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In the appeal court to-day, the imprisonment and a fine Rs.2,000 recently passed on the Moslem chieftain known as the Pirpagaro or "Saint of the Turban," was re- duced to eight years' rigorous im- prisonment, the fine being un- altered.
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IN GERMANY.
PEOPLE CONVERTING MONEY INTO OTHER CURRENCIES.
BANK RATE INCREASE.
CHARGES SHOWN TO BE QUITE FALSE.
The
FIRM'S STATEMENT.
Berlin, Oct. 9.
uneasiness in German financial circles was indicated to-day by the, announcement that the Reichsbank had increased the discount rate from four to five per cent. Nevertheless the move
A vivid account of the in-came as a surprise to the banks dignities suffered by Mr. C. and led to a drop in quotations Hanske at the hands of a mob on the Stock Exchange in some The Pirpagaro was severely opposed to the sale of foreign cases by over twenty per cent. censured by the Court for the fertiliser in the interior, is con- It is explained that the increase "barbarous abuse" of his position tained in a statement issued in is intended to check the with- the Reichsbank, estimated to
munity. The charges included
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as the religious head of the com- Shanghai by his employers, drawals from
which are Messrs. Deutsche-Stickstoff amounted to at least £30,000,000 the illegal possession of arms and Handelsgesellschaft (Krauch & since the success of Hitler, the the kidnapping of a boy.
Fascist 'gader, in the recent
Co.).
The circumstances of the arrest of the chieftain early in the year
It will be remembered that Mr. elections. caused a sensation. The police in Hanske was attacked at Chao An, This development in German January, in response to an urgent on the Fukien-Kuantung border, polities disturbed foreign coun- appeal from the women of his while on a trip in the interests of tries and led to a demand for the household, raided his fortress at his arm and was imprisoned on redemption of short-term credits, midnight ard rescued several mem-trumped-up charges until diploma-while thousands of Germans have bers of his harem. Then thetic representations effected his converted their bank balances into police in March searched the for- release. He is now in Shanghai, foreign currency and deposited tress and found # large, little the worse
for his terrible them abroad, apparently fearing! concealed store of arms and am
another period of Inflation in Germany. munitionfi also a youth named
Financial Ibrahim, shut up in a box in which he had been chained for four years.
The Pirpagare was acquitted of a charge of murdering Ibrahim's
mother. Reuter.
FATAL LANDSLIDE
AT KOWLOON,
SEVERAL COOLIES BURIED UNDER EARTH.
on
experience.
The Statement.
circles, however, The statement in full follows: ridicule such a possibility. They On August 30 last Mr. C. Hanske point out that over 54 per cent. accompanied by two Chinese as-of the Reichsbank's bank note sistunts set out from Swatow for circulation is covered by gold and Chaoan (Fukien) to inquire into foreign guarantees. The increase
in the discount rate is merely the existence of n boycott of precaution.--Rruter.
sulphate of ammonia and the at- titude of the local authorities. He took with him 300 bags of Sulphate
of Ammonia which had been man of the Labour Unión and ordered by our agent at Chaoan. others. The procession proceed. Ab Gin Kao Mr. Hanske wented in the same way as when they ashore to declare the shipment at were first seized and many photos A fatal landslide occurred the Native Custema. The Customs were taken. The crowd shouted continually: "Down with the the small hill at the east end of officer, Mr. Hwang Su-hun, at Shantung Street, just behind the first refused to allow its trans- white devils, down with imperia Num Hing Knitting Factory, yes-shipment as he had been advised lism-Prohibition of artifical fer- terday afternoon, when a gang by the Kuomintang at Chacan of tilisers." of coolies who were at work re- the prohibition of the sale of moving earth were buried, result-artificial fertilisers. ing in the instant death of one man and two others being re- moved to hospital, one in a critical condition.
Soldiers Intervene. --
The Charges.
In the afternoon of the same day Mr. Hanske and his assistant were relieved of their bonds by the Upon the strength, however, of magistrate's secretary, who brought the Customs papers he eventually them to the magistrate's building, The unfortunate men
were permitted the trans-shipment and where a room was assigned to them. members of a далк
removing coolies commenced to load the After having been detained
for earth from the hill. id were
(cargo on junks. Soldiers
Hanske' was in- some days, Mr. ligging from the bas
when a
came on the scene and ordered formed that the following charges large quantity of earth became them to stop. dislodged and slid down, burying,
had been brought against him:
(1) Not being in possession of them.
a Chinese travelling pass- port,
then
Asked on what authority they Sone of the men were able to extricate themselves, but acted, they replied that they had others had to be dug out. One received instructions from Mr. Mr. Hanske call- of the men was found to have Hwang Su-hun. succumbed, while another wased on him three times, in order to suffering from a fractured spine. verify this statement, which hel
denied. A third had a broken leg.
After a strong protest The man with the broken back had been lodged and Custom was the driver of a lorry which papers again presented he with- " had arrived in preparation for the drew the soldiers and allowed the earth to be removed, and he had work to proceed. been standing near the coolies watching operations when the ac cident occurred. He is in
Mr. Hanske and one of his assis- critical condition and little hope)
tants
arrived at Chaoan the is held out for his recovery.
following day. When they went There were reports t other men having been buries, but ashore they were surrounded by a this is not definite. At any rate,big crowd, struck at, and robbed. no further bodies have yet been Many members of the crowd wore the Kuomintang emblem and about recovered.
ten flourished revolvers.
LWO
1
Surrounded by Crowd.
The many friends in the Colony Mr. Hanske, being under the of Miss N. A. Purden, who left for impression that they were govern- Home in 1925, will be interested to ment officials, applied to them in know that she has been admitted vain for protection. He and his un Associate member of the Lori- assistant were then dragged
NEW TREATMENT FOR| POLICEMAN KILLED BY don Association of Accountants, through the streets, one man with
PNEUMONIA.
SUCCESS IN THE USE OF VITAMIN A.
The value of vitamin A in the treatment of certain infectious dis orders has already been mentioned, and Professor Mellanby's success ful treatment of blood-poisoning
(2) Compelling, the importation of sulplate of ammonia by armed force, (3) Damaging the Custom
House,
(4) Not reporting his arrival to
the authorities.
False Charges.
These charges were false, for the following reasons:
(1) Mr. Hanske was in posses- sion of a Chinese travelling passport,
(2) Mr. Hanske did not carry a
pistol or any other arms,
(3) The Customs were not dam-
#ged,
+
(4) Mr. Hanske was unable to
call on the magistrate as he was kept on the landing a drawn revolver leading the way having successfully completed the
place by the crowd, examinations of that body. She be-and another man, similarly armed, After strong diplomatic protests comes the only lady member of the following. They were told that and private representations had South-Western Branch of the Asso-they would be shot and were con-been made, Mr. Hanske
veyed to the headquarters of the leased after a detention of eight Labour Union where their arms days. were tied with ropes.
ciation.
was re-
A CAR.
SERGEANT'S STORY OF NO LIGHTS OR STOP. The inquest on Police-constable Mail has been received at the
The cause of all the trouble un- Arthur Lawes, who died in St. American Consulate General for
doubtedly was the hatred of foreign Paraded in "Fool's" Caps. Jumes's Hospital, Bulham, after the following persons--Wn, R.
fertiliser instilled in the minds of injuries from being knocked down Attaway, Ch. L. Boender, Miss F. by a
Afterwards, paper clown caps the people by the Native Goods As- motor-car belleved to be Bostwicke, J. A. Conley, R. G.
Davidson, S. bearing Chinese characters of a sociation of Swatow, which is ap Cooper, J. W. vitamin has also been recorded.
was resumed at Battersca, The current issue of the British
The car was abandoned a short H. C. Evans, F. Hamilton, W. their heads and they were parad-porters. Fertiliser of the kind Medical Journal gives an account of distance away.
H. Helfritz, S. Madrinan. A. Hed through the streets by a huge sold by Mr. Hanske and his prin- on which cipals has definitely replaced bean- an attempt to apply similar treat-
Police-sergeant Saynes said the Martin, J. A. McGee, J. Murphy, Werwit carrying flags
written similar Chinese cake as, an aid to Chinese agricul ment to a series of cases of pneu-car came towards them, as Lawes C. Ockland, A. L. Prichard, F. N. were monia among native mine labour- attempted with outstretched arms Shumaker, Mrs. K. Smith, G. L. characters. Anti-foreign speeches ture, and the beancake merchants
were made en route by the chair-are not unnaturally suffering.. ers in the Transvaal. During the to stop it, without Hghts and at Townsend, W. B. Williamson. period August, 1929, to February, between 30 and 40 miles an hour. 1930 two doctors treated 299 cases!
Lawes sprang backwards. of uncomplicated pneumonia, adopt car fallowed him and the off-side ing ordinary routine treatment in front wing struck him. Lawes 100 cases, treatment by means of was carried across the pavement ux-liver in 99 cases, and treat about 9 yards into Fountain-road, mont by means of concentrated where he dropped off. The off- vitamin A preparations in 100 side front wheel of the car ap- peared to go over his forehead. He (Sergeant Saynes) called on the driver to stop, but he acce- lerated and drove away rapidly down Fountain-road.
The inquest was again at journed.
with a diet in this fat-soluble stolen, in Garratt-lane. Tootin nomingo, T. Durdin, H. J. Eddo, defamatory nature were put on parently financed by beancake im
enses.
The
Patients were placed in one or other of these three groups strictly was in rotation, and no attempt made to select cases for treatment by any of the methods adopted.
Vitamin A was administered dur. ing the acute stage and for, two days after the temperature had slow recovery with delay in the dis- Callen to normal. In this group the appearance of disease in the lungs. -mortality was 8 per cent. In the It is notoriously difficult to es --control cases treated by routine timate the value of any form of measures it was 13 per cent, and treatment in pneumonia on account in, the cases treated by ox-liver it of the great variety of forms in was a fraction over 9 per cent which it occurs. The two South Thus the vitamin A treatment did African doctors, S. Donaldson and appear to save a small number of J. Tasker, seem to have adopted a lives, and there was a still more useful method of studying the ef- striking contrast in the after his-feet of treatment in pneumonia, tory of these patients. The group and the results obtained warrant a treated by the routine methods more extensive use of vitaman À showed many more examples of in this often fatal malady.
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