U.S. PRESIDENT SILENT.
NO STATEMENT TO CLARIFY PROHIBITION ISSUE.
SPLIT AMONG REPUBLICANS
THREATENED, ·
Washington, January 23. Tho
prohibition controversy, which has been necelerated by publication of the Wickenham report, to-day
threatened to forge Congress into
Extra Bession next summer.
It
CRIME IN THE SETTLEMENT.
PETITION TO MAYOR OF GREATER SHANGHAI.
The Chinese papers in Shaughnj understand that Col." Yuan Liang, Commissioner of Public Safety for Greater Shanghai, hns submitted a petition to the Mayer, General Chang Chun, requesting him to bring about the rendition of the police rights of the International
Settlement without delay in order to unify the police administration threatens to split the ranks of the in the Shanghai area. Republican party.
The contents of the petition have There is little expectation that
not been made public but Col. President Hoover will make any ex-Yuan is quoted as saying that the. planation to clarify the contro- versy over his stand on the ques tion of revising the 18th Amend ment Much pressure, exerted in circles close to the White House, has failed to bring any response from the President.
Anti-prohibition Republicans feel" that they will encounter difficultion in the election campaigns of 1968 unless they are able to hold out some sort of wet sentiment to their constituents.
Senators Charges. From the floor of the Senato yes
Democrat of Montana, raid into the record excerpta from nows-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1931.
GENTLEMANLY PIRATES.
STORY OF THE LOOTING OF
THE HSINMING...
**NO WANCHEE FEAR."
Well behaved and gentlemanly were the pirates whe captured the China Merchants' stoumor. Hain ming on January 10 and took the vessel to Honghai Bay, according to officers of the ship, which return,
educers of the spa horo shooting or rough tactics occurred during the piracy, and one of the Brst things that the pirates said to the foreign officers was
andhee foar."
** No
The Esinming left Shanghai on January 9, bound for Foochow On the next day the pirates, who had come on board as passengers in the
Shanghai Municipal polico is in a state of inefficiency and that the rendition of the police rights of the International Settlement is neces- sary to ensure peace and order inusual way, made themaclyos known, Chinese territory.
with pistols in their hands, and took over the ship. There were about a dozen; in the gang ill told, all young with the exception of the leader, who was over 50 years of
According to the Chinese news papers, the Colonel says that he considers the rendition of the police rights of the Bettlement essential because criminal gangs, having committed crimes in the Settle- "go. ment, frequently take refuge in the The leader apparently is an old Chinese controlled aren with the hand at the game, pa he is said to result that peace and order there have bossied of having taken part nre menaceti. The crime ware in in the piracies some time ago of the Settlement, he is alleged, to napping cases are concerned, is two other China Merchants' ships.
COLLISION NEAR AMOY.
PRESIDENT HAYES AND
S.S. KUMSANG.
The collision between the .. President eyes and B... Kumaong appears to have had serious possi. bilities, and the Kumaang was lucky to get off with a smashed poop Contradictory reports regarding the
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collision are current.
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8.3. Co.'s Calculta-Japan line, sailed from Hong Kong on the after a reßt. In order to provide morning of Thursday last week, the more employment for junior cap- weather being fair and the visibility tains, and to give them experience 20માં. Shortly after 6 p.m., the arhich will assist them if appoint- weather became thick, and spiceded Intor on as captain (D), each was "reduced. from time to time of the fully manned flotillas DOW
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The next morning, however, the fog was so dense that it was found necessary to anchor, visibility being about 200 feet. This was carried out at 7.18 am, at Cat. 23.37 N. and Long. 11784) E, a position some 70 miles to the southward of Amoy. The ship rode to its anchor with the bow to the cast.
Ship Looms Through Fog. Soven minutes after the anchor
has a captain de second-in-com- mand and in charge of one of its
divisions, instead of a commander..
Captain Budgeon entered the Navy in one of the last groups, on board the Britannia, in 1904, and went to sea na a midshipman in 1000. He was made a lieutenant in 2011 and specialized in torped. oes in 1913-14. During the late War he was torpedo officer of the battleship Cornwallis at the Dar danelles, and after she was tor pedoed he joined the Vernon staff for duty in the Mining School, In
terday Senator Burton K. Wheeler, have said, especially insofar as kid- the Tai Shun and. the Kwangi,had been dropped, a whistle was 1018 he resumed sen duty as tor-
Chinese territory which fact (again
greater in the Settlement than in He claimed to have learned his way hoard by those on board the Kum-nedo officer of tho Royal. Oak. sang, sounding from the port beam. After further service in the Ver. Soon after a ship, subsequently. non he was first and torpedo lieu- neen to be the Dollar liner, Presi-tenant-commander of the Repulse dent Hayes, was seen approaching, in 1993-23, and was promoted to heading for the middle of the commander. Most of his time in Kumsang and at right angles to the this rank has been spent at the Ad- miralty and in the Vernon, but in bound from Shanghai to Hong 1927-28 he was executive officer of Kong.
the battle-cruiser Hood.
papers charging President Hoover, the Chinese newspapers are quoted) about ships by first serving in them, his cabinet members, close friends shows that the Settlement authori and is said to have been a fireman and secretaries with mying one
tien have failed to improve their many years ago en Jardino's steam- thing publicly and another private methods and are unable to accord ly. Senador "Wheelor said that
er Hangsang. By a queer coin proper protection to the com- privately the President and his in-munity. In view of this, he is recidence the Hangsang assisted in timates let it be known that reports ported as saying to the Chinese preventing a piracy near Honghai
of his 100 per cent. dry interpreta Press that, it is necessary to bring Bay a week before the Hsinming latter. The Hayes was southward
about the rendition of police rights without further delay.
tion of the Wickersham report are unwarranted, The President is re- presented as believing there is no
The Chinese papers quote Col. reason to label him bone dry be cause of the message to Congress Yuan as saying in conclusion that which he sent when he submitted the rendition of all foreign con.es. the report of his law enforcement sions in China is one of the Nation and crime investigating commis-al Government's policies and, as sion, acaded by Mr. George W. judicial rights have already been Wickersham,
former Attorney surrendered by the Settlement authorities, there is no reason for inator Wheeler to-day insisted the retention of police rights, that on the issue of prohibition Pre-NC. Daily News. sident Hoover changed his mind after he had sent his own message and the Wickersham report to Congress.
General
ReportaFramed.” Senator Smith W. Brookhart, dry Republicatn of Iowa, declared that the newspaper accounts of the Pre- sident's stand on the prohibition issus have been. framed." To this Senator Wheeler replied that Bena tor Brookhart wants to believe that the President is as dry as the Iowa Senator is.
enforcement in the capital, even providing that homes may be searched by dry agents without search warrants.
Similarly, the anti-prohibition force uro roady to force the issue and for this reason many observera believe that an extra session of congress is inevitable.
piracy.
Marks Painted Out,
The course of the President Hayes was altered, but according to those on board the Kumsang, she came round slowly and hit the Kumsang. first with the bow and then with
After having taken over the ship and arranged guards on strategia points, the pirates ordered the courag of the ship to be altered so that it travelled further out to sea the stern, The Kurasang was than is usual for coasters. Then struck on the port stern, consider they set to work to alter distin-able damage being done to the poop guishing marks. The yellow band deck and superstructure. on the black funnel was painted Luckily the damage done was all out and the funnel thus made all well above the water line, and the black, while the name of the ship ship was subsequently stated by, in English and Chinese was also surveyors as Amoy to be seaworthy painted out with black paint. The Kumsang, whose cargo consist
At night the ship was sailed with-ed chiefly of pig-iron on this trip, out navigating lights, although the is a vessel of 6,415 tons gross, while electric light in the cabins and the President layes is 10,833 tons other places on the ship was not gross, and it is not difficult to see switched off. With shutters down that a serious accident was nar- at night there was little to give rowly averted. the ship away. When the ship was Admitting his case to be hopeless finally brought to anchor in Hong- Senator Hiram Bingham, wet Re-hai Bay the pirates ordered the pabilean of Connecticut, on Satur- dynames to be shut down, and there day introduced into the Bonato an amendment to the Howell District electric hand lamps which
was no light at all save from the. the of Columbia enforcement bill. The pirate, carried. amendment provides for the lega manufacture, transportation, ale and consumption of beer and wine having an alcoholic content of four per cent. Beverages, under prohibi- tion, may contain only one half of Drying Up Washington,
one per cent of alcohol. Hitherto, the drye had considered Senator Bingham says that his the question closed.. But now they intention is to obtain a vote and are disposed to force the liquor thus bring a sharp division of wets iamte and they have started matters and drys so that all seators will with introduction of Senator be forced to face the issuo publicly Robert B. Howoll's bill to dry up Meanwhile, the prohibition de Washington. The monaure intro. Its rages. The wets contend that duced by the Nebraslon Republican if the Howell bill is passed thereally they procured a junk loaded provides for drastio prohibition would not be enough jails to hold
(Continued on next Column.) its violators.
Similar debates are expected to continue spasmodically for weeks in Washington as a result of the Wickershaun roport. Publication of the report has thrown the whole wet and dry question back into Congress.
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The following passengers areived taken, towards the north end of Taft-Miss Caroline Adams, Mr. be from Manila by as. President Honghai Bay, was not practicablo Francisco Almagro, Rev. Valeriago for the ship, as the water was too Aragon, Mr. W. H. Bell, Mrs. S. shallow. Accordingly it was taken. Bright, Mr. Ferry Burgess, Mr. | further south Hero, however, the
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Amusing Incidents. There were two or three incidente which, looked back on after the affair was over, appear amusing First of all there. why the pirate who suddenly pushed open the door of the chief engineer's cabin, thrust
Provisions for an eventuality in a box and said Cunshaw for. you." The box contained tins of that did not occur were nullified cigarettes stolen from the cargo.
by the daring of the bosun. The Two of the ship's complement pirates brought up on dook tins found disguises moon after the of korosene and bundles of cotton pirates made themed you know, waste, and told thes on board Unt The chief stoward attired himself if any attempt. at rescue should Names are notified in Air Minis
a szilor, and his efforts when be made they would use the waste try Orders of 23 officers holding- working with the crew wore most and kerosene to set the ship on short service commissions who are realistit. He was not spotted. The fire. However, as much risk to due to transfer to the reserve, or compradore, however, was not so himself if caught, the borun man-in two cases to relinquish their lucky. He boozie a Broman, and aged to do a little dirty work. It commissions, on completing their went down to the boilers. The would have been interesting to period of service on pirates told the senior fireman that know what would have happened they would take him as a hostage if any attempt at rene had been unless he found the compradore made. The bosum had filled all the for them, and on hearing this the kerosene ting with water.
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Following the piracy an official of the Shanghai office of the China Morahants said that arrangements for armed guards for their steamers were to be made. On arrival from ʼn sick man on her hands Toochow the Hoinming had on (Continued at fout of next column.) "board a gaard of Chinese soldiers
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