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TIENTSIN TERROR.
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PRAYER BOOK.
No. 25,897
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1928.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
-MURDER PRICE.
COURTS MARTIAL.
SHIPS SEIZED.
-£200,000 Asked by Daughter.
PANIC IN THE NATIVE CITY.
JAPANESE PATROL.
Results of 400 Men Running Amok.
SHANSI TROOPS RAPIDLY APPROACHING.
RASPUTIN'S DEATH.
One Charge of "Striking' Six Claims Against the
Not Proved.
PLEA OF DRUNKENNESS.
What A Recently Published Book Three Counts Against à Borderers
ter
Is Said To Prove.
Paris, Yesterday.. Madame Boris Solorreff, daugh- of Rasputin, is suing Prines Felix Yussupoff and Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch for £200,000 for their assassination of Rasputin.
Private.
"Gorgistan."
"JULIN" DEPARTS.
Sold to the Chinese Who Bought the Russian Fleet.
COMMONS
AGAIN REJECT.
INCREASED MAJORITY.
Opposition Again Carry The Day.
MR. BALDWIN AND MR CHURCHILL VOTE FOR THE BOOK.
Several vessels have been in -Charges of allegedly "striking" superior officers were preferred the hands of the Supreme Court against accused at two District recently and at least one has Courts Martial held to-day in yet to be released...
Six claims totalling about ray Barracks.
First accused was Private C. W. Messrs. H. M. H. Nemazee's 8.8. $80,000 have been lodged against Foden, 1st Battalion the Queen's "Gorgistan," which is well She contends that the respon Royal Regiment. He was charged known both in the coasting and and the new Solicitor-General, among others, voted for the accept- sibility of the Prince and Grand with "striking a superior officer in ocean trade. She has been in of terror now exists: All shops are closed and the streets are de puke for the Assassination is prov- the execution of his duty," by strik- Kowloon dock, attended to by the ance of the new Prayer Book, yet the House of Commons rejected
Details are to hand of the outbreak in Tientsin city. It appears that a force of 400 men ran amok. Something approaching a reign
serted except for undisciplined soldiery armed with automatics. This state of affairs is not expected to last long, however, as Shansi troops are rapidly approaching the city.
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From Japanese sources it is indicated that the matter of the Tsinan settlement will take a few months. Meanwhile there is no intention of doing away with the neutral zone between Tsingtao and Tsinan. The Japanese ask for the establishment of a municipal council at the former port.
ed by Yussupoff's recent book des-
Though the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
cribing Rasputin's death, Reutering him in the face with his fiat, in Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock it by 266 votes to 220-thirteen more votes for its rejection than on
Kowloon, on June 5, when he was Co. One of the claims, the being taken into custody and, al- "China Mail" understands, is by ternatively, restating on the master and crew allegedly
¡for pay in arrear.
CAUGHT IN STORM. MISHAP TO SEVERAL FRENCH
'PLANES.
OBSERVER KILLED. '-
are
from office
the last occasion when it (or a similar book), was submitted to the Commons. Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks (Home Secretary) and Sir Thomas Inskip (Attorney-General) again opposed the new book, carrying the majority of the M.P.'s with them.
"CHAOS" PREDICTED.
London, Yesterday.
with escort.
On the first charge he was found
The Admiral's Case. ,"not guilty."
After being in the public eye Second accused was Private D. for some time, the 105 feet long Stables, 2nd Battalion, King's Own motor-vessel "Julin" has left Scottish Borderers, who faced three Hong Kong. She was purchased The Nationalist flag has been hoisted at the Chinese Embassy
Paris, Yesterday. charges in connection with In- by Admiral Hsu,' formerly of the at Washington and at Tokyo. The Japanese Foreign Office has no planes, flying during the night June 8.
Of twenty-one Army bombing cidents at Victoria Barracks on Chinese Navy, for use, at Pratas, į objection to the latter move, but states that this does not neces-from Malseville
These charges were:-1, whence typhoon warnings to Paris and disobeying the lawful command of sent to Hong Kong.. The Ad-
William declared that if reserva- sarily mean that the Nationalists are recognised.
caught in a sudden storm ncar a superior officer; 2, using violence miral was removed
The Prayer Book debate in the tion were authorised they could Paris, only, four have arrived with- to a superior officer by catching when the Nationalists took con- out incident. Ten are still miss-hold of his throat with both hands; trol of the island. He sought re- House of Commons was resumed, not prevent the adoration men- The public galleries were again tioned in the reservation and now ing, while the others crashed at and 3, resisting an escort by strug- payment, of sums disbursed by various points. One observer was gling.
him. Judgment for him was full and the Archbishop of Can- practised in nearly 700 churches, killed.
The Court had not completed the given by the Chief Justice, Sirterbury and other spiritual peers compared with 30 churches 30
Mr. Churchill and Dis- Only Eight Went Up.
trial when the adjournment was Henry Gollan. The "Jolin" was were present in the Peers' Gallery. years ago.
attached. She was put up for Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks, lead- called. Paris, Later.
establishment, There were seven wit-
auction, the reserve price being ing the Opposition against the The Air Ministry, in a
nesses for the prosecution,
$12,000. No bid was forthcom- book, declared that millions of Mr. Winston Churchill, who munique, announce that owing to
Goden's Case.
ing. Then she was ultimately people in England were convinced did not vote on the last occasion, a storm threatening only nine ma- Members of the Court were the sold, by private treaty, to Chin- that there was a definite change supported the measure, "not as a same for both trials, being Major ese interests which, some years of doctrine therein. He emphasis churchman but solely as a mem-
A TSINAN
ECHO.
Shanghai, To-day. Tsingtao harbour administration. Chinese reports from Tientsin The Governor was very sym- state that the trouble on the pathetic and willing to give full morning of the 14th inst. was due consideration and is reported soon to 400 men in plain-clothes run-to be summoning the Chinese ning amok.
com-
Chamber of Commerce to discuss chines actually took. the air at G, M. H. Ogilvy (King's Own Scot-ago, had bought up the vessels ed the right of the laity and the ber of the House of Commons,"
Malseville. The fact that 20 were
A visit to the native city this afternoon revealed a state of ab- solute unarchy. There were fre- quent shots and the natives are panic-stricken. The streets are deserted except for disreputable to favour the Japanese recom: landed successfully soldiery armed with automatics mendations. at the crossroads and alleyways.
A number of cars were seen conveying corpses executed and other casualties. Two Japanese armoured cars are patrolling the streets.
the question.
Five years of tupanate and expected at Le Bourget originated autocratic government at Tsing- in a report that others were miss- tao without a local council of con- ing. trol disposes all the nationalities
of
those
The general situation is some- what more tense. It is thought that the disorderlies' final out- break will occur to-night, since the Shansi troops from Peking have been observed approaching 50 miles north-west of Tientsin. The shops are shut with the exception of those ordered by the
Earlier Report.
Military police recently attach- ed to the local police had evacuat- ed on Tuesday as the result of Japanese representation. force is still militarily controlled. -Reuter.
JAPAN'S REPLY.
The Nationalists and Recognition.
The
Tientsin, Yesterday. The very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire in the native city last night and this morning is attri- buted to the frequent brushes between plain-clothes iooters and the soldiers. Though the reports Dr. Alfred Sze, the Chinese are usually exaggerated it is cer- tain that there were large and white Nationalist emblem casualties yesterday afternoon.
Sixteen looters, ex-soldiers, were
executed and their heads hung
up.
At Washington. Washington, Yesterday.
Minister, has hoisted the blue
None are therefore missing. Five and three forcedly, while one crashed and an observer was killed.-Reuter,
BANK HELD UP!
EXCITEMENT FOR REPUBLICANS.
BANDITS AND SHOT GUNS.
Kansas City, To-day.
There was intense excitement.
TURKEY & SOVIET.
CHANGED ATTITUDE IN RUSSIA.
Constantinople, Yesterday.
NEW ALLIANCES.
Sensational Revelations from Canton,
an
of the Russian Volunteer Fleet Commons to express their views which were then lying idle in thereanent and referred to the Manila. The price is stated to recent statement of the Bishop of be $6,000 which, however, does not satisfy Admiral Hsu's claim. The new owners, have sailed the "Julin" away.
Over in a Day. One of the weekly features in to-morrow's issue, namely, that Then there is the river steam-: on Chinese politics, will be boat "Anjou" which was attach- article from the "China Mailed on Wednesday by Mr. Woo political correspondent. Revela-Hay-tong, the local Chinese ship- tions will be made which, later ping magnate, for about $38,000, on, will provide sensations in the and released yesterday, the mat-
ter having been settled. military welter. It is hinted that a very big surprise le in store, in the nature of are WANTS MONEY BACK grouping of the leading Chinese factions, in a manner contrary to that predicted for some time.
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SHROFF SUES FOR
$500.
ONE OF 40.
ARCHBISHOP F CANTERBURY, -
MALAYA.
He asked them to give the re- ligious community a wider inter- pretation to their spiritual free- dom. He was very sceptical as regards Parliament's competence to form the final decision in spirit- ual matters, as a lay assembly could not, in the Twentich Cen- tury, determine spiritual obser- vances of any religious commun- Ity..."
Mr. Churchill foresaw disestab. lishment if the book were reject- ed, and the rejection of the mea. sure would inaugurate a period of chaos.
The
Sir
Mr. Baldwin, in supporting said an adverse, vote would Sir weaken all the Church author- ities and hinder progress in re- ligion in the country,
The House of Commons, by 266 votes to 220 rejected the new Prayer Book.
What the Church of England Must Be. Attorney-General, Tokyo, To-day. Six bandits held up a big bank
Thomas Inskip, in opposing, said The Chinese Legation has noti-in a street crowded with dele-
that he, with Sir Wm. Joynson authorities to remain open. fled the Foreign Office that here- gates and close to the Republican
Hicks, had informed the Arch Traffic on the River is returning after they will fly the blue and Convention hall. to Peiho normal owing to the die-white Nationalist flag as the
bishop of Canterbury that they would accept the book if the pro- appearance of snipers though whole of China except Manchuria The bandits blazed away with tish Borderers), Captain H. L.
vision regarding perpetual reser Japanese ships continue to carry and Mongolia is now under Na-shot guns and seriously injured Graham, M.C. (Scots Guards) and
At the Summary Court before
vation were deleted, but the offer armed guards-Reuter.
tionalist administration. While two policemen and a by-stander Lieut. J. F. K. Ponsford (Queen's Mr. Justice Jack, this morning, Lincolnshire that even if the was declined. He hoped that it the Foreign Office has no objec-before they decamped with Royal Regiment),
Mr. C. A. S. Russ apeared for a Commons rejected the book that would be possible to recreate the tions it is intimated it does not $60,000. Reuter's American In the case of Pte. Foden, Cap Chinese named Chan Wah-hee, who would not prevent its use. Sir Church of England, but the necessarily mean that Japan will Servico..
tain G. A. Pilleau, M.C. (Adjutant, is claiming $500 from the South William declared that statement Church of England must be the recognise the Nationalist Govern-
lat Batt. Queen's Royal Regiment) China Trade Protection Associato be a challenge to the Commons. church of the people of England. ment-Reuter..
prosecuted. Lieut. A. M. S. Har- tion, which was represented by Mr. The Anglo-Catholics.
(Loud cheers). rington (of the same regiment) act- J. M. Hall.
Mr. Baldwin and an Adverse He attributed the changes in ed as prisoner's friend.
Mr. Hall asked for a week's ad- the book to the influence of the
Vote. Pte. Foden pleaded “not guilty"
Journment.
described to both charges.
Anglo-Catholica and Mr. Russ applied for an early them as "backsliding to the pre- Evidence By Prosecution. date to be fixed for the-hearing, re-reformation priesthood." over the Chinese Legation, de
Turkish official · and business Sergeant Fryer of the Military marking that otherwise the action claring he has consented to circies are indignant at the chang- Police gave evidence that about 9 might as will not be started by the represent the Nanking instead of ed Soviet attitude towards Turkish p.in. on June & he was on duty in plaintiff. He explained that on ter's American Service. the Peking Government. Reu- traders in Russia who are reported Wuhu-street, Hunghom, when he April 21, the defendants had given to have been imprisoned by the saw Foden stagger in the streets. a promise of payment within three Ogpu or handed over to the Tcheka, Accused was drunk, he added. months, which would be in July. The Soviet is further hampering cused, became violent.
When he, witness, arrested him, ac-¡
Proceeding, Mr. Russ, said that MR. AMELY ON ITS STEADILY trade with Turkey. Reuter,
When about twenty yards from he understood that the South China Trade Protection Association had Hunghom Police Station, accused, with his first, struck witness a vio engaged 40 shroffa, each of whom His cilent lent blow in the face.
Witness paid $500 as security.
London, Yesterday.
The Archbishops' Appeal. UNCLE OF THE KING
Presiding at the annual dinner. closed with him and both fall to was one of these, and he wanted DIES.
the ground. In falling, the khaki his money back as soon as possible,
The Archbishops of Canterbury trousers of witness became torn, especially as he found that he is of the Corona, Club, Mr. L. S.
Amery (Overseas Secretary) stat and York have issued an appeal Bangkok, Yesterday, Witness shouted for assistance. not going to work.
ed that he approved in principle of "against any rash or irregular Perfect Defence, Prince Somdet. Fachao Bhanur- A European and two Chinese de
the Lovat Committee's recommen-action by disappointed supporters pleted, if necessary, to land forces angal uncle of the King of Siam is tectives responded and accused Mr. Hall said that he had a per- dation of the scheme for the crea of the book." They plead for from the warships.
dead-Reuter.
then went quietly into the police fect defence.
tion of a unified. Colonial Agricul- quietness, patience, and the ab station where he was detained tem- Mr. Russ suggested that the case tural Service. He was now com- stention of any angry or unkindly porarily, and subsequently removed be fixed for Wednesday, June 20municating with the Colonial Gov-word, and declare that the by military escort to Whitfield Bar- Mr. Hall said that he preferred ernments concerned to ascertain bishops are fully alive to their a week's adjournment, whereupon whether they were willing to de delay, give auch counsel and responsibility and will, without racka.
What a Police Sergeant Saw. Mr. Russ inquired what did it mat fray a share of the cost by means direction as may be required, Det. Sgt. D. C. MacDonald, atter to his friend if, as he said, he of an annual levy of one four-
Increased Majority. the chief of police and the super the Senate for refusing to answer tached to Hunghom station, said has a perfect defence.
hundredth part of the revenues of The majority of 46 against the the 14th inst, states, that the pre-intendent of Customs under ar questions to the Senate Teapot that about 9.15 p.m. he went out His Lordship remarked that as it their territory. The Empire MA Prayer Book shows an increase General, Mr. Fujita, visited rest, pending their transportation Dome Committee. Reuter's Amer-of the station in answer to a cry was a new case, it was usual to keting Board had agreed. to recom of thirteen votes against the
Egress from the native city via the Japanese Concession is very difficult.
A repair train has left for Pek-
ing and there is hope of a partial
Chefoo Incident.
Excitement
Chefoo, Yesterday.
was occasioned service in a few days, since the this morning when twenty plain- Nationalist agent will probably clothes men fired a few shots in permit of the release of the roll-the Chinese city with the result SIAMESE ROYALTY. ing stock from the military. that the shops were shuttered up
a and the Chinese began rushing
into the foreign quarter.
This morning there was heavy explosion. Reports from the native city state that a magazine was blown up.-Reuter.
TSINAN ECHO.
Japan and Port of Tsingtao.
Shanghai, To-day.
A message from. Tsingtao on
vious day the Japanese Consul
The situation is now quiet but] · preparations are being com-
Five American destroyers are lying off the foreign section close inshore and H.M.S. “Titania" is
in the inner harbour,
Col.
Washington, Yesterday.
Standard Oll Co., has been acquit
The Nationalist flag was hoist Stewart, formerly head of Indiana
ed on many buildings to-day,
Colonel Sze placed the taoyin, ted of the charges of contempt of
to Dairen or Antung.
ican Service,
of "Police"! Ho gaw accused
es give a week's adjournment, struggling with Sgt. Fryer.
Cross-examined, by Lt. Harring
Court.
better
the
INCREASING PROSPERITY,
COLONIAL AGRICULTURE,
A large crowd cheered the vote outside.
The Vote,
House of
The
Commons majority in favour of the rejec- tlon, on December 16 was 38.
mende contribution of £22,000 Agures of rejection last year.
year.
The Rubber Situation.
"Not a Mere Domestic
Matter.
fine spirit of the native ruler of report states
Mr. Amery bald a tributs to the The British Wireless Service
Gouds London, Yesterday.
Sir William Joynson: Hicka security and general welfare of the (Home Secretary) was the first tion that the planting community of Commons resumed the debate of Malaya wou dificulties due to the tfor
Governor Chao Chi and statedIt is reported that General Lau
Mr. Hall agreed, and said that he that a settlement of the Tainan Chee-luk (once governor of
top. Sgt. MacDonald said that he thought he was entitled to a week. incident would probably occupy Swatow and now in the Northern meantime the months. In the Army), with 6,000 troops, has Chiang Kai-shek, whose resigna noticed no mark on Sgt. Fryers Mr. Russ remarked that inca meantime the neutral zone on the clashed with Feng Yu-hsiang's tion of June 10 has been rejected face. On the other hand, accused case like this, the plaintive was na railway between Tsingtao and 3,000 men at Saho, 150 miles from/went aboard a Chinese gunboat bore a mark, a black eye, traces turally very anxious, Tainan would be strictly main Chefoo. General Chu Shang-ben at Nanking on June 18, leaving of which witness indicated in poner he got his money back the Malaya in any issue affecting-the tained and no Nationalist flags is advancing on Saho to assist secretly for Ningpo from where would be permitted:
The Consul-General considered Feng Yu-hsiang. It is feared he is going to his birthplace. Other than that, witness did not Mr. Hall repeated his application Empire. He expressed his convic speaker to-day, when the House
that the defeated troops may reated
Fenghwa, ostensibly to recuper treat towards Lungkow and Tengchowice Router Prior to his departure fro
Ja Nanking Chiang Kai-shez isqued Chiang Leares, orders removing the Nationalist Shanghal, Yesterday, military headquarters from Hsu
there were two questions so im portent that they must be settled es quickly as possible. The first was the establishment of a munk cipal council at Tsingtao strictly
In accordance with the spirit of Although the political situation chowfu to Nanking, whither he is the Washington treaty. The is complicated and reeds the withdrawing all the armies under second was the settlement of the closest attention, Marshal his command. Reuter,
notice anything peculiar about the for a week's adjournr condition either of Bgt, Fryer or Mr. Russ replied that
rule in that Court wh accusada
Coral Carrellor the the defendants to
wke in charge of the Mr. Hall retorted that it was the cons itary escort "which; fook: acous- usual prac
the police la statión, also
on Page 9.)
In the end his Lordablp fixed would
June 27 for hearing of to hold fts Wedn the case.
land
the
ber mitua
on the revised Frayer Book men- sure. He was convinced that the question at issue was not one of a amonies vestments.or. but that a definite. trine was embodied
(Continued on Page 12.).