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AMOK IN SINGA- PORE.

ARMED MADMAN'S CHASE AFTER VICTIMS.

EIGHT PERSONS STABBED: ONE FATALLY,

INFLUENZA IN MANILA.

HEALTH AUTHORITIES FEAR EPIDEMIC.

MORE CASES. REPORTED.

Dr. L. Lopez Rizal, chief of the division on infectious diseases of the Philippine Health Service, in his weekly. report to the director

THE BOLSHEVIST BLIGHT:

DIRTY DILAPIDATED VLADIVOSTOCK.

BRITISH DOCTOR'S

EXPERIENCES.

Some experiences of Bolshevist of the Bureau of Health, warns of rule in Vladivostok were given in à possible outbreak of a serious an interview in Edinburgh by a influenza epidemic in Manila. Dr. British doutor, a graduate of in informs the directer that Edinburgh University, who recent during the week ending July 3rd,ly returned from the Far East. there have been reported more than Bolshevism, he observed, was only

SINGAPORE, July 3rd. Panic reigned for quite half an hour in High Street and North Bridge Road on Saturday afternoon. Shop-keepers on both sides of this busy shopping centre hurriedly put up their shutters, shoppers who had not sought refuge inside were mak-12 cases of influenza, two of whom to be interpreted in one phase, and died. This is the first time during that was deliberate attempt to ing haste from the vicinity and this year that so many influenza ruin Christendom, and in its place pedestrians fled in all directions, patients have been reported, he to put not a religious Judaism, but

says in the report.

while a madman armed with a blood- stained knife, with which he had nlready stabbed several people, stood enimly near the Japanese Commercial Muscum.

He was an amok, a Boyanese, to judge by his appearance. In some way or another he had possessed himself of a long knife, and with this he had for the last quarter óf, an hour been making blood- thirsty attacks on all and sundry who appeared within his line of vision.

Now, apparently temper arily sated with his bloody work, ho was contenting himself with slashing at the necks of unwitting persons who happened to pass near him. For it is a curious fact that in spite of the panic, there was such a number of people running about that no one seemed to know where the amok was.

The Victims,

A Chinese clerk waiting for his trolley bus at the five-foot way of the book store at the junction of High Street and North Bridge Rond, all unaware that the arnok

stood a few feet away, happened to

attract his attention: The mud- man swung round and another" victim was added to his list.

A Municipal coolie returning to a High Street shop with an empty icmonade battle took a short cut through the five foot way along side, the provision store at the corner of High Street and North Bridge Road.

commercial Judaism. The first

It should be further considered, thing that struck a visitor to Dr. Rizal continues, that several Soviet Russia was the absence of hidden cases of influenza were not liberty. There was absolutely no reported to headquarters. He is liberty in the country. The second enre that several families are hid- outstanding thing was the "wide- ing cases of influenza from the spread poverty, which could be at- Bureau of Health.

tributed to the fact that people did In the same report, the chief of not care. It came to this that it the infectious diseases division was not worth while to do anything. says that a case of cholera wae Individualism in the true sense bad discovered in Baruga, Leyte, last vanished. It was difficult to get week. The patient died, but no any person to speak, particularly other infectious diseases were re-to a foreigner. Everybody was gisteres. Measles claimed two vie frightened of everybody else. They tims in Manila last week. also. had a saying that even the walls Tuberculosis, however, obtained, had ears in Russin' It was sọ bad as usual, the highest percentage in in Manchuria and Siberia that this the death rate.-Manila Times. medical man knew of a case, where a. child of seven years of age was aummoned to give evidence against a grown-up man, and on that evidenca ho was committed. The O.G.P.U permeated all society. They never knew who was In (0.G.P.U. man, and who was not.

In hamlet and city everything that was worth having had been con- fiscated for the State. No man was able to reclaim anything,

CHARTING OF HAWAII

GROUP.

MANY UNKNOWN 'ISLANDS.

WASHINGTON, June 18th. Arrangements for completé sur vey of the Hawaiian Islands will be made by Captain W. E. Parker,

The

Bound for Siberis.

of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, now en route to the Islands says a Grass was growing on the streets United Press Tessage

in the of Vladivostok. It was like enter- Manila Times..

ing a town in a war zone, No body Among his tasks will be the seemed to have an interest in the charting of many small islands, property, which Was falling whose existence is almost unknown. been broken they were stuffed up to-piecca Where-windows-had A statement of the Survey said that with bits of sacking. The goods there had never been an exact count sold in the shops were tenth rate- By a lucky chance this doctor said of the islands in the Hawaiian he was able to see a train coming o The amok was standing at the corner, quite close to the store, and group, due to the absence of a from Moscow with political prison thorough survey in the group lying a bound for the Siberian mines. was apparently aware that some

ho saw was about westward to the main Hawailan 12 years of age, and the oldest, ren

youngest one was approaching from behind,

Islands.

with white hair. Every race colour for he turned round and sprang at

The train was As previously reported by the Wa represented. just the right moment to enable his United Press, Captain Parker has that this traffic with political pri packed. It was remarked to him weapon to get home in ghastly in mind the possibility of shorten-soners was worse than it was in the ing the marine route from Hawaii time of the Tara. Never in his In all eight persons were stabbed, to the Orient through a complete looking lot than the Bolshevist

life

did he see a more despicable the Chinese clerk referred to above, and accurate charting, of the long soldiers in charge of the train. an Indian clerk employed in the chain of islands west of Hawaiian Thuy seemed to be the scum of the The absence of such a earth, The Bolshevist soldier. was Treasury, the Municipal coolie, a group.

most the best of times. His bayonet was siderable detour from the direct route.

usually dirty, and his clothes hung on him any way. In Vladivostok people wondered how many of these Meanwhile the police had been nafortunate prisoners died on the telephoned, and Mr. Austin, A.S.P. way from Moscow, and where the and Inspector Kemp were on the hordes who had come through were scene, and joined in the efforts, all settled. The public were kept already begun by several Euro-out of the station when these trains peans and a number of Bengalis, passed through to disarm and capture the armed maniac.

fashion.

A

Chinese newspaper seller, a Chinese chart at present necessitates con hot & very clean looking person at i

dhobie, and another three Chinese.

Tailor Killed,

The man began his demoniacal. Work in Hook Lam Street. This thoroughfare is lined with food stalls, all fully occupied at that bour, and he might have done ter rible execution here, but for the fact that he began at the North Bridge Road end of the street and, on some of the people rushing out that way, went after them.

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SOVIET METHODS.

MURDER AND LIES.

SIR ABE BAILEY BLAMES HER FOR MALE DECADENCE. FATE OF A GALLANT FINNISH

"I have come to the conclusion that through girls and young, wo men occupying places in business our young men are not equipped as they were for the battle of life, though they still have to provide

Dilapidated Hospitals, Medical men in Russia, it was pointed out, were not allowed

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to

his

* Sir Abe Bailey, speaking at the

OFFICER.

The Daily Telegraph gives the following account of the recent poli- tical murder by the Soviet Govern ment. Our contemporary states

The Soviet Government replied: with characteristic insolence and eva- siveness to the pertinent questions put to it by the Finnish Ministar

His first victim, an unsuspecting tailor, at the place for a feed, weat down in a heap and died inter.

North Bridge Road, the without actually running over him. was equivalent to about £s per Third Biennial Conference of the in Moscow regarding, the fate of amok rushed up. Mansur Street, He manoeuvred the lorry in several month. Everything was expensive. British Empire Service League at Colonel (not General Elvengren.

Crossing

House, London, thus tance had had the suit he was wear answered a question he put himself the execution of the colonel, and which leads off North

The Soviet Government admits opposite the term Bridge Road unsuccessful attempts, and it is One man of this doctor's acquaio Empire.

of Hock reported did actually succeed once

concerning the reason why British seeks to justify it by alleging Lain Street. A domiciled Bombay in knocking the man down bying for ten

see men Would clerk named Vacop Ariff Yatch, swinging rapidly round, but the the medical profession not able to the hot holding their own counter-revolutionary activities or

only suit. There, and it was

in South Africa. employed in the Treasury, was maniac was up in a twinkling. A afford pair of new shoe laces.

his part. I imparts, however, no unele de a quick enough, and produced no noticeable effect, ex-pitals what furniture had not been the City of London-I started there alleged activities. The Soviet Gov- "When," he said, "I worked in detailed information ea to these to get out of the path of well directed blow from a spanner in the waiting-rooms of the hos wne alusbed in the neck.

Dept perhaps that it increased the From Mansur Street, the cok man's fury. Mr. Rhys Jones, of appropriated was broken down at 14 years of age there were no ernment then has the effrontery to ran down North Bridge Road to the Negri Sembilan branch of the Abortion had been gained, and girls and young women going to express surprise at the suggestion warda High Street, cutting a young Singer Sewing Machine Co., who surgeons were compelled to carry the offices. They were all young that Colonel Elvengren is a Finnish

through operationa When this man.'

subject, and professes to have Chinese newspaper seller as he ran. had been among the earliest to en- British doctor visited u hospital

always understood that the murder, He was soon in High Street, and gineer an attack on the amok, hit he found the surgeons had to work

od man regarded himself and was Chao Fong Lim, walking along the him with a pole.

remarkable

without rubber gloves. They had five-foot way, was his next victim. The madinaz showed

to wash their hands and iodise their wrong. Even the labouring classes regarded by Helsingfors 85 Rus--- agility in avoiding the lorry, rum. Young Lady's Escape,

were begiannig to kick against the sian subject. fingers. Parts of the hospital were The amok now took up a standing from side to side of High falling to bits, and the observation conditions. An example of a strike Bolshevik bad faith in this respect Street. A European fung was made that a mere heroic band threat in Vladivostok was quoted. is suficiently exposed by the mill- nçar the Japanese Commercial

chungkol at him, and he promptly than the doctors could not be found. The men at the docks gave notice tary regard of Colonel Elvengres Museum, mouthing inarticulately seized this, as an addition to his Demented people who had seen too that unless they got better con- He fought, as a cavalry captain, in and waving his knife about in a weapons. It soon fell from his

the Finnish War of Liboration, much were to be met. Intelligent ditions they would go on strike. most blood-curdling manner. With hands, however, as one of the Ben-Russians would tell that one of the An OCPU official care down being promoted to the rank of the cunning of the insane, be ap

galis broke the handle with a blow things that turned people mad was when they stopped work, read them lieutenant-colonel in the army of parently realised that he was too from a long pole aimed he when they thought of their the post-aid that if they were not back fought the Bolsheviks a second time

Bolshevist decree, in which it the new Finnish Republic. Hay exposed to view, where he stood, manino's head, Mr. Philippe The most tragic thing was the within an hour every tenth man when bolding this higher rank,

unobserved in the general Letondu at this juncture attacked tion of the women in Russia. and,

would be shot. Within fifteen fact of which the Soviet authorities panie, be betook himself to ✡

Short Way With Strikers,minutes the men had all resumed. corner of the pavement near the the man with a car lever, just as

were well aware and had good provision store at the junction of the lorry, swinging round to renew

its attack, Knocked the manine Soap box orators and others in The recent murder of twenty pri- reason to remember, an High

Street and North Bridge over.

this

country, the doctor said, seem soners at Moscow, it was remarked, To the foc inquiry, concerning Road. It was here that he got the "He was stunned, but only tomad to regard Soviet Russle 28 a was advertised to the world, but the nature of the judicial proceed- Municipal coalie.

pararily, as it proved, for on being sort of Utopia. No poreon who, M. E. Anthonisz, a young disarmed and lifted into the forty, knew the actual facts could be un-nothing was ever heard of evenings which led to Colonel Elven

anore atrocious crimes..

gren's execution, the Soviet Gov lady, employed at the Telephone be recovered consciousness, and 1-it der such a delusion. He bad never

In this country, the Doctor ob-ernment has so far returned no en- Exchange, was hopping in the required the combined efforts of met a decent seafaring any the Russian people did not kick was shot without any trial. Such served, people often wondered why swer. Neither could it, since To vicinity of the madman's opera three men to hold him down until a atoker, to a captain, tione. Seeing people

ruching horas mately bound hand and foot. knowledge of Busdan ports, who against this tyranny. The ex-brutality and cynicism could hardly about she unadzisedly stepped on

Of his victims, so for only one, had a good word for Bolshevism lanation was quite obvious. If be exceeded. Although the Com the pavement to see what it was the man Arst attacked, has died. Everything that was degrading

about The maniac spotted her and made a dash in her direction, and the young lady was fortunate in getting off with a bad soare. Continued on next Column.)

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The amel is in hospital under life was taking place. No man any person outside the O.G.P.U. munists and possibly low So gunzd, a babbling manine from could trust his neighbour. There was found even with a cartridge in cialist elements, in Finland might pocket he was as good as cop wish to gloss over Moscow's latest whom it is not possible to obtain was no security, wo safety; nobody

demned. That was Bolshevists outrage, public opinion at Helsing a coherent statement. Not even hit to appeal to when anything won trump card. It was fatal to possess fors and throughout the country has name is known.

(Continued on next Column.) even a broken down gun.

been deeply stirred by it