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No. 21,054.

五拜禮 號三月九英港香

STRICTER VIGILANCE IN CANTON.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE “

SEARCHED.

STORY OF THEFT.

in

NANKOW PASS.

GRAPHIC STORY OF

ITS FALL.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926. 日七廿月七

SPAIN ABSENT.

EUROPEAN WARDER

ROBBED.

SMART WORK BY MOTOR DRIVER.

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COMMENDED IN COURT.

As the result of the presence of

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY

MEETING. »

NO LONGER INTERESTED.

Gépeva, Sept. 2. The public sitting of the

hour, and disposed of secondary The armoured trains Shantung Park Road, was nipped in the bud,atters, such as the report on the opfum traffic and other dangerous and Honan arrived at Kalgan at 7 and the thief caught redhanded.

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SHANGHAI PROFESSOR

BEATEN.

ROBBED AND STRIPPED. Good progress is being made in of the fortnightly air service which returned to Shanghai College after preparation for the inauguration Dr. George B. Cressey has just

Airways between Cairo will be operated by the Imperial

and thrilling experiences with bandita Karachi in January. Surveys of in nothern Chihli, says the Shang- the 2,500-mile route have long hai Times. Dr. Cressey loft for since been completed and a chain the north in June and was engag- of landing places, aerodromes

and

WOUNDED ABANDONED. For some days past, Canton has The following is yet another ver- been placed under most rigid sion of the taking of Nankow Pass, London, Sept. 2. military vigilance, and all hotels, contributed by a special correspon-mind of a Chinese motor-car Council lasted for barely half an The miners' Delegate Confer-boats, and public places have been dent to the Peking und Tientsin driver, a robbery at the Warders" ence at its meeting to-day heard closely watched for strangers and Times.

Quarters at Breezy Point, near reports from the districts. The suspicious characters. Searches report from Notte was perturbing, have also

been made a as it stated that the country was number of private homes, and divided and that only one portion more than 20 people have been was solid to the Federation. opined that it was impossible to reasons.

mishing here and there with the when he was charged with the enemy, and returned during the arrest a big local breakaway un-

Last Monday the General Cham-night of the 19th to Kaigan. On larceny of two shirts, a pair of less the Federation,abandoned its her of Commerce offices in An the morning of the 20th they were singlets, and a sheet, the property no compromise attitude.

Kung Street, Canton, were search-ordered by the Tupan Chang of Warder S. W. Cressey, who lives those states which had not yet roach Baghdad on Thursday. Fas. Severely beat Dr. Cressey and rob The Conference adjourned tilled by the police, this action being Chung-chang to return to Peking in Government Quarters at Breezy the afternoon when it is expected taken to procure evidence that which they reached that the Executive will ask for plenary powers to negotiate in open conference.

Sir Austen Chamberlain pointed out that the work was seriously It taken into custody for political kilometres in that direction, skir Central Police Court this morning, impeded by the non-rațification of

on August

Commanders of both trains gave

Point.

Mr. Cressey said the clothes

acted in favour of withdrawing members of the organisation had 21st.

support to Kuomintang securities now on the Canton market. AD-

established.

rest houses is being ed in geological studies dealing

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bandits

with recent climatic changes. Des- It is the ultimate Inten tion to. the Convention of 1925 by some

pite all procantions his expedition conduct - weekly service, but, at first, aero-was attacked on the night of July members of the Council..

planes will leave Cairo every other 13 by a band of brigands near the Signor Scialoja proposed that Wednesday after arrival of the Great Wall. Треве

mail boat from England and will ratified should be invited do so.

sengers will then change to an-bed, both him and a student com- Sir Austen Chamberlain read a other air liner, and, flying via the panics, Mr. Djang Ping-an of the

on Saturday, the connections:

us a detailed account of the battles were last seen the day before report; on Child Welfare, and Persian Gulf, will reach. Karachi junior class. Money, guns, and One prominent leader said that other auspicion was that the Gen- that were fought after the fall of yesterday, having been left in the Juvenile Courts and suggested being made with trains for Delhi equipment to the value of over a the feeling of the Federation was eral Chamber' has been advised by/Nankow, as well as of the capture sitting room. As that room was that an effort be "made to co- and Calcutta.. growing, that the time for the "anti-Reds" to cease helping the of Kalgan and of the state of the not used, much, the loss was not ordinate the action of various

struggle had terminated and that the Executive should make "a definite peace move.

In the afternoon, the Miners' Executive, by a majority, decided to recommend the Delegate Con- ference to give them plenary powers and an open mandate to nogotiate a settlement of the coal stoppage. and

approach the Government for a new conference with that object. Retter.

FINAL DECISION.

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"Reds" in promoting the sale of war bonds. Nothing complicating the Chamber was discovered at the who happened to be at the offices search, however, but the members'

when the search party arrived are said to have lost nearly $3,000 in cash" and banknotes, which were taken by detectives.

ASSAULT ON SHIP.

The Miners' Delegate Confer- TROUBLE BETWEEN FIREMAN ence agreed to the Executive's ro-

commendations,

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The Miners' Conference, by 667,000 votes ,to 225,000, authorised the Executive negotiate a national agreement and submit the result to a further Delegate Conference. Reuter.

WHOLLY CHANGED SITUATION.

AND TRIMMER.

From

army of Feng Yu-hang. a summary of their story we can give the following account of what has happened.

THE FINAL BLOW.

discovered until an Indian cop- stable brought the goods along and asked if they belonged to him.

The car driver, Chan Chan, 44, Robinson Road said he was driving

a car past Park Road, when he saw

WU PEI-FU DEPOSED.

Virtually Prisoner on Warship.

Shanghai, Sept. 3.

The Peking correspondent of the North China Daily News says it is officially reported in Peking that subordinates have deposed Marshal Wu Pei-fu from his Command.

Nankow was captured on August the defendant approaching from 14 chiefly owing to a flanking movement of the Mukden troops | who penetrated deeply into the rear There of the enemy's positions. wis also a frontal attack, but this was only the final blow, when the main body of Lu Chung-lin's troups was already retreating from Nan- kow. The commander of the Muk- den troops deserves special praise for this flanking movement. An nwkward interpretation Though, the latter caused heavy difficulty arose at the Central losses, they were certainly less Magistracy this morning when than those which would have been two very dusky men came before entailed by a frontal attack. the Court in connection with an The inspection of the Nankow assault. The defendant was position showed how strong it had Abdul Achmed, a native of Somali-been. There were rows of electri- land, and the complainant was fied wire fences, of fields mixét Abdul All, a native of Aden. The with fougades of excellent trenches language spoken by these men was with cemented topa, etc. Arabic and the police were for-i It is evident that the capture of tunate in obtaining the services all these fortfications would have of a passenger on the ship to act cost a great loss of human lives as interpreter.

if the turning movement had not

London, Sept. 2. Though a settlement of the coal stoppage is not likely in the immediate future in view of the amount of consultations necessary, the fact that the Delegate Con- ference Бая empowered the The complainant is a coal trim- compelled the enemy to abandon Miners' Executive to negotiate mer, and the defendant a fireman them without firlag a shot. free from the old formula "Not a of the s.. Strathborne. It ap-1 minute on the day, not a penny pears that the former helped the off the pay has changed the defendant in his work when the whole situation, and the Executive crew became short-handed owing

and Lancashire delegates.

The difficulty of a. national agreement, to which the owners

.. ENEMY'S 'SACRIFICES. However, this retreat cost the enemy great sacrifices. "At Nan

The report further states that Marshal Wu is now vir-. tually a prisoner aboard warship in the Yangtze. Reuter.

An express issued this. afternoon by a local vérna- cular paper states that the Southern troops have captured Hankow and Hanyang including the Arsenal:]

the direction of the Government boya employed there, and, having Quarters. Witness know all the

noticed that the defendant appear-"

thousand dollars were stolen and

Passengers will save from five bodies in this matter.”

to eight days, according to their damaged, and it was necessary to destination, on the England-India abandon all further work.. Surprise was expressed the journoy. Tests are shortly to be lobbies at the absence of Spain, made

At the time of the robbery Dr. since she had not communicated will be used. They are being which had been hired through with the Arst of five Cressey was travelling up the Empire-type. aeroplanes which Lwan river in a small native boat her withdrawal as Brazil' did last built by the De Havilland Com- military oficials in Lwanchow pany, and each is driven by three north of Tientsin. The magia- Bristol Jupiter engines developing trate there had been specially noti A total of 1,200 horse-power-fied to extend ald and protection, British Wireless.

but refused to send an escortfor

June.--Reuter.

A FRENCH REPORT.

Paris, Sept. 2. A message from Geneva states that Spain has decided to inform the League that she is no longer interested in the Lengue's labours. --Router.

W

TANGIER THE TEST.

CONSTABLE BRIBED.

SUCCESSFUL TRAP LAID BY. POLICE.

do anything. Nothing but the or- dinary gossip of bandits was heard, and it did not seem neces- sary to take further extra precau- tions.

tied up

BEATEN WITH CLUES. Each night the boat was Another case of the bribery of to the bank, and all went well until an Indian police constable came the evening of July 18. About to light to-day, when a constable eleven o'clock that night the ex- The newspaper Imparcial in an with a bad record was charged pedition was suddenly attacked by editorial says that although Spain before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at

"

Madrid, Sept. 2.

the

will always recognise the League Central Magistracy with receiving of Nations as a highly estimable twenty cents as a bribe from and important international hawker, yesterday. organism, her final opinion is that

a

the League must depend on the of hesitation, was admitted

The offense, after a good deal manner in which the Powers hold-the defendant.

on

the

"COURTING" SPAIN...

Rugby, Sept. 2. The forty-frst meeting of the

waiting

..

by

half a dozen bandits. The leader.

certainly appeared to be an ex- soldier, but the other robbers by

their dialect and dress appeared to be local farmers,

These men were armed with pie- tola, swords, clubs and whips. Ing permanent seats Council deal with her demand for the case, said the day before yes-

Captain Bloxham, in outlining There was no opportunity for e- sistance and none was offered. With- the incorporation of Tangier in terday the defondant took twenty out ceremony the occupants of the Могоссал

Protectorate. cents from a hawker, and said he the boat were driven up on the Reuter.

would return when he wanted muddy bank of the river and all another

boxes were rifled. The objects twenty .cents. The matter was reported and two most desired by the bandits were has practically been told to get to a man leaving at Java, The kow a lot of munitions were found,

twenty-cent pieces were marked. pistols and money. Since these did. the best terms obtainable, despite complainant therefore contended abandoned guns, an armoured ed to be a stranger, his suspicions

The money was seen to pass into not at once como to ilght Dr. Crea opposition to any retreat on the that he was entitled to some money train, a motor-lorry with a Zenith were aroused. He pulled up the League of Nations Council was the defendant's keeping and when sey was unmercifully beaten with clubs, and pistols were continually part of the President, Mr. Herbert for this help. He went to see the gun (for shelling aeroplanes), car and asked the man what he opened to-day at Geneva in the searched the two marked twenty brandished in his face. The ban- Smith, backed by the Yorkshire captain about it, and the defen-and.many other things. Neverthe-was doing. The man immediately absence of Spanish representa-cent pieces were found in his

dits were exceedingly nervous, and dant apparently resented this, and less, on denied that the trimmer was en- enemy meant to offer resistance. and ran away. Witness got out

leaving Nankow, the dropped a bundle he was carrying tives. It is assumed here that the pocket.

Spanish Delegate

The defendant was arrested at the hour which they spent in ran- titled to any money.

The greater part of his munitions of the car, blew his whistle and instructions from Madrid in view nine o'clock last evening by Sergt. sacking the boat was a most excit-

ing one. dant assaulted him, but the de- troops and even the wounded, and ever, was unfortunate enough to the Special Commission of the hoe défer

The complainant said the defens had been evacuated, as well as all gave chase. The defendant, how of yesterday's recommendations of Nolloth, after a vigil of one dant stated that the complainant measures had been taken to pre-run into the arms of an Indian League appointed to consider the The défendant's record was

Fully expecting that he would to the safeguard of ratification by received injuries owing to falling vent the Allies from pursuing the constable who was walking along League Council. It was to deal commented that it was a bad one, be carried off for ransom, Dr.

during the struggle. He added retreating army. For instance the the road. that he had reason to fight with special engines for the tunnel and

with the situation created by the He had only been in the force Cressey had grabbed his shoes when the gradient leading to the Kalgan The defendant said a small boy demands of Spain and certain for about a year and during that forced to leave the boat, so that Rugby, Sept. 2, " Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of Pass were damaged..

gave him the bundle to hold for a other members of the League to time he had had six reports, he had these and his pyjamas, and The Minera National Delegate $2 on the charge of assault, and shall see later on, this damag-short while, but when he was ask permanent seats on the Council several of them serious. The de-a torn pair of trousers left of all Conference to-day decided, by ordered the defendant to sign a ing of the engines played a greated to produce the boy, he was that the Special Commission was fendant would have to go to his clothing. 557,000 votes to 225,000, to em- bond for $50 to keep the peace. part in the further military unable to do so.

appointed. Its decision that, prison for four months, with hard glasses and other instrumenta power the Executive to negotiate He issued a warning that if there operations. The enemy tried also weeks hard labour, Mr. Lindsell many, no addition should at

After passing sentence of four apart from that reserved for Ger- Inbou

mennt little to the brigands, and while these were not taken they a national agreement for the was any further trouble, defen- to block the tunnel nails were settlement of the coal dispute. dant would be sent to gaol.

were broken and damaged in many commented on the public spirit present be made to permanent shown by the driver, and instruct seats, but that, the method of

cases. When the job was finisk- between the top and the bottomed Div. Inspector Grant to make electing non-permanent members HOME SECRETARY AND TLC /ed things were in utmost confu-

sion. Notebooks and dropped" down into the dirty water in the bottom of the boat, and articles

are solidly opposed, may be over-

come by the establishment of

variable district minima, subject

a National Board.-Reuter.

HOW THE DAY WENT.

3/

The Conference was in session for the greater part of the day. It sat for three hours in the morning, under the presidency of Mr. Herbert Smith and received reports from every district as to the position.

After a discussion on these reports the Conference adjourned

the man.

TRAM DISASTER,"

EIGHT KILLED IN TERRIBLE

** CRASH.

New York, Sept. 2.

As Wo

standing upright and struck fast

so that they could only be removed with great difficulty. "But when doing this" the enemy must have been nervous. The evidently launched too early, while the retreating troops were

cara were

A report from Monroe, Michigan, still in the tunnel and they

chun soldiers,

question of the composition of the handed to the Magistrate, who

a report to the Traffic Office, for the should be varied and that so-called witness's act to be noted.

SON MISSING."

1

CASHES CHEQUE AND DISAPPEARS.

RUSSIAN BARRED.

ence.

"CONFERENCE.

Rugby, Sept. 2.

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CLOTHING TAKEN.

Cameras and field

semi-permanent seats should be created, has been communicated

A letter has been despatched to of all description were strewn over to the Spanish Government.

Warm tributes to the valuable the officials of the General Council the muddy shore.

The local dialect for silver dol- work done for the League by Spain of the Trade Union Congress, were paid at yesterday's meeting which will hold its annual confor- lers is "pal tieh," white fron which to enable the Executive to meet states that eight people were kill rushed into a column of these un-

of the Commission and these, ence at Bournemouth next week, Dr. Cressey did not at first under- and frame a recommendation to ed and 26 injured as the result of fortunato men. The spot, where

together with moving appeals informing them of the decision of stand: but the blows he received lay before the conference.

a collision between two trama this catastrophe took place was

particularly from Latin America, the Home Secretary not to permit that night helped to impress that The Executive met. forthwith when going at full speed. The strewn with the bodics of Kuomin- and it was reported that it had, trame

A Chinese schoolboy has abscond- for Spain's continued co-operation M. Tomsky and other Soviet De-language lesson on his memory. telescoped for three- by a majority, decided to ask the quarters of their length-enter's Yot the retreat from Nankowed with a large sum of money be in the tasks before the League, legates to enter Britain for the Certain that the foreigner had a conference for plenary powers American Service.

was stillone of an army that had longing to his mother, according to have also been forwarded to Spain. purpose of attending the confer-large supply of "pai tich, many blows were administered to en- and an open mandate to enter into

not lost its martial spirit, but at a report which has been made to British Wireless.

Newspapors state that M. force the demand for this even the police. negotiations for settlement.

Hwailai It was otherwise."

Tomsky, who is President of the after the box containing 125 of Hwailiis captured The It appears that a married woman

All-Russian · Connell of Trade, them had been handed over. The Mukden army, pursuing the enemy, living at, 39 Pokfulam Road, at

Unions, and prepared a speech on bandits got Dr. Creasey's two „pis- TWO PERSONS BURNED TO joined here with the army of the about 8 am on the 2nd. Inst. on- In the course of the discussions the failure of the general strike tols, and the ammunition of one

DEATH. A further adjournmont wai

left flank. The hope of the trusted her son, aged 17 years, with of the Chunell Reorganisation in England in May. The agenda of them, but in the confusion over. taken, to enable South Wales and

London, Sept. 2,

Kuominchun to make a stand, at a choque for $5,500, drawn in his Committee, which adjourned till of next week's conference Indi- looked the remaining ammunition.. other district representatives to A civil aeroplane crashed near Yan-shen was frustrated. Be name, which he was instructed to tomorrow, Mir, Chu desired the caten that no debate on the general held a group meeting to considor Leatherhead this evening and was sides, unfavourable news from rash and to bring the money home portion in the report of a state strike will be Initiated by the CONFINED TO BED, their attitude. On re-assembling set aflre. One man and and wo- Shansi compelled the Commander when he returned from school. It ment that China reserved the right Council but it will probably be

It seems quite certain that the and after some further discus-nian were burned to death and an in-Chief of the Kuominchun, has been ascertained that the to submit a claim for a permanent discussed on resolutions tabled by brigands had spotted the boat with bion, the motion was carried other man was severely burned General Chang Chih-chiang, to cheque was cached, but the boy is seat when opportunity occurred some on the amliated Unions the foreigner on it for most of

and sent to hospital-Reuter, i

missing, (Continued on Page 18.).

(Continued on Pers 12)

A

This decision was communicated AEROPLANE CRASHES.

to the delegates late this after-

noon.

British Wireless,"

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CHINA RIGHTS RESERVED.

Geneva, Sept. 2.

British Wireless.