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No. 25,542
REPLY TO MR. CHEN. SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
Full French and British Agreement.
Canton Government's Action.
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British Airman's Lucky Escape.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC STOPPED." | ESCAPE FROM CERTAIN DEATH.
""'FATSHAN" CREW ABSENT, FURTHER YANGTSE INCIDENTS.
Efforts to start a seamen's Paris, April 22.
Joining the campaign to defy
Nationalist strike in Canten yesterday were the
Government, At the close of the Cabinet sternly dealt with by the city and "Red" drivers on the Kowloon meeting this morning, the Foreign provincial authorities.
Canton Railway made off with Minister, M. Briand, announced One result, however, is that the two locomotives from Samchun, that the French and British Gov- China Navigation steamboat "Fat-the British border station, there- ernments were in complete agree-shan" found herself alongside the by severing communication with ment with regard to the Note to Steamboat Co.'s Hong Kong wharf Hong Kong. be sent to the Chinese Nationalist this morning unable to leave for
This occurred shortly before Government concerning the Nun-Canton as her crew had left, with the daily express was due to leave king outrages.
hands." the exception of a few loyal Kowloon ict 8.05 a.m. with passen
M. Briand added that there had been compléte French and British agreement as regards affairs in China-Reuter.
YANGTSE INCIDENTS.
British Sailors Repel Coolie Stampede.
J
The Steamboat Co.'s vessels in Canton are not believed to have been implicated..
Yesterday was chosen by the Moderates for their celebration of the Nationalist Government's a drive against the Communists on Good Friday.
Under pretence of joining the ma meeting and procession, the crews of all river boats were ab- sent from the wharves at Canton
Aim of the Strike.
Hankow, April 22. More troops are being moved up to meet the Fengtien troupa who have, advanced through Henan yesterday. Province along the railway from! Peking to Hanlow with the ob- ject of entering Hupeh province, look measures, as they had in- The Canton Police immediately heid by the Nationalists-Bri-formation that the seamen were tish Naval Wireless.
planning to strike and, when
Hankow Posters.
Kiukiang, April 22,
| communications had been severed, to petition the Government for
VISIT TO SPAIN.
Popular British Princes At Madrid,
Rugby, April 22. The Prince of Wales and Prince George, accompanied by Brigadier-General Trotter, arriv- ed in Madrid this morning on a visit to the King and Queen of Spain.
They were met at the station by the British Ambassador, the King and Queen of Spain, General, Amindo, Minister of the Interior, and many members of the British Colony.
A large crowd cheered the royal visitors as they drove to the palace. British Wireless Service
A new Chinese Commissioner the release of a number of Union for Foreign Affairs has been apofficials and other alleged agita- pointed viz. Liu Hai. He is re-tors. together with the return of ger for Canton. This express ported to be a Communist and certain Union property. favourable to the Hankow section,
rura along the British section to The ex-Concession was placard-could take action, British Naval New Territories frontier, the pas- Before the Canton authorities the steel railway bridge at the ed with posters against Imperial ratings had joined the "Fatshan" sengers change over to the Chin- ism yesterday, but these were from the river gunboats and the ese section at Samchun station not particularly virulent or anti-
cleared for Hong (which is this side of Samchun British. British Naval Wireless. Cookies in a Fracas,
market) and then travel on the Chinese section to Canton
Wuhu, April 22.
"Fatshan" Kong,
This was taken as a signal by the crews of the other river ships) Coolies attempted to rush a that the projected strike had been Butterfield and Swire hulk yester-broken. An ultimatum was de- day, suddenly boarding the latter livered verbally to the seamen by from a river steamer brought alongside the hulk.
the Canton officials and the crews An armed guard of British returned to the boats which ar- Bluejackets withstood the rush rived in Hong Kong yesteter and in the ensuing fracas, a few day evening, several hours late. of the coolies received bayonet scratches.
Li Troops at, Tutung have been disarmed by General Wang Ting piao, of the 10th Nationalist Army-British Naval Wireless,
Fires i Pukow,
Nanking, April 22.
Return of the Relief Train.'
TERRIBLY POIGNANT SCENES.
Rugby, April 22.
Mexico City, April.22. An officer of the Royal Air The spectacle of sobbing men, Force made a parachute descent shrieking women and wailing to-day from a height of 8,000 feet children alighting from the car- and landed safely.
He was riages completely overcame the Flight Lieutenant David Daucy crowds lining the platform on the Greig, of the. Central Flying arrival of the relief train bear- School.
ing the survivors of the train out- rage.
He had gone up from Oneley in a single seater fighting plane to carry out special tests.
Suddenly the machine was seen to be out of control and, to be spinning towards the ground at a terrific speed.
For some moments Greig could be seen making a desperate bul vain effort to regain control.
A few seconds later when the machine appeared to be falling like a stone the airman was seen to jump from the pilot's sent.
He too was falling like a stone when to the relief of the onlook- ers his parachute opened and he a prolonged but safe descent, reaching the ground about two miles from his starting point.
made
The aeroplane struck the earth several minutes earlier and burst into flames. British Wireless Service.
JAPAN'S CRISIS.
GOVERNMENT DECLARES A
Men broke down and cried and women fainted and became hys- terical. One, on learning that her husband was among the killed, shrieked and endeavoured to tear off her clothes and throw herself under a train.
A young man alighted from a Pullman car with a maniacal laugh and invited his friends to dance. It transpired that he was insane as a result of the tragedy in which his wife and three child- ren were butchered.
Another man returned with three girls from a family of eleven. Altogether twenty child- ren were massacred.
lar to those caused by dura dum Some bore gaping wounds simi- bullets. Men in the crowd cried piteously at the sight of three children wrapped in blankets to cover their hideous burIS,~~~~ Reuter's American Service.
ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
CENOTAPH OBSERVANCE
TO-DAY.
MORATORIUM..
REASSURING LOCAL STATEMENT. Communist agitators are alleg-
In observance of St. George's cd to have influenced the drivers
Tokyo, April 23.
Day, a wreath was laid on the on the Chinese section.
A moratorium has Samchun this morning, they sud-twenty days.
been pre-Cenotaph this morning, officers After reporting for work at claimed effective from to-day for and members of St. George's So-
[ciety attending. This does not apply to the Among those present were Mr. denly drove off the two engines (belonging to the Chinese sec-payment of wages, the payment C. G. Alabaster, K.C., President; tion), and made off, it is suppos- of debts; local governments and Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., and Mr. public bodies, and bank deposits W. A. Dowley (Past Presidents); The news was receiver in Kow. under five hundred yen.-Reuter, sident; Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Lt. Col. L. G. Bird, Vice-Pre- loon and the express "uld not leave.
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK HV Copley Moyle, MF. T. E. Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, Rev. Business Not Affected By The Pearce, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr.
Moratorium.
P. S. Cassidy, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Mr. J. H. Ramsay and Mr. F.'A. Wells.
-Reservists' Wreath.
ed, for Canton. "
Loyalists In Control. These other ships are able to resume, the gun as they have the crews. The "Fatshar" On Good Friday, the-Canton- came down without a crew and Kowloon Railway Union at Tai- therefore did not sail this morn-sha-tau, Canton, was raided by ing.
On the Nationalist Government railway unions in Canton came in the Moderate troops. All three The firing on Hsjakwan by the hearing of the Communist plot to for attention as they were under Yokohama Specie Bank has issued Reservists of the Northumber-
The Hong Kong branch of the Northerners in Pukow has been retaliate by a general strike in the suspicion of the authorities. a statement locally that notwith-land Fusiliers laid a wreath on returned by the Southerners who Canton, orders were given to re- The Tai-sha-tau union was standing the fact that a Morator- have brought the guns on Lion strict the demonstration at East raided and men on the premises ium has been declared in Japan, the Cenotaph at 10.15 a.m., this Hill into play. The guns have parade ground and to cancel the disarmed. caused large fires to break out in subsequent procession.
the Yokohama Specie Bank will morning:- Pukow.
As reported elsewhere in this carry on business both in Japan Corporal J. H. Speight, Lance Tension has increased and a issue, the Communists had plot and in all its foreign branches Corporals G. Gee and F. Snow- On the arrival here yesterday state of strict vigilance prevails. ted reprisals, the main feature of without any difference or restric- den. Bandsman R. Anderson, of a China Merchants steamer In no instance have the Commun- which was a general strike, of tion whatsoever. "All obligations Fusiliers I. Davis, H. Eyre, A. J. from up-river, field guns from its been reported to have got which the coup on the railway to Pukow opened fire on sampans the upper hand. The authorities Kowloon must have been a part. landing passengers,
do not anticipate a general strike The steamer was prevented and in Fatshan, an important affected by the strike.
The British section is not
from joining a British convoy. The convoy itself was not fired on, -British Naval Wireless.
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House to House Collection of Silver,
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city further up River, the loyal troops have scored several suc- cesses against the local Extrem-THIRTY YEARS' JAIL. ists, many of whom were dis- armed without resistance.
PLOTTERS AGAINST DUCE
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Earlier Messages.
Tokyo, April 22, The Government have decided
Anzac Day. Members of the Ez-Active Ser- vice Men's Association and others interested are asked to be present
to proclaim a moratorium, except at 9-30 a.m. on April 25 (Anzac in the Colonies, probably to Day) when a wreath will be laid be treated in the same way. aa
Rome, April 22. morrow, but will not apply it toon the Cenotaph in memory of the Borodin's accomplice, Eugene fault)
Zaniboni, Capello and in de- the payment of wages; payment Australiana and New Zealanders Chen.-Reuter.
Ursella have been sen- of debts of local Governments and who gave their lives in the Great tenced to thirty years' imprison- public bodies or to bank deposits War 1914–1918. ment, Ducci to twelve years and a under 500 yen.
Post for Mr. C. C. Wu.
Shanghai, April 22.
month, Nicoloso and Luigi Calli The Bank of Japan's advances
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A report from Nanking dated garo to ten years, ten months and amount to more than a billion and ing all Chinese pedestrians for the 21st states that the Nanking twenty days, Riva to six years, silver.
Government has appointed C. C. and Angelo Calligari. to four Coal, of which there is a short- Wu as Minister of Foreign Affairs months' imprisonment. age, and rice are being comman-but that Mr. Eugene Chen retains has been acquitted. The sentences deered and rationed.
Mr. Eugene Chen had informed is settled with the Powers. The the public prosecutor's previous the post until the Nanking affair on the first three accorded with all local consuls that his govern- post was first offered to Hu Han-demand. Reuter. ment cannot guarantee the secur-min who refused it. Ku Yin-fan!
The Police Forces are being countering any possible trouble. mobilised for the purpose of
bankers assert that the structure Business is paralysed. but
[The frank admission that he consider that a short moratorium is fundamentally sound, and they
Mussolini was made by Zaniboni,
ity of premises vacated by their has been appointed Minister of intended to assassinate Signor will be good. Reuter. owners, and has called an inter- Finance. Reuter. national meeting in the hope of getting foreigners to resume busi- ness-British Wireless Service.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
Powers' Yangtse Blockade Threat.
• British Sailor Stabbed, who was surprised on December
A message from Hankow, dated Posite
Shanghai, April 22.
4, 1925, with a rifle in a room op- a balcony of the Chigi
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COURT DECLARES MIS-TRIAL
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Jewish articles in Ford's, weekly the "Dearborn Independent," on the ground that it is impossible to pro ceed: as a jurywoman has given an interview to a local paper.
the 21st, states that two British Palace, where Sig. Mussolini was" BRITISH WORKER lawyer, on account of alleged anti- sailors while in ricshas yesterdayothera were placed on trial with due to appear. Capello and six were attacked by a mob of coolies. him on a charge of conspiring One of them was stabbed twice. against the State and of attempt |Reuter.}
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undoubtedly have killed. Musso- The British Worker," which Eugene Chen's answer to their Sir Francis Agien in an inter-lini had the police not arrested ran for eleven lasues during the ed vast public interest as it is protest against the Nanking out-view, expressed confidence that him when they did. He intended general strike last year as a strike thought anti-Semitism will play a rages will contain a threat to the end of the present turmoil the assassination to be accom: the T.U.C. will be reissued as a rendent suggesting that
bulletin of the General Council of large part, the "Dearborn Inde blockade the Yangtee if satisfac-would mark the beginning of the panied by an attack with 200 men penny weekly as the official bul- existed a Jewish conspiracy to con tion is not given, according to "Le greatest of Far Eastern trade on the Fascists outside the palace, letin of the Trade Union Defence trol agricultura in the United Matin. which declares that such booms," and that meanwhile the but as all attempts to collect the n blockade would mean the isolat Chinese were willing and anxious men failed, he decided to act the campaign against the Govern The jury consisted of six men and
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