caus-sing the leadership of Generul with the mere the launch to come alongside.

ing a rather serious wound. Hsiao Yao-nan, is causing rumours numerous adversaries, ordered a Immediately afterwards, party of

that matters Are not what they REORGANISED DEPARTMENT, slow bombardment. A number of marines in charge of a lieutenant The former Commissarlat De-shells fell in the native quarters, boarded the launch and made partment of the Canton Army wrs where the insurgents were eancen- thorough search. As a result,

and eargo proved during the recent operu treted. The insurgents surrender-considerable haul of tions to be inadequately organisert, ed on October 20th..

arms was made, and in due course:

Karan army of Chan Kwing-ming, because Chang Kai-shek has open ly declared that the troops of the

Ynet Kwan are parasites of Kwang tung.

Chang Kai-shek, recognizing the

hand-fighting

The measures taken to suppress this was transferred to the cruiser.

pared with the extent of the move-

First aid was-r.ered by a number of police offes and the man was then removed in an am-1 bulance to the Government. Civil A Hospital.

Importance of this department, has the revolt were most moderate con The picket officers were also tekeri

now re-organized it after the model ment. No European civilian was in charge by the naval party. Al The French the moment, there is no news to of the Commissariat of the Japan- killed or wounded,

wounded, including three French-

ese Army in active service, which Army losses were len killed and 3 band as to what happened to the men killed and two wounded. The launch after the arms and carge rebels, Who massuered fifty had been removed. Armenians, had 200 killed.

has not only remedied all previous defects but also introduced a new system as a counter-check on peculations

military

manders.

of

the

com-

The material damage was Hmited

News of the affair has." It is

WELSH FLOOD DISASTER.

SIXTEEN FATALITIES

RECORDED:

seem.

TROOP MOVEMENTS.

Shanghai, Nov. 5. Marshal Wu Pei-fu denies the Fengtien occupation of Pengpu, which was reported on the 2nd instant, when it was also stated that General Sun Chuan-fang was

making his defence line at Mink wang. It is now reported that General Sun arrived at Pengpu to- day.

Lendun, No. 4. Twenty persons are still missing in connection with the disaster at

Seven

General Yang Sen arrived bodies have Dolgarrog. been recovered. Men working Iehung to-day. Reuter waist-deep in water are searching" for the del

Quarrymen blowing

up huge! rocks have brought down the flood,! the carcases of thousands of cattlej

PEAK TRAM MISHAP. being recovered.-Reuter,

to the native area. No Arab build-stated, reached the Canton Govern- ings of architectural or historical ment, which has notified the Strike

were affected, and the Union of the incident. interest SOUTHERN SECTOR

Azom Palace is intact except for Regarding the southern sector, a

the recently-built wing.-Reuter. report comes to hand stating that

NO DANGER TO AMERICANS. desultory engagements have been

New York, Nov. 4. fought for the last five days at It is explained that the summon-j

It is now offcially stated that the various points in the Sze Yap dis-ing of American destroyers to

FOOTBRIDGE CARRIED AWAY. fatalities in the Welsh dan disaster Beirut, mentioned by Reuter's tricts, but none of any importance. Alexandria correspondent is only

total sixteen-Reuter. On the 1st inst., Chan Ming-shu precautionary. It is not consider- There was not a 1:fie.consterna- retired from Ngan Wan to a posi- cd that the Americans at Beirut or tion among Peok residents this mor- tion at Szé Chin in order to be in Damascus are in immediate danger.ning when it was learned that a

-Renter's American Service,

touch with the fleet which is

stationed at Pak-Kai. In the event)

"

mishap had occurred to the eight o'clock tram and that the cars were Quite a number of men walked all the way down.

of defeat, he could retreat by the BRITISH COMMUNISTS: not running as usual.

Sunning railway to the latter port, where he would be under the pre- tection of the gunboats Kong Tah, Kong Hon and Kong Kung, and, if]

essary, take his escape by these Den-of-war.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

London, Nov, A.

The Communists who appeared on remand at Bow Street have been

Through some cause or another

Later.

CEBU CEMENT CO.

at

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE

ASSURED,

been learned that "the men have spect of any material change in managed to escape, are aboard the the situation. U. S. S. Sacramento and are ex- It appears that a few days ago pected to arrive in Hongkong late the Council for Political Affairs

this afternoon.

The full story of the affair, as at called a meeting of the Strike Com- present known, here, is that when mittec,, the Shameen Foreign Ser- the priests arrived at their mission vice Union and the Students and station on the island about 10 days

were in a state of terror owing to the terms and conditions for A ago, they found that the natives Allied Labour Unions to discuss a visit by a notorious bandit of the settlement of the strike. The mat- district, named Chan Chuk-saam. ter was considered at considerable This man, who had plundered the adjacent district for years, was length, but it is stated that the. close by with his 300 men and had meeting unanimously agreed to ad- -demanded $35,000 and goods in here to the original draft cond kind as his price to move on.

The

BANK DEPOSITS.

priests wrote a letter to the bandit. tions presented to the Hongkong chief asking him not to molest the merchants who recently went to innocent villagers, and in reply the Canton. man suggested that a meeting should take place between himself and the priests at which the matter Since the reopening of Shameen, When the the Department of Commerce hus priests went to the meeting place been issuing permits for the with the chapel of an adjacent village

could be discussed.

they were seized by the bandits drawal of deposits from foreign and told that although they were banks there. At first, it was ine. not being held for ransom by the tended that this system should only Mission they were going to be held

as hostages until the natives had operate for ten days, but, accord- paid the sums demanded. One of ing to the Canton Gazette, petitiona the priests personal "boys" was were submitted asking for an eent to tell the villagers of this plan.

ex-

tension of the period, with the res

The "boy" did not go back to the sult that the Department of Com- village but hurriedly got across to merce notified the Strike Union the nearest mission station on the that the system would be extended mainland, where he informed the

In connection with the boycolt,

Rev. F. C. Dietz of what had hap-for a further ten days. pened. They both hurried on to

Kerosene Monopoly. Macao, where through the assis- tance of Bishop Nunes of Macao, the gunboat Patria wirelessed to an interesting development has Father Walsh, who is the head of just taken place, this being the the Mission and who is staying issuing of a proclamation by the just now at Pakkai. H.M.S. Robin,

The Manila Bulletin of Novem- [A message yesterday stated that bar 2nd reports:-- serious floods in North Wales had

Heeding repeated pleas of the resulted in the bursting of a dam Cebu Portland Cement Company at Dolgarrog, with disastrous managers for additional govern results. Dolgarrog is a small mental help and in pursuance of village in Carnarvon.]

a policy of continued Government at Pakkai, picked it up and HMS. Canton Government stating that ownership of the company, rati- Hawkins here in Hongkong also the kerosene monopoly is to be fed last week by a legislative picked it up and notified the Ameri-operated by the Government as majority, caucus, the legislature

NAVAL TRAINING.

from the 15th instant, under the

the eight o'clock tramcar was over-USE OF FOUR BATTLESHIPS. Cebu, it was learned from a res- Messages were sent and received direction of the Treasury Depart-

carried, for instead of coming to a standstill as it reached the top station, it was pulled right up until

which leads to the Peak

harmless

London, Nov. 1.

will vote at least P250,000 for the can Consul General, who in turn

notified Peking. extension of the cement plant in ponsible source yesterday. The between all parties concerned, and ment. Formerly this monopoly board of control will be asked to the upshot was that the US was farmed out to a syndicate by defer uction on the Government Naval authorities decided to send

Commerce. The

Russians

are still

INTERESTING INCIDENT.

The Admiralty, has decided ta option to the purchase the Uling- the U. S. S. Sacramento from the Bureau of A further report states that committed for trial. being allowed it ceathed into the little footbridge reduce the four Iron Duke class of Naga coal lines for use of the Swatow to convey the U. S. Con-Government is now apparently de- although Tang Poon-yan and his bail.

entrance, carrying the bridge almost battleships from full commission Cebu company. The purchase of aulate representatives at Canton termined to endeavour to control troops are in the field with head- When the evidence for the pro-entirely away. The men in charge to a special complement for train the property is favourably recom-and Father Dietz to St. John's quarters at Kao Chow, and Soo

secution concluded, Sir Henry of the winding machinery thening boys at sea. This decision hasmended by comont company offi- Island to get back the missing this important trade, in which con- Tingyow, his second-in-command

quickly brought matters to a stand- necessitated the redistribution of cials as it is believed that it would priests. Many offers of help had nection the has advanced as far as Lenn Stesser, defending, argued that still. The tram down at the bottom battleships in the Atlantic and contribute to the efficiency of the been given, including an offer by making every effort to import oil Yeung, there is an absence of there was no ground for committal. station had come to a

Mediterranean fleet in the spring company and to the lowering of Admiral Sinclair to lend H. M. S. further news concerning the move declaring that the prosecution had stop against the big buffer.

Reuter.

the cost of production making Petersfield. The U. S. S. Sacra-from. Vladivostok, ments of his troops.

possible competition with foreign mento duly arrived in Hongkong Not only was the footbridge do-

comont interests. The cement and here awaited the arrival of In the West River sector, there failed to show the existence of ma

An interesting incident has just chinery to produce seditious molished, but the footboard of the

company officials requested of the U. s. S. Helena which was bring been reported to us as showing a is also an appreciable slackening of suhs, while the language charged tramar was carried away. Other-

board of control and the legis-ing down the Canton representa- warlike activities. From a source] ngainst the defendants was, merely wise there was no damage done.

lature at least P2,000,000 for ex-tives and Father Dietz. which is considered well-acquaint identical with passages expounding it was obviously impossible to go on

tonsions on the Cebu plant and for ed with the military situation in the themes of Communism contain-running the cars until the winding these regions, the opinion is ed in a Government report on the gear and cable had been thorough- expressed that the present calm situation in Russia, which could ly tested and until the failer bridge presages a coming storm.

still be purchased from booksellers. had been cleared awar. This work

one took about

hour, and the -Reuter.

normal service of cars was resumed at nine o'clock.

re-

TO RE-CAPTURE BEK-KL. The Military Council, it is re- ported, has issued a mandate, to Wong Mow-kung. the acting Garri- instant, says General Lau Chi-lok son Commandant at Canton, to left at midnight, his reported des-1 effect the re-capture of Shek-ki with tination being Chaochowfu, Vari- all possible despatch, as the waters ous high officials had previously of Heungshan and the approaches left for Hongkong.

LONG-DISTANCE FLYING.

ANOTHER ARGENTINE

EXPONENT,

possible means. of eluding the

the purchase of the Uling-Nago Meanwhile, Admiral Li in charge strike and boycott pickets. A local mines. Legislative committees of the Chinese "Northern" gun-British firm had been approached by in the charge of Government-own-boats, had instructed the gunboat a Chinese merchant on Honam ed corporations are understood to "Yuen Ying" to proceed from Island on a matter of Business, and have found that the improve- Macno to St. John's Island und this was informed that the matter could Buenos Airca, Nov. 4.

ments to the pior near the plant boat arrived off the spot on Tues-not be concluded unless a represen- The Argentine army airman Hi-site and more machinery are day. The two captive priests tative of the firm went up to

town workers had had to walk.

In the meantiine many down-cont has started on a flight to New urged. They recommended ap-saw this gunboat and, while their Honam. The firm pointed out that

York. He hopes to complete eight propriating P250,000.

to the West River delta are in the Fighting is reported in the THE SMALL POWERS.

MORE CADETS.

INTEREST IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

thousand miles in twenty days. He carries one passenger-Reuter's

American Service. -

ITALIAN FLIGHT.

DE PINEDO AT BAGDAD.

Bagdad, Nov. 4

Pinedo

NEW ZEALAND ELECTIONS.

GOVERNMENT PARTY WINS.

guards were fast asleep on Tuce-it would be rather difficult, under day night, they managed to break existing conditions, to send anyone away and succeeded in reaching to Honam, to which the merchant the gunboat in safety. Their replied by letter stating that if the dash for liberty 'had ́proved | firm's representative, even if he successful, and It was just as the were a Britisher, took the precau- central of the anti-Red forces. vicinity of Kityang, says the cor-

Cantou party were about to trans-tion of wearing an armband mark- respondent, which is reported to

fer from the U. S. Helena toed "American," he would be able The three thousand Cadets who have been seized by the Reds,

the U. S. S. Sacramento in Hong-to transact his business without were enlisted three months ago force at any moment. Some of who are expected at Swatow in

kong harbour early yesterday being in any way molested.

The to undergo special training have the officials of the Red party had

afternoon that a wireless message, suggestion, it need hardly be added, » now completed their course, and are arrived at tin-time on the 3rd.

The Hague, Nov. 4..

Wellington, Nov. 4.

was received from the gunboat, was not complied with, ready for active service. They are

In the course of a memorandum to].

The elections have resulted in a "Yuen Ying" stating that the two divided into two large detachments Swatow, adds the correspondent, ber, De Heer Van Karnebeek men- Business is at a standstill in the committee of the Second Cham-

sweeping victory for the Coates priests had been picked up and that Government. and have received their orders from and all shops are closed for fear tions that negotiations are pro-

fighting was going on on the island Chang Kai-shek. The first detach- of looting. The police are wear-cending among the smallest Powere

The state of the parties at muld-between the bandits, and the ment is to take up its station ining white arms bands, and the city to attain the objects of the League

night was: Government or Reform nativos. Party, 55; Labour, 13; Nationallats The Canton and the second detachment is quiet. "We are eagerly look of Nations. Thus the negotiations

two mission priests had

CUP HOLDERS IMPROVING. to proceed at once to Kongmoon to Ing forward as to what character of Holland with Switzerland, Ger-

(who are the eartwhile Liberals), been held captive for six days reinforce Chan Ming-shu.

10; Independent Nationalists, 2. before they managed to break! the strike and boycott will assume many, Sweden and Siam on the LEAVES NEARLY £40,000.

elected Include Misa away and much anxiety had been

London, Nov. 4, when the Reds completely occupy subject of arbitration and concilia-

Melville Grey Lynn (Government felt for their safety. The Mission Playing at Manchester to-day in A Swatow correspondent, writ-Swatow," says the correspondent. tion have already reached an ad-

London, Nov. 4. Party), who is the first woman authorities here are loud in their the First Division of the English. Ing on the 3rd instant, reporting "The Labour. Unions

havo rovanced stage. Pourparlers have The late Sir Joha Jordan, former legislator in New Zealatid, and Siz praise of the way everybody con- League, Sheffield United defeated that the anti-ked troops evacuated started their pickets and other been opened with several other Britian Minister to China, left Joseph Ward former Liberal cerned willingly worked and co- Manchester City by four zoals to the city on the night of the 1st activities.".

estate valued at $89,409-Router.Premlar-Beuter.

SWATOW POSITION.

| countries-Bouter:

Commander de arrived here,Beniter.

..

SIR JOHN JORDAN.

has

-Those

operated.

HOME FOOTBALL.

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