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CHANG TSUNG

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TO STAND TRIAL TO-DAY. REPORTS FROM TONGSHAN

MURDER CHARGE IN JAPANESE COURT.

[United Press. ]

MURDERS IN THE VILLAGES,

to the Tongshan. According reports of the Railway guards and police, banditry in the section of the Railway between Tongshan, Kuyeh, Wali and Kaiping, is be coming more menacing lately. In- cursions into the railway area have been repeatedly reported and the staffs of both the stations and trains are panicky.

Tokyo, Sept. 9. A huge, grim-visaged Chinese, styled the

greatest bandit of modern times, will stand his trial for murder in the district court at Oita Oity, in Oita Prefecture, Island of Kyushu, to-morrow. He

It is to be feared that unless is Chang Tsung Chang, former prompt actions to exterminate marshal in the armies of the late them are taken the lawless ele

and Geheraliesimo Chang Teo Lin," and ments may become "bolder one time matter of the rich Chinese hold-ups of the trains, which had province of Shactung.

been rumoured frequently may Chang was indicted on August 22 eventually matorialise, especially! and his trial set down for Septem-as the majority of the Express He is charged with the trains pass through this section in murder through negligence" of night time. Sa Heien Kai, seventh son of Prince. Sa unele of the deposed Boy Emperor of China, who, as Harry' Pu Yi now lives in retirement under Japanese protection in Tien- Lain,

ber 10.

One of Chang's Many Goncubines.

The youth was shot while etroll ing in the garden of Showsea Hotel at the Poppu hot springs resort in Kyushu on August 1 and died next; day. The police immediately ques. tioned the exiled Chineze War Lord and Chang Tsung Chang adiuitted the shooting but said it was in accident. He said he was cleaning his revolver in an upper room of the hotel when it went off, the bullet striking the youth in garden below.

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The police, however, heard report that young Su had been friendly with one of Chang's con- cubine a number of whom he brought with him when he fed to Japar from Shantung Province after his defeat by the Chinese National Armies last spring.

Su recently had graduated from the Japanese military academy in Tokyo and had been known as a leader of the Chinese student body in the Japanese capital. He went to Poppu late in July for a holi day and called on Chang who enter- taiped him to dinner. The eboot. ing occurred the next morning.

Punishment Unlikely.

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The Railway Police at Tien- chuang station, near Tongshan, reported that four suspicious men appeared at the station and failed to give an account of themselves when questioned by the police. A search was made which resulted in the seizing of two pistols and some 50 rounds of ammunition.

Two of the gang made good their escape. In the night, intermittent fire of rifles was heard rear and around the station. Fearing that the gangs might take revenge re- inforcements had been summoned.

With the kaoliang many feet high, affording excellent shelter for the inwless elements, the bandits are now carrying out day. light robberica boldly. The small villages have been ransacked and raided and murders are the order of the day. Fearing that these may accumulate in more serious events like the Lincheng hold-up, the Railway Administration has wired to General Yen Hsi-shan and General Hau Yung Chang requesting the dispatch of the 34th division stationed at Lutai and Kaiping to carry out a cleansing campaign in order to free the area of all lawless elements.

Mill Compromise.

A compromise between the Hua- sin-Cotton-Mill, which has been forced to suspend work on account of the recent flood, and its em ployees has been reached through the mediation of various circles.

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The Mill agrees to pay 25 cent to each workman during the period of suspension, as "Subsistence" allowance besides half a month's wages. The authorities are The police questioned Chang at ranging to held à benevolent thea- length and apparently accepted bistrical performance to raise funds story of the aceidert. The prosecu. required for the payment of the tor demandé a trial, however, and "sabsistence" allowance. - a formal indictment was returned. Chang Taung Chang has not been in jail, the court accepting his word he would appear when requested. He has been under constant police surveillance since his arrival in Japan and there was no chance of escape.

The maximum penalty for "mur. der" through negligeace," which cor respondents to criminal carelesanese in Western law, is 10 years but it nos likely Chang will receive any sentence at all, as there is little evidence against him. He may re ceive a small 5ne for carelessness.

It is ealculated that the work of repairing the machinery and other parts of the mill will require about two months' time.

Through the mediation of the Labour Union and other organs the dispute between the Chamber of Commerce and members of the over the latter's account seems to have been patched up and ended.

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WEDDING WINE FAILS TO

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Three sisters were fatally gassed while asleep at their home in Sutherland-avenue, Stirling, last month. They were Catherine Wil- son, aged twenty-one, Helen, aged eighteen, and Isabella, aged six-

teen.

Their mother and sister Jessie, who occupied room downstairs, narrowly escaped the same fate.

They owe their lives to the fact that Mrs. Wilson is a light sleeper and an early riser. She awoke in

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THE COMMUNISTS OF HUNAN

GENERAL OFFENSIVE TO BE OPENED.

CHANGSHA, Sept. 2. Order for a general offensive against the notorious Communist lender, Ho Lung, and his lawless hordes, who have set up a reign of northwestern Hunan, terror, in were issued yesterday by General He Chien, Chairman of the Hunar Provincial Government. The Gov- ernment Forces are advancing west-wards by three separate routes under the respective command" of. General Wu Shang, commanding

Chang has been a refugee in Japan since last spring, when he fled WHO to Shimonoseki on a email steamer

Peping The Palace museum in From the North Shantung-coast

Peping, which has taken over the after his defeat. He had been ousted from Japan once before and

SHANGHAI, Sept. 4.

former Manchu imperial collections, announces that Mr. P. C. Kuo, an was a refuges for months in the

French police reached the sola- Japanese leased territory of Kwan-ion of a puzzling mystery when authority o Chinese porcelains, tung, South Manchuria, in Daire, they arrested the chauffeur of a has been engaged to make a thor It was there that he organised his luxurions private car who the day ough classification of the thousands last expedition into Shantung in before had reported that he had of pieces in the museum, making an effort to regain the power which been set upon by four armed men, the detailed knowledge of the cof to porcelain was his for years.

For several monthe be sacked the vehicle stolen. Finding the car lovers throughout the world.

a stupefied state at 5 am. It was the route from Tzeli, General Li cities of North Shantung, causing about 300 yards from the end of After the classification has been

only by supreme effort that she Fao Ping advancing from Shimen, the death of thousands but when Avenue Haig the same evening, the completed, the Museum officials

fluence of the fumes and to rouse | Yungshur. The Hunch forces the Japanese occupation of Teinan police were surprised to see that plan to publish a book with full managed to fight against the in- and General Chen Chu Chun from terminated in May, opening the way it had been completely smashed, description and plates of the mother daughter Jessie by punching along the Hunan-Hunch border for the Nanking armies to advance, bearing every evidence of having valuable and unusual pieces in the und shaking her. he was forced to retreat and finally been driven into fled to live a luxuritus fife of exile against a trce.

thrown out of his car, and the ections available

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and porcelain section of the museum.

The announcement adds that Mr.

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her sisters and send one of them Liuyuang regiona, five brigades of for a plumber Mrs. Wilson left to the Hunan Provincial Forces áre go to her work at the post office. also under orders to leave for the

She had not gone far when her Iunan-Kiangai border to

the campaign now being conduct- came running daughter Jessie after her. She had gone upstairs ed by the Kiangai units.-Buo and found her sisters unconscious Min. and the room full of gas. The three girls were carried downstairs

have been telegraphically requested to be on the watch for the retreat- Room Full of 'Gas, Mrs. Wilson opened the scullerying outlaws. in Beppu, where he enjoys bathing, Detectives spent gome hours L. R. Hobson, one of the leading in the medicinal hot springs. searching for the supposed armed authorities on ceramies in England, door to find gas escaping from a To cope with the Commuaist- Chang began life as a Shantung robbers but could find no trace of is also coming to Peping shortly to burst pipe. It was not thought bandits under Pan Teh Wei in His that the three girls who lept eastern Kiangsi who are lately re- coolie--a breed faméd among them. A further examination of mist in the classification. travellers as one of the strongest the car led them to question the visit is made possible through a apstairs were in any danger, and ported to be extending their ne groupe of men in the world-and chauffeur more closely, and they contribution of $5,000 Mex for this after instructing Jessie to awaken tivities to the Pingkiang and advanced from a common soldier became suspicious of his story, purpose from Sir Percival David, to be military governor of Shan- especially when he told them that the English connoiseur. tung at times in allegiance to the hold-up had taken place at Mr. Kun has spent several years Chang Teo Lin and at times as 5.20 p.m. in a road usually well in an intensive study of Chinese independent war lord. His name frequented by pedestrians at that porcelains, having spent several became anathema to the Shantung hour, and they could find no lonths in Ching Teh Chen, one of population who were taxed almost pedestrians who had seen the in- the leading manufacturing towns in

China out of existence to meet Chang's ident demands. More than 5,000,000 On further investigation they The porcelain collection in the people emigrated from Shantung discovered that the man had taken Palace Museum is stated to be per- during his rule and thousands were his master's car out for a run haps the best of its kind in the killed in his numerous ware. while his master was attending a world, but lack of funds has made The Marshal is huge man, party and had evidently intended systematic arrangement of the col- to drive round the Rubicon. Alection impossible until the present nearly e feet 6 inches tall and with wide shoulders and ,,tremendous

one point he had lost control and time. Eventually, the museum of hands. He has only meagre sent the vehicle first against a tree cials hope to classify all branches education sa far ne books go, and and then into the ditch, being of the museum similarly, and it is he has been described as intellec- lucky to escape with no more than belleved students of Chinese art tually unft to be more than a light wound on the car, which he and handicrafts will be attracted sergeant even in one of his own had told them had been inflicted from all parts of the world for armies.

study. by the bandits.

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to the lawn in front of the house, champagne which had been lying "I don't know how Jessie and in the house ready for Helen's I survived the ordeal," said Mrs. wedding, but without avail."

Only ten days before, the Presi Wilson, Kate was the only one

to show any signs of life, butdent of the Board of Trade ap- while she looked up at me she pointed a committee, headed by increase in deaths from coal gas never spoke, and died almost im Bir Evelyn Cecil, to consider the We tried to give each of the poisoning, and to recommend mediately.

measures dealing with the produc girls a drink in an effort to re vive them, and I broke a bottle of tion or use of gas which might

(Continued on next Column.) diminish such deaths.