Et
CHONG KONGS
DARTMOOR MUTINY SHANGHAI BOMB OUTRAGE
TRIAL
GOVERNOR ON CAUSE
OF REVOLT
SELF DEFENDING CONVICT PRAISED BY JUDGE
ERROUGERNUTER'S AGENCY..]
LUNDON, April 20 A feature of the Princetown- trial to-day was the cross-examina tion of Colonel Roberts, the Governor of Dartmoor at the time. of the January riots, by one of the thirty accused convicks who is da fending himself. You have done it very fairly," said Mr Justice Finlay after a series of well-framed questions,
Colonel Roberts, the ox-lover- nor, expressed the viena tilint the frustration of numerous at tempts to Dope was the real cause of the mutiny, and related A docsaion when resentment was exhibited at his refusal to allow mon who wouldn't go to church to attend the prison concerta. The Home Offee later decided that they should be permitted to go.
Japanese Militarists and Diplomats Seriously Wounded
JAPANESE TROOPS IN ACTION
ENGAGEMENT WITH GUERILLAS NEAR KIRIN
SUCCESS FOLLOWS SEVERE FIGHTING AT MAILIN
(THROUGH REUTERʼN; AGENOT.)
CHANGCHUN, April 20 On receipt of a report that a body of a thousand guerilla troops were threatening Turghun, where
40 Japanese are Anding refuge in the Consulate branch office a de- tachment of Japanese troops left. The Judge paid a surprise visit Kirin. this morning and encounter to the prison, before the court sabad the gueriltus, en route. A sharp and asked many questions, allow, ing himself particularly interested in solitary confinement.
AMAZING SCENES INmunications
DAIL EIRANN
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DAN BREEN'S DRAMATIC.
·OUTBURST
REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS..
LONDON, April 28. Amazing scene occurred in Dail' Eirann to-day during the debate on the Bill for abrogating the Oath of Allegiance.
was
engagement ensued, and the Japan. ese lost five dead and Ave, wound edi Further details are lacking: owing to the interruption of com
It
discovered that the bandits had burned down two wooden bridges on the Kirin- Tunghun line whereof "one, "Och- aoho, will take a week to repair. The other Chinoho is now closely guarded, by Japanese troops," MURAI BRIGADE CAPTURE HAILIN
TOKYO, April 29. Harbin Press despatches report. that the main force of the Murni Brigade, after detraining at Imien- po, élished with the insurgent forces on Wednesday night near Hailin
The excitement. followed reference
The rebel army was estimated by various speakers to incidents into he at least six thousand strong Ireland daring. The Trouble.”
and was surprisingly well equipped Dan Brgen, of the Fianna Fail their weapons including tauka It Part the De Valera group) jump is also reported that they were ing up dramatically, said: equipped with gas apparatas.
During the Trouble I went out to kill, if possible, Lord French, in order to sever the link with Britain and I would do the same again" if the occasion arose.”
Lord French was Lord Lieuten ant of Ireland at the time of which Mr. Breen was speaking.
Commons Statement.
In the House of Commons to-day when asked whether the Govera ment intended consultations with the Dominions on the position which had arin from the attitude adopted by the Irial Free State, the Domin ions Secretary, Mr. J. H Thomas" replied that the present issues by tween the United Kingdom and the Free State arise out of the inter- protation of the 1021 Treaty and olher agreements forming part of the settlement then reached between the two countries.
Ele added that the difference wt the thoment was between two par ties to an agreement, one-of which, had repudiated it..
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28 DAYS IN 1919: 8 DAYS IN 1932
CHARLES SCOTT'S FINE FEAT
BRITISH WAXLASE SERVICE]
Rugsy, April 28. The Guild of Air Pilots, the mem berahip of which includes many famous airmen, has cabled to Mr. Charles Scott congratulating him) on his superb Highs to Australia in eight days, twenty hours and forty-four minutes, which beat the previous record, established by Cap- tain Butler, by nonrly six hours.
The Guild's message said: "Well dono, The Guild is proud of you." Many individual airmen paid a tribute to Mr. Scott, including Mr. J. A. Mallison, the holder of the Australia to England and the Eug- land to the Cape recorde..
Scott was using the same little 100 horm-power Moth machine in which
TWO HUNDRED DEAD After severe engagement which. lasted all through Wednesday right and during which the Japan
he captured an armoured train, the Japanese forces occupied Hat.
lán..
leaving two hundred dead on the The insurgents were driven back, field of battle, two field guns, and other was booty
"KING LEO" RUNS
AMOK
OBJECTS TO BROADCAST- ING ARRANGEMENTS
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NEW YORK, April 90. Wireless fans had an unusund thrill last night.
"King Leo" the lion film star was to have colebrated hie. 18th birthday by an appearance Mon the air but evidently did not approve of the broadcasting ar rangements. Listeners heard only two loud "grunts, followed by terri fie omaher.
Leo, who weighs so0lbs., plunged through two "double plate glas windows and ran amok in the hotel throwing into panis two hundred people, before he was finally re wixed;
Five persons including three girls were injured during the panic.
HONOUR SLAYING '
TRIAL
JURY FAIL TO AGREE AFTER 24 HOURS
RETRIAL PROBABLE
(THROUGH RECTEL'S AGENCY.].
HONOLULU, April 20...
ha ant up an England-Australia The jury in the "hegour slay. record a year ago, subsequently bearing" trial
are
atpi out after
ten by Butler. His wonderful twenty-four hours. The opinion is time was achieved despite very given that there will have to be a strong headwinds.
retrial, owing to the inability of Five years ago the record for the jury do agree... fight to Australia was twenty. night days set up in 1819 by the|
LATER,
The jury is still unable to agree famous brothers Sir Ross and Sir and has again been, looked up for Keith Smith. Bort Hinkler than the night. The prosecution has amashed that record by dying a rejected the defence's muggestion Moth nahine over the ten thou that if ten or ejeven of the jurors sand miles journey in fifteen and
are agreed a majority vediet be one half days.
accepted.
US. NAVAL VOTE
G.$326,340,600 APPROPRIATED
[THOUGH NACTER'KADENDY.");
WASHINGTON, April 28, The House of Representatives.ba:']; day passed a Bill. providing for the appropriation of €8396,340,000 for the Navy Department
Of this sum, G841,235,000 will be spent on the construction of new warships and the modernisation of
ald vessels.
OBITUARY
GENERAL URIBURU
EX-PRESIDENT OP: -ARGENTINE
[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
-Pants -- Aorik 29.
The death. If tenorted of General Uribumi, an ex-President of the Argentine.
TRAGEDY AT MILITARY REVIEW
PLATFORM BLOWN TO PIECES
ASSASSIN NEARLY LYNCHED BY
FU
CROWD
SHANGRAI, April 29, ́
HONGKEW PARK WAS AT NOON TO-DAY THÐ SCENE OF A SEN SATIONAL ANTI-JAPANESE OUTRAGE, "AS A RESULT OF WHICH JAPAN'S FIVE LEADING DIPLOMATS AND WAR CHIEFS WERS WOUNDED, FOUR OF THEM GRAVELY."
THE OCCASION OF THE OUTRAGE WAS A GIGANTIC MILITARY DIS- PLAY IN HONGKEW PARK IN HONOUR OF THE JAPANESE EMPELOR'S BIRTHDAY..
ON
THOUSANDS. «OF JAPANESE CIVILIANS WERE. GATHERED IN THE PANK FOR THE MARTIAL ARRAY. A REVIEW OF OVER TEN THOUSAND JAPANESE TROOPS WAS THE PRINCIPAL FEATURE OF THE AFFAIR IN THE CENTRE OF THE PARK WAS A SMALL PLATFORM WHICH MR. ́SHIGEMITSU, MI. ' MURAL, : GENERAL BHTRAKAWA, GENERAL UYEDA AND ADMIRAL NOMUKA WERE ALL STANDING.
JUST ABOUT INCON, AFTER THE REVIEW, ME MURAI WAS DELL VERING A SPRECH
HALF HE WAS
WAY THROUGH WHEN THE PLAT- FORM WAS SHATTERED BY A HOME WHICH LANDED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
"
THERE WAS A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AND IT WAS SEEN THAT ALL THE OFFICIALS HAD BEEN WOUNDED. MR MURAT AND MR. SHIGEMITSU ARE IN A DANGEROUS. CONDITION FROM WOUNDS. THE TWO ARMY LEADERS ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED, WHILE ADMIRAL NOMURA ESCAPED WITH FACE INJURIES.
THE BOMB 18 BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THROWN BY A KOREAN. BEFORE HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE MILITARY," HE
WAS
BADLY, HAN- DLED BY THE CROWD AND WAS PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS...
→ NUMEROUS PEOPLE IN THE CROWD RECEIVED HUNTS WHEN CROWDS or JAPANESE WOMEN AND CHILDREN STAMPEDED PANIC STRICKEN BY THE OCCURRENCE.
GENERAL SHIRAKAWA SERIOUSLY INJURED
LATER.
GENERAL SHIRAKAWA 18 SERIOUSLY INJURED WITH A HEAD WOUND.". AND BODY WOUNDS.
GENERAL UYEDA. HAS A SERIOUS LEG. WOUND, ADMIRAL «NOMURA, HAS A HEAD · WOUND,
MR. SHIGEMITSU IS SUFFERING FROM"ABROKEN LEG. MR. MURAT HAS SEVERAL LEG WOUNDS.
JAPANESE TROOPS, AFTER THE OUTRAGE, IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED THE PARK AND CLOSED ALL EXITS,'
NOW THEY ARE.
CONDUCTING A RIGOROUS. SEARCH ́" AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF SIGHTSEERS,
CHI-
IN ADDITION TO THE KOREAN WHO THREW THE BOME! SEVEN NESE "HAVE ALSO BEEN ARRESTED: AFTER THE OUTRAGE WAS COMMITTED ALL EXITS AND ENTRANCES WERE CLOSED AND ALL SPECTATORS, INCLUDING FOREIGN PRESSMEN, ARE STILL HELD.
BRITAIN MUST STOP LENDING SAVINGS
REPORT OF FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES
¡TAKOUGH REUTER'S AGERCY.)
LONDON, April 29.
AND
"PILOT AND OBSERVER.
TAKEN PRISONERS.
BRITISH WINELLIN, SERWICH,{\
Rucny, April 289
was received by the, Air
Ministry to-day that while engaged Jon reconnaisanos clution with the
Irak Army in Northern Kurdistan, Royal Air Forsa machine, was forced to land amongst bostile tri- beaman
The pilot Flying Officer Walls, and leading Airorofteman Evans were taken prisoners but it has bean asosrtained that, they are alivə and Wilk
SUPPRESSION OF OPIUM
[Tanodar KUTEN'S; "KORNOT}]} The time has come when we must bring to an end the policy
GENEVA, April 28. of lending British savings and Fund Bey, the Turkish representa money to reconstruct the financial tive, told the Opium Advisory Com systems of our rivals in Europe." mittee to-day that the Turkish Gos
This highly controversial state, ernment has decided to accede to ment in contained in a Report to the Hague Convention of 1919 and the Federation of British Indus also to the additional Protocol of Itries dealing with the now mone- 1914 and the Geneva Convention of tary and industrial policy of Bri 1925 tain It goes on!
#Sir John Campbell (India) said "British finance henceforth must that if Persia would follow suit be devoted to British industrios: at there would be complete interna Home and in the Empire and to tional cooperation, with the excep those countries outside which are tion of the Soviet. prepared to cooperate in the Bri-
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tish system offering for exchange, goods and services of a non-com- petitive kind,***
the
Sterling v. 'Gold Nations, · The Ottawa Conference says: the Raport, should be seized as an opportunity to explore the pós- sibilities of achieving a maximum mutual understanding" "for adoption of a common Empire monetary and industrial policy so designed as to facilitate the all- mission of other countries willing and able to cooperate with the sterling-currencied group, leaving the question of a possible universal monetary understanding to be settled later.....
NEW INDIAN LOAN
·OVERSUBSCRIBED IN ONE
HOUR
(RITISH WIRELESS SERVIOR}
Bugar April 25... The outstanding feature in the stock markets to-day was the start of dealings in the new India & par cent ten million pounds loan, which opened at a premium,
The loah was over-subscribed by large margin and was open for only one hour yesterday,
SHAI ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS
LEAGUE ACCEPTS FORMULA
* ' SINO-JAPANESE COMPLICA: TIONS AT GENEVA
{THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.}.
GENEVA, April 28. The Committee of Nineteen meeting held this afternoon informed that the armistice tiations are being resumed Shanghai, an agreemans, hasings been reached on the point which led to the suspension of the ori ginal discussions
*
The Committee, on receipt of this information, drafted a resolution for submission the Assembly of the League on Saturday, got
It is understood that the new re solution embodies, the compromise formula drawn up by Sid Mileni Lampson, and apprayed by: botla Japan and Chinag
It is confidently anticipated thei it will be passed unanimously with the "exueption of Japan, who will, abstain from voting,
ALTERATIONS TO RESOLUTION
GENEVA, April 20... Investigation has revealed that the bomb hurler was a Korean, Yinho Kiisu, aged twenty.
The draft of the resolution now. Ave. He is now being held at Japanese military headquarters.
completed leaves all the clauses It is understood that the basis of unchanged except Clause XI, BOMB HURLED AT SEVEN FEET RANGE:ment of the tragic news they were allotment among the larger sub wherefor the following is Bub
plainly skeptical, and reminded the scribers was about forty-four forsitatedThe Committee notes correspondent of the wild rumours gent, alightly better treatment be- that in virtue of its powers as of the death of Shirakawa and og given to small applicants,
defined in anpex three of the draft, Uyeda in early March, However, Those
who applied for £500 agreement the Commission entrust. when further news of the outrage received £300 and those applying fed with the execution of articles reached Nanking everyone was so
for £3,000 received £500. There one, two- and three of the agrees appalled that they remained only was to-day a strong demand for the tent is authorised; in talking, den half oredulous..
issue, which closed at seven-eighthe premium,
BHANGHAI, April 29,
While Mr. Murt) was addressing Japanese schoolchildren a commotion was caused when Yinho. Kitsu' pushed his way through the crowd standing at the rear of the platform. He pulled ta bomb from bis clothing and hurled it in the middle of the: plat- form from a distance of seven feet... The police fired to check the attempt but were too late.
The crowd surged' around Vinho Kitsu, rained blows and kicks on him and would most certainly have torn him to pieces if troops" had not intervened! While some of the troops "succoured the -wounded,, others Immediately searched the sightseers, and" in thề, space of a few moments Hongkow Park was transformed' into, an armed camp seething" with, tense excitement. Nobody was allowed to leave; everyone, present; becoming prisoners for the time being,
News of the affair, which was broadcasted by radio, and pub. Uished in special editions of papers, created one of the biggest sensations in Shanghai in recent years, causing as much excite, ment as po January 28, when the Sino-Japanese hostilities broke out.
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It is now learned that Mr. Kawabata and Mr. Tadino, re- spectively, President and Secretary-General of the Japanese Rest» dents Association, were also on the platform at the time, both being badly injured, but not critically.......
ADMIRAL NOMURA LOSES "AN" EYE
LATER,
Admiral Nomura has lost an eye and the doctors state that Mr. Shigemitsu, will probably have to undergo amputation of a leg, and will be in hospital at least three or four month. Mr. Kawabata, President of the Japanese Residents' Association, is not expected to Hve.
ASSASSIN'S CONNECTION WITH
MANCHURIA
DIPLOMATS OFFER CONDOLENCES
GENEVA, April 29. Sir John Simon and M. Hymns. and M. Boneque called on Mr. Nagaoks and tendered their con- dolenges on the Hongkew incident. Sir John conveyed an
expression
of sympathy also from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald
greek
PAINFUL IMPRESSION.
AT GENEVA
تر با
MARYLEBONE, BYE- ELECTION
CONSERVATIVE RETAIN
"
TAVOVAN BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
:
ions in the manner laid down in the said annex, to call attention to any negligence in the execution of any of the provisions of the above- mentioned articles, .........
LAPANESE DELEGATES NOT TO VOTE
N
TOKYO, April 29 The Japanese Government has instructed ita delegates et Geneva to attend the meeting of the Assembly butto abstain voting.
FURTHER CHINESE
PROTESTS
from
London, April 28. The Marylebone bye-election, caused by the retirement of Bir Rennell Rood, resulted in the ra "GENEVA, April 29. turn. of Captain Cunningham-Roid The Hongkew outrage hae made with, 11,677 votes. Si Basil Black- a painful impression on all sides ott, his opponent, polled 10,684,
NANKING, April 20 but it is unlikely to affect the pro- Both were Conservatives
Interviewed this morning the of events here, although it [Captain Alec Stratford Cun-spokesman at the Foreign Offlor may be raised incidentally to-morningham-Reid had a distinguished stated that the Chinese Glovera "row at a generad, discussion by the war record, winning tho D.F.C. and Assembly in which case both sides serving from 1914 to 1918. He was armistice negotiations be resumed ment insists that the Shaoghar will endeavour to extract pro first elected to Parliament in 1022, only after the League Assembly, paganda therefrom. Sino-Japanese Sined the war. he has been actively adopts the resolution. The Chi partisans are already trying to turn interested in aviation.] the Hongkow incident to good. ac
nose. Government protests repest count. Unofficial Japanese spokes
edly against the reconnoitering. men cite the incident as proving from Cantonese sources.
Japanese planes over the Chiness lites, and also reports that the the continuance of unsettled condi tions, and assert that anti-Japan-
Woosung Customs officials have The exe passions are rampant,
reported that the Japanese onli tary, have interfered with the offi Chinese are dilating on the pro vorative effect of the Japanese
the Japanese reply states that pend oiala in carrying put their duties |; military displays.
another bomb near the faint plating the restoration of normal con- WHY DID YINHO KITSU
the Japancao military arg form but who left is there has notitions yet been discovered.
compelled to interfere with the **THROW THE BOMB? “
Customs work in areas wherein the NO INCIDENT AT NANKING Japanese military area afationid. SHANGHAI, April, 29;
The Chinese Government is deva Whother Yinho Kitsu received The Japanese Consulate held insuran
NANKING, April 50. ing means to meet the above outside inspiration or plotted his quiet celebration of the Emperor's dastardly crime himselde berthday. Among those present SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS quation which the Japanese mili were members of the foreign ConPaper on fary are trying to solve. It is resular Bodies and prominent Chi-With regard to Shoo-Soviet Yeins ported in Japanese quarters that nese including Ku Chen Lun, the tions the Chiness Government Yinho Hitsu was a albed friend of Garrison Commander, and Hardy to consider the rout -foundly shocked Tokyo, and it is whole of the Far East by today's a man named Chem Chaing Mo the Vice-Minister för Foreign of relations if Russia so desirew`
It is learned that Yinho Kitzu, whose action to-day caused a world wide sensation, was a clark in a Chinese laundry in the French Concession, having come to Shanghai from the Chientao: distriat of Manchuria eight months ago. of ere
AMERICAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION
W. S. Hibbard, an American employed by the Shanghel Muni. cipal Council as Clerk of Works was arrested by the Japanese military in Hongkow Park shortly after the bombing incident, but was later rolcased after representations had been made by the U.S. Consul-General, Mr. Cunningham
TOKYO, PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED
TOKYO, April 29
The Shanghai bombing has pro
SARAJEVO INCIDENT RECALLED" HAT.
SHANGHAI, April 20.
The sensation created over the
ANOTHER BOMB. FOUND After the wounded had been re moved the Japanese trooper found
feared that the signing of the Sino-well be likened to the stir created China and Korea Nation
General Ho Ying Chung has but this does not prove List 4 incident in Hongkew Fack may who was the leader of the so-called Affairs.
a basis of equality and reciproc Japanese truce, which was con- in Europe by the session oftion Chen
rated that he will, low-wy the after Chinese Governmen fidently expected to take place to the Austrian Archduke Sagawa fint Foli becretary
on Ice Kinking outs for 52 with the Comunale morrow, will be delayed, as a June 8, 1914 For example en quently the day appear inboxanthang to personally Recedent (The Chinese Comman Japan's outstanding leaders in Reuter's Nanking conrebonden Kitsu pombly received inspiratione operations Shanghai, are wounded.
informed members of the Govers (Continued at foot of
the Coming Roano Jay