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JUNE 18, 1927.
ARMS FROM GERMANY. for their own armies, because the
respective models, are quite differ- ent. Their various governments, therofore, sold large quantities of this material to privato firma in their own countries which, in turn,
tion.
MURDERERS ESCAPE.
£500 REWARD IN BELFAST.
There was a huge gathering on the Markot Hill, round the statue of Gainsborough, last month, on the anniversary of his baptism, which took place in the okl meet- port of them. You say, "In read customs administration-in whose specifically looking after the com-been identified as having belonged
These are very serious charges, and you givo no particulars in sup.
The so-called "German exports of arms to China" have been used to prove that Gorman firms are en- gaged in dishonest and unfair practices. The Chinese maritime
statistical
NOT OF GERMAN ORIGIN.
Repeated press references have exported them to countries where Belfast. Notwithstanding the It is said that an old-time squirej The Home Secretary, has ad- lately been made to the alleged there was a demand for them, in-most energetic search by the police at Sudbury, when he heard that dressed the following letter to Mr. dealings of German firms in arms eluding, among others, China, all over Northern Ireland through Thomas Gainsborough was a pain- Ben Tillett:
transports to China, and much in- Since, however, a very consider the night and day, no trace has ter, suggested that he should painti
terest has been aroused by a re- able portion of the Continental ex-been found of four convicts, William Dear Mr. Tillett.I have your port published by the London port trade the railings of his house, and that letter, in which you accuse the Times in April donling with the via
passes in
Conlon, Hugh Rogers, Francis transit a publican in his fiative town once
German seaports, such Boyle, and Edward Thorton, who asked him to do a new sign board police and the magistrales of this promise given by certain German shipments of arms and ammuni escaped from the Belfast Prison In for his hostelry. Neither of these country of carrying on a "vicious shipping and business organisa- tien
necessarily
the early hours of the morning. A Agured to. stories is vouched for now in the vendetta against the workmen tions to the German Government in a large extent among the Imports proclamation offering a reward of Suffolk town of Sudbury, where and workwomen involved in the re- which they bind themselves to pre- from Germany in the statistical ma £500 for the arrest of the men has stands the national memorial, un intred bias" has apparently been arms to China,
sent strike, and say that a "class vent the transportation of Gorman torial of the countries of destina-been issued. It describes Conlon velled in 1913 by Princess Louise "passed on to the police as part of
as a returned American. He is be (Duchess of Argyll), to the great their instructions," with the re- the situation:
The following article explaina These circumstances and the lieved to have been the brains be painter,
considerations of a political and hind the scheme, as ho was the lend- rather than polleemey." sult that they are "persecutora:
ethical charneter connected with ing spirit in the murder for which them have caused the German For-ho was convicted six years ago.
The police found a parcel contain ciga. Office. the German East Asiatic Society, of Hamburg and ing the gaol coat of one of the miss- Bremen (which is the organisationg men, and three cups, which have ing house that is now the Congre- ing through the accounts of the] gational Church exactly two hun prosecution I am astounded at the origin are identified with countries the Far East), and the German
compilations ports of mercial interests of the country into them.... dred years ago.
The authorities have been so re-.. venom on the one side, which of origin-have unintentionally Shipowners' Association, of Ham- ticont that the full story of the es Sir Frank Dicksee, President of means a one-sided law administra supplied grist to the mill of these burg, to davise means by which cape has been difficult to got, but the Royal Academy, laid a great tion." But, you do not indicate! wreath of smoci laurel leaves, what prosecution or prosecutions people, and as a good many of the such manipulations and practices the main facts have now become tied with a purple bow, on the you had in mind or what accounts rms exported to China are actual could be prevented as far as Ger- known. They point to collusion ly shipped via German seaports, man territory is concerned with outside, if not inside, the gaol, in steps. Afterwards the crowd you had read. pressed, close to
there was some sort of apparent them. The German merchants, some quarter or other. The three examine the The only reference in your lot justification for the allegations re quite apart from the moral aspect lifeterme men, Conlon, Rogers, and flowers and leaves of a wreath sent tor to any specific case is your referred to. This impression was of the matter, are far too shrewd Boyle, were in adjoining cells. One from Bath and laid near the ference to certain women
now strengthened by the fact that and businesslike to engage in ad- of them got a small block of wood, Academy tribute by the western serving sentences of imprisonment many of these arms showed unmis ventures which might lose them which he inserted into the socket city's representative, Councillor T. for taking active parts in a riot takable signs of having been manu- the sympathies of numerous cus- which caught the latch of his coll Sturge Cotterel. The
flower which involved an attempt to in-factured in Germany. It must, tomers abroad and put them under This prevented the latch, when the were picked in the Bath gardens in torfere with certain men who had however, be remembered that Ger- great disadvantages in all their door was closed, from going direct which Gainsborough painted, and resumed. work, and an attack on many, at the close of the war, had future dealings with the countries into the socket. It caught to tho the leaves came from a tree under the police who were protecting to abandon enormous stores of war concerned. The momentary gain extent of about one-sixteenth of an which he loved to sit. Sir George thom. These cases I have already material in the countries that had in which such transactions would inch only. Then he obtained a Agnew laid another chaplet of carefully considered. The trial of been
overrun by the German he likely to result is cut of all:pro-long. nail or drill with which he laurel leaves, and there was one the persons concerned in this riot armies, and that the Versailles portion to the risks to which they made a hole in the framework of from Ipswich, to which town Gainsboroubh went after his mar lasted five days. All the evidence treaty made it compulsory upon would thus expose themselves. the door behind the socket, and. riage, brought by the Mayor, and was fully heard, and the women her to surrender to the Allies This is the reason why the two when the opportunity arrived he a huge oval of white flowers, with in question were found guilty, not part of the afins and ammunition grent trade and shipping organisa- pushed either the nail or a piece of the coat of arms of the town pick- by any magistrates, but by a jury she still had and to have the rest tions just referred to have given wire against the block of wood of their fellow-citizens, and I have destroyed subject to the super-binding undertakings to the Ger-which levered back the latch, and ed out in coloured petals, from no ground whatever for question- vision exercised by the Inter-Allied man Foreign Office with a view to the door stood open, Sudbury itself, and the final wreath was from the boy captaining the correctness of the jury's Commission of Military Control. preventing as much as possible of Sudbury Grammar School, from which Gainsborough played truant. [Gainsborough was educatad there while his uncle was its headmaster.
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"We are here," Sir Frank Dick- see said, "in a spirit of gratitude for benefit bestowed, of thankful plaint that has been made to me. proceeded with on paper, but effec- the necessity of giving their un along on his rounds he was taken: ness that in this dear land of ours a man was born who liked art and WRITING beauty with a life-long devotion." Gainsborough was a supreme art ist. "While his work can be seen,' niced Sir Frank Dicksee, "Gaing- borough is more alive than many
Having thus opened the door of In addition, the factories that had the exportation of arms and am his own cell, the daring convict pro- until then manufactured war ma- munition to China from this coun- terial were either also destroyed try. The formal agreement to this ceeded to release his two comrades. or were forced to change over to effect was signed by the parties For this object he must have ob the production of different arti- concerned on April 2nd last. Their tained some keys, but where he got eles. The Allied Powers, through action proves that the German them is for the present a mystery. their supervisory organisations, merchants and industrialists fully He was able to liberate the other saw to it that such destruction and realise the seriousness of the posi- men, and when at four o'clock in the reorganisation was not merely tion in China, that they appreciato morning the night warder came entirely by surprise, pounced upon and overpowered almost at once. Immediately after having tied up in wurder the three men released Thomtos from his cell, which was near their own.
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tively carried out. Even if, as stinted support to the policy of ab- may possibly be true, some secret solute neutrality pursued by the arms depots continued to remain national Government, and that in existence for some time without they are anxious to co-operate with the knowledge of the German Gov- the latter in a wholehearted way. erament, it may be taken for gran- The Last Asiatic Society and the
4.
Warder Resists.
If you will refer me 10 any case in which there is, in your opinion, a prima facie ground for investiga tion, I will at once investigate i as have investigated every com- Meanwhile, I can only say that i has been my duty during the last year to rend accounts of numerous prosecutions, and a review of the full information available for me has shown that the police in prose ention cases have shown a spirited that they were subsequently German Shipowners' Association of fairness and commonsense, and discovered through the activities have promised on behalf of their that the magistrates have dealt of the Commission of Control respective members, ie, on behalf They took possession of the war- with the cases brought before whose members could always rely of practically the whole of the der's keys, and having to guard them with care and discrimination on being supplied with valuable German merchants and
ship- against the possibility of alarm and a full sense of their judical hints and revelations from the owners, to decline the transporta- they tied up the bell of the tele responsibilities.
German unemployed (The number tion to Chinn, from German sea- phone, and proceeded to the door Here tho As regards the police, their sole of unemployed still amounts to ports and in German bottoms, of which led to the yard.
about 1,300,000, notwithstanding any arms and ammunitioni intend- other warder on duty was posted. liam Hyde Parker, Sir Martin Con- functions have been to preserve the considerable decrease in the ed for use in that country. They Waiting a favourable opportunity way M.P.; Sir David Murray, and order, to enforce the law, and to figures during recent months have, in addition, undertaken to the four convicts made for him as Sir Courtenny Warner.
protect those workmen who, in the unemployment not only affects see to it that these undertakings he stood. He, too, was overpower Cainsborough's house is now an to return to work if they wished, but also numerous members of bets, and they have bound them of resistance.
exercise of their undoubted riga farge numbers of unskilled labour are complied with by their mem-ed, but not without a great deal old world tea place, and the gar- to do so, were exposed to intimida the liberal professions and of the selves to notify to the competent time to draw his revolver, but he den in which he played as a boy tion and violence. is used for the entertainment of
intellectual proletariat). That authorities any contravention of visitors to the artist's town. On While, as I have publicly stated German disarmament has become the terms of the agreement. Saturday it was lent to the Cor- on several occasions, the great a reality is proved by the fact that poration of Sudbury, and the majority of those concerned in the the Inter-Allied Commission dis- Mayor and Mayoress held & recep- dispute showed themselves to be continued its activities on January tion there, and the visitor saw the law-abiding citizens, there were 31, 1927 by withdrawing all its room in which Gainsborough was some very bad cases of initimida supervisory organs.
Sir John Lavery, who was pre- vented by indisposition from at tending the celebration, sent a let tor expressing his regret:
With Sir Frank Dicksee were Sir George Agnew, Sir Arthur! | Churchman, M.P., the Rev. Sir Wil-t
born.
The man had no promptly attacked the man nearest him with a cluck, and that he served out some punishment was evident from the blood which was to be seen Gen. Wu Chung-hain, Commis afterwards upon the ground. The sioner of the Shanghai and Woo- odds against the unfortunate ward- sung police, reports that the totaler, were, however, too heavy, and, great fire during the retreat of the powered, relieved of his revolver, of the police were attacked and in-ed why, in spite of what has just Shantung-Chibli troops amounted and rendered harmless by being tied jured, and they performed their been explained, considerable quan- approximately to $300,000, of trying duties with patience and tities of German-made arms are which more than $150,000 was fairness-often under grave pro- imported into China, the answer covered by insurance. About 610 vocation and in circumstances in is simple. The Allies were in the houses in Paoshan Road were des- volving great strain:
rarest instances able to use the surrendered German war material troyed..
Pilgrimages were made to tión, violence, and rioting. Many it, therefore, the question is ask damage in Chapel caused by the like his colleage inside, he was over-
the meeting house, where members of the Gainsborough family are buried in a vault, and to the Gram mar School, while a collection of Gainsborough relies were on view at the Town Hall.
NEW VIEW OF SHANGHAI BUND
The Shanghai Bund, looking north, as it appears from the top of the new Customs House. One of the cranes used in
the construction of the building, not yet completed, is to be seen in the foreground of the pictu
up securely.
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The escaping convicts then tore
up all their sheets, quilts, and,
blankets to make ropes, which they used not only for binding up the warders, but also for scaling the walls. An hour had now elapsed since they had begun their great" adventure, and they had still to get out of the prison yard. That, how- ever, was child's play to men who had already achieved so much, Working like furies they tied all the available ropes of sheets and blankets together, and with a brick as a weight, they threw the sling over the wall bordering St. Ma lachy's College grounds. They knew the lie of the land thoroughly. The wall there is lower than at any other portion of the prison area. Fortunately for the escaping mon there la, a gate at this point, and once the eling was over a hand was pushed through the rails, tha end of the improvised rope was secured to the railings, and the men.. had' scrambled over like monkeys. The rest was easy. Crumlin-rond- and the waiting motor-car was only thirty yards away. How did they know it was there? That is a pro- blem as yet unanswered.
The prevailing opinion is that the escaped convicts reached the Free: State by means of their fast motor- car, travelling before the news of their filght had been widely cireul- ated. But the police are leaving nothing to chance, and are continu- ing their investigations in quarters in the city of Belfast where the men might be in hiding. A possible way of escape suggested is by motor- boat, a common typo. of craft in Northern waters, and one which would attract no attention. The weather on Monday morning was beautifully fine, and a boat of this kind would reach the Free State, from the coast of County Down in a... fow hours. A close watch has also been kept on cross-Channel steam- ero. The police know the appear- ance of the men, and If they are still in the Six Counties they may
be recaptured, but if not the pros pects of their being found are re mote.
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