REDS TO BE COURT-PLANE BURSTS INTO
MARTIALLED:
BROUGHT FROM TIENTSIN TO PEIPING.
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PEIPING, Feb. 19: Ninoteen of the alleged Com munists arrested at Tientsin have been brought to Peiping, where they will be tried by court-martial, which the Headquarters of the Garrison Commander is setting up for that purpose. They include
Women.
severnl
young
SALT CABELLE
APPOINTMENTS. "
QUESTION RAISED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
i
THROUGE BRUTER'S ADENOY.]
LONDON, Feb. 10. In the House of Commans to-day, Mr. A. M. Samuel (Co., Farnham) naked why the British Chief In spector of the Chinese Salt Gabelle had been replaced by an Ameri- can, seeing that the United States did not participate in the foreign Consortium and had not signed the loan on which the foreign reorgan.
intion of the Gabelle was baited.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, replied that Sir Miles Lampson had instructed his repre- Hentative in Nanking to draw the attention of the Chinese Finance Minister to the large interests of British bondholders in loans secur. ed on the salt revenue, and to enquire why. Mr. Hussey-Freke had ⚫ heen replaced
It was announced on the 8th inst, that the Minister of Finance, Mr. T. V. Soong, had appointed Mr. Frederick Albert Cleveland, an American economist, Acting Asso- inte Chief Inspector of the Salt Gabelle, in succession to Mr. Frederick Hussey-Freke, the latter being appointed Adviser to the Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Cleveland, who canic out East with the Kemmerer Currency Commission, Inter joined the Salt Gabelle as head of tlie Accountant
Department.
TURKISH HANGMAN CLAIMS
HIS VICTIM. ....
CONDEMNED DERVISH - WHO RAN THE GAUNTLET.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 18. Driven by cold and hunger into a little village for food, a man was Treognised by the villagers as Hus sain, the Dervish who had escaped from tho Gypsy Hangman Menemen...
ut
Hussain, who had been wander. ing in the mountains for a fort- night, was handed over to the police and taken to Menemen, where he will be hanged at down
to-morrow..
A Constantinople message of February 4 stated that an exciting and successful attempt to cheat the pallows · had : béon divulged in connection with the previous day's executions at Menemen.
A Dervish named Hussain escap- ed from the hands of the Gipsy, Hangman, dashed through a cor- don of astonished troops, and ran the gauntlet of an outburst of firing
OBITUARY.
ADMIRAL SIR ALFRED WINSLOE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AOHNCY.).
FLAMES.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1931.
COLONIAL NAVAL AIMEE MacPHERSON BRITISH MISSION TO SPAIN'S POLITICAL
DEFENCE ACTS.
AT SHANGHAI
THREE NAVAL AVIATORS BURNED TO DEATH.
AMENDED BILL REPORTED PASSENGER ON PRESIDENT
WILSON. FOR THIRD READING.
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TOKYO, Feb. 18.
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From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, Feb, 18. Mrs. Aimee MacPherson, the well-known evangelist, arrived here on board the President. Wilson,
Her first net was to embrace two missionaries, Mrs. and Miss Lawlor, of the International. Church of the Four Square Gospel...
LONDON, Feb. 19... Two officer pilots and one potty The Standing Committee of the officer were burned to death when House of Commons, passed and the ordered to be reported for its third an aeroplane belonging to Yokosuka Naval Aviation School reading the Bill amending the suddenly burst into flames in mid-Colonial Naval Defence Acts, so air and crashed on top of the that those Colonies desiring to take Fujieda Agricultural School, in advantage of the Act will be able Shidzuoka prefecture.
to join together and share the cost. Mr. O, G. Ammon explained that the Government had particularly in mind the East African Colonies, Ceylon and the Straits Settlements.health.
Replying to a suggestion that it would be more effective to concen-
Both the machine and the School hall were reduced to ashes.
BYE-ELECTIONS IN GREAT
BRITAIN.
GENERAL ELECTION IN MINIATURE.
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trate on one main fleet with cash contributions from the Colonica in- stend of encouraging the creation. of small units, Mr. Ammon replied that it was the view of the Ad- miralty that Colonies if they de LONDON, Feb. 17.ired should be able to raise funds The country is faced with the to man their own shipa. almost unprecedented. situation of n miniature general election, seven bye-elections either being in pro grena or pending.
One is at East Islington, due to the death of the Enbour member, Dr. Ethel Bentham, the candidates being Mrs. Leah Manning (Labour), Miss Thelma Cazalet (Conserva- tive), Major Crawford (Liberal} and
When interviewed, Mra, Aimes MacPherson said that her doctor had advised her, to take a world trip, following a breakdown in her
Next Stop Hong Kong. Her next stop will he Hong Kong after making a single public appearance in Shaughai, which will he announced later.
A New York telegram of January 31 stated that the evangelist, Mrs. Aimee MacPherson, and her daugh ter, Roberta, had left for Shanghai
He added that the Treaty, of from Honolulu the previous even- London governed the whole mattering on board the steamer President and the Bill could not be used to
increase the size of the navy.
GLASGOW BUSINESS
SENSATION.
Brigndier-General Critchley CHARGES OF FRAUD AND (Empire Crusader)."
FALSE PRETENCES.
Polling will be on Thursday. Al the parties concede that the con- test is kely to be a close one:
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There is a vacancy at 'Farchnni,
LONDON, Feb. 17. due to the retirement of Sir John
Glasgow has been stirred by the Davidson, and the candidates are sudden arrest of 14 business men, the former Attorney-General, Sir some of whom are prominent pub Thomas Inskip (Conservative), Mr.lic mon connected with the Scottish Cross (Liberal), and Mr. Pearson Amalgamated Silks, Limited, now (Labour).
in voluntary liquidation.
Nearly £500,000 is involved. Promoter Arrested at Manchester,
Polling is on Friday.
A bye-election is ocensioned at Salisbury, owing to the retirament of Mr. Hugh Morrison, and at Pontypridd, owing to the
Wilson::
It was also added that Mrs. Aimee MacPherson was using the
audionym of Mrs. Poate." A Shanghai telegram of February 2 informed the Daily Press that there had been a completo mis- understanding there, and it was ex pinned by Reuter that Mrs. Poate
INDIA.
TO FOLLOW UP ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.
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"New Delhi, Feb. 17. Mr. Wedgwood Benu, Secretary for India, Mr. J. H. Thomas, and other Parliamentary delegates are expected to arrive horo curly in March with constitutional experts for discuations on India, with a view to the appointment of Indian committees to work out details of, the constitution.
Official Denial.
DILEMMA
ADMIRAL AZNAR FORMS CABINET.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
ELECTORAL REFORM BILL IN JAPAN.
AN INCREASE OF OVER SIXTEEN MILLION.
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MADRID, Feb. 18.)
TOKYO, Feb. 16. A now Cabinet has been formed." According to an announcement Premier, Admiral Aznar; Foreign made by the Home Offics tho Minister, Count Romanoncs, Minis-national electorate will be increas tor of the Army, General Boroned by over 3,000,000, totalling guer; Minister of the Navy, Ad 16,307,000, if the Diot passes the miral Rivara; and Minister for Electoral Roform Bill, lowering the Labour, Duke of Maura,
ago of qualification to 40 svents, which is now under discussion!"
In addition, 13,563,000 women will receive the local franchise if the Women's Citizenship Billin
Becret Mosting of Parties,
LATER Admiral Aznar, Captain-General of the Navy, has received a moan» LATER
date to form a Cabinot passed It is officially stated in London
This is a sequel to a long secret that there is no truth in the re-mosting of different parties at the port from Delhi, that Mr. Dann War Ministry, where General and Mr. Thoms are shortly leav Berenguer is lying ill, which broke
Nevertholus, the situation has ing for India,
v gravitated strongly towards the that those present had decided to up early this morning.
It was subsequently announced Light.
The Constitutional guarantees offer their services to the Fingavo again been suspended.
An envoy was immediately sent Interest at present centres in the to the Palace to report to the septugenation Admiral Aznar, the King, who was awaiting the result non-political head of the Navy, of the deliberations.
visit of the British statesmen, In connection with the rumoured Router learns that there is no rea son to believe that the 'Govern- ment have abandoned the project it is considering, to sond a small Lody of British politicings and oficials to India to follow up the work of the Round Table Confer
Many of the Indian Round Table delegates had hoped that the party Alr. Benn. would include Lord Bankey” and
Prior to the meeting General Alvarez threw up the idea of at- tempting to form a Cabinet after seeing the King, who took excep.
tion to his conditions,
who is seeking to form a Cabinet
Ho claim to have already secured of "Monarchical unity," the support of the provod Loyal- iste, Marquia Alhucemas, Count Romanones, and Señors Mauro, La Cierva and Carbo.
It is recognized that King Alfon
LATER. It is pointed out that special 80, with 45 parties eager to govern,
Several groups of youths paraded has skilfully handled the situation obstacles provent the Lord Chan from his own standpoint, and the in the centre of the streets shout- cellor leaving the country, but it is not improbable that other sombers failure of the aged Señor Guerra tong Long Live the Republic !"
and Denth to the King" and of the Government may visit India, form a revolutionary Government turned over a vehicle and sat it on though decisions have not yet been has strengthened his hand.
Barenguer Making a Cabinet. Viceroy Meals Gandhi.
MADRID, Feb. 17. LAVER General Berenguer is now A four hours conversation be-gaged in foraning & Cabinet and today us believed to be King Alfonso Praying for Guidance. tween Lord Irwin, and Mahatma
tukon..
of a satisfactory nature,
It will be roamed to-morrow, "Gandhi Seemed Cheerful.”
The
and her daughter, Isabel, who were on board tho President Wilson travelling from Honolulu. to Shang- hai with British passports, were
NEW DELHI, Feb. 18. "conversationg" between the wife and daughter of a well the Viceroy and Gandhi were con- known and respected British mer-tinued and lasted three hours and chant in Shanghai, and that they 40 minutes.. were in no way connected with Mrs. Aimee MacPherson.
will now consult the other leaders, Gandhi, who seemed cheerful;
after which he will resume his
Mission Report Baseless.
Still a further New York tele-"talk" with fjord Irwin. eram of February 2 told the Daily Prees that with reference to an Associated Press
ess.telegram from
Simultaneously & company pro- Honolulu stating that Mrs. Aimee resigna-moter has been arrested in Man-MacPherson was proceeding to thestez, charged with forming a China under the pseudonym of fraudulent where to obtain money "Mra. Poate, the Associated from the public in connection with Press learned from the Dollar Line that Mrs. F. W. Poate and her the above company.
daughter, who were mistaken at Innolulu for Mrs. Aimee MacPher
1t
St.
tion of Mr. Mardy Jones. Other bye-elections George's, Weskainater, Sunder. land, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, owing to deaths of sitting mem- bers, complete the list.
CAPT. CAMPBELL RETURNS
HOME TO-DAY.
OFFICIAL WELCOME AT
WESTMINSTER HALL.
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RUGBY, Feb. 10. receive an official welcome on his Captain Malcolm Campbell will
1ctura from creating a new land speed record at Daytona Beach.
Captain Campbell is duo to arrive aloud the Mauretania at Southampton on Thursday,
The ceremony, it was announced in the House of Commons to-day, will take place in Westminster Hall.
BRITISH COTTON .
EXHIBITION.
· QUEEN' MARY, INTERESTED
IN THE DISPLAY.':
[BRITISH WIDELESS, SERVICE ]
Rugby, Feb. 10. Hor Majesty the Queca visited.
He is being gent to Glasgow. The Scottish Amalgamated Silk Co. was formed in 1928, with a | son and daughter, were well-known capital of nearly £2,000,000,
Hemanded in Custody.
residents of Shanghai, who had booked berths on the President.
LATER.Wilson in London and took up their Thirteen well-known North of tickets in Boston. England and West of Scotland busi- neas rae were formally romanded in custody in the Glasgow Sheriff's Court today on charges of fraud and false pretences arising out of an investigation of the affairs of Scottish Amalgamated Silks, Ltd.
The amount involved is stated to
£438,000.
Names of Accused.
The following man the names of the 13 arrested, business en:-- Fred Tomlinson, John Morison Rockland, George Stanley Conts, Seton Veitch Coats, Joseph John- stone, Fama Sutherland, Robert
JACK-THE-RIPPER MYSTERY,
VERDICT IN BLACKHEATH TRAGEDY.
(THROUGH REUTEK'S AÚENOY.}
LONDON, Feb, 17.
Hannay; Alexander Young, George The inquest was held to-day on Todd, Dundan Wilkie, Alexander the body of Louisa Maud. Steel, Rennie, John Gardner, and Arthur an 18-year-old servant girl, whose Callendor Strachia
́strangled and matilated body was Octogenarian on Ball of Ten Thou- found at Blackheath on January 23
sand Pounds.
under circumstances which suggest The octogenarian, James Suther-ed that she had been murdered in
land, one of the 13 busincas men a motor car and the body then chargril, has been releed on bail thrown on to the Beth for £10,000, owing to ill-health.
the British Cotton Exhibition at HUGE CUNARD LEVIATHAN.. the White City to-day
Her Majesty made a tour of the TO BE LAUNCHED IN TWELVE exhibits, "in" which she showed
eat interest; afterwards ing horself as delighted.
Her Majesty congratulated those. associated with the organizations and expressed the hope that the exhibition, which is being held in connexion with the British Indus tries Fair, would have great The death is announced of Ad-novem în stimulating trade. 'miral Sir. Alfred Leigh Winsloo,.;
LONDON, Feb. 18.
The deceased. Adiniral had a'
distinguished career in the Navy, COST OF LIVING AT HOME and was Commander on the China Station 1010-1010. He was born in RETAIL PRICES STILL BEING
in
REDUCED,
BRITISH WINKLERS BERVICE:]
1852, and entered the Navy 1805, He was made a Captain in 1802. Her served in the Egyptian War, 1682 He was a member of a Committee for the Rovision of
Roour, Feb. 16 Navy Signals, and he served in the
The Minister of Labour states Naval Brigade in the Expedition
The Sam that damar 22 SREEKS Alrica, in 1650 He commanded level of retail prices was approxi† HI,M.S. Spartan during the Chinese. mately 2 per cent, abore the level Japanese War. He was Fourth of July, 1014. Bea Lord of the Admiralty, 1906- 1010, and he commanded the Ophir during the Royal tour.]
This compares with 53 per cent month ago and 44. per ceat n year ago.
MONTHS TIME.
(BRITI8) WINELESS BERVICE}
of
The jury's verdict, was one murder against some unknown per 80,...
:
LONDON, Feb. 17. In the House of Commons to-day, lying to Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister, described the report that Mr. Benn and Mr. Thomas pro to visit India soon as baseless, No much decisions had been made. The Government were now consult
ng with the Viceroy, how best to carry on the negotiations begun in London. The arrangements, when completed, will be announced.
Mr. Rainsay MacDonald, Prime
Rumours Speculative, [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.) - Ruaer, Feb, 10.
LATER.
In the grim Escorial. Palsoć, King Alfonso spent this afternoon praying at his mother's tomb while Señor Sanchez Guerra plodded on potential Ministerial in an unceasing round of visits, on several of whom
collénguez, are actually behind prison bars.
promised the Liberal Party his Count Ramanones has definitely. support, but the result of the con- ́sultation is not expected to bo
known to-day.
Sator Guerra, in an interviews night, declared that he was relying on the support of all up
holders of the constitution He wanted to form a Government in which all sections, even Socialists, would be represented.
Dictatorship May Be Established,
fire.
The police charged and dispersed them.
Senor Guerra Invitad to Form Cabinet,
MADRID, Feb. 10. Setor Banchez Guerra, the for? mer Left Conservative leader, whe was imprisoned in connbotion with the abortive-rising at Valencia in 1929, has been invited to form a Cabinet
LATER.
Señor Guerra has abandoned the attempt to form a Cabinet.
Senor Alba Decines King's Invitation.
PARIS, Feb. 10.; Sedor Bantiago Alba, the exiled? Liberal Inder, has declined, the request of King Alfonso to proceed to Madrid for the purpose of form. ing a drid for the pur
King and Queen Ovated.
MADRID, Feb 18. Queen Enn-reerived an ovation' from the crowds at the station.
Their Majestice the King and Queen later appeared on the pel martial-law may be proclaimed
It is persistently reported thatcony and were heartily, cheerect this evening, and a Diotatorship may be established under the pre- ridency of Gomeral Saro
LATER
Queen Ena Returns to Madrid,
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Ruony, Fei 18. General Martinės Anido - (who
Quecu Ena of Spain, who made was Primo de Rivera's right-handa hurried visit to England a fort 'nan and Minister of Interior in
causing anxiety, loft London to mother, Princes Beatrice, Wang
day on her return to Spain.
no devision has been reached re- been summoned to proceed here by
It is authoritatively stated that his Cabinet) is reported to have fight ngo_whon the health of her
garding the despatch of a Parlianir from the Continent. montary delegation to India to The censorship was re-established continue the work of the Round at 7 o'clock this morning..
| Table Conference, and that rumours regarding the ultimate constitution of the delegation aro. therefore clearly speculative.
Mr. Wedgwood Bean, Secretary for India, stated in the House of Commons to-day that he was un- able na yet to make a precise state- ment of the Government's plans."
Gandhi to Interview Viceroy, When asked if he had any in formation regarding the attitude of the Congress Party towards the Conference proposals, Mr. Bonn. said he could add nothing to 'what' had appeared in the Press-
My Benn said he understood there In reply to a further question,
was to be an interview between the Viceroy and Gandhi.
Armed Rising in Burma, Questioned regarding the presen Position in respect of the armed rising in Burma, Mr. Benn said the main outbreak had been dealt with, Unt there is still a considerable number of rebels in the forests, who had broken up into small Kaugs and were being dealt with as A London telegram of January 23 - systematically an possible. being puzzled by another murder stated that Scotland Yardwar
which recalled the terrible Dussel- dorf affairs of "last year”, în ́íta brutality and apparent lack of motive.AK
Early on, January 2 a workman waking across the Common at Blackheath stumbled against the
RUGBY, Fob 17. The new 70,000-ton Cunard liner may be ready for launching by the end of next February if present ex- | body of a girl, pectations of Messrs. John Brown, He reported the matter to the the builders, are realised. | police; who soon identified it as Work both in the Clydeside Yard that of an 18-year-old local servant in varions industrial centres is pro- and in the factories and foundries girl, named Louisa Steel:
From the marks found on her greasing rapidly, with day and night neck and throat it was apparent
that she had been strangled, The transport of special parts Hen body was terribly mutilated. from places as far distant as Dar-There is always a great deal of lington creates problems for which trafe on the Heath and the fact many ingenious solutions have been that, numerous pedestrians must
have the without The rudder, weighing 150 tons, by the body, supported the police will require specially prepared. I thear that she was murdered in a vessel to carry it from Middlen motor car and then hung on to the
Heath. brought to the Clyde.
shifts
The strange circumstances of the cane suggested that a manine of the Jack the Ripper type was at large
The gignatic size of the new liner is such that each of the funnels would contain the hulls of four steamers of the first. Cunard feat. in London.
leader, Sayasan, is alive or dead.
"It is still uncertain, whether the
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]» Communal Disturbances in Benares.
BENARES, Feb. 17 One hundred and ninety-four orsons, mostly Hindus, liave been sent to hospital de a recult of communal disturbance on Febru: ary 12,
Nearly Two Hundred Sont, to
Hospitat pumun GAMA BENAREs, Feb, 10. No fower than 154 people, mostly
indus, have been admitted to hospital na a result of the com mudal disturbances which took place on Thursday Inst, following turbances which marked the murder of a Moslem foreign-cloth dealer, s
Tifteen donths are reported.
BENARES Feb, 18- The casualties in last week's rioting the now given as $0 Mahom-1 modans and six. Hindus killed, and. the total injured ·230. ;
Another Failure.
LATER. The attempt to re-establish a Military Dictatorship under the leadership of General Saro has failed.
(Continued on next Column.)
The King and Queen, were at Victoria Station to bid farewell to Queen Ena, who for som minutéa. remained in close conversation withi Thoir Majesties th
As the train moved off, the Queen waved a farewell to the large crowd, which gave Her Majesty n cordial send-off.
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