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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925.

DRAMATIC EVIDENCE.

BACK TO

WHERE ARE YOU TAKING OUR LADY? STEP THAT MUST BE TAKEN.

INDIAN CAUSE CELEBRE.

Sensational Murder and Kidnapping Charges.

Startling evidence implicating an Indian Maharajah was given In the sensational murder and kidnapping trial which opened, in Bombay yesterday.

EUROPEANS ATTACKED

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made while she was being driven to hospital by British officers after the crime.

BEAUTIFUL EYES.

VITAL TO TRADE.

SOVEREIGNS STILL TO REMAIN,

SCARCE

(Reuter's Service.)

THE CHINA MAIL

BLOOD FEUDS-

CHINESE CLAN MURDERS

SECRET CRIMES.

at. Last.

Treaty of Peace Signed

One of the most mysterious ware in modern history has come to an end in the United States with the settling of a deadly Chinese tong feud there.

POLICE ON ALERT.

(Reuter's American Service.)

London, March 27. In the House of Commons, replying to questions," Mr. Winston Churchill. Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that he was. The girl is now constantly anxious to announce a decision on, guarded by a police inspector, the question of the gold standard

New York. Märch 26. She is a light-skinned Mahem at the earliest possible moment, medan with agreeable features but it was impossible, to deal with the presence of the Chinese A treaty of peace was signed in and large, soft, and beautiful the matter before the recess.

Consul between the two rival eye

Asked whether the uncertainty Chinese secret societies which for When seen she appeared in as to the Government's intentions months past have been engaged state of acute terror and replied was

a deterrent to trade, Mr.in bitter warfare causing a num-

ROPE OF THE FLAGPOLE. |E|An attempt: "was then made upon the life of Tom Leo, at whose feet, malesing him only by a few inches, fell the sawn-off flagpole amiably with an American police- of a joss-house as he was talking.

man. The rope attached to the tagpole was found the same week tightly bound around the throats of two Hip Sings,

(Reuter's Servico.)

Bombay, March 26, There were vast crowds outside the court of the chief magistrate of the Bombay Presidency for the opening of the trial of the nine men nerused with conspiring to zidaan Mumtaz Begum, attempt- ing to kidnap heron January 12, murdering a merchant named to questions with a shake of the Churchill said that he had re-ber of mysterious deaths and Bawl, altempting to murder head or the words, "Don't know."ceived same communications from open murders of Chinese inously on until an edict arrived The girl's father, who, it is various trade organisations points various parts of the country, Lieut. Snegert and Mr. Matthews,. and grievously injuring Mumtaz alleged repeatedly tried to per- ing out the evils of prolonged un- Twenty policemen aupervised the

suade and compel the girl to certainty. The nine rectised are all from Indore: gave himself up to the Indore, including Shafi Ahmed, police and now stands with the described ns. risnidur: in the assailant already captured charg Indore Mounted Police, Shamero-ed with murder and abetment. dighe, caplain in the The girl was formerly attached Indore Air Force, Karamat Khan, to the palace of the Maharajah of a sergeant in the Indore Imperial Indore Some time ago, she Lancers, and Anandrao Phaunse, escaped from Indore and made adjutant gendrul in the Indoze her way to Amritsar, 'where, it is Slate Forces. The tenth accused alleged, numerous attempts were Birned Kingd's evidence.

made to make her return to Indore.

Begim.

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Finally she went to Bombay, where she was concerned in extra- dition proceedings instituted from AIndore against a resident of Indore who was implicated in some dishonest dealings..

Mumtaz Regum gave evidence that she was twenty-two, She was mistress of the Maharajah of Indore for nine or ten years. She went to England with, him. daughter was born but died, im- mediately after "which she 'com- plained that he was kept in enstody and sent petition to the police.

BY OTHER MEANS." -

Later Mümtaz Begum gave evidence that she left lore and went to Armitsar where men from Indore visited her.

While at Bombay she, applied for police protection, which was granted. Later she accepted the protection of the murdered man.

"IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS.".

• Mahomed All Yusuf, step ther of Mumtaz Begum, the girl in the motor, has been taken into custody. He told the magis- trate that his wife had important documents relating to the and

that she was now in

Amritsar.

case

One brought a letter from the Maharajah to the effect that if she did not return willingly she would be taken by other means,"

She then went to Nagpur. .Shafiah Mad Khan, the assail- where two men from Indore visitant who was captured by Lieuten- ed her. Later she went to Bom-ant Searight, also appeared be- bay and was forced to the city fore the magistrate charged with from the suburbs as the same two murder. men followed her.

IN HIS HANDS.

Mr. Winston Churchill as he appears in his intost photograph.

proceedings in the conference room which resulted in finally terminating hostilities, while a hundred outside patrolled the' dingy streets of New York's Chinatown.

And so the war went mysteri from Peking, and a peace con- ference presided over by the Chinese Minister at Washington. resulted in a treaty. Under this treaty the "faces" of both Tongs were preserved by a unique device.

The On Leongs remitted £100, the price of Bow Kum, to the Hip The feud was waged, with an Sings; and the Hip Sings re- utter disregard of the police, bymitted to the On Leongs a like members of two Tongs, or clan-amount, the price of the wife of nish secret societics the On an On Leong whom one of their Leongs and the Hip Sings-in the members had iniquitously stolen. dingy but picturesue quarters Each side sent to the joss-house known as Chinatown in the prin- of the other a roast pig. Thus cipal towns of the continent. For the war ended, only to be renewed more than three months the com-

last October, when the On Leongs batants had been engaged with despatched an ultimatum to the pistols, hatchets, knives, and Hip Sings demanding the instant poison in the business of recipro- expulsion from their ranks of cal extermination.

Chin Jack-lem. former president of the On Leongs, and thirteen of his Associates."

They had succeeded in that time in despatching to their ancestors some three score of their countrymen and in wound ing double that number. The Chinese in America cherish their own immemorial customs. They frankly despise American ideais; and, thanks to their genius. for prevarication, and the impenetra bility of their language, they have managed so far to deride the authorities in their efforts to 'catch them within the meshes of

the law.

HELEN OF THE UNDERWORLD.

A dispute over a trife of £15,000, funds belonging to the On Leongs, had led Chin Jack to transfer his allegiance. The Hip Sings furiously rejected the ultimatum. But they were un- prepared for the war which open- ed at once with the murder of Hip Sing members in Schenec tady, Pittsburg, and other towns.

They were in fact completely outwitted; for the On Leongs denounced a score or more of them to the New York police. Their houses were searched for

Mumtaz Begum is a young

The Government Was en-Only occasionally is it vouch-concealed arms and, as soon as She then went to Bawla and he woman of the peasant type and Ceavouring to discharge a difficult safed to the white man to lift a the police had confiscated the duty with sole regard to the gen-portion of the dark veil enshroud-weapons the On Leonga murder- lodged her at his bungalow. speaks only Urdu. He refused to allow her to go the girl was progressing, said: the utmost vigilance in studying of these immigrants from the Far incidents of many of these mur- Mr. Matthews, when told how eral interest and was exercising ing the passions and animosities driving alone.

ed their inhabitants: The On January 11 Bawla told her "Thank God. They will stop at the situation.

East. More than ten years ago ders are tinged with the weirdest Mr. Churchill added that it

a Tony war similar to the one now mystery; for they were com- leave the Government free to dead body of Bow Kum, the

that he was informed tant a man nothing." When asked what he would be in the public interest to in progress was waged over the mitted under the very eyes of the..

had come to take her and to mur- der him next.

The day she and Bawla were driving when the outrage was perpetrated, seven or eight men attacked them cursing. One cri- ed "Where are you taking our lady!"

RESCUED IN TİME

Later.

mennt by "they," he was silent.

CRIME IN BENGAL.

(Reuter's Service.j

Delhi, March 26, The Council of State had passed without division the Bengal crime bill as recommended by Lord Reading:

SUICIDES IN LOCKED ROOMS, murders are the suicides of men Still more peculiar than the

lock themselves in their rooms marked for assassination, who

than afford their enemies the- and end their own lives rather triumph of killing them.

take the initiative, and `Parlia- Chinese Helen of Troy of New police, who are never able to find ment, the public and the press York's underworld.

their perpetrators but only the could criticise subsequently.

She had bodies of the victims. married in San Francisco under "WHEN?" NOT "SHALL?"

the protection of the Christian In what he called a speculative Mission and against the protests question. Sir L. Worthington a handsome Chinese youth named examination of the gold exchange of her "guardian," Low Hee-dong, Evans, Secretary of State for Chen Lem. War, speaking at a luncheon at. The tenth neeused who turned

The couple went to New York King's evidence

the Constitutional Club said that and placed themselves under the Bawla's WOR

The Assembly by a vote of 79 to the question was "When shall we protection of the On Leong chauffeur.

Mumtaz Begum, continuing her law amendment to the supple- rather than "Shall we do 30?"

42 rejected the Bengal criminal return to the gold standard?" patriarch, Tom Lee;

Both Tongs, partake of the. evidence, said that the men then mentary

hearded old Chinese who owned societies. They secure what they a goat- nature of building and thrift Bitt inspite of the begin firing. She was dragged Viceroy's recommendation to pass phasised that we could not return Chinatown. But

Sir L. Worthington Evans em most of the gambling dena in regard as Chinese concessions in out and stabbed in the forehead it in its original form, including till (1) there was enough gold quickly followed by Low Hee-up new territory for fantan

they were American cities. and carried to her assailants' car, the

After opening. three clauses winch the for the world's needs and (2) deng, a powerful member of the gambling-houses, restaurants, as shouting and struggling. managed to get out and her Viceroy then certified the Bill as mand the use of a share of the was cut. The next day two lishments they resent, as Euro- She Assembly previously deleted. The Britain was in n position to com- Hip Sings, Bow Kum's throat well as laundries and other estab rescuers arrived.

Bengal Presidency and the measure Britain's requirements. essential to the tanquillity of the total which was sufficient for members of the Hip Sing was presented to the Conneil of

fraternity bit the dust.

pean concessionaires do in China, the intrusion of a rival. State with the Viceroy's recom- Worthington Evans said that the

Replying to a question, Sir L mendation to pass it as originally return to the gold standard did frame. }

not mean that gold was likely to our pockets again come into quickly.

She identified Shaft Ahmed. Mahomed Ali Yusuf, Mumtaz's stepfather stated that when he visited Indore Mumtaz was living at the palace as the Maharajahs third wife. They quarrelled and she took advantage of the Maharajah's statement that she could leave him..

The Malabar Hill outrage in which Abdul Kadir Baula, a rieh Mahommedan merchant and a member of the Bombay Corpora- tion, was murdered in his motor- and Mumtaz Mustapha Begum, a girl with him, was dis- figured with knives, was quickly

car.

followed by developments.

CABLE RREAKS.

We were unable to get stability in European currencies until we CROWDED COAL MINE CAGE got the European nations upon

DISASTER

FAL OF 150 FEET.

(Reuters Service.)

STRASBOURG, March 26.

the

A Cage was ascending Reumaux pit in the Site and

The Bombay police headquar-Moselle mines with eighty coal tera issued a statement pointing miners when the cable broke, out that in their opinion the crime probably due to overweight.

an agreed basis, and the Genon conference had advised that this must be a gold basis.

ROYAL CRUISE.

(Reuter's Service,)

LONDON, March 26,"

was the result of an attempt to The cage crashed 150 feet to the Escorted by the destroyers deduct the girl and that the mur bottom of the shaft Thirty of the "Vendetta" and "Vampire" the der and injuries were due to the men were injured. They were Royal Yacht is cruising the west resistance of Bauln and his com-rescued but it is feared the remain-coast of Italy Tanion. Mr. Matthews, an Indian der were killed. Christian.

This does not, square with the account of Mr. Matthews, which

shows that Baula was attacked'

JAPAN'S POLITICS.

and shot immediately, and that PROGRESS OF SUFFRAGE

BILL

(Reuter's Servios.)

Mr. Matthews was shot in at tempting to save Baula, This, together with the fact that the girl's forehead was severely and apparently intentionally gashed by the assailants appears to The House of Peers passed the

to tuke

prove the intention Baula's life and disfigure the girl

Baula, who had been protecting the gil for the last four months; had been repeatedly warned from hostile and friendly sources that.

TOKYO, March 26,

suffrage bill witan amendment. which is being referred to a joint conference. G

EARL OF YPRES;

his life was in danger, but he con- CONDITION STILL CAUSING

tinued to keep the girl and dis

regarded the warnings

an

It is said that Baula while lying made a will leaving the girl £3,750,

The peraistener of the sinister forces hohind the crime is demo strated by the facts

attempt to abo

Their Majesties are enjoying the sunny skies, They landed at Leghorn and visited. Pisa They disembarked at Castelamare and visited Pompei,

CHINA'S WOES..

CONFUSION IN WEST HONAN.

(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)

Peking, March 26. Indescribable confusion reigns in West Honan, where the forces of Kan Yu-kun and Liu Chen-hua are strongly opposing. Hu Ching- |yu and Sun Yueh. :-

They practise, too, a curious: form of Chinese benevolence, for they provide employment for all their members, and if in the sacred cause of war a neutral. should be shot, the offending Tong immediately and voluntarily pays an adequate indemnity to the family or business associates of the murdered one.

That has been their invariable practice in former wars. But the Tong-war of 1924-25 has assumed a character of "frightfulness" all its own. It has developed into a war against neutrals and peace. makers.

"

THE BULLETIN BOARD. One of the queerest sights just The situation is most obscure, now in the Chinese quarter of but, apparently, Kan Yu-kun and New York is the "bulletin board," Liu Chen-hua hold all the south before which are gathered crowds bank of the La river to Kung- of gesticulating, anxious Chinese. hsien and certain sections of the This board is plastered with Lunghai Railway

strips of white, pink, and red- Apparently, Hu Ching-yi and paper on which are inscribed in Sun Yuch control sections of Chinese characters proclamations Chengchow to Kunghsien, of neutrality, Hehshinkwan to Ichinpu, and The proclamations protest Menchih to Kanyintang, while fervently that this man or that, Kan Yu-kun and Liu Chen-hua, despite current reports to the hold Kunghsien to Hehshihkwan contrary, has not joined either and Ichinpur to Mienchih, includ- Tong: but desires to be known as ing Loyang and from Kuanyin the friend of both. Beneath these tang to Shanchow.theprotestations are other sinister It is reported that Wu Hsin-notices carrying as often as not tien's Seventh Division has the names of the protesterstand arrived at Kuanyintang to assist announcing that they have been Liu Chen-hua

elected to membership and that Kan Yu-kun is reported to be they must be resigned to the con ADELAIDE, March 26.at Kuanyintang, and L. Chen-hua sequences if they fail duly The Prime Mbiger&M:%S. Mant. Shanchimpanda

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