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10A VAATA FRIDAY, DECEMBER
13 PUR ARKO
9, 1927. HATA T SINGLE COFT 19 UNSTH
RED RUSSIANS FOR CANTON ? LALOR DETAINED. PREMIUM BOND ISSUE SENT FOR TRIAL.
OFFICERS & RIFLES FROM
VLADIVOSTOK.
ALLEGED REVOLUTIONARY
İN KWANGTUNG.
to-day is a statement by the National News Agency that 60,000 rifles'
BANDITS WANT MORE RANSOM.
MR. TOCHER LOCATED.
Though the prospect of the early
PROPOSED.
CONSERVATIVE PARTY SCHEME ANNOUNCED.
CONTROVERSY PROBABLE.
London, Dec. 8.
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BANDITS HOLD UP MISSIONARIES.
AMERICANS' EXPERIENCES NEAR WAICHOW.
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SHANGHAI NERVY,
ANXIETY OWING TO LAWLESSNESS.
AIMS OF AGITATORS,
sonorous
“UNSATISFACTORY” EVIDENCE
AN INTERRUPTED TRIP. The case in which Sandi Khan,
Information has just reached.
(Our Own Correspondent.) the driver of Mr. C. Bernard A proposal to issue premiura Brown's car, is charged with
Hongkong of an experience which PLOT release of Cant, W. G. Lalor. the
Shanghai, Dec. 8. bafel two American missionaries master of the s.8. Slang Tan, who bonds as a means of raising money manslaughter in connexion with
encountered
Nothing, perhaps, could furnish when they has been, in bandit hands for over for the State on advantageous an necident in which
gang of bandita whilst on the way such, an eloquent reflex of the In week, is now slighter than ever, terms, has been made, and Coneer Chinese woman was killed and from Wiichow, in the East River jumpy condition of Shanghai's reassuring news throwing light on vative members of the "House of three other Chinese injured, was district, to Swatow, causing them nerves as the mild commotion the mysterious silence of Mr. For Commons are being circularised on concluded before Mr. R. E. Lind- eventually to return to their start caused at a private social function
sell at the Central Police Court ing-point.. NEW THREAT TO HANKOW bes Tocher, his would-be rescuer, the subject.
the other day, when those present who left Paiyang with $20,000 rap-
this morning.
The missionaries concerned were The circular is signed by Co-
In proposing the re-examination the Revs. C. C. Chrisler (of the interrupted the progress of a card som money and apparently disponel Gretton and Sir Frank Nelof Sergeant B.17 and two other Seventh Day Adventist MissionParty on hearing the The most sensational news in connexion with the China situation (peared, is available this morningson, chairman and secretary of witnesses, Inspector. Alexander Shanghef) and. J. P. Anderson (oftones of what sounded like a huge
The nuval authorities engaged the Conservative economic group. said it was not clear whether the Walchow).
gong. Everyone thought it was Riding ponies, and the dreaded tocsin sounding the and 300 Russian ofBeers are proceeding from Vladivostok to Canton, in a vigorous search for the miss and it aska for the views of mem deccased was found in the middle accompanied by four mules ladea general alarm, but on going out to
ing missionary yesterday, but bers on the proposal.
of the road or at one side of it. with baggage, the two missionaries though from the brief messages re-
The scheme has been worked
investigate, discovered it He Worship said three different left Walchow, but on reaching Ho nothing more terrible than the coived it would seem direct touch out, and it is contended that by the witnesses had given three dif-yuen they halted because of
new Custom House clock under- the clement offerent places where the woman rumours of bandits in the vicinity going a test! was not established, the fears that Introduction of
substantial money was found lying.
Later, they heard that the bandits That little incident fa symptoma he had fallen into a trap set by chance, with the bandit chief appear unfounded, prizes, large sums could be raised Indian Sergeant B.17, on being had moved away from the district, tie of the state of the public mind, More disquieting, however, is by the Government at two or two recalled, was not asked to give the and the missionaries set out to re-which only a few weeks ago was the reliable information that the and a half per cent. interest.
approximate distance, but was tied sume their journey.
feeling easier at the perceptible im Representations may be made to down to a matter of yards. After bandita have made another rapid
the Government carly next session, pressing examination, he replied inprovement in the situation, but if the opinions expressed are fav- that he saw the woman lying five or six yards from the side-channel. It may be recalled, however, that On the other hand, Inspector Mr. Baldwin has already express-Alexander, in his own evidence, ed his disbelief that such a method said that when he examined the of raising revenue would be gen-area of the accident, he found a erally acceptable. Any such pro-pool of blood about 18 feet from posal would, indeed, undoubtedly the footpath. A lamp-post in the be the subject of acute contro same area showed no marks of a
collision. versy-British Wircicas.
whilst Chinese Communist leaders are flocking to Canton from their refuges. Kwangtung, says this report, has been chosen as the base for a Communist revolution, but the Nationalist leaders are taking strong measures to pip the plan in the bud. As this report enunates from anti-Communist quarters, it should be accepted with reserve.
Meanwhile, the Kuomintang preliminary conference has again met in Shanghat; those present including Mr., Wang Ching-wei and other Canton delegates. "Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is said to have mediated and arranged the meeting, the proceedings at which have not been disclosed."
General Chen Chien is evidently seeking to gain control of the Hankow area. ifis Sixth Army is said to have captured Yochow and
to be advancing rapidly on Changsha.
in spite of yesterday's hopes of a settlement, the Shanghai tram strike continues, and even the skeleton, service has now been aus- pended.
KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE RESUMES.
Shanghai, Dec. 9.
The official Nationalist News
WUCHOW ALARMED.
Troop Withdrawals, Agency states that, according to
News brought down by passen- confidential reports, 50,000 rifles and 300 Russian officers are Kers from Wüchow shows that the Jeaving Vladivostok for Canlon, town has recently been in an up- while the Chinese Communist roar.
As some of the Canton
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Subscription List for Dependents,
A reader has forwarded to the Telegraph à sum of $100, with which to open a Sub- scription List on behalf of the widow and children of the Chinese constable who on Wednesday lost his life whilst bravely endeavouring to cap- ture an armed desperado.
Further, references to the opening of the Subscription List will be found on Page 6.
JANESVATÝ
ourable:
MR. COOLIDGE'S PLEA ANSWERED.
VIEWS OF TISH CABINET MINISTERS.
London, Dec. 8. Two references to President Coolidge's message to Congress
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As to defendant's record, he had been driving for six years, was a fairly good, and, so far na witness knew.. careful driver well. The man's record. WILS a pretty good one. The car in- volved in the case was a Buick five-seater, belonging to Mr. C. Bernard Brown, by whom the de fendant had been employed since Juze Igat.
Injured Man's Evidence.
Li Kit, a shroff employed at were made by Cabinet members at Messrs. Campbell Moore's hair- different functions to-night.
Sir Wm. Joynson-Hicks said he dressing establishment, who was leaders are flocking to Canton from sympathisers put it, at the mention move across country with. Capt. did not complain of a single syll-one of the persons injured in the their refuges.
of the name of Chung Fat-kwal, Lalor held a close prisoner, and able in the message, but he said accident, was also recalled. He
mintang/"
The
Mr. Tocher's Effort.
for Great Britain.". He contend-
THE WOUNDED POLICE.
Latest Bulletin From Hospital.
At one o'clock this afternoon, we were in- formed by the 'Surgeon at the Government Civil Hospital that Sergeant Mc- Mahon had spent a good night, He has not got over the critical point, but his condition this morning was very encouraging, . and gave cause for renewed hope of his ultimate recovery. Regarding the two Chinese. constables, their condition is unchanged from its dangerous stage,
The Indian constable who was shot in the thigh is doing well, while the alleged robber, who was shot In the leg and back, is recovering.
Was
latterly has been plunged afresh into a state of unrest owing to the sudden recrudessence of a spirit, of lawlessness. The cult of kid- napping and armed robbery has secured a new lease of life, and the comparative" immunity of the": perpetrators from the rigours of the law have. persuaded them to show a degree of recklessnesя rarely met with in the annals of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
It is a striking commentary on the situation that on the same day that Police Constable Francis, who fell a victim to an armed assassin's bullet, was buried with full milit ary honours, another guardian of the law, Special Constable Ivan- off, was mortally wounded in an The encounter with gunmen. community naturally feels a sense of outrage at the growing lawless- ness and is asking itself: Where in it going to aton?"Coupled with the grave concern felt: over the trend-of things, is the growing conviction that every fresh police: victim of lawlessness: must em-
ting further and yet greater people to oppose the excommunica- came weak. During the earlier selves in the Shasi arca, at the of the United States, "a declara three feet from the side-channel.
Posters in Canton appeal to the "the. Kwangsi sollers' knees be that they have now hidden them-to the President and the peopinstated that the body was lying USA Semper, meydan kam juntamikostuummin | bolden the outlaws into commit-
When several miles above Hoyuen, atrocities. Although he did not observe the tion of the Communists, "which part of the week, all business was
Chinese Roused To Action. is a policy imperilling the Kuo- at a standstill, and only, one idensamo time holding out for a bigger tion good for you is equally good act, he agreed that it was possible they were startled by the sound of!
seems to have taken possession of amount as ransom money.
one of their mules had been hit.
A ray of hope amid the prevail- The negotiations are now being ed that Britain was also entitled that the woman might have darted a rule shot, and they soon saw that The Nationalist News Agency the people, and that is to get away carried out by agents of the bandit to do what she considered right out on the roadway in an endea-Ine missionaries then jumped, ut ing gicom is forthcoming in the All public officials seem bent on chief, and Mr. Tacher's silence without reference to the demands The Sikh Inspector who explain- animais for shelter. In a very short merchants of Shanghai, who have
vour to dodge the car.
their ponies and got behind the timely action of the allied Chinese adds that Kwangtung has been chosen as the base for à Com- getting to places of safety,
appears to have been consequent or wishes of other nations. Bir ed the charge to the defendant at time, about forty bandits rushed put forward the Interesting pro- munist revolution, for the purpose 8.5. Kongning, on its last trip to on his following up the bandit Wm. Joynson-Hicks added that he the Police Station, then read a down on them, and these split up posal to reward policemen active of the destruction of the anti- Hongkong. had a full passenger night to some extent in order to considered safety first, and
statement made by the defendant into two parties and began searen- in the campaign against kidnap Communist Kuomintang and the list, there being hardly standing maintain close touch.
economy second.
pers and to provide adequate com Nationalist Government, but the room for late arrivals. Some
Mr. W. C. Bridgeman said he in which defendant said that he ing the missionaries.
One of the missionaries, however, pensation in the event of injury Nationalist leaders are alive to the foreigners from the Arsenal came
was the last person to criticise was taking his car on the night
in question "back to the garage, managed to slip his watch down in or death. dangers of the situation, and will down to the boat as soon as it ar-
President Coolidge's message.
With a directness of language take strong measures to nip the rived, being prepared to seek shel-A message from Jcbang shows Mr. Coolidge had said that the when, at Connaught Road West, side has trousers, whilst the other
he collided with two Chinese, one succeeded in secreting some bank not customarily associated with. pernicious plan in the bad." er under British protection, but that there is a definite hitch in Americans would do what was of whom, a woman, "went under notes which he had with him. The Chinese ways, local merchants are they finally decided to remain be the arrangements for the release necessary for their own defence. en Following the accident, bandits eventually got away with urged by the influential promoters. hind when they found that none of of Capt. W. G. Lalor.
Mr. Bridgeman declared, "That is KUOMINTANG MEETING. the other foreigners were leaving. Mr. Forbes Tocher, the Scottish
he was going to stop, but was about $200 worth of articles, in- of this scheme not to quibble about The Wuchow branch of the missionary who is acting as in- exactly the proposition I submitted dissuaded by Noor Nahomed, an cluding a pair of glasses belonging, the few dollars, or the few thou Chiang Kai-shek Mediates. Kwangel Bank has suspended basi- termediary, proceeded in a launch to the plenary conference at Indian constable who was seated to one of their victims. They then sand dollars, in accordance with their capacity to pay, which they He strongly deprecat in the car with him. Noor Ma-disappeared. ncas and there was a great "run" to the agreed rendezvous only to ed any "war talk."-Reuter
Eventually, the robbed mission-üro asked to contribute to the Shanghai, Dec. 8. on it when this was learned. find on arrival that Capt. Lalor
homed said it would be dangerous aries thought it imprudent to con- fund, which is tantamount to the The Kuomintang preliminary Soldiers were commandeering was not being produced, and that
to stop
as the Chinese would conference met again this after coolies throughout the town, and the bandits had again removed
aurely attack them. One of the nue their journey further, and community's insurance against the noon, with 29 members attending, people seem to be rushing in and their captive, this time further in-
crowd actually struck the car with they later returned to Watchow in spread of outlawry.
The significance of the action including Mr. Wang Ching-wel out of the alleys in terror. The land, with indications' that they
a bamboo pole on it being driven
of Chinese merchants lles in and other Canton delegates. Kwangsi troops are mostly being intend to hold out for more money.
the fact that it constitutes a It is understood that the meet- withdrawn, but some are working Messages left by Mr. Tocher
tangible recognition of the cour ing was arranged through Mar- on the fortifications.
suggest that he does not think
age displayed by the police in shal Chiang Kai-shek's mediation. The general belief seems to be Capt. Lalor has been, or will be, AN EXPOSURE IN SWEDEN.
coping with outlaws and indicates The next meeting will be held that General Wong Shao-hung does ill-treated.
a willingness to discharge the com-
something more than mere lip London, Dec. 8. service and paens of praise for the courage of policemen who meet Detalla of the Singapore base with death while engaged in the are, described in an article in the execution of their duties praise. Daily Telegraph by a New Zealand which the widows of the victims woman who claims to be the first cannot, however, discount at a
bank. journalist.shown over the base,
Reuter.
on Saturday. There are no detalls hot posuess enough
Shanghai, Dec. 9.
seasoned No naval escort accompanied
Geneva."
SOVIET INTRIGUE. DENOUNCED.
away.
Address for the Defence. This closed the case for the pro-
Leo secution.. Mr.
d'Almada, Stockholm, Dec. 8.: The newspapers state that the Spr., in his closing address, after
safety.
رجمہ
DETAILS OF SINGAPORE BASE.
as to what has occured at to-day's troops to risk an encounter and is Mr. Tocher to the appointed ren-Soviet Legation has tried to suborn recounting the three different HOW IT IS TO BE DEFENDED.munity's debt to the police by
-meeting-Reuter
CHEN CHIEN'S AIM.
Yochow City Captured.
Hunkow, Dec. 8.
General Chen Chien's determínia- tion to gain complete control of the
Following
Shanghai, Dec. 8..
on the shooting Hunkow area is rellected in a sud- outrage, the victim of which is not den move carried out by his Sixth expected to survive, the skeleton Army yesterday, resulting in the tram service ceased this morning. capture of Yochow, an important Router. point on the railway.
The Army is moving on Chang- sha and advancing rapidly. It is expected that the city will full
-Reuter.
mediary, went да
The base being constructed in It is with: a view to providing
withdrawing-to-get-time-to-secure dezvous. 1is only companions some assistance from his allies.
were Chinese Intermediary agenta. the servants of the Italian and heads under which a manslaughter British Legations, but Swede charge could be brought, said that SHANGHAI TRAM STRIKE.
London, Dec. 8. who acted as go-between has ex- they were concerned with the last one, touching culpable negligence Hopes that Captain Lalor of the posed the plans. Victim May Dic.
Yungtsze steamer Siang Tax, who The Labour daily, paper, the on the part of a man while vested was captured a week ago by Chi-Social Demokraten, joins the non- with a legal duty. nese pirates, would be released yes. Socialist, organs in urging the The evidence was of such a terday were not fulfilled. The Soviet, If it desires friendly rela- flimsy nature, the witnesses for the Scottish missionary Mr. Forbes tions with Sweden, to ensure that prosecution having all disagreed the Straits of Johore will eventual special compensation for special Tocher, who has acted as an inter its representatives are not com- on the most important point; that ly consist of a dockyard, floating risks taken that the fund is being arranged promised in espionage affairs, if his Worship was in the position dock, tanks storing 1,250,000 tons created, and the foreign commun- launch to
of a Coroner, and had the direction of oil and a wireless station ableity, is not a little gratified at the Paiyang Reuter.
their Chinese follow-residenta, where two unarmed pirates
of the jury in his hands, his Wor- to communicate with the Ad-courage and initiative shown by wure embarked, and then
ahip could hardly have directed miralty all day long. It will be
preciate that as between Chinese proceeded to the rendezvous a few. GERMAN INDUSTRIAL them, on such evidence as was ud-defended by what are hoped will who are at last beginning to ap
missible into the case, to return be
Impregnable fortifications and foreigners, there is, after all, a verdict of manslaughter against situated on lofty islets, as well as a oneness of interest that no the defendant, but would have seaplanes and aeroplanes, the lat amount of agitation can camon sgreed that a verdict of depth ter to be housed six miles from the flage for any length of time. through misadventure was more base and also separated by a wide compatible with the circumstances, river, which, However, is being The Assualt On The Tramways. Finally, Mr. d'Almada submitted bridged that no prima facie case was made the writer points out that Singa- out for the committal of the de-pore is the fourth largest port in the Empire and occupies a key fendant.
position. Beuter,
in
No Settlement..
Shanghai, Dec, 8.
CAUTION.
The Korean Inspector shot by miles distant where Captain Lalor into Chen Chien's hands in a few intimidatora is in a critical condi- was to have been handed over. days...
tion. The skeleton tramway ser- Captain Lalor and his 'captors did The Sixth Army is that which vice has been suspended, and no not appear, ...but it fa was responsible for the Nanking progress towards a settlement of hoped his release will be effected STEEL MAGNATES CONSERVE affair, and though, they have been the strike is yet reported.-Naval in the near future.-British Wire- quiet in. Hankow, are reported to Wireless.
be the worst-behaved troops in the
Nationalist
Wireless.
commandNaval
TUNGTING LAKE,
Better Shipping. Conditions.
Shanghai, Dec. 8.
KIANGWAN RIOTING.
Plundering and Massacre,
A serlous rbot in which Com- munists took a leading part occur- red at Cha Chen village, Klang- wan, last week, according to a
from the Yangtze in report published in the Shanghai |
dicate that conditions for British Mainichi. shipping in Tungting Lake are The village is said to have been much more satisfactory, and ser- plundered and burned down by a vices are likely to be
Leasi
A NEW BRITISH
CUMBERLAND.
London, Dec. 8.
PROFITS.
Deriin, Dec. 8." One of the directors of the German steel trust announce that the trust is unable to pay a high dividend owing to unsatisfactory results in coal mining, and ex- pected large expenditure in con- nexion with the impanding settle ment with the worker and
Magistrate's Comments.
The savage attack by labour gunmen on the motorman and con- ductor of a waiting tramcar at Wayside, with its tragic sequel, has yielded one or two results which may be productive of last- The KOS.B. carried out ing good to the community, First His Worship sald that in this march through the Western Dis-of all, It has conclusively shown case they had the evidence of four let yesterday, headed by the those who regard guns as good different people being knocked pipes and band, returning to quar persuaders, in the matter of down one after the other, within ters at noon. The line of march stimulating strikes and netrial Krupps have also passed by a a distance of 120 feet from point attracted many Chinese spectators, strife generally, that the tide of The new 10,000 ton cruiser dividend, and have reserved their to point, and on that fast alone, the appearance of the troops being (Continued on Page 9.). Cumberland was commissioned, to profits for unforeseen expenditure.
OF THE
shortly-Naval Wirele resumed crowd of approximately 100 rioters day. It carries eight 8-inch gung-Reuter.
{Contínued on Page 18.)
(Continued on Page 12.). decidedly Impressive.