non Oun Owst Comtsroxoact Canton, Sept. 12.
'Mr. Chan Sik-yee, chief editor of the Nam Fung (South Wind) News Service, was arrested by the police on Surtday on information filed by General Headquarters, Since the the New Reporters' Guild has been fumbling about in the dark, but has had no success in its efforts to got their member out of his predicament, and has not an inkling of the cause of his downfall,: Mr. Chan himself is wondering what it is all about. He guesses that he wrote something for consumption in Shanghai or #ongkong about the military, which did not please the authorities, The Nam Fung News Service is entirely a political propagandist organization. The capital to which it owes its existence was supplied and its maintenance assured by the Prov-molal Government and the Prov-molal Kuomintang.
'After the warrant was read to him, 'Mr, Chan' Sik-yee got permission to ud one note {0 his Guild. Taken to Police Headquarters, he was trans-{erred immediately te Military Head. quarters, and was interrogated an hour or more. He was taken back to prison and even his wife has been forbidden to see him since, Guilt, it is 1 on the' head fas on that of whosoever put in motion the report of confidential military statistics and plans that got to Shang hai and Hongkong. Reporters had been to Gen, Chen Chi-tang, but he was too busy. Yesterday, Mr, Lam Man-Kol, Provincial Chairman, "and Gen, It Hon-wan, 6th Division Com-separately wrote to Gen. Mau Pul-nam, Chief of Staff, praise ing the character of Mr. Chan and king for his release.
It was not at General Headquarters that the news leak was sprung, Two months back a Board of Military Research came into existence, and some tone connected with the Board was indiscreet enough to Tet out an unauthorized account of the progress that is being made in building up the army, if the money as security for good behaviour were deposited, Overloaded Kwongsal Aground It is the supposition in Canton that the s., Kwongsal became unmanageable on her Monday trip down river through overloading. So deep was she in the water near Namshektau that she stuck on a sandy shoal, and had to lie there for over three hours. After 9 pin. the tide was high enough to float her.
Apparently the helmsman _lost control near the Bocca Tigris Forts while a high wind was blowing and in was beating down so that visible The Kwongsai hit a rock, and although the collision did not tet in water, or not enough to put the vessel in danger of sinking, it brought grim tragedy in its wake.
Crates and baskets were everywhere, and "where there were not goods stored, there were passengers, for the cheap fare] had brought a host of Chinese who did not mind the inconvenience of stumbling over freight if the trip id not cost much. With the impact the top rows of boxes and bales tottered over, pinning passengers under them. Seven, three of whom were women, were crushed 30 that they died, three were very badly hurt, and nine' others hurt less seriously. One, whose wounds were most severe, was struck on the head by an electric fan that tore loose from its fastenings, Insurance will cover damage io the Kwongsal, $800,000 being carried in two policies.
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