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PIRATE CHASE UNSUCCESSFUL. A NEW JAPANESE
WARNING.
TEAN GANG FREE HOSTAGES 20-MILE SEA LIMIT ON
BUT ESCAPE IN HILLS.
RAIDERS THREATEN TO FIRE THE KEROSENE-SOAKED DECKS.
BRITISH PASSENGER'S TALE.
SIX CITIES.
SOUTH NOW FRATERNISING
WITH SOVIET?
SHANGHAI SENSATION.
Shanghai, May 29. The Japanese authorities have
verbally notified the Chinese naval After organising an unsuccessful chase of the pirates forces at Sinnghai, Tientsin, responsible for the attack on the s.s. Tean, the British destroyer, Peking and Tsingtao and also the H.M.S. Somme, arrived in Harbour at ten o'clock this morning, Northern and Southern Govern
made available.
BRITISH STEAMER
FIRED ON.
FIVE-OTHER SHIPS SEIZED BY YANG SEN.
SZECHUAN FIGHTING,
Iching, May 28, Fighting has taken place t Kiangshan between. General Yang Sen's troops and those of his re bellious subordinaté, General Kuo, complete success, and he is once The Szechuanese: leader gained more likely to gain full control of the area.
Already large numbers of his
4A19" SINAL COPE 19 DEATH
334 FRE ANNO.
HIGH TENSION IN BALKANS.
SERIOUS OUTBREAKS IN JUGO-SLAVIA,
POLICE CHARGE RIOTOUS CROWDS.
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ITALIAN OUTRAGE.
Belgrade, May-28. Serioua recurrences have oceur- troops have moved up river to re-red of anti-Italian demonstrations, garison Wanhsten and other Upper believed to be consequent upon the Yangtaze porta.
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ALLEGED,
BIG OPIUM HAULS INGENIOUS FRAUD
ON STEAMER.
PASSENGERS ARRESTED MAKE
́THIN EXCUSES.
BORROWER USED NAME OF BROTHER?
WRONG DEFENDANT REPLIES TO WRIT FOR $1,000.
SERIOUS SUGGESTION.
FINES NEARLY $18,000
Two large oplum seizures were made by detectives on board the 3.6. Ying Chow, on her arrival in Port yesterday morning. In both cases & passenger was arrested and brought before Major C. Will- son at the Kowloon Magistracy
An unusual situation arose in this morning on charges of unfaw ful possession.
the Summary Court this morning The first case-concerned a tailer before Mr. Justice Jacka, when who, charged with possession of 937 taels of raw opium, pleaded Sapooran Singh frankly admitted not guilty.
he had not lent the sum of $1,000 The defendant donted owner he was claiming, to the defendant
in court. ship of the basket in which the friend had asked him to take care of his baggage. This friend also handed him the key to the basket A conviction was registered and in a fresh field, rioters demonstrata fine of $8,000, with the alterna- ing against the Italians in Dou- tive of six months hard labour brovnik and Zagreb.
in default was imposed.
Yang Sen seized five ships, In-news from Zarn, Dalmatia, of the cluding the American-owned Yang-attack upon the Yugo-Slav Con- tsze Rapids Company's vessels for
jured the Consul, and did much of strong protests.
The ships are now being held damage to property. Yinkow, while the troops embark, and have
The trouble this time" broke out
when an official version of the affair from the naval side wasments that fighting at sen will be the transport of his troops, in spite sulate by Italian Fascists, whe in.opium was found and said that n
The speed with which the chase was taken up by blue-prohibited within 20 miles of jackets and men from the Customs launch disconcerted the Tsingtas, Chefos, Lungkow, Taku, pirates, who were obliged to abandon their hostages in order Chingwantao, "and to make their escape into the hills. The Navy men followed Reuter. up a considerable way, but, owing to the treacherous going, it was thought that no useful service would be performed by continuation.
Mr. and Mrs. Powys Drummond, of the A.P.C., and Mr. P. Melrose, an American missionary, were on the pirated steamer, and they have an interesting story to tell of their experiences. They draw particular attention to the fact that a Chinese man-of-war was at anchor in Hoihow Harbour not 400 yards from the 8.5. Tean when the outbreak occurred. Although considerable shooting must have been heard, no attention was apparently paid.
Mr, Drummond relates that as General Tsci Ting-kai, who has been carrying out anti-Communist raids in Hainan, was aboard as a passenger, it was at first thought that the pirates were searching for "Reds." It was subsequently revealed that the capture of the General was one of the gang's main objectives, but by clever strategy he outwitted them.
Some apprehension was felt on board when H.M.S. Somme was sighted, as the pirates bad liberally distributed kerosene over the ship, and had threatened to set fire to the vessel if there was any interference.
ANTI-RED GENERAL'S STRATEGY.
Dealings With Soviet,
not yet sailed, -
The upper reaches of the river are still unsafe for shipping owing to bandits. The Jardine Matheson 8.8. Kingwo_reports that she was
Shanghai, May 21. Mr. George Sokolsky, writing in fired upon from Anping, which is the North China Daily News, as-about 122 miles above lchang.
It is presumed that the attack serts that there is a deadlock in the Nationalist Government over the
organised by WAR
bandits appointment of a new Foreign Naval Wireless. Minister. The "old men" of Nan- king aro insisting that Mr. Hwang Fu will remain, while the returned student clique are pressing for the appointment of Dr. C. T. Wang, who is Feng Ya-hsiang's candidate.
Mr. Sokolsky briefly refers "to the efforts of certain groups in the Kuomintang to bring about a new alliance with the Soviet," re- ferring presumably to the recent to Shanghai of Tass return
Rover, Agency's representative allegedly at the invitation of the highest Nationalist circles...
Rover was arrested after his ar- rival at the request of the Chin- ese Defenca Commissioner And handed over to the local Chinese authorities. He was bailed out | and is now' believed to be carry- ing on negotiations for a rap- prochement between the Nation-
There were three European pas- passenger. He also thought thatulists and the Soviet-Reuter. sengers on the pirated bont, these it was General Tsol himself who being Mr. and Mrs. Powys Drum- had given those orders for the mond and Mr. Paul Melrose. ship to be searched. So when he
Mr. Drummond has been for saw two rather frowsy individuals many years in the service of the peering through the doorway, Mr. Asiatic Petroleum Company (South Drummond felt rather annoyed China), and with Mrs. Drummond was returning to Hongkong from Hoihow.
that his slumbers should be thus disturbed. He gave them scanty attention. but ordered them to go
way and not return.
FENGTIEN ATTACK·
SUCCEEDS.
"
Southerners Driven 30 Miles.
Peking, May 28. The fear of trouble with the Jap- anese at Shanhaikunn and other has had the effect of stiffening the points on the Manchurian border
Mr. P. Melrose is an American missionary. He was born in Hai- nan Island and is returning to the United States, being a passenger on the Empress of Asia, which is Hot take umbrage at this recep- Fenglien ranks, and the Ankuu-
due to sail to-morrow.
·
it was strange that the pirates did In the light of what followed,
tion. In point of fact, they meek-chan has definitely decided not cabin, but only fully to resist the Southern Mr. and Mrs. Drummond still re- maintained a watchful guard out-advance, but to open a big offen- tained a vivid recollection when side the door. seen by a Telegraph reporter this morning at the Savoy Hotel.
Of their experiences on the Tean, ly went out of the
Mr. Drummond stated that be- tween 30 and 36 pirates bourded the Tean at Holhow, concealing their intentions until they had per fected what appeared to be a well organized attack.
Well Treated.
sive campaign in the near future. have Heavy troop movements taken place in the last day or two,
WEST INDIES WIN EASILY.
CONSTANTINE TAKES TEN VARSITY WICKETS.
London, May 28. Two days sufficed for the match between the West Indics and Cam- bridge Univeralty at Cambridge, the tourists being victorious by nine wickets.
Cambridge were rattled out for low scores in each innings, L. S. Constantine doing the damage,
The scores were:
Cambridge U.: 141 and 155. West Indies: 257 and 40 (for
1 wicket).
The Police charged the riotous mob at Doubrovnik repeatedly and many were injured. They were marching on the Italian School when the police intervened,
Crowds also tried to attack the Italian Consulate at Zagreb, but the police were able after a series of charges to prevent the crowds from reaching their objective. Several were injured in the dia- turbances. Reuter.
Italy Protests,
Rome, May 28.- Demonstrations have been held in several towns in Italy in protest against the "provocative attacks against Italy" which are reported from Jugo-Slavia.
Organised, processions have taken place in the streets, and the crowds have been parading sing- ing patriotic songs. So far there have been no disorders. Neuter.
Fascists Attack Consulate,
Belgrade, May 28. According to the newspapers Italian Fascists yesterday attack- In the Cambridge first innings,ed the Yugo-Slav consulate in Constantine took five wickets for Zara and bent the staff, injuring
A second man was charged with possession of 374 taels of raw opium, and he also pleaded-hot guilty.
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According to the evidence of a detective two baskets among the passengers baggage in the steer ge quarters, were claimed by the
defendant.
Nothing incriminating was found inside the baskets but in false bottoms the opium mentioned in the charge was discovered,,
The defendant declared that neither of th baskets belonged to them and did not know how the key got into his pocket.
The defendant was convicted and fined $9,400 or six months' hard labour in default.
him. He left his coat on one of
BIG U.S. GOLD SHIPMENT.
FOR BANK OF ENGLAND
RESERVES.:
New York, May 28, The liner Aquitania is convey-
London.
35 runs, while in the second, the. Smitch the consul who hading $15,000,000 worth of gold to
same player took 5 wickets for 51.
For the West Indies, M, P. Fer. to be sent to hospital-Reuter. nandes contributed 73 before losing his wicket-Reuter
SPLIT.
A Dlaquieting Situation.
C
,
and a
As the case proceeded the ques tion of a brother having used the defendant's name arose suggestion by Mr. F. C. Hall of a conspiracy between the brothers was refuted by Mr. Horace Lo, who was supported by the judge in this respect.
-Sapooran Singh, moneylender. of Prince's Building, Dea. Voeux Road Central, sued Yip Ping-chun, 17, Hing Hon Road, and Woo
House Street, for $1.000 being Chok-yuc, of the Hotel Savoy Ice
note: dated August 17, 1927.) An additional amount and interest, in excess of the claim was waived to bring the action within the Jurisdiction of the court,
Principal due under, a promissory
Mr. F. C. Hall was for the plain- tiff and Mr. Horace Lo defended.
At the outset the question of scr- vice upon Woo Chok-yue, who was not present, arose when Mr. Hall
intimated that Sapooran Singh was satisfied to proceed against. Yip Ping-chun only..
The Wrong Man.. Sapooran Singh said that he had lent the sum of $1,200 to Yip Ping-chun in Ewo amounta, the first payment being $1,000 and the Bocond $200, for which the bor rower signed a promissory noto. Nothing had been, repaid. Plain- tif said that he went to 17 Hing. Hon Street with a bailiff when the defendant claimed to be Yip Ping- chun, but was not the borrower.
Sapooran Singh admitted that It is understood that the trans. he had no claim on the defendant. nction is on behalf of a private in court and had not lent him any Landon, May 28.
consignee, whose identity has not money. An order for substituted service of the writ was obtained. The serious anti-Italian domon-been disclosed.
Replying to Mr. Lo, plaintiff said The shipment is the second that when the defendant answered. LABOUR CONVENTIONstration in Jugo-Slavia, in conne-
xion with which the Italian within a week.
to the writ he refused to serve it. Minister at Belgrade has formally
United States bankers believe it The man was a brother to the man protested, da indicative of the
is being added to the gold reserve who had borrowed the money, and disquieting situation centring of the Bank of England, which is had promised to try and get the. round the so-called Nettuno Con-requiring a larger reserve owing amount repaid. vention. The latter is the Italo- to its co-operation with other
Yip Ping-chan, in evidence, said · Banks in the Government plan for that he was the only person of that Jugo-Slav agreement, concluded in 1926, regulating the numerous the amalgamation of the currency name living at 17 Hing On Street questions not settled by the peace note issues. Reuter's American and produced a passport to prove
his identity. treaties.
Up to the present Jugo-Slavia has not ratified the Convention, but the Premier, Mr. Marinkovitch,
BRITISH PROPOSAL IS REJECTED.
Geneva, May 28. The International Labour Office, Some time later, as Mr. Drum-thousands of Fengtien troops hay- mond ventured out of his cabin, heing been despatched towards by 12 votes to 11, rejected the wis.stopped by two men who had Tientsin and the Peking-Hankow British Government's proposal for been squatting outside. They ask- Railway in the vicinity of Paoting-a revision of the Washington Con- him if he had a gun, and he told fu, in the course of the past few vention. Chem he had none. Mr. Drum- days.
named with a reservation.
Service.
DENOUNCED.
Y
Questioned by Mr. Hall, hin, said he had three other brothers, ons
of whom had gone to Japan.
The defendant called an elder brother who testified that the de- fendant was Yip Ping-chun and that none of the other brothers. bore that name...
The proposal was supported by recently submitted a rathecation BRITISH COMMUNISTS In planning their daring enter mond saw that the two men were Severe fighting has taken place prise, the pirates paid scanty aten- armed; and it was then there in the region of Paolingfu, and the the British employers delegate, motion to the Skuptshtina, in Jon to the presence of a Chinese was able to size up the situation Southerners have been forced back Canada, and Germany, the last-consequence, it being alleged, of the inelstence of a London bank- man-of-war, which, anchored in and realised that he had fallen Wangtu is about thirty miles south Poland and France, as well as by relations must be placed on
to Wangtu with heavy losses. It was opposed by Belgium, ing group that Italo-Jugo-Slav MR, J. R. CLYNES ON THEIR the road-stead only 400 yards into the hands of pirates.
HYPOCRISY.. away, appeared to be oblivious to
on friendly and durable footing es a Thereafter, Mr. Drummond and of Paotingfu, and the Northerners Miss Margaret Bondfield,
'British the oxciting doings on board the his wife were careful to remain in are now consolidating their gains. behalf of
workers. condition of granting a loan to:
London, May 28,
His Lordship remarked that Mr. their cabin, where they were left At Hokienfu and Tsangchow, the
Belgrade..
The well-known Labourite, Mr. Hall's client had no case... which the fairly undisturbed for a day, ex- other points upon
The submission of the ratifica-J. R. Clynes, in the course of his cept when a pirate, who spoke
Northerners are chiefly concentral-
tion motion stirred up Jugo-Slav Presidential address at the Con-
Tean,
A Concerted Attack.
Reuter.
.
A
Application for Judgment,
Shortly before four o'clock on broken English and who appeared ed, little other than skirmishing Sunday morning as the Tenn was to be a man of some importance, has taken place, the Southerners BOROTRA & BRUGNON opposition, starting in a violent greas of the National Union of one of the younger brothers used lying in darkness in the roadstead periodically put his head into the having withheld their attacks on
at Holhow, the pirates, who had cabin as if to satisfy himself that the place, while the Fengtien lend- disposed themselves on various the passengers were still there.
ers are awaiting the promised re-
before inforcementa
launching parts of the ship, curried out a 'con-
Occasionally, provisions would their offensive, Naval Wireless. certed attack.
be taken into the cabin, and on Being anxious that the steamer the whole Mr. Drummond express-
More Planes. should leave the harbour before ed himself as being well-treated. dawn, they ordered the raising of
The pirates, however, took away
General Chang Houch-liang; has
WIN DOUBLES.
HARDCOURT MATCH GOES TO FIVE SETS.
Paris, May 28. In the final of the Men's Doubles
courts tournament at Autieul, Ro. rotra and Brugnan defeated Co- chet and De Buzelet after a hard struggle by three acts to two, 6-4, 13-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4---Reuter.
the anchor. When one of the sea all his wife's jewellery including requested more military planes mon demurred, or showed himself her wedding ring, and they also for Manchuria, to assist the Championship in the French Hard-
alack at the task, ond of
the stole
Northerners
a watch and some money Hankow railway Hne.
pirates hit him over the head with from him.
an axe and laid him out,
Mr. Drummond was at that time
with his wife in a cabin, so the
earlier incidents of the piratical
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Treat to Burn Ship.
It was an anxious moment for operations were a matter of hear those on board when the pirated say as for an he was concerned. ship steamed inte Bias Bay and a Not until some time afterwards whisper went round, being first did the significance of the situn- conveyed to him by Mr. Foo Ping-
tion dawn on him.
the
Peking-
NATIONALIST PLANS. Concerted Counter-Attack in
View.
DAVIS CUP MATCH RESULT.
FIGHT FOR SOCCER TICKETS.
Mr. Hall replied that ently the name of the defendant in Press campaign against Italy. Ceneral and Municipal Workers, signing the promissory note. “I The recent rioting is ascribed to at Keswick, Cumberland, castigat ask you to give me judgment this.-Reuter.
ed the minority movement and against Yip Ping-chun, not this the Communists.
defendant, because. the man is He declared that the Commun- till in the Colony." Mr. Hall ista, while pretending to seek added that the plaintiff had seen. unity, cut themselves adrift from the man only a short while ago.
His Lordship said he could not the main current of Labour ac- tivity and then make hypocritical give judgment requested; appeals for admission to the "You will have to find your man, Party, which they grossly misreThe plaintiff would, no doubt, It was rather a present and whose officers they know him." shamefully abuse-Reutor. serious case If the borrower's
name was not Yip Ping-chun.
In opposing Mr. Hall's annlles- tion for judgment Mr. Lo Bald. It was ridiculous to ask his Lord- ship to give such a judgment The plaintiff had frankly admitted that he had not lent any money-to- the defendant in court.
DUTCH POLICE CHANGE AN UNRULY MOB.
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TEXTILE WORKERS
CONGRESS:
INTERNATIONAL MEETING
IN BELGIUM.
Amsterdam, May 28. Riotuous acENES occurred to day, when a crowd of at least 70,000 was waiting at the office Shanghai, May 29.
set up for the anle of tickets for Orders have been given by the
the Olympic Tournament soccer match between Holland and Uru- Nationalist Army Headquarters kwan, that n gunboat had been for a general attack on Tientsin
guay, wighted. The fears of the for-and Peking, which will be carried
His Lordship agreed that he JAPAN TO MEET USA. IN The mateb is to be played on Thought It Was Search for "Reds," eigners were not allayed by the aut simultaneously by the Firat
May 30th, arid It appears that Inte
could not adopt that course. nows, as it represented for them Army Corps of Marshal Chiang
ZONE FINAL,
Remarking that the name on the comers to the office tried to die- When two pirates knocked at the supremo moment of their Kai-shek, the Second Army Corps
Ghent May 28. place people who had been waiting
promissory note was Yip Ping- his cabin and demanded admit ordeal.
of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang and
Montreal, May 28. '. tance, Mr. Drummond first thought
The pirates had distributed the Third Army Corps of General Japan defeated Canada in two in the queues in some cases for 24 At the annual meeting of the chun, Mr. Hall sad the best thing International Textile Workers Con- to do, if the plaintin saw the real that they were soldiers searching kerosine, all over tho vessel Yen Stri-san.
Davis Cup matches played to-day, hours and even longer. the ship for escaping Communists. and had declared that, should pro-
the police station Marshal Chiang, left for Sin-thus eliminating Canada, from the Fighting took place and even gress, it was anounced that defendant, was to seize him, and
tually the police were forced to America, Japan, China, Palestine take him to He was further sustained in this vocation be given them by the hslung yesterday to direct his tournament. Impression by the knowledge that appearance of any warship, they forces who are to marching along Japan now meets America in the charge the crowd with swords and various Balkan countries had Mr. Hall went on to ask permis General Tool Ting-kal, the Chief would set fire to the ship as in
final of the American Zone drawn Mans were injured in the requested affiliation therewith sion to call evidence with regard
Reuter melea Reuter.
(Continued, on Page 7.) of the military garrisoning Haf- the case of the Sunning piracy.
Reuter man Island, was on board as a (Continued on Page 14,)
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