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SHAUKIWAN MURDER.

EVIDENCE OF DECEASED'S NEPHEW,

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31,

1927.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

HANKOW TO-DAY.

OBITUARY.

RUSSIAN CHAPLAIN IN SHANGHAI:

SOMETHING "NEW!

REPORTED TO HAVE PASSED THROUGH HONGKONG.

MORE DEPRESSED-AND GLOOMY THAN EVER. -

Yesterday afternoon the magis- A rumour was current in the Co- Recent advices from Hankow The for. E. P. Yakhonpoff, priest terial hearing was continued of the lory yesterday to the effect that indicate that the Wuhan area is of the Broadway Orthodox Russian Shanghai on charge of murder against the two Chiang Kai-shek had arrived on more depressed and gloomy than Church, died in Chinese arrested in connexion with board the French mail Chenon-ever. Central Bank. netos have Wednesday of last wook of heart the death of Mrs. Mackay, who was

ceaux and was on his way to Eu- fallen to 220-240; business is trouble. attacked and robbed near Shauki-rope, having booked to Marseilles. practically at a standstill; and the Deceased was of pure Russian The news first came from a Shang-native community is driven to blood, and member of the older attended a Giving evidence Walter Eckert hai passonger on board who was despair, constantly being forced to Russian regimes Ho said he came from Shang- certain that the late chief of the tender change for paper money military academy and later joined hai and arrived here on Nationalist forces was among a which is at such a heavy discount. the Imperial Guards.. At the con- July 22, Describing the inci- number of thirdclass Chinese pas- Lately, due to rumours of mili-clusion of his military servien he dents before the murder, heengers, travelling as students. tary reverses, the Chinese have entered the Church coming to been focking into the foreign Vladivostok in 1819 and to Shang said that one of the two assail-

areas with their household belong-hai in 1923. Since the organization ants was noticeably taller than the other. He said it was not so dark

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been chaplain of the unit. but that he could see that the tal-

biggest ever seen. ler man was dressed in a dark coat and what appeared to be white trousers. The smaller of the two was dressed in dark blue cloth, but the taller one had the darker coat of the two.

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The two men passed witness and Mrs. Mackay and when wit ness reached the third fight of the steps at the top of the path thes saw the men coming up behind them. He turned round and the two men walked off, but soon re- traced their steps and got up to Mrs. Mackay and witness when they had reached the top of the bridge.

Witness said that the taller man pushed him into the nullah on the right side of the bridg He was not injured. He had a glimpse of the smaller man run- ning towards his aunt from be- hind, but could not say whether He heard this man was armed. Mrs. Mackay say something in Chinese. When witness got to the top of the bridge again the two men were "disappearing round the corner,"

on

A newspaper representative who visited both the liner and the local office of the Messagerice failed to confirm the presence of the Field Marshal on board. Cer tain it was that he was net trave- ling under his own name, and al- so not

under that of Chiang Chung-phing, which he has as sumed on several occasions in the past. The only name in the pas aenger list at all approaching that of Chiang Kai-shek Tchen Tzou-siang.

was

that

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

ENTRIC FEVER STILL PREVALENT.

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Shops and Stores Closed. Most of the native shops and CORRESPONDENT

EXPELLED. stores are closed. Various notices are exhibited outside these closed premises. One states that as the occupiers have departed, the pub-

to search the premises and take OF COMMUNIST RIOTS. he is at liberty and is welcome TASS AGENT DISTORTS TRUTH anything that can be found: An- other notice states that as the establishment has absolutely nothing to sell, and as stocks cannot be replenished, the pro- prietors have left the district for the time being.

com-

Paris, August 30. "The papers announce that M. Froune, the. Paris correspondent of the Soviet news agency Tass, France has been expelled from because he sent to Moscow tele- grams, putting the recent The Food Markets.

munist disturbances in quite an Very little indeed is being incorrect light. The authorities- offered for sale at the usual mar- intend to take occasionally severe

toward Eight cases of infectious dis-kets for the sale of fresh veget-measures

any foreign ease were notified to the Medicalables, meat, fish, etc. Country journalist who distorts the reali Officer of Health last week. No dealers, apparently, are unwilling less than six were of enteric fever to risk the conveyance of their one diphtheria and oue puerperal

products through military fever. The enteric sufferers in- cluded two British and one Porticupied areas, and also are unwill- guese, all the others being Chin-ing to be forced to accept paper currency in payment for their were two deaths- ese. There one from diphtheria and one from supplies. No pork or beef what-

ever is on sale. enteric fever. Thre was one death from influenza, which is not a notíflable disease.

Yesterday's return contained two Chinese cases of puerperal fe-

Continuing, witness said "My aunt was sitting down on the bridge and was putting on one of her shoes. "She used only one arm as with the other she sup- ported herself on the ground. Į ver. Her hat and umbrella were the ground and her bag was mis- sing. The tall man had seized the grip from me when he pushed me over. My aunt said to me, "they have stabbed me and taken all my money. She then placed her hand over her injuries and indicated their positions to me. Bending down and still pressing one hand over her abdomen, she walked up the hill. Half way between the

ALPINE DISASTER.

THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF VICTIMS,

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supplies has become very acute The difficulty of obtaining food and is affecting both Chinese and foreign members of the com- munity,

Another sign of the pathetic fate of Hankow is the complete absence from the streets of the usual itinerant sellers. Usually these may be seen offering their goods all over the place, now one never is seen..

Raids for Food.

Lies.-Reuter.

BRITAIN AND THE LEAGUE.

SIR AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN

LEAVES.

In

London, August 30. Chamberlain Sir Austen

bas left for Geneva to attend a meet- ing of the Council of the Assem- bly of the League of Nations. an interview he regretted the ab- sence of Viscount Cecil which he thought was entirely unnecessary. It is learned that Lord Onslow. will probably carry out Lord Cecil's work with the League of NationsReuter.

In search of food many shops have been ransacked again and Charmonix, Aug. 30. again, and not only by soldiers. Twelve thousand persons includ-Stocks of rice and flour have al-ADRIFT FOR TEN DAYS. 'bridge and the corner she telling tourists followed the coffins most, if not altogether, been ex-

down.

Agonies Described.

"I helped her up on her feet and we proccéded a few more yards. When we reached the corner of the path. I picked up a suitcase and a bathing suit which had dropped out. I have since found out that my towel was missing from it. I picked up my hat from the same spot. At some other

of the victims of the Alpine rail-hausted, and if relief by the im way accident to the station after portation of further stocka is not the funeral services at the hospital. quickly forthcoming, an extremely 1ICKED UP BY B. I. STEAMER. Nine,, coffins were entrained, the serious situation must be created. remainder being interred in the local cemetery. The Minister for the Colonies presented a gold medal to the conductor of the second car-Reuter.

The foreign community is said to have a certain stock of tinned foeds, which is being utilized dur- ing the present crisis, but the impossibility of procuring fresh vegetables is a very serious matter and efforts to obtain supplies from down river are being made.

ADOPTION OF SYSTEM FOR SURTAXES POSTPONED.

WRECK MARKING.

point, my aunt's hangbag was also NOTICES TO MARINERS. N. C. D. News. recovered. She fell down again after a few paces and I again help- Fed her up. She struggled along with her arm од my shoulder. She finally collapsed after walking twenty yards in this manner. まむ was then that she requested me to look into the bay to see if there was any money inside. I found there was only 10 cents.

"When I got my bathing suit, she told me to tie it around her waist. I tried to do so, but it was too short. She then made the ends meet and held it together around her waist with her left hand. I was told to go for assig-

The following Notice to Mariners, No. 481, has been issued by the local Authorities under date August 30.

It is notified for information, that

"IN VIEW OF EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES.""

Shanghai, Aug. 30,

When the B.I. ateamer Santhia ar- rived at Singapore from Yokohama, bound for Rangoon, her master, Capt. A. D'Cruz, reported that they picked pa boat containing two men at sea

at 8.46 p.m. on the 18th inst

According to the men's statement, they came from near Saigon and had been blown out to sea. They stated that they had been adrift for about ten days.

he

In the flouse of Commons in mail week, Sir Philip Sassoon, in answer to Mr. Thurtle, snid was not in a position to make a statement on the results of the test operations which had just taken place in connexion with the

wrecks will be adopted in future, the following system of marking It is officially announced that the aerial defence of London: Mr.

By day... By a green fag.

Nationalist Government has de-Thurtle asked whether it was not By Night... By a green light in a cided "In view of the existing cir- a fact that in actual warfare the vertical line over a white light.

tance and before my aunt collap- Sir Burton Chadwick, replying sed, she gave me her watch. I left to Mr. W. M'Lean Watson, in the tatives in Peking in the foregoing "bombardment of London from her propped up by the right side House of Commons in mail week, sense-Router.

who asked whether it was the in-

of

cumstances, temporarilly to post-population of London would have pone the enforcement of surtaxes," suffered immense casualties. Sir It is understood that the Nanking Philip Sassoon was understood to Foreign Minister is sending a des- say that he must leave that to patch to the Diplomatic represen-th hon. gent's judgment. The the air ceased at the end of July. In three days attacking "East- of the road and went for assistention of the Government to in-

land" forces made seventy raids tance. When I returned with Mr.troduce legislation to give effect

Professor Lorenz, of Leyden on the capital and hundreds Davidson later, she was already to the findings of the Royal Com-University, was re-elected Presi-bombs were dropped by day and | dead. I found her on the spot mission on Mining Subsidence dent, and Professor Gilbert Mur- night. While the enemy air craft left her. I could not identify during the life-time of the pre-ray, of Oxford University, Vice suffered heavy casualties they had sent Parliament. said the recom- President, of the League Interna- the better of mattere, being helped mendations of the

committee tional Committee for intellectual to a large extent by the weather. Late the third night the weather would require much more atten- co-operation. Among other mem- Three Divorce Division judges tion than had yet been given to bers are Professor Einstein,.Mme. clerk allied himself with the de- held a special sitting at the Lon-them. It was impossible at the Curie, Sir J. Chandra Bose (Cal- fenders. Earlier in the evening, don Law Courts recently and dis-moment to say more than that cutta University), and Mlle, Bon-however, six raids were launched, posed of 76 cases during the morn- they would receive the fallest connevie (Oslo University),"

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tive without being intercepted.

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