1927-09-29 — Page 7

IN CANTON FROM DAY TO DAY.

REIGN OF UNCERTAINTY CONTINUES.

NEWS FROM SWATOW.

Canton, Sept. 28. throughout the city, with many A reign of uncertainty prevails This state of rumours abroad. affairs is attributed to the return of General Cheung Fat-hul's forces and the cnpture of Swatow by Gen- grals He Lung and Yip Ting the Chief of Police has ordered that anyone except his staff who enters or leaves his headquarters is to be thoroughly searched.

It is stated that the following important officials have reaigned, namely, General Fung Chuk-mun (commissioner of Finance), Gen-

Martial law is being enforced, and

BAD MONEY.

TRAMWAYS EMPLOYEE

SENTENCED.

BIG SYSTEM HINTED AT..

An employee of the Hongkong Tramways Limited was charged Lindsell, with being in possession this morning, before Mr. B. of eight counterfeit Hongkong ten cent pieces.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY,

THE GUN TRAGEDY ON NANKING POLICY.

·STONECUTTER'S.

EXPERT ENQUIRY BEING HELD-TO-DAY.

SERGEANT'S ESCAPE.

on

gun

Technical experts mechanism and ammunition, and

the surviving members of the crew

Indian

of the six-inch Coast Defence gun, which "blew-back" on Tuesday

two killing evening, The man was employed as a

soldiers, and seriously wounding a third, as exclusively reported in tramway conductor and it was brought out in evidence this morn-the Telegraph yesterday, attended ing, that he kept the coins in a

nt Stonecutter's Island this morn- separate pocket and not la the bag ing, for the purpose of reconstruct which was supplied by the Com-ing, as far as possible, the events pany. It was contended by the prosecution that the defendant, attendant on the calamity. whenever possible, siipped a bad coin amongst genuine money when returning change to passengers,

Inspector James, of the No. 2.

The expart examination and in- vestigations are in connexion with the Court of Enquiry into the affair, which will seek to discover,

FULL TEXT OF NEW MANIFESTO.

WAR ON THE COMMUNISTS.

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The following declaration has been issued by the Nanking Gov-

ernment:-

SEPTEMBER 29,

CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S ROMANCE.

GIVES INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS WEDDING.

NO POLITICAL BEARING.

In view of the many rumours and tales which have gone the rounds The Nationalist Government of in Shanghal.concerning the move the Republic of China was first ments of General Chiang Kai-shek, established in July 1925, shortly I called on General Chiang and re- after the death of our late leader, quested him to authorize a state- Dr. Sun Yat-sen. At that moment ment of his purposes and plans. "My present visit to Shanghai the Imperialists with their mili-General Chiang said: turist partisans were out on an

come to this city on purely private extensive campaign aiming at the cash political significance. I have fundamental extirpation of the business, to arrange, if possible, Chinese revolutionary movement for my marriage with Miss Soong There was bloodshed and mas Mayling." sucre, and events fraught with equally tragic import followed one after another: the life of the na- with its people seething with re- sentment.

Miss Soong Mayling is the popu lar sister of Mme. Sun Yat-sen,, Mr. T. V. Soong, former Minister.

eral Tang Ying-wah (Chief of Police Station, said that, aeting on/primarily, whether the accident tion hung, indeed, on a thin thread. of Finance and Mrs. H. H. Kung!

information received, he boardled tramear No. 40 yesterday at 10.40 a.m. He arrested the defendant and took him into the police station where the bogus money an upper breast was found. in pocket of his jacket. The money was wrapped up in a $1 note,

was unavoidable..

Further enquiries have revealed that one of the men was blown al- most to pieces by the fatal back-

ward discharge.

Police), and General Tang Sai- tsang (Garrison Commander of Canton), It is likely that Mr. Lau Wai-chee, a Sun Fo supporter, will

The dead men are Naik Baga be given the post of Commissioner

Singh and Gunner Bahn, Singh, of Finance, General Chu Yat-fai, a commander of the "Iron" sol

while Gunner Kunbar Singh lies in hospital suffering from multiple diers,will take over the office of

injuries, including severe burns on Obviously Bad. Garrison Commander of Canton. It

the chest, and serious injury to his is stated that General Wong Kee-

Continuing, Inspector James | eyes.

All three are members of cheung, second in command of the,

Hongkong and Singapore 4th, and 11th. Regiments ("Iron" said that the coins were obviously the

in night soldiers), will assume the position bad, the tint and the milling being Brigade, R. G. A., which was oper-

He examined theating at Stonecutters' of Commissioner of Military Af- very different.

contents of the defendant's money gunnery.practice. fairs.

General Li Chai-sum and Gen-bag and found all the coins were eral Cheung Fat-hui, it is under-genuine..

The Tuspector added that he had stood, are still on good terms, information in his possession that However, the former may proceed these coins were being sold to to Nanking to take charge of

members of the Company at 60 military matters since he is a mem-

cents per ten. He could met pro- ber of the Central Executive Com-duce that evidence as he had his mittee. As an alternative, Gen-eyes on other employees of the eral Li may may go to Kwangsi to Company at the moment. take a rest from the arduous duties which he has discharged for more than two years.

Wounded from Swatow. Three hundred Canton troops were shipped back yesterday to Canton by steamer from Swatow, They carried about 80 wounded men who attempted to resist the return of Yip Ting and Ho Lung. Stretcher bearers and ambulances assembled at the water front to carry these injured men to the Kung Yee Hospital. Two small des- troyers, which were despatched to Swatow last month, have" also re- turned carrying with them a full load of defeated saldiers.

All the available soldiers under General Li Chal sum are now in the East River districts and ad- vancing on Swatow. A big battle near Walchow seems inevitable.

The Revolutionary Committee at Swatow has issued a declaration which frankly states that Canton is the ultimate destination of their forces. They have come back to "stabilize the conditions of Kwang- tung" and guarantee the rights and privileges of the people, es- pecially the farmers, workers, and small merchants. The public is urged not to be unduly alarmed by false rumours. The Committee further says that their aim is to carry out the Revolution sponsor- ed by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen whose three principles the Com- mittee will carry out. The mer chants are asked to contribute $300,000 for military expenditure, but only $20,000 has been collect

ed.

Honam Water Supply.

Défendant made. a statement to the effect that the coins were re- jected by the shroff of the Com- pany. He had kept them aside in a different pocket so that they might not get into circulation again.

Several rounds had already been fired when the tragedy occurred, which renders the tragedy all the more remarkable unless an unexpected feature is revealed to the Court of Enquiry.

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wife of the former Minister of In dustries of the Nationalist Govern- The Kuomintang, ever mindful, ment. She is a graduate of Welles- sion entrusted to it by the late is prominent in Shanghai society.

"It would be advisable, General as it has always been, of the misley College in the United States and leader, was for the moment ap- prehensive that it might not, suc- Chiang," I said, "to explain to the eced in completing the Nationalist public through the medium of our Revolution; yet its effort was un-newspaper, exactly what your re- deterred. In face of colossal dith-lationships are, for although such culty, after having wiped out the matter is strictly your own affair, armies of the two counter-revolu- rour prominence and Miss Seong's Hsi-min, it established the Nation-accounts, which if untrue, ought to

be corrected." tionists, Liu Chen-huan and Yang connexions, have given rise to many alist Government to carry on the high, undertaking of the Revain- tion.

In the short space of two years, not only was South China unified, but the provinces bordering on the Yangisze were also successively Northern Ex- conquered by the peditionary Armies; the influence of that Revolution has extended now as far as the Yellow River.

General Chiang Kai-shek replied: "During the 10th moon of the 10th year of the Republic (1921) I was, duly divorced, in accordance with Chinese customs, from my first wife, who is now living at Fenhua. Here is a document of divorce which has been registered with the proper judicial authorities at Fen- All hua.

Queer Working of Fate. The death of the naik (equivalent to a corporal or bombardier) is a strange example of the vagaries of Rate. It is the practice when a un crew is working for the ser- geant to take charge of the early to fall out, a "casually," and to operations, but after a few rounds allow the next senior man to take his place in control of the gun.

This had been carried out in A representative of the Tram- Tuesday night's operations, the eagerness, as the people of a re- Soong, at that time, however, was

naik being killed by the first charge after he had taken command of the crow. crew, but those who at the time of the fatal discharge wore forward of the breech, the gun-layers and so on, escaped uninjured..

According to it, we wera divorced for incompatibility. This amazing military, success the details are in this document.

"Since that divorce, my life hus could only be explained by the fact

been away from Fenhua, mostly in Five years ago in Canton, that the "Three People's Prin- ciples" and the other policies laid the battlefield of the revolutionary in the at the home of. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, I so deeply implanted down by our late leader have been cause.

Miss minds of the people, that they look met Miss Soong. I felt that in her forward to the success of the Nu-I would find the companionship tionalist Revolution with equal which a man seeks in a wife.

Company's Practise.

way Company informed his Wor- ship that all bail coins were immediately cut into cashier.

two by the

His Worship ordered the cashier to be sent for and this man con- firmed the statement that bad coins were never returned to con ductors.

The defendant, in his final plea to the Magistrate, said that he had a good character and that he had not uttered any of the coins on any person. He reminded the Magistrate that there was no evidence of his passing the money to anyone.

His Worship passed sentence of three months hard labour.

BRITAIN'S HOUSING

PROBLEM.

REMARKABLE PROGRESS.

London, Sept. 28. One million houses have been built in, this country since the Armistice and nearly 350,000 of these without any subsidy.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliament ary Secretar to the Ministry of Health, gave these facts to-day in n review of the housing position. If the present arrangements He said that no other country had work out satisfactorily. Honam had such progress or had expended suburb will have an up-to-date such vast sums for the benefit of water supply instead of obtaining the houseless and badly housed. it from wells and the river. The It was a world record and the great- social contribution that had Canton Water Supply Company has undertaken to supply water to beer made in this country since the Honam which is separated from the city by the Canton River.

At first the Company planned to build a water tower, and other works in Honam, but now it is found that a more economien and convenient method is to connect a large water pipe across the river bed to Honam.

SCHNEIDER CUP SPEED.

OFFICIAL ITALIAN. FIGURES.

Venice, Sept. 23. The official report of the com- mittee of the Italian Aero Club on the Schneider Cup contest, states that Lieutenant Webster's aver age speed was 281 miles and 1,156 yards, an hour.

It also refers to Webster's re- cord over 100 kilometres, in which

est

war.

One of the best features of the situation was that we were more and more becoming a nation of house owners instead of merely house tenants-British Wireless.

AMERICAN LOAN TO POLAND.

A SUPERVISOR TO BE APPOINTED.

Washington, Sept. 28. The American banking interests which are arranging the details of

not interested." Since then I have

The

the

been corresponding with her con- startly pressing my suit. Recently,

ion parched by draught look for- ward to the allsoothing rain. military success is, indeed,

There were ten men in the gun vietor of Dr. Sun's principles our romance culminated in her

Unfortunately there was no doc- tor at Stonecutters and although the British troops, Royal Artillery, stationed on the island, did thei: best for Gunner Bhan Singh, little hope was held for his recovery when he was placed on board launch to go to hospital.

made manifest.

An Unfortunate Split.

agreeing to a marriage subject to the consent of her family, which we We shall now hope to obtain. be married in Shanghai, in the It was, therefore, most unfor-event of the usual Chinese family Lunate that a serious split should arrangements being satisfactorily have come about last April, as a made and then we shall spend a I then asked General Chiang result of the machination of the year in travel abroad." Communists, who realized that once the Nationalist Revolution about the lady who is travelling in "Foreigners perhaps do not un under the direction of the Kuomin- America. tang should have been brought to WGS using a The gun crew

successful conclusion, their derstand all the intricacies of the "blanks for the purpose of the dream of Communist dictatorship Chinese family system; "he said. practice, and a Telegraph repre- could never be realized. Their "That lady has been divorced in sentative was informed that such machinations created disturbances accordance with Chinese customs. charges are more dangerous than

in the Revolutionary forefront,I am at present married to no one live ammunition in accidents of

and thanks to their redoubled and am free to marry in accor this kind.

effort and masterly intrigue, pre-dance with the most monogamous cipitated what was at first an in-practices. Miss Soong would not circumstances and I should not ternal schism into an open split consent to a marriage in any other with the result of the emergence dare ask a lady of her character to of the dual National Governments marry me in any other circum- "Please make it clear that this in Nanking and Wuhan. Mean- while, the responsible comrades of both Governments laboured to marriage is in no wise a political It is accidental that A gunnery expert speculates continue the Northern Expedition, marriage, that the fatal discharge may have but, nevertheless, opportunity was we are also prominent in politics, been the result of a failure to close given Sun Chuan-fang to make his but not all of us are in the same on the southern' camp and. curiously enough, the the breech properly; of defective fleeting attack ammunition, regarded as, unlikely; bank of the Yangtaze and Chang Soong family has not yet given its or of failure to take some neces-To-lin to maintain his stronghold consent. I have been courting Although Misa Soong these many years with- in northern Chihli, sary precaution.

the guilt leading to these mishaps out a thought of the political bear- could all be traced to the Coming of such a marriage and any, munists and their crimes merit suggestion in that direction is un- the most severe punishment,-yet fair to me and unjust to all the we cannot help regarding this un-members of the Soong family. fortunate episode without poign-Miss Scong's mother is ill in Japan' and as soon as I am informed that ant and painful regret.

(Continued on Page 11.).

This is of course, partly due to the fact that longer intervals are rounds insisted upon between when live shells are in use. In wartime of course risks have to be taken, and many similar mis- the haps were recorded during war.

MILLIONAIRE'S SON: FOUND.

SPORTING TOUR INCÓGNITO.

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Now that the treasonable plan St. Louis, Sept. 28. Richard Reynolds has been dis-of the Communists has been total- covered in a chop suey restaurantly unearthed, and the Kuomintang here by detectives employed by his

stances.

once more united under the unini-HOW MUCH DO YOU

KNOW?

stepfather and the estate trustees. mous policy of anti-communists, we, the members of the Govern- -Reuter's American Service..

ment Council, appointed and au Wanted to Be Left Alone.

thorized by the Central Special Later. Committee of the Party, have Reynolds at first denied his hereby organized the united Na identity, and declared that he had tionalist Government, having al-TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- used an assumed name because he ready taken our oath of office on did not want to be bothered. He the 20th of this month at the Capi

had seen the Dempsey-Tunney tal. To be entrusted with this ledge paper has been taken from fight, and had attended horse and dog races.

The informer as to Reynold's whereabouts will receive G.$3,000.

a G.$70,000,000 loan loan to Poland ---Reuter's American Service.

An earlier message from New for currency stabilisation, of which G.$46,000,000 will be floated in the York stated: The police are in United States, have been assured vestigating the mysterious dis- by the State Department that offi-appearance of Mr. Richard J. cial circles here do not object to Reynolds, the elder aon of the founder of the Reynolds' Tobacco.

this loan.

An American representative with Company, and one of the five heira wide powers to supervise the pro-to Reynolds' fortune, which J he averaged 283 miles, 1,155 yards.ject will be nominated, and will estimated to be G.$50,000,000. He take up his duties in Poland.was fast seen on Sept. 16 at the -Reuter

railway station, saying farewell to Reuters American Service.

His touring a departing friend. Reception for Winner.

car was found overturned in the The following ships were ex- London, Sept. 28. Flight Lieutenant Webster, who Pected to be in wireless communi-water at a suburban resort.

cation with Hongkong to-days-

This morning's Harbour Office

Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14

of this issue.

grave mission, at this time of the Daily Express. crilical danger, we are more than city. We, nevertheless, venture ever apprehensive of our incapa- to outline the following policies, which will guide our faithful and carnest endeavour in conducting this Government.

Ravenous Needs of War.

1 What is the biggest lake in the

British Isles?

2 Through what territory doos the

Suez Canal pasaf

8 What is the raw material for genuine Panama hate, and where does it come from?

4 What proportion of the world's gold de mined in the Transvaal? 5 What is the chinchilla, and where

is it found?.

@ In which British island is the

best arrowroot grown?

7 Which South American Republis kas the largest population, and which the largese trade?

8 What is the principal product of

the Congo forest?

1. To continue the Northern Punitive Expedition to uproot mili- tarism and to achieve unification has been for long the wish of the people. Throughout the past alx- teen years, infernal strife has raged without cessation. The na- tional wealth has all along been dfasipated in meeting the ravenous needs of war, and our people have won the Schneider Cup, will reach Yuensang, Mausang, Clara Jebsen,

Government, 10 In what British island is 70 per Victoria Station, London, on Satur-D'Artagnan, Shantung, Hessen, reports gave 18 arrivals and 10

cent, of the population of Indian, day afternoon.

by ble Athos II, Hirundo, Coblenz, Hai- departures, the British contribu-never experienced a day of peace- henceforth, pledges itself to lead

and 30 por cent of it of French the Nationalist Revolutionary

descent? comrades Flight Lieutenant Wors-Anhui, Van Overstraten, Tjita- respective headings.

He will be accompanied by hishing, Szechuen, Beistan, Suana II, tion being four and fivo under the ful living. This

Army in the continuation of the 11 Where is Paloe, and for what le ley and Flight Lieutenant Kin- roem, Anyo Maru, Nagano Maru, was high, but, freights, showed a

Northern Punitive Expedition, to noted? Menádo Maru, Cheribon Maru, reduction, with German

"flooda exterminate the remnants of mill-fe What is the origin of the Nile

(Continued on Page 11.)

kead,

Tonnage

vessels

The Air Ministry is considering Sawa Maru, Talkwa Maru, Lahore, carrying the best of the day plans for an official welcome at President Madison, Hopsang, Lu- Japanese and Norwegian also

making good returns. the station-British Wireless. chow and King-Yuan.

Where does the best lapis-luzuli come from?

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