POLISH TERRORISM AT
ELECTIONS.
TROTEST BY MEMBERS OF
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
London, December 10.-Fifty-one members of the House of Commons who belong to the so-called "Do mocratic Control Group" which is ianinly recruited from amongst the Labour and Liboral members of Parliament, addressed a petition to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations together with a state anent for the Foreign Secretary Mr. Henderson, protesting in trong terms against the reign of terror obtaining. in the recent Polish parliamentary elections.
ren were whipped, some of them so hadly that they had to be put into }. hospital and others so that they will be permanently crippled. Others were killed outright Thousands. were jailed in order to prevent them from voting. As many as 100 Gali gian villages were subjected to in- heard of terrorism.
In their explanation to Mr. Hom derson the signatorice draw atten- tion to the farcical nature of the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930.
INDIANS ATTACK
SCIENTISTS..
1XCENSED AT DISTURBING GRAVES OF GIANTS.
Soyopa, Sonora, Mexico, Decem
WAR WAXING HOT ON RUM ROW.
BRITISH VESSEL CAPTURED BY U.S. COASTGUARDS,
New York, December 18,-A vessel, ber 13.-Efforts of An American (flying the British Ang, was fired cleutians to the Polish Sejm and to seientide party to study the fossil upon and struck by a United States the Upper Silesian Diet and request him to use his influence to have re-remains of a prehistorie race of coast guard cutter to-day as the lief brought to the victims and to, giants ended abruptly here to-day Frum war waxed hot. give sympathetic consideration to when the members of the expedition the German Government's notes on the subject. The document ends by were allacked by a band of fierce suggesting that the German-Polish | Yaqui Indinas. dispute be submitted to arbitration on the linee laid down in the Locar-
The document points out that hundreds of men, women and child- fhe Pact.
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The American coast guard cutter Cartigan, after a hat chase, captur ed the British steamer Analain. The cutter fired three shota at the Analain before the latter, hove to. Some of the shots damaged the British ship.
Dr. Byron Cummings, the noted archaeologist of the University of Arizona, and the members of the party he headed barely escaped from Soyopa. Dr. Cummings, and
Captain McKenna, master of the: his men carried with them a few.. Analain; and eleven of the relics but they were forced by the members of his crew were placed attacking Yaqui Indians to leave under arrest by the American count hind the skeletons of three adults, guardsinen or charges of violating eight feet, five inches long, and the the prohibition lws of the United, skeletons of children who had been, States: Capt. McKenna and most When they lived, more than six feet of the members of his crew are re- tall.
The Yaqui Indians were incensed over the disturbance of the giants'
sidenta of Newfoundland.
The captured British ship is of the crack oilturaing, destroyer burial ground by the scientists. Dr.type. She is equipped with every Cummings and his men had travel-nautical device and proved to be led 160 miles south of the Mexican almost as speedy as the American American frontier to study the re-coast guard cutter.
lies of an ancient civilization estab-
Officials of the United States lished by veritable giants in pre-coast guard service assert that the historic times but they have now
9.5. Analain is 3 rum ranner and been beaton, back,
that when captured she was engaged in an attempt to smuggle liquor into the United States.
During the few days the scientists sprat here they were forced to work nt night. in order to be better pre- pared for, attacks by the Yaquis during the daylight, hours. De Cummings believes, however, that
The coast guard these days is busy attempting to cut off the Christmas. holiday season's liquor supply from the sea. It was while patrolling he has innde enough observations to ¦ rum row that the cutter sighted and be able to offer definite proof that overhauled the British ship. Whe
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of humans of ' great - stature, the the American cutter in firing upon existence of whom had never been the British ship has yet to be deter Known before.
mined.
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