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WEDNESDAY JUNE 28,
1922.
CALLOUS
THE CANTON CRISIS.
DR. RATHENAU'S FUNERAL
No Untoward Incident.
Reater's Service.
Berlin, June 27. The funeral of Dr. Rathonsu to-day was not marked by any untoward incident. The flags an the public buildings and at the Embassies were at half-mast, but very few private premises or hotels displayed signs of mourning.
The coffin, draped with the Republican flag, was placed on catafalque in the Reichstag, where President Ebert delivered funeral oration.
MOTOR COLLISION SEQUEL
Dragon Motor Car Company Sued.
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ROBBERS
Girl and Woma
Abar
Four mobbers, two armed with a carpegis dagger respectivaly, 20 bungalow in Chạenging an p.m. laat night, and (mghed, the occupants, three-way, jewellery to the value of 14115,
A servant girl, who rafved an alarm when the robbers entered, waasiabbed in the lifa big..
STRE
In the meantime, the situation here is developing slowly. The conditions ensuing from Sun's Į establishing himegifai Whampoa
STORY OF MBS, SUN'S cannot last long, and the tension
ESCAPE.
Dr. San "Will Fight.
the End.*
LATEST NEWS OF THE SITUATION.
| may reach breaking podnɛ KÈ ANY moment. Foreigners here - are
MACAO SITUATION.
Our
New Boy
alive to the possibilities and are state that Choser: taking precautions to secure the has declared | [safaly of. the Bhameen "bonki of the Chines
further trouble 00007.
Rumours.
to
As a sequel to a recent collision between a motor-car belonging to the Dragon Motor Co., Ltd, and a police motor cycle (lent by Mr. G. W. Kynoch) driven by Bergt,
published in the wood, the Attorney-Genera!
The rumour paráists that an
vernacular papucs, to tha attempt. brought an action against the
was last Week Dragon Motor Car Co., in the |
made on the life of General that the public and the Labor
[Guilda have decided thất : Court. before kir. Subsequently the remains were conveyed to the family vault on Summary
One of the winen was winnded,
Chen King-ming at Sheklung, Wood, this morning, in the left eye with, wodnego the outskirts of Barlin. The crowds, after londly chearing President Justice
Our Shanghai correspondent that shots were fired, that provisions be permitted to Ebert, quietly dispersed. A twenty-four hour demonstration strike claiming $230 as damages to the while she was being sekroned.
-wires to-day as follows- Chan was wounded and that he imported fato Macao seven days. a hospital in her this intimation, neither can began at all banks and shops at noon, while the tramway and local motorcycle caused by the alleged
Kra. Bun Yat-sen, who is is bas been moved to
(Chinaen be permitted. to go to. railway services were suspended.
negligence of defendant's driver.
Shanghai, in ad istorview with Canton. It is impossible Macao. It is added that anyone Plaintiffs alleged that the he was, swerved off to the left on President of Anti-Semitic League Among the Arrested.
defendant car was being driven to the stopes and pulled up. The the National Prem Agracy, de verify the story, which is regard- Berlin, June 27.
be severely dealt with. many other sensational Go out of Dr. Kathenan's assassination, rapid pace, on the wrong side motor-cycle also went further acribed her remarkable escaped in most quarters se bein, like anght violating this notice wit
23 being quite the Anti-Semitic League, have been made of the road at a band where there over to its left, but fatis o pull from Canton, beginning with the so
was a high corner..
up in time, and there was a light attack made on her bems while rumours, Republican Demonstrators.
Mr. H. K. Holmes appeared for collision. The sergeant on the she was sleeping.
She states that she urged heri In fairness to General Yip, it the plaintiff and Mr. C. Lauritsen maior-cycle did not appear to be husband to fise alone, whilst she must be said that he has ra- (proprietor of the defendant Com
deavoured to exercise strong dis- pany) conducted his own defence Mr. Holmes:-Do you think defended her home, segisted by a
bodyguard of dfty men. The cipline over his troops. Isolated Capt. Charles $. Dodwell, the car skidded a bit may R.G.A
gave evidence to the bare skidded a little, but not ammunition became exhausted by Ces of violence, suob' as might be expected under existing "con- affect that about three o'clook much.
Accompanied by the three ditions, have been reparted from the on
afternoon of March How far did the car go after it 3rd, he
Fifty-six arch including the pres
Policy
The police
dedad prohibitio
one and wounding six.
Rain At t
For th
g fired on republican demonstrators, who passing the Bismarck Monament, killing
COUNTY CRICKET.
Yorkshire Defeats Kent.
London June 27.
the baredi, the winno br
ickets for 39.
At Manchester, the Lancashire-Warwick match was abandoned; At Worcester, Somerset led the home team on the first innings, McBryan scoring 98.
hurt
dawn.
untrue.
News in „To-day's New Advertisements.
Consignsea par the sa. Holsteine,
A WES in motor-car struck them tor-oycle at the guards, Mrs. Sun crept down an the city, but there is nothing to from Bremen and Hamburg are On Saturday, July 8th sa hired from defendants and was point of collision they both came overhead bridge connecting the canse apprehension to faraigners given the ushal notice on page 4
house with the office: One guard The city has been very quiet going to Taipo. The car war to a standstill. driven by a Chinese driver. Be
was killed so route and the bridge during the past few days, and exkra Gymkhana is being beld---
in gradually
beingPago 4. was demolished fire. Then the office was bom resumed.
Was the rider thrown over the tweea Shulio and Taipo they cal-bandlebars or on to the handle lided with a motor-ayale. Att his | bars Yo; he remaised in dis point the road was level and |reat.
barded.
by
ROMEO
business
Looting.
At the Kowloon Theatre to- {night "Extravagante | is tha
principal film.—Page 12.
with play averywhere. dlesex led on the first innings against Hants.
edy captured eight wickets for 86.
Yorks v. Kent match for the benefit of Delphio,
Mrs. Son was then captured by
Saturday is a Bank Holiday—— wicketkeeper, Yorks won by ten wickets. For swerved round to the right, and Then that gave you, ko idea of
troops, bet she was allowed to At Sap Tsat Po yesterday #Page 4. Joyd scared 89, while Waddington took sight to the right there was a high the speed of the molasyols at scape while looting was going care of footing occurred. Coolies The Imports and Exports Office
bank. On the left side of the road | the time of the contsét?--If the weTE broken stones, and no motar-cycle had been going fast the Treasury and the Cas-who are hired to carry certain announce the hours of business.
paraphernalis at the funeral of the on Saturday--Pago 4. motorist liked to drivs aver broken he would have come as of his toms Oce
Then beran an all-day pursuit late Dr. Wu Ting-fang, were being There will be no dance at the. stones if he could avoid it. The soat At the time of the collision and she begged the guards to paid their ages when several Grill Room to-night, but combin stones covered half the width of the motor cycle must have been shoot her, as she was no longer men in uniform made a grab ased bands will be at Repulse Bay- the road and there was no room going very slowly. for a motor-car and a motor-cyclo Mr. Lauritsen: Do you think able to continue. Once she lay the basket containing the money Page 4.
On Monday, at the P. W, DE if the motor.cpolish sounded aidat corpses and ahammed that and endeavoured to make off
she was dead,
with it. This as angered the Offices, there is a sale of Crówn they were both going over so his born in noswer to the motor-
Finally, the escaped to Hong-caolies that they set upon the Land at Shamsbaipa-Pago oarbam, the soukian.f. would have been avoided?—If out driver had kong in the gule of a coäntry-soldiers and belaboured them WOMEN. All the guards were with bamboo poles, and in the and known of the metag cycle, the
tilled but one.
[one of the soldiers was taken into accident might have been avoided.
a custody. Can you remember the time it took from Taipo to Kowloon ?
At Horsham, Surrey led on the first innings against Sussex, Sandham scoring 128.
At Derby, the home team defeated Glamorgan by 137 runs. At Northampton, Notts led on the first innings against the home to pass on the other half unless
County, Carr scoring 99.
At Colchester, the match between Eaux and Cambridge|síawiy. University was drawn. For the "Varsity. Fiddian-Green scored 103. while the Esser batsman, Perrin, scored 105.
At Leicester, Oxford University led on the first innings against the home county, Knott scoring 105 not out
was slow.
WIMBLEDON TENNIS.
First Round of World's Championship.
London, June 27.
At Wimbledon the first round of the Chamoionships was played before a large crowd. Toe weather was fine and cool, but the turf
The Australian Davis Cup player Anderson, one of the favour ites, showed excellent form. He beat the British former Davis Cup player, Tarabull, by 7.5, 7.5, 6·3.
Mr. Holmes-Your car was on the right side of the road; not where the stones were ?—~ My car went on the smooth part.
Can you say what speed you were going at the time?-I cap anly give a rough estimate, 15 to 18 miles an hour.
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Witoa-s replied that he could not remember, and Mr. Lauritsen supplied the information that it took forty minutes.
Mr. Labriteos:—Did you sna any danger signals on the road? No to the best of my knowledge there were none.
Mrs. Son still suffers from slight flush wound. She says her husband will fight to the and.
Sun's Plans
frur Special Correspondent.)
Caston, Tuesday.
The Labourites.
Yoo Sang Fat Co. start thele summervala to-morrow-Pago 3. The Blue Funnels.z. Glancon im.
Wharf junloading at Holts"
Consignees see airt, on Page 5.
To-Day's Exchange.
The closing rate of the dollar om. demand to-day was 2a. 7.5/163.
The Weather.
The Third Division, formerly [commanded by General Ngri Bong ping, is cow in charge of bis second in command These Iwo men, as a result of a suspicion Capt. Dodwell continued that
that they are partial to Sun, hers they came to the corner and be-
been closely watched by Genersi cause the left side of the road,
The latest information to hand Yip's troops, and there has been which they ought to have been
is that Sun Yat-sen has gathered talk of sending them elsewhere, on, was covered with the rough
sround him at Whampoa a force out of the way of doing mischief. Don't you think the motor-cycle numbering 3,000 and that he in- stones, the driver wished to take the other part. Before going round was travelling too fast to pull up tends to attack the city in co- the corner, he sounded his bore. in time?—He seemed to pull up operation with the gunboats. On
Canton, Monday.
2 p.m. Barometer:-29.75. Tamb Witness beard no answering hero as soon as he saw u8.
learning of this intention, certain Was not the motor car at people went down to ase bita yes-what has become of the Labour
Foreigners here Norton, Lycett, the Australian Davis Cop player O'Hara Wood, and the driver, thinking there
are asking perature:-8. Hamidity —-85, the Spaniards Alonzo and Fisquer, the Frenchmen Dupont, Cochet, was nothing there, proceeded. standstill before it was hit?-Itterday in order to dissuade him Guilds in the present crisis. Lighting Up-Time. Brugnon and Gobert and the Romanian Misu were amongst others They could not ses far in front. was just about coming to a stop. from this purpose, but Sun in anid Officially, they have ceased to who entered the second round.
Suddenly motor-cycle
His Ronour said he took it that to have rejected their advice. proschad
from → them
exist, for their signboards have Lighting-up time to-day 7.11 the the parties would consider the In the event of further ac ion been taken down. Their leader, p.m. other direction. The motor-cycle case on that evidence, and, if they against the city. Sun could the Bociallet, The Ying-pak, bas the wanted it beard, would put it on most likely rely on the crews not been shot, as has been freely was. on its left side, of road and witness estimated
of the Po Piz, the Wing rumoured, but has retired into its speed at batween 20d 25
ad-Fung miles an hour. The car in which
obey his utders. These men, who position of prominent men is not
that...
laboué are being bandied by Chas Chak, an enviable one these days in guilds were strongly ent are regarded as being loyal to Canton.
ched they frequently came into
OIL COMBINE'S DEPOT NEAR GENOA.
Tank Capacity of 40,000 Tons,
Rome, Jane 27.
A large depot of the Royal Dutch and Shell Oil Companies was opened at Vado, near Genoa, in the presence of representatives of the Government, a number of Senators and Deputies, and other well- known people.
There are eleven tanks of a capacity of 40,000 tons of com- bustible oil.
In connection with the opening the King conferred a Com- mandership of the Crown of Italy upon Sir Henry Deterding.
WHOLESALE KIDNAPPING OF AMERICANS IN MEXICO.
Rebel General Hqida Them to Ransom.
Washington, June 27. Following the capture of Bielaski (see Earlier Cables), forty American employees of the Cortez Oil Company, together with property valued at over a quarter of a million dollars, were seized by the rebel General Grozozabe, who is holding them to ransom.
The American representatives at Tampico and Mexico City have been instructed to urge immediate action by the Mexican authorities.
FREE STATE GENERAL KIDNAPPEED.
Reprisal for Arrest of LR.A. Officer.
London, June 27.
Major General O'Connell, Chief of Staff of the Free State I.R.A.'s, has been kidnapped in Dublin. This is believed to be a reprisal for Houderson's arrest.
the list.
The case was accordingly journed sine die.
SINGAPORE OIL TANKS. :
Home Firm Secures Admiralty Contract
London, June 27,
U.S. ARMY OF 137,000.
Senate Adopts Conference Report.
Washington, June 27.
The Senate has adopted the conference report on the Army Bill providing for an army of 137,000 in the coming year, which has already passed the House of Representativan.
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|stration.
and the Choyue to temporary obscurity, since the It has to bá remembered
The Military Outlook.
whils: the
Bun, whilst the other ships of the That a marked change bas come squadron are holding out for the over the Labour situation is shown contact with the police sa fullment of the pact arranged by the practical effacement of the troops, and in view of that foot 197 with General Tip Kus.
is easily to be understood that The Inbour factor so far as participa general attitude of the Navy astion in affairs is concerned. This the labourites are at preser whole is rather nacertain, but change is waced to the downfall ring low, fearing possible The Teeside Bridge Engineering Company of Middlesboro bus the bigger units will take up sen, and the severance of a con-
one may bazard the guess that of their political leader, Son Yaevenge. This is said by many to explain the haste with secured from the Admiralty, in the face of keen competition, a neutral attitude in case Sun's section which both have found of which the Guilds have taken contract to erec: fifteen oil-storage tanks at Singapore. This will gunboats make a further demon- matual advantage in the past recent occasion on which the down their signboarda. The only provide work for many men for eighteen months.
the one in receiving the materia!
bave come into pro backing to bir personal ambitions, Guilds sad the other in securing the minence was at the funeral of Dr. Wa Ting-fang, when thes The general military situation official seal of approval to many
beaners were much in avidencin is entirely unfavourable to Bau, acts designed to strengthen the
As usual, the position of honode so far as immediate prospects position of the Guilds. lare concerned. Shinkwan, which It is worth recalling that Sonze then given to the Seamen
Union. la 140 miles from Canton by Yat-sen owed his election to the rall, has been cles.red of Presidency largely to the support A New Understanding? General Hsu Sung-obi troops, of the labour guildá, mány of
Our Canton corresponden whose headquarters bave, as a whose leaders belong to the result been established further Kuomintang, and it is significant writes as follows:
Sun Yat-sen is al" presen back, near Nambung. As far as of the breach between Sun and can be judged from the great Chan that the inffer has rekinned making his headquarters in fures distance which separates the his post as Chairman of the Canon various oraisers, the General, three forces attempting to bear ton branch of that party. Equallylissimo's flag" appearing at the down on Canton, they are out of stoquent of the relations be main, mast whenever he i touch one with another. Li Lien-tween the fallen leader and aboard. Brandy and cigarellon kwan's division is further back the commercial and maried are being freely distributed to then in Kingai than General Hou's, olasses in the enthusiasm these crews. whilst the force led by Li Fook-latter have shown in erect It is reported that fum on the other side of the main ing arches bearing expressions understanding has been body is only a remnant. On the of their gladness at the retire between the other hand, General Yip Kue's ment" of Ban and their desire to military authorities. and General Chao King-ming's celebrate the event. These effect that a mile froops, who bar the way to influential people have always be givan:820 Yal [Canton, are well equipped with held back in iupporting, the and supplies that are being rapidly northern erpadikan, bat with fired" turned out by the Amenal. An Sun in power; they bad more of effort is being made to send down loss to "kow-tow to him. word from Whumpós to General now. hope that, with San, sat: done 27. |Tong Kao-yi, who' commands the way, a period of comméro: Coltivation set. Yunnansse... samy, but prosperity. will set in. He died
being nơ – far south – that their lostra: that "ObRT early monistance from that quarter return to assume charge. } The Brakes fa ciat of the cusatíógi,
THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
French Committee Favours Restoration.
Paris June 27. The recently-appointed inter Ministerial Committee has reached [* Commandant " Hendarson, of the republican I.R.A., was arrested by the Free State 1.R.A. forces for raiding a garage and a decision favouring restoration of the Banque Industrielle, de was sent to Mountjoy Prison:
THE RUSSIAN OUTLOOK.
Alarming Political and Economie Situation.
The Hague, June 27.
Chine.
INTERNATIONAL RUBBER ASSOCIATION,
Vice-President's Death During Session.
Contrary to M. Lilvinoil's optimistic statements, the latest reliable news from Bussis shows that raw materials are pasetically
During the sitting of the International Rücke exhausted and industry and employment are consequently saziously Association, the Vice-President, 1. Bard, collapsed
affected, whilst the political and economic situation is considered alarming
(Other Fany and Special Telegrams on Page 24d-31)
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