THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1938.
Chinese Report Four Foreigners Slain
VAGUE TALE
OF
DREADFUL DEED SENT TO HANKOW
Latest Version Reports. French, U.S. Men Shot, Women Beaten to Death
AMERICAN MARINE OFFICER INVESTIGATING AFFAIR
(Special to "Telegraph")
Hankow, Feb. 1. According to a letter from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to the Foreign Office, received to-day, Chinese military authorities have obtained information that three American missionary teachers, one man and two women, were killed by Japanese sentries at Shoyang, in Shansi, late in December.
Boy Dies Of Injuries
Knocked Down By
Automóbila
Driver of car No. 939, Chan Hee, has reported to the police that while driving along Talpo Main Road, he knocked down a Chinese boy, named Pun Hong-chiu, causing him head injuries. Pun was trentex at the Talpo Dispensary, and later taken to the Kowloon Hospital, where he succumbed to his Injuries.
War Office Reorganises Machinery
Chief Of Imporial Staff Free From Bother Of Detail
London, Jan, 31. The War Office announces that conferences have begun between the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Commanders of First Class Com- manda,
Mr. 11. Murray, of Empress Lodge, has reported to the police that while driving ha car No. 1566 along Sal- The conferences are being held to the BHnouncement Hung Road he knocked down Wong give effect to Fat-ul, a boy of eight, who was taken made by the Secretary of State for to the Kowloon Hospital for treat-War in the louse of Commons in connection with the recent Army mynt.
Council changes, when he stated that
with the control
Easy to
Police Board Acquire
Rajputana, Hard to Hunting Thief
A message from London states that detectives boarded the P. & O. liner;
sine Rajputana at Plymouth when arrived from Hongkong and the Fur Enst recently.
An inquiry was subsequently held In London regarding frequent thefts of jewels and money from passengers on the liner's outwards and home- ward voyages.
DISPOSITION
OF H. M. SHIPS
Following is the disposition of Wong Ping-keng, driver of public in future, Commanders of War 1.M. Ships in North China: Shang- car No. 245 has reported to the police Formations would be more closely hal, Grimsby; Tsingtao, Delight; that while driving along Hennessy associated
Chefoo, Sandwich; Weihaiwel, Suf- folk, Lowestoff; Road, by Johnston tout, he knocked military policy.
Amay, Duchess; down Wong Kum, 25, who suddenly
Swatow, Daring- crossed the road. Wong was brought to the Queen Mary Hospital un-
conscious,
for
and
The first conference took place at the War Office to-day. Mr. Hore! Belisha, the Secretary of State War, attended the conference, addressed the Commanders.
The conference, which sat through out the
examined arrangements| ensuring the rapid conduct of
LABOUR REFORM business between the War Office and
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the Commands, and also considered schemes for the reorganisation of the Army,
UN
Further conferences will be held at regular intervals and will be known Commanders' Council,
It was also stated to-day thal, în London, Feb. 1, order to promote the rapid conduct The Commission appointed to en-of business in the War Oflee and to Shoyang is on the Chengtai Railway, 35 miles east ofquire into the disturbances in Trin-unity quickly separate actions of the 肆 standing dad and Tobaga in June last year, in various Departments, Taiyuan.
The bodies, so goes the Chinese version of the story, were thrown into a cesspool and were only discovered much later.
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a report published to-day, draws the committee of the Army Council has this conclusion that the immediate enuse been set up. The purpose of of the outbreak was the activities of Committee is to discuss general ad- a man they deserie as a fanatical ministrative questions and to report negro named Urlah Butler, and of an progress of important matters which
which action is proceeding. ing was mainly composed. Subsequently the Chinese appare master, a Frenchman, and his Japan-unruly element of which his follow have come under discussion or upon ently pleerd Together what evidence ese wife,
Japanese The attention of the
The true origin of the disturbances, they could discover, and according to
however, must be traced, more ar les 10 a general sense of dissatis- faction which reached its culmination when the cost of living having risen. the earnings of working people were not adjusted with sufficient prompti-
the letter from General Chou En-lal, soldiers in the vicinity was aroused reporting the tragedy, this is the tale i and hey shot and killed the French-
the end of these of
missionary man and American and beat the two
women to leath, teachers:
Their names unknown,, the three went in company to pay a visit to the French Mission In their town of Shoyang. they walked through
the streets they were challenged by a Japanese sentry, shortly after leaving the French mission and when on their way home. The man was unable to give the password and the
The him. sentry fired on apparently stood stili.
The American Embassy's only knowledge of this episode comes from the Eighth Route Army's telegram:--- United Press.
TAXING OPIUM FOR DEFENCE ·
tude.
The Commission speaks also of the besidant polley on the part of the
the Government in dealing with hooligan element.
as
Ships In harbour on February
1, 1938 were:
North Wall: Falmouth.
South Wall:
Bast Wall:
Cicala.
Herold, Crampais,
Folkestone. Moth,
North Armu Cumberland, West Wall: Adventure, Thracian. Dock: Parthian, Phoenix, Rorqual. No. 8 Buoy: Capetown. Foreign Men of War.- American Tulsa.
Chinese C.M.C. Cruisers Transports (2), Gunbout 1.
PARIS "INSULT"
(10),
TO GERMANY DRAWS PROTEST
New Warship Leaves
Paris, Feb. 1. The German Ambassador to Parls. Meetings of this body, which is in Count von Welzeek, has protested to feequent session, are in addition to the French Government against the full anti-Nazi exhibition now being held the periodical, meetings of the Army Council. The nucleus of this in Paris.
The exhibition has been strongly committee consists of the Permanent
Chief criticised in the Germon press and Under-Secretary, the Deputy
the has been denounced as an insult to of the Imperial General Statt, Adjutant General to the Forees, and the German people.-Reuter,
the the Quartermaster-General to Furces. Other Army councillors, streetors or officials will be co-opted as necessary.
The standing Committee will responsible for the conduct of und The Commission recommend the advice to the Secretary of State for of day-to-day establishment of a Labour Depart-War on all matters ment and an Industrial Court, the Army administration, thus relieving Coming closer the sentry pervolved
latter with a president appointed from the Chief of the Imperial General Canton, Feb. 2.
detailed work, in outside the Colony, and two assessors Staff from all he had killed a foreigner.
Chinese
state reports He then shot the two women,
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has representative of employers and em-order that he may be free to advise the Secretary of State for War on presumably to get rid of eye- witnesses. That is the Chinese story. granted permission to the Kwang-ployees.
Provincial Government
British Wireless. It is now learned that Captain Evan S. Carlson, of the United States institute a surtax on opium in order in Labour Department should be broad questions of high policy. Marine Corps, at present in Shansi, to provide funds for aerial defence. Labour, who must be a person with
This is believed to be an indtentionwide practical experience in dealing i life-that-Chiang Kai-shek has modified with Industrial and labour questions.
The Commission favours growth his anti-opium campaign for the sake
considering organised trade unions, of the huge revenues the traffle in the drug would afford the Central and United Provincial governments. Preas,
women
is on his way to Shoyant to invest!-
tale. At present this gate Chinese authorities here are endea- youring to discover the names of the slain missionaries..
Message From Carlson
Later, another message cante through from the Eighth Route Army wireless in. Chinese. It was shown to the United Press representative here and purported to come from Captain Carlson. It was dated January 30.
It slated
Captain
Carlson had
lung
KAFFIRS DRAW GOOD SUPPORT
that
London, Feb. 1. Kaffies claimed the bulk of alten- interviewed the Magistrale at Yuh- tion on the Stock Exchange to-day sien, north of Shihchiahuang, on the with Paris and Johannesberg local Taiyuan Railway, who stated that on support. December 10 at 8 p.m. su American Home rolls were again well sup- man and two women at Yangchuan.ported and Urazilian bonds continued: not Shoyang, 65 miles from Talyuan, in demand. In the gift-edged, set- had attempted to mediate in a quarrel tion outstanding deals were made in between thio Yangchuan station- late trading owing to re-invesstment
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Otherwise the market was mainly dul) due to the absence of trade demand for commodities, which im- martel weakness to Mijar.--Renter Spreial.
Little Bruce
Lamont Improving
It was learned this morning that although he has Improved slightly
the condition of since yesterday, Bruce, the 31-year-old son of Mr. J. M. Lamont, who is at the Quven Mary Hospital as a result of an ac- cident on Monday, is still serlous.
The little boy fell through the balcony railing of the club, and fell 30 feet.
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