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CUSTOM HOUSE TROUBLE.

ANGRY DEMONSTRATION IN SHANGHAI.

NEW OFFICIAL DOCUMENT CAUSES DISTURBANCE.

£50,000 SHOP FIRE DAMAGE.

EIGHT HURT IN RUSH BY CROWD.

Guildford, Fire destroyed tho premises of W. E. White, drapers and men's outfitters, North-street, Quildford, on Wednesday Dec. 18, the early closing day. Damage is estimated at £40,000 to £50,000,

as if the fire would attack an iron. monger's and oil morchant's pre- mises on one side and a butcher's) on the other.

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Shanghai. Dec. 6.--Angered by" the introduction of a now applies tion form for the routine business

The outbreak started. in a store of the Chinesa Maritime Customs, a bob of över 1,000 excited Chinose room at the rear of the shop, beneath brokers and members of native the staff's living quarters, where shipping hengs yesterday afternoon Alty people were present. It was threatened wreck the Revante disecvered about five p.m. by an Department on the first floor of the assistunt who was returning to toa. Shanghai Custome House in the Some of the staff began to col course of a noisy demonstration, flect their belongings. They were which only was quietened latar by ordered to leave before they had the rushing of an emergency riot finished their task. squad of River Police to the scène.

The Guildford fire brigade was With the demonstradors shoutin'" 'called, and the fra spread so`rapid dehands and threats of violence asly that three other brigades were thoy thronged about the Head commissioned. The premises. ATO, Deak, cccupied by Mr. Joly and his situated in a congested area of the saff, and milled about the corrid-town, and at one time it memed ora and offices on the first floor, the situation for a time assumed a very dangerous aspect. The prompt arrival, however, of Superintendent William C. Woodfield and In-

The flames got to within a few spector R. E. Bridges with a squad fest of the oil store. It was also of 12 uniformed Customs Riverfeared that the fire might spread Folics and a detail of men in plan through White's showrooms to their clothes, prevented any of the threate being carried out and, generally, had a sobering affect un

Front Falls Into Street, the dense gathering, Many of the demonstrators, at this juncturo, The 80-foot front of the shop slipped away to avoid any possible crashed after the fire had been in reprisals but several hundred of the progress about an hour, and just brokers assembled in smaller after the firemen had left this part groups and remained until long of the building. The debris block-the absence of the Lady Mayoress, after regular closing hours, disod up the main theroughfare. who, he said, was feeling tired and cussing the situation. -

Eight people were slightly hurt out of sorts after a disturbed night when the front fell into the streets.

Living at the Mansion House," One of the assistants who lives he added, "takes some getting Police Foste established on the premises said: "When some used to, and we have not yet go throughout the corridors and all of us saw smoke coming through accustomed to it. Strange noista doors were guarded, but the in skylight, we started to attack dividual groups were not interfere the fire with chemical extinguishers,.. wih: To prevent any possible

They are, I think, due to the resumption of the trouble this but were ordered by the police to shrinkage of the woodwork through morning, the whole Customa House,lenve. Before we went away we the introduction of radiators, but dashed nound the room to make sometimes in the dark one could sure that none of the women and easily imagine they are due to girls were in the building. Onother leas natural causes." of us has lost everything except the clothes he was wearing when he

Building Guarded.

were

it was stated last evening, will be placed under heavy guard as soon as it is opened for business.

The trouble, which came to head yesterday, has been brewing fer some time past, owing to the estab, shinent by the Ministry #

shops, which extend into High- street. This was prevented.

"Finance at Nanking of a different went out during the afternoon,"

type of document termed "New Native Form for Imponts, Experis and Re-Exports." The Chinese CUE- toms brokers claim that the form is too complicated, in comparis with the previous applications, and complain that they are subject to & no of 25 candarins, of tael, cents,

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Ghostly noises at the Mansion House were referred to by the Lord Mayor (Bir Maurice Jenks) when, he distributed the regimental and other prizes to the members of the London Rifle Brigade at their headquarters in Bunhill-row

Sir Maurice was apologising for

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MIDNIGHT RAID IN NEW YORK.

Søven women and seventeen men, all unclothed, were arrested by the police in a midnight raid upon a Seventh Avenue building in New York. Four young policemen with | much blushing takd how they enter- ed a gymnasium for physical cul- ture, which by day was used for sun-baths.

All the persons present were ar rested and rushed in black marina to a night court. The police stated roof and peering through the win- that by Arst going to an adjoining

dows they discovered the place. The membership of the gym class" was quoted at 6s. a month for single ladies, s. for youths aged from 18 to 21. and 128. for men over 1. In case of married rate was 108. couples who joined the reduced

The defendants were released on before a magistrate were told to bail in 208. ench, and on appearing come again ог Monday. The magistrate informed the defen. dants, some of whom were very young and good-looking, that they were charged with a most, serious offence and advised them to employ. lawyers.

a pamphlet eulogising suu-baths in Among the literature seized was the nude for health, and declaring with regard to physical drills: "Your committee roserves the

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right to impose abstinence from COMING ENLARGEMENT OF intoxicants at our meetings and on our grounds."

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Lady Jenks is not the first Lady NARROW ESCAPES OF TWO

Mayoress who has found the un- familiar ncisos of the Maasion House a little disturbing during.

for each error in the papers filed, TO ASSIST LORD TRENCHARD. the first few weeks of her occupancy.

that

once one initial mistake is correct ed. In addition, they aver any such errors make their applica tions subject to refusal. Severi joint protess meetings of the brok ers and shipping hongs have been held here lately in reference to the matter, the anal one last evening after yesterday's, disturbancer,

Lord Trenchard, Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, has selected Colonel the Hon. Maurice C. A. Drummond, C.M.G., D.S., Assistant Quartermaster General, Eastern Command, as one of the offers to assist him in the re- Nanking organisation scheme for London cancel the offending form, and yes terday morning the brokera

police. werd

Mr. L. H. Lawford, Commission- ́er of Customs, however, received no

authorization from

Buses, ears, and taxicabs, heavi Ty-laden ment Yans bound for Smithfield, steam and other wagons with vegetables and fruit for Covent Garden and Spitalfidida, and lorries proceeding to and from the docks, all pass the spot late at night and in the early morning Another somewhat disturbing fac to in probably provided by rate. A number have been driven into the Mansion House by the build ing operations in the neighbour-

hood.

advised that the regulations in this. There are three executive posts regard must be complied with. A vacant at Scotland. Yard in cona though it was pointeil out that the Shanghai office of the

sequence of deaths and retirements Maritime Customs could not disregard the all Assistant Commissionerships- | superior instructions, the order but on the grounds of economy it angered the brokers, who com.

of is not proposed at the moment to menced to argue the matter with All them all Customs officials, immediately after the officer wore opened for the day,

Disturbance Grows,

Col. Drummond, who was born in 1877, is a brother of Sir Erie Drum- mond, Secretary-General of the Langue of Nations.

The three vacant Assistant Com With more and more brokers missionerships are in the Traffic, streaming in to attend to business Organisation and Legal Depart after the holiday session, the mente, and it is probable that Col. arguments on the first floor grew Drummond, in view of his wide increasingly heated and inclusive administrative experience, will be as the hours passed.. By two appointed to take chargo of the o'clock in the afternoon over 1,000 Organisation branch. brokers, their assistents, coolies

and shipping men had 'nssembled.

in the Revenus Department on the

Bund, and the gathering gradually dert's orders, Epon the situation changed into a noisy demonstra-aming a more normal tone. tich. When the excited shouting Superintendent Woodfield departed of. the demonstrators became about 4 o'clock, leaving Inspector

dible on the Band below and Bridges in command. with the threats increasing in violence, a call for aid was dis patched to the Pootung Hulk of the River Police,

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Appeal to Nanking,

The plainclothes men, who

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Superintendent Woodfield, who companied the uniformed detail, received

the summons quickly scattered amongst the crowd resembled the squad and, placing arrival, quietly assisting in di Inspector Bridges in command, persing the most noisy assemblages aped across the river with his men and watching for possible trouble, in a special launch to the Customa. It is understood that, as the re- Jetty. According to eye witnesses ault of the special meeting last. of the demonstration, the police night of the brokers and shipping arrived just in time to prevent the hongs, another urgent appoal will

EXPRESSES,

INDIAN TRAIN WRECKED.

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A passenger train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway was re- eently derailed near Titvala, 40 miles from Bombay

"SELFRIDGE'S IN LONDON.

As a gesture on a grand scale of confidence in the future of Eng land, Mesira. Selfridge & Co., Ltd.. have begun demolition work pre- paratory to the building of a large addition to their present shop in Oxford-street, which will make t the biggest single departaient stora in the world.

The Braz have acquired the greater part of the block of build- The whole train, with the excepinga enclosed by Somerset-street, tion of the engine and one or two Orchard-street, Wigmore-street and

coaches, overturned.

The railway authoritics are not yet prepared to ascribe the accident to deliberate tampering with the

rails.

Duke-street.

The first part of the new premises to be rebuilt is at the cornor "of

to

Somerset-street and Duke-street. It will extend 200ft., north to Wig The Calcutta mail, which was due

weat to pass the spot shortly after the more-street, and 250ft. time of the accident, carries a large Orchard-street. The ground floor | number of European passengers to and two or three basements, con, Bombay to catch the mail boat for pected to the old building by sub- England.

ways, and to be twice the size of the present ground floor and base- ments, is the part which it is in- tended shall be completed by next autumn.

The General Purposes Committee the Corporation, which ha charge of the Mansion House, has put rat-catchers on duty for some days past. It may be that their One railway servant was killed. movements have awakened Lady One passenger was severely injured Jenks,

and others wore slightly injured.

House are rat proof, and perhaps All the rooms in the Mansion the efforts of the rats to enter these sealed chambers provide an addi- tien to the mysterious noises.

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The Minister of Health, Sir (E) By the time the whole scheme, is Hilton Young, M.P., attended his completed-Mr. Gordon Selfridge first Ministarial public function in inaugurating the new front-line" informed Press representative that scheme of Hastings.

bo hoped it would be in about. menade straightening out the old run into something over £5,000,000

This consists of a concrete pro eight years time-the cost will have

reclaimed from the sea, and a car foreshore by means of a. 70ft, belt

Of the, approximately, 10,000 words of an

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An increase in the staff of be- words are of extreme importance:

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be nezdesary. It was 'n risk, it was German people a new, and in our

As this depends for some of its true, asid Mr. Belfridge, but he felt opinion a saner, Constitution." massive strength on the beach and that at this time, when pessimism These 24 words have given rise to the tides will cover it, the new park was so much in the air, an enter

indication of their confidence in the

development of a serious situation. be wired to-day to the Nationalist a fluster among German Socialists, | is not so much underground “as prise of mich magnitudo was some As it was, considerable difficulty Ministry of, Finance, requesting and the Vorwaerts interprets them virtually under the sea. was experienced in quieting some of the immediate cancellation of the as a threat of a coup d'état by The work has been carried out by futurs not only of Great Britain, the more hosted of the demonstra-form. According to a high custom's Hitler.

the borough engineers and unem, but also of the Empire, not to tors, but it was not found necessary official, one of the chief difficulties While declaring his intention to ployed labour of the casual kind. Though they would not build as to make any arrests. As a pre-lies in the objection of the brokers frame another German Constitution. It has cost £133,648, or £10,000 less: high as was done in America, the cautionary measure, none of the to use the offending document Herr Hitler asserts that in his thần the estimates, and the work now, abop would be the biggest in police detail carried firearms in while the matter is being investi. struggle for political might he will has been Anished in six months less the world: London was entitled accordance with the Superinten- gated.

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