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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY APRIL 30, 1927.

Tel. Kowloon No. 1

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After-dinner dancing every

"Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

SALVAGE OF THE TJILEBOET

The above two pictures give a vivid iden of the feat which has been accomplished by the Taikos Dockyard and Engineer- ing Company in salvaging more than half the 8.8. Tjileboet which stranded on Lin Tin Island. The pictures were taken in the Taikoo Dockyard yesterday since when the dock has been pumped out, leaving the vessel lying on the blocks.

SERIOUS BATTLES

EXPECTED.

(Continued from Page 1)

General Labour Union have been posted at the railway station to keep close watch over passenger Almost all big merchants have

Mrs. J. B. OXBERRY, Proprietress.closed their doors.

Cables :--

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Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.

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Madame Flint

FOR A FURTHER WEEK

"GRAND DISPLAY AND SALE'

OF

39

NEW SPRING SEASON PARIS MODELS"

Under the Export Supervision

MADAME JULIA RENEE Special Representative from

FAMOUS PARIS HOUSE

SHANGHAI, MURDERS.

That the salt police, of Taolo Ishould all be discharged, and Tao- ilo shall forever have no Salt Col- lectorate and other sub-stations; that the Collector of the Taolo' [Collectorate, Mr. Wang Chih, Ishould be handed over; that 2

cash compensation of $100,000 should be handed the bandits as the price of a peaceful eettlement.

No settlement could be reached, and urgent representations were made by the Salt District Inspec- torate Once at Tsinanfu to the provincial authorities. On the Cotton Mill Foreman Slain.Bth of April rescue was effected by Wang Lu-chang, who had with Another victim was added last him a brigade of soldiers. After Saturday to their now long list by the labour agitators, who have the troops arrival, Taolochen was terrified the mill foremen off and restored to its peace and order. The number of casualties was re- on since the Nationalists were

ported to be less than fifty, and within distance of Shanghai,

The foreman to be executed one of the salt police was report- this time was one in the Sunged missing. Sing cotton mill at 200 Brenan

RUSSIAN MILITARY. Road, who was shot down in cold blood while walking along the Activity on Manchurian Border. roadway in the Tseng-Ka-Jao Vil- lage la the Western district out-

Shanghai, April 29. side the limits of the Interna- A message from Mukden, dated tional Settlement.

the 27th states that goverament Following the murder the Chin.circles assert that Chang Tso-lin ese authorities began an inquiry is considering the closing of the into the causes of the crime and Soviet Consulates in Manchuria, learned that the assailants were in anticipation of which the Con- hirelings of the Friendly Labour Sular Staff are despatching certain Union of Western Shanghai. It effects to Moscow.

is said that the deceased had ad- There are persistent reports of vixed the workmen in big mills not unusual Russian military activity to join the organization, Aince it on the frontier. A body of Mon- had been organized to collect moneygolian cavalry is reported to be inner Mongolia, from the workers, most of which Penetrating

Foreign observers are being des- had been appropriated by the or-

patched to verify the report. ganizers. No arrests have yet been made in the case, it is said, but the native police have the names of some of the gang.

"BIG SWORD" BANDITS.

Trouble at Jihchno Hsien.

On the 4th of April the "Big Sword" bandits failed to capture

has

that General Teang Shih-ku

A report from Peking states

gone to Harbin to arrange frontier defence with the military commissioner there.--Reuter.

PEKING EXECUTIONS. Death By Sirangulation.

Shanghai, April 29,

for

A message from Péking, dated

Com-

the Taolochon of Jihchao Haien, April 28, delayed by the censor, writes our Shantung. corresponsays that the well-known dent. The cause of the trouble munist Li Ta-chao and seventeen was that the Inspecting Office of others, who were arrested in, the the 8th Army Corps has been ex-Soviet Embassy raid, were execut- acting the last penny from those ed this afternoon. The police who were so unfortunate as to be-appear to have decided that the discovered completely come their victim, also a certain evidence nun was recently charged with proved their guilt and the Court, smuggling a prohibited amount of having somewhat informally in- copper coins, and there were also vestigated the cases, ordered eum- found in this amuggler's posses were "strangled at police head- mary execution. The prisonera sion an opium pipe and its acces- aories. "It so happened that the quartera--Reuter. Ying Chang was enjoying himself! HANKOW-NANKING on that very day with a compul-

sory marriage.

All these things naturally aroused the people's anger, and a

FIGHTING.

American Missions Looted;

Shanghai, April 29.

cry went up for immediate redress. The reports of fighting be- At this juncture the "Big Sword"tween the troops of Chiang Kai- bandits came in. They tried to shek and those of Hankow in scízo Teolochen and gathered Anhui are confirmed, though ap- themsolves outside the Chen, per-parently they are not on a large

exit or

scale. The Hankow forces are mitting no Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the G of When terms of negotiation were retreating to Kiuklang, looting the

discussed, three most ridiculous American mission en Victoria, Hongkong.

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