T
FIGHTING DIES HUNGER-STRIKER'S
DOWN.
SOVIET SCOUT 'PLANES
BUSY.
THE LATEST RAID.
(Wah Ta Yat Pao.)
DEATH.
DEMONSTRATION IN CALCUTTA
A REBELLIOUS MAYOR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Sept. 13,
An enormous
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1929.
'PLANE CRASHES IN AMERICA.
14 KILLED IN A FEW HOURS.
PARACHUTE TRAGEDY,
(REUTER'S AMERICAN LERVICE]
A SOUTH SEAS MYSTERY.
END OF A TRAGIC VENTURE.
AN AUTHOR'S STORY.
"
THE OPPRESSED" STATES.
DELEGATIONS DO NOT
AGREE.
FURTHER DELAYS
[THROUGH ELUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHIPPING RIGHTS IN CHINA.
AGÍTATION AGAINST FOREIGN VESSELS ON INLAND AND COAST LINES.
1
The efforts of the Shanghai! Chinese Shipowners Association to New York The story of how
bring about what they term the NEW YORK, Sept. 13.
two white men tried to cruise the
GENEVA, Sept. 10. Notwithstanding the plea of Vis-rendition of China's shipping Within a few hours at least 11 waters of the South Seas in a
count Cecil to avoid further delay, rights are "receiving support from people were killed in succession in erudely built native catamaran and the third committee has decided
the National Government if what aeroplane dccidents, six of whom probably went to their death in the to remit the first article of the
draft convention, dealing with one reads in the vernacular papers were killed at Merriton, Ontario, attempt was related upon his re
Anancial aid to States victims of is correct, says the .-C. Daily where a plane caught fire, and four turn here by Gustav Davidson, the aggression, to a sub-committee, for News. others were killed in a collision of author, who lived for nearly a year further consideration.
This decision is due to a conflict two planes over Chicago. among the natives of the Austral between the British and French
Three people
killed at Archipelago in the South Sean. delegations regarding the were
Davidson's two expédition partners, upon which such assistance, if Derkeley, California,' through a
4 disputant, Im-plane crashing through the roof of who disappeared, were William B. should be granted
before war-like operations ja house,
have Hargrave of Colfax, Washington, actually commenced. and Phineas E. Haskevitch of Paris.
HARBIN, Sept. 16. An attempt was made by Soviet
crowd occupied troops to blow up the railway every point of vantage in the bridge on the Sungari River, on vicinity of the suburban station at Saturday night. They opened fire Howrah on the occasion of the on the railway guards wounding a arrival of the remains of Jarin- corporal. The invaders were final-dranath Das, one of the accused in ly driven away having failed to do the Lahore conspiracy case who died in gaol after 60 days of hunger. any damage to the bridge.
There has not been any fighting | striking." lately at Manchuli and Buitenho, Cries of Dowa with but Soviet aeroplanes flew over perialism!" and "Long Live Revo- Meishan and. Muling on scouting Iction!" were raised as the train trips.
arrived.
CHINESE DETAINED IN VLADIVOSTOCK.
(Wah Tu Fat Poo.) ·
SHANGHAI, Sept. 16. It is announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that over 1,000 Chinese in Russia have been de. tained recently by the Soviet Government.
The coffin was received by the Mayor, Sen Gupta, and conveyed. to the Howrah Town Hall, where
A young woman, making her first parachute descent at Wichita, Kan- sas, was killed, owing to the ap- paratus failing to function.
it is to lie in state prior to being CATHOLIC PRIEST'S tired prospecter who had been a
taken in a procession to the Keori- tolla burning ghat for cremation.
Sen Gupta, at a subsequent meet. ing at the Town Hall, referred to the police order prohibiting him from holding meetings in Calcutta. He and the time had come when The Ministry has telegraphed to persons authorised by the Indian German Government asking Congress ought to disobey it whole- thom to lodge, on China's behall, sale, and thus make the path to 3 strong protest with the Soviet Swaraj.
the
Government.
THE LUNG-HAI RAILWAY.
LOAN REPAYMENT ASKED.
(Wah Ta Yat Pan.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 18. The French, Dutch and Belgian Ministers have addressed Notes to the Foreign Office asking the re- funding of the capital, with accrued interest, of the Lung-Hai Railway Loau,
The Ministry has referred the matter, to the Central Government.
SHANGHAI-HANKOW AIR MAIL SERVICE,
(Fah Tez Tat Pao)..
SHANGA, Sept. 16. The preparations for an air mail service between Shanghai and Hankow have been completed, and the service will probably be in- augurated next month.
MURDER OF THREE PRIESTS.
OUTRAGE IN HUPER,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 16.
The Franciscan Procuration has received news from Ichang of an- other terrible crime in Hupch by brigands or Communists; involv ing the death of three members of the Procuration, including Bishop Trudo Jana, who has been a resi dent in China for the past twenty
two years.
Bishop Trudo Jans was travel ling near Linotang, Hupeh, accom panied by Father Bruno and Father Rupertus, when, it ap pears, they were, attacked by bandits and the whole party mur dered.
OIL BLAZE IN NEW JERSEY.
BARCE RUNS AMOK."
:(REUTED'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
LINDEN, NEW JERSEY, Sept. 15. A flaming oil barge slipped her moorings to-day and drifted down to the refineries of the Standard Oil and Swan Finch oil companies, which caught on fire. Damage es timated at $1,000,000 (gold) was was caused.
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED IN PARIS. "RED THURSDAY " "SEQUEL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PARIS, Sept. 15 prominent Communists have been, arrested here
Two"
One, M. Monmousseau, is the General Secretary of a Communist organisation, and the other is the well-known. Deputy, M. Vaillant Couturier.
They Zre accused of plotting against the safety of the State, in connection with incidents at a Rod demonstration on August
Scene In Coart.
MEBUT, Sept. 15. When the accused in the con- spiracy case appeared in Court they raised a scene in honour of the death of Jarindranath and sang
The Red Flag."
.
The Magistrate refused the ac eseda application for an adjourn. ment on the ground that they were unfit to plead. whereupon they withdrew their legal representation, and forced an adjournment.
SCENES IN AMSTERDAM.
RELEASE OF ALLEGED MURDERERS.
(THROUGH REGJER'S AGENCY.]
M
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16. There were remarkable scenes, lasting into the early hours of the morning, here, following the deci sion by the Appeal Court to liber- ate two railwaymen, named Klun- der and Theunissen, who have Buffered four and a half years' im- prisonment for the murder of an- other railwaymen.
The accused were originally sen tenced to fifteen years imprison ment, and they have unceasingly protested their innocence.
TROOPS RETURN FROM THE RHINE.
"GLAD TO BE HOME."
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 18. The first British troops from the Rhineland, comprising the Dorset and Leicester detachments, arriv- ed at Victoria Station, all fully accoutred, and tin hatted, looking bronzed and fit. All were young men, only a few of whom had seen
war service.
DEATH. MURDERED FOR FEW DOLLARS.
LAST PRAYER BY BEDSIDE.
Further details of the ghastly murder perpetrated by bandits at Fong Shin. Ker, a village about sixty li from Ichang, have been re- ceived. Events which led up to the ad death of Rev. Father Tibaree Cloodta, a native of Antwerp, attached to the Francis can Mission, are clearly narrated in the following report. This is the fourth Franciscan and brutally murdered since 1923. eighteenth pricet who has been
Detalls Related.
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term
any,
WHEN THE CHINESE MAKE MERRY.
The author met his wo a$50- cistes in Tahiti when he was plan- THE FEAST OF LANTERNS. ning to leave there for the Austral group of islands. Hargrave, a re-
trail mate of Jack London in the Klondike, and Haskevitch, a mine- rologist, also expressed the desire to inspect this section of South Seas islands so the trio decided to join forces...
"Tum tum tum ' "Here she
comes," ery about a dozen children together. manned by about twenty or thirty "She" is a fiery dragon
boys-sometimes more, zometimes les-it all depends upon the size of the monster! The beating of "We lived among the natives for the drume sound nearer, and gradu four months, garbed like them in ally the dim ball of fre be- loin cloths and learning their lancomes larger as it comes into view. This is the bait" and the man guage, Bongs and traditions,"
in charge of it dances first one way Davidson related. "Our phone then the other pad with it the graph was the only modern noto. dragon's head swings.
Then the firing of crackers drowns The natives would crowd around the tum-tum of the drums, for and beg us to play it and thought this dragon is a very important jazz music the best.
personage," who comes to drive away all the evil spirits, and a proper reception must be accorded
to put it in the best of humours. Thus the Chinese will be celebrat ing the "Feast of Lanterns" to- day, and ten-shops selling moon- cakes, etc., have been doing a foaring trade during the past few daya.
They would grin broadly and dance with as good sense of rhythm as any 'tangoit palace habitue."
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Yielded to Impatience. It was only when his white com
the civilized panions yielded to
On Sunday August 25, towards sunset three individuals appeared· at the residence of Rev. Fr. Tiburce Cloodts at Fong 3hang Кеп near Ichang. They were trait of impatience that they ven- directing their steps towards the tured on that vorage from which section of the residence occupied by the Missionary but were stop- they never returned, Davidson said. ped by the servant, who told them
"Thoy began to get bored with the Father was reciting his
the native existence and wanted prayers. The servant invited them
to return to Tahiti by way of into the kitchen, offered them some tes, telling them they must wait | Tabúai." the author recounted... until the missionary would be free to see them,
They answered saying that they had come to ask for a little medi- cine for their wounds.
'That's too bad,' replied the ser- vant, to-day in Sunday, and moreover the dispensary is closed in the afternoon.'
They spoke a few words to the Missionary, and he said to them: "Oh, you want some medicine." He did not get time to finish
what he intended to sav. Two of
"They had the natives begin the construction of a 24-foot catamaran, which is a crude, affair of two hol- lowed out logs and covered with plank. The natives and I tried to dissuade them, believing that the craft would be too unsafe for such
long trip. I was unwilling to trust my life in it, especially since neither was a skilled navigator and
the bandits these callers were they had only a compass to guide bandits-seized the Father by the them. arms, pulled out their revolvers
towards the re-
"Before their estamaran WAX
and covered him while the third ready a tramp ship touched our bandit walked sidence to get hold of the serisland, bound for a trading trip vanta.
about the other islands and I tried Covering the Father with their to get Hargrave and Haskevitch to revolvers the two bandita yelled out: Your money and your go with me on it. But they were obdurate and faristed on starting out in the Austral, as they had, camed their craft,
arma."
44..I have neither arms nor oney,
," replied the Father, 1 bave spent all I had in procuring medicine for the dispensary yon- der,
We shall talk that over," they replied, come with us.'
They, dragged the Father along towards the room that served as his study. After entering they mid to the Father: "Now, less said, the better, hand over your money."
"I expected to eee them when I reached Tabuai months later but I learned with diemny that they bad never arrived. Then I hoped they might have landed on some other island but my search of all the others convinced me that they bad never landed on way island in that group."
♫ re-
"See for yourselves," said the
Man From the Sea." Father, and they pulled out and
Davidson said there was ransacked the drawers of his desk. mote chance that the pair might They found $13 which they pocket-have been carried by adverse winds
right away.
They said they had had a good time in Germany and brought backed pleasant memories, but were very glad to be Home.
COURTÄULD'S CARRY ON.
WAGES REMAIN AT OLD RATES.
(THOUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 10 Despite a general reduction in cotton wages, Messrs. Courtauld's have decided that the 25,000 'opera tives employed at their three mille
shall continue at the old rate of wages.
Two of the three mills are work ing only four days weekly.
FRENCH POLICE OFFICIAL
SHOT DEAD..
Bandits Disappointed. Farious and disappointed at obtaining little loot they fired point blank at the Father, one of the bullets striking him right be- low the heart. When the bandits saw his blood oozing through his clothing they forced him to lie on the bed. The Father then said: "It is all over, I am finished."
The bandits made towards the door find shouted to their com- panions to come and bring the, ser vants along with a light:
to some island of the Tuamoto group, some 700 or 500 miles away. but since they started the perilous voyage in April and have never heen heard from since, be believes that alender hope is fading, He raid they carried only food and water to last them two months.
A favourite fruit is the pumelo, and not the lease interesting part of the celebrations is the fantern processions." Children of all ages will be seen parading the streets with fish lanterns, etc.,-a very "Oriental sight which no doubt will interest the foreignere im mensely..
STOWAWAYS FROM CANADA.
LADS' "ONLY WAY OF GETTING HOME."
The number of lads who slow away at Montreal is so large that the company is bound to prose cute.
This statement was made by in- spector Nicholls, of the Cunard Company, to Mr. Harris, the mag istrate at Tower Bridge Police aged twenty, of Chichester road, Court when Charles Patrick Miles, West Kilburn, Alexander Powner, aged eighteen, of Charles-street, Matbaak, Newcastle, and Philip, Smith, aged sixteen, of Bridgford- road, Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, were fined 208, each or fourteen days imprisonment for stowing themselves away in. the Canard liner Ausonia.
The lads said they had stowed themselves away because it was the only way they could get home.
Mr. Harris: In my young days lads used to stow away to get to America or Canada. Now they seem to stow away to get home.
The evidence was that the lads were found on deck three days out from Montreal, and they were brought home as third-class passen- gers.
Mr. Harris suggested that, as they had no money, they might usefully have been put to work.
WOMAN KILLED FOR SORCERY.
U.S. TAXICAB DRIVER'S CONFESSION,
Davidson then told how he had arrived in Tahiti just in time to prevent his friend, James Norman Hall, another author, from sending' a note to his father, Max David- son, of New York, to the effect
Eugene Burgess, a taxicab driver, that Davidson himself had gone to arrested at Kalamazoo, Michigan, his death in the Pacific. Hall had for killing Mrs. Etta Fairchild, In the meantime, the Father heard reports. from natives that two aged seventy-five, told the police had slipped from the bed, kacit or three men had started the dan that he had done so because be be- and began to pray: Saured gerous trip in a catamaran and believed her to be a witch. Heart of Jesus, I place my trust heved Davidson to be one of them. Mrs. Fairchild was an inmate of in Thee: Good Mother Mary have He had planned to send the mes- pity on me." Turning toward the sage the day after Davidson ar- bandits be said: "For the sake ❘rived.
an old women's charity home, and Burgess said he invited her to his house, where Mrs. Burgess was pre- of a few dollare you have taken "When I came into Tahiti the seat, and beat her with a lead pipe my life."
natives were so aetounded that and a hammer. KILLED NEAR HIS OFFICE, turning to them he said: Put lated, means Man from the Bat- that Mrs. Fairchild bragged that His servants were new nearby, so they gave "the name which, trans- Burgess and his wife declared
Jour trust in God; be not afraid."- tom of the Sea," he said,
the had killed a hundred persons He whispered to the cook that Davidson had entrusted the yearly for the past twenty-five he should try to get away, but manuscripts he had completed while years, including her
busband, bis remark was beard by one of on various islands of the South through witchcraft. the bandits, who threatened to Seas to his two companions, believ Mr Burgess added: "I stagger shoot the cook should he attempting they would reach Tahiti before lots of times and have pains and to flee. At the point of the revol- he did. These were lost, although aches and trouble in breathing. It ver they forced the servants to con- he had duplicates of some and was either her life or ours." duct them through the houses they notes on othere which he will asc 'Burgess asserted that Mrs. Fair ransacked all the rooms, took his as a basis for articles and short | child had bewitched his seventeen- watch, a camera and other arti etorics.
year-old daughter and intended to cles."
Davidson has written several kill her. They broke open boxes etc, and books, including "Thirst of the Burgess is aged fifty-three, and scattered the contents around. | Antelope." and "Melmouth the known to his neighbours as a kind- This search lasted more than a half Wanderer." He is an alumnus of man, spending his spare time hour.
Columbia University.
in fishing.
{THROUGH KRUTER'S MÓŁNOY.]......
PARIS, Sept. 16.
M.. Bayle, Director of the Criminal Records Department was shot dead when ascending the stairs to his office in the Law Courts.
The feeing murderer, who was caught in the street outside, gave the name of Joseph Philipponet, and said he was a native of Lyons.
In this connection, it is of in- terest to note report in the Shuapan which says that, four months ago, a number of Japan- ese shipping merchants began an investigation of the various Chin- ess shipping routes for reasons unknown to us." However, it is
learned that the secret schemes of the Japanese to extend their ship-
newer
vessels
According to these, Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister," was ping business in China' include the interviewed by representatives of placing of more the Association and said that, in along the coast and on the prin connection with the forthcoming cipal rivers. Already they have rovision of the Sino-Japanese started to build more than 40 new Treaty, the Government," which ful- vessels equipped with motor ca- ly sympathized with the views of gince and fitted with excellent ac the Chinese shipowners and appre commodation for passengers. Al- ciated their attempts to bring though Haichow, Yangchow and about the rendition of China's many other places are not treaty shipping rights, would exert every ports a number of Japancas vessels effort to take back China's ship call there, thus committing brea ping rights from the Japanese ches of China's sovereign rights. merchants and, if possible, Japan. The number of Japanese vessels ese merchants would be forbidden coming to Shanghai has increased considerably in recent years and Tun their vessels along the the time has come for the Chinese China coast or on the various in people to bring a stop to this land rivers. Dr. Wang said that aggression. it was necessary that the Chinese shipowners should pay attention
to
Suficient Ships Alleged. In reply, the representatives of the Association are reported to have said that the number of Chia- e-owned ships was sufficient to meet all demands so far as the coast and inland rivers were con- corned. As to the Yangtze, there were at present more than 20 ves-
"The Filotage Question,
are
to the question "Are there suffi Whilst the shipowners are agitat cient Chinese-owned ships to meeting for the rendition of China's all demands in the event of China's shipping rights, the Shanghai shipping rights being taken back Chinese Pilots Association from the hands of foreigners If agitating for the rendition of her there were, well and good, but, if pilotage rights and they propose to there were not, this was a matter
send a delegate to the Internation- which should be taken up immedi
al Labour Congress to be held in ately, otherwise it would be useless Geneva. In the course of a peti- to agitate for the rendition of tian to the National Government, China's shipping rights.
they say that a delegate already has been appointed by the Shipow ners Association but it is necessary that a delegate possessing a good knowledge of China's pilotage con- ditions, thorough experience, and high technical training and abil- ity should be appointed so that be can present China's demands for the rendition of her pilotage rights at the Congress and support any sela which were owned by the China proposals put forward by his fel Merchants S N. Co., the San Peh low-delegates. *It is important Co., the Shao-shing S. N. Co., and S. N. Co., the Ning-Shao S. 8. that such a delegata should be sent to Geneva who is well acquainted the Nan Hua S. 8. Co., which were with the needs of the workers. The ample to meet any demands which Shanghai Chinese Pilots Associa might arise Furthermore. they tion is an organization consisting said, with the rendition of China's of graduates of the Woosung Mari- shipping rights, they would reap time College, many of whom hold large profits, with which it was positions of importance in the proposed to build newer and larger various shipping companies. They Khipa. It was their hope, there Lave an intimate knowledge of fore, that the Government would | pilotage in Chinese waters and are accord them full protection in car-well-prepared to argue against for- rying on their business.
eigners maintaining pilotage rights in Chinese waters contrary to the wishes of the Chinese people The Association, therefore, asks for permission to appoint a delegate to the Congress.
Dr. Wang said that this was L matter of great importance and he would take it up with his col- leagues when he returned to Nan- king.
MAN POSES AS AN → HEIRESS.
FRAUD LEADS TO HARD
LABOUR."
A man who was said to have written letters describing himself as an heiress" was sentenced at the London Sessions to fifteen
wrote
certain lines. Lawrence offering to sell him solutions to win other prizes. He signed his letters," (Misa) B. Lawrence.
"She" stated in one letter that it seemed hard that" she" had a large fortune coming to "her "in June and that for the moment-
she" was short of money. Mr. Coots advanced Lawrence money from time to time, amounting to £113.
Lawrence sent Mr. Coote two
months hard labour for obtaining photographs of an extremely hand- £113 by false pretences. Y
Ee was Brian Lawrence, or Vipond, aged fifty-four, of Neale- street, Bradford," but a detective' said his real name was James Red- ford Kenyon.
Mr. Frank Phillips, prosecuting, said that a Mr. Coote won a prize in a weekly journal for submitting
Purveyors of
some young woman.
Detective Brooks of Colchester, said that Lawrence had been con- victed on three occasions at Hali fax for obtaining money in a mizi- lar manner. He had a large sum left him by his father, but lost it owing to reckless living.
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