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JUDGE OBEYS ORDERS.
SCENE IN SHANGHAI PRO- VISIONAL COURT.
NATIONALIST OFFICER MAKES A SCENE.
BUTWINS OVER" THE COURT.
Two youthful officers of the in Nationalist Army stationed Shanghai were arrested in a local Chinese hotel the other orening for being found inside the Settlement in possession of a pistol. At the same time as the police arrested the two officers they released another Chinese who was being held a pri- soner in a room at the hotel by these two officers.
The story was unfolded at the Provisional Court when the two
WHITE SLAVERY IN CHINA AMERICA HOARDING OIL.
COAST PORTS.
YOUNG RUSSIAN GIRL'S SUICIDE AT TSINGTAO:
GIRLS LURED TO TSINGTAO UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.
Three, nights ago at the Carlton Bar a young Russian girl, eighteen years of age, threw herself from a second storey, window in an effort to end her life, says the Pringtao Times of June 1st. When falling she struck a lend coping projection, which apparently cut her badly at the back of the neck, but doubtless somewhat broke her fall.
TO ENFORCE DISARMAMENT
SUPPLIES NEARING EXHAUS
TION.
The statement that the United States Government intends to store vast quantities of oil as a reserve for its fighting services and, if
ed.
reessary, will restrict exports to enable it to accomplish this pur
direct in- pose, naturally hinga terest for England. We get about 60 per cent. of our oil supplies from the United States and Mexico, and about 25 per cent from the great oilGelds in Persia, in which our. Government is financially interest- A number of people ran out to
Only about 3 per cent. of the pick her up, and an American with some knowledge of medicine sue- anual consumption of these is ceeded in bringing the poor girl lands, and the shipping of these back to consciousness after some islands is produced within the Almost immed- time, greatly to the joy of the other British Esapire. women of the bat. The recovery,iately after the end of the war the military officers made their appear however, was only temporary and Admiralty took steps to provide ance, before Judge Láng and Con- sho later died as the result of her against what might become a dan- gerous situation in the event of sular Deputy Kudo harged with injuries.
another big and prolonged sea con- OELF representative yesterday three offences, viz.-Being found-in the International Settlement in morning witnessed the funeral of fict. Thanks to the foresight then a this young girl, the motor hearse shown we now have a permanent. possession, of a pistol without licence, unlawfully imprisoning one being followed on foot by a number reserve of oil uel in the United Tsang Lung Nyi, without authority of Russian women, the friends of Kingdom which is estimated as the deceased girl, to the cemetery. adequate to supply the needs of the and, further, with having,
Suicide cases among the Russian Fleet at full war strength for at the aforesaid date, prevented the anid Torg from leaving his room, women in the bare at Tsingtao last a year. But with the steady at the Far Eastern Hotel.·
have been of such frequent occur process of mechanization" in the rency that it is high time the fighting services, the demand in always growing. Oil is now one of The possession of the pistol and authorities concerned took some the primary sinews of war, and it to prevent the con- is not too much to say that any the unlawful detention of Tsang measures immediately suggest, the old ́prac-tinuance of this White Slavery in country which could control the oil | supply, or even curtail it would squeeze." The necused our midst, continues our Tsingtao have an advantage which it is im tice of "made no bones" about the matter contemporary. It is well known possible to measure.
In some quarters, there, appears when it came their turn to speak that many respectable girls at
to exist the belief that a political to Judge Ling and explain their Harbin, Vladivostock, and other object lies at the back of this re- conduct. According to them Tsang places within reach of Tsingtao and ported move by the United States Government. Indeed, it is sug bad official egg" of the Shanghai are invoigled into taking gestril that since all the efforts of former Marshal Sun Chuan Fang up what they believe to be situathe Preparatory Disarmament Com- at Geneva for eleven administration. He was magistrate tions as waitresses in various bars mission'
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of dollars and they were simply money, and have little chance to holding him until he coughed get clear.
up."
It would be far better, for the Assistant Police Prosecutor P. W. sake of humanity, if certain of Goldring, conducting the case for the police, told the court that the police had nothing to do with what ever political elements might enter into the ease.
Complainant's Story.
Vanished Coaling Stations. The idea is far-fetched, but not altogether out of the question. In the last extreme our Navy could. fall back upon Welsh coal, which is
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Great War could never have been Raoying by Governor Zung Dau among the white women-slaves of fought as it was fought which, of Yi, in the first moon of last year. Tsingtao. The number of suicides course, is rather like explaining We are frequently Since the first accused arrived among them during the last two the obvious. with the Nationalist Army to take years is appalling, and a case like told that at the present pace of consumption the visible supply of over my position under the Nation this last one is particularly sad be-oil in the world cannot laat more alist Government, I have handed cause the child had nowhere to than a few decades. If this meant him the sum of $30,000, through turn, was refined and well bred, reversion to the older and more Mr. Chang of the Bank of China. and in any other environment would chivalrous methods of waging war have found happiness. There are There is, however, a further $8,000 those who will claim that she was still in the Bank and the first ac- under the influence of drink, of cused followed me to Shanghai in course, and that her death was a sheer accident. Doubtless drink is order to get that money. But the all too easily obtained under the Bank will not pay it to him be- circumstances of her life; but in cause he was magistrate for only that case a duty devolves upon the three days. I was dismissed from proprietor of the bar to see that people cannot fall accidentally out the post of Magistrate on June 3rd, of his windows. Can nothing else when I handed over the seale and be done to prevent recurrences? money to the first nocused on the same day. As I was about to leave Kaoying I was arrested by the ac cused and his soldiers. They first took me to Yangchow where we stayed for one day only. Then we went to Chinking where we stayed another day, finally coming on to Shanghai where I was taken to the Far Eastern Hotel and kept there until the police came and rescued
me:"
Accused Explains."
the seats of office. The complain. ant did this and was released. But later I received a letter from Head- quarters ordering me to arrest him. I did so and afterwards brought him to Shanghai.We stayed at the Far Eastern Hotel."
The second accused the claimed to be the Secretary of the first ac- cused. "I had to look after the complainant," he said, when asked. what he was doing at the Far East- ern Hotel. I had to see that he was always guarded.
The first accused then asked the Court to turn the whole matter over to the military authorities.
Said the first officer: "I am a Hupeh native and an officer in the Nationalist Army. The police can not hold me na I am acting under
Mr. Goldring: The offence was instructions from the Government, committed inside the Settlement When the Nationalist Army entered therefore the Provisional Court is Kaoying the people of that city the only one competent to try the immediately complained to me that case.
tho Magistrate (the complainant) The judge at this stage an had been over-taxing them.
nounced that he would remand the
"I was told," continued the cuec, the accused to be kept in officer, that he raised over 800,000 custody. Thereupon the first ac towards the military fund of Mareused, using his hands as a mega- shal Sun Chuan Fang. The people phone, bawled at the Judge. "If the to prison, insisted that I take over the magie-you send me back to
will lose mil terial office and although I am very Nationalist Army young. I agreed to do so until some
This rande Judge Ling stop and one else could be appointed.
think. Ho revised his decision and We then arrested and tried the allowed the first accused to be complainant. He was found guilty released on 300 cash security and and fired $20,000 in addition to the second accused on bail of The seized being ordered to refund all the 81,000 cash security. dhoney he had collected, as well as pistol was ordered to be held by (Continued on next Column.) the police until the next hearing.
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a great many fighting men would he anything but sorry-Naval and Military Record.
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DAME EDITH LYTTELTON'S
WEIRD ADVENTURE.
How she met the spectre of the Duke of Wellington in St. James's- street, SW, late one evening in September, 1914, was described by Dame Edith Lyttelton Weekly Dispatch. She writes:
in the
.By this time I was closer to him, and I noticed with surprise that he was very short. But, said
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE,
TRADE UNION TYRANNY IN ENGLAND.
to all the workers, istimating that'. unless they joined the Union by:" April 30th they must be dismissed.
These Wiltshire workers refused to a man to be coerced into join
MEN DISMISSED FOR REFUS-ing, and a director of the Society
ING TO JOIN.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY AS
* BRUTAL LANDLORD."..
CALNE, Wiltshire. An unazing exaniple of trade I to myself, that does not alter union tyranny in England; which his look of distinction. I was
now almost opposite to him, and should dispel any doubts as to the could look him full in the face, necessity of the Trade Disputes Bill -as he most obviously did not see
now before Parliament is provided even, that someone was near him.
was sent from Manchester to handle. the situation. All employees were instructed to be present at a meet- ing on a Saturday during working. hours. All attended, hutustead of the director who was to explain the Society's attitude, they found that Mr. Walker had been sent to urge the Union demands. In a body the men left the hall and refused to
bear him.
When Mr. C. T. Darch, the direc- tor, arrived, the men said they had formed a trade union which would be independent of the Trades Union Congress. They were told, how-
Society, ever, that this would not satisfy the Co-operative Wholesale
and were given a month to change. their minds.
I stopped dead with surprise: by the threat of the National Union I knew that face 1 I had seen of Agricultural Workers that unless that aquiline nose, that shape of the farm workers at the tiny village brow, those blue steely eyes, of Cherhill, near here, become mem-
They unanimously declared, how- clouded how with thought, that bers of that union they will lose
ever, that nothing would induce, Good God! The Duke oftheir jobs. Wellington
the Great Duke
These mon are employed at a them to join any Union which might the Iron Duke, walking up dairy farm of the Co-operative involve them in a strike.
Funds For Politics." St James's-street brooding on Wholesale Society, which owns
the danger of England! I was nearly 5,000 acres of land in the Each of the 169 workers has sigu so astounded, that I almost spoke neighbourhood and employs 100 ed a declaration which has been to him but I was afraid to.
by
"I stood and watched his slow men, many of them living in cot sent to Manchester to this effect:
tages which have been occupied yet vigorous progression the their families for generations. whole way up St. James's-street.
The first threat came about a I wanted to see which way he
month ago, when 28 of the men turned when he reached the top received a letter from Mr. R. B. Yos-he went westward, down Piccadilly, towards Apsley Honse.Walker, general secretary of the Agricultural Workers' Union, in-
As soon as I had the opportutimating that unless they joined the nity I went to look at the portrait union at once they would be die- which hung then in the dining missed by their employers. room at 10, Downing-street.. Yes,
O.W.S.'s Threat.
that was my man. I saw him This was followed by a letter from again, and in spirit I greeted him the Co-operative Wholesale Society again,
We want to unite to work, not to fight. Our motto is, For King and Country, Righteousness, and Freedom." We do not want to belong to a trade union which in 1925 spent nearly 50 per cent. of its income on salaries and allowances and £1,104 on politicnt activities, but only £381 on sick- ness and accident benefits. The men are acting entirely on their own initiative without funds or other support.