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EXPLOSION HAVOC AT ARSENAL.
FOLLOWS MISTAKE MADE BY AN ENGINEER.
-KIANGNAN DEATHS.
Shanghai, June 3..
An explosion occurred at the Kiangnan Arsenal' here resulting
in six persons being instantly
neur
SAPPERS QUELL SHANGHAI BANKS
RIOTING.
BARBED WIRE RUSHED AT WORLI.
MAJOR STRUCK ON HEAD BY A STONE
FAIL
LIQUIDATION DUE TO SILVER CRASH.
HEAVY LOSSES.
Shanghai, May 28. Four local exchange banks with a total capitalization of $2,200,000 were forced into bankruptcy yes- terday as a direct result of the con- tinued decline of the silver market. They are now in process of liquida-
tion.
The banks are:
Yue Yuen Bank, capitalized at $1,000,000,
Dong Yih Bank,capitalization $600,000.
Chung Ked Bank, capitalization $300,000, and
$350,000. All are situated in the Dong Sun Bank, capitalized at local exchange banking area along Tientsin and Shantung Roads.
killed and thirty-two others rec- INFURIATED CROWDS. eiving injuries. In a statement to newspaper correspondents, Mr. Chang, a director of the Arsenal,
Bombay, June 3. ascribed the explosion to a mis- Twenty-five salt raiders, take in a enemical solution made awaiting trial in the detention by an engineer who was working camp at Worli, were seriously in- inside the Arsenal at the time.jured during the course of a A series of terrific explosions conflict with the Police. Five of shook the neighbourhood, houses the men are in a precarious con- in the district and the main dition. The prisoners, who building of the ammunition de- number a thousand, tried to rush partment being destroyed. Ap official report by the Government and tear down the barbed wire states that 3,000 pounds of gun- entanglements around the camp
Exchange difficulties are advanced powder and 300 cases of ammuni- which were being strengthened
as the principal cause of the failure, tion ready for shipment to Pukow by British Sappers.. in connexion with the war
The latter were specially re- of these four banks. The report-
Tsinantu were among
the quisitioned by the Police, but woed business failure of Mr. Chu materials destroyed.
from the neighbourhood; Kungshing. Compradore of the Further news of the Tsinanful which is in the Bombay mill area, metal department of the Mitsui The women Bushan Kaisha, and said to be explosion, reported yesterday, obstructed them. shows that eight guards of the were forcibly removed and this financially interested in all of the four banks is said to have had Arsenal were fatally wounded. infuriated the prisoners.
something to do with the failure. Ten policemen sustained injuries
How Riots Began.
Mr. Chu, according to reports, while fighting the blaze, and the
of more than total casualty list is given.
The riots really began in the sustained losses
$4,000,000 on the market and in sound about forty.
morning when the whole body of the purchase of a large consign- volunteers under detention demon-ment of goods from Japan for a The war situation at Tsinanfu, strated against the King's Birth-shop he operates in Nantao. It is in Shantung, remains critical on day. They hoisted black flags on said that he was unable to pay account of the Shanai determina-the chawls (lodging houses) and, for his shipments due to the un- tion to attack the city. Thousands wearing black bands, paraded the favourable exchange, while yester. of Shansi insurgents are convergenclosed area shouting anti-Im-day's fluctuations on the gold, bar ing on the northern bank of the perialistic slogans. This attract-market are reported to have caused Yellow River and are within striked a large crowd and resulted in him immense losses. ing position of the Government disturbances.
Tsinanfo Situation,
men
Contrary to reports circulating
in the business section of Shang- hai to-day to the effect that 10 more exchange banks had been forced-
forces. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek There were eighty-eight casual- has ordered a general retreat of ties including two women, one of the Nationalist forces along the whom sustained a broken leg, and Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Tsin- the Parsee world-cyclist, Bhum-out of business, the four Tientsin anfu messages state that the gara. Nationalist troops were seen
The Major commanding the Sap smashing the railway bridge on pers was injured on the head by the Yellow River this morning ina. stone. Two companies of the a desperate attempt to prevent an Hyderabad Regiment and 140 enrly attack from the Shansi armed police are now posted t rebels.
Worli-Reuter.
and Shantung Road establishments. were the only ones to collapse. No was manifested in other alarm banking concerns of the city- Shanghai Evening Post.
KING TO SEE THE DERBY.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Strong Nationalist fortifications
Mr. Benn on India....... have been erected at Teinanfu and Taian near the Shantung capital.
London, June 3. The Nationalist officer command- Mr. Wedgwood Benn, Secretary ing the Tsinanfu troops, General for India made a pronouncement Han Fu-cho, in an official state-regarding India when he address- ment, said that he had decideded the Imperial Press Conference stride. In any case he has proved not to use Tsinanfu as a battle in London to-day. He said the ground in view of the presence of campaign. of civil disobedience thousands of Japanese and other which had been declared to be fureigners in the city. The state-one of non-violence was bound to ment is indicative of the Nation- lead to clashes, and unfortun- alist decision to give up Tsinately many such clashes had taken anfu in order to avoid inter- place. national complications.
EMPIRE AIR LINE PROGRESS.
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(Continued from Page 1.) The final stages of that experi- ment would be made at end of this month by the flight to. Canada. There was going to be co risk, while he was in charge, of any thing being rushed so that lives might be Jost through lack of foresight. Lord Thomson paid a tribute to the magnificent work done by airship men who had sacrificed promotion and other ad vantages in order to undertake these great experiments.
People asked why the Graf Zep- pelin could go round and round the world while our two ships remain ed in their sheds. The reason was that the Germans had 30 years' experience behind them, but with all their excellence the Zeppe- lins could not be compared with
the R100 and R101.
The vast majority of people In India had, of course, taken no active part in the campaign. He continued, "It is clearly the duty of any Government in charge of the destinies of a country, and especially a country containing so many varieties, races, classes and creeds as India, to, maintain public order.
himself so far to be better than more massively built antagonists, and racing correspondents find no cause to agree with those who claim that he will fail to act on the Epsom course.
Rustom Pasha is the pick of the Whatcombe colts in the Derby. He is a more commanding in- dividual than Blenheim, who ran a game and honest race in the Two Thousand without doing better than securing fourth place. Of the Manton colts, there is not a great deal to choose between Iliad and Trews. Both are capable of fur- Whatever form of Government ther improvement, and neither we envisage as a result of the of them is out of the reckoning for conference and the deliberations the Derby. There was not a more of Parliament, it would be a crime attractive colt in the field at New- to pass on to it a heritage not only market than Trews; yet he did not of chaos and disorder but what appear to stay home quite so would be far worse, of disrespecting in a good deal of fine work resolutely as Iligd who was put- for the law,
Force No Remedy.
in the last quarter of a mile.
FRENCH RAILWAY
DISASTER.
At the same time it would be shutting one's eyes to facts not to recognise that there is to-day in India among all classes and races of Indians a very deep, sincere and ardent desire for equality of FOUL PLAY NOW DEFINITELY
ESTABLISHED. status.
Among its
It is certainly the most difficult
Paris, June 34 problem that has confronted this Commonwealth.
The police Inquiry into the peoples two or three points stand Montereau rafiway disaster has out clearly. The first is that definitely established that there force cannot possibly provide a was a malicious attempt to wreck. the train by placing a trolley on the line.-Reuter.
Despite many setbacks and some disappointments his faith was absolutely undiminished, and he was sure the people of this coun- remedy.". try would be right in continuing If the law is observed it is in these experiments on the basis the Indians own interest, and force of research alone,
is in no sense applied for the Britain had spent £2,300,000 up | purpose of protecting British to the present on the whole air- ship programme and had gained an immense amount of knowledge which alone was worth the money. -Reuter and British Wireless.
་ JAPANESE STRIKE
CONCLUDES.
WORKERS RESUME ÁFTER FIFTY DAYS.
Osaka, June 4. The strike at the Kanegafuchi mills at Yodogawa and Kyoto has been called off after a stoppage of work which has lasted for over fifty days.
noble instinets. Is it too much to
domination. The emergency hope that the bitterness of the powers taken to deal wth the present difficulty will pass with the re-birth of mutual under disagreement may give place to the emergency. The real sanction standing and respect."-British of the Government is public opinion and it must depend upon that great force in India aä it] docs elsewhere.
Wireless.
Moslems Join Gandhi.
Bombay, June 3...
Government's Desire.
A huge meeting of Moslems The solution of these difficulties passed a resolution supporting the is ardently to be desired in Gandhi campaign and appealing. Imperial interests. It is no part to Moslems throughout India to of the British policy to carry on participate in civil disobedience the Government of India on the and to boycott British goods. principle of division and rule. The meeting expressed the The first duty of a good citizen is opinion that so long as the Indian to do everything in his power to National Congress and the Moslem harmonise rival discords and to Counell do not participate in the. avoid adding fuel to flames of rival | round-table conference, no Moslem should, attend it as a representa- animosities.
tive of the Moslem, community- Reuter.
Court Martial Opens,
Rawalpindi, June 3,
According to the terms of the settlement as stated by the Kane- It has been the carnest desire gafuchi mills, the original wage of this Government, no less than cut will be enforced, though the of others, to promote between the management promised not to make races a spirit of sympathy and the cut by the disbursement of the understanding. If the present welfare fund.
troubled quicken the conscience of A Court Martial has opened at] The management also gives an both parties, some good may per- Abbotabad for the trial of seven- assurance that there will be no haps come of them.
teen men of the Indian Regiment, further wage cut. The prolonged The British people are not the Royal Garwhal Rifles, on a
has disheartened the unresponsive to great ideals. charge of disloyalty on the occa strike workers who are glad to resume The Indian peoples have an sion of the disturbances at Pesha- work-Reuter, ".
ancient history and selfless and war last month.-Reuter.
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