1927-12-21 — Page 11

ER 21, 1927.

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A VETERAN JOURNALIST.

r. Townend was formerly London rrespondent of the "Manchester unrdian," and from 1879 in 1924 as London editor of the Melbourne Argus,"

yours

ndon to organise the London,

tions with famous

French

BANDITS RAID.

YANGTZE PIRATES BOARD TUGS,

SEEKING FOR FOREIGNERS.

THE CHINA MAIL,

CLERGY MUST OBEY.

BISHOPS AND THE NEW PRAYER BOOK.

PRIMATE'S LETTER.

FRENCH CONVICT,

SEES SON AFTER 16 YEARS IN PRISON.

AN INNOCENT MAN.

ALLEGED REDS.

CHINESE PRINTERY IN SHANGHAI.

T

FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED.

Shanghai, Dec. 16. Between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. yesterday, about 250 Chinese sol- Press works on Paoshan Road, diers surrounded the Commorclal Chapel, and searched the pre- mises. They arrested four work-

military headquarters in Lung-

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QUEEN'S

HAROLD LLOYD The Kid Brother

The death, in his eighty-ninth | subject of a scandal, I have never ar of Mr. Thomas Senior sat in Parliament, and I have never ownend, occurred at his residence made a foul of myself, sufficiently,

Shanghai, Dec. 10, The Archbishop of Canter- Westgate-on-Sea or Ociober 31, that is, to attract attention. I

Scarcely more than 24 hours bury, who had been asked to re-

·Marseilles, Dec. 1. An innocent man, who was con- have just heen a working journalist, after the tardy release of Captain ceive a deputation from clergy demned to death, who had his and at that I have not been suf- W. G.

Lalor, master of the and laity who were anxious for sentence commuted to life impri ficiently brilliant to land any of my Butterfield and Swire upriver assurance, as to the probable act sonment, who spont, nearly six- employers in an action for libel."

He often spoke to his friends, of bandit-pirates who took Lalor to the new Prayer Book should it who escaped, who was finally parers who are suspected of being

steamer "Siangtan," from the handson of the bishops in regard teen years in a convict prison, Mr. T. S. Townend was probably however, of old days on tho "Guar-captive on November 31 and held become law, .has sent to-Esnon doned and permitted to return to communists, and sent them to the

oldent journalist in England. lian," and of his confidential rela-him to ransom, another, or perhaps Storr, of Westminster Abbey, a his native country to join his wife

men of both the same, gang of bandits swooped letter in which he says he is will-and to gaze on a son whom he hwa. The search is said to have ben he retired from the London

red from the one partics in the State. ing to receive the deputation, and afingement

agus" in 1924 he had completed subject of his was the war corres-to the same company, which was adds:

"I did not speak lightly when of his life in anguish and mental

day, after spending the best years communist documents. of working journalism. Patience In the Franco-Prussian anchored in the vicinity of Shasi, Joined the reporting stuff of the War, which he organised, or helped on Tuesday, in an attempt to take on July I publicly used the torture:

Acting on confidential instruc- fanchester Guardian in 1869, to organise. A considerable num-captive another foreigner. They words, "You may take it from me

tions received from the Woosung- d after acting us a sub-editor and her of correspondents were engaged.failed to find any foreign officer and as absolutely certain that the Mario Dieudonne, whose name headquarters, the military police. This man is Camille Eugene-Shanghai Defence Commissioners' scriptive writer he was sent to One was in Paris, one at the carried off two Chinese members of bishops will require obedience to

army headquarters, an- the crew, commandeering one of the new rules and will do their was coupled with that of Bonnot, and soldiers of the 61st Regiment Garnier and Callemin, members raided the printing department See of the paper and its Parlin- other, a Captain McLean, at the the towboats attached to the tug utmost to secure it.

German headquarters, and there for the purpose.

"I was sure at the time that of the notorious Bonnot gang of of the Commercial Press in entory reporting staff. When he

one he remem- British naval authorities on the I was speaking correctly, but I auto bandits, who terrorised Paris Chapel yesterday morning, and int-he sitceeded Tom flughes, there best was originally an artist spot were informed of the insident the Archbishop of York, had an years ago. Like them he was Employees' Union until four is appointed London correspon- were others. The

have now, in conjunction with and the neighbourhood seventeen searched the Commercial Press thor of "Tom Brown's School in Paris, who was commissioned to and immediately took steps to ays," and his chief contributor to to Metz, which was then being effect the release of the captives opportunity of meeting or con- sentenced to die, but while Bonnot e clock.

municating with all the diocesan and Garnier died in desperate at progress, special martial law was e "London Correspondence" was attacked by the Germans. This and of the tow-boat. nurrespondent, whose

The above report was received in bishops of both province, 43 in tempte to escape and Callemin enforced in the vicinity of Pao- the 5m Taylor, rederick Greenwood arid Robert Robinson, got in without difficulty, Shanghai by wireless yesterday and number, and I am able to tell you died on the guillotine, proclaim-shan Road.

but when he tried to leave the city gave only the briefest details. It that I have obtained the concur- ing Dieudonne's innocence to the Settlement ppleyard, a remarkable out-town and journalist who know was surrounded by the Germans.stated that the tug, with two tow-rence of every one of them (ex- last, Dieudonne himself was dea adopted precautionary measured israeli well and is mentioned by le was there till the end, and got boats attached, was anehered in the cept the Bishop of Norwich) in tined to-day to embrace his wife along the roads bordering of

reiterating the announcement I once more and to see that son Chinese territory. me in one of Disraeli's novels, out several of his dispatches by the vicinity of Shusi when the bandit have referred to.

whose birth, ehildhood and boy- are among the other contributors, use of small balloon, hearing a gang appeared, some 60 strong.

Four suspects were arrested, "It is obvious that the hood he had known only from the and some communistic despatches r: Townend wi London corres-packet of letters, which were set They immediately swarmed over methods by which this clear and letters that reashed him in the and anti-communist pamphlets ndent of the "Manchester Guar-froe when the wind was in favour and about the tug and its companion definite intention will be fulfilled convict prison of French Guiana. were seized. an' for ten years, during which the direction. In this way at least vessels, demanding the surrender of cannot be specified in detail be- Seloom has such a crowd ga- me he was mainly responsible fur 20-dispatches came safely to the the foreign captain who, however, forehand, but those whom you thered on the docks here as that headquarters of the military The suspects were taken to the ganising the paper's staff of war "Guardian," most of them landing was not forthcoming.

represented and, indeed all others which assembled to-day to wel-police, where they admitted that respondents with both forces in in Belgium. One halloon, which

who are interested in the matter, come back the pardoned man to they were communists before the Franco-German War. In 1879 came down with its freight in the

Take Up Pursuit.

may rest assured that what is the country of his birth. But purification of the Kuomintang, "ownend left the "Manchester sen, was rescued and the letter

anger at thus being laid down in the new Book will, if even this large crowd moved back but that they are now members of saidian” to become editor and delivered. Mr. Townend had the anager in London of the Mel- envelope as one of his possessions, baulked of a foreign captive the the measure receive the Royal with instinctive respect to allow the Kuomintang, and were ignor- burne "Argus," from which posi- and said that recently when he bandits shot the compradore of the Assent, be faithfully administer-

ant that communistic elements on he retired in 1924. He found-touched it with his tongue he could tug. wounding him in the thigh. ed and that the bishops will act

had intermingica fellow-workers. the Australian Press Association, still feel the salt in it. One of They then turned their attentions together in the matter."

The Primate's statement does እዚ a valued contributor to these balloons with letters fell into to the tug and looted it of a quan-

1. Cariada, and Initia.

dramatist;

man-

namo was

In their

a

woman, clad in black, and her seventeen-year old son, to step to the water's edge so as to be the first to greet husband and father. The liner "Plata" from Rio de

While the raid was in

The International. authorities

also

with their

in

„PRODUCED BY THE HAROLD LLOY CORPORATION.

El Gammount Release

CHRISTMAS DAY.

DEAD FIVE DAYS.

MAN REVIVES IN HIS COFFIN.

seized at the main factory, the As no important evidence was

The Hague, Deo. 3, 7 journals in Loudon, Aus- the hands of the Germans, and the tity of clothing and other property, not mean that the use of the new faneiro was at her moorings military authorities also raided

Rising from his coffin to de- German Staff sent word to General Apparently, from the reports re- Prayer Book is to be made com- Bazaine (with whom they were in ceived, they came in sammans but pulsory. The position of those shortly after noon. The first to No. 5 branch printing, depart- mand food and drink, the unusua! was ment, where nothing of an in case of a man returning to life, correspondence that became his left in one of the tow-boats which who do not adopt the new book come down the gangway

will not," it was stated, "be Dieudonne, closely followed by M. criminating nature was found. after apparently being dead for torical) that the letter from Robin- they cut adrift from the tug..

As soon as they had left, a men-affected in any way. But those Albert Londres, of the "Petit After the incident, the Woo-five days is reported from the ecognition, or courtesy and hardly come to their hands, and Robinson sage was conveyed to the British who do will have to adhere strict-Parisien," the most prominent of sung-Shanghai Defence Commis-/hamlet of Wassenaar. Such was

on giving away information had

47. Townend would speak of his rly days in journalists in "the ark ages," for without the assist- ace of press ageles, with little

ny, assistance from officials and

culties.

was stopped from sending any more naval comunander some few miles ly to the rules it lays down." mesanges. When it became certain away on a gunboat. The latter im-

A

IF

"OUR FRIENDS THE CHINESE."

who had devoted their pens to the

cause of the innocent man. en in authority, a journalist's that Metz would fall a letter was mediately sent an armed guard in a

The black figure on the quay ork in those days was largely sent to Captain Mckean at the launch in search of the bandita. ries of trials and subs and dif- German headquarters to give to visit was first paid to the tug and

darted forward. It was a family meeting. Townend himself did

The cheer that the uch to bring modern light into after the Germana had entered the the bandits had remained on board Robinson in Metz. Oddly enough, the remaining tow-boat but nons of

crowd had prepared was never given. ese conditions. Newspapers out.

Dieudonne was convicted on de of London had no kind of re-

town at the capitulation. Robinson and, being given the direction of was able to do some service to their departure, the naval patrol

the evidence of one of the men gnition in the reporters gallery McLean, whone German was very set out in pursuit and after a hur-

who was attacked by the Bonnot the House of Commons when he bad, and McLean then discovered ried search came upon the band an

gang. The evidence from the ndeavoured to start a Parlin-Robinson's identity and gave him it was landing on the reedy fore-

New York, Dec. 14. first was doubted by many, and entury staff for the "Manchester the letter, Mr. Townend's impres-shore some distance downstream. China having, at least tem- M. Raymond Poincare, who was uardian." Co-operating with the sion was that Robinson's story of The bluejackets immediately porarily, spurned the Russian then President of the Republic, There he found work and was epresentatives of "Ruine other the capitulation and of the last went into action and met with con- influence in her internal affairs exercised the prerogative of cle-free, but he wanted to come back apers outside of London, he made days in Metz was the first full story siderable resistance from the armed would now welcome help from mency to save the condemned man to his country and family. News- be demand that they should be

papermen, lawyers, writers and eated on the same footing as the that reached English newspapers. bandits, the reports state. The dif- America and Great Britain, de- from death.

But Dieudonne had to face a public men supported his plea, and Robinson afterwards published a ficulties of landing, however, pre-clared Sir Frederic Whyte, the ndon press. After some agita- book on his experiences.

vented the rescue party from got-head of the British Delegation to life sentence in a French convict a few weeks ago, pardon, which ting within range of the main body the Honolulu Conference, who prison overseas. After fifteen he had been expecting for sixteen of the band which successfully got was entertained at a banquet here years he escaped at the risk of years, came with the grant of a away with the two captives who to-night by the Institute of Pacific his life. He fed into Brazil. French passport. were afterwards found to be the Relations. Chinese captain of the tag and the engineer.

a group of Paris newspapermensioner's headquarters sent to all the consternation caused by his newspapers, a circular, writes the returning to life that his wife and

raids had been made because In- "China Times," stating that these several relatives fainted.

It was last Monday that the formation had been received to man, who is the father of nine the effect that communists were children, was pronounced dead by instigating the members of that a local doctor. He had supposedly died from normal causes. For union to create red terrorism in five days the body lay in the coffin connection with the recent coup and from time to time was viewed d'etat in Canton.

the matter was referred to a imentary Commillee, and the W28 finally granted, owend's evidence before the Com- ifttec being one of the main factors

this result.

fn later years, when acting for stralian papers, he again inter- ened in breaking the London press shopoly. At that time no repre- ntative

FENG'S REVERSE.

HOW TROOPS WERE DOUBLED UP.

Another Raid.

The banker, Mr. Thomas Lamont, who has returned from the East after endeavouring to arrange a loan to the South Man- churia Railway, presided. - He

Tientsin, Dec. 10. A portion of the band tarried said that those who were in direct Hauchowfu and fought the bluejackets in an contact with the Chinese believed

The battle for

of colonial newspapera which has ended in the retreat effort to allow the main party to that their sobriety, common-sense rere admitted to the state banquets of the Kuominchun invaders is get safely away. The British naval and intelligence would finally iven to the overseas Prime Minis- described as the severest that has party succeeded, however, in taking bring them out of the welter of ors who attended the 1897 Jubilee taken place in that region. onference. Townend's request on

prisoner one of the bandita who civil war and banditry. He took Feng Yu-heiang lost 4,000 men was found to be in possession of no stock of the outcry against ehalf of the Australian Press ssociation for an invitation to the higher officers including battalion He is to be sent to Hankow for decades had poured money into in casualties, while about 30 some clothing looted from the tug. foreigners. The British, who for anquet was refused, although he commanders were killed, 3,000 ri-trial. No details were sent of the China for the benefit of the com- epresented a large number of fles captured. 4,000 prisoners casualties on either side, if any. ustralasian papers. The secretary taken and four big guns and 30

munity, had, he said, been toler- the committee dealing with the field guns.

Prior to this incident another ant and patient in the face of hatter would grant no tickets ex-

bandit attack was experienced on destruction of their properties for Feng's troops were moving in Monday about 30 miles below Shast fear of wounding Chinese suscep- ept to the London press, but offered three columns, one on the Lunghai when a party of about 50 bandits tibilities.

give "messengers passes" to Railway, one toward Taian, and seized two tugs belonging to the Australian representatives as that one on Tsining, but on the 4th Chenwuan Company, a Chinese con- friends' the Chinese could compose He concluded: "If only our eporters could obtain admission and 5th they massed all their Phen the speaking began if room strength for

c21. No details as to this affair their differences to the point of an attack on ould be found for them. The tie- Hsuchow.

were given in any of the dispatches jointly inviting the amiable co- eta were at once returned and,

emanating from the Yangtze operation of foreign interests, the It is stated that when the battle! espite the great -interest to

yesterday. the culminated on the 6th (Tuesday) olonies of the banquet, not a word some of the Kuominchun penetra- van cabled about it to any Austra- ted north of Hsuchow, when ian paper. Mr. Townend did not Chang Tsung-chang threw in his rouble, further with the Council reserves and Sun Chuan-fang nd its officials, but took steps to moved up quickly from Tehchow ring the whole story before the and Hsiuchien (Surtsien) and Prince of Wales, who presided at caught Feng's army on the flank, he banquet. What passed between disorganising his right wing and he Prince of Wales and the Coun-compelling his retreat in disorder. It is not known, but within 48 The Allies followed up their

ours a member of the Council success till they got their op waited on Mr. Townend with a ponents outside a 30 1 radius of personal apology, and a writton Hsuchow.

Mr. Townend was a man of tire-Shihchiachuang.-,"N. C. D. Mail”

ess activity, shrewd judgmont, and great skill and patience as a nego- lator and man of affairs. He was

a quick and decisive writer, with a

WOMAN BANDIT,

ARRESTED WITH PISTOL UNDER HER PILLOW.

Shanghai, Dec. 16.

A Chinese woman, of remarkable

Americans, British and Japanese, sinking national interests, would go a long way in an earnest en- deavour to serve the common cause."

SHOUT FOR HELP.

NATIVE CITY ABDUCTION FRUSTRATED.

At attempt to kidnap Chief that she sleeps with an automatic Staff Officer of the Admiralty Wu Kwang-chun on the part of four

pology was sent by Lord Chancellor Chang Tsung-chang is still atdaring and ferocity, and as tough Herschell, as chairman of the Ex-Hsuchow directing operations. cutive Committee. These were two No changes are reported on the pistol under her pillow, has sprung armed Chinese near the entrance mportant events in the history of Chengtai-Railway. Small enga into the limelight of the criminal to the Ning Kang Lee alleyway, British journalism,

gements are reported around world in Shanghai.

Shanghai, last Saturday morning, The Municipal police have been was frustrated when Wu raised an looking for her for some time on alarm.

Wu was living with his wife, in TANT PIS FOUR ALPHONCE Buspicion of being involved in

armed robberies. They traced her one of the houses in the alleyway, to a house in the French Conces-which is just outside the West gift for dry sarcaent, and was al- The intention of the French

The attempt to abduct Wu was Taya well informed on his subject. Government to close the partridge alon when, on their request, she was Gate. His interests' were mainly political shooting season because of the arrested by the French police onmade when he was entering his and factual, but he was a man

scarcity of birds recalls a good Wednesday night. wide, reading and had special in other game in some French pre- Detective-Sergeant Croest, of the a motor car just as Wu was emerg story concerning the paucity of A squad of police in charge of car at the entrance to the alley- way. The four bandits arrived in formation on many matters. He serves. An English guest at a French police, visited her home at fag from the alley. Wu's chauf- was a man of active bodily habit, chateau near Paris was taken out 10.30 p.m., on Wednesday, and they four showed resistance to the gang and until the last three years of his rabbit-shooting by his host. After took her by surprise, arresting her and was shot at but not wounded. London career he used to boast that a while a bunny appeared, and the without any trouble. Wu, meanwhile cried out for help be passed overybody in Fleet Street. Englishman raised big gun. The woman was sleeping soundly and himself was shot at, a bullet

"Stop! Stop cried his hosts

the report states. ANORA

of

His last years, were spent at West That la Pierre. We never shoot When the police entered the room, knocking out two of his front teeth, sele-on-Bea. He was often pressed at Pierre. After along interval and when a search was made one of Police on duty In the vicinity write his recollections for pub-a second rabbit was alghted. Al the latest models of automate rushed to the scene but were too steadily refused to do exclaimed the host, now you can pistols loaded with 9 rounds of late to arrest any of the bandits ** letter he wrote == "I shoot. That is Alphonse. „Wa al- ammunition was found under her who made good their escape. Wu I am not a mile ways shoot at Alphonsel"--"Man-pillow. She has been handed over was conveyed to hospital where his

been tho | chester Guardian act to the Municipal polley

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On the day of the funeral the body was viewed for the last time. The large family was gathered tearfully about and the last words had been said by the priest. Then, just as the funeral procession was about to leave for the cemetery, a noise was heard from within the coffin. Opening the lid, the deceased sat up and after asking what all the excite. ment was, demanded some food.

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