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CANTON'S ACTION. SERIOUS ESPIONAGE
CLOSING OF UNIONS
CONTINUES.
STRIKE THREAT IGNORED.
Latest
reports indicate that operations
Cunton troops by against the "Ironsides" in the East
CHARGE.
RUSSIA BEHIND. DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY,
SIR DOUGLAS HOGG APPEARS,
London, Jan, 16. At the Old Bailey, the London
Official reports from Canton de-Thomas McCartney, a British sub- clare that
Canton during recent skinishes,
T9-XUF TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1928.日五廿月二十
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MR. COOLIDGE'S STRONG ADDRESS.
MURDER.
AMERICAN WOMAN & LOVER
EXECUTED.
HARDY'S FUNERAL IN
THE. ABBEY.
SIMPLE VILLAGE SERVICE.
London, Jan. 18. Not since Dickens was borne to Westminster Abbey has there bean
arrived at Canton yesterday.It is be given by four witnesses was of Administration of the Chinese of rubber, the value of the property justice and equity is one of ours she was led to her execution. to the public, and the greatest
said that some of there prisoners serious a nature that it would be swil be absorbed into the Cantan nagossary to hear it in camera, Government Army, while some will be sent away.
"Purging the Party."
Outlining the case for the Crown, the Attorney-General narrated how an attempt had been
Jants.
The plaintif sought to recover the sum of $6,147.50 in respect of repairs done, and necessaries sup
Is estimated at £2,560,000, and the purchase price is £1,860,000. **"
It is intended to crente £1,000,000 seven per cent. Convertible Deten-
made to use Mr. Monkland, an un-plied, to the M. V. Jailin betweenGres and to Issue simultaneous of the spirit of democracy-and 11.06 p.m.. for obtaining important informa- the months of January and March, 3,600,000 shares of six shillings
derwriter at Lloyd's as a medium
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
THE FINAL SCENES. Havana, Jan. 16.
New York, Jan. 12.- The material prosperity of the
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her par Americas was the greatest and River district are coming tana end. Central Criminal Court to-day, plaintiff in the case in which and Produce Estates contemplate an history of the human raco, sai/electrocuted at the State Prison such a spontaneous demonstration
most widely distributed in the amour, Honry Judd Gray, were
here to-night, paying with their in honour of an English writer all the "Ironsid"ject, and George Hansen, describ- Director of the Meteorological Amalgamation with a group of for- Mr. Calvin Coolidge, President ofves for the murder of Albert minster Abbey on the occasion of As was witnessed to-day at West- remnants in the East River basis as a German student, were Station at the Pratne, sued the cign-owned estates in Malaya, it the United States, addressing the Snyder, Mrs. Sayder's husband who the interment of the nahes of the war be cleared out within this charged with explonage and plend-motor vessel "Juilin." Mr. C..G.
was announced at the meeting of delegates at the Pan-American they killed in order that they might
fanious novelist, Thomas Hardy. the Anglo-Java Company to-day..
The Poet's Corner, next to week. More than 2,000 prisoners, ed not guilty.
Alabaster, K.C., appeared for the
Conference, and "the determina- Sir Douglas Hogg, the Attorney plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Jenkin
It is estimated that the production to adjust our differences not out interference from him.
pursue their illicit love affair with Dickens, was Hardy's last resting- taken by the Kwangsi troops from
place. General prosecuting personally,
Hundreds waited for over four said that the evidence which would appeared for the Coast Guard tive capacity of the new combined by resort to force, but by the ap-
Mrs. Snyder went to the chair hours in the rain awaiting admis- tutes would be six million pounds plication of the pinciples of first, muttering Biblical quotations plan to the thanband gazių gilab bag] Government, who were the defen-
Just before the current was shot figures in literature, art and greatest characteristics."
through her body, she cried, "For-polities, and representatives of Mr. Coolidge referred to their give them, Father, they know not various Literary Societies, both most sacred trust-the expansion what they do.". She was dead at British and American, were among those present. The inter- Gray's lips moved, as in prayer ment at Westminster was algo. peace. He said that they all as he was placed in the chair, but attended by Mrs. Hardy, the their devotion to a policy of nourished a commendable senti- he made no sound. He was dead novelist's widow, and by Miss The judgment set out parti-
ment of moderate preparation for at 11.14.
Kate Hardy, his sister, Snyder, the art editor of a motor McCartney gave Mr. Monkland individual amount in which was. culars of the claim, the biggest
national defence, and he declar- a questionnaire on the subject, for the sum of $3,500 paid to the
ed that the whole world ought to boating magazine, was killed in his be profoundly grateful for the home last March. He was struck emanating from Russia, and he Kwong Fat Co. in respect
The casket containing the ashes window showed Mr. Monkland a letter demolishing and replacing the WORKMEN CAUGHT IN RIVER character demonstrated in the weight while he slept and then was and was borne in procession, the
moral power" and the strongth of over the head with a
was hung in magnificent draperies from the chief Russian espionage superstructure of the ship, and
statesmanship of the South Ameri-chotorformed and garroted. After catafaique being accompanied by agent in this country regarding also providing water lanks for
can republics.
the slaying, Mrs. Snyder and Gray the pall be... ers, Mr. Stanley Bald payments for information supplied her. The remainder of the claim
placed the house in disorder to win, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir to the Russian Government.
All Nations Equal. comprised various amounts which
make it appear that the crime had James Barrie, Mr. G. Bernard were paid out to firms and in
been committed by a robber, and be-Shaw, Mr. John Galsworthy, Sir respect of ew's wages, advances
of these principles, added Mr. Snyder's hands and feet. Police Houseman and the Master of The maintenance and expansion fore he left, Gray bound Mrs. Edmund Gosse, Professor A. E. to Captain Shen and other items.
Coolidge was the purpose of the quickly discovered discrepancies Magdalene College, Cambridge. Pan-American Conferences at in the woman's story, and obtained which all nations" represented a confession from her. Gray's minutes' service, the congregation "At the conclusion of the thirty were standing exactly equal. arrest and a confession from him filed past the grave in which the
Mr. Coolidge emphasised the followed... need for a better exchange of
After their trials, the pair turned copper casket was visible just a few inches under the floor, bear- news services to promote inter- against one another, each accusing ing a sheaf of Illés from the American understanding, and men-the other, Gray, testifying in his widow. Earth contributed by an. tioned that communications by own behalf, said that Mrs. Snyder aged resident of Stinsford (the means of shipping, railways, etc., planned the murder and that he "Mellstock" of Hardy's Wessex bad greatly improved in the course exerted it. Both were convicted novels) was sprinkled in the of first degree murder and were.
the
tion regarding the British Air Force.
1927.
Defence Submissions.
of
cach-Reuter,
GERMAN DISASTER.
OF HOT METAL.
Voelklingen, Jan. 18.-
were caught, in a stream of white A large number of workmen hot metal which flooded a work shop as a result of the explosion of a blast furnace in the local smelting works, Hitherto two bodies, almost burned to a cinder, have
been recovered, Sixteen were seriously-injured and several are missing. Rescue work is very difficult as the river of rietal is still flowing-Reuter
Famous Pall-Bearers.
The main topics in the Cinton political eireles at the moment are the purging" of the party, to re- pudiate all Government oficials who were "Leftists," and, secondly.
anti-CommuniAL
movement, The first problem has been almost completely solved by officials from Comunissioners to clurks in the various Government Departments having been ro-placed oy "Righlists". Practically none.
ME. Monkland immediately re- the politicians who held office dur- in the "Finside" regime remain ported the matter to the authori- at their posts.. The Commissioner ties, and, acting under instructions of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Che Chao- from the War Office, gave a certain hsin, the former Chinëse delegate information to McCartney which to the Guneva Conference, is an ex- was obsolete and misleading. Mr. His Lordship outlined the plain- ception. During the "Ironside," re Monkland continued, his communi- tiff's claim and continued:No gime, he held the portfolio, of eations with McCartney and even- | evidence was called for the defence, Foreign Affairs, which position hetually mat Hansen who proved to and on these facts Mr. Jenkin, on is still holding under General 14 be. a Russian super-spy.
behalf of the defendants, made two Chai-um.
Haying established that McCart submissions. The first was that on Li Chai-sum) are:-Finance Com dangerous conspiracy against the to look to the owners of the ship Other officials (all supporters of ney and Hansen were engaged in the authority of the case of The Mogilelf, the plaintill had elected.
Shocking Injuries. missioner. Feng Cho-man: Com State the authorities arrested
Voelk gen. Jan. 16, missioner of Land, Chang Nan-them-British Wireless.
solely for payment us disclosed by
The death-roll up to the present hsen; Commissioner of Fedustry,
the course of business between
It was his intention to ask the sentenced to death. Their execu-
Simultaneously, the heart of plaintiff and the Coast Guard Ad-is known to be seven. A number U. S. Congress to authorise the tion became a certainty when Gov-Thomas Hardy was buried close to Lee Lao-chow; Commissioner f
ministration and that the latter had workmen were completely sub- Health, The Che-cheunit; Commia-
clemency. sioner of the Municipal Depart COMPLIMENT TO EARLquently lost his right to go merged in molten metal. Many of sending of engineering advisers cutive elements refused them exe- his father, mother and first wife
to assist in the building of roads, against the ship. The second was the injured have been shockingly while cultural and commercial that the plaintiff had not proved his burned, in many cases it is thought ties could be brought closer as the case and his evidence was, in the that their condition is Hopeless-result of aviation services which main, not supported by document- Reuter. ary evidence such as was to be look-
#
ment, Lam Wen-kai; Commissioner
of Police, Tang Yin-wah: Commis-
sioner of Public Utility, Pung
Wai Chior of the Military Boardy
it
OF ATHLONE.
Hsu Ching-tang; Chief of the Ch SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT
ton Arsenal, Wong So:, Chief of the central lauk, Hang lủng
sang.
Proscribed Unions.
Canton Lo
REQUEST GRANTED
London, Jan. 16.
cil for
INDIAN STATUTORY COMMISSION,
of the past ten years.
Congress was at present consider- ing.
The Americas were now com-
plementing one another's agricul
RUSSIAN LEADERS
DEPORTED.
GOVERNMENT STILL MAKING UP MIND.
li
grave.
at Stinsford Church. A most homely service was attended by the Dorset villagers with the village choir singing" the deceased's favourite hymns to the accompaniment of an harmonium. ---Reuter.
Impressive Majesty..
"To deal with the second submis- sion first," said his Lordship "I
tural and industrial production It is announced that at the re-think the plaintiff has given satis-
"to an unusual degree," resulting
London, Jan. 16. quest of the Union Government, factory-vidence in support of his
in the increasing exchange of
Westminster Abbey was filled- PROTEST MEETINGS
Berlin, Jan. 16. Aigorous measures are still be. 3. the King has approved the claim, and also a complete and un-
commodities. In this connexión,
The Berliner Tugeblatt publishes Thomas Hardy were buried this with mourners when the ashes of ing employed by the authorities in extension of the term of office of challenged explanation of the ab
ARRANGED FOR ARRIVAL. sence of documentary evidence. He
Mr. Coolidge tributed the efforts prosecute suspected the Earl of Athlone as Governor had all the necessary vouchers and
a telegram from Moscow, dated Jan-afternoon in the Poet's Corner. of the Pan-American Union. Communists. Since Li Chai-sum re- General of South Africa for two handed them over to the representa-
uary 14th, which states that the The greatest figures in modern New Delhi, Jan. 16.
Government's final decision in re literature and art were among the turned, no fewer that, forty years from January 21st, 1929- tive of the Coast Guard Administra-
A conference of all party
"More Significant Result."
gard to the banishment of the Op- hour Unions have been proscribed. | Reuter.
ilon an their orders. Iapprehend
leaders, convened by Pundit Concluding, President Coolidge position leaders was delayed owing
many distinguished men and Such a determined action on the
Madanmohan Malaviya
women who occupied the north part of the Government in dealing
and referred to "even more signi- to the strong protest against the ex- that if there had been anything sus-attended by Sir Tej Bahadur feant" results in connexion with pulsion order and the demand for and south transepta, while one. picious about these documents they Sapru, Mr. Chintamani, Mr. Bepin the political relations between the a clear statement as to their future with labour. Is unprecedented.
thousand of the general public. would have been produced by the Commenting on the labour out-
were assembled in the nave. It is announced that at the defendants. The plaintiff asked for Chandrapal and other Liberal countries, stating that "if these treatment. lock in Canton a Chinese report quest of His Majesty's Government their production, and Mr. Jenkin re lenders, is reported to have been conferences mean anything, they The Opposition leaders then sub-
Large numbers of admirers of declares that in view of the very in the Union of South Africa, plied that he did not produce them, unanimously in favour of boy mean the bringing of all our "peo-mitted to the Government certain the great writer were unable to determined "action of the Canto II, M. the King has approved the fact which should certainly not cotting the. Sir John Simon Com-ple more definitely and more com-conditions on which they would Kain admission and stood outside Government, most of the midical extension of the term of office of It should further be mentioned in
be available against the plaintiff. mission. Labour leaders have left for the Earl of Athlone as Governor
The Conference will urge the pletely under the rein of law lay-voluntarily leave Moscow, and the bareheaded in silent reverence
replied informing M. Trotsky and
H.M. The King, H.R.H. the certain cheques which he stated re-observe the Hartal Protest meet-ponsibility."
At the opening of the Confer-M. Rakowsky that they would be Prince of Wales, and H.R.II. the activities, the former, before Jan- A8. pall-bearers, the Premier.
Governor-General Since 1923.
London, Jan. 10,
Shanghai to negotiate with the General and Commander-in-Chiat Justice to him that he did produce people all over the country to ing on them all a continental res-Soviet Central Committoe-promptly, while the service was in progress.
more extreme leaders of the Kuo- of the Union of South Africa for presented payments in respect of ings are to be held on February mintang, in the hope, of calling a two years from January 21st, the necessaries supplied to the 3rd, when the members of the enee to-day, President Machado, deported for counter-revolutionary Duke of York were represented.
Bombay-Reuter.
1.
KING EDWARD VII. SCHOLARSHIPS.
LOCAL STUDENTS' SUCCESSES.
general strike of all labourers in 1999. Canton so as to harass the 1-
Juilin and claimed for in this Commission are due to land at of Cuba, defined Pan-Americanism uary 16th, to Wierny, on the Chin- and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald paid thorities.
The King has also approved a action. The Government ho
as a "constructive work not im-ese-Turkestan frontier, the latter toa last tribute to the great author ever, is not in the least concerned Athlone's term of office as High raised for the defence, it appears to similar extension of the Earl of "As regards the second point
plying antagonism, but, on the Astrakhan.
on behalf of the State, while Kip- about much reports of Intimidation
contrary, co-operation towards
M Radek is to be sent to Prcorating, Bernard Shaw, Sir James from the labourers. for it knew Conumissioner for South Africa. me that the ease of The Mogileff,
universal peace and better under-jenski and the others to the Ural Barrie, Sir Edmund Gosse and that at present there wete more The Earl of Athlone will proceed supra, relied upon by Mr. Jenkin
standing between all peoples, and Mountains, where the police will John Galsworthy represented than 100,000 unemployed workers, on leave of absence to Great Bri-is, if correctly considered, clearly in
for the spiritual and moral unity give them further instructions. literature. mest mechanics, in the city, andi | tain in June, 1928, and will return favour of the plaintiff
of all nations of the world." Kameneff and Zinovieff will go to While this service was being if the extremists should enll a to South Arica before the "end-of-
Reuters American Service.
Pensa and Tanboff respectively. conducted with that impressive- strike, these men will be only too the year. The Earl of Athlone
About fifty Oppositionists were ness and majesty always assocfat- glad to take up the vacant posi-was appointed Governor-General'in
Earlier Messages.
deported last week and there haveed with' Westminster Abbey, 1923-British. Wireless,
also been numerous deportations in another service of the utmost The Russian Press simplicity was taking place at Stinsford in Wessex, where as a symbolic act the writer's heart was being buried.
tions.
U. S. SENATE DEMANDS LOWER TARIFFS.
MERCHANT MARINE BILL DISCUSSED
Washington, Jan. 16. After a week's debate, the Senate.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOAN.
SUBSCRIPTION LISTS OPENED AND CLOSED.
London, Jan. 16. The subscription lists for the issue of the Government of India
has passed a resolution demanding Loan of £7,500,000 at 41⁄2 per cent.
the immediate downward, revision, of the tariffs.
Authorities. Quoted.
THE S-4 DISASTER.
"It is also clearly established by the authorities that necessaries We are informed by the Regis-
Havana, Jan. 16. supplied to a ship are prima facie trar of the Hongkong Univeralty General Gerardo Machado, Pre- the provinces. presumed to have been supplied on that the two King Edward VII aident of Cuba and President Calhas hitherto been silent concerning
the deportations.-Reuter. the credit of the ship, and the per- Scholarships, to be awarded on the vin Coolidge will be the only speak- son who furnishes the money to results of the Matriculation Exam-ers at the opening meeting of the provide necessaries is in the same ination teld in December, 1927, Pan-American, Conference at the position as the person who actually and tenable at the University from National Theatre, at which twenty-
upplies the necessaries. -
1928, have been awarded to the two nations will be represented. Continuing, His Lordship said: following candidates:
The frat plenary session will be "It appears to me that merely (1) T. C. Payne, Central British hold on the 18th including his claim against the
School. Julin in his monthly statement
(2) Li Kai-yeung, Queen's Col-
lege., of accounts that the Coast Guard Administration could not have interfered with his right to.
President, Coolidge was given a wild ovation on his arrival at the Presidential Palace and when he came out on the balcony in response to insistent demands. The huge crowd, thraw their hats into the air.
maintain an action in debt if the SOVIET BUYING MORE-Reuter's American Service.
were opened this morning and Administration had been a private closed this afternoon.-British Wireless..
person or body. As an officer of the Coast Guard Administration it presumably was the duty of the plaintiff periodically to furnish
The Senate also by 61 votes to 20 decided to go into discussion of the Merchant Marine Bill, introduced by Senator Jones, of Washington, which is designed to provide for the SOVIET building up of the merchant marine and for maintaining it, under Goy- ernment supervision through the U.S. Shipping: Board.
It is unlikely that the Bill will be taken up immediately, as the Chair- man of the Commerce Committee, which has approved it, is hot yet ready to proceed therewith Beuter's American Service,
COTTON..
AMBASSADOR, accounts of his own expenditure CONSIDERABLE PURCHASES
IN EGYPT.
U.S. Policy Stated.
FIRST PICTURES OF US,
MISHAP
While the congregation at West- minster mourned Hardy as a genius, the villagers assembled at Stinsford Church were there to mourn him rather as a friend."
A score of grey-haired men" had. known the author as plain Tom Hardy, the architect's apprentice.
ireless.
NAVAL A.D.C. TO KING.
COMMODORE HYDE APPOINTED.
The first pictures of incidents-British connected with the US. naval dis-- aster last month when the U.S.S. Spaulding collided with the sum marine S-1, sending her to the bottom, are given in the Telegraph Washington, Jan. 16.on. Pages 8 and 14 to-day. Mr. Kellogg, in the United All on board the submarine lost States Daily, states that Govern-their lives, in spite of considerable to his official superiora, and In
ment's policy towards the Latin-effort, and the Spaulding had to pursuance of that duty he includ-
American republics Is one of be beached to prevent her, from ed his claim for monies supplied.
mutually beneficial co-operation. sinking. for the benefit and support of the
It is funderstood that the Soviet The Pan-American conference can Juilin in his monthly statement. cotion delegation, which laat further the continuation of the de "I think I should be going to November catered into an agree-velopment of friendship and mutual far to hold that because the plain- ment with the Egyptian Govern-understanding and sympathy M. Kursky, the People's Commis-tiff primarily looked to the Coast ment to purchase 110,000 kantars among the sary of Justice, has been appointed Guard Administration for pay-pf cotton, is negotiating a further nations.
western hemisphere the Soviet Ambassador to Italy
purchase of Government cotton. Reuter.
Reuters
M. KURSKY APPOINTED TO
ITALY.
Moscow, Jan. 16.
(Continued on Page ki)
Cairo, Jan. 16..
Continued on Page 11.)
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand Lighting-up
2/9/10. 6.01 p.m.
London, Jan. 16. || The Admiralty announces that, Commodore Hyde, commanding His Majesty's. Australian Squadron, has been appointed Naval Aide-de- Camp to HM the King-British Wireless.