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-#### MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930.
SERIOUS OUTBREAK
IN INDIA.
INSURGENTS ESCAPE TO
THE HILLS.
ARMS STOLEN DURING ATTACK AT CHITTAGONG.
ROUND UP PROCEEDING.
Chittagong, in Bengal Province, was the scene of one of the most serious disturbances in India since the recent campaign, insurgents making a raid, stealing arms and am- munition and escaping to the hills after killing four people. Details are still lacking, but a round-up of the insurgents is now proceeding and up to the present there have been dive arrests. An ordinance for the suppression of violence has been renewed in Bengal., the Viceroy explaining that in view of the latest disturbance it has become essential to renew powers which recently lapsed,
Elsewhere in India the situation shows little change. Four leaders of various organisations have been arrested in Calcutta, while Kedareshwar Son Gupta was arrested in Bombay and taken to Calcutta under a heavy guard. A Bombay procession, including women and children, walked down to the sea shore and returned with vessels filled with water, but there was no untoward incident,
Mr. Lansbury, speaking at Home, admitted that the situation in India was an extremely difficult one and paid warm tributes to the work of the Viceroy and the Secretary of State for India.
HOME GOVERNMENT'S CONCERN,
$0
BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.
MR. BRENAN OUTLINES PRINCIPLES.
FORCE AS A DOUBLE-EDGED WEAPON.
PEAK STORE FRAUD ATTEMPT.
COOLIES AND:÷EUROPEAN'S PASS-BOOK.
PRISON SENTENCES.
How an attempt by two house coglies, employees of Mr. J. J. Patterson, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., living at 117, The Peak, to obtain goods by means of fraud, was exposed through the timely action of Mr. J. C. Wilkinson, manager of Messrs. Lane. Crawford's provi- sion stores at the Peak, was de-
FEB ASNUM
BEALL GOFT 20 CANTI
RAISING FUNDS. FOR WAR.
KUOMINCHUN, WANT $40,000,000.
PLANS TO GET THE MONEY FROM BANKS.
NO HOSTILITIES YET.
RADIO AMATEURS
AT DINNER.
AMERICAN ENTHUSIASTS
ENTERTAINED.
Fort Danle
DUNLOP
British · and Bøst
VIEWS EXCHANGED.
Radio amateurs in Hongkong
SHIPPING OFFICE SENSATION.
ROBBER'S ATTACK ON ACCOUNTANT.
LEAVES $10,000 IN NOTES AS MAKES HURRIED ESCAPE.
VICTIM IN HOSPITAL.
who are interested in the trans- mitting side of wireless entertain- ed Commander Mathes U.S.N. to dinner at the Hongkong Hotel last HOPES FOR FUTURE.
night. Commander Mathes is an extremely keen and internationally Shanghai, Apr. 16.
Shanghai, Apr. 20.
known radio enthusiast, and dur
A sensational. attempt early ing the two years he has spent An extremely
The determination of the interesting address, dealing with the ques-Central Magistracy this morning, manders to accumulate funds in through his station KAICY.
tailed before Mr. Grantham at the Shansi-Kuominchun allied Com-in Manila has made friends with this morning to rob the offices local' transmitting amateurs of the Chinese branch office of tion of British commercial in- when both defendants were sen- Peking and Tientsin with the in-
the China Navigation Company, terests adapting themselves to tenced to three months' imprisotention of waging a long strug- Colony was present at the dinner, at No. 3, Des Voeux Road West,
Every amateur operator in the the changing conditions inment. China, was delivered by Mr. J. Mr. Wilkinson said that at about gle against the National Govern- together with W.S. Upson, of the by an unknown man armed with F. Brenan, British Consul- 11.30 on Saturday morning, his ment is evidenced by Japanese California amateur alation W6IP, a chopper, accompanied by a General, at the annual meeting pass-book boy brought him a pass-reports stating that Marshal Yen who is accompanying Commander murderous onslaught on Mr. of the British Chamber of Com-book belonging to Mr. J. P. War. Hsi-shan and Marshal Feng Yu- Mathes back to America on the Wong Lai-woo, the accountant
ren, of No. 301, The Peak. Hehsiang's political agents are busy President Lincoln. merce here yesterday. In the decided to look at the coolie before negotiating with Chinese and
of the Company, is briefly told Mr. George Rex Merriman of in an official report issued by course of his remarks, Mr. supplying the goods mentioned, foreign banking corporations in VSGAH made a brief speech of Police Headquarters. Brenan said:
was. He replied "Jardine's an effort to raise $40,000,000 be welcome in which he outlined
Mr. Wong Lai-woo is now lying Hongkong's amateur activities, at the Government Civil Hospital Witness then asked fore the actual commencement
He wished the two visitors a with head injuries caused by the him why he had somebody else's of war.
This huge sum, if obtained, will pleasant voyage and an abundance blows which the miscreant rained book, and accused replied that he
of wireless had met another man at the Peak be secured on special war taxation A rapid fire of jokes and wittic-
success in America. on him with the weapon. Station, who gave him the book, and Government treasury bonds isms from
$10,000 Left Behind. asking him to collect the goods which native banks and prominent VSGAP kept the party in high and to let him have them. Mr. firms will be forced to buy. The
It is an oft-repeated platitude that we are here for fade. That is to say that the chief British interests in China are trading interests. We have no political or territorial ambitions in this part of the world. There are, of
and asked him whose coolie he
Taipan."
Mr. J. W. Brown of
course, British subjects in China Wilkinson then handed the man special war taxation will be col-Majesty the King, the President of/mises when the police entered soon
as
who are pursuing legitimate interests other than trade, and who are doing admirable work in other lines. But, in so far they look to support from the home country, they are inevitably] subordinated to the exigencies of trade.
Government Policy,
That, gentlemen, I take to be the principle underlying the attitude of the British Govern- ment to all, Chiria questions. In! these days of financial stringency and unemployment in Great Bri- Calcutta, Apr. 20. states that it was "essential to tain the maintenance and increase
the Details of the raid at Chitta-renew
powers which
of our exports, the keeping of old markets and the development of gong are still lacking, but it recently lapsed".-Reuters, appears that about sixty insur-
Mr. Lansbury's Tribute, gents participated in the insurrec- tion. The majority of them are; Warm tribute to the Viceroy of now believed to be hiding in the India and Colonel Wedgwood hills.
Bean, Secretary of State for tudia, It has been established that a were paid to-day by Mr. George rifle, twenty revolvers and twenty-Lansbury, First Commissioner of five muskets are missing from the Works, when he spoke at Bourne- armouries and it believed that mouth.
these weapons were taken with a Mr. Lansbury said the situation certain amount of ammunition for in India at the present time was them,
an extremely difficult OBC. He
Wa
new
over а
ones is a matter of vital: necessity, and any policy which seems likely to achieve that object will inevitably prevail course of action that might endanger it. even if it be for the comfort and convenience of British subjects resident in this)
or for the support purely local interests.
country
ni
over to the police
Mr. J. P. Warren said his book was lost on Friday morning. He nearly always wrote in the book commumGNA LICHENGRANE ARRESTED ON EVE OF DIET SESSION,
Japanese Labour Leader on a Sedition Charge.
SEQUEL TO A SPEECH.
Tokyo, Apr. 20. On the eve of the Diet session, Ikuo Orama, the Pre- sident of the Farmer Labour Party, was making a speech at the Yonako Tottori Prefecture when he was arrested and ut- charged with seditious terances.
This information is contain. ed in a telegram which has been received at the head- quarters of his party in Tokyo. Oyama's party is the most radical represented in Par- liament-Reuter,
And that is a statement of our objects for which we need make excuse nor feel any shame mis--is the Chinese themselves.com ammatteja podrazezezaguaying The most ardent nationalist
по
lected by police officers who will visit firms and see that the re quired sum be paid immediately. Offenders will be punished,
$20,000,000 Raised.
A most unusual circular tele- gram has been issued by General Shih Yu-shan, a Nanking Com- mander with 50,000 troops who surrended to the Kuominchun re- cently. This is to the effect that he is tired of the intrigues in Chinese politics and the continual internecine war in China Proper.
He states that he is ready to give up all his interests in politics and lead his 50,000 men to Manchuria where he hopes to find peace under the rule of the Manchurian leader, General Chang Hsuch-liang,
General Attack,
THE CASTLE PEAK ROAD.
HEAT CAUSES SOFTENING
in
is
sup-
Lying strewn about on the pre- spirits, Toasts were given to His the United States and the Ameri-his escape, were a dozen envelopes. after the would-be robber had made
can Radio Relay League.
containing notes to the value' of '- After dinner, Commander
over $10,000, which the intruder Mathes and Mr. Upson spoke is a had apparently discarded in the friendly debate on the subject of stress of the flight. The money amateur radio. Many interesting was taken from the safe which the It is understood that following and constructive suggestions were robber opened with keys taken from on this extensive campaign the brought forward and Mr. Merri-his victim after the assault. agents of Marshal Yen Hsi-shan
man responded for the Hongkong have so far accumulated $20,000,- amateurs. He summed up the are situated in
The offices of the Company a block of 000 and this together with the re-principal points of the discussion buildings within close proximity to gular revenue of Peking and Tien- and thanked Commander Mathes the Wing Lok Wharf. tain will be able to carry on the and his ADC. for their interesting At about 3.40 this morning, by war against Marshal Chiang Kai- views. Mr. Cotton in of VS6Atome means which is being made" shek for some four months,
ably organised the evening. S the subject of special police inves
tigation, the robber Bucceeded.
on to getting
first the floor of the offices occupied by the Company, and without warning, it is stated, attacked the recumbent form of the accountant, Mr. Wong Lai-woo, who slept there, raining a number of savage: OF SURFACE.
"klows with a chopper from which- the victim had not the slightest: Lesterday's heat was apparently chance of defending himself.
robber Later, the responsible for creating an unplea- Peak Road near sant state of affairs on the Castle posed to have taken a bunch the 42nd. mile of keys from him, and, with these, post. Up to the present there have again emphasised that the aim of
teve opened the safe. The tar surfacing became softened been five arrests. The hills near the Labour Government
over a stretch of about three miles, Previous Knowledge. Chittagong are being thoroughly Dominion Status for India "when-
The general attack) on the and passing cara soon assisted in combed for insurgents. The town ever we are able to carry it safely
Nationalist forces by the Shansi-the distintegration of the surface. The robber must have known, is now quiet.
to the Indian people."
patrint need feel no irritation or himself, and the last few entries Kuominchun forces has been con- Thoughtful drivers realised that before he made the attempt, that He added that Lord Irwin and humiliation at our desire to were not his. He did not know!
siderably delayed, and, as a result, slow driving was necessary, but there was a big sum of money in Colonel Wedgwood Benn, who trade with him. Commerce is either of the defendants.
others, by maintaining fairly high the safe, which, being received. The trouble started when
A Chinese detective said that at Nanking is less perturbed, a were bearing the burden to-day, carried on between free and equal
The inactivity is attributed to speed, greatly added to the damage only the previous day, could not hundred insurgents attacked and have, above any other two men in countries and does not of itselt about 4.30 on Saturday, Sergt. J.
have been banked owing to the After a few hours,the roadway holidays, and he must also have. gutted the railway and policothe world, the best, the most imply any interference with each Murphy brought the No. 1 accused the fact that while Nanking is caused by passing vehicles.
to the Gentral Police Station, waiting on Manchuria to declare armouries at Chittagong on the noble and the most honest feelings other's internal affairs if both are night of the 18th. The few details towards the people of India, and prepared to accord to trade and where witness interrogated him. her allegiance to Marshal Chiang presented a moat unusual ap- been aware of the manner in available at the moment show that given a chance will do every- merchants the protection usually The man mentioned the No. 2 de- Kai-shek, the Kucminéhun Com-pearance, rendering driving both which the money was being kept, for, with, unerring aim, he select- the insurgents shot dead one ser- thing possible to help the people afforded by civilized nations. fendant's name and where he manders do not dare to take the difficult and unpleasant.
The Public Works Department ed from amongst the numerous realise geant major, one Anglo-Indian and India to
worked, and they later all went to risk of declaring war until the re
war funds have been soon had the matter in hand, and contents of the safe, a dozen four Indians. The civilian rail-uppermost in their hearts.
No. 117, The Peak, where they sawired
later in the afternoon gangs of men envelopes containing over $10,000 way employees and the women an In the meantime "We were faced
the No. 2 accused. He said, in secured in Peking and Tientsin. It is also a platitude, though one
The Kuominchun Commanders were employed in scattering sand in notes." children are believed to be safe with a situation which no
reply to questions, that he picked and accommodated at the jetties. Government can ignore and these of stress, that in order to trade other defendant, who made some estimate that so far 100,000 troops
more apt to be forgotter. in times the book up and took it to the seems to have a strong hold on and re-tolling the road."
Honan, and Chengehow meaanges The work of rounding up the two men are dealing with the with people you have to keep or insurgents has been given to a situation in manful fashion
have arrived in the city. reasonably friendly terms with detachment of
Eastern and they deserve the sympathy the
When asked if he had anything Marshal Feng Yu-hslang. Frontier Rifles, commanded by und encouragement of us all them. To apply the maxim to our
own case, we have to see to it that to say, the No. 1. accused replied officially announced his departure 'Leút. Col. Dallas Smith. Tele-Reuter.
our conduct and attitude are not in the negative, but the second for Chengchow on Friday. He graphic communication was inter-)
such as to cause serious resent- defendant corroborated what the says he will declare war on all fered with but this is now being
When the police entered the the majority of Chinese detective had said, and doubtful troops in Honan, as well restored.
premises,, not very long after an educated and politically minded added when the other defendant as the Nationalist troops,
began to make entries in the book,
alarm was given, the envelopes Chinese,
New Party Hitch..
The great Theatre Karkoff was with the money still intact therein, Owing to a variety of causes, he went out and did not know there has in recent years been a what happened after that.
Another cause for the delay is well filled for the trial of forty-five were found strewn all about the remarkable growth
members of the. "Union for the premises. of national
The first defendant then asked the fact that the Northern milita-Liberation of the Ukraine" charg sentiment în China. There has for permission to speak, and said rists and politicians, known as the ed with plotting the overthrow of
Trail of Envelopes. been in all oriental countries. that it was the second defendant Pelyang leaders, are seemingly at Soviet power in Ukraine. you see the same thing in Egypt, who came to him, and asked him loggerheads with the Kuomintang
This, in a measure, indicated the The trial was conducted in an robber's manner of escape i£. India, the Philippines and else to make the entries, as he could Leftists in their endeavour to excited atmosphere due to the not that of entry. where. It is a world movement not write English. The No. 2 come to an understanding and form social eminence of the accused. of envelopes led on The trail: defendant also told him to go to new Kuomintang Party and Thirty-seven of those charged were first floor verandah and then on and China is in the swim.
the store to get the goods.
Government at Peking, with a new variously sentenced to imprison to the second floor verandah of Mr. Grantham convicted both Parliament and Cabinet. men on the charge of conspiring to defraud and sentenced them as stated.
Start of Trouble.
the things
Procession at Bombay.
Bombay, Apr. 20, Several arrests were made here including Kedareshwar Ben Gupta who was arrested at his residence in Bombay. He had come to Bombay in connexion with business on the Cotton Ex-
A train was derailed on the 18th about forty miles from Chittagong to-day, with the result that the line was blocked. Transhipment enabled communication, to be maintained, -Reuter.
Statement by Viceroy.
Simla, Apr. 20.
change. He was taken from here to Calcutta under a heavy guard. The reasons for his arrest have A statement, signed by the [not yet been disclosed. Viceroy, has been issued in which In connexion with the civil dis- It is explained why the Bengal obedience campaign a hundred Ordinance has been renewed. volunteers to-day formed into a The Ordinance aims at the sup-procession which proceeded to the pression of terrorist outrages and seashore and returned with vessels was applied in Bengal at the time filled with sea water. The pro of Lord Minto's Viceroyalty in cession of volunteers included 1905, under an act passed in 1818, women and children-Router. which sanctioned the deportation
of persons. Special Acte
were.
Arrests at Calcutta,
Calcutta, Apr. 20.
Friendly Terms.
ment among
entries in it.
SERIOUS CRASH IN LEIPZIG
UKRAINE PLOTTERS
SENTENCED.
ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE SOVIET.
Riga, Apr. 20.
4
At this
victim point, the seems to have raised an alarm. At any rate, the intruder left signs behind of a hasty escape, even ridding himself of the money which he had taken at such great hazard.
to the
fhent of three years to ten years. It is suggested that ten Kuomin-The remainder were ordered to be an adjoining building, where it
banished from Ukraine. Reuter."
tang Leftists and ten men each to be elected by Marshal Feng Yu- hslang and Yen Hsi-shan, making a total of 30 members, should form o Executive Committee for the new Party.
CHARLES SCRIBNER
DEAD.
apparently ended.
The chopper, with abundant evidence on it of the fearsome at- tack made on the accountant, was also left discarded on the flo03.
The growth of the Press, the on Western spread of education lines and an intensive propaganda by the Nationalist party and others has enormously Increased the number of politically conscious individuals, who take more or less of an interest in the foreign affairs of their country. It is often not a also then passed including the
very well informed interest, and
Nationalist Defence,
FOUNDER OF WELL-KNOWN
Victim in Hospital. Explosives act, the Prevention of There were further arrests in sometimes it is grotesquely pre- It is
MAGAZINE, Seditious Meetings Act, and the Calcutta to-day, including Be-judiced, but in the mass
Official Nanking messages atate
Suffering from wounds in the Criminal Law Amendment Act pinbehary Ganguly, Pratulchandra powerful, and can be dangerous, POLICEMAN AND TWO BEDS that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has
New York, Apr. 20. head, Mr. Wong Lal-woo providing 'for
private Ganguly, Bankimchandra Mooker and it has to be taken into serious
KILLED.
concentrated 200,000 men along the The doath has occurred here was removed to hospital. Mr. magisterial inquiry before three jee and Trailokya Chakravarti, consideration.
Tientsin-Pukow Railway in anti-from heart disease of Charles Wong is 84 years of age. judges of the High Court without the Presidents respectively of the
Leipzig, Apr. 20; cipation of the Kueminchun at- Scribner, the well-known publisher Nothing is known of his assail- Bengal Provincial Congress, the
Young Communists from all over tempt at attack Hauchowfu and founder of Scribner's Maga- ant, except that Mr. Lal was able The Bengal Ordinance applies to Youths Conference, the Young This is not to say that we must the country have concentrated here The Nationalist troops in this zine-Reuters American Service to say that he was dressed in dark Bengal only and was due to be Comrades' League and the not protect ourselves against out-and this afternoon took part in line will adopt a purely defensive [He was born in New York on clothing. The probability was also repealed on the 23rd..
rage and insult, auch as are liable demonstration which resulted in a attitude under the direction of October 18, 1854 and when he took indicated that the escaped man to occur in times of actual rioting collision with the police.
General Ho Ying-ching the chief up a career became associated with had his hands smeared with blood, and turmoil. We have done so in Firearms were used by both the lieutenant of Marshal Chiang Kai the firm of Charles Scribner's as their impress was left on wood- the past and I trust we shall police and the Communists with shek. continue to do so in the future. 1. the result that one policeman and Marshal Chiang has instructed Sons which was founded by his work and other places, which he father in 1846. He became pre- had occasion to touch while belleve, however, that such acts two Communists were killed. General Hatung Shili-hul, the Gar-sident of the company and found making his hurried escape from
(Continued on Page 7). Reuter
Continued on Page 12.)
ed. Scribner's Magazine.]
the building Jere
a jury.
Workers' Conference.-Reuter..
Trouble Localised.'
Simla, Apr. 19.
The Viceroy's statement con- corning its renewal refers to the ärmed attack, accompanied by murderous outrages, at Chittag- News of the insurrection in ong, the centre of the Government Chittagong reached Simla at the of Bengal'a representation, and (Continued on Page 12.)
Need For Protection.