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大英七月十號 禮拜五

·中華民國辛未年五月廿五日

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931.

CHINESE CONSULATE LABOUR MEETS WITH BANDIT OUTRAGE IN

INTACT.

..

Report of Its Destruction Disbelieved.

SEOUL NOW QUIET.

NEW OPPOSITION.

Lords Reject Clauses of Reform Bill.

PLURAL VOTING.

London, Yesterday.

SHEUNG SHUI.

Carpenter Returns from Captivity.

NO NEWS OF MERCHANT.

Tokyo, To-day.

More light is thrown on the aert- Nothing is known officially or The Government's Electoral sational bandit outrage, which oc- unofficially of the destruction of Reform Bill threatens to emerge curred at Sheungshul in the New the Chinese Consulate in Seoul. from the hands of the House of Territories in the early hours of On the contrary, the latest de- Lords severely tattered. Their yesterday, when 24 men, armed spatches, indicate that the situa-Lordships to-night struck out a with rifles and revolvers, mada an tion is quietening, and, therefore, clause which abolishes the busi-attack on the recently constructed the report is disbelieved.

ness premises qualification, with residence of Mr. Foo Chung-tak, a the exception of the City of Lon-retired merchant, who took up re- Peking, Yesterday. don, and rejected a clause to sidence there only a day before the According to unconfirmed abolish plural voting and remove outrage. Chinese despatches, a Korean restriction on the use of motor mjob again attacked, and sacked cars at Parliamentary elections, and destroyed the Chinese Con-Reuter. sulate at Seoul, inflicting casual-

ties

Earlier News.

on 500 Chinese who were ]||||||||||||||||FRÆÐI taking refuge. there.

The Chinese Consul-General, STOP

Mr.. Chang Wei-cheng, has taken

refuge in the office of the Gov ernor-General of Keren.

Chinese Retaliating.

Tokyo, Yesterday, Although the general situation

appears to be improving,

numer-

outs cases of Chinese retaliating against Koreans are reported in Antung:

:

The situation in Fusan appears still to be crical and a number of clashes have occurred in the streets. Fourteen Koreans have been arrested.

Korean Early this morning à, mob of nine hundred, taking ad- vantage of the shortage of police; stormed Chinese piecegoods shops and restaurant on Makishima Island, opposite Fusan, destroyed the furniture and threw the piece- goods into the street.

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The police are reported to be- lieve that Communist activity is behind the outrages. Scores of suspects have been arrested.

The Chinese killed at Pingyang number 88, and in other places 11, according to the latest official des patch.

Press despatches report that several Japanese organisations in Korea are planning relief for the Chinese sufferers, while the of ficials

of Hejannando provinco and Pingyang city have decided to contribute a percentage of their salaries to the fund. Reuter.

NEW CHAIRMAN.

Successor to Late Sir Hugh Bell.

Rugby, Yesterday. At a meeting of the Directors of Dorman, Long and Company, the famous engineering firm which has fulfilled large contracts in many parts of the world, Mr. Charles Mitchell was elected Chairman' in succession to the late Sir Hugh |Bell.—British Wireless Service, 25.

MISSED HIS SHIP.

American Stranded in Colony

Edward Les Baker (24), an American subject, appeared before Mr. Williams this morning charged with being a vagrant in the Colony. He admitted the offence,

PRESS

Nanking, To-day.

Mr. C. T. Wang announced this morning that the situation in Korea was now under con- trol according to official re- ports and no more serious rioting was occurring.

The Minister stated that the Japanese Government had ex- pressed profound regret for the anti-Chinese riots and as- sured the Nanking Government that every effort would be. made to prevent further dis- turbances.

The Nanking Government is instructing the Chinese Am- bassador in Tokyo to proceed to Korea and investigate the conditions and report per- sonally to Nanking.

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Mr. Wang stated that the Wangpaoshan incident being of local character, would be settled by the Kirin Provincial Government-Reuter.

PAPAL ENCYCLICAL

SEQUEL.

Mussolini's First Shot in Reply. _ORDER_BY_GOVERNMENT.

Rome, Yesterday, Signor Mussolini's first shot in reply to the recent Papal Encycll- cal was fired to-day, with the issue to the Federal Secretaries of the Fascist Party of an order issued "by the Government and Duce," de- claring that from to-day member- ship of the Fascist Party and mem- bership of organisations depending from the Catholic Action Party, la frreconcilable.-Reuter,

.

[Signor. Mussolini himself was in dicted in all but name, and the Fascist oath condemned, as illicit, in a vigorous encyclical in which the Pope, in detail, defended the disbanded, Catholic Action organiss- tion, on July 4

-The Pontif declared that the charges against the organisation were merely a pretext to tear away. the young from the organisation and the Church. “This view - Is made all the more explicit by

one who not only representa all, but can do all, and confirms it in official

Det Bergeant C. Mottram said that Baker had missed his ship, the Tacoma, but the agents were ar ranging to have him placed on an and semi-official publications de-

It will be recalled that after threatening the inmates, the rob- bers fled in an unknown direction, taking with them Mr. Foo, 'Mr. Lau Sio-ping, his son-in-law, and a carpenter.

Demand for Ransom.

Newa circulated at Police Head- quarters to-day is to the effect that the carpenter returned from! captivity yesterday. The Police! are anxious to take a statement' from him, so as to give them a possible guide as. to what route the brigands took in their flight. Nothing is known of the merchant and his son-in-law as yet, but there is the likelihood of a demand being made by the robbers for ran- som,

The loot that they decamped with is estimated at a little over $4,000 in value,

Mr. Foo had resided in Hong Kong since the end of last year,

VALUABLE RUG.

Fetches 2,100 Guineas at Sale Room.

Rugby, Yesterday. At Christie's sale rooms to-day- a | 16th century Persian rug was sold : for 2,100 guineas and a Persian carpet of the same period fetched 3,800 guineas-British Wireless

Service.

FAIR TO SHOWERY.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states! The typhoon W, of the Balin- tang Channel has filled up.

The depression N. W. of Hanoi has deepened.

Forecast:-S.E. winds; mo- derate; fair to showery.

Typhoon Warning. The following telegram quet- ed below was received from the Manila Observatory at 11.35 am:-

Typhoon in about 116 de grees Long. E. 20 degrees Lat. N. moving W.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 am. to-day, 0.77 inch. Total since January 1-38.94 inches against an average of 42.82 inches deficit 8.88. Inches,

· Temperature.

The temperature at certatu specified contres this morning

· at 8 o'clock was:-

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