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TROOPS MUTINY.
AN ALARMING OUTBREAK AT
LUNGKOW.
Peking, Jan. 26. Troops belonging to General Liu Kad-tal at Lungkow suddenly mutinied yesterday morning, and looted Lungkow,
The foreigners in the town escaped yesterday on aboard twe Japanese ships in the harbour.
It is beiloved that practically every house was raided by the re- bels and munitions belonging to the Public Safety Burcan seized. Thereafter the mutineers de- parted southward.
MONDAY, JANUARY 28. 1929.
MAIL ROBBERY.
LOSS FROM THE LINER LEVIATHAN RECALLED.
EX-KAISER'S BIRTHDAY
FAMILY GATHERING CELĘ. BRATE AT DOORN.
Doorn, Jan. 27.
Princess Hermine, the wife of the ex-Kaiser, has suddenly been taken seriously ill.
New York, Jan. 23. In pursuit of enquiries made into the robbery on
board the 3.5. Leviathan the police of two continenta are searching for a German named
A large family gathering, Includ. Waller Ringer, who signed on the articles of the liner as a carpenter.ing the ex-Crown Prince and other An Indictment charging Ringer with members of the former German rebbery on the high seas during the royal family, has arrived to par- voyage of the Leviathan was retielpate in the celebrations on the turned to-day Renter's. Ameriçan occasion of the ex-Kaiser's 70th Service.
birthday. The Princess, Hermine, "A message dated London, June 23 the ex-Kaiser's wife, is a notable last announced that one of the big-absenteo, owing to a sudden attack ninde was discovered upon the arrival in London of the registered bags of mail brought to Southampton from the United Staten by the 90,000 ton linor Leviathan. At the time it was
Value the impossible to angers"
but it was estimated stalen property, to be in the region of £100,000. It seemed certain that the robbery was. committed in: New York before the were put on the Leviathan. maiin The bags were stored in the ship's strong room during Le voyage neress the Atlantic, over y which there was an armed guard
A Japaneso destroyer yesterday Rest robberles of ocean mails over of chicken-pox.
evening left Port Arthur for Lungkow,
It is believed that the trouble due to the fact that General tu Chan-nian recently dismissed General Liu Kal-tal.-Reuter.
Ometals Killed.
Chefoo, Jan. 27. The seriousness of the trouble at Lungkow and Hwang-hsien is confirmed by the despatch of 3,000 troops from Ninghai to suppress the revolting Second Division. The troops passed through Chefoe this afternoon.
A Japanese destroyer arrived to-day.
The Chairman of the Hwang hsien Chamber of Commerce and three commanders of the Second the were killed by Division mutineers, who retreated toward the district between Laichow and Chaoyun, where heavy fighting has recently taken place between the Red Spears and the soldlery, accompanied by the pillage and burning of manj
villages.- Renter.
Lunghow is in Shantung, on the Gulf of Pechill, due west of Che- foo and Weihaiwel.].
OPIUM PROBLEM. ¦
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Geneva, Jan. 27. The Opium Commission
of sumed the discussion Mr. Wang King-k's statement but no compromise was reached.
Visc. Sato said he must reserve his freedom to make a protest, which he would nak the President Sato designaled the reference of Wang King-ki to the campaign in Shantung as an attack on the honour of the Japanese army, and said that it could not be ad-
mission .should accuse the Japanese army, whose honour had always been above suspicion.
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The plan adopted is for the re gistered package bags to be fasten- ed with a small lead seal of the United States Post Office. The bags are then placed in unregistered bags which are also sealed. The norters in one of the London district offices who handled the ro- gistered section of the mail found that the lend seals were On breaking the scala and examin. ing the mails they found that the envelopes inside had been aplis open and everything negotiable extracted.
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The careful selection made from the letters indicated that the theft had been carried out without hurry, Reports were subsequently received from all over the country of bags of mall being similarly rifled.]
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The ex-Kaiser, in a letter to the] Dutch Minister of the Interior, profoundly thanked the Queen and the people of Holland for the hos pitality and friendship extended
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troublous times, had been able to preserve, the time-honoured right to grant asylum. Mention is made of the friendly manner in which the Dutch sought to alleviate the fate imposed upon him, and special gratitude is ex- tended to Count Bentinck, who first extended that hospitality.-- Renter.
A Ceremonious Occasion.
Doorn, later. The ex-Kaiser's seventieth birthday to-day was the occasion for the greatest gathering of Hohenzollerns since the war. The exiliniser was surrounded by all six children and nineteen grand- children, but besides Princess Hermine, Prince Henry of Prus sía ja ill, and the relations of the ex-Kaiser with his sister, Princess Viktoria, wife of Zubkoff, strained.
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The ex-King of Saxony was the One person in every twenty-six only former Gorman King present. in Great Britain owned a motor- The former Court Chaplain, Doc-: car or motor cycle on September for Vogel conducted the morning 30 last, according to figures is service, the text of his sued by the Ministry of Transport.selected by the ex-Kaiser, being The latest figures available for Romans, chapter one, verso other countries show that one per teen. The official printed birth- States owns a car, one in 10 in Majesty, Kaiser and King." son in every five in the United day programme was headed "All Highest's seventieth birthday, France, and one in 137 in Ger-
many.
The total number of mechanical-
Aix-
All the presents were displayed on a large table, with seventy lighted candles,-Reuter.
ly propelled road vehicles licens- ed in this country, on September 30 was 2,052,000 as compared with 1,399,000 at the correspond- BRITAIN AND AMERICA. ng date in 1927. British Wireless
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Amsterdam, Jan. 27.
Mr. Wang King-ki intervened and denied that he had accused the Japanese Government or Army. He said he had accused no one. Te bad the greatest respect for the Japanese Government and people. It was the present system which was responsible for the situation in China, rendering the Over 200,000 florina have al control of the drug trafic im-rendy been collected for the re- possible,
lief of sufferers in the recent life- boat disaster, exceeding require ments.
The Commission finally decided to insert Mr. Wang King-ki's statument in the minutes in its entirety, and refused to allow any discussion of the statement
nt this stage.
Mr. Wang King-kl alone voted against the resolution, declaring that he must maintain his de- mand that the statement should be transmitted to the League Council. The incident then closed.Reuter,
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