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IN SHANGHAI,
WELL PREPARED FOR TROUBLE
MONDAY, APRIL
5,
1926.
日三十二月二
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FORMER COLONIAL GOVERNOR.
SIR HESKETH BRLL VISITS HONGKONG
MANY CASUALTIES.
LEAGUE'S WORK.
A VARIED CAREER. Shanghai Just now (says the News is to hand from Canton
Mrs.. P. Thompson, of 20, Hum-
There has just passed through of serious clash between the phreys Building, Kowloon, was Telegraph's correspondent) is rid- Fang Tak (Coolies) Union and the complainant in a case which ing, through a season of pleasant the Colony a former Colonial ad- the Stevedore' Union which oc- came before Major Willson, at the spring weather in a spirit of hope ministrator who has done much
Central Police Court this morn- curred on Friday. The results, ing, when a sanitary coolie was and optimism and at the same time good work for the Empire in the i
Indica, Uganda und charged with disorderly conduct, with a degree, of appréhension over West
This is Sir: and using insulting language to what the immediate future may Northern Nigeria.
hold. Businesa has been trying Hesketh Bell, G. C. M. G. who in Inspector Spear-stated that the.
involving many casualties, show that it was the most serious case
of its kind so far reported, as the
ferent localities in the city where
her.
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ARGENTINE AND THE MANILA TRAGEDY
LEAGUE.
PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO CONGRESS.
POLITICAL STIR.
Buenos Aires, April 4. The Argentine Congress having; failed act on presidential
was
U.S. OFFICER COMMITS SUICIDE.
SON OF GENERAL.
First Lieut. David Stanley Hol- brook, 26. Cavalry, Camp Statsex- an eye upon any of the British
burg, Pampagna, died on Saturday Colonies, says the Telegraph's Singapore correspondent,
message" recommending the Argen-night in his quarters at Camp..
Stotsenburg, due to a gun shot tine's adherence to the League of British Malaya appears to be in
wound apparently self inflicted. Nations, the Government will particularly bad odour, and in the
He is thought to have been tem- recent statement published by the determine its course at the forth-
porarily despondent, conflict was carried into four dif- coolie was engaged in sweeping to pick up lately, labour treubles 1914 resigned the Governorship of Association Malaya was mention-coming Cabinet Council. It is be
No cause a known for the act. Battery Path yesterday morning, have not been assuming any eeri- Mauritius which he had held fromed with East Africa and the Wind-lieved it will take the matter into
Lieutenant Holbrook had returned and refused to get out of the way ous proportions, atlairs generally 1915. He left here for Manila by the stevedores had their quarters to enable a public chair, in which have been tranquil and some renthe s.s. President Cleveland over doctors would do well to avoid.
its own hands and appoint delegates ward Islands aa colonies which
to the Preparatory Disarmament at about 10 o'clock Friday night First news of the affair came Mrs. Thompson was riding, to
Conference and the League Coun-from a picnic on the Bambam to the Stevedores' Union by a tele-pass. After a little while, Mrs. son exists to hope for better things the week-end.
The fact that the medical ser- Sir Hesketh Bell entered the vices of this country are upon the cil
river near Camp Stotsenburg and Thompson told him to get out of while at the same time the month!
Reconstruction Commission. phone message to its headquar- the way and he then used the of May looms ahead ominously. Colonial Civil Service in 1889 and black list of the Association was The Presidential message
jand gone to his quarters accom-" ters from the 8th Branch Office
on understood Chinese, and knew early weeks of the year have been
While the developments of the held various junior appointments brought out recently when the withdrawn by Presidential Decree panied by a number of officers and
Singapore Municipality confessed
At about 10,30 o'clock, what he was saying.
closing Congress or the ground ladies. following the same line that led in the West Indies until 1889. that they had been unable to get | Giving evidence, Mrs. Thomp last year to the May 30 shooting when he was transferred to the an Assistant Health Officer at the that the Deputies had failed to shortly after they had departed. Tak, Union, headed by Lau Chu son said the incident occurred and subsequent outbreaks, and Gold Coast, being made Chief As-salary advertised, and had been take up a single item laid before the guests were startled to hear
manner of wear when she was going to church at while the same Communist activity
forced to add on another $150 per them since November. 10 o'clock yesterday. The defendant that brought about trouble loaz/sistant Treasurer in 1891. pons, suddenly rushed into the
ext appointment was that of ficiently attractive. There is un
month before the bait proved suf- The Decree has caused a stir in brook's quarters. Entering the office, attacked everyone they met to quarrel with the chair ceolie. afferent circumstances are present Receiver General of the Bahamas, doubtedly a great shortage of Parliamentary circles, and several building, they found the Lieuten ing up and taking away any-He pushed the latter, an act which to-day and these afford basis for a whilst from 1899 to 1905 he was Government doctors in Malaya, Deputies have denounced it as a ant lying on the floor dead, a bul ne who did not resist, with the nearly upset the chair, and wit-belief that nothing serious is going He then turned to her and used the ness the told him to move aside. to happen this year.
Administrator of Dominica, where
tells us, "chaos prevails in the blow against the liberty of the let hole in his head and a pistol he was chiefly engaged in the
The position people, while it is asserted that clutched in his hand: COUNTERING THE COMMUNISTS, language complained of
Causes of last year's troubles, development of the interior of the is not as bad as all that, but it is the Chamber is always ready to do
out at the salary offered, and it. and not for the complainant. therefore were permitted to grow roads and the attracting of British
Mrs. Thompson said the words and develop without cheek of any A little later, another telephone used referred to a woman and kind, to-day are perfectly under- settlers. He also devised a pro-
came from the 8th were undoubtedly meant for her.stood. branch office at Tung, Tak Street, or one month's hard Inbour..
The defendant was fined $25,
reporting "that the Union's rice
words complained of. Mrs. Thomp-
in Saki, which stated that over
one hundred members of the Tung
armed with all
It that one man was killed Ight, many
or less aded and several kidnapped,
more
The defendant said the word's
His
where, the British Medical Journal
medical services."
a gun explode in Lieutenant Hol-
A board of officers was at once. convened by the commanding officer
whilst a few are still unaccounted were meant for the chair coolle which were unexpected and which island by the construction of very difficult to get men to come its duty, but could not accept to conduct an inquiry. Beutenant
far.
mssage
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18th
What it is possible to do ject for insurance against damage to avert uprisings and social dis- by hurricanes which was adopted. cord is being done, and the work
would seem as though some inisre Government imposition and dicta presentation of conditions in the tion.-Reuter's American Service. past has given this country a bad name with the medical profession. The starting salary is $600 month, with various allowances, and the general public are not in- clined to admit that a young don
in this connection that is being car-by' Lloyd's and has since assumed ried out by foreign agencies is be- large proportions not only in the ing supplemented and supported by West Indies, but also in the East tor who comes out on that salary activities of the Chinese authori-
In 1906, Sir Hesketh Dell was is doing badly, considering the
INDIAN DRUNK.
ties.
DISTURBANCE ON
I TRAMCAR.
POLAR EXPEDITION.
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Here
SOLDIER CHARGED.
ASSAULT CASE FAILS.
Holbrook was admired and res- pected generally by the members of the garrison and the service at large.
The body was sent to the United States on the transport, leaving May 4th.
Lieutenant Holbrook came of a well known military family. He was the son of Major General Wil- An alleged assault on a Chinese lard Holbrook, retired, former
he was named and was the
He
shop had been raided by a gang of "Tung Tak coolies and robbed of everything, the attackers
It is not to be doubted, and in appointed Commissioner of 'Ugan-advantages attaching to Govern- by three British soldiers was the chief of Cavalry and a nephew of wounding three employees and kidnapping three others. Int-
fact, it has been proclaimed that da, and in 1997 he was made the ment service and the competition subject of a charge against Pte. Brigadier General Lucien Hol- mediately after, unother report
which prerumably obtains among E. Wald, East Surreys, which was brook, U. S. Army. He was also the agitators and labour leaders) ¡ first Governor of the Pro- private practitioners at will put forth some major effort, came through that the
Home. heard before Mr. R. E. Lindsell the grandson of the late Major branch office had been completely A fine of $5 was Imposed on an probably on May 1, which may tectorate.
he developed However, the fact that posts are at the Central Magistracy this General David, Stanley, for when raides, the police being unable to Indian namod E. M. Alarakia, by oral strike.
take the form of the call for a gen-the cotton industry, intro-vacant in Malaya does seem to morning.
And further efforts duced motor transport, and suggest that the supply of doctors stop the trouble with the result Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central to create trouble are fairly certain devised and carried out measures is not yet swaping the demands. ing evidence, said he was sweep recently retired from the Quar- The complainant, Lau Fat, give nephew of Colonel David Stanley, that many were wounded and sev eral kidnapped.
Police Court this morning, for to be staged on the outstanding for the suppression of sleeping it is not so long ago since thereing near the main entrance of the termaster Corps, U. S. A.
not a single surgeon of Seamen's Institute of 5 p.m. on Still another message reported being drunk and disorderly at the dates of the month-May 4 is the sickness. For his special services was
He was born April 20, 1900 Im anniversray of the student aprising in Uganda he was created a K. really first-class rank in this Saturday, when the defendant, California. In 1917, he was ap that the coolie quarters of the Praya Eust yesterday.
of 1919 and May 9 is the country's C. M. G., and in 1909 was up country, and an operation was who was in plain clothes,. with pointed to the West Point Military Canton-Hankow, Railway had been
It was stated that at 11 p.m. the so-called "Humiliation Day." pointed Governor and Commander-regarded by local residents with two others in uniform, kicked his Academy from Wisconsin' and was surrounded by hundreds of Tung defendant caused a disturbance in In preparation for these things, in-Chief of Northern Nigeria. at least as much foreboding as it broom away. Complainant asked graduated in 1921. He came to Tak coolies, and the railway a tramcar and was put out by a ferment of agitation has been Here, during the three years of his used to be thirty years ago in him why he did that, and the de- the Philippines in May 1924. He guards were unable to cope with the motor man. Ho created a kept simmering in the large in-administration, the railway was England. Singapore is fortunate fendant snatched the broom away was due to return to the United the situation. The quarters were further forced open and the inmates mer-Police Station. As he would not Japanese mills without, however, constructed to the tin-fields, the surgeon, who
They caught States the coming month of May, disturbance at No. 2 dustrial plants particularly in the completed to Kano and partially at present in possessing a brilliant and chased him.
is, however, only him near a corner of the buildings when he would have completed cilessly attacked, some being very go away, he was put in a cell. |developing into any major move-nances of the various Emirates here for reasons of health, and and all three assaulted him. They his two years tour of foreign ser seriously wounded, and many The defendant said he was ments. At the same time, the re-were placed on an organised sys- conditions upcountry are still such then ran away and boarded a tram-vice. others less so. Several were sorry, but did not recollect any-cent shooting of students in Pektem, and thirteen new towns were that critical cases in the F. M. S. car. Complainant gave chase and driven into the river and drowned, thing about it.
Lieutenant Holbrook was one of ing stirred some little student ac-laid out on a definits plan along have to be rashed down to Singa-boarded the name car, and at Ar- the most popular young officers tivity into life in the form of the railway lines. From 1912 to pore, with grave risk and unnec-senal Street he reported the matter, serving in the Philippines. walk-outs, accompanied by the 1915, Sir Hesketh Bell was cessary suffering to the patient.
to a traffic policeman, who arrest was well liked and respected by usual oratorical displays in the Governor of the Leeward Islands,
ed the defendant. Although they all, who knew him. He was known public streets. One large demon- to Mauritius.
THE NEW HOSPITAL.
looked in the tramcar they could ins an all-around athlete and stration in the form of a meeting
Whatever may be our difficulties not find the other two.
particularly shone on the polo.. in regard to doctors, however, A boatman who was called to field, having the reputation of New York, April 4.
Singapore now claims to have the give evidence for the complainant being one of the best pole players finest hospital east of Gibraltarasid the three men were dressed in in the lalands.-Manila Bulletin. Lieutenant Commander Byrd's
That boast might be disputed by khaki. He was crossing the road the Rockefeller Institution in when he saw an assault being com- polar exploration ship Chantier, a territory.
Peking or the new hospital at mitted, but he could not, identify Shipping Board vessel, sails for It may be, of course, that this which hitherto has developed un- Cairo, or some of the Japanese the victim. King's Bay to-morrow.
season of quiet is a result of a
hospitals, but the Singapore hos- In reply to the Magistrate, wit- pre-determined plan and that radi-hindered. What is being done is
pital certainly is a magnificent ness said he was sure all the men have cal elements are refraining just not being published, but it is building, and the last word in were drogged in khaki. SOVIET COMMERCIAL
special
how from any major enterprises known that the League actively i tropical hospital accommodation. In view of the conflicting evi- CIRCLES ALARMED.
protec with the hope later of bringing
There has been some criticam dence, the defendant was dis- tion against the cold and the their forces into action. What is at work and it is fair to expect of the expenditure of $5,000,000 charged. Riga, April 4.
same material will be used in the more likely, however, is that the that tangible results in bettering The deciation of the cherno are eight tons of provisions aboard heck-mated, because the forces
temporary quarters share. There moves of the agitators are being conditions will be brought about. vetz is causing alarm in Soviet the Chantler, which carrica two of order, though more or less un trouble, the position of the au In anticipating the prospect of commercial circles. The Soviet aeroplanes for
published state to the North Pole, her" starting organized and possess
a series of flights announced, are exceedingly, well thorities has been made clear in press has now ments, made by M. Kalinin, Pre-base being four hundred miles understanding of the situation. sident of the Central Executive from the Pole-Reuter's American
an address lately given by Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Chairman of One of our local papers has taken Committee, in February when the Service.
LEAQUE'S USEFUL WORK, the Municipal Council. In this the opportunity to point out that The Constitutional Defence address Mr. Fessenden said the Singaporeans are in danger of tak- League is a newly-formed body Council was fully aware of the ing the developements now going that Princess Victoria's condition that seems destined to play activities of unlawful elements. on in the city for granted, this showed slight improvement last Nursing Home at once. the alarm by pointing out that the HERR THYSSEN DEAD, large part in the affairs of Shang- The Council, he said, would be ac- journal suggest that the local his- night, which has been maintained,
Representations. have- been made to "the Labour Department that unless the ringleaders.of these riots are adequately punish- ed, the Stevedores' Union will not be responsible for any future actions which its members may take against the Tung Tak, Union.
RUSSIAN NOTES DEPRECIATE.
depreciation was only ten per cent.
and M Briakhanoff, Commissar of
Finante is endeavouring to quell
depreciation is merely temporary. Nevertheless, the authorities arú contemplating further restrictions!
on imports and increased duties on postal parcels and luggage from abroad. The Cheka bas initiated |
THE LATEST VENTURE
The ship's quarters been lined with insulating
fibre સમ
A writer of considerable note, and parade was staged just over the Sir Hesketh Bell has published a boundary of the French Concession without incident of note. No serious geography of the Gold Coast, as clashes have developed anywhere well as three or four novels. in either Concession or in Chinese)
an exact
upon it, but conditions here have been so bad that the general) feeling is one of thankfulness that
with hospitals at last. Singapore is adequately supplied
OTHER PROGRESS.
PRINCESS VICTORIA.
IMPROVED CONDITION
کر
MAINTAINED.
London, April 4 This morning's bulletin says
hal in coming months. Forma tunted with a spirit of concilation torian of the future will single out-Reuter. tion of this organisation, which is and tolerance and would hold to these post-war years as a decade of
SHIP'S ENGINEER SHOT.
B. AND S. ENGINEER WOUNDED.
Early yesterday. afternoon (March 30) the second engineer of the B. and S. air. Sunning either shot himself in the ankle or was shot by his Chinese boy, He was brought to the Customs Jetty In launch and sout to the Victoria
Just before their offices closed Messrs, Butterfeld' and 'Swire denied having any knowledge of the accident. From the account
NOTED GERMAN
to have its branches through China this line as long as possible. "To rapid, and remarkable progress. INDUSTRIALIST. and extend to other parts of the protect life and property," he add-That is a very timely observation. HINDU-MOSLEM CLASH. of the affair current along tho water front yesterday the officer world, is the simple acceptance of cd significantly, the armed forces this wore an American city, we should be crowing with justifiable
brought his pistol on deck either Berlin, April 4. the Communist challenge In at the disposal of authority may a campaign against rising prices. Tho death is announced of the Ching. With i representation of have to be used. To combat fores ride over our new roads, our
· FURTHER FIGHTING IN to clean it, or, as one version. and many private traders have industrial magnata, Horr August fourteen rationalities, including nothing but forte will do. If talless trams, our developing elec
CALCUTTA.
stated, to shoot birds from the been arrested in Moscow-Reuter. Thyssen, at the age of 85 years. Chinese here, the League repre- from humanitarian considerations tems, and all the rest of it. tricty, water, and sanitation
ship as it wax berthed at Tung- [The chernoveld is now
AB]; sents the soundest interests of the this force is not used, or the use it is, these achemos are promulgat
Calcutta, April d. kadoo Wharf. He is then thought community, official and otherwise of force unduly is delayed, ined and discussed one by one, and fighting between Hindus and Mus- his boy, who unwittingly exerted Thero was further sporadie to have handed the weapon to and, possessing adequate financial nocent life may be lost and pro vanish into oblivion as another lims to-day. Twenty-two injured too much pressure on the trigger. support, its aim is to check and perty destroyed. Should that comes along to distract the attenpeople have been sent to hospital The wounded man, wel of the earist 10-rouble gold The aviator Botvod has arrived counteract the work in China of the happen, those in authority will tion of the pubile, who do not and a number of Mahomedan
Third Internationale of Moscow have falled in their duty,"
the Reuter,
standard Russian currency, being
banknotes issued by the State Bank and representing the value
Bangkok, April 4.
here-Router."
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