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a Transmits only slightly less of the visible than

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an objectionable feature of many other, altra vidiet absorption' glasses.

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ANNUM

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NEW BRITISH NAVAL MOVE. CANTON'S ATTITUDE TO ILLEGAL ARREST. NEW GOVERNMENT AT THE FALL OF HANYANG,

WARSHIPS CONCENTRATING IN

UPPER YANGTSZE.

IS ACTION CONTEMPLATED?

The latest development arising out of the Wanhsien incident is reported to-day from Shanghai, indicating that a second naval expedition may be contemplated.

- H.M.S. Cricket and H.M.S. Bee are proceeding up river, and a- naval detachment has left Shanghai by passenger steamer for Ichang, where it will join the survivors of the first expedition.

BRITAIN.

"NO HOSTILE FEELING ENTERTAINED.".

OFFICIAL'S STATEMENT.

THE KOWLOON TONGʻ

CASE.

WUCHANG?

KUOMINTANG TO HOLD. CONFERENCE.

GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF RECENT

BIG ISSUES RAISED.

In connection with recent, "re-

FIGHTING.

has always favoured the ides ports that General Chung Kai-shek SILVER BULLETS EFFECTIVE. of transferring the seat of the so-called Nationalist Government now stated in Chinese circles that from Canton to Wuching, it is;

Confirmation of the fall of Hanyang through the treachery

delegates from several provinces,

at which the proposal, was approve"

· DAMAGES AWARDED.

Mr. Justice Wood, in delivering Interviewed last week by a judgment in the ease in which six presentative of the Toho Newscooliea claimond $1,000 damages Agency, Mr. Ting Wei-fen, a mem- against MA E. Murphy, of 47, ber of the Standing Committee of Kowloon Tonk, for wrongful im- the Canton Government, stated:-prisonment and a false charge of

"The Canton Government is not theft, found in favour of the plain-he recently called a meeting of at all fond of causing troubles tiffs, in the Summary Court this with any of the foreign Powers, morning. It la our desire to maintain friend-

In presenting his case, Mr. R. A. ly relations with foreign nations. Wudeson, who defended, pointed

our attitude towards Britain, out what he termed as serious de we entertain no hostile feeling screpancies in the evidence given by the plaintifs One had enid against her, but should, Britain that a big crowd collected, another attempt to obstruct the movements denied that there was a crowd, and Shanghai Sept. 15:1

two others did not go nour the The second naval expedition to

HOSPITAL BOMBARDED, .. of our army in the Yangtze Valley, place. Also when the coolie was Wanhaien is mentioned in a mes-

consider The American Church General we must

counter-arrested with the allegedly stolen sage received from Hankow dated Hospital at Wuchang which has measures, but, we will in no case cement bags, he produced a note, September 14th. In addition to the been filled with cholera patients take the initiative in standing the date of which had expired some time previously, and it had been stated by the man's employers that, the note was not good, y

Details of the proposed procedure have not yet been issued 'for publication, but the news is regarded seriously since report of successful negotiations in connection with the release of the British steamers Wantung and Wanhaien has failed to come to

hand.

this

J.

ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA,

A Toho News agency message from Hankow, dated the 8th inst,

As to

...

POLICE REPONSIBLE?

to do

taking the matter up, for it is The Kuomintang appears to be stated that a circular order has been sent in intimating that a con- ference of the Party and Provin- cial Executive Committees will be held on October 1st, at which the following matters will come up

for consideration:

1. Location, organisation, and

3. The relation of the Pro-

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of General Liu Tso-lung is contained in the following graphic account of the war waged round Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyfing. Liu's troops fired their rifles into the air throughout, the engagement, it is reported, and when the Southern forces approached opened the gates and allowed capture of the city without further resistance:

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In other districts fighting has been very fierce and both sides have suffered heavy losses. The Roman, Catholic Fathers of St. Columbana' College speak warmly of the fighting qualities of the Southerners, who attacked, with a recklessness bordering on- bravado...

The following account of the land that they would be released fall of Hanyang, sent from Han-immediately. He informed them kow on the 7th inst., appears in that the arsenal would shut down

+

the Shanghai Times:

for two days in order to give, the Hanyang, the most important men a holiday, but that work

CARA M

date for the re-establishment or stronghold of the allied forces in would start again on Wednesday, this area, was taken at five o'clock when they could come back to boats already up the river, has been in the midst of the ar-

the Nationalist Government. H. M. S. Cricket left here for tillery bombardment, according to

against her.

Proposed National Congress yesterday morning by the Kwang-work for better wages which the upper -reaches earlier reports. The doctors of this in- "The reason why the Cantonese

of the people to be convened 'inftung forces. Hanyang is the would be paid on due date. Many week. H. M. S.

accordance with the expressed location of a huge arsenal and of the men came to Hankow, yes- Beestitution, whose sleeping quarters troops prepared against Fukien goes to-day, while a naval detach-are on a verandah report that buland Kinngai is that Kinngsi and

desire of the late Dr, Sun Yat-sen; munitions manufacturing plant turday afternoon, and expressed ment of about 70 men are proceed-lets have whizzed over their beds, Fukieri armies assumed an attitude Dealing with the question of ar location, organisation and date to and was absolutely vital to the the sentiments that practically all fing by passenger steamer to fortunately not occupied at the in favour of Marshal Wu Pei-fu, rest, Mr. Wadeson asked His Lord-

be decided by the Central Execu-allies for the maintenance of their of them would return to work

position here. Ichang to-night..

to-morrow, to manufacture arms time. Latest information from the when the Cantonese forces com- ship to find that the arrest was tive Committee.

The Southerners captured and ammunition for the Cantonese At. Ichang the detachment will hospital shows that no casualties menced attacking the Wu Han dis-effected by the police on their own join the members of the last ex- have been sustained and that all tricts. If the Cantonese troops are responsibility in consequence of a vincial Government to the Nation-Turtle Hill, overlooking the Han- forces.

yang arsenal and occupied the pedition....

the staff are safe. The gates of able only to capture Wuchang and statement made to them by the de-alist Government, and the question arsenal after a heavy engagement gan on three o'clock Sunday after- The attack against Hanyang be- Details of the proposed proce-Waching are reported shut and Hankow and to subjugate Marshal fendant. Even if Mr. Murphy had of provincial and district represen-with the allied troops who were noon, and before Sunday evening dare when organisation is com- northern soldiers are mounted on Wu Pet-fu, our troops will neither pointed out the men to the police tation of the people.

under "command of General Kao they had taken Black Hill. With plete have not yet been given out the walls of the city; as yet no make a long drive against Honan by saying "There are the men,”

4. The relation of the Provincial Tu-tung. They took the Hill at the co-operation of General Liu's for publication.-Reuter.

Cantonese have made their appear nor will they fight against General that would only be a direction Kuomintang organisation to the one-thirty o'clock yesterday morn-defence army, the taking of Turtle LATEST NAVAL REPORTS.

The only step as to place. If he was not Provincial Government, to bringing, but held it only a brief hour, Hill was carried out the next morn- ance inside the city.

Sun Chuan-fang. our troops have to take is to devise allowed

90 without about a closer relationship.

being driven out by the allies.ing.." The local naval authorities in-

a means of self-defence and to give running the risk of being accused 5. Proposed alteration of the Another drive a few hours later No sooner had the Cantonese form us that the following is à

political training to the provin- or false imprisonment, he could policies of the Kuomintang, in resulted in its being recaptured at taken Hanyang than they began brief summary of the latest reports

clals of Hunan and Hupeh.

never point out a person he had respect of the rights of the people, five o'clock, from Hankow, dated yesterday:

and held. The distributing handbills and putting "Whether or not the boycott actually" scen commit an offence." the economic condition of the casunities to the Southern forces up posters throughout the city, all Wuchung still untaken and as-say-Upon their entry into Han-against Britain will also be start- kow, the Cantonese troops, dis-ed in Wuchang and Hankow in suults, have been repulsed.

After referring to another country, the finances, resources were very small, only numbering worded in highly anti-British tone. The Southern forces have taken ributed handbills stating: "Over- future, it is very hard for the judgment relating to two alterna- and reconstruction of the country, about eighty killed.

One of the most numerous of these Hainokan on the Peking Railway throw the Imperialiam of Britain" Canton Government and the Kuo- tives after the evidence of both education of the people, organisa-

rend, "Beat England Save your TURTLE HILL, CAPTURED. and reported to be advancing. and "we are opposed to the oppres mintang Party to foretell, for the sides had been weighed, he saidtion of the Army and Navy, and

own country, And dare Wu Fei fu” Turtle Hill was captured not; Hunkow is practically denuded of sion applied to the Chinese labour boycott against Britain in Canton in order to prove the arrest there foreign policies,

The duration of the conference after a struggle with the defence

MARSHAL WU LEAVES. troops, and it is presumed they ers in Shanghal by the Japanese," and Hongkong was originally must be evidence of it, and that have gone down river to reinforce

should come from the plaintiffs. is fixed for ten days but in case forces on the hill, but by the com- The Cantonese troops, which started by labourers themselves."

Marshal Wu, Pei-fu, Commander If, after considering both sides, of necessity, it may be extended.bination of Cantonese troops with of the allied forces, deft Hankow troops opposed to Marshal Sun on proceeded along the railway line the Kiangsi border.

to Liuchiamlao, are now comman-

his Lordship found there were

those under General Liu, brother on the Kin-Han train at 7.80 yes All is quiet at Hankow. The deering steam-launches and junks

two alternatives, he could not find

of the newly appointed Civil terday evening, accompanied by local papers, commenting on Wan- in the vicinity of the village under

for either one of them, and the

Governor, General Liu Tao-lung, his bodyguard. The remnants of both armies turning upon the his troops under the command of hsien, state that the fault lies with threat of firing.

verdict must go to the defendant.

allies under command of General General Chin Yan-do evacuated Mr. Wadeson submitted that

Kao Yu-tung. The latter are part here on the afternoon previous to the defendant was not responsible

of General Chin Yun-ao's recently the departure of the Marshal. for the imprisonment, although he

arrived divisions. General Liu The withdrawal was effected in A young European schoolboy might have been responsible for

personally led the combined Can very orderly manner. * tonese and Hupehese forces in the Marshal Wu has left Hankow in was charged before Mr. J. H. B. part of it during the time the men were detained while he went to Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy the Police Station. After that

Sydney, Sept. 14. attack on "Turtle Hill

compliance with the request of the MARSHAL SUN'S TACTICS.

The allied forces sustained International Chamber of Com A railway accident which has this morning, with feloniously had been considered, his conten- "A Nanking message of the 10th breaking and entering a dwelling tion was that the evidence showed occurred at Murulla, one hundred heavy casualties, and the remnants merce and the Chiness Chamber inst. from the Toho News Agency, house in the neighbourhood of his

miles North-west of Newcastle, is of their troops retreated to here. The Chambere sent two says:-Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's home and stealing various articles (two equal probabilities. Further described as the worst ever wit. Hankow, where they were dis- separate, letters, one to the Com- tactics are to take a negative act including bed sheets, bottles of to be arrested and he certainly people were killed and 60 injured.

if Mr. Murphy did cause the men

nessed in Australia. Twenty-six armed and disbanded by General mander of the Southern Forces and Liu T30-lung. Yesterday morning the other to Marshal Wu Pel-fu on the borders of Hunan, which beer and vichy water.

did not hold that view then he are rather convenient for defen-

It was stated that admittance London, Sept. 14.

was justified because of the The Admiralty has cabled to abundance of mountains, but to and releasing the.

sive purposes, because of an was gained by breaking a window breach of the peace that had been the Commander-in-Chief on the draw the enemy deeply into Kiang-house was vacant at the time, the" committed. China Station regretting the ai in order to inflict a sovero blow owner being away on leave.

Iri reply to his Lordship, casualties"in the Wanhsien affair all at

Mr. Wadegon said he the Southern once upon

The defendant pleaded guilty that under common law, but try fully substáined by all officers offers itself. In the meantime, strokes of the cane and. ratings who participated Marshal Sun seems to detail his

not And that, as the power to The cook employed by the boy's arrest under that law was at an therein....

Their Lordships convey warm with a view to recovering it upon receiving two bed sheets, knowing anished. appreciation of Admiral Sir the arrival of Fengtien troops. Alexander', Sinclair in going to

General Chen Tiao-yuan, Tupan Ichang to meet the deputation of Anhwei, and General Wang Pu which General Yang Sen has offer are how advancing their troops ed to send thither to discuss the along the northern shore of the Wanhaien affair-Reüter.

Yangtze. It is understood that Rugby, Sept. 14. Marshal Sun himself will give or-

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General Yang Sen. Several fac- Wuchang is still in the hands of tories, foreign and Chinese, have the Northern troops. The boom- closed down and the Labour Unionsing of guns and of rifle fire began are active.

" to be heard this morning, and fres There are no further Aringa at broke out in places in and out of passing ateamers and sailings to the Wuchang Wall. Changsha from Hankow have been resumed.

The Southern forces have de- manded $4,000,000 from Chinese Chamber of Cominerce.

GALLANTRY RECOGNISED,

LAD TO BE CANED.

HOUSEBREAKING AT- KOWLOON,

catch. The

held

TERRIBLE RAILWAY

SMASH.

AUSTRALIA'S WORST

DISASTER.

Four trucks laden with wool be- they were lying along the railway asking them not to engage in any and ran down-hill and crashed at this territory. Many of them were bourhood. In the Chinese Chame came detached from a goods train waiting to be transported out of battle in Hankow and its neigh sixty miles an hour into the North-brought into the hospitals in the ber's petition, the Commandors of west mail speeding at forty miles Concessions, badly wounded the two forces are asked not to per hour. The trucks jumped over Stretchers borne through the Con- have any military operations in and wreaked the second coach. soldiers were a common sight in Lukiamiae in order to save Ham- The driver and fireman of the mail the afternoon, after the general re-kow from war devastation.

Chinokow.

ply asked that Hankow and Its neighbourhood be excluded from the war zone.

and noting the traditional gallan forces when an opportune chance and was ordered to receive ten this, Lordship replied that he could the mail engine, and the first conch cessions carrying bleeding and torn the area from Lao Pu Garden to

China:

The

main force in the area of Wuhan parents appeared on a charge of end as soon as the disturbance train were practically unhurt treat of the allied forces from International Chamber's letter sim-

MARSHAL SUN'S ATTITUDE.

sentenced labour.

LOCAL DISTURBANCES REPORTED.

Reuter.

LEVEL CROSSING

MISHAP.

VERDICT AGAINST DEAD GATEKEEPER,

in Chinokow.

Wu's TROOPS RETREAT.

General Chin Yun-no's two

HANKOW UNDER FIRE Divisiong all left Hankow yes- terday, and late last night only one During the heavy fighting at regiment was still in Hanyang, Hanyang yesterday morning, stray boxed up there by the Southern bullets found their way all over forces. Yesterday afternoon, the Chinese City in Hankow. section of the Cantonese army Several coolics are reported to London, Sept. 14. crossed the Han River and arrived have been wounded on the Maloo.. sambel Over fifteen shells. dropped on At the Inquast on the victims of the Naworth railway crossing Following the capture of Turtle the Jardine Estate behind the disaster in which a chata baac was Hill, the arsenal at Hanyang fell Hankow Race Club, but did not run into by a train, a verdict of into the hands of the Cantonces cause any damage. They were manslaughter was brought against practically without effort on their Brad from Hanyang by the the crossing gatekeeper named part. Less than a dozen Wham-Southern force. Oliver, who, the jury found, was pea Cadets came down the hill and The Bund of the Concessions killed as the result of his own called on those inside to open tho was under a fire of machine guns negligence.—Reuter.

gates. The doors were flung open and rifles from the Wachang side. and they entered without resist for about two hours at noon ance. The hundred end fifty yesterday. Allied gunboats and workers in the arsenal were gather-transports, made their way up and

the same to have been stolen or

Continuing, Mr. Wadeson said a unlawfully obtained. He was breach of the peace was going on to one month's hard which might have ended in a civil commotion, and the defendant only did his duty in communicat- ing with the police. A large The following message has been dere to all his troops on both sides KWANGTUNG UNREST. crowd had collected in the high- sent by the Admiralty to the of the Yangtze from a man-of-war

way shouting, and it was a ter- British Commander-in-Chief in at Kuikinng. Troops stationed in

rible position to be in. He him- the district. of Nanking have all

self certainly would not like to ap- "Having received your tele been mobilized.

prouch a crowd of thirty or forty graphic report of the expedition

Chinese, all talking, shouting, to Wanhsien on Sunday, 5th

According to Chinese reports; so screaming, using abusive langu September, their Lordships, while The attitude of Marahal Sun far ho open "anti-Red" uprisings age, and having one rush at him deeply regretting the loss of valu-Chian-fang is getting more and in Kwangtung have occured. al-In fact, he would pince very little able lives and the number of casual- more friendly toward General though several minor encounters reliance on Indian guards at all, ties suffered, note that the Chang Kai-shek, with whom he is are reported.

and he would feel inclined to tako 'traditional gallantry ofHisunderstood to have concluded a Local disturbances are reported the whole lot to the Police Station Magisty's Servico Was fully secret agreement, says the North from Wang-lan-aha, Heungshan, without making enquiries. Ho sustained by all officers- and China Standard. According to where some 300 houses were on asked his Lordship to find that ratings who took part in the a person who is "in the know," September 9th destroyed and about Mr. Murphy did not arrest the hazardous expedition which re the assistance intended to be 36. lives lost, during a conflict be plaintiffs, and more particularly SINGAPORE FATALITY. ed together and locked up in a down the river in front of the sulted in the extrication of His given to Kianged by the Nanking tween Reds" and local inhabi- the first man who was arrested by

room in the building,

Concessions, fring their heavy Majesty's Ship Cockchafe from her warlord is of a negative nature, tants; and at Fatshan, Fabyun, an Indian guard, and kept by

Later in the morning they woro guns and machine guns on the dangerous position and the rescue, Kiangsu troops being poured into Lungkong, Sheungchung, Ngal force, and that if any arrest did

brought out into the yard where way down rivor, and coming back with one exception, of the British Kiangsi for the purpose of main Moon Hou, Wangkong, Heichow, take place, he was justified.

they were addressed by the new on the Hankow side under cover Mercantile Marine officers of two taining his Mouros Doctrino for and other places.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

director of the arsenal, a technical of the foreign gunboats and „de. steansers Thoir Lordships desire the no southern provinces, and The majority of the disputes IMPRISONMENT PROVED

Singapore, Sept. 15. man, who had been brought here stroyers stationed here. They that an expression of their warm more for establishing ble influence have arisen from inhabitants op Saying he did not wish to hear

The death took place to-day, as for the purpose of taking over were fired at continuously by appreciation may be conveyed to in the province than defending it posing further increases of taxa Mr. McCallam bila Lordship sum the result of an accident, of Mr. charge of the works. He told Cantonese troops in bux cars and all officers and ratings concerned," against the possible invasion of ton and demands for subscrip mod up. Remarking that he con- BW Home, the Assistant Munici- them that since all Chinese were mud houses on the bank of Wu-

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-British Wireless,

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