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CHAPEI FIGHT.

Women and Children Killed.

PLACED IN FRONT, LINE.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927.

WOMEN ROBBED.

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HOUSE ENTERED IN DAYLIGHT,

JEWELLERY STOLEN...

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PEKING RAID.

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Leaving,

PROTEST TAKEN CALMLY.

Peking, April 12.

Two Chinese were charged at Shanghai, April 14, the Criminal Sessions this morn- Close to 30 persons, many of ing (before Mr. Justice Wood) The Soviet Charge d'Affaires and them, women and children, were with complicity in a daylight rob- his staff are expected to leave filled and more than double that bery from a house in Bridges Note has caused very little excite Peking on Friday. The Soviet number wounded in two battles Street. which took place yesterday after- noon in Chapel between armed the prisoners were charged took considering handing the

The robbery In respect of whichment in Peking. The Ankuschun and the Government were seriously labourers and details of uniform-place in broad daylight, shortly bera of the Soviet Embassy their ment- led and civilian soldiers;

after noon on the 12th ult. Three passporta in view of the alleged dia- The most spectacular of these women were in the flat in question coveries during the raid; hence the battles was fought at the entrance alone at the time, the husband of Soviot's decleton has saved them to the headquarters of General one having left to get medicine the trouble of so doing-Reuter. Chow Feng-chi, (who lives in the because she was sick.

No Reply To be Made, French Concession)" and com- Shortly after the man in ques- mands the only brigade of Na- tion had left, it was stated in Ankuochun General Headquarters Though the high officers of the tionalist soldiers who were once evidence this morning, there was regard the Soviet Memorandum troops in the Chekiang Army and a knock on the door, and on the declaring severance of diplomatic who went over after Sun Chuan- women calling out who was there, relations with Peking as a threaten- fang was deposed.

the persons knocking stated that ing gesture, it appears that they are Close to a thousand of the arm- they had been sent by the hus-repared for possible complica ed labourers who have been up in band to attend to the sick contained in the Soviet Memoran- tions. Criticizing the demands be adamant now. The Nanking arms since their positions were woman.

dum, the Ankuochun leaders say outrages were serious enough as raided by the conservatives on

that that is nothing but what they it was without being used for the Tuesday morning started for the

headquarters, not far from the The door was operied and three call the "brazen-facedness of the

guilty." They state:- purposes of the basest intrigue. Commercial Press building during men, the leader of whom was

"Ac the search of the Embassy Consequently the new. Note the early afternoon and arrived at armed with a revolver, entered premises was a reasonable step in which we are told to-day the Pow the gates shortly before 4 o'clock, the house, threatened the women order to prevent red activities and robbed them of bangles and and disturbance of peace and order ers are now preparing is likely

Women and Children in Front.

rings on their persons, locking in the Capital, we can by no means The aim of the agitators was to them in a room, threatening them receda to any of the demands con- to be one that will brook no quib-

get back their arms which had with injury if they raised the tained in the Memorandum. The bling. If Mr. Chen's first reply been taken from them. Know- alarm and departing before the search of the Embassy buildings was merely. à personal effusion, ing that they would be shot down return of the husband of the sick draw the searchers from the place still continues, and we cannot with- the new Note will let him see that in cold blood should the men at-woman.

until the search has thoroughly tempt to rush the stronghold, he has badly overreached him-they put in front of them their prisoners rested entirely on their mands are utterly unfounded and The evidence against the two been made. Some of the Soviet de- self. If the reply was dictated by women and children, thinking that identification by the women who they are out of question. As the Reds, the new Note will let the soldiers would not fire.

were robbed, said Mr. H. K. things are, we do not find it neces- They were miserably deceived Holmes, prosecuting the Moscow gang in Hankow sce

for the Bary to reply to the Memorandum." for, when within a few yarda of Crown. that their game is up at last.

All three women had

Exchanges Views. the gates, an order was given to picked out the first prisoner from Mr.. Wu Chen-tung, the Chief of Whichever it is, the new Note, by fire and, it is said, close to 20 of a parade as one of the men who the Department of Foreign Affairs removing all doubts as to the the attackers, mostly the women had participated in the robbery. attached to the Ankuschun Gen- Powers' intentions, can only have and children in the front ranks, Two of them had picked out the eral Headquarters stated that he

fell dead.

second man.

would make a round of calls 01 Only one volley was needed to

foreign There was no direct evidence various

Ministers to put the attackers to rout. The

against the men, it was explained. them on the Sovict Nete.

morrow to exchange views with crowd melted away as if by The Police had gone on board the magic and left the scene with the "Kinshan," acting on

Interviewed by a representative informa- of the Toho News Agency to-day, dead and wounded lying on the tion, and had arrested the first Mr. Wang Yin-tai, the Vice-Minister Mr. Rodney Gilbert is frankly cobblestones of the native street. prisoner who, on seeing the Folice, for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of sceptical of the ability of theIt is reported that the labour had thrown overboard a packet Dr. Wellington Kon, stated:- Chinese to preserve peace and ers were not armed with rifles which on being recovered by the "The Memorandum of the Soviet MR. CHEN'S REPLY.

and pistols, but were a group of order in any part of their coun- the new organisation known as

police was found to contain 330 in Government was handed to Afr. Cheng Yen-lsi, the Chinese Charge Did Mr. Eugene Chen really ex-try. The serious Nationalist re- the hatchet brigade" which has notes.

The second man was also ar- The Memorandum, Jn a

d'Affairs at Moscow, yesterday, pect the Powers to accept his verses on the Yangtsze, he says,/been formed to carry on the work rested on receipt of information, states that the Soviet Government word, of the armed civilians,, now un the arrest being made at the considers itself bound reply to their Note regarding the should not Juil foreigners in armed. They were a part of the Tung Yan Club in Queen's Road, from Peking its Charge d'Affaires Nanking outrages? The question Shanghai into a false sense of group of 20,000 demonstrators a Club from which it would be and all other members of the Em- has more than an academic inter-security. With this view, most who had held a mass meeting on est it goes to the very root of people will agree. There must be the previous night and marched proved, said the Crown Solicitor, bassy staff pending a satisfactory

to the Huchow Guild where the that they had both left about the solution of the affair.

same time on the day of the rob the problem. Mr. Chen is a man nothing in the nature of a "tonin new brigade was inaugurated, bery of sanguine temperament and down" of the foreign attitude,

Commercial Press Besieged. notwithstanding the "new broom"

Hotel Employee? something of a gambler in the in Canton and at other places The other incident of the day Statements by the accused, with the affair. As the Soviet political sense.

But for his under the immediate domination occurred at the Commercial Press who both pleaded not guilty, were Government intends to leave its optimism, coupled with marked of General Chiang Kai-shek. I Works in Paoshan Road about 1 read. They both denied know Consuls in various parts of China

an honest attempt is being made, o'clock in the afternoon. There

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"Dr. Wellington Koo is expected to have an interview with Marshal Chang Tso-lin in order to consider measures to be taken in connection

personal ability, he could not hold either apart from or in conjunc-(some 500 men, women and child ledge of the robbery or participa-48 they are, we do not construe

termined to take such a step."

Upon receipt of the Soviet Me- morandum declaring severance of diplomatic relations with Peking, leaders of the Ankuochun: met in conference this morning.

the position he occupies to-day. tion with political reasons, to rid ren, whom the military have been tion in it, both putting up alibis the Soviet as what they call sever-

.. Soviet Demands. Thus it is possible he may have the country of the Reds, time unable to extract from the build and one stating that he was only ance of diplomatic relations.

in Hong Kong waiting for the

"In my opinion, the Soviet Gov- deceived himself into believing must necessarily be required to ing, were besieged by the soldiers. Queen's Hotel to be opened as he

The Nationalist soldiers, both re-establish law and order. This,

ernment has taken such an attitude was on the list for a position as a in order to realize its demands, but that he could play a game of wits however, cannot be taken to uniformed and civilians, having servant.

it is conceivable on the other hand and win. He may have deceived imply the withdrawal of one unit surrounded the building previous The second prisoner was identi- that the Soviet Government, finding himself into believing that he in the British and other foreign ly started an attack by sniping fied by one of the women as the it difficult to deal with the affair forces in Shanghai. Their pri- from the buildings nearby in man who had taken her bangles even if its Charge d'Affaires were could succeed, not only in turning mary duty is the protection of which they had secreted them from her and witness said that to remain in Peking, has fually de- the Powers' protest aside, but in foreign subjects. That duty selves,

For 20 minutes a most realistic she remembered him particularly breaking their new found unity." shall continue to be performed

One other woman witness identi- On the other hand Mr. Chen, until such time as the Chinese battle took place, those inside the because of a mark above his lip.

whether Nationalists or North- building replying with several fied the second prisoner. when he framed his reply, may erners matters notare in an un- bursts of machine-gun fire and a The prisoner was told to leave have had misgivings as to its assailable position to relieve for heavy fusilade of rifle and pistok the dock and His Lordship and It is learned that Marshal Chang wisdom. He may even have eign troops of a responsibilitfire.

After the smoke of battle had the jury examined the man's lip Tao-lin, the Commander-in-Chief o that ought never to have been frankly believed it to be a mis- thrust on them. Mere assurances cleared foreign observers estim-and found the mark in question the Ankuochun, has given strict The first prisoner was identified orders to the Chinese authorities take, alike, perhaps, because he have been proven in the past to ated that at least six of the at- himself saw that it was equivocal, be worth nothing. Therefore, it tackers were killed while the num-by all the women as the man who concerned to refuse the Soviet, de-

Fowers, or the foreign civil popu- unknown. However, it is thought revolver... it would never be accepted by the lation in Shanghai, being lulled that there have been several Powers. In other words Mr. into a sense of false security, as casualties.

Up to a late hour last night it Chen may have sent his reply Mr. Rodney Gilbert fears. So

far as concerns the British, the was reported that the armed-la- under pressure against his better Home Government has not falled bourers were still in possession of judgment. This pressure could us so far, and it is not in the the Commercial Press. "North have come from two sources: it least degree likely to fail us now China Daily News." could have come from General or hereafter, especially when it has secured the much desired Chiang Kai-shek or it could have unity of all the Powers in the come from the Hankow Commun-matter of defending foreigners in ista. General Chiang Kai-shek Shanghai and other Treaty parts. himself received copies of the Powers Note, and in an inter-

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A quarrel over a pair of slippers

It is understood that the Peking Government has decided to issue récall orders to Mr. Cheng Yen- hai, the Chinese Charge d'Affaires A Chinese woman was this at Moscow as soon as the Soviet morning! sentenced by Mr. Charge d'Affaires has left here, But Lindsell to three months jail for the Peking Government has not "STOLE IN DESPAIR.”

having pawned a rolled gold lead issued the recall orders so far.

Toho.. One month's hard labour was hair pin for $7 by representing the sentence passed by Major it to be solid gold. She also gave

BROKEN SPINE. Wilson, this morning on a young a wrong name and address to a. Chinese described as a jeweller's Shaukiwan pawn broker. Em-

ASSAULT CHARGE FOLLOWS apprentice who was convicted of boldened by her success accused

QUARREL. the theft of seven pieces of gold went to another pawn shop in the property of his master, the vicinity and attempted to charge, said he was badly treated would have succeeded had she not in a boarding house in Cadogan had much to do with the framing Sir,The public is greatly by his master and in dispair stole shown over eagerness to receive Street, West Point. The victim of Mr. Chen's reply. For one appreciating the various per the gold to raise money for his the money. This led the pawn was taken to the hospital but at

formances by the military passage back to the country.

broker to bore a hole in the pin Arat his injuries were not consider- thing, he announced the other Bands at the Queen's and StarAccording to the police two and the fraud was discovered. ed serious and his assaliant was al- day, speaking as a soldier, that he Theatres. Here in Kowloon es pieces of the gold were actually After her arrest a third pin was loved ball in the sum of 230, Now the Injured man is medically certi- was leaving foreign affairs to the pecially the appearances at the pawned by accused, which the found on accused's person. find to have suffered a broken spits politicians, and for another, over Star of the Cameronians Band remaining five were found on his These pins were valued by one of and fractured back. Tho police

is being very favourably com- person.

the prosecuting pawn brokers at immediately sought out the accus- since the Nanking outrages, hemented upon

a little over a dollar each.ed and again took him into custody. has had his hands full dealing As a mother, however, I and

Yesterday he was charged before with his Communist enemies. that it is very inconvenient to

As the result of a quarrel at No. Mr. R. E. Lindsell with having attend the 9.15 performances,

caused grievous bodily harm.Mi 86, Catchick: Street yesterday a Consequently it seems safe to declining to leave my kiddies, And assume that the pressure under charge of an Irresponsible.amah When a Chinees was charged be head and had to go to the hospital down the stairs after accused had Chinese was badly injured in the vector Grant said the injuries caused by the victim falling which Mr. Chen framed his under notice to leave. And still fore Mr. Lindell this morning for treatment,

slapped him in the face. reply did not come from General would like to hear the Band at with assault Sergt. Rozeakwy aald

The Magistrate-romanded ac- the Start the complainant, who was the ac Felling down a fight of steps in cused for a week, allowing ball in Chiang Kai shek. The pressure It might be possible, once in a cused's brother, was not in Court, Chun Sing Street while under the the sum of 3100,2 almost certainly came from the way, to arrange for the Band The accused quarrelled with his influence of liquor, a Chinese yes- Hankow Reda.

wife yesterday his brother interfer terday suffered injuries which had Presumably this appearing at an earlier performed on the wife's behalf and accused to be treated in hospital. fact, has not been overlooked

and 20 espantted the brother. The brother

it is unlikely that he has [To the Editor of the "China Mall Accused, who admitted the pawn a similar pin for $6. She led to a Chinese assaulting another.

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