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Miss Gladys Lee, a school teacher living at the King Edward Hotel, has reported to the Police that whilst she was walking in Queen'a
Road Central
Monday," a Q.D. suatcher stole her handbag contain ing two passports, money, jewellery and two cheques worth 8373...
MURDER IN A CEMETERY.
CRIME BY SINGAPORE SECRET SOCIETY.
VICTIM BURIED ALIVE.
One of the most brutal murders
yet recorded in Singapore was com mitted last week, the victim being Chinese who recently, acted as Police informer. The crime, it is alleged, was the result of the victim having aided the Police in a raid on a secret liquor distillery in some marsh land off Thomson Road. The district is known as one in which secret society "gangs exercise a great deal of influence and it is at the first time that a person who has afforded assistance to the Folice in their work in this quarter
10 MILLION CHINESE"
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WAR AND FAMINES CAUS- ING VAST EMIGRATION.
SHANTUNG MIGRATION INTO MANCHURIA.
The migration of Chinese farmers from Shantung to Mancharini is no new phenomenon, but the statement of Reuter's Tuinantu correspondent.
that a million people have probably- migrated during the year, ought to give thoughtful Chinese samething to think about. For the Shantung migration is not the only one. Peasants frour Chihli and Hooan Are moving into Manchuria and Mongolia in large numbers, so large, in fact, that a student of the problem described the new immigrants in Northern Manchuria as resembling the European immig- rants who peopled the north-western states of the United States,
In the south, there is even_n greater migration, although stat s injuries to his head that he died dence in connection with the murders are at the moment not avail- Chinese, mostly peasants in the Kowloon Hospital a few ordered that the witness be given from all parts of Kwangtung und
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A fourth man arrested in con endangered could they be repudiat ed. This is what the critics who nection with the shooting affray in deal with the subject of national which Police Sergeant McMahon and several members of a police expenditure ignore. Any suggestion picket" were wounded by Chinese of abandoning the expenditure on
gunmen recently has been charged, social services would inevitably and he is to appear before & Magis- lead to a long, bitter and dangerous trate at the Police Court this morn. struggle, for which there is noting. This has apparently account sufficient justification at the presented for all members of the gang time
concerned in this affray. One It is therefore fairly obvious that robber was shot dead, one wounded most of the talk about economy
and is now in hospital, and the other was arrested during the street being within the diactetion of the Government is fudge. Practically nothing can be done to alter the effects of the past, nor thing be done in the present. But the figures should contain a warn- ing for politicians with regard to
can any-
The Daily Press.
Dress the future. The lesson they convey
battle.
spector King when he mentioned the case before Mr. H. R. Bull. Three men have bean arrested by the Kandang Kerbau Police and
their apprehension reflects some smart work on the part of the Officers of this division.
The Facts Of The Case.
Dale, having received information On the 8th instant, Inspector D.
from
able..
the Philippines, Saigon, anywhere that they are permitted to enter. Chinese outside of China brings A recent semi-official estimate of the figures to approximately ter
millions.
migrations, both north and south, The comparative figures of the show that only a small proportion of the huge population of Chim is leaving its homes for other parts, but actually the immigration is very
in-
large when one remembers the r Hokien (the deceased) | ligious attachment which a Chine e that there was
has for the home of his anecators, a huge distillery his unwillingness to quit bis native operating in Thomson Road, went village and take up residence 14 to the place and succeeded in unknown parts. Yet, the Chinese arresting one man-the others who creasingly large stream to move to
immigrant continues in. An were actually engaged in distilling British, French, Japanese, Ameri- liquor and storing it in tins at the can and even Russian territory, be time, succeeding in escaping-and cause he finds life unbearable in his
-own" country. seized some of the liquor. It was a difficult undertaking for. Inspec- tor Dale, who had to make his way through a swampy track of ground
some distance inland.
1,000,000 From Shantung.
The population of Shantung in 1923, before the present madness of feudal wars commenced; was estimated to be 30,000,000. It is probably less now, but even taking On that occasion, according to that figure, a migration of one the Police, the second of the three million, presumably adults, repre men now under arrest threatened whole. Is menins that those who sents a very large proportion of the the informer. Later the deceased are not soldiers or bandits and can went to Thomson Road again-ong longer be peasants are forced t
leave their homes. www. the morning of the 15th in And this is the condition in the staat-and was assalted by the sacred province of China!
Yangteze provinces, the people have Kiangau, Anhui, and in the other not yet reached such desperatina, but they are verging upon it. The recent coup d'état in Canton can be expected to send several huu-
first and second accused for
TRAGEDY OF CHRISTMAS giving information regarding the
DAY.
illicit liquor. The informer took refuge in a coffee shop for some time and then he want out, only to be seized by the "accused men and others. He was dragged away in the direction of the Chinese ceme
SCRAP" BETWEEN YOUTHS
ENDS FATALLY.
received information Inter and the mutilated body of the informer was found in the cemetery where he had apparently been buried alive by his assailants.
is that the burdens imposed on A disagreement, which led fromtery in Thomson Road. The Police taxpayers are not to be easily words to blows ended tragically HONG KONG, DECEMBER 29TH, 1027. shifted. The British Government during the Christmas holiday.
knows by now that the cost of WHY TAXATION IS HIGH State-assisted schemes is almost in
IN BRITAIN.
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Ir is almost impossible to pick up a newspaper published in Great Britain without reading a speech
or an article dealing with national expenditure. This is not. by any means surprising seeing that the country is the most heavily taxed in the world. The Government are enlled upon with damn'd itera- tion," at FALSTAFY says, to practise economy. Politicians in Opposition in need of a theme can alwaya find in this a congenial subjcet. Popular journals are full of wise sawa about the virtues of thrift; and the Government, they say, ought to give private citizens a lead. It is for Whitehall to show the way...
Of course, it is all very fine and commendable, but we doubt whether the man in the street is much impressed. For NNOUNCEMENT-RATE SPE-while the critics are all agreed that A CIALISTS QY **EXPRESS or RUSSIA, MISS PARE and M. economy is necessary none of them WICKS at HOTEL RATOY Beauty Parlour, Look your best for the Holi is able to indicate where a sub day. Hours: 9., to 6 P.M. [287
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It appears that a Chinese youth named Au Kwong and a student of variably under-estimated, and that St. Paul's College, named Ho Kwong Hoi, of No. 46, Hollywood their expensiveness tends to grow.
Road, first floor, had an argument They would certainly grow-and
at "the South China Athletic Asso- the fact seems to be realized more ciation's Rooms, China Building, or less clearly-under & Labour on Christmas evening, at about Government imbued with Social eight o'clock. Some sparring took ideals; and herein we may per-place between the leds and it is to the same cemetery where they ceive one of the basic reasons for stated that Ho, who was 16 years soil. The earth was removed and the widespread hostility in Britain to, that political creed.
The official opening of the Instone Bank Corporation will be held to-day, from 10 am to noon:
Two bridge awnings were stolen during the week-end from the steam launch Saiwanho, whilst lying in the Yaumati breakwater.
ор
A pickpocket has been arrested- after stealing $400 from a pedes trian at Wing Lok Street. The money has been recovered.
holding a dance at Messrs, Lane, St. Peter's Young Men's Club are
Crawford's Restaurant, this evening, beginning at 8.30. The Titania'i Melodians will be present
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dred thousand Cantonese to the Malay States or French Indo-China. In a word, in north and south, in every part of the country from the masses of the Chinese people which there is any kind of are being driven to despair by the report,
reckless rapacity of the militarists and their political allies..
Provincial Autonomy. " We are returning to exactly the feudal conditions which obtaine before the Kiangsu-Chekiang wer of 1924 which gave the impetus to the moment, however, is that now. all this fighting. The difference, at there will be a greater measure of degree of self-govemment by the provincial autonomy, & greater natives of the province. In fact, it is reported from Kuzichow that they have a law which forbids entrance. without permission from the pro-. into or removal from the provinco vincial authorities. They have kept munists out of Kueichow during the the Kuomintang as well as the Com- past year.
Buried Alive In Cemetery. tion on the night of the 18th inst. Inspector King received. inform and sent detectives to make en- quiries. They arrested the three nccused. The Police then made a no trace of it. Later the same night search for the body but could find the first accused led the police discovered some freshly turned up of age, was struck on the left just below the surface they came temple. The two were separated by informer. The man's thumbs were upon the body of the unfortunate others present, and later Ho left tied together behind his back and for home, where he told his mother his mouth was gagged. It appeared that he had been for a walk and this was what the Police believed, which is at peace. The Kuomintang that be had been buried alive and had a nasty fall. Shortly after although it was impossible to say ad-suffers from its own propaganda. Now, there is no part of China wards he became unconscious, after definitely.
weapons; that is, it uses certinn after midnight his parents shop assistant said that he was in then it cannot control the masses complain ng of feeling dizzy: Soon moped a Chinese doctor, and when his shop on the morning the 15th which it has aroused. The march- Coffee Shop Azzistant's Evidence. violent slogans and agitational Giving evidence, a Chinese coffee the lowest strata of society, but means to conquer an enemy through his condition became more serious instant and witnessed. Thiam Hock, ing of troops across provinces does he was sent to hospital, where he the deceased, being assaulted on died at 6-a.m. on Monday.
the road outside. Two of thee cused men who were present in A post mortem examination has Court took part. These men were revealed that death was caused by the first and third accused. the head. Ho's nasalant has been the bursting of a blood vessel in detained. by the policë
WEATHER REPORT.
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the peasants, and in southern not make for peace and safety for Chibli, Shantung, northern Kiang su, Honan, and Anhui, the bandits warned the witness that he had with their lives and their harvests. At this stage Inspector, King hand and the people have paid and Red Spears have had a fren to speak the truth and told him not These conditions arise from sheer. to be afraid to do so.
ed,
In answer to the Inspector the spoliation of the country by mili witness denied that he had given they have done their vile deeds, sail tarists and politicians, who, after the name of Lee Chin na one of off to European countries, as Mr. the accused men. Yesterday morning's weather re story he said that he ran out and Canton coup d'état
Continuing his Wang Ching Wei has done after hin” port, forecast and remarks from stopped the assault. Thiam Hock We obtain a fairly clear concep
the Royal Observatory state:-
went into his shop and stayed there bound to ek is why the Chinese The question that the foreigner is tion of the nature of the problem T. May was sentenced by Major over Korea. A deep depression 18
A houseboy employed by Mr. G. considerably and in now central he went out he was again assent and how long will they submit. The anti-cyclone has weakened for ten or fifteen minutes. When masses submit to these conditions. after reading the Treasury figures C. Willson to one month's hard shown over N.E. Japan and a
Another Body Discovered.
The Chinese peasant is a whole iarued as a Parliamentary return labour for the theft of 100 from shallow depression over mid Yang-
some human being, who has in the.. Curiously, another body which past defended his home and his towards the end of November. The Mr. May's house on Christmas taze Valley. The monsoon is inter cannot be identified owing to its farm against the rapacity of his
rupted.
advanced state of decomposition rulers. Will he submit much. of publie social services, is Day.
The evening report issued at 6.es and partial destruction by dogs, longer? Will he migrate to safer stupendous In England and Wales
was discovered about 100 yarde parts, such as the steppes of Mon- Mr. B. J. Paterson, staying at anti-cyclone is now central or use as this body has sign-controlled lands of the Sonth last year over three hundred and
from the deceased the golia and Manchuria and the for Pott's No. 2 Bungalow at Sheung over N.W. Japan. The depression boen iving at the cemetery for Beas, or will he strike at the funda fifty million pounds (£350,000,000) shui, has reported to the Police is central over the lower Tangtuze some days there is believed to be were speat in various form of assist that his room was entered during
Valley.
no connection between its discovery ance. That is to say, nearly a Christine and property worth $225 winds, generally fair, some fog or play is, however, suspected.
Local forecast-East or variable and the crime above detailed, Foul million pounds a day was required stolen.
Singapore Free Preu
p.m, stated':
mist.
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mental evil, the militarists and polí ticians who rob and betray him t probably be answered very soon in These are questions which will some provinces.-N.-C. Daily News.
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