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CHINA WAR.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1927.

SPANISH CHANGES.

FENG YU-HSIANG REPORTED

COMPOSITION OF ASSEMBLY.

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REPULSED,

Peking, Sept. 14. The forces of Chin Yun-no yesterday attacked Feng Yu-halang at Linying on the Peking-Ilankow railway with a result not yet known. In the meanwhile Feng Yu-hsiang force stationed at Hau- chow, Central Honan, are with. drawing northward in view of the fact that Wei-Yi-san is inclined to throw in his lot with Chin Yun- ao--Reuter.

Fall of Chingklang.

Shanghai, Sept. 14. Ag the result of the fall of Chingliang, Sun Chuan-fang's main force at Penpu has retreated in disorder northward..

Sun Chuan-fang's defeated forces are retreating along the canal. They number about 10,000 but only 3,000 of them were armed. An official report of the 18th army states that Chingkiang was captured "at noon on the 12th. The report states that over 2,000 were killed, 5,000 to 6,000 taken prisoners and a large quantity of ammunition and rifles captured. -Wah Kiu Yet Po.

Tung-tai Captured.

Madrid, Sept. 14.

WEDDING BELLS.

ARGUS LIEUTENANT MARRIED AT SHANGHAL

JAPANESE DISASTER.

YEN 20,000,000 DAMAGE.

Tokyo, Sept. 14.

LINGUAPHONE LANGUAGE RECORDS

General Primo de Rivera in a

A pretty wedding was solem- The airplanes Asahi and Mainichi manifesto to the people says that the projected National Assembly Rized at Holy Trinity Cathedral which visited the typhoon-devas- will have a minimum membership Shanghai, when Miss Eva Elise tated area, have just returned with of 325 and a maximum of 375. It Covert, daughter of Mr, William photographs showing scenes of will not be a legislative parlis-Covert of San Francisco, Cali-refugees watching the dead and ment and will not share in the fornia, was married to Mr. Ed-streets covered with muddy water sovereignty of the nation but will mund Russell Gildney Baker, Royal waist deep, as well as blown- collaborate with the Government Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry down houses and telegraph poles in the work of preparing for the Goldney Baker of Budleigh Sal and numerous signs of damage

Devonshire. The Very legislative body which will ultima-terton,

Rev. Dean Symons officiated at the tely succeed it.

service assisted by the Rev. E. S. Ulyat, Chaplain of H.M.S. Argus.

done to property. One report estimates the total damage at Yen The Assembly will consist of

20,000,000, including the loss of large areas of reclaimed agricul three main groups, firstly, the re-

taral fand which is now undor sea presentatives of the state, provin-

The groom le a Lieutenant in the water owing to the tidal wave. ces and municipalities; secondly, the representatives of different Royal Navy, and is attached as The casualties ascertained up to national activities; thirdly, the re-observar to the Flight of the Fleet the present number 719.--Reuter. presentatives of patriotic unions Air Arm of HMS. Argus, planes who supported directory during the of which are stationed at the time of uncertainty and anxiety, Race Course at the present time.

The deeree convoking the AR- sembly says that the King will have the power to lengthen or shorten its lifetime, which in prin- ciple is fixed at three years.

The following will be ex-officio members: the Admiralissime and Chief Naval Staff, the Captains general of the army, he Presidents of the Council of State, the Pre sidents of the Supreme Courts of Justice, the Presidents of the Su- preme Councils of War, Marine and Finance, the Presidents of the var ious orders of nobility, the Arch-

bishops, Shanghai, Sept. 14. The 92nd division of 31st Na- tionalists Army under General Chang Chung-li has reported to have captured Tung-tai-Wah Kin Yat Po..

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The death is announced of Mrs. Anna Skaale Dunn. wife of Dr. Thomas B. Dunn, which occurred in the Country Hospital, Shang- hai, following a serious opera- tion.

Mrs. Dunn, who, before her mar- riage in 1919 to Dr. Dunn, was Misa Anna Skaale of Berkeley, California, came to China from Manila with her husband in 1920. The attack of intestinal obstruc- tion, for which the operation was performed a few days ago, came on suddenly and Mrs. Dunn was removed to hospital.

Mrs. Dunn leaves, besides her husband, two small children, the youngest being eight months old and the other only three years old. She is survived, also, by her mother, three sisters and a mar ried brother, all residing in Berke ley, California.

RECENT ACCIDENT.

COOLIE CHARGED WITH "NEGLIGENT DRIVING.

The case in which a ricsha coolie is being charged before Mr. W. Schofield with negligent driv- ing was again mentioned at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when Miss Pearl Forster, who was slightly injured in the accident was called to give evidence.

Casualty Report.

Tokyo, Sept. 14. The latest official reports from Captain A.R. Palmer, R.N., Com- manding Officer of the Argus, gave four prefectures affected by the the bride away and Lieut. George typhoon give 401 deaths, 2,313 in Oliphant, R.N., a pilot in the same Jured and 812 houlas destroyed Flight as the groom, acted as best and washed away practically all man. Following the ceremony then Kumamoto prefecture. bride and groom passed under an The tail of the typhoon struck archway of crossed swords formed the Tokyo and Yokohama district by brother officers of the groom, a this morning resulting in SİX large number of whom attended persons, being Injured, and three the service.

houses being destroyed while several thousand houses in the lowlying parts of Tokyo were flooded. Thirty children were in- Jured when a school

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The wedding took place in the high officials of Supreme Court, the Governors of Union Church, Shanghai, of Miss Banco Nellie Foster, of the staff of the the Bank of Spain, the Hipotecario, Banco de Credito Shantung Road Hospital and of Local; the generals commanding Bolton, Lancashire, to Mr: James Madrid and Barcelona, the Civil Nimmo of Dumbarton, Scotland, PIRACY PRECAUTION. Governors, Bishops, Majors of and a member of the Shanghai Madrid and Barcelona and the Rec-Dock & Engineering Co. tors of the Universities of Madrid and Barcelona: Women will be eligible for election.--Reuter.

FORCED TO SIGN.

HIGH-HANDED ACTION IN CHANGSHA.

Shanghai, Sept. 14.

The Rev. G.G. Sparham, assisted by the Rev. E. Box, performed the ceremony.

Dr. H. Couper Patrick gave the bride away and other attendants of the bride were the Misses Dora Clark, Yul, Tan and Li, as brides- maids, and as flower girl and page Miss Myfanwy Beynon and Master George Black Mr. Moffat Ger rard was best man and Messrs. O.G.R. Beynon and A. Black act- A message from Changsha saysed as ushers for the ceremony. that the provincial authorities on Sept. 9 asked for a loan of $1, 000 from the Commissioner. of Customs, who refused. The Com- missioner of Foreign Affairs on Sept. 12, with an armed, escort, entered the Commissioner of Cus toms' Office and demanded that

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SOVIET REPRISALS.

A FINAL VERDICT.

Leningrad, Sept. 14. The Supreme Court in the judg- ment in the espionage case says

The sen-

he should sign a cheque for $3,- 621. The Commissioner Foreign Affairs stated that the de- mand was authorised by the Cen- tral and Provincial authorities. that the verdict is final and no

The Customs Commissioner re- fused, whereupon he was forcib-appeal will be admitted.

tences will be carried out on the ly removed to the Foreign Office 15th inst.-Router. building and detained until he had signed the cheque and the cheque was cashed. The Customs Com- missioner has lodged a protest.

Reuter.

FASCIST SHOT.

COMMUNIST FIRES INTO GROUP OF OFFICERS.

Ravenna, Sept. 14. A Communist named Missiroli fired several shots from a revolver into a group of Fascist militia officers wounding the commandant of the 81st Legion seriously and the secretary of the local Fascist

Woman Sentenced.

AN OFFICIAL PRONOUNCE- ·

MENT REGARDING GRILLES.

With reference to the recent in- timation that the matter of Piracy Prevention and the regulations in re- spect thereof were shortly to come before the Legislative Council, the following cftcular has been issued over the signature of the Harbour Master and addressed to masters of all ships plying within the danger zone, out of Hongkong:

"It has been brought to my notice that certain horizontal grills dividing of passenger decks in certain ships fitted under the Piracy Prevention Ordinance are kept locked at sea.

The only horizontal grills required by the present Piracy Ordinance re- gulations are those lending to the Engine room and Bridge Deckя.

These should be kept lacked but you should instruct your guards that all other horizontal grills should be left open."

SEOUL TRIAL,

KOREAN AND JAPANESE COMMUNISTS.

Apart from the cryptic and in- coherent semi-official accounts of

Tokyo, Sept. 14. the Leningrad espionage trial and

The first public hearing of the the sharply conflicting accounts

case involving 95 Korean and of various newspaper correspon Japanese Communists, charged dents, insufficient material

with intriguing against the exist- available to show even the na-ing social order took place yes- tionality of those convicted or

at Seoul. The strictest precautions were taken

the specific charges. Goyer is of-terday morning ficially described as an English

sea captain and unofficially de- to guard the local court against the possible activities of Com- scribed as a Dutchman..

munists, one thousand police sur- around' Those convicted include Madame rounding the building, Klopushkin (68), who is alleged which wire entanglements were to have sheltered the son Madame Kounitzen, eighteen years of age, who was accused of carrying a copy of reports to

of erected.-Renter,

Miss Forster in the witness box organisation slightly. The lat- the Finnish Consulate at Bonn. spoke of having engaged the ter fired twice at the assailant defendant's ricsha at the Starkliling Missiroli-Reuter.

Ferry on the afternoon of Septem- bar 8. Witness was proceeding to her home in Cameron Road and on nearing the Station Hotel the coolie turned into Carvarvon Road.

The defendant had attempted to cross Nathan.Road and turn

into Carnarvon Road in front of a bus which was travelling in the direction of the Ferry. The bus collided with the rlesha and Miss Forster was thrown out, sustain- ing minor injuries which later received medical treatment.

FRENCH FINANCE.

LARGE INCREASE IN REVENUE RETURNS.

Paris, Sept. 14. The revenue returns for the first eight months of 1927 totalled 25,816,000,000 francs showing in- creases of 1,171,000,000 on the budget estimates and 6,000,000 The case was adjourned till to over the same period of last year.

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She was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The prosecutor's five hour speech was mainly an indictment of England and of Sir Austen Chamberlain's last npte.

Alleged Espionage.".

WORLD FLIGHT.

KASUMIGAURA REACHED.

The "Pride of Detroit" landed at Kasumigaura at three o'clock this afternoon.-Reuter.

Tokyo, Sept. 14.

Moscow, Sept. 14. The Supreme Court judgment that it is considered to have es- It is announced that the "Pride tablished the fact that from 1918 of Detroit" expects to hop off for on the 16th. the British intelligence service Midway Island organisation carried on energetic inst-Reuter.

Tokyo, Sept. 14. espionage in Russia, utilising re-

The Czech plane landed at Ping- fugees and securing the basis- tance, of the members of the in-yang at 4.50 and is hopping off telligence staffs of certain states for Mukden to-morrow morning.

-Reuter adjoining Russia-Reuter.

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