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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1931.

HERD INSTINCT AND THE FOREIGNER

Deeply Rooted Prejudice. That

Yet Persists.

THE UNFRIENDLY BEASTS.

An Amusing Incident in the Antwerp.

Zoological Gardens.

Strange how deeply rooted is the instinct that the foreigner is an enemy and that anyone or any thing that is unusual should be shunned. It dates from ancient, dangerous days and is so strong

it.

manoeuvres and then turned to find something of greater inter- est. In the front part of the en- closure was a fine lime tree in full foliage. Its lower branches had been browsed by the other

IMBROGLIO IN MANCHURIA.

No Settlement Yet Reached.

IN DIRECT OPPOSITION,

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

WEEK-END TROUBLE

SERIOUS.

Murder of a Japanese Family.

ANGRY - MOBS.

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED

IN CHINA MAIL.

Entertainments. To-day King's Theatre;

Theatre;

Today Central Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre:

"The Love Parade."

Geneva, Saturday.

Kowloon, which until Satur- No fresh developments occur- day morning, had been practical-"Forbidden Adventure." red to-day in the Sino-Japanese ly immune from trouble of a To-day Queon's conflict, both sides firmly main-serious nature, was the scene of "The Devil to Pay." taining their positions. The wanton rioting in the after. Chinese insist on the appoint-noon. By nightfall the position ment of a Commission of Inquiry assumed such alarming propor- composed of neutrals appointed tiens that the aid of the Military by the League Council, while was requisitioned, and squads the Japanese on the other hand of soldiers were soon patrolling absolutely oppose such a course the streets and assisting the which they declare will only police in keeping order. complicate matters.

Japanese Assaulted in Peking Street.

·

To-day - Majestle

The Laughing Lady."

Today - Star The Bishop Murder Case.""

Home Matie, To-morrow-Outward for Europe

via Marseilles (Porthos), 1.80 pm.: for Europe via Siberia (Pre-

The Japanese ask: "Why does the Chinese Government abandon Early in the afternoon a Japan-sident Hoover), 4.30 p.m. the original proposal to the Japanese was removed to the Kowloon ese Minister at Nanking for dir- Hospital suffering from a frac

ment."

Lammerts' Auctione. To-morrow At ~29A,

Peking.

St.

ect negotiations? Japan has tured skull. He came by his in- Building, Nathan Road, Kowloon, that it defles and outdoes the de-beasts, but for the long-necked already declared that she is pre-jury as the result of a fracas household furniture, 10.30 nm. sire for change and novelty. We camel there was dainty green-pared to negotiate a settlement with a group of Chinese work- Wednesday At 3, Kent Road, all know persons who would love stuffed well within reach. Ho to have something new but, dare sauntered beneath the tree and direct with the Chinese Govern- men in Peking Road. Some little Kowloon Tong, household furni

time later a Japanese gentleman,ture, 10.30 am.. not put on a new fashion unless began cropping large mouthfuls.

The view held in Chinese who was walking with his wife

Meetings. they are quite certain that at The amazement of the other

To-morrow Hong Kong least ten thousand other persons was comical to see. They all won- circles is that if the request for and a child, one year old, was

a Commission of Inquiry is set savagely attacked by an angry Andrew's Society annual meeting, will wear something exactly like thered how on earth he managed aside confidence in the League of mob of Chinese numbering some City Hall, 5.15 p.m.

The herd instinct the to do it, and such was their Nations will be seriously com-three thousand. All three were Wednesday-Hong Kong Amuse dread of anything strange is curiosity, that all except the re-

badly beaten up. A baton chargements, Ltd., Queen's Theatre, nocn. deeply rooted not only in man but indeer came cautiously up to

It is not expected that the by the police relieved the ten- October B-Hong Kong Horticul- in the lower animals. How deep see. ly among the beasts I recently None of them approved, and Council will take a final decision sion, and the Japanese trio were tural Society, Jardine, Matheson saw most amusingly in the Ant- they showed this by much foot-before Monday or Tuesday.

Home Press Views. werp Zoological Gartlens.. stamping. But the camel brown-

Here there is a very large ened on, regardless of their pro closure laid out as a sandy desert scattered with rocks, with a cliff on either side in which are com-

promised.

London, Saturday. The Times, in an editorial, congratulates the League of Nations on the good work done towards the settling of the Sino- Japanese conflict, and adds that there clearly is danger that the

removed to the hospital.

Canton Road Incident.

Co.'s Board Room, 5.15 p.m.

October 9-Hong Kong and Can- ton Ice Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 2 Lower Albert Road, 10.45 a.m.

tests. At last a baby yak, filled with chiklish curiosity, boldly sullied forth from the yak ranks fortable, caves full of straw and and approached the camel alone. fodder. In this pleasant dwell- No one prevented him. All ing-place dwell many beasts, watched his progress. Nearer There was a herd of some fifteen and nearer he drew, and still the League's action may encourage of a European officer, who was unscathed, in spite of the down-

reindeer.

The lordly stag bad the biggest head of horns I ever saw on living beast and swayed his unwieldy headgear in fine style. There was a herd, too, of yaks

camel browsed. After a pause, the baby decided to approach the camel in the rear and made a large circuit. Finally it arrived

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near that by stretching its

challenge the internationally re- important factors in China to cognised rights of the Japanese in South Manchuria.

The Chinese Government will

of a

A more serious affair, during which ten Japanese were rescued by a patrol of police from Talm Tsa Tsui, occurred in Canton Road at about 6 pm. With the missles the two. vehicles went aid

Fire Engine from through the crowd at a terrific Mongkok, under the supervision speed and luckily came through

ceedings, the crowd was quickly the roofs. slightly injured during the pro- pour of stones from people on dispersed, without any casualties.

serious

From then on reports of seri-

'Buses Commandeered. Buses were commandeered to

ened areas, also for taking in- jured, mon back to the barracks,

the shaggy bull a pon- neck it sniffed the camel's hock. / be ill-advised if it mistook sym-; ous rioting rained in thick and convey the troops to the threat-

The camel felt the tickling, pathy for partisanship and fail-fast from the various districts. thought it was a fly, and delivered to take serious steps to reach

derous imposing monster. There was a flock of slim brown Ikunas, some lively common goats, and live remarkable fat-tailed Afri- can sheep, snow white with coal black heads and necka.

All these creatures were min- gled together in perfect harmony, here lying and chewing the end, there begging broad from visit- ors or picking up the hay heaped

for them. The youngsters can-

tered about, leapt and played, and butted one another frivolously.

The Little Camel.

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Japanese Treaty Rights Questioned.

Nanking. Saturday. Referring to the Japanese War

ed mighty backward kiek a general settlement with Japan. without looking round. It caught the baby yak on his little snout. He fled full speed, and all the other beasts turned and fled too-Minister's statement that Japan

Later in the day I found thạt the bored and lonely camel had esters every lenf within reach. and was occupying the front of the enclosure in solitary glory. All the other beasts were crowd al at the other end.

A few days Inter the first fear

• Suddenly this pence was of the camel had worn off, but no broken. Two keepers appeared one associated with him. If he coming along the outer path. ate from a hay heap, the ether They opened the rate of the en-Leasts all ate from another. He closure and led in a camel' awas not molested and he molest- very tame little brown camel noted no one, for he was a gentle much more than a babe himself. little camel and liked to be patted He was shy and reluctant to join by human beings. But he was such a party of strangers and still to the other beasts a foreign

But the keepers hung back. arged him in, slipped out of the gate, closed it, and left him. Vainly he begged his human friends not to desert him, and an- xiously he trotted alongside of them till they turned the corner

and disappeared. Then he

lonely little stranger-turned to face the old inhabitants.

His advent had had an instan- taneous effect upon them, In a moment the animals, who had been all mixed up, sorted them selves out into species and each set took what it considered to be protective measures..

was entitled to maintain fifteen soldiers per kilometre of the South Manchuria Railway, or a total of 16,500, whereas the ac- tual number was only 14,000, a Foreign Office spokesman to day asserted that the Japanese troops already in Manchuria are reported to be in excess by two divisions, this excluding those from Korea and the Japanese Volunteers, the whole aggregat ing at least 50,000.

Yaumati Shops Looted. After several spasmodic out- bursts at Yaumati, the incensed mob, growing every minute in numbers, turned its attention to Yaumati suffered badly at the Mougkok. Shops and stores in hands of the pillagers. Japanese goods were thrown out into the street, and huge bonfires lit. At one stage, shortly before 9 p.m. it seemed as though Nathan Road, in the vicinity of the Majestic Theatre, would be at- tacked, but the police patrols managed to keep the mob at bay.

Shot Fired at Police,

A shot was fired from a revol- ver somewhere in the vicinity, The Foreign Office spokesman the bullet going dangerously Sergeant A. pointed out that Japan's title is near to Police apparently based on Article 1 of Gascon, of the Police Reserve, the additional articles of the and Sergeant Clarke. Portsmouth Treaty of 1905, He reminded me of poor old wherein Japan and Russin re- Frenchman I once knew who set-served the right to maintain rail- led in a Sussex village in the way guards not exceeding fifteen days when strangers there were per kilometre, a rarity. He had been a theatri-

er.

A Frenchman in Sussex.

cal costumier,, and explained to

e that he had settled in this

The spokesman also poluted put that while China acquiesced provisions of the in certain

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The LP.G. (Hon. Mr. E. Đ.U Wolfe, C.M.G.) arrived at Yau-. mati Police Station at about 10.15 p.m.

area.

Brutal Murder. Kowloon City fared almost as badly as the central Crowds of Chinese moved around, inciting the people to pillage.. Strict watch was kept by the police, but, in spite of all pre- cautions, a terrible crime was en- acted at Tsang Foo Villas, An incensed mob, numbering over ∙1,000, attacked one of the houses occupied by Japanese, and gain ing admittance, brutally murder- man, and ed a woman and a seriously injured five children, Several arrests were made in

connection with the affair. The crowd was finally dispersed with a baton charge.

Four of the children have

Inspector Evans Seriously Injured. Events then moved rapidly and, in the Mongkok district, the since died.

crowd made terrible havoc. Sub-

{ spot because it was so much like Portsmouth Treaty she has never ing from a wound in the head,

as such its additional articles. Moreover, Article 2 of the an-

recognised the Treaty nor

a rustic scene in which peasants had danced in some long forgot ten play. He hummed the tune they had sung. To make the scene yet more like he erected an elaborate and beautiful pergola of roses which his neighbours re- The reindeer, after staring hor-garded as something uncanny similarly.

nex to the Peking Treaty of 1905 stipulates that in the event of Russia withdrawing her railway guards, Japan consents to act Therefore, since the

Riot Act Read, The Kowloon Magistrate (Mr. Fraser) was obliged to read the Riot Act to the crowd.

Inspector Evans, in charge of the Mongkok Police Station, was injured, and had to be removed to the Kowloon Hospital, suffer-

On the Island. On the island affairs were caused by a stone thrown by a fairly serious throughout Satur rioter. Few members of the day, Wanchai being the hot Police Force escaped without a bed of the agitators. During the cut, a bruise or other injury morning, several ugly incidents sustained while charging the took place. A Japanese. youth, crowds...

|named M. Sukai, received a nasty Highlanders on Patrol Duty. wound on the forehead from a Patrols of the Argyll and stone thrown by a Chinese youth.

rified at the new comer, decided | "Not the way roses had ought to Russian Guards have all been Sutherland Highlanders picketed The youth was captured, and on withdrawn, and Chinese troops part of valour, and though they offensive, and did his best to have undertaken the protection and more than once were obliged att mat was made to release formed the biggest herd in the tame the Sussex peasants by of the Chinese Eastern Railway to charge in order to disperse him. Fortunately this was frus- |

of Japanese enclosure the does neatly collect-growing black-currants and make the continuance ed their young in front f thing therefrom some excellent troops in Manchuria is absolute- angry crowds. and, together with the mighty Cassis, a glass of which he offer-ly without legal basis or treaty

He sanction.

stag, retired to the farthest cor-ed to anyone who called.

face the possible danger.

the children; was a good custom-

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trated by Sergeant Goldsmith, who was following, and another arrest made..

Shop in Johnstone Road Hansacked.

Motorisis Run the Gauntlet. The position at Shamshuipo was no better than the neigh- bouring districts. A crowd of about 5,000 Chinese gathered in Lai Chi Kok Road, and commenc

A shop was raided in John. ments has been practically re-ed to advance towards the police

station. The mob was armedstone Road, and the mob, after When I talked French with him moved, but anxiety is increasing

A tearing down the shutters, pro and he replied, a ploughboy friend over the situation on the Yang with stone and bamboos.

cordon of soldiers stretched cceded to ransack the premises. of mine was as much astonished taze.

The Minister for the Navy, across the road held them up. Police Fire on Queen's Road Mob, as was the baby yak when the camel browsed the tree.

At this stage, in order to enable a motor car and a motor-cycle to pase, the soldiers were ordered to charge with fixed bayonets. Running the gauntlet of flying

reporting on the China situation to the Cabinet this morning, is quoted as saying:

"The districts under Canton and Chang Hsueh-liang ́are comparatively quiet, but the

ner, leaving the other beasts to made wreaths and nosegays for Anxiély on the Yangtsze.

Tokyo, Saturday, With the exception of Harbin The black and white sheep or to the local farmers, but he made a remarkable display. They was always the foreigner"Mun-apprehension of further develop drew up in a quite straight line | seer." with military precision and all stamped their feet with fine de- fiance. After waiting a few mo ments, as the camel took no no- tice whatever of their demon stration, they all stamped again.

"I'm sure," said he "it be Having thus, as it were, made good of you to talk all that non their protest to the League of sense to him." Nor would he be Nations, they too retired cautious-lieve that what we spoke ly, preserving their military for- wae a comprehensible language. mation. The yaks drew up "Fancy furriners, not knowing in a semicircle with the bull at how to talk proper,” was all he one end and the calves in the said. middle: They, too, stamped and Munseer lived there for years, did a good deal of snorting and a lonely life save when friends did not retire, but held a strate- came from London and he made a gic position on some rocks. The little feast and they "all talked llamas, massed together irregu nonsense together." He remain-beasts in the enclosure did not Tarly, did not seem frightened buted to the end a strange heast fall upon the camel and rendal

the camel in the enclosure, him. The Sussex peasants did How long will it be before the not "heave half a brick!" at Mun- League of Nations can overcome scer. They tolerated him. the intangible mysterious, im- So perhaps the first steps to penetrable wall formed by herd words surmounting the barrier instinct? It is hard to say. But have been taken. Let us hope so. there is room for hope. TheM. E. Durham.

rather suspicious. Perhaps they recognised the camel as a very, distant cousin? The goats kept at a discreet distance and eyed the new-comer inquisitively.

The camel stared for a time with bored contempt at these

and commenced

to

An angry mob collected in Queen's Road East at, about 9.30 p.m. stone a Japanese shop. Arriv ing on the scene the police were compelled to fire on the Chinese

provinces under the Central ed from several reliable sources who had adopted a threatening Government are becoming, in-that Japanese neroplanes ma attitude. creasingly dangerous.”

Trains Machine-Ganned.

Peking, Saturday.

A report acems to be confirm

chine-gunned at least thrçe Firing Has Salutary Effect, trains during the past two or Sergeant Harris received a three days carrying refugees nasty wound on the hand. He from Mukden to Tientsin. One fired at a rioter and wounded train, on which were foreigners, him. Two shots were also fired had two Chinese killed and sever by P. C, Drury resulting in the

others wounded.

wounding of two Chinese males Nanking Most Depressed,

and a Chinese passer-by who re- Nanking, Saturday.

ceived a bullet in his ankle. The capital is most depressed This shooting put an end to at the news of the League of all demonstrations in the neigh- Nations' decision not to take fur-bourhood, and by midnight quiet ther action in regard to the Man reigned and there was no sign of churian situation-Reuter.

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