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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1930.
HAICHING THEORY CHINA'S FOREIGN SAMOAN LEADERS' || THE MIGHTIEST YET OFFERED
DESTROYED.
NEW EVIDENCE GIVEN THIS MORNING..
MR. DE MELLO GIVES GRAPHIC ACCOUNT IN COURT.
USED, AS SHIELD.
Mr. A. A. de Mello; the third engineer of the s. Huiching,
Linued.
RELATIONS.
DEFIANCE.
SHANGHAI COURT ISSUE SAID NEAR CONCLUSION.
VILLAGES DESERTED BY NATIVES.
BLASE
EXTRALITY TALKS.
Nanking, Jan. 25, ; Interviewing pressmen,,the Foreign Minister stated that the Shanghai Court issue is practically. settled, and that the draft agree- ment will be signed when the delegates receive instructions from their respective. Governments. A hitch is unlikely to arise,
In regard to the extrality issue, smoothly with Great Britain. The
PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN :'
FULL SWING.
DIFFICULT POSITION.
Apia, Samos, Jan. 20. (Delayed by Censor). The New Zealand Govern-
gave a graphic story of his the proceedings are progressing periences during the attempted piracy of the bout on December dolny at the present moment is ment's decision to take strong Tth, at the Central Magistracy to the absence of Sir: 3ifles measures to put an end to the this morning, when the proceed Lampeon in Hongkong. However, native unrest In Samoa has had ings against the three Chinese, Messrs. Teichwani and Aveling the effect of removing imminent charged with the murder of Mr. are remaining in Shanghai, M danger of disturbances, but! Woodward, the third officer of the Conversations with the United business is paralysed and many Hatching, and of assault with In States on the extrality question of the natives have deserted tent to commit piracy, were co-are proceeding between Chinese their villages..
Minister, Dr. C. C. Wu, and the Mr, de Mello said he had been State Department In Washington." Armed guards are posted at with the Haiching for two years,
The Foreign Ministry wired to strategic points throughout the and he spoke Cantonese fluently, the French Minister, Count Martel, islands as symbols of the breach About mid-night on December 7, requesting him to come to Nanking. between native Samoans and the he was on watch in the engine The Dutch, Brazilian and. Nor-authorities of New Zealand-the room, and about 1 a.m. he heard wegian Ministers have promised mandate power under the League firing on the deck above him. Helto send delegates to Nanking, but of Nations. went to the Second Officer to ask they have not arrived yet. him what it was all about, and later he saw four or five anen"
coming from the stoke-hold to the
were
armed
engine roo3u. All with revolvers, and they ordered him, at the point of the gun, to stop the main engines, and at the
same time demanded kerosene.
Played for Time.
Windes played for tinte and In- dicated the engine room' tunnol, but the pirates, becoming angry at the delay, threatened to shout him, whereupon the greater show- ed them the kerosene tank. The pirates them broke open thi tập and set fire to the kerosene which trickled out, ‚'
Mr. Hamilton-That is amaz- ing. Do you know why they did that?
. Mr. de' Mello:-They tried to set fire to the ship by that mearm. They thought that if the fire started amid-ships, it would drive the defenders from the bridge.
Mr. L. R. Andrewes (Assistant Crown Solicitor):-Do you think. they were trying to find out whether it was kerasene or not?
Witness: No. desperate..
They were
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Mr. Shigemitau has announced The Foreign Minister states that that he would come to Nanking this week to start the Treaty revision discussions, but the Ministry had not yet been Informed of his departure for Nanking, The report that Japan seeks to delay the
discussions is incorrect, and it is improbable, that the dissolution of the Japanese Diet will have any untoward effect-Canton "Neves Agency.
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RANCHER PEER REMARRIES.
LORD CHEYLESMORE'S CANADIAN BRIDE.
that
Lord
It is revealed Cheylesmore, the rancher peer of Canada, has been married for the second time, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
His bride is Miss Pearl Margaret Sundberg, daughter of Mr. A. J. Hundberg, of Alberta.
Lord Choylesmore's first MBI- 1927. riage was dissolved in Letters
were read during the hearing of the case from Lord Cheyleamore in which he said that he loved Canada and believed the country to have a' great future. "I would not be at home now for a king's ransom," he added.
Used as Shield. Continuing his narrative, Mr. de Mello and he stopped the engines and the pirates then ordered him to take them to the bridge, mean- ine to use him as a shield. He In an affidavit made by Lady went up to the spar deck and when Choyleamore, she described they were opposite the Chief conditions of Bfe on her Officer's cabin, one of the pirates | band's ranch. behind him flashed a torch on the door and revealed a man whom he recognised us the first defen- dant. In the engine room, he saw the third defendant, who was bleeding from a flesh wound,
All male natives in most of the
But it does not appear that they villages have fled to the hills. contemplate violence, even if they wished it.
Plane Surveys Area,
gies low over the islands
A military aeroplane constantly prising the Sameh group.
com-
The Mad, the organization of; the native Samoans, mainly chief- taina, organized originally to co- operate with the New Zealand authorities, has been disbanded. It is officially regarded an seditious organization.
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New Zealand troops are station- ed at various north coast points. Meanwhile, an inquest is pro eeeding here at Apla into the affair of December 28 when High Chief Tamasese and seven other Sameaus and a British policeman; were killed. At the inquest, it has been declared that the evidence was calculated to inspire further bitterness, on the part of the Samoana,
Dramatic Shooting. Two witnesses have alleged that when he Was Chief Tamasese, shot, was standing alone, with his hands above his head, calling upon the people to be calm,
Other testimony has alleged that three Samoans, who went to the assistance of Tomasese, were ahot with him.
While the inquest is in progrens the Taimalcalinfano, one of the re- hus-calcitrant chiefs, who is 84 years of age; and who was wounded in the December affray, has been arrested. Several other minor arrests have been made, causing further resentment among the Samoans,
She complained that there was no water supply, and that they had only four wooden chairs and two wooden rocking-chairs.
She said she asked her husband to buy a sofa and an easy chair,
At this point. Mr. Andrewes but he refused, saying that he explained that this statement did not intend to spend a penny rather destroyed their firal theory, more.
that the third defendant was shot
Double Wedding,
in the Indian guard's cubîn, 31 Lord Cheylesmore, who is the now pointed towards the third fourth baron, was formerly a „defondant having been shot from above, as the bullet entered the captain in the Grenadier Guards. He was mentioned in dispatches top of his shoulder, and Capt. for gallantry during the war and Farrar was dring at the time with
Winchester rifle. When Mr. de was awarded the D.8.0. Molle saw the man in the engine room, he was bleeding from a wound in the leg, but was.able to walk.
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Mistaken for Pirate.
Again taking, up his story, the Third Engineer sold that upon thefr arrival at the starbourd alleyway he shouted to Mr. John- son, the Second Officer, not to fire and also told him to guard his
rear.
When on leave in 1915 he was
Meeting Refused:
The New Zealand government officials, even with armed forces from the cruiser Dundein, have been unable to prevent the evasion of the special order for Chief Tuimales infans and 57 other
Samoan leaders to meet Colonel S. S. Alleh, the New Zealand ad- ministrator.
Col. Allen wishes to discuss the situation and reach a compromise, But Chief Tuimalealinfano prefers to remain in fall.
secretly married at Paddington Register Office to an Australian chorus girl, Miss Leonora Parker. of Tasmania, but, at the request of the late Lord Cheyleamore, the His followers are still eucceed- couple went through A second ing in dodging the police and ceremony at the Guards' Chapel, troops secking to arrest them." Willington Barracks.
Now 36, Lord Cheylesmore has worked on his ranch in Alberta for several years.
Col. Allen to-day issued an order calling for the arrest of Chief Faumuina and 19 of his followers: The heir to the on various charges. title Is Lord Cheylesmore's
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It is likely that the situation "At the same time," continued brother, the Hon. H. E. Eaton, will remain deadlocked for some Mr. de Mello, "I either pushed, who found a bride in British time in view of the native policy kicked or punched the pirate Columbia, eight years ago.
people out of the sea. Their boat
directly behind me; I can't remem. bor quito what I did, but I sent him flying, and then I ran away become overloaded and they up the ladder and on the bridge, transferred some to a passing where I helped in the defence of junk, whilst later H.M.3. Stirling the ship. As I approached the arrived on the scene, and witnesa bridge, an Indian guard shot at me boarded her. on sight, thinking I was a pirate, but he did not hit me."
Later, those on the bridge re- trosted to the boat deck, and as they were doing this, the Second Engineer shouted out to him that there was a pirate nearby.
Witness peeped round the side and saw the pirate in the act of drawing his revolver to shoot the Second Engineer, and witness, unable to change his rife from one hand to the other, fired point blank at the pirate from about 8 fect range and shot him dead
through the chest
Rescue Work.
accom
of passive resistance,
HOOLIGAN ATTACK
FEARED.
(Continued from Poge 1,)
Schools to be Warned,
Subsequently witness panied an armed guard from the Stirling to the Hatching, where he occasions of prize-giving func assisted to get the fire under con- tions. The issuing of tickets was trol and the ship under way. In a matter over which the Theatre the saloon, he saw the third Management had no control.
wounded, and he defendant, pointed him out to the officer in charge of the guard, as one of the
His Worship suggested that it pirates. He recognised him by would be a good plan to circularise his stubbie moustache, protruding schools pointing out that owing cheeks and his peculiar shaped to the excessive number of tickets head, which came to a point. Issued, it would be necessary, In Identification parade at the Cen- mission.
On December 13, he attended an future, to consider refusing per-
L
tral Police Station, where he re-
Mr. Rossclet romarked. that that: "cognised the first defendant, whom he saw being taken away by could be done but in each instance After that, the pirates mingled two of the armed guards aboard the School authorities had been with the passengers on the poor the Hatching after the man had spoken to about overcrowding. deck and maintained a meagre boon discovered under the life-belt The first defendant was enu- Are. About 2.30 cm.
on the locker. He also identified the tioned and ordered to pay the Captain's orders, he, together with second defendant, whom he had a ticket collector who had, received the Chief Officer, the Second strong suspicion of. He recognisa black eye, and had his spectacles Engineer and wireless operator, od him by the manner in which his broken $10 compensation while Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICE PERCY entered one of the mid-ship boats, | hair was cut.
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charged. The casa le proceeding..
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