GERMAN MONARCHIST
PROPERTY.
RESULT OF NATIONAL REFERENDUM.
NO CONFISCATION.
SHANGHAI LETTER.
Hopes in. Marshal Sun-Shanghai Normal-Dr. Wu's Arrival.
Shanghai, June 18 Much Interest and not a little uncertainty is centring about the probable attitude of Marshal Berlin, June 20. Sun, overlord of the five provinces of north-eastern China, toward The final figures of the voting the present Peking Government as on the confiscation of the ex-well as toward Chang Too-lin. Ruler's property will not be known There is some reason to believe before midnight, but everything that he intends to co-operate with Chang and also with Marshal Wei indicates that the Bill will not Pei-fu in the endeavour to esta- ́obtain the necessary nineteen and blish a stable Central Government, a-half million votes.-Reuter. ' und the current rumour that he has been retaining the Salt Ga belle collection" from the Nanking district on the ground that there is no responsible Government at the capital, naturally leads to the conclusion that he is out of sym pathy with Yen.
THE OFFICIAL FIGURES..
Later.
The referendum on the subject of the confiscation of ex-rulers' property without compensation
teen-and-a-half million were necessary to carry out the project. The official figures were:
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NEW TERRITORY ROBBERY
ACCUSED. MEN ON TRIAL.
Two pleces of ordinary fron piping, one being much shorter than the other, were put in sa cx- hibits during the trial of two men on a charge of robbery in the New Territories, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
One length of the piping was picked up from the scene of the crime; the other and longer piece was found in the house of one of the prisoners. They would ap pear to be separate pieces until the Acting Attorney General (Mr. Dyer Ball) joined the two together by way of demonstrating the of what had once been an iron bar Crown's case that they were parts which had broken in two whilst being used to force open the door of a house where the robbery took place.
reaulted in over fourteen million several weeks ago and was
Marshal Sun came to Shanghai
Mr. Dyer Ball also drew atten- votes being cast in favour of conceived with considerable cere-pieces which was rusty, whereas retion to the condition of one of the fiscation, whereas at least nine-mony and much hospitality by the the other piece was quite clenn, omeials of the various foreign The first was picked up outside Governments. At the time" he the house the morning following the asstred all of them of his inten-robbery, after a spell of rain; the tion to co-operate with all foreign second was the one which the. For confiscution..... 14,889,703. officials in the maintenance of police found in the house of one of Against confiscation. 642,311. order throughout the area under the accused."
Thirty-five per cent. of the elec-his' control, and his bringing tö tornte voted "Yes" approximately Shanghai of, à regiment of his sixty per cent. abstained from vot ing, and the remaining five per cent. either said "No" or their yotes were invalid.
Another article found by the police in connection with this case was a long bamboo pole, which the Crown offered as evidence of the means for scaling the wall of a Buck yard.
"THE ENTRY....
army on May 30th, in anticipation of poss... trouble, quite bore out his professions of friendliness to ward the foreigners. Moreover, Nearly half the Berlin electorate Suff has taken no part whatever voted for confiscation, and the pro- in any of the clashes which have In the course of an outline of the portion was similar in other large kept North China in a lurmoil of case, Mr. Dyer Ball said that this cities including President Hinden-civil war for a number of years; back yard, with its surrounding burg's town, Hanover. In the and the epiclusion seems logical wall, had to be first negotiated be- country, districts, where the Nu- that he has been biding his time fore the rear door, giving entry into tionalists hold sway, the populace until the point'arrived at which it the house itself, was reached. obeyed the Nationalist leaders seemed likely that his assistance While lying asleep, at about summons to abstain from voting,
to one party or another would. bé o'clock at night, the occupant was It was noteworthy that not a effective fh the establishment of awakened by the noise incidental single member of the Cabinet en- an enduring order of things at to the wrenching open of this rear tered the polling booths....
Peking. At any rate, as the situa- door, and he shouted out "Bur- Notwithstanding the excitement tion is seen from Shanghai, Suaglars!" By dint of forcing with engendered, nu-serious disorders appears likely to be a considerable what was evidently an iron bar, the occurred beyond a few minor influence in the future of Chinese door was eventually opened, and clashes in Berlin and elsewhere affairs. where small factions congregated. -Reuter
JUNK MÅSTER TURNS DETECTIVE.
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Mr.
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three men came in with lighted candles. Two of them were recog- A Resented Book.
nised by the hawker as being fellow Rodney Gilbert's latest villagers-in point of fact, he book, "What's Wrong with pointed them out to the police, Thoy China has decidedly stirred up tied his hands together with Jocal Chinese leaders, and one of strings, and used a pair of trousers them, Dr. R: Y Lo, even demand belonging to him to wrap around Mr. Gilbert's deportation from his face, over his eyes and mouth. This is not taken very The robbers went through the CAUSES ARREST OF PIRATE.seriously by anyone, but it revea's place pretty thoroughly, and left it something of the deep resentment in a state of considerable disorder. which has been aroused by the sweeping criticisms of most things
THREE ARRESTS. of China and of the Chinese which
At daybreak, the hawker went str. Gilbert's hook contains. The out to arouse the neighbours and author himself protests that he to make a report to the police. In loves. China and the Chinese,"
the course of investigations three. and that he is only pointing out the two prisoners now before men were arrested in the village, some of their faults, in the course the Court, and a third man who of his criticisms. But there is managed later to escape from the Anglo-Saxons here, that his com- a considerable feeling, even among Police Station. ments have been so scathing as
A little detective work on his own account, leading to the arrest in Macao of a "small-scale" pirate, has been reported to the Water Police by the master of a small trading junk, which received the unwelcome attention of a pirate craft on June 12th, and which lost its cargo of bananas and bam-
boos thereby.
The master, who observed the junk going off in the direction of Macno after the robbery, proceeded
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The object in view of the local auxiliary will be to collect funds which are to be remitted to the head organisation in Shangha which will undertake to supply free of charge the treatment throughout the various lepér
evening last, when the Rev. T. Crestricting the further spread and the Y. W. C. A. on Wednesday thus commetice the first step of As a result of the meeting at settlements throughout China, and
Wu, General Secretary of the effect an ultimate wiping out of Chinese Mission to Lepers, Shang- the scourage in China, where the lars, three packets of cigarettes meeting of the temporary comience is attributed to the lack of hai, addressed a gathering of sufferers are estimated to be one Two pairs of trousers, six dol-indies and gentlemen, a further million in number, which preva- then formed, was held the necessary precautions of segre- lowing day, instead of immediató-
were stolen in the robbery, and, yesterday, Sunday, at the resi-gation and care of these pariahs ly reporting the matter
with the exception of the clothing, dence of Mr. Li Chor-chi, "Dun-of mankind. Through the medium police, and whilst walking in the
Back to Normal,
all the goods were alleged to heved," Robinson, Road, to dis-of this new organisation in China, streets there, he saw one of the Shanghai has been perfectly have been recovered in the posse-euss further arrangements for the it is expected that the lot of the men who took part in the piracy, normal since May 30th, and it is ssion of the accused. and secured his arrest.
organisation of a local auxiliary sufferers will not be as full of quite clear how that the diatur- On a plea of "not guilty" being Reporting the matter on his re-tances on that day were altogether received from the accused, evi-
The re-elected committee is hopeless misery as it has turn to Hongkong, the master gave the work of idlers. and
composed of the following ladies heretofore, that with the lately his name as Fan Kwal-wing and coolics. Nothing at all in the
few dence was called..
At the conclusion of the case for and gentlemen-Messrs. Li Chor- developed interest in their welfare said that his junk left Man King way of trouble occurred after the the Crown, the first accused, in chi (Chairman), Le Ro-yin (Vice- by sympathetic people, they may Sha in the Tung Kun district for evening of the 30th, and the slight reply to the charge, said that he was / Chairman) Mrs. Wong.. Kwok-find their existence more tolerable. Tai O at six a.m. on June 12th. feeling then engendered seems falsely accused. About two o'clock in the after-entirely to have
The second said shuen, Andrew Ling" (Secretary), noon, when about five miles south- This is distinctly differenced and, besides, he asked "What was Wong Hin-chiu (Publicity Agent), Further preliminaries are being
disappeared. that he was elsewhere that night Mrs. Ma Wing-chan Treasuerer),
out before the west of Tai O in Chinese waterslast year's conditions, when the the good of robbing a few dollars Miss Shin, Mrs.. Wong Sec-koo, carried an unknown junk, apparently a tension remained high and spas. oft an old man?”
Miss Wong Shuet-hing, Dr. Arthur auxiliary will be in full working fishing junk, came alongside and inodic uutbreaks occurred through to speak on their behalf, each of the Wing-kue, James Y. Lee and Mr. the movement will receive univer. Woo, Andrew Cheung, Cheung order, and it is to be hoped that was transferred, there being four feeling of rellef has been great prisoners called three. In the case John Geldart as Honorary Advicer, sal support.
Mr. Wu addressed many boys' As stated by Mr. Wu at Wednes- other men on the marauding junk, that May, and especially the 30th, of the first prisoner, the witnesses and they also stole a quantity of Pissed off so quietly and Shang-character, beyond the bare know-tive in view is four-fold:-(1) week and at each institution sub- were unable to speak as to his day evening's meeting, the objec. and girls schools during the past
It sailed away in the direction pier than to-day. There is amuse pancake and macaroni merchant
hai was never brighter and, hap-ledge that they knew him to be a Christian, (2) Philanthropic, (3) scriptions were generously donat- ed for the deserving work. He of Macao and he decided to make ment of all sorts-new cinemas,
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Other witnesses called by the cure for leprosy in its early stages spoke in sulogistic terms of the porting, and left by river steamer being added daily to the already card party being held on the night chautmoolgra oil, and several regard to the cause, especially Are second accused spoke of a tin-kati was discovered some years ago in sympathetic attitude of all classes. on the 15th. He recognised one large number, while the continued of the robbery, at which the second cases of the disease are known amongst the students everywhere, of the robbers in the street on the cool weather lends zest to all out-accused claimed to have been pre- to following day.
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Mr. Dyer Ball remarked that cocks in the New erritories had a habit of crowing all through the
Dr. C. C. Wu (wu Chao-chu), Mayor of Canton, who is a son of the late illustrious Chinese states-
pacted to be in wireless communi- man, ing-fang, has recently
cation with Hongkong to-day:- Chicago, June. 20.
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Taikwa Maru, Katori Maru, Tilta- Amid unsurpassed scenes of understanding is that he was com night, and, as judges of time, leper settlements not so very far dent Cleveland, Bloemfontein, For instance, there are two roem, Hakata Maru, Capen, Preal- stately splendour the International pelled to flee from Cinton. Eucharistic Congress was formal-u has been a moderate in the they could hardly be relled upon, from Hongkong, at Sheklung and Toyama Maru, Shinyo Maru, Shina ly opened by the celebration of southern capital, and his efforts The following, jury, were Pointificnl High-Mass in the pre- there have been continuous to panelled in the case: Messr Gernian missionaries respectively, Maru, Andre Lebon, Tango Maru, Tungkun, which are under the Maru, Hector, Tilawa, Angkor, em- direct charge of Catholic and Kashmir Seattle Maru, Panama. sence of eleven Cardinals and up- maintain something like order. J. A. D. Morrison, A. S. Abbott, who receive a small monthly Hang Sang and Klung Chow. wards of 6,000 people. Masses In that he seems to have come in Pao Man-chauk, H. J. Fountain, allowance from the Canton at- were celebrated in the churches to conflict with the "Red" elament. Van der Lely, Hung Chau-Jumthorities to look after the im of the Archdiocese of Chicago by During the past few weeks se- and Cecil Strafford (foreman). pilgrims of all nations, who joined veral. Canton moderates have
The case is continuing...
mediate needs of the sufferers at these two places, but the funds
In the spiritual bouquet of one sought refuge in Shanghai, and million communiona promised to that seems to indicate that the dency, despite Chang Kai-shek's are quite inaumcient to provide the Pope by Cardinal Mundelein, Russian "advisers" to the South-efforts to maintain a political for the medical treatment, of the Archbishop of Chicago. Reuter. ern Government are in the ascen- lequilibrium there.
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