THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1928.
A VLADIVOSTOK DISASTROUS FIRE IN MUSICAL JOTTINGS. HEAVY FIGHTING IN SHOP DENUDED OF
OUTRAGE.
BRITISH SEAFARER
IMPRISONED.
THREE MONTHS IN FILTHY SOVIET PRISON.
CANTON.
OVER TWO HUNDRED HOUSES DESTROYED.
MANY NOW HOMELESS.
To-night's Concert-Melba and "Sing 'em Muck"-The Franck Symphony Interruption-- Specially Recommended. Records.
[BY ALLEGRO.]
·THE NORTH,
FENGTIEN FORCES DEFEATED BY CHANG CHUNG-CHANG.
SURRENDER MOOTED.
Heavy Fighting.
Mina Cecilia Hansen gives Following the big fire which destroyed more than 100 houses in another vielin recital at the
A Nationalist report received in the Fong Chuen suburb, Canton, Theatre Royal to-night. I am some ten days ago, another big glad to see she is playing one of Hongkong by naval wireless states the the thres Grieg Violin and Piano that the Shantung-Chihli troops in conflagration broke out in TRIED BY A WOMAN. Shat suburb, near Taishatau, Sonatas, presumably the great one the Lanhsion-Auslan arce have Canton, early on Wednesday morn C minor, judging from the been disarmed by the Fengtien
on the ing resulting in some 250 housca tempo indications given
programme. The middle move- being gutted,
Shanghai, Sept. 15. After serving a term of Im- prisonment in a filthy Soviet prinon and being subjected to the inost intolerable indignities, Mr. W. H. 8. Ward, a British mercantile marine officer, has come to Shang- hai from Vladivostok and has brought with him a most singular story of the administration of justice by the Bolsheviks,
Mr. Ward was нecond engineer of the British str. Beckenham, which arrived at Vindivostok on June 16 with a cargo. of salt from the Black Sea for the Soviet Mer-
The cantile Fleet.
unloading facilities were very mengre and discharging was, therefore, slow, -which caused the vessel to remain
in port for some weeks.
Ariny,
STOCK.
WAS IT A SEIZURE OR
A PURCHASE?
ment is one of the most beautiful Chang Chung-chang has arrang-of the 'dobt. The first alarm was given at of Grieg's inspirations, while the ed to meet General Pei and also the Hop Shing Grocery shop, when Finale is an exciting race between Fang Yu-ting at Lanhsien, and it volumes of smoke and flames were seen emanating from the premises. piano and violin, each instrument is understood that they will dis- The rapidity with which the fire echoing the other, so much so that cuss terms of surrender.
Shanghai once, ono Indy was spread is explained by the fact after the performance of it in
were
It is reported that there has that a large number of the housesgreally put out because the been heavy fighting west of in the district are of the matshed players "never kept together." Changli botween the Fengtien type. All the Fire Brigade de-
The Gluck Molodio was played forces and the Chihli-Shantung tachments in the district were here by Zimbalist and the Sym- troops. Heavy casualties soon on the scene and they endeavphonic Espagnole of Lalo by sustained by both sides and it is oured to check the flames and met Thibaud, both being well-known believed that the Fengtion forces with a certain measure of success.
pieces in the violinist's repertoire. met with a temporary roveret. Unfortunately, probably due to These two, together with Pug
Reinforcements are now moving some burning debris dropping on mani's Praeludium and Allegro and west to support the Fengtion a near-by bamboo workshop, a miscellaneous group, comprise named Tin Kat, a second Are the attractive programme. It Is troops. broke out in the section of the dis- certain that Miss Innsen, in view A message from Wushan states trict with the result that work of of her success here last month, that a battle between soldiers and fighting the fire was greatly hin will be accorded a warm reception. handlits la now in progress in the dered. After a short while, yet
area between Kwelfu and Wushun, another fire broke out in another
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Mr. Ward and been nahoro a dozen times at least during the three weeks prior to the incident which resulted in his imprisotnear-by ahon, occupied by a fire-en reading in the papers that meat. During all these visita ashore, he was never questioned nor was he asked, either by word or gesture, to produce his pass
port.
Stopped by Sentry,
At about 11:15 p.m. on July & he returned to his ship and, whilst proceeding from one deck to another, he was violently pulled by the back of him coat by one of the many military gentries stationed on board by the Soviet Government.
wood dealer.
Buti
Money for Troops.
Not a few were puzzled lately
Melba had had a great ovation on
Peking, Sept. 19. At this juncture, when it be- her return to Australia, notwith- came apparent that the brigades atanding the "Sing 'em mack"
According to a report published in the vernacular papers Marshal in the focal district were not able episode, to which much publicity Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the Lo control the outbreak a message had been given. What was this Salt Commissioner, at Changlu, was immediately dispatched to the "Sing 'em muck" episode? No through the Finance Ministry, to city for assistance. The brigades body knew anything about it. furálsh $1,600,000 before the mid- on the East Bund, which is near to at last the mystery is solved. In Autumn festival for the expenses the scene of the fire, were the first n blugraphy of Dame Clara Butt of the Nationalist troops in the
written by Miss Winifred Ponder, Peking and Tientsin area. to respond to the call.
Again difficulties were en-there are frequent references to according to Musical countered, however, for Shati and Melb, the East Bund are separated by Opinion: "The Rumfords were a creek and in consequence only about to make a first tour in the smaller fire engines could get Australia, and Melba, being Aus to the scene,
trallan, was naturally intereste:i. Whether or not Miss Ponder was at hand to make a shorthand note of what felba said is not stated, but the diva is quoted as saying:
On the spur of the moment, Mr. Ward knocked the hand which pulled his coat away and told the
For fully three hours the three sentry, in English, to go away: fires raged, and, needless to say, The sentry could not understand the refugees, most of whom were small English and appeared to be of the of the poorer class and uneducated class. Having told traders, were in a most distressed the sentry to get out, Mr. Ward condition and the scene was one went
and of great confusion. Into
about The blaze was oventually got went to sleep but, at 2am. the next day, some officers under control at 5.30 in the morn- of the guardship
oning. The loss Is estimated at board and, through the officer on
over $100,000,
his
ruum
Came
watch, awakened Mr. Ward, They It is alleged that the origin of told him that they would return the fire was incendiarism, but later and that he should hear more this has not been confirmed. about his little incident with the guard,
on
Tried by Young Woman. The next next intimation Mr. Ward had of the affair was July 9, when the Chief of Police cantile Fleet came on board and asked him to accompany thum
A
Reuter.
Bombing Plone Despatched.
AN UNUSUAL ACTION. Cross-action's relating to bual- ness transactions between Chin- Summary Court this morning, be- ese Arms were opened in the fore Mr. Justice Jacks when it was alleged that gooda were wrongfully seized to meet a deb and that the value of the goods takon was about three times that:
Mr. Leo D'Almada remarked that the victimised shop was The plaintiffs were the Wai stripped of all it contained. Shing Firm, No. 303, Des Vooux Road West, who sued the Wing Lee Sult Shop, No. 4, Centre Street, ground floor, for $268.18. being the balance due for goods sold and delivered. The Wing Lee cross-nction, shop brought claiming the return of goods wrongly taken by the Wal Shing Firm in August valued at $949.50. The seized goods included powder salt, prepared salt. salt, gunny bags and grass bags. Mr. C. A. S. Russ was for the wai Shing firm while Mr. Leo D'Almada, senior, acted for the Wing Lee. The netions. were taken together,
Different Estimates.
raw
Mr. Russ remarked that as far an he could see the difference be- tween the two casos was, that whereas the defendant firm alleged plaintiffs wrongfully took goods, the latter alleged they purchased them in the ordinary course business through Wong Cheung- salesman. way, the defendants' Incidentally, the goods for which the Wing Lee were claiming $949. plaintiffs priced at $861.51.
Shanghai, Sept. 19. The Military Council yesterday despatched a bombing plane to as-is Lordship to
ist Pei Chung-hat's forces against the Chibli-Shantung remunnts.
Reuter.
Naval Manoeuvres.
of
the After explaining how amounts were arrived at, Mr. Russ said that the first point for consider WIN whether plaintiffs did unlawfully or whether they were obtained take away the defendants gooda during the ordinary course of business through their recognised salesman.
If the plaintiff failed on that point, continued Mr. Russ, then they were able only for the value of the goods and not the contract price. Another point was whether
the alleged seized goods were worth $940.50 or $300 odd, or something between those two prices.
Wong Kwang-chi, manager and nssistant salesman of the Wai- Shing firm, said that since the ffth noon, he had supplied goods to the defendant. In those trans- netion's he dealt with Wong!
on the order of Li Wang-chung. Buyers and Sellers.
"So you are going to Aus- tralin. Well, I made twenty
Shanghai, Sept. 19. thousand pounds on my tour?
Naval manoeuvres, under the there, but of course that will never be done again. Still, it's direction of the commanders of the a wonderful country, and you'll first and accond squadrons are to have a good time. What are be held in the latter part of this are you going to sing? All I can month, Seventeen gunboats
near Ray in, sing 'em muck: ils all assembled at Tashenkwan,
Nanking, and more are coming they can understand!'
from ap river and from Nanking Most of the occupants of the
"What the Rumfords made on Reuter. destroyed matsheds were boatmen, this four is not stated; but hundreds of whom are now home-although they sang some popular
Troop Disbandment, a big angs and ballads, they felnded,
Shanghai, Sept. 19. less. These people held meeting shortly after the fire and clafen items in their pro-
It is reported that an official grammes, and the Australian who was sent to pay off the 46th they decided to send a joint appeal and the agent of the Soviet Mer-to the many charitable socleties in audiences proved quite as appre-Army at Paoying 'Grand Canal on Cheung-wal, the goods being sold elative of the latter as of the Despite the seriousness of the former. There were even special fupehese and $11 for Cantonese Canton for, relief.
the basis of $2 for Hunanese and ashare to make a statement which outbreak, so far no casually as requests for Giordani, Hand has been killed by the soldiery.-
because the been reported, but a large number Schumann and Schubert, Quite of chickens and pigs were destroy-so; but if the classical' stuff gous ed in the fire,
down as well as the 'muck',why
The Kallan Mines. do our singers of the Melba-Butt After asking, many unimportant
type вінд the 'muck'? No
Peking, Sept. 19. questions, his interrogators asked
explanation of The mining area around Tong Mr. Ward if he had struck the said "You must vot knock our satisfactory
which ho replied policemen about as von du in Eng that predilection of theirs has shan is now quiet and all the mines Hentry, to
working is aro
normally. Couri aver been forthcoming. It that he had not. He admitted that land."
assume that a trains are running more frequently On July 24, a young offeer and reasonable to he had knocked the sentry's hand away but denied striking him a young woman came on board the singer with the populace at her to Tientsin-Reuter. He said also that he thought that, str. Beckenham and asked Mr. foot can persuade her public tai
Most critics being aboard his own ship, there Ward to go ashore with them. listen to anything.
The Council of the National Ins- WAR no necessity to show his They did not mention that he was will agree to place Melba as a
vorilist in a class above Dametitute of Agricultural Botany have passport to anyone, and that, if going to be detained.
He was taken to a sub-stationButt; but most will also place awarded the Snell Memorial Medal the sentry had been doing his duty,
to Professor the latter should have shot him and detained in a temporary pri-them together in a class whose for the year 1927 then and there if he had struck him. He was told to appear later before a civil court, which he did a few days later,
he willingly did nature of the incident was trivial.
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Reuter.
son all night and the next morning, influence on the popular taste of Paul A. Murphy for his study of
the virus diseases of the potato. at eight o'clock, he was taken from this place by a policeman with a louded revolver and marched through the streets. Incidentally,
the pavement.
When he appeared before this tribunal, he found that his judge he was not permitted to walk on
WAS
a young woman, who
was
Filthy Prison.
assisted by another young woman and a young man. Who the latter were Mr. Ward did not know,
He, was taken to the prison of He was given a defending Vladivostok and there placed in a solicitor who spoke a little English most congested cell with four bat there was no official Inter-Koreans. There was only suff- protor. This difficulty was over-elent room for four rough beds come when a man who spoke some and the place was filthy. There English was brought in, volun-was little ventilation and the room tarily, from outside.
was very damp. After he had Three-Month Sentence, been there for half an hour, a Rus- The charge against Mr. Ward sian from one of the other calla able to speak a little was that he struck the guard and who was that he falled to produce his pass-English came to the cell and spoke
to him, asking if he were Eng nort when called upon to do so: His defence was that he had been lah. Upon Mr. Ward replying ashore so many times before with that he was, the man sald he would out being accosted that he thought 800 someone and try to get him that all the guards were familiar into his cell. This ho did and Mr. with him and that there was no Ward found himself in a cell with hecesalty to show his passport. three Russians as fellow prisoners. He said also that, being on board Conditions in thle cell were simi- a British ship, he considered him-lar to the other.,
self in England and under the Betier Condlilons Obtained laws of England and, therefore, his passport was not required, but he was prepared to show it to any one who asked him, by word or gesture, on shore.
Upon being admitted to this Immediately place, Mr. Ward
wrote a letter to the manager of the International Club, telling hira
As to the alleged assault of the of the awful conditione as he
sentry, he admitted whipping his hand away from behind la coat
found them and said that he thought it was extremely bad
but denied actually or wilfully trentment for a British mercantile
atriking the man. The result was that he was sentenced to threa months' imprisonment with forced labour, without, the option of a fine.
Different from England. An appeal was lodged but this was unsuccessful. The Soviet
officer. He concluded that, after this letter, had been translated in the office of the captain of the prison, arrangements wore made to remove him to the hospital, where conditions, were a little bet
ter...
(Continued on Page 8.)
CLAWS
FACE. BY MEG SERVICE, INC.
The boy who left home because he was tired of his
mother's cooking.
Since the fifth moon the total value of goods supplied to the defendant firm was $1,224.93 and of that amount $600 had been paid by four instalments, leaving a balance of $624.93 which was ad- mitted.
Witness added that in turn his firm had bought goods from de- fendants, the purchases being made through Wong Cheung-wai. It was not true that his firm took the goods unlawfully as they were purchased through the proper channels.
Replying to Mr. D'Almada, In cross-examination, witness and was not trua that on August 7, be- cause the defendant firm owed. $600 add, he directed some fokis, In the absence of the manager, to take away goods from the defen- darita' shop. The goods they bought were not worth $100 odd. He did not act in collusion with Wong Cheung-wal.
Mr. D'Almada:-You know, if you bought these goods, you bought everything from the shop, leaving nothing, not even a single, gunny bag? We did not buy up everything in the shop.
The caso was adjourned,
BRASS HIDDEN IN HAT.
DOCK WORKMAN FINED AT KOWLOON.
At the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, a Chinese workman of the Kowloon Docks was charged; before Mr. W. Schofield, with stealing three pleces of brass. Mr. "Kid" Marriott prosecuted.
Sub-Inspector James told Ha Worship that the defendant was searched after leaving the docks last night, and, on his hat being taken off, one, brass ring was found He was resting on his head. Immediately taken to the Police Station where a thorough search of the defendant was made by the police. In one of his pockets another-piece of brass was dis- covered, while concealed inside the lining of his hat the police found a third plees.
The defendant, who was stated to have been ten years in the om- ploy of the Dock, was fined $25, or three weeks' hard labour.
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