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FOREIGNERS HELD AUSTRIA SURVIVES POLICE RAID ON
BY RED ARMY.
CHU AND MO CAPTURE
SHANGHANG.
GERMAN PRIESTS & SISTERS NOW PRISONERS.
OUTRAGE IN FUKIEN.
Swatow, Sept. 29. As if to show the Communist attitude towards recent officist threats of extermination, a sensa-
tional story has just come through from Shanghang, an important city on the River Tenkiang, just over the Kwangtung. border, in
CRITICAL TIME.
FASCIST DEMONSTRATIONS UNEVENTFUL.
ONLY A SMALL CLASH.
Vienna, Sept. 29.
TEMPLE
ALLEGED COMMUNIST
GATHERING.
FIFTY-SEVEN PERSONS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
The political crisis lent added | excitement regarding the four Fascist demonstrations arranged to be held outside the capital N to-day, but up to the present, fears of trouble have not been realised the marches having passed off practically without incident
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PREMIER'S MISSION MANILA AVIATION A DAUGHTER BÖRN
TO AMERICA.
CONFIDENT OF BETTERING UNDERSTANDING.
MESSAGE TO PARTY.
CRASH
ARMY MAN SUCCUMBS
TO INJURIES.
THREE OTHERS MANAGE TO LEAP TO SAFETY.
A
TO EMPRESS.
SING
JAPAN DISAPPOINTED THAT IT IS NOT A SON.
BOTH DOING WELL.
Tokyo, Sept. 29,
It was officially announced from the Imperial Palace this morning, that the Empress gave birth to s daughter at 6.15 a.m.":"
IRONSIDES AT BAY IN HUNAN?
FIERCE FIGHTING TO BREAK THROUGH.
OPPOSING GENERAL REPORTS
A VICTORY
Landon, Sept. 29. The Prime Minister, in the course of a message to the National Executive of the Labour" Party, which will be read at the BOMBER DESTROYED. The Imperial child weighed NANKING'S MEASURES.
seven, and a quarter pounds, and opening session of the annual conference to-morrow, refers to
Manila, Sept. 25.
was born ten days before it was
Shanghai, Sept. 80. his mission to America
One enlisted man in the U. S. expected. Mother and child are It is learned that the Gover
doing well. and describes it as the culmination of killed yesterday while an officer safety of the Empress and her ed thirteen Chinese merchant Army Air Corps was instantly. The nation is rejoleing at the Chiang Kai-shek, has commandeer the pulls at Ngan Shi Wan. in the negotiations and exchanges of acting as pilot and two other en-baby, but is not attempting to hide vessels to be used for the trans They were all feathered hut Kowloon City district, yesterday view begun when the Labour listed men miraculously escaped child is a siliconless, and there Pukow
the fact of disappointment that the portation of troops up river from Strong forces of police, afternoon, as the result of informa-Party first came to office in June
death when a big Martin bombing Couple are
About forty thousand Fascists took part in the demonstration,
uniforms and hats.
STRICT EXAMINATION.
Wholesale arrests, on the biggest scale remembered in the Colony for many years past, were effected by
ment, at the instance of Marshal
Fukien, telling of the capture of reinforced by apecial military con- tion that a Communist meeting was and assiduously pursued evor plane, type L 85, suddenly refused 15, therefore, no direct Heir to the It is reported that further
the city by the Communist army under Generals Chu and Mo.
Unfortunately, there is a much more serious angle to the story.
tingents, have been standing by for hours, ready for action in the event of trouble.
since,
Mr. MacDonald continues: "I
of what we are attempting. understanding as to the nature
to function at a height of 800 feet and crashed into swampy ground
It appears that a number of Ger-ings were also arranged for to-day, scene, assisted by a number of Dia do not want there to be any mis-1 at Nichols Field.
man missionaries and Sisters have fallen into the hands of the Com- munists, and are being held for
ransom.
Seven hundred Socialist meet- but so far no trouble has occurred.
Later.
The
A clash occurred this afternoon at Moedling, due to the approach Fierce Fighting.
of a large body of Communists to The city was apparently warned the Heimwehr rendezvous.
Communists were evidently bent of the impending attack of the on trouble and the police inter- Communists, and there seems,vened, driving them back. from the brief accounts of the affair that are available, to have been fierce fighting before the citizens surrendered.
in
The ralders, who are now full possession of the city, carried out their usual campaign of foot! ing and Jilling.
They surrounded the various Missions, It is understood, but the majority of the foreigners had managed to make good their escape..
Eleven Flee to Safety.
The German Dominicans, how- ever, were not quite so fortunate. It appears that when the attack was made thero wore, six priests, two Brothers and sixteen Sisters of the German Dominican Mission in the city, and that of this number, only three priests, one Brother and seven Sisters were able to escape,
They fled to Tching Ping, and there have taken refuge in the Catholic Mission.
who
Thirteen Foreigners Captured. The remainder fell into the hands of the Communists, later released six of, the Sisters and one Brother. The latter are making their way, it is understood, to the German Dominican Mission
A number of arresta were made. -Reuter."
PLEA TO RETAIN DR. FAWCETT.
QUESTIONS FOR SANITARY
WBOARD MEETING.
"CAPACITY & ZEAL”
The reported intention of Dr. H. A. Fawcett, Medical Officer of Health, to leave the Government service is to come before the Sanitary Board. at to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, at which Dr. W. V. M. Koch will urge the desirability of his ser- vices being retained.
Dr. Koch will ask the following questions on the 'matter:
"Will the Head of, the Sanitary Department, inform the Board whether it is correct that the Medical Officer of Health Dr. Fawcett is leaving the service within a short time?
being held in the village temple, known as the Tung Shan Temple,
When the police arrived on the trict Watchmen instructed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, a meeting was found to have been started, over forty people being gathered in the main hall of the temple, listening to a speaker.
No Attempt At Escape. The alleged Communists were take completely by surprise and no attempt at escape was made.
All were taken into custody, while a number of papers were seized.
OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN.
Island Reservoirs Benefit by 50 Million Gallons.
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BARLY MORN DOWNPOUR.
The first heavy rain experi- enced for some weeks occur- red yesterday and early this morning, with the result that the Royal Observatory "records a fall of 3.67 inches for the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. to-day. Of this, 1.37-inch fell between 1.30 and 2.30, a.m. Reservoirs on the island have beneãted to the extent. of 50 million gallons as a con. Bequence.
The total rainfall since January 1st is now 66.77 inthes, as against, an average- of 75.59, A deficit of 8.82 inches. If this be so may the Board
nt Tingchowfe, their head-be informed of the reasons either
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quarters, of which Monsiegneur on the part of the Government or anemonGHDA Pelzer is the head.
of the Medical Officer of Health?
Tending the Wounded." One of the priests and three Sisters are being detained in the hospital at Shanghang, where they are being forced to tend the wounds of the Communist troops
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"Docs the Government not con- is believed that these papers are sider it desirable and even neces- Communist, literature, though they sary that efforts should be made have not been subjected to a detail- and inducements held out to re-ed examination at present. Trans- tain the services of an officer of lators are engaged in this task this such proved capacity and zea?? morning, we are give to under-
The police maintained a possc
"If the answer is that the
stand.
who were wounded during the at- Medical Officer of Health is leav- Inside the temple for
tuck on the city.
Dead: Private William L. Mc- Kernan, 22 years old, of Roslyn, Virginia. He had been in the Philippines a year.
· The survivors: First Lieutenant
Donald B, Phillips, 1472 F. B. Har
"Any agreement we achieve can only be, and is only intended to be, preliminary to a larger agree- ment which must be reached in conference with the other naval Powers and, later on, in the Pre-ion, Maalla, who was piloting, the
plane. paratory Commission sitting at Genova. We are not trying to present any other nation nations with a fail accompli which they must take or leave..
or
Private Lawrence R. Tall. Private Howard G. Croop. Private McKernan was the arst of the four to crawl from the cock-
NEW BOTNIA PIRACY SURPRISE.
"What we are determined to avoid is that the general- march forward towards disarmament may be held up in the future as it has been in the past while the two- great naval Powers, ourselves and America, halt by the wayside to argue about their special difficul- Dramatic Message From Chief
ties..
"I think we can now say that. the end of an agreement necessary to prevent that, is well within reach, and I go to meet President Hoover in the hope and expecta- tion that the degree of friendly understanding achieved during many weeks of distant correspon- dence will be strengthened and jendered closer by a few days of personal contact. ̧*
"I also feel, quite irrespective of the particular points we have been discussing, that the establish- ment of such a contact is immense- ly to be desired, and that nothing' could be of more value to inter- national goodwill than mutual confidence between the Govern- ments of United States and of Great Britain.-British Wireless.
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AERIAL SERVICES COMPARED.
TRIBUTE TO BRITISH ENTERPRISE.
London, Sept. 29. .The Under-Scoretary for Air,
Officer.
"I AM BADLY WOUNDED."
Shanghai, Sept. 30.
A dramatic message was. received yesterday by Messrs.
the. Wallem and Company, Shanghai agents for the 8.8. Botrin, from Mr. Westerheim, chief officer of the boat, as follows:
"Leaving to-day Jardine "steamer Yusang. Send motor- car to Woosung and arrange hospital na I am badly wounded."
There are no details to show how Mr. Westerheim gained his freedom-Reuter.
pit of the plane when a crash was imminent, but the leg strap of his parachute became entangled in the gunpit rigging and he went down with the plane.
Succumbs to Injuries.
Throne.
vessels will be requisitioned as brother, continues Heir Presump- the Nanking leadere view the Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's soon as possible, suggesting that Ironside "revolt more seriously than they have so far admitted.—
tive:
The Emperor Hirohito was married in 1924, his bride being Reuter Princess Nagako, a daughter of Prince Kuniyoshi Kani.
Three daughters have been born to the Emperor and Empress, the first, Princess Sigeko Terunomiya, on December 6th, 1925. The second, born on September 10th 1927, died of pneumonid in March, 1928-Reuter.
Rebel Leader Missing?
Shanghai, Sept. 29. The whereabouts of Goferal Chang Fat-kwal, the leader of the Ironsides" is something of a mystery. The Chinese news papers report that he is not lead- ing his troops in Hunan. ⠀⠀
Severe operations between the Hunan troops under General Ho BRITISH SUCCESS IN Chien and the "Tronsides" are
taking place, according to des patches from Hunan,
U. S. A
LADY TENNIS PLAYERS IN EXCELLENT FORM.
DOUBLES & SINGLES?
The main body of the "Iron- side troops is concentrated int Kwangli, and a desperate effort was made by the "Ironsides”” - on Saturday to capture Tao Yuen-and Changteh in Hunan in an attempt to open the road for their march into Kwangsi Province.
Waging in
Hunan
New York, Sept. 29,
"It is understood that the "Iron- The supremacy of British lady aides are engaged in a severe tennis players in doubles matches, encounter with the Human troops, demonstrated at Forest Hills in under Gen. Wu Sheng at Plao the American championships and when. When the Wightman Cup, has been again
In communiqués to the Nanking in evidence at Los Angeles, where official quarters, General Wu the Pacific South-West Coast Sheng claims the capture of over championships are drawing to a fifty Tronside" units and states close.
that about a hundred of the rebels
In the absence of the Wimble were killed in the fold.a don and American champions, The Honan troops also claim Mr. B. C. Covell and Mrs. the capture of large quantities of Shepherd-Barron reached the final arms and
ammunitions
Chang's Denunciation.
of the women's doubles, in which the "defeated" troops. they opposed Mrs. Watson and Misa Betty Nuthall. A very ex- citing game resulted, Mrs." Covell and her partner winning by two sets to one, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2,
The women's eingles final will be Anglo-American, Miss Betty Nuthall having qualified to meet Mrs. L. A. Harper..
from
Chiang Kai-shek, General Chang In a telegram addressed to
Fat-kwai declares that the Third Plenary Session of the Kuomintang was illegal, and is responsible for the present corruption of the gor ernment. He further declares that In the semi-finals, Miss Nathullissimo is against the spirit of de the dictatorship of the General- (Britain) beat Miss Edith Cross, mocracy. In order to hold high (America) 7-6, 6-0, and Mrs. offices in government
..
one must
He was thrown violently to the A. Harper (America) defeated either be the generalizaimo's re Two other priests are held nsing and the Government do not time after the first arrests were ed to Croydon Aerodrome yester/itself six feet in the ground, and 7-5, 2-6, 7-5.-Reuter's "Ameri- { Fat-kwel; political tutelage is no- some little Mr. Frederick Montague; return-ight of the machine when it burled Mrs. Shepherd-Barron (Britain)latives or his friends says. Chang prisoners and already a demand see their way to induce him to made, and detained all who arrived day after a five days' tour of Con- was unconscious when picked up as stay, I give notice of the following at the temple later in the afternoon.tinental airports, during which by the crowd of fliers and mecha-
for the payment of $10,000 ransom has been made.
Fifty-Seven Arrests.
he has visited fifteen aviation nies who witnessed the crash. He was rushed to Sternberg General centres and flew in machines of
Hospital in an ambulance but As a result of the raid, fifty-six different countries.
died before reaching there. The object of the tour was to A minute Inspection of the de seven persons, including eight wo- men are now in police custody and study Continental methods and molished plane gave every indien
be subjected to a close compare them with British. tion of a desperate struggle on the Mr. Montague stated that his part of Private McKernan to free. suggestion that all the persona ar- experience had been most useful, himself, from his terrible predica rested were interested in the Com- but he considered the Imperial ment. The lead lines of the para- munist meeting. It is possible that Airways second to none in com chute were wound about his should-
put up.
resolution.This Board being It is learned that Generals Chu informed that the services of the and Mo launched theft attack on Medical Officer of Health Dr. Faw- the city on Tuesday last week, and cett will shortly terminate would took possession on Wednesday. respectfully represent to the September 25th.. Generals Chu Government the necessity of re- "and Mo have been carrying out taining the services of an officer to
similar operations on the Kwang- of such proved capacity and tung-Kukien border for some practical experience.' months past, without, let" or
[Dr. H. A. Fawcett, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), hindrance from the authorities.
L.R.C.P. (Lon.), D.P.H, (Lon.), DIT.M. & H. (Lon.), was appointed Second Seven Released.
Medical Officer of Health in March last year, and arrived in the Colony in the following month.].
of
It is, however, bellaved that this Is the first time they have carried their banditry to the stage capturing Catholic priests and Sisters and holding them to ran- som. No fear is felt for the safety of the victims for the present, as the action of the Communists in
FRENCH NON-STOP
FLIGHT.
releasing seven of their captives NO NEWS OF COSTES' TRIP
is taken to indicate that they are
not entirely ruthless.
•
Shanghang is about a hundred miles from Swatow, up the River Tenklang.
WEATHER REPORT.
ACROSS SIBERIA. -
examination,
We understand that there is no
a number of them were genuine fort and efficiency-British Wireers indicating the struggle he had worshippers, who went to the team-less.
ple for the purpose of honouring Confucius's birthday, while some of them have advanced the "excuse" that they went to the temple to in- voke the favour of the gods regard- ing some lottery tickets they had purchased.
Monks Involved.
NEXT LORD MAYOR
OF LONDON.
SIR WILLIAM WATERLÓW
1 Fifteen Start Out,
Fifteen bombing planes took off at 7.30 a.m. to practice formation flying. They flew over Manila Bay and as they were returning to cir- cle the field Crew Chief Tall notic ed one of the motors smoking. Tall signalled the information to Lieu tenant Philips who headed for the field.
can Service.
RECORD DROUGHT IN A CENTURY.
thing but a farce.
He also condemns the present government's lack of a definite policy toward the Chinese Eastern Railway crisis,
Gan, Chang saye that the 4th division (or Ironside Army) be longs to the Kuomintang and tho RAIN IN LONDON BREAKS-people, and will act according to the
DRY SPELL
people's wishes only.
He presents three demands to the Generalissimo, namely:
London, Sept. 29.
(1) Dismiss the present Central Raia fell in London this, after Executive and Supervisory Com moon for the first time for thirty mittee and call a new plenary eight days, thus énding a drought | session, to elect now members ac which eclipsed all records for acording to Kuomintang rules, withi Century.
out any high-handed meddling'; 16 (2) Discharge, all the anti-- Although the rain is not general.
revolutionary and corrupt officers heavy storms have visited the from the government, and ranew metropolitan area, and the the anti-Imperialist (both Red and southern counties, in parte of White) movements: which no rain has fallen for over forty days.
(3) Wang Ching-wei, the honest revolutionary leader must be invit- APPOINTED
The previous drought recorded to lead the revolutionary work. was set up 71 years ago, according London, Sept. 29."
to Reuter-Router and British Sir William Waterlow"
Lieutenant-Philipe put the ship Wirelesa. WAUK yesterday unanimously chosen as into a right turn and at the com- Lord Mayor of London for thepletion of the turn found that the coming year. All the customary controls had jammed.
MEERUT CONSPIRACY.
TRIAL
General Chang further states that he will nee to it, that the above demands are faithfully carried out by the Generalissimo.
Naval Forces.
Other are bald-pated and are be Hoved to be marks, though it is not outside the bounds of possibil- Paris, Sept. 20.
ity, since it is alleged that the tem- Since the famous French airple was being used for. the holding man, Coates, took off from Le of a meeting of Communists, that Bourget at 8.30 am. on Friday these monks were involved.
and picturesque rites associated The ahip was now at an altitude
Hankow, Sept. 20. with the intention of attacking the
The police, it is learned, are not with the ceremony of election of only -800 feet. Realizing their
Vice-Admiral Chen Shne-kuan. world's record for long-distance
arrived here yesterday afternoon": non-stop flight, no news whatever disposed to release the majority of were observed in the Guildhall predicament Lieutenant Phillips The Royal Observatory reports has been received.
the captives until they have thor-Sir William Waterlow, who will signalled for everyone to use para-
on the Chinese cruiser Yung Bhu that the antleyclone has increased No alarm is felt at the moment oughly investigated the affair. The aucceed to office in November, has chutes and leap over the side,
HUNGER STRIKE LASTS ONLY in the company of the two Chinese- gunboats, Che Tang and Kong in intensity and is now central over as the machine is not equipped documents seized were very few, been a member of the London Cor.
Leapt
Side
FOUR DAYS.
Yuen, with hundreds of troops south Manchuria. The typhoon is with wireless, but it was anticl- but it is believed that they are of noration for sixteen years and his situated in the Pacife to
from Nanking which are to rein- family has given more than one. Privates Croops and McKernan the pated that some message would importance, :.:
Meerut, Sept. 29. North-east of Tokyo.
force the Hunan and Hupeh troops Moderate have been received by this time. The full facts were gathered from Lord Mayor to the city. He is on were in the rear cockpit and aa only moonsoon will prevail along the Find Costes completed official sources this morning, but Alderman of the Ward of Corn- one at a time could leap because of The twenty-five prisoners held engaged in suppressing the "Trou coast and over the North China journey, which carried him across no Information is forthcoming re-hill, and joint managing director their cramped position Private for trial in connexion with the sides. A Nanking Government. Sea. The forecast till noon to-Siberia towards Tokyo, he should garding the likelihood of charges of Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., the Croop assisted Private McKernan álleged Communist conspiracy, decree appointing General Tee morrow is:-NE. winds, moder have made a safe landing some being made against any of the pri- well-known printers and station-over the left side of the ship. By have abandoned the hunger strike Wan-shun as Bandit Suppression ate; cloudy.
time this morning.-Reuter.
ere.British Wireless.
(Continued on Page 123. (Continued on Page 12.) after four days, Reuter,
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