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SERIOUS RIOTING IN MADRID.

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED: MILITARY, PATROLS GUARDING PRINCIPAL ROADS.

UTILITY SERVICES PARALYSED.

[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1931.

KING GEORGE'S

HEALTH.

COMPLETE RECOVERY

INDICATED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LORD LONSDALE ACCUSED?

NEVER TALKED POLITICS WITH KAISER.

BANK MANAGER RESIGNS.

MR." LAWSON LEAVES

MISSIONARIES

ROBBED.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

SUPPLIES STOLEN.

[TARDUON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, May 1

While on their way to Chengtu

CHIANG SPEAKS

OUT.

· CHEN TSAI TONG

DENOUNCED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.]

FOR ENGLAND.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, May 1

Nanking, "May 11. Mr. Lowson the local manager of

Chiang Kai Shek to-day made a the Hong Kong & Shanghai; Bank- from Chungking the Misses Marian, Į speech denouncing Chen Tani Tang ing Corporation, has resigned owing Grace and Manly, who are attached for usurping his power in Kwang- to ill-health and is leaving for to the Methodist Mission at Cheng- tung by seizing more than England to-morrow on the Haku-tu, were robbed by bandits of $5,000,000.

medien supplies and surgical in- Tho monthly revenue when strumcats valued at G. 816,000, $1,500,000 was the regulation allow- which they were carrying to

ance for his five divisions. Chiang Chengtu.

added that if Chen Tani Tang dared, to rebel the Government was fully prepared to deal with him.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENČY.] ·

LONDON, May 11. LONDON, May 11.

Allegations against Lord Lons- The completeness of the King's recovery in evidenced by an official dale, who is a great friend of the His ex-Kaiser, which are made in the announcement to-day that

the memoirs of the ex-German Chan Majesty, accompanied by claration that anyone, whether of Queen, will attend the Royal Comtelior, Prince van Buelow, who died The City is seething with excite the Right or the Left, attemptinewinnd variety performance at the two years ago, led to the suspension san Mara, ment as a result of a squadron of to promote trouble 'will be consider. Palladium to-night in aid of the of the publication of the memoira in

Cabinet will to-day grant powers to ed an enemy of the Republic. The Variety Artists Banevolent Institu. England following Lord Lonsdale

enforce this decision.

MADRID, May 10.

troops being called out in conse. quence of collisions between Re publicans and Monarchists on the ocension of the latter opening the electioneering campaign.

Tw Republicans and one, mem her of the Civil Guard were scri- ously injured when the Civil Guards fixed on a crowd trying to wreck. the offices of the Monarchist Daily AB., where a machine gun was reported to have been installed to repel possible invaders.

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Subsequently the crowd angrily { demonstrated before the office of the Minister of the Interior.

The Minister of the Interior (Senor Meguel Maura) addressed them and, said that the Marquis Luca Detena, proprietor of the 4.3.0. had been arrested and the offices of the A,B,C, sealed up,

The crowd then proceeded to the barracks of the Civil Guards, which they aloned.

Guard Open Fire.

The Civil Guards fired on the crowd,, inflicting casualties, as the latter were attempting to storm and set fire to the office of the news

paper 1.8.0.

Night of Fear.

The Allieneum Club to-day pass ed a resolution demanding the in mediate disbanding of the Civil Guard and the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Senor Maura; and the expulsion from Spain of all religious orders.

Josult Roadquarters Set Alight. The trouble is in no way finished. An angry moh set fire this morn ing to the Jesuit leadquarters and are now watching the flames,

Convent Fired,

LATER.

.

The mob set fire to a convent from which the nuns had previous- {ly evnerated but where many pro-

minent Monureliiats were hiding.

i

LATER.

The efforts of the Socialist Trade

tion.

OPERATION ON KING OF SIAM.

SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED,

[REUTERS AMERICAN BERVICE.)

New Youx,. May 10. The object for which the King of Siam came to the United States was fulfilled at White Plains, New York, to-day, when a successful operation was performed for the removal of a centaract of the eye.

DEATH RISKED FOR

COMRADE.

RAILWAYMAN'S' BRAVERY.

The King has awarded the

notifying the publishers that if the hook was issued in its present form. they might be held responsible for a libel.

:

Lord Lonsdale, in an interview, declared that the allegations are pure imagination. -

.

Lord Lonsdale maintained he never talked polities with the Kai- ser and only discussed sporting

natters:

COMMUNIST OUTRAGE.

RED CROSS FIRED ON.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Mag 10.

-His successor is the vice-nanager, Mr. A. S. Henchman.

HARDY'S GENIUS SYMBOLISED.

COLUMN OF GRANITE

ON MOOR.

AMERICAN TRIBUTE

UNVEILED.

Their personal property was also stolen, but, the women who were returning to Chengtu, from a holi...“ day in the United States, were un- harmed.

CATHOLIC FATHERS

RESCUED.

GOOD WORK BY CHINESE" SOLDIERS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HONG KONG, May 11. Reuter is informed that the Pro- curator of the Spanish Dominican Mission in Hong Kong received, a wireless message from Amny this morning stating that Chinese Gov. ernment soldiers had succeeded in resening Monsigneur Prat, Father.

A 10-foot column of rough-hewn Cornish granite, on which hang laurel wreaths in bronze, the gift of American admirers of Thomas Hardy, was unveiled last month opposite the great author's birth- Another terrible Communist out- | pinco at Higher Buckhampton, age has to be recorded to-day, a Dorchester, by Proessor J. Liv. party of armed "Reds" opening fire upon a Red Cross lorry nearingstone Lowes, of Harvard and Chemnitz, one of the members of Oxford Universities. the Red Cross party being killed

Mrs. Hardy, the novelist's widow, and another seriously wounded.

The shooting was apparently due attended, accompanied by Miss

declaring that they mistook the sister. Americans, people from seminarist. Red Cross party for a group of Dorchester, and villagers to whom Nazis (Fascists) who were known to have met in the neighbourhood Hardy was a familiar figure wore of Chemnitz.

present at the ceremony.

Generals Ho Ying Ching, Ho Cheng Chun, Ho Chien and La Ti Ping have telegraphed to Chen Tsai Tang urging him to remain loyal, declaring that if he rebels he will he erushed as was the last Canton: rebellion.

CANTON MILITARY

CONFERENCE.

HOW TO OVERTHROW CHIANG!

[FROM OUR OWN RESPONDENT. J

CANTON, May 11,

Enions to persuade the workers. to Edward Medal in silver to Arthur to a tragie cero, the Communists Kate Hardy, his only surviving Albino, two Chinese priests and a Li Tsung Jen, one of the "big

London'

| Devere Thomas in revogration of return to work appear to have fail-his gallantry in circumstances thus ed completely.

described officially in Tramways, underground railway Gazette. and taxi services are completely paralysed and most of the factories and workshops are closed.

"On January 14, 1031 Ernest Pervical, who was engaged in dis- mantling a wooden staging fixed From the outskirts it in reported | across the track of the Metropolitan that large numbers of workers in Railway Station at King's-cross, More shooting, and the deaths of the neighbouring villages are flock-stapped and fell from a height of - a man who was lynched by the mobing to the Capital,

LATE.J.

utside the Ministry of Interior,‚į Military patrols are circulating all were, features of a night of fear the principal thoroughfares leading and fury.

to Madrid and many shops are closed.

The crowd looted three armour. ers' shops in Calle de Toledo, and used the stolen arma to snipe at the Civil Guards, Then they marched back to the offices of the A.B.C., where they stoned fifty Civil Guards looking after the building.

The Civil Guards fired over the hends of the démonstrators, who stampeded, men cursing and women shriekingassassiGs."

Later there was more restless surging of the inflamed populace; hut it would seem to have been more barks than bites.

Workers

are disagreeably im. pressed by the action of the authorities liberating General Berenguer which, they are inclined to misinterpret as weakness, not realising there was no military case against huu. This, more than any. thing else, tended to cause the pre- sent excitement:

Martial Law Proclaimed.

almut 20ft to the permanent way of the down inner circle line.

re.

The Red Cross men had been out on field exercises, and were return. ing when the shooting nccurred. The Police, immediately on ceiving information of the outrage, commenced a wholesale round-up of Communist dens" in the town, and effected the arrest of one hun

dred and fifty, who Arc being detained pending investigation.

He was rendered unconscious, |--

CABINET.

und lay face downwards across anc M. KOLSTAD FORMS NEW running rail with his head close to the negative rail of the electrified system.

"Arthur Devere Thomas, who was acting as flagman for the pro- tection of the workmen, saw Per- cival fall, and at the same time heard a down train approaching the station round the curve.

Realising that a signal could not be seen by the driver in ting for him to stop the train, Thomas LATER. immediately jumped down from the Members of the Civil. Guard are platform to the up dire, aud, ruas fraternising with the people assuring across two positive and two ing them that they will not shoot. The crowd beat the Monarchists who protested against the attack on the Jesuit Monastery and handing train, and held him, still un Following yesterday night'a riot-ed them over to the police. ing when two people were killed,, the Government aas made a de

Government's Order.

MADRID, May 11.

LADY WORTHINGTON.

SUCCESSFUL PETITION FOR

DECREE OF DIVORCE.

Mr. Justice Langton, in the Divorce Court, granted a decrer to Lady (Winifred Jean) Worthington, of Gilbert Street,

nizi

LATER

Martial law has been proclaimed.

"DANGEROUS CULT."

CLERGYMAN DENOUNCES

SPIRITUALISM.

negative rails carrying, 600 volts, suatched Percival up from almost under the wheels of the approach-

censeios, in a small recess in the wall whilst the train passed a few inches of them. **

By reason of his employment Thomas must have been fully aware al the riska he faced, and he die played conspicuous gallantry in svccessfully effecting the resue of Percival."

BIRTHDAY.

[THROUGH NECTER'S AGENCY.]

Oslo, May 11.

M. Kolstad, the Agrarian party leader, President of the Lower Chamber and director of the Agri- cultural Institate, har formed

Cabinet,

AUSTRALIAN AIR MAIL.

ARRIVES AT PORT DARWIN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

"

PORT DARWIN, May 11. The Southern Cross arrived here to-day.

Professor Lowers in his eulogium said:

"No other English novelist or poet has been so profoundly con scious of the roots of England, deep in its unmemorial, prehistoric, Ronan, Saxon past. Nor has any other so imbued his landscape roads, and moors, and barrows with a strange sentience, as if they had become, through centuries of human contacts. participants in that unending ift.

DREISER'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD.

FILM INDUSTRY'S UNWILL- INGNESS TO FACE REALISM.

New

York,

April 12. Mr.

According to an official communi. que received here to-day. Generat

four" of the former Kwangsi clique, left Nanning for Canton má Haiphong und Hong Kong yester day in response to the request of 'General Chen Teai Tong for a military conclave. The Kwangsi leader is expected to arrive in Canton on or about Friday, May

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Among the things that the two

Theodore Dreiser, the author, who military leaders will discuss will be recently

the problem of how the newly- slapped Mr. Sinclair Lewis, has made a violent attack ran overthrow. Chiang Kai Shek,

formed Kwangsi-Canton coalition

on Hollywood, whence he has re- turned to New York after seeing

(Wah The Yat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, May 11. The Nanking Government is still

the dis

what the film producers have done A Peaceful Settlement Hoped For. Man and the Earth at One,

with his book, "An American "In this heath, as in no other Tragedy." He said he had been spot, that sense of enduring "led through double doors to meet past, and of the indissoluble one. generalissimos, who jumped mound entertaining hope that ness of humanity with the earth like monkeys and talked like child gruntled faction at Canton might from which it sprang, found its ren," but discovered they had dras-be appeased by political means and,' supremo impression. And as it hastically altered his book until it with this end in view, has appoint- dealt with man's memorials for pictures me as writing something I cd Messrs. Chang Chi and Wu Tek' centuries,

watchful that aged,

never in the world could have writ- heath will in time incorporate this ten." trespasser upon its solitude with itself.

"In so merging: this rock with its surroundings, as in the lupas

Mr. Dreiser declares that he will bring an action in the tidern courts to restrain the showing of

Cheng to discuss the situation with Canton representatives..

Nanking's peaceful attitude ap- pears to have drawn response from Mr. Sun Fo, the Minister of Rail-

fae in sympathy with the Canton

faction.

of years it surely will, the heath the film. He argues that the film, ways, who has left his official duties will in another fashion symbolia industry is unwilling to Hardy's unique gift. For, again,

realism. in the work of no other English novelist or poet have breathing

Emphasis on sex. Mr. Dreiser On the advice of Messrs. Wu Chi mortals become in such degree one insists, is spelling the doom of Fei, Chang Ching King, Li Shih DAVIS CUP TENNIS. with the scene in which their drama Hollywood, and he predicts that Chang and H. H. Kung, Mr. Sun

is enacted-participants in the changing yet changeless processes

the American public will demand Fo fans wired to Cauton suggesting of earth.

good foreign pictures rather than

a peaceful settlement of the exist- the Hollywood drivel. He states

ing troubles between Canlon and "the bankers will get control of Nanking

BRITAIN AND JAPAN PROGRESS.

[THROUGH RESTEN'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 10. Britain progreased to the third Zone) to-day, winning their third successive game against Belgium at Brussels, the remaining watches making no difference to the result, Perry and Hughes represented Britain in the doubles, the pair securing a straight sets victory over De Borman and Lacroix (Bel- case, the gium) with the greatest scores being: 6-1, 6-4, 62,

In the earlier matcher, H. W. Austin hest Lacroix 64, 64, 04,

6-0, 0-2.

"Spiritualism is spiritual adui- tery. Thus did the Rev. Desmond ROCK CLIMBER KILLED ON round of the Davis Cup (European Morst-Boycott sum up his attack upon spiritualism as a dangerous and delusive cult. Mr. Morac Boycott was preaching at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Somers Town, St. Pancras.

"Spiritism inevitably attracts

Mayfair, London, on the ground of the curious and the crooked," he

120FT. FALL IN LAKE DISTRICT.

While a Liverpool school-teacher the adultery of her husband, Sir said.

"It tickles the lover of climbing Pavey Ark, a well-known Edward Brott Worthington, with sensation. Has there been within precipice in the Lake District Miss Pamela Hargreaves.

living memory anything more nau-he slipped, the rope scapped, and scenes that followed the death of below,

Mr. H. W. Barnard (instructed by Mesara. Halsey, Lightly and Heinsley) appeared for Lady Wor- thington. The suit was not defend.

ed.

It is that conception of a fate. ful merging of humanity with a somehow sentient, immanent en- vironment, which is implicit in the film industry, and force them The Return of the Native, and to give up selling sex at so much a "Tess,' and 'The Woodlanders,' and

Far From the Madding Crowd, eat. Nobody objesta to sex, not Two on a Tower, and in the great even 1, but there are other things sequence of poems.

as flesh and blood, yet

"And so this countryside to-day in peopled, as no other that I know is peopled, with living presences, revenlod mysteriously co-elemental with the woodlands, heaths, and sheepfolds, and the lonely roads of that Wes- sex, the very name of which is rooted in the soil of the past.

"Not since the elder Greek poets

in life."

"I remember Tom Hardy well as a schoolboy," he said. He used ton wearing a brown holland pina- to come to school from Beckhamp.

fore-a pinafore, mind you, not a smock-and a canvas dinner-bag banging over his shoulders.

"We used to eat our lunch by

which had just been built, Our

PEOPLE'S CONVENTION.

"TREATY ABOLITION

DECLARATION."

(Chun Wan Fat Pao.)

NANKING, May 11.. Acting on a resolution for auto..... matic abolition of unequal treatica

seating and silly than the hysterical he was killed on the rocks 1201 and Perry beat Do Borman, 62, and then in a different fashion- the South-Western Railway line existing between China and the that eminent man of letters, Sir Mr. Glynne Washington Humgrey "Britain nicets the winner of the

Arthur Conan Doyle 1 1 om. per was on holiday with his fiancee, suaded that not a few who took Miss Luens (another Liverpool part in the Memorial Service in school-teacher) and they decided to the Albert Hall greatly hoped for celebrate Mr. Humpirey's 23th birtle a vision of the creator of Sherlock day by olimbing the precipice, Holmes."

which is on the North-West side of Karireon Stickle, the highest of the Langdale Pikes.

"

Vale

South Africa-Ireland match in the

next round.

Egypt Beat Finland,

HELSINOPOES, May 10. Egypt beat Finland by four matches to one and now meet

Japan, who beat Jugo-Slavia at

In Belgrade.

the concluding matches at Helsingfors, Grandguil lot. (Egypt) heat Grahn, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. and Wahid (Egypt) bent Grotenfelt, 3, 2-6, 6-4, 0-4,

Japanese Win.

*

The marrinke took place on Oc- Some of the results of spiritu. tober 31, 1014. in St. George's alism Mr. Morse-Boycott conceded

to be genuine; but he added that Mr. Humprey and Miss Lucas Church, Hanover Square. They

spiritualism clouded the vision.

were roped together, and M. Hun lived together in London and two "Do you not remember the innrey went first, his fiancee follow children were born. After the war sipid vision of Heaven that were neg

automatically by the parties drifted apart and differ- written

He had his rope fastened round Owen some years ago?" he con- ences arose, there being a disparity tinued. They worried servants jutting rock when Miss Lucas sav of 17 years in their ages. After the xixie much, but made one hope that him alip and pitch outward. The

The doubles match between Jiro birth of the second child they Heaven was not really so dull, Do rape snapped as it received his full

Sato and Kawnichi (Japan) and you remember the foolish end of weight.

Miss Lucas's cries were heard by Schaffer and Kukuljevic (Judge. crased to live together as man and the world article written by Conan wife, nad. in May, 1997, they Doyle and published after his other climbers who wore within 50 Slavia) produced a keen struggle, death A first-rate scare for poor | yards, but, who were hidden by pro the Japanese winning 0-7, 36, 07, “separated-

“OJE”

eeting crage Bome of thest clin63Japanthers As much of the after-life as hers rescued her in a state of] three matches. might be known on earth, the collapse, and Humprey died a few

BELGRADE, May 11. preacher declared, had been reveal minutes after she had been helped Jiro Satch beat Schaeffer 7-6, 6-3, ed by Christ.

His Lordship' granted Lady Wor thington the custody of the two children.

down to where he lay.

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has the imagination, so merged in each other, without identifying, where can that essential quality earth and its denisons. And no of Hardy's genius be more deeply felt than hero where we stand,

"But it is not only here, that it in folt. For your best glory, the treasures of our common mother

tongne, has come to us, to enrich not unknowing, with your stores :

LIB,

lunch was plain bread and butter, Powers, which has been adopted by and sometimes cheese or n. little cold gudding.

"I remember that after we had

the People's Convention, the Naa

had our lunch we used to have what king Government is drawing up a. we called our dessert. We did so-called "treaty abolition déclara not have anything to eat for des

tion." sert, but we used to go to an old. cafe kept by Mrs. Bigge and stand and sniff the aromp coming

The Arst part of the declaration: from the kitclien below the shop. dwells on the history of China's "What is now a Wesleyan chapel being compelled to contract anch used, in those days, to be a sort of huckster's shop kept by Bally unequal treaties with the Fowers Warren, who sold brooms, pig's foot, and all sorts of queer things. And, ocondly, sets out reasons for There was a half door leading into China's demand for the abolition of the shop and I remember once when

"And the donors of this monolith, who are beyond the Atlantic when they would be here, are but acknow ledging in their memorial one of the deepest debts which we опе to the land from which our fathers. came

Hardy and the Broom, we were coming from school a lad these treaties. Finally,it an-

throw Tom Hardy's hat over Présent at the ceremony was Mr. door into the shop. Tom went in ounces the Nationalist Govern. C. Lacy. Dorchester journalist to pick it up and falls augent's decision to carry out one of the two survivors of those him. I shall never forget how we who went to school with Hardy at Inughed to see Tam trying to get scheme for their abolition in the Dorchester nearly ninety years ago. his hat while Sally' belaboured bim (Continued at foot of neze column,) with one of her birch brooms." immediate future.

the