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NORTH DEFEATED. [WATERSIDE STRIKE IN

NATIONALISTS MAKE BIG CLAIM.

THE BRITISH- CONCESSIONS.

Shanghai, Nov. 62.

A message from Nanking states. that the Nationalists claim they have captured Kuchen, in Antwi, a strategle point on the Tientsin Pukow line. The message tinues:

stand in Klangsu."-Reuter...

·BRITAIN'S CONCESSIONS.

Necessary. Safeguards.

con-

AUSTRALIA.

SHIPPING HELD UP AT WHARVES.

ARBITRATION DISPUTE.

مرمي

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PIRACY TRIAL,

IDENTIFICATION OF

PRISONERS.

PASSENGER'S HAM EATEN.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

THE FINDING OF OPIUM.

A ŠAMPAN OWNER FINED $3,000.

OFFICER FIRES REVOLVER.

CHURCH NEEDS.

OUR NEW WAYS OF THOUGHT.

MODERN FACTS IGNORED.

The Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, in The master of a fishing sumpan the extruct from his forthcoming was charged before Mr. W. Scho- book, which we print below, de- held, at the Kowloon Magistracyclares that everywhere is it realised. this morning, with having in his that the only Institutions that will possession 95 taels of prepared revise itself in the light of modern opium and with using his junk for ledge is the Christian Church. the conveyance of opium at the This is the final extract we are Yaumati ahelter yesterday.

giving

Mr. D. MeCallum appeared for ing the outlines of a Church that I am not interested in suggest- the defendant, and pleaded not would be what is called "popular" guilty.

Revenue Officer Ward, giving nor in what Bishop Neville Talbot, I do not believe in popular religion, evidence, said that he was in a during the war, called "the holy motor-boat in the Yaumati shelter. grocery business" of Christianity, Witness anw the defendant's saa and Baron von Hugel "the error pan and ordered it to stop, but of Tommyiam;" but I do believe to be according to the mind of the command

was disobeyed. that if organised Christianity is Christ, it must take a new form and emphasis before those care passionately for righteousness can be expected to attach them- scives gladly to it.

The trial of the seven' Chinese Melbourne, Nov. 21. charged in connexion with the After a decision by the Water- pirney of the s.s. Irene, was con- side. Workers' Federation to tinued at the Criminal Sessions strike against, overtime, work this morning before the Chief censed on the Melbourne wharves Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, and a at 5 o'clock yesterday evening. jury, when further identification The oversca vessals affected in evidence was given by Chinese clude the P. and O. 8.8. Mooltan, cabin passengers who were on due to all for London at noon, board the ill-fated vessel.. The Northerners are hastily re-She will be held up for several

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy is conduct treating towards Hauchow, where hours.

ing the case for the Crown, while The steamship owners have the prisoners are defended by Mr. they are planning to make a last issued a statement that the water-C. G. Alabaster, K.C., with Mr. Leo side workers are violating the D'Almada e Castro further repre- award of the Industrial Arbitra-senting the fourth prisoner, Mr. tion Court, and it is impossible C.A.S. Russ is watching the ease for the owners to carry on satis on behalf of the owners of the 8.5. Witness Gred a shot from his factorily under the present "into- Irene. lerable" conditions.

Dr. J. R. Craig spoke of the nd-revolver, and the defendant was mission to the Government Civil scen to throw a bag tled to a rope Hospital of the cabin "boy" who into the water. He then dived into was shot by one of the pirates, the harbour himself.

After he had swum to another He said the wound, which was caused by a shot from a gun, en-boat, the defendant was seized as

clambered tered the lower right chest. The he

board. Two the The workers have declared the track of the bullet was through the other men, who were with

base of one lung and out near the defendant. escaped. steamer conducted inter-State

and The wound had given rise "black" because a cargo of zine to considerable internal hemor found to contain the opium and a

spine.

The bag was recovered, she brought from Hobart for rage in the chest cavity. The big stone. trans-shipment to England, was victim

recovered, however, and loaded by the zinc company's was discharged.

Defendant's Story. employees. The owners have de-

While admitting possession, the Replying to Mr. Fitzroy, witness defendant claimed that the bag He nature and might have caused. not aware until after the TELETECİmanu seizure that the bag contained opium. When the officer fired his COMING TO HONGKONG.

revolver, the defendant became frightened and jumped into the

London, Nov. 21.

At a China Association dinner in London, Lord Southborough de- clared that until Chinese Nation alism could furnish some evidence of constructive capacity, the safe guards under which British trade

been has hitherto should not be further weakened.

The dissolution of the British concession at Haakow had been most harmful to British interests thure and in the Yangtze valley. The safeguards represented by the concessions should be temporarily maintained, and the negotiations for a radical change in the nature

concession of the British Tientsin. should not be continued. (Cheers)-Reuter.

THE KUOMINTANG.

Split Between Canton and Nanking,

at

Shanghai, Nov. 21. The fourth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee and Central Supervisory Com- mittee of the Kuomintang, fixed for to-day, has been postponed in- definitely owing to a disagreement between the Canton and Nanking factions. Reuter,

NINGPO NAVAL BATTLE.

Gunboals and Forts Exchange Shots.

The watersida workers declare that the strike is the result of the conditions laid down by Judge Beeby in connection with the hear. ing of the Federation's case in the arbitration court.

Kaharika

ол

eided to lay up the Kaharika inde-said the wound was of a serious was dragged from the R,

finitely.-Reuler.

'SIR ALAN COBHAM PROCEEDS.

ARRIVAL AT MARSEILLES.

London, Nov, 21.

Sir Alan and Lady Cobham flow to Bordeaux from Southampton yesterday on the second stage of their 20,000 mile aerial survey light round Africa.-British Wire-

less.

London, Nov, 21.

Sir Alan Cobham, who is flying to Africa to make an aerial sur vey of the continent, left the French

naval base at Hourtin, near Bor- deaux, this morning, and reached. Marseilles this afternoon."

He effected a porfect landing in the middle of the harbour.

Ife will probably leave to- morrow morning to cross the Mediterranean, and is expected to Ningpo, Nov. 14. "

make a stop at Ajaccio, in Corsica. Three gunboats belonging to the--British Wireless, Chibli fleet opened fra on the forts at Chinhal at 10 a.m. yesterday. Each boat fired one shot, aiming at the temple on Kyiao Pao Saen, but all the shots fell short. The forts replied with eight shots, none of which registered a hit, but the gunboats retreated."

BRITISH IMPERIAL

TRADE.

HOW IT IS BEING FÖSTERED.

Japanese China Mission of Enquiry.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Nov, 22. Mr. Wakasugi, the secretary, and Mr. Toncio, of the Japan- ese Foreign Office, the chief of the Asiatic section of the Intelligence Bureau, are visit- ing Shanghai, en route to Hankow and later to Hung kong.

was

harbour.

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Now, what has our friend, the Man in the Street, to say? Firstly, he cannot understand why' cach Church should not be loyal to its of every other Church. It seems own beliefs and yet, wholly tolerant

to him incontrovertible that there. are as many ways of approach to God as there are reverent points of view, and he cannot understand why every Church should not re- cognise this fact and do what it can to encourage the neighbouring Church, even though, it be of an- other denomination, to go full steam ahend with its own people

and in its own way.

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Until the Churches have The defendant denied that he threw the opium into the water. larged their outlook, and have de- it was one of the others on board cided to remove the barriers, that who had thrown the bag over-deny to members of other Churches, who are wholly devoted to Christ, board.

the right of free entry and the privilege of full communion, I can- not see how they can expect to be stamped .with the either of God's approval or of man's imprimatur

enthusiasm.

In reply to his Worship, defen- dant said he had had the bag on board for about five hours. He had been fishing all the time, and never had the opportunity "of opening the bag.

The defendant was convicted and fined $5,000, with the alterna- tive of eight month's hard labour. His Worship said he wished the matter to be brought to notice of the public that opium found should be handed over to the pay

It is believed that they are on a confidential mission con- nected with the present Chineze situation, with the purpose of reporting to Tokyo.

AGES ATOWYMOSS RAJAUHEENTESIZ reward, death. It could have been caused by a 32 bullet"

In reply to Mr. Alabaster, wit ness said the course of the bullet was downwards and slightly in wards.

A Direct Shot.

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proper authorities, who would

FALSE ALARM.-

COOLIE ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHES SIGNAL.

The Needed Secret.

No now Gospel is fleeded but. only the old one related to Jesus and to life. We still hold the secret for want of which the world is living in the shadows, and for want of which life. for most goes

on songless and unsanctified. We have a way of preaching true. things as if they were false and secondary things as though they constituted the heart of the Christian faith. We drone out services as if they were but taşka. that must be got through. The Churches set vital things in an atmosphere of unreality, and lay The electric burglary alarm de- enormous stress on what is com vice was sounded at the Centralparatively unimportant. I am Police Station shortly after one afraid there is often more real o'clock this afternoon. The call fellowship in the public-house than was traced to a house in Caine Road, in the Christian Church, and about a dozen detectives turned out in expectation of dealing with a daring gang of robbers.

un arrival however, they were informed that the signal at that end, had been inadvertently touched by an ignorant coolie, and that, the aim was a raise one. chi could give evidence.

The man in the street finds his

Church too supremely sensitive to position and finance; indeed, it is possible that the only thing that would rally the Church of England almost as one man would be an attack on ita Establishment and its Endowments.

His Lordship asked witness if he would form an opinion as to whether the wound was caused by a direct shot or by a ricochetting The ordinary passenger and car-

London, Nov. 21.

bullet. go boat traffic to Ningpa was com-

Replying in the House of Com- witness replied that judging pletely disorganized by this in- cident. Five boats from Tinghai, men to questions as to what steps from the very clean-cut nature of Haimen, Shih Pa, and surrounding are being taken to increase the sale the wound it was caused by a places, which ordinarily arrive in British goods in the British Do-direct shot. Had it been due to a minions, Captain Hacking the ricochet there would have been the morning, refused to come into

Under-Secretary for the Depart more laceration. the Xingpo river until nightfall.

Ir. Fitzroy intimated that the Other boats on their way out from ment of Overseas Trade, said trade

I want the prevailing oppression Ningpo likewise deemed it advia-missioners had been appointed eleventh witness, a Chinese, was

TYLE hearsay of religion removed, and the able to turn back and wait till the in all the Dominions, with the ex-

press object of facilitating, with the out of the Colony, and he proposed

liberating" freedom of Christ's re- way was clear.

co-operation of the Department of that his evidence should be read..

His Lordship remarked that heigion with its summons to the When the news reached Ningpo, Overseas Trade, the export of Bri-witness, Mr. Li Chor-chi, secretary am very much, and Mr. Fitzroy phasised for all it is worth.

To prove the absence of the did not think Mr. Li could help fullest possible human life the military commander, Genish goods to those territories,

the Specific cases were frequently af Ho Hong Bank, wasntunated that he did not intend to Wong Shu-o, ordered the 5th, 6th

How much one, longs to see the but he said he id and 7th sections of his troops to reported where the work of the called,

proceed further with the point.

Spirit of Christ breathing through know the man per- A Chinese proceed to Chinhal Immediately, trade commissioners hd.contribut-nol

cabin passenger, the Churches, cleansing them of He, (witness), had not after referring to the ring of their atmosphere of staffiness and These troops paraded on the Banded materially to securing important sonally.

of much of with machine-zuns, rifles, and orders for British manufactures-made arrangements for the wit-snots, stated that two armed men repression and even

ness's departure from the Colony. pistols, and boxes of ammunition, British Wireless.

came into his cabin, one of them their official piety. How much At this point Mr. Alabaster ob being the third risoner. This one longs for men to know that jeeted, saying that all Mr. Li Chor-man threatened witness with a Christ loves the passionate

revolver and demanded that wit- the adventurous, and that there. ness hand over his belonging is room, and need within Chris- witness told the men that they tianity for enthusiasm as well as could take what they liked so long for joy and laughter.

but they apparently-were-not-ready-

to depart until late in the after-

enemy gunboats had departed.

noon, when news eam that the

A FIVE-DAY WEEK WANTED.

CHIANG'S PLANS.

Not to Resume Command?

General Chiang

Kai-shek,

former Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist forces in China, since

AMERICAN LABOUR PLAN.

New York. Nov. 21." Mr. Green, the president of the his return to Shanghai after a American Federation of Labour, ad- recuperative holiday in Japan, hasdressing the union of orthodox Jew- not had much to say about hisish congregations, said that the futere programme,

Still, he found time to give a dinner last Saturday evening to a number of newspaper representa tives including a number of foreiners at the home of a relative, according to a report published in the vernacular Press. The Chinese newspapers, however, do not mention whether the former Generalissimo gave any hint as In his future intentions vither re- garding his marriage, his moust ache or his political activities. It was stated, nevertheless that a re- presentative of the Kuo Wen Newe Agency had a conversation with the General in which the latter stated that he intended to devote his energy to the Kuomintang bab will not resume the post of Com- mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Armies.

Federation was striving to establish.

a universal five-day week in indus- try, in order to conserve the physi- cal, mental and spiritual powers of the workers,

The whole, social structure, he said, would be strengthened if this renched-Reuter's onl

were

American Service.

GERMAN SHIP IN BAD POSITION.

· FEARED TOTAL LOSS OF DITMARKOEL.

Shanghai, Nov. 22, Heavy seas yesterday prevented the turs Soucy and Dominic going alongside the steamer Ditmarkoel. which has gone ashore on Amherst General Chiang is, said to be Rock She is a German vessel.f staying at the residence of the just over 9,000 tons, carrying conl former chief of the Woosung- from Chingwangtao for the Kai- Shanghai Constabulary in French-lan Mining Administration, and an lown and since his return to earlier message reported that Shanghai numerous persons has three holds were leaking.

It is now, foared that she will. called on him but he has received

Her crew were only a number of intimate friends be a total loss. and some of his former school taken off this morning, and are on mates of the Whangpan Academy. the way to Shanghal-Reuter.

SIZE BEDRYWY KARANGOstatnio

Confidence

In the goods they sell has led well known firms to adv r.ise ex tousively and succes fully. The mors'they' use tho wheels of

modern publicly the stronger will become their business.

You may have com- plete confidence in your wales, but bo- cause you have not used the magnet of ad- vertising to advantage, your trade has got so far and no further....

Don't let rivals steal a march on you, Adver tise steadily, appealing to your probable clients. Consider the extensive eiroulation of the Hayling Telegraph, its fine class of render, and high standard of all-round ox-ellonce, Make it your publicity organ..

These As they spared his life. men took away two baskets con- Laining clothing and other articles, Ate His Ham. Witness said that, with the ex- ception of the sixth prisoner, all the men came into his cabin at dif ferent times and ate some ham, which witness had in his cabin.

Sir. Alabasters Had you seen any of these people before you went on board the ship? No, there were so many there.

Were you in your cabin during the whole of the two days the pirates were in charge of the ship?

Yes.

You say there was some ham there-Ics, there was hem in 30me basketa.

With the exception of No. 3, all you can say about these others is that they came in and ate a little ham during the two days the piracy lasted 7-

His Lordship: I understand that the hani was his (witness's).

Mr. Alabaster. Wall, my Lord, perhaps they were hungry.

Witness: They ate the whole piece.

His Lordship: What! They ato the whole of the ham7-Yes....

Mr. Alabaster: Prisoner No..6 did not come, in at all?-Not The next Chinese witness said that he recogulsed the first, third and fourth prisoners, as men who soarched him. He identified all the prisoners, who entered his cabin at different times..

The case is, proceeding.

(Continued on

Page 11.)

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