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DRAMATIC AFFAIR FORGED TRAMWAY OVER A YEAR IN A
IN HANKOW.
BOYCOTTERS CAUGHT BY MARINES.
POLICE LAUNCH & PRISONERS HELD BY JAPANESE.
OFFICIALS ACCUSED.
There is a prospect of further
SCRIP?
PORTUGUESE CHARGED AT THE MAGISTRACY.
$2,000 BAIL GRANTED.
Mr. Leo D'Almada Castro, Senior, represented the defendant this morning. Addressing his Worship, Mr. D'Almada atated that he understood that the police re $2,000. Mr. D'Almada said he had no objection to that course. He en- terad a plea of "Not guilty" on be half of Ġutierrez.
CHINESE GAOL.
PRISONER'S STORY OF
PRIVATION.
ONLY SURVIVOR OF FIVE HELD
WITHOUT TRIAL.
"PIRATE" AND PARADE.
THE KING.
SLOWLY GAINS IN STRENGTH.
ABSENCE OF BULLETIN CAUSE
OF SURPRISE.
The interval of sixty hours is the
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AMERICAN KILLED BY WAHABIS.
TRAGIC AMBUSH IN THE IRAKIAN DESERT.
DIPLOMATS ESCAPE.
Basra, Jan. 21. The terrible atrocities of the Wahabi ralders in Irait laat year, an outbreak only put down by vigorous action by the R.A.F. are
RIVAL RULERS IN AFGHANISTAN.
AMANULLAH RESCINDS
ABDICATION.
BACHA SAKAO'S STRANGE FOREIGN POLICY.
MORE VIEWS SOUGHT. recalled in sensational manner CIVIL WAR PROBABLE."
London, Jan. 21. of the Channel Tunnel Parliament
Sir William Bull the Chairman tary Committee has approached all whother they support or oppose the Chambers of Commerce to find out
tunnel scheme.
to-day, by news of a tragic affair in the desert in the course of which
Two motor-cars were killed. an American missionary has been
London, Jan. 21. A determined attempt by Aman- on their illah to regain his throne is likely way to Kowellt from Basra, con- to be the next important develop taining
ment in the Afghanistant altus- Mr. Charles Crane, the former tion, which is such as to give rise American Ambassador to China, to grave apprehension.
Mr. J. C. Crane, valet, and
Mr. Charles Jones, the latter's
American Mission at Basra,
The Rev. Henry Bilkert, of the
sensational developments, and the quired a week's remand and buil ot be seen before the parade, when and indicates that the fullest of five pounds for one week's work, a hundred Wahabi raiders. Some
longest since the King was taken ill antisfaction is felt with the King's progress.
There was a further development In the alleged forged share scrip case at the Central Magistracy this morning, when a Portuguese, named
VERY SATISFACTORY. R. M. Gutierrez appeured before Major C. Wilson on a charge of
London, Jan. 21. niding and abetting in the uttering
Though a bulletin regarding His Hankow, Jan. 21.
"I think that the parade can be Majesty's condition was promised of a document purporting to be struck qut," said the Chief Justica for this evening, the doctors decid- The dramatic intervention of script for five hundred shares of the (Sir Henry Gollan) when the trialed otherwise. It was, however, off Japanese marines when boycott
Hongkong Tramways, Limiled. of Ho Fu on a charge of piracy cially stated at the Palace that the pickets were attempting to inter-who was charged yesterday, indi the Criminal Sensions this morn-progress continues to be satisfac, It will be recalled that Chan Fuk, of a fishing boat was resumed at King had had a good day, and that fere with the discharge of cargo cited, in answer to the charge, ing. His Lordship was referring tory. at the Japanese Concession this that the document found in his to an identification parade held at The doctors' decision not to issue. In another letter, asking ni afternoon, has led to some start session was handed to him by Cheung Chau Police Station, at a bulletin came as a great surprise. trades councils and other inbour
a Portuguese.
which the prisoner was picked out. There will have been an interval of organisations for their attitude, ling disclosures. The Japanese authorities as the result of their
Following evidence by Mr. sixty hours between-bulleting when Sir William Bull emphasises the investigations now
the
14 H. C. Calthrop, A.S.P., Mr. C. G. the next is published. It le pro-great amount of employment the Recuse Hankow authorities of connivance
Alabaster. K.C., who is defending, mised for to-morrow morning.
scheme would make. was proceeding to cross-examine In the Sino-Japanese troublo.
Soon after crossing the Irak as to whether the prisoner' could
wages paid would be at the rate fell into an ambush set by about He gives an estimate that the frontier, it is understood, the party
is. Lordship asked
counsel
so that if the cost were £30,000,000 firing took place, and the Rev. whether he was "Not fogging a
It, would mean six million weeks Henry Bilkert was shot dead. dead horse," pointing out, it was It so happens that the last bullet-work.-British Wireless. clear that the prisoner could have in, issued on Saturday night, was It may be mentioned that the been seen.
the hundredth since the King scheme is strongly backed by desire for prisoner to escape, but as the most favourable, for not only estimate of £30,000,000 mentioned Sir Henry added that he had no became ll. It was regarded also expert financiers, and that, the he had every desire that he should did it record a continuance of slow by Sir William Bull would cover Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant Super-be fairly treated. intendant of Police, represented the stances, it seemed to him that eral strength is improving.
In the circum-progress, but it stated that the gen- the cost of the construction of the prosecution.
tunnel only. prisoner had not been fairly trented.
Progress Assured, Outlining the prisoner's story, The progress then mentioned has Mr. Alabaster stated that his been continuing over since accord- The completed plan, which has father was a doctor who had residing to official statements made at met with much approval, was de- ed at Cheung, Chas kif his ine. Buckingham Palace during the day, tailed in a book recently publishi Prisoner, himself, was born at The gathering strength of the King, ed by Mr. William Collard, of Cheung Chau and lived both there is the great feature of the recent Saville Row, London, which involve the construc- and at Macao. He had a family state of his illness. The progress fa would house-boat ut Macas where his elow, but there has been every in- tion of a railway between London wife and family lived
dication during the past week hat and Paris at a total cost of it is assured. A feeling of com- £190,000,000. plete confidence now exists, since it a stated that the King's increase in strength likely to continue, however minutely, from day to day.
-Reuter and British Wireless,
situation is being watched with extreme interest.
The excitement began this after-¦ noon in an unexpected way. A number of coolies engaged by Japanese firms were engaged in unloading Ighters off the Japanese Concession when a large launch full of pickets appeared on the scene and attempted to inter- fere.
Gunboat Takes Action.
Warning was given to the shore, and signala were sent by the Japanese authorities to one of the gunboats lying in mid-stream,
A remand for one week was ac cordingly granted, and ball of $2,000 was allowed,
NEW WATERWORKS SCHEMES.
COUNCIL'S APPROVAL TO BE
Soon afterwards, a boat-load of SOUGHT ON THURSDAY. armed Japanese marines proceed-|
ed to the scone, taking the pickets
by surprise.
Five of them were arrested, the THE NEW COUNCILLORS remainder succeeding 'th making
cession.
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Prisoner's Story. For several yours he had been engaged in the sait fish trade and
two
boats. About. Ave
their escape by darting on shore At the meeting of the Legisla-Owned and running into the ex-German tive Council, to be held in the years ago Taoi Kwai, the com- Concession (S.A‚.D. No. 1) which is | Council Chamber an Thursday plainant, worked for the prisoner adjacent to the Japanese Con-afternoon, the Ilon, Sir Henry for about three months.
On the date of the offence with Pollock, K.C., is to move a re- The prisoners are being held for solution advocating the early which he was charged, March G-6, Investigation, while the launch in construction of works to augment 1927, the prisoner was on one of which they travelled to the scene the Colony's water supply. The his boats with two fekis, one being is being detained for the time resolution will be in the following named Yung Yau and the other Taoi Kam-yuk. The latter man, said Mr. Alabaster, bore the same surname as the complainant and was introduced to prisoner by the complainant.
being. Meanwhile, the situation on shore, remained quiet.
Pickets' Confessions,
Later.
terms:
DISTRESSED MINING AREAS.
PRINCE OF WALES TO MAKE VISIT.
London, Jan. 21. It is understood that plans are being developed for an early vialt by the Prince of Wales to South Wales and other coalfields where neute distress prevalls.
An Ambitious Project.
The scheme contemplates the construction of a broad gauge
all Americans, were unhurt, The The other members of the party, Wahabis eventually ded, the party returning to Basra immediately.
the ambushers were hidden in the Mr. Charles Crane declares that desert scrub and that there was no sign of any horses or camels. Router.
RUSSIAN FALLS TO GHASTLY DEATH.
ROASTED IN BOILER OF RIVER LAUNCH.
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The report, published as persistent rumour in a Bombay, newspaper, that Habibullah (Bacha Sakso) has been mur. dered, or has fled from Kabul,. Is officially declared to be ab solutely without foundation.
A message from Herat states. that Amanullah has officially rescinded his abdication, and has assumed supreme power.
Moscow from Herat gives details of A wireless message received at
Amanullah's preparations for over of troops from Kandahar and the coming Bacha Sakao. Large bodies Gazni region are concentrating at Gazni, and it is reported
that Amanullah intends to lead them personally in an attempt to regain his throne.
tanaf food in Kabul leading to
Meanwhile, as the result of some.
a considerable rise in prices, there has been an alarming criminal out- break, robberies taking place - fre quently.
A band of robbers have pillaged a French school.
The complete Isolation of the city has, resulted in stagnation of
(7 feet) rallway, with a terminus A VAGRANT TRAGEDY. trade. The merchants, are be
coming: discontented and there is a growing sentiment in favour of Amanullah.
Shanghai, Jan. 22. A terrible tragedy occurred, b
At present there. la no recognis the early hours of this morning oned form of government at Kabul, River, a Russian falling into a where except at Jardalak (be a steam launch in the Whangpen but fighting has ceased every- boiler and dying in spite of valiant tween Kabul and efforts to extricate him.
at Westminster and another at the Rue St. Lazare, and a number of Intermediate stations in both coun- tries.
The trains would be, hauled by electric locomotives at an average speed of 32 miles an hour, doing the journey in 2 hours 45 minutes A maximum speed would be at- tained on some stretches of 120 The man was a vagrant, who miles
New Ruler'á Plans. hour. The London apparently boarded the launch in terminus would entall now | order to securo warmth. It is not
Bacha Sakad, or Habibullah has 'the bridge остова
Thames, clear exactly what happened, but The route has been mapped out it is believed that he slipped and established himself at the Palace to pass through Farningham, fell into the boiler, duffering at Kabul and la apparently trying Maidstone, Ashford, and Monks ghastly death.
an
Д
Jelnlabad) where apparently, looting is going/ on.
to form a Ministry.
Later. The formation of Habibullali's'
"That in view of the present precarious condition of the water supply, which threatens to become even more serious in the year 1930 it is the unanimous opinion of
The prisoner and his fokis The sequel to this afternoon's this Council that it is imperative were aniling between Tong Ha Bay events is revealed In an official the following works be constructed and Ching Shan on March 5 when
Horton (near Hythe), where it The alarm was quickly, raised,
·Japanese statement, detailing the and completed at the earliest they fell in with the complainant The arrangements and dates are would enter the 11-mile approach and a rescue party worked for new cabinet is not yet complete, circumstances of the arrests and possible date apart from any other and his folis who were in another not yet completed. At the moment, tunnel to the Chantel tunnel over five hours to extricate the but it has been decided to abolles reporting their discoveries.
schemes in contemplation:
bout. No nighting took place the most that can be sold in that the proper.
dead body,
the Ministry of Education and the "1. The joining up of the the complainant suggested that Prince will set out at an early date The Channel tunnel would be The Japanese, authorities state
The victim, it seems was first Ministry of Justice. that the launch seized is the Shing Mun Water System with the if the cargoes of fish, which both and that the North of England will from a point between Dover and suffocated and then roasted.
The secular schools will be clos- of boats were carrying, were taken to be Included in his tour, as well as Folkestone to a point south of it is now revealed that unem-ed and justice will be administer. property of the Ilankow River Water System of the Island
Calais. In France the route played Russians, of whom there ed by Magistrates' Courts. Police, and according to confes-Hongkong by means of a pipe linea Chak a better price would be Wales.
It will be recalled that the would pass through Boulogne, are a large number in Shanghai sions made by the five prisoners, the Harbour capable of being
laid on the surface of the bed of obtained.
Prince on Christmas night made a Amiens, and Montreuil-sur-Breche, have been in the habit since the.
Great Britain Alone? - it was openly loaned to the pickets. completed in the course of this
memorable wireless appeal for the and the whole length of the rail-winter set in, of boarding river In view of this disclosure, and year.
On this inducement the pri- distressed areas, and a stendy flow
craft and intimidating the crews the Ministry for Foreign Affaira The question of the abolition of the fact that the men in custody carried notebookta giving details byc-wash reservoir below the pre-chak white he himself remained at wanted, and the desire of the Prince
inte allowing them to sleep near has not yet been decided, but it lo 2. The construction of the soner sent his boat and two fokls of donations to the Lord Mayor's way would be 253 miles.
with the complainant's boat to Ha Fund has resulted. But more la
the boilers where they can keep reported that the new Govern of Japanese movements in and sent Kowloon Reservoir."
The scheme provides for 22 warm. around the Concession, the Japan- At the same meeting, the Hoa, Tong Ka
ment'a tendency is to sever rola- for the purpose of is to enlarge public sympathy. An ese authorities are inclined to re- Colonial Secretary will move
The matter is now receiving the tions with all foreign States, with official announcement is expected trains cach way daily, with a 45 Bettling accounts,
minutes service, and an average serious consideration of the au- the exception of Great Britain, gard the uffair as, very serious.
resolution confirming the approval What happened to the gleaner's shortly-British Wireless,
of 608 passengera. Allowing for thorities. Our Own Correspon-and thus restore to Afghanistan the of the Governor-in-Council of the boat and the two men, the prisoner:
extra summor traffic, an accom-dent. * counsel, construction and maintenace by did not know, sald
modation of 10,700,800 seats would
make
Acts of Espionage.
a
Not in the Boat.
PUBLIC SAFETY BILL.
£12,000,000 Profit.
bo provided for an estimated
annual traffic of 8,333,333 passen- ROSIER PICTURE FOR
gers.
In addition, the scheme con-
templates 12 similar trains being
run each way between
London
LANCASHIRE.
A SECRET. ·
Londoa, Jan. 21.
position she had before the procia-" mation of independence.
This project Is Arousing the resistance of the mullaks and the merchants.
The Proclamation of Habibullah's accession to supreme rulership styles him the Ameer of Afghanis
Brothers to Join "in" Arma?“
It is stated that the official con- the Tramway Company of the although in his voluntary statement nivance in the recent troubles, single-track tramway connecting he had stated that Teof Kam-yuk which seems to have been Shaukiwan terminus with Shauki had gone over to the complainant established, and the note-taking | wan villages, and of three ad. and they had murdered Yung Yau.
TO BE RE-INTRODUCED IN WAH ete, constitute acts of espionage.ditional loops in Shaukiwan Road That, said Mr. Alabaster,
INDIA. -Reater.
between North Point and Qurray only hearsay,
Howeyer the prisoner went back Bay. Chinese telegrams from Hankow
the
New Delhi, Jan, 21.
and Boulogne daily, providing MR. CHURCHILL GIVES AWAY tan and not Padishah... received in the Colony last night cil, the Hon. Commander G. F. complainant, whom he unsuspect-
The new members of the Coun- to Macao and there saw
The Government has decided to 5,836,800 seats annually.
Capital expenditure fa estimated no mention of the affair. Hole, the Hon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore, lngly asked where his funk was. The re-introduce the Public Safety (Re- merely stating that the agitation the Hon. Mr. J. F. Brage, and the complainant said that he could not moval from India) Bill at the forth- at $189,177,094 including £30,811,-
It is reported in an official meas- against the Japanese appears to Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso will take their then settle the matter and suggest coming sesalon of the Legislative 200 for the tunnel. With gross
oge from Peshawar that In- Winston Churchill, the ayatullah, Amanullah's brother who seats at this meeting and be duly Scouts which was agreed between was rejectedby the Legislative As-London to Paris, it is estimated speaking
od that they go to the Volunteer It will be recalled that the Billage of £2 for a single fare from Chancellor of the Exchequer, reigned as King for four or five
sembly In September, after the that the working would yield an the President had given his casting annual profit of over £12,000,000, voto against it on a tlo in voting. enabling payment of 7 per cent. Reuter,
on Ordinary stock.
Southern Railway.
have subsided considerably,
General L Chun-yon, the ad- sworn in. ministrative head of Hankow, who Is at presont attending the Military Disbandment Conference at Nanking, has ordered the Wu- han Branch Political Council to preserve peace and order,
Trouble Spreading. Following these instructions, It fa understood, strike and boycott. pickets were yesterday withdrawn
BRITISH MANDATE IN IRAK.
TROUBLE OVER NATIONAL DEFENCE.
Bagdad, Jan. 21.
them.
On coming into contact with the Scouts, the complainant immediate ly accused the prisoner of having committed piracy and had him chained up. On the next morning the other boat belonging to the pri- soner arrived at Wanchal, Macao, when his other four fokis on board were promptly charged with taking part in the piracy.
Mr. Alabaster continued it was quite clear that the five of them were sent to Shekki for trial, where they were kept in prison for 19 months. During that period one
Assembly.
AMERICA'S HOME SECRETARY.
THREE DAYS DISCUSSION to pointa still farther from the Differences between the British
BY SENATE. Japanese barricados in order to and Irak Governments on the ques- avold the possibility of a clash tion of national defence, have ro-
Washington, Jan, 21, with the Japanese marines.
sulted in the resignation of the
After a discussion lasting for It is also understood that the Irakian Cabinet.
of them died. Conditions of the three days, the Benato by 54 Foreign Office at Nanking has The British authorities hold the gaol were such as to keep none of votes to 27 has confirmed the intimated Ita willingness to view that Irak is not yet ready to them in very good health. They nomination of Mr. Roy O. West, on bail after 19 the well-katown Chicago Lawyer, the troubles in Hankow, which own defence, and as the Opposition, months for want of prosecution but as Secretary for the Interior negotiate with Japanese regarding Resume full responsibility for its were released appear to be spreading to Ichang like the retiring Government, de their health was such that two of Router's American Service, and Shasl, forcing the Japanese and complete independence, some
them had certainly died alnce. The to authorise the despatch of gun- difculty in Cabinet making is ex-
pected-Router. boate up-river,
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last the prisoner heard of the other prisoner was, therefore, apparently man was that he was very 11 and the sole aurvivor.
was belleved to have died. The The casp is proceeding.
receipts at over £35,000,000, avor-
Mr.
at the Manchester days, has left for Chaman. It le Chamber of Commerce this even- understood that he intends to join ing, said that a very important Amanullah at Kandahar. amalgamation in one section: ^of It appears that the province of the cotton trade was on the eve of Kandahar is keen in its support of its launching.
Amanullah, and that the Shinwarin The Bank of England, he doclar-will also move against Kabul, It is thought that with the ex-ed, had co-operated in a manner The fate of the kingdom apricars ception of the Southern Railway, almost unprecedented, and in a to be in the hands of the Ghilzata, the railways of England will sup-spirit of utmost resolution, being who are the most numerous and the port the scheme. It is calculated convinced that Lancashire would most powerful tribe in Afghanistan. that the railway would bring a Jargo Increase of foreign visitors emerge from its difficulties and under now conditions, réngw, lis to triumphs-Reuter.
to
Reuter,
to England, amounting
To-day's “ observatory report 2,500,000, whose journeys
tates that there is now a strong southern seaside resorts would'
anticyclone central over South prove to some extent an off-set to author as to objections that might East Mongolia, The-V-shaped de the losses sustained by the be raised from the point of view pression is moving to north-west Southern Hallway by the scheme of the State-subsidised Imperial of the Bonins, The typhoon in
As for France, It is believed that Airways, whose cross-Channel ser probably about 200 miles west the proposal would be welcomed, vice would be affected by a rail north-west of the Palews, moving there. It is claimed, too, that the way service that could compete West. Strong, monsoon may be objections hitherto raised on the with it.in the matter of time. been overcome by the Kellogg House of Commons to-morrow, ac Sea. The local forecast up to expected along the south-east coast- score of national defence have Questions are to be asked in the of China and over the North China Pact.
cording to a British Wireless mes- noon to-morrow is--N.E. winds, Nothing is mentioned by the age received last night.
strong, fine to cloudy.