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TROOPS TRAPPED

TROUBLESOME SZECHUEN| REGIMENT.

UNIT DISARMED. An exciting story is to hand from Canton showing how a regi-

dient of Szechuan troops which had boen stationed at Kau Kong, and had given much trouble by indulging

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

+A WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10,

GERMAN RETORT.

WAR ON CHINA COAST LOST IN

PIRATES.

1926.

日八十二月二十

JUNGLE.

THE ITALIAN “INSULTS" RESENTED.

GOOD WORK BY CHINESE

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IS POLICE STATION

HAUNTED?

INTERPRETER WHO SAW "GHOST."

BLACK-COATED VISITOR.

REICHSTAG SPEECH.

Berlin, Feb. 9.

TWENEY EXECUTED.

According to the Foochow cor-

EXPERIENCE.

BINGLE | COPY 10 CENTU

1936 FER ANNUM

AMERICAN FLAG TORN TO PIECES:

HAINAN ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVE.

HOSPITAL ENTERED.

The tearing up of an American

AD WONE NEI CHUNG SD. HAPPY VALLAY

WORLD TOUR.

"EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND" ARRIVES.

NOTABLE TOURISTS.

"Gliding slowly through the fog

respondent of the Shanghai Times, regarding the two European flag and the smashing of furni-which enveloped Hongkong watera, n' rather determined effort is being rubber planters, Messrs. Sobind-ture in the hospital are features with a little more than half of a thirty-thousand-mile cruise In her

in gambling and thus attracting/Preter, followed by, a report made Synor Mussolini's outburst in made, after many months of torlor and Dymond, belonging to the of an anti-Christian outbreak re-

bad charaéters to the district, was

The following morning; another man, residing with the interpreter,

of the Government to this request had a fright, for when he went

is on record. 'About a

erly a large rice shop, was taken possession of by the military authorities and turned into a Military Club in name, but it be came in reality, a rendezvous for gamblers, attracting many bandits and rowdy elements from the sur- rounding villages.

CAFE INCIDENT.

ALLEGED ATTACK ON

EUROPEAN.

||

FASCIST REGIME BLAMED.

island.

The beaten

flagship of tho Canadian Pacide feet, and the longest, tallest and widest vessel tiver to have circum-

at the hoa ampton, and Mr. J. Ross, Canada's

most prominent sportsman:

INDIAN OPIUM,

EXPORTS.

The tourists will have four days in which to investigate the. beauties to be found within the Colony's bounds and those who feel so inclined will have a rare

Is the Central Police Station

In the Reichstag. Herr Strese haunted? In the view of some. superstitious Chinese, it is, and ifmann declared that the German! the alleged experience of an inter-Government declined to reply to

torns similar to his. Mussolini's rorism, to rid the coast south of Lapang Estate, in South. Johore, ported from Kachak, on Huiaun wake, the "Empress of Scotland, the following morning, is to be

the jungle.

It appears that for some time They were missing for, 'three enticed to Shek Wai Tong and accepted at its face value, we may speech was more suited to mags Foochow of pirates, particularly who recently lost themselves in

past students and soldiers have soon see. the police, doing a bit meetings than to international as the coast of Haitang Island, and thus was placed at the mercy of

been taking part in big anti-navigated the globe, arrived in the of ghöst-stalking when they ought ussions. lle proceeded to read a the Ngucheng Peninsula, near

Colony shortly after eight o'clock statement in which he emphasised Futsing. One of the small coast days and and three nights in the thick forests, and eventually

Christian demonstrations on the another regiment, which fired on

to be in bed!

this morning and proceeded to her that the German Government had cutters, belonging to the Marines, i

found their way back after never the transports and compelled the

island, entering chapels, destroy- The story goes that the inter-

berth alongside the wharf at Kow- having been more than nine Szcchuen troops to surrender.

preter, who was accosted by ano quarrel with Italy and he re-has done effective work in this re- pirates.

ing Christian literature and even miles form their bungalow, A

loon. breaking up church furniture to To fully appreciate the story, supernatural visitor, hied himself called Mussolini's assertions in gion, ridding it of

She has over four hundred huge search campaign was carried use as firewood. it is necessary to recall the fact to the telephone room to do some 1920 on the absence of conflicting Twenty were recently beheaded in

On Sunday, January 30th, a big tourists on board, a large propor- Italo-German economic and politi Futsing city.

out by planters and gangs, of that last summer the important typewriting, and whilst he was

engrossed in his thoughts, hej

Definite plans are being formu coolies before the missing men crowd of studente, troops and tion of which are British, amongst

rowdies, said to number fully 500, market centre of Kau Kong was suddenly became aware that he cal interests.--Reuter.

laled in Foochow Headquarters, LEAGUE INTERVENTION SQUCHT. raided by bandita and sacked by was not alone. Glancing over his

for the collection of the regular turned up. Writing under date of held a mass meeting near the the most distinguished visitors be- Paris, Feb. 9.

Telegraph American Presbyterian Mission ing Sir Arthur Mayó Robinson, troops. After a lengthy investi-shoulder he says he saw a tall,

Government taxes for the seven- January 30th, the A message from Innsbruck #ays teenth year of the Republic. correspondent at Singapore gives station, and later they made an K.B.E., C.B., C.V.O., famous British.. gation, a report was made which dark figure, swathed in a long black coat, gazing with deep in-

of the attack on the compound, tearing the following story

surgeon His Honour Judge, Hynes, down the gate and threatening KC., the Hon. Mr. R. C. S. Peters, Jay great stress on the point that terest at the typewriter. For a that President Stumpf, in the There is renewed discussion and

of from adventure and return

the Chinese evangelists, one of whom Mr. C. C. H. Beiley, C.B.E., J.P. the cause of the trouble for the few tense seconds the interpreter Tyrolean diet, referring to a, pos- agitation concerning the build-

is said to have been wounded. Mr. W. R. B, Baker, C.V.O., Major "last three years in Kuu Kong and stared at the unwelcome visitor, sible advance on the Italian fronting of the Horse Road

Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow missing men: whereupon the "ghost" straighten-

The recent experience of two They then proceeded to the mis- F. J. Ney, M.C., Dr. W. Turner, vicinity was free and unrestricted itself up, and gliding across to the north, adumbrated on Signor City, and it is hoped that this may

American flag, they pulled it down Mrs. Edith Outram Renouf, descen ed gambling, which led to bandits the floor, disappeared into the Mussolini, and said he would ask be accomplished from this new English planters, who spent three sion hospital, and, seeing the M.V.D., Lieut. Col. E. M. Renouf,

According to the the Australian Federal Govern-Income.

days and three nights trying to

dant of the late Gen. Sir James congregating in the district. On strong room.

There are strong indications! interpreter, the "ghost" had moment to see whether the question

Renouf of Lucknow fame, Mr. the basis of the report, the people fect, and its legs appeared to have

that the Student Union is about get out of a jungle block ten miles and tore it into phreds. by ten, illustrates the ease with Chinese assistants were to the to open another active cainpaign which it is possible to lose oneself and ordered to stop work, whilst Reuben Brooks, aged 88, the eldest later the church was broken into passenger on board and president of Kau Kong petitioned the Can- been cut off between the knees should not be submitted

League of Nations.-Reuter of blackmailagainst several in the jungle. This particular

and occupied.

of the Russian Cement Co., Glou- tom Government to abolish lega- and the ankles.

foreign concerns who deal'in saltares was searched by parties total-

The work of the hospital is now cestor, Mass., Mr. Robert Dunlop, lised gambling and the approval |

The keynote of Herr Stresse fish. Although consular invoices ling forty European planters and

Caroline McCreery, an American lionaire wool manufacturer, of month to his room he saw a man under mann's speech, which was applaud- guarantee that these fish are from six hundred picked coolies, in ad being pluckily carried on by Miss Belfast, Mr... Joseph Jaeger, mil- y no assistants, as the staff bas former editor of the Bookman, Mr. ago, however, the 26th Reginient the bed, and reported the mattered by all parties, was the insistence America, the students still edition to sundry Chinese and

There is possibly some conner on Germany's right to support the tend that they are Japanese seado. Malay rattan cutters, and yet they nurse, who is left with practical- Czecho Slovskis., Mr. A. B. Murice, of the 3rd Army Corps was transition between the two stories, but cultural claims of minorities abroad and therefore not allowed to enter saw nothing of the missing me been threatened with violent.ac-G, S. Whiting, ex-Mayor of North-

soon the interpreter is fully convinced and her determination to support the country. It is strange, bow- The Malayan jungle the tropical tion if it continues

pital. ferred to Kau Kong, and

them before the League of Nations, ever, that the Japanese importere rain forest of the botanist is the

to continue, their thickest forest to be found any afterwards a vacant house, form-that he has seen a "ghost."

Herr Stressemann reasserted Ger- are allowed many's intention of respecting business unmolested. The Ameri- where in the world except in the Italian sovereignty in the South can firms would be unmolested if tropical belt of Africa and Sout there is they were willing to pay the "tax" America, and it is a perfect na Tyrol, but added that

The enormous height such a thing as international mor- imposed upon the fish by the tural maze. ality. Despite numerous" Italian Student Union, which, however, of the trees, and the impenetrable

nature of the undergrowth, the GOVERNMENT TO EXTINGUISH opportunity of getting first hand decrees promising to respect the they refuse to do, on principic.

impossibility of getting any bear- rights of the minority in South!

ings when the sun is obscured, all Tyrol, the Fascist regime have been

These plan- Alleged to have attacked James steadily working towards its de- POLICE IN TROUBLE. contribute to a total loss of any

sense of direction. Herr Stresse Royston Stuart, resident of Germanisation.

tera, both of whom were new to Victoria Gardens, Kowloon, with mann admitted that the newspapers|

this estate, entered a jungle path, speech when opening the Council cock feathers to Boston garters, The people have sent now an

and made short detours into the of State, referred to the opium from wonderful chrysanthemums in bloom to orange trees in fruit, urgent petition to the Canton Gov-a table knife at the Victoria Cafe, had published false reports and

path became policy and said that, after most is now in full swing in spite of jungle as the yesterday, a Chinese was charged that some private individuals

rougher, until they suddenly found eareful examination of the obliga- the difficulties created by the un- ernment, requesting, that the 26th | before Major Willson at the Cen-Munich had appealed for a boycot

tral Police Court this morning. of Ilalian goods, but he was An elaborate scheme to extort that the path had disappeared al- Regiment be transferred to

When the complainant's name opinion that it was absurd to $10 from an opium smoker was

To-day's arrangements leave lost. Darkness came on, and protocol to the Convention of the

the tourists free for individual other place, so that the people was called, it was found that he threaten a breach of an interna recounted before Mr. R. E. Lindtogether, and they were hopelesly tions under Article Nine of the fortunate political situation. may continue to enjoy the peace was absent, and Inspector Spear tional commercial agreement owing sell, at the Central Magistracy there was nothing for it but to second Opium Conference, the action during the day, a Chinese which they enjoyed after the said he told him he should appear to an unimportant movement of this morning, when two Chinese sit down and wait for the morning: Government had decided to reduce dinner which is optional is to be

before the Court this morning. private persons which, the Govern-water policemen were charged They saw enough ghosts abolition of gambling in the city Continuing, the Inspector said the ment disowned.

night to last them a life-time, but progressively the exports of opium given at the Hongkong Hotel this

to be held at Repulse Bay Hotel. Junction to General Chu Pui-tek, the Cafe to have lunch, and com-

If Signor Mussolini thought the business was being discussed in ing larger than mosquitoes, of

them altogether within a definite

To-morrow the party will be split plainant spoke to the defendant.

Group "A" will has since ordered the transfer of about dirty knives.

It was alleg-changed attitude of the German the smoker's house, the man's which there were myriads. the 26th Regiment at once, and ifed the defendant made an attempt press was due to the Government's wife went out to look for the were not more than nine miles period, except as regards medical into groups.

order, he forgot that it was impossi- money, but instead, she brought from their bungalow, but it was requirements. The period was not motor round the New Territories, they refuse to carry out the order to stab the complainant with

knife, and in the struggle that ble arbitrarily to restrict the free-back two detectives by whom the not until the fourth day that they yet determined owing to the neces and the "B" and "C" groups, will they are to be disarmed.

followed the latter received a cut dom of the press in Berlin us it was alleged blackmailers were arrest- got a sight of the sun, and learnt sity of consulting the Government make a visit to the Pook. On the proper direction to follow. of the United Provinces regarding Friday Group "B" will explore. 26th Regiment is composed entire-

on the thumb,

go round the island In evidence it was said that on They saw plenty of game tracks the effects that the resulting re the The Reich did not intend to

area cultivated) will ly of Szechuen troops, formerly The case was put back for a

On Saturday each party under command of Hsing Kek-wu. short time, and when it was again forbid the German press to express the way to the station one of the during their wanderings, but noth-duction of the General Chu realised that he had calted, and the complainant had sympathy for the land of a people defendants endeavoured to get ing more dangerous than a squir- would have on the cultivators. It by car and group "A" will do the a very difficult order to carry out, not appeared, Inspector Spear which had been German for cen- rid of a receipt which he had pre-rel worried their path, so that was also proposed to discontinue Peak.

for Europeans, appear to have immediately an agreement was ously covered in different direc A visit to Canton had and he therefore sent for the said he had made a serious ac turies. If, owing to the oppression pared for the amount at the outset the perils of the jungle, at least the system of auctions of opium will cover the ground not previ

Convicted on charges of de- been over-rated. One thing that reached with French Indo-Chinations.

been planned but this has been commander of the 25th Regiment, cusation against the defendant, of the people, the danger of die of their enterprise.

and had insisted on him being turbance of peace arose, then an

Both Chambers of the Legisin unavoidably erased from the at Fatshan, which is stationed with secret orders to be at Shek charged. Under these circum-peal would be made to the League manding a bribe and of miscon- the affair brought to light was the with regard to direct sales.

ture will have an early opportunity itinerary. com- of Nations-(Ironic laughter from ducting themselves, the first de- remarkable esprit de corps of the fendant sentenced to two planting community. Tapping

Mr. P. D. Sutherland, for 18 Wai Tong with his regiment on stances he thought the

of expressing their views on the Then he tele-plainant should be compelled to the Right). Signor Mussolini's

years a a certain day.

representative of the speech was regarded throughout months and the second to four was suspended on all estates for

'months', hard labour.

sixty miles down the railway line, Proposals-Reuter.

Canadian Pacific in high official graphed to Commander Shek Yan-

The Magistrate adjourned the the world as a threat of war

and planters and coolica swarmed

positions in the Orient, chiefly in pik, of the 26th Regiment, to come

against Germany and Austria and

on board the mail train to muster to Canton with his regiment with-case until to-morrow morning.

Hongkong, is the director-in- such a threat was incombatible with

at the estate where the missing

charge. out delay. On nearing Canton,

It was a the 26th Regiment was ordered to

men were employed. Shek Wai Tong, to wait further

very anxious the for everybody ordera to be entrained for Fat-

concerned, and the incident has ahan. On that day the 25th Regi-

certainly taken its place local planting annals. mant were carrying out field manoeuvres, conducting, a sham battle. A few officers and men went ashore to witness the battle, and as the troopa manoeuvred concerning the Butterfield and many-Reuter. close towards the bank where Swire vessels Hunan and Kwel- transports were alongside, at ayang, as the salvage boats sent certain signal armed launches come and surrounded the trans- to the scene will not have arrived,

212-

in

PRISON FOR DEMANDING BRIEE.

of

with this offence.

F

that

knowledge of a Chinese New Year Bazaar. The bazaur in the Paddy's Market district, with its Delhi, Feb. 9.

stalls replete with 'everything and- The Viceroy, Eari Reading, in a anything from coat-hangers, pea-

The Military Concil, in a strict in-complainant and his wife went to FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. It was stated that while the otherwise were attacked by noth- with the object of extinguishing evening, after which a dance is

The

attend.

B. & S. BOATS.

TWO STILL ASHORE.

Little further news is available

in Rome.

ed.

was

PRESIDENT DECLINES TO

the spirit of the League. Herr U. S. COAL DISPUTE. Stressemana reproved the Bavari- Jan Premier, and re-asserted that! the Reich government was respon- sible for foreign policy. He con- cluded that while they wanted to live at peace with Italy he repudi-| ated the threats levelled, at Ger-

"INSULTING ATTACKS."

Berlin, Feb. 9.

INTERFERE,

Washington, Feb. 9. The Senate has requested Pre- sident Coolidge to interveno in the

They

among

JUNK CAPSIZES.

! ·

LIBERAL LOSS.

•

MR. FISHER MAY RETIRÉ..

9.

mainland, Group

un

Of the passengers the eldest is 89 years old, the youngest 9. The average age is 48.17 years, and Rugby, Feb.

57% of them are of the feminine 'They were particularly gender, The Liberal Party will lose one impressed with their sojourn in of its foremost men if Mr. H. A. L. India at the season in which they Fisher retires from the House of were there. Those who made the trip across the Indian peninsula,

anthracito coal-mining dispute, but FEARED LOSS OF FIVE LIVES. Commons, as it is stated that he even penetrating as far south, as the President, however, intimates The foki of a Swatow fishing will immediately. Mr. Fisher was Madras and Madura in the Dec- The Reichstag, except the Com-that he sees no change in the altua junk reports to the polica that President of the Board of Educa- can, dwell upon its barbaric gor- munists, acclaimed a resolution tion warranting immediate inter- while fishing off Swatow on Jan- tion from 1916 to 1922 and he geousness, its wondrous architec- ports. The whole 25th Regiment until some time this afternoon emphatically ropelling the "un-vention. It appears from the view-uary 19th, the junk capsized, and stood for a progressive education turen. They happened to be in then opened fire on the transports, It is not felt that the stress-justified and insulting" attacks by point of the Administration that it the six occupants, including him- policy as being of prime importerers cher happened to be the demanding immediate surrender. ed steamers are in any erious Signor Mussolini and declaring is necessary for the Sonate to pass self, wore thrown into the water. tance to the national welfare. Bences antarane more After a short engagement the danger of breaking, since a com- that Germany would not allow its the coal resolution In order to dis-The Junk was taken in tow by Last year, he was appointed sun on January 14th when more. men throw up their arms as a munication has been received right to demand just treatment to pose of one of the hindrances to another fishing boat and brought Warden of New College Oxford Hinda maison lant que tanke algual of surrender. The officers from H.M.3. Magnolia to the German minorities under foreign consideration pending the tax bill to Hongkong. He has not seen his and his withdrawal from politics Hindus assembled on the banke were arrested and sent to the effect that she intends to leave sovereignty to be restricted by The Opposition has been calling companions since the accident, is understood to be due to a desire of the snert Ganges to temere Garrison for court martial, while on the arrival of the B.. Taming. "insulting outbursts and senseless up the coal resolution daily for a and it is feared that they have all to devote more time to his duties. therely appease the

themselves in the holy waters the disarmed men were sent to the Fair weather has so far boon threats, whatever may be their roll call-Reuters American Ser

aining camp.

maintained to a source Pontar-

been drowned.