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=#0 +-AM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930. MAL «ruch, 2012 1 OSTI
CLOSED CINEMA
EXITS.
SEQUEL TO FIRE DISASTER AT I A PAISLEY THEATREȚ
MANAGER ON TRIAL.
· London; Apr. 25. A long queue of people, mostly consisting of women, waited in the rain for hours for the opening of the trial of Charles Darward,
the manager of the Glen Cinema
at Paisley, who was charged at Edinburgh with homicide in con- nexion with the cinema disaster which occurred on New Year's Eve...
Lord Alness, the Lord Justice's!
Clerk, declared that the essence of the indictment was that it was
PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.
REASSEMBLY AFTER HOLIDAY.
NO DECISION ON CHANNEL TUNNEL YET
A VARIED AGENDA. London, Apr. 29.
DUNLOP
British and Best.
ROYALTY DUE HERE "RED" TERRORISM AMERICANS REACH POP-GUNS USED IN
ON FRIDAY.
JAPANESE PRINCE & PRINCESS
ON WAY TO LONDON.
WILL BE ENTERTAINED
Thefe ingerlal Highness the Prince and Princess Takamatsu pre due in Hougong, on their way to Europe, by the ss. Kashima Maru on Friday.
The Prince and Princess will be
guests of honour at a luncheon given by the local Japanese Corsul
IN KWANGSI.
MISSION CHAPELS
DESECRATED.
WEALTHY CHINESE BOUND & BURNT TO DEATH.
MUCH LAWLESSNESS.
Reports reaching the Colony by mail from various parts of and Mrs-Yoshida HE. the Officer. Kwangsi show that "Red" Administering the Government and terrorism continues to make its ing on the order paper regarding Mrs. Southors are to give a dinner effects felt in the province,
Parliament reassembled this morning after the Easter holi- days, a number of questions be-
HOME
DELEGATES SATISFIED WITH THE NAVAL TREATY.
COMPLAINT BY WIVES.
New York, Apr. 29;- When the American Naval Con ference delegates returned from London they were met by a Naval escort and the airship Los Angles dropped a welcoming letter on to the deck of the liner,
On arrival here they drove in
COURT
SHOOTING GALLERY TEST CASE.
WEAPONS HELD TO BE
UNDER ORDINANCE.
ARMS
CORKS AS MISSILES. The shooting galleri have been so much in e lately were the
motor cara forming a procession to the City Hall, proceeding via Broadway. The streets were lin ed with interested, but compara case before ch tively silent crowds and there was the coura, Po
noticeable absence of paper morning when the
ast week was the scene of a ter- exits of the cinema open, parti. important matters at issue. Then their Imperial Highness's honour Many villages have been com usually characterise big American moned under the Arms and
rible are disaster
The Penitentiary has been in fa state of ferment since the fire, mutinous convicts refusing to work until the Governor was re- moved.
Dorward's duty to keep the cularly as there were only two. This he failed to do, as the iron trellis gate outside one of the exits was padlocked at the time of the disaster.
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STEAMER DISASTER IN INDIA
Lord Alness said that "if the The Governor then announced gate had not been locked the that the convict's would either work deaths of these children might So starve and accordingly they have been avoided."--Reuter.
anned a general escape last night. The disaster in connexion with, When the attempt was made, which Dorward is charged occur. hsayer, they were met with troops armed with machine guns, rifles and tear-gas bombs. Several, of the convicts were wounded when the attempt to escape was nipped in the bud-Reuter's American Service, Threat of Mutiny.
Columbus, Apr. 23.
a gerlous mutiny hreats of awept through the flame ruined Ohio State penitentiary to-night: Convicts who lost 817 of their number in the fire of two days dododed the penitentiary ad- ministration form she
Officials at the ison, announced! that the thres. “ Arious trouble became known w
suren and grumbling prisoners stuffed bits of splinters into the key holes in their cell doors.
They prevented guards, from locking up any convict for the night. Many of the convicts are fearful that a new conflagration will sweet the penitentiary with danger of taking a death toll as great and as horrible as that of two days ago.
Go Easy, Orders.
After the muttering prisoners
Eighteen Passengers Saved
of Two Hundred,
CAUSED BY CYCLONE. 2- Calcutta, Apr. 29.
Duke of Gloucester.
Premier was asked whether he at Government House, could now make any further The Prince has been entrusted statement in connexion with the with the mission of returning last present position of disarmament, year's visit to Japan of H.R.H. the arising from the recent Confer-
His Imperial Highness Prince ence, and whether any further
Nobuhito, the third Jon of the late negotiations: had taken place Emperor Taisho, was born on Jan- with the object of concluding auary 3, 1905, and assumed. the Five-Power agreement
family name of Takamatsu in July, 1913.
streamers from sky-scrapers which six of these places were sun- pletely wiped out by fire, and in demonstrations Ammunition Ordinance.“ An in- City Hall, Mr. Stimson sald, on some instances wealthy Chinese After an official welcome at the teresting argument ensued on have been bound up inside their behalf of the delegates, that their the question as to whether homes and there left to burn to welcome was taken as an indica guns which discharge's cork
tion of American aympathy in the a missile, and which are nae cause of international goodwill in these establishments, could death.
be held to be "arms" within the News regarding Lungchow chow and peace. that all the foreign missionaries"We met fairness and goodwill provisions of the Ordinance. have left that city by reason of from all the other delegations. The strange spectacle was seen Communist excesses. All the continued Mr. Stimson, "and the in Court, during the proceedings, Missions have safered, including the Seventh Day Adventists and the Christian Alliance,
Chapels Ransacked, Chapels have been broken into by the "Reds" and everything moveablo either taken away or destroyed. Even the seats of the pews have been in many instances smashed to pieces.
Mr. Macdonald replied, "Regard-
In 1911, the Prince entered the ing the first part of the question I can say nothing useful within Primary Department of the Peers' the necessarily restricted limits pf School, and after finishing the third the question and answer. As year course of the Secondary De regards the second part, the partment of the school at the end answer is in the negative."*". of March 1020, entered the Naval Replying to a question regard-Academy in May of the same year. ing the Anglo-Egyptian negotis-Graduating from the academy in Outtions, Mr. Henderson, the Foreign July, 1924, His Imperial Highness Secretary, said that on the became a midshipman and was or resumption of negotiations this dered. to serve on board H.M.B. morning the Egyptian delegation Asama and, afterwards on board the
Latest reporta are that the atated that a courier whom they Nagato
out dent to Egypt immediately after On December 1, 1925, he was Communists have", broken the adjournment on April 17th had commissioned crab-Lieutenant, 2nd xtresh in Eungchow, putting the nat, feived In these creum Class the vapezial Japanese finishing touches to their work of stances they requested the egg Navy and was decorated with the devastation. tiations be adjourned until Mon- Grand Cordon of the Chrysanth- day next. If the courier arrived mum, being transferred to H.M.S.Nanning remains fairly quiet, meanwhile negotiations could be Fuso on the same day; the follow but business is at an absolute standstill, whilst trouble is expect resumed before then,
Ing year to the Furutaka.
The disaster to the river atcame Condor in Eastern Bengal occurred on Sunday afternoon in an isolated dis- trict, and was due to a heavy cyclone. There were two hundred passengers on board the steamer at the time "and eighteen were saved.
The ship now lies in three fathoms of water. She was bufit in 1897, rebuilt in 1926, and left Calcutta in March after a thorough overhaul.-- Reuter.
MONTCOGNOZADIREK
NAVAL OFFICERS AS INSTRUCTORS.
Retired British Captains to Teach in China,
LONDON APPOINTMENT.
London, Apr 29. According to this morning's tetsnapers, the two, British Navel officers whose services the Chinese Minister In Lons don has secured to teach at- the Government Naval Aca- demy at Minkiang (Fuklen Province), are Engineer Cap tain Kelly and Instructor Cap- tain Alexander E. Monro, both retired-Reuter."
evident in MCCONALIZE THER many centres, with no govern mental authority to suppress the
troubles.
spirit of the conference was of its finest attributes for most hopeful results."
one
of demonstrations, being carried out with the discharging of these weapons, and of a solicitor, who appeared on behalf of five of the defondants, himself going futa the witness box to testify to his ex- periences when, as a matter of formality in connexion with the case, he bought a similar pop-gun for his, infant son and took the trouble to apply to the police authorities for an arms licence.
Dire Penailles,
At the outset of the proceedings, Mr. F. C. E. Rendall who defen ded, replying to a remark by the Magistrate, said he was wonder- ing whether they ought to hayo: two Magistrates trying the enze,
as he bad perceived, from the Ore dinance that the accused were liable to imprisonment not exceed- ing ten years and also liable to a dogging.WANT
Detective Sergeant Mottrami, giving evidence for the Police, stated that at 3.10 p.m. on the 10th instant, he visited No. 139, Des Voeux Road Central, the ground".
floor of which was being used as a its shooting gallery, with people shooting at packets of cigarettes. "It is a good Treaty for the About 20 patrons were present at
Cork Missiles.
On completing the ordinary ed to break out at any moment. Negotiations with Russia,
courses of the Torpedo School and
Lawlessness Prevalent. Questioned about the Anglo- the Naval Gunnery School, the
WAS transferred to According to missionaries who Russian negotiations, Mr. Hender- Prince
Hiel in 1927. In have reached Hongkong from son said the temporary commer-H.M.S.. cial agreement between the British the same year, he was pro- Kwangsi, a great part of the and the Soviet Governments was moted to the rank of Sub-Lleu- province is entirely out of control, signed on April 16. Negotiations tenant, 1st Class, and started on a lawlessness being were at present proceeding for visit to Australian ports on board the conclusion of a temporary the Yakumo of the Training Squa- certain fishery questions. agreement for the regulation of dron. After the voyage, the Prince was attached to H.M.S. Haruna in February, 1929, and in September A Telegraph correspondent writ- Negotiations would also prob of the same year was ordered to ing from Poseh states that shortly had threatened to attack guards red during a special Hogmanay Fably be begun shortly for the con be on the Naval General Staff, and after the retreat of the "Reds" to United States and a step forward the time. to-night if further attempts were performance at the Glen Cinema clusion of a definitive treaty of is still in the office.
Feng Haan, General Wang Shaoin the movement towards world was attended by 700 made to lock their cells, state which
commerce and navigation to re-
Two pop guns with cork mis His Imperial Highness married hung made Ping Ma his head peace," declared Mr. Dwight Mor- the penitentiary while an investi-
already submitted. A formal
embarking on a campaign to can delegates from the London siles similar to the one produced
Conference.
as Exhibit A in the Court, were gation is in progress, ordered that
convention regarding appreciation this year, be
exterminate the Communists, Mrs. Stimson said "I am glad to produced, there being altogether. of the treaties concluded with the
However, internal troubles: make It was pointed out that the A fire broke out and a panic former Imperial Russian Govern-
the work of rehabilitation almost be back, for it has been a most 16 of them on the premises. The prisoners are fear stricken and followed. Most of the victims ment had also been communicated
trying time. Our husbands work- gate was in charge of a man
· impossible. ·· the Soviet Government.
ed so hard that we feel we ought named Chiu Hing, who lived on the that rather than be locked up rushed to their deaths and were to
to be re-introduced to them."-premises. Witness enquired who with the memory of the devastat-suffocated in trying to reach the Negotiations regarding
-Reuter'a American Service; ing fire they would hurt and exits. Some children feil down claims and counterclaims, both possibly kill guards.
the stairs and were trampled on, inter-Governmental and private, Following a consultation by while others were too terrified to were also being pursued.
Over sixty children were officials it was decided that the move. convicts should be permitted" to killed, and Dorward was arrested remain in their cell block cor- by the Police on the following day. ridors all night. Many chose to
officials, temporarily in charge of children between the ages of two place the temporary agreement Princess Kikuko on February 4th, quarters, with the intention of row on the arrival of the Amerl-
and fourteen. The disaster was the most terrible in the history of no forceful measures be taken. cinematography in Great Britain.
sleep in their cells when promised
that no attempts would be made MONUMENT TO DUTCH to lock the doors.
Lights throughout the corridors burned all night. Extra guards pre-
ENERGY.
The Channel Tunnel.
debt
SINGAPORE BASE FUTURE.
REPORTED INTENTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT.
London, Apr. 29.
was the master, and was told by Chin Hing that a man named Lam Cheak living at No. 136, Cheng- Sau Street West, first floor, was such He was sent at the time.
Witness was accompanied on the visit by a Chinese detetive, whồ some days previously had waned.
beeunsmned if they did not all these people that they wonto
A Terrible Fate.
The "Reds," says our corres pondent, have succeeded in win- ning over many bands of local Militia and farmers to their SHOULD LEAGUE HAVE
AIRCRAFT?. cause, with the result that whole The Premier was asked whether he had yet reached a decision re- The Daily Telegraph'a political villages have been burnt to the garding the construction of the correspondent understands that ground, and in some cases the Channel tunnel or if he could now the Government is soon to consider wealthy Chinese (dubbed "Im- GERMAN DELEGATE AGAINST
PROPOSAL fix any date when he hoped to be the future of the Singapore Base. pertalists") have been bound up) able to announce the decision of In view of the agreement reach- and left in the burning houses.
Asked by Mr. Rendall for his de the Committee of Imperial Defenceed at the Naval Conference not to The crimes committed by the
London, Apr. 29. on the subject.
replace battleship tonnage until "Reds" have stirred up, the The League of Nations Committition of "arms" as appearing on the summonses, witness replied He replied that the report of the 1938, Government circles are in villagers in many districts to seek tee an Arbitration and Security WITH NORTH SEA.
special committee which had ex-clined to the view that Singapore their revenge, and; as a con- to-day discussed the question of any weapon from which a missile amined the project was in the as a battleship base is no longer sequence, the Communist Army facilities to be granted to aircraft could be discharged. His private Amsterdam, Apr. 29.
hands of two or three various du- necessary, and consequently has begun to retreat towards the used by the League to ensure opinion would be that arms were
weapons for firing bullets. border, whilst the swift communication in the event The Queen of Holland to-day thorities who must consider it. plan will be considered for adapt- Kwelchow
Test in Court. pulled the handle which opened This matter could not be settleding the work already done to a Red Militia have taken to of a threat of war, the gates of the new lock at in a day. It was the biggest scheme depot for airships and seaplanes Ymuiden in the Ship Canal con of national volley before the Gey necting Amsterdam with the, North Sea.
communications..
were ordered to duty as caution against a possible at- LOCK CONNECTS AMSTERDAM
tempt at jail delivery, Many of the convicts failed to sleep and (continued their grumbling hour
after hour
Guards Defied.
The huge basin is the biggest
of its kind in the world and took.
Columbus, Apr. 24.. Jeering, shouting convicts to-day continued their threats of mutiny in the fire-swept Ohio States peni- tentiary.
Throughout to-day grumbling a decade to build and cost eighteen million guilders. It will enable epnvicts defiled guards and shouted treats of violence unless the War the greatest liners to
Amsterdam. deh is removed. They blame him for the horrible fire which took its toll of life because convicts locked in their cells were unable to escape when fire gutted the west cell block of the penitentiary,
"If the prisoners do not become quiat pretty quickly I will resort to forceful methods," was the Wrir- den ultimatum to-night in the face of the threatened mutiny.
"I will have order in this pent- tentiary if I have to get a soldier for each convict to do it."
ernment at the present time, and there would be no delay in dealing with it.
Phone to Australia. - reach The Postmaster General said the charge for the new telephone ser vice to Australia would be two pounds per minute, with a mink mum of three minutes. The charge would therefore be at least six pounds.
In a speech, the Minister of Waterways said that the work had been conceived and executed by Dutch engineers and Dutch enter prise and was "a monument to Dutch national energy" Renter.
CARLISLE BEATEN.
WIN FOR ROCHDALE ON
⠀ OWN GRÓUND.
Asked whether the charge would be reduced at an early date if the service proved successful, Mr. Lees Smith said he could make no state- ment on this at the present.
New Houses Bullt.
Huge districts In Kwangsi will Goeppert remarked that the in the scheme for inter-Imperial hiding in the mountains. The German delegate, Herr The Dominions which contributnot be able to sow any rice this League should not have its own ed to the outlay on the Base will year says our correspondent, aircraft but should use machines be consulted before a decision is owing to the continuous guerilla placed at its disposal by the reached-Reuter.
warfare that has to be waged...
SINO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT:
JAPANESE PRIVY COUNCIL APPROVES
Trouble to Continue.
various Governments.
The general discussion was ad- Journed to enable the British dele gation to prepare a Draft Conven- The "Red", troubles are expecttion in which the British Govern- ed to last in Western Kwangsl at ment's viewpoints will be explain least until a stable Government ed--British Wireless. can assume control of the whole province.
Our correspondent, who writes under date of the 13th instant; states that a fleet of five motor boats has just left Posch for Nanning, carrying over a million dollars worth of opium
TEA PRODUCTION.
ried out with the pop-gun exhibited Demonstrations were then car- in the case, Mr. Rendall and the witness discharging the weapon at each other to test the effect wrought by the cork on the open palm, NGWARA
Witness agreed that the cork did not hurt him.
Mr. Rendall:s a cork a; þul,
let?
Witness:Not necessaril Witness also agreed that a l cence for pop gun was not necessary, but he had hardly given the matter a thought. He was only concerned with the fact that he was the Police Officer detailed RESULT OF DUTCH INDIAN Tokyo, Apr. 30.
to take out these summonses, The Privy Council, at a meeting
CO-OPERATION." In the presence of the Emperor
Solicitor's Purchase. Amsterdam, Apr. 29. approved the Sino-Japanese Tariff
The Handelsblad learns from a Mr. Randall then went into the In the course of the debate in Agreement, adding that although Apart from this, however, mer- the House of Commons on the es- the agreement was likely seriously chants are refusing to send any competent source that the result witness-box, and related that the timates for his Department, Mr. to affect Japan's trade with China more opium to Nanning until they of the co-operation of Dutch and other day he went to the Sincere London, Apr. 29. Greenwood the Health Minister, in the future, approval was given know what the fate of that eity is India tea producers who were Pro Company, and bought, for his two- In a Third Division (Northern said that up to March 81 there had out of consideration for friendship likely to be. Reports have come ducing in 1929 will be that in 1930 year-old son, a try similar to the which he formally applied for 4 Section) match to-day, Rochdale, been completed since Armistice un- with China to hand stating that severe Oght production will remain nearly ten
days' march of the city. It is also expected that the inter. After Interviewing ex
de licence at Police Headquarters figured penitentiary with the prisoners de lisle by two goals to nothing." The 000 houses. In addition 520,000 próval, Mr.- Shigemitau, acting, it is also announced that Indian and Ceylon restriction different parsons in tha
He continues, in charge of the playing at home, defeated Car-der the State-aided schemes 939,- As a result of the Council's aping has taken place within a few million pounds under the 1924 pop-gun produced in Court for ying his authority and threatening
Continued on guards with death if they attempt
General Wang Shao-bung is to plane will now be carried out. move his headquarters to Posth. Reuter (Continued on Page 14)
Governor Myers Y. Cooper de Elined to order the Warden out of office until the Investigation Into Monday night's fire has been com Wpleted. N
match had no bearing on the pro- houses had been built without Minister to China, will be au motion or relegation question in State assistance so that the total thorised formally to sign the the Division Router.
(Continued on Page:15.) agreement-Reuter.