THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW FRENCH CRUISER PLOT AT HANKOW.
IN PORT.
EMBODIES LESSONS OF THE
WAR.
SEAPLANE EQUIPMENT.
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A REIGN OF TERROR PLANNED.
EXPOSED IN MANIFESTO.
C.N.C. STRIKE NEWS AWAITED.
YESTERDAY'S MEETING IN
SHANGHAI,
· FIRST QUARTER DECISION.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3, 1927.
BORODINA GOES. MANY EXECUTIONS AT
SHANGHAI,
JUDGE WHO RELEASED. HER FLEES.
ARMED ROBBERS SHOT IN BATCHES.
COMB OUT AT PEKING.
A GAOL CLEAR OUT. Peking, July 18. Hankow, July 28.
fellow Sixteen-more armed robbers, Mrs. Borodin and her Forther sénsational plots of the
Tipon inquiry this morning we As was announced some time ago in the Telegraph, the French Communists have been exposed in were informed that the local prisoners of the Pamint Lenina kidnappers and other Chinese feet in Far Eastern waters has manifesto issued by Gendral Guilds have received no further have been released from prison, criminals who have been awaiting of the information from Shanghai re- and have left Peking for an un-exccution in the cells of the Muni- received a notable addition to its Ho Chien, Commander
the known destination. Before doing cipal Gaol at Ward Road, Shang- strength by the commissioning of 36th Army, to his officers and garding developments in
addition to their C.N.C. dispute. As mentioned so, they gave a local journalist ahal, for the past year or more were the cruiser Primaugust for ser, troops, In vico. This, one of the latest post-conspiracy against the Kusmin- yesterday, another meeting had nice little Interview extolling the dispatched to their doom on Thurs- Then day by the Chinese military au- tang, which has been already dia- been arranged for the afternoon purity of Chinese justice. war units of the French Navy closed. by the Political Council, a when the Guilds were to reply to they hurriedly put a sale distance thorities.
seret resolution adopted by the various proposals made by the between themselves and the nam C. P. has been revealed which calls Company at an earlier meeting of that justice. Some suy for the massacre of all those No detalls concerning this latest have buried themselves in one of Chinese who have reached the age conference of the parties have the Concessions in Tientsin.
received in Hongkong, i
arrived yesterday from Kwong Chow-Wan and Saigon, on its way to Shanghai, and presents an in- teresting spectacle in the harbour by reason of its unusual appear ance when compared with other warships now in port, and of many other features connected with the structure and armament.
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of 25 and who have not joined the been Communist Party. In his pro-neither has the nature of the pshould develop a little haste in clamation the Hunancae composals been disclosed. mander denounces the Communists for creating a reign of terror in Human and for promoting class struggle which has resulted in chaos and disaster.
General Ho points out at the foutest that in spite of freeing the people from their suffering, the Revolution, has increased their pain and burdens. The faull, he Huys is not with the Revolution itself, but with the Communists who have made use of the situa- tion, created by the revolution to practice their, dangerous doctrines.
It was necessary that they leaving Peking, for Chang Tse- The opening of parleys in in, having heard of their release, Shanghal has strengthened the be- generated a mighty wrath, which lief of the officers in Hongkong quickly communicated itself to all that a satisfactory settlement of his subordinates. The prisoners the dispute will be brought about,must be re-arrested, was his fat. and one said this morning that le spurred officials and police un this errand. The judge was sent they were now very hopeful.
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A Refund Decision.
Later
it has ascertained the result of We learn that the Company, now the working for the months of April, Ny and June, has decided to make a refund of the, deducted 10 per cent, in way to the staff for that period.
This afternoon (Friday) An- other batch of 18 will also be taken to the Chinese Milltary Headquarters, put through the shot. This will leave but 14 in more formality of a trial and then Ward Road Gaol out of a total of 89 to be executed according to the decision of the now defunct Inter- national, Mixed Court of Shanghai, The remaining 14 will be executed within the next day or two, pos- sibly to-morrow.
The Chinese Military authorit-
In Batches of Eight.
Through the courtesey of the French Consul, we are enabled to give a detailed description of the Vergel. This shows that the Fri- mauguet is one of the latest ships of her class afloat, being one of
for; he had flown with his prison- fies decided about eight or ten three cruisers of a distinct type
ers. Officials scurried hither and embodying the lessong of the war
thither, some to the Soviet Em-weeks ago to carry out the deci- and launched in 1924. She la a
bassy to try to find the whore-sions of the Mixed Court and since sister ship of the Dugay-Trouin
that time have been receiving abouts of Mrs. Borodin and com- and the La Motte-Picquet, and particulars of her dimensions are
to obtain permission for another final trial according to the require- pany and others to Mr. Oudendijk small batches of the condemned men, putting them through their follows-Length, 181.30
raid. The police scoured the cits,ments of the original sentence of matres, drawing 5.10 metres of
Must Kill Gentry.
and for the next two days no stone death imposed upon them, and of water. displacement 8,000 tona,
was left unturned to bring the the Chinese Provisional Criminal breadth 17.5 metres, Her turbines
Speaking on the chaos in lunas.
Creed ones back to the Justice theyCode. develop 100,000 horse-power. At General to anys in his manifesto:
admired so much. It was to no her full speed of 34 knots, the "The Communists used the peas-
avail; the birds had flown. 'The endurance power of the cruiser, isants and workers as. tools to ae- It will be remembered that, in Embassy refused to give out any limiteri to 800 miles, to 1,300 milescomplish their aims. As a consemaking the reduction of 19 per information. "Nothing doing." Those who were handed over at 19 knots, and 4,000 miles atquence, unlawful acts have been cent, the Company promised that they said in effect to all inquirers, yesterday were taken from Ward committed and reign of terror it would ravise the position every with, however, the utmost urban Road Gaol at approximately 2.45 The Primauguet - heavily created. Those who had simply three months and refund the re-ity. The Doyen of the Diploma-p.m. and were dead by 4.80 p.m. armoured, and the direction sitadel rive to eat and clothes to wear duction, if the earnings of the tic Corpy informed the Chinese They were taken out from the were treated by the Communists feet were such as to warrant such that it would be impossible for Military Yamen in intches of is reinforced with
n landlords: In their eyes, the double thickness,
aatep. The earnings for the him to give them any permit to eight to a piece of vacant ground educated are the gentry who must first quarter since March 31st. enter the Legation Quarter for the at the rear of the yamen now be be arrested and killed. Innocent have been ascertained, and the purpose of staging a rald on the ing used as an execution ground. tortured and massacred. Not Company finds that it can refund Soviet Embassy. Having done it The first eight were disposed of Ifer main offensive armament few have been driven to bank the pay reductions.
ance, the Chinese thought they had by four or five Nationalist soldiers. comprises four 155 min. Man, rupey and suicide.
no sooner executed superimposed in pairs forward halls and temples have been cam-
established a precedent that could They were and the same mather of 165 mm. fiscaled or destroyed. The C. E
become practice for the asking.than coolies rushed cheap wooden guns mounted in a simile posi-C. has never issued any mandate
Besides, the prisoners had been re golins to the spot, dumped the leased by order of the court; why bodies inside, nailed down the lids don in the rear. The vesel has to abolish Confucianism and the
all the fuss?
and carried them off to make room also twelve torpedo Lubes,
Tsungli has never opposed that
for the second batch of eight which was presently led to the religion, but the mischief makers procreded to destroy and burn
1 same spot and disposed of in similar manner. Confucian temples.
10 knots.'
in
The Armament.
OUT
Al
A notable feature is in the fact that the vessel has also two sex- planes, which are launched from a catapult of the starboard side. In addition to these,. the cruiser is defended from aircraft attack
Anerstral
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"Regardless of their distress, peasants and workers were comy- pelled to attend meetings. Meet-
Execu-
by means of four anti-aircrafting balls frequently were turned guns of 75 mm. calibre, mounted into exeation grounds. amidships on either site of the tw funnels.
ima became a child's game. Many had been put to death without The three cruisers of the Pri- their names being announced or mauguet class are the first of the their alleged erimes made public. new French post-war Navy. They At the meetings, peasants and ard in reality enormons torpedo-workers were connelled to raise boats, where it would serta mast their hands to favour motions for other features usually connected execution and
fused to do so.
were regarded
with cruisers have been sacrificed counter-revolutionaries if they re- to the attainment of speed and a big radius of action.
Posters Issued.
The 155 nim, guns have been
"Posters were issued, urging the evolved as a type of main arma- women to forsake their husbands. ment superior 10 the slightly Students adopted slogans to de- smaller runs with which armourenounce their own parents. While ed cruisers in the French navy, this reign of terror was going on, built before the Primanguet, are shap employees refused to work, armed.
peasants refused to till their soil. workers refused to work, and
refused sindents
ko study was denounced and Hummity morality abused. Everybody was in danger and the chaos never been surpassed.
The Personnel. “ The cruiser has, a personnel of 27 afficers and 551 men.. Of the principal officers Capitaine de Vai- stat Valet the Commandant, and Capitaine tie Frigate Cotelle
hus
"Furtherråore, rice for the
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Under the Company's notice. issued earlier, each three-monthly period will be considered on its earning merits.
FAMOUS PIANIST.
The above is a recent por- trait of M. Benno Moisei- witsch, who is giving two planoforte
the recitala at Theatre Royal.
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Bribery Suggested.
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The fuss was that the judge had ordered the release of the prison-
ers
on his own responsibility. Some of the men were cheerful, The case had not gone beyond a others were sullen and afraid. preliminary hearing. No evid-Some sang, some joored, some ence had been taken. Dark in-cursed both in. English and Chin- sinuations camo to one's ears of 082, One of them proclaimed in bribery. It is said that not only English that he "was a damn gööd did the judge receive a money pay-armed robber," and patted his ment to make up for long arrears chest as he said it. of salary; he had also extracted
sin
more
Chinese priests were in atten- a promise of a fat job when Han- kow came to Peking. Anyhow, he dance to administer spiritual com- fort. Several of the robbers in- disappeared inmediately after bir
sulted them, while others, announcement of the acquittal.subdued on the execution ground, He fared either that his
accepted their ministrations. would find him out or that Chang Tao-lin, like Yuan Shih-kaj, would All, however, were in good mood show him what can be done in mo- during the journey from the Set-
Gnol dern China to judges who show tlement
Nantno... too keen a regard for the law. Shanghai Times.
Neither he nor his prisoners have left a trace of their 'where-
to
abouts. Furious at the deception HOW MUCH DO YOU |
Chang Tso-lin issued an instruc- tion to the Cabinet to dismiss Shen Chia-yi, chief Justice of the High Court. What his responsibility is, is not known, though One rather doubts" that he knew, much more about the case than Chang
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
and Capitaine de Corvette Auffray soldiers was held up and confiscat/ NOTICE TU MARINERS-Tso-lin himself, but anger in high edge paper has been taken from
Saigon.
at 5 p.m.
MOISEIWITSCH RECITAL
1.
TYPHOON SIGNALS AT SHANGHAI
The following notice to mariners has been issued by the Customs at Commissioner of Shanghai, under date July 22.
With reference
gun
of
it' will the exhibited until more could be
contrary to remain humanity. The Communists pre weather moderates", notice is tend to obey the Three People hereby given that hereafter, in Principles. but want, seerolly to addition, similar signals will be carry out their plan of a general made at the Customs property, massacre. This is the reason why Lay Road. Yangisepoo, and at the Revolution has appeared to be the masthead of the signal staff
situated thercon. a failure."
The following general know-
the Daily Express.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 141 of this issue.
1. What famous religious leador was born in the same year as Shakespeare, and what famous writer died in the year of Shako- apeare's death?
2. What hand in considered the most perfect ever painted, and in whose picture deca it appear?
Who was Derrick, and to what
has his name descended?
4. Who is Jean Valjeant
6. What was "Hippocrane?"
0. What is the "Morea"?
7. Whence is the name "rhubarb"
derived?
3. Pho discovered the circulation of
the blood, and when?
places knows no bounds, and the are the executive ofleurs, while fed. Tax offices were raided and
Innocent must suffer if the guilty Lieutendant de Vaisseau Démou- the fumilies of troops endangered.
cannot be found. Chang Tso-lin's geot is the chief flying oficer | An embargo was placed on rice!
rage was further revealed in the aboard. It may be stated in this creating a rice famine in those
holding up of several deerees that connexion that a great deal of y-cities which depend on Hunan for
are the new administration'a con- WAR done
the rice. Trees for the protection of
tribution to the modernization of river at Saigon with the sea-graves were aprooted and grave
China's codes. One is a body of planes with which the Primanguet tombs removed. Conditions be-
regulations governing the train- is equipped, and that the flying came so bad that it was impossible
Another concerns to Harbouring of judges.
rights. officera oven paid call on H.Mto keep dogs or raise pigs. It The King of Siam at the end of was thought at first that all this Notification No. 8 of 1916, to the the protection of human a memorable non-stop flight from was the inevitable result of an in- effect that "on the approach of a The Ta Yuan Shnai apparently fant labour and peasants meva typhoon which threatens bad means to liquidate his injured ment. Subsequent investigation weather at Shanghai, when small feelings on the lawyers who have A. salute, was fired from, the showed however that it was all craft should seek shelter on the practised this trick on him. Primangat un arrival yesterday, the work of the Communists. Poutung side of the river above
No Search of Embassy. will be and replied to from this port. Their resolve to massacre all those Pootung Point, a
fired from the Customs Pootung
Peking, July 19. To-day, a reception in honour who have reached the age
and who have not become Yard and a ball hoisted to the
Extraordinary precautions are of the haval visitors will be held 25 at the residence of the French members of the Communist Party,truck of the mast on the Pootung Leing taken on all routes of egreSS
9. Who wrote an casay on "Murder
Considered an Consul. (M. Dufaure de la Trade) has now been disclosed. Nothing Signal Tower, where
que of the Fina from Peking to guard against the
Arta" escape of Mrs. Borodin and her comrades. Orders for their im 19. What are Concha?
English groat? mediate apprehension have been 11. What was the value of the old circulated to all police and mill-18. Who devised the name “philo-
sopher"! tary stations in Peking and Tion-
beings. What was the date of the first tsin.. The railways are closely watched, and all motor- Oxford and Cambridge Boatrace? car passengers are examined on 14. Who was Giordano Bruto? What the Peking-Tientsin road.
poet made him the subject of a would seem to be impossible for poem? the ex-prisoners, if they are still in 15. What are the two finest equestrian. Peking, to slip through this net.
The Chinese contend that their
Chang Tsung- Efforts have several chang has now added his contribu
ruse. It was luckless heads of the civil authorl- ........Bach against allowing themsolves to hei Get Rid of those who want to proof, but the Soviet offieinls have incident has called down upon the Preludo in C. Major La Cathedrala Engloutie, Debussy and propagandists who might be those Who Despise and Abuse hoped that the Embassy would ac-ties. Chang recommends much Sonata Appasionata...Beethoven influenced by Communist spies massiere the people, Get Rid of detected every
Humanity, Get Rid of Those Who cept delivery of the orders of re-more drastic punishment of the Etude F sharp major. Stravinsky at work in the army.
The manifesto concludes with Chented the Peasants and Work apprehension, but this was handed judiciary than has yet been at- .....Palgren Refrain de Berceau
With Imperialism, back with the polite intimation tempted. Enough of this La Jongleuse
Moscowaky the following slogans "Support Down with Militarism, Down with that it would be usoloss to leave sense, he has said. He himself has Nocturne
Scriabin the Three People Principles, Sup Corrupt Officials, Gentry and it seeing that the consul did no the captain and Valse G. flat Major Noctrune F. port the Kuomintang of China, Landlords, Long Live the Kuo know the whereabouts of his want- Pamiat Lonios under lock and key,.
sharp Major and Ballade A Support the Nationalist Govern-mintang of China and Long Live ed comrades.
and no judge is even likely to flat Major .....Chopin mont, Support Chairman Wong the Chinese Revolution.-Hankow
Thus the police are baffled. know the combination, whether. Tannhauser-Overture Wagner-Lizt Ching-wei, Tan Yen-kai, Sun Fo,
Which has made the warlords an- Western-educated or not. Horald.
-THE PROGRAMME FOR
SATURDAY.
Communists Denounced.
In his manifesto, General Ho
of the
also denounces those who attempt and Chen Chen. Support Com Tang Sen-chi, The first of the pianoforte re-ed to put Communism into prac-mander-in-chief
to be given here by M.tice in Hunan. He opposes class Support the interests
unless the peasants and workers, Support Benno Moiseiwitach takes place in struggle and says.
the Peasants, Workers, Embassy.
citala
statues in the world?
When the follo Royal on Saturday, Communists are driven out, the Buddhism, Support Confucianism, marry are in hiding in the Soviet grier than ever.
following will be the pro- Revolution will be doomed to Unite
Croops Merchants, Students and Soldiers, times been made to establish tion to the storm of abuse that the
gramme:
id
failure. He warns
Down ers,
non-
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