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Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881
NO, 12.568 −PD #=#A¬+XWG MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1931.
日四十月十
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HANYANG OFFICER'S CLOSE SHAVE Out-of-Work
Our photos show the Monni River bridge, scene of the most serious Ehting in the Manchuria conflict. There is still mystery regarding events there, General Honjo declaring that wiralen communication
has cansad.
GOVERNMENT OF RABIES PERIL IN
U.S. FLEET.
MANCHURIA.
INDEPENDENT OF Three Men Die: 11 in
NANKING.
TOKYO RELATES PROPOSALS.
Tokyo, Nov. 24. It is learned on good au. thority from Mukden, that a new Mudken Government
Manila Hospital.
INQUIRY PENDING.
A terrible threat of an epide- mic of rabies has caused the' American naval authorities to issue orders to all ships in the Asiatic Fleet to have the en- dangered men located and treated for hydryphobia at once,
BULLET MISSES BY INCHES ONLY.
WELL-ORGANISED COUP OF NAMOA PIRATES.
MOTOR-BOAT USED FOR TRANSFER
OF CARGO TO SHORE.
FULL STORY OF ATTACK.
STARTLING NEW features of piracy organisation are revealed in stories related by officers of the B. and S. s.a. Hanyang this morning, outlining the piratical coup of which the vessel was the victim last week.
Plans for the transfer of the valuable part of her cargo had been worked out to the last detail. The Han- yang arrived off Namoa Island in the dead of night. Shortly afterwards, a motor-boat came purring out of the bay to the anchored ship and the transhipment, into pleted by five o'clock in the morning. native craft also handy, began. The task was com-
The second engineer had an extremely narrow escape. The door of his cabin was on slides, but the pirates endeavoured to open it in the usual way. Frustrated they fired at random into the cabin and the first shot missed Mr. Scott by inches only. Had he not jumped to shelter, the subsequent fusillade must have "got him.”
-
SEVEN BELLS ÁS SIGNAL.
will shortly declare control of the three Eastern provin. ces of Fengtien, Kirin and
Timing their attack. k 11.30 bells died away, when the pirates Heilungking, with a repu-
while pets have been bannedp.m. when the B. and S. steamer jumped up, cach man to a specified | from all ships. blican form of Government,
Hanyang was wrapped in slumber post, and so perfect was the or- -Renter.
The seriously affected ship is the the pirates who descended on the ganisation that they had the ship Mukden: Nov. 24.
destroyer John D. Edwards, which ship on Wednesday took the off in their control in less than five, has already suffered three fatalities vers so completely by surprise minutes, The exEmperor. Pu Yi,
has from the dread disease, while cle- that there was no chance of re- definitely passed out of the
ven other members of the ship's primal. From the pirates' point | political picture for the present, company are being treated in the of ylew, it was a most successful at all events. It is learned that Canacao Hospital at Manila as raid. he has now returned to Kwan- possible victims.
With them are tung from Tungkangtse, and it two other men, one from the Black is believed that he is now living Hawk and the other from the Paul Jones, who are said to have been bitten by a dog at Shanghai,
Dairen and
between Arthur.-Reuter
Port
Ma Chan-phan's "Instructions."
TORIES ANXIOUS
ABOUT INDIA.
PREMIER'S OFFER
Bitten a Month Ago.
has become to be known
as the
burden
The puppy which caused
the
ment.
nasty looking gun follows you an
WIN ex-
The closest shave perienced by Mr. M. Scolt, the second engineer, who was awaken- ed from his sleep by some shouting and bangs on his cabin door. An he stood in front of the door to push it aside the louvres were shattered
itself
DEATH OF FRENCH STINNES.
Business Man and Statesman.
M. LOUIS LOUCHEUR
Poria, Nov. 22,
M. Louis Loucheur, the French business magnate and statesman, one of the wealthiest men in after-
France, died in Paris this
noon..
Known as the French Stinnes, he was born at Roubaix in August 1872 and began life ne an engineer, serving in that capacity with the Nord Railway, Even in his eari
A tyre mulque
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Fort DUNLOP
The Tyre Incomparable
LOCAL BRANCH.
Flier's Dream Come True.
GIFT OF £500 FOR CHINA FLIGHT.
London, Nov. 23.
Án anonymous gift of £500 has been made by a local in- dustrialist to enable Mr. T. H. Chamberlain, of West Hartlepool, who was formerly with the Im- perial Airways, but who is at to realise his ambition to fly to the present time unemployed, China.
the
Mr. Chamberlain is now in Lon- don buying a machine for venture and intends to atart the fight shortly. He will, it is learn- ed. be nccompanied by Flying Officer II. Lawson, of the Royal Air Force.
Mr. Chamberlain has for some
Paddar Bldg.
HOKLO WAR AT ABERDEEN.
Amazing Scene of Disorder.
Aberdeen was the scene of another Hoklo war yester- day, when two factions met and clashed in
a boue at
Main Street.
caused the Police from the local Shortly afterwards a rumour of murder went aboard which Station to make a hurried visit
to the house.
They wore relieved, on arrival, to find that it whe only one of the combatante "taking the count," lying on his back.
"You would not know what it Cunningham the
business combinations, for although time been trying to raise funds for Magietrate this, morning in des-
Was
ostensibly a technician, he really a financial export and was chiefly interested in balance sheets, flotations, amalgamations and the like.
He became a contractor for im- portaut undertakings, the construc-
tion of railways, waterwork, and
so on, and among his contracts was a section of the Murman Railway.
Rise to Fortune.
He was also a keen
gradually achieved.
politician
His rise to fortune was greatly facilitated by the upheaval brought about by the war, during which everything was done on a vast acale
the flight by organising a series of dances.--Reuter,
SLIGHT RISE IN SILVER.
DOLLAR UP IN SYMPATHY,
The
cribing the acene of disorder which met his sight as he led in the Police raiding party, Chairs were overturned and the place literally wrecked. Two of the combatants jumped through a window, slid down a corrugated iron awning and escaped into the street. Eight others were taken into custody, the injured aman, who was included in this batch, being aubsequently removed to Hospital. The Police investigating the
a forcible attempt being made to
his aim to get into touch with lead-don to 18%, ready and forward. and on reaching Poria be made it Silver has risen 3/16ths in Lon-matter, found it to be a case of ing statesmen an object which he America appears to be leaving the press one man to join a secret. market alone for the moment. China was buying and selling and society and that he was resisting India inclined to buy,
Was market was fairly steady at the close. The actual consumption of the white metal, however, in in. significant and if the Manchuria situation settles down, lower prices are t
to be expected,
Late M. Louis Louchour.
e
An easy undertone was noted. in New York whero silver dropped 1/8th.
The official rate
in Hongkong
One of the seven men In Court was fined $20 as a ring-leader and was also bound over. The other aix had not a cent between them, and his Worship decided to imposo on each a personal surety of $100 to keep the peace for the period of a year,
was 1/4 T. T. to-day, representing FOOD POISONING
a rise of 3/16ths. But the under-
tune was uncertain, inclined to
easy. Business was done early on
at 1s. 4.5/16ths, but later transac
IN KOWLOON.
tions were as low na 18. 4.3/16ths. FOUR PERSONS TAKEN
The sterling cross-rates continuc
to move against London."
MYSTERY THEFTS CLEARED UP.
YAUMATI ROBBER CONVICTED.
RING ROUND HOUSE.
TO HOSPITAL.
BOY OF 7 DIES.
After partaking of a meal yes- torday morning, four residents of 91, Fuk Wah Street, Kowloon,.con- tracted food poisoning and were taken to Hospital where one of their number, boy aged seven, subae- quently died.
According to a report made to the Police, Kavan Shit a married woman aged 30 and her son, Chu
the
revolver from a chest and pushed doctrine of purely material P4 | which have been baffling the Police 9 o'clock Wah Hospital
move,
Chief Officer's Shock.
and
was
hai
were
nt
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Several shots were fired, and although there were no casualties, the bullets missed two or three of the officers by the slightest of dis-
bullet whistled through on and money was spent like water. inch from bis thigh and buried Loucheur obtained huge contracts. tances. The pirates helped them- selves herally to the cargo of
in the floor. He sprang His interesta included railways, genocal merchandise, and ransacke aside, barely in time to mies some locomotives, agricultural machinery, Harbin, Nov. 23.
ed the cabins of the Europeans, A pet puppy aboard the John Ed-
have truck his certainly would electricity, petrol. fertilisers and
in a spet but Marshal
each man losing about $300 worth
factories. Chank Isuch-liang wards is alleged to have bitten the
of clothing and personal effects.
for his action. wirelessed the Acting Chairman of sailor who died from rabies while
He unearthed his regarded him as an apostle of
A series of larcenica in Yaumati Fat, aged seven wore removed to the Heilungkiang Provincial Gov- the ship was at Chefoo on October Although the six Europeans
aride the door to find the passage- ernment, General Ma Chun-shan. 16 and 17, but it was not until aboard were not fired at inton-
yesterday morning suffer- way crammed with armed Chinese. aperity and progress as contrasted
for some time were cleared up this with culture and moral advance- instructing him to establish the November 13. that the authorities tionally and received comparative-
They soon relieved him of his ment. He has been described as morning when a man named Makg from the effects of food polsen- at Hailungfu, were aware of the anger. One ly considerate treatment, they Government offices
weapon.
"the French Stinnes", but he knew
Yuen was charged before Mr. The bay died at 3 p.m. while the ing following their morning meal. which is near the terminus of the of the victims then complained that went through an anxious period,
better how to held his own and as
Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy mother's condition is regarded as Tsitsihar-lelshanhsien
Shots were also fired through Railway his throat was contracted strange being shepherded round the con- the door of the third engineer's a member of the Chamber he played
with the larceny of property, to being serious, The Marshal further asks May, and he was sent with all haste to fined space of the ship at revolver cabin, Mr. C. H. Jones, who was a mare important part in affairs. the total value of $310, on four Half an Chan-ahan to exploit any opportung the hospital. but be succumbed to point for more than
hour later an aged 24 hours. off duty. The
he was for the As a speaker
at once separate occasions. moment to recover the leat ground the infection.
widow of the same address and a reason They were more or less isolated shots was that while some of the eloqu t, lucid and precise, but as
Detective Sergeant Edwardes, four 011 the
The third man died last Thurs- from their companions, had no cabins are fitted with swinging politician he did not command Worship that Tsitsihar-Heishanhsien
who prosecuted. Informed his four-year-old child wore also re- Railway, which was entirely oc-day, but the remainder of the men iden how events
moved to Hospital suffering from TTHA defendant, were panning doors, others are on slides, and cupied by Japanese troops during under treatment are regarded
a great deal of confidence.
the same effects. Their condition, house at Shang- however, apprehended in out the weekend.--Rensha.
and rarely did their ultra-when the pirutex attempt to practically out of danger. They are
War Service.
Street. The police
not regarded found some serious. still influenced, however, by what cautious guards relax their vigil, open them Inwards, they, of
Even at meals their guard stood course, refused to
At the beginning of the war he pawn-tickets, through which they ero able to trace stolen property. over them, with the point of their evidently gave the pirates the entered the Artillery, of which he "death watch" and are obviously revolvers following every
Inspector Clark, who In labouring under A great
move impression that they were locked, was a reserve officer, but in Novom-
Court, drew his · Worship's atton TSANG FOO VILLA of suspense and strain.
A couple of shots passed alarm-bar. 1914, he was entrusted with
tion to the fact that the organlantion of
the addresses the output of "It does not aid the digestion, "ingly close to Mr. Jones.
VERDICT. munitions. In Puppy Destroyed.
given in the charges against the December 1916, he remarked one officer, "when a
Undor-Secretary of made
defendant were in the form of a State in the Ministry of Munitions ring around his own address. you reach over to pour a cup of tea, At the time of the attack Mr. In the Briand Cabinet, while in the Questioned by Mr. Fraser, the gun happens to be one of the paring to give over The uneasiness is Increased when E. J. Hankin, first mate, was pre-Governments of Ribot, Painleve Sergeant Edwardes said defendant must have been working with a watch and Clemenceau which followed, ho ship's supply, and some of ogr number of Conservative all pets on the ships attached to the
to the second guns are not the latest type and fret inkling of anything amiss After the war
officer, and his was himself Minister of Munitions. gang. He did not think that one M.P.'s Interested in the India pro-Asiatic Fleet have been disposed
man could handle the whole series liable to go off at any moment.".: blom are uneasy regarding Mr.of.
Regiona. Ramsay MacDonald's intimation The three victims of the dog were The mystery as to how the deck
At the general election in 1919, taking responsibility. John Malcolm Jones, John Adam pirates came to be aboard is clear, companionway to the bridge. Loucheur, who had not hitherto
Defendant was sentenced to Borowski, end Edmund
knowledge Joseph nd up by the
"I hastened over to order them been a member of the Chamber, nine months' hard labour. quartermaster of the they went aboard as deck us to get off," he said, "when they was returned at the head of the Verbel; a U.S.8. John Edward.
sengers at the last moment before suddenly whipped out revolvers. Nationalist Bat is the Nord De-
Although the I sprang back to find more Chinese partments. In January 1920, he CONSTABLE ROBBED Arth prisoner, and he was put over leaving Shanghai. As soon as the danger to the men able to reach an agreement on the now under treatment is passed, an Hanyang does not carry passon with revolvers behind me, and in resigned with
Clemenceau Ho point.
fowa fow minutes I was surrounded. was then elected rapportour to the Premier has informed a Conserva- the responsibility and to prevent mand is sufficient. In this in been wakened from
It is reported, however, that the official investigation to determine era as a rule, it takes a
between Chinese ports if the de: Capt. Harris-Walker, who had Finance Commission regarding THIEF PUTS WALLET
his sleep,
A fractured left arm and injurios of tragedy will take along and Cabinet which took office
UNDER HIS HAT. to her face wore sustained by a wo guessed that the other officors in 1921, he was
woman, Lal Ming, aged 68, of" 28, and engineers had been similarly of marked by his con- Mongkok ferry yesterday'
Liberata Minister for and his term
Crossing the harbour on the Russell Streat, through being knocked WEATHER REPORT.
Well-Timed Attack."
an down by a Hongkong Hotel bua at surprised. The typhoon is about 100 miles
clusion of the so-called Wiesbadon Indian constable, Gunbokeh Singh the Causeway Bay Terminds yestur- The Hanyang left Shanghai at S.D. of Naba, (in the Loochoos) daylight on
Passenger's Experience. Agreement with the German Minis had his pocket picked and his day morning. The woman's condit Tuesday, and the
tion is regarded.an serious, moving north. The anti-cyclone pirates evidently spent two days
Mr. S. L. Garrett, Recond officer, bor of Reconstruction, Rathenau, wallot, containing $17, taken from
who is central to the North-east of in watching the officers and mak was rudely wakened
was afterwards murdered.
lim. Another Indian constable MAN KNOCKED DOWN tokyo moving ES.E,
Loucheur was blamed by his ad-
was with him. noticed the After taking the wallet from com- ing themselves acquainted with sleep by his door being burat versaries for having let the German offance and arrested the dofon plainant's pocket, defendant put it BY TRAIN.
the ship's routine. The attack open and revolvers being poked magnate ret the better of him. dant.
under bis hat and walked off withạ knocked down by the train at 2.30 had obviously been timod for into his side, while tho chlof The Briand Covernment fell in Whilst attempting to cross rail-p.m. yesterday. After being treat 11.80 on Wednesday night, just at engineer, Mr. A. M. McGregor, 1922,
Prosecuting at the Kowloon his hat on his head, all in a matters way bridge No. 38 at Sheung Shuf, ad at the Station he was removed the changing of watches, for who was on watch below, came up March
and it was not till Court before Mr. Fraser this morn of a few seconda,
1924, that Loucheuring Inspector--Clark said the Defendant was sentenc a mendicant of Shum Chun, was to the Kowloon Hospital.
barely had tho sound of seven | · (Continued on Page 18.)
(Continued on Page 18.)- offence was done very quickly... months' hard lat
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SUSPECTED.
London, Nov. 22.
that he is willing to arbitrate on
the Hindu-Moslem question. Tho
Hindu and Moslem representatives, to the Indian Round Table Con- ference have themselves been un-
death of the three ratings, was de- stroyed and thrown overboard by
Its second victim, while since then'
tention of trying to present. Parlin place. ment with a fait accompli–Reuter,
K.C.R. ACCIDENT.
Amoy on Monday night.
that
the
ho
FOUR MEN ACQUITTED AND ONE HELD OVER.
The Trang Foo Villa murder
was when he noticed several of the for the Liberated came Minister of larcenies. Defendant was only trial concluded this morning, when,
climbing passengers
the
from his
the
is and reparations.
до
who
men
before the Chief Justice (Str Joseph Kemp), four of the five were unanimously found "not guilty," and wore discharged. The Jury falied to come to unanimous decision regarding the
until the Docember Sessions.
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