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HUNTING EXPEDITION.

THE EX-WOODLARK.

NEWS OF SHIP WHOSE LOSS WAS FEARED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928.

NEW SHASI PIRACY THE KUOMINTANG SPLENDID COTTON

DEVELOPMENT.

COXSWAIN OF "OLD BILL” UNDER ARREST.

UNDER SUSPICION.

A British naval wireless mess, age, recolved in Hongkong to-day, reports. the execution of 16 of the 23 pirates arrested in connexion with the recent piracy of the ss. Shasi on the Yangtzo, and states

SPLIT,

MR. WU HAN-MIN GIVES HIS VIEWS.

EVERYONE TOO READY TO CRITICISE.

DISCOVERY.

NEW FIBRE PLANT GROWING IN ENGLAND.

BOON TO LANCASHIRE.

London, Nov. 18. Important development of the Lancashire cotton trade is expect- ed as the result of the cultivation

that nine other men, believed to NEED OF OBEDIENCE. on a commercial basis of a new

have taken a part in the affair, aro also known, and it is hoped to affect their arrest in the near future.

The naval message also adds that the laodah (coxswain) of

artificial cotton fibre product."

The valuable qualities of the new plant were discovered by two English scientists who in South

Shanghai, Nov. 13. That there is a rift within the Kuomintang Jule has been apparent for some time. At the 40th meeting of the Central Com-¡ the B. A. T. launch, "Old Bill," mittee on preparation for the ecle. America were attracted by the which took the pirates and their bration of Dr. Sun's birthday, Mr. singular construction of a certain loot ashore, has been arrested on We Han-min, President of the bird's nest. suspicion of being implicated in Legislative Hoard, epoke strongly, the piracy.

on certain failings in the party's working. He said:

It will be recalled that just after the piracy the laodah of the B. A. T. launch told a story

of how five armed men boarded the craft as she was lying off the former British Conccasion.

taking the crew by surprise and forcing them at the point of pistols to get the launch under

way,

When the launch had reached the Japanese Concession, said the Indah, ten other members of the pirate gang, all armed, were picked up, after which the launch was taken down river, where flashlights wern exchanged be- tween the pirates on the Shas and the "Old Bill" The pirates with loot later came aboard the laupch from the Shast and sub- sequently disembarked at differ- ent places..

MISSISSIPPI AGAIN "IN FLOOD.

REFUGEES FLOCKING TO HIGH POINTS.

They watched the bird collect what appeared to be a common weed, soak it in a pool of water, and weave it with its beak. Tosts showed it to contain an iron com- pound, and scientists, after eight

years experiments, have succeeded

producing it on marketable

lines.

"Amongst us there are members who do not understand their own position and do not recognize that the party is a unity. It has a constitution and is pervaded by a military spirit. It has two weak- nesses which I will indicate. It may be compared to a web of cloth and one weakness is in the woof. That is composed of the Individual Between three and four million members, who are like the old pounds of this artificial cotton are division of the people into scholars, now being grown in Essex and. farmers, artisans and merchants. Sussex to be available to cotton Ench stands by itself independs it-spinners in July at a fixed prico ly and has no organic connexion of sixpence per pound, represent

ing an immediate saving of at with the others,

least fourpence per pound on what they are now paying.

No Connecting Thread. "The second weakness is in the warp. The five organizations Are like separate stens, There is the central committee, the provincini committee, the district committee, the parish committee and the

Weaving houses in the North and the Midlands are reported to have tested the new product and are satished it possesses a soft and Insting sheen and lustre.

It is claimed that the low price These five sectional committee. have no connecting thread running is possible owing to the many Brough and linking them together. valuable by-products that are ob- This Is bad and, moreover, dan-tained, including parchment, light It is like an army of building material, and a drug from gerous.

and roots of which tha commander-in-chief, the stems, leaves divisional commanders and all plant.

officere, right down to sergeants A Corporation been formed to and corporals, act independently market the product-British Wire- of each other. When an order is less. TEN PEOPLE DROWNED used up one thinks of obeying

Kansas City, Nov. 18. As the result of flouds on the Mississippi, ten people have heen drowned in Eastern Kansas and West Missouri.

before they have discussed and criticized it. Could this be called an army? Could it fight?

The Kuomintang is the government of i the revolution and is one body,| It has principles and a plan of There is beavy damage to farm action and should be obeyed like property, particularly livestock.

a military organization.' Hundreds of refugees are flock-mistake of these subordinate com- ng to high points in the alleled mittees that act independently area-Neuter's American Service. and disregard the party must be

atterly eradicated.

Dr. Sun's Foresight.

This

"DISGRACE TO THE BRITISHI FLAG.”

(Continued from Page 1) Merchant Shipping act and the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.

They never ask me. You

It will be recalled that during April and May of last year, the Lower Mississippi Valley was

must change the custom overwhelmed by foods for six weeks, the disaster being described

"Our late President knew quite then. You are the master and you by Mr. Hoover as the greatest well that Chinese have no proper must know. If you run your ship pence-time calamity in the his. Iden of liberty and these continual on Chinese lines you make your tory, of the country, As in the struggles for herly of separate self liable. In this particular case present Bloods, Arkansas nnil action, on the part of subordinate the Bability is a fine of $10. Missouri suffered badly, there he committees show that he under-

Fifty Years on River. ing tremendous damage to farm stood his country men. They re- property and livestock.

sult in the break up of the section With reference to entries re- etc. Captain and the destruction of the spirit of garding draught, co-operation. Our late President Seaton made remarks concerning repeatedly told us 'There is liberty the depth of water at the low. for the party but no liberty for the season in the West River, but his individual. We must strive for Worship Informed defendant that National liberty, for the people's he had himself taken a vessel up Bherty, but there is no use striving to Samshui in the low season and for Individual liberty.' Our President gave us this command way drawing 9% feet at the time, repeatedly, not only by word of, mouth, but wrote it down in his book where it can be seen by any comrade. How is it then that go many make mistakes about this supposing that the individual has large liberty and that everyone. may just go his own way?

Last year's floods inuidated over 20,000 square miles of territory and drove 700,000 people from their bones. The damaged property was estimated at no less than $270,000,- Subsequently, a big flood-relief scheme was submitted to Congress,

000,

calling for an expenditure of 3296, | 000,000, spread over a period of len

years.

MACHINE-MADE ANGEL.

Captain Senton said that he followed the usual custom in

river vessels with regard to logs. He had been a master since 1898 and had been in river steamers

einco 1878.

"These ship logs, or serap logs, or whatever you call them are of no value," remarked his worship, adding that in respect of the

"All those who are not willing to sacrifice their own herty for the sake of the liberty of the party second offence, defendant had

of which they are members, and made himself liable to a fine of do not see that we have now a£20 for running the ship accord great opportunity which should be ing to his own ideas, pushed to the uttermost, but go about seeking opportunities to further their own aims, are not

MASS PRODUCTION OF DECORATIONS.

Carlisle, Oct. 17, A discussion on art in churches took place to-day.

at Carlisle Diocesan Conference.

Mr. H. L. Hicks, an architect, of Now-castle, In a speech condemn ing present methods of church competent in carry out the single decoration, said there were ca-government policy of our founder. tablishments nt, which they could

buy fonts to the right, raredoses

corn for the harvest festivals.

Obedience First..

Neglect and Sloveniiness.

When questioned on the third charge, Captain Seaton Identified an entry relating to Mr, Copeland ared stated that it had not been algned by the Mate, as he was on

Defendant made no roply.

to the left, and even sheaves of "And now a word about résolu-shore at the time, and he had not tions passed by the party. A thought of asking any "other mem- He had no desire for machine resolution passed by an establish-her of the crew to sign it. made angels sold by the gross. ed organ of government must not

His Worship With_all your Few of us deserved a tablet that be regarded as the opinion of any knowledge of logs and 30 years) could be read from one and of the one or two individuals; it is the experience as a master, you never church to the other. Ready-made decision of that particular organ noticed the footnote on each page articles could not be the best. The and must be obeyed by everyone of the official log, that points British workman put his whole without fail. The decisions of the out that all entries must be sign- heart into his work if it was for a Central Committee are not un-ed by another member of the church.

changeable. The various district crew?!! The Rev. S. Liberty, of Healing committees have the right to ton, said they should stand out

oppose the decisions of the Central against the encroachments of in-Committee, but the opposition His Worship."The ability in dividual donors of gifts to must be by constitutional methods this case le a fine of £5. You churches.

and have solid grounds for its have shown pure neglect and existenca and, until representa slovenliness. The way that some tions made to the Central Commit of you mastera run your abipa tee have led that body to change is a diagrace to the British flag. Its pronouncement, this decision There are probably a lot of other Shanghai, Nov. 18.

Shanghai, Nov. 19. must be obeyed. If when the people who do the same thing and The ss. Cassum, ex-Woodlark, af London, Nov. 18. ·

As Mr. Chu Chao-hsin has been Central Committee issues an order, it is hoped that they will take a Messrs. Theodore and Kermit Thursday for longkong-Router.

for bunkering, left Wenchow on appointed Minister to Japan and the local bodies proceed to criticize warning from this."

A fine of $2 on each of the Roosevelt have arrived at South- This probably disposes of the proceed to take up the post, it and others refuse to act upon it, ampton from New York en route alarmist reports last week, owing to ehortly, Dr. C. T. Wang has ap- or lay, it aside as scoms good to several charges was infileted, to the pointed bfr. Wang Kal-min to be themselves what Ind of govern- to paid into Court at the day's hunting expedition" in the absence of news from Burma, China, and Indo-China to eat and bad weather along the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. ment would result from that? Is rate of exchange

that a constitutional proceeding or collect specimens for the field that grave fears for the ship's safety

South China coast. It will be recalled Nam Chung Pao.

does it evince the military spirit Mussum in Chicago-Reuter. were expressed.]

New York, Nov. 15.

of the revolution? A new record was set on Satur

"Our present duty is to establish united strength to carry to comple. A revolutionized tion but if the Central Govern- day on the stock market, the sales a new Chiric totalling 3,300,000, sharce,-Ileuter's Chino dominated by the principles ment has no authority and no American Service.

of Sanminism. This is a heavy strength it will be impossible of responsibility and needs our accomplishment.

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