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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

GEN. WOOD'S END.

(Continued From Page 7)

tumour of the scar tissued about. the injured portion of the. skull.

Wounded in France.

In France, he was wounded seriously in the left arm when two French officers, between whom he was walking when a shell burst, were killed.

Of recent years ill effects re-. sulting from the scar tissue tumor had become more and more

MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927.

EXIT OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

(Continued from Page 1.)

DAY BY DAY.

Two Chinese women were each fined $10, with the alternative of twelve days' imprisonment, by Mr. 1. The Nanking Government W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- was established for the purpose of tracy this morning for trespassing suppressing Communism, within and cutting grasa in the Govern- the, Kuomintang and throughoutment Plantation at Kowloon City. the territory under their control.

came Upon inquiry this morning, the When Chiang Kai-shek to Shanghai as a refugee from Telegraph was informed that there Borodin's enmity, he could only had been no further developments gather about him auch Kuomin- in the C.N.C. strike over the week

The position is now the tang leaders as had been driven end. out of the Government or had same as at the beginning of the noticeable. The use of his left voluntarily left it because of their strike, and so far as can be a5- arm and left leg was impaired. objections to Borodin, and the certained, there is no likelihood The of an early meeting of the two That condition was accentuated Communist Party of China.

parties. when he underwent two opera- only issue upon which these men tlons shortly before his depar could unite was their opposition to the Communists. The Shang- ture from the Philippines.

hai Chinese bankers and

mer-

chants were willing to support and finance the new Government on the understanding that the Communists would be suppressed.

The following ships were ex- When he came to the Philip

pected to be in wireless communi- pines in 1921 as head of a com-

cation with Hongkong to-day: mission of investigation for Pre-

Hellas, Chenonceaux, Amazone, President Adams, Kidderpore, sident Harding he was unable to

Hatching, Bintang, President Taft, walk with a normal step, but he refused to let that deter him from Executions by the Hundred. Ginyo Mara, Tango Maru, Hozań Mari, Alaska Maru, Tenyo Maru, meeting all the requirements of

Van The first step that Chiang Kai-Shantung. Kitano Maru, a thorough inspection. He trävel- led throughout the islands, using shek was forced to take, then, was Overstraten and Fingal. avery means of transportation, to organize for the suppression of and walking long distances. Communism. This task was en- In the Singapore District Court Throughout his six years as gov-trusted to two minor men in the last week, before Mr. N. D. Mudie. ernor general he refused to spare party who utilizing the Chinese two Chinese were charged with himself, despite his growing ill detectives in one of the foreign being in possession of non-Govern- police organizations and a largement opium and with counter- number of persons connected with felting Government marks. Chief Recent reports received from the United States had indicated the Blue Society, one of the two Court Inspector Meredith pro- was improve-principal secret societies operat- secated. The first accused plead- ing. A message from Dr. Along here, they made such a clean-ed guilty on both charges. xander Lambert of New York. P of Communists as no northern Meredith said that the previous .. Detective Inspector brother-in-law of Mrs. Halstead general would have dared to do afternoon

Poulain and a Chinese "detective Dorey, said that the condition of even in his own territory.

went to a house in Kim Yam Road the left leg and arm was not due figures are available of the nam-

bers beheaded and shot but that where they saw the accused. The to paralysis.

The operation, following which they run into the hundreds is no

exaggeration.

health-

that his condition

death came, was

for the same

scar tissue tumour which had caused the previous trouble, it is understood.

British Honour Planned. The University of Cambridge was to have conferred the honor- ary degree of Doctor of Laws on Governor General Wood this year, in the course of his return trip to the Philippines via England, the Bulletin was informed by n high official at Malacanang.

The honour had been arranged on special request of the Chan cellor of the institution, the Right Honorable Earl Balfour A similar distinction, only a few weeks ago was bestowed on Mar shal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies during the world war,"by Oxford University.

No

No reason or

first

Mr.

was putting opium into packets, and handing them to the second accused who had a brass plate on which Government marks were imprinted and by means of which he made impressions on the packets. The accused were fined $500 each, or six months' rigorous imprisonment on the first charge, and on the second they were dis-

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FLOODS IN ORISSA SUBSIDING:

CALCUTTA-MADRAS RAIL STILL CUT.

The anti-Communist campaign should have ended there and the people would have been happy. But every form of persecution was resorted to on the pretext of hunt ing Communists. Men were kid- napped and forced to make heavy contributions to military funds; others were seized and held be-charged. cause they had corresponded with friends in Hankow. justice was evident in the Com- munist hunt; no courts of law were utilized to give the so-call- possessing millions were held as ed Communists a hearing. Men, Communists and the North-Chine Daily News was refused the posts for disseminating an alleged Com- munistic piece of news. The Dal- bank was sealed in search of Communist funds and the German steamers were taken in a search for Russian Communists. The plan of General Wood had No one is safe, even at this moment, been to return to Manila by way from the anti-Communist inquisti- of England and the continent. tion which has been established and

Five hundred houses were des- Many of General Wood's British which drags men out of the Settletroyed in Jamshedpur and 1,000

and forces them by friends had expressed a desire ments

were rendered homeless. that he visit them.

brutality to admit their affilia- tions in Chinese territory. Last April General Wood re- Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.ceived a special invitation from

No statement of this anti- Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout Sir Hugh Clifford, G.C.M., then Communistic

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appointed governor of the Straits the fact that at times and in some Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. Settlements and High Commis-measure the foreign police, wilfully sioner of the Federated Malay or unknowingly assisted the Com- States. Before his departure for munist hunters in some of their most objectionable offences the United States, General Wood

against justice and decency. dictated a letter to Sir Hugh, say. ing that he looked forward to seeing him on his return journey.

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Question of Successor. Washington, August 7-0- cial circles agree"as to Acting Governor Eugene Gilmore's ability to carry on until the appointment of a successor to Governor General Wood.

Feeling of Abject Fear...

Calcutta. August 5, The floods in Orissa are sub- siding, but railway communica- tion between Calcutta and Madras will be cut off for a month. The line. is still submerged for อ distance of 20 miles

SIR HARI SINGH.

A MARRIAGE CEREMONY AT

KASHMIR

Very little was therefore spent on the marriage itself, but His Highness distributed very large sums of money to the poor and deserving people.

His name was mentión-

. Calcutta, August 6." It is authoritatively repórted' from Kashmir that Sir Hari Singh's marriage for the second This, anti-Communist terrorism | Ume was celebrated on' August' 4 has frightened the people of Shang-with the simplest ceremonies, and hai and of Kiangsu as nothing else was conducted according to Hindu has in recent times. The vernacu shastric rites. lar press has been forced to submit to a mortifying and shameful cen-" sorship. Decent men will not dis- cuss political questions in public. Merchants are afraid to suggest Though early speculation men- that there might be anything good Sir Hari Singh, who is 32 years Lions Col. Carmi Thompson. in Peking or Hankow or anywhere of age, succeeded his uncle as Harold M. Pitt of Oakland, else in China. No one knows who former of Manila, who has the is a spy. This feeling of abject Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir backing of Senator Smoot of fear, this repudiation of Govern- in 1925. Utah, and Newton Gilbert, a ment, of every Nationalist principle, ed in connexion with a notorious New York lawyer who was vice

of the Political case in the English courts a few of the rights governor under Forbes, the most Bureau and of the Central Execu-years ago, serious consideration will

tive Committee by a few men, whose be

job, it has become, to purify the party, has done the Nanking Gov-

The new bridge which carries ernment more harm than any other the London-Portsmouth road over single factor in the present situa- the moats at Hilsea was opened tion. For one thing, it has turned by the Mayor of Portsmouth (Mr. many people to Sun Chuan-fang: F. J. Privett) recently. Port secondly, it has disillusioned many mouth is the only English city of the the ardent, decent men in the that has but one main road lead- Kuomintang who would not have ing into it. Until lately this was believed that such crimes could have carried over Hilsea monts have been committed in the name drawbridge, and there were great of their party. As the truth is un-doors in the ramparts which coul! publishable, except in the foreign be closed across the road. press, these tales have been mag- nified to the eternal detriment of the party,

given to Colonel Henry L. Stim son and to Senator James w, Wadsworth of New York.

It is uncertain that either would accept the appointment, but it is predicted in well informed circles that the administration would hestitate long before rejecting Mr. Wadsworth if he should in- dicate a desire to take the post, The Funeral.

Washington, Aug. 9-To-day General Leonard Wood joined the long list of the nation's notable Sgures who made their final journey down Pennsylvania avenue over the Potomac river to Arling- ton National cemetery.

A Harbour Notification issued from Canton, under date August 10, states that the port of Kiung- chow has been declared cholera

General Wood's body was laid to rest with full military honor. infected. Many high government officials participated in the funeral pro- cession and bespoke the country's tribute to the old soldier who died Sunday in Boston. "

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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

Arriving early this morning, the general's body was removed from the train to the President's room in the Union Station before being entrusted to the regimen fcient practice of hanging a rose in a troops waiting to escort it to the grave in the Rough Riders' section of the heroes' burial ground, Arlington cemetery.

Mrs. Wood, the two sons and the daughter of General and Mrs: Wood were in the funeral party, The Philippine tribute was expres- god by the presence of Resident Commissioner Pedro Guevara and group of Filipino residents of the Capital.

1, Famous negro dictator and ruler of San 2. Domingo at end of eighteenth century, Near Tunis.0. Curved knife used by Clark- haa.. "Under the rose." Derived from on- to caring emo me impune lacessit

and permisalon to speak without fear. 5."

4. No one shall strike me with Impunity.) from which we obtain spermacct!.. & Author Oberammergau.. 7. Species of sperm whata of Maru d'Arthur," printed by Caxton In Afteenth century. 9. Temporary deviation from her Hne of course. by a vessel. 10, To stop licit scraping of of silver, which is of greater value than broare.. 11. Action between Monitor and Merrimac, vessels belonging to contending factions da American Civil War, 12..Imaginary lines around the carta Jointer up places of equal temperature. 18. fn 1802. The Birkenhead. 14, Famous African traveller who explored Niger and Gambia latter part of eighteenth century. 16. HM the King.

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