CHINESE BANDIT ATROCITY.
MISSES HARRISON AND NETTLETON BEHEADED.
Ítarovan neutÚR'S ADENOY.}
Foocnow, Det, 11. It appears that two of the go- betweena despatched in connection with Mim Nettleton, and Mise Har- ison went to the Communist camp, and one
was taken prisoner, but the other returned with a letter from the Communiste.
YEN-FENG-WANG AGREE WITH CHIANG
PEACE CONFERENCE ADVOCATED,
ITAROVOK BEUTER'S AGENOT.]
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.
SINO-SOVIET CONFERENCE.
KHABAROVSK PROTOCOL
DISCUSSED.
[TALOUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.]
PLING, Oct. 12.
Moscow, Oct. 11. The World Daily News statca The first session of the Chinese that Yen Hai Shan, Feng Yu siang and Soviet Conference called by und Wang Ching Wei have sent out virtue of the Khabarovsk Protocol vircular dated Sbihchinchuang. of December 22, 1920, was held October 5, declaring that they have yesterday. agreed to Chiang Kai Shek's recent The Soviet delegate, M. Kara pronouncement regarding rehabi: khan, addressed the Conference, litation. If he can carry out. The go-between states that the rehabilitation programme they are and the Chinose delegate, Moh Teh heads of the ladies were taken from willing to retire from public life. the scene of their decapitation to
real
They have withdrawn their troops to the north bank of the Yellow River in order to establish a prac. tical armistice, and they urge Chang Hsuch Liang to advocate the, convocation of a peace and rehabi." litation conference through fairplay
the bandit headquarters, the villago of Shangmei, seven-iniles distant. Villagers informed the go-between that they had seen the heads,
(The Communista' ́original inten-methods. tion was to dispatch, the heads to Kienning, but this was found to to impracticable.
Victims Bubjected to Diabolical Brutalities.
Foocnow, Oct. 10.
Hui, replied.
the
The Conference discussed question raised by the Soviet dele. gate. of the necessity for a clear and unambiguous recognition of the Khabarovsk Protocol by,,the Chi-
nese.
China Striving Towards Friendship With Boviot.
FALL OF LOYANG. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
60,000 KUOMINCHUN TROOPS DISARMED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANRINO, Oct. 11.
AT BOMBAY.
57 DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED.
(TOROVOK LEFTRA'S AGENCY.]-
DISARMAMENT | BRAZIL DOMINATED
COMMISSION. BY REBEL FORCES.
DELEGATES APPOINTED BY THE UNITED STATES.
{REDTEN'S AMERICAN_SERVICE}]
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S
POSITION.
(THROPOK REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, Oct. 11.
WARLINGTON, Oct. 11
Deynes, Oct. 11. It is officially claimed that the Fifty-seven civil disobedience de President Hoover has appointed
H., cruiser Delfi has departed Government troops captured Loyang {monstrators, including three women, Mr. Hugh Gibson, American` ́Am- from Port of Spain, Trinidad, at, to-day.
who were arrested by the police in bassador to Belgium, and Mr. full speed for Pernambuco, A communiqué asserts that 00,000 | a raid on a house this morning, Wilson, American Minister to Swit-
LONDON, Oct. 10. Kuomiachun troops under Chang were sentenced to terms ranging | zerland, as the United States dele. The Admiralty announces that the. Wei Hai were disarmed yesterday from four months' simple imprison- gates to the League of Nations cruisers Delhi and Dauntless, which at Hsinchong, north of Cheng-mont to eighteen months' rigorous || Preparatory Commission on Disaro stationed at Trinidad and imprisonment under the Criminal armament, which is to meet at Kingston, Jamaica, respectively; dhow.
Geneva in November.
CHIANG KAI SHEK.
GROUNDLESS REPORTS.
.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
ably this has reference to a confer ence between Chiang Kai Shek and Chang Hauch Liang po Weihaiwei.)
Law Amendment Act.
Congres Committees Declared,
Unlawful.
LATER.
The police at Bardoli and Surat
fiscated the property and made 30
arrests.
LATER.
The Bishop of St. Albans and the Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal
have been ordered to stand by in cass they have to go to Brazil to protect British interests.
[RZUTEU'D AMERICAN SERVICE} U.S. Cruiser Under Orders,
Washington, Oct. 11... The United States cruiser Pensa- cola has been ordered to proceed to Quantanamo, and will proceed later to Brazil if it becomes necessary to evacuate the Ameriesus owing to the revolution.
The Bombay Government hava Air Force were among the clergy proolaimed several Congress and who conducted the service, after allied organisations in the Ahmeda- } which three volleys were fired and bad, Broach, Kaira and Surat dis- trumpeters sounded the Lust Fost
and Reveille. tricte as unlawful associations.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruany, Oct. 11... H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, re- presenting the King and accom- panied by his brother, the Duke of York, took part in the memorial service to the victims of the R.101 disaster, in St. Paul's Cathedral.
The Prime Minister,, with his two
bors of the Cabinet and several excure." daughters, and almost all the mem-
Cabinet Ministers and their wives and members of Parliament a tended.
NANKING, Oct. 11, WAR LORDS FALL OUT.
Reporte that Chiang Kai Shek is leaving Nanking to attend an im- STARTLING REPORTS FROM
Moscow, Oct. 19
portant conference are officially THE NORTH.
During the sitting of the Sino-stated to be groundless. (Presumided the Gandhi colleges and con- Soviet Conference, M. Karakhan According to Д Chinese tele- graphic dispatch from Nanking, said be regretted that in spite of The British Consul,, Mr. A. J. J. the Central Government has re- China's efforts she had hitherto not Martin, and the Roverond Silla, ofceived a wire from General Yang the CM.S., returned from Kien Hu Cheng to the effect that Goy-sucoceded in shaping her relations ning today after several weeks of ernment forces last Thursday oceu.with other countries on the basis strenuous but futile effort to sopied Loyang, a stronghold of the of the Sino-Soviet agreements. cure the release of the ladies, and Kuominchun on the Lunghai Rail M. Karakhan declared that the they reveal that after three months day, of captivity in the Communist air in the mountains of North Fukien, ruth Miss Nottleton and sing Har aison were subjected to unusually cold-blooded brutalitica, suffering terrible mental anguish,
They were given no liberty, na opportunity for exercise and TLD privacy.
They were, guarded right and day by at least four brigands, arm ed to the teeth, who were constant ly suggesting to their victims that a horrible doom was impending.
The ladies were taken out to lonely house on the hillside and lchoaded following on a rival hand's attack on the Communist headquarters, which were ten miles BWLY.
Miss Harrison and Miss Nettleton left Chungun, in North Fukien, where they had carried on their
·work of mercy for several years, on June 26 last, bound for Foochow.
They were travelling by boat along the Minkiang River and had covered about fifteen miles when the boatmen were attacked by Com munist bandits, who took thom pri- soners and carried them off into the mountains to the North-East.
Chinese officials at Kionganghsien were informed of the outrage. At first they wore indifferent, but is ter, on July 27, they definitely pro- nrised the British Consul that they were taking steps, for the imme date.release of the captives.
No Attempt to Release Ladies, It appears that troops were ne- tually sent into the area where the Reds reign supreme, but it is ob- vious they made no strenuous (n+ deavour to relonse the Indies.
The promise of the Kionyang, baien authorities was specifically, renewed on August 10, but nothing
Was done.
The Government has also received a wire from General Ma Fu Hsiang
to the effect that the scattered Shansi remnants on the southern bank of the Yellow River have been dissolved,
The Manchurian forces have noti. fied the Shansi troops to evacuate Shihchinchuang in five days, and Yen Hsi Shan is reported to have instructed his troops to comply with the demand.
Soviet Government had invariably
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.
The police hauled down the national flags flying over Bandoli and Surat swarams (seminaries), and the Union Jack was substituted.
SURAT, Oct. 11.
insisted upon the strictest observ ENLARGED PLENARY SESSION the police took posscasion of the
anec both in spirit and letter of the Peiping-Mukden treaties, which, to- gether with the Khabarovsk Pro- tocol, constituted the most import ant acts regulating Sino-Sovics relations,
Moh Teh Hui, in reply, emphasis
DISSOLVED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
PEAPING, Oct. 12, The vernacular papers state that the Shansi authorities have dis solved the enlarged Plenary Session of the Central Executive Council, which, recently attempted to fune tion at Taiyuanfu, and they have allocated 810,000 to the members of the Session as travelling expenses.
In connection with the rumoured that in spite of the misunder¦ of an alliance between Feng Yu standings of recent years China was Hsiang and Chiang Kai Bhek, it is continually striving toward friend significant to note that recently the ship with the Soviet,, and there | Nacking troops have refrained from
further attacks on the Kuominchun should be. no doubt that every forosa and have allowed them to withdraw.
treaty lawfully concluded between China and the Soviet would be met by China with that invariable observance natural to international ATTACK ON MR. SIMPSON. obligations.
There is a rumour to the effect that Yen Hai Shan has reached an understanding with Chang Hsuch Liang and that Chang has promised to co-operate with Yen on condition that the latter surrenders Hopei Province to the Manchurian troops, and that he severs his alliance with Feng Yu Hsiang against whom Chang has an old grudge. It is re! ported that Yen has cons,quently severed connections with Feng and has ceased his support of the Kuo minchun, who are alleged to have offered to obey the Contral Govern ment and to attack the Shansi troops.
RUSSIA DISCONTINUES UNEMPLOYMENT PAY.
(Tanovan ARUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, Oct. 10.
It is officially announced that owing to the acute shortage of in- dustrial workers, the Russian Coma
The leader added that if the church ar the foreigners were unmissariat of Labour has able to pay, then either the local unemployment pay to be or the Nanking authorities must. tinued.
Based on the bont available Chin- rse advice, the go-between returned with
counter-offerof $10,000,
which the bandits scored. It was then decided to pay 850,000, and the go-between returned to the Com munists to arrange the method of transmitting the ransom.
Generat Lu Hain Pang, the rebel leader, sent troops to Chungan,
Captives' Efects Sold in Streets, where the Communists were holding
After their departure from Kion- up the Bohen tea crop, routed the, Communists, and then ordered their ing. Mr. Martin and the Rev. Sills learned that Chinese wore, sel- return to Kienningfu, escorting about five thousand Chinese re-ling the contents of the ladies fugees and a quantity of ten, for boxes on the stroots of Chungan which services the refugees were confirming the reports which had compelled to pay $170,000.
Although Lu lisin Pang's troops were right in the Rod area, Gener nl Lu made no effort to release the lady missionaries, for whom the Communists were demanding a ransom of $100,000.
Communications Not Delivered to Captives.
After strenuous, andeavours, the Rev. Silla obtained a go-between
reached them that the ladies hud beon killed.
Tho cruel conduct of the Com- unists haa nnnzed their own coun- trymen, and it is your correspon- dent's conviction that the motives Communists political, the hoping to cause the Nanking Gov. erament trouble in their interna tional affairs.
WCTO
Communists' Defence.
A letter written by the Com
Who reached, the Communist head-tuniste after, the murder reads: quarters on August 20, and who "We have power to take you for returned to Kienningfu on Septem-eigners, to hold you to ransom and bor 6 and reported that none of the ta kill you.". communications sent by the C.M.8.
or the British Consul bad reached the Indies.
Miss Harrison's Gruesome Ordeal.
The go-between graphically do scribed how, while he was in the Communist camp on September 1. Miss Harrison and four Chinese prisoners were brought hound to the execution ground where, after Eve hours of a farcial trial stand ing in the sun without any protes tion whatever, the Communists shot one of their Chinesa victims and clumsily babended three under Misg Harrison's eyes,
Miss Harrison Reprloved for a Fortnight.
Miss Harrison was reprieved for fortnight while the go-between returned to Kisaning with the de
and for
Memorial Service in. London.
LONDON, Oct. 10.1
ordered discon
DUKE OF NORTHUMBER. LAND'S ESTATE,
DEATH DUTIES EXCEED A
MILLION.
(TILOVOH ELUTER'S AGENCY.),
LONDON, Oct. 10. .The late Duke of Northumberland left over £2,500,000.
So far as is at present ascertain, able, the, death dɩ bírs excoed £1,000,000,
ROUMANIA'S CABINET
CHANGES.
NATIONAL PEASANT
MINISTRY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BUCHAREST, Oct, 10, The Cabinet-bas-been reconalitut-
ed, with M. Mironescu es Premier and Foreign Minister.
It largely identical with 3. Maniu's Ministry, being of a pure-
The memorial service for Missly national peasant complexion. Harrison and Miss Nettleton, at The Prime Minister, M. Mäniu,
PROTEST BY BRITISH
MINISTER..
Fah Tez Fat Pao)
the matter.
>
It is reported from Broach that
office of the local Congress Com mittec, and arrested 28.
ALLAHABAD, Oct. 22. The Government of the United
Provinces have declared the Con- gress Committees in the Benares district as unlawful associations,
Property Liable to Beizure.
BLA, Oct. 10. The Vicoroy has promulgatod an Ordinance empowering local Gov ernments to seize the property of any association declared unlawful.
BURIAL OF: R.101 HEROES.
CORTEGE - WATCHED BY SORROWING CITIZENS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
The Dominions' Premiers' and other delegates to the Imperial Con- ference were presat in a body.
The Frendr Air Minister, M. Laurent Eynao, the Italian. Air Minister, Goneral Balbo, and the Belgian Minister of Communica
"Terroristio Bumours."
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The Brazilian Embassy declares that the Federal Governement in in a position to stamp out, the re volution, and has warned Braziliani not to believo "terroristic rum.
Fodoral Forces' Dafest Robala,
Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 11. A Government communiqué claires* that the Federal forces defeated the"
rebels in the State of Para
The communiqué says that the
to Government expects reglore Peace shortly.
The rebels claim that 19 States
while the Federal Government re
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 10.
tions, M. Lippens, came. specially are absolutely in their possession, to London to attend the service, na did Dr. Eckener, one of the pioncorstains only soven States. of airship travel in Germany,
The simple service was broadcast throughout the Empire and, was relayed by all the German stations.
Requiem in Westminster Cathedral,
A solemn Requiem Mass, was simultaneously held at Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral.
The Minister of Marine has order: ed several merchant vessels to be armed with guns to co-operate with the warships.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 11, The Brazilian destroyer Marahan (the former British destroyer Por poise), has engaged the revolation-- aries off Imbutuba în an effort to cover the landing of the Federal troops, but it is reported that the warship was forced to retire.
After the service in St. Phul's, large crowds filed past the scorched and tattered flag of the R10),
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10, which draped the altar,
Scores of thousands of people. The Brazilian revolutionaried paid a tributa of respect to the claim that their forces dominate the whole of Brazil, except Rio da victims of the R.101, whose bodies, Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Amazonas. in coffins covered by Union Jacks. They say that the fleet is powerless, and surrounded by wreaths and
As the insurgents control the wire- less system. flowers, lay in state throughout to- day at Westminster Hall.
MUEDEN, Oct. 19. The British Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, has wired Chang Kauch Liung protesting against the at-
LONDON, Oct. 11. tempted assassination of Mr. Lenox
London's principal thoroughfares Simpson and requesting vigorous between Westminster and Euston measures for the capture of the
were thronged with tens of thou would-be assassina.
sands of sorrowing citizens to day, Chang Heuch Liang has wired the to watch the passing of the funeral Tientsin authorities to deal with cortège of the R.101 victims on the way to their burial place at St. Mary's Churchyard, Cardington. Special police arrangements wore The procession, headed by com- necessary to control the traffic in rades of the dead, included the the neighbourhood, which, particu. relatives and members of the Airarly in the late evening, becaro
very congested. Cuuncil, the Army Council, the
By permission of the King, West Board of Admiralty, men forming minater Hall remained open till the third watch of the R.101, the ten o'clock to-night, and a constant SHANGHAI, Oct. 12,
| stream of silent mourners continued crew of the R.100, Mr. Ramsay long after dark, General Chen Ming Shu, the MacDonald and all the Dominion Chairman of the Kwangtung Pro-Prime Ministers, representatives of vincial Government, and Mr. Lin India, and foreign attachés. Wan Koi, the Canton, Mayor, ar- rived at Shanghai yesterday and test For Nanting to-day to interview Chiang Kai Shek.
CHEN MING SHU AT.
NANKING.
(Wah Tu Fat Pro,}
OUTRAGE. IN MEXICO.
PEASANTS INCINERATED IN A CHUROL.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN" BERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Oct. 10..
A nossage from Mexico City
tho State of
Ht. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, Leader of the Ponant Party, who states that religious enemies mur was attended by relatives, repro brought back King Carol from sentatives of churches, of all deno exile, resigned as a sequel to trouble dered 80, pensante in a church at minations, two representatives of with his colleagues. It is general San Carlos, in the Chinese Minister, Bishop Land.ly beloved that the relations be-Tolasco
(formerly of Hong Kong) and tween the Cabinet and the King are really at the bottom of the Bishop Mowl.
crisis
The Rov. Wilson Chali, in the the course of a sermon, said the two Indice stood as a bulwark of Christianity against the tide of Bolshevism, and their sacrifice would not be in vain,, Britain Presenting Strong Note to Hanking.
PEIPING, Oct. 11. It is understood that the British Government has only born waiting
J
FRANCE'S BUDGET.
| CONT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
* INCREASED.
· [7HROUGH REUTER'B AGENCY.]
PAR18, Oct. 10. The Budget for 1001 is calimat- for details of the murder of Missed na follows:
સ
The organdi Mer-Nettisormako jeppe** 69,231-000-0000-
They set fire to the building and the inmates were incinerated, or shot whilst attempting to escape.
OBITUARY.
Army waggons bearing the coffins were preceded by the Royal wreaths and an Air Force band playing Chopin's Funeral Marcb.,
the
A prominent figure was Zeppelin commander, Dr. Hugo Eckener, in uniform, who was a friend of Major Scott.
Business places along the route were temporarily closed and the church bella tolled,
Ninety Thousand People View Lylug-in-State.
A total of 90,000 people filed past the R.101 coins in Westminster Hall, which was originally arrang ed to close at 8 p.m. It was kept open to the public till 19.35 a.m.
The crush was so great that mounted police were frequently obliged to ride among the crowd] to clear the way for traffic. Bedford Town: Deserted to Join in Obcoquies,
LONDON, Oct. 11 Bodford town was silent and: almost deserted this afternoon, the population joining the crowds of 75,000 strong lining the road to COLONEL MILTON J. MCRAE. Cardington and silently watching
BRUTER' AMERICAN, BERVICE.}
A SINTIAGO (Cal.), Oct. 11,5 were buried".
Miss Harrison's head would be mentfore sending the strongest protest expenditure 30,145,000,000 Yrsa Sian to Kienning PU MUHA
to Nanking.
If this failed to produce a big Now that details have been pub sum Miss Nettleton's head: would fished by Router, a Note will be follow. SAMA
shaa| despatched at the shortest possible
moment
(Continued on next Column.)
the passing of the long “pro- | ccasion of coffins containing the remains of tho-N.101-herpes to St. MATCHANCHPOryard here thor
Taxation has not increased, but
lino with gress and flowers. the cost of untional defence has The death is announced, of Q61. risen by 748,000,000 francs Milton J. Mcllae, one of the Two flights of bombers circled
founders of the Scripps-McRac overhad in 'n last salute. league of newspapers,
(Continued on next Column.)
Other expenditure has been dras tically cut
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