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一拜體 號二十月三英港香 MONDAY, MARCH 12. 1928.
GOVERNOR & CIVIL FRENCH AIR LINER CANTON THEATRE DISASTER. AVIATION.
IMPORTANT SPEECH IN CANTON.
SUGGESTS FORMING CANTON- HONGKONG COMPANY.
FORCED DOWN IN CHANNEL BY SNOW SQUALL.
OCCUPANTS DROWNED.
London; Mar. 11.
A French Air Union passenger air-liner met with disaster over the English Chauncl to-day, the RADIO CO-OPERATION. machine being forced down by a
heavy snow squall. Probably the most important
of Hongkong delivered during his banquot given in his honour on Saturday night by the Canton General Chamber of Commerce, the full text of which is given below.
In the course of his speech, Sir Cecil Clementi removed some mis- the conceptions in regard to suggested construction of a loop line linking the Canton-Kowloon Canton-Hankow Railways; and "made a plea for the inauguration of civil aviation between Canton and Hongkong; and stressed the desirability of developing wire
The plane was engaged on the
FRACAS.
ATTACK BY ANGRY TROOPS.
PLACE RANSACKED & MONEY TAKEN AWAY.
EXCITING INCIDENT.
According to a report in a ver- nacular newspaper, 3 -serious
BRITISH MINISTER BANQUETTED.
BINDING BRITAIN AND CHINA, CLOSER TOGETHER,
NANKING GOODWILL,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shangha Mar. 12.
日一番
KING AMANULLA'S WELCOME.
BRITISH ENTERTAIN ROYAL VISITOR.
EXCEPTIONALLY INTERESTING
ARRANGEMENT.
- At an official banquet given by Mr. Quo Tuirchi to Sir Miles Lamp- son last night, a marked atmosphere FLEET MANOEUVRES. of cordiality prevailed.
Mr. Quo Tal-cht, the Nanking Foreign Minister, declared that the
dered.
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HUNDREDS BURIED ALIVE.
TERRIBLE LANDSLIDE IN BRAZIL.
MOUNTAIN COLLAPSE.
Memories of the Po Hing Fong dienster in Hongkong, which though on a much smaller scale, involved a heavy toll of lives, aro conjured up by cables from Rio de Janeiro of a terrible disaster at Sentos, Brazil,
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Happy Valley.
FIENDS AT WORK IN LEIYANG.
REFUGEES TELL TALE OF HORROR.
CITY BURNED TO GROUND AND POPULACE MASSACRED.
COMMUNIST TERROR
Once a Bourishing city of over The welcome being prepared for a town on the lower slopes of Mount
500,000 inhabitants, Lelyang, in speech which H.E. the Governor London-Paris service, but happen-fracas occurred on Saturday after-visit of Sir Miles Lampson would the King and Queen of Afghanistan, Montserrat.
Houses went down like a pack of the south of Hunna just over the visit to Canton was that at the ed to be carrying no passengers,noon at the big Chinese theatre. strengthen the traditional bonds who arrive in London on Tuesday,
the only occupants being the pilot Lock Shin, situated in the Sai- between Britain and China.
is of exceptional nature, every
now in mechanic. and a
Both were kwan district, Canton, following between Britain and China. The possible arrangement to make the cards and hundreds were buried Kwangtung border, is |drowned.."
trouble which broke out between tude of the British Government and visit interesting having been conal-white lylig asleep. It is believed ruins, scarcely one building being Their bodies were picked up by a the management of the theatre people towards China,
that over two hundred were killed, loft standing by the Communist cross-Channel steamer, which also and some troops. As a result, a
They will cross to Dover, from crushed under millions of tons of hordes which captured the city in General Chang Ting-fan, the Calais and, in mid-Channel, the earth. salved the wrecked machine.-band of more than 100 soldiers Mayor of Greater Shanghai, re vessel on which they are making
the latter part of February and launched an attack on the theatre, joiced that the misunderstandings the journey will be met by four and messages from Rio stated that Reuter.
Troops were rushed to the scene carried out a'horrible reign of ter ransacking the place and decamp between Britain and China were destroyers and five fighter nero- Dead Among Wreckage.
ing with booty valued at $1,000.
now dissipated. The Chinese, he planes, which will escort them to over two thousand were engaged ror until driven out by Marshal London, Mar. 11.
According to. Canton, reports, said, were anxious to trade peace-harbour. At Dover, the Roval feverishly in clearing the ruins and Pei Chung-hsi last week. the trouble originated when four
searching for victims. Further de- A French aeroplane carrying soldiers attempted to enter the fully, to co-operate with the British, visitors will be greeted by salutes (tails are given in a message received caped to Hongchow, on the Kwang- Two hundred refugees who es- and to effect closer relations.
from the shore batteries. theatre without tickets. At the
this morning. entrance, they were stopped by the Britain represented the garliest for companied by the Afghan Minister China desired this the more as after the Prince of Wales, ac-
tung border, have a fearful tale to ticket collectors, who
after five elgn friendship to China, them that as I was
has boarded the vessel and great- The side of the mountain collaps- tell of the orgy of burning and It is understood that the pilot o'clock, it would be useless for Sir Miles Lampson stressed the ed the visitors on behalf of the ed without warning during the slaughter, much of which is too The first act of the communist named Schmetz, sent out a wire them to go inside, as the after-liberal spirit which would, he said. King and Queen, he will present night, and a cascade of earth and dreadful to put into print. less message that he was descend-noon performance had concluded. ensure the ultimate general settle the British sulte specially attached stones crashed into the streets of ing. His message was picked up However, the soldiers persisted, ment which is pending. Questions to them for the period of the Santos, burying the dwellings and rabble on entering Leiyang was trapping the inhabitants in their to set fire to buildings at every beds. It is interesting to record that by the North Foreland and Bou-and a quarrel ensued. Ultimate-of commerce depended on mutual State Visit.
corner of the city. They followed British Suite. by to-morrow night's bont, hir. M.logne stations and broadcast, his, the soldiers went away, threa-respect and understanding, confid-
Rescue workers have been search-this up by selecting all the best buildings for destruction and gys- J. Breen, Postmaster General of approximate position belog given.tuning to come back with more ence and goodwill. In conclusion,
Sir Miles quoted Confucius's motto Among those in attendance on Hongkong: Mr. L. II. King, wire- The cross-Chonnel steamer, the men.
of honesty and patience.
King Amanullah. will be Fielding for hours, and over 160 bodies tematically proceeded to burn full less expert, and other officers, are Maid of Orleans, went at
them down on the plea that they Marshal Viscount Allenby, while have already been brought out. leaving for Cantan to discues with speed to the spot and found both
in attendance on Queen Souriya The hospital at Santa Rosa le be- had been erected by, and were the the Administration there details the pilot and the mechanie dend:
will be Lady Ampthill,, Lady lleved to have suffered heavily property of a "rotten gentry." of the suggested improved wire- among the wreckage. British
Reuter's American Service, less facilities between Hongkong Wireless.
Humphreys and Colonel Fraser,
lesa between the two centres, especially photographic telegrams,
His Excellency also dealt with the question of excessive taxation of merchandise whilst in transit.
and Canton.
His Excellency's Speech.
His Excellency
freight, but no passengers, on the service from Paris to Croydon came "down in the Channel to-day in a fierce anewstorm.
Foki Captured.
informed
At 7.30 the anme evening, when the night scation was in progress, about thirty soldiers arrived at
the theatre and demanded that the management produce the ticket collectors who had refused the
the Governor | LESS. ANXIETY ABOUT |soldiers súmittance earlier in the
spoke in English, the speech be- ing interpreted by the Hon. Dr. Kotowall. Ho said: Mr. Wa
IRAK.
Tsung-tang, I thank you very sin- IBN SAUD MULCTS. RAIDING cerely for the magnificent enter- tainment you have already pro- vided; I understand that the en- tertainment is by no means over, because from here we are going
SHEIKH.
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Jerusalem, Mar. 11.
BIG QUAKE FELT IN
On landing, King Amanullah
Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 11.
will inspect a Navy Guard of HONGKONG.
Honour and receive an Address ANNIVERSARY OF DR.
SUN'S DEATH.
day. It so happened that one of MOST SEVERE EVER RECORDED
the fokia of the theatre' was at this time leaving the place to buy some articles and when he emerg- ed he was seized by the soldiers, who assaulted him and took hini back to their headquarters.
The management of the theatre A sign hearing out the Bedouin immediately telephoned to the on to see theatricals and shall be disbelief in the complicity of Ibn police and the latter arrived on entertained almost antil the morn-Said, the King of the Hejaz, in the scene, arresting one of the I appreciate more than I can the attacks on the Transjordanian ring-lentiers of the trouble and say this opportunity of meeting tribes, is reported from Amman. dispersing the others..
two guilds here to-night,
Theatre Iushed.
the Canton Chamber of Commerce, I stated that. Firbamibuna and I understand that there are Ash-bur, who was responsible for "representatives of all the seventy- | ond of the attacks in February bas At about nine o'clock the same been captured and imprisoned in evening, a much larger party of On an occasion much as, this Ijall, forced to disgorge his booty soldiers, more than three hundred feel bound to speak a few words and to pay the injured tribes in all, armed with fron bars and on the subject of commerce. The blood-money-Reuter,
wooden weapons, arrived on the whole raison detre of Hongkong
stene and soon started to throw Is commerce, and the purpose for
stones and other missiles into the which Englishmen are in China is
theatre, shouting that they wanted trule. Therefore, it is very im-
to. fight. .portant for us as well na for you
that trude should flourish.
Now there are many things which contribute towards making trade prosperous, and among them I #hould like to mention this even- ing three principal factors. The Arst is ecurity, the second is commun..ations, and the third is reasonable taxation, 1 showe like, with your permission, to say a few words on each of these three subjects.
menace
I need not dwell at length on the subject of security, because you all know and are personally acquainted with our sufferinge an- der the menace of Bolshevism and Communism, under the menace of strikes and boycotts, and under the
of pirates and brigands. Well, I wish to express my deep gratitude to the present Canton administration for the steps they have already taken to suppress Bolshevism and Commun- fsm, which have practically, dianp peared from Kwangting and will never dare to raise their heads a'ain while Marshal Li is in con- trol Sirikes and boycotts are also
Sudden Change.
Later.
The Intest, reports from Syria indicate that 18,000 Wahbia are concentrated at Tebuk, three days from Maan.
They threaten to capture Maan
Basri, Mar. 12.
und Akaba.
,
LOCALLY.
ORIGIN 1,500 MILES OFF
from the Mayor of Dover.
arc
When the Royal visitors met at Victoria by the King and Queen and their sons, the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Secre- tary for India and other ministers will be among thoŝo present.
Visit to Cenotaph.
OBSERVANCES IN CÂNTON TO-DAY,
Y
Mat Huts Share Fute.
Within a few days most of the substantial buildings were nothing but blackened ruins, but with ap- potites whetted, the terrorists gradually descended the scale until at last only the mat huts of the very poorest people were left. Even these were too much for the uncontrollable fiends who carried To-day is the third anniversary out the orgy of rapine and des- of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, truction, and gradually they were In the early hours of Saturday
The Royal Procession to Buck the founder of the Kuomintang and destroyed until in the end nothing morning, the most severe earth- quake ever recorded by the Hong-ingham Palace will give thousands "the Father of the Chinese Re-was left to burn.
The method adopted to ensure kong seismographs occurred about an opportunity of seeing King public."
Amanullah and his Queen, who 1,500 miles from the Colony, will later in the day visit the brated by the holding of memorial was to pump a mixture of powder- In Canton, the day is being cele-complete burning of all buildings though details of the direction are Cenotaph and the grave of the Un-services, the delivering of speeches ed sulphur and kerosens on to the not yet available.
known Warrior. in Westminster by students and the carrying out building before applying flame. The vibrations at the most Abbey, returning, vin St. James' of big parades along the main As soon as a fire was well started, revere stage of the disturbance Palace where Civic Addresses of thoroughfares of the city. The day "Red" troops in other parts of the lasted for nearly half a minute, welcome will be presented to them is a general holiday for all public city commented a murderous com the nature of the recording being At night, there will be a State organisations, Government offices paign, stole everything that was, detailed in the following state- Banquet in their honour at Buck-and newspapers. ment issued by Mr. T Claxton, ingham Palace.
portable, and set fire to what they Kuomintang members in Canton could not carry away. director of the Royal Observatory:
On Wednesday morning, King
are holding a big memorial service "During an earthquake which Amanullah will receive the Am at the Namkwan Theatre, occurrod on the morning of March bassadors and Ministers accredited
Most of the Chinese newspaper 10, the movements of the pendu-to the Court of St. James at Buck-offices in Hongkong are observing lums were the greatest recorded byingham Palace.
the day as a holiday,
A signal was then given by one of the soldiers' leaders, and an at the Hongkong seismographs. The On Wednesday, the City of Lon tack on the theatre ensued. How longitudinal wavus Vegan at don will entertain. the King and ever, the two main entrances were 2h. 12m. 21s. (Hongkong Standard Queen to luncheon at the Guild- promptly shut and this prevented Time), the transverse waves at hall and in the evening, there will the soldiers from entering the 2h. 16m. 40s and the surface be a dinner at the Foreign Office.
Queen Souriya. will not attend, main part of the theatre, where waves at 2h. 17m. 568.
but with Queen Mary, will be pre- the performance was being wit The maximum 'movement oc- nessed by more than a thousandcurred at 2h. 27m. 30, in a N.S.ent at a performance at Drury
Lane Theatre.. direction, the amplitude being 98
In the event of an Arab attack on Koweit, a thousand British ma-spectators. rines are ready in addition to the Air Force-Reuter
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TOWING SINGAPORE
DOCK.
CONTRACT PLACED WITH DUTCH FIRM.
However, the soldiers continued millimetres. The maximum move- Novel Naval Entertainment.
to attack the theatre with ironment in an E.W. direction occurred
Some of the most interest-
Holocaust of Victims. Districts were selected, and
.
guards were posted preparatory to
setting fire to these sections and when fire was applied. the poor people inside were forced to re- FORMER BISHOP OF main there to be burned. Hun-
LIVERPOOL.
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DEATH OF DR. CHAVASSE.
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London, Mar. 11. The death occurred to-day of
nra and eventually they succeed at 2h. 26m. Os., the amplitude being ed in gaining an entrance through 78 m.ms. The time of vibration ing experiences awaiting King the Right Rev. Dr. Francis James
during the moat active part of the disturbance was 289.
a side door, which led them to the theatre office. As the soldiers rushed in, all the men on duty at the office took to their heels.
Theatre Ransacked.
The soldiers then proceeded to ransack the place, and later de- London, Mar. 12, camped with clothing and other The Morning Post this morning belongings of the fokis of the states that the Admiralty has placed theatre, as well as a few hundred the contract for the tow of the great whole being valued at $1,000.
dollars of the ticket-money, the floating dock to Singapore for the naval base with the Dutch firm, the. The affair has been reported to Smit Company, of Rotterdam. the headquarters of the Canton Garrison. It is believed that the The dock will have to be towed soldiers were from units recently from England to Singapore, and
a thing of the past, and Marshal Li Mr. Swan, the managing director of returned from the East River.
is now taking vigorous steps to Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Richard-
ers diente pirates and brigands.
Hallway Questions.
son, in un interview said that the |Smit frm was the only one in the contract at a reasonable price. world capable of undertaking the Reuter.
DRIZZLE OR MIST.
NAVAL SQUADRONS COMING.
AMERICAN ADMIRAL SOON DUE HERE.
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"The Initial movement 2.0 m.ms, to South and 12.5 mma. to West, and the origin was about 2,500 kms. from Hongkong."
BRITAIN'S FAITH IN LEAGUE.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN AND EGYPT.
London, Mat. 11. Sir Austen Chamberlain reached London to-night from Geneva, On the way he had a short conversation at the station in Parls, with Lord Crowe.
Discussing League affairs with journalists before leaving Geneva, the British Foreign Secretary said
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dreds perished in the flames..
In one case that of the Kia Chien temple priests to the num- ber of three hundred were tied up inside, and the doors fastened and chuined before the bullding was set on fire. All were burned to death, without a single exception.
All Crops Destroyed. Amanullah will be provided by the Chavasse, one-time Bishop of Liverpool, at the age of 82 years.--- Royal Navy. When he motors British Wireless,
The next in the order of des- from London to Portsmouth, on March 19th., he will embark on the [The deceased, who was a son truction were schools. and grain submarine 122, which will convey of the late Dr. Thomas Chavasse, fields. The former were all burn- him to Southampton.
F.R.C.S., was educated at Oxford,ed and everything unburnable des- En route the submarine will dive where he took firat-class honour troyed "because they belonged to and do torpedo practice, King in law and history. He was curate the intellectual classes," and the Amanullahhimself üring tor-at St. Paul's, Preston, from 1870 springing corn and other crops pedoes.
to 1873; Vicar of St. Paul's, Upper were destroyed because the fields Later, when he visits the Atlan- Holloway, from 1873 to 1878; Ree-belonged to the rich. Every pub- tie Meet. at Portsmouth on April tor of St. Peter lo Bailey, Oxford, He organisation of whatever na- 3rd, he will soo an impressive from 1889 to 1990; and Bishop of ture has been utterly destroyed. spectacle of target practice with Liverpool from the latter year
Tent guns as well as a realistic until 1923.1 naval attack-British Wireless.
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LANCASHIRE AND RAW COTTON.
IMPROVEMENT WHILE EASTERN COUNTRIES DROP.
London, Mar. 11,
STABBING AFFAIR.
· FOUR MEN, DETAINED BY POLICE.
The police are detaining four men In connexion with a stabbing affair which took place on Satur-
They did not limit their awful activities to the killing of indivi duals but murdered whole families at a time. When they first com- menced killing they looked for all wearing a long gown. They did not kill these unfortunates out- right, but took out their eyes and cut off their ears, and then left them to roam the streets for a day or two before finally idling them. Many of them lay in the roadway for a long time before they died.
When all the long gowned peo-
The next point I wish to touch apon is the importance to trade of good lines of communication, and in this connexion I wish to say a few words on the railway
he had been hoping to welcome A trade turn, favourable to Lan-day. communications of this province. There has been a good deal of
It is officially announced to-day Egypt as a new mombor in their cashire is revealed by the returns According to information suppif-ple had been killed they turned in feundorehanding as to the viewą
that Hongkong will, shortly have midst. Unfortunately, the EBP of the International Cotton Federa-ed to the police yesterday by the their lust for blood on those who which are entertained in Hong The Royal Observatory's Weather a visit from part of the United tian Government had rejected tion for the six months ended Jan-victim, who is now in the Govern-sold refreshments and murdered cang on the subject of what we Report states:The antleyelone States Asiatic Fleet.
the treaty which he and Sarwat unry 31st.
ment Civil Hospital, he was sc- those on the plea that they had call the loop-line railway round has strengthened and is central
Admiral Bristol, the -U.S. Com-Pasha had together drafted.
An increase in the world con- costed by four men, whom he know, been acting as spies for the Canton, that is to say the proposed near Nanking. The depression is mander-in-Chief In Asiatic watera, Nevertheless the proposal that sumption of raw cotton by 258,000 These men demanded $6 from him. enemies of communiom connexion between the Kowloon-moving eastward into the Pacific, i to arrive in the Colony aboard Britain had made to refer to the bales as compared with the corres- As he did not owe them any money,
Drowned In Manure. ⠀ Canton Railway and the Carton-Fresh to strong monsoon may be his flagship in about a fortnight's free decision of the League Council ponding six months last year, is re- he refused to pay the sum demand. Shiukwan Railway. I know that expected along the south-cast of!
Ong eye-witness states he saw ant question of the disposition of tain's increase during the same com- him, one of them stabbing him several Communists go to a pec- it is the earnest desire of the China and over the northern por- time, and accompanying him will at the end of ton yours the import ported, and it is notable that Bri-ed, whereupon the four mon set on
be several destroyera. Canton Government, and It is also tion of the North China sea.
As previously announced, a big British troops in Egypt, remained parative periods was 105,000 bales with a dagger. the earnest desire of the Hongkong Government, that the Canton-Is-North-east winds, fresh; over-here carly next month.
The forecast till noon to-morrow Japanese naval squadron is dus on record as a testimony to the sin of cotton, while the consumption of The incident took place in Ping sant who was planting his veget cerity of Britainaith in the India, China and Japan decreased. Ohau Road, Ping Chan, at 430 ables, and asked him to enlist-In LeagueBritish Wireless
p.m..on Baturday,
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cast, some drizzle or mist,
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