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CRIME WAVE.
12 Murders in Shanghai Last Month.
EIGHT ROBBERS KILLED.
Municipal Police Facing Death Hourly.
CANTON COUP SEQUEL
(Continued from Page 1.)
Mr. Wang Ching-wel stated that a Cantonese delegation would not hesitate to go to Nanking for the plenary session, assuming that preliminary conference was abolished and the Nanking Special Committee resuscitated the Central Executive Committee. -Reuter.
ALLEGED SPIES.
Communist at Bow Street.
GERMAN INVOLVED,
Lloyd's Underwriter Gives Information.
London, Saturday.
Shanghai, Saturday, Evidence of Increasing crime is reflected in the International Settle- mont Police Report for November, during which month 137 armed rob- beries. and 12 murders (of which Communist Troubles Break Out son was a member of the British
three ware foreign victims)
took
place while eight armed robbers!
were killed by the police.
All the foregoing were within the International Settlement.
HANKOW "REDS."
Again..
At the resumption of the espion- age charges at Bow Street Police Court, counsel for the prosecution declared that McCartney alias Hud-
Communist Party and that Hansen alias Johnson was a German sub- Hankow, Friday. ject. The foreign Power concerned A recrudescence of Communist in the case was the Government of activities is manifesting itself the Soviet of Russia.
The "Shanghai Times," comment-here. Four hundred students of The case was adjourned.
University Sun Yat-sen ing, says that the Municipal Police the
The matter was first brought to (the foreign section of which is stormed a cottonmill as the re- the attention of the authorities by mostly British) are striving man-sult of the dismissal therefrom of an underwriter of Lloyds, named fully and unflinchingly against odds, several women workers and drag-Mr. George Monkland, whom Me- facing death hourly but hemmed inged five anti-Red Union officials to Cartney had asked to get answers by all sorts of restrictions of juris- an open space, shooting them to thirteen questions. The diselo- dletion. They cannot enter Chin-down in the presence of the armed sure of these questions, said coun- ene territory without much formal-Police who did not interfere. ity and have no power to refuse ád- The Communists are organis- mission to the Settlement except to ing an armed corps with the ob- known criminals and armed per jcct of bringing about another
reign of terror.-Reuter.
Бола.
The newspaper recommends the re-erection of barricades at key points since armed robbery and kid- napping havé become a well-organis- ed Chinese profession and Commun- ists are stirring up strikes and rioting. Reuter.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
No change is apparent in the strike situation here..
Under the protection of the Municipal Police, a restricted tram service is being maintained. --British Naval Wireless.
U. S. MAN POWER.
SHORTAGE OF YOUNG MEN
DEPLORED.
GRAVE PROBLEM.
Later News.
Hankow, Yesterday, The situation here is normal.- British Naval Wireless,
USUAL YARN.
ALLEGED CONFIDENCE MAN' CHARGED.
A WOMAN'S BANGLES.
sel, would have been a nationa} dan- ger.
Mr. Monkland showed the.
document to Sir Reginald Hall-who communicated with the Government, after which Mr. Monkdland regularly reported to the Government agent. -Reuter.
SELF-GOVERNMENT.
AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
TO REMAIN PERMANENTLY,
Washington, Yesterday.
In his annual report the War Secretary says that, as regards. the Philippines the effort to de-
A Chinese woman this morning velop a people capable of self- charged an alleged confidence trick-government had undoubtedly in- ster before Major C. Willson at the terfered with its economic de- Central Magistracy with the theft velopment. of a pair of gold mounted rattan The report says that if the
United States, announced
bangles worth $10.
a de- The same old story was told by finite determination to remain the woman in the witness box. The permanently or indefinitely in con- accused met her in Wing Lok Street trol of the islands there would be Washington, Yesterday, The striking fact that the on the afternoon of November 25 more rapid development.
It was equally true that if the United States Army purchases in and got into conversation with her,
and eventually told her that he was United States announced a definite war-time totalled fourteen billion dollars is mentioned in the annual a stranger in Hong Kong and did determination to withdraw from report of the Assistant Secretary bule of Chinese bank notes, which sult in temporary and rapid re- not know his way about. He had a the Islands the decision would re- for War.
"Commissions are going a-beg. he asked the woman to change for frogression. Reuter's American
Service. ging for lack of youngsters to him into Hong Kong paper money. When the woman agreed to help take them," says the first report of the Assistant Secretary of Air, him, the accused was alleged to have emphasising the shortage of the induced her to part with her bangles commissioned personnel of the as security for the supposed bank A bundle done up in a hand- Air Corps. He declares that it notes. will be a grave problem to get kerchief changed hands, and when them qualified without lowering the woman arrived the standard of requirements." Reuter's American Service.
REDS' WORK.
INTERNATIONAL REVOLU
TIONARY MOVEMENT..
REFERENCE TO CHINA.
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Moscow, Yesterday.
M. Stalin, in a six-hour report to the Congress of the Communist
at the money changers' place she found that the] bundle contained waste paper. The As regards the Army the War man was not at the place where he Secretary states in his report that had promised to wait for her. there had been definite progress On Saturday, she met and recog-Party on the work of the Party from the military standpoint. nised the man in Second Street, during the last two years, deal- The insufficiency of provisions for West Point. She asked for the re-ing with the growth of what he the building up and the maintain-turn of her bangles. The man bolt-called the "International Revolu- ing of an authorised war, reserve ed; followed by the woman, who tionary Movement," referred to of material for two field armies of raised a hue and ery. A Chinese the development of the Chinese a million men was a matter for District Watchman joined in the Revolution. He declared that it deep concern and the most import-chase and the alleged thief was ar-was bound to grow in the future. ant present need of the War De-reated.
Referring to the Opposition, he' partment "is a continued stabilisa- The accused's story was that he said that if it wished to remain tion of policy."-Reuter's Ameri: worked on the Peak and had not in the Party it must honestly ad- can Service.
been down to town until Saturday, mit its mistake or otherwise it when the woman accused him of must seek to form a second party
He did not for itself.-Reuter. stealing her bangles.
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The Magistrate gave a remand until to-morrow morning for the ac- cused to call a witness.
ROADS CLOSED.
TO MAINTAIN LEGAL ARMY RIGHT.
AN ANNUAL FORMALITY.
NO SYMPATHY.
GOVERNOR SMITH AND PROHIBITION.
SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.
Albany, New York, Yesterday. For the first time since he has been prominently mentioned as a possible Democratic Presidential; candidate. Governor Smith, 're-
This friendly settlement is re- To comply with the legal condi-ferred to Prohibition at a dinner. garded as very significant at pre- tions regarding the holding of He declared that whilst he was sent when there is so much talk of military land, all War Depart-bound to enforce the law "It was
ment Franco-Italian tension.-Reuter.
roads and paths in the right that our people should op- Colony were closed from 9 a.m. to- pose any law with which they day, and will remain so until 9 were out of sympathy."Reuter's a.m. to-morrow, notices being American Service.. posted to this effect, at certain
CHIEF CAPTURED.
ECHO OF SOLOMON ISLANDS | Points and sentries placed at
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NEW POST FOR SHANGHAI OFFICIAL.
Paris, Yesterday.
M. Naggiar, the French Consul
others.
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NO MORE VISAS.
BRITAIN'S AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY.
London, Yesterday. Britain and Germany have at Shanghal, has been appointed mutually agreed to abolish visas sub-director in Asia. Havas. on January 1-Reuter.
"DOPE" TRAFFIC.
ARREST OF ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS
: SAMPLES FOR SHANGHAI.
Berne, Yesterday.
A gang of alleged traffickers of with cocaine and heroin, branches throughout the country, have been arrested at Post Offices where they have been receiving "samples" for transmission to ad- dresses in Shanghai and Mexico. The multiplicity of the samples aroused the suspicions of the FollceReuter
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