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REPORT OF THE SIMON COMMISSION, JAIL FOR A BRITISH TRAPPED IN "ONLY ONE PER CENT. IS THE STREET BOYS'
Indians Demand for Equality with Europeans.
FUTURE OF THE ARMY. Historic Paper of the Weightiest Order.
recommendations of the report.
SOLDIER.
ACCIDENT WITH RIFLE THAT
LED TO A RIOT.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Peshawar, Yesterday,
India is
TUNNEL
GHASTLY TRAGEDY UNDER RIVER.
MANY DEATHS.
WILFUL LIARS”.
a je pre de
CLUB ANY GOOD?
MARTIAL LAW AT YOCHOW.
OFFENDERS ABSCOND AFTER BRITISH CONSUL "NOTIFIED OF
- THE BLOCKADE.
DANGER TO SHIPPING.
ADMISSION, SAY POLICE,
*
Hankow, Sunday.
and that the attention of all vessels
Gunboals Despatched to Yochow.
"
REFRIGERATION EXPERT CLOSELY QUESTIONED.
WATER SHORTAGE ?
FLOGGING NO GOOD,
To-day commenced the fourth The fact that,some Chines boys day of the hearing of the case at who are recommended to the The vanguards of the 8th Route A British soklier in "We fully recognise that among all educated Indians there is an now serving a long term of impri- DRILL HITS CHARGE the Supreme Court, before Sir Street Boys' Club by local Magis-Army, who were despatched to Joseph H. Kemp, K.C., in which trates absconded a little time after pursue the Kwangsi insurgente, are OF DYNAMITE. expression of demand of equality with Europeans, and resentment sonment owing, to his careless-
the Hong Kong and Shanghai their admission was elicited by reported to have had several clashes' Hotels, Limited, are sued by Divisional-Inspector Stimson at with "the mutineers under Tang Lance-Corporal Cummings, en-
June 6, in the against any suspicion of differential treatment," is a significant ess
Detroit, Yesterday.
Messrs. Andersen. Meyer & Co., the Kowloori Magistracy this Seng-ming, on statement appearing in the first of the two volumes of the eagerly-camped with his Regiment at
A ghastly tragedy, due to an Itd., for $25,885.20 for work done morning, when he charged before vicinity of Laiyang, resulting in the on May 31, was underground explosion, has oc- and materials supplied in con- Mr. Whyte Smith, two Chinese latter taking flight northwards. eleaning awaited report of the Indian Statutory Commission, which has just Kabul Gate
his rific.
The Hankow authorities have At that curred here, resulting in at least nection with refrigerating plants lads, aged 17 and 11 respectively, been issued.
moment a carriage containing a four deaths and many seriously installed at the Hong Kong and with the theft of two bottles of notified the British, American, and
Peninsula Hotels.
mineral water from a stall at 5, Japanese Consuls that Yochow has British India has just passed through one of the most critical Sikh woman and her two children injured.
A gang of labourers were en- In his cross-examination of Mr. Gillies Avenue, Hung Hom. Both been under blockade since Friday stages of its history, and the resentment evoked by the personnel passed through the Gate Owing
to careless handling the cartridge aged in excavating a tunnel Hacker, who is the refrigeration pleaded guilty. of the Simon Commission, the appointment of which really began accidentally exploded, the bullet under the Detroit River in con- expert on the staff of the plain- Inspector Stimson stated that is drawn to the fact. the trouble, may be partly allayed by the just and often generous passing through the bodies of the nection with a local waterworks tiff firm, Mr. Potter said that in the two bottles (one orange
woman and the two children, who extension scheme. They were all his experience he found that quash and the other sarsaparilla) According to intelligence from were killed outright.
180 feet below the surface when only one per cent. of persons were were kept in an ice-box, which had the Naval Department, the gunboats Villagers rushed from their the explosion took place and were wilful, liars and the rest merely a stone on top of it, specially put Tso Yau, Kiang Yuan, Teo Tai, Ham dwellings and surrounded Cum-trapped like rats, owing to the made mistakes, Counsel ques- there by the complainant to pre- Ling, Min Chun. Teh Shing, Wai mings, who was soon joined by walls
of the tunnel caving in. tioned witness at great length re-vent theft. It was alleged that Shing, Shun Shing. Kung Shing, his comrades. The mob, believ-The explosion is believed to have lating to the water supply from they rolled the stone off, and each and Yi Shing, commanded by Ad- ing that the shooting was done been caused by the electric drill the hotel's well.
took a bottle. When chased, the miral Chori Shao-kuan, left pledged and obstacies in the way deliberately, were angry and ex accidentally striking a charge of London, Yesterday.
Mr. Potter: You said that in second lad dropped his bottle of Hunan to participate in the expedi- cannot be treated as defeating that cited and seriously threatened a dynamite used for blasting the arly March, 1928, Mr. Brearley Sarsi sui," and broke its neck.
Admiral The first of the two volumes has
as affording discharge small party, of British troops.granite portions.
tion against the rebels. been issued of the eagerly-awaited object or
had made a statement to you. Do Dealing with the two boys in Chen arrived at Yochow on June 7, report of the Indian Statutory Com- from its pursuit. They are of so The latter were eventually obliged A party of rescuers went down you now realise the importance turn, it was learnt by his Wor-and after conferring with mission, presided over, by Sir John formidable a character that no to fire, owing to the hostility of the shaft and brought up four of the statement which you said ship that he had recommended military leaders he decided to at-
was appointed opinion as to what should now be the demonstrations. and seven bodies and a dozen badly injured Mr. Brearley had made to you? Simon, P.C., which
done is worth anything at all until members of the crowd were killed men, some of whom may not re-
the first defendant to the Boys" tack In four directions. to in- two years and a half ago
Mr. Hacker: Yes, I do.
Club, but he had not been there. But, and nine wounded relative 'to the they are duly appreciated. vestigate matters
[cover. Some of the victims are The whole success, of the plant His last offence was committed whatever the obstacles, the object The sequel to the shooting is married men with families. extension of self-government in
stands as the declared goal of that a Court Martial has sen-!
would depend on the statement? in 1927. Death Roll Mounts. India.
--Not the whole, but, to a very British Indian policy. On the tenced Lance-Corporal Cummings
Detroit, Later.
great extent. economic and political conditions in other hand, it is equally part and to 18 months' jail for his lack of
The death roll in the water- parcel of the pronouncements of
works.explosion has now mount- ed to six.-Reuter's American 1917 and 1919 that progress in the
Service. attainment of this avowed object
Another Explosion. can only be achieved by successive
Oaklands, California,
Yesterday.
EXTENSION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
The document surveys
the
India most comprehensively.
Although the present volume of the report has the most interest, far higher importance attaches to the second volume, which will published on June 24.
be
care.
Raid on Salt Works.
Bombay, Yesterday. Forty-two volunteers who raid- stages and that the time and man-ed the salt works at Wadala re- It will con- ner of each advance can be deter-cently, have each been sentenced i tuin the Simon Commission's re-mined only by Parliament, upon to three months' rigorous impri-
whom the responsibility lies for comment. commendations.
the welfare and advancement of Com- The fact that the seven
the Indian peoples. The decision missioners appointed were repre- sentative of all political parties, and as to the immediate future must
for
the
Troops Massing at Yochow. Due to the advance of the Iron- aides and Kwangsi-ites, martial law Absolute Pest.
declared has been
at Yochow. Divisional Inspector Stimson Strong fortifications have been pre- Not Daring Statement. described the lad as an absolute pared on land and water. The It was rather a daring state-pest, as he had been brought to National troope masaing at Yochow ment for a person to make who the police station on several occa-are as follows:-Eight regiments had just arrived in the Colony and sions for acting auspiciously in under General Ho Chien; three who had seen the well?--I don't the streets by peeping through regiments under Hsia Tao-yen; and think so.
doors and prowling about in back two regiments, of the 2nd Training Division concentrated at various Second defendant, who had points adjacent to Yochow; a con- eight strokes of the rattan in May tingent of the 18th Division; the last, was ordered this time to re- 60th Division commanded by Tan ceive 12 strokes.
Tao-yuan; the 53rd Division under Regarding the first lad, who Li Wen-hain; and Chien To-chürfe of the Assembly, County. There are no further deny his conduct is quite inexplica was the older of the two, his Wor-five training regiments, all totalling Mukund Malaviya, a son of Pandit fails. Reuter's pherican Services the source of water pretty obvious that a flogging did Chien personally. directed operations
It would be
ship remarked that it seemed 40,000 strong.. Generals Hsia and Malaviya, who ware arrested in the police raid on the Congress
supply would be from a surface him no good at all, as he had been on June 6.
Не headquarters last Friday, have
well? Yes, the well had a con-caned three times before.
lad to three to six months'
trete slider over it at the time, sentenced this rigorous imprisonment-Reuter.
and later in July I discovered months with hard labour. there was a pump connected with
Extremists failed.
A similar accident to that ati Why? Because Mr. Brearley alleyways. Detroit occurred to day, when had data left to him by his pre-
even workmen were killed out-decessor.
Bombay, Yesterday.
right and one horribly injured If I prove to you beyond any Ten members of the Bombay during an explosion in a tunnel doubt that Mr. Brearley had had that the whole of the report, in their largely depend upon a just estimate Congress Committee, Including the at Calaveras Dam, in Alameda no information, then would you
wn words, "is unanimuus in all of the results and the consequences ex-president fundamental matters and without of steps already taken.
Our own task is not to decide but to report to the King Emperor and to Parliament. In the steps
A dissenting minute," makes it an historic paper of the weightiest order. The Commissioners travelled 21,000 miles in the course of their that will follow before a decision been sentenced
Investigations.
National Dignity.
The Indian report recognises that, among all educated Indians there is an expression of demand for equality with Europeans, and a resentment against any suspicion of differential treatment.
Was
affected
is reached there will be full op portunity for the contribution of views of every section of respon- sible and representative opinion in
India.
Modern Ideas.
essential characteristic of all such i
Dealing with the conditions of manifestations in concentrating all the problem, the Commissioners forces which are roused by an ap- national dignity and It would be a profound error to survey India's vast aize and varied peal to belittle the Indian Nationalist move population, Its conglomeration of national selfconsciousness."
In 1921 British India had a popu- races and religions, its social divi- ment
true for, while it
sions, its economic circumstances lation of 247,000,000, and the In- that
directly it
the
and its growing political con-dian states 72,000,000, and to the hopes of A very small frac-
sciousness, and, the position of the complication of language no single tion of the Indian popula-
vernacular tongue has no wide a tion, nevertheless it concentrated all Army in India.
English, but only "In spite of the eagerness with range
in English. the forces roused by an appeal to national dignity and national self-which political India ia umbracing 2,500,000 are literate
the modern ideas of the Govern- The language with the greatest ment, the ancient social system of currency among all the population Among the outstanding subjects Hinduism, which has evolved as Hindustant, but it is far from discussed by the Commissioners was rigid complication of innumerable being generally understood all the unworkable theory of Dyarchy -the system under which Ministers castes from the Brahmin at the over India, in which there are al- were partly responsible to the Pro- top to the Parish at the bottom, together 222 vernaculars. vincial Legislatures and partly to continues to control the lives and the Governor-General.
consciousness.
the
.
́the
The Sacred Cow.
RACE MEETING.
"As You Were " on Saturday.
Yesterday's heavy rain literally "washed out" the races, but upon enquiry this morning, a China Mail reporter was informed that they will be held on Saturday next, and all the arrangements made will etill stand.
The China Mail publishes this. news with the full authority of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. People
who bought awcep tickata for yesterday's, racing will, therefore, still be able to see their favourites In action. So please, gentlemen," don't tear them up!
PIRATE ROUND-UP. Smart
Capture by Canton
Officers.
SECRET SOCIETY.
lit.
You mean that the well could be pumped dry?—No.
Do you suggest that Mr. Brearley could pump the well dry? -No.
vent a shortage but only to help in case of a shortage.
Failure to Intercept Rebels. In a wire of June 6 to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, General Ho Chien expressed his deepest regret for hia, failure to check the advance of the insurgents along the Faching and Hengchew line.. However, he is Then you did contemplate a pos-now directing his own army to- gether with the 18th Division and a sible shortage of water?-Yes. Then why do you make the sug- Then why did you not tell us contingent of the 2nd Training gestion ?-1 say this because he this in your evidence in chief? Division, by various routes, to quell. The Ironsides under Chang Fat- could get the temperature of the Pecause that possibility was later the rebels. water.
wiped out by the ice plant.
this kuei are reported to have arrived at. Questioned further Then the temperature in March would justify him to guarantecoint, witness said that the water Wantsal, 96 miles from Nanching, in as to what the temperature will was made to return to the well weatern Kiangsi, aiming at the Chairman be in July?He knew more about not for the purpose of avoiding a capture of Kiuklang. wells than I do.
on
shortage in the supply, but solely Lu Te-pin of Kiangal has despatched Do you say that the tempera- for the purpose of sanitation. the troops under Chang Fei-chen to Iture of a surface well water will Witness also said that at the time chock the penetration of the rebela, be the same in March and July? there was no provision made in leaving the garrison of the Non- -I don't say that.
the hotel with regard to supply-chang and Klukiang area to the No command of Generals, Kuo Ju-tung Sea Water Percolation?
ing water for sanitation.
A sub- But if a surface well is near the direct pipes or pumps had been and Wang Chih-chun.
commissariat was established at sea, would not sea water percolate laid.
The local Mr. Potter: If you believed Nanchang on the 6th.
an order that through?-I don't know whether it happened in this case or not. you had a sufficient supply of authorities fasued
Do you also say that the tem-water guaranteed to you, there from the 6th all mails and telegrama before dis- perature of the water would be will be no necessity, then, of re- would be approximately the same as the turning water to the well?---No.
General Ho Ying-ching, Minister temperature of the surface?In I put it to you that, if you could
tribution.
censored
(Continued on Pago 8.)
The Commissioners emphasise thoughts of more than 200 out of the predominantly rural character 320,000 of the population with a of the population and say "Any The Army Question.
persistence and authority undream- quickening of general political judgment, any widening of rural Other important subject discusseded of in the western world." in the report include the very diff- A sense of unity is growing but horizons beyond the traditional cult question of the future Army It is largely the outcome of the and engrossing Interest of weather arrangements in India in connection most recent stage of India's his- and water and crops and cattle
my opinion I think it depends on avoid it, that would be the very of War, has decided to proceed to with such
Yochow on June 10, personally to problems 15
tory during which the influence with a round of festivals and fairs
the depth of the well.
last thing you would do?-Yes. constant menace of the North and authority of British rule over and family ceremonies and dread
Canton, Yesterday.
You are fairly acquainted with
Because you are returning hot direct the operations against the Weat
Invaders. Frontier; the иде of the whole area have made it pos- of famine and food, la bound to
Acting on
information received well water in your profession?-water to the well?--Yes. British soldiers in
General Lu Te-ping, chairman of suppress-sible to speak of India as a single come very slowly indeed.
The results of that are obvious that the bandits who had recently Fairly so. ing communal riots; the ques- entity. This tenda to obscure to
During your 20 years' experi-to us you may reach a point Kiangsi, has made Tungkoo, five the passenger boat. Kao tion of martial races; the Indianise the casual absorver the variegated The Hindu regards the cow as bombed tion of the Army; the relationship assemblage of races and creeds an object of great veneration, Ming while lying at the Western ence you must have gathered when your well would attain a miles to the west border of the pro- of the Indian States to the para which make up the whole.
while the ceremonial sacrifice of Bund, were hiding at a place 30 11 great deal of information relating heat which would render the plant vince, as the 1st line of defence; mount Power; the stumbling block! Two other influences making for cows or other animais le a feature below Chung Lau Tai Chu, near Can- to well water?-Not very much. unworkable? No, you are twist- Do you realise that the well in ing the idea, because not all of the caused by Hindu and Moslem unification are the prevalence of of annual Muhammadan ton, six defectives and air Po An
water was to be returned. ·· rivalry, and the question of com- English as, general means of com- festival. Hindu music played troops commanded by two officers the hotel was on reclaimed land?
Full Supply Guaranteed. munal representation. This final munication among educated men through the streets on the occasion were despatched by the Bureau of I did not. I left that matter to
Then Mr. Brearley did not guar- question deals with the complica in India, and the growth of a of a procession, or in connection Public Safety last Friday to the M. Brearley by agreement.
In other words you were guarantee you a full supply?—Yes, he tions of the caste problem, and the passionate determination among with the marriage celebration, may locality Indicated.i liability of Hindus or Moslems pre- politically-minded classes of all take place at a time when Muham- Upon arrival the officers found anteed a maximum temperature did, and the reason why we con- templated a possible shortage was: dominating.
Indian races and religion to assert madana are at worship in an nothing unusual at the place except af 12 degrees?--Yes. and uphold the claim of India as adjoining mosque and it causes an same boats lying along the bank. Counsel then read from a por because he needed the water for
and I put it to you that no refrigera- There is a chapter on women a whole to its due place in the outbreak of resentment. The im- They engaged one of the boats, and tion of the contract in which it sanitary purposes. which refers to the gathering force world.
modiate occasion of communal dis- upon boarding it, saw a suspicious was provided that the water taken of the movement against child mar
order is nearly always religious loolding person in it, and upon out from the condensers would be tion engineer would adopt a sys- riago and the growing feeling "It would be profound error to In the chapter on caste and the searching him they found a revolver made to return to the well, and ten of that kind if he could avoid
asked witness if he could suggest it? don't agree with you. against purdah (the custom of allow geographical dimensions or depressed classes the report points on his person,
why that arrangement was made. If we leave out the sanitation com-out that every Hindu necessarily wearing a vell over the face.) statistics of population or
Witness replied that he did not part of the business, can you aug- The Increasing participation by plexities of religion and crate and belongs to the caste of his parents, women in public affairs is also men- language to belittle the significance which nothing can alter Systema- other person in a bost slangside, now, because the suggestion was gest why was the water returned
of what is called the Indian tie classification had revealed seeing what took place opened irs on made by Mr. Brearley
to the well. tioned in the report.
the men, but was shot down by Mr. Potter: Do you mean to say Mr. Sheldon (to Mr. Potter): division Nationalist movement. True it is 2,800 castes. Such
them
that? Yes, I do and I am not Mr. Hasker has given you an aver that it directly affects the hopes of persists in the lowest station and
saying anything else,
but you would not be convinced. But why was the water made Mr. Potter: Oh, really.
Child Marriage.
The Commission le apparently strongly impressed by arguments for the separation of Burma from India Reuter.
The British Goal,
Rugby, Yesterday.
Profound Error.
a very small fraction of the teem there are graduations of castes
He was at once arrested, but an-
Mr. Potter (to witness): Why
A search of all the boats was Ing peoples of India True it may even among outcasts. Some 80 per then made, when two machine guns. be that the leaders do not reflect cent. of the Hindu population are and two revolvers were seized, and to return to the well?-Bera se the active sentiments of the masses untouchables and for all other four persons believed to be pirates he was not sure of his supply, did you not suggest to put the Discussing the prescribed goal of men and women In India, who Hindus cause pollution by touch were arrested. The prison- Then where is your guarantee water into a tank for sanitation Bald bemem of 120 gallons? Well, Mr. purposes? Mr. Brearley desired of British dan policy, the Com- know next to nothing of politicians and delle food and water. Coners are
late, "On the one hand and are absorbed in pursuing the aiderable effort has been made in re- bers of a society called Kal Hung Erearley had to get that either this system to save pumping air.. realisation of traditional course of their daily cent years by social reformera and Tong which tourishes by extorting from the well or from other Now I want to be quite clear
river bosts, sources, a far British lives. But none the less, however the Government to ameliorate the voyage mas
limited In sumbers as compared lot of the repressed classes, but passing
missione
the whole public, the men of progress had been and is likely to to pay
co India claim to be,
for the whole, and
okesmen remainslow, although realim.
idia the proven
beginning in some
ab Wireless Bervice!
Fabout this, Is it your suggestion In Case of a Shortage that it was Mr. Brearley who sug
the water made talented to return the water. the
order to
SHOWERY.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:
An anticyclone covers Japan a depression lies over weatern Chiná,
Forecast S: winds, moder- ate; fair to showery.
Rainfall
Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day. 2.72 inches Rainfall since January 1, 28.20 inches against an average of 28.41 Inches.
Temperature and Humidity. The temperature and humidi by at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock were:
Temp. Humid.
Hong Kong. Macao Pratar Teland Mantia Amoy
75
72
79