WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1925.
CITY OF DEATH,
REDS IN COURE
STRU
HORROR OF DAMASCUS FIGHTING.
"CHARGES OF ALLEGED SEDITION.,
GROWING UNPOPULARITY
TERRIBLE ORDEAL.
(Reuter's Service.)
་་
THE EMPIRE REBEL"
(Reuters Service.)
London, October 27.
EVIDENCEDU
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS,
THE CHINA MAIL.
TINS OF MILK
NTAO ROBBERY CASE
ECHO
ALLEGED RECEIVER DISCHARGED
On a charge of receiving three tins of condensed milk knowing them to have been stolen, Kwok Kwel was charged at the adjourn ed Criminal Sessions to-day.
This case was contingent on the Lantac robbery case reported yes terday, the condensed milk being part of the goods stolen from the
SIEGFRIED.
QUEEN'S THEATRI E
WONDER PIÖTURE
A, PERSONAL NOTH-..
What St George and the Dragon is to the English, so is Siegfried and the rest of these balf godu half men of the Nibelingenlied to the German people.
Much has ein written about the.
The growing unpopularity in Canton of the strikers has been emphasised in earlier reports, Cuiro, October 27%
one of its outward manifesta Varying reports from Damascus. A publication entitled the ions being the driving away of indicate that Damascus passed Empire Rebel" was mentioned in strike pickets attempting to inter. through a terrible ordeal on the the resumed proceedings against fere with the landing of passen
man film that is being shown 18th and 20th inst.
twelve Communists at Bow Streeters from the Honam?" From The city bears the scars of the A police sergeant who gave evi- later reports it would appear that
this week at the Queen's Theatre, relentless measures taken to supdence of finding literature at the now the military have barred the farm there. They were found in trying to fit il into Wagner's Ring." press the riots, following the Communist headquarters, includ-landing of passengers, but this is the defendant's possession In the albeit utfully, as the pr action of the French in parading ing a circular to which the not indicative of antagonism be-house where the convicted mencer, Fritz Lang, never intended the corpses of bandita in the "Empire Rebel" was attacked, detween the two factions having were arrested with their apolla,is should be a the version of the
clared that apparently it circulated been dropped.."; The
Canton A traveller from Damascus sayamongst factory workers. authorities have decided to make that on the afternoon of the 18th The witness produced another, determined effort to make their inst. a band of men hended by Leirealar addressed to Losovsky, section of the. railway pay, now Chief Hassan el Karreth, pene-Moscow, also to the secretary of that the anti-Red forces are away quarter. the Berlin branch of the Moscow from the railway area, and the trated the Chagour shouting. "Rise up, your brother International, complaining of the banning of "Honam" passengers druses are here They attacked non-receipt of promised funds.
is part of this scheme. the police post and shot dead a French officer.
streets.
The inhabitants of the quarter armed themselves and joined the insurgems. All advanced to- wards tho, Medam quarter where they were joined by the inhabit. ants,
A hundred Frenchmen, work- ing with Americans in this quar- ter, were caught between the instergents and another body of rebels from the town and died fighting bravely
ed and bombed the crowds. Tanks and armoured
Counsel for the prosecution de- clared the letter related to money promised to be sent to England but not sent
In other directions the Cantoni Government is expressing its determination to curb the power of the strikers, the merchants having made representations of indignation that they should be called upon to pay so much in taxes while the strikers make a BALKAN TROUBLE. good thing of the strike in the
The case was adjourned until to-morrow,
Wi
cars and other of Petite
the acroplus followed and till jained | komendy in spreading thath among the alleged to hovy, rebels who fled in all directions of Petrovo from the terrible retribution.
CNCBASING HOMBARDMENT O Tokyo, (dabar 27.-Coment, The insurgents antinued ring on the Tant Conference the on puldie and military buildings | and bagri aded the mats. Theying the Forgon Ofir speaker red certain quarters and finally emploised that Japan's poles The tillery ephed fins from the toward China would remain the
Buded on the rebel quarters.
one whether the present Poking The French made it known thevarniment confines or is I the bombardiment would not reuse" plased--Rouler, till the rebel fire ceased.
Defendant's case was that. he famons Wagner opera epic. accepted the tina in payment for Will Biegid anys the pro- food given to one of the convicted quofo by the New Yor men.
"Tanies, lavo dared the experi The jury found him not guilty.
inent (bad of giving something that is unique and individu, possessed by Cherny in the Legendy and I hope it will meer with success, not Eonly for the, benefit of the pro Enetion, but in the sake of recogni- (Biop udeoul "of the great art of Which, song of the Nibelungen ja peal of the mies noble roots, 2.
TRAIN'S CRASH.
COACHES FALL INTO RAVINE.
LONELY SPOT DISASTER.)
(Reuter's American Service.)
Those 'veho have seen the pro- Þönglion will have no hesitadión in saying "that hernues of the succes of de taetiauical side of the imm. Ja good deal of interest is sure to be 'The Fanning a the Tegirl" Memphis, October 27-
| dream of " Kriënhild, the lande A north-bound passenger traini was derailed and rolled down aning of Brosbilds or thy shages M embankment, near Victoria, MisBurgundy, walking upon a bridge of ada chda upheld by warriors, the įsissippi..
idyllie Ten people are reported killed th“ of Siegfried" in an
the and 20 injured.
Froty and gihe vigilin Juthidad Wii nomádong By-the Imemory as exquisite Drynints of a
Beanied whole...
TANGLED WRECKAGE.
The
matter of squeeze. A cargo of (Beuter's Service.)
considerable value which was confiscated by the strikers had to Sofia, Det. 27. be returned by them on instruc- Suddenly an aeroplane appear- Greek riths nud machine-gun arstions from Dr. C. C. Ww.
the repaced m
The class of strikers, who in afterna. Simulaaton itself have by far the variery eater power is curiously enough led the village that of the barbers and cooka." "It will be recalled in this connection sant on. Charles' Black Wednes any slightly over a yearlago the barber, guild was largely respon-
Memphis, October 27. ible for the condegration and The ill-fated train, valled the,] V in spite of this, there lina massacre which collowed. When Sunnylund Express, was crossing been a lot of adverka criticism from Salkan was het by the mera trestle bridge at 50 miles un both sites of the Atlantic.. changs and Dr. Sun's Red forces hour. The engine and luggage fire was shown in London, in could not get in, the barbers in var gut safely across but the re-the Albert Hall, and in New York," side the western suburb are mainder of the conches crashed in the Century Theate. A leading alleged to have let in the Reds and into the ravine.
New York Poly-criticises Ktiêm- [started dres themselves in" many places. The power of the barbers and cooks at the present moment whilst at is cantined, however, to Canton Shekki Kongmoon, Namtau: Taiping. Chinshan and other outlying places power is in the hands of the seamen, trans- Pacific seamen being the more active section and the coastal,sea- It is also claimed that largemen more passive. numbers of 'Moslems took refuge in the Christian quarters daring the bombardment and were well received.
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The bombardment lasted from Sunday night till Tuesday. Shells
estroyed the Chagour and Medan bombard the city.
It is alleged quarters, while part
the that the rebels did nothing repre Flamidieb bazaar and other places, hensible. Karath visited the Christian quarters tranquilising them by saying, "You are our brothers."
were destroyed by fire.
The palace of Azm, one of the finest monuments in the East, was bailly damaged.
Hundreds of victims are lying in the streets; probably at least 2,000 are buried beneath the de- molished buildings. Apparently, Christians escaped.
The French sent 2,000 soldiers to the Christian quarters, which the insurgents had not attacked directly.
of arms will be executed.
SEEKING VENGEANCE,
DUD AEROPLANES.
Reverting to a phase of the Another version says that a military situation-that relating band attacked Damascus to to the aeroplanes in the possession qvenge themselves cn theof Canton, a local resident on a Armenians in the Medum quarter. visit to Canton was informed by who, it is alleged, enrolled in the one of the two German officers Damascus notables the French army generally.
CH
who have acted as tutors that the afternoon of the 20th inst. pre-
Bands remain around Dumas-planes are in a very bad condi- sented themselyes to the High cus, perhaps strengthered by mention and need constant repairs Commissioner and undertook to from Damascus, whose houses even för, short, flights. The fulfil all the French Government's have been destroyed and whose crashing of one at Tungshan a requirements.
families have been killed. short while ago reduces the nurs Martial law has been declared. Well-informed people express ber to two. The officers in ques Anyone found with the possession the opinion that the theatre of tion are engaged purely for com- operations will be shifted from mercial purposes by agents other Jebel Druse to the Damascus re- than the Government and have Another version says thas six gion, where bands are being well acted merely as tutors for pros- organised bands were working organised and believed to be com- pective fliers. They themselves around Damascus. A band which posed of thousands
seeking are said to be as opposed as any entered Damascus
of the Bolshevik régime and to- on the 18th revenge.
gether with others are observing critically events in the north. If Bolshevik control continues in the The French bombarded the city telegram: from Syrin e very dis- thought that the danger will be Le Matin says that the latest South until the Spring it is to frighten the population whom they accused of connivance with far from established, has been a result of the departure of piting Damascus, where order is that it will receive an impetus as the bands, and having informed the latter of the date of Marshalbandoned by its population, and Fuklen troops which in the event Sarrail's arrival in Damascus. the Druses who subinitted have of War in the North will leave to The rebels remained in now broken fuith. The situation is join Wu Pei-fu. The possibili. Damascus till the 20th inst., and ridicul but sufficiently, acrious ties of active developments in the only retired because their pre- to demand urgent measures on the North this winter are considered
was taken as a pretext to part of the flovernment,
inst... composed of 40 men only under Karrath, intended to kidnap Marshal Sarrai
sence
SITUATION DISQUIETING.
Paria, Oct. 27.
GERMANY'S EXCITING ELECTIONS.
remote:
Most of the casualties occurred, kill, Hias she had been reduced to in three coaches which dived henda watery elition of Elk, from long on to a clay bark, the other Lofiengrin, and that Bennhilde, in- coaches falling on them, formingstead of Teing the horsie, beautiful a tangled mass of wreckage. The maiden, is an unsexed termagant. "" scene is lonely and isolated, and this is due, states the paper many died before a relief, train editorially, to the fucs that screen. could be rushed to the place.
ar
versions of classics are always re- duced to the intellectual lowest common Cenominator of motion, ANOTHER REVOLT, pictures. Wagner is thirty miles
TROUBLE FOR DUTCH IN SUMATRA.
ATTACK ON TROOPS,
(Reuter's Service:)
away. Why, asks the paper, are these changes mode? Because they record the way of the motion pictures, and motion pictures are incorrigible. Such is the verdict of the Press in America.
In England, when Siegfried fast appeared, the "Manchester Güne dian" waxed enthusiastic ver:
Batavia, October 27. Trouble has broken but the first film to definitely challenge the supremacy of the older arts" Achinese following a recent (the split infinitive is not mine): Achinese attack on a military. It states that Singfried is the patrol.
pioneer of a new art, that of Captain Paris proceeded to the scene with four detachments pictorial movement, and in this which the Achinese attacked. The example everything moves in order- troops fired and killed 12ed sequence, the players, individuál Achinese. Seven native soldiers and in masses, all move s were seriously wounded and one part of the whole composition.
There Lulled
is no irrelevant detail, nothing to distinct the eye, even the emotions are dignified and re- strained, and it is not until the final scene that we find Kriemhild stared to the depths of her being, in her a search for an avenger of her sla husband, and rising to Achin is in Northern Sumatra her feet she stands by her dead, and The principal town is Kota Raja.finga into the face of Hagen her Achin long remained independent, challenge. It is then that we see successfully resisting the Portu the subtleness of the action, and guese in the 17th century. It because of the restrained almon was taken by the Dutch in 1874, here, this scene.rises to heights and rebellion was finally sup- that are very rarely reached in this
Captain Paris and a European sergeant were alightly wounded
The Military Commander of Achin is proceeding to the scene with four
achments.
pressed in 1910-11. The interior
is mountainous. Achin has been newest art heights that were pre- Paris, October 27-In political an important trading centre from viously only attained with the aid circles it is affirmed that the Cubinet
the 17th century. The exports of the music of a Wagner! this morning devided to resign The area is 20,500 square miles are pepper, rice, tobacco, betel collectively. It is rumoured in the and the population 700,000.
lobbies tint M. Painleve has asked
M. Herriot to enter the Ministry
in the event of its reconstitution.
It is understood that M. Herriot reserved his answer-Reuter.
HONGKONG TIDE.
P.S.
CHANGE AGAIN.
CANTON AND "HONAM" PASSENGERS.
CHINESE BROUGHT BACK.
The tide table given below has been compiled at the National Almanca Office analysis of observations taken by means in London from the result of the of an automatis fide-focording machine
Yet another change of front has flester Podes ein Teim Shabeen adopted by Canton with regard to the landing of passen,
Sofa, October 27, couse quence of the Greek bombardman twenty-six Bulgarian soldiers and twenty-four,diyibane, incl g-five women, have been killed or wound ed, also eleven soldiers nussing, the zero believed killed
Leuter
zero of the table
Todatinti od iters from the at Hunam," "force
Chart ich web
thed having now been used to prevent
to bad feet 3 inches below manding rhereas boats for a shor
to obtains the depth of water on the time had been actually put at the tide smage at the Victoria Naval Tam- disposal of disembarking passe tragedy-add 3 Zest 4 inches, and on the gaugo at gers When the
The scene of the littl ce-come station of combe As the ourÄ,
as the poles Lamont Dock. Aberdeen, ad 10 feared to her buoy
4 inches to the height given in the tab)snickets were
tain rises slow-milenc
from putting out
spector la discovered at his desk October 28 to November 3, 1929. that two or
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woman,
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managed to evade
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