GHASTLY NIGHT WITH ARMED
ROBBERS AT CHANGTEH.
APPALLING. EXPERIENCE OF MR. AND MRS. ROSE,
A TIMELY FLIGHT TO HANKOW.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 16th, 1927.
MURDER AS A FINE
ART.
THE SOVIET SPECIALISTS.
A PRACTICE OF MUCH PROFIT.
NATIONALISTS AND EDUCATION.
AN INTERESTING. EXPOSITION.
A BOLSHEVIK HATRED OF
RELIGION.
What is believed to be the attitude
A century ago Thomas de Quincy
& laboured phantasy on of the Nationalist Government to- wrote
Murder as one of the Fine Arts."wards Mission education is shown The present day reality is far be. by the following extracts from a yond anything that his opium lades discussion of the educational policy brain could imagine in the follow of the Nationalist Govoriment.. ing article reprinted from the Daily Mail. Dr. Edouard Luboff, leading, auhority on Russia, sums up the methods of some of these most expert of political thugs.
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(0) A strenuous effort should be. made to regain control of educa tion. Our country at present bas many schools which are in the grasp of the hands of foreigners This is a most grievous state of affairs. No matter what the inten- tion may be, it is not adapted to. the conditions in China. Moreover, if they manage schools, it is diff cult to guarantee that it is not an aggressive plan.
These extracts are translated from the Shumpan, and represent the views of Dr. Sidney K. Wei (Dr. Wei Ko). Dr. Wei was formerly on the Educational Committee at The Soviet 0.0.P.T.-there- Wuchaag, and is now on the Cen- named "Cheka," that "Extraordi- tral Education Committee at Nan nary Commission" whose sole pur-king.. Two paragraphs from Dr. pose is espionage and political Wei's contribution to the subject. The robber murder-hasˆndmitted that the are given below:---
shooting of 20 prisoners without any real trial is the State's reply increasing number of assassinations of its leaders. In this the Soviet Republic has out Casared Caesar. Under the Czars, it is true, a political crime as frequently followed by mass a rests and even by executions, but
If we look at the schools managed in every case the State produced
tho Three undeniable evidenco either of the by the Japanese in
Eastern Provinces, we can under- guilt or of the complicity of the stand their scheme. Making every prisoners in the particular crime allowance for their benevolent in and, according to the laws then intention in conducting schools, yet their curriculum and discipline aro operation, gave them a trial.
not at all adapted to the conditions will not and I cannot say that all of our country, and this cannot bo the trials were fair; but at least gainsaid. If you expect schools of this charactor to follow the prin- the Czars did not descend to cold ciples of the Party in their man- blooded butchery.
agement, it is still more impossible.
When H.M.8. Gnat arrived in above his bend, while, the second Hankow port about noon on July rebhed went towards the instrumenti 3rd she brought two foreign ensual. which was still ringing. The first ties fram armed robbers in. Mr. A. man gana rienrer and nearer to Rose, agent for Messrs. Arnhold & Mr. Rose 'till he was within grasp. Co., Changtch, Hunan, and his wife ing distanen and Mr. Rose seeing both of whom had been badly a chance of disarming him grabbed wounded on the night of June 27th him by the wrist of the hund in when their house was attacked by which the pistol was held. Upon a band of ruffians. According to this the companiņu robber, evidently the Central China Post, word of finding his comrade in the way to the affair was first recrived in his shooting Mr. Rose attacked with Changsha by the German commu- the Intehet. Mr. Rone does not nity there, upon which the found know Just what happened but he foreign doctor rushed to Chingteh inuidenis Felt his right ann fall n motor launch and brought Mr. and helpless, to his side. Mrs. Rose with their children back then minde a second lunge, this time to Liutintang where H.M.S. Ghat Mr. Rose's bead but Mrs. Rose was waiting to take them on to seeing the, attempt rashed between Hankow where they have been in the two and received the blow on mediately taken to the International her cheat. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe then Hospital. The story, of their ter beat a hasty retrent to their 3rd- rible night's experience shows only room but the robbers opening äre. too well the uncertainty which faces | Mr. Rose sustained a slight wound living in the interior at the presentou his left arm. moment for the affair occurred at Attempt to Save Childreti. a time when after experiencing Whether the two would have been innumeraile battles in the anti-ante in their bedroom is not known, northern campaign by the south, the but at this point Mrs. Rose, in anti-British boycott, and the com- nn attempt to get to her children mubist régime it seemed that the rushed into the dining room. Here corner had been past and with ex- the robbera made a second lunge tremism crushed brighter prospects at ber and she was again wound were held out for the future.
ed: Mr. Rose followed her and
No Police Available.
aceing that they were in a tight Changtch which is in the north-corner picked up a chair, the only western portion of Hunan, came weapon available, in his left hand under another threat when the Com munists disappeared through their becoming out of favour, namely the danger of attack from Kurichow forecs coming up from the south west and Yang Sen's troops from the north. The city of Tao-yuan was taken by the former invaders
and telling his wife to stand behind him, prepared to make as good a stand as he could. Mrs. Rose, how- ever made a second attempt to get 10 her children and Mr. Rose was dinged to see her fall in a welter of blood.
To all appearances Mrs. Rose was
and the front line was pushed to dead and sreing that it was im about 30 from Chanztch. Tangperative to get help Mr. Rose struck Seng Chi had to throw very avail through the window and across the a garden door. able man including the armed garden towards Police in the vicinity into the battle Notwithstanding that he knew the line, and, although the latest reposition well he took some moments ports showed that Taoyuan was recaptured, the move left Changtch -with-practically no forces for the enforcing of civil war and order. Armed robberies were a daily occur- rene and the declaration of martial Jaw did not stop the outrages.
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to find the spot and then he dis- covered a man with a spione barring his way. However, it was with relief that he discovered the in- dividual to be his watchmen, whom he sent off to call for help which
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obtained from a detachment of soldiers at a nearby hospital, Here it in interesting to note that Mr. Rose's house was supposed to have been guarded by four police
on whe bad been posted there by the magistrate to protect the pre- mises. These evidently had beat a hasty departure when the robbers came on the scene.
Cook's Child Carried off.
I
Pize Specialists in Murder. The Soviet leaders, however, Kave always been considered expert murderers and organisers of terror. Thua Stalin, the present head of was the the Soviet triumvirate,
Now the schools managed by for- wgners have neither been registered by the government nor put them seives under the supervision of the bureau of education. This shows respect the that they do not authority of our country. In order. to regain the control of education, we must immediately draw up en- actments and rigorously put into execution regulations for the re- pression of schools managed by for- eigners. We must positively get Trotzky was for some time back the schools managed by for- loading member of the Odessa ter-signers and manage them ourselves. rorist battalion, the number of
Separation from Religion. whose crimes was never correctly uscertained, in spite of the work sons.
chief organiser of political assas siantion in the Caucasus, and in this capacity was responsible for the death by violence of many off cials in Tiflis.
(10) Education must be separat of several investigating commised from religion. The restraint of
education by religion is an evil in heritance from the Middle Ages. The former education of our coun try was bound by the traditional ideas of Confucianism-like being bound by the authority of religion.
Bukharin was the leader of the Moscow terrorist group up to 1911, while Litvinoff, or, as he was then called, Valakh, was both organiser of assassinations and the buyer of arms and bombs.
Now our country's education, al- though it emot free itself from being bound by Confucian ddeas en- tirely, pet gradually, it can be emancipated.
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While happy children were show- ing fathers and anothers round the Zoo the other day an exciting struggle was in progress behind the closed doors of the reptile house.
Litvinoff came to London in 1909 after being deported from Paris, where he supplied arms to a group of Bolsheviks operating in Russia
It is a pity that there is a class, and specialising in the murder of
of missionaries and Christians Treasury officials for the money in their care. On being arrested in which advocates what is known as Christian education, evidencing Paris on January 4th, 1908, Lit vinoff was found to have in his thut they regard education as an AN EXCITING HOUSE MOVING. possession twelve 500-rouble notes auxiliary of religion, and over- the numbers of which were identifi- throwing the dignity of education. ed as the remnant of the haul made Originally religion and education in Tiflis in 1906, organised by were two different things, and they Stalin and assisted by Krassin. should not be confused. If educa In
it these ways the Bolshevika tion is restrained by religion. It generally made political assassina loses te independent character. If tion a source of profit.
religion and education are confus ed, there are many evils. We Lozovsky, another prominent
ahould certainly guard against then Bolshevikit should be noted that advance, and avoid future evil "Bolshevik" means the "big" or
consequences. majority party, which is just what the Bolsheviks are not was adeò a political assassin, and had he not escaped abroad would have been hanged in 1008 for the murder of an official in Kharkoff. Stekloff,
The inmates of this awesome chamber were being removed to their new homes at the gardens, designed by Miss J. B. Procter, the woman curator of reptiles, and this was the first of the moving days.
It was while the city was in this condition Mr. Rose explained in an interview, that the armed robbery on his own house took place, but, before going on with the story he emphatically wished the representa tive of the Central China Post to express his deep gratitude to HM
Navy in all they had done to geb
On returning Mr. Rose found that him and his family down to Han- the outery for help had scared away kow. Had the quick transport not the robbers and his wife haal been -been provided wounds which had earried on to a bed where she was already become infected, notwith being attended to by a friend. standing the good attendance of Menawhile a search of the premises Dr. Bao, of the American Church showed that the robbers had taken Mission at Changtch, would have
Away a box of Mr. Rose's and the rapidly become grave.
cook's child, why the latter is not
Above, I have already said educa- It was intended to move the The Story..
clear. Dr. Bas then came and it The untrage, as already stated found that Mrs. Rose had luckily
tion should take natural science smaller residents-lizards, toads, and social science as its foundation, frogs, and tiny snakes, only, but took place on the night of June just escaped a critical wound, the
and the policy of the Party should Head-keeper Collins, going round 27th. The Rose's house is one
hatchet cutting through the flesh of storeyed with a basement given over
be the basic policy of education. the sanke house with Dr. Vevers, the breast but stopping short of the
We five African pythons happened to to servants quarters, kitchen, etc. hone. Mr. Hase it was found had the former editor of the official Taus, education cannot rely upon the superintendent, noticed that
Moscow newspaper Irvestyja, was religion for its existence. It is surrounded by a garden and a stapped the slash with his fore-arm also a terrorist, and in a speech should repress all Church schools, be in a favourable position for road from the main gate runs to a and the hatchet had splintered the
Sacka were secured, and. Dr. paganda, religious worship and re- door lending into the basement. The bone necessitating an operation to made in Paris in 1805 insisted on and not allow religious pro-attack, living quarters are on the floor have the splintered section removed. the approval by the party of plana pagous instruction in the schools. Vevers went to the little door at above and the approach to the That night the premises were made by him for the murder
Sverdloff, the study of religion is of the the back of the den, accompanied entrance of this part of the premises guarded by the soldiers and next Czar and his family.. takes a gentle slope to the height day the magistrate was approached who was himself nesasaitiated in nature of investigation, then it by three or four keepera. of the basement. The baerment and to place armed men there instead Moscow early in 1910, was an active nood not be prohibited.--North living quarters, naturally are con- of unarmed police. It was found, terrorist and the leader of a group China Daily News.
of nesussins who operated in Kieff nected inside by a stair
however, that the official could not About 9.30 p.m. on the 27th the or would not help and the unarmed and the Ukraine. family had turned in, when with police plainly stated that they could
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Then, raising the door cautious- y, Keeper Collina crept softly inside, carrying a bundle of blan-1 kets. Holding the blanketa matador fashion, he crept up to each snake Other attempts have been made on
in turn, and dropped one over its head. the Ambas-
He went up to one of them and ASYLUM ESCAPE MYSTERY. Zinovieff, gently turned back the edge of the There was A sudden
FROM LONDON.
The girl-wife was given a situa tion sa domestic servant at Rams
husband at Chortham,
Yesterday she left her situation. without warning when there was no one at home, leaving behind her a mote which road,
give no protection whatever. For- The wurder of M. Shingareff and the lives of Krossin, Rakovsky, and aerial the main gate to the comtunately, the captain at the hospital. Kokoshkin, tre Ministers in Krestinsky pound was forced in. So great was the force used that the gate with was again prevailed upon to supply the Frovisional Government, while sadors; Trotzky,
guard. an "ornamental bridge over it were
in hospital was the first act of the Kamemeft, and Kalinin among the blanket. Up to this time it was thought Bolshevist Cheks.
leaders; and, according to Soviet movement, the dart of a wicked PRISONER WHO WAS MOVED gato Last Sunday she visited her knocked flat. The crash was follow- ed by silence. Later it was learned best to wait at Changteh for a
Among Russian political assay reports, against Rykoff, Stalin, looking head with opened jaws and that the reason for this was that tie to allow of Mrs. Rose re-sinations must be included the mur and Bukharin, of the Soviet Gov- then a great carpet-coloured coil the robbers had entered the house cuperating a little, but the German
the den. by the basement door and were hold-doctor arriving in a motor launch der of Count von Mirbach, the rament. The assailants were Rus- crashed against the glass front of
The Soviet leaders hope that from Changsha with the mesango German Ambassador at Moscow, sinns, Germans, and Armeniane, ing in the servants at the point that it had been arranged for on July 5th, 1818. Then on July their present panicky executione of their pistols. Hearing nothing
10th came the murder of the Czar more after the crash Mrs. Rose went H.M.S. .Guat to wait at Liulistanud his family, organised by will diminish the dangers of assas the back of the head. Another down and at once returned with the to pick them up made the Roses Voikoff and others. Vinkoff sination, but it is obvious that
also admitted that in 1905 he tried they will actually increase them. and together they staggered to the associated with the escape from report that there was an armed decided that it would be best to
Murder breeds murder all turror man guarding the outside door, leave at once. Mr. Rose on hearing this went to the telephone and reported to the
notwithstanding. exchange that their house was the scene of an armed robbery and ask ed that help be sent.
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A. J. COOK HOPES TO
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I am very fond of Russin
With a quick movement Collins had grabbed the reptile firmly at keeper, grasped the writhing body, open door.
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LONDON, June 17th.. Remarkable circumstances are
The python was forced in and the Chartham Asylum, near Canter- strings of the sack were pulled bury, of Charles Cecil Maxted, tight.
The python on the lodge was
similarly handled, and then Head aged 23, of Margate, who had Collins approached the been removed there while under- keeper three sleeping reptiles in the pool. going sentence of imprisonment in These included one measuring 12ft
and although Collins was successful Wandsworth Gaol.
I have had bad neway so have gone to see what it is. I am very sorry, but will get back na Boom as possible. Don't worry.
It was afterwards discovered that he had taken all her personal bo- longings.
At the asylum it is stated that young woman wearing dark-rim- med glasses presented a letter to` the porter, purporting to be signed Maxted to leave the institution for by the medical officer, authorising
to assassinate an official name. The magistrate was again sp- Proached this time to provide a Dambadge at Yalta, in the Orimes, guard to protect them to the boat. and then bolted to Switzerland.
As for the Bolsheviks who have He again showed no inclination to nequiesce but a telegram being re-themselves been assassinated, the roived from the Commissioner for rumber of the small comZIESTS -Attacked with a Hatchet, Foreign Affairs at Changsha resultand Chelca agents is very large, 116 bad just finished phoning ed in him giving 10 soldiers to but so far the leading officials have been more fortunate. Twa ut when two armed robbers cams up escort the party to the veel. They tenipts were made on Lenim, and workers then, I do to Baldwin. seck the python made a great fight was sentenced early in the year for owe more allegiance to the Russian in his initial grasp at the creature's Maxted is a married max who from below, Both carried auto- left the town at sundown on Friday matics but one was further armed and reaching Liulintang at 10 his doute party sure to the The necessities of the women. Van of it shouldn't like to do it every housebreaking at Margate At the few hours.
offcote of the second attempt. dictate the action that will be taken with earpenter's batchet. They o'clock on Saturday found H.M. Voravaky was shot in Switzerland nous country. Whatever has day," said Kemper Collins when same time his young wife, whom he asked him if he had a plione in Grat there and were taken on-boarby Conradi, whoso parents and taken place in Russia there can be all were bagged. "He har felt the married more than a year ago after been seen since.
"house. whother he had and arrived in Hankow where it Bont a
message through. He was found that although Mrs. Rose friends auffered at the hands of the no doubt that the official Labour coils of big snakes round him be being charged in 1924 with abduct- progressing favourably Mr. Bolsheviks; Uritzky was shot at Party and the Trade Union Move fore, and has been bitten by the ing her when she was only 16, was answered in the affirmative and is the robber only enrrying a pistol Rose's wounds could stood little fur Petrograd and Voikoff at Warsawment in this country is out to do monsters, but he has never such an bound over for snatching a purso
from a woman in the street. (Continued on next Column.) what Russia has done.
exciting moving job as this. covered him and he held his hands ther delay in receiving treatment.
the
Neither Masted nor his wife had,
The escaped prisoner is reported to have been removed to Charthan on account of attempte which he
had made upon his life.