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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
STATION RAIDED.
HANKOW POLICE FIRE ON COOLIES.
Hankow, July 30. As the result of an attempt to storm Police Headquarters No. 7 of the Chinese City, a number of riesha coolies were seriously-if
not mortally wounded-and a total riest strike in the native city was declared last night.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,
CHINA WAR.
NATIONALIST SETBACK,
"Shanghai, August 9. The latest reliable reports show that Chiang Kai-shek has received a severe check in the neighbour hood of Pengpu, Anhwei. Casu alties are estimated at 7,000 and
4,000 wounded have already ar- rived at, Pukow.-Reuter.
Revolted Hankow Troops in Retreat.
against Hankow are retreating to-
VILLAGÉ FIRE.
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE AT
HAINAN.
1927.
OFFICER MURDERED.
TRAGEDY AT WHITFIELD BARRACKS RECALLED.
Detalls of the discovery of the During the past fortnight the body of Jemadar Gurmukh Singh, local situation has been quiet and of the Hongkong Mule Corps, trado dull.
Hoihow, Aug. 5,
On the night of July 31st, some were given at the Kowloon Magis- Communists or robbers set fire to tracy yesterday whon Mr. W. the village of Ham Khou,. some Schofield, sitting as coroner with fifteen, miles to the south, on the the assistance of a jury, held an banks of the river which empties inquiry into the murder commit- through Hoihow. This place is ted at the Whitfield Barracks dur- important road junction.ing the night of June 24-25. Several motor cars were lost as Capt. E. W. Morris, R.A.S.C., well as supplies of petrol,
Ar
In endeavouring to disperse the coolies who threatened the build-
Shanghai, Aug. 9. ing, the police fired into the air,
A reliable Klukinng telegraphic
ete. stated that he was summoned from but the coolles, with shouts of,
at 6.15 a.m.. от "They will not dare to shoot us," report states that General Chang Fat-kwai's army has recaptured
June 25 by the Corps civilian attempted to rush the building and Nanchang. The forces under Gen- Most of the village was burned his residento to wrest the rifles from the police erals Ych Ting and Ho Lung who down.
On July 30, the military way secretary, who informed, witness and military guards.
Orders were then given to fire recently revolted in Nanchang laid two students as they emerged that the Jemadar had been mur- into the meb, and as a result, aard Foochow in the direction of from the main gate of the Hoi-dered. Witness went to the bar- As the soldiers racks and on the verandah of the number dropped to the street, the Chekiang border. The mill-how Hospital ahot through the body, and the tary circies here believe that as male the arrest, one of the men Indian Officers' quarters found the the deceased lying on a bed with a riotous crowd dispersed.
soon as Generals Yeh tind Hosurrendered willingly but The ricsha coolles of the Chin reach Chektang they will be enlist- other started to dash back to the sheet over him. On lifting the One of the soldiers part covering the head witness ese City who have not had steady ed by Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek hospital. employment recently have been into the Nanking Army, but that drew his Mauser pistol and shot found that the Jemadar was given a regular sum of coppers by when the Hankowites approach him. He fell and died just at the dead. the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. the Cheklang border the Nanking-hospital gate. The young men
were from an aboriginal village man's right temple, while blood Calling for their dole yesterday | Hankow war will break out.
few miles southwest. They evening at six o'clock, the repre Wang Ching-wei, speaking at a sentative of the coolies' union was recent Hankow meeting, numerated were accused of buying arms from had been exuding from his left! advised no ear. After placing a sentry on to be liad..
Terrific Disturbance. The coolie returned to his union and reported that no money was to be had. Union headquarters became active at once, and a squad under a union official was at once dispatched to the Chamber of Commerce Building, on the Maloo, near the water lower.
At the Chamber Building they raised a terrific disturbance, and fearing violence might be done, a 'telephone message was sent to the Garrison Commander for assis- tancó.
troops
Armed police and arrived, and the union delegates were expelled from the building, the anion official being placed un- der arrest and held pending in vestigation of the disturbance. A guard of armed police and troops was then placed around the Police Headquarters and Chamber of Commerce.
a
There was a BCAY
over
the
wereguard to prevent anybody from approaching the body, witness and native Conductor Tobin made a report to
the Police.
nists in China and declared that some say the young men the only way to save the Kucmin- wrongly accused by enemies. tang is to have the Communists On August 1st some
According to overthrown.
an pastors and eight or nine other Hankow report, General church workers were held up and other Tang Sang-chi will have a few robbed on the Limko motor-rond "Reds" shot in the next few days near the village of Sim Toa. This in order to whitewash his own place is nearly 50 miles to the west. One of the eight or nine policy-Wah Kiu Yat Po.
robbers fired at the car they were travelling in and when they came to a stop, relieved them of money and baggage. The loss was well over $250.
OBITUARY.
TRAGIC DEATH OF WELL- KNOWN SOLICITOR.
London, Aug. 9. Sir George Lewis was killed by falling in. front of a train Montreux.-Router.
near
Later.
The merchants say that surtaxes and customs duties will soon be raised to 25% and at present over It is feared 10% is being paid. that the effect on, trade will be very bad.
It is rumoured that a certain Cantonese General IIo, is to lead an army of 3,000 troops down to rule Hainan. Sir George Lewis, who been
More troops are staying at a sanatorium was sit-needed if the Government intends
balustrade of the ting on the
to cope with the Communists, who and overbalanced are holding sway in the interior. hotel Territet and fell on to the railway at the moment the Express was passing. who-Reuter,
Speaking of the Corps, witness said that he had two different aastes in his unit, Mohamedans and Hindoos, who consisted Doggas and Sikhs,
Insubordination.
of
About three weeks before the murder, a draft of 28 Doggas had arrived from India to complete the establishment under the command of Capt. Morris. The deceased had had a certain amount of trouble with the Doggas, and on one occasion witness had to deal severely with one man for theft. Witness had the senior NCO. be- fore him and warned him that if the men under him continued
to defy the Jemadar's authority witness would take serious action against him (the N.C.O.)
Since that time there had not been any further trouble.
that Continuing witness 'said
(Sir George James Garhum Lewis GEN. DAWES' SPEECH. immediately he heard of the mar
Riot Attempted, The disgruntled coolies had been ousted from the building
the head of the well-known repórted at once to the Rlesha was Coolies' Union Headquarters, from London firm of Lewis and Lewis, solicitors. Born on September 12, which place orders were at once sent out for a strike. Ricshns in 1868, hevas educated at Harrow the native, city were ordered to and later at Balliol College, Oxford, a solicitor in quit work at once, and to bring and was admitted their rieshas to the head of the 1891. He was married two years and 'two street leading to Police Head- later, and has one son quarters No. 7, whose constables daughters. The son, who succeeds had been delegated to guard the to the title, is now 17 years of age. Chamber of Commerce Building Sir George was a member of the Automobile and who had arrested their Bath and Royal
Clubs.]
official.
Here they blocked both ends of the road leading to the station, piling their ricshas in a heap to thoroughly bar the road, with themselves, inside the cordon. Then, in a mob, they waged an assault upon the police and troops. They made their way into the building and entered upon a thorough wrecking expedition.
"
HIGH TREASON.
GERMAN GENERAL'S UNGUARDED REMARKS.
Paris. Aug. 9.
STATE DEPARTMENT
OBJECTS.
New York, Aug. 9. General Dawes allusions to Geneva in his Pence Bridge speech a stir in the State have caused Department which has vigorously dissented from General Dewes' view that inadequate preliminary preparations acounted, for the Geneva breakdown. "
It is pointed out that the United States delegates discussed the situ- ation with the British representa- tives at the League's preparatory disarmament conference earlier in the year. This view was echoed the by the administration" and newspapers,
der the idea crossed his mind. that one of the Doggas was the culprit, and he informed the Police of his suspicions. All the Doggas were fallen in and their but nothing in- kits searched, criminating was found.
Witness said that he had made inquiries since the tragedy but he to find any had been unable
clues.
Referring to the deceased's character, witness said that he al-
to was a most reliable officer though at times he was apt bully his men.
Trouble With Washerman: Conductor Tobin, who was also summoned by the Corps secretary, The New York Times says that gave similar evidence to that of the explanation of the speech may Capt. Morris. He added that the
officer that be found in a pamphlet recently deceased was up to the average circalated by a friend of General of any Indian Dawes in furtherance of the move- Corps had. Witness mentioned ment to make him a candidate for that the deceased had had some the Presidency. According to this trouble with the washerman, who pamphlet General Dawes, method
the
The chile of police, finding him-
The newspapers learn from self about to be attacked, fired tw Berlin that General Schoenaich was shots over their heads. The charged with high treason because coolies, however, feeling secure he wrote in a military magazine that the declarations of the Wuhan that so many youths, even those oficials to the effect that "Our who are weak or ill, are anxious to troops will never fire upon our enlist in the Reichswohr so that
people" would give them Germany will not lack reserves in is "to smash with the javelin of was always disrespectful to the
Own
liberty to do as they pleased, wartime.--Ilavas. began a band-to-hand combat with the police and soldiers, and at-
cm-
sincerity the smokescreens ployed to conceal, confuse and per vert American fundamentals."--
tempted to take their rifles awaying forced to a state of helpless-Renter's American Service.
from them, shouting, "They will not dare to shoot us. Don't be afraid of them. They are paper tigers."
4
Need to Fire.
LONDON COLLAPSE. ·
Jemadar. This man was given und dis- three months' notice
charged on July 29.
Mit Singh, the Corps secretary, said that he left the Jemadar at ness, the order to fire was given.
p.m. on June 24 and retired. Troops and police wrenched
The deceased was then talking to themselves away from their at
another
following officer. The
arouse tackers, lowered their rifles, and
morning witness went to as a list resort to preserve order,
him at 5.45 but found the man fired directly into the crowd. A
unconscious. He then went and number of coolies fell, and the
summoned assistance but on the rest, seeing that the police and
London, Aug. 9. arrival of a doctor life was ex- troops were no longer "Paper
The magistrate at Mansion tinct. Tigers," took to their heels and fled. Six were arrested and are House has granted orders secur- ing the safety of property adjoin- to-day in gaol.
MORE FALLS FEARED.·
An Indian soldier who was on
The situation became impossible. Were it to continue for another few minutes, the police force and garrison troops would have beer disarmed by the coolies, due to the tremendous mob which out numbered the guards by many The strike of the ricsha coolies Ing the Commercial Union Build-patrol during that night'said that hundreds.
was not called off, however, andings in Cornhill. It was stated he heard Finally, after the Police Head-last night no ricshas were to be that some of the property was very have been a quarters had been badly wrecked, had in the Chinese City. Martial dangerous and liable to collapse. He took and the police and troops were be- law has been proclaimed.
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