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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932.

RIOTING BELFAST MOBS LOOT CITY AND

JAPAN DENIES

ALLEGED PLAN

SET FREE

STREET GUN-FIGHTS FINANCIER FOR ALLIANCE CAUSE CASUALTIES

Reported Pact With CROWDS CRY FOR BREAD

AS FURY SPREADS

France Refuted.

RUMOUR IN LONDON.

Tokyo, To-day!

The Foreign Office cate gorically denies the report which appears in London newspapers to the effect that Japan has approached France with the suggestion of

protection. mutual alliance, -Reuter,

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The rumour of this step on the part of Japanese diplomats caused considerable agitation in Europe. It had been suggested previously that Japan had offer ed France her support in the League of Nations in the matter of Germany's demand for equal-! ity of armaments in return for French sympathy towards the Manchuria policy of the Tokyo Foreign Office..

A NIGHT OF TERRORISM

BELFAST, TO-DAY.

BY GREECE

Samuel Insull Can't Be

Detained.

NO EXTRADITION TREATY.

Athens, To-day.

Samuel Insull, venerable and patriarchal wizard of the finance world, head of the gigantic and now supposedly bankrupt Insull enterprise, is again free of the law's clutches. Arrested here on advices from Washington, he was liberated within 24 hours, for authorities decided that there

FOLLOWING SEVERE RIOTS, A NIGHT OF PANIC AND ALARMS, DURING WHICH MOBS SET FIRES AND LOOTED SHOPS AND FOUGHT A SORT OF GUERILLA WAR WITH POLICE, THE CITY 19 UNDER THE IRON GRIP OF A SPECIAL- LY MOBILISED POLICE FORCE AND IS PATROLLED BY was no legal warrant for detain- ARMOURED CARS,

Three were killed and 25 wounded in a riot of unemployed last night, when a mob, having fired on police, was dispersed by a volley from the guns of the officers.

Over 2,000 police, assisted by armoured cars, patrolled the city throughout the night and a cordon of guards was thrown about the municipal limits prohibiting the entrance of any person during the

hours of darkness,

A few days before this report became common knowledge; France had signified her inten- A curfew order was passed tion of standing with the League and the streets must be cleared of Nations and condemning any after 11 o'clock at night and un- the morning. A act of aggression in Manchuria til five in It was felt in some quarters that Police Court was specially con- Japan's overture was to be ex-vened at midnight to remand 40 pected, and in view of the Euro- rioters in custody.

The precautions are being pean crisis over armaments, it was hinted in some quarter that taken in consequence of the ser France might accept the condi-ous unemployment riots. There

Router. tions. -

Stocks Rally

were numerous minor clashes be- tween the jobless and police, and the culmination was the firing of shots by demonstrators, to which coctables replied. The mob was scattered, but not without ca-

In New York saities.

Recovery Registered By Many Issues.

New York, To-day.

Rapid Spread.

An orgy, of rioting and looting lasted in Belfast the whole day long. The trouble originated at an unemployed men's démonstra- tlon, called out of dissatisfaction

The Stock Market recovered with the rates paid men employed sharply to-day, gains of from on special relief schemes. The three to five points were com- authorities" replied by prohibiting

The turn-over mon.

was demonstrations and mobilising 1,800,000.

hundreds of police, armed with Yesterday's break saw leading batons and loaded revolvers. The issues slumping heavily, but the demonstrators finding their inten-| reaction to-day re-established tions thwarted, responded by ston- the majority on their formering the police, who were busy the level.

whole day dispersing the prohibit ed gatherings.

CREWS RETURN

TO LINERS AS

Trouble spread rapidly and as- sumed the most threatening aspect in Balls Road," where police snip- ed at with revolvers, returned the

STRIKE ENDS fire. An onlooker was killed and

several others were shot during the evening when shops were loot Seamen's Demands Alled, windows shattered, trams and

Are Satisfied.

FOUR SHIPS DELAYED:

Marseilles, To-day.

buses attacked, and drivers and conductors injured. Repeated police charges had only a tempor- ary effect on the crowds, in which women were mingled,

There were many

terrific on- slaughts, in which stones, clube

The shipping strike which de- and any sort of weapon, were used Jayed four liners of the Mes-freely. sageries Maritimes, has been ended. The' demands of the sea-

Mob Subdued.

ing him. The instruments for ratification of the Greco-Ameri- can Extradition Treaty have not yet been exchanged.

Insull fled from Paris when word of the search by American authorities for him and his as sociates first reached him. He vanished over the Italian fron-

tier, was traced to Rome, "to Greece — and always he was a jump ahead of the snatching hand of the law. Finally he sur- rendered in Athens, and prob-

would not be held.

100 Bandits In ably knew at the time that he

Looting Raid

Volunteers Active Near

Andachan.

JAPANESE TROOP TRAIN BLOWN UP.

Harbin, To-day. The Chinese Eastern Railway authorities learn that A hundred bandita raided and looted Hengtao- hotze and captured twelve Railway employees.

Telegraphic communică- tion with Tsitsihar has been restored, but the train ser vice westward to Tentsao- kan is still impossible to run, owing to the concentration of large forces of volunteers in the vicinity of Andachan.

According to Japanese in.. formation, a Japanese troop train on the Huliai Railway was mined and blown up be tween Suiliwa and Hulan: There are hitherto no details concerning the casualties. Renter.

VALUABLE PLANES.

LÖST IN FIRE

Ten Destroyed In Fairey Factory,

London, To-day, Over £100,000 worth of the world's fastest service seaplanes

Receiver Appointed.

New York To-day. A receiver to the Ineull Utili- ties Investment Incorporated; now bankrupt, published the names of seven syndicates, com- prising 1,800 individuals and companies, who were given pre- ferred opportunities for under- writing the various issues of In-

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BATTLE WITH POLICE

The keeping of penguins is the latest hobby of Commander Tom- Hinson, of the Old Barn Tea Rooms, Hildenborough, Kent, and proves a. „grest attraction to visitors, as the antics of these quaint aquatie; birds

ars distinctly› amusingăti

Such a disdainful air. This tiny tois coaxing is without avail, the penguin «family refuse to join him in the water.

GOVERNMENT INTERVENES IN COTTON DISPUTES.

Invites Parties to Confer in1 Manchester,

London, To-day. The Ministry of Labour has again intervened in the cotton industry dispute, and has invited representatives of the parties concerned to meet in Manchester to

morrow.

A representative of the Minister of Labour will pre- side and, it is believed, will offer "some suggestions which it is hoped may lead to an understanding. Reuter.

Passage Found

In Arctic Seas

ROYALIST

COUP FEARED

IN GERMANY

Government Declared Behind Movement.

GREAT ARMY PREPARED.

Berlin, Today

which

The extraordinary story of a Government plot to re- store the monarchy; in Ger- many, is related in to-day's issue of the Berlin “ paper. "Vorwaerts " declares that it can "that Crown Prince Willia had told his friends that and President von Hinder burg, Chance.or you Papin and the vetaran General või Shleicher were united in a policy of Royalist. re-estab

lishment.

abinoga This sensational and highly colourful story is fearlessly related

Ice Breaker Plunges Through Alone.

Moscow, To-day.

"A Northeast Passage,”

and is scornful of contradiction.

It follows, too, upon the heels,

other tales of Royalist endeavour,

and bears out the theory that

but Hohenzollerns have not abandoned.

President - von

denburg”

not the mythical ship lane at hope of succeeding once again the top of the world which early the Imperial throne. navigators sought and imagined, has been charted by a Soviet steamer, pressing from the White Sea to the Pacific in a single sum- mer season.

For the first time in history this feat of navigation has been accomplished.

The ice-breaker, the SibiriaTM kov, after losing her propeller, drifted with free ice into the Behring Straits, and under sall and escorted by a tug, completed

sull Middle West utilities and EARL OF PLYMOUTH her adventure.

stocks amounting to G$200,000,- 1000.000

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MARSHAL'S MARINES TO LEAVE CHEFOO.

General Lin Defending Besieged Town.

NAMED TO POST.

Succeeds Sir Robert Hamilton,

London, Today

sage,"

declares theż tends to readg moment and

„Lormer Genwa as Regestat Prince would be army of Bavarians ́and

The originators of the Royalist plot are determined to fight if

Becessary.

Although a "Northwest Fas

Rupert An AlN among the rugged,-rock-

Crown Prince Rümert ing islands of the far Canadian has, according to North, is known to exist, it has agreed to the never been considered as a pos- to become ruler of sible lane for commerce. It Kingdom on the same- claimed the lives of many ex- Crown Prince become plorers before it was finally mas- Berlin,

While the Government

The Secretary for the Colonies, tered. For the most part, both Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, has ap- these "passages" are ice-bound; the story is a pure fument pointed the Earl of Plymouth, Far- and the dangers of ice, in sum-imagination, there are ma Chefoo, To-day, liamentary Under-Secretary for the mer, are large. Reuter. Arrangements have been made Coloniest to succeed Sir Robert

Shantung Trouble.

by which the troops of Ning Show Hamilton as Chairman of the Col llen, a subordinate of General Han onial Advisory Council of Agricul Fu-chu, will enter Chefco on Fri-ture and Animal Health day, when Marshal Chang Hsueh- Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, is the liang's marines will be withdrawn second Earl of Plymouth and 15th General Liu Chen-nien is still Baron Windsor, and was born in beleaguered in the town of Lai 1899, From 1918 to 1919 he was chow-Reuter.

member for West St. Pancras oth the London County Counell, and Peiping, To-day. Conservative M.P. for the Ludlow Prospects of an early settlement Division of Shropshire from. 1922 of the Shantung dispute have been to 1928. In 1928 he was appoint- egasiderably darkened by the de- ed. Lord Leutenant of Glamorgan claration of General Han Fa-chu and was Captain of the Gentlemen that he will not rest for a-aingle at Arms from 1925 to 192 day until he has removed General January to June, 1929,

Under-Se Liu Chen-nien from Shantunglamen

Dominion Affairs, Reuter

were destroyed in a fire at the 19th Route Army Heroes

Fairey Aviation Company's factory men have been met by the com- Police, at one time during the

"which" rioting, appeared on the point of near Southampton, pany.

SUAL

The four liners involved, carry-being overpowered, but assistance practically gutted to-day. Only one cars gradually of the ten machines in the hangars ing many passengers, will sail from armoured

foreed the rioters up side streete was saved Ret to-morrow,

The liners abandoned in Mar and alleys, where a sort of seillea were the Explorateur, perilla warfare ensued, men and women shoutingWe must have Grandidier, Champolliion and the bread." Lamartine.

The Messagerien endeavoured

After

give the report serious thought

Crown Prince Rupert, one of

REPUBLICAN PARTY staunchest of the Steelbelmets,

HEARS COOLIDGE.

Rebuts Argument For Reduced Tariff.

· MR. BORAH ON DEBTS,

New York, To-day. At a Republican Party rally held in the Madison Square Car dens to-day Mr. Calvin Coolidge, supported by President Hoover, for rebutted the argument that a re-

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