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THE CANTON BOYCOTT,

British Government to Act..

London, Nov. 8.

In the House of Commons, re-

plying to Sir John Power, Sir Austen Chamberlain reviewed the events in China since the end of July.

1.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1927.

JOURNALISM AND.. POLITICS.

MANY DOG BITES.

AT TER

SOME REVELATIONS "AND MEMORIES.

MR. SPENDER'S CAREER.

YESTERDAY'S BIG LIST.

An unusual number of dog bites was reported to the police yestor- day.

A coolie employed by the Dairy Farm Company was bitten by a mongrel when in Conduit Road. The man has since been admitted

The evening Westminster, which Mr. Spender edited for 26 years, has censed to exist. The story of its life is told in a book of memoirs to the Government Civil Hospital just published as only Mr. and the animal was taken to Ken- Spender sould tell it, with all thenedy Town for observation. sincere and dispassionate convic

"He concluded by stating that the Government were considering steps to deal with the reported tion" which once distinguished his Two other dogs, one belonging revival of an anti-British boycott || loading articles. The, paper to Pipe Major Mackay and the at Canton.-Router.

addressed itself with success to other to Privato Tate, both of the the men and women who formed King's Own Scottish Borderors, opinion. But their number wns were sent to Kennedy Town, on a small at best, and some were report being made to the police necessarily antagonized by the that one of the dogs had bitten the paper's calculated partizanship. Pipe Major on the hand. Yet it comes na n shock to read

RETURNING RESERVISTS.

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Deserve Well of the Country.

London, Nov. 6.

Replying to the Labour mem- ber, Mr. Thurtle, in the House of Commons, with regard to the army reservists coming home from China, Sir Laming Worthington Evans said ho hoped that employers who had the power to find them work would remember that they were well-deserving of the ecuntry-Reuter.

that from first to last the Westman belonging to a lighter of the A terrier dog bit a Chinese sea- minster cost its owners about £500,000, and that in the days of China Navigation Company which the fiscal controversy, when the was lying off Bay View yesterday. combination of Gould's cartoons, The seaman was immediately sent Gesko's facts and figures, and the to the Government Civil Hospital editor's arguments made it one of and the dog was removed to Ken- the most powerful organs in the nedy Town. country, the circulation was only 20,000.

PASSENGER JUNK CAPSIZED.

In Kowloon, a dog which bit a Japanese woman, named Kawazaki, SHANSI CLAIMS.

Mr. Spender makes it clear that was sent to Mataukok for observa- he did what he held to be right tion. The woman is being attend- without thought of the effect oned by a private practitioner. Slege of Chuchow Raised.

his sales. His attitude is clearly set out in his "discussion of the Shanghai, Nov. 9.

the German General Feng Yu-hsiang tele-telegram which graphed to Nanking yesterday Imperial Chancellor sent him on

the eve of war. anticipating the early fall of stated that Germany was pressing The telegram Suchow, stating that the city has Austria to negotiate with Russia. been surrounded by his troops; To publish it was to invite a. Large numbers of wounded soldiers have been sent back to obvious and deadly risks to cir charge of pro-Germanism, with its

Tsinan.

culation. Yet Mr. Spender pub- An official report from Nankingfished it without hesitation:

The coxswain of the Yaumati Ferry launch, Man Shing reported alates that the Shansi' forces at Chuchow have been successful very simple grounds.

My judgment was formed onto the police yesterday at 3.05 p.m. The tele- that about an hour earlier an

THE NORTHERN FRONT.

Fall of Kweiteh.

A HARBOUR COLLISION.

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in their attempt to break out of gram might be an effort to de-accident took place in the Harbour the city, which was beseiged by ceive; or it might be the serious which caused Fengtien troops, and are now co-intimation of a last-hour attempt capsize, its occupants being thrown a cargo junk to operating with other Shansi troops by Germany to restrain Austria. into the water. to the north of Chuchow in an In the former ense it could do no attack in the direction of Peking. harm, for British action would be determined not by what Germany said but by what she did, and that would declare itself in a few hours. In the latter case I should incur the most serious respon sibility if I suppressed a document which offered the faintest hope of a new move towards peace. had no means of judging which of these things it really was: the only question was whether I should give the public the oppor It is reported that Chang Chung-tunity of judging for themselves, chang has left Tsinanfu to stiffen and I had no doubt whatever

fe Chibli-Shantung resistance. about that.

Ifstchowie. telegrams to the vernacular papers stating that Chu Yu-pu says he has "changed

Peking, Nov. 8. "Reports from Honan are still meagre. While the fall of Kweitch has not yet been confirmed, latest reports state that heavy fighting is going on in that region.

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According to the report, the Man Shing left the wharf

near the Western Market to proceed to Mongkok. When it was a little beyond the wharf, the coxswain noticed a cargo junk, a passenger junk and a launch approaching. The Man Shing blew one blast and the approaching launch replied with one blast, so that they both proceeded. The two cargo junks also proceedod, one on the port sido and one. on the starboard side of the Man' Shing. All of a sud- den the passenger junk, which had been on the port side up to this time, suddenly out across the Man Shing's bows and, although the Coxswain put the launch full speed

his plans and is concentrating | could suppress news out of the stern, a collision could not be

of

averted..

News Suppression.

Tel Kowloon No. 8

On the other hand, Mr. Spender Tol Address "PALACE," Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. forces at Kweltch instead Entirely, under Engish Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout | Kaifeng," are self-explanatory,.

same sense of public duty. When Every Room with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar ELZITS Billard-Rooma.

the Expeditionary Force first.

The passenger junk capsized and From Chinese sources comes a wont out it was intended to bring six people were thrown into the Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervisio of the proprietress.report that Feng Yu-hsiang has the wounded back to Terme moderate. Special terms to families on, application to:

England. water, but were immediately res Mrs. J. Al. OXBERRY, Proprietress, drive up the Tsinpu railway to casualties endured, cruel suffer- the scene and towed the capsized teletraphed to Nanking urging a The scheme broke down, and our cued. A police launch arrived on meet his forces at Hsiehofu.ins for lack of swift and com-junk to the Yaumati Ferry wharf However, the fact is that Ankuo fortable transport to hospitals at. Yaumati, chun troops at Hsinhsiung, on the behind the line. Mr. Spender wit North of the Yellow River, cros-nessed what was happening, made The mistress of the junk was sing to the South bank, seriously the most urgent representations, to sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital. threatens Feng's lines of

the authorities, and saw the whole suffering from the effects of im munications.--Router.

system changed within ten days.mersion. The total extent of the In this case he used the lover of damage is placed at $250.

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FLOUR TRADE DISPUTE.

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a threat to publish the fucts int defiance of the Censorship. 'He refrained from publishing not, ng he is enreful to explain, out of -fastidiousness about "stunta,” but because the public interest would be more effectively served by what A War Office official described in another not dissimilar" connexion as "pollte blackmail."

A STRICT· CANTON CENSORSHIP.

WRITERS OF ARTICLES

FERRETED OUT.

CONFERENCE HELD LAST NIGHT, Regarding the recent demand by local flour merchants for a decrease Mr. Spender's methods suffi- in the wages of flour carriers, which ciently indicate the personality

In addition to a strict censor- resulted in a strong protest by the which unobtrusively pervades his ship, all newspapers in Canton Jatter, it is learned that last night book, His account of his daily have received information to the there was 1 meeting at the work shows that he spared no effect that if the Government finds Twenty Four Guilds Association pains to inform himself thorough anything deemed to be unfit for at which representatives of both ly of his facts. So much, indeed, publication in the papers, the cen parties were present, for a discus- follows from his conception of sors will not only take the offend- sion of the dispute.

journalistic duty. But while he ing matter out, but will also in- was thus accessible to informa-vestigate further into the quest- tion, he insisted, equally as a tion as to who wrote the article matter of principle, on his right in question. of private judgment, and no feel- ing of friendship ever deterred

Though the Government has not him from criticient. Thus, when announced this new rule yet, cases the South African War broke out are known to have occurred among he kept in friendly touch with nacular press, for instance with-

Canton newspapers, saya the ver both sections of the Liberal Parts in the past week, where the cen- while himself developing views which were agreeable to neither. sora insisted on finding out who Ile objected to the policy which thought to be reactionary," and wrote the articles which they had had led to the war, but demanded had ordered to be suppressed. a greater military effort than the Government first thought necess sary and looked forward to a

The chair was occupied by Mr. Ho Kwong, who is the Chairman of the Twenty-four Guilds. After speeches had been delivered by both sides, a lengthy discussion en- sued, but both parties declined to make any concession. The meet ing was closed without result, though the representative of the labourers promised that he would call a further meeting of the la-

bourers.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:

I. Lard Merrivale, 2. The game giren to thermometer schio -nfier Gabriel Daniel Fabrenheit (1080-1738), who introduced 12.3.

consisting of a cross between "Galloway" cows and raks, 0. Czecho-Blavaki

Innkeeper. 11. Lirttish migratory bird, about

peace of annexation. On this last me gently at my discomfiture his views, but he charactoristies-understood and sympathized with point Campbell-Bannerman shared and saying seriously that he really ly notes that the fact tas un what he knew must be my dis- known to him at the time.

appointment with him, His friends knew their man.

Mr. Spender is incapable of be traying a confidence, and though the character-sketches in which

reading, they contain no india- gretions. Some light is thrown, however, on the inner history of

Chancellor, 4 November 8. New antal. Of all the figures in public life dramatist. Lord Rosebery most charmed and bubur of "The Lobo's A Papal court, delighted him, and he worked un- once the supreme court of Christendoms: re stored to its functions of supreme court or ceasingly to bring him back into his book is rich make delightful appeal by Pope Plax in 1908, 8, (a) Stock- the party. The crials, came when, holm: (3) Helsingfors: (c) Monroria: (d) Warsaw (e) Luzambers, Coolidge. Hard shortly before the 1905 election, late. Wilson, Taft to. (a) Forty-four years Lord Rosebery repudiated Camp old; (b) born at Predapplo, neer Fart, in the Homarus: his father was a biscksmith and beil-Bannerman's Irish policy. the Liberal Party. We read, for

lx inches long, with grey upper plumize, 4

Rosebery's conduct seemed to example, that John Morley wished black and, white af, and white breast. 12. me inexcusable, and this time. I to be Foreign Secretary Mr. Because the oxulnal watermark in the paper closed the door with a bang, so Spender cannot help, a regret that far as the Westminster was con- his wish was not realized that corned, and wrote the kind of Lord Haldane, and not. Mr. leading article which would have Churchill, was expected to succeed estran ed me from almost any Mr. McKenna at the Admiralty, other public man. Bot Rosebery, and that it was in no wise at the as usual, took no offence, on the instance of his friends that Lord contrary he4 was as friendly Oxford finally broke with Mr. and welcoming. as eyer, chafing Lloyd George

was a fool's cap and bella.

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