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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1932.
|RELIGIOUS RIOT ON "FORGET ABOUT MOTOR BANDITS HOLD
ISLAND
SELF-APPOINTED
NATIVE DEITIES
An extraordinary outburst of religious hysteria on Onotoa Island, which is near the Equator in mid- Pacific, is described in the annual Colonial report on the Gilbert and Ellico Islands Colony.
DEBTS"
MR. ALFRED SMITH'S HINT
PURCHASES AS PAYMENT
UP POLICEMAN
RUSE THAT FAILED
Plymouth, April 18.
A Devon police constable's use; to arrost three suspects In a motor- car and a daring reply by the men occurred this morning in Bovisand- lane, near Staddon Heights, which overlook Plymouth Sound.
As there were no identifiention
· Washington, April 13.
pintes on the car the constable's Ex-Governor Alfred Smith In Auspicions were aroused and he speach to-night at a Jefferson Day asked the men where they wero Dinner, at which the National going. When they said Plymouth, leaders were the ho said that he would go with Democratic principal guests, indicated the key-them. They agreed and he got in notes for the Democratic platform. beside the driver. He introduced a new point of view concerning the settlement of the War Debt problem, the uncertain- ties of which he said had stultified foreign trade.
Next minute he found himself looking down the barrel of a re- volver and was ordered to get out. tie did so and the car sped away.
Later it was found abandoned and was identified as having been stolen from Chudleigh on Tuesday night. -
retained tho
The trouble began with a dispute about some copra, which the na tives of two villages desired to give 99 to the London Missionary Society. The native. Magistrate, a Roman Catholic, warned the people that their Government copra tax must be paid. This warning was con- structed by the Protestants as a deliberate attack on their religion. The villagers, It is stated, wore incited by their native pastora to
"Let un," he said, "tall the persist in making a gift of copra, and to welcome "for the glory of European nations who owe us God" any
form of "martyrdom" money to forget all about it for
The constable which might be visited upon them twenty years, and that we will in consequence. The gift was write off as paid each year 25 per licence, which bore the made, and there seemed to have cent. of the gross value of the "Godfrey Tearle" and an address been a heavy disappointment be American products they buy from in Oxford-terrace, London. couse there was no immediate un. This in effect is telling a No. Buch person is known at the "martyrdom."
debtor antion that if it buys 100,-uddress, gives, and it appears to USU of the An extarordinary sorica of 000,000 dollars worth of our cotton be an unwarranted spiritualistic seances for the inter- pretation of dreams and visions was instituted, and Barane, n senior pastor, was the interpreter.
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Villages Left Empty. "In the course of a few weeks n
"ROGUES' GALLERY" huge encampment grew up around
Explaining that the figures he
OF THE WORLD the chapel in which the scances had given were arbitrary, and were wore held. The villages were left merely used to express the prin-
BRITISH CO-OPERATION emply save for the few Catholics alple, Mr. Smith went on to urge who refused to attend the meetings; his colleagues to adopt a concise
Washington, Apr. 13. over twelve hundred people were programme at the Chicago Con-1 The British police authorities gathered together day and night to vention and 10 desist from have informed the United States hear Barane expound their dreams, demagogic denunciation of the Administration of their willingnes
"Gradually the interpretation of alleged shortcomings of the Re- to co-operate in the compliation of the visions assumed an apocalytic publicans. The national interest an international "rogues' gallery" character. It was prophesied that was whetted for a constructive This action has been taken in the end of the world was coming; programme designed to alleviate
depression.
that the Government and the Catholic Church would be utterly destroyed that God would visit Onotou in person.
The debtor nations did not pos- soss the money wherewith to pay and meanwhile foreign trade de "Burnne was proclaimed to be the lined Afty per cent. in a year, Prophet of God. Later, his title while huge surpluses of manufac- was changed to "Father of God," and tured goods and agricultural pro- his son (a worthless character) ducts accumulated. sumed the appellation of 'God Almighty.
response to a request from the United Staten Bureau of Investi- gation that the police of other countries should arrange for an ex- change of finger prints of all alica criminals.
Police authorities in France, Bel- gium, Italy and Havana have also expressed willingness to co-operate.
"We have strangled trade by holding debts over their heads," he *Two lonse women came forward declared, "and then raising a tariff and women with him on the station: with the claim that they were res-wall which shots out their pro- these he ordered to conceal them- pectively 'Christ the Sufferer' and ducta, and our whent is rotting on/selves in a house, while he went to 'Christ the Forgiver; they were accepted as such. A body of we the farms while other nations face the fanatics. Having men called the "Sheep' or 'Shakers' starve."-Exchange. was organised, whose function it
was to attend the Prophet and shudder strongly whenever he the Forgiver' aunounced that the spoke.
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pared a sleeping mut, in native fashion, to receive his dead body, he stood near the confines of the station, alone, awaiting the mob."
almost immediately fault lay at the door of the Catho-struck down by one of the "Swords lies, whose continued presence on of Gabriel," and his fall started the n riot in which every member of the island was an offence to
the Government party was more or Almighty.
"It was then determined that a less seriously wounded.
In the hunt for Catholics which force of about 80 'Swords' and
"The alleged vision of a flaming sword on the wall of the Prophet's chapel brought into being a band of youths who called themselves tire Soldiers and Swords of Gabriel, 'Sheep, led by Barane, should pro-fallowed two people were murder- and marched about in scarlet loin-ceed to the Government stationed, but "Providentially the District cloths intimidating all those who with the object of 'bringing down Officer and a European missionary were unwilling to join the move God's wrath upon the Magistrate." arrived at the island and further
Magistrate's Courage, bloodshed was avoided."
The report closes with the words: "The climax of emotion was "The force went unarmed but! reached when God did not visit yelling threats and contorting their "Pence has now been restored to Onoloa on the day predicted. The bodies in an insane kind of dance, the island, and all the guilty per- woman who called herself 'Christ The Magistrate had fourteen men sons have been duly punished."
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