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QUEEN'S THEATRE TREAT.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1927.
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SHANGHAI TUMULT. shots and the screams of women and children running hysterically hither and thither, many of the women naked owing to soldierä stripping them, mostly however. accommodated in the premises of for their clothes and jewels.
They are afraid to remain in the International Export Con-their houses for fear of rapers. pany on the waterfront and as Sometimes heavily laden soldiers
The large audiences who were pre- many as possible will leave by the protect themselves with machine- nens at the Queen's Theatre during 58. "Poyang" which is due to ar-
who think nothing of clearing the
the latter half of last week, when rive to-day from up-river for guns carried by fellow soldiers selections were played by the Bands Shanghai.
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of the 1st Border Regiment and tha An armed naval guard from way down a crowded street by fir-
¡ing and killing' scores.. 1st Camerenians, will be delighted H.M.S. "Emerald," which was go-
Settlement Clashes to learn that another treat is in ing into the city for protecting store for thom at the Queen's foreign property in the event of Theatre on Sunday evening,
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Later.
trouble, was refused entrance! The sky is lit up by increasing With his usual enterprise Mr through the city gate. The only fires in Chapel this evening.
Several efforts were made by
remaining
Ray, of Hong Kong Amusements, Limited. has engaged the massed armed guard now Bands of the above Regiments to ashore at Wuhu is that protecting parties of Shantung troops to give a concert, on which occasion the premises where the women break through the international the usual film will be dropped at the and children are assembled.. 9.30 performance..
'Strike at Ningpo. ·
Settlement defence cordon this. afternoon but they were defeated. Numbers of Shantangers, have
A classic and popular programme A general strike is reported to! has been arranged by the respec- tive Band conductors, the tit-bit of which will be "The Battle of Waterloo," with realistic effects.
have commenced amongst all been disarmed and allowed to en- workers at Ningpo.
ter the Settlement.
The full programme is as follows! Hymn: "O God Our Help."
Overtars to "Zampa". Harold. 2. The Unfinished Symphony,
Schubert. 3-Xylophone Dust, "Two Imps."
·HEIFETZ.
SECOND QUEEN'S THEATRE RECITAL.
Ningpo, is outside the war In various clashes several Shan- area." To is a Treaty port to the tung soldiers, were killed and south of Shanghai in Chekiang wounded. Two men of the Dur province, and has been in Nahams were wounded-Reuter. tionalist hands for some wouka.
Terrible Orgy. Chang Kai-shek left down-river
Shanghai, March 22, This from Kiukiang on Sunday, his
morning there were Alford, destination being Anking.
150,000 strikers and business is 4-Selections from Sullivan's The general atmosphere ashore at a standstill. On the surface,
Operas..
at Shashi is friendly, naval the Foreign Settlements are quiet, 15.-Pipers of H.M. 1st Cameronians.parties landed for recreation pur-thanks alone to the presence of 5-Humoresque. "The Lightning poses not being interfered with. the foreign forces, but there is an
Switch... all wars teema with incidents of
Alford
Shash is far up the Yangtse, orgy of looting, raping, murder 7.-Scena, "In a Monastery Garden,"}
above Hankow.
and wild fighting going on in the savagery, sabotage, looting, and
Ketalbey.
Nearing Nanking.
Chinese City and in Chapei, where devastation on the part of van-8-Excerpt from "Sunny...Kern.
The Southerners are very near there are thousands of officerless
·9.-Descriptive Fantasia, The quished armies. The tenseness
Battle of Waterloo,” s
to Nanking and Chinkiang. Gun Shantung troops. The National- of a situation of this kind can only Popular prices are being charged, and rifle fire is heard to the South ist forces have not yet arrived in at the of the City of Nanking. Most Bri- force, but advance units are be heightened when it is remem-and booking is now open
Queen's Theatre.
tish women and children have awaiting the main body, which bered that thousands, perkaps, of
been evacuated and arrangements are not far off The British de- the belligerent soldiers in China
have been made for the evacua- fence line is quiet-Reuter. were bandits before they took to
tion of American women and
Hankow Strikes.. children.
Hankow, March 21. the profession of arme! Now that
The Commander of the fort at All the Chinese employees of they are again in their natural
Chinklang (Sür Chuan-fang's the foreign banks struck this element there is no saying to what
forces) has issued a notice to the morning. lengths they may go. What hap- pens outside the International Settlement is no concern of for- Heifetz-again played last night at eigners' unless the mob is worked the Queen's Theatre before a full and appreciative house. A contem- up to such a pitch as to threaten porary has apropos Monday's the safety of the Settlement it recital-that Heifetz camé, played and conquered. If he did-and he self. Then, of course, the foreign could do no less-he conquered, cap- Powers will remain more resolute tured and completely overwhelmed than ever in their determination us at the second concert. Starved
creatures of music that we to defend the Settlement at all small wonder that we become a
Changchow's Fall: costs. For that they are fully little incoherent in our rhetoric!
Nanking, March 21. Delayed naval messages from prepared, thanks to the splendid Again the same dazzling display,
» Changchow has been taken by musician Shanghai give recent incidents in the Southerners and the North- again the consummate lead of the British Government. ship, again the demonstration of an the City and Settlement in great-errers are retreating up the Nan- But for that lead, and the elabor-fart which conceals art.
er detail, ate defensive precaptions involv-devoted to music of the old world dents, the messages state that advised 1 evacuate to Shanghai
The first portion of the recital, Referring to week-end inci-king Shanghai Railway.
Women and children have been ed therein, the peril of the Settle-type began with a Sonata (Loca- Southern troops occupied Lang by the next boat-Naval Wire- Ament and those within it might telli) of bread and stately design, hwa Junction, and.concentrated in and two less important items, (a) large numbers round the Settle well be exceeding great to-day.
Les Petits Moulins a Vent (Coument boundaries.
Hankow Censorship. peria), (b) Prelude (Bach-Kreis-
A communication received from The Municipal Council of the Hankow notifies the decision of Ker). The sturdy rhythme of the Settlement having declared the Nationalist Government to latter, so consistently marked, restate of emergency, all foreign censor, all foreign. mails, both in- minded one of nothing so much as
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BIRTHS.
RAPHAEL-On March 17, 1927, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Raphael a daughter. MALCOLM.-At "Bellairs." Troon.
Scotland, to the wife of Malcolm, a daughter.
· DEATH.
HAMILTON.-On. March 18, 1927, at Shanghai, Ernestine Grace Hamilton.
Cancer Scourge.
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ANOTHER DAZZLING DISPLAY.chant vessel will be allowed" to strikers, who threaten to shut off effect that no men-of-war or mer. The banks are picketed by
pass "Silver 19land" between 7 the food supplies from the staffs p.m., and 6 a.m.
of the foreign banks and make Chinklang is also on the Yang their servants leave their post- tae, about 60 miles below Nan- Reuter. king and is also connected by rall with Shangha..
Are.
AGITATORS ACTIVE..
Considerable Indiscriminate
Firing..
Soochow Occupied.
Shanghai, March 22. The evacuation of women and children at Nankings has begun.
The Southerners have occupied Souchow-Reuter.
less..
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official correspondence clearly ad- dressed to Consular officials and commanding officers of 'roen-of-
war.
a serried file of soldiery. More troops moved out to stations pre coming and outgoing, addressed From time to time various Kreisler than Bach, though. The viously allotted them. The Volunto private individuals, exception theories are advanced in an at- choice of major work fell upon the teers were mobilised and naval being made in the case of all -tempt to expinin the largely in-peculiar rococó-like "Symphonle landing parties stood by.. Hong Kong. Wednesday, Mar. 23, 1927. creased number of deaths Espagnol" of Lalo which, In spite
General Strike. attributed to cancer, but the of its designation, has little to do A general strike of Chinese cause, or causes, remain obscure, with Spanish idioms. In lavishing workers commenced affecting According to London advices, Stall his skill updh ft,, Heifetz but em- some 1,400 workers. Arbuthnot Lane, the celebrated phasised its poverty of thought and
Agitators of the Labour classes took over various Police Stations surgeon, in a lecture before the shallow construction.
After the interval New Health Society in London,
came the in the native city and disarmed all said that at one time Australia evergreen Chopin Nocturne in Police and other officials connected
flat major, caressingly treated and with them. was free from cancer; which ap- topped with a neat little cadenza--` peared when people began to eat the captivating "Cortego" of Lili Considerable indiscriminate fir- tinned foods and white bread It Boulanger.
"VERY TENSE."
Even when confronted by a situation which is rightly describ- ed as very tense the Labourites
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Far from ever being placed in dilemma all the signs point to an absolute triumph for the Govern ment's policy right along the line, Compared with what is described.
nice gesture.
and
ing was in evidence about this
Paxonial two
-H. L. W..
THOUGHT IT WAS HIS FINE.
CHINESE DISCHARGED..
Detailing the events of Monday, the messages confirming the turn- ing over to the South of General Pi Shou-chen.
CHANGE OF COMMAND.
Admiral Bristol For The China Fleet.
Washington, March 22. Rear-Admiral Mark L. Bristol Constantinople, will succeed Ad- miral Williams in command of the Asiatic Fleet on the latter's retirement in the autumn on attaining the age limit, An ambassador will be sent to Turkey.-Reuter's American Ser-
SHANGHAT'S CAPTURE.
French Opinion and Canton's Chance.
Le Matin" thinks that there is
Paris, March 22.
The strike was announced to be no reason to believe that Chang of three days duration to cele: Kai-shek will commit the weighty "brate the Southern forces' victory error of compromising his res A British force numbering be-sounding success by a coup. Why
in the House of Commons can think of nothing better to do than
is true that as, Sir Arbuthnot Caprices, gloriously rendered. The twee harass the Government with
Lane stated, "cancer has now be anal number, the "Zigeunerweisen tween pickets and coolies, the lat-at present High-Commissioner at senseless questions relating to come a great evil in Australia," of Sarasate, is a firework display ter being driven to the Footung Shanghai. Every little point is but certainly no greater evil than too familiar to need, comment, side.
in the majority of European Heifetz is Incomparable in this sort Naval landing parties. stand seized upon for the sole purpose of countries, Denmark has the un- of thing. Several encores were ing by on the Pootung side wer trying to place the Government in enviable distinction of heading granted at whose identity we will later relieved by the Battalion of a quandary. Of course, tactics of the list, and some authorities not hazard a guess. They may Royal Marines.
Attacks on Punjab's. this kind cannot hope to succeed. have ascribed this pre-eminence to have been Achron and Sarasate and
The killing of a Punjabis sol- vice. They can only make the Labour-tives are used,
the extent to which food preserva on the other hand, they may not.
Certainly coun-* The concert ended with the dier through fire being opened on ites look more ludicrous than ever tries in a low state of civilisation: National Anthem played by Heifetza lorry on which he and others in the eyes of the country.
appear to be relatively free from and his accompanist. Mr. Achon. A were travelling is referred to but the disease, which may possibly]
no further details given. One be due to the class of food con-1
other Punjabis soldier was wounded. On the other hand; the! sumed. greater, and steadily increasing, NO BRIBE PROVED. accuracy of diagnosis, in coun- tries where medical science la more advanced, may be mainly re-; as the "masterly inactivity" of a sponsible for the higher percent- certain other Power the business- age of deaths there certified as like action of the British in due to cancer. Considered with-
out relation to other circum-| The Chinese charged with offer despatching armed forces in aufstances, the theory that the eat-ing a bribe to an Indian constable tween 20 and 30 was fired on would the Cantonese not under
stand that their political position. |ficient numbers to cope with any ing of tinned foods is the major when arrested with opium in his heavily at Hongkew.*. emergency, however ugly or cause of cancer receives little passeerion was discharged at the Hongkew is a part of the Settle-is now a first class one? it asks. ment. Most of the Cantonese po. They can only realise, evolution to threatening, is the subject of ad-support from Australian experi Criminal Sessions yesterday.
Mr. Fulation of Greater Shanghat are definitiveness if an energetic miration even in the United ence. In the closing years of last He was defended by Mr. F. C.
Jenkin. E
hand is used to put aside, over- In this district: century such foods formed the The Indian constable who had An armoured car was also excited persons. States.
staple diet of a considerable pro- failed to report after leave and in heavily fired on whilst the soldiers Amid all these events France It cannot be expected that portion of the population of that consequence of whose failure to were extricating another which has to give thanks for her fair Shanghai Native City can be tran- country the death rate from can appear yesterday morning the cave had broken down.
policy of expectation which main=" cer was then about 30 per 10,000 was adjourned, stated at the after{ quillised within a day or two. The of the population. By 1909 the noon's hearing that he had mis- Chinese firing from houses tains her entire prestige. May with automatic guns wounded two be the time is coming now for mere entry of the Nationalist percentage of deaths ascribed to taken the date of hearing. Army is not enough in itself, to this disease had doubled, and by asked that the man's action should ed car crew.
His Lordship (Mr. Justice Wood) Punjabis and three of an armour-France to act and negotiate.
suppress ina twinkling the hardes of defeated Northerners who see in the hour of their discomfiture only a golden opportunity to loot and to terrorise the populace whilst there is yet time to do so. Unfortunately, such a position is pregnant with serious danger to the International Settlement, even In spite of the presence of thou sands of foreigis armed soldiers bent only on protecting the lives and property of their. Honale. The history of nearly Can Service
1924 it had trebled:
DRIFTING AFART?
Washington, March 22: Intimation that the United States
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be brought to the notice of the The crew of the armoured car Captain Superintendent of Police, were forced to open fire on the
The defence on which defendant mob but so far as could be ascer was discharged was that he thought tained there waremo Chinese cas Chet the add for opium possessio ualties. would be fixed when he was taken to the Palice station and, as there
fe EARLIER MESSAGES. was considerable difficulty as interpretation, he pulled out the $30
Havas.
Rejoicing in Moscow.
Moscow, March 22, **According to the official news agency, the news regarding the capture of Shanghai published in special, editions aroused. Jubilant demonstrations in the mills and factories of the principal towns.
The Government organ "Izvestia says that the fall opene up a new page in the relations be- |tween China and the Powers and Reuter's Chinese correspondent that the latter will have to abán-
Hell."
Shanghai, March 22.
has been unsuccessful in its efforts which he thought would meet the Scene In Chapel "Worse Than to negotiate a commercial treaty case He was unacquainted with with Mezino la contained in an off the full legal procedure which asial announcement would be necessary before a fine
The smuggling convention to or sentence could be inflicted tween the two nations terminates Inspector Grant, cross-examined on March 28 and it is not indicated by Mat Jonkin, and that there had describes the scene In Chaped as don their spelley whether this decision forothadowe been a certain amount of dimenity worse than hell. Blocked tion and the raising of the arms embargg by de to interpreting NAZA
thoroughfares prevent victims ment with or strugtis ara the United States. Reuters Amar The Jury returnnd verdict trom escaping from robbers and national
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