Hankow, Aug. 20.
There is no news' regarding the fate of Mr. J. W. Moore, the installation manager of the Asati Petroleum Company at Changsha, who was captured by bandits on August 18, but it is reported that the Changsha a thorities have despatched soldier to round up the bawiits concern-
'The Asiatic Petroleum Company here received a telegram on Tuesday afternoon that Mr. J. W. Moore, their installation manager at Changsha, Hunan, who was, was captured' by bandits on August 18, had been released and was in good health. But there were no further details. resist the spreading communism will have become a thing! of the past.
Officious Pickets near Chinsha Macao, Aug. 23.
Two committeeman and a clerk of the Kiangwoo Chinese Hospital were Jussaulted by pickets near Chinshan for burying a Chinese whose boty had been brought from Macao although a burial permit had previ ly been granted from Canton, The Dickets ordered disinterment of th: corpse and detained one of the con. mittee men pending release of thy eight pickets arrested and gaoled 1 Macao in connexion with a shooting incident in the Taner Harbour last} week—Reuter.
Countless Rumours of Anti-Red Movements Canton (despatched from Hongkong), Aug. 14.
Canton is as full as ever of intrigues and plots. Aside /from the conflicts of Reds and anti-Reds, there is talk of disaffection among the officers and men of the Canton Navy as well as among the officers and men of the 2nd Kuomintang Army Corps, a unit composed al most entirely of Hunanese. Only: a week ago the commanders of. the river gunboats Ping-tang, Fei-ying, Chi-yao and others resigned, Rumour is rife in certain circles! that General Chiang Kai-shek will be compelled to return to Canton. shortly to take control of the local striation, in view of the growing inti-Red" menace in Canton.
It is also rumoured that the chief! of staff of the 2nd Corps was executed by order of General Chiang Kai-shek several days ago.
Further reports have it that, ae soon-as the Hunanese troops leave Canton and arrive in their own province, they desert.
The "Labour War Sibsiing The labour "war" between the "Red" and the
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