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SECRETS OF JAPANESE CONSULATE CELLAR
LINDBERGH SOVIET TORTURE
OUTRAGE
OFFSHOOT
GASTON MEANS ARRESTED
FORMERLY IN U.S. SECRET SERVICE
Washington, May 5.
A sensational offshoot of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, Gaston B. Means, de- cribed as a friend of the late President Harding, was ar-. reated in Washington to-day оп a charge of obtaining money by false pretences.
Means in accused of securing the payment of G$100,000 from the the wife of the publisher of
Washington Post,
leading American newspaper, by repre sonting that he was in a position to recover the Lindbergh baby.
0
EX-SECRET SERVICE MAN.
The accused was formerly in the American Secret Servico, being very prominent in connexion with the Teapot Dome Oll Scandal.
He has been in the limelight at intervals since 1917 when he was} involved in a charge of murder made in connexion with the death of a wealthy woman whose estate he had in part managed.
During the investigation he also became involved in on investiga- tion of an alleged German spy plot.
STARTLINGLY FRANK.
His testimony in regard to both these things was startlingly frank as it, has been in every other case in which he has been involved.
ALLEGATIONS
RUSSIANS SUBJECTED TO THIRD DEGREE
HARBIN PROTESTS
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH.")
Mukden, May 6. THIRD DEGREE IN A CELLAR, WITH JAPANESE OFFICIALS DIRECTING OPERATIONS, ARE AMONG SERIOUS CHARGES OF THE TORTUR- ING OF SOVIET NATIONALS UNDER THE JAPANESE-MANCHUKUO REGIME IN NORTH MANCHURIA, WHICH ARE BEING MADE IN
SOVIET QUARTERS.
Relations between Japan and Russia are becoming increasingly strained following further charges of "provocative acts"-apart from the torture allegations.
SIBERIA MAIL RECORD
SEVENTEEN DAYS
FROM LONDON
During recent wecks, more than
which itself is regarded as an act
of hostility to Soviet Russia.
CONSULATE INVOLVED.
The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, who Was this morning sworn in as His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government.
PATHETIC SCENE
SHANGHAI TRUCE SIGNATURES
MANCHURIA DON JUAN OF
ANARCHY
REBELS IN REAR OF JAPANESE
HEAVY FIGHTING
Harbin, May 6. Meeting with fierce resis tance at several points, the powerful Japanese drive against the insurgents on the eastern section of the Chin- ese Eastern Railway con- tinues.
They are proceeding up the Hu-Hai Railway, meeting with comparatively little resistance,
ROYAL NAVY
WORLD CRISIS.
THE
CRUISE IN INDIA BORAH CURE
WATERS.
(Router's Special Service).
Fontainebleau, May 6. Don Juan, the third son of ex-' King Alfonso of Spain, has finish. ed his naval studies at Dartmouth College and has returned to his parents at Fontainebleau.
It is Icarned, however, that the
RESTORATION OF SILVER
Washington, May 5,
A three-fold programme fo world economic recovery, name ly, disarmament, the settlemen of the reparations problems an the restoration of silver to th young Prince will leave again! place it occupied prior to 1926 shortly to join a British warship was outlined to a crowded Senat on a cruise to India in order to by Senator Borah to-day. gain practical experience of the
BLR.
He will be absent with the Roy.
while along the Sunguri River, al Navy for about two years. they have now occupied Sansing and Fangchong, after very heavy | fighting,
SEVERE LOSSES.
Both at Sanaing and Fangcheng the insurgents were in strength and resisted the attack until com- pelled to retire by the Beverity of their losses. It is estimated
IRELAND'S OATH
that the Chinese casualties in BREACH OF TREATY:
these two battles were two thous and. The Japanese losses, bellov) ed to be heavy, have not been officially announced.
of
Along the western section
NEW MENACE.
Japanese
BRITAIN STATES
ATTITUDE
London, May 6. Asked in the House of Commons
7
Senator Borah, who is the Chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela
Senator Borah, '
the
(Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, May 6. Finishing touches will be a hundred Soviet citizens resident applied to the Shanghai peace the
C. E. R., the in Harbin have been arrested by
the have occupied Antachan, some to-day whether he would consider! agents of the Japanese-Manchukuo agreement to-day when Government and Soviet sources Chinese and Japanese versions eighty miles from Harbin and the the advisability of submitting the tions Committee, represente Idaho defented forces are retreating to dispute over the treaty with the one of the American silver-produc allege that they have been subjected of the historic document will be the west.
Irish Free State to a specially con-ing States, has a larger populat to ill-treatment by White Guards,
Nevertheless, in spite of the stituted court of appeal or to the following than any other Senator who are now employed by the signed.
Lieut-General Shirakawa, who Japaneso successes, the operations International Court, the Dominions his words carrying farther than Chinese police in Harbin, an action
is rapidly recovering from the of the insurgents shows little sign Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas re-anyone in Washington with wounds he received in the bomb of lessening.
plied that Mr. De Valora had de-exception of the President. liberately chosen to propose the outrage, yesterday issued an order →
NO LEADERSHIP. abolition of the Parliamentary for the withdrawal of the Japan-
A serious menace has now aponth from the Irish Free State He is a firm advocate of a reduc It is further alleged that most of ese troops into the specified areas,
very constitution by unilateral action,tion of war debts and reparations, A new mail speed retora between the arrests were made by Japanese the retirement to commence almost peared in the arrival of a
Mr. Thomas added, in reply to opinion that a return of prosperity and to-day he expressed the in New York of being implicated England and Hongkong via Siberia gendarmes, who have taken their at once and to be completed in strong force near Harbin. While the Japanese are advancing along
a supplementary question: to # cellar in the four weeks. in a rum running plot in which was established this morning, when victims"
Eastern Railway,
td the world was impossible un the Chinese PALE AND WAN.
"The matter in disputo is # than $1,000,000 worth of the P. and O. liner 8.8. Ranpura ar-Japanese Consulate and subjected
Chinese troops have
leas his programme was carried Buddenly
treaty agreement between two par- out. lquor was smuggled into the coun- rived in Hongkong with 118. bags them to a third degree examination
Pathetic scenes were witnessed sprung into activity between the ties. It is customary, when there to the his of English mail, 17 days after de- before delivering them try, le frankly admitted
He concluded: If the United when advancing Japanese and Harbin. part in it, saying he had done it spatch from London.
Chinese Police Detective Depart-at the hospital yesterday The previous fastest time for ment..
the peace delegates entered the Particularly large is one force are differences of opinion, for one as an agent of the Department of
Mr. Shigmitsu, the which has carried out a series of or the other to ask for a conault-States threw its influence behind
ation to discuss them.
the movement to restore silver, it Justice in order to get evidence on this delivery was made on April Many of those arrested have de- room where
Minister, was lying violent attacks on the Chinese Ens-
would succeed. the smugglers. The Department of this year, when the Empress clared a hunger strike to register Japanese
"Mr. De Valera, without consul- tern Railway about sixty
"We have no leadship." was his issued a brief non-committal state-of Canada brought in a Siberian their protest against the "inhuman preparatory to the operation for
the removal of his leg. ment saying he was at that time mail in 18 days. The new record methods of examination."
proposes to break his side of the treaty. an agent for the Department and is two to three days better than that he rendered valuable assisthe average time taken
About that time he ceased route. to be an agent of the Department. -Reuter and United Press.
Some time later he was accused
more
tance.
1
for this
"BARBARIC TORTURE."
It is stated, on reliable authority, A Post Office official this morn that the Soviet Consul-General at ing knew of no special effort and Harbin has reported to Moscow on attributed the remarkable service the "barbaric torture" to
which! established by the arrival of the Soviet nationals have been exposed
miles
Attended by his brother and from Harbin, well to the rear of tation or intimation of any kind, parting shot.Reuter,
three doctors, Mr.. Shigemitsu was lying in bed, pale and wan, with sunken checks..
FRIENDSHIP WISH.
lle greeted the three bearers of
the
Japanese.
THE MORATORIUM. ANARCHY PREVAILS.
"It is not for us as a Govern-
London, May 5, been ment, boing the other párty to the The Chancellor of Exechequer An armoured train has sent to assist the Manchukuo gar-treaty, to do other than call atten- Mr. Neville Chamberlain stated in tion to the fact that he has broken risons in resisting those forces.
Along the whole of the Chinese the treaty."-British Wireless, Eastern Railway, eastern section, burn, and to Mr. Chang, whom he anarchy prevails. The railway is greeted very cordially, he expres. being constantly attacked and whole sed a desire that he would convey sections destroyed.--Reuter: to the Chinese people his wish that the Chinese and Japanese might be friends.
TEAPOT DOME OIL Ranpura to the fact that the mail in an endeavour to force them to the text of the agreement, Messrs. caught all connexions en route. admit to the perpetration of "in-Samuel Chang, Okasaki and Black
SCANDAL
ALBERT FALL TO BE RELEASED
Washington, May 5.
This new speed record makes vented crimes."—Reuter. the Siberian mails at least a dozen days faster than the Suez route, and is only a few days behind the air mail inaugurated recently,
Albert B. Fall, former Secretary GOVERNMENT
of the Interior, in the Harding Ad-
ministration, who was convicted of
accepting a bribe in the Teapot
Donie oil lease scandal and sentene-
GRATITUDE!
ed to imprisonment for a year and WILL OF INVENTOR
a day, is being released from the]
New Maxico State Prison on Sun- day-Router.
EUROPEAN DAVIS
CUP TIES
MONACO LEAD AT OSLO
London, May 5.
OF MILLS BOMB
LEFTY GROVES SHOWS
CLEVELAND HOW
Bill Terry Hits His Seventh Homer
The text of the agreement was handed to him and after an exami- nation, he picked up a pen with his right hand, which was bandag- ed and bloodstained and affixet hig signalure to the document.
TREATY TOASTED.
HIS EXCELLENCY DEPARTS
WARM SEND-OFF AT QUEEN'S PIER
BRITISH AIRMEN
RELEASED
the House of Commons to-day that the next payment for in- terest on war debta to America would normally fall due on. June 15th next, but has been postponed under the Hoover Moratorium.
The next payment thereafter falls, duo on December 15th. There would be, no doubt, an opportunity to discuss the Government's policy NONE THE WORSE FOR with regard to war debts and re- parations before the last-named date.
CAPTIVITY
London, May 5.
Asked whether two payments to bo made The Air Ministry to-day re would have
in December next, Mr. Cham- ceived information that Flying berluin replied: “Only one," Officer Wills and leading Aircrafts- British Wireless,
Evans, who recently madel New York, May 5.
Shortly after noon yesterday,
a forced landing and were taken) The Athletics staged a runfest! to-day against Cleveland Indians, after Mr. Shigemitsu and the
foreign observers had appended assembled on Queen's Fier this prisoners by a tribe in Northern
ter
A large crowd of Hongkung's
prominont
most
residents
on
man
Both are reported to be well-
British Wireless.
whose recent gequence of success their signature, a toust in celebra- |morning to bid farewell to H. E. Kurdistan, have been released and} was brought to a disastrous (Reuter's Special Service).
mination. Left Groves fanned five tion of the successful conclusion of the Governor and Lady Peel who have returned to their unit.
the conference was joined in by all are proceeding to England London, May 6. and hit twice a the seventh inning the delegates able to attend at the leave by the Empress of Japan. Sir William Mills, the Inventor in which the Athletics, scored
British Consulate. of the famous Mills bomb, who seven runs. died in January last at the age Kamm, McNair and Foxx hit of seventy-six, left an estate home runs, the circuit clout of valued at £37,829.
Foxx being Afth of the sendon:
It is revealed that only a little Jolley scored a home run for the over £37,000 was granted to him Reds at Boston.
cinnati, where Lombardi and Schul. merich hit home runs.
LAST OF OTTAWA
ADVISERS
SIR D. NEWTON, M.P.,
APPOINTED..
London, May 5.
Shortly after 10.30 am, cara began to arrive and a few minutes before 11 o'clock, a distinguished. gathering was present.
His Excellency and Lady Peel arrived punctually. As they emerged from their car, the band
RACKETEERS THREAT
PREMIER'S EYE OPERATION
SUCCESSFULLY. DONE YESTERDAY
London, May 6,3
A bulletin issued this evenía”s etabed:The operation on the Prime Miniator's right oye wak uk,
o'clock this afternoon."
from St. Louis Industrial School DEMAND $50,000 FROM dertaken successfully at fou
played the National Anthom.
con-
EDISON'S SON
by the Government for the Inven- In the National League, both tion of his bomb, of which 75.- lenders Hopped. The Braves took At Brussels to-day, Switzerland 000,000 were made for the Allies the short end of a 9-6 score at Cin-
Sir William reviewed a carried their Davis Cup victory during the war.
five straight
tingent of girls from St. John's over Balglum to
thon Chicago lost a tight game before matches, Fisher beating Van
Ambulance Brigade. Ho The Royal Observatory reports that
(Reuter's Special"Service). : Zuylen, 8-6,6-1, 8-G, while Aus- the anticyclone over North China has their own barrack-squad.
It was announced to-day in the shook handa with his many friends chiimant beat De Eckhoute 6-3 increased in intensity. The depres- The Cardinals falled to maintain
Philadelphia, May 5. The farewalls completed, the $~~2, 0-2.
alon is situated in the Sea of Japan to their recent improved form when House of Commons that Sir Doug- on the wharf,
"Give us fifty thousand dollara At Budapest, Hungary beat the S.W. of Hakkaldo. Local forecast: the Giants came along with their las Nowton, M..P. for Cambridge,
to heavy hitters. BI Terry again has bogen appointed adviser on Gaverner's launch cast off and
shall prevent you from Finland by five matches to nil, East winds, moderate; fine
took the lead in home run row, scor-agricultural questions attached to headed for the Empress of Japan or we the final games resulting in a win cloudy
ing his seventh of the season, while the United Kingdom Delegation to As she pulled slowly away from marketing your lavention." is the for Gabrovitz (Hungary) over
the wharf the band played "Auld threat held, over the head of Wil The forthcoming wedding is an Binudot by 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, and
Sir. Douging Newton, who has Lang Syne". Handkerchlofs flutllam Edison, son of the world- for De Kehrling over Grotenfalt nounced of Mr. Marciano Francisco Blades also battered the pill for the Ottawa Conference.
do Paula Baptisn, St. Joseph's Build-run round.
represented Cambridge as a Con- tered and hats were waved from famous Inventor, who is seeking servativo since 1922, was chair- the launch while the Governor and to follow in his father's footsteps. Mr. William Edison shares the man of the Cambridgeshire Coun- Lady Peel responded from the bow. fortune of $12,000,000 loft by, the ty Council in 1921-22. He acted of the launch.
by 6-0, 6-3, 6-4..
ing, "C" Block, second floor, to Miss
At Oslo, Monaco galnod a two Anna Teresa Feroirs, of the same matches lead over Norway on the building, "A" Block, ground floor. opening day's play of their Davis Cup contest.
Gallopo (Monaco) beat Hagon (Norway), 0-8, 04, 0—8, 61, Landau (Monaco) beat Torkild
The results were:
Cincinnati
In passing a 'hand-truck, a Sani- Chicago tary Department lorry in Wing Lok St. Louis' Stroot, yesterday, knocked down one
of the coolies, causing internal in- jurias from which the man died after Boston Hospital.
National League.
9 Boston
1 Brooklyn
6- New York
American League! 8 8 Loals
son (Norway), 7—6, 0–2, 6–—–—2— admisalon, to the Government Civil Philadelphia 15 Cleveland Reuter.
2an Assistant Secretary (unpaid) to Honde of Government departate Thomas Edison with one of 10 the Minister in Charge of Recon ment, contular representativos, his brothers.
struction from 1917 to 1019, and the clergy, Army, Navy and AirHe has informed the police of In 1922-23 was Chairman of the Fortu
National Agricultural Counell
Britisk Wicke
Janais:untled
At the King's request, the resul of the operation was telephoned to him at Buckingham Palaco at the carllast moment.---British Wirdi less.
TARIFFS ENDORSED
TREASURY, ORDER PALKED BY BIG MAJORITY.
The House of Com voted to 70%to-day: Government resolation
the threat and it is understood the taria duties Imposed undest
that the authorities are already on Trenqury. Order on |
the gangster, mendations of the MAY C