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六拜禮 號十三月四英港香 SATURDAY. APRIL 30, 1927.

日九廿月三

SERIOUS BATTLES EXPECTED. NANKING BRUTES. MISSISSIPPI WATERS $14 FOR RELEASE.

BOTH SIDES ARE MASSING

FORCES.

MOSCOW SAYS PEKING DOCUMENTS

ARE FORGED.

DISLOYAL COMMANDERS.

ANOTHER STORY OF

THE OUTRAGE,

AN OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following are extracts from the official report made by M. Brydon

regarding the experiences of hla wife and himself in the Nanking

incident:--

DIVERTED.

1,000 FEET OF LEVEE IS BLOWN AWAY.

FARM LANDS SACRIFICED.

GENERAL'S OFFER TO HIS CAPTORS.

HIS EVENTUAL ESCAPE,

The Shanghai Provisional Court New Orleans, April 29.

wae crowded on Saturday morning The Mississippi levec was when a well-dressed Chinese was successfully dynamited this after-summoned to take the stand.

"What is your name?" he was noon at Poydras, Afteen miles

"Liu Chi-chao," he replied. "What is your occupation?" was the next query.

"On the morning of March 21, at below New Orleans, with a view asked. 7 o'clock, we went to the roof to to saving the city from the floods. witness the arrival of the Nation- Shortly Delive dawn armed alist Army. They came in firing soldiers were patrelling the levee, their rifles indiscriminately and and National Guards were aprend waving dags. There was no dis-out in fan formation to inque a

with no officers to be seen,

There are indications of an early renewal of serious fighting bo-cipline, just on uncontrolled mob,

tween the Northerners and the Southerners to the north of the Yang- taze river. From Chinkiang We that Southern troops are massing there for a drive again

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From Hankow it is stated that the Southern armies on the Horan front are being changed over as there is disloyalty among the officers of those at present occupying the front line:

Our Shantung correspondent reports that the Northerners are preparing an offensive against the Nationalists and lave 100,000 troops available for this purpose.

A Moscow message states that the Communist International describes the documents alleged to have been found in the Soviet Embassy it Feking as gross forgeries.

"Later on, at 9.30 am, two Southern soldiers arrived in the hotel compound, whereupon Mrs. Brydon and myself went out to me Brydon and myself went out to meet them. As soon as they saw us,

|they caught hold of me and march-. ed me inside the hotel sitting-

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St. George's Society is going to enter the football league next sea- management is open to receive Jon.

Meanwhile they are saving suggested amendments to rules up up for a ball.

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gion of a sult of armour for recipe for stufing. Ours is to The Dairy Farm advertises

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keep on eating.

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ment of the Long Vacation, the To-morrow being the commence- Radio Society is giving music a rest-several of them in fact in the same number of bars.

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Another Boxor Rising Mr. S. of that ilk is in favour of taxing. Bachelors with marriage as the only indemnity.

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trod on your foot in the lift, and "Jessica:"The gentleman who

then called you a hard-boiled Jane, A reader writes to point out that an American on his way round the and the bee's knees was possibly "I'm a General," the witness the reason hawkers prefer the world.

neighbourhood of Wyndham Street final warning to the recalcitrant answered, inhabitants to abandon their Listeners gasped. The Judge wherein to shout their wares is homes. Three hours before noon looked surprised and court atten-probably due to

A Rumblers' club is being form- fr excess of ed among Kowloon Tong residents, bypocarburine in the air. all roads were cleared and the dants were startled. area was closed, only military

All members must pledge them- passes admitting anybody within

selves to climb Lion Rock every Sunday morning before breakfast. the corden of troops.

Still Serious,

The fleads are challenging levee after levee. The worst break yes- terday was at Yazoo City, where 1,500,000 acres were inundated, while a backwater of the Arkansas River submerged Seydell Moutrose.

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"Yes, sir" continued the wit- ness, "I was the Ceneral of the 4th Division of the Szechuan Army."

The nature of the case was then revented. According to the story in court, General Liu was sitting peacefully in a theatre on Kiukiang Road on the night of April 15, when a chit was handed to him.

The General rend the chit-there being nothing else to do at the time. The message requested that he go to

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We saw a Chinese ancient doing some research work hmong the sanitary buckets this morning. Perhapa he thought he was a university.

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no longer a one-way faith, which Apparently Christian Solonce is

ia to be deplored as it would Chiang Kai-shek's troops are thinking is on the increase.

appear that error and wrong now in the pink of condition.

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We know 'n man so swell-headed.

A few years ago women rolled that he would have to pin back his

their stockings below the knees ears to get through Lyemun Pass.

to their skirts.

room, where Mr. Oliver and Mr. Quinn (the Customs officer) were sitting, stood over us with their rifles pointed at us and informed Mr. Brydon that they had orders to shoot all foreigner Mrs.

A New York message states that 426 Manila Road, where a friend but now they wear them nearly Brydon promised to pay them any- thing they asked if they would let the fur trade fears a serious cur- named Li Pei-ying, awaited him.

of the

of It was further stated in the chit supply While she was las plead-tailment ing with them one of the soldiers muskrats, as two of the richest that a little opium-smoking and Moscow, April 29. The Shantung provincial at- The Secretariat of the Exceu- thorities are seeking an advance noticed the telephone, on the wall,muskrat producing districts in mah-jong party was in session. tive of the Communist Interna- of $1,000,000 from the local mermediately proceeded to smash it to many mirats drowned, and it just outside the room. and im- Louisani vill be inundated and tional describes the documents chants. It is also reported that pieces with the butt-end of his will take many years to make seized at the Peking Legation as a Trovincial bond issue of $6,000-ride. The soldiers then demand-up the number.-Reuter's Ameri- a gross forgery, for the purpose of 000, or if possible $10,000,000, hased huge sums of money or instant can Service. Inciting the public against the been suggested, with the whole death, so Mrs. Brydon had to leave Flood Waters Released.

Soviet-Ander.

TROOPS MASSING.

Drive Against The North..

Chinkiang, April 29, Southera troopa are massing for an alleged drive North. For eign residences are being used hs billet. Some looting is reported -Nuent Wireless.

Disloyal Officers,

Hankow, April 29. It is reported that the 11th Army is being replaced by the 8th Army Officers of en the Honan front. the 8th Army are nel loyal to the South. The general situation is quiet.-Nord Wireless.

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provincial land-tax collections as security,

Our

us go.

ns to find whatever money she could to give them. While she was away the soldiers stripped us of all the cash and other things o our persons, all the while point ing their barobeta at our chests and knocking us with the butt-end of their rifles.

Smakes Opium..

The heaviest bull marketed for some years at Oswestry Smithfield Market an animal weighing one ton-was sold for £200.

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McWhirter says that Judging have been suffering a lot of Bee- from the papers, folks at Home

thoven lately.

Spare BoRODin and spoil China.

Communities in the Pur, East' continue lustily to sing the same

Our office boy asked if Wa Pei- tune; the trouble is that the Home fu put the Wu in Wahu. He's Government won't sing the chorus, looking for another job.

00 Canton joss stick makers have had options!

Another China anomaly: The "Cameronian:” You are too Even if "Maritana" was written by a Scotsman, it didn't make the concert any less English.

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The General, evidently not averse to a bit of the "pipe of wonderful dreams" and a rousing game of mah-jong permitted himself to Later.

be persuaded to go to the address. The explosion at the lever at

Did the trusting General God bis Poydras was planned for the morn-good friend Mr. Li Pei-ying await- ing, but it was not until nearly four ing him? History will record that in the afternoon that the engineers he did not. Instead a number of bad joss completed the task of boring armed men confronted him, blind- through the Enbankment and ar-folded and bound him and demand-

A Chinese who stole a cat on ranging the dynamite and fpses-ed-$40,000. Altogether holes wazi zinde, The General readily admitted policemen a hribe, but they let the Thursday morning offered two cach containing five pounds of dy that he didn't have that sura on cat out of the bay

All the charges were his person but offered to compro- simultaneously ignited by electri- mise, proferring $14,

A strip of the teves. 1,000 feet bit and said they would take $6,000. The armed men came down a

blasted away. Great long was

The General grew generous, in the rubble were face of this drastic reduction and pieces of mind and thrown high into the air, and offered $20. The armed men con- columns of spray rose from the ferred and decided to refuse the

The noise was tremendous. 320. river, As the smoke cleared, the flood waters could be seen pouring over the broken levee into the surround-

farm-land into a sed cf brown,

city.

SOUTH DISHEARTENED?

Dearting Troops Recalled.

Shantung correspondent writes under date of April 21 "Mrs. Brydon returned and gave Since the defeat and subsequent them all the morter she could find, loss of Feng Yang Kuan (on south including casă money belonging.numite. bank of Huai Ha, about 5 miles to Measry, Oliver and Quinn, to N.W. of Nanking, and about 50 miles rether with her jewellery, such as N.E.. of Shou-chow) by the Nation earrings, wrist-watch, jade neck- list Generaig Chu Pei-tch, Chen lace, elc,, even her wedding-ring. Tino-yuan and Wang Pu, Marshal These the soldiers proceeded to Chiang Kai-shek has been very much pack in their haversacks, throwing Irritated over these failures., Or-way minor lent to make room for ders have been issued by him that the valuables, Even then, when had taken the deserting troops at Wuhu and they found that they Chinliang should be called back everything possible from us, they for service.

were not satisfied, and said they mand of General Cheng and General point we conferred with one an- Chow were under inntructions to other in whispers, and decided to proceed to the front with the object

at overpowering Nanking, April 20. of making preparations against the these two goldiers, not wishing to The white fag was flying all possible attack on Nanking from be shot without making a fight for day on Lim Hill yesterday. Two the Northern Allied Armies.

Jives. Luckily we did not Fear-our guns from the North bank fired ing that the Ferttien troops might carry out this scheme, as just as on Chiakwan and Lion Hill in the invade upeh Presince en route that moment a machine-run start- afternoon. Lion Hill replied with to South Ronan, Marshal Chianged firing just outside the sitting- shout twenty rounds in the direc- has officially instructerl

General room window. There tion of Pukow-Naval Wireleas.

Tang Siong-chi to re-inforce his soldiers on guard outside, Kiuking, April 20.

even if we had got the better of Troops have arrived from down troops at Wu Sheng Kuan.

the two inside, it would have no river, otherwise there is nothing

doubt caused the death of all in to report-Naval Wireless,

the hotel..

YANGTSZE FIGHTING.

The Lull Continues.

Shanghai, April 29. The situation remains unchang- ed at Shanghai and elsewhere. Navu! Wirdess..

Held Prisoner.

From that moment on, quoting

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The ladies are lucky. Now the warm weather has come, they have only to pack away their fur coats..

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only proving that spring was in all the other day was probably The man who jumped the Ferry

the air.

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We don't know what the Powers are going on as a basis for their

Local fashion note From to- action towards China, but they'll morrow, until October 31, Is the never bridge the problem by close season for furs. playing up to u knave.

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All Generals with a stake in The Pathans have been at their China make a stew of it. he was a prisoner in the rear room Indore games again.

The Cheriang troops under com-still intended to shoot uz Af'this ing country, converting prosperous the story as told by the General,

swirling watera-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.

As the result of the recent enmity between the Communists and Ma

hal Chiang, the latter has decided to centralise his troops in Chekiang and Fakien, ns foundations for fu tatre expansion in ease of an inevit the breaking up between himself and his enemics in the Nationalist Armies.

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of the house. Thursday, He testi-

A sign of expansion. Boarding- fied, he escaped from the liouse with To-day's motoring hint: house keepers used to advertise the aid of a friendly cook, the two Always take your hand brake off five minutes from Ferry. Now it escaping from the place while the when going op hill.

is cight. COUNTERFEIT NOTES. guard was having n puff of a

口口 cigarette.

There is one encouraging sign Political orators will no doubt In the Provisional Court yester- all through this crisis and that is note that poison gas has been.. were more SCHEME TO SELL 1,000 BOGUS day Yuin Tee-ching, an old school- that China isn't likely to expect barred from future wars.

mate of the General's,

Luthe United States to pay for her and

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Members of the Hongkong Free- DO

thinkers' Union аге making charged with complicity in the plot

from the It looks at the moment as if arrangements to hold a flag-day to extract the money.

Borodin aint gonna reign no more. some time in November. General.

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The Government is preparing "Fair Sex"-You can't have it statistics of bathing fatalities last both ways. A bluo neck is usually year between Kowloon Becks and a concemmitant (as they say in. Laichikok.

Hankow) of a bobbed head. OO

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private.

Mr. G. R. Haywood this morn- ing appeared for a Chinese who was charged with possession of one! "In the meantime some Chinese false $500 note on the Hongkong

Yuin Denica. Red Cross business friends of ours and Shanghai Banking Corpora-

tion. had come. They intervened in an

He applied for a remand Yuin declared in court that he them from and asked His Worship, Mr. R. E. too, was kidnapped and was re- endeavour, to stop

threats. (It Lindsell, to fix ball.

leased three days ago because he carrying out their NORTHS PROGRAMME.

must be noted that in no way did

Sub-Inspector F. Shaftainconvinced the armed men that ho the soldiers molest these Chinese, objected to ball, saying that is very poor. also in the case of our servants, evidence would Ive brought 100,000 Men to Fight South.

CHANGSHA COMMUNISM.

Yuin denied the story told by whose boxes they allowed them to before his Worship to show

Inspector Quayle that he obtained

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take away from the hotel, telling that there from

were certain, meet- his freedom by paying the kidnap- them to immediately join the ings between defendant and others pers Tls. 2,000 and a check for $800 Chancellor's report we get it that Telegraph refers to

read the

case, the Northern military circles-states Anti-Japanese Parade,

Reporting a recent

"Her wife." that in spite of the losses recent- ly sustained by the Northern al- Shanghai, April 24.-A Hankow Union). While they were busy wherein, defendant had

a University education seldom This might be a basis for a de- lied troops in evacuating u Ning messure received here this after arguing we managed to slip out arrangements to sell 1,000 of these to obtain his Treedom.

Inspector Quayle, who investi- hurts a man provided he's educat- lightful sex novel,

ᄆᄆ (ie. Shanghai and Nanking), Tu- noon states that a Chinese, who by another door and made our way notes as forgeries.

to a hiding-place in the cellar, as- pan Chang Tsung-chang and Gene rently arrived here from Chung-sisted by the hotel boys. We had that he was not asking for the case about the case than anyone in the

In reply to his Worship, ha said gated and obviously knew more ed before hand.

The gentleman who was charged The Hongkong Telephone Com- with uttering a false note, intro ral Chu Ya-pu still have under sha fer shelter, describes their cornmand about. 100,000 men. situation at Changsha after the some discussion between us three to be tried as a case for committal courtroom, stated that Lu obtain- and decided that this was not a

and it would be sufficient to deal ed his master's chop and later alpany have received fow

com- duced a certain amount of discord. Of these, writes our Shantung evacuation

safe place, as the soldiers would with it summarily.

check was made out in the Gen-plaints last year. The theory is into harmonious correspondent under date April 21, follows:-

His Worship remanded the case oral's name and the money drawn that many tried to convey their lations. tell them where wo were, until Monday afternoon, bail being from a Szechuan bank by his kid- complaints by telephone,

trained.

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of Japanese 13

FIRST SEA LORD.

about 80 per cent. are fully equip- A huge anti-Japanese parade undoubtedly force the boys to ped. In addition, there are avail- was staged on April 7 as pre-all left the cellar and ran up-refused. able several tens of thousands of arranged, and two Chinese, owners stairs to one of the rooms where troops, who are fresh and well- of the Taishengchan Wharf, were we got through a trap-door and shot dead. The General Labour hid beneath the roof. All this With this in view Tupan Chang Union caused the Union of Em-time machine guns were firing and Chu are full of hopes in plan- ployees of Foreigners to make in from all around the hotel, several ning an offensive campaign quiry into the properties left behind

bullets coming through the cor- against the Nationalist army. by Japanese, and the properties are

rugated iron roof underneath The programme mapped out in- now being watched by Chinese

which we were hiding. dicates that 50,000 men will be pickets. sent to the South to meet the Na- tionalist force, and these are to

Rich Men Mulct.

"Meanwhile the soldiers had dis- covered our escape and were furi- ous. Mrs. Brydon and my Chinese

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The reason why most of us are Tu Lai-ing has been appointed discontented with our lot is ba Commissar of Communications at cause we have'nt got a lot, Hankow.

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Inspector Quayle asked for cas- tody of the cook, when the case was remanded till Monday, the officer

Even in this warm weather we explaining he was the associate of

To-day's golf hint: Stymics can be frozen-by a stare. a gang of bandits.

The General vigorously protested should never be polished so that against this, declaring that his during play the caddies may not

A Chinese charged at the Kow- APPOINTED.

life been saved by the cock and become hypnotised.

loon Magistracy on Wednesday that he would look after him.

with stealing pigs, failed to save. London, April 29.

This week's stray hat from the his bacon.

"Should Admiral Sir Charles Madden After some parleying the Judge

not tracing be under the command of Gene-- Communists are very rampant friends tried to pacify them by succeeds Admiral Lord Beatty, as agreed to this and the cook was not belfry:

paper be used for paper chases?"

"Club for U.S.M.P.'s" states a ral Chu, the 7th Army Corps Com- and quite arbitrary. Chang Yi-giving them more money, the hotel first Sen Lord, on July 36. held

The Gonoral swore by the light mander, Gen. Fau Kun, and the peng, who once disappeared, has boys, subaeribing as well. They Reuter.

Much disturbance was created "headline in a local contemporary. Commander of the 10th Army now been chosen chairman of the then decided to give Ms. Brydon [Admiral Beatty announced his of the Oriental moon, by the shin- Corps, Gen. Tu Feng-chu.

Committer. 20 minutes, to live unless we were intention of retiring some time ing waters of the Inland Sea, by in a London synagogue when the We presume this would be used The romaining 50,000 troopa will The General Labour Union and the handed over, and went away say-ago. His successor, Sir Charles the spirit of Confucius and the choir went on strike. Their ser- when the "gay" falled.

The Honorary Secretary of the be under the command of the 11th Farmers' Association are pressing Ing that they would bring back a Madden, Bart, has had a very shadows of the Provisional Court vices are no longer recheired,

P. R. A. recently stated that the Army Corps Commander, Gen. wealthy men and rich merchants big party to burn down the place distinguished naval career, and that he, the General, would produce although their action set the ranks

Government had not replied to two Wang Hau-ming, the 9th Army for money. Many such persons if necessary. Mrs. Brydon came during the late war served at the the cock when wanted. Shanghai of sin ages Corps Commander, Gen. Chu Par have been arrested and are now up to the room adjoining our hid- Battle of Jutland. being mentioned Timer.

did letters. Clearly a caso whore chino, and the 2nd Army Corps under detention. The Union have ing place, and told us of their in- in despatches. He has a number

aanetion anything except U.S. "Silonco broeds contempt.'

0 Commander, Gen. Chang Ching started to confiscate properties of tentions, also informing us of the of decorations, which Include the

Gaining entrance to 44 Pei, Ho yino.

When a k'nut invites a pal to These 50,000 men are to be rich men.

The chop of a Chinese is not Such being the case, reported death of Dr. Smith and Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, used for restoring.peace and or- there are many who are taking re- the British Consul, which news 1st Claas, and 1st Class Striped Street, Shamshulpo, ground floor, always acceptable as may be cor dinner these days, he asks "What der in various places in the Pro- fuge in Hankow. Pickets of the was told her by outside Chinese. Tiger, of China. He was created by making a hole in the back door, roborated by the records of the about a spot of tiger flesh, Old

came out of my hiding-place and a Baronet in 1010, and Admiral thieves stole $188 in money yester-Government Civil Hospital. vinces of Klangau and Anhui,

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(Continued on Papo 18.), of the Fleet in 1924.]

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