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IN CÂNTON FROM DAY TO DAY.

CENTRAL BANK NOTE CRISIS PASSED.

OTHER INTERESTING ITEMS.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, Sept. 5.

the Beginning from to-day Central Bank of China has fully resumed its business, the five days of moratorium having expired. As the $10,000,000 loan from the merchants and bankers, has been

almost upset the Government is now a matter of the past. It is understood that a large portion of the loan has already been remilled to the Central Bank.

CAR WITHOUT ANY LIGHTS.

DANGER OF STATIONARY VEHICLES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

CHINA "CRICKET" HANKOW'S SHORTAGE

CHAMPIONS AMONG INSECTS.

MATTER OF PSYCHOLOGY.

STUBBS ROAD COLLISION.

The driver of public car No. 31 was summoned, at the instance of Mr. C. P. Marcel, before Major C Willson at the Central Foice Court this morning, on a charge of neg-gical leaflet livent driving.

Inspector Alexander said that. at 12.30 in the early morning of the 28th of last month, Mr. Marcel

his horn with the intention of suddenly defendant swang his car around, blocking the road, and a collision resulted.

The Chinese cricket champion- ships will soon begin. So much, says the London Morning Post, may be inferred from an admir- able and most human "anthropolo- which has just reached us from the Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History; for the sport is distinctly said to Amusements." It has developed, be held in a place called "Autumn

con-

The notes of the Bank are not only being fully accepted by theinst as Mr. Marcel was sounding this respect has been known at public but yield a small premium. The Ministry of Finance has just passing. issued a notice to the "effect that government banknotes shall carry no premium but must be accepted

face their

value. Many speculatora bought those notes while they were. cheap, and the action of the Finance Ministry is to counteract the efforts of these speculators to reap a harvest a the expense of the recent crisis.

on

the critical

obtained, the financial crisis which was driving along Stubbs Road in the same authority states, into his private car, when, outside of the control area past Magazine a veritable passion-presumably Gap, he came upon the defendant's rather like horse or greyhound car, which was without any lights, racing here, for bets are Of course, the ear being stationary cluded, and the stakos are some- very large-though the at the time, there was no regula- times tion requiring it to have lights, but amateurs, whose recklessness in times to ruin the sport, are "by no means low-brows," but highly cultured men, often in respon- sible Government positions,

Like most institutions in China,. Mr. Marcel stated that there the sport is extremely old and has was plenty of room for him to pass an ancient literature; but it was had the car not so unexpectedly the last phase in the Chinese In turned round at

It was possible that cricket cult to be developed. moment.

and the defendant might not have heard fact the "Book of Crickets" the horn, as the public ear at the (thirteenth century)

"Records of Cricket" (Ming Line was dropping a passenger Fighting in East District, and someone was saying good- Dynasty) are nearly so old as the It was a significant faet, cricket odes in the "Shi King," General Li, Chai-sum has order-bye. ed his 11th. Division for imme- however, that after the colli- the earliest collection of Chinese diate service to the Eastern Dis- sion, which resulted in one of his popular songs but the Chinese at wheels being damaged. that time were not thinking of a 'tricts where the Communist, Pea-front sant Corps, and bandits are join the defendant should swing back possible sport, but of sound and

to his original position and again music, ing hands to disturb the local au- thorities. The medical and en- put cut his lights, thereby giving Mediterranean centuries later, or under Mr. Marcel to understand that he like more recent Englishmen who gineering corps are also

the hearth. orders to follow the army to Wal- (defendant) had a right to do what have celebrated the cricket on crickets Gradually, however, chow where the General Head- he did. quarters will be established. The

Witness suggested that defen-have began to be kept as interned City of Waichoy is now under

dant should have looked around to prisoners, often in beautiful jars martial law.

see that no-one was coming up or in luxuriously appointed pavi It was a dangerous procedure at lions; and in the Imperial seraglio any time to cross the road without the women would find solace and looking behind. Even at that hour. diversion in their company. the road was still much used, as listening to the captives to making quite a number of ears passed by them night (since cricket natural- while witness was charging the ly resents the presence of cricket in his solitary lait) was an easy damaged wheel.

In the collision, witness was step; and the sport has now all forced up against the wall and his the appurtenances of profession- The generals"-Virgil ear front wheel was caught by alism.

are still

The Reds are becoming so active that they have succeeded in cap- turing Far Yuca Districts. The matly Peasant Corps who are Reds captured the town on the 2nd inst., and

to the moment of power up writing. A wire was sent to Canton by the defeated garisons, division of government troops left yesterday for Far Ynen district to cope wit. to Reds..

and a

Regulation Urged.

A report just to hand states that the forces of General Chin Ta- lewan have suffered a further de- feat by the troops of General Yip Ting on the Fukien-Kiangsi bor-requiring der.

Wang Ching Wei Not Wanted.

to cars

like. Anacreon in

the

From

the bumper of the other car and, used the same word for the more with the mudguard, was damaged.pugnacious of his bees--are diet- ed and doctored carefully for the fray, received triumphs and ova Witness understood that theretions in victory, and are follow was no regulation in this Colony jed after death by a whole com- be lighted munity to the grave. They are, when they were stationary on the however, stiil kept in thousands roadway, and he suggested that solely for their chirping; the there should be such regulation in tympanum of a good singer is In connexion with the demon-view of the danger revealed in this coated with wax to increase the case. He had had twenty years' volume of sound; and special atration and parade yesterday in favour of re-instating Generalis experience as a driver, and, this ticklers are made of wiskers of simo Chiang Kai-shek and the was the second accident in his hare or a rat to stir them up Five Commissioners in Nanking, case. He recollected that the when they are in indifferent voice. the cadets of the Whampie Mili- first accident was also caused tary Academy have despatched a through a car being stationary.on

The Chicago anthropologist, Mr. Berthold Laufer, who obviously telegram to Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the roadway without lights. requesting him to resign from his

Defendant said that he put out knows the subject through and position as Chairman of the Cen- tral Executive Committee in Hanhis hand as a signal, and that he through in all its aspects and has did not hear any horn being sound-a pleasant literary style which is

seldom Asociated with kow

The telegram says that Wanged.. associated with the Russians, and

I

Turning to Small Things..

alone of mankind they should have deliberately ignored the "grohter forms of life for a minute study of the little.

pure The records showed that the de-science, holds as a most remark- Reds who caused the split in the fendant had been concerned in able thing about the Chinese that Nanking and Hankow faetions. another recent accident. His

in Kuomintang presence activities, these cadets point out, would be a bar to a real rap proachment. This movement also finds much support among Gen- Kai-shek's eralissimo Chiang generals in Narking.

In fining defendant $15, his Wership aid that the driver should have looked behind before he turned his car.

新

Speeding at a Bend.

They seem from the earliest times to have preferred insects to animals; "mammals least of their attention."

(Continued on Page 11.)

Dr. Wong Sik-to the owner and all attracted driver of car No. 498, was sum-Their nomenclature of insects is moned before Major C. Willson richer than that of most nations, on a charge of reckless driving, of the on the Repulse Bay new road, the been previously hearing having rehanded on account of defen- dant's absence from the Colony.

According to information from shipping circles it is learned that the Government has chartered all the.

vessels constwise China Merchants Steam Naviga- tion Company in order to convey arms, ammunitions, provisions,

He said he could not recall the and soldiers to the Shantung front. It is stated that the Nationalist incident, and his Worship, reading Commanders are very anxious to from the evidence of the "com deal a crushing blow to the plainant. Commander Schastian, troops of Marshal Sun Chuan-of the Royal Navy, which Tang, and Marshal Chang Tsung- given at the last hearing, stated chang and to capture Peking be- that it was alleged that on August ! 7, on the Repulse Bay new road, fore the cold winter sets in.

General Li Chai-sum has sent defendant was driving in a negli an urgent telegram to his military gent, reckless and dangerous man- colleagues in Nanking urging them not to delay the campaign.

J

was

Commander Sebastian was ner. returning to town, proceeding up the alope fram Repulse Bay, when at a sharp right-hand corner he encountered defendant, who pass-

THEFT OF CLOTHING. him at a speed of 25 miles an

AN EARLY-MORNING CAPTURE.

Investigations following the ar- rest of a Chinese in possession of

car

hour. The bend was a very acuta! one, and a man driving a could not see more than five yards ahead of him. As defendant's ear passed, the naval officer look- ed round and noted his number,

a rattan basket containing a quar- and reported the case to the polica.

tity of clothing, revealed the per- Defendant, who now said that petration of a burglary at Nos. 182 he

remembered the, "ineident,

not

and 184, Tai Nam Street, Sham- which was on a Sanday, point-

could out that "ho shuipo, during the early hours of ed yesterday morning.

have passed such a sharp corner

The arrested man was charged at the speed alleged by the naval He had had 16 years' before Mr. W. Schofield at the officer.

Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, experience of driving.

and on pleading guilty was sen-

His Worship decided to convict,

tenced to five months' hard labour, and imposed a fine of $10.

According to the story of the

prosecution, the defendant was ar-

rested by a detective with a rattan

Passengora arriving by a

basicet full of clothing in his pos- Kashima Maru from Europe included bession. After he had been taken Captain G. H. R. Abbott, Mr. E. to the Station, onquiries wer made, and later a report was re- Alves, Mr. J. C., and MTB. L. R. Morrison, Captain M. Stanton, and

ceived to the effect that Nos. 182 Professor and Mrs. del Tte. The and 184, Tai Nam Street, and been Kashima Maru departed for the broken into and the clothing north this morning, without notable abstracted.

embarkations.

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1.

OF FOOD.

SOLDIERS BRAWL WITH POLICE.

ARRESTS OF SUSPECTS. ›

Hankow, Aug. 27. Yesterday saw no change in the local situation. A few more shops other opened their doors but they were all purveyors of articles than food, the rice and grocery shops remained closed. There was a distinct improvement in market conditions.. More peddlers: ap- peared with rice, pork again' ap- peared on the street, and a small dence. There was nothing, how- ever, to indicate the presence of quantity of vegetables was in evi

the 200,000 plculs of salt which was reported, as being discharged at Hanyang' two days before and to be already on the market. Noth- of small peddlers appeared with ing more than the usual `number small quantities at the same price as the day before.

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Na business was reported. done in exchange which remained about the same as the day before. Trea- sury notes were reported to have improved in the local press and were alleged to have reached the value of sixty cents for the dollar.

Police and Soldiers Fight.

A police station in Hanyang was the scene of wild disorder on Thursday night when it was at- tacked by some thirty odd soldiers. It appears that considerable fric- tion has been engendered during the last few days by the efforts of the police to protect merchants from the demands made by sol- diers to change treasury notes. As reported in these columns carlier in the week there have been seve- ral police wounded in the execu- tign of this duty. Notwithstand- ing this the police have stuck to their posts, and as faithfully as possible carried out the orders which were to protect the mer- Chants against these demands if. they opened their shops.

On. the night specified soldiers arrived outside the atation at. which there were few police and proceeded to beat them up in ap- proved style. Two of the police are reported as so severely beaten that they are not expected to live. On the conclusion of this the attackers set to work on the furniture which they are reported to have com- pletely demolished before they loft. We have so far heard of no arrests in connexion

affair.

More Arrests.

with

the

The authorities are still very active in hunting out those who are alleged to be communists. Thursday saw the arrest of an- other eight apparently of the stud-- ent fraternity. These were arrest- ed at Wu Chang Li close to the Houcheng Maloo. We were, un- able to glean any details of the crimes they are accused of, beyond the fact that they are reaction aries and evidently presumed com- munisty.

"It was reported yesterday that the police authorities of the S.A.D. No. 3 had issued instructions that all posters, which still appear on

THE ATLANTIC AIR TRAGEDY

HUSBAND OF PRINCESS KILLED IN MANILA.

A TALE OF LONG AGO.

Prluce Ludwig Lowenstein Wer- theim, husband of the 61-year-old princess who was, a 'passenger' in last "St. Raphael"" acroplane making a trans-Atlantic flight from Lon- don, was a well known character in Manila in 1898 and 1890. A stone at the. head of a grave in the British cemetery at San Pedro Makati now bears his name: '

German subjects were not so popular in Manila in 1898 and 1899 due to the opposition between Ad- miral Dewey and the Admiral of the German fleet, which was an- chored in Manila Bay the day De- wey

flect. sank the Spanish Prince Wertheim was suspected by United States officials of being a military observer for the Ger- man government. On many occa- sions he was seen in or near the American lines and finally when information began leaking out to enemy lenders. the commanding general issued orders that the Prince be watched.

Each time a new formation.was made by the American troops Prince Wertheim was somewhere near. When the forces advanced,] Prince Wortheim advanced. When they retreated, he retreated. Dur- ing the battle of Malabon he was on the sidelines as 1 spectator. On March 26, 1899, the day follow- ing the battle of Malabon, the American forces advanced north- ward to near the town of Malinta.

Prince Wertheim, accompanied by another German subject named Nigele, came on the scene and told the officer in charge that they were going through the line to attend to some important bus- ness further up the road. While the troops were at rest" and there. was no firing at that time, the officer knew of plans for an at- tack within a very short, time. It was not policy for him, to make this information public but he advised the Germans not to go. in advance of the troops. They fail- ed to hood..

The firing line of the American troops was stationed a short dis- When the road. tance un Wertheim and Nigelo encounter- ed this line, it is said, they again were warned not to proceed. Nevertheless they did so.

Within ten minutes after the two men went through the line an order was sounded for the troops to advance and to open fire on the enemy, who was not far away, Wertheim and Nigele took shelter in a nipa house near the road but neither escaped being hit by the bullets, which by that time were coming from both sides.

Following the battle, which did not last long, soldiers entered the house and found Wertheim dead and Nigele slightly wounded. It is understood that Nigele left the islands soon afterward.--Manila Bulletin.

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the native city, and a few around: the concessions, which portray So- viet Russia as the friend of China and the proletariut are to be de stroyed. To avoid any mistakes every poster having reference to Russia is reported as ordered to be either torn down, or defaced. As these are very numerous it will involve work for quite a lot of peo- ple if the report, is true, and we huve no reason to doubt, its au- thenticity. The action is a good one though rather belated.

Miss Ninette Raymon, who is a talented member of the Forbes- Russell Comedy Co. opening here on September 16.

A well-known physician of The Hague was leaving Groningen by motor-car with his family when the car came into collialon with a tree and ran into the canal. All six occupants were drowned.

KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.

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Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.

1 What part did Henry VII. play in the discovery of America?

2 How did the marriage of Henry VII.'s daughter lead to the union of the Crowne of England and Scotland!

3 Who said, where, and when "I I hed nerved God as diligently an I have done my King, He would not have given me puer in my grey hairs"?

Why is Henry VII. called the founder of the Navy?

What religious title docs the King of England hold on coins, and how and when was it acquir cd!

8 Who was Queen of England for eleven days; who was her chief supporter; after what event was she put to death; ond by whom? 7 Name the three most famous Protestant martyrs in the reign of Mary Tudor? Who held out his right hand to be burned first; and why?

8 What Englishman said, and on what occasion: "Thy ncccssity is greater than mine"

What three famous murders took place while Mary was Queen of Scotland, and where?

10 Who was the first Englishman to go round the world, and what route did he take?

11 What was the significance of the

Spanish Armáda?

12 Give the names of the greatest English dramatist, post, musical composer, and essayist who did their best work in the reign of Queen Elizabeth?

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