1927-11-28 — Page 7

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1927.

BRUTAL MURDER.

FRONTIER CLASH.

“Wild Reports" Froin Kovno.

RUSSIA INVOLVED.

Unconfirmed Report Of

Revolution.

YOUNG LADY'S TERRIBLE STRUGGLE.

JOHANNESBURG SENSATION.

MARINE LAW.

TURKS ARREST ITALIAN

CAPTAIN.J

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SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

[The "Lotus" case involved

THE CHINA MAIL,

watch on the French steamer

MISSING LINKS.

TRAGEDY-ATTENDS A ROBBERY,

ELEMENT OF MYSTERY.

ARMED ROBBERY.

RAID ON A PROVISION SHOP.

ONE MAN ARRESTED..

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Tragedy attended a robbery in Armed robbers, raided Recalling the Lotus" case, an Kowloon City last night, the story vision, shop in Koshing Street on The population is profoundly shocked at the brutal murder of Italian steamer leaving Mersing of which, as told by a Chinese wo Saturday night and made a haul the 18-year-old Irene Kaathack, recently collided and sanka sail- man, the only person who should of booty worth $1,261; daughter of a distinguished Liver-of which was drowned. The Cap-startling because of some missing shop, the Ming Lee firm of No. ing ship, one of the Turkish crew know anything about the affair, is "According to the master of the pool engineer.

The girl had been missing since tain of the steamer was arrested Berlin, Saturday.

52, Koshing Street, ground floor, Collisions

on the frontier of the 24th instant and her body, by order of the Turkish judicial links in Its detalls.

Authoritics who considered the The loot taken away by the robe and five of his assistants were and Poland have al- found in the bushes near the Zoo, accident due to faulty handling of hers was worth only $10, and yet in the shop at about 11 a.m., on Lithuania

showed traces of a terrible strug the steamer.-Reuter. trendy

tha woman's husband lost his life Saturday when alt men entered occurred between the

gle. Police and revolutionary bands.

as the result of the intruders the shop by the front door of the Two natives who had been seen Reuter.

near the spot on the night of the similar principle of international visit. The Police are investigating shop which was still open.

law. The Turks in Constantinople the case, but up to the present of the visitors naked the manager Obvious Uneasiness, girl's disappearance have been arrested the French officer

arrested. London, Saturday.

on have not had time to straighten out a man named, Chan Wal-lam, The rumblings in the Balkans, It is surmised that the girl was "Lotus" following a collision with the several puzzles with which they employed on a ship, had been to where the Franco-Yugo-Slav hurrying home to escape the atorm, a Turkish vessel. Notwithstand have been confronted since the rob- the shop to order provisions. The Pact and the Italo-Albanian when she was attacked, carried

had not received Buch Treaty have caused obvious un- into a neighbouring plantation and the the protest of the crew and bery was reported early this morn-master of the shop replied that, he

the French authorities who alleged Ing. murdered. easiness in Rome and Paris, re-

that the collision took place out-; The woman, who gave her name whereupon the spokesman told him The motive does not appear to side territorial waters, the French as Kan Wai-tal and her age as 32 to make out a list immediately and spectively, while the repercus-have been robbery since her wrist officer, together with the Captain years, told the Police that she and to deliver the goods the first thing -sions-of-a-more-explosive atmos- watch was not removed.

of the Turkish vessel,, was fined her husband lived at No. 23 Tung-in the morning as the ship was due phere in the Balkan States The body was ultimately found and imprisoned.] which have not yet had by a Boy Scout after low-flying

tao village, Kowloon City, where to sail before noon. time Σα develop, find a aeroplanes had been vainly employ-

her husband carried on the combin- Whilst the master of the shop. more ominous echo in North ed to scan the plantations. Reuter. 150 MILES AN HOUR.ed business of bean curd maker and was writing out the list dictated

big dealer..

by the robber leader, the latter's Last night husband and wife re- companions suddenly produced re- tired carly. According to the wo volvera and daggers, and held up man, they occupied separate the shop people. One man then cubicles, and had been doing so for closed and fastened the shop door, quite a long time. Suddenly, at whilst the others drove the shop about midnight, she was awakened master and his employers to the by someone grasping her throat and rear of the premises, where they trying to strangle her. She put up were bound hands and feet with a struggle for life and, after what, wire and gagged with small wine! appeared a long time, her sagallant cups. suddenly released her and ran out, The robber leader then relieved the shop master of his safe key, There was a dense column of The woman then ran out of her and, opening the safe, helped him- smoke whence staggered, black- cubicle and dashed to the front door self to its contenta, comprising faced and tottering. Foresti, with which she found closed and bolted money and jewelery to the value)

badly cut eye and injured the same way that her husband had of $1,261. shoulder.-Reuter.

A Baby Djelmo.

Eastern Europe where there is a tense situation between Poland and Lithuania in which Russia is becoming involved.

A Russian Note.

Warsaw, Saturday,

A Russian Note was handed to the Foreign Office yesterday ex- pressing anxiety at the recent in- idents on the Lithuanian frontier: and emphasising that Lithuania's sovereignty is a matter of the ut- most concern to the Soviet Gov- ernment.

Bloodstains on Clothes.

Johannesburg. Yesterday. Thousands of persons this after ITALIAN RACER'S MIRACULOUS noon visited the scene of Miss

ESCAPE. Irene Kanthack's murder.

One native is now detained pend- ing an investigation of bloodstains found on his clothing-Reuter.

M. Pilsudaki is at present stay- ing at Vilna, which Poland an-).... nexed.

March on Kovno?

Berlin, Saturday.

Certain Lithuanian politicians are reported to be negotiating with the Poles to arrange march on Kovno.

A message from Kovno says that the Lithuanian Premier has protested to the League of Na- tions against the aggression of Poland.

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Good Advice.

Riga, Saturday. Representatives of Sweden, Finland, and other friendly States visited the Lithuanian Pre-

·sident and advised him to estab. ́lish a more acceptable form of

government as soon as possible.

Refugees Increasing,

Warsaw. Saturday.

TRAIN DISASTER.

BRUSSELS-CALAIS EXPRESS

DERAILED.

CASUALTIES NOT HEAVY.

Brussels, Yesterony. The Brussels-Calais express was derailed on entering the station of Ghislen Ghien, North East of Mons. A child was killed and a woman in- jured. Reuter.

B.A.T. STRIKE.

NAVAL GUARDS PROTECT PROPERTY.

Rugby, Yesterday,

The number of Lithuanian and

A message from Shanghai states Polish refugees from Lithuania that naval guards are protecting is constantly increasing. Their the launches of the British Ameri- housing and feeding are embar-çan Tobacco Company from attacks rassing Vilna and other Polish by armed labour pickets-British towns. Reuter.

Conflicting Reports.

London, Yesterday.

Wireless Service.

A DOUBLE SOMERSAULT.

London. Yesterday. The Italian

racing motorist, Forest, whilst speeding at 160 miles an hour on Pendine Sands, Carmarthen, skidded, and somer saulted twice. The car was, com- pletely wrecked.

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ARMED ROBBERS,

TWO FOREIGN POLICEMEN SHOT,

TELL TALE FINGER-PRINTS.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

of her cubicle.

in the course of his flight.

The other four robbers escaped with the booty.

done when he locked up house for In the meantime, another em- the night. Rugby, Yesterday.

Opening the door, the ployers, who was having a bath in An attempt made by Signor woman ran out and there called for the kitchen, had heard the suspic Foresti at Pendine Sands. South help. The Police arrived, and ac fons sounds in the shop, and, slip- Wales, yesterday to establish new companied her into the house. ping out by the back door, he went motoring records in his baby one They searched the place but found in search of a policeman. Fail- Later. ton car Dielmo ended in disaster.no robbers. Then they entered theiing to find one in the immediate Five coaches were overturned. The ear skidded, turned complete- husband's room and there found vicinity of the shop, he went to a The child was not killed but serfly over twice, and was shattered him dead in bed. He had been atab- shop'next door and borrowed a ously injuried, also its mother and Signor Foresti had A wonderful bed to the heart with six other persons received minor escape, suffering only from shock which was left in the wound.

a dagger police whistle which he used to injuries. Reuter.

good purpose. an injured shoulder, and a bad cut above the right eye.-British Wire-

The unfortunate man's cubicle. With the first sound of the less Service,

was in good order. There were no whistle, the robbers dashed out of signs of a struggle, and, indications the shop, and run away in different were that he had been, alabbed in directionis. A District Watchman, his sleep. The only thing out of who was attracted to the scene by the ordinary in the cubicle was the the whistle, chased one of the fugi fact that a cash box had been forc- tives and succeeded in securing him. ed open, and its contents, stated by Another of the, robbers was chas- the woman to be only $b stolen, ed by a policeman as far as Suther- The only other thing missing from land Street, when all traces of him the cubicle was a wall clock worth was lost. The policeman, however, 35, so that the robbers, it appear picked up, a new knife, which must The crime wave in Shanghaied, had committed murder for the bave been dropped by the robber reached a climax during the week, sake of a paltry $10. when the foreign Municipal Police, The living room, the only other raiding suspected haunts shot dead in the house besides the woman's four armed robbers on Thursday cubicle was in order, nothing hav and two on Friday, both of the lat- Ing been stolen from either this

RAILWAY DISASTER. arrived from England a year ago.

The Police were puzzled as to

FRENCH ENGINE'S "LUCKY" Yesterday afternoon Francis, why the robbers had found it At

FALL while, patrolling Burkill Road, frus- to murder the poor man. The wo trated an attempt of desperadoes to man was questioned, but she was Rugby, Yesterday.

Paris, Yesterday. kidnap a wealthy Chinese mer unable to help them. She confirm

A mass of rocks crashed down in left London this morning on his re-

M. Jafar Pasha, Premier of Irak, chant. He chased off the robbers, ed their theory that there could not turn to Bagdad.

killing one. Francis himself was have been any struggle between the front of the local train from Mar. King Feisal of Irak will leave

shot in the head and died instantly. murdered man and the Intruders by selles, near Valence. London for Rome next week.-Bri- Constable Alfred Read traced an- saying that she did not hear any jammed on the brakes but the en- tish Wireless Service.

other desperado to a derelict motor sound of a struggle in her has gine and the first carriage were lorry. The desperado shot Read in band's cubicle prior to her running over-turned down the bank.

The driver was seriously Injured the stomach. He was seriously out of the house. When she ran wounded, but nevertheless Read out of her cubicle, she noticed three and the passengers shaken.

men outside, one of whom had an By extraordinary luck the engine

torcit. Read was rushed off to hospital! electric

A few minutes fell on wires working signals which and operated on. He is progress-later, when she returned with the automatically set against trains on ing favourably.

Police, all three men were gone, but both lines. The Paris-Ventimiglia | It is noteworthy that the finger in his haste to get away one of express passed safely over the spot prints show that both desperadoes them had left his felt hat in the only just before the crash, but the were members of a gang who were living room. This was taken pos- second express from Paris in the direction 15 minutes Inter handed over to the Chinese autho- session of by the Police. rities in September, 1925, by the robbery. Reuter. Mixed Court on a charge of armed

The reports with regard to the BRITAIN'S VISITORS. ter by Constable T. R. Francis, who place or the woman's cubicle.

Poland-Lithuanian situation, so far, have been very conflicting. According to a Berlin unconfirm- ed newsagency report from Riga revolution has broken out at Kovno, the capital of Lithuania, and the Government of President, Valdemara has been overthrown. -Reuter.

"Wild Reports" Denied,

Riga, Yesterday.

A private telephone message from Kovno denies the wild re- ports circulating in the neigh-

KING AND PREMIER OF IRAK.

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bourhood as regards the alleged MURDER CONFESSED. shot dead his assailant. disorders, and street-fighting. Everything, it is stated, is quiet

in the city and the nervousness ECHO OF BRUTAL SHANGHAI has abated in spite of the re- ports from Vilna.

Official circles are of opinion that immediate military action by Poland is unlikely.-Reuter.

Alleged "Tools".

Berlin, Yesterday."

ATTACK.

T

LADY'S ASSAILANT.

Shanghai, Saturday.

A house coolie arrested at. Yang to the murder of Mrs. Forestier- taepoo this morning has confessed Reuter.

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Lahore, Yesterday.

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The driver.

As the woman was sure that, drew up a few yards from the land- when she went to the front door. It slide-Reuter. was fastened the way her husband had done before retiring, and as there is no back door to the house; the Police were confronted with an- other puzzle as to how the robbers had entered the house.

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In reply to a telegram request ing his opinion of the situation in Lithuania, M. Valdemaras, the Lithuanian Prime Minister, tele- [The brutal attack on Mrs. graphed to Reuter's correspon- Forestier on November 2. has al dent in Berlin, declaring, that ready : boen

Mrs. described.

This was partly solved by the there is overwhelming evidence Forestier was found lying in a pool

woman, who suggested that they that certain persons who fled from of blood in the kitchen of her house,;

had probably got in, through an Lithuania after the attempted re- the indications pointing te her

opening in the wall which Jet into volution at Taugoggen last Sep-having been attacked with a chop-

ex-Law the pigsty adjoining the house. tember are being used by the peror other heavy instrument. She Member of the Viceroy's Courell, Questioned as to the appearance of later died in hospital. Mrs. who was recently elected to preside the three men whom she had seeh Polish Government to organise a Forestier had apparently been at the forthcoming session of the in the living room, the woman said revolution against the Lithuanian awakened from an afternoon nap All-India Muslim. League, has an that they were all strangers to her. by a noise downstairs and had gone nounced his willingness to with- M. Valdemaras emphasises that down to investigate. She was then draw in favour of the Aga Khan, She would not be able to identify no party in Lithuania is ready to attacked and the triarcations point as a result of the request by the them as none of the three intrud- renounce Vilna to Poland.

Heed to her having put up a vigorous Madras Moslems. Reuter,

ers spoke. Excepting for a circle16 Round Contest for the is ready to resume normal rela-resistance.The sum of $400 was

Non-Co-operation.

of light thrown away from the men Welterweight Championship of the tions with Poland when a satis-missing from the house when the

Bombay, Yesterday. by the electric torch, then men were factory agreement has been Police were called in. The assall- Mr. Jinnah, Leader of the In-standing in the dark, and the we reached in regard to Vilns and ant was evidently acquainted with dependent party of the Legislative man was not able to see their faces. when Poland shows a readiness the house, from the nature of his Assembly, interviewed by Reuter

The Police are still making in- entry and knowledge of the where- declared that India' could not share to respect the independence of abouts of the stolen money, and in the work of the Statutory Com

vestigations. Lithuania-Reuter.

suspicion fell on a former house mission in any form or at any time coolle.]

hecause it was a complote negation

Government.

Disloyal Officers Arrested.

Riga, Yesterday.

Between 20 and 30 disloyal off-

cers, it is reported, have been ar-

rested at Kovno, where all is

of India's status as a partner A "MOONLIGHT FLIT.” Reuter. well

Boycott Resolution, y

New Delhi, Yesterday. The working committee of the

quiet, but the atmosphere. Is peace on the eve of the discussin Central Khilafat Committee has re- tense. The majority of the Army of the Vilna question by the solved to present an address of wel- Is at present supporting the Gov- League Council.. ernment Reuter.

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