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No. 25,633

WUHAN SMASH.

NEW MILITARY LEADERS.

Dissensions Weaken Government.

Communists Declare Independence & Seize City.

MARTIAL LAW ORDERED IN KIUKIANG BY KIANGSI GOVERNOR.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1927.

IDIOTIC OUTBURST.

Scenes at Trafalgar. Square Mutiny.

COMMUNISTS AND MILITARY.

Attempt To Drown Band By Singing "Red Flag.”

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WORLD STIRRED.

TAIKOO MURDER.

European's Wife Brutal- ly Attacked.

THE

Steamboat Co. Settles With Canton.

Result of the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial.

BIG LONDON DEMONSTRATION.

TWO MEN ARRESTED.

PICKETS WITHDRAWN.

Stabbed Whilst Returning Home Company To Take Men Only From Refusal to Reprieve Two Murderers Raises Storm.

At Night.

Union.

BOMB THROWING IN AMERICA AND ORGY OF EXCITEMENT.

London, yesterday.

Working unceasingly all day An agreement has bean arrived While the Communist, M. Tom yesterday, following up what at between the Hong Kong, Canton

The refusal of the American judicial authorities to grant re- Mann, was describing the situa- clues they were able to gather, and Macao Steamboat Company and tion in China a battalion of Terri- the police were successful in ar- the Chinese Seaman's Union at sengers and cargo in respect of the. There has been a widespread split-up amongst the Wuhan mill-torials, returning from camp with resting two Chinese in connection Canton whereby the boycott of pas prieves or new trials to the two Italians, Sacco and Vanzetti, who tary leaders and the party seems in a state of disintegration. Two the band playing, passed. If you with the murder of Mrs. Mackay Steamboat Company's ships has have been convicted of murder, has aroused a storm of, feeling all

must shoot, don't shoot the work on the hillside near Shaukiwan on been withdrawn.

Upon enquiry at the Company's over the world. of the Communist generals have, declared their independencé anders," shouted the Communist Saturday night.

Immediately after the murder offices this morning, the China In America bombs have been thrown and public property attack- In were responsible for the capture of Nanchang. The commander of through a megaphone, the crowd

singing the "Red Flag" in trying the offer of a reward of $1,000 Mail" was informed that the Union the garrison there revolted, and went on to Tehan, which he took to drown the martial music for information leading to the had guaranteed to supply the Com- ed. Disturbances are reported from many other countries.

Reuter.

arrest and conviction of the mur-pany with competent acumen and London a huge crowd of demonstrators marched to the U.S. Embassy,

the Company had agreed to take derers was announced, and some their employees from members of after listening to violent speeches in Hyde Park. They left the time later the police were put in this Union.

Embassy after their spokesmen had been admitted and informed that possession of certain information Pickets have been withdrawn which led them to make a raid on from the Steamboat Company's the people they desired to see were not in a house in Saiwanho at 8 o'clock wharf in Canton and there is now molestation of passengers or last night. It was here that the no two suspects were arrested. They coolics handling cargo. There is a reflection. of this action in the num- were gambling at the time with her of passengers and cargo carried several others who were allowed by the Company's steamers although to go after being thoroughly ex-it will probably take some time for the normal figures to be reached

with the 12,000 men under his orders.

Anti-communists are being substituted in Government depart- ments and the labour unions for the men placed in power by Comrade

Borodin,

BANK COMPRADORE HELD.

Shanghai, yesterday. Steamers passing Anking, the The Wuhan imbroglio is most outpost of the Nanking troops on perplexing, but such information the Yangtse, are being subject to Naval as is available shows that increas- examination. British ing dissensions have resulted in Wircless. the Wuhan militarists splitting up under the following generals;- Tang Seng-chi, Hunan "pink;"

Chiang at Nanking. · ·

Nanking, yesterday.

CHINESE LEVIES.

SHANGHAI CONSULS TAKE FIRM STAND.

EXORBITANT DUES.

JO MA

The "China Mail" learns that complications have arisen in con- nection with the new Chinese customs taxes at Shanghai by reason of the action of the French Consul-General there accepting payment from ships on July 30 of It is reported that Chiang Kai-Treaty tonnage dues and granting Ho Chien, Wuchang Kuomintang: shek has returned from directirig Consular clearances to French operations on the Kiangsu-Shan- mail steamers, after the Customs tung front-British Naval Wire- officials had refused to accept these dues and issue clearance certificates, Chinklang, yesterday. More troops have arrived here from the North-British Naval

less.

TAIKOO MURDER.

Blood-Stained Note Found.

that a police search of the two men arrested in connection with the murder of Mrs. Mackay has brought to light a blood-stained portion of a bank note, which was found in one of the men's pocket.

The "China Mall" understanda

Another portion of a bank note was found by the police in the roadway near the scene of the crime.

The numbers, on the two por tions tally..

Dr to-morrow

once more.

SCENE AT U.S. EMBASSY.

-Trafalgar Square Scenes,

London, Yesterday.

With a black cap over his face

proprietors who showed reluctance.

Reuter's American Service.

Buenos Aires, Aug. 7. The General strike has been ex- an ex-service man, wearing four tended to many of the principal medals, sat in an exact replica of provinces. The Labour Federn- an American electrocution chair intion of Paraguay have resolved to there is believed to have been a Trafalgar Square before 5,000 de- call a strike indefinitely from the aum of money. One of the monmonstrators against war and 8th.-Reuter's American Service. thereupon produced a knife and against the execution of Sacco and stabbed her above the left breast Vanzetti Reuter. and again in the abdomen, where- upon they secured the basket and stretchel and made off across the hills.

The demonstration passed the

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conTM

Precautions in Paris.

Paris, Saturday.. The Government has decided to Tang Yen-kai and Chang Chien (of Nanking fame), Hankow

usual anti-Government resolutions prohibit the holding of Sacco and another against the "Judicial Reds; Chu Pei-teh, ex-Governor

murder of two innocent comrades," Vanzetti protest meetings in public df Kiangsi, who is at present at

The crowd then went to the Ameri- thoroughfares.

The American Embassy is being Kiukiang, but is believed to have

Boy's Rush for Help.

can embassy, accompanied by a It is understood that the Bri- reverted to the Kuomintang; and

According to the boy's story, large force of police, The embassy closely guarded and only author- whose position is regarded as in-

tish Minister at Peking has au- thorised the British Consul-

Mrs. Mackay was able to stagger was guarded by a police cordon: The Ised persons are being allowed to secure; Chang Fa-kuei,- Governor Wireless. of Kinngsi, Kuomintang; and the

mitted but returned expressing dis- Other American Institutions are Feeling her Nanking Tonnage Dues. General at Shanghai to take

along for a few paces leaning men's leaders were immediately ad- PR through the cordon of police. similar action,

upon, his arm.

belief in the embassy statement that also being closely watched by the main prop of the reformed Wuhan

atrength failing, her, she told the people they wanted to see were police-Reuter. Shanghai, yesterday. Government, and Generals Yeh

The proposed new Chinese

Precautions in Berlin, him to go for help and collapsed away. Cheers were given for fing and Ho Lung, Communists, The Nanking Government an- Customs dues vary between 7

in the road. The boy, who was Sacco and Vanzetti and the proces-

Borlin, Saturday. As a result of the Communist who have declared independence nounces that the surtax tonnage and 57 per cent, the latter

a stranger to the district, having alon marched off to Hyde Park to

paper "Rotefahne" publishing the and seized Nanchang. They dues will be reduced to half the exorbitant levy being imposed on

recently arrived from Shanghal make more speeches.-Beuter.

addresses of those in the American massacred all the anti-Reds and present surtax as from August 8. certain luxury articles

Police Force Mobilized.

Embassy and of prominent Con- broke off relations with Wuhan. A wireless message from Wuhu Canton does not seem anxious amined. Evidence against the on a visit to his aunt, was un- two men was considered strong, aware that the Shaukiwan Police

On account of his suspicious Bular residents in Germany, the A conference of Wuhan sup-reported that agreement has been to commence the levy, having that it la understood they will be station was fairly near and in-

behaviour when entering St. police have taken precautions to porters was held at Kuling at the reached between the Hankow and postponed the date of collection produced before, Magistrate stead of giving the alarm there Patrick's Cathedral, a man who protect: Americans against possi beginning of the month. Both Nanking armies in this region from September 1 to October 1.

he ran back to Taikoo and in-later admitted that he was an ble attacks by Communists.-Reu- Chu Pei-teh and Chang Fa-kuei and that Chiang Kai-shek's troops When the new order comes into this afternoon

into custody.

Take no Chances. dastardly attack. refuzed to advance on Nanking, are returning to Nanking shortly force at the beginning of next morning charged with the murder formed Mr. Mackay of the anarchist was arrested and taken ter.

-Reuter. urging that the troops required a

month, it is worthy of note that of the unfortunate lady.

In consequence of the explosions, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Davidson and

Chicago, Yesterday. Mrs. Mackay, the wife of Mr. New Agreement?

the Kowloon Customs house will rest. The conference was broken

"Shoot first and ask questions the entire New York police force, C. Mackay, a timekeeper employ. Mr. Osbourne, hurried to the spot numbering 14,000, was suddenly afterwards" is the Jedburgh justice up by the news that Yeh Ting,

Shanghai, Saturday. cease to function except in regarded at Taikoo Dock, was returning where they found Mrs. Mackay mobilized. Large forces are guard-style of order issued to a squad of commanding the garrison at Nan- The Nanking Government an- to the examination of goods from a visit to Barker Island, a lying dead in a pool of blood. The Ing the public buildings, tram sta- Federal agents detailed, on chang, totalling 12,000 men, had nounces that the aurtax on ton-brought there by rail and in re- lonely spot which les over a hill Police, in the meantime, had been tions, museums and the Stock Ex-tinuous duty if they suspect an at- revolted and captured Tehan, also nage dues will be reduced to half gard to smuggling-prevention about a mile from the tram informed and Mr. T. E. King change. A double patrol has been tempt is about to be made to carry cutting the Klukiang-Nanchang of the present surtax from activities on junke. railway.

August 8.

Many difficulties are anticipat terminus and which takes its (D.C.I.), Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse placed on the trams In Boston, out the threat to bomb the Federal (D.S.P.), Chief Det-Inspector where heavy reinforcements are Building. The threat is supposed Chang Fa-kuei is at present at

name from Capt. Barker, a well Reynolds and Det-Inspector Lane guarding the homes of officials and to emanate from Sacco-Vanzetti A wireless message from Wuhu ed in the working of the new known seafaring man. Kiukiang, where he has declared says it is reported that an agree-

tax-collecting machinery, and the

The brutal attack was mada arrived with a party of detec. State buildings-Reuter's Ameri-sympathisers. The building was previously bombed in 1917 when martial law and suppressed the ment has been reached between scheme is likely to fail owing to near the junction of Sai Wan and tives.

Police Leave Stopped. eight persons were killed. Reuter's political department and Unions the Hankow and Nanking Armies the Impossibility of abolishing the Stanley roads, about a hundred Police Search Falla

American Service, B preparatory to advancing on Nan in this region and that General imposition of likin at interior yards from the main road. In All day yesterday Chinese de- chang.

Chiang Kai-shek's troops are re-stations. By the withdrawal of spite of its proximity to the main tectives were searching the dis-celled. People carrying auspicious These dissensions have natural- turning to Nanking shortly, the customs officials from these road and a busy Chinese quarter trict and again, to-day. Special parcels are liable to be stopped for ly seriously weakened the Wuhan Reuter,

stations will eventuate a great the actual spot is a lonely and instructions were issued to the examination. Measures guarding Government, whose mandates are

increase in junk trade, to the de- deserted one, particularly at Police, launches were given all bulidings have been extended to To Attack Kwangtung. to-day disregarded and who are

triment of the steamer com- night. Shanghai, Saturday.

orders to search junks in the all large eastern cities. Reuter's desperately endeavouring to re-

panies, vitalise the position by reorganis- Wang Ching-mel summoned a If, however, the system works visit to Miss Barker, at Barker taken to ensure that the robbers

Mrs. Mackay had been on a vicinity and every precaution was American Service.

Motion for New Trial. ing officialdom and substituting military conference at Hankow, in the beginning, it will, in the Island where she had stopped did not succeed in leaving the the anti-Communista for which was attended by Chu Pe- long run, defeat its own ends. for the greater part of the day. Colony. Borodin's proteges, both in Gov-teh, Tang Sang, and Sun Fo. It By levying absurdly large taxes, Although Miss Barker endeavour-

One counsel for the defence in One theory is that the mur- the Sacco-Vanzetti case has filed ernment Departments and La- was decided to attack Kwang- the Chinese authorities are going ed to persuade Mrs. Mackay to derers may have reached Stanley a motion for a new trial on the bour Unions. The dissensions tung from the Kiangai border to make smuggling a highly pro- stay for the night on acequnt of before the alarm was given, evidence given. Another has fled the worl affair continues ali over threaten to result in certain after the defeat of Nam Cheong:fitable business and there is sure clay for the account of secured a sampan and escaped to a motion for a stay of execution.thewoldenos Aires Chamb generals supporting Nanking, al- Chang Tsung-chang has tele- to be a tremendous increase in considered that it would be safe Macao or Chinese territory Sacco and Vanzetti is a habens Deputies has decided to ask Cons

The third action on behalf of though the present tendency sug- graphed to Peking.that the North- activity in this direction.

to make the return journey as The Police are hampered by the corpus petition which will be heard gross to intercede in favour of the gests a triumph for individualism. ernera should continue fighting

she knew the district well and fact that no very accurate des- bofore the Massachusetts Supreme condemned men. The Commander of the 26th along the Tientsin-Pukow Rall-

was accompanied by her thirteen cription can be given of the two Court on the 8th. The petition Nationalist, Army at Shanghai is way instead of making peace with

years old nephew, Walter Eckert, men by the boy who was present states that new evidence has been reported to be holding Mr. Wa the Southerners-Hong Kong

Scene of Crime.png during the attack. It was dark found; akade Yau-ding, the Specic Bank. com- Evening Post pradore, for the ransom of 'one million tacle-Reuter,

C. N. CO. STRIKE,

can Service.

New York, Saturday. All police leave has been can-

Boston, Saturday.

South Africa'" Johannesburgh, Yesterday, The United States Consu! has

agreed to the request of a deputa- Union Congress that he use his in-

tion of the South African Trades

fluence with the President to secure ́n⠀⠀⠀retrial. "In the mean- while ́à protest and demonstrations before the Consulate will be ar ranged-Reuter.

Sam «London, Saturday. The agitation over the Sacco and

of

Committee has adopted a resolu In Paris the International Miners tion urging the Supreme Court of the United States not to permit the It was about 180 when the at the time and, other than the New Evidence Inadequate.

execution of the two unhappy men US. Policy...

apot was reached where the at- fact that one of the men was tall The advisory committee headed who have been "proclaimed inno Rapid City, Saturday. -- GUILDS OPPOSE COMPANY'Stack took place. Although Mrs, and dressed in a black jacket and by Fresident Lowell of Harvard cent by the whole world, whilst Hankow Currency Muddle.

PROPOSAL. The question of China was

Mackay was in the habit of white trousers, the other entirely which Governor Fuller established the Congress of the International Hankow, yesterday. raised at the Press gathering

visiting Barker Island fairly in black, the Police know nothing to make an eleventh hour investi Federation of Trade Unions has de- Difficulties have arisen at Han when President Coolidge intimat

HONG KONG SUPPORT. often, it is not thought that the of the wanted men. A reward of independent enquiry, found that American Embassy to protest gation simultaneously with his own elded to send a delegation to the kow on account of certain pro-ed that the position of the United

attack was premeditated as there $1,000 has been offered for in the judge who tried the case was against the sentence. posals made by Eugene Chen in States toward China had not The hitch in the negotiations be are more lonely spots on the way formation leading to their arrest. "indiscreet in conversations with Protection For U.S. Legation. connection with the issue of local changed. He pointed out that tween the China Navigation, Com- back where an attack might have Robbery the Motive, outsiders during the trial but As the result of: oficial kicom- currency and attempted extra-American marines ware there to the officers and engineers on strike It appears that two men passed their contents, were found by the of the case. They are of the opinion a number of detectives in guarding,

pany and the representatives of been made. STAND

The basket and astchel, minus "scrupulously fair" in the conduct munications from the United States. taxation in the Chinese-adminis.Protect American lives and pro-is understood to be due to the the woman and boy shortly before Police near the scene of the that the evidence in support of the American Embassy in Grosvenor tered British Concession. A fin-perty, and expressed the opinion attitude of the Company in respect

a new trial is inadequate to Im Gardens, London, also the Ameri ancial crisis is said to be pending, that their presence prevented the of certain of the officers in Shang- they reached the Junction of the crime.

press a jury The Committee con- can Consulate offices. ewing to the attitude of the capture and looting at Shanghal hal who refused to move their ships two roads and the dastardly plot Mrs. Mackay, who was about 38 clude that both Sacco and Vanzetti In Geneva special police: precau Banks to the proposals. British-Beuter's American Service. to other moorings when directed to was probably hatched, on the years of age, had lived in Ching are guilty beyond a reasonable tions are being taken to protect the Naval Wireless.

do so by the Company in the early spot. Working their way back in all her life. Her husband has doubt Renter's American Service. American delegates, the American days of the strike. The Company's the gathering darkness, the men been in the East for 26 years, 18 Boston, Aug. & Consalate, and the hotel at which attitude is that these men should suddenly appeared behind the two of which have been spent in the A taxi driver, has handed to the the delegates are staying, pus be penalised A

walkers and one of the men at service of the Talkoo Dock. There police a number of parcels of Owing to the Socialist and Com Troops continue to arrive from

The Guilds in Shanghai could tempted to snatch a basket she are two children, one being in dynamite which were left in his muniata excitement the Boston up-river..

not agree with this proposal and was carrying. The other made a England apprenticed to the en-vehicle by a mysterious passenger. (USA) officials are guarding the Three Communists have been arst, rain later is the official wea unanimous decision was arrived at

West winds, moderate fair at it is understood that a practically grab at a satchel which contained gineering trade, and the daughter-Reuters American Services prison in which are the condemned shot by order of Chang Wak-wel ther forecast until noon to-morrow. In Hong Kong to support the bathing costumes

living with her parents at Taikoo Strike and More Bombe men with machine-guns Reuter. *Krplosions-and-in New York: British Naval. Wireless, The typhoon is about 100 miles (Ghilds action in Shanghai in 're-In the meantime, the boy who Mrs. Mackay had a wide circle Buenos Aires, Saturday

New York, Saturda WA general strike, called in 3: Byrn«. * Wahu, yesterday.to the north of Ishigari, and le spect of this question.

was with Mrs. Mackay was knock of friends and the bereaved hus pathy with Sacco and Vanzetti has Four plosions occurred Anti-Red and pro-Chiang Kai- threatening the coast between This proposal of the Company ed violently to the ground and a band has been the recipient of been making withivio

subway before midnight, shatter- shek posters have made an ap. Shanghal and Foochow

by one of the man condolences from the entire Tal-

Coutrages occ

the platforms and smashing pearance in the city. The popula-

caused him to lose balance and koo community which has been

in the vicini shocked by the riblë

Communists Shot.

Kiukiang, yesterday.

tion held a large demonstr

Jesterday in honour of

tories of the Nationallat troops.

General Lee Trung Jen com manding the 7th Army, his rived here.

on den

FAIR, THEN RAIN,

HHAR

was made at – the last

meetings of the Guilds and pany, it is understood, and another meeting will be necess for the Guilds reply to be m doubtful

tlement 1-be carri dollari unless the law of the 11:7/16 th regard is modif

Traffic has been interrupted At least seven persons were in

American