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UNEMPLOYED RIOT GANDHI PERSISTS LABOUR PROTEST CHINA QUARANTINE BRITAIN'S FISCAL FLOOD DEATH-ROLL HAICHING PIRATES
IN BERLIN.
POLICE USE BATONS &
REVOLVERS.
AMERICA ALSO DEALS WITH MUCH DISORDER.
There were skirmishes between
demonstrators and police in the East End of London, at Dublin, at Manchester and in Glasgow, and a few arrests were made. The de- monstrations passed off without incident in other parts of the country.
IN MADNESS,
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO.
START NEXT WEEK.
PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
Ahmedabad, Mar. 6. Gandhi has decided to embark upon his campaign of civil dis- obedience on Wednesday of next week, March 12.
news. Pre-
TO PREMIER.
ARMY MAY PRAY FOR RUSSIANS.
BUT NOT AT COMPULSORY PARADE SERVICES.
London, Mar. 6.
SCHEME.
AGAIN DISCUSSED BY THE LEAGUE COMMITTEE.
PROJECT OUTLINED,
Geneva, Mar. 6. The Health Committee of the League of Nations to-day continued its examination of the Chinese Government's proposals arising
POLICY.
CHURCHILL SUPPORTS
BALDWIN.
PROPOSED REFERENDUM ON FOOD TAXES.
INCREASING.
FOUR HUNDRED VICTIMS OF FRENCH DISASTER.
BRITISH SYMPATHY.
TO HANG.
JURY'S UNANIMOUS VERDICT:
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING INDIAN GUARD.
Paris, Mar. 6. The grim tragedy of the food disaster in the south of France is MAINLY DAY OF FIASCO Viceroy, there le no
Regarding his ultimatum to the MR. THURTLE OBJECTS.
emphasised by the latest reports from the devastated areas. The sumably it has been delivered, and
League's help and technical advice London, Mar. 6. Lord Irwin has taken the natural
dred at least, and it is feared that with regard to certain sanitary
• Riotous mobs caused serious step of ignoring it.
this figure will continue to grow. trouble in different parts of Ger-
London, Mar. 6. The place selected for the offer Labour Party to protest on the of China, especially the reorgani-connexion with the food-tax houses are explored.
It was to-day the turn of the works which are comprised in the reconstruction and modernisation
The list is increasing steadily
After an absence of sever many and the United States, but ing of civil disobedience by the subject of the call to intercessory sation of the quarantine service.
The latest development in as the water recedes and the ruined minutes, the Criminal Sessions in the main, the Communist at first batch tempts to stage demonstrations Gandhi is Jalalpur. in the Surat tians of Russia. The matter establishment of a National Hos-of the Exchequer in the late to repair the main railway line beMing, who were indicted on a
of volunteers under prayers for the persecuted Chris-
jury this morning returne: a controversy is that Mr. Winston rendered homeless by the floods. China proposes the immediate Churchill, who was Chancellor
Ten thousand people have been unanimous verdict of "Guilty"" throughout the world in con- ten miles daily on foot, exhorting was raised in the House of pital in Cheklang, which will serve Conservative Government, has tween Bordeaux and Cette, while charge of murdering Khial
District. It is proposed to cover
It will take at least two months against Lam Hing and Lam nexion with "International Un-residents to support the campaign Lamme and replyinged for the reorganisation of medical given his full support to the the reconstruction of the towns and Singh, an Indian guard, during
Commons, and to a as a model for other Provinces; employed Day," ended in fiasco.
approved by Congress. from the Bombay Provincial Con- Church parade by His Majesty's Singapore with the Ministry of Conservative ex-Premier, in his practically in ruins.
Gandhi to-day received, a wire the cancellation of compulsory training; and the collaboration of declaration on fiscal policy made villages destroyed will be a matter the attempted piracy of the 3.3. gress Committee, asking him to Forces on March 16, Mr. Ram- Health for the purpose of fighting speech on Tuesday.
the Epidemiological Office at by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the of years. Quite large towns are Haiching. The accused were depule Jamna Lal Bajaj, a lieuten-say MacDonald said that the small-pox and cholera. ant of Gandhi, to go to Bombay to matter would probably be satis-
His Majesty the King of Eng- Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gol- then sentenced to death by the prepare for the launching of a civil factorily settled on the lines of already entered into obligations cepted by Lord Beaverbrook as per- Government. One of the reasons
land and the British Government lan). The Chinese Government has claration by Mr. Baldwin was ac- to
It will be recalled that this de- have sent messages of sympathy disobedience campaign there.
his reply to Mr. Baldwin on involving $200,000 (Mex,) in res-fectly satisfactory in its acceptance for
the French President Meanwhile a message from Bom-
and bay states that Shaukat Ali, one
Tuesday. of the famous Ali brothers, who
The Labour speakers objected and the estimated cost is $1,000,000. pire Free Trade Crusade. He add. Naval Conference is because Fresi- pect of the fulfilment of the plan, of, the main purpose of the Em-Tardieu's departure for the London postponement of M. was a very staunch supporter of
to this course on the ground that Dr. Miyajima emphasised Jap-ed that as a result of Mr. Baldwin's dent Doumergue has decided to pay movement, in the course of a speech spiritual liberty to officers and Committee's activities in the Far the enormous expense of opposing region. M. Tardieu will accom- Gandhi's previous non-co-operation it constituted a denial of
full an's interest in to a gathering of Moslems, con- men.
the League lead, the Crusade would be saved a personal visit to the devastated demned the civil disobedience cam-
East, and dwelt on the importance the Conservatives of the Chinese proposals. He constituencies.
con-pany him--Reuter. aidered that the most important The Prime Minister counselled question from the International Mr. Churchill's Attitude. his
viewpoint was the organisation of questioners to await what
Mr. Winston Churchill's support a quarantine service by China, and of the Baldwin declaration was gladly. collaborate, through the intermediary of the League.
"I have always been opposed to my profound sympathy with the press to you, Monsieur le President, Dr. Yen, Director of the Medical the protective taxation of food for victims and particularly with those Donald's unsatisfactory reply, he Administrative Department of the the purpose of uniting the British who have suffered would raise the matter on adjourn Chinese Ministry of Health, thank- Empire, because it seems to me through the déplorable loss of life bereavement ed Dr. Miyajámy and expressed
that any such policy, if imposed by which this calamity has caused."— the desire of the Chinese health a single party, would be Jiable to British Wireless. services to co-operate with Japan to
violent reversals, most dangerous
Imperial outlined. and other countries in the scheme the course which Mr. Baldwin But
has now proposed commands my keenest support.
from China's request for the IMPERIAL UNITY AIM. death-roll is now put at four hun- SENTENCE OF DEATH.
Berlin Fighting. Reports from
the Continent
show that the elaborate police pre- cautions were completely success ful except in Germany, while there were a few serious disorders par-paign. ticularly in Berlin during the He felt certain, he said, that "it evening when the police freely will mean bloodshed among our-
against demonstrators.
Wait and See,
in the
the
The King sent the following tele- gram to the French President: "I have learned with the deepest concern of the disastrous inunda Lions which have desolated such
will you tell them that the jury Addressing the interpreter, his Lordship the Chief Justice said:-
advantage of Mr. has found them gulity of his ability, but the jury, and I agree offence? They have had the
the conclusion that they are guilty Alabaster's with their verdict, have come to
each one of them, Tell them that of the offence charged against
indeed, more serious than ordinary their offence is a very serious one charges of murder, and that it is.
sentence directed by the law."
Sentence Passed.
used their batons and revolvers selves." He hoped that "patriotic happened. He was not willing to he gave an assurance that the made to-day in the letter written to /great areas in the south and south, my duty to pass upon them the and sensible Indians will combine raise the whole question of com Japanese medical world would his constituents, in which he said: West of France and hasten to ex-
prevent the. danger
Over seventy arrests were made to in Berlin. One Communisi de-coming."-Reuter. monstrator was shot dead, elven eivilians and five police are in hospital suffering from more tr less serious injuries.
Minor disorders occurred in other German towns, but in other Continental countries, arrests made before any trouble was pas- sible proved sufficient deterrent.
Huge Mob Dispersed
In Berlin the demonstrations were continued until the night was well advanced.
Police reinforcements cleared out a huge mob from Buelow Square where the Communist headquarters are to be found.
we see pulsory parades if the matter was
not settled now.
Mr. E. Thurtle (Lab.) said that in view of Mr. Ramsay Mac-
INDIAN COTTON
DUTIES.
QUESTION RAISED IN PARLAMENT.
*London, Mar. 6. Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, was asked
the
ment.
Lord's Discussion.
The topic was also discussed in the House of Lords. The Duke of Atholl drew attention to the recent Service orders regarding interces sory prayers at military Church
having regard to in the House of Commons whether, parades, and read the new Order effect which the proposed increase the question
serious issued by the Army Council since in the Indian cotton tariff would House of Commons on Tuesday, was raised in the have on the Lancashire cotton but before the meeting which was
There were many clashes betweenndustry, he would consider the arranged between the Prim Min- the police and Communist ganga at desirability of making representa ister, Mr. Lloyd George ai | Mr. Neukoelin, and a number of de- tions to the Indian Government Baldwin. monstrators were injured by batons. A policeman shot dead two un-
that the proposals shall not be ruly demonstrators at Halle. Six-
proceeded with. teen arrests were made at Bitter- feld.
Mr. Graham explained that it would have been
Latest Orders.
The Orders state that officers seen from Sir and other ranks cannot be com- pulsorily paraded to attend ser- vices at which intercessory prayers be offered, but will be free to at- for the Christians in Russia will tend voluntary intercessorial ser- vices.
George Schuster's speech in the Indian Legislative Assembly that the British Government already done everything possible had
in the way of representations,
were MEDALS FOR GALLANT
CONDUCT.
Sir George Buchanan, inter alios, participated in the ensuing dis- cussion-Reuter.
REVENUE OFFICERS RAID SHIP.
concord.
Conservative Polley,
SUFFRAGETTE DAYS RECALLED.
STATUTE OF MRS. PANK- HURST UNVEILED.
"The policy of the Conservative Party is that, if and when we obtain power, we shall call a con- ference representative of all parts of the Empire, at which food
London, Mar. 6. In the shadow of the Houses of duties, in return for reciprocal Parliament, close to the spot OPIUM FOUND ON BOAT advantages to our manufacturing where she was arrested nearly
FROM HOIHOW,
exports, will be discussed in per-twenty years ago when reading a fect freedom. If a good plan re- demonstration for the enfranchise- Another haul of illicit opium sults from the labours of this con- ment of women, a statue of the has been made by Officers, who, it is understood, referendum to the direct vote of unveiled.
Revenue ference, it will be submitted by late Mrs. Pankhurst was to-day arrival in port on Wednesday be able to adopt it or reject it. boarded the as. Dorry on night and seized nearly 3,000 taels
her the whole electorate, who will then
$8,000. of the drug, worth approximately
under
National Appeal,
At Cologne, serious trouble oc- curred.
There were several nasty
The ceremony was performed by collisions between police and Com-
Mr. Baldwin, Conservative leader, munists and a hundred and fifty
who paid a tribute to the zeal and arrests were made, including a num-
achievements of Mrs, Pankhurst. ber of men heavily armed. The Mr. Graham added: "Though I
"It seems to me that this is not He said: "I was opposed to her It is understood that when the only the best way but the only way for many years, but it fell to my police found large quantities of fully realise the grave effect which arms and
Dorry arrived from Hoihow in- of effectively advancing towards lot to put the coping stone on her ummunition in Com- this increase of duties may have vices not held in Garrison Church Revenue Department of the pre- pire. It liberates the cause that
Troops attending parade ser- formation was lodged with the economic or fiscal unity of the Em- labours," munist dwellings.-Reuter,
on the trade of Lancashire, Ies are Washington Uses Tear-Gas,
This was a reference to the appreciate also the proposal of paraded to services including in- quantity of illicit opium, with the thraldom of party strife and raises in extending the vote to all women not to be compulsorily sence on board the ship of a large we all have at heart from the legislation of his late Government the Indian Government to ask the tercessory prayers, New York, Mar. 6.
Legislative Assembly to assent
result that a party of officers visit it to the high platform of national) of 21 years. Despite the extraordinary pre- to preferential treatment for this the Order as making confusion peak of the vessel.
The Duke of Atholl describeded the ship and searched the fore
appeal." cautions taken by the police, a num-country."-British Wireless.
The great gathering of women Concealed ber of minor disorders occurred in
worse confounded..
Mr. Churchill went on to de- included many who were promin- some ropes and other different parts of the country.
articles the searchers found 2,700 clare that here at Home the sucent in the militant-suffragette The Washington police
taels of raw opium.
cess of safeguarding, in the care- campaign.--British Wireless, obliged to use tear-gas to disperse
thing like $8,000, being approxi- extension freely to industries of The contraband is worth some-it had been applied, justifies its fully-selected industries to which demonstrators in front of the White
mately $3 per tael. House. Several Communists were
were made.
No arresta injured in a melee with the po- lice, and twenty arrests were made. 75,000 Present. Seventy-five thousand people participated in a demonstration ia Union Square, New York. Several police and a number of "Reds" were injured in a conflict which occurred when the police prevented the huge mob from marching to the City Hall. ringleaders were arrested.
Seven arrests were made in Bos- ton, and twenty at Pittsburgh.
Detroit Riot.
HIS MAJESTY HOLDS ANOTHER INVESTĪTURE,
London, Mar. 6. investiture at Buckingham Palace H.M. the King held a second to-day.
GRAIN
all kinds.
HULL CITY DEFEAT NEWCASTLE.
QUALIFY FOR F. A. CUP SEMI-FINAL
London, Mar. 6.
The Chief Justice then donned. of death. the black cap and passed sentence.
man
Both prisoners remained un- moved, but the second appeared as if about to speak before he left the dock. Neither spoke, however.
His Lordship thanked the mem- bers of the jury for the great care they had given to the case and said that as the case completed the Sessions, they would bo dia- charged.
When the bearing was resumed Mr. Somerset Fitzroy for the Crown intimated that he would not claim the right of reply to Mr. Alabaster.
False Stories,
the jury, Mr. Fitzroy dealt nt length In making his final address to with the various stages of the case and said the jury could have no doubt that the Indian guard met his death in circumstances. which amounted to murder.
Counsel dealt with the direct, evidence of identification given by Mr. de Mello, Third Engineer, cir- cumstantial evidence, and the stories of accused, and suggested that the latter were untrustworthy and deliberately false:
Unreliable Witness.
In pleading for accused, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., dealing with Mr. de Mello's evidence of identification, said he was an unrellable witness.. Counsel, emphasised that Mr. de Mello, at an identification parade, picked out the first accused and two other men as well, and the other two men had not been put up for trial He would submit that the value of his identification was nil and the only thing the Crown could put against accused was to try and discount their own stories. With regard to first accused, said
Official Attitude. Lord Thomson, the Air Minister, replying to the criticism on be- half of the Government, pointed out that intercessory prayers, however courteously put, amount-
The Agricultural Problem, ed to condemnation of the Rus-
STABILISING sian Government, with which Bri-
He added that the proceeds of the new safeguarding duties, and tain "had quite recently restored
PRICES.
also of the revenue duties upon
were not given regarding com diplomatic relations.
finished or nearly finished manu- If very
careful instructions
WHAT AMERICA INTENDS
factured foreign imports, might be used to give a measure of security Hull City will represent the Sec-counsel, they had heard witnesses This investiture, in contrast to Russians might easily say that the pulsory church parades, the
TO DO the official one on Tuesday, was British Government was inflaming
to British agriculture. He would, ond Division in the semi-finals of who had known him for years as a private and morning dress was the minds of Service men against Farm Board, if the course of a than to say that the procedure by The amen
however, not anticipate a state- the FA Cup Competition. In salt pan worker at Shautaukok, and Washington, Mar. 6.
ment to be made shortly by Mr. their replay with Newcastle United who had known him by the nick- worn. Ninety recipients of hon- Russia through religion.
Mr. Legge, Chairman of the Baldwin upon this subject further at Hull to-day they won by the only name Fat Po which meant a "Sea from all ranks of life and included ours and decorations were drawn
Buddah." There was. atatement
nothing on grain stabilisation, way of a minimum guarantee for The amended draw for the semi- fierce in that name and accused wes Prayers Read in Lords. aminer and seamen, who were
said the Corporation would con- certain crops and the prohibition finals is as follows:
regarded as a person of tilid and tinue to buy wheat at market or import under licence of sub- presented with medals for gallan read out the prayers that he has whatever
The Archbshop of Canterbury prices and remove from the market sidised or dumped foodstuffs must on Manchester United's ground. Wednesday v. Huddersfield,
benevolent disposition. He con Twelve were injured and seven these were in connexion with re- and asked if there was anything pressure and prevent the decline Wireless.
try in saving life at sea.
tended that accused were entitled teen arrested at Detroit where the scues from ships in distress during political in them.
Some of ordered to be offered in his diocese might be necessary to relieve the for agricultural distress.British on Leeds United's ground.--Reuter.
additional quantity be our main immediate remedies Arsenal
Hull City,
to a verdict of not guilty. police dispersed a demonstration of the tempestuous gales of last year. 100,000 unemployed.
The
The Chief of Police in Chicago gave the leaders of the unemploy ed demonstration permission to call on the Mayor-Reuter's American Service.
Paris, Mar. 6. Fifty-two persons arrested in con- nexion with
the unemployed de- monstrations included aix foreign- ers, who are to be deported im- mediately. Reuter.
--British Wireless,
FOX FILM COMPANY FINANCE.
BANKING SCHEME APPROVED BY SHAREHOLDERS.
4
The matter was allowed to drop. -Reuter.
CONSTABLE INJURED.
of prices.
The Corporation was prepared
Mr. Baldwin's Idea;
un-
to take delivery of all grair futures In the course of his speech on purchased and dispose of it as Tuesday, Mr. Baldwin declared market conditions permitted.
The Farm Board was, he added, domestic policy. I
"We must wal Imperial Policy with prepared to advance to the Corpora- willing to ask Britons to give any
remaia tion whatever funds were neces- vote on the question of food taxes sary. Reuter's American Service,
unless and until they know exactly what is involved and what we may be going to get in exchange."
He then went on to outline the iden of the Conservative, if return-
to the N.E. of Vladivostock. Fresh the matter, suggesting that if the that a strong anticyclone la central ference of the Empire to discuss The Royal Observatory reports led to power, of summoning a con-
to strong monsoon along the S.E. discussions resulted in an arrange
FINER WEATHER.
·
....
NEW GOVERNOR
Judge's Summing Up.
In his summing-up, his Lordship. pointed out that there was no direct evidence as to who killed Khial Singh, but it was not neccessary SIR WILFRED JACKSON FOR either of accused should have fired for the jury to find that one or MAURITIUS.
the fatal shot or that they should named Liu Yuen-min, of Gough A Shantung police constable,
have been anywhere near Khial London, Mar. 6. Singh at the time. If they Police Station, has been admitted;
appointment of Sir Wilfred Jack for the purpose of carrying H.M. the King has approved the associated themselves with others to the Government Civil Hospital,
son, Colonial Secretary of the out the piratical attack, if. New York, Mar. 6. suffering from injuries to the back,
Gold Coast, to be Governor and one of the others fired at and It is announced that the ballot received whilst attempting to ar
Commander-in-Chief of Mauritius, killed Khfal Singh, and the jury, A Chinese, named Lau Man Corporation has resulted in a vote lawful possession of wood stolen
Wireless. of shareholders of the Fox Film rest three men, who were in un
Refd, who is retiring. British with the object of carrying out in succession to Sir Herbert James were satisfied the shet was fired chong, aged 46, residing at the of approval of the £12,000,000 re- from the Peak. In the struggle, Tal Ming boarding house, 146, financing plant advocated by Mr. the constable lost his truncheon. coast of China and over the Northment giving Britain benefits and deed, Colonial Secretary of the Gold In one portion of his summing, Connaught Road Central, has been William
the piratical attempt, then accus Fox and the found dead, probably from poison- Americs Blair Corporation banking ing coolies. No arrests have been-North winds, fresh, overcast at food, "the whole matter could be held similar posts in Bermuda, Bar-officers of the chip and the Indian Banca The men are described as scaveng China Sea. The local forecast is: manding in return a tax on foreign Coast last your. He had previously up, his Lordship said that the
[Sir Wilfred Jackson was appointed would-be guilty of murder. group-Reuter's American Service, made,
first, fner later.
submitted to the people...
bados, and Trinidad.]
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