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BATTLE RAGING IN A VARSITY RUGGER HAICHING HEROES FATHER THAMES IN SHIP'S ENGINEER PLANS FOR CURING

CANTON AREA.

REBEL OFFENSIVE 27

MILES TO N.E.

HURLED BACK IN VIGOROUS

COUNTER-ATTACK.

SURPRISE..

OXFORD BEAT CAMBRIDGE IN TERRIFIC FIGHT.

ROBSON'S BIG PART.

Londen, Dec. 10. Oxford University delented Cam- bridge by nine points to nat Twickenham this afternoon, inhe "Empire" Inter-Varálty" rugger | match, so-called because of the un- The fate of Canton should be usual proportion of students from decided within the next two or the Dominions. included in the three days. The rival armies are now at grips within thirty teams. Oxford, for instance, had

DECISION IMMINENT.

COMMENDED.

BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S MESSAGE.

POLICE STILL SIFTING OUT

THE SUSPECTS.

FOUR IN HOSPITAL

HIGH FLOOD.

SITUATION GIVING RISE TO ANXIETY.

NEW GALES EXPECTED.

London, Dec. 10.

A renewal of southerly gales caused by a váry deep depression approaching from the Atlantic is. according to the weather forecast, likely to be severe on the South- West Coast of Britain.

Meanwhile, although a heavy running, an The Admiralty hins enbled to Ad-swell, has been miral Sir A., K. Waistell, Commun-interval in the gule violence has der-in-Chief of the Chinn Squadron, enabled many ships to mend their

London, Dec. 10.

REPRIMANDED. ·

CONVICTED OF GROSS MISCONDUCT.

UNABLE TO PERFORM DUTIES THROUGH DRINKING,

OFFENCE ADMITTED.

Charged with being drunk and

Cordiner, A. J.

the Second incapable of performing his duties,

UNEMPLOYMENT.

THE GOVERMENT ISSUES A ̈

“WHITE PAPER.

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"DOLE" BILL SURVIVES.

London, Dee." 10

Government's Details of the pland for dealing with unemploy ment, issued this afternoon in a White Paper, show that the total estimated expenditure on schemes under the Development Act and under the Unemployment Grants Committee, is just over

Expenditure millions sterling.

ronds

SEVERE FIGHTING NEAR NANKING.

CRITICAL SITUATION

PREVAILING.

BODY OF TROOPS DISARMED IN CAPITAL.

REBELS ÄND HANKÓW.

While the situation arising from the Tang Seng-chi ye. and bellion is a trifle obscure, · 'ten-

twenty

milen of the city and a fieregno fewer than six South Africans expressing admiration at the gal-steering gear and to continue their Engineer, of the '8.8. Poricurto, ap bridges is deak with separately, ston is still high. Fighting le battle is in progress. "The first and one New Zealander, in their lantry of the captain, pilicers and voyages or to make for ports when Peared: before a Marine Court of 11 is stated that schemes for road reported to have braken out

appears

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on a big scale within thirty or forty miles of Nanking and Government troops wounded

development" for which grants out of the Rond Fund have been applied for, have been approved, in detail or in principle, to the value of over

are being brought into the city. twenty-four millions sterline,

It is estimated that the Road Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is dis- Fund liability in respect of these arming every soldier regarding schemes will be approximately whom there is the alightest sixteen millions and that the work doubt, five hundred men having provided will be equivalent to the employment of one hundred thous been thus treated in Nanking and men for one year.-British yesterday, Wireless,

Tang Seng-chi is delaying his Later,"

attack on Hankow for the present, having apparently tried to win over General Liu Shih, the commander of "Chiang Kai- shek's Own"

troops, without

succesu.

Enquiry at the Harbour Oflice this crew of the Douglas s., Halching the damage was serious.

morning, when he pleaded guilty In the event attempted piracy.-- The s.s. Tynebridge, for instance, to the charge, and stated that he serious engagement of the rebel | side.

has repaired her steering gear and had no extenuating circumstances campaign, it was launched on

The result came as a surprise to Reuter.

The police are still actively cancelled a call for assistance, and to put forward in mitigation of the Monday afternoon by Chang the critics. The Dark Blues

engaged in work in connexion is returning to Falmouth to land offened. Fat-kwei and his. Ironsides on a

Evidence was given by officers of the customary ca- before

with The piracy, and visits to the fore dead and two injured men. large scale. The Cantonesé

numbering at Government Civil Hospital, where Inland, and particularly in the the vessel that Cordiner was found troops were at first hurled back thusiastic crowd,

It least thirty thousand, and including of 20 men still being detained, Thames Valley, foods are causing in the engine room in Hongkong, under the influence of drink, which by superior forces, but

that reinforcements .R.H. The Prince of Wales, to four are "suspected" patients, will anxiety.

partake of the nature of routine

Since yesterday, the Thames has prevented him from carrying out were rushed to the battle zone whons the teams were presented these next few days, until the risen nearly one foot at Molesley his duties,

The Hon. Commander F. G. Hole, and in the small hours of yester-fore the start.

The Light Blues were frequently completion of the enquiries wand the rate of flow during the last

The House of Commons has com day morning, the Cantonese

prisoners and million gallons as compared court, the other members being pleted the committee stage of the smashed the front ranks of the within nh ace of creating a record lave enabled the police to place a twenty-four hours was nine thouR.N., (retired) presided over the

Insurance with an average flow of two thou-Lieut. Commander L. G. Addington, Unemployment It is learned that In additionsand million gallons for this time D.S.O.. R.N.. (H.M.S. Tamar) after rejecting by 279 votes to 21,

Capt. D.. C. L Evans (master, 8.8.

a new clause, moved by the Labour The authorities have established Teucer), Mr. A. L. Miller (Chief Left-Wingers, reducing from six to to the four in hospital, three other of the year.

a special watch on the river ao thut Engineer, 8.8. Chak Sang) and Mr. three days, the period a man has to men have been sorted out probables," while it is also in-

wait before drawing the dole. dicated that about 20 are still in adequate warning can be given if W. Niblock (Chief Engineer, s.s.

The concession would have cost about £4,000,000 per annum. The custody as compared with the a danger arises of the floods break- Kwong Chow): Lotal number of 330 passengersing through the embankments in'

Liberals did not vote, but some of London. originally in police hands.

Vince.

by their fifth victory in invaders and made a big ad-scussion, but sided by luck and great tenacity, coupled with mer The atmosphere in Canton isciless tackling. Oxford withstood electrified. All sorts of assault after assault and although rarely themselves dungerous, parti- rumours are in circulation, many cularly before the interval managed people excitedly alleging that to hang on to a lead given them in they heard gunfire within a few the twentieth minute of the game, miles of the city.

It is definitely ventain, however.

although that

the Ironsides launched a severe offensive, they did not approuch nearer than Sun Wat, nineteen miles from Canton, and that they were forced to retire rapidly in the face of yleorous counter-atineļus,

This was secured in a sudden breakaway, Robson crossing the Cambridge line for a try, and Black converting to give Oxford a lend of five points. Cambridge strove might and main to get on terms, but Oxford hang on doggedly until the very last minute when Robson confirmed the issue by, a dropped goal from the twenty-five yards! line-Reuter,

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Where Fighting Began.

Fighting, says

Canton €31 correspondent, in message GIRL'S BODY BADLY dated last night, began near Fuh Yuen, which is abont

MUTILATED. twenty-seven miles directly north of Canton. The Ironsides, ob vlously an Intact army, despite the runiours of the past month; must have made rapid progress without 'opposition before they, clashed with the Catonese an elise to, the city.

• LEGS CUT OFF, PROBABLY BY PARENTS.

"EVIL SPIRIT" MYTH.

definite number of

before the Magistrate.

Many Visitors to Ship.

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A large number of visitors were admitted aboard the ss. Huiching at her wharf on the Prayu te-day, to witness the extensive damage done the vessel during Sunday's battle.

Captain's Evidence,

Bill

There is no immediate fear of The first witness was Capt. Ed-the Conservatives supported the this happening, but the floods inward John Niblett, muster of the Government.-Router. the Upper Thames Valley areas. Porteurno, who said the defen- higher than when it occurred last dunt signed on the articles year, and more rain is forecast.

At Reading, which almost surrounded by water, the river is twenty-six inches above normal, The visitors included the Hon. and at Maidenhead, it is four feet Sir Henry Pollock K.G., and the above normal. There are also Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, who wide flood areas in other parts of were shown over the vessel by the country-British Wirelena. Captain O. 11. Farrar and 'ofeigls of the Daugins Steamship Company.

11 is announced that the whole of the officers who took part in the memorable pattle will be the guests of 11. E. the Governor at a tin at Government House on Friday.

Suspect's Denth,

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second engineer: The first case in which defendant was drunk on board the ship was in the Suez Engineer Canal when the Chief found him lying on the engine room floor, hopelessly drunk. Witness made no entry of this in the log book!

Commander Hole said if that was so, they could not take that as evid

ence.

SOVIET PRESSURE IN MANCHURIA.

ACCELERATING THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

PARLEY RESUMPTION.

Tokyo, Dec. 10.

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Severe Fighting.

Nauking, Doc. 19. Severe fighting broke out last evening to the north of Chuchow, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, which is a little over thirty miles as the crow, flies from Nanking.

A number of wounded troopa have arrived at Nanking from the battlefront.

Five hundred "doubtful" troops belonging to the Fourth Brigade

this were disarmed

afternoon without resistance, though they were well-armed, being equippd- with a large number of machine-

gunk,

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Part of the First Division, which, du commanded by the ataunch loyalist officer, General Liu Shib, arrived from Hankow this morning.

Continuing, Capt. Niblett said the second occasion when defendant was found drunk in the course of It is learned reliably that Mr. his duties, was in Hongkong Har-Tsai Yun-sheng, who negotiated bour on December 6th Inst. The the Sino-Soviet Protocol, Jeft yes- Chief Engineer made a report to terday afternoon for Harabovsk, Lo Sui-fan, a seriously wounded

him, stating that defendant was vin Pogranichnaya, in resume the

The city is quiet, but unea637---- man taken of the Halching follow-

The recent outrage committed in bdly drunk, and that he had order-parley with M. Simanoffsky, for

Reuter. ing the return of the ill-fated Wellington Street, when Cho Shun,ed him away from the engine room. the final settlement of the six

Hankow, Dec. 10. Military headquarters, in report -

vessel on Sunday night and since

a pork dealer, of the Central Mar- Witness did not nee Cordiner him- months' conflict over the Chinese

It is reported that a clash has ing the matbreak of fighting, claim-3

The body of a Chinese six-year- | sietaised at the Government Civil

ket, was aroused from his hed self, but he made an entry of the

Eastern Railway. ed that the battle was poline well old female child was found early | Hospital, died there shortly before late at night by men armed with recomplaint in the log book. Cordiner

Incidentally, it is reported that occurred near Sinyangchow, on the for them at the beginning This, this morning, abandoned on the fone o'clock yesterday afternoon.

trains are already running be. Peking-Hankow Railway, close to Street, semis hardly accurate. hillside behind Pilkem

The important fact connected volvers, who bound and gagged did not sign thin however

and 1hen rifled his

Mr. Harry C. Edwards, the Chlef tween Manchuli and Hailar. The the Honan-Hupeh 'border, between death mะเป

stole and

$200 The Intest reports show that the Yanati. Both legs had been eut with

and Engineer of the ..

Porteurno, damaged tracks are being repaired the forces of General Tang Seng- although the decrased fei rebel forces met with, consider off with a sharp weapon, surmised that

jewellery, had a sequel at the said that about 3 p.m, on December by Soviet, troops, which are said chi, the rebel leader, and loyal had to be a kitchen chopper.

himself described able success at the commencement

Central Magistracy this morning. 5th he went below to the engine to continue their occupation of the Loops under General, Hua Yuan- assistant.

[chlen, of their attack, inflicting severe At first sight it would appear shop

when four Chinese, the youngest room and found the accused two towns with a view to accelerat casualties on the Cantonese frent that callous murder, followed by trader, the police had yet to con of wham is 16, were charged with under the influence of drink.

ing the present Sino-Soviet nego. line troops.

mutilation of the body, had taken firm his antecedents.

tiationsReuter. - Wounded in the mouth, he had being concerned, in the armed rob

Incapable of Work. bery:.

Mukden, Dec. 10 As an indication of the feeling | place, but police officers when seen

this morning, expressed their be passed a critical time since his re-

Detective Inspector Shunnon said

Cordiner w46 01) duty at General Chang Hauch-lang, the in Canton when the first reportslief that death had resulted from moval ashore, alternating with re- reached cficial circles, it may natural enuses, mutilation of the lapses into unconsciousness, until the men were rounded up in two

turn for the different houses in First and Se- the time, but was not allend-Munchurian leader, proposes to ing to those duties, only appoint Mr. Mo Teh-huel, the for- remains being subsequently, he definitely took a

West Point,

round, and walking idly

at mer Civil Governor of Mukden, as be noted that certain of the carried out by the parents on worse yesterday morning, passing cond Streets. at higher Cantonese officials imme-account of some uge-old, super-away in the presence of a police A curious fact was the discovery 3.15 p.m. witness told him to get the plenipotentiary delegate in the

A doctor will to-day officer and a Magistrate who had of four londed revolvers in Bridges diately made arrangements to stitution.

strongly of liquor and was not The appointment has been re- view the body, which has been re-been summoned to the bedside to Street, which is quite close to the out of the engine room. He smelt Sino-Soviet pence negotiations. send their

capable of performing his duties.commended to the Nanking Gov- families to Hong-moved to the Mortuary at Kowloon, take the man's dying depositions. Central Police Station.

It is understood that no state-

At the Inspector's request, Mr. Witness left the engine room ernment by Chang Kruch-liang keng. Just night's river-bonte Not long ago, a similar case of heing crowded with "refugees," mutilation was brought to fight atment was obtained from the dying A. W. G. H. Grantham, the magis about 3.25 pm, but as Cordiner and confirmation from Dr. C. T.

trate, ordered a formal remund of lid not obey his instructions, he Wang is awaited.

A strong concentration of Gov-.. Shushuipo, when it was revealed man.

It is reported that Rusalan erament troops, however, is heing. 48 hours to enable the police to sent the 4th Engineer to bring important and otherwise.

that the body of a small, child,

Cordiner to him.

aeroplanes bombed. Poketu on made at Wushinkwan in case an at» make further enquiries."

the 7th instant (also for the pur-tack develops. The military authorities, how-found left in the street in a suck,

pose of accelerating discussions?) ever, took "prompt steps to turn had both the arms and legs

-Reuter. the battle. All the metor-bases severed.

It was then definitely establish- plying on the streets of Canton

on Mondayed that the mutilation was done were commandecred

who parents night and were employed in trans after death by porting troops out of Canton in thought to ward off a similar evil Fab Yuen at the next birth, by slaying the the direction of the

evil spirit which they super- highway.

stitiously believed was dwelling in the body of the dead child.

Wounded Reach Canton.

thousand Several

men Were quickly in the battle zone and the stemmed, advance was not only

but they were forced to rotrent after some very heavy fighting. Large numbers of wounded men are reported to have arrived in .Canton.

Canton, Later.

It now transpires that the fierce battle to the north of Canton started

at 4.80 p.m. on Monday afternoon and raged throughout the night.

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The Late Mr. Woodward. The late Mr. F. K, Woodward, third officer of the ss. Haiching, who was the only European killed during the piratical aftnek, was a the comparative China Const.

Born in Belper, Derbyshire, 31 years ago, he spent several yeara on the Indian coast on vessels running out of Calcutta, "coming to Hongkong in April, 1928, to join the Douglas Steamship Company. His next-of-kin is a sister, Mra, Ellis, of Duffield, Derbyshire.,

Guard's Funeral.

SHANGHAI COURT STATUS.

NANKING CONFERENCES

CONTINUE.

When he arrived at witnena's room, he ordered him to keep out of the engine room. IIe culled the attention of Mr. Roberts (the Chief Officer) to the condition of Car- diner and later returned to the engine room, and found the accus- NEW YORK FILM FIRE

ed still there. He ignored him, but could see that the, man was still drunk. He subsequently made a report to the master. Nanking, Dec. 10.

A member of the Court asked Two conferences between Chi witness if the ship was on main nese Government representatives engines at the time, and Mr. Ed and international delegates regard wards replied in the negative, say- ing the future of the Shanghai ing the ship was discharging. The funeral of Khial Singh, Provisional Court were held to There had been no trouble since, who was shot dead by the pirates day. No details of the proceed-as the second engineer was sus- while still asleep, took place yes-ings have been disclosed-Reuter:pended that evening and had not

been in the engine room sincs. terday afternoon at the Sikh Tem-

Commander Holo:-In ple and was attended by a large number of fellow guards, members His Excellency the Governor of the Indian contingent of the and Lady Clementi are giving a Hongkong Police and representa- dance at Government Нause tq, morrow night, to which a large tives of the Hongkong and Sin-

gapore Brigade, R.A..

INTERESTING EVENT FÖR

TO-MORROW NIGHT..

your FRENCH MINISTER TO opinion, his condition was such as to prevent him from performing CHINA.

his duty adequately 7-Yes..

A number of people, here still number of residents have been Among those present were Mr.FORMER CONSUL GENERAL IN

claim to have heard the gunfire, but This may have been practice firing, or the reverberations of bombe be Ing dropped on the enemy's linės,

The Battle Turned.

Smelt of Drink.

DISASTER.

NINE INCINERATED IN A

TALKIE" STUDIO.' -

Brief Skirmish. Apparently the affair was a brief skirmish of no particular conse- quence. It is generally believed that Tang Seng-chi is not finding it expedient to advance on the Wuban- obvious from the forces which have cities for the present, though it is left Haskow for Nanking under Chiang Kai-shek's orders, that the Nanking Generalissima is prepared

Nanking and Shanghai, to give up Hankow if he can hold

Liu 'Shih's Retort.

General Liu Shih Garrison Com mander of Hupch and Commander of the First Nanking Division, come

of which have left Hankow for Nan. king, has been approached, by Gen eral Tang Seng-cht...

Replying to those overtures, Gen. eral Liu Sulh telegraphed to Tang, Seng-chi yesterday, stating that he obeyed only one master, which was New York, Dec. 10. the Central Government He Five men and four women were | roundly denounced Teng, Seng-chi burned to death and twenty per- and the Government's other en sons are in hospital suffering from emies.

Meanwhile the attitude of General sovere burns as the result of a fire which broke out in a Pathe Film Ho Chien, In Hunan, which has Studio in Upper Manhattan and been doubtful for some time past,

remains obscure.-Reuter, destroyed the premises.

Most of the victims were en- gaged in making a "talkie-film" át the time of the outbreak-Router;

Nanking Tension.

Shanghai, Dec. 11. Fürther doubtful troppe af, Nan- Mr. William Morris Lippentt,

king and Hangchow, the famous re- Mr. invited. It will be the first accu-Mohinder Singh, ASP.

NORTH-EAST WINDS. SHANGHAI APPOINTED. the Fourth, Engineer, said he saw

sot near Shanghal, have attemptod sion on which the new ballroom Nawab, Khan, AS.P., and Surba

Cordfner in the engine room ni has been used.

dar Major Mangal Singh of the

Paris, Dec. 10. about 3 p.m. on December 6th, The Royal Observatory reports mutiny and the tense situation in During the evening, H. E, the H.K.S.B.R.A.

when he was drunk and apparently that the anticyclone is passing still causing apprehension among residents in Shanghai and Nanking, Although only 45 years of age, M. Wilden, former French Con- incapable of carrying out his into the Pacifike. The typhoon is While the majority of the Nane Governor will invest Major D. G.

He formed this opinion probably continuing on a Westerly king droppe have – left, to Cheyne, M.C., R.A.M.C with the the late Khial Singh was on pen-sul-General in Shanghal, and now duties. D.B.E. decoration, recently con-ion, having served for 22-years Minister at Teheran, has been ap because he could smell that Cor-course) towards North Malay points along the Tentsin-Fa- ferred.

with the Hongkong, and Singapore pointed to succeed Count de Martel diner had been drinking.

Mr. Albert Joka Stons, Third Endarate monsoon may be expert kow Railway fightlig or build

ong the South-east Cosat of

Ing trenches in anticips Prior to the dance, there will be Brigade. He retired two or three as Minister to China. :

Count de Martel has been ap-gineer, said he saw the accusa

and over the China Sention of an early thrist by the reb dinner party to which about years ago with the rank of ser-

ed on Page 14) Continued on Par forty guests have been invited, in-geant. He has only been with the pointed Ambassador in Tokyo, drunk in the engine room,

guards for about a year,

Reuter cluding Major Cheyns,

It is reported, on good authority, that early in the night, the enemy were gaining a decisive advantage over the Cantonese defenders, but that in the early hours of the morna ing large reinforcements rushed to

Continued on Page 14.).

east till noon to-morrow.f

twinds moderate; fair.