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SĦA WITATE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932.
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REVOLVER BATTLE IN GRAVE BELFAST RIOTS
FRENCH SHIPPING STRIKE OVER
SEAMEN'S DEMANDS
SATISFIED,
Marseilles, Oct. 11,
The strike of seamen employed by the Messageries Maritime Company has ended, all the sea- men's demasida having been com- pletely satisfied.
The four M.M. liners involved.
the Explorateur,
Grandldier,
Champollion and La Maritime, will wil to-morrow-Reuter,
PRETTY
WELL HELL!
ANOTHER LETTER FROM
MRS. PAWLEY
FEELING THE STRAIN
(Special to "Telegraph".)
Newchwang, Oct, 12, Although the bandits who hold Mrs. Muriel Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran as prisoners have been making repeated threats and have not carried them out, the most recent letter from Mrs. Pawley has caused dis-! quiet.
Both Corkran and Mrs. Paw- ley are striving hard to keep their spirits up, but Mrs. Paw- ley is clearly suffering from the strain and anxiety of her deten- tion in the hands of a ruffianly crowd and implores speedy
ssistance.
Her intes! letter, dated October 8, attempts to be jocular about the threatened loss of her ears, but beneath the words there seems to lie a genuine fear.
At the outset, Mrs. Pawley says: "It is pretty well Bell here."
She complains of the laredom
Ugly Scenes in City: Curfew Order: Armoured Car Patrol
UNEMPLOYED OUT
OF CONTROL
DAY'S ORGY OF FIGHTING AND LOOTING
WOMEN AID RIOTERS
OVER
London, Oct. 12.
TWO THOUSAND POLICE OFFICERS ARE PATROLLING THE BY CITY
BELFAST, or
ASSISTED NUMEROUS ARMOURED CARS, A COR- DON HAS BEEN DRAWN ROUND THE OUTSKIRTS AND ENTRANCE HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN UNTIL DAYBREAK.
THESE EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENTS ARE A SEQUEL TO AN ORGY OF RIOTING AND LOOTING WHICH
SUCH REACHED THAT THE POLICE SERIOUS DIMENSIONS
DEFINITELY IN DANGER, AT ONE WERE
STAGE, OF BEING OVERPOWERED,
Members of the mobs were armed; the police were fired upon and replied to the fire. It was the free use of weapons as the result of this grave incident that finally enabled the police to gain control of the situation.
The
i
The magnificent Belfast City
near which serious Incidents occurred in yesterday's rioting.
TROOP TRAIN MINED
BLOWN UP NEAR HARBIN
CASUALTY LIST WITHHELD
Harbin, Oct. 12.
A huge land mine was blown up under a Japanese |troop-train Eray ng on the Hu-Hai Railway yesterday The peril is not, however, by any means over. whole city is in a ferment. The rioters, consisting chief-afternoon and there is reason ly of unemployed, with paid agitators probably in the to fear a heavy loss of life.. background, are in an ugly mood and the return of day- The bare facts of the disaster light is being awaited by the authorities with no little are admitted by the Japanese apprehension.
authorities, who are, however, One man was shot dead in the course of the rioting. withholding details concerning Three members of the police force are among those the casurities. sent to hospital as a result of the fighting in the streets. Enormous damage to property was done by the rioters in the course of their mad uprising against authority, A curfew order was imposed last night, commencing at 11 p.m. and terminating at five o'clock this morning. Anyone on the streets between those hours is liable to arrest.
and montony of her position when GUERILLA WARFARE: FIRES STARTED
the situation. is not rendered wirse by the efforts of the bandits to terrify her.
"GOODBYE EARS"
POLICE SNIPED.
The explosion occurred between
was loaded with
Suibwa and fulan and the train when the train blew up.
reinforcements
ROYALIST PLOT
BY GERMAN LEADERS
STORY REVIVED BY LEADING PAPER
QUICK DENIAL
VORWAERTS CLAIMS TO HAVE PROOF
Berlin, Oct. 11. What is described as an | “extraordinary story" of a Government plot to restore the Monarchy in Germany is related in the well-known journal, Vorwearts.
The writer declares that he (can prove that the ex-Crown
INSULL LIBERATED
RECEIVER'S SHARE-DEAL
REVELATIONS
QUICK PROFITS
New York, Oct. 11. Some exceedingly interest- ing revelations regarding the share-broking methods of Insull Utilities, Incorpora-
The ex-Crown Prince at his hometed, now bankrupt are made nour Potsdam. He is with by the Receiver, who is Ft Marshal von Mackensen and
the ex-Crown Princost. handling the affairs of the
FAIRBANKS
IN SHANGHAI
HUNTING FOR A GOLF POT
CHAMPIONSHIP
Prince told friends that he, Pre ENTERING CHINA sident Hindenburg, the Chancel- lor (Captain Franz von Papen) and the chief of the Reichswehr (General von Schleicher) were junited in the policy to be
dopted.
ndenburg, it is stated, is to resign at a suitable. ino- ment. He will nominate the (Continued on Page 7.)
FAIREY PLANE FACTORY ON FIRE
WORLD SPEED PLANES DESTROYED
London, Oct. 12. Several of the world's fastest service seaplanes, to the value of C.E.R. CHAOS.
over £100,000 have been destroyed by fire at the Fairey Company's The Chinese Eastern Railway factory near Southampton. authorities learn, meanwhile, thub The factory was practically gut- a force of bandits raided and lootted. Only one of ten machines in ed Hengtaohotze once again. the hangars was saved.-Reuter. Twelve employers of the railway were kidnapped.
Telegraphic communication be THE NORTH-EAST
PASSAGE
bos
tween Harbin and Tsitsihar
the been restored, but
train service to the wost of Tlentsuokan the con- centration of large forces is impossible owing to
of Volunteers in the vicinity of Andachan.--Router.
Although the unemployment; strators collected in a dozen points iots were the most serious demon-at once and converged on the "The next time the messengersstration in recent British history centre of the city. come," she adds, "they must bring probably, the serious casualties at least $30,000 and two hundred were not very honyy. Fifteen of
In Ball's Road, the police found to rioters had to be sent ounces of opium or else, Good-bye the
hospital. One was killed. Numer-men armed with revolvers onlping Ears!"
She goes on: "The banditous others, Including innocent at them. They replied to the fire chief to fed up. I must urge you victims of the rioters, received and one man was killed. Several searchlights as most of the street
other rioters were shot during the lamps have been smashed. less serious injuries. to get us out quick. Please.
The trouble had been develop-evening when shops were looted, Corkran keeps up his air of
One or their windows shattered. rood spirits, undoubtedly to pre-ing for some little time.
Tram-cars and 'amnibuses vent Mrs. Pawley from breaking two unpleasant incidents recently
were attacked
their and down. He just adds a laconic caused the Chief of Police to issue an order placing à ban on all un-
drivers and conductors infur- footnote to her letter:
ed. employed processions. To-day, at- tempts were made at demonstra-
Repeated charges by the police Squilly, Mrs, Pawley's dog, who tions and numerous clashes bc. haa becomes almost famous by his tween the police and unemployed had only a temporary effect. The loyalty, is still in the camp with occurred, culminating in the firing mob was dispersed but Immediate-
"Bung-lo,
Charles."
the captives, declining all the of shoty at the police, who repliedly collected again. Women throw efforts of the bandits to drive him scattering the mob.
away.
REGULAR ORGY.`
In their lot with the rioters in arge numbers and joined in the terrific onslaught of stones and
MILITARY ATTACHE ARRIVES. Soon afterwards, the first in-other missiles."
POLICE PULL THROUGH.
The police appeared to be on
but with the assistance of armour-
In addition to Mr. C. H. Clarke,cident developed Into a regular D.S.O., M.C., the British Vice-orgy of looting and rioting which Consul
at Mukden, Captain insted all day long, winding up the point of being overpowered, Stables, the Assistant Military with incendiarist attempts, Attache in Peking is now at Pan- shan for the purpose of co-operat. ing with the Japanese authorities who are attempting to negotiate the reloane of the captives Reuter.
FLAGSHIP
ACHIEVEMENT BY SOVIET SHIP
Moscow, Oct. 11. The "North-East Pasange" from
been made in one summer for the frat time in history. the White Sea to the Pacific has
An epidemie of incendiarism The feat was accomplished by started at 10.30 p.m. All five the Soviet ico-breaker Sibiriakov, appliances were ordered out to which, after losing her propellor, finished the voyage to the Behring deal with outbreaks from four or Strafts under sall, cscorted by a
tug-Reuter, five centros-Router.
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(Our Own Correspondent).
concern.
He has published the name of seven syndicates, comprising one thousand, three hundred in- dividuals and companies, all of whom were given preferred op- portunities of underwriting var- ious issues of Middle West utilit- ius stocks, amounting to over G$200,000,000.
Meanwhile, a message from Athens states that Mr. Samuel Insull, the former president of Insull Utilities Corpora- tion, who was arrested at the instance of the American authorities, hins hicen Hberat- ed by the Greek police.
The Greek nuthorities decided that there was no legal warrant for deinbing him as the instru
ments of ratification of the Graeco-American extradition trea- have not yet been exchanged.
Shanghai, Oct. 12. Douglas Fairbanks, the famous film star, arrived in Shanghai last night aboard
RENEWED PRESSURE. the Empress of Japan. He! remained aboard the ship washington announces that it is The State Department In on the Pootung side rather renewing its effort to Becure than take the late tender. Samuel
Ashore this morning, he has: The names published by tho taken up residence at the Cathay Receiver for Insuli Utilities have Hotel.
exelted witiospread comment.
Greece.
Insull's return from
Apparently he has come to the
MAYOR AND FINANCIER. Far East to play golf. He is go- ing out to win the China Golf The list of subscribers includes Championship which commences Mr. Cermak, the present Mayor of this week-end, and has already Chicago, who exercised the special
to arrangements
the made
start privileges granted him to practising to-day.
tune of G$100,000, and Mr. Owen Ho entered the Japanese D. Young, former Chairman of Championship but was eliminated. the Federal Reserve Board, author He also had hard luck in the of the Young Reparations Plan, California Championship. He is and a world-famous financier, who hoping for better luck in Shang- took G$500,000 shares under the
systern.
hai.
Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks (Mary Employees of Inauli Company, Pickford) is coming out to Shang-Limited, of London, subscribed bai from Los Angeles shortly. She for G$1,000,000 of stuck, and Bri- tish Hydro-Electric Securities is expected early next month.
Limited, G$5,000,000.
"SILENT CAL" ON
TARIFFS
RECIPROCITY NOT PRACTICABLE
New York, Oct. 12.
In a Republican rally at Madison' Square, Mr. Calvin Coolidge, the former President, declared his sup- port of President Hoover.
He rebutted the argument that a reduction of would increase
$1,000 FOR BREACH OF PROMISE America's foreign trade. He p
.A
DEFENDANT YOUTH DESCRIBED
AS A COWARD
loon.
claim for $1,000 $1,000 after the hearing of part of the case by the Chief Justice (Sir Dissatisfaction with the rates ed cars, the rioters were gradual damages against a former Joseph Kemp) in Chambers, nald to men employed on specially forced off the main streets into rellef schemes by the City side-streets and alleys. nuthorities Is the real origin of the trouble. Demonstrations began early in the morning. The authorities re- and the mobilising of hundreds of
volvers.
serted that the United States tariff trade regulations were much more favourable to the rest of the world than were those of other countries to America.
"Reciprocity on a wide scale is not practicable," he declared.~~ Router.
Queen's College student for Kam-hon, of 68, Na Thu-wai, Kow-BORAH COMES OUT
FOR INFLATION A sort of guerilla warfare, breach of promise was up-. The original claim, for $5,000, reduced to subscquently ensued, the men and women
ELECTION SPEECH Plaintiff was Miss Lily Law, continuing to show fight at all. held by the Puisne Judge was points and shouting "We (Mr. Justice Wood) at the alias Lo Walking, of 57, Hai
AT IDAHO Must Have Broad."
Supreme Court this morn- Heung Street, Kowloon, who was
Barley, Idaho, Oct. 12. H.M.S. HAWKINS AS pled with the issue of warning
After nightfall, the rioters
Messrs Lo and Lo, and defendant
Opening his election campaign, police, armed with batons and re-started a widespread looting cam ing. Giving judgment, his represented by Mr. M. K. Lo, of
paign and considerable lauses Lordship referred to the was Ling Chung-om, alnis Ling Senator Borah made a speech here of 85, Na Thu-wal, advocating the expansion of United were suffered by shopkeepers. defendant as a coward and Kun-hon,
States currency sufficiently "to do stated that he did not The original alaim, for $5,000. business and afford the people a'
te medium of exchange." believe a word he had said. $1,000 after the hearing of part of While not particularly mentioning Plaintiff was Miss Lily Law, the case by the Chief Justico (Sir war debts, Senator Borah said that an effective challenge,
alias La Wai-king, of 67, Hal Josoph Kemp) in Chambers. tho debts of the world had piled up Mr. Lo, outlining the case, until men were no longer working Rapidly spreading throughout Finally, the police regained the Houng Street, Kowloon, who was
band.. Armoured cars, represented by Mr. M. K. Lo, of stated that plaintiff is now about with a view to build and construct the poorer class districts, the upper No-troublo 8GON Ansumed A very early this morning, wore cruising Messrs. Lo and Lo, and defendant 23 years of age. In 1928 when she and develop, but to pay for a dead
threatening aspect. The demon about the streets using their was Ling Chung-om; alias Ling||
FOR THE EAST INDIES STATION
THREATENING ASPECT. The demonstrators, finding their intentions thwarted, responded by London, Oct. 11, stoning the police who were busy IL.M.S. Hawkins left Portsmouth all day long dispersing prohibited to-day for service as flagship of gatherings.
the East Indies Squadron, in place
of H.M.S. Effingham,
Sho is due at Bombay on
vember 10th-British Wireless:
Nearly every shop. In the Hankill Road aren was ran. sacked from top to bottom before the police could offer
Kowloon.
WON
subsequenly
reduced
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horse-Reuter.
QUICK SALES.
Most of these syndicates, the Receiver states, liquidated their holdings within two months of the date of the subscriptions, with a handsome proft to the subscriber. |--Reuter,
STOP PRESS
London, Oct. 12.
It is now revealed that three men were killed and twenty-five wounded in the Belfast rioting.
The police court was specially summoned to sit at midnight to deal with forty men who had been taken into custody. The prisoners · were remanded.-Rouler.
Tekyo, Oct. 12.' The Foreign Office cate.. gorically denies the report London appearing in the newspapers that Japan has approached France with a suggestion for entering into an alliance-Reuter.