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THE GREAT FIRE AT SHANGHAI,
SEVEN GODOWNS DESTROYED.'
DAMAGE ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF: $3,000,000.
AMERICAN LAWYER DISBARRED AT SHANGHAI.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. -
YEN AND DOLLAR OUSTS
ROUBLE AT HARBIN.
YOKOHAMA" SPECIE BANK OPENS SILVER ACCOUNTS.
|
THE A B.C. AT TIENTSIN. THE DANSANT" SCANDAL. THREATENED SPLIT OF TIENTSIN ORGANIZATION.
Chinese social circles in Tientsin are in a state of great excitement over recent
At the result of proceedings in the U.S. Court for, China, Mr. Earl B. Rose, The Harbin brunch of the Yokohama an American lawyer, has been disbarred Specie Bank has announced the opening The NC. Daily News of March 19th from practising in all American Courts in given the following report of the great China, on the ground that tre has been of silver accounts based on Tayun, to fire at Shanghai reported in a recent guilty of wilful deceit and misconduct wit. the Chinese Great Dollar, from events at the British, American and
his profession.
Chinese Commercial Club which threaten-... It was alleged February 26th and the transaction. of to create a split the Chinese member- One of the most disastrous fires which against Mr. Rose that, he had taken the has occurred in Shanghai for some yours, securities of his clients, left with him for general banking business in connection ship of that organization. and probably the heaviest record safe keeping, and had pledged them to with silver accounts. The deposits, loan the amount of damage done, broke out others against, personal loans made to advancements, exchanges, etc., are to be Commercial Club, better known as the
chbly:-
311
himself.
transacted.
The British. American and Chineas
shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday alongside
A.B.C. Club, was organized shortly after the creek at the corner of North Soochow
the European War with a view to arous Judgment on an application for his Road and North Tibet Road. Two blocks
Russian ing a great get together spirit among of buildings, divided up into 12 godowns, disbarment, made by Mr. H. D. Rodger, Suce the abrupt - fuil --of packed with merchandize, were almost Special District Attorney, was delivered rouble, consequent upon the Great War, the merchants, bankers, teachers and tntally destroyed, and other buildings in by his Honour Judge C. S. Lobingier. Japanese financial influence, having afficials of the three nationalities. As in the vicinity suffered dainage.
His Honour said:-This cause comes Harbin as it centre, was firmly estab Shanghai, the premises of the former. The budding in which the outbreak is on for hearing upon the complaint and lished in North Manchuria and has made German Club in Tientsin were acquired- said to have originated stands at the, the evidence. the Special Assistant U.S. a remarkable development in the Russian from the Chinese Government for the use of the new A.B.O. Club; and these corner of the two roads named, and is Attorney appearing in support of the Far East.
The restoration of the Chinese Eastern 'comfortable quarters, plus a large mem- the property of the Shanghai Godown complaint, but the respondent failing to Company, a Chinese concern, No. 6 appent, and the evidence disclosing that Railway to the Chinese Government from bership from each of the three nations
assure the North Soochow Road and No. 1. Tibet he has fled the jurisdict on after having Russian management, resulting from the,lities, seemed Road. The fire was observed from vari-been served with notice of this proceed overthrow of the influence of Lieut. success. Unfortunately for the promoters General Horwatch and the recovery of of the plan the Chinese did not "greb ous points, and when Sinza and Hongkew ing.
with the British and Ameri- sections of the brigade arrived on theIt appears from the testimony of James various rights and concessions in North together scene they found the Shanghai Godown Macdonnid and Stirling Fessenden that Manchuria and Eastern Siberin, by the cans as well as had been expected, the Co.'s premises burning furiously, there the respondent, a member of the bar af Chinese authorities, caused the influence lure of the theatre, the tea-house and being a big quantity of silk cocoons stored this court and at the time also a member of Taran dollars on the market to visibly the home being greater than that of the here in addition to other cargo. A of the law firm of Jernigan, Fessenden & extend and it has now literally outsed the Club. Thus the Committee of the Club was obliged to resort to heroic mensures brigade call was immediately given, the Rose, took certain securities for large, Russian rouble. while force turning out with the excep;amounts which had been entrusted hy
The Yokohama Specio Bank was con-in order to increase the institution's poptti- tion of Yongtstepoo section, which stood
'was on.
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A DIFFICULT· PASH.
A MASS OF DESTRUCTION,
to
Club's
by at Central station, and had two small clients to him as a member of said templating for some time circulating larity: al one of these measures was affairs to attend to while the big blaze firm in connex on with the drafting of silver notes in North Manchuria, as the the holding of a weekly afternoon tea
contracts for them, and pledged the said Dairen branch of the bank does in South dance..
The ten dances were a succes from the securities to various hanks against per Manchuria, but the bank has failed so far
the Chinese members attending them in The first lifhculty which the brigade sonal leans to the respondent. These to reach an understanding with the start the wives, mothers and sisters of had to meet, and a serious one, was that transactions appear to have extended interested parties.
After surmount na difficulties' in em- large numbers" and apparently enjoying over more than a year, but the respond. access to the burning building was not ent seems to have succeeded by plausible barking apan his novel enterprise, the them as much as their sisters from the easy: The heavy doors were of course,
Bank has finally solved the long-pending West. Then came the rift in the lute all locked, and the windows had. iron explanation in allaying suspicion #0 shutters, which only opened inwards. that discovery of the full details, by question of opening silver accounts. The and its resulting division of Chinese- Even when the doorn were wrenched open, those interested, was prevented, until recent contract signed between the South society in Tientsin into two groups which it was impossible then to deal with the quite recently. Indeed, the deceit prac Manchuria Railway Company, the Yoko are growing further apart from ter dance- flames from the inside, the fire having tised toward these parties after thei hama Specie Bank, and Messrs. Buzuki to ten dance.
Te appears that, as the weekly dances.
popularity among the gathered great force and sending out original misappropriation of the securi-Co., with regard to the transportation dense volumes of smoke. The water ties was not the least serious part of the of bean cake from Harbin to Dairen, gave proved their
a splendid opportunity for, accelerating Chinese, many of the Chinese banking supply was also a matter of anxiety, the offence.
and official members of the Club got main in this neighbourhood being com- Under a statute previously applied by, this line of business.
Silver accounts had hitherto been into the habit of taking their concubines, paratively small, whilst the number of this court, it is empowered to disbar an hydrants was insufficicat to meet the attorney who is guilty of any wilful transacted by the Yokohama Specie Bank or secondary wives, to the club for an needs of the occasion. Three hydrants deceit or. misconduct in his profession." to a nominal amount in Harbin and by afternoon's whirl. Now the concubine is were required to serve one pump. Added And prior conviction 'a a criminal prose the opening of the above-mentioned the official and social inferior of the wile. to this, the tide was low, with the result cution is not a pre-requisite to such dia accounts the bank silver notes will find the sister and the mother. On the other-
their way throughout North Manchuria. hand she has a great advantage over that the fire Boat pumped up a consider barment, though in this instance such a. The adventure will not only serve the the average Chinese wife in that she able quantity of mud instead of water. prosecution was instituted as soon as
hor Convenience of those carrying on their represents
husband's personál complaint was made to the prosecuting business on silver accounts, but also will choice, whereas the wife was generally Within an hour, the Shanghai Godown officer and is still pending awaiting meet the Chinese policy of radically selected for him by his parents or by the Company's building collapsed. But some apprehension of the accused.
The Court, therefore, funds that the changing the Russian rouble into the official match-maker." Hence the concu time before this, flames were seen at the top of the An Chee Godown Co.'s build.verments of the complaint are true and Chinese Tayan. It is expected that noine is, as a rule, younger, prettier and ing, next in line along North Tibet Road. that the respondent has been guilty both serious blow will be dealt to the Japansetter dressed than the wife,
misconduct in gold notes issued by the Bank of Chost The inerrasing numbers of concubines The two buildings are separated by a of "wilful deceit and "
throngbout Manchuria by the issue of appearing at the A.B.C. Club's dances ·
made a hit with the dancing Chinese and passage way 18 ft. wide, but the flames his profession." justifying disbarment. appear to have swiftly crossed the inter- It is accordingly ordered and adjudged silver notes.--Japan Times and Mail.
the susceptible but innocent foreigners: The mothers, wives and sisters, however, vening space spreading with great that the respondent's admission to the
were not favourably impressed. Thes
themselves' turned building, composed of four large sections, hereby revoked and that he be and
into bedding involved. Much of its interior con- hereby is disbarred from practising in all
wall-flowers in every respect, and they struction, Boors, staircases, being of American Courts in China.
did not like it. Now the question wood, fael was added to the fire of cargo
JAPAN'S DECLARATION. was: What to do? A formal protest to which which the place was packed. Thus
their sons, husbands and brothers was. The Council of the League of Nations out of the question, for they knew that in the brigade now found itself faced with a burning mass extending quite 100 yards made by Chief Officer Pets in his annual recently, made public the following de- this case Chinese manhood would take
The paragraph in along North Tibet Road. from the creek report just issued.
claration by the Japanese Government the law into its own hands and henceforth question is worth quoting in full:~~
relating to mandates:---
leave all ladies, whether concubines or I again regret to have to report that, From the fundamental spirit of the otherwise, at home. A protest to the appreciably little has been done as re- League of Nations and as the question committee was equally out of the ques gards this important. subject (water of interpretation of the Covenant. his tion, for cancubines have a legal status. supply). It is unnecessary to dwell on Imperial Japanese Majesty's Government in Chinn; their offspring is legitimate: the deficiency of the present sretom, for have a firm conviction in the justice of and many of the Chinese members of the the main points have been alluded to the claim they have hitherto made for Club were the sons of concubines *in previous reports. The only comment
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. rapidity, so that before long the whole bar of this Court be and the same i
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The fremen worked with the utmost energy and in eircumstances of consider- able danger. The collapse of the first
building filled the road with debris on the creek side up to the water's edge, and one Chinese fireman was hurled into the creek. He is now in hospital. Chief Off- cer Pett also had a narrow escape, a red hot iron plate just missing him as it crashed to the ground.
-VALUABLE PROPERTY SAVED. –
JAPAN
AND THE PACIFIC
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I have to make on such is that, if some the inclusion of a clause concerning the So the ladies of the higher social
thing is not done very quickly, dire results will accrue. The water supply as regards the extinction of fire can only be stated to have grown worse, so much so that matters are extremely serious and there appears to be a deal.
lock.".
assurance of equal opportunities for trade circle decided on a boycott. No man, and commerce in "C" mandates.
But be be Chinese or foreigner, who danced from the spirit of conciliation and co with a concubine was to be accepted by a Indy of their own group on the same
operation, and their reluctance to see the question unsettled any longer, they day on which he committed the offence. have decided to agree to the issue of the If he came up for a dance the following mandate in its present form. That deci, week with his conselence clear he wa
a social
The Hames gradually worked their way. back from North Tibet Road until the whole block of buildings became involved. Nos. 60, 61 and 62 North Soochow Road, Chinese owned godowns, were soon be It is not, of course suggested that the sion, however, should not be considered accepted as a partner, but on the day yond hope of saving, and the whole present disaster is attributable to an in- an Requiescence on the part of his of his misdemeanour he was efforts of the brigade were turned to perfect water supply, but beyond ques in the submission of Japanese subjects to sisters were concerned.
Imperial Japanese Majesty's Government outcast as far as the mothers, wives and keeping the outbreak within this limit, tion the service proved more or less in- ! a big task, which was successfully accom adequate and the matter is, therefore, one discriminatory and disadvantageous The effects of the boycott were immed- plished No. 63 North Soochow Road, which calls for very serious consideration. treatment in the mandated territories; inte and startling. The Chinese offenders the Kiangsu Bank Godown, narrowly A word should be added in apprecia-nor have they thereby discarded their
next sensations were chagrin and escaped destruction, but here the fire was tion of the work of the Fire Brigade. claim that the rights and interests enjoy were stand, but not for long; their Innocent foreigners, not chocked after attacking the rear of the Officers and men seem to have done com-ed by Japanese subjects in these terri-indignation. Fremises, and comparatively slight damn-mendable work in circumstances of un- torics in the past should be fully res knowing the difference between a concu age was done. The godowns of Messrs. usual difficulty and no small danger.
pected,"
bine and any other Chinese Indy, were Heffer & Co., further along the creek
The Pacific islands come in the "C" completely mystified when they left new. frontage, Nos. 36-7-8-0 North Soochow
category of mandates, which in the words friends to ask their old friends for a Road, were also threatened, but suffered.
of the Treaty of Verenilles (Article) dance, only to be turned down. And It has been ascertained that the insuran be best administered under the neither the Chinese nor the foreign, no more damage than was done by the water poured upon it to prevent its catch ance on the merchandise stored in the laws of the mandatory as integral por-members, although for entirely different ing on fire. The brigado bid to work godowns reaches an approximate total of tions of its territory" subject to safe reasons, know how to handle the new with tremendous energy to save other, 88,000,000, though at this sum the list guards indicated in the interests of the situation. It looks as though the mother. valuable property in the immediatelia believed to be not quite complete. indigenous population.--Ex.] vicinity-the. Yun-yuen Silk Filature on The amount of insurance carried by the
INSURANCE DETAILS.
TATER.
the Alabaster Boad side, a large rice mill | various companies is estimated 18
on the opposite Tibet Road corner, and follows:-
a flour mill on the Winchester Road side. Employers Liability and the Motor A KOREAN'S CHINESE
Of the 12 godowns composing the inner Union, TIs. 1,035,000; American Foreign block of buildings attacked, seven have Insurance Association, Tis. 1,000,000; been completely destroyed.
$6,000,000 DAMAGE ADMITTED.
NATIONALITY.
Association Franco-Asiatique, Tis. 235,000 ANOTHER SINO JAPANESE DIPIO
MATIC " INCIDENT."
the wife and the sister had the whiphandTM over the Chinese male section of the Club; and, according to them, the box- cott will continue either until the con- cubines are conspicuous only by their absence or until the tea dance censes to be a feature of the Club's social activi. ties. Peking Leader.
It was eight o'clock before the brigade Yorkshire, Tis. 806,000; Union of London, got the flames under control, by which Tis. 348,000; Union of Canton, Tis. time nothing remained of the seven 993,000 North China, Tis. 282,000; godowns except jagged and bulging walls
A Chinese news agency states that the
TRADE CREDIT SCHEME, and a mass of burning debriz The Scottish Union and National, Tis. Civil Governor of Kirin has informed the pumps were at work upon this through 221,000; Norwegian Atlas, Tis. 216,000; Japanese police attached to the Japanese Government is endeavouring to persuade 227,500; Yangtze and Far Easters, Ts. Foreign Office that, some time ago, the
The London Daily News states the out yesterday, and even up till late in Phoenix, Tis. 279,000; Motor Union, Tis. Consulate in Kirinfa, without the pre bankers to take the whole risk of the the evening the situation. required cars 303,000; South British, Tis. 193,000; vious knowledge or concurrence of the trade credits scheme, but there is not ful watching.
Mitsui, T. 163,000; Japanese, Tis. Chinese authorities, arrested a Korean the slightest hope of the bankers acceding At the time of writing, it is possible 130,000 National of Copenhagen, Ts. naturalized Chinese subject many years
150,000; North British and Mere, Ts.named Chin Yun-yi, who became a to the request. to give only an approximate estimate of 135,000: Imperial. Tls. 107,000; Norwe ago. The Japanese say this man is con- the damage. Yesterday afternoon & meet gian Lloyda, Tls. 158,800; Western Aus- nected with the independence movement ing of the insurance companies interested tralia, Tis. 37,000; Palatine, Tis. 119,000 in Korea. The Japanese Consul refused
practically the whole of the companies. operating in Shanghai--was held, and Shanghai Fire and Marins, Tis. 84,300; and is still refusing to release Chin Fin- we understand on reliable authority that, "Batavia, Tls. 28,000; London and Lancai, because, he anys, Japan does not THE WRONG WAY TO READ. on a provisional estimate, the value of shire, Cla. 54,000; Globe and Rutgers, recognize his Chinese nationality and he merchandize stored in the buildings was is. 63,000; London, Tis. 50,000; Gresham, insists that as Japan enjoys extra If you have to hold the print too far away to placed at $7,000,000, The first estimate Tis. 47,500 East India, Tis. 45,000; Law territorial rights in China, the Japanese of the liability of insurance companies, Union and Rock, Tis. 35,500; Royal, Tha
interference of the Chinese officials. The
iwe understand, in excess of 28,000,000. 35.900 Java Bea, Tis. 33,000; Hongkong police in Kirinfu have every right to see clearly, the eye will be strained to make out.” This is a conservativo estimate, Later Fire. TIs. 30,000; Guardian, Tls. 23,500 arrest any Japanese subject without the the fine print. If you have to hold the print information puts the risk at between Royal Exchange, Tle, 145,000; Lanta Japanese Consul consequently declines to too lose that will strain the muscles of the sye. The loss is shire, Tia. 19,000; Queens, Tis. 16,000 release or to hand over Chin Yun-ri to gither way is bad. When you cannot read any $8,000,000 and $3,000,000, bound to be extremely heavy, probably National Benefit, Tls. 20,000; Sun, Tis the Chinese authorities for trial. between 70 and 80 per cent. of the total 10,000; Netherlands Lloyd, Tia, 7,000; risk. It is understood that silk cocoons State, Tis. 14,000; British-America, Tis formed the bulk of the merchandize des- 1,500, General, Tis. 189,000; Caledonian, troyed, though the godowns were all filled Tir. 47,000, China Mutual Tia 60,000 The women olerks of the War Office find with a great variety of general cargo, Chinese companies are unofficially re no champion in Sir William Bobertson. including a quantity of piece goods. ported as holding Tls. 120,000,
In a recent speech he quoted figures show. It has not been possible yet to obtaining a total of over 2,000 such clerks, and The circumstances of the water supply an accurate description of the goods declared that while a quarter of a million to which reference has already been made, stored in the godowan. Apparently, the ex-soldiers could not get work the recen- londs additional force to the observations, balk of them were held by Chiness banks tion of one woman in the War Office was
(Oontinued at foot of next column:) as security for loans.
a monstrous injustice.
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