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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1929.

FATE OF GENERAL NANKING FLOUTED FORMER HONGKONG

·TANG YIN-WAH,

NOW STATED TO BE HELD

FOR RANSOM, -

IN SWATOW.

CANTÓN ELECTS NEW, POLICE CHIEF.

- KWANGSI ADVENTURES AT YUN-TIN.

A LAKH REQUESTED."

Canton, June 19. General Tang Ying wab, who was recently arrested at Swatow by order of the pro-Kangal Genaral Hau King-tong has not been re- leased. The latest news concern- HEADING FOR FUKIEN? ing the fate of the arrested General is still obscure,

Swatow, June 18. It is reported from official

The "first detachment of the sources that General Tang was Cantonese troops marched into seized by General Hsu King-tong Swatow an expected during the when the latter evacuated Swatow, week-end, consisting of four or and was then placed in the hands five hundred of the. Cadet Corps of his subordinate-general, YUR under Brig. General Chlang Ha-kau, who was formerly a Kayang-nal, who has since install notorious bandit in the Eastern ed himself In the city. River District.

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Other reports any that General Tang is now being held by General Yuan for a ransom of a hundred thousand dollars. It appears, that General Yuan at first demanded five hundred thousand dollars for the release of General Tang. The Canton Government is now considering measures in order to effect General Tang's release.— Nam Chung Fo.

FURTHER SUICIDES.

TWO MORE REPORTED' YESTERDAY...

Additional to the many such cases which have occurred within recent weeks, the report was made to the police yesterday of further suicides by Chinene,

The bulk of the troops, said to number some five thousand in all, circuited Swatow and went from Kityang to Chaochnofu with the object of pursuing the Kwangat forces.. Those have left Swatow for several days, having been re- ported frat at Tai-po and later nt Yun-tin..

Yun-tin and Communists,

The circumstances of tho Kwangsi "capture" of Yun-tin make an extraordinary story. Yun-tin for some time past has been in the hands of the Gommun- ist forces under Tau and Mo, and had been suffering accordingly.

It will be remembered that it was from Yun-tin that Dr. Holleman, the American missionary

doctor

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WHAT YOU CAN DO.

You can help to stave off the danger of a real-water' famine by economising now in the use of water.

The Yaumati ferry Man Cheung was passing the naval anchorage on her way to Hongkong at 10.30 o'clock last right when the warning was given that a Chinese passenger had thrown himself overboard. The launch was immediately turned round, while lifebuoys were thrown. overboard. No trace was dis- covered of the man, and it is be- lleyed he was drowned.

From Talpo a report was received that a woman took her life by hanging herself from a tree op posite the District Land Omce. The body of the suicide was dis covered yesterday morning and was removed to the mortuary to await identification.

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from Lingnanchow, effected his

caped to Tal-po at the end of May, though till yesterday he had failed to get any further.

RESIDENTS.

THREE DEFEATED IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE POLLING FIGURES.

Papers to hand give details of the polling, in constituencies in which former Hongkong residents! were candidates. It is interesting In this connexion to note that Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, were both auc- cessful for the Labour Party

against former residents of the Colony.

"Sir Oswald Mosley hold the Smethwick seat for Labour in a 19,550, against 12,210 for Capt. A. three-cornered fight, He polled R. Wise (formerly of Hongkong), who was the Conservative candid- ate, and 8,909 polled by Miss M. E. Marshall for the Liberale.

At Stone-on-Trent, Lady Cynthia Mosley secured a Labour gain when she polled 20,548 against 18,698 for Licut.-Col. John Ward, former Labourite, who contested the seat as a Liberal. Col. Ward was formerly in Hongkong in com mand of the Middlesex Regiment during the war.

Mr. H. W. Looker, a former Hongkong solicitor, lost his sent at South-East Essex, whero he had sat for some years as a Conserva- tive. He polled 18,130 vates, against 18,750 secured by Mr. J. R. Oldfield (Labour) and 13,030 for Mr. G. T. Veness (Liberal).

SON DESPAIR OF PARENTS.

STOLE HIS MOTHER'S GRAMAPHONE.

When,charged before Mr. E, W. Hamilton, this morning, with the theft of a gramaphone belonging to his mother, a young Chinese said he was left without an allowance from parents and was forced to sell the machine to a scrap-iron dealer to raise funds for a pressing visit to Canton,

Detective-Sergeant Rozcakwy, The presence in Yun-tin of the prosecuting, said the accused was notorious Communist hordes caus- the despair of his parents. There of the utmost concern in Sheng-was no need for him to steal, as he hong, to the north and Tal-po to was the son of a Canton merchant, the South, particularly as the and a well-to-do merchant at that. "Red" attempted to reach the He had been pawning thing be river at the foot of the rapids longing a his parents, and would above Tai-po.

not work, in epite of having been offered n position in his father's firm. His mother had now washed her hands of him.

A force of 500 levies from the trafn-bande belonging to the river markets above and below the rapida held the Communist forces in the hills when on two succes- sive days they made an attack.

His Worship: What am I to do with him?

On being informed that it was On the third attack being essay- the mother's wish that the perused cd, the Communists were severe- shout be sent to prison, the Ma- ly defeated and fled back to Yun-gistrato fallicted a sentence, of six tin.

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Mixed Battle. two years in the most pestilent corner of the globe-in a country There they found things still infested by the dreaded "Black more difficult. They

were sud- attack from Mamba," the most virulent of denly faced by snakes, whose slightest bite is three quarters. The train-bands donth, and a certain and cruel one; pursued them; soldiers were sent where monstrous pythons, fifty down from Shonghong, and General feet in length, and tiny three-fect Chong Chin's Fuklenese, who have Batwn Pygmies with deadly retreated from Chaochnofu, also poisoned arrow, make the forest wanted the town. aisles avenues of horror; a land where both men and beasts are man-enters, and where monstrous sclence, have their reign.

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WARSHIPS IN PORT.

weeks.

A RECENT FIRE RECALLED.

PRAISE FOR THE ST. JOHN

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Mr. E. Ralphs, Assistant Com-1 In these circumstances, the missioner of the St. John Ambu- vanguard of the retiring Kwangsi lance Brigade in the Colony, haa army arrived in the district and received a letter as below from hearing the noise of the firing, sent the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Captala on 500 men to join in the fray. Superintendent of Police and The result was a general dis- Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade: peraal.. Tau and Mó decided, that

"On the night of Saturday, June things were too hot for them and beat a hasty retreat by Lingnan-16th, a fire occurred in Cochrane. chow. Their retreat released the Street, Central District, which train-bands and the soldiers from threatened, at one time, to assume proportions. Several Shonghong, who each returned serious home. General Chong Chin had no members of your Brigade were desire to contest the issue with the present on the scene, and gave Kwangat troops and hurried off valuable assistance in hauling too, leaving the Kwangsi army the hoses and carrying messages. field,

The objective of the Kwangei men is thought to be Changchow in Fulden.

Nanking Flouted.

"On behalf of the Fire Brigade, beg to thank those members, through you, for their helpful, co- operation."

FAIN TO SHOWERY.

The difficulty of securing har mony between local military lead- ers and the Nanking Government has been illustrated again sinco The Royal Observatory reports the Cantonese troops arrived. It that pressure continues to be was understood that Chang Ngohighest in the vicinity of the tung had been appointed by Nan Carolines; it is relatively low over king to resume the office of Chief N, China and to the north-east of Japan Hongkong rainfall for the The troops which have come in 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, evidently wanted the disposition of 0.18 inch. Total since January that lucrative post in their own 1st, 11.64 inches, against an hands and taking advantage of average of 38.57 inches. The fore- Chang Ngo-tung's delay in taking cast till noon to-morrow is:-S.W.

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up his post, made an appointment of winds, moderate; fair to showery.. their own, putting in L1 Kwang.

Chang Ngo-tung arrived to find

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