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AD RATAL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
OPENING OF MURDER TRIAL.
ATTACK ON MRS. MACKAY
RECALLED.
RIVIERA SABOTAGE
CASES.
ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS.
THREAT TO U.S. LEGION.
Nice, Sept. 25. Huge blocks of stone were dis-
CROWN MARSHALS THE CLUES IN covered on the permanent way, and
THE CASE.
TORN NOTE SIGNIFICANCE.
are believed to have been laid by persons intending to wreck a train with American Legionaries board-Reuter.
A Bomb Used.
Nice, later.
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MATSHED BLAZE. THE EMPIRE AND THE SWATOW REIGN OF TERROR.
WONGNEICHONG IN DANGER.
WOMAN BADLY BURNED.
The whole of the new Wongnoi- chong matshed village WIS threatened with disaster this mo
LEAGUE.
"OUTLAWING OF WAR
PROPOSAL
BRITAIN'S GOODWILL..
Geneva, Sept. 25.
PEASANTS AND COMMUNISTS
IN CONTROL.
Ready recognition of the Em- HANKOW'S DEFINITE SPLIT WITH
ning, when fire broke out in a
pire's labours in the cause of soli- house on the outskirts at about darity among the nations was forth- 9,30 a.m., and rapidly involved the coming in a speech by M. De Brou- surrounding structures in a fierce kere, the Belgian delegate, in the blaze, but a timely call to the League Assembly.
He said, "When Sir Austen Brigade by a European, coupled Chamberlain told us that a great with the fortunate circumstance effort had been made for the Lengue that practically no wind was blow-of Nations by the Empire of Great titude, and ย sincere desire to understand the Empire's situation."
The hearing commenced at the Criminal Sessions, this morning, of the trial of two Chinese who are charged with the murder, early have occurred.on the Paris-Niceing, averted a serious catastrophe. Britain, we listened with deep gra- -
last month, of Mrs. Mackay of Taikoo. It will be recalled that the Indy was on her way home, after a bathing picnic, with her nephew, when they were attacked in the neighbourhood of Shaukiwan, at dusk, and the lady was, fatally stabbed,
Two cases of sabotage, believed to be not unconnected with the visit by American Legionaries, main line,, shortly before the Legionaries were due to travel thereon.
First, a bomb exploded between Cannes and Golde de Juan, which destroyed part of the permanent Traffic was stopped and the
The case for the Crown was outlined to-day, when the clues by "which the men are alleged to be connected with the crime were referr-way. ed to: The discovery of bloodstains inside the lady's hand-bag, ap damage.was repaired.
The second instance was when parently showing that it was rifled by a bleeding hand, the statement
discovered large by the Government Bacteriologist that stains found on certain cloth-plate-layers
blocks of stone on the track bo- ing were caused by human blood, the alleged discovery on the person tween Cap Dail and Monaco.
The Legionaries duly arrived of one of the accused of the second half of a torn forged note in Mrs. Mackay's possession prior to the crime, and the supposed self-con- here, and have been enthusiastical- fessed knowledge of the affair on the part of accused, were main pointsy. welcomed.—Routor
in the prosecution's case.
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When the Court adjourned this afternoon, the judge and jury procceded to the scene of the crime.
',
EXPERT'S TESTS OF BLOODSTAINS.
contained, in addition to the bath- ng costumes and towels, certain other things which had been put inside,
INDIAN TROOPS' WAR MEMORIAL
TO BE UNVEILED AT NEUVE CHAPELLE.
London, Sept. 25. Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of State for India, will unveil on Chapelle to the memory of the In- October 7 a memorial at Neuve dian soldiers who fell in the war, which fought in France.
The nature of the Crown case carrying the rattan basket, which against the two Chinese charged' with the murder of Mrs. R. Mackay at Chaiwan on Aug. 6, was out lined by Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, at the Criminal Sessions this morn- Mrs. Blackey was wearing a gold ing before the acting Chief Justice, wrist watch with an ordinary hook-and in honour of the Army of India Mr. J. R. Wood. The defence is over clasp, which was held firm being conducted by Mr. H. G. by two pins. Her bag was hang- Sheldon, instructed by Messrs. ing on her left wrist, Wilkinson and Grist.
The jurors. are: Mr. W. J..
on
The Attack.
Distinguished representatives of the British and French armies will be present, including Marshal Foch, and a detachment of Indian troops which from all the India units fought on the western front is to take part in the ceremony.
The memorial,
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of
Morris, (foreman), Mr. B. Sten- The path along which they were dall, Mr. J. O. McLaggan, Mr. G. walking, explained Mr. Fitzroy,
the cost Wragge, Mr. D. R. Kinloch, Mr. was intercepted by steps, and just Lee Chung-chu, and Mr. P. E. before they arrived at the steps Baskett.
two Chinese passed them, walk-which is being borne by all Mr. Fitzroy, in explaining that ing in the opposite direction. parts of the Empire, is erected apparently exchanged on a site appropriately selected by much of the case for the Crown They
based circumstantial glances and passed on. At the the India Office on the Neuve Cha Way evidence, referred to the old time the two Chinese passed, the pelle seelor of the Festubert- It was here that adage, "You may lie, but circum. nephew was, walking towards the Givenchy front. stances, never." He added it was right hand side of the road, and the Indian army performed gallant work, including the capture of the of the utmost importance to the Mrs. Mackay was on the left. jurors in forming their verdict. The bby would tell them, con- village of Neuve Chapelle-British
With the exception of the court tinued Mr. Fitzroy, that after they Wireless. officials and interested parties, had walked on for a short distance there were few other people in he heard footsteps behind them, and on looking round, saw the court as spectators.
At the beginning Mr. Fitzroy two men they had recently passed produced maps of the locality and coming back after them, photographs of various places, in-
Eventually, a short distance
cluding the path along which Mrs. further on, the Chinese overtook Mackay met her death.
COOK TRIES TO DEFRAUD.
them, when the taller of the two "FALSE BILLS FOR LAUNCH A photograph on which he pushed in between Mrs. Mackay of and her nephew, and the one man Inid emphasis
show seized the boy and pushed him to
the
ing
was one
HIRE.
.
The damage was confined to two large matsheds and a pigsty, to- tally destroyed, while a woman was rather badly burned about the face and hands, in an attempt, it
A PEACE MOVEMENT?
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Sir Robert Ho Tung Approached.
Shanghai, Sept. 26. Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is on a holiday in Shanghai, in an interview by Reuter, con- cerning an interview he had with Marshal Chiang Kai- shck yesterday, declined to make any premature state- ment, other than that the in- terview was satisfactory, and that he was favourably im- . pressed by Chiang's per- sonality.
It is believed, however,
that the discussion turned on the possibilities of a peace movement, regarding which Sir Robert Ho Tung bas been requested by numerous leading Chinese and by Chin- business men, to revive
ese
his previous endeavours to call a round table conference. Sir Robert Ho Tung, how- ever, considers the time for such a conference at present not yet ripe.--Reuter.
An Isolated Group.
He added that there was no in- tention to manoeuvre Britain or the Empire into a course they might not desire to follow-Reuter."
The Desire for Peace.
London, Sept. 25. The Polish resolution outlawing war was unanimously adopted at the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva yesterday.
Lord Onslow, the British dele- gate, expressed the view that the resolution defined clearly the main object of the League, and marked a distinct step forward.
"We recommend three things," he said, namely, action by the League, systematic preparation of League machinery, and action by individual states." The League must use, its influence in promoting co-ordinate agreements regarding
NANKING.
CHUNGKING AGITATION.
The fall story of the fall of Swatow to peasant and Communist forces on Friday last is told to-day, and it is disclosed that following the entry of these forces into the city, there was much rioting and looting and that an armed mob carried on very much as it willed. British ships are now standing by and the arrival of troops belonging to Generals Ho and Yip is expected to effect the restoration of orderly conditions.
A late Chinese report from Hankow says that General Tang Song- chi and Mr. Wang Ching-wej, have been in conference and have de- finitely decided to have nothing to do with the Nanking regime, which means yet a further split in the ranks of the "Nationalists." There two men have patched up their differences. An carlier message reported Nanking's fear of further resignations from the list of the recently-elected Ministers.
"From the Upper Yungtaze comes the report that there is agita- tion at Chungking against the returned British gunboats and citizens. but that attempts to stir up trouble are not meeting with much sup- port. The Trade Commission has now returned to Hankow."
arbitration and security. This RETREAT BY GEN. SUN CHUAN-FANG.
would always have the support and goodwill of Great Britain.
force
It was shown by discussions that all were imbued with the same.
Swatow, Sept. 25. idea and he hoped that preparatory
The peasant
entered commission would press forward Swatow on Sept. 23 looling and with vigour, and that by next year taking charge of the city. great strides would have been taken
The
Earlier Reports.
Shanghai, Sept. 24.
It is learned from Swatow that!
in the process of disarmament, so police force has disappeared and Communist forces from Nanchang the armed mob is in control of the have captured Chaochow and that elty. H.M. ships Sirdar, Seraph, Serapis and Bluebell are here Naval Wireless.
that a really important contribution would be made to the League's first duty, which was the maintenance of peace, as the most important prob- face... lem the League had to British Wireless.
GERMAN WAR GUILT CONTROVERSY.
BELGIAN AND FRENCH CONTENTIONS.
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Chinese officials are evacunting
Swatow where a small amount of. looting has occurred.-Reuter, The Coup Described.
Swatow, Sept. 24.
No Anti-Foreign Trouble. Swatow, which had been in the hands of the peasants corps and
Swntow, Sept. 21. since it was the labour pickets
There has been no anti-foreign evacuated by Chiang Kai-shek's trouble up to the present, although troops, is
now occupied by the the situation remains extremely armies of Yeh Ting and Ho Lung, unsettled.
The 5th regiment of General Members of the Farmers and Yeh's army, together with two Peasants Union have taken advan- battalions of HoLung's troops, tage of the situation to lost a arrived from Chao-an this morning. number of Chinese houses, the The cause of the delay in their Police Headquarters together with arrival was due to the fact that the a quantity of arms having been Chao-an and seized by the looters. A number railway between Swatow had been partly destroyed of troops under Ho Lung have ar by General Wang Chun's troops rived. Naval Wireless. when they were falling back from the front..
HANKOW AND, NANKING.
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London, Sept. 23. Belgium and France have not delayed in replying to Von Hinden burgh's speech at the unvelling of Tannenberg on September 18, is said, to salvage treasured pro- when the President denied his perty from the first place involved. country's war guilt, or that Ger-
General Ho Lung is expected in The woman was taken to hos-man soldiers had perpetrated any the port this afternoon from
Another Definite Split. pital suffering from burns and atrocities during the war.
Chao-an, to direct the military
Shanghai, Sept. 25. severe shock.
The Belgian Premier, M. Jasper, administration in the Eastern
A Hankow telegram just to unveiling a memorial at. Ostend to Kwangtung capital. Large forces the Belgian statesman, M. of the peasants corps and labour hand states that Gen. Tang Seng. 1912. pickets are being concentrated in chi has had conference with who died in It so happened that the fire Beernaert,
Beeraert had not the port. ·.
Wang Ching-wei and his military broke out in a group of matshed's said that
Although the situation has subordinates on the latest politi- second . prisoner,
see the violation of Yesterday afternoon the master isolated, more or less, from the lived to
since the cal situation. a cut in his right hand. the side of the road into a nullah. That was important, he said, For the mument the boy did not of the steam launch Yuet Lee call.main village, though other struc-Belgian neutrality, and an inno- improved somewhat
General Tang declares that the because he would later ask the know exactly what had happened, ed at No. 42, Banham Strand West, tures within ten yards were ir cent country delivered up to fire, arrival of the regular troops, Jurors to say that the hurd that but as soon as he had recovered to collect money due for hire of danger, and had they taken fire, as murder, ruin, and the shooting of looting and other disorders are present new government in Nan- was feared, the task of the Fire
king is illegal but it may be re- rifled Mrs. Mackay's handbag was he climbed out on to the path just the vessel from the Sing King
When the Yeh-Ho troopa arrived, cognized as a de facto administra- bleeding at the time, because of in time to see two men going away Hong Erm, which occupied these Brigade would have been rendered women, old people, and children still continued by the peasants and
round a bend in the road, and
the supreme test of defending his bloodstains which were found in Mrs. Mackay sitting
promises. He was paid $27, and much more difficult. As it was the in their cradles. He did not know the pickets.
actual connexion, how- on the
country against persistent at the gunboats with the troops and tion, with which Hankow will went away after turning over the fire pumps were obliged to stop side the bag, and the total lack of other side of the
well over half a mile from the road. such stains on the outside.
Wang Ching-wel told his friends scene of the conflagration, and tempts to Bully Belgian heroism officials of the former adminiatra- have no In the meantime. Mrs. Mackay bills and receipts.
nowcomers threatened to.. shell The majority of the evidence, had received three wounds, being. An hour later there also ap-2100 feet of hose had to be laid and suffering by lying and baltion were still in the harbour. The ever.
them. Later in the afternoon the that he is going to co-operate with he said, which would be adduced, two stabs in the breast, in the one peared at the shop another man,
out before the firemen were able faith..
French Report.
gbonts left, but they are report Tang, for they have made up all would be of a circumstantial na case the instrument having one who produced bills for an identical to get to work.
Pan. ture, as the nephew, who was with inte contract with a rib, and the amount, but, which on a close
The premises destroyed were M. Barthou, the French Minised to be still near Swatow har misunderstandings.--Nam Chung
bour. Mrs. Mackay at the time, did not third one, which was fatal, in the examination were found to be for
1 Justice, unveiling pi
Some minor fighting took place seem to have had an opportunity of stomach.
geries. This man was detained, out of control by the time the ter seeing anything that occurred be The length of the wounds was and later confcased to the police Brigade arrived, but a inatshed memorial at Livren to the heroes
the remaining force of the defen tween Mra. "Mackay and her as very small. The doctor would say that he was at one time, a cook near-by was knocked down, this of the Moroccan campaign, said in the city during the day, between assisting materially in stopping that France could not permit the ders and the newcomers, but the sailants, owing to his having been they were caused by a double-edg employed on the Yuet Lee. the spread of the fire. The owners truth which had been proved by former were totally disarmed after- pushed into a mullah by one of ed blunt weapon, which must have On being charged with attempt of adjacent matsheds were appre
Dealing with the facts of the The bracelet which was attacheding to obtain money, by false prehensive and the more valuable facts and documents to be traves-wards.--Nam Chung Po.
Mr. Fitzroy said that on to the watch was torn away, and tences this morning, he was sen- property was ovacuated. August 6, a Saturday, Mrs. Mac- the contents of the hand-bag had tenced to three months' hard la- hour by Mr. R. E. Lindschl. Ser- kay, who was living with her hus- been taken out," band at Taikoo Dock, set out with Referring to the 'bag, Mr. Fitzroy geant Kinnear prosecuted in the her nephow to visit a friend living emphasised the importance of the case. on Barker Island. There were discovery of bloodstains inside and workmen in the house at the time, the lack of them outalde. "The and there was evidence to show hand that robbed the bag," he that she took a certain amount said, "was bleeding at the time," of money from a drawer and plae- and went on to say he was going ed it in her bag, which she was to show that the second prisoner
had a bleeding hand. carrying on her wrist.
Iler nephew was carrying a The boy found Mrs. Mackay ser- AIRSHIP SERVICE PROJECTED
iously injured, and with his as small rattan basket, which consistance she managed to walk a tained bathing costumes and tow short distance, but eventually col-
The hose had to be laid up hill They first of all took a tram, lapsed, although she was still con-
gation from Britain with regard to all the way, and though pressure and later walked down the path The time then seemed to be airship mooring masts in Australia, from the pump was strong, it was leading to Chalwan, where they about eight o'clock in the evoning. Mr. Bruce, the Prime Minister, weak at the scene of the fire.
If the are had occurred in the for assistance, announced that the Cabinet had de- certain Mrs. Barker. The nephew ran There they stayed until it began and met a Mr. Davidson, who tried cided immediately to proceed with middle of the village where dozens to get dark, when they decided to to telephone for assistance, but the preliminaries for the establish- of matsheds, are closely huddled owing to the telephone being out ment of an airship service between together, nothing could have been As they walked along the path on of order this could not be obtain-Britain and Australia. Reuter. their way back, the nephew WAS (Continued on Page 14.):
the men.
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1. Sydney, Sept. 25. Following reports by'an air dele-
Fiorco Blaze.
tied, but she was willing to keep silent conditionally on ailence from the other side-Reuter.
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WEEK-END LOSSES.
Effect at Canton.
WUHU PROPERTIES.
Chinese Troops Evacuate.
Wuhu, Sept. 25. The majority of foreign proper- ties recently occupied by Chinese Canton, Sept. 26. troops have been evacuated. Although the fall of Swatow Is Troops are still concentrating at not seriously threatening the Taipingfu against the continuing Canton situation, the military.advance from Nanking--Naval authorities are now busy with their Wireless. eastern expedition.
SHANGHAI STRIKE.
While it lasted, the fire was very flerce, a tree nearby being bared of leaves, actually catching fire at one time, while the surrounding
The divisions under Generál sheda also showed signs of the!
SEVERAL BURGLARIES: Chan Chal-tong and Hsieh Yo, intense heat. The Fire Brigada
who have been sent to the East
Still Continues. received a tail at about 9.35 a.m.
Shanghai, Sept. 25. and the "Stop" was ordered short-
According to reports made to River, are ordered to push onst
It is confirmed that Marshal ly after 10.30 a.m., when it was
General Wong Shiu-hung, the Chiang Kai-shek is now in Shang- Considered that there was no like the police over the week-end, ward or at east to keep a strong hood of the embers again burst-money, jewellery and clothing stand in the line of Walchow.
valued at $57, was stolen from ing into flame.
room 426 of the Tai Law Tin Kwangsi military chief, who is hat. The strike is continuing.-- Boarding House, Des Voeux Road taking 10,000 men to combat te Natal Wireless...
The employees of the Shanghat Central, as well as money and Yeh Ting and Ho Lung forces, hne
at Wu-hwa, a north-eastern dis- struck work on Monday, have pa--- jewellery valued at $61 from No. just reported to Canton his arrival: Dock and Engineering Co., who 16, Arbuthnot Rond.
From No. 21, Reclamation trict General Wong believes that sented a series of nine demasis, his army will be able to approach Street, Youmati, another report the Chanchow-Meihsien districts the more important being a gen was made to the effect that money before long, when he can start oral increase of pay, Sunday as
(Continued on Page 14-) and clothing valued at 876 was operations against Yeh and Ho holidays, $1,000 compensation In atolen on Sunday morning.
Nam Chung Po
saved.