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GERMAN FINANCIAL SWATOW OUTRAGE TO INDIA'S WARRIOR

POLICY.

MISSION HOSPITAL

CLAIM TO BIG

MOVEMENT.

FLANKING

CLASH BETWEEN BANK AND MINISTRY,

.VIOLATED.

ARMED BLUEJACKETS LANDEO

Swatow, Oct. 7.

LOANS FROM ABROAD.

Berlin, Oct. 7.

A very serious situation to-day

naval authorities lan da platoon

BATTALIONS.

NEUVE CHAPELLE MEMORIAL UNVEILED.

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts. -O O

According to one report the at- The Bullkorn who stowed mosphere on the Yangtaze i elec- aweș, tur a free trip were Scote trical. This probably accounts for Guards.. the prevailing high tension.

A new beverage on the market One of the ironies of life: Little is Ax beer. There is no cut in boys could smash things and throw the price. hard balls, ut Lee Gardens, to their warders took money for it.

THREE DAYS' BATTLE FOUGHT ATUA clash has occurred between was only averted when the British for India, delivered a striking cra- heart's content, and policemen and

TINGCHOW.

FENG HELPING SHANSI.

the respective policies of Herr Schracht, the President of the Reichsbank, who insists on check ing the flow of capital into Ger- many, and Dr. Curtius, the Minis- ter of Economics, who favours

borrowing abroad for productive

purposes.

Dr. Curtiua is reported to have resign if Herr throatened to Schracht's viewpoint prevails.

In the meantime, the Commerz Privathank is negotiating with an American financial group for a

-Reuter.

The attack on Peking is developing, the Shansi troops making a determined effort. They have captured Sinto, and heavy fighting is going on against the Fengtien forces at Tingrhow, the battle having already lasted three days. The Peking party claim that their retreat in the centre of their battle line is strategis, with the idea of enveloping the Shansi armies on either flank. They claim to out-long term $25,000,000 (gold) loan. number the attackers by four to one.

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From other sources comes confirmation of the converging move- ment against Marshal Chang Teo-lin'à forces who are defending the Peking area. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is reported to be joining actively in the offensive against Chang Tso-lin, in alliance with Shansi. General Sun Chuan-fang is withdrawing from the south of the capital, where he was threatening Nanking, and is falling back to aid in the Peking defence.

The Cabinet Decides.

Later. The Cabinet to-day unanimously decided that long-term loans from abroad are essential, and it is pro- posed to appoint à special body to consider applications and to raise such loans-Reuter.

LOYALTY AND DISCIPLINE,

London, Oct. 7. Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary

of ratings to preserve the integrity tion at the unveiling at Neuve of the English Presbyterian Mis-Chapelle of a memorial to the In- sion Hospital, following an out- rage by the military authorities.

dion soldiers.

He dwelt on the three special aspects of Indian participation in Armed men, under orders it is the Great War. Firstly, Indian stated, forced their way into the troops fought thousands of miles hospital in spite of remonstrances, from their home, in strange and bound and gagged the Chinese as-peoples whose tongues they did not unfamiliar surroundings, among sistant; and threatened the doctor know, whose ways were not their with revolvers.

ways, whose civilisation; better or worse, was not theirs."

The leader stated that the milit- ary authorities objected to the man- ner in which the hospital was being run, particularly in regard to the arrangements for wounded Chinese soldiers. He demanded that in future the medical stuff should work in accordance with the orders of the military authorities.

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Armed Ratings Sent.

was able to get a message sent to the commander of H.MS. Wild

Swan, and very shortly afterwards a platoon of ratings was landed to

Nanking is meantime making efforts to gain Hankow allegiance, and the conference of leaders of the two parties.has opened at Kuling Reports from other Yangtsze ports are varied. Shanghai remains WEALTHY PEER DIES. guard the hospital compound.

quiet. Hankow is in the throes of a new boycott, this time directed against the B. A. T. It is stated that the Russian Consulate staff are preparing to evacuate Changsha."

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WORTH £20,000,000.

London, Oct. 7. . The death is announced of the

SUN ABANDONS MOVE ON NANKING. Earl of Ivengh, in his 80th. year.

Peking, Oct. 7.

A big battle has been, going on at Tingehow for the last three days, and the Shansi forces have captured the town of Sinlo.

HELPING CHANG TSO-LIN,

Mongolian Cavalry in Act

Shanghai, Oct. 7.

The Fengtien troops, who, Forty thousand Shansi troops according to an Ankaochun spokes- continue a fierce frontal attack man, out-number the Shansi forces against the Fengtien forces which

The deceased, who was the son of the late Sir Benjam Guin- ness, of Dublin, was created a Baronet in 1885, a Baron in 1891, a Viscount in 1905, and an Earl jin 1919.

By-Election Necessary.

London, Oct. 7.

The Earl of Iveagh the head of

Rail-died to-day, is reputed to have There is for the present no been the richest man in, Ireland and

by four to one, are manoeuvring numbered over 60,000 along the the brewing firm of Guinness who to carry out a pincers-like move- Tingchow-Peking-Hankow ment by withdrawing in the centre way.

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Secondly, they fought in "a eli- mate to which their bodies were rot inured, and for the endurance of which they lacked habituatio Most of them made swift ex- charges of the scorching heat of India for the weeping skies Flanders.

Talking of this new atmosphere at Hankow, there certainly appears to be a Tang in the air.

Our magistrates must agree that their job is a very trying one.

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According to an Admiralty advertisement for houses, not con- tent with the high seas, the Navy. wants to take over the high levels. Disarmament suggestions are not always U.S.A.-ble.

During the trouble in China, the time spent by men-of-war in

us that nobody seems to have finish-

This new war in China reminds harbour is fleeting. ed the old one yet..

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According to a dress designer, the bulging hip is the latest fashion But why? They can for women. always get a drink.

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It is probable that the Race returns to-day will again show the Cash Sweep Takes.

England's yearly consumption of paper is 66lbs. per head, we read. That of Hongkong's with Perhaps so many chit signers about, is

approximately £56 also.

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Many of the river steamers are The Scots who, according to the China Mail, wriggled in their seats unable to pass the bar. The same at the Fun O' the Fair, must, have complaint sometimes affects the

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With all these new "Reds,"

passengers.

Marshal Liu has been seizing

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"I saw them," said Lord Birken head. "I can see them now, shivering in those early and primi- knees in foul water, their features Subsequently, the Medical Officer tive trenches, standing up to their sat on an ants' nest.

always composed in that mask of "Pinks" and "Whites" in China, it oil. "Palm oil?" fatalism which gives an impression seems that they don't dye fast of pathos altogether poignant. It enough; the intuitive belief of mankind through the ages be well founded, if the region of happiness awaits the true and valiant, may the spirits of those men in that region know that they did not die in vain. Their bodies were often broken by the elements, but their souls were never conquered".

The British Consul has informed the Chinese authorities that the

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YANKEES AGAIN WIN.

Pittsburgh Goes Down in the

Third Game.

Pittsburgh, Oct. 7.

In the third game of the World Series, New York "Yankees," beat the Pitts- burgh "Pirates" by eight runs, to one-Reuter's American

Service,

Thirdly, these men who had died, fought in a quarrel of which their understanding was less per- fect than was that of those by whose side they contended. The Belgians remembered a happy and innocent country which they had almost wholly lost. The French saw all around them the cruel signs of local destruction, and must in their moments have ap- prehended the loss of Paris and the spread of the menacing inv sion into yet further areas incal culable. It would be insincerity objects with which this war was

from the hospital until satisfactory were known, to the majority of the assurances are given that Chinese Indian Army. Many a humble troops will make no further attempt soldier must have thought of his to enter the hospital compound, and far away village, sun swept, un- that no further attempt will be menaced, and wondered what in- made to interfere with the usual scrutable "purpose of whatever deity he worshipped had projected him into this sinister and bloody maelstrom.

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Ceylon desires wide powers of self-government. The people in Ceylon seem to have large ideas. They may yet want to make Hong kong a dependency,

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The Kowloon-Canton Railway has reverted to banditry as excuse for broken schedules.

OD "Bachelor" suggests that the Children's Chute at the M.C.L. should have been charged 10 cents. It is obvious that his pen name was aptly chosen.

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A bachelor complained that he could not spend enough at Lee Gar-

Depending on where he lives, he dens last. Saturday. A married man who took his wife, mother-in- might have suggested shooting the. law, and seven children, would like kiddies himself. to chute him.

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Judging by this week's aquatics, the Colony has some elever young sea Lyons.

Political News: Labour's front needs backing:.

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During the week there have

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been lectures on Bhuddism and. This cricket criticism appears to Darwinism. The Health Return

remains static. " have become an Abbit.

A cable announces that Eugene In a health talk we read that. Chen is resting in Borjum, in the "Each blinking movement is asso- No doubt he ciated with a movement of the course of his tour.

objects to Russian about the place, eye. A delicate way of putting

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now taller than they used to be. Come to think of it they certainly seem to be growing cut of their clothes,

and advaneing on the flanks. decision but it is rumoured that the second richest in England.to pretend that in this sense the

The northern front is quiet.-the Fenstien headquarters has His fortune is estimated at £20,- Reuter.

been removed from Pactingfu to1000,000 and the Exchequer will armed guard will not be withdrawn waged could have been known, or A scientist asserts that girls are Kaopeihsien, 30 miles northwards. benefit very considerably by death TENG HELPS SHANSL. In the meanwhile there is a full duties thereon.

in the fighting in the vicinity of

the

His son and heir is Viscount Suanhwafu within

Great Concerted Attack on Peking,

Wall, attributed to a horde of veden, Conservative member for Shanghai, Oct. 6.

Viscount 15,000 Mongolian cavalry under Southend.

Elveden's Shansi has already captured Kal- the orders of the governor of the succession to the peerage will hospital routine.

a by-election gan and is pressing the Fengtien province of Heilungkiang, advanc- necessitate troops, according to advices from

ing from Dolonor to Kalgan for Southend.-British Wireless, the North.

Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is mov- the purpose of creating a diver- ing up to co-operate actively with sion on behalf of Chang Tso-lin Yen Shi-shan against Marshal Chang Tso-lin

The Shansi army has despatch-

ed five divisions to intercept them.

The Shanghai situation is un- Reuter, changed.-Naval Wireless.

'SUN CHUAN-FANG MOVES,

Falling Back on Peking.

MR. C. C. WU PROTESTS.

OUR PUBLIC WORKS LOAN,

BOARD OF ALLOTMENT APPOINTED.

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Up to the present, the result of the British protest is unknown. The situation in Swatow, olherwise is normal.-Naval Wirelcas.

JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER.

"VIRTUALLY UNAVOIDABLE.

Tokyo, Oct. 7.

It was in all these circumstances a special soldierly virtue of these troops that they met with steady fast eyes the clash of a novel and horrible war, certainly without the clear, and perhaps without any discernible, stimulas of danger to their own homes. Whence then came this spirit of endurance and high endeavour? It came from the twin sources of inborn and simple loyalty, and instructed and very perfect discipline.-British

Japanese "Imperialism."

Shanghai, Oct. 7. Wih reference to Government Nanking, Oct. 7. Wu Chao-chu, the Foreign Minis-Notification No. 541 of the 16th Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's troops, who have been waiting atter of Nanking, in a despatch to September, 1927, concerning the

Wireless. $3,000,000 Hongkong. Concerning the naval disaster advance against Nanking, have Minister to Peking, says that discurrency six per cent. bonds to on the night of August 24th, Mr. Chuchow before continuing their Baron Yoshizawa, the Japanese enter

quicting reports regarding Generalbearer; being part of the $5,000,- Takarabe, the Chief of the Naval now been given, orders to retire Tanaka's positive policy indicate 000 Loan authorised by the Public Enquiry Committee, states that END OF A CHEQUERED

thwardssumed that this more that the Japanese Government Works Loan Ordinance, 1927, it is the investigation has proved that is the outcome of the threat to contemplates a new policy of notified that His Excellency the there was no defect in the method

Peking-Naval Wireless.

NANKING AND HANKOW.

economic and political imperialism

Kuling Conference Opens.

Kiukiang, Oct. 7. Conversations have commenced demanda

more

The disaster is considered as virtually unavoidable, as than 50 warships were steaming at full speed with lights out at the time of the disaster-Reuter.

in China especially in Manchuria Governor has been pleased to ap-of fighting and no degeneration in and Mongolia. It seems that the point Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp, the fighting spirit of the partici- Japanese Government has been K.C., C.B.E. (Chairman), the Hon. pants. negoliating in an atmosphere of Mr. Charles McIlvaine Messer, secrecy and mystery with the OB.E., and Mr. Yandeleur Moly- neux Grayburn, to form a board to northern militarists regarding consider applications and to allot

involving extensive at Kuling between Mr. Wang Ching- railway concessions,"

freedom the bonds. wel and the Nanking leaders, Chu of Pei-teh, Mr. C. C. Wu and Mr. Sun terior, the assumption of the right Fo.

of protection of the territories Nothing has been given out 80 mentioned, reviving even the more far concerning the purport of their objectionable form now universally deliberations.-Naval Wireless.

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CHANGSHA EXODUS.

Russians Ready to Quit.

residence in the in-

WEST RIVER SEARCHES.

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CAREER.

MEXICAN REBEL'S BODY ON VIEW

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C. C. Wa-Can't Catch Wu.

T. V. Soong To Vanish Soon. ២. ជា Writing to the Post оп Pyorrhea, a correspondent says "Some people confuse it with Gingivitis. A "This opens the old discussion, "Is Gingivitis con- There is no truth in the rumour fined to Scotland?” that the local branch of the China

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When a theosophist's small son steals a banana, it follows that he has been monkeying.

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Association will hold its annual.A solemn thought: Even an

general meeting at an early date. umbrella has its ups and downs.

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"General Fracas" says a Shang- This week's howler: Juvenile,

A little girl won a clock at Lee

hai headline. Yes, he appears to a tributary of the Nile, be quite busy just now.

៣. ច The man bigger than you is Gardens last Saturday when the He is under a mis- man wasn't looking. Yes, she was never a liar.

one of the Scottish dancers. apprehension.

ᄆᄆ H.M.S. "Gastor" is coming to Hongkong. To paur oll on China's troubled waters?,

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A Scotsman is a Britisher, broadly speaking. speaking.

Social Note: Castle Peak'a powerful side-stroke

"If all received their due reward" most says the China Mail, "there would swimmer has stored his horn for

the winter.

be an investiture ceremony almost every month at Government House." Points would, of course, be given for five honours in one hand,

00 "Soviet Missing" stated a head.. Hnc. Perhaps somebody's tried to disbandit!

When practising

Golfing Hint: in the same room as the goldfish, always use a floater.

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The order of the O.B.I. has been- awarded to the party who put us. in Hospital with this

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The shades of eve are falling fast, And now that summer's heat is past, The sort of chow to eat, is no longer a care. Even now at times, we snare the wily shrimp

entice perchance the festive beef- steak from its lair..

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their bank statements.

Nogales, Oct. 7. The gruesome spectacle of the dead body of Alfonso Delahuerta, ne brother of the ex-President of It will be remembered that two Mexico, publicly exposed in the end of man's collisions, both between a cruiser street, marks the

and the hair. A headline we may yet live to and a destroyer, occurred during chequered career,

see: "Local Theosophist Declares

A writer in a medical magazine the manoeuvres off Maizuru. The breadth escapes from his foes.

Twelve destroyer Warabi sank:

suggests that patients who under discredited of the "twenty-one de

He recently crossed the frontier, For Nuts And Darwinfam." manda" which would deprive

officers and 117 ratings were but was kidnapped, taken back,

Despite the commencement of go operations be told exactly what We China of sovereign rights in these SHIPS COMPLY WITH missing. The cruiser Jindzu col- and condemned to be shot. He Cookery Classes, some bachelors has been done to them. regions and virtually place them DOSING COMMANDS. Hided with the Warabi in the dark, escaped when the officer in charge fail to realise how well off they thought they could read that in under the domination of Japan.

the destroyer sinking fifteen of the firing party recognised him. Changsha, Oct. 7.

The vernacular press states that minutes later with a loss of 12 as a former superior officer and are. Wu Chao-chu points out that

There

No wonder the harbour is Contrary to previous intimations,

demonstra the 8.5. Sanning and the ss.officers and 90 ratings.

Apropos of dog shooting near order to fire. General Tang Seng-chi has left recent spontaneous

the Peak Tramway, an enquirer annoyed at times-it's so often Changahn.

tions in Manchuria are symptoma Winghong, both Hongkong-Wu were only 22 Burvivors of the joined him, instead of giving the chow vessels, have recently com- whole ship's company. The bows

A band of 100 Federals were

ᄆᄆ It is also interesting to learn that tie of the resentment and high plied with the demands of the of the Jindzu were badly damaged.

or a brutish colony?.

"Dancing has reached ∙iter the Russian Consulate Staff at feeling aroused by any attempts

Artificial silk is now being made darkest depths," SAYS a teacher. Changsha are preparing to leave al- to infringe the territorial sover Chinese authorities at Dosing by necessitating the battle subsequently sent out to hunt for wishes to know if this is a British crossed. most immediately-Naval Wirelse. clgaty of China. The Nationalist agreeing to undergo search by the Kongo towing her to port. About Delahuerta, who with his com- Chinese Customs there. It is said the same time the cruiser Nakapanion, General Medina, gave fight. Government communicates to HANKOW ACTIVITIES. Japan its grave concern and en-that on future trips to Wuchow collided with the destroyer Ashi, They were riddled with bullets, of sea grass. This will be parti Blackbottom

"A baby is born every three quires whether the reports have both steamers will probably touch cutting into the after-part, resultand their bodies were brought cularly suited to widow's weeds. ing in a further loss of 27 ratings. Cigarette Boycott Organised.

A Los Angeles message states A talpan unwilling to be inter- minutes in America," observes a any foundation and asks definite at Shiuhing and Dosing..

Subsequently the Naka, which was Hankow, Oct. 7. assurance that they are entirely The managements of other Wu- not seriously damaged, proceeded that the report of the execution of viewed has often nothing to say doctor. This surely must be very A complete boycott of all B. A. T. groundless and that Japan is in chow vessels are still adopting a under her own steam to port for the rebel General Gomez is die and hates like anything to say it. tiresome for the baby. cigarettes has been organised, with nowiue seeking to depart from the waiting attitude as to the advis temporary repaire, but the Ashi the connivance of the local Chinese policy of respect for the sovereign-ability of complying with the de- had to be towed by the cruiser ty and independence of the terri-mands of the Chinese authorities authorities.29*

Abukuma.] General Tang Seng-chi has re- torial administrative Integrity of of the cities along the West River. úrned.-Naval Wirclees,

China-Reuter,

back.

believed by the latter's wife, who

remarked "depend upon Wolves are reported to be We trust that the now Harbour

has

it, Gomez is very much alive."-numerous in Outer Mongolia. Board will not be crusty over the Reuter's American Service,

The question is: How did they port. Unfortunately many aero-

planes. get so far from Hankow?