N.C.O. FACES SERIOUS CHARGE.
ALLEGED POSING AS, POLICE INSPECTOR.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
EXCITING CHASE OF SHANGHAI TOPICS.
ARMED ROBBER.
REVOLVER DUEL WITH DETECTIVE,
onu
CASE ADJOURNED.'
A FIERCE FIGHT,
An armed robber was captured Sergeant Loonard Lowes, of the Queen's Regiment, was charged in Jalan Besar, Singapore at bofore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the 11.30 morning last week. due to the Central Police Court this morning The capture was
and pluck with posing as a Police Inspector dogged persistence on two occasions, when entering of a Chinese detective and a Malay certain houses in Wanchai, and constable. These men kept up an with obtaining, by means of a almost mile long chase in which trick, a sum of $5 on eng of thèse a fierce fight in a Chinese house, visits.
Defendant pleaded not in which the officers were rather guilty.
roughly handled, and a shot at point blank range which the un- armed Malay constable escaped by throwing himself on his stomach, were incidents..
dant quiet.
In a Saw Mill
LESS ANTI-BRITISH FEELING.
CRIME WAVE COUNTERED.
A
Shanghal, Sept. 24,
War little "Shanghai had fought out in its back yard in the early part of the week which, in- terrupted the comparative quie- scence it had been enjoying for some little time. It was one of those occasions
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
CHINESE JAPANESE
CLASH.
HONGKEW INCIDENT LEADS TO INQUIRY.
CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS.
30
1927
ARMS FOR POLICE IN MALAYA.
CORONER'S APPEAL TO THE AUTHORITIES.
AN UNFAIR RISK.
A conference was held at Muni. In the Coroner's Court at Singa- cipal Police headquarters yester- pore, last week, before Lieut.-Col. morning says Monday's Hope-Falkner, the inquest was day Shanghai Times, between repre- held on the death of a Chinese sentatives from the Japanese Ma- named Quny Kce Aum, who was rihe Headquarters and a Deputy shot at in lorong 1. Gaylang Road, is Commissioner of Police with re- on September 12, and who died Inspector Sullivan conducted the brought to our doors as a back-gard to the incident of the pre-Inter in the hospital. wash of the storm and strife vious evening in Hongkew district were arrested and taken to Hong- raging in the territory around when two Japanese marine patrols case for the Police. Shanghai.
kew Police Station charged with having made an assault on a Chia.
when
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ese boy.
A Japanese version of the affair bears out the general opinion that the whole incident, which at one though it might time looked as have reached serious proportions, inconsequential rese out of an and commen. event and the whole may be described as "much ado about nothing."
Evidence of the shooting was given by a Chinese detective No. 1, September 12, he and Sergt.-Major Who said that on the night of Chuit Bin Ambang of Rochore Police Station were going along Grove Road in rickshas when they heard a shot ring out. By the light of a street lamp witness saw five Chinese with revolvers in their hands. The detective gave chase, but the five men escaped.
Witness found the deceased, on the ground suffering from a gun- shot wound and he stopped a taxi and sent the wounded man to the During the chase the hospital. Sergt.-Major followed witness be cause at the time in question he (the seret major) was unarmed.
A; verdict of culpable homicide amounting to murder was returned against some person or persons
Myo Yamashita, the mistress of
The battle, which for a time 12 house at No. Sampan
threatened to assume the dimen Street, stated that at 2 o'clock on
sions of a major engagenient, was fought between two Nationalist the morning of August 23rd, a loud knock was given at the door The chase began in Victoria factiona at Hsinchwang, which is and a voice gave witness to under-Street. The officers saw three the first railway station beyond stand that he who was seeking Chinese being eliased in Kallang, by Lunghwa just six miles from the entry was a police inspector. 3.number of civilians. They joined city. About 2,500 troops partici- in, gradualy closing up as thepated, and the fighting resulted Confused and nervous, she open-civilians, tiring, dropped out and in upwards of 100 casualties. As ed the door and the defendant the fugitives dashed into A SKW
an outcome of the struggle, a regi- entered. He stayed for two hours.mill in Victorin Street.
ment of the 31st Nationalist Army and before leaving, asked witness
was disarmed by the First Nation-
Two members of the Japanese one of to lend him $10. He was very
alist Army Corps, which had been marine patrol observed threatening, and witness gave him
In the saw mill. the officers, lost dispatched to intercept the regi- their men wandering "home" along 35, not with the hope of its return, but with only the object of two of the men. But they kept the ment as it was coming from Hang- Chapoo Road at about 8.30 p.nl. pacifying and keeping the defen. third in view, and followed him chow with the suspected intention in a somewhat intoxicated cond! through the mill on to a field abut-of going over, to Marshal Suntion, according to the Japanese ting on Jalan Besar on one side Chuan-fang.
story, and took charge of him, Stayed Two Hours.
and Paya Rand on the other.
All reports agree that the leading him into a nearby alley of the sharpest way to hold an investigation, as Tsuni Fujikama, a girl from the In the midde of this field, the affair was one same house, stated that defendant Beeing man suddenly turned and struggles in the annals of warfare the man was abroad after hours. gave her to understand that he fired at almost point blank range in this region, and the latest Incidents such as these never fail information received to attract a few onlookers and was a "No. 1 Police Inspector" at the Malay constable who escap-authentic and required her to produce her re-ed they shot by throwing himself from an eye-witness in Sungkiang soon a small crowd had collected sheds some interesting sidelights at the entrance to the alleyway gistration book, which he then on his stomach,
on the encounter not previously with the result that the patrols. signed. He also said that he was
The detective, who had been run-reported. The sharp volleying of made efforts to clear them away. "very angry", from having been made to wait outside a closed door, ning beside the constable, then rifles and whirring of machine In the course of a rush at the and threatened to bring her up" drew his weapon, and a revolver guns during the battle were of an crowd to try and disperse it the in the morning, when she would duel between pursuer and persued order that could not have been Japanese version is that the Chin- lose $200." After staying for two ensued.
equalled in any of the fighting we ese boy was injured in trying to of C Division),
The detective' was armed with a hours, he said that in consideration
have had before. It was sharp, escape and immediately made the of the fact that it was the first time,
but short, the whole thing being most of his injuries, finally bring-revolver, but the Sergeant carried "$50 would be all right." Then,
finished within no more than half ing the Chinese policemen to the Police whistle, but no weapor before going away, he asked if she
an had change for a ten-dollar bill, and in the end took five oue-dollar bills
A Shot Finds a Mark.
A stumble on the part of the fugitive and blood on his pants, coupled with a cessation of further shots, told the pursuing police
bullets had found a mark,
hour. Incidentally, some scene. soldiers who had survived the battle wanted to put up in a Japanese
Another report is that the to use marines tried!
unknown.
Coroner's Criticisms,
The Coroner added the following rider to his finding:
The assault took place about
100 yards from Giang Ah Long, detective No. 1, attached to Rochore Police Station, and Sergt.- Major Chuit Bin Ambang, (No. 3,
When
of defence whatsoever.
admitted closely interrogated by me the Sergt.-Major
that:
without any other comment than officers that one of the detective's church for a few days, but were force to disperse the crowd and "Detective No. 1 had service!
that, he would within four days return the money..
This was all the evidenco taker this morning in regard to defend ant'a alleged visit to this house. As regards another visit which defend. ant is alleged to have made to No. 9 Spring Garden Lane, in the same quarter, evidence was reserved until the next hearing. The case was then adjourned.
BRITAIN AND SPAIN.
IMPORTANT DISCUSSION
PROCEEDING.
They redoubled their efforts to enten up with the man in front, but the latter, was sprinting harder than ever.
To the officers it appeared as if he was fresher than when he started. On emerging from the mill, he had made in the direction of Jalan Besar. He had now was changed, his direction and heading for Paya Road.
Paris, Sept. 29. Mystery surrounds the concupants. versation which Sir Austen Cham- berlain is to-day having with the
Spanish Dictatur, Prima di Rivera,
Le Journal's Madrid correspon dent says that the greatest secrecy is maintained as to the where abouts of Primo de Rivera. The Spanish censorship has ordered the newspapers not to publish any- thing about the matter.
A Fierce Fight.
told that a sacred edifice could not be used for the purpose of quartering troops and that only communists acted in this which rebut seems to have hit
struck, the youth ever the head, causing a scalp wound. The boy required medical attention, at all
way, events.
home, as the colonel's aide, when seen about the matter, extended the fullest protection to the church and parsonage.
The Chinese policeman, handi- capped by language difficulties, did the next best thing and took all parties to the Holice station have the matter thrashed out. A Change of Sentiment. The naval patroi resisted arrest, waxing indignant at such a sug- Kipling somewhere dwells on gestion and the Chinese constable that rare and priceless faculty found it necessary to blow his possesed by some of keeping whistle for nasistance which was their heads when all about them fortheuming to such an extent that are losing theirs. This reflection resistance against arrest by the is suggested by the calm and patrol would have been futile. level-headed manner in which
of
In Paya Road, he dashed into n Chinese house. The officers, who had by now got close up, were in almost at the same instant, and Great Britain has approached the fierce fight followed in which the Chinese question in Shanghai and shot fugitive was assisted in his elsewhere even in the face determined resistance by the oc-grave provocation from extremist elements. who at no time and in no sense could be said to be truly representative of the best in Chinese thought and traditions. The most effective, vindication of the policy of restraint and for- bearance consistently pursued by Britain in China is found ready to hand in the perceptible change of sentiment on the part of Chinese towards their old, friends, the British, revealing itself in many little ways the significance of which cannot be mistaken.
Why be fired no shots is not evident, except perhaps that he lost his pistol in the fight, for when he emerged, to run up Paya Road in the direction of Jalan Besar, the officers noticed that he no longer carried his pistol.
Stopped by Malays. He was running up Jalan Besar, tiring visibly, a hastening sign to The correspondent understands the refentessly pursuing officers, that the main topic of discussion who began to close up just as two is the incorporation of Tangier in Malaya, rushing out, laid the the Spanish zone of Morocco, - | fugitive low, question which the Government of
Spain is anxious to have settled before the Spanish sovereigns sail for Morocco on Detober 4
Reuter.
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PHONING TO NORWAY
POSSIBLE....
NEW FACILITY FOR LONDON.
London, Sept. 20.
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The Postmaster General an- nounces that, next Saturday, telephone, service will be augurated between this country and Norway.
Communication will be, restrict- ed at the outset to calls between London and Oslo. Charges for a unit call of three minutes' dura-
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After his capture the man lay, apparently badly wounded, but saibsequent medical examination revealed that the shot had merely passed through the fleshy part of the thigh without doing any ser- ious damage. ned as a known bad character.
The shot man has been indenti- It is beleived that the chase up Victoria Street which attracted the officers' attention followed an at- tempt at a hold up, but no informa tion is availabe as to this.
LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR.
YOUNG CANDIDATE STANDS DOWN.
there
A foreign observer at fchang recently reported that both the people and the officials are showing a spirit of friend linesa to the British, the spirit of anti-foreignism having subsided, and there is reason to believe that Chinese
Indignation.
revolver loaded with six rounds, and spare ammunition in his pocket. He also had an electric
torch. The cartridge caso now produced belongs to an automatic, the magazine of which holds ten rounds, with one in the breech, making a total of 11 rounds. Even if only two automatics were in the hands of the gunmen, they would have had at their disposs! 22 rounds of ammunition any of which would kill,
"Revolvers are only issued to European inspectors and Chinese constables. I can use a revolver, but I did not take one from the station because the detective had The official sidearm for a Malay P.C. is a baton. They do not take out rifles unless ordered to do so by their superior officers, (Continued on Page 11.)
one.
On the Way to the station, how- ever, the sight of Japanese naval Patrols under arrest caused a mild sensation among Hongkew rest- dents, a great many of whom are went to the Hongkew police Japanese, and soon a crowd had station?"
The Japanese officer further collected at the heels of the party, Police Station where sundry 1. What measures the Muni- and followed it to the Hongkew wished to know: Japanese residents expressed in ncipal Police authorities will take uncertain terms their indignation to atone for the dishonour to the at the affront being committed Japanese marines by the Chinese| upon the uniform of the Japanese
Navy.
police?
would be 2-What guarantee given to the Japanese naval au- such an incident thorities that would not occur again?.
Upon entering the charge-room at Hongkew the two marine patrols were placed behind the bar of the charge-room while the examina- Commander Takeda requested tin was conducted by the charge that a reply from the Police be room sergeant. This only served given by to-morrow. He said that to increase the wrath of the watch if the reply were unsatisfactory ing Japanese residents and mat- the Japanese would take such lers looked ugly for some time steps as they thought necessary to Japanese officers arrived at the settle the affair. The Assistant Station shortly afterwards and Commissioner of police replied of British shipping, and the com- amid a deluge of words in three that he would give a reply as soon languages, the position at length as possible after making at became clear and the Japanese thorough investigation. patrol was allowed to go free.
business men would readily welcome the reappearance
panics' representatives are urging immediate, resumption of sailings between Hankow and Ichang.
Nearer our own, doors, unmis- takable evidence of this change of heart is furnished by a leading article published in the Shih Sze Hsin Pao
The indignution of the patrol and their offers did not rest there, however, and yesterday HOW MUCH DO YOU morning, as slated above, Lieuten- ant-Commander Takeda, a staff
(China Times) of officer attached to the Japanese Shanghai, deprecating the propa- ganda that has been directed Landing Force, accompanied by against Britain and expressing the two other officers, called to see conclusion that it is unmerited: the Commissioner of Police, Cap- The historically accurate fact is tain Barrett. The Deputy Com acknowledge that during the nine-missioner of the day interviewed. teenth century England was the the delegates who had come for friend of all nations struggling an explanation of the treatment for freedom. In well-informed meted out to their men, but after tuanters, this change of feeling is waiting some considerable time, of Sir Frederick Whyte during his ment. attributed to the tactful utterances left without effecting any settle- An unusual circumstance markstay in Shanghai and to his efforts to bring the Chinese and British
London, Sept. 29. Sir Charles Batho was chosen tion from London to Dalo will be to-day as Lord Mayor of London 22s. 6d. from eight o'clock in the for the coming year. morning to nine in the evening,
day charges may be obtained dur ing night hours for minimum periods of a month-British Wire Zoa8.
tions.
Japanese Forces to Remain.
and 13s. 6d. from nine in the even-ed the proceedings. Sir Harold together. The new spirit abroad ing to eight in the morning.
Moore had a prior claim to the in the land is a happy augury for Subscription calls at half the Lord Mayoralty, since he was the the future of Sino-British rela-
senior alderman, but Sir Charles Batho was only one day behind- him in seniority. Prior to the election taking place, Sir Harold Moore withdrew his candidature. A good illustration of how the Stating his reasors, he said he had political pendulum is apt to swing withdrawn so as to avoid com- from one side to the other almost The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie will deliver a series of addresses petition, and principally because overnight, so to speak, is provided at Union Church during October he was the youngest qualified can by the decision of the Japanese didate. He is fifty years of age. authorities to retain their defence "Practical Religion." The Sir Harold Moore added "In my forces in Shanghal for the time subjects at the evening services view it is eminently desirable that being, despite the furore in a will be Oct. 2, "Religion and the older qualified, candidate section of the Tokyo press against Oct. 9, "Religion and should have an opportunity of en- the continued stay of the troops Business," Oct. 16, "Religion and joying the high distinction, and here. It was not so long ago that Sport" Oct. 28, "Religion and therefore I am willing to atand the British bore the brunt of the Friendship" and Oct. 30, Re-down temporarily." British Wire-odlum for landing troops in Shang
(Continued on Page 8.)" ligion and Personal Character."
on
Home,"
lese.
Later Details,
It was learned later that at thei interview which took place be- tween the Japanese Staff Officer, Commander Takeda, and the De- puty Commissioner of rolice, Com- mander Takeda presented the fol- lowing questions for explanation:
1.Why the Chinese constables took away the Japanese marines who were on duty to the police station and detained them?
2-Why the Chinese police con- stables pointed their pistols at the Japanese marines?
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know-
the Daily Express. ledge paper has been taken from
Answera, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14
of this issue.
1 What man had "muscles, of whip- cord,, bones of atoel, lungs of leather, and the heart of a lion's 2 What well-known man said, "I am a bee that has lost its ating"? Who was known as "The working Man's Friend"?
4 What world-famed professor már- rowly misend being murdered? & What Z infles camal-driver
founded a roligion?
@
What great philosopher said, "I was never a boy"?
What cardinal is said to havs married a queen?
8 What famous preacher w08 09 corrected by a member of his con- gregation?
a Which great social and religious worker was an out-of-work as u youth?
dcaf?
3. Why the staff Inspector in- sisted in placing the marines be 10 What great musical composer was 11 Who used as his last words, "So bind the bar in the charge room?
4.Why the police adopted an littlo donc, 80.mich to do"". insulting attitude towards the 12 Japanese naval officers when they
Why did Mr. Kipling receive the name "Rudyard"}
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