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THE "RED" PERIL IN SOUTH AFRICA.
ALARMING STATEMENT BY GOVERNMENT.
SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS OF DURBAN CRISIS.
A LULL BEFORE STORM?
+-+#WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929.
CANTON CONSULS ANNOYED.
"TERRIBLE THIRST"
ACCUSATIONS.
RESENT SUGGESTION OF LIQUOR SMUGGLING.
ASHANTI “MURDER" NANKING RETREAT
RECALLED.
CONVICTION OF DR. KNOWLES QUASHED BY P. C.
DYING STATEMENT.
INACCURATE FIGURES. appeal of
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FREE TRADE IN THE DARING FRAUD BY
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EMPIRE?
GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT.
DIFFERENT SYSTEMS.
..
London, Nov. 19.
{SWINDLE" OVER SHARE TRANSACTION.
·CHINESE DISAPPEARS WITH MONEY OF BANK.
London, Nov. 19. After a hearg Tasting two
A debate on Empire free trude
of days, five Law Lords, sitting as the
was initiated in the House Judicial Commistaa of the Privy
Lords to-day by Lord Beaverbrook, Council, which is the highest Court
who asked the Government if they in the land, concluded to-day the
THE WAR SITUATION. proposed to do anything to encour MR. L. WEILL'S ACTION. Doctor Benjamin
age the movement for free trade Knowles against his conviction In
within the Empire,
A carefully planned fraud on Ashanti for the murder of his wife,
Hankow, Nov. 20. Canton, Nov. 19.
Lord Arnold, the Paymaster- Mr. Leo Weill, trading as Harry Consular circles here are annoy- Harriet Knowles, who was former- The Government assaults on General, replying for the Governo Odell and Company, share- ed at the publication in
thely a mule hall ortigt, known as Tengfeng have apparently re-ment, said they thought the pros-brokers, carrying on business at Canton Gazette of some statistics Madge Clifton., '
Lord Sankey, the Lord Chan- sulted in their favour. Reports perity of the empire was more Exchange Building, was mentioned issued by the Canton News Agency regarding alleged loss of cellor, announced the decision of from various sources show that likely to be achieved by their in the Supreme Court, this morning revenue through tax exemptions in the court in the following words: the city was quietly evacuated policy than by any scheme of Em- before the Chief Justice (Sir respect of liquor for the Consular "We propose humbly to advise is by the troops under the compire free trade, which could not Henry Gollan) during the hearing Body.
Majesty to allow the appeal and mand of General Sun Liang be achieved without first revers- of an ex-parte action brought by It is asserted that in the year to quash the conviction. Our sing on Sunday afternoon, and ing the fiscal policy of the Mother Mr. Well against Fung Chack- Country, and making it Protec- chow, alias C. C. Fung, share occupied by the Nationalist
tionist.
broker, who traded as the Hong, Sensational disclosures, leaving little room for doubt that from October 1st, 1928, to Septem-reasons will be given later."
ber 30th, 1920, exemptions of Dr. Knowles was convicted and
The country had repeatedly re-kong Small Investors Share and a "Red" peril of the gravest magnitude faces South Africa, have duties totalling $26,361.08 have sentenced to death in November troops on the same day.
Despite persistent reports to fused to desert the policy of free Real Estate Company, No, 18, Ice been made by the.Minister of Justice in a warning statement been granted, one of the heading last year by the Acting Circuit
House Street. issued from Pretoria. Mescow's agenta, working insidiously readingFigures Reveal a Judge at Kumasi without a jury the contrary it is believed that trade.
He challenged Lord Beaver- Mr. Weill, who alleged he among the natives, have created a dangerous situation, fraught Terrible Thirst in Consular Circles, The sentence was afterwards com- Siangyangfu is still in Govern, with terrible possibilities. Signs of unrest have revealed them-80,000 Bottles of Liquor Being muted by the Governor of the ment hands, though the invaders brook to produce the slightest received two worthless cheques that the Dominions from defendant to the total value to Satisfy Require-Gold Coast to imprisonment for have made good progress and have evidence selves all over the Union and in South Rhodesia, and the Required'
captured Ichenghaien, on the Hanwould come into a scheme which of $11,700 for 1,000 Green Igland Dr. Knowles obtained leave to River, 3.S.E. of Siangyang, cut would require them to reverse Cement Company strongest measures are being taken to deal with the problem.
(combined) the quantities of liquor said to anneal to the Privy Council and ting off the Government's retreat their fundamental systems of pro-ahares, which shares defendant pledged to the Mercantile Bank of have been applied for by the Con- was brought to England in April. to the south.
Reinforcements Sent,
He said the scheme would mean India, Limited, for $7,500 asked uls at Shuneen for duty exempHe is at present lying ill in the
infirmary at Maidstone prison.
arise in the price of foodstuffs for judgment for $11,700, execu tion.
the The questione before Britain heads the list with
All the available Government and the Government could not poa- tion against property attached 6,368 bottles of beer, gin, atout. Judicis Committee of the Privy forces, including eight brigades sibly give it any encouragement under a writ of foreign attach
wine, Counell were whether there
summon an Imperial Economic Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Instructed by jurisdiction to try the case with of the Third Division who have They had, howevery decided to ment," and costs.
the earliest con-Mr. D. E. Strellett, of Messrs. G. K, out a jury and whether the verdict been hurriedly went up to the new was justified by the evidence. fighting zone from Hankow are Conference at
According to the evidence, Mrs. Now concentrating at Tsaoyang. venient date to consider the best Hall Brutton and Company, was Knowles was shot, with a revolver It is officially stated that a coun-means of increasing imperial for Mr. Weill and the defendant while she and Doctor Knowles ter-attack against the Kuomi-Trade...
Lord Arnold added that the were in their bedroom at their chun will be launched almost im bungalow.
mediately from Tsaoyang.-Rev Government were not in favour of any system of preferentiai tariffs British Wireless,
The existence of a widespread conspiracy directed by the Third laternational, having as its object, an uprising of the natives, has been discovered, and the Government spokesman names certain organisations in South Africa in- volved in the plot.
ments.".
A tabulated statement sets out
white
It is revealed that the poll-tax raids in Durban were actuat-whisky, liqueurs, ed by motives far more important than the collection of the tax, champagne, etc., the exempted Durban has been, seething with discontent as a result of the duties bein- put at $12,378.16. work of agitators, and serious assaults on the police by nativeThis liquor is said to have been mobs have been of frequent occurrence. New forces were rush-secured for the Naval Canteen and
gunboats. ed to the city from Maritzburg and these were treated with contempt by the natives, who organised a riot in which three thousand natives took part.
Although the authorities are aware of the grave an- ture of the intrigue, the danger has not yet been overcome. The police are satisfled that unless drastic measures are taken, serlous rioting will occur, leading to reprisals by Europeans and the possible operation of lynch law, Details of a seized decument, 'addressed by the Third In- ternational in Moscow, to friends in South Africa, are given, showing plans for disturbances next month.
DANGER NOT YET OVERCOME,
Preturia, Nov. 19
League of African Rights, and The Minister of Justice. Mr.
League of Anti-Imperialism. Pirow, in a statement regarling
The Government, said the Min. the Durban, raids, said that the Government and the police had to ister of Justice. had written proof face widespread and seribua native of these facts. unrest fanned by numerous organi- sations, in many cases allied and all cases in touch with the Communist Party, and directly and definitely instructed by the Third International
closely
He claimed that the object of the Government demonstrations .in. Durban had been fully achieved but he added that the lull was merely temporary..
The Government now. He added that it was a signifi cant fact that the, native unrest to amend the Riotous Assemblies was not confined to the Union of Act and to deal as soon as pos- South Africa, but was heginning to sible with the agitators who were
at the root of the trouble. extend to South Rhodesia.
Extending Everywhere.
1
proposes
Mr. Pirow declared that it was
- Seething Unrest. agreed on all sides that the
Describing the seething unrest native unrest in the Union had in Durban before the raids, Mr. reached a dangerous stage. Pirow aid that the Borough Police were attacked and beaten The police were satisfied that by mobs of natives, while life and matters had reached a point where. property of Europeans was seri. unless checked, they would in cusly endangered." twelve to eighteen months' time, lead to rioting by the natives on a large scale, with consequent re- prisals by the Europoana, and the introduction of lynch law.
Other Figures.
France comes next with 25,764 bottles of beer, whisky, vermouth, port, champagne, gin, claret, etc., exemptions totalling with tax
This liquor is said to $10,307,62, have been required for the Mili-
life.
Way
Lhinese Report Fall Taaoyang is on the Siangyang
tection.
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was absent.
Overdraft As Well.
Mr. Jenkin said that on October 15, this year, fendant purchased from potiff 500 Green Island Cement shares and he made a similar purchase two days later,
land Cement shares. He was giver until October 18 to take delivery of them.
branch line of the Peking-Hankow NEW UNEMPLOYED mading a total of 1,000 Green Le
that
According to aging statementter. made by Mrs. Knowles, put in at the trial, the affair was an accident caused by her sitting on a revolver. The prosecution contened that this statement was made by Mrs. tar Club and Canteen.
Knowles to shield her husband,Railway, about thirty miles from Other figures are:-Janan, British Wireless.
Siangyang, and the report beer, with
the Government. troops are con- 17,050 "bottles of exemption. totalling $3,146.40:
centrating there and planning Portugal. 108 bottles of beer and
their counter-moves from Tsao- yang, rather goes to confirm reports received in Hongkong from Chinese sources that Siang- yang has fallen to the Kuominchun
Government troops almost imme- diately,
MARRIED.
wines, $75.36; United States, 664 MISS EILEEN BENNETT bottles of beer and champagne, $190.08: Germany, 60 bottles of cham 3102; Denmark, 528 bottles of stout, $13432; Norway.
216 bottles of stout, $30.24. The NO INTERFERENCE WITH HER or is being evacuated by the total number of bottles of all kinds of liquors Is given as 80,6-18.
These figures are stated to be the result of investigations made by the Kwangtung Wine and Tobacco Bureau,
Serious Insult.
on.
f"
TENNIS CAREER.
London, Nov. 19.
DOLE BILL.
I.L.P. TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT.
TORY OPPOSITION.
On the morning of October 18. defendant went to the Mercantile. Bank, with whom the shares were. subsequently lodged, and made 'arrangements with the bank for an overdraft of approximately $7,- 500 In the event of the shares being produced.
London, Nov. 19. Coming via Shanghai this mornTM
In reply to his Lordship, counsel "Following a lively meeting of ing the Chinese reports state the Independent Labour Party, the said defendant made, that ar The famous British lady tennis that two divisions of Kuominchun Parliamentary Group by a big majungement with the bank in player, Miss Eileen Bennett, who troops moving down the
Hanority, decided to support the Gov-anticipation of taking delivery of ranks jointly with Miss Betty | River, from Yunyang, appeared onerament's Unemployment Insu- the shares from plaintiff, After Nuthall as Britain's No. 2. was the outskirts of Fancheng and France Bill
the agreement with the bank had married as St. Margaret's West Siangyang on Tuesday morning, The Bill passed its first reading been arrived at, defendant took minster, to-day, to Mr. Edmund and fiercely engaged the Govem-a day or two age. It provides for delivery of the shares, giving to Fearnley Whittingstall, an artist.
increased benefits to wives of un- plaintiff two "dud cheques of $5,800. and $6.900 which were the employed men, and other increases and allowances bring the total purchase prices of the respective
the Treasury to ap- lots of shares.
The bride has announced that her marriage will not interfere with her lawn tennis career.
"HOOTCH” LEAKS FROM SUITCASE.”
ment, troops,
Shrewd Thrusts.
from
on-
1
'Defendant -Disappears.
Apart from the fact that the figures are quite inaccurate, it is regarded as a serious insult by the Consular, Body here that it should be infplied, as it is in the
It would appear, the reports go average on headings given to this news, that
Eight bridesmaids at the wedding on, that the Kuominchun delivered proximately £24,500,000 per its members are blatantly smug- ling wines and spirits into Canton included the daughter of the Rt.hrewd thrusts during the encournum, instead of £12,500,000 former-
Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Minter which lasted the whole day, ly.
The Labour Left Wing expressed for the use of their nationals.
I dissatisfaction in the Lobbies and The actual facts are that theater for Employment, and many the Government forces suffering
The fall of Siangyang is freely they endeavoured to sway to-day Consalar Bady has done all in ita tennis stars were among the five heavy losses.
to enforce
their hundred guests at the subsequent power
reported in Hankow and much meeting. nationals the duties and taxes of reception.---Reuter.
uneasiness is felt in Chinese circlés A minority of 14, including Mr. the Kwangtung Wine and Tobacco
there, the money market having Maxton, put in an amendment to Bureau, even though these are not
seriously reflected the prevalence the resolution, urging opposition of the rumour.
to the Bill. Following in accordance with the terms
Instructions
The Liberal attitude has not any existing Treaties.
The bona fides of the Consular
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. been clearly defined, but it is bedant at once went to the bank T. V, Soong arrived in Hankow by lieved that a large measure of sup Body are amply demonstrated by
aeroplane yesterday. It is underport is to be expected. its recent action in the case of the
The Bill comes up for its second cigarette stall-holders. the EMBARRASSING FOR A "DRY""stood he is undertaking to secure
at British and French bridges on
· CONGRESSMAN,"
$10,000,000 for war purposes from reading on Thursday and it is learned that. Major Elliott, the Shumeen.Our Own Correspon-
the bankers. dent-
According to latent advices from Conservative Member for Kelvin- A leaking suitcase left in a railhe Honan front, it would seemgrove, an Under-Secretary in the that the Kuominchun having late Government, will move its way station cloak-room some few It is interesting to recall that months ago, has proved highly em
diverted Nanking armies into this rejection-Reuter. October 29th Just, the Canbarrassing to Mr. Edward E. Deni-region, are content to draw them on while they vigorously puraue ton News Agency stated that Mrson, an ardent "Dry" who is a
their campaign in north Hupeh Cheng Eing-chung, the director of member of the House of Repre- the Wine and Tobacco Bureau, had sentatives for an Illinois consti- lately received several compunituency. eations from the British Consu A Federal Grand Jury investi struggles forms of oppression in Borough followed their example. late, requesting the exemption of gating the case brought against
duties on wines for the use of the him after enquiries revolutionary manner.
were made Naval Canteen on Shameen. The has indicted him on a charge of The "friends" to "conduct militant demonstra- A further peril was introduced Bureau then wrote to the Commis-the possession of liquor, tions on December 15th, under the by the discovery that liquor brew: sioner of Foreign Affairs with the
Denison declares that
public."
sively.
obtained from the British Consul,
Moscow's Agitation,
Mr. Pirow caused a stir when he quoted written instructions from the Third International in Moscow to its friends in South Africa," urging them to "wake u against Native Bits and
arc
also told
drafted
A mobile 'force was into the city from Maritzburg, but these reinforcements were treated with contempt by twelve thousand natives in the com- pounds, who flatly refused pay the poll tax
to
Thousand of natives in the
Liquor Brewing.
Exemption Request.
Washington, Nov. 19. -
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Counsel explained that the cheques were "did" in the sense that defendant knew at the time he wrote them that he had no funds to meet them and he also knew he would not have enough Mr. Jenkin went on to say that funds even with the overdraft. having obtained the shares, defen- where be lodged them and pro- ceeded at once to draw out in cash, the sum of $7,250 by cheque on the overdraft. From that momont he had not been seen.
Plaintiff was informed, at about five o'clock on the same day, that the cheques could not be met and It would appear that defendant. had fled with an associate. Mr. Well had searched high and low' for defendant but had been unable. to locate him. He carried on hils business in Ice House Street where he was very well-known and he also appeared to reside either per- manently, or certainly occasional ly, at No. 9, Gage Street. From enquiries made it would appeár special train, now at Hauchang, on The leading railway magnates that he left the Gage Street house which the Generalissimo. Chiang met President Hoover and pro- on the afternoon of October 18 dropped bombs, on the train. construction and expansion re-associated at the premises and Another Kuominchan, aeroplane gramme, regardless of the state who was, presumably, his wife. dropped bomba on the special train of the Stock Market-Reuter's That day, Mr. Jenkin pointed out, was the day on which he obtained of General Tang Seng-chi, now stay-American Service.
the shares and drew out the ing at Kunghalen along the Lung-
money. hai Rallway. The aerial attacksą by the Kuominchun on both occaalona
THE WALL STREET DEBACLE. Trains Bombed. That aeroplanes are extensively used in the latest
warfare in RAILWAY MAGNATES READY China Is
revealed in dispatches
TO CARRY ON. " Trom Chengchow. A Kuominchun.
Washington, Nor, 19, acroplane appeared above the
slogan "Long Live the Native Re-ing was being carried on exten-request that full information becharge is a "mistake."-Reuter's Kai-shek has beca staying, and mined to proceed with their full with a lady with whom he was
The natives are urged to penes On October 24th, the mobile on the receipt of which permasian American Service, trate all mines by all possible torce rounding up the poll-tax de for the necessary exemption will means and to call a partial stop-faulters were attacked by a mob be issued accordingly. This stop page of work on December 14th.of three thousand. natives, but was taken with the view. to pre- All available organisations, says luckily only seven members of the serve the national taxes.. the Third International, are to be force suffered injuries.
used for this purpose.
"Reds" Named.
0
Mr. Pirow named the organisa- tions in South Africa directly or Indirectly implicated in the com- munication with the Third Inter- nablonal, including:
ZINC PRODUCTION.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT | failed.
A Limit Wanted. The natives formed a strong
The gist of the despatch by the
DENOUNCED. organisation for the mutual sup. Bureau to the Foreign Affairs De port of their case and the police partment was as follows:
Brussels, Nov. 19. importad wore informed that on the next Very few forelin
A meeting of delegates of the wines come under the classifica Zinc Cartel voted against the renew tion of presents, which are exempt al of the present International of duties upon the application of agreement, which will be de- the Consulates to the Bureau, hounded as from December 31st, which gives orders to the sub-1920,
A Committes was appointed to bureau to examine the wines in
(Continued on Page 12.) draft a fresh agreement Reuter
"alive.
rald, not a man would escape
The Communist Party,
strike of all dock The African National Congress, A general
workers had been prepared and Natal Industrial and Commer-Incendiarism was threatened
cial Workers Unions,
Reuter
Nanking Aerial Forces.
As the result of these Kuomin chun aerial invasions, the Govern- ment have ordered the aerial corpo
UNIQUE DISTINCTION.
VARSITY PRESIDENT AT THIRTY YEARS,
Chicago, Nov, 19. Professor, R. M. Hutchins, of at Chengchow to keep themselves in Yale, who is only thirty years of readiness against invading Kuomin- age, his been instaled na President chun planes, which, however, have of the University of Chicago failed to appear since the Hela said to be the youngest U above mentioned attacks. It is said versity Freeldent in the world -
(Cotninud on Page 73) Reuters American Service,
Bank's Lien. Concluding, Mr. Jenkin wald that the writ was issued on October 22 and the writ of foreign attachment on October 24. The required ad- vertising was done and he asked his Lordship to hold that the my was that defendant was hiding conclusion to which he could come Himself in order to evade Ings.