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NO. S選 五拜禮 WATAEXWT FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931.
BA#A  Binal PER ANTON
FIENDISH ATTACK ON STATION ROBBER EXPLOITS AGREEMENT STARTLING
IN HOUSE
BURMESE REBELS' RECENT REVOLT IN AT BONHAM ROAD.
FEROCITY.
BENGALI OFFICIAL CUT TO PIECES.
STORY OF MUTILATION OF EUROPEAN.
MARAUDING BANDS.
The savage ferocity of the are still dacuit rebela who defying the authorities in Burma, was again demon- strated in terrible fashion yesterday when a small band made lightning raid on a railway station near Thar- rawaddy and hacked the sta tion-master to pieces. Shock- ing details of the murder of Mr. H. V. W. Fields-Clarke are also to hand this morn. ing.
TURKEY.
ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A THEOCRATIC REGIME.
COURT-MARTIAL OPENS
Constantinople, Jan. 15. The authorities state that Inquiry [has shown that the
was intended to overthrow the pre- sent democratic regime and to su- persede it by a theocratic one.
The leaders of the "revolutionary attempt" proposed to government, if their proved successful, on and the Khalifate.
Вдве their efforts had
the Shariat
AMAZING COOLNESS AND DARING.
SLEEP ON PREMISES AND LEAVE IN MORNING.
AT LAST.
THE COAL DISPUTE SETTLED.
A LAST HURDLE.
London, Jan. 15.
COFT 10 CENTS
FORT DUNLOP
Local Branch,
DRUG CHINESE PROTEST
TO LEAGUE.
OBJECTS TO STRICTURES IN OPIUM REPORT.
REVELATIONS.
TURKEY FLOODING FAR
EAST AND AMERICA.
PARISIANS SAID TO HEAD BIG ORGANISATION.
In the cou.se of to-day's nego- tiations between the Ministers and OFFICIAL REPORTS. the representatives of both sides; of the dispute in the South Wales
Startling revelations of the coalfield, proposals have been em-huge scale on which the illicit bodied in a skeleton agreement.
Cardiff.
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COMMISSION FINDING.
Genova, Jan. 15. It in announced that Mr. Ekstrand, the Swedish Minister in Buenos Aires, who presided over the
Commission Longue which recently toured the Far Enst to enquire into oplum smoking and the opium traffe, has been selected to succeed Dame Rachel Crowdy, as Chief of the Oplum Section of the League of
Nations.
The announcement of the coincides with the despatch of a appointment is interesting as it letter to the Secretary-General of the Longue by Mr. Woo Kal-song,
Pedder Building
Tel. 24554
FEDERAL INDIA
NOW A
PRACTICAL ISSUE:
CLOSING PHASE OF
·CONFERENCE.
PREMIER'S STATEMENT TO: BE MADE MONDAY.
WIDE AGREEMENT.
London, Jan. 15. - The Prime Minister will not make his promised state- ment on the Government's policy until Monday, when the India Round Table Con- ference will end.
henry INMATES TIED UP. movement in Smryna last month
For coolness and daring, the A few points are still outstand-drug traffic is organised are con- exploits of three robbers who ing, but it is hoped that the agree-tained in official reports from made a successful visit to No.ment will be ready for considera- New York and Cairo, suggesting 628, Bonham Road, the home of tion by the Miners Conference at that two Frenchmen are at the head of the ring engaged in the a wealthy widow, staying there
If the terms are accepted by the nefarious trade and that Turkey for the greater part of Wednes- conference, work will be resumed is the main source of supply. day night and not leaving until on Monday,
It may be recalled that the the chief Chinese delegate to tho
There was no resumption to- daybreak the following morning,
Shanghai and huge seizures made in Hongkong. Opium Committee, protesting will go down on record as one
New York in the against certain strictures on the day of last night's private meet- past few months are all said to Chinese Government contained in ing of the delegates at which a of the most remarkable cases ever to occur in the Colony.
have had their origin in Constan- the Report of the League's Com- further unsuccessful effort was tinople. The noizures have largely mission of Enquiry into Opium-made to terminate the minorities been effected in consequence of the Smoking in the Far East. detective work of agents of the League of Nations.
The court-martial at Menomen has begun, with the trial of 214 per. sons, including sheikhs, dervishes, hejas, and aixteen women charged with being concerned in the move- mont
Mra. Leung Mak-aze, the owner and tenant of the house, was on a visit to Canton. In her absence, In the a man previously known to her as Ilo Slu-chin, called and became
Meanwhile, martial law is still
enforced being strictly Smyrna area.
Later.
It is officially announced that the South Wales coal dispute has been settled, '
Later.
dispute.
New York Discovery,
New York, Jan. 15. As a result of the Federal In-
Mr. Woo Kal-song declares that the Chinese Government is doing Its best to combat the ancial evil of opium-smoking, and the use of narcotics in China,
A provisional agreement has been reached between the coal owners and the miners, following Government intervention, settling Tharrawaddy, Jan. 15. A band of fifty rebels armed There are over a thousand alleg-friendly with the children, the the South Wales coal
The agreement provider for a re- with dahs (the long knives ed participators in custody follow- eldest of whom was a boy of 16. carried by hillmen) swoopeding the revolt at Menomen in which Staying for an hour on Wednesday,sumption of work at the rates of
several
persons were killed. Ahe returned later in the evening, pay ruling in November, 1930.
The hours of work of the under-vestigations fellowing repeated brought to the knowledge of the down upon the Zibyugan Rail-whole battalion of troops whose obtaining entry also for two other
ground workers will be seven and a seizures of morphine aboard liners Rapporteur to the League Council, way Station just before mid-loyalty is under auspicion has been men.
arriving from Europe, the exis-Router. night, and committed another interned, while the officers in com-
tence has been discovered of an No details of the Commission's terrible outrage.
mand of the forces in the district
International drug ring, headed by report have yet been disclosed out two Parisiaus.
side league circles.
surrounded
are to be court-martialled for their failure to suppress the outbreak.- Reuter. the
Woman's Valn Appeals.
gang Bengali station-master's quarters, took the cash and the jewellery
The
AIR MAIL.
that his wife vainly offered in an THE CANTON-WUCHOW effort to save her husband's life, then rifled the station safe, cut the telegraphs, and destroyed the furniture.
Having comploted their destruc- tion, they dragged the stution- master on to the platform, and despite bis wife's heart-rending appeals, hacked him to pieces with their knives,
had fled.
Rebels Take To Hiding.
TO BE INAUGURATED AS FROM TO-MORROW.
Canton, Jan. 15.
Knives and Daggers. All three then produced what appeared to be revolvers, also an array of kulves and daggers. The effect produced by the sight of these, weapons was as calculated. The three children were easily terrified, as also were a mui-tani and two women domestics.
The victims were bound and gagged and dumped together in a room, while the robbers made a search for money and valuables. Leisurely Work.
pork sausages to the number of Discovering strings of Chinesa
20, they fried these with rice, the whole forming u delectable dish which, on account of the large quantity.was but half-con- left sumed. Brandy to
was also half-consumed in glasses',
per
COFFIN MYSTERY NOW
CLEANED UP.
Jettisoned by Hongkong Chinese Crew.
FEAR OF A "HOODOO."
Sydney, Jan. 15
The mystery of the floating coffins, one of which bore the words "Tung Wah Hospital, Hongkong," has been cleared up.
The explanation is that the Chinese crew of the Hongkong steamer Cabarita jellisored the empty coffins, fearing a "hoo- doo" after a series of accidents on board-Reuter.
MOIZONOSUKEMINMAANKANTISEN
It is alleged that this organi- ention has smuggled morphine valued at £4,000,000 into the United States in the course of the past year.
One of the seizures, described as the largest ever made in Ameri- ea, consisted of a thousand pounde of drugs, valued at £200,000, which Iwere shipped from Turkey, con- | cealed among furs.
Turkey's Part.
He requests that his protest be
PRINCE TALKS TO ARGENTINE,
SEVEN-MINUTE CHAT OVER RADIO PHONE.
deadlock. The Minorities Sub- Committee will have ita final meeting to-morrow.
The Conference will come to an and on Monday when the meeting In full committee, which began to-day and which was described by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald as a sort of second reading of the work of the Conference, will be concluded. Responsibility of Indians.
During to-day's discussion on the reports of the varidus commit- toes, Lord Sankey pointed out that the Federal Structure Report pro ceeded on the basic assumption that the new Constitution would
the
that recognise
principle for the responsibility
the Federal Government would, in future, rest upon the Indians themselves, and that the Dominion Constitutions afforded a precedent for the proper method of giving effect to this principle. That was the message he would have them take back to India.
London, Jan: 15. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who leaves to-morrow for Paris on the first stage of his journey to South The connexion of Turkey with America, spoke to Buenos Aires by the traffic is confirmed by Russell wireless telephone from London
The Nawab of Bhopal, who left Pasha, the Chief of the Narcotics this afternoon.
for India this afternoon, rejoiced Section of the Police Administra- The Prince spoke from his that the Federation proposals, tion in Cairo, who, in his annual study in York House to Sir Her-which the Simon Report and the report, states that while tho con- bort Gibson, Chairman of the Com-Government of India's Despatch trol of European dtg factories mittee of the British Trade
Assured of not being interrupt- The Canton-Wuchow nir malled, they went about their task in Iservice, temporarily limited to a leisurely manner, and at mid- Other member of the station letters and postcards, is to be in night, they prepared supper.
augurated on Friday, when the staff hid themselves until the band first air-mail will he closed at Canton at 9 a.m. and at Wuchow at noon.
The tariff of air-mail postage in The authorities, on learning of fixed at 15 centa
20
has been considerably tightened Exhibition, which the Prince is to regarded as dim and distant, had the ghastly affair, rushed anigrammes in
been translated into a practlen! addition
the
the direct import of open in March. The conversa- armoured train to the spot, but domestic postage rate of 4 cents
up, and "white" drugs to Egypt from tlon, which lasted seven minutes, lasue: there were no signs of the rebels' ner 20 grammes, or the Inter- national postal rate of 15 cents per
Sleep on Premises,
half hours daily, on each week-Europe has greatly diminishel, was completely successful, recep- whereabouts.
enormous quantities of heroin,tion being perfect. Other small bands of rebels 20 grammes.
Finally, the robbera retired for day. continue
ave accepted the cocaine and hashish are being sent their marauding
Letter and postcard mails will the night, their slumber being paign, and the Government is be closed dally at 9 a.m. at the uninterrupted until dawn, when terms, which are subject to rati- out from Constantinople. preparing a final drive.
General Post Office and at 8.20 they took their departure with fication at the miners delegate The armoured train is being.m. on Shameen.
money and jewellery amounting conference in Cardiff on Saturday. used as a pilot for the night mali-] Wuchownir-mails for long to over $400 in value. Just be-Renter and British Wireless, train in the disturbed area-kong and Macao will reach Can fore, they had discarded their
Three Years' Peace! ton in time to be closed with cheap Chinese suits of blue the mails to be despatched on cotton, decking themselves out in
London, Jan. 16. board the afternoon steamers the best European attire they The settlement shows concessions leaving for those destinations. could find in the house.
His raport points out that while Our Own Correspondent.
by both sides. The miners agreed the whole world's legitimate re- Rugby and Baldock Stations appoint her," said the Nawab, to the owners' insistence that wagequirements of heroin in a year is British Wireless. disputes should be referred, if
Beuter.
cam-
Graphic Details, Rangoon papera give graphic details of the jungle "war" which! has been proceeding in Burma, and of the dastardly murder of Mr. Fielda-Clarke, who returned} to Burma from leave only cloven days before the outrage.
Great brutality is being dia-| played by the rebels, while early looting successes have furnished them with ammunition and re- urma.
FORMOSAN RISING SEQUEL
GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND OTHERS RESIGN,
Tokyo, Jan. 16. A curious feature of the "rebel- Baron Eizo Ishizuka, Governor- lion" is that the malcontents do General of Formosa, has resigned, not confess to any grievance, holding himself responsible for They appear to be causing trouble the recent uprising of aborigines. for trouble's sake and attack) Mr. Masahiro Ota, Governor of villages in order to obtain supplies Kwantung, will succeed him, whiist of food and rifles and ammunition, Mr. Seiji Tsukamoto will succeed killing or wounding all who Mr. Ota. oppose them.
European's Death.
The worst outrage so far has been the killing of Mr. H. V. W. Fields-Clarke, Forest Engineer, atj a place called We, about a dozen miles or so from Tharrawaddy and Cone of the strongholds of the]
rebels.
Several other high officials in Itho Formoann Administration have also tondered their resignations.— Reuter.
U.S.
INDUSTRIALIST
KILLED.
FALLS FROM WINDOW AT HIS HOME.
Chicago, Jan. 15.
Quiet Departure,›
The ownersa
Enormous OutBow, Russell Pasha says that Con- stantinople has been proved to be the source of the greater part of the illicit narcotics flooding the East and America.
So quietly did they leave that necessary, to an independent chair-stimated at two tons, the Turkish Government has exported, in siz the victims were not aware of the man of the Joint Conciliation months, four tons of heroin and
Board. The owners agreed to the two tons of morphine.--Reuter. fact, until an hour afterwards.
Police Headquarters were in- miners' demand for an extension formed of the affair at 9.20 a.m. of the period during which the 7- when Leung Kwok-chu, the 16-hour day would be paid at the same year-old of the widow, made rate as for an 8-hour day. a report at the Station. Two toy platols and a number of knives daggers discarded by the and robbers were handed over to the police.
No arrests have been effected
so far.
HARBOUR
TRAGEDY
SEQUEL
A WOMAN'S BODY NOW IDENTIFIED.
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On Wednesday, the Water Police reported having picked up from the harbour the remains of Chinese woman which appeared to have been in the water for some considerable time. A piece of rock attached to the body, with a rope knotted around the neck, suggested a case of murder,
The minors conferred together long after the owners and Ministers had departed and there are mis- givings because the leaders were unable to decide whether to recom- [mend or merely submit the agree- ment to to-morrow's Cardiff con- ference.
BIAS BAY CAPTURE CONFIRMED.
NAMES OF THE RESCUED VICTIMS.
Canton, Jan. 16. The Canton Navy is being One clause is particularly wel-warmly congratulated for comed as it secures three years splendid work in the successful Peace in the coalfclds, namely, that raid at Blas Bay which resulted any agreement reached must run tili January, 1934.—Reutter.
THE NEW PORT OF
WHAMPOA.
TWO DREDGES ORDERED
FROM GERMANY.
There are two stories circulat- ing in regard to the murder.
The first story, which is regarċ- od as less correct, is to the effect) that Mr. Fields-Clarke, who was Mr. F. Edison White, the Presi accompanied by Forcat Rangor Udent of the Armour Company, was Ba Yin, Deputy Ranger, Ba Saw, killed to-day by a fall from a win-widow who had been living In ex- two dredgers from Germany. and a clerk, Tun Aung were at the dow at his home.-Renter's Ameri-
ean Service.
field bungalow, having breakfast .when about 80 or 40 of the dacolta surrounded the place and riddled the building with shots. Mr. Fielda-Clarke was shot dead
FINE WEATHER.
Canton, Jan. 15. *In connexion with the proposed now port at Wampon, plans for Since then, the remains have which are now understood, to be been identified, by the clothing, as completed, the Kwangtung River those of Lam Yuct-fo (28), a Conservancy Board has ordered tramo poverty at 223, Roclamation These are already on their way Street. She had been missing out and are expected here in the since January.3.
course of the. next month. -Our Own Correspondent.
After having been rocently ra leased from goal, n Chinese.named
DROUGHT RELIEF IN UB.
Washington, Jan. 18.
the capture of the gang respon-
The Prince said he was looking forward to renewing the friend- ships he made in 1925 and asked about the preparations for the Exhibition. He asked Sir Herbart Gibson to express his great appre clation to the Argentine author!- ties for giving a site at Palelmo.
The call was made over the Poat system via Office short-wave
POSSIBLE BAR TO · SUGAR PLAN.
GOVERNMENT CO-OPERATION IN JAVA NECESSARY.
He appealed to Indians to drown their communal differences in the deep sea, paid a tribute to. Britain's fundamental desire to mete out equity and justice, and declared that India was waiting with bated breath to hear Mr. Ramsay MacDonald speak the words which would Hink India and Britain eternally by ties of affec- tion and good will.
"I am sure you will not dis-
addressing the Premier..
Full of Hope,
He went on to say that he was full of hope for the future, and expressed gratification, on behalf of his brother Princes, that the | proposals for Federation bad commanded such a remarkable dogrée of assent. He believed that the rapid 'progress of the "Federal Idea" would be selected by future historians as among ital. most romarkable characteristics.
concern
Amsterdam, Jan. 18. Four members of the Dutch su- gar committee are leaving for Paris to-night to confer with Mr. Chad-
As to the constitutional position bourze, prior to his return to the United States, chiefly in regard to of the subjects of the Indian the carrying out of the Brussels States, that was solely a domestic of each sovereign Agreement.
The Dutch Committee is assured Stato, and the Chamber of Princes sible for the piracy on 8.8. Hain of the co-operation of the great ma- had already taken it up.
jority
In his own State, the funda of sugar producers in Java, Ming, the China Merchant boat.
The Canton Naval Department but not of the assistance of the mental rights of the subjects had already been proclaimed such as has now been informed in further Dutch East Indian Government. raido messages from Blaa Bay of If the Government of the Dutch habeas corpus, religious freedoms further details of the expedition. East Indies eventually refuse to in the liberty of the person, the The five mon rescued from the troduce measures necessary to a security of property and the inde pirates are Messrs. Chun Po-chok, able the enforcement of restriction pendence of the Judiciary. HA
and sugar State was no exception, Chun Chun-yung, Wong Chung of sugar production,
from
Java the pro:
It was of the utmost importance, kin, Ng Man-eum and Cheung export
will be unable to that the question of paramountey Chung-lap. The namas of the ar-ducers in Java
Join in the execution of the Chad should be settled, in consultation rested pirates are also given.
bourno plan,Reuter.
with the Viceroy without delay,” and' in. a. manner satisfactory to the States. He again appealed for unity and for a settlement of the "cómmunal: differences :: still-res maining
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FRENCH TREASURY
OFFICIALS.
NOW ON A VISIT TO /
LONDON.
MODIFICATION OF DRY LAW.
U.S. LABOUR FEDERATION APPROVES,
Moslem Standpoint.
---- Mr. Fazlul Hug read a statement” London, Jan. 15. --
prepared by H. H. Aga Khan, who Representatives of the French
New York, Jan 15. ia unwell, on behalf of the Moslem in London Treasury-arrived yesterday to return the visit of the Amore from Miama states community, declaring that in the British Treasury officiais, and to that Mr. William Green, President Absence of a Hindu-Moslem fatil. continue the friendly, exchange of of the, American Federation of Iment of their dimerence Mo
Incas, ori ingthe. ecutive. Courell of the Federation place on financial questions approves the Labour campaign for teresting the two countries- the modification of the Prohibition British Wireless.
law
and several, of his staff, including The Royal Observatory reports Ho Sun-chum was sentenced to two elephant-keepers were injured, two that a belt of high pressure ex-months by Mr. Butlers, at the Kow elephants were solzed, and one tends from 8.W. China to the east loon Magistracy this morning. The D.B. gun, a revolver and several of Japan: Fresh monsoon" along defendant swan charged with the lid wa fent. Hoover-ham'signed the views which have been taking bour, has declared that the: Ex-Vance sin practicable.. hundred rounds of ammunition the BE. coast of China and over theft alarm clock from the Bill providing for 0915,000,000 for the China Sea. The local forecast Britannis Aerated Water Company drought rellefleuter American 161-N.Ei winds, fresh; fine. Ein Waterloo Road, er*={
were taken aWAY THA
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