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ANTON RED PLOT
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RREST OF COMMUNIST
SUSPECTS.
CHEME FOR TRIPLE ATTACK ON CITY.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881-
NO 12,481
FIRE-ESCAPE HITS PILLAR.
·APPLIANCE MISHAP NEAR SOLDIERS CLUB.
HEAD-ON COLLISION.
As a result of head-on colll- sion with, a verandah pilar in Queen's Road Central, "another fire-appliance has been badly RIGID MARTIAL LAW.
damaged. The mishap occurred at boven o'clock this morning, Extraordinary precautions were while the appliance was return- aken in Canton on Saturday and ing to the Wanchal Sub-Station in Sunday in consequence of the fears charge of a Chinese driver.
another "Red" rising.
The host vigilant meansures were ad- It appears from an official report ated by the police and military that the vehicle, which is a motor Authorities in raiding quarters of
aspects, searchlag pedestrians-table escape, was proceeding and patrolling, the thoroughfares along Queen's Road East, near if the suburbs and the roads in the the Soldiers' Club, when, for some icinity of the principal Govern reason which has not been reveal , it swerved sharply on its hent offices.
course; and ran straight into the verandah pillar.
It is stated that in a rice shop at hupatpo, the police discovered a rge quantity of Communist badges
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1928.
AR MADX
HABEAS CORPUS RULINGS.
JUDGE GIVES TWO DECISIONS.
UPHOLDS MAGISTRATE AND
LEGALITY OF ARREST.
STATUS OF CANTON:
tics... ''
日二十月二
SERIOUS QUAKES IN SHANGHAI FIRE
ASIA MINOR.
SMYRNA BADLY DAMAGED & TWO VILLAGES RUINED,
SEVERE CASUALTIES.
!!
STAMPEDE
WORKERS TRAPPED IN FACTORY,
UNABLE TO OPEN. DOOR IN BLAZING BUILDING.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
BUIC
THE DRAGO
MORE QUERIES ON THE US NANKING
SETTLEMENT
MALARIA
SUGGESTED CAMPAIGN OF INSTRUCTION.
THREE NOTES TO ME MACMURRAYA
COMMISSION TO FIX AMOUNT: OF INDEMNITY
DR. KOCH'S QUESTIONS. Constantinople, Apr. 1.
A number of questions in regard A series of carthquake shocks
to the prevention of malaria are to have been felt Asia Minor, and
be disked by Dr, W. V. M. Koch at at Smyrna where they were felt
to-morrow's meeting of the Sanf most severely, over forty are re-
tary Board. They are as follows: ported to have been killed and
1.-Pending the arrival of COMMUNISTS BLAMED many injured. There was con-
Malaria expert, and, as the work siderable havoc in the country dis-
Shankhal, Mar. 26.
of Malaria Prevention should be
Shanghal, April 2* Mr. Justice Wood, in the Supre-tricts, one village being half, des- Following the cutbreak of a continuously carried out on tho me Court this morning, upheld the troyed..
disastrous fire in a cigarette fac-usual well-known lines, will The terms of the settlement of authority of the Pollee Magistrate
The earthquake affected a very tory in the West Hongkow District authorities state wint has been the Nanking incident between the in issuing a warrant and also the legality of the arrest of two fugl-wide area, extending to the is- yesterday morning a stampede of done in this direction in this United States and the Nanking tive prisoners whose requisition is lands of Saos, Naxos and Corigo, workers from the top floor, in an Colony and the New Territory dir Nationallat Government have been The settlement, which, wAS gard:- asked for by the Canton authoria distance of many hundred miles, effort to make their escape down the past three years as re-disclosed to-day sang Sort
Twenty houses and the clock-n narrow stairway to the ground (a) The trairing of nullahs. negotiated between Mr. JAVAS tower collapsed in Smyrna, while floor, resulted in the death of two (b) Reclamation of swampa, MacMurray and General HwanX Mr. Hu-shing Lo appears for over two hundred houses were des- women workers, the serious injur
(c) Dealing with paddy Belds Fu, comprises three Notes from the ing of 18 others and minor casual- the prisoners and Mr. H. S. Fitzroytroyed in the district of Torball.
and other forms of vot Nationalist Minister for Foreign ties to many more before the Fire
rms of Aftairs to the American represen for the Crown.
Later,
cultivation. Mr. Hin-shing Lo submitted that
Brigade, members of the West 2. Does this Department con- tatiye.. the original arrest of the prison- It is now learned from Smyrna Hongkew police and volunteers tinue to sem out an Inspector and extricating then squad of men to search for and The front of the vehicle was ers was illegal and its illegalit,that the death roll is forty, while aucceeded in dred scarves, and that they smashed, while the force of the could be tested at as late a date as over 60 are in hospital severely hysterical and frenzied Inmates locate-mosquito infected, and mis- The first exprosses apology for from their extremely dangerous quito breeding places and to deal the Nanking outrages of March ested on the remises fifteen impact was such that the turn-January 11th, 1928; secondly, that injured..
with them... pects, including two bobbed-table ladder was also damaged, although the illegality of the origi
A score of shocks occurred, positión.
3(a) How many cases of
many
That year, saying that the Nations gird.
The appliance, after striking the al arrest and detention had been one of great severity, in the The shrieks of the trapped The arrested suspects are said pillar heat-in, was brought to cured by proper legal process, the space of about twelve bours. The female workers could be heard for malaria have been under treat allat Government is willing to accept responsibility for the settle- absequent proceedings were ir- have made a full confession of standstill, with its "engine.com.
regular. He submitted that pri- population became pante-stricken blocks as they fought and strug-ment during the past three years, ment, although they declare that o proposed "Red" rising, and pletely incapacitated.
aouers were just as illegally inland spent the night, in tents or:/gled in an effort to escape the yearly, in the Public Dispensarits the outrages were really carried Only the driver was on the custody now as they
in the open. Roughly forty houses flames which harrassed them from and lospitals under Government at it was in consequence of these
closures that strong precautions machine at the time, and he sus-January 11th.
collapsed, and some four hundred the rear. Some were trampled un-inspection and control, giving the The second Nota states that the were damaged in the city of derfoot in the narrow sloping debetoon turn from Nationalist Government is willing ero Laken to nip the movement intained some slight bruises, but
(b) How many deaths was otherwise not injured. bud
Smyrna, but at Tourball and Topi- ble into which they rushed only malaria have been recorded in to fully indemnify American re- sidents at Nanking for their losses keny, hardly a house is standing, to find their exit blocked by an
Reuter.
unyielding door at the foot of the Sueli institutious? stairs,
(c) How many cases have been during the trouble. *Others were pinned helplessly many by microscopic examination diagnosed clinically, and how
The Indemnities. against the walls in 3. suffocating
4-Could statistics be obtained. In regard, to the Indemnities atmosphere of smoke and acrid to- from the Military Authorities as to has been verbally agreed betyr bacco fumes; whilst others, the prevalence of malaria in this Mr. McMurray and General Hy | fighting frenziedly ^ An outlet Command? Fu, that a Commission consis
tore ut the encompassing walls came with the arrival of the Fire Brigade, and police,
Plan of Attack.
!
The accident is now being made
Detention Illegal?
were On
FRENCH FINANCIAL
POLICY:
Mr. Lo'a Anal submission was the subject of a departmental that the Court hearing the applica It appears that information also enquiry, it being stated that tion of Habeas Corpus was entitled eached the police that Communist Leung Man-wal, the driver, had no to enquire into the circumstances ammers and bandits, numbering official authority to take the of their detention if it was satian- few thousand, had decided to stappliance out.',
ed that, although the illegality, of ack Canton from the three prin-
On February 10th last, a the arrest had been cured by pro- ciple river districts on Sunday, similar mishny occurred to per process of law, its legality that many "Red" rendezvous. Were another fire-appliance in Des remained incective because the
stablished in Salkwan, Canton, Voeux Road Central, when, in en-technical defective of POINCARE READY TO HURRY with their bare hands until relief nd that more than one thousand mall flags of red cloth were dis deavouring to avoid, being caught committal as subsequent proceed- vered in the city. It is believed between two trament motor-ings.
at these were made in readiness appliance ran into the verandah use of the Communistder the Hongkong Hotel alter the
remen were injured on that colliding with one of the trams,
bons.
The action taken by the author-occasion. tics proved effective, and it is now reported that Canton is quiet.
Large numbers of the boarding
houses patronised by ricksha-men yere raided by police, as in the December "Red" rising the ickshamen took a prominent part assisting the Communist
bandits.
thea-
The principal Chinese tres received instructions from the Public Safely Bureau to
10 effect that they should
FOOTBALL OF U.S. POLITICS.
PHILIPPINE COMPLAINT AT RELIGIOUS PARLEY.
include all performances be- BOBBED HAIR WOMEN.
re midnight, US pedestrians
uld be prevented from moving
ely about after that hour. It
al at Chinese theatres in hton for the, Saturday night rformances to continue until out 5 o'clock in the following rning.
Jerusalem, Apr. 1. The Council of the International
....
General Stampede,
An Apology
out by Communista,"
In the third Note It Is stated i
5-Could this Department un-of Americans and Chinese wil dertake or direct a campaign of in-appointed to determing the amount, struction among the people by of the damage suffered by Americ lectures and demonstrations on cans during the disturbances. the prevalence and prevention: malaria, calling in, if necessary, As soon as the fire broke out the Dispensary Medical Staff, the in the west end of the upper YM.C.A. and any other bodes floor there was a general stam-which would offer their services? pede for the exits. There were
DEBT SETTLEMENT.
Paris, Apr. 1. Counsel claimed that the first
M. Poincare in a speech at Car on crime and that it was illegal casonne to-day dwelt at length on arrest was in respect of an extrail- without any information sworn France's need fur peace and a real under the Extradition Ordinance.stable parliamentary majority in The right to deport must be disorder to enable her to solve her only two of these, one at either! tinct from the right to extradite. financial problems,
end of the top floor, each constat Counsel claimed that there was In this connexion, M. Poincare evidence to show that the prisoners laid it down as indispensable that had not been detained for deportation. In no
money should not be arbitrarily cumstances could the deporta-fixed at some artificial rate, but
should be convertible. into gold. on Ordinance be used in con-
He declared that France was junction with the Extradition Ordinance.
It was contrary to prepared to enter into new agree the spirit of the Habeas Corpusments with her ex-Allies and Ger Acts for the law to be used for many with a view to a more ex-women rushed to a narrow stair- the purpose of legalising arrests peditious settlement of debts pro- otherwise illegal, such as if the viding that her security and right case was one purely of extradition. to reparations were respected
Reuter. Not Both Ways.
cir-
uld be explained that it isMissionary Conference to-day dia- Counsel also argued regarding cussed problems of race relations. the Chinese Extradition Ordinanca The Korean delegate hotly con- of 1889 and the amendment to it tested the Japanese claim that in the local Ordinances last year. they did not exercise racial dis- If the case was taken under the
old Ordinance, the order of_com- | crimination.
mittal was a perfectly correct one, but, assuming it a correct one, the requesting party had no legal standing in the case. The Crown could not have it both ways..
Armoured Cars Out.
After Mr. Fitzroy had briefly replied, his Lordship said that he
SOVIET AUTHORITIES MALPRACTICES.
TOLD TO USE PROPAGANDA PERSUASION,
Riga, Apr. 1 The methods employed by the local authorities of Soviet Russia
ing of a staircase leading to the ground floor. The main stairway was situated at the Western end of the building the seat of the fre which raged with an intensity | which drove the terrified workers to the only other exit.
HANKOW FRENCH
CONCESSION."
NOW BECOME HOTBED OF COMMUNISM.
that the persons, responsible for the incident have already been punished for the offences,
These three Notes have been.
initialled by both Mr. McMurray and General". Hwang · Fuji after
which the Foreign Minister, left for Nanking on Saturday evening, for the purpose of obtaining the confirmation of the agreement by the Political Council. It is con sidered certain that this will be givën.
Mr. MacMurray left for Peking last night on board the Marble- head-Router.
WHY. BRITISH PARLEY FAILED,
Chinese Introduco Extraneous Matters.
Screaming and shouting the
TALK OF SEIZURE. case, falling and scrambling over each other in their mad anxiety to escape the flames which spead
Hanków, April 1 with surprising swiftness, tho
The French Concession, which crowd aurged in a body to the small' stairway down which they has become a hotbed of Com fell with the fear spurred by munista, was the subject of a re-
Shanghal, Mar. 26. absolute panic. So fast was the markable anti-French article in a Negotiations over the Nanking ruah to the stairs and so quickly local Chinese newspaper. The incident between Sir Miles Lamp did those behind fall over those article dealt with the suggested son, H.M. Minister to Peking, and in the van of the surge that the taking back of the Concession. Mr. Huang Fu, Nationalist Minis-
door at the foot' of the small
There is, however,, an absence ter for Foreign Affairs, have stairs was unable to be opened. of Anti-British feeling. Neval reached a deadlock over questions
Wireless.
Door Opened Inward.
For some unaccountable reason
the door opened, not outward and
Troops on Move:
Pukow, April 1,
He declared that India, despite anw no advantage to be gained in to obtain money for the so-called away from the terrified crowd, Troops totaling 1,500 men have steamer Kalping, which called
Professor Jorge, of the Philip The chief officers of the police pines University, described his b-stations personally led their country as one of the sorest spots en to patrol the streets, and all in the world despite the fact that raffic was stopped after midnight, it was the only Christian country hile in some quarters pedestrians in the Far East,
prevented from moving ero Boat after 10 o'clock.
In addition, armoured motor ars, equipped with machine-guns ere seen in several parts of the ty, while many of the boarding de Bund were raided and thoring in the White claim to pro- Governor's order signifying that
ses, restaurante, and cafes on oughly soarch.
Fress, pointed out that the only All gampana and smaller craft bobbed-haired wamen delegated requisition had been made for the orthed near the Bund were or to the Conference came from the surrender of the prisoners..
red to move away, while some of Far East.-Reuter,
hem were searched, with the re-
ult that communication between
anton, City and Honam was com-
the British occupation, was in happy contrast to the Philippines, which was merely the football of American polities.
delaying a decision, as his mind was made up.
After reviewing the facts of the cago, bis Lordship sald silence Dr. Ferguson Davie, formerly on the merits of the charge had the Bishop of Singapore, comment been received at a hearing by the Magistrate, before receipt of the
The Better Procedure.
In his view, this did not invall- date the proceedings before the
ernment.
trap.
but towards them. So great was crossed over the river from Nan- Peasant Loan by forcing the pen the pressure from the falling ing ants to take in part payment for crowd upon those in advance that. their produce in loan Bonds has the door could not be opened. A report is current that Marshal led to the peasants refusing to They were caught like rats Inn Chiang Kai-shek has left for the
Northern front-Naval Wirelen help and complaining to the Gov-
Stiff wooden panelling on one
Swatów Quiet. and a brick and plaster wall on the other hemmed them in
Swatow, April 1 the four foot stairway with There is an air of quiet reigning flames licking their way in pursuit here and no untoward Incidents in the rear and a stout wooden have occurred.-Naval Wirelea door barring their progress in front.
As a result, M. Rykoff has inside siructed the local authorities to cense such practices and to use propaganda persuasion; instead Reuter
letely stopped on Saturday night. STRICT GERMAN ARMS Magistrale. He accepted the view MISS CHENG AT NICE.
of
LAW.
that it was open to the Magistrate to hear a case in advance of such order. At the same me, it had been the practica to postpone the charge until the Governor's
urcau, near which pedestrians NATIONALS LIVING ABROAD taking evidence on the merits of
far the largest number
lice on patrol were centred in-
he vicinity of the Public Safety
re not allowed to pass.
- Much Military Activity,
Hundreds of soldiers wero des-
ALSO LIABLE.
ON NANKING DIPLOMATIC
MISSION.
Nica, Apr. 1.
order had been received and this Miss Soume Cheng, a member of Berlin, Apr. 1. was, in his Lordship's view, the the Nanking Government, has ar- Nabatshed to the suburbs to preserve The text of the Bill for the pre-better procedure, not only because rived here and will stay a few days These included, the full vention of the arms traffic with it was more methodical, but be for the benefit of her health before 8th Division of the 4th Army and China, which has been passed by cause the Magistrate was in a
order.
on
Screams and groans from those being crushed and trampled on by those behind and over them and panic-stricken shrieks from those in the rear who found the passage obstructed, filled the air. Even' the combinéd pressure: of“ thể crowd failed to dislodge the stout lock on the staircase door and neither side would yield. The frantie hammering of those near
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NANKING'S SPRING
OFFENSIVE.
which are regarded in British diplomatic circles. as having no bearing on the fricdent, and. Sir Miles has left for the North by the Kailan Mining Association's
from Shanghai yesterday, morning. Sir Miles went on board the ves Bel on Friday night Further, negotiations have been left in the hands of Sir Sidney Barton, H.M. Consul-General for Shanghai, and H.M. Consul-General at Nanking:
The deadlock, between the nego- tiating parties was reached on questions regarding which the British were unprepared to nego tlate until a settlement of the in": cident itself had been reached.g
These were, according to Chin ese reports which were confirmed yesterday by Sir Bidney Barton, as being substantially correct, the firing of the British warships on Socony Hill, which la described by the Chinese as the bombardment. of Nanking, and the revision of the Anglo Chinese: Treaty Yon ta' basis favourable to China. Extraneous Matters,
division of the 11th Army, as the Reichstag, forbids the supply, better position to form a decision proceeding to Paris and London on cat the door fhally had its effect ready to leave for the front at says LAGE ELIZAVESENE as one of two other regiments. despatch or Insurance of weapon without having the merits in mind. a diplomatic mission Enuter.
a consequence, the subtirbs near of war, munitions, or essential With regard to the form of the Hill of the Goddess of mercy, parts of weapons or ammunition, order for committal, this was in the East Parado Ground, and intended for use in China as well accordance with Form 6 in the Hous districts in Honam were as actions likely to facilitate the schedule attached to the Ordin- ye with soldiers on Saturday, supply, despatch or insurance of anco. This form, owing possibly
•
CHEAPER PETROL.
hut only succeeded in splintering tho panelling just before the arrival of the rescuers.
CHIANG KAI SHEK READY
LEAVE FOR FRONT
Shanghal, April 1. Marshal. Chiang Kai-shek Is
moment and military affairs in It. Is maintained by Great Bri- Nanking will be undertaken by tain that the firing followed the Marshal Li Chai-sum and Gentral, incident and has direct connexion Ho Ying-ching.
with the actual ? outragen, over Difficult Rescue Work.
A-message from Pukow states which negotiations were opened. The task of releasing the women that hostiliths have commenced The revision of the Anglo Chin was rendered more difficult by the between the nominchum, and the ese treaty is regarded as promá such objects.
a small oversight in, draught- PRICE REDUCTION IN GREAT fact that as fast as one was re- Fengtlen araules and that the form ture and in no way connected with farge detachment of men of
BRITAIN.
longed others fell or pushed their er have already made progress discussions of the Nanking inci With Army was dispatched to Transgresalons of the law are manship had not been, amended in the amendment to the Ordinance,
WAY, on top at those beneath. A general offens is to be opet dent Public Safety Bureau, while punishable by a fine, detention or Lo had submitted that it was
London, Apr. 1. Some of the women at the headed by the Knominc un within the It was stated yesterday, that the of the policemen usually imprisonment not exceeding three invalid in, that it did not refor. In A further reduction of id, por of the stairs, as soon as a broach the next day, or so. Ohinese authorities had shown ned there were were out on months, * AR members of the Police
4 German citizen living torms to the amendment of the were fully armed, each of is liable to prosecutior fabroad Ordinance and because it did not gallon on petrol, brings the price lambered opoy the the wall, A large number of military of every willingness to have the in-t
in full, particulars of the fur the best spirit down to 1/0d.
over the heads of the ficials left Pukow for the font cident settled, and that regarding travenes the Act-Reiter,
per gallon all over Britain persons below and scrambled to yesterday, while a second party, the actual outrages, a position t Continued on Page 1) Bruter
(Continued on Page 14) will be leaving to-day,
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