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(Continued from Page 1.) FALL OF TINGYUAN,

Southern Claims.

MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927.

SANCHOAN ISLAND PILGRIMS.

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Bishop Fourquet who had helped the work of the Maryknoll Mis- alon in. Its initial phase in China. Shanghai, May 23,

The creation of the new Bishopric Goneral Li Chung-yan reports of Konginoon, where the chief ac- that his troops, under Generals Sha Wal and Hu Chung-tao, captivities of the Mission lay, mark- tured Tingyuan on the morning ed the normal course of that de of the 21st, Thov are, marching

velopment. He alluded with deep on Linhwal. The Shantung mali

death of Bishop. force has retreated from Linkwaf sorrow to the to Mingkwang, on the railway line. Gautier of Pakhol, who was the. General Li also states that his father of the American Maryknoll army is abortly to begin the at tack on Pengpu from Tingyuan. Mission.

The Nationalist chief engineer

of the Tientsin Puków railway

Bishop Walsh also thanked

has arrived at Pukow, and work Biahop Nunes and Bishop Prat,

is in progress to repair the roll and with regard to Bishop Val: ing stock and tracks of that line torta

of Hongkong, he said so as to facilitate the troops nd-he

knew the latter would yancing along the railway. Ac-

to eat prefer

rice with Conding to the engineer's report.

than to trains will be able to resume run-his Chinese converts ning within a week.

assist at banquets. (Laughter). General Ma Chi, formerly a Bishop Nunes of Macao, in a well-known Kwangsi general inspirited address in English,. Canton who had joined the Shan- French and Portuguese compli- tung army was killed in action mented Bishop Walsh and, in the recently during the Anhwel war. name of the Fortuguese Colony, His coffin was carried to Tainan wished him many years of suc- yesterday from Pengpu.

cessful work.

Movement on Wuhan.

The armies of Generals Yang Son and Sha Tao-yin are operat ing jointly again Wuhan. These anti-"Red" forces have reached. Chi-fang, twenty miles south of Wuchang.

More troops are being sent to

The rest of the trip was un- eventful and the s.a. Kinshan re- turned to Hongkong soon after midnight..

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ing entailed.. the "Reds" in Hunan,..

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To Photographers. kiang, Sun Chuan-fang troops are again arranging for pence with

We are asked to state that the General Yin-ching, the National- Maryknoll Mission desires to have ist Field-Marshal there, and it is a photographic record of the Pik said that, the peace negotiation grimage, from the time of leaving. this time may be successful, for on Saturday evening until the re- Sun's army is willing to give way turn. The Mission therefore re- further in the matter of terms.quests a single print of each pic. Nam Chung Pao.

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The report is generally consi- dered to be premature.

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"A total of $3,700,000 is estimat- ed to be required to compensate the remnants of the Iongkong- Canton strike body and followers, who number, it is stated, some 40,000

Besides the lon of about $1,500,0000, which the Government in Canton is raising from mer- chants and shopkeepers, with which to meet the requirements of

is foreshadowed A rift in the its compensation promisce, there "moderate" lute, owing to dis- is an attempt to raise funds for satisfaction with certain of the this end by means of a tax on the Nanking appointments to tho Gov- cinemas, and it is reported that a ernment departments.

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The most interesting news over | has, broken out in consequence. the week-end regarding the anti- The scheme is for revenue "Red" campaign is that the editor stamps to be fixed on each ticket of the Nationalist mouthpiece, the sold, and the cinema owners pro- Canton Gazette, has been arrested test that there is keen competition on a charge of sympathies within their business, and they will the Communist party of Hankow. He is Mr. C. H. Lee (Lee Choy), not be able to meet the new im position from their meagre pro- formerly of Hongkong. It la alta. They are declaring a general leged that he was favourably dis- strike in protest. posed to Messrs. Borodin and Eugene Chen, and that he refused 'to. publish certain slogans of the Anti-"Red" Propaganda Committee. He was arrested on the orders of the Police Commissioner, and is in custody in the Police Department premises. It is reported that he Intended to come to Hongkong, and booked a passage on April 15, when the anti-Communist coup was effected, but was not permitf- ed to land here, so stayed in Canton,

For Capt. Spear, of Nanking.

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Shanghai, May 17.

I learn that Captain C. R. Spear, of the Indian Army, who has been attached to the Intelligence Depart- ment of the Shanghal Defence Force for some time, is going Home, writes a correspondent. It will be recalled that he was in Nan- king on intelligence work when the After commercial experience city was taken by the Nationalists. He was at the British Consulate here and in Canton, and a jour-when it was attacked and the Con- nalistic spell in Shanghai, ho was appointed editor of the Canton sul General, Mr. Bertram Giles, Captain Gazette about four years ago by wounded, and did what he could to the party then in power, in which assist and protect him. Borodin and Eugene Chen were. Spear was badly wounded himself, and is stilbion, tharaick Ifst: Lam leading Agures.

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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:---

1 January 10, 1940. 2, Tâm call 18ft. aquam in, which; in 1766, the Nawab Burajast Dowlah Imprisoned 169 Engliskimen, of whors only twenty-three survivedi 1; The fifth-to

cola called a “gazotta.”. 5. Ruler of a Pathan"

vince of India. : 6. In 875, when Alfred squfp-

It is also reported that the ap-from Major General John Duncan, pointments from Nanking have for his services at Nanking. caused much disagreement in Can- ton, and there is evidence of dissension.

have Sixteen men been appointed, to the new branch of the National Executive Com- mittee, but seven of them have not

Shanghai, May 17. come down to Canton to take up

The position of foreigners in their posts, and two of the others Hankow now is not very comfort are likely to be ousted as they are able, in fact it is rapidly becoming suspected of Communistic lean-untenable, though doubtless every

the Northern Atlantic alone by nir. the aftenth centuries. A small Italian inga. With only Seven men one will wait for the demise of want to make out of it what the The Atlantic Ocean has now tribe on the border of the North-West Pro nctually in office, a quorum is in the Wuhan Government in the Chinese invariably make, out of a been flown by several men, but on peda amall. Acot. 1. By the, Chinero, 2004, possible, and a situation of stasis opt of better times coming with political prize--all they can in only are occasion has the North- Be 5; Mexison volcano 17.74aft Bish

the now regime, whatever it is. cash and in kind if possible. Itern Atlantle heen crossed by aero- immolation off. Hinda widow on the funeral The Inauguration of the now The famous agreement does not seems apparent that at the first plane. This was the effort by Sir yrs of her husband, 11, The Rislast fun Mayor, Lam Wen-kai, whose ap- operate, and firms are reported to opportunity they would like to dla John Alcock and Sir Arthur 1818, 12, in 1610, by the Dateh. 13; In Farb pointment was reported recently, be facing bankruptcy thing possess all foreigners of their in- Brown, who crossed from Saint dowed over 4,000 acres of Kentlab, laid has also led to much dissatisfac easily. believeable. The now terests in the concession. The tion, and gradually the followers Counali is a Gilbertian farce, or functions of municipal Govern Johns, Newfoundland, to Clifden, of the former Mayor, Sun Foo, are would be but for its tragic side. mont don't interest them in the Ireland in 1919-British Wireless

The Duce's Praise,

taken spice by storm and subdued. leaving their offices. The latest I learn, says a correspondent, thut least. I hear the only reason'

Rome, May 23. It, “a fent that is one which will Signor Mussolini has sent over remain in the memory of men, to tender their resignations are the Nationalist labour and Govern why the British councillors did not Commissioner of Lands, K. Y. Wu, ment representatives neist on resign long, age is that they and the Commissioner of Finance, being present at all council meet were requested not to by the message to Lindbergh tributing and to the glory of Lindbergh and

the superhuman will which has his people-Reuter: Lau Wai-chi --

Ings. And they are not content. British Consul-General.

has been reached.

William Peterson, in 1694 '10, The voluntary:

Ja 3802, 14, An 'Iwundation, In: 1100, which

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