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- TAF MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

NORTH STILL RETREATING. WUHAN POSITION. MR. "A" IN A LOCAL

SOUTH AGAIN DOMINATES

YANGTSZE.

BIG GATHERING OF LEADERS

NANKING.

PROSPECTS

AT

OF UNITY.

On the eve of the important conference which is to take place in Nanking between the Nanking and the Wahan Governmenta on Thursday comes news that the retreat of the Northern forces con- tinues and that the line of the Yangtsze is wholly under the domination of the South. It is stated in Naval messages to-day that the forces of Sun Chuan-fang are retreating up the railway. earlier message reported the fall of Yangehow.

AN IMPROVEMENT PERCEPTIBLE.

TRIAL.

CHINESE WITH FORGED BANKNOTES.

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12, 1927. BttЯA SINGLE DUTY 10 CENTS

PEACE POLICY.

BRITAIN'S POSITION

DEFENDED.

OLDSMOBILE for 1928.

Firsshipment is due to arrive onSeptem ber 18- President Cleveland."

this shipment is sold on view at our premises for a fow days only. Early Inspection is cordially inviled.

THE DRAGON MOTORCAR CO.,

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LTD.

33, Wang Nei Chung Road. Happy Valley.

MP, LEVINE WILL NOT ROAD ACCIDENTS.

FLY NOW.

POSTPONES ATTEMPT TO

NEXT YEAR.

A FRENCH FLIGHT?

BUS PASSENGERS ARE INJURED.

CAR DOWN EMBANKMENT.

Two motor accidents occurred London, Sept. 11

yesterday, in both of which the Mr. Levine, the. American mil-vehicles, In one case a bus in the lionaire who was to fly back across other a car, turned turtle, Three British pilot, interviewed by Reu-bus and the conductor were sent to the Atlantic to New York, with a people who were passengers in the

He asked if any country had year for sure. I reckon I will Company, was returning from done as much towarda disarma- have a more powerful plane built, Laichikok yesterday afternoon, and ment as Britain, whose army and probably a multi-engined sea- navy were much under the pre-plane."-Reuter. war level, and whose budget for armed force was every year de- creasing. He emphasised that Britain had arbitrated

about five o'clock had reached Chung Sha Wan, a short distance from the railway crossing at the sharp corner about half-way to" Laichikok.

THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY. THE SALT SHOPS REOPEN.

MEN GET HARD LABOUR.

Geneva, Sept. 11. Hankow, Sept. 1.

Loung Kai and Lee Yee were Quietness continues to reign in

In a speech before the Assembly Hankow, and the situation con-charged before Major C. Willson, of the League of Nations, Sir Aus- tinues to improve. The dearth of at the Central Magistracy this ten Chamberlain, sketching the soldiery has induced confidence morning, with being in joint pos subject of world disarmament, con- and merchants are now endeavour.session of three forged ten-dollar cluding, that we should work ing to do business as far as their notes of the Hongkong and Shang-patiently even if slowly. The ter, expressed the opinion that his hospital. limited stocks will permit. For possession of 800 forged Govern

hal Bank, and also with being to greatest and quickest results were flight to America was "off" for It appears that the bus, No. 102, this year, but "I shall do it next owned by the Kowloon Motor Bus the first time in weeks the salt ment plura labels.

not achieved by hurrying, shops opened, yesterday, and A third charge in respect of two while there was very little busi- forged dallar bills was preferred ness both on account of shortage of against the second men only. stocks, and the demand for silver, Leung Kal pleaded that the the fact remains that an attempt notes and labels contained in the is being made to get back to normal first two charges were given to him conditions.

to carry, the other defendant, Central Bank of China notes fell who, on his part, admitted all the

$100 of foreign money but during Sub-Inspector Shaftain, who the morning a little business was prosecuted, said that through the done at 210. Treasury notes re-intermediary of an informer, de- mained the same, purchasing valuesignated as "A" by him in the case, varying from fifty to sixty cents. the two defendants were introduc The ten thousand tino of coppera ed to a third man, who bought the which were reported as issued to ten-dollar notes and the labels, the Hupeh money union were and paid for these with $15. The finished early in the morning. As purchaser proved to be a district suming that the full amount was watchman, who on, account of his given out, and there were many disappointed would-be changers of treasury notes into copper coins,; the whole tone at the same time. Periodical reports: was lighter.

on more

British Effort Barred.

London, Sept. 11. The Westminster Gazette has

An again during the day to 235 per three counts brought against him. grave questions than any country telegraphed to Captain Courtney No. 1569, driven by Mr. Henry G.

Important personages are gathering at Nanking for the parley of rapprochement, including General Tang Seng-chi, the military head of the Hankow party. It would seem that the Nationalists are definitely closing up ranks.

Meanwhile, there are delayed reports from Hankow which speak of further unrest and of the re-appearance of anti-British posters in the native city. Many of the business houses are still closed owing to the difficulties of currency,

APPALLING TOLL AT LUNGTAN.

·WUHAN-NANKING..

Preparing for Conference.

of huge Southern victories were issued which considerably assist- ed matters, in spite of the fact that the majority of people are in- different and the minority rather sceptical.

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CISTERNA KELAS ARARAT AN

small stature had been deputised by Inspector Shaftain to carry out the transaction and obtain the necessary proof of the offence.

Both defendants were tenced

Ben

in the world.

At this point a Studebaker car,

Leong, of Messrs Jardine He warned the Assembly to be that it will not continue to support Matheson's, was about to overtake ware of piling obligation upon ob- any trans-Atlantic attempt this the bus when a Chinese woman suddenly crossed behind the bus. ligation, and sanction on sanction, year.

The newspaper announces that apparently not noticing the ca lest they made of it a living tomb. The League did not depend on the flight may therefore be con- To avoid this woman Mr. Leong signed documents: The British sidered to be abandoned.-Reuter, swerved to his right, and in doing add so the roar oar side of his car Government based its policy on

Frenchmen to Try.

struck the other vehicle causing. the League.

the ariver to lose control for the Paris, Sept. 11. Despite the growing public opin-moment. The bus swerved to the against the Atlantic flights, left of the road, collided with a tree, and overturned with a "crash cn its right side. MINISTERUNTERLADEN UNDERDE

"PRIDE OF DETROIT”

Committee to Decide.

The Assembly referred to a com.ion mittee the Polish motion with re- gard to the prohibition of wars of ECRIME aggression, and also a motion in- troduced by Senor Raballero, of Paraguay, in favour of preparing A general and synthetic plan for the codification of internațional law.

The Assembly deferred for con- sideration until to-morrow a modi- fled resolution submitted by Heer Van Blokland in favour of resum- ing the discussion on the basic principles of the Geneva protocol at leisure. Van Blokland declar- ed that this would not necessarily lead to a discussion of the pro- tocol Itself-Reuter.

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Leaves for Northern Japan.

Tokyo, Sept. 12.

The round-the-world fliers Brock and Schlee, in the "Pride of Detroit," hopped off from Omura for Kasmigaura at 7.20 this morning-Reuter,

Tokyo, later.

The "Pride of Detroit" has been forced to return to Omura owing to a storm.--Router.

"Destruction of the Empire."

London, Sept. 11. Sir Austen Chamberlain made a notable speech at the League of Nations Assembly yesterday. The British Foreign Minister made annum uncompromising reply to erities of

Passengers Injured.

There were 16 pasengers, and those, together with the driver and conductor, were thrown heavily, to the ground, the side of the bus being, open.

A number of passengers were in- jared, mostly by impact with the ground and broken glass, and when they had been extricated it was found necessary to send three of them and the *COTE--- ductor to the Kwong Wali Hospital in Mr. Leong's.

A message was afterwards received to say that one woman was somewhat seriously injured.. The patients were later removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

The accident did not block traffic, the bus being right off the road. The front wheels broken, and glass smashed.

were

Nanking, Sept. 11, pulous military movements of the Deformed согрвев, A report has been received to attackers.

Sun Wen Dollars. the effect that the Northeraers are which had lost all trace of iden- in retreat proceeding up the rail- tity, are to be found in every ditch,

Yesterday we were informed way. Soldiers of the 7th. and 40th on every mound, almost every-

the open fields, that that the Wuchang mint has now artdies have gone over the river to where in Pukow. Part of the 37th. army stretch miles and miles around reopened for the purpose of coin- are now here, having come from Luntang. The odour of these de- ing silver dollars. We have no these caying bodies is described as suf- information as to when up the river.-Naval Wireless.

are focating, but as the weather is dollars will be issued,, but cooler, it fa thought that no plague informed that they will bear the or epidemic will be caused. The effigy of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and will Chinese Red Cross is doing praise.in all respects be similar to those worthy work in that area, burying which are reported as being used Wuhu, Sept. 11.

thousands every day.

in Shanghai. To the merchant in September 15 is the date that has

Equally appalling is the scene Hankow it will be a matter of in- been fixed for the coming conference on the river, according to men difference whose head the coin of the Wuhan and Nanking parties, who have recently come from the bears so long as the silver con which is to be held at Nanking.

to six months' hard News of the departure of those tak front. Drowned bodies, wounded tents are up to standard. In any

When news of the accident be ing part has been received, General inen, still in the last agony of ease the aight of real money will

go a long way toward, restoring labour on the charges of being Great Britain's policy in regard to the French airman Costes has cont Chen Tao-yuen having left for Nan. death, are to be seen floating.

confidence.

in possession of the forged ten-dol security and disarmament. What a letter to the Intransigeant stating came known, a break-down gang king. It is stated here that Gen-

and the damaged. According to telegrams alleged lar notes and labels, while the second was demanded, he declared, meant that he is determined to start, ncwas sent from the bus company

taken vehicle was eral Tang Seng-chi has passed

to Yaumati to have been issued from military defendant also received an addition the destruction of the British companied by Lebrix, when the concerned, through on the same errand.

Police Station. He said. "No one can regret Approximately 3,500 soldiers of Anti-British Posters Re-Appear. headquarters, Pukow and Hofei of three months to his term, in res-Empire.

pect of the third count of being in have been captured by the "Na possession of the two forged one more than my country does the

He declares that the trans-Atlan-

Due to a Buffalo. the 6th. army have been brought

Peking, Sept. 6.

tionalist" forces, The capture} hore by transport from up the

dollar notes. Foreign messages from Hankow Was supposed to have taken place

failure of the Three-Power Con- tie flight is no more hazardous than

In trying to avoid a water- river. With them is General Chan

ference on naval disarmament to any other long-distance flight, and Chen. He is reported to be allying state that the Commissioner of on the 29th inst., and for all we

reach an agreement, but even from "we are ready to take all the res buffalo, which suddenly ran across himself to General Tang Seng-chi. Customs has issued orders that know to the contrary may be true.

the failure we may draw the hope ponsibilities, and even risk our We may find encouragement in the Lindbergh's visit."-Reuter fact that the three great Powers should have met to discuss so vital a question should have found themselves maintaining opposite and irreconcilable views, should have carried on the discussion under the eye of the public, and when, after all they were unable to agree upon, their cordial rela AGITATOR TAKES JUNK TO tions of amity and respect should remain unimpaired, and their con-

HANKOW UNREST.

weather permits.

Soldiers belonging to the 37th, the five per cent. duty must be Steamers, however, which were in GETS AWAY WITH £5,000. that we may, in time, win success. lives. It is up to France to return the road, the Chinese driver of

Army have also been coming back paid in silver and that the Acting this neighbourhood brought no

ars.

from down the river.--Naval Wire- Minister of Finance, who dis-news of any bable beyond desul- agreed with these orders, has left tory sholling between Pukow and for down river on board a Japan-Nanking, and

tele- no foreign ese steamer.

grams have arrived which confirm aither of the victories. ·

KUOMINTANG AFFAIRS.

Commissioners Confer.

Shanghai, Sept. 12, Mr. Wang Ching-wel had a lengthy conversation with General

Unions Dissatisfied.

RUSSIAN EX-OFFICER'S.

EXPLOIT.

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FLEES FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

CHINA.

public motor-car No. 203; belong- ing to the Shun Fat garage, Shang- hai Street, Yaumati, ran over the side of the road, about eight miles from Castle Peak. and dropped a distance of roughly 13 feet into a ditch.. Luckily neither the driver nor any of the four passengers was injured.

Other taxes are also being paid in cash, thus increasing the diffi-

Riga, Sept. 11. culties of business houses, many

A message from Kovno states of which are being closed.

This mishap occurred about Treasury Bonds have seriously There appears to be a good deal with regard to the outbreak at

noon yesterday. The car was depreciated in value.

of unreat among the Jabour unions Tauroggen, that the troops cap

travelling in the direction of Ho Ying-ching last Saturday, "on

Acts of military repression even though they have been retured a score of Maijus' followers,

Castle Peak, and when about organised. From all accounts but Maijus, who carried off £6,000

Manila, Sept. 8. the Hankoi-Nanking reconcila- against labour unions have been they are frankly bolshevik which from the local bank, is still at dence in the peaceful intentions)

eight miles from that place i tion, and the question of the relaxed.

of each other received no check. were large

Tan Malakka; the young Japan-a water-buffalo suddenly dashed military command.

"The Workmen's Defence Corps" after all is natural, they

But was not the failure of that

ese recently deported from the across from the left-hand side of Twenty Commissioners of Han has been inaugurated by the originally a bolshevik institution

It is stated that Maijus is a conference a lesson for all?" kow and Nanking held an Minister of Labour, who has is-and under this regime had a good

former stift officer, and was die- Sir Austen Chamberlain refer- Philippines and suspected of hav-the road, within eight or nine feet- official conference yesterday after qued rifles to the members of the the Government has laid

doal of their

way. Since

missed in the spring for organis-red to the fact that the Locarno ing connexions with bolshevik or- of the car. To prevent a collision A TC- noon in the residnce of Dr. C. C.

centre at Conference had been preceded by ganizations, is now in Shanghai, with the buffalo the driver applie them straining hand upon

ing a Communist they Wu, the result of which is that a

several months of anxious and according to information received his brakes and awerved to the left, Anti-British posters are again

but he was unable to stop the car Tauroggen-Reuter: feel have begun to the pinch. general conference of 'Central

Businesses which could not bel [Earlier cables refer to an al- careful preparation, and only here... Kuomintang Commissioners will be appearing in the Native City.

made to pay have taken advan-leged "Red" revolt in Lithuania, tage of the return to sanity of the led by a Captain Maijus.] Government and have discharged

held in Nanking on the 15th., to solve the different outstanding problems pertaining to the re conciliation of the party,

corps.

U.S. PLANES AT TIENTSIN.

own

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those who took part in it knew. An interesting adventure is re-in such a short distance, with the what dificulties had to be overlated in connexion with the ar-result that it went over the wide come before the Treaties of rival of the Japanese fugitive in of the road, ran down the. Locarno wore signed. "May we China. When the Susana, on steep, bank, and overturned, not see that the failure to agree which Malakka was sent away the bottom coming to rest on Ita In the Three Power Conference from the islands; arrived at Amoy, side.

Car Salvaged. authorities, came from a lack of preparation, Malakka was awaited by three from a failure to secure a suff-foreign consular

4,000 Troops In North China.

a number of workmen who, while! Peking, Sept. G.

they had the whip hand, used it to Yesterday evening another con-

Some of the tgating conditions and of induc- ference was held in the residence There are at present 4,000 paralyse business. of Mr. Yu Yu-yin.

American troops in North China, banks have discharged employees ing employers to retain as many

men as possible.

cient, basis of agreement before One represented the Dutch con- The driver then engaged some The report of Marshal Chiang including 900 of the 15th Infantry. who were mere encumbrance and

coolies, who succeeded in getting. the conference met, and may we sulate Kai-shak's having arrived at who constitutute the original agitators, instead of workers, and

i: generally a struggle has been

Communist Cells.

nat draw from these an inspiration Malakka evaded the officials, by the car back on the road, after Shanghai has not yet been con- Ameritan force at Tientsin. firmed, but Chiang has replied to The American Air Force has going on to revive business on

The Government is now appar to work patiently, even if we work boarding a Chinese junk as the which he made a report to Ping the telegram of Wang Ching-wef three squadrons totalling twelve sound lines.

The uniona are now reported ently alive to the fact that most slowly, or vessel get into the port of Amoy Shan Police Station, and has accepted the invitation to machines, stationed at Hainho, n

quickest results are the junk, it is said. come to Shanghal.

town on the north bank of the to have approached the Govern of the schools contain communist by hurrying that the greatest or He made the trip to Shanghai in

by bolshevik interests. even

achieved. The officials of the Hankow Haiho four miles up-river from ment with a review to reverting to cells

the Communist order of things. From information in our possea- Nationalist Government and Kuo- Tangku. mintang Headquarters arrived at One squadron consists of obser- They state that they were much sion there is no doubt that this is British Disarmament, Nanking yesterday, -Nam Chung vntion machines, the second of better off under this regime, as so, and is a source of satisfac. His country, declared Sir Austen fighters and the third of scouting they could dictate to the employers tion to note that precautions are Chamberlain yielded to none other craft, the last mentioned being am-8 to who should be employed, being taken to prevent the spread in its desire to see a grent and phibians. The activities of the and that the action of several of this pestilence and to root out large restriction in armaments. machines are confined to the mini- of these employers in discharging the cause where possible. Its interest in disarmament lay not Yesterday troops and police were only in words and speeches, but in mum amount of flying necessary men in equivalent to oppressing to keep the pilots in practice by the workmen, which cannot be despatched fa parties of from two facts The British Army was re- to half a dozen to the varionsduced immediately peace was One of the depressing things in trips between Hsinho and Tien allowed.

It is further reported that the schools with the object of assist secured, to less than the pre-way

The Czecho-Slovakian aviator, the war in China, as described by tain eyewitnesses, is the high death When flying, none of the ma-Government has Instructed the ing the school authorities in get level, to a strength which is only roll. The butchery of humanity is chines are allowed to carry arme labour department to look into the ting rid of the menace whore it sufficient to discharge the great Colonel Skala, hopped off on his incident to every warfare, but in unless they have a direct command matter and that a conference has was known to exist. Practically responsibilities which we carry on way back to Prague at 9.10 this

the world. Our Navy cannot be He expects to stop over, the recent battle of Luntang there from General Smedley Butler to been called, which either took every school throughout the coun our shoulders in so many parts of morning.

place last night or will take place, try both north and south la

Yang-Reuter was an extravagant waste of do so.N

to-day, with the object of inves-affected.

(Continued on Page 14) human lives, owing to the unscru

·Pao.

APPALLING SCENES,

The Toll of the War.

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Shanghai, Sept. 6.

(Continued on Page 14)

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CZECH AIRMAN ON WAY HOME.

DEPARTURE FROM JAPAN. Tokyo, Sept. 12.

The height of the road above the level of the foreshore at this place. is ten feet but a ditch which runs along the bottom has a depth of three. feet, so that the car, dropped a distance of 13 feet altogether.

The vehicle was a brand-nex Ford; but with the exception of th windscreen and frame being

the damago - Waz smashed, negligible

TO-DAY

Dollar on demand.

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Lighting-up.