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aki, "And we saw Fongtien fera in twenties, then fifties and then hundreds horses, ponies,, All mingled in ons körrible retreat..
"The barbed wire, barricade, was well guarded and, we all thought
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od and more than a acora wounded that the altuation was well in hand, SENDA coke at about 4.45 yesterday afternoon but suddenly there was a cry raised of four men charged at the Crim-when a detail of Durhams were They are through In Range Road, inal Sessions this morning with forced to fire on an army of about Wa caw them streaming through complicity In a robbery at West 1,000 who tempted, by force of one of the alleyways between North street, Quarry Bay, and with recely arms, tonto the International Honar and Haskell Reads ing stolen goods, three pleaded Settlement along alleyways off Civilians rushed down North Henan guilty to the second charge and on Range Road between North Honan Road to the second line of defence this ware sentenced to 5 years' im Road and North Szechuen Road..'; and took refuge behind the sand- prisonment.
afternoon when the soldiers, them. Range Road to the place where the The trouble started in the early bags, while Fuchs und I went down
The other pleaded not guilty and his trial le proceeding.
According to evidence, the men broke into the house and garred the inmates, using such force in in- serting a potato into the mouth of one old fady that they dislocate her jaw,
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selves supposed to have been sub-soldiers were coming jected to the fires of sharpshooters There wore there two Sikhs, two warmed to the barriers at North Chinens constable, later joined by a Honan and Boundary Roads. For foreigner, more than an hour they milled! The Greatcat Provocation. Fabout in that vicinity, but found
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It probably decurred to some of this alleyway into the Settlement, and assistant temple keeper of the loaders that the alleyways, in and where the Fongtienites had be--- ̈ Tingkok. He was found dead on which there were only small barbed haved peacefully enough before and March 19 in a village in Tingkok wire barricades and no sandbags, rides outside the barricades before had even, in some cases placed their with injuries which pointed to foul would offer a much easier entrance cutoring the settlement, they seized play. As the result of information and it was not long before two or their arms and placed themselves the police visited the village du three of the larger ones wore
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Ing the week-and to arrest a fellow thronged with the soldiers when a posture of defence and opened villager named Lee Yau As soon wore screaming and demanding on- Are.
a. the police entered his hut this trance into the Settlement.
man attempted to commit suicide by wounding himself with a dagger
pected to recover.
CLEVER OPIUM RUSE.
Throughout the early part of the trouble. Lieut. Appleby of the In
Thereupon the Durhama who
hud by this time arrived opened fire and four men were killed.
the altuation. made regular rounds fired, and I must say that the troops. of the posts, and each time warned did not Are until there had been the his men not to fire until fred at. greatest provocation and the utmost fearing that the soldiers would be necessity for so doing.
Over 176 taels of non-Government come impatient and shoot before Mesars, C. H. James and Mundel- opium, cunningly concealed in two they should. The men obeyed his sohn who were watching at Boun- dummy bundles of firewood, was.
ment.
men:
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the
suized by Revenue Officers yester-orders strictly and walted until the dary Road for the greatest part of day outside the Wing Lok wharf, soldiers were coming over the "bar-the day, were fortunate, or unfor-
ridades and pressing them.
tunate enough to be in the affray. A Chinese was seen to engage a
with the coolie to carry 14 bundles of fire- Even at this provocation they did It started, they state wood from a sampan, and something not fire, until two shots were red inhelling of the area around the in his actions aroused suspicion. at them. By this time a couple of station whereupon a large number A search revealed the two dummies squads of Durhams had been sent of soldiers made a rush for stacked with the other genuine bun-up to the threatened arens. When safer precincts of the settlement. dles of firewood. The owner of the the two shots came the order was Is was expected that they would firewood waa arrasted and this glyon to make ready and fire and rush the main barricade at North moving Mr. Lindsel fined him the fret fuatiade dropped several. Honan Rond, but instead they com- $5,000 or in default nine months! From this time on for the bettar menced to swarm through the alley- hard labour.
part of a quarter of an hour the way into Ranua Rond. Three Dur- swa forces exchanged shots at hams at the alleyway which afford- was emphasised at Hankow.
PARIS GRUMBLERS LEAGUE.rapid pace, but the marksmanshiped the main channel of ingresa has been demonstrated anew at
of the Durhams could not be ques- sought to stop the rush. They Nanking. But for the concentra
Paris, February 19-A thousand tioned and it was not long before pointed their rifles at the oncom
and a dozen dead and more than a score ing soldiery, but refrained from of British troops in auch shopkeepers, working tion: large numbers it would undoubt. women, have joined the League of of wounded soldiers were lying in firing. And then the panic-stricken"
Grumblers.
Range Road
refugees swarmed on en masse.. fedly have been proved once again j Marcel Chartrain, the President. Finding their fire ineffective the Messrs. James and Mendelsohn who in Shanghai that Nationalist pro-says-"Isolated grumbles never Chinese began to throw down their were ther at Boundary Road, drove. mises to maintain law and order attract attention from the Govern arms and swarm into the Settle down in their car to witness events. ment Order was given to cease They were immediately overwhelm- and to ensure the safety of for- "I propose to centralise unheeded firing.
Led by the oncoming soldiery, who For more than an hour the Dur even opened fire them, giving eigners are empty declarations complaints until they develop into
one gigantic grumble."
hams and special police worked them enough narrow squeaks to last made with a view to impressing
searching and disarming the mass them the rest of their lives. outsiders.
LOCAL & GENERAL. of me and rounding them up to be Durhams want into action. Their It was after this firing that the men who flocked through the bar General Chiang Kai-shek is no-
taken to a detention camp. It la firing was not without the gravest thing if not indiscreet in his
Peking, March 21-The Nation estimated that between 1,000 and provocation, and Mr. James informs threat that China is always readyalist authorities have forcibly clos 1.200 men were allowed to come in us that at the time he left the scene ed all salt inspectorates in Che-In spite of the attempt to corral all of the incident eight Chinese sol to evoke her powerful economic long, driving out the Chinese and of the runaway soldiers this was diers had been killed. weapon.
He has overlooked the foreign inspectors and other em impossible and many are thought to Meanwhile hundreds more were
ployees.
be scattered throughout the district, rounded up and disarmed. They boomerang effects of such a
were left sitting in the streeta, until weapon. He entirely ignores the
The North China Daily Newsunarmed, however.
In the meantime ambulances another burst of fring outside the Landon Offices: The Far Eastern fact that China cannot stand says it is understood that more than were rushed to the scene to carry Settlement tore upon their shattered
80 civilians have been wounded: Advertising Agency (London),
alone in regard to trade and that since the outbreak of hostilities be- off the wounded to hospitals. The nerves and with a common consent.
and the exact number of these can hardly they rose to their feet and stamped- she is as much dependent on comtween the Nationalists
with foreign nations as Shantung forces. Only a couple of be given definitely. Many of themed into greater safety.
these have died and the remainder too are thought to have crawled every other country, no matter are being treated in local hospitals, back into the alleyways in Chapel.
After the place had quieted down where it is situated. Moreover,
Organised with the view of pro-a bit the street for more than a the time has gone for an isolated noting intercourse between present block was littered with every LOCKERBIE-On March 21, 1927,
at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. boycott against one nation only, and past students of the University, Imaginable sort of equipment of the a successful social and dance was Shantung soldier--caps, bandoliers, A. Lockerbie, a son.
It may be attempted, it is true, held in the Great Hall of the Uni-rifles, pistols, spades, headsman's PIPER-On March 21, 1927;
a fail-
versity on Saturday. underknives, bayonets, awords, ammuni Shangnai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. but it must inevitably prove Piper, a daughter.
ure. The foreign Powers to-day the auspices of the Hong Kong tion, not to mention the various and largest maas meetings ever held in s
University Union, the Hall being tundry leather boxes and pistol the district was noted yesterday [QUELCH-On March 22. 1927, at are more united in their China decorated with streamers, balloons canes and coats, shoes and other morning in Chapel, when about
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. G. Vernon Quelch, a daughter. policy than they have ever been etc., and excellent dance music be-articles of clothing. The dead 50.000 persons gathered at 10 in Tain Yuhh Road, as a welcome to since the Nationalist movement ing provided by the Melodians, of bodies were also lying along the o'clock on a vacant piece of ground.
H.M.S. "Titania"
roadway late last night as it was the in-coming Nationalist troops. took concrete stape. That policy
impossible to remove them because Shortly after daybreak, the is not likely to be shaken by de-
On Saturday night, the last of snipers.
labourers of the district responded to the call sent out by the Nation- clarations and threats of the kind A.D.C. performance of "The Last Sharpshooters and Soldiers,"
While the trouble was going on niist sympathisers on the previous uttered by General Chiang Kai- of Mrs. Cheney attracted a full
house which was most appreciative reinforcements were rushed to the day and began to assemble at the The latter may not be of the excellent manner in which scene and machine guns stationed places Order was kept by the plain- Hong Kong. Monday, March 29, 1927. taken too seriously. Evidently the play was rendered, masses of at the principal intersections, in clothes Nationalist soldiers who had the Nationalists are at the mo-for the men," "favours" of a North Honan and Range Roads, etc.
Bowers, boxes of chocolates and, eluding Range and Szechuen Roads, been in the district for two days.
The proceedings were marked by ment in some need of mental paou-humorous kind, being handed up to Armoured cars were also sont, oat the shouting of the usual slogans, um 10 counter-act the denuncia the stage at the conclusion of the to natrol the district.
performance. There were no speeches.
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MONSTER MEETING.
Fiery Oratory and a Very Wet Walk,
What is said to be one of the
such as, "Protect the workers" inter- ests "Overthrow the militarists: At about 6:15 it was noted that and the imperialista," "Welcome the But for the fact that the cable-tion by the whole civilised world
the defence. forces had also station-Southern army," ately od machine runa on the Honan Road Eight of the principal propagand- gram came through Reuter and or the Nanking outrages. If the
fate of the Cantonese were chosen not through any vernacular source sop that their leading General In the nature of a series of com and Szechuc Road bridges.
petitive evanta between the Royal It was niso agid that a skirmish to make the speeches of the day and we would almost be inclined to be hands out to them is satisfying to Hong Kong Yacht Club and the took place between a detachment of held the crowd throughout the rain rs-Durhams and soldiers along North until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.. Sceptical regarding the latest at- then, they are welcome to the Roval Navy, next Saturday's
gatta and gymkhana off the Club Szechten Road Extension about afTheir speeches were of the kind that terance attributed to General 'dose!
premises-at North Point should pro- half mile from Range Road where might be expected a general de- Chiang Kai-shek. He makes light
vide an intareating afternoon's a party of sharpshooters fired on nunciation of the imperialists" MR. JOHN GRANT.
sport The programme begins at a group of refugeda, men, women and the militarists and a welcome of the Nanking horrors and then
-40 p.m. and concludes at 6 p.m. and children, who were coming into to the Nationaliste, the defenders proceeds to warn America that AWARDED IMPERIAL SERVICES when there will be a distribution the Betticment. The Number of of the working man
At the conclusion of the meet- she is being drawn in by Great
MEDAL
of prizes at the Club House, Naval casualties resulting from this is not whalers, sliding seat pairs, naval known.
TAN AROng the workers were formed into. Britain and if she allows herself
The Imperial Services Medal has giga, naval butters, tug-of-war The Durhame, Specials and Sikhs a processten which marched along to be led into a false position by been awarded by H.M. the King to naval cutters), a duck hunt, mor patrolled the alleyways with in Faoshing Road to the North Station Britain she will find herself as un- Mr. John Grant, formerly Chief De- 8ghting and the popular greasy extra heavy guard all night while where it dipersed, probably on ac-
tective Inspector in Hong Kong pole, are among other competitive the Japanese took the territory to count of the drenching rain. favourably placed in China as Bri- The "China Mail understands that events. The closing cruise of the the east of North Szechuan Road. Among those who took an active txin
Assuredly the General arrangements will be made for the Royal Hong Kong. Yacht Club has All along the line firing between part in the proceedings were noted
official presentation to be made to been fixed for Saturday, April 80, the defence forces and the Chinese many employees of the Tramwa seeme, in common parlance, to Mr. Grant at Home, where he is now faharpshooters took place through./ companies of the Chinese:
have put his foot into it and ex-iving in retirement. Mr. Grant An Instrumental recital of selec-out the evening.
International Settlement and Trench Concession sa’well as many posed the game to keep the left the Colony on June 24, last year tona from the Master's works
with five months leave prior to go-l
ME FM Witkowski, German Postal employees. These were arm British isolated from the other on pension. He then had just marked the observanse at Union
in the capacity of polic foreigners in regard to policy in on 80-years of service with the Church, Kennedy Road, last night Press correspondent and Med with rides and pistols and acted. China and dealings with the Chin-Hong Kong Police. During his ser of the centenary of the death of Fuchs, a friend, give an even more ne Chin-vice de had several commemissions, Beethoven, Mr. GB Longyear vivid description of the afrais. esc, America is quite able to land the Ath 3rdul 2nd chakkiving organ solos and Mrs H They were watching the station speak for herself and set for her Police Media Mr. Grant was Also Bajeen violin pieces accompanies from North Honan, Road, In foll
champion squad.foreman of the by Mrs, Griggs (organist. self without the slightest sugges-local Fire Brigade when the two Peters, Church), An tion of being led by Great Britain strengths were
to the
or any other foreign Power
America;ls as determined as Bri- tuin to protect her nationals when their
her prior taken in afd of the
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Versions from Eyewitnesses.
the Catholic Church A stood there anxiously-wish- to go beyond the barricadas, for her child which she had Two fathers from the Holy lly were trying to get the
cour their fellows, all held
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