WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1927.
NANKING OUTRAGES.
The Attack on the British Consulate.
ANOTHER GRAPHIC REPORT,
Tragic Messages. Over the Telephone.
One of the most graphic ae- counts of the horror of Nanking is given by an Americar business man who was beleaguered for two days dh Socony Hill which was held by a handful of Americän marines, assisted by armed foreign ers who had gathered there,
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had also been shot. A few minutes later another message said that Dr. Wilms had been murdered in cold blood.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NANKING DEMANDS.
nusinusdi from Page 1)
CABLE TO LONDON.
Shanghai Stock Exchange Message.
BRISK BLAZE.
FIRE BRIGADES STIFF.
* FIGHTE
BREEZE AIDE FLAMES:
WORK IN MARCH.
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
THE INSPECTORS: REPORTS.
The report for March of the combined work of the inspectors of the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Crusity to Animais,
Transport.
A fire broke out on, the ground flour of No. 89 Reclamation Street Below is given an exchange of last night. Half of the premises cables regarding British troops was used as a shoomaker's shop and which emphasizes the sentimens the other half was fitted as a Oh an follow- hnk - regarding their coming to Shangnese dentist's office. The ground
floor was completely gutted and the Poultry, crates, The first was addressed to the flames had already spread to the Poultry, or trucks and lor "Cammittee and Members of the two upper floors by the time the Are- rles, loaded. London Stock Exchange" by the men arrived. The fire fighters were Shortly afterward a party of Shanghai Stock Exchange and was greatly handicapped by a breeze, Poultry, in junks and ferries,
crates and it was not until the first floors Poultry, by rail, crates Americans and British arrived on as follows: the hill from the British Consulate, "Kindly tender grateful thanks of the two adjoining houses (Nos,
Pigs in Junke A little while later Mrs. J. K. Davis Government for sanding troops 37 and 91) had also been involved pigs on trucks and in baskets: 1,918 and her two small children and four which alone prevents ovitable that the games were got under con pigs by rail other Americana straggled over the looting incendiariam and massacre trol. The outbreak was eventually hills toward us, escorted by anilors. in Settlements by armed commun- put out after a brisk aght, the fire-Cattle a junke One sailer was shot dead beforests and leaderless Chinese troops. men pouring in streams of water Horses in junks
Emphatically depreciate any age from overy available polat of van Sheep and goats
Damage to property was aus Cages of birds Everything Torn From Us. tiations antilorder restored. Please tage,
tained in every floor, but this was "An undisciplined mob in Nation-lve widest publicity."
in the to the attention of the American, alist uniforme, under Nationalist Campbell, Chairman of the London upper storias.
And in responas Mr. A. H. mostly caused by water.
Poultry, orates. Congress.
ofleurs smashed in the doors and Stock Exchanges replied with the The cause of the outbreak han
Cattin... The general skirmishing of these levelled their pistols and riflos a following:
not been ascertained. The extent Sheep and goats terrible days has been fully tollfall on the first floor. They seized "Your telegram forwarded to of loss suffered and particulara as Cages of birds bat it was 7 o'clock on Wednesday four watches, our finger ringa, foun- foreign office and posted in the to insurance are not yet available. Baskets of frogs evening when an excited voice over tain pens and spectacles. They stock exchange. Please accept ourThere were no casualties. the telephone said that a Mr. Ware, Deft only when "they realized that sympathy in the distressed condi- employed by Mesars. Biggett & they had all of our belongings extions in Shanghai." Myers, had been robbed and shot, jeepting our clothes."
Not the least of the narrative concerns the heroic and fearless work of a signalman who was in continual communication with the
ships in the harbour. It is under stood that the survivor are urging that his action should be brought
but that he had managed to make his way over the wall to the British Consulate,
Consulate Shrouded In Smoke. The narrater continues, "We rushed to the apper windows where the British w were able to s Consalute which was enveloped in
smoke. The deafening ride and machine-gun fire. the shoating mingled with women's screams, showed us,, that there was hell to pay. We knew, or rather felt, that those in the. Bonsulate vere safe. beente we had heard that - 30-E British. Marings were in the build... my.
"Just then our telephone bell rang again and a worian shouted for i help, saying that the mob had surrounded her house, bus the line was cut before we coulé"identify her..
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"By this time the din at the Cont solate had heightened to an incre- dible degree and in the enclosing darkness we felt sure that a whole
our eyes,
The speaker then told of the barrage from H.M.S. "Emerald" and the' tulb American boats and how the soldiers all fled like wharf rats and the signalham on the roof. who had remained under heavy| Vaniping and machine-gun fire, was
relieved of his duty.
The whole party got back to the Bund through the wreckage of the outbreak, having to carry many of the women and children.
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LEAVING CHINA.
THE BRITISH MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
FIGURES AND FACTS,
London, March 8. According to information which
EARLIER MESSAGES,
Hankow Japanese Property Burned..
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Shanghai, April 5.
Cattle ashore
Columbia
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PALACE BURNED. Dogs, Taipo market.
Exports BIER CANDLES AT DUKE'S
LYING-IN STATE.!
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Poultry, crates: Pige Cattle Ponies.
168
408.
Sheep and goats Cages of birds
Monkeys
rected
Visits.
102
cor-
The palace of the Princes of A wireless message from Han-Clary, on the Grand Canal, Venice low on April 4 says the latest near the station, has been almost estimate of the casualties as the destroyed by a fire which broke out
Doga result of the recent Sino-Japanese in the death chamber of the Duka clash is Chinese ten killed, and of Canevaro, a retired admiral Boa Constrictor
the Italian Navy, who died recently" many wounded: Japanese two kill-
The dukes remaina were lying in Markets ed, two wounded and seven held state in one of the halls.
of the Bird shops as hostages,
palace which was occupied by only Dogs' home The Japanese country Club,the duchess, his widow, and a staff Dealers shops hospital and wood oil godowna of servants. The fire was started Pig pens, Yaumati were looted and burned British apparently by one of the tal? can-" Rallway stations property up to the present has dies around the bior setting some Landing places been untouched. The former Britapestry alight..
Poultry depots tigh concession remains quiet-the room and, while servants car
In a few minutes the flames swept Cattle depet Ecuter.
Miscellaneous. ried the coff to safety, spraud ignorant cruelty cases "Destruction Society."
rapidly to other part of the palace. Peking, April 5. A collection of old furniture, pic Markets watched times has reached the leading British mistion Society" is looting and kill works of art in the dining and Case investigated, hawking"
The Ta Tao-hut or "Destructures, by old masters, and valuable Farries watched, times aionary societies, about 208 of their ing throughout the salt area of ception halls and in the long glass sale masanere had begun
Siamese cat runs stuffs have had to leave their posta *We luid out our, riffes and sort in the interior of China, and are Shantung, and along the coast gallery were destroyed,
Firemen saved the duchess, who southward of Tsingtao. ed out our ammunition and the now at Shanghai or other ports; or men remained at the window with are on their way home.
It has burnt down the magis-was found in her room unconscious. rifies levelled into the, darkness,
While societies with their head-trate's yamens, salt offices and of the palace only the servants' with one Marine at the guard below.quarters in Grent Britain have other buildings, and killed num-quarters and part of the least valu-
able wing have been saved. With the dawn the firing seemed to 1351 foreign workers in China, bers of salt police, salt collectors The Palazzo Clery, formerly the move away and we offered a prayer there are also many British subjects and many other inhabitants. Palazzo Flangini, le attributed to of thanksgiving, for we had already to be included by the total of 4,492, Ger. Pi Shou-chen the Shan Baldassare Longhena, who built the riven up all hopes of escaping with members of American and Canadian tung commander who left for Church of Santa Maria della Salute our lives.
societies and among the 1,042 mia-Tsingtao when the Nationalists and many other of the greatest ar- sionaries of the international or-occupied Shanghai, has sent shitectural treasures of Venice, "But the worst was yet to come. gunisation, the China, Inland Mia- troops against the society.-Reu-
The duke was a member of the Just after dawn on Thursday anxion.
ter.
family of Clary and Aldringen, the. enormous riut broke out in the Even if the total of 206 is doubled
head of which is a Prince of the April 6--Queen's Theatre; Soldiers' Looting" Vicinity of the British Consulate that would mean only about 400)
Shanghai April 5.
Holy Roman Empire: The Clarys Harold Lloyd in "For Heaven's and we could hear the Cantonese out of a total of 7,800 had been!
come from Bohemia and claim to Sake."" Soldiers shooting between reports turned cut of their work.
Wireless messages from Nan trace their descent from 1863 April 6-World Theatre; "The In addition, a number of the men feeling is evident in the city, are counts and countesses.
king report strong anti-foreign Many of the Austrian members Next Corner." and women who have come down to where clashes between rival fac the coast. recently were, in any case, due to come home this winter onions of the Kuomintang are ex-
pected. furlough..
Uniformed Nationalist so-soldiers were seen removing pro-
perty from foreign residences] jycsterday.-Reuter,
TH.
Three Murders.
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of machine-guns, Kill a foreign-"!
Shots came crashing through the frat atorey windows. The women rushed in the top floor for shelter.
"Just then the telephone bell rang again and an excted volee from the Consulate shouted that Dr. Smith had been killed. In a moment the bell rang agam and we were told that the British Consul
HENRY FORD.
TOO BUSY LIVING TOO MAKE A WILLS
Reports from some of the eieties give useful facts.
New Gunboats.
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MOTOR CYCLE AND BOY..
While riding his motor cycle in Queen's Road Central yesterday.
LM.S. "As Usual Societies working entirely in the northern areas, such as the S.P.G.. Four new river gunboats are Mr. Weston of and the United Free Church of leaving for China... [Scotland, state that none of their
Dogs claimed... Dogs, received in home Dogs sold Dogs died.
Dogs destroyed:
Shadows Before. COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
... IN THE "MAIL"
April 6-Star Theatre; Tho, Stranger."
April 6-Theatre Royal; "H.M.S. Pinafore." Matines, 4.80p.m
April 8-9-Theatre Royal; H.M.S. "Pinafore," 9.30 pm.
Molly Kennedy" at the Naval Can
April 7-First performance
The
the Hong Kong teen Theatre. Electric Company collided with a April 10-Concert by the Massed suddenly ran Bands of the Ist Bn The H.M.S. "Tern." "Gannet" and Chinese boy who missionaries has had to leave. "Seamew" will relieve the "Wood-across the road in front of the ma-Cameronians and 1st Bn
The London Missionary Society cock, "Woodlark" and "Robin," chine. The boy suffered injuries Middlesex Regt. Queen's Theatre. anys the bulk of its missionaries are respectively. carrying on as usual.
usual
to his leg and was taken to the hos- 19.20 p.m.
pital,
!!
ARMED ROBBERS.
April 1-The Hong Kong. Danes H.M.S. "Petrel" will be addi-
Club's grand opening Carnival The China Inland Mission an- tional.
Dance at Lane Crawfords, at 9 p.m., nounces that three-quarters of its The "Tern" and "Petrel" sail
postponed from April 6. 263 central stations are working as from London about May 21-
Sports, New York: Feb. 15.
Reuter..
April Fanling Hunt Steeple Three men armed with daggers chase, 5.15 p.m. The Wesleyan Methodist Mis- Happy Ford is "too busy living"sionary Society, however, has now,
raided the first floor of No. 8, Star-April 16-18-Second Extra Race to make a will, he has told a re-only six men "missionaries working
Street, at 5 o'clock this morning Meeting of Hong Kong Jockey Club, presentative of the "New York in the South China area. These Speaking at a dinner given at and got away with money, cloth-Race Course. Happy Valley. American," which gives its views are at Hong Kong, Fatahan and the Imperial Industries Clubing and jewellery the value of April 20 Seventh bi-annual race Canton. All their staff, except four London. Mr. E. M. Gull, Joint which has not yet been ascertain for the "Trevessa" Trophy, com men in Changsha, have left Hunan. Secretary of the China Associa-ed...
The Church Missionary Society |tion, criticised the Hankow agree-
in a dispatch from Detroit.
He believes his enterprises are being ruided so, that they will continue without interruption after his death.""
"Any business," he said, "if it is built on proper lines, is not de' "pendent on any one individual,
"Money is counterfeit wealth. I t not the real thing at all" "The only use limoney la to me is that I'
Hankow Agreement. “
London, April 5.
has also withdrawn its entire staff ment. He said it did not provide
of five men (with their wives) and any safeguard for British capital four unmarried women from Hunan invested there.
EMPTY HOUSE BURGLED.
mencing 4 pm.
Meetings. April Annual meeting of the HK Baseball Asso. at the Ameri cah Consulate-General, 5.80 p.n. and Kwangsi; while 12" men. 10 The arrangements whereby the Last week thieves broke into an April 7-Annual meeting of the wives and 18 single women are on regulations under which the new unoccupied house in Humphrey's Hong Kong. Women's Guild and their way to the coast from Wes Bureau would take over the Avenue, Kowloon, owded by Mr Ministering Children's League China.
obligations of the former British Gomes, of Peace Avenue, Homuntin, Helena May Institute, 11 am. Swatow & Amoy.
April 8-Third annual meeting of Am able to experiment in different The English Presbyterian Mia-i Municipality could be changed by and carried away a' geyser,
sion reports that nine of its up-coun-week. Furthermore the whole $107.
two-thirds majority every electric fittings and wires worth HK. & Territorial Estates, Ltd., St.
George's Bldg., 2.80 p.m. life more livable. More agreeable try missionaries including wives control rested entirely with the
April 9Annual meeting of the physical surroundings, children have come down to Swatow and 24 Chinese, and even the decision of land is not a true summary of my pim.com
"Dean predicts the ruin of Eng- Chinese Club, in Club premises, From Shenai the Baptist Mia-the ratepayers could be disallow work. Dean Inge; sionary Society has had to withdraw ed if the Chinese Foreign Minis-
lines for ways and means to make
and schools, those are the real to Amoy. wealth of the nation."
None of his money will go to any foundation or endowment, Ford gerta. "Endowment is an opiate
He believes in the theory of re-
16 men and 16 women. One doctor ter thought it infringed the sover
and one helper who have gone from eign rights or dignity of China.
Rome
April 14-Twenty-seventh annual meeting of Kowloon Bowling Green Club, Club-house, 6.45 p.m.
April 21-Second Meeting of
Shanši to Slapfe, are still there. Mr. Gull emphasised that the trouble in China should ask neu-China Light & Power Co., Ltd.
From Szechwan 11, missionaries effect of the agreement was ex-tral Powers to appoint a commis-11.80 a.m.
of the Friends Foreign Mission traordinarily bad in China, sion to investigate the whole Association have come to the coast, Debenture capital now felt it situation-Reuter.
- Lammert's. "Auctions.
April 7—Auction of household
to Imagination, a drug to initiative," he maintains.
Incarnation.
."It seems. most reasonable or are on their way to England, but would be very unsafe. He reçent: Sir Arthur Yapp's Views. furniture, Duddell Street, 2.80 p.m philosophy and explains many when the last news was received five ly heard that business houses in things, or what, or who, I shall be were still at their stations there. China would rather have been In the ages to come.
China Express & Telegraph. faced with a possible. boycott than This belief in Immortality makes Note: Since the above report, with this agreement.Reuter
present living the more attractive, the situation has become consider- We are all here in life for one purably more acute and evacuations pose to get experience. We are all have manifestly increased.-Ed. getting it, and we shall all use it "China Mall;"]. "Bomewhere."
BATTLESHIPS DOOMED,
Pan-Asia Congress.
London, April 5 April 8-Valuable household
A strong plea for a complete furniture, etc., No 114, Mody Road, and cordial British, American and Kowloon, 11 MACH Japanese understanding in Chinery 9 Miscellaneous goodr
Sales Room, Duddell St., 11 am is advanced by Sir Arthur Yapp Antil 1-Rousehold furniture at London, April 5. In a letter to the "Morning Post, No. 8. Highburi Terrace, Hunghom, Mr. George Lansbury, the La-expressing the opinion that by 10.30 a. gas p bour MP., is going to China in working together for Ching's June, according to the "Morning good and not trying to steal a (April 6-Mri 1:C. F. Bellamy, AMBULANCE BUMPED.
Post labour correspondent, as a march on each other, they can M.C. A.MIBB. Linst/T will read member of the International Com-best help China and incidentally a paper on Urban & Suburban Transport" at the Institution of En New York, March 81.;'
London, March 20 mission to the Pan-Asiatic Con- benefit their own people: The submarine and aeroplane An ambulance conveying a pa-gress at Canton-Reuter. Sir Arthur Yapp considers the rineers & Shipbaldars (Hons will replace the battleship in futura tient from an infirmary reached the
outlook in China at present dark, Kong) 5.45 p. wara, Admiral William S. Sims says when a motor car came along Interviewed by Reuter Mr of the people are not
cross-roads", near Ashby-de-In-
London, April 5 but in nowise hopeless The In the "New York Times", "KON
"Underace craft and seroplanes and knocked it clean into the ditch. George Lansbury said that he had nry, but unfortunat would make i naval blockade im- The driver, who was a local farmer, been asked to accompany the and fall an easy prey possible and anti-aircraft guns on did not stop to see the damage, but commission to be sent to the Pantor "I have grøst
trolling ship would be ineffective was later summoned and find two Asiatic Congress in Canton in Japanese, and to anx against aeroplanes, the admiraluineas and £6 costs
painted out. The development of fam
the submarine has brought that typal-cov
of graft into position where it, will }; «As fron sharpaneth iron, so doth „Tango as mistrass of the same, the the undergraduate the (admiral-said,
friend:
Invited Only,
June, but bad not sald he would our two nations and
Boyd States and ultim Rather than an unofficial Eudy seks working tom gging he would prefer that the dótely hand-in-
ants concerned in, the mon
April 7-Lenten Mission Catholic Cathedral, Glenenly,:0′′] Preacher Rav
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