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-#-#FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927.
FURTHER YANGTSE INCIDENTS. CONSUL SEIZED.
KIUKIANG PICKETS SEIZE FRENCH CONSUL.
ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP CUSTOMS
COMMISSIONER.
·DRAGGED THROUGH
STREETS.
RECENT HANKOW INCIDENT.
A detailed account is given by) the Hankow Herald of the recent incident in which Mr. Alphonse van Biervliet, Consul-General for Belgium at Hankow, was held up
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ANTI-FOREIGNISM AT GOING TO CEYLON, REVOLVERS FOUND ON SUNNING PIRACY.
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SEQUEL TO THE FOOCHOW OUTRAGES.
AGITATION CONTINUES.
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MR. DYER BALL GETS PROMOTION.
AS LEGAL DRAUGHTSMAN.
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STEAMER.
PREVENTION of possible PIRACY,
PASSENGERS DETAINED,
Tonty-one passengers from
TWO LADIES GIVE EVIDENCE.
IDENTIFICATION POINTS.
The trial of the prisoners, who are charged in connection with
Shanghai, Jan. 20.
We are officially informed that Amoy appet to have caught information has been received the anti-foreign contagion from that, with the approval of the Sec- the Wuchow steamer Kochow are the Sunning pirney was continued Foochow.
at present being detained by the this morning, before Mr. Justice When the s.s. Hatching with ten
retary of State for the Colonies,
police following the discovery of Spanish priests and twelve nuns Mr. A. Dyer Ball has been promot-
Wood, at the Criminal Sessions, fully-loaded revolvers when further evidence was given. eleven and cløven Chinese orphans ed to the new appointment, in Cey- for an hour and dragged as pri- board, arrived at Amby en roætelon, of Legal Draughtsmen in the aboard, the vessel yesterday. soner from the French Concession to Hongkong from Foochow, an
Questions were asked by Mr. H. It appears that members of the G. Sheldon, who, with Mr. C. G. MORE REFUGEES LEAVE.to the Special District Administra- angry crowd bearded her and Attorney General's Office.
ship's compradore staff becanic over-run the Vessel. tion by a mob of thirty or forty attempt to intimidate the crew and on short leave and will assume his the passengers whilst the ship was gard to identification. Mr. J. H. B. They will leave the Colony in February suspicious of the demeanour of Alabaster, da defending, with ye- coolies. Mr. van Biervliet is also prevent sailing.
at the wharf just prior to her in-Nihil is conducting the case for Consul for the Netherlands, and it It transpires that studenta wired duties in Ceylon in May.
tended departure for Wuchow, and was while acting in the interests of effect that the refugees had killed service of the Hongkong Govern communicated with.
to Amoy from Foochow to the Mr. Dyer Ball has been in the that the police were consequently the Crown." a Dutch firm, the Transmarina Chinese babies prior to their dement for some twolve years and
Lance Sergt. Kelly sald ho Trading Company, that he was as-parture, and, in order to stir up during that time he has shown hamper of eggs was discovered, at arrived, at Kowloon Bay, and In a search which followed, boarded the Sunning when she Indignati a, corpses of two newly- himself a most capable official and the bottom of which the revolvers escorted a party of Chinese, all of born babies were displayed to the has also won much popularity in The management of the Seng mob as evidence of foreign devil-social life amongst a large circle were found to have been ascreted. whom were either sick or wounded,
of" friends. Whilst regretting ed by any of the passengers.
The hamper of eggs was not claim Spanish Mission premises were his early departure from the Co-
thorough search was made of threatened and four priesta and lony, all who have had the pley- five nuns took refuge on an Ameri- sure of his friendship will join in other parts of the vessel as well, can vessel in harbour.
congratulating him on his well-hut nothing more of an incrimi earued promotion.
nating nature was found. "
Further serious incidents are reported from Yangtze ports to-day, among them being an attempt to kidnap, the Customs Commissioner at Hankow and the tuking of the French Consul at Kiukiang na prisoner by strike pickets, who later released him on an undertaking being given that he would not leave the Concession,
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At Shasi Chinese military endeavoured to commandeer British tug but H. M. 3. Cockchafer intervened and secured the vessel's release.
Violent anti-British posters and bills are being displayed at Ichang from, which port, its well as Changsha, further refugees have left for Hankow
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Chinese reports state that Mr. Eugene Chen is demanding the rétention of the Hunkow and Kinkinng Concessions on terms of compensation, but later reports state that General Chang Kai-shek advises more concillatory attitude.'
Hankow, Jan. 20.
saulted.
Keo Iron Works, a Chinese com- pany, dissatisfied with a Chinese court Judgment which had been given against them in favour of the Transmarina Trading Company, called at the offices of the company, which is on Rue Dubail, in the French Concession. They had with them a gang of coolies and intend to drag off with them the manager of the company: Mri van Kas.
freturn the Concessions at Hankow The situation is quiet. Conversa jand Kiuklang on certain condi- have not been tions between Mr. O'Malley and tions, which
1. The report adds that Mr. Eugene Chen are still going divulged. on. An attempt made to kidnap Mr. O'Malley considers the emp the Commissioner of Customs was ditions not entirely inacceptable averted by the arrival of the Chin-provided they are still further ese Superintendent.-Naval Wire-modified.
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FRENCH CONSUL SEIZED, -
Kiuklang, Jan. 20.
The situation is still serious.
CHANGSHA FEARS.
POSITION GETTING WORSE.
Peking, Jan. 20.'
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The agitution is continuing and vernacular papers are publishing inflammatory articles.-Reuter.
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UNPLEASANT GENEVA
INCIDENT.
F.M.S. SERVICE.
Mr. Arthur Dyer Ball, who was born in 1888, is a son of the late Mr. Dyer Ball, the well-known na-
He
thority on things Chinese. was educated at Mill Hill School and Exeter College, Oxford, when
He was appointed a Cadet in the same year and was posted to tho Federated Malay States..
After having acted as Secretary
A
The detained passengers are to- day being examined by the police,
GERMANY'S CABINET.
WHY DR. MARX FAILED.
to the Government Civil Hospital... Mr. Nihill-Do you recognise. anyone in Court as being one of that party?
Witness: Yes'; No. 20.
MONEY AND JEWELLERY.
said he
Continuing, witness searched No.. 20 when the party. arrived at the hospital. "This man was wearing a fur round his neck, which contained a pocket. In the pocket he found $45 in Hongkong currency, thirteen-five dollar Chinese, bills, four Chinese ten- dollar bills, two gold rings, a gold wrist watch, and two gold bangles. He also found $5.15 in Hongkong currency In the stacking of Prisoner also had
Berlin, Jan, 20; The failure of Dr. Marx to form a Cabinet was due to the People's Party, to which Dr. Stresemann his leg.
Mrs. L. Anderson, who is stay-
HAULDED TO STATION.
Mr. yan Kus, being upstairs, they
Biervliet Instead. EXCITED CHINESE DELEGATE. he took his BA, degree in 1911. took Mr. van They hauled him to the S. D. police station and there insisted that the
Geneva, Jan. 20. There was an unpleasant authorities detain the Consul- General, but through the efforts incident at to-day's sitting of the of Mr. G. Lecomte, French Consul League's Opium Commission, when to the Sanitary Board at Kuala belongs, opposing co-operation another scarf wrapped round his General, who had been notified of Mr. Chu, the Chinese delegate, Lumpur he proceeded to Canton with the Socialists, and urging waist the affair and who immediately excitedly protested against the July, 1912 to study Cantonese, that the only way from the dif The altuation at Changsha la Went to the Commissioner of Forfigure which was meant to re- passing his examination in 1914. Aculties would be the inclusion of ing at the Tokyo Hotel, and who
eign Affairs office, Mr. van Biery present the production of raw On his return to the F.M.S. he was German Nationalists in a coalition.
opium in China on a chart, the made Acting Assistant Controller-Reuter. liet was finally act free.
A representative of the office of publication of which the Commis- of Labour at Perak," later becom-
ing First Class Magistrate. Affairs came to the S. D. police
Commissioner of Foreign sion was discussing.
Mr. Chu then accused' the Presi dent, Sir John Campbell, of station, apologised on behalf of the Administration, and escorted Mr. shewing partiality. van Biervliet away from the mob.
The French Consul was held pri- soner by strike pickets, and he was getting worse.
only released on undertaking by Chinese Servants in British em-- foreigners that he would not leave ploy, except at the Consulate, have' the Concession. They have also been on strike since Jan. 13th, Insisted that he visit Nanchang to and all British offices are closed. negotiate with the Unions, who make outrageous demands.-Naval
Wireless.
.. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN,
Ichang, Jan. 20.
Germans in Changsha are wear- ing bands on their arms, marked "German" to avoid molestation Router.
REFUGEES FROM CHANGSHA. Virulent umi-British posters and A Chinese message received here bills are being distributed all over this morning states that a number the district More refugees have of British refugees from Chang left for Hankow.-Natal Wireless,sha have arrived at Hankow, and that they are being forwarded to Shanghai, together with Hankow refugees,
"COCKCHAFER" INTERVENES.
Shusi, Jan. 20,
The military endeavoured to commandeer a British tug to tow,
junks with soldiers to chang H. M. S. Cockchafer intervened and secured the vessel's release. The tug has now left the district.--| Wireless.
FURTHER CONVERSATIONS.
THEIR NATURE KEPT SECRET.
Shanghai, Jan. 20:
AMERICAN MINISTER
RECALLED TO PEKING,
other
Peking, Jan. 20.
the
ORIGIN OF TROUBLE.
HONGKONG CAREER.
PRESIDENT INTERVENES.
was a passenger on the boat, said" she was travelling second-class. At a quarter to four in the after- noon," she was in the second-clase Berlin, Jan. 20..
saloon talking with the third com- President Hindenburg has inter-pradore. About that time sho It was in 1915 that Mr. Dyervened in the political crisis, urging heard a commotion and, looking to- The latter declined to admit Ball was transferred to Hongkong Dr. Marx to try his speediest towards the bridge, she saw two such a charge and finally, on the as a Pansed Cadet and, on his ar- form a Government, based on a men holding small firearms. After motion of Sir Malcolm Delerigue. rival here, he was made Acting majority of non-socialist parties. four o'clock, she returned to her
District Officer. the British delegate, the Committee Assistant
He The President has simultaneously cabin and handed some of her passed an examination in Hakka appealed to all parties to sink their jewellery over to the cabin boy to and later acted.ns District Officer differences in the interests of the guard for her. at Tuipo. In the succeeding years, Fatherland and to unite to form a Mr. Dyer Ball has acted as Police Government for the welfare of the Magistrate and has been attached country.
The origin of the trouble groes back to 1929, during which year appointed a Sub-Committee to re- the Trasmarina Trading Com- port on the question of the charts pany sold the Seng Kee Iron Works at the next Session-Reuter, a thousand keys of nails specifying
in their contract "shipment from home in May, 1924."
The cargo was shipped during the period specified, the bill of lading being dated and signed as date of May 17, 1924. The nails arrived in China in September of that year.
The consignee, Seng Kee Iron Works, refused to take delivery of
The Trans-
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A cable has been received at the their order, claiming that it had American Legation From Washing-arrived too late. fton reculling Mr. MacMurray, the marina Trading Company took the
American Minister, to Peking.
matter to court where, after a long Mr. MacMurray, left Peking on period of inaction they received Tuesday evening, and is probably judgment on August 28, 1925 now somewhere in Korea-Router, which judgment specified that
BIG TROOPSHIP.
Song Kee must take delivery within one month from that date COR-WHITE STAR LINER BEING PREPARED.
WASHINGTON SURTAXES.
JAPAN STILL OPPOSES.
to the Imports and Exports Do- Dr Marx's party, the Centre partment and also the Colonial Party discussed the situation and Secretary's office. In 1919 he was, adjourned, pending the drafting of for a time, Acting Assistant Co-minimum programme policy for lonial Secretary and Clork of submission to the German Nation- Council and he also acted as Clerk als on whose reply Dr. Marx's re- to the General Military Servicenowed efforts depends. Reuter.
In June, 1929, he was
BANK MANAGER CHARGED,
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ALLEGED LARCENY OF $9,000.
She heard a knock
on the door and three men carry- ing revolvere entered and demand- ed two rings which she was, wear- ing. She then opened her box and" displayed the clothes which it con- tuined.
PIRATES IDENTIFIED.
Witness identified two pieces of gold jewellery and a necklace which A Chinese telegram-received here. Tribunal
she said she had hunded to the to-day states that with regard to called to the Bar, and, after hav-
cabiń boy, and also two ear-rings, the imposition of the Washington ing been appointed as 'Second
which the pirates took but return- ed when she told them they were surtaxes at Peking, to which Japan Police Magistrate, was made As-
of little value. She recognised. opposed, a further exchange of sistant' Attorney General.
Mr. Dyer Ball has since been
Nos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 20 is being opinion is taking place between the Minister. The latter is. Inslating Courts of Justice, but he has also Foreign Office and the Japanese most closely associated with the
pirates. No. 4 was the man who took her ear-rings away, and No. on a conference of all the Ministers served for shart spells in the Co-
5 took her overcoat and mackip- of the foreign Powers.
lonial Secretariat and at one time
tosh. No 20 was in her room and The news from Peking also was Acting Private Secretary to And pay for the entire shipment states that when the ex-Premier, H. E. the Governor. In 1924 he was Fung Native Bank, of No. 9,
Lee Yee-mun, manager of the was armed.
At about midnight she hard before taking delivery.
Mr. Chin' Yun-peng, arrived there acted as Pulsne Judge for several Winglok. Street, whose arrest was great commotion, and No. 1 prison- Seng Kee appealed his case, but yesterday he was summoned to at- months and last year was Oficial effected on a warrant, appeared beer came into the dining room, afternoon. Beyond that statement. The .. Megantic, lying at the Commissioner of Foreign tend a meeting with Marshal Chang Receiver in Bankruptcy, that a friendly atmosphere con Liverpool, is being fitted out aga Affairs refused to grant him an Tso-lin, and that a seven-hour con "tinues to prevail, no indication of troopship to transport Marines to appeal, and advised Seng Kee that
versation took place. No an- the nature of the discussions can China. She accommodates 1,600 It was imperative that he tako
nouncement regarding the out- be obtained.-Router.
In accordance with this, Seng come has yet been made. Kee sent nine cheques to the Com
A Reuter's message from Han- kow, dated Wednesday, states that Mr. O'Malley bad further versations with Mr. Eugene Chen at the Foreign Office. yesterday!
CHINESE REPORTS,
London, Jun. 20.
passengers.--Renter.
[The s.s. Megastic, which was built in 1909 by Messrs. Harland
delivery,
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EDITED ORDINANCES.
fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Cen-where she, was, and dragged her tral Police Court this morning, on away to the captain's cabin. She -charge of larceny of $9,000 said- said other people had been taken For some time past Mr. Dyer to have been obtained on a cheque before and she was the last one. Bull has been acting as Attorney from the cashier of the Bank of She succeeded in freeing herself, General, Sir Joseph Kemp being | Canton.
however, and ran to the stern RUMOURED NATIONALIST DEMANDS. and Wolff at Belfast, was one o missioner of Foreign Affairs,
engaged on other duties,
Mr. M. M. Watson appeared for where she hid herself.. The largest White Star Bingts when which were forwarded to Mr. van FATAL BUS ACCIDENT.One of the works by which Mr. the defence, the case being ad- Mr. Nihill-Did you know why "According to Chinese reports first in commission. She is of Biervliet, totalling in amount to
Dyer Ball will best be remembered journed until Monday on bail of he wanted you? from Canton, in the conversations 14,878 tons, gross.]
TIs. 5,000. They were post dated
in Hongkong will be hie edition of $10,000 being found by the de-Witness:-I believe. he wanted between 31r. Eugene Chen and Mr.
cheques and the cargo was held by CHINESE WOMAN KILLED...the Ordinances of Hongkong, fendant. O'Malley, the former put forward
Transmarina until payment on ali
1884-1923, the work of editing three conditions for a settlement
Two of In attempting to cross Sai Kung calling for much legal technical of the Hankow incident, these
The cruiser Don Blas Deleza has them proved valueless, and the sum Road, Kowloon, yesterday, a Chin-skill and hard work. At the being that Britain should recognise been ordered to Shanghai to pro- of Tis. 4,1000 only was realised ese woman, was knocked down and meeting of the Legislative Coupell
on seven of them. On the other fatally injured by a motor
bus which sanctioned the publication two, the bank on which they were belonging to the Kai Tak Motor of the volumes, high tributes were drawn reported "No" funds." Rug Co.
SPANISH CRUISER COMING.
Madrid, Jan. 20.
the Nationalist Government na the teet Spanish subjects.--Reuter Government of Chinn, that the British Concessions at Hankow and Kiukiang he handed back to
ALL PARTIES CONFER.
of them had been made.
Since the judgment read that the Pending the death onquiry, the Paid to the Editor's services.. whole cargo was to be delivered driver of the bus is being held by upon payment of the entire amount the police, on a charge of driving. of money involved, delivery was a vehicle which was not provided
with two efficient and Independent brakes.
FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS Chinu ori compensation terms to be arranged, and that the naval
OPPOSITION. reinforcements sont to the Yang.
Leadon, Jan. 20. teze be withdrawn and hereafter; narwarships be permitted on this In accordance with the rules withheld.
It took about in year between river on the plea of protecting that Opposition Leaders be kept
On appearing before Mr. T, W. informed of important foreign the rendering of the judgment and British nationals.
A Chinese report from Shanghat developments, Mr. Ramsay Mac- the payment of the abovo cheques Ainsworth, at the Kowloon Magis states that shortly after his donald and Mr. Lloyd George pald which were only received by Mr. tracy this morning, the driver was arrival in Hankow, General Changa lengthy visit to the Foreign van Biervliet in July and August formally remanded for one week.- Kal-shek authorised Mr. Eugene Offee where Sir Austen' Chamber.of last year. Then came the war Chen to negotiate with Mr.ain explained the Government's in this territory, and consequent O'Malley on more conciliatory views on the situation in China.— lines, it being stated that the Reuter. tes Nationalists would be willing to]
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state of temporary disorganised officialdom, during which time. nothing could be done in the case. (Continued On Page 12.)
TO-DAY
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4,03 p.m.
CEYLON'S RUBBER
OUTPUT.
RE-ASSESSED OFFICIAL
FIGURES.
Colombo, Jan. 20,
"NING HAI"- CASE.
THE HEARING CONTINUED,
meas shield agalist the firing.
In answer to further questions, No. 2 witness said she only saw I prisoner enter her cabin with others carrying a firearm, but sho did not bee him take anything. No. 3 also entered her cabin.
IDENTIFICATION PARADE. The case in which Mr. Kirk Mr. Sheldon:How many Identi patrick, Second Officer of the Bfication parades did you attend?--- and S. 8.s. Ning Hal, is summoned Two
on a charge of assaulting one of How many men did you pick out, the quartermasters, and in which at the first one you attended?- cross-summonses are also put in six men.
by the defendant and the master Who were ther?-Nos. 1, 2, 3 of the ship, was again before Mr. 4, G, and No. Ga littlo, Witness R. E. Lindsell this morning. aafd No. was not in Court, but The examination and cross-che was known by that number at It is officially announced that the amination of the parties in the the Police Court standard production of rubber In case occupied the attention of the How many did you pick out at Ceylon for the fifth year of the Court until tifin time, at which the second? I picked out Nos, e restriction scheme has been re-stage the case was adjourned until
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asscased at 78,889 tons.-Reuter the afternoon,