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SWATOW PANIC.

IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION.

TROOP MOVEMENTS.

Communist Hordes And Bandits Still In Evidence.

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928.

FLAPPER VOTERS.

Bill Read. A Second Time.

PLURAL POWERS.

TO PAY DAMAGES.

Joint Judgment Against Three Defendants.

WRONG IMPRISONMENT.

Labour Party Supports Bill, With Judge's Stern Comments On

Reservations.

London, Yesterday.

Houghton, Suan & Haynes.

· PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

VISCOUNT CAVE.

Tory Law Lord Passes.

OPPOSED ASQUITH.

Lord Chancellor Dies Suddenly At Age Of 71.

Are Safe With Us."

N. LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician

(Established Over Forty Years). Alunager:-RALFU A. COOPER, M.A.O.A., Registered Oulometrist by Canadian Govt. Examı.

(Personal Attention).

JAIL BROKEN.

THIS MORNING'S SENSATION.

PRISONER ESCAPES.

Climbs Through Opening In Cell Roof.

MISSING AT FIVE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

Another sensational jail-breaking escapade occurred in the

His absence was discovered at about 5 am.

Joint judgment against the de-

London, Yesterday, In the House of Commons, Sir fendants for $250 with costs was The death is announced of Vis¬ W. Joynson-Hicks moved the given by Mr Justice J. R. Wood count Cave.-Reuter. NANKING GETS TOGETHER A STRONG FORCE.

second reading of the Flappers' in the Summary Court this morn- Lord Cave first held offices in Vote Bill He said a wife would ing in the case in which Pang the Asquith Coalition as Solicitor Reports from Swatow indicate slight improvement in the situa.be entitled to be registered in re- Chau, the Managing Partner of General, becoming Home Secre- spect of her husband's business the Chau On Transportation Co., tary (1916-18) under Mr. Lloyd Lion. The panic of carlier this week seems to have been somewhat premises and also in respect of sued C. M. Houghton, Suen Kam- George. He was appointed a Lord Victoria Jail in the early hours of this morning, as the result of allayed by troop movements. Trade, however, is still interrupted her residence. A husband would, shun and L. E. Haynes, all of the of Appeal with a Viscounty in which a Chinese prisoner succeeded in getting clear away.

be eligible in respect of the wife's South China Trade Protection As-November, 1918. on account of the dual presence of Communist hordes and bandits business premises. The Univer-sociation, for $1,000 damages for He was a barrister of the Inner in the immediate hinterland. British property remains in a pre-alty franchise of men and women wrongful imprisonment.

Temple; recorder of Guildford

· As soon as a "China Mail" man learned of the escape this morn- His Honour sald that when the 1904-15; standing counsel to enrious condition.

evidence closed: (at the hearing on Oxford University 1913-15;

ing, he paid a visit to the office of Mr. J. W. Franks, Superintendent Monday last) he indicated that solicitor-general 1915-16; home of Prisons, but was informed that Mr. Franks was in the jail inves- judgment would be for plaintiff and adjourned the case. to con sider the question of damages. He had decided to give judgment against all the defendants and judgment would be with casts.

From Nanking comes the interesting news that a fairly large and strong force-comprising mostly former Whampoa Cadets and Chekiang men-has arrived there from Shanghai. Other warlike

· preparations are being made.

Shasi.

Bandits along the Upper Yangtsze continue to be active near

YANGTSZE BANDITS:

The "China Mail" political cor- respondent understands that no decision has been reached among the respective Canton Generals for a combined drive on the erst while Swabue Soviet.

of the Swatow police is common- ly known...

Business is held up because it is impossible to send goods from Swatow up-country. The Red army.

"Jix," the Home Secretary.

On the afternoon in question, stated His Honour, plaintiff was detained by: Mr. Suen and Mr. Haynes who locked him in the place for the purpose of compell- ing him to pay a certain claim, Mr. Houghton was not then pre- sent when' that was done and his. part in the proceedings was to

morrow.

MORE RAIN?

*

Viscount Cave.

tigating the affair.

A call was then made on Mr. C. G. Perdue, acting Director of Criminal Intelligence, who said that he did not wish to make a statement until he had had an opportunity of consulting Mr. Franks. The reporter was asked to call later in the morning.

MR. FRANKS'S TIFFIN TIME,

The Escape.

After making some independent woman was taken on board a junk, investigations, the reporter again where she saw Chan Tim and im- called on Mr. Perdue at noon, and mediately recognized him as one of was told that the latter could not the four men who had been in her make any statement as he had not sampan, and on the woman's identi- General Chui King-tong, the include a good many farmers and would be the same. The Univer-

secretary 1916-18, and a lord of had an opportunity of seeing Mr. fication, Chan Tim was handed farm-bands who have become dis-Isity women voters would be

appeal in ordinary November new commander of the 5th Army satisfied and lent ready ear to the 10,000 instead of 8,000 and the N.E. winds, moderate, over 1919; appointed lord chancellor Franks, who had been busy in the over to the Water Police by the is in charge of territory extend-

Jail all the morning. Mr. Perdue junk people, and professional agitatora, But the men totalled 47,000.

found himself cast, some rain, is the official October, 1922.. ing from the East River towards

The new register would come

was one facing the charges of alleged mur- It was generally understood added that the matter Hoifung and Lukfung. The Han Communist rabble also includes a

weather forecast until noon to when the late Lord Cozens-Hardy which was being investigated pri-der and attempted robbery. River basin, including Swatow Sprinkling of outlaws who are out into force on May 1, 1929, for the and the adjacent area, is under for loot, irrespective of political next year's general election.

The anticyclone has strength resigned the Mastership of the vately, and suggested that the re- Merchandise is seized principle,

He could not imagine that any- the 11th Army which is command-so soon as it gets out of the im-body would say at this time of Japan.

ened and is central over N.E. Rolls early in 1918 that Sir porter see Mr. Franks personally. George Cave (as he then was)

Tifin Time. ed by General Chen Min-chu, who mediate jurisdicton of the military day that women were unfit, intel- shown over Indo China. Mod- cided to remain in Parliament, it Mr. Franks, but he was again not A depression is still would succeed him, but he de- A second visit was then paid to went to Nanking with Marshal Li

lectually, for the vote or that erate monsoon may be expected was said at the express wish of there. Then, exactly at 1.p.m., the what is known as the "old block" Chai-sum.

their judgment was unsound com-

along the S. coast of China Mr. Lloyd George. Called to the reporter succeeded in finding Mr. which runs parallel with the Magis pared with men.

and over the northern portion Bar at the Inner Temple in 1880, Franks at his office. A card was tracy. Mr. Franks' office and the Mr. Philip Snowden, for the La- Party, supported the Bill

of the N. China Sea.

The elected the Chancery side of sent in, and coming to the door of police barracks at Police Head-

the profession, taking silk in his office, Mr. Franks told the re-quarters. 1904. He went "special" in 1918, porter that he "could not be bother. adopt the detention and arrange and in the following year received then as it was time for him to terms.

ed the appointment of Attorney go for his tiffin.” The course adopted

by General to the Prince of Wales.ter would call in the afternoon, he the defendants could not Lord Cave entered Parliament as would be attended to. be too strongly condemned and Unionist member for Kingston in

No Further Pressure. There are about 1,000 troops, moatly recruits, of the 11th Army in Swatow, and other de tachments up-country. This is not strong enough to launch, a frontal attack on the Reds.

On the other hand, the 5th Army units which marched on Holfung and Lukfung have called a halt. No further pressure has been exerted on the Communists who are now in a sort of no man's land hetween Swatow and the East River command.

or police.

Is Protection Possible? In the face of such unpromising conditiona, and with the local Can-bour ton Generals doing very little to cruah the rising, it is interesting) to recall that among the leases auf- fered by British residents at Swa- tow since the trouble began in 1926 are the following:-

British Vice-Consul's dence: looted;

resi-

Masonic Hall: looted twice; Mesurs. Butterfeld & Swire's. club (for the use of officers and men from visiting ships): seiz- ed.

Wireless Despatch.

Anglo-Chinese College: seized. To-day's British Naval wire- Normally, the British Navy has less report from Swatow, des- one sloop at Swatow, the shipping patched yesterday, read as fol-outlet of Chiuchow, which was one lows:-

of the ports opened by the Treaty of Tientsin; but it is highly pro- blematical if one sloop can be of much use in protecting the exten- sive British interests and property at Swatow-is promised by the the Reds,

The general situation here is more satisfactory but the exodus of people who are able to leave, still continues.

It is considered that the pre-Home Government-if sent crisis will terminate if the bandits and looters ever got in. troops Rent (by the local authorities) against the Reds are successful.

Information received by wire- less from Swatow yesterday in- dicated that the situation had not become worse.

AT NANKING.

Mr. Philip Snowden, Labour.

Member.

5,000 Men From First Army Arrive.

Nanking, Yesterday.

A part of the 2nd division of

while criticising the application of the provisions relating to plural votes in respect of property the University franchise. Cheers and Laughter.

•

"

If the repor-

His Honour did not want to find a 1906, and two years later, in mov- In the face of official secrecy, the small amount of damages to ex-ing the official Opposition amend-reporter is only able to give the cuse what happened. It seemed to ments to the Licensing Bill on the story of the escape as he has been His Honour that if the similar second reading, his reply to Mr. able to gather it. action had been proved against Asquith made his Parliamentary

Serious Charge.

The story of the encape, as the "China Mail" man was able to con- struct it, is as follow:-

Chan Tim's cell was located in

Near New Building. Behind Mr. Franks' office, a new building is in the course of con- struction. It is at present in the "skeleton," which is to say that three of its outer walls are up to its full height. One of the walls of the building, with barred windows, is built on top of an old retaining wall which separates the prison a professional man it would be reputation. In November, 1915, The escaped prisoner is a man and the police barracks, a narrow sufficient cause for striking his when Lord Carson resigned the named Chan Tim who was yester lane running between the two. name off of any roll,

Attorney-Generalship and Lord day remanded by Mr. W. Schofield At the Magistracy end of this His Honour's judgment would Birkenhead succeeded him. Mr.at the. Kowloon Magistracy on a | lane are the police detention cells be for plaintiff against all defen- Cave was selected to fill the charge of murder and robbery, attached to the Central Folice Sta dants with costs, damages to be vacancy, and received the honour and was sent over to Victoria Jail tion chargeroom, whilst the other $250, the order being joint of knighthood. In the following to be confined in the "remand" cell end of the land is shut off by a low against all the defendants. year, when Mr. Lloyd George until the next hearing.

wall on the other side of which is formed his War Cabinet, Lord!

The story of the robbery, it may the Old Balley. Cave became Home Secretary, be remembered, was reported in and held that office till his eleva- these columns early this week.. tion to the Bench. He was a member of the Royal Commission

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THE OBSERVER.”

TWO PRINTING PRESSES

WANT MONEY.

CASES ADJOURNED.

Four Chinese men engaged a

her

Scaffolding.

The new building" had scaffold- on the inside of Its

on Land Transfer, 1908-9; chair-sampan at the Mongkok Ferry ings man of the Southern Rhodesia wharf to row them out to the junk "shell," and the "old block" in which Commission, 1919-20; chairman anchorage. In the sampan at the Chan Tim's cell was is on the of the Munitions Inquiry Tri-time were the mistress of the craft other side of the new building, and not more than three yards away The case in which the Local bunal, 1921; chairman of the and her two small sons.

Scaffolding was also Printing Press aues "The Observer Committee on Voluntary Hos- When the boat was in midstream, from it.

erected against the "old block" for Publishing Company and Others" pitals, 1921; and president of the the robbers suddenly produced a for $217.40 was mentioned in the Committee appointed in 1921 by revolver and daggers and asked the the purpose of carrying out repairs Summary Court this morning when the Minister of Labour to inquire boat woman for money. In

the to the roof, Mr. Owen appeared for plaintiffs. into the working and effects of struggle which ensued for

Luck favoured Chan Tim in that His Honour asked Mr. Marton, the Trade Boards Acts,

keys, the sampan was capsized and there was a small hole in the roof who had represented the defendant} Viscount Cave died at the age all its occupants thrown into the of his cell. Climbing up to this when the case was mentioned be- of 71 years.

hole, by means of a, rope he made The Commons by 387 votes to fore, if he, now represented de- He is succeeded as Lord Chan-

out of his blankets, Chan Tim cellor by Sir Douglas Hogg, the

Other sampons in the vicinityqueezed through and gained the

roof. Then he Mr. Marton replied in the nega Attorney-General.

succeeded in rescuing the woman scaffolding and gained the lane be and her younger son, but the elder tween the "old block" and the new boy was not seen again. He was building, drowned, at the next day his body was recovered from the harbour.

After her rescue, the sampan

Thousands of refugees have gone into Swatow from up-coun- the 1st Nationalist Army, number-and try and trade is practically at a ling some 5,000 men, have arrivedį standstill.

here from Shanghai, with field) Poning is the base from which guns. the Communists have been oper- ating eastward, in the direction of Swatow.

Retreat in Disorder.

10 defeated a motion for the re-fendant. 'jection of the women's franchise

Large quantities of ammunition bill, which was read a second time tive. have been sent across the Yang-lamid loud cheers and laughter.- tsze from Nanking to Pukow.-Bri- Reuter.

tish Naval Wireless.

(Note: The 1st Army was ori-

Wailoy and Chiuyeung, the lat-ginally commanded by Chiang Kai- ter at the head of Haimun Bay, shek in person, who turned it over have fallen to the Reds. The Can-to his henchman, Ho Ying-chin, ton Government troops who were from whom he recently took it defeated in this locality were the back to give somebody else who is first to bring the news into now, apparently carrying out hie Swetow, whence they retreated in commands to join the expedition). disorder.

Swatow is separated from Wai- loy and Chiuyeung by Haimun Bay but the Reds can make a fairly easy bid for Chiuchow

nected by railway.

The country is by no means impassable. Capture of Chiu- chow will spell disaster for Swatow and, incidentally, for all British and other foreign pro perty there.

Li Tsung-jen.

AMOY TROUBLE.

Latest About Anti-Japanese Boycott.

His Honour: You have no further Instructions?

Mr. Marton: No

His Honour suggested an ad- Journment for fourteen days. It was no use fixing a 'date in the ab- sence of Mr. Haynes, the defendant, in respect of whom he had received a letter. This was handed to Mr. Owen.

$1,000 CLAIM.

MR. HAYNES SUES MR. BREWER.

ORDER. FOR PARTICULARS.

harbour.

Boy Drowned.

slid

down the

Dash Across Lane.. Dashing across the fane uk noticed, Chan Tim gained the shel- ter of the new building. Picking his way through it, the prisoner came to the outer wall. He climb- "I have searched my memory for the wall and down the other, and ed up the scaffolding on one side of three years," said Mr. Brewer, "and then dropped noislessly into the

for particulars to be filed before he (defendant) came up again.

dom.

Last Event!!

Mr. Owen eald the case had been!

In the Course of this morning's have no recollection of having lace behind the police barracks. delayed some time already, He Hankow, Yesterday.

Amoy, Yesterday. understood that there was a refer-case-fixing. session in the Summary employed the plaintiff in any capa- Turning to the left, Chan Tim ran The Chinese-Japanese situation ence to the case being settled when Court, the case was mentioned in city whatsoever. My only state-along the whole length of the lane, General Li Tsung-jen has arriv-here has improved, but is still it was called before, but no attempt

which Mr. La E. Haynes Bues Mr.ment le that I don't know what it is and scaling the law, wall at the ed here-British Naval Wireless.

had been made by the defendant to N. Brewer for work alleged to about. To the best of my belief it far end, he dropped into the Old (Note: General Li is a native of

dangerous. which is 20 miles inland from Kwangsi, like Marshal Li Chai-sum working. Anti-Japanese pickets gone into hospital. The case was to have been supplied. The sum of His Honour indicated that heBailey, and thus gained his free-

The port is open and ships are settle it Mr. Haynes had now have been done and materials alleged is merely imagination." Swatow and to which it is con-of Canton. He went from Nanking have been withdrawn by the Chin-an ordinary claim for work done. $1,000" is claimed, "

about rapprochement between the martial law. to Hankow, supposedly to bring ese authorities, who are enforcing He suggested the case be put into

would adjourn the case sine dle and Plaintif was not present.

he would indicate to the plaintiff an Chiang Kai-shek.) Kwangsi Generals there and

next Thursday's list and Mr.

Correspondence was handed to order that he was to set out a full The labour unions are dissatis- Haynes might then be present. Mr. Brewer bearing on Mr. Haynes' statement of claim and fle it. After The last jall-breaking sensation fied and the boycott will continue, His Honour accended to Mr. non-appearance. compelling the Japanese to un- Owen's request.

that had been done, on plaintiff's occurred just over a load their own cargo.

Mr. Brewer said that for the last application, His Honour would have March 1, 1927, to be, Mr. A el Arcull represented week bo had been in Heungshan Mr. Brewer served again with the the Derby Day of the the district around Shasi-British last night, and several windows of Asiatic Press sued the Observer ed and it was very important that it was arranged the

Jockey Club's annual There was some stone-throwing plaintiffs in a case in which the where a new branch was being open- notice.

On service The only barrier between Swa-Naval Wirelesa. tow and the Communist horde is (Note Shash is on the upper Japanese residences as well as one Publishing Company, proprietars he should be there for two or three should be on the Manager. the line of troops sent out from Yangtze, 287 miles above Hankow, shop front were broken, the of the Hong Kong Observer, and weeks to come. He had had to Instone Brewer Banking Cor Swatow, consisting of ill-equipped It is controlled by a General act Japanese owner of the shop being others, for $225

Heave on Wednesday in order to be tion in Mr. Brewer s Mr. Arculli wal, also shown cor- present in Court that morning. He His Honour informed men, mostly former guerillas who ing in conjunction with the Kwang-

manhandled by students, have at one time, or

To-day there are pamphlets respondence by His Honour and could not instruct a solicitor with that he need take no other been group). -handits... Dielosis itu amana.

everywhere, but no disorder the case was put into next Thurs, out knowledge of the case and he of the mater

Business Held Up.

Bandits at Shasi.

Shaal, Yesterday Bandits are extremely active in