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FOGNIZED 1881
Tel 10245
NO 3 chi
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932.
HARME
354
MINULE
PER ANNUM
FURY 15 CONTR
FORT DUNLOP
"Jovik China Marulig Post Bldg," Tal, 84386.
SENSATIONAL SHANGHAI PLOT UNEARTHED.
ELEVENTH-HOUR
DISCOVERY.
IMPORTANT ARRESTS IN
SETTLEMENT.
SEIZURE OF NANTAO PLANNED.
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH").
SHANGHAI, Mar. 14.
SHANGHAI IS CREDITED
WITH AN
MANCHULI LOOTED.
C.E.R. GUARDS IN REVOLT.
TAHEIHO REIGN OF TERROR.
GRAVE OUTLOOK.
Tokyo, Mar. 14.
The establishment of a reign of terror by rebal troops at Taheiho (Sacka- lien) has apparently been taken as an example in other parts of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, and the situation is regarded with the gravest apprehension.
The Japanese military au-|
are definitely connected, but
A striking picture during tones moments aboard the aa. Vasazla on Saturday, showing the passengers being ELEVENTH-HOUR ESCAPE FROM AN-
thorities have good reason to transferred to the sa. Chues Chow, which was splendidly manoeuvred alongside... In the foreground is one of
the Chinese injured, lying on the deck Another picture will De found on Page Seven. OTHER GRAVE PERIL, THREATENING IN believe that the revolts in THE NANTAO DISTRICT; IN THE FORM different parts of the country OF AN ARMED · ATTACK ON LINES measures are to be taken to sup-Kreuger Suicide. SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH press the outbreaks. LED TO THE SINO-JAPANESE CLASH IN menta has been an outbreak at SHOCK TO WORLD TIENTSIN AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. Mauchuli, near the Soviet border,
One of the most serious develop-
where the guards of the Chinese
the town.
Secret information of the plans of the organisers Eastern Railway have murdered reached the Chinese authorities yesterday morning, and her commander and are looting in conjunction with the British and French police, the plot was frustrated, the joint authorities' scouring the districts under their control relentless for twenty-four hours, effecting a series of dramatic and important been brutally slain by the rebels,
arrests.
Sensational revelations are expected when the men arrested are brought to trial.
The battle-fronts are reported to be quiet. though isolated incidents are reported to have occurred. Efforts
TROOPS DESPATCHED Information from Taheiho veals that several dvilians have
re-
who have looted all shops and warehouses, as well as the banks. The Japanese Command at Har- Fourth hin Is despatching the
restore
Regiment to Pinchow to
order,
The station of Metaitze, which
OF FINANCE. Reaction Difficult to Foresee.
London, Mar. 13. The suicide in Paris of Mr. Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish. -multi-millionaire Match King is a matter of vital concern to financial markets all over the world
The gravity of the possible se-
to establish a permanent peace have made no progress only eight miles to the west of quela in stressed in all the morn hitherto.
Harbin, on the Chinese Eastern ing papers, of which the Timurs, in Hallway, was raided yesterday by a leading article, expresses the letachment of General Ting opinion that Mr. Krenger's suicide will prove a further shock to con-
The plot in Nantao was for the Taighout and north of Taichons armed smzure of the district, which during the week-end, but at Quin- borders the Chinese City and then the shopkeepers have re-open- French Concession. it was frus-ed for business. Japanese nero.Chao's troops. trated fargely though the insten. Planes were flying over Sonchow They held up the place and re-fidence, which already unnerved mentality of the Chinese autheri- this morning, but no bombs were treated after robbing the railway and unsettled Bnancial centres
to of cash amounting ties, whose agents got dependable dropped-Rensha
$3,000. information regarding the pians and were able to name some of the leading figures,
IMPORTANT ARRESTS
A thorough comb-out for these! inen was made and eleven arrests! were effected in the French Con-i ecssion and the international Set- tlement.
Impurtant seizures in the course |
TRIAL OF GEN.
WANG KENG.
LOSS OF PLANS THE CHARGE.
Nanking, Mar. 14.
GERMAN ELECTION RESULT.
PRESIDENT TO BE RE-ELECTED
SECOND BALLOT CERTAINTY.
Berlin, Mar, 13, In what was probably Germany's most exciting dection in history, President Hindenburg to-day failed to obtain te-election by the very Harrow margin of one per cent.. though he poiled over seven million vates more than Hilter.
A second balipt will be taken a about would pray to have been spared." month hence, on Apr 10, when The financial pages express con- there will be à straight fight be Immediate changes of an im-cern at the pozulbis international tween Hiller and Hindenburg.
stock market reaction, but the The poling booths all over 'Ger expected opinion is expressed that the re- among the Chinese members of cent revival of confidence may les-ESTABL 11:0 Board of the Chinese sen the consequences. Eastern Railway and it İN! thought that this will probably result in an anti-Soviet polley. talning a stoical calm. The banks
portant nature are
Stockholin is, however, main-
FINAL OFFICIAL FIGURES.
and the commercial houses will Meanwhile, there come alarm- all be opened to-morrow (Monday)
Berlin, Mar. 14. disorders though the Stock Exchange will ing reports of serious
The final official figures of the in Inner Mongolia, the domain of be closed down and Parliament is! Prince Chai, who is at present meeting at midnight to grant the election, except for a few outlying!
the Premier in order to prevent a ference are: Man-panic from developing.
Hindenburg.
HOPES DASHED IN LINDBERGH AFFAIR.
BABY REPORTED FOUND.
PROVES WRONG
CHILD.
New York, Mar. 13. Worried to desperation by the Failure of all efforts to obtain the restoration of their baby son, Colonel and Mra Linbergh had to bear another terrible shock to-day when their hopes, reised to a high pitch by reports from Crossville, Tennessee, that the boy had been found, were 'again dashed to the ground
The end of a day of conflicting rumours found the sensational case no nearer solution; in fact, the chances have been rendered a trifle more difficult by the abandonment of another police line of attack.
Early in the day, the sheriff of Crossville, Tennessee, issued a re port to the affect that a baby had been found tallying completely with description of the Lindbergh baby, adding that the description had beon confirmed by Colonel Lind- bergh over the telephone and that four persons had been arrested, and would be held until the arrival.
someone from Hopawell of
to identify the baby.
REPORT DENIED. Soon afterwards, however, the Hopewell palica stated that there was no truth in the Crossville ré port.
The commander of the Police Department at Trenton, Now Jersey, subsequently issued a state- ment that the baby detained at Crnesville had no connexion with Lindbergh,
SAILOR SET FREE.
Meanwhile, Henry. "Red" John- son, a sailor, and alleged sweetheart of Betty Gow, the nurse of the kidnapped infant, who Was Br
West rested during the week Hartford, has
bcen released, exonerated from complicity in the kidnapping.
Public excitement had been stimulated by police claims that the detention of Johnson had resulted In the gleaning of "important in- formation," and that they were cor tain he know "plenty more."
It is understood that Johnson un- wittingly disclosed details of the might possibly have been responsi bla for the outrage. It was stated that ho admitted sharing his know- ledge with another person, whom
of the raids included papers and, Genera Wang Keng is to be documents which are expected to tried by a special military tri- in Changchun attending the cele moratorium recommended by the districts which can make no dir- TO END "DOG Lindbergh home to a person who prove a fruitful source of further bunal over which General Chiang | brutious in connexion with infarmion, badges and special Kai-sick will preside.
inauguration of the
passes.
new
IIINDENBURG HITLER Thaelmann Duesterburg Winter
...18,001,726
.11,838,571 ̈
4,982,079
2,557,876
111,452
It is impossible yet to foresce He will be charged with cul- churia State and the installation;
the financial reaction in France. able exligence in losinu dozu-of Hauan Tung. OFFICERS IN PLOT.
ments settiur out the Chinese MONGOLIA RISING
U.B. and Germany. The seizures have led to the Jis-bulum of campaign, which fell into
Kreuger shares have been freely hands
Prince Chai is expected to leave taken up in the French plot. The the
market covery of the whole
Pennha, leaders plans to organise a forer]
for home to-day to attempt
Hitler has declared his Inten- 101 and a further batch of over thirty of quamen to take Nantao by force
quell the rising,
thousand franc debentures weretion of contesting the second bat- In a rald similar to the recent
abortive rabi in Tientsin, and ne: cording to the reports, several officers, holding important Govern ment paritions are connected with! the plot.
Martial law has been declared by the Chinese authorities in Nantao and other Chinese districts.
HIGH TENSION.
High tension prevails but up to the present ne untoward incidents have occurred,
One of the mon arrested cinima
the Japanese.~~.
DOLLAR SLIGHTLY
RISES.
SILVER NOW RATHER STEADIER.
With silver slightly up both In Londen and New York the Honu-
kong dollar has appreciated 1/8th to-day, the rate hath T.T. and de- mand being 19. 4d.
Silver röre 1/8th Apol and China to have been an Advisor, to the 1/161h forward in London,
bought, and
His chief lieutenant has report.
It is expected that the United burg appeare obvious--Reuter. ed that about five hundred bandits ve been offered to-morrow, ut, though victory for Hinden have selzed and occupied the wall-States and Germany will feel the
ed town of Erlutut, which they financial shook more than other
have looted. A
Similar lawless bands
countries.
havo
Krouger's anxiety regarding the
many were crowded with masses of
83
FIGHT."
M. TARDIEU'S PLAN FOR CENTRAL EUROPE.
London, Mar. 13, A wido measure of Anglo-French co-operation in the matter of the economic situation in Central and
|-
he does not know.-Reutor. HOPE WANING. Meanwhile polica continuo vigorous following-up of all clues, though hope is waning among those closest to the case and Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh are being kept in' soclusion behind a barrier of police guards about their estate. Thousands of letters, many fan
| raided two other towns in the dis-i result of the German election was voters from an early hour and Danubian Europe, with the two tastic and others giving promise of
trict to the weat of Reuter.
ALLEGED OGPU OUTRAGE.
with banks in New York accord-per cent. of the eligibles recorded ing to the Herald-Tribune. The their votes, journal ways that he had made up NO SERIOUS RIOTS. his mind that Hitler was going
"British Statement.
fold object of and rivalries
expediting the those acquainted with their move- economic reconstruction of Europa, ments continue to be recolved. was agreed between Sir John Simon Several have purported to set terms
asking vari». and M. Tardieu after a conversa-for return of the The polls closed at 6 pm, and uption at the Quai D'Orsay yesterday. ous sums, but the authorities aro An agreed statement was subso-inclined to believe that none of to win, which he considered to
these actually comes from the kid- mean a prolongation of the Cen-to that time there had been no seri tral European crisis.
ous distrubances, except one clash quently issued.
M. Tardieu's proposals are annappars although every effort, is between Nazfs and Communista at: Remichiadt, in which three Com-derstood to include suggestions made to trace each note.
While New York racketeer!! munists were killed and three that the Governments. of Austria, The Britials Match Corporation, Nazis were arrested. Three hund Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Ru- leaders, to whom Colonel Lindbergh const made personal appeal, have pro holding the ordinary charo capi-red arrests were made in Berlin mania, and Jugo-Stavia
among themselves with a view to fossed the greatest desire to co- MANCHURIA. tal of Mesars. Bryant and May, for m In New York, silver advanced
la not affected by the Erduger for minor offencoa,
At B.16
p.m, when the first five Introducing preferential measures operate for return of the child, they 1/8th, the market being stenily. Other sensational disclosures The
Harbin, Mar, 14.
operations to tire million vates had been counted, for the mutual benefit of their com-simultaneously declare they have
no Information. - Re cross-rate has slightly im- are anticipated when the affair proved.
Three young Rusalan terrorists fact that the Swedish millionairu
would secure an M. Tardieu suggests that in Police are disposed to believe is finally elited out-Renter.
Locally the market is quite at Podgran chnaya shot and kiled was a director, according to Bir it appeared quite possible that meres and industry.
majority. Ho hed the event of, an agreement between their account and to feel that the steady, but very little business is a switchman named Tupeh, at his Arthur Stanley, chairman of the absolute
obtained 2,300,000 voles and ap- these States, the Powers should kidnapping was done by some nor Poning.
here on the evening of March 9. Corporation board.
During the attack. Topchy's It is reported in Stockholm that neared to be eastly winning thengsist in the practical application son or persons outside the realm of daughter was seriously wounded Krouper Insured his life in1925 towns, though Hitler had obtained of the formula adopted-Reuter regulat croakdom.. Chief fears now ndvantages in some of the rural
former Emperor, the present "dic and the content berket hus MURDERS IN tator of Manchuria, Isang quietly steady. Tung, and of Yuan Shih-kai, late President of China.
PEACE OR WAR?
Shanghai, Mar. 14.
General Chiung- Kwang-nai, one
•
financial
:
contre around the poi Gilty that The Royal Observatory raports in the right log. of the commanders of the XIXth that anticyclone central ever the
the Iddnapper, terrina DYNEAS H Route Army has retur:od from the Lower Yentze Valley has ponio, who was murdered on Feb-/ with a loading Swediab company. Nanking, where he has been re increased slightly. In intensity.ruary 26 near Dalmagou.
Lator. didate did not appear to be making did not prevent the fohabitants of killed the chlid in an calving instructions regarding the The depression "ar Tonekine og
It is widely believed that both Both the Upper and Lower much headway while Winter was Dletramtroll, where he spendata future plan of campaign regarding Alle an. Local Forecast:-North peare or war in the Shanghai aroal to N, E. wind, strong; overcast murders worn instigated by the Chambers have passed the scarsely in the picture, shooting holblas every
O. G..P. U., the Soviet secret Krudrey Moratorium measure. Minor clashes are reported fròm at frat, finer later..
policeReuter,
Tupchy was a friend of K for from £100,000, to £500,000, disttmann, the Communist can affection for the aged President | tion-wide, hue and
Hindenburg was scoring heavily voting for Hitlero
in the Rhineland, but the personal(Continued on