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LADY'S LIFE WITH BANDITS. NIGHT OF TERROR WAR OFFICE PLANS ATLANTIC LINER UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
RECOUNTED.
MISS TOBIN'S EXPERIENCES "HSIN CHI" SURVIVORS
IN CAPTIVITY.
OVER A MONTH WANDERING IN
KWANGSI WOODS.
HIDDEN IN CAVE FOUR DAYS
Full details are to hand to-day from our Wuchow corres- pondent of the experiences which Miss Blanche Tobin, of the Church Missionary Society, suffered whilst in the hands of a gang of bandits who held her captive for forty-four days. She was eventually released on the 2nd instant on payment of ransom totalling $10,200 (Kwangst currency). The original demand was for $36,000....
An interesting feature now disclosed is that Miss Tobin was taken in error for the Rev. C. J. Lowe. Only on three nights during her captivity did she sleep in a house, the rest of the time, apart from four days in a cave, being spent in woods.
Once only was any violence resorted to, this being when the brigand chief, in a fit of anger, struck her twice with, a rotten stick.
IN SHANGHAI.
DUAL DANGER OF STRANDING
AND PIRACY.
THE CAPTAIN PRAISED.
Shanghai, Nov. 14.
DEFENCE FORCE TO LEAVE NEXT TROOPING SEASON.
COMMONS QUESTIONS.
DISASTER.
OVER HUNDRED STILL MR. BALDWIN ON LACK OF
MISSING.
UNDERSTANDING.
SMASHED RAFT'S GRIM STORY OF FATE.
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London, Nov, 18. The number of British troops in China and the reluctance' of the authorities to order, withdrawals In spite of the, improved situation, formed the subject of questions 215 SURVIVORS FOUND. in the House of Commons to-day.
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, A battered raft, smashed by
people, clinging desperately to wreckage, bear grim testimony to the disaster to the British mall sta-steamer Vestris off the American
| arrived here, bringing the foreign informed the House that at the an American battleship of six
passengers from the China Mer- present time, there were soven in chants steamer Hsin Chi, lying fantry battalions with ancillaries in China, in addition to the normal wrecked on Tal Island.
garrison of three battalions tioned there in 1926.
The survivors tell a graphic story [of a night of terror spent on the vessel after she went aground, and say that the ship was looted by pi-
rates from slem to stern.
Directly the ship hit a submerged' rock, the majority of the crew became panic-stricken, and some Chinese were drowned when they plunged overboard.
Ladies' Composure.
The foreigners, including a num- ber of indice, preserved the utmost composure, despite the panic below. The rescued passengers pay high tributes to Captain Tollefsen, the master of the Isin Chi, for his ad- mirable seamanship and self-posses-
On being released, Miss Tobin was in a state of consider able physical weakness, due to the fact that she had been half-starved, for whilst there was sufficient food, it was only partly cooked and was both unpalatable and indigestible. After a few days' rest, Miss Tobin, according to latest reportssion amidst the dual danger of the to hand, hoped to resume her interrupted journey under escort.sinking of the ship and a piraticnt
MISTAKEN FOR REV. C. J. LOWE.
WAS
It will be recalled that Miss To- met, but he was not at home bin was captured on September when they arrived; he came in 18th whilst on the way to Kweilin later about dusk. In a houseboat, Miss Watkins, who It was a hot day and so Miss was with her, also being seized Tobin sat outside where a rough
her by by the bandits. However, Miss meal was brought to Watkins was soon released, as she the Chinese girls, and after this Interviewed by the was unable to keep pace with the she bandits in their hurry to get away, brigand chief. He immediately Recounting the incidents which brought up the subject of ransom followed, aur correspondent re- which he said would have to be ports that as Misa Watkins was ample as he had many people to sent, back by the robbers, the rest pay, and so he named 36,000 of the captives, Mies Tobin and Kwangi dollars as the sum which the two daughters of the boatman, informed him that she herself would secure her freedom. She were hurried up the hill. Miss was not able to pay anything at Tobin repeatedly tried to delay by all, and she knew the Church feigning fatigue, but loaded ritles would not ransom her, and her were used to overcome any fur friends could not raise so large ther reluctance to proceed at the a sum. pace her captors set. With only After much talk, the figure was short occasional pauses for rest, reduced to $10,200 (which was they went on through the whole the amount actually paid) and she of the first night, up and down was instructed to write Jetiora very high hills, but as Mias Tobin to her friends that this should was in fair condition and well be sent 10 the Chaoping shud, she was able to carry on magistrate, who would send it well.
into the band, This, however, was not done until the next morn-
Tarches and Pinres.
ing. That night, Miss Tobin slept For the first part of the night in a room with four beds occupied. the brigands had electric torches by three persons each, but she was given a mist on the floor and to light the way, but as these gave one of the blankets taken from the oul, they used fares instead, hout by her captors. which would seem to Indicate that The next day, Misa Tobin wrote in that part of the route they three letters these being addressed were not in fear of pursuit, as had to Mr. Jaffray, Mr. Cannell and been the case the previous even- Bishop Holden. They were sup ing before durk, when one of them posed to have been posted, but went ahead to the summit of the nothing further has been heard hill to see if men were following of them. After performing this task, them, for from that height the Miss Tobin went out, to sit on the river was still visible, and in this hillside, but was soon called back way the man would point out the and compelled to remain indoors all day. It was explained to her way the rest should proceed.
Occasional houses were passed that there were "bad men" about on the following morning and in who were trying to get her and she the valleys there were well-water- had to be carefully guarded.
ed rice fields Irrigated by wooden
pumps and with a promising second crop. At about 9 a.m. the
Taken in Error.
attack.--Our Own Correspondent.
Pirates Captured.
The interesting fact was dis- closed by the naval authorities last night that H.M.S. Serapis had succeeded in capturing two junks of pirates with loot, which they had taken from the China. Mer- chantd steamer Hain Chi after they had sot her afire as she lay
wrecked off Tai Island, near Swnlow.
It will be recalled that the Sera- pin, on arriving on the scene in the early hours of yesterday morn- ing, discovered that the Hsin Chi had been burned by pirates who got away in junks. The destroyer then evidently cruised in the loca lity and was successful in locating crews are to be handed over to two of the junka, which, with the the Chinese authorities in due course:
Others of the pirates got away
in small fishing boats, whilst some loot was transferred to huts situated near the spot where the Iisin Chi went aground.
Rescue of Crew.
The captain and crew of the Isin Chi must have been aboard the ship when the pirates came on boaril, and they are being taken off by the China Merchants 3.8. Haean, which arrived on the scene yesterday morning.
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Io agreed that no withdrawal had occurred alnce June this year,
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ANOTHER STEAMER IN DISTRESS.
Socony Tanker Sends Out S.O.S. Signal.
NO POSITION GIVEN,
New York, Nov. 18. News has reached here of another atcomer being in dis- tress. This is the American tanker Kingsbury, which lins a tonnage of 4,000 tons.
She sent out an "8.0.8." signal at six o'clock this even- ing, but her position was not given...
First reports stated that the Kingsbury was a British cargo steamer, but the naval authorities later ascertained that she is a tanker owned by the Standard Oil Company.— Renter's American Service.
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and none was contemplated at the present time. Further reductions local situation, which advisers did would entirely depend upon the not now regard as sufficiently
stabillaed.
originally sent, ten infantry and Of eighteen additional battalions one of Royal Marines had left,
Under existing conditions, Sir Laming added, six other infantry battalions would leave at the first trooping season.
Regiment is going to Tlentsin on The lat Battalion of the Border normal garrison duty.-Reuter
DEMPSEY, TO RETURN TO THE RING?
coast.
The many stenniers which an- swered to the distress signals and rushed at full speed to the scene of the tragedy, have pleked up about 200 survivors, but some thirty hours after the doomed shifp had been abandoned, over a han- dred passengers and members of the crew were still missing, and hopes are gradually lessening that they will be rescued.
Treacherous Seas.
The lifebonta had throughout to contend against trencherous sens, but the great majority weathered the storms and have been found. Others of the 330 persons on board were forced to take to a raft, which has been found broken to pieces. Many corpses hava been sighted.
The story of the tragedy is con- veyed in the following mesangas from Now York:
New York, Nov, 13.
Wireless messages from the ves-
ALOOFNESS OF
U. S. STATESMEN FROM GENEVA.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTED
President Coolidge's Armistice Day speech was among the subjects touched upon by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Premior, in the course of a statement on the Anglo-French naval com- promise in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Lloyd George had attacked the Government policy, and asked that it be made clear that the Pact had been abandoned..
Mr. Baldwin agreed that the work of disarmament must' begin all over again, but declared that the compromise was an honest attempt to end the Geneva deadlock.
He refused to believe that the British reservation to the Kellogg Pact and the negotiation of the compromise had aroused suspicion in the United States, but declared that the lack of mutual understanding between Europe and America, as stressed by President Coolidge, was largely due to the absence of personal, contact.
Statesmen of Europe and statesmen of the United States, he pointed out, seldom met, and therefore, found it difficult to understand their mutual idiosyncrasies. He urged all con- cerned to study the differences between the political systems of the two countries.
NAVAL COMPROMISE STATEMENT.
London, Nov. 13, there was a tendency for every
The Premier's statement was in country to run up the maximum sels searching in the vicinity of the reply to Mr. Lloyd George, the fixed in classes of ships and to spot where the Vestris foundered Liberal leader, who had moved as see that the maximum in numbers show that at 10.50 am, two hun-an amendment to the Address In was the maximum in strength too. dred and four survivors of the dis- Reply to the King's Speech that
The Rhineland.
aster had been picked up.
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the House considered that the
The German liner Berlin picked compromise endangered the pros- Mr. Baldwin also referred to up 21, the s.8. America Shipperpect of peace in Europe and good the question of the Rhineland. rescued 90 members of the crew and relations with the United States, He said the Government's attitude passengers, while 53 per regretted the abandonment of the had always been the same. They are safe on board the a.s.principle of the limitation of small wanted to see the evacuation of Myrlan.
Hubmarines and cruisers, and con- the Rhineland but they could Hundred Missing.
Ridered that the basis of naval not compel evacuation and If discussions should bo an exton- we walked out of the Rhineland, The U.S.S. Wyoming, a battle-sion of the Washington Treaty to how would it advance that ship which has been scouring the all classes of combatant ships and object by one atop? It might in- region, came nerosa six survivors that the exclusion of reservists deed cause greater difficulties,
from the computation of Fronch He thought there was real hope
sengers and crew have been rescued Versailles and of the Locarno mittees that were now being zot Washington learns that all the pas- the spirit both of the Treaty of might bo
The Coastguard Headquarters at military strength was contrary to that before long this matter
settled by the com
with the exception of one party which left the sinking ship on a Trenty, raft. The raft is missing,
clinging to wreckage.
Later.
ր.
Mr. Baldwin sald the compro- The first and early stages mine waa no more than a perfectly of the negotiation and the dis..
and straightforward cussione between the Powers on It is now clear that thirty hours honest
desire to a spirit, and with a after the skipper of the Vestris or attempt to get out of the deadlock this subject, had been opened in dered the vessel to be abandoned, which had occurred at Geneva,
The Government had been settle, which he hoped and be- over one hundred passengers and crew, the majority being passen-strongly criticised on the ground lieved would lead to the liquida- gers, are still missing.
that they had made concessions to tion of the last troublesome and conferred some remnant of wartime in the Rhine- Any hope of further rescues France
land. immunities upon her. lessens hourly.
The American battleship reports A Sali Gabelle launch, with an armed guard, visited the spot on
having discovered the missing raft which apparently was broken up by Saturday, presumably before the pirates looted the ship, but left TEX RICKARD NEGOTIATING corpses have been sighted--Reu- the heavy seas. A number of later.
ter's American. Service.
The Sarapis reports that the Hsin Chi was looted, before being burned, and now only the hull re- mains.
SERIOUS CYCLONE IN ARGENTINA.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN STORM.
WITH EX-CHAMPION,
New York, Nov. 13. Jack Dempsey, the former heavy- weight champion of the world, and Tex Rickard have been discussing the possibility of the return of Dempsey to the ring, according to authentic reports.
It is planned that Dempsey, I he agrees to fight again, will stage his come-back with a bout against
Cause of Disaster.
The French Angle..
Dealing with our relations with France the Premier spoke of Mr.
Ile pointed out that France re- Ramsay MacDonald's polley in always had been. Franco regard- he wrote that it was mained a conscript country as she 1324 regarding disarmament, when a polley ed conscription as an essential which could only be initiated if part of the doctrine of democracy. France and England were agreed. When Mr. MacDonald was in Conseription in France dated from Later.
office he never wavered in the Revolution. The captain of the Vestris
It was not only on grounds of application of that method confirms the supposition that national security against external dealing with the European sitan- the disaster was caused by the enemies that the French had had tion and his efforts were success- shifting of cargo in the course of conscription and the existence of ful. a violent gale.
The sa, Myriam reports that she has picked up eleven more surviors.
·
Same as Labour,
the
of
The present Government did
a conscript array did not neces- sarily make a country militaristic. Franco hold the view that if every man had to go and fight not mean to deviate from a polley Paolino Uzcudun, who was recently Apparently, there were no when war began, the masses of which they had tried to pursue Buenos Aires, Nov. 13. son, and who was reinstated to-day foundered shin, but almost the f to think about war, and statesmen which, so far as its cordial un
auspended for a foul against Peter British passengers on board the the people would be lean inclined ever since they had been in office," At this point it became clear to
derstanding of the French was Fifteen persons have been kill- at a meeting of the New York State entire crew was British. would think twice before they concerned, was the same as had party came to a decent sort of her that she had been taken ined and over fifty injured as the re- Athletic Commission.
The es, Berlin with twenty-ordered them to go and fight, house where they greeted the oc- error, for they had continually in suit of a cyclone which swept the
been pursued by Mr. MacDonald. cupant as "Laopan, and to him sisted that she was a man and Province of Cordoba, creating scri- forthcoming to indicate the result
No definite announcement is three persons rescued is already on its way to New York, but the
Not a Treaty.
It was not an exclusive poifey: they showed the money and the ale an American. They told ous havoc.
was not directed against anyone. of the conference between Rickard Navy Department has ordered the
It was other roceeds of the loot obtain her they had been informed by
Regarding the criticism that the
a policy of worlding. In The extensive damage Includes and Dempsey, but it is reported U.S.S. Wyoming and nine coast ed on the previous day. It was a friends in Wushow of a big house the destruction of a large electrical that the champion is in our guard vessels to continue to search compromise was directed against close co-operation with France, well-built house and fairly well boat preparing for days there, and works, while it is reported that receptive mood" than for some time the waters during the night for other countries, especially the but also co-operation with all they had planned to detain the over thirty buildings have been de regarding propositions that he the 120 persons who are still miss- United. States, Mr. Baldwin point- other countries. It had been felt
furnished.
traveller in order Here a hall of half an hour was
to liquidate stroyed or badly wrecked, Reuter.
Later. made and Miss Tobin rested their financial difficulties.
There is not the slightest doubt
Forty-one persoNS awhile and was given tho first
were killed food since lunch the previous day, of Rov. C. J. Lowe, but character-cyclone in the vicinity of Villa that Miss Tobin was taken instead and 160 injured by the Cordoba two bowls of mien and a little rice. letically Miss Tobin does not re-Maria-Reuter. The party was then told they gret the mistake, for although Mr.
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ould not stay there as there Lowe himself might have endured no room for them, and the physical strain better than so about 10 a.m. they started she, his two young children might off again through winding valleye have auffored mental injury of a of paddy.
permanent kind. However, the mistake did not alter the plane of
ETNA ERUPTION DAMAGE.
HUGE TOTAL GIVEN IN ESTIMATE.
Catania, Nov. 13.
should fight again. — Reuter's | ing. American Service.
THE SALVATION ARMY LEADER.
ed.. out that a telegram was in the remotest corners of Europe despatched to the United States and had contributed to the settle.
at of Stato Socrotary Capsized Life-Boat.
the ment of diaputes, which might, In Eight lifeboats and one make-beginning of August emphasising times past, have led to very serious
a troubles."
"Our one desire in our forelyn it was belug shift raft left the 8.8. Vestris. The that the agreement was not
treaty and that raft has ben found amashed, and submitted to the United States policy is the desire to heal the one of the life-boats capsized, in order that they should consider wounds caused by the war and to though some of the occupants wore its terms and give their consider- seo the peace of Europe con- inter picked up.
ed observations and. any aug solidated for the benefit of friends Details of the disaster are gostions.
and late enemies alike. meagro owing to the requistioning A similar message was sent to of all wireless facilities for rescue Italy and later to Germany. work, but a rescued man, who was Continuing Mr. Baldwin sald by President Coolidge that it was General Bramwell Booth, the found clinging to a place of that disarmament was simost as always plain that Europe and the leader of the Balvation Army, has wreckage said he saw a woman and rauch a matter of spirit as of United States lacked mutual un taken a turn for the worse, a bulle-children, sitting on a broken por-
GENERAL BOOTH'S GRAVE CONDITION.
London, Nov. 18.
The Baldwin.concluded with a reference to the statement made
thought Mr.
Brigand Chlef Appears. her captors and they demonstrated That afternoon at about 8 their belief in the equality of the o'clock they came to a poor ill. sexes by asking for as much for furnished house that had only her as they had in mind for him! beds in two rooms and with & That evening everything was loases, including devastated land, his condition during the Inst twenty continually dashing over them,
It is estimated that the total tin issued this evening staling that ton of the raft, with the waves letter and fust as in the minimum derstanding. He
wage, the tendency was for the Coolidge was right. single bench or table. Here were packed up and the whole band buildings, plant, roads, bridges four hours has been less satisfac
Premier's Regreta. a large number of men, twenty or marched off and went all through and railways, as a result of the tory.
minimum to become the maximum,
He regretted it profoundly, and thirty, with their women folk. the night. They evidently, lost Mount Etna eruption ameant to
so unless statesmen had real The great evangeliat is 72 years
courage and, unless they were it was very dificult to find the This was the place where the their way, ao scouts were sent out
supported by their own people
(Continued on Page 14) actual head of the band was to be (Continued on Page 11.)
| 160,000,000 lire. Reuter.
of age Reuter,
Another passenger was picked by the as. Berlin after being 22 (Continued on Page 7)