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日九十弍月三

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PIRACY."

TWO SEAMEN

CHINA STATION.

RELEASED] VICE ADMIRAL LEVESON'S.

How the Victims are Tortured)

SUCCESSOR.

Appointment of Vice Admiral Everett.

· On their return to Hongkong, After release from a captivity marked by the commission of

A Router's telegram to hund many brutal acts' and in many cases onding fatally. for fellow-announces that Vice Admiral Siri victims, two members of the crow Allan Everett has been uppeinteri Commander-in Chief on the China: of the ill-fated Chounger au ferry Loa Fal, which full into the hands Station, In succession to Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Loveson. Ha of pirates several months will assume the Command, ap- whilst returning to Hongkong,

November 7th proximately on to-day furnished a Telegraph reporter with interesting details)ubxt.

of their expurioncos. They came'

Vicó

Admiral Sir Allan back on Wednesday night by way Froderie Everett, K., C. M. G.,

of Kongmoon after the muney K. C. V. O., C. B.. who is at that had boon fixed as their present ranson had been paid over to the pirator.

ONE MAN SHOT.

First Son Lord in Australia, was born on February 22nd, 1868. He is a son of the lato Colonel John Froderic Everett, of Groenhill, Warmins sor, Wiltshiro. In 1901, he wa

Superintendent of aur roaders have been well-Signal Schools, which position he informed. Shortly after being held, except for a short interval,| landed on shore, a tramp of two until 1908.

Of the facts concerning the nctual commission of the piracy appointed

Ho thon became

Home

hours duration brought captors Captain of Fleet and Commodore and captivos to a region which, First Class on the Staff of the from the point of view of safety, Commander-in-Chief, was woll adapted to the pirates Pleats and Grand Fleet, holding needs. With the idea of kooping this position until 1915, whom he the exact location from the was appointed Naval Assistant to knowledge of the captives, the the First Sea Lord. Having held march was accomplished during that office for a year, he was pro- the night, and the dawn found moted Roar Admiral in 1017. the disconsolate group in a region whilst from 1916 to 1918 he acted of mountain fastnesses, with the as Naval Secrotary to the First prospect of oxape cut off com- Lord of the Admiralty and as pletely from all nidos. The A. D. C. to King George. In the watch that was kept on them years 1918-19, he was in

Fostertha Light was vigilant and continuous, and mand of the after an example made of the Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Floot and from 1919 to 1921 first one, who was summarily shot-whitendeavouring to was in command of the Eighth Light Cruiser Squadron, North make his escape, it was a very America and West Indies: From subdued hand of captives that

1921 until his present appoint-} was later housed, together in a large hut. Conditions of their tent, he was Naval Secretary to captivity were most depressing. The First Lord of the Admiralty. .and between the rough treatment.

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FLIGHT LEADER MISSING.

FORCED LANDING

FISHING VESSELS

IN STORM FEARED.

MAKING

SEARCH.

Washington, May 1.

Nows from Alaska shows there is anxioly rogarding the whereabouts of Major Martin, the loader of the Ambrican world flight.

He was detained at Chignik owing to severe weather, four hundred pounds of ico having accumulated on the machino. He left this morning to join his comrades at Dutch Harbour, but nothing has been soon of him since, and it is feared the prevailing storme may have forced an isolated and procarious landing. Fishing vessels have been requested to keep a

ŞPARANUSHİRUZ

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GINGNIK

In addition his British Admiral Everett they received, and the threat of decorations,

Commandour thel -death being continually held over is, a

their heads, it was not surprising Legion d'Honneur, possesses the that suvon of the number, died Japanese Order of the Rising Sun bofore their relatives could be (Second Class), the Italian Ordor informed of their whereabouts, of St. Maurice and St. LazATUR

Iisonewhit-difficult to (Second Class) and the Russian į. locate the exget stronghold of this Order of St. Stanislaus (Sacond | particular gang, out from uff Class).

accounts we should imagine thall

Admiral Everett

it lios sumöwhere near Tau Man married Michaelungula Kattrino, Shu Mei, which is within the daughter of the late Capt. G. L. Hounghsan district. The pirates Carr, It. N.

#poke the Sun Wui dialect, and,

when not engaged on their no-

were

farious oxpeditions, put in their! time by vultivating the fields. Time after time, there

coming of thei alarms of the soldiers and on each of these oc- casions the captivos were hustled out of their hut and taken to a secret hiding place in the moun- tains, returning later to their former abade when the coast was again cleur.

EARS CUT OFF.

them back enclosed in envelopes

to their relativos in Hongkong.

Three victims had thus been de

prived of the'r cars up to the

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Above is a map of the U. S. army's scheduled globe-circumnavigating flight. The start and finish are to be in Los Angeles, Inset are the four designated pilots who fly the Douglas cruiser planes.. Upper left Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, Upper right-Lieuten- aut Erik H. Nelson Lower left-Lieutenant Leigh Wade. Lower right--Major Froderick L. Martin, Commander of the expedition.

TRAGEDY': ON

B. J. STEAMER.

British Flight A Long Odds- Gumble."

SHANGHAI RIOT. HOUSE DEMO TITON RESENTED

LABOUR DAY

PROCÉSSION TO HYDE PARK.

DISTURBANCES IN GERMANY.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, May 1 Three thousand persons went in procession in the rain to Hyde Park to attend an International Labour May Day demonstration. There were very orderly celebrations.

Paris was also orderly and holiday-like; the only trouble boing in Germany, at Koenigsberg, where two parsons word killed and two wounded in a collision between police and Communists, while the Polico in Berlin provented the Communists holding any open- air meetings.

Crowds gathered at Athens, despite the prohibition of meetings, and refused to disperse even when a firehose was turned on them. They flod when troops fired in the air.

Riot, in Paris.

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Puris, May 1.

The May Day calm was brol on at the conclusion of Labour meetings by demonstrators who throw stones and fired a revolver at trams driven by members of the Union Civique. Minor injuries wore caused due to broken glase. Ono arrest was mado.

A Berlin message anys two were killed and five wounded in a collision between the polico and communists in Hindouburg Upper Silesia.

200 Arrests in Warsaw.

Warsaw, May 1. Two hundred arrests, musty of Communists, were made during the May Day celebrations. Mounted police word called out to deal with the crowds.

TORNADÒ DAMAGE.

DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.

Atlanta, May 1. Further accounts of the tornadoos which swept over the south- eastern States show that fify persons were killed and many aro anissing and injured in South Carolina alone.

-Nineteen were killed in Alabama and twenty in Georgia. Throe were killed and forty injured in North Carolina.

The paths of the storms are estimated at two thousand miles. long.

Sixteen people were killed at Morrill Hill, South Carolina, where two tornadoes converged. Picklin, in Georgia, was virtually destroyed...

The total damage is estimated at ten million dollars.

OVER THE BORDER.

YESTERDAY'S FIGHTING.

Yunnanese Troops Beaten.

Shum

in

STUDENTS' STRIKE.

TWO CANTON SCHOOLS SHUT.

Two schoolsin-Canton-are-not- Regarding the fighting near running just now bocause of

Market, Chun

which strikes on the part of students, Wo reported yesterday, We says the Canton Evening Star. Tourn that everything

the locality. Students In Kung Yes Medical now quiet in Yesterday quite a number of College are not attending classes Chinese crobsod the border into as a protest against the wholesale British territory, many of them suspension of the sophomore later coming down hore by rail.class from lectures. The other Reports from Chinese sources day the members of the sophomo Bay that Chan King-ming's forces ro class, 17 in all, demanded the

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Tokyo, May 2. "Colonel Broome, in a state-the Britishers to arrive at Tokyo have made a sudden appoarance rosignation of a professor, an act In a message from Paramashiru, ment, said there were well-in the middle of June. Ho de- just boyand the border and have taken by the executive council' at Petropa-clared that he intended to fly succeeded in driving back Sun's of the college as an interference dated April 30, the Kokusai established baskos East Melbourne, May 1,

Kamchatka, with them as far as Vancouver troops some distance along the with the administration of the college. The president of the Agency Baya--" Following a two vlovsk and Mr. Bruce in a spacch dealing months adventurous voyage in Bering Island, Attu and other on account of his knowledge of railway.

Reports by villagers just over college, therefore, refused the with Mr. Thomas's statement the turbulent. Arctic Soas places along the Aleutians, and the weather conditions at the anent the Imperial Preforence establishing hasos for the British the jumps would be much shorter bases. He did not discount the the border say that a hatch of demand and, upon the clase proposals, said Australia was now world fliers, the Canadian trawler than those of the Americans. perilous character of tho attempt Chan's troope, numbering about directly going to the professor faced with the necessity for Thiepval arrived horo thia Ten days' supplies of provi- at any time, but said nothing fifty, attacked about a hundred concerned with advice to resign troops stationed or answer within a given time, 'school and that a suspended the class, offering to The ransoms asked for the action, adding that it was obvious, morning and expects to continuesions, fuel and spare parts were would be left. undone to ensure Yunnanese hostages were a long time in in view of the decision by the southward along the Kuriles as located along the line. The weathe success of the flight, though in coming, and, becoming impatient, MacDonald Government, that soon as permission is rocoived thor experienced had been ex-it was a long-odde gamble at best fight took place. lasting two re-admit it only upon written the pirates cut off the ears of Australia must look to markets from Tokyo to allow calls to bo tromely disagreable on the entire The weather here has cleared up hours, The Yunnaneso were expression of regret for the act soma of the captives and sent outside Britain. --Reuter.

made at places other than trip, commonoing on March lat. slightly, but it is still unfavour-dislodged from the school, and a from the students. The clate number of tiles and some am- sought sympathy from the other Colonel Broome was not over-ablo."-Reuter... Kashiwara Bay and Hitokap-

Boulogne, May 1. munition word seized. A few of students and got it.. pawn, which are at present optimistic regarding the trans

The students of the Trinity only permitted. Two Japanese Pacific leg of the flight on account The new engine for Maclaren's the Yunnanese soldiers are sald

from to have crossed over into. British College have stopped attending liaison officers who boarded of bad weather?" He intimated amphibian has arrived

classes as a prótest against the time that the two members of subsistod wonderfully well on a the

Thiepval will romain that the Americans might not England and has boon immediate-territory.

SOLDIERS DISARMED. the Loo. Fat oruw, seen by list principally composed of rice with hur while in Japanese arrive from the Aleutians for aly entrained for shipment to

Lator dotails stato that the alleged wrongful dismissal of four our representative ware relo..sed, and dried or, suited. vagotablos. waters.

considerable time but he exports India.-Beuter.

soldiers who Camo over of Hom. The teachers get the dismless of four for violation of Various methods of tortures Perhaps recognising the principie

into British territory. wore raṇorted to by way of cn- that a livu prisoner is worth very

BELGIAN DELEGATES. phasis on the necessity of an onrly much more than a dood one, the

disarmed at Shataukok. Eight school regulations, it, le under- rifles and about 150 rounds of stood, white, the students are cemittance of the ransom. For piraten fed their victims well.

Important Conferences.

ammunition wore confiscated by claiming that their teachers would example, one unhappy captive! The pirate chief rarely appear.

the formor Wel-Hai-Wei Police, not permit them to hold meatinge had his thumbs and toos tiad

London, May 1

who are doing very useful among themselves within the together and a bamboo polo was

Importance is attached to a slung in between. 'He was then he was soon in consultation with

mesting at the Chequers on May work in the Now Territory, campus,

Vornacular papers state in Latest reports say that the varried like a pig and undoubtedly his lieutenants and on these OC-

Shanghai, May 2.2 between Mr. MacDonald and the absence of satisfactory news authorities of both schools will this torture furnished the piratecasions it was noted that he was

Killed by Poisonous Fumer. fully armed. Ho appears to be

A mild riot occurred yesterday M. M.Theubis, and Hymans on entertainment, for our

Calcutta, May-1. at North Szechuon Road Exton- reparations and allied subjecte, from the East River front, the stand by their original decision informants report that they were about forty years of ago and re-

An extraordinary tragedy sion, in the International ospecially in view of the fact that military authorities in Canton regardless of whatever notions bave issued a report to the offect the student may take next. They invariably in a good humour after joices in the name of Chan Tai. these pranks.......

SIXTEEN. STILL CAPTIVE. occurred on the arrival hero of Settlement, when a mob of 400 the Belgians already have that a Gorman expert has been aro writing to the parents of the

the British India steamor Talma Chinese mado a threatening ferred. with M. Poincare, and are

doos in the attack on Walchow, rellased in addition to the Of the forty-seven emptives from Hongkong. An Indian attack on workmen engaged in afterwards to mast Signor Mus engaged to employ serial torpo students concerned,

and that the intention is to do- two members of the Loc originally taken away, there still descended the hold and failed to pulling down a number of houses nolint at Milan-Reuter.

stroy that city. Fat crow. Cat of deferenco remain 16 in the hands of tho reappear, whereupon the Fourth for.road-widening purposOS.

HELD UP to lor age, an old woman band. Rolatives of those mon Officer, Mr. Clayton, went to The mob was met by a squad was released to enable her to take have received letters asking for investigate. He also did not of 40 or 50 polico,, who wore back a report to the relatives of tansom, and it is feared that return and a second Indian did showered with hyjoke. A free

Lisbon, May 1 the other captives. On dis unless this is forthcoming more likewise. The Second Offloor, fight ensued on the roof of the Portuguese Aviators' Plight

Mr. Fletcher, wearing a smoke houses concerned between the covering that one of them was a brutal sots will be committed. clansman, they were anxious The two seamen, after reloase helmet, fically descended and mob and the worknion.

The two. Portuguese, military that he should put in a good on payment of a $100 rankom found the three others un-The trouble ended when the pilots Captain Britopala and

In a boxing contes word for tham and as a favour each, were escorted to the shore conaotous, They died on the Bikh police were ordered to draw Lieutenant Barmante Beires, who bold up.

ntier"-kunok vi allowed hlin a reduction on the where they took the towboat back way to hospital. It is presumed up at the ready" to frighton the left Lisbon for Maono on April

to the

Townley of Eaxlandia the original ransom..

De to haKongmoon, and they at the cause of death was rioters. This bad the desired on a Breguet biplane,

Reuter second round, Reuter The two seamen suen by our arrived here on Wednesday night, polsongs fumos from wet batal affect and the orowd was quiet in Persia o

for the reek of the, day--Reuter: D representative appeared to have as already stated be

Home

Four of tho captives have boon

ed on the scene. Once or twice

OFFICER AND TWÓ INDIANS ASPHYXIATED.

nut-Reuter

Mob's Fight with Police.

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CARPENTIER DEFEATS

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