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DATA-TA## THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926.

LADY ATTACKED. CHINA QUESTIONS IN

TERRIBLE SHANGHAI

AFFAIR.

A MIDNIGHT STRUGGLE.

Shanghal, Nov. 18. Miss Fredh Frommel, Direc- fress of the Music Department of the Shanghal American School, one of the leading pianists in the Far East, was the victim of one of the most ghastly attacks on a foreigner by a Chinese yet record

ed.

Miss Frominel was alone at midnight on Tuesday in her house when a former house-boy, whom she had dismissed a fortnight ago; en-. tered the bedroom and demanded

$200.

Miss Frommel told him to get her purse and while he was doing so she rang a bell, seeing which, the man pulled out a knife

and stabbed her.

SEVEN WOUNDS.

PARLIAMENT.

"REFERENCE TO “SUNNING" PIRACY.

In

WAR ZONE CONDITIONS.

London, Nov. 17. the House of Commons, answering questions. Sir Austen Chamberlain said that the advance of Southern forces in Contral China did not appear to have adversely affected the personal

involved serious danger to British property, though, inevitably, there' had been some disturbance of British establishments in the army Zone. Anti-British agitation in Szechuan hari led to the destruc- tion of some British property at Chungking, and it had been con- sidered advisable for the women

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SUNNING ENGINEER'S THRILLING STORY.

BATTLE WITH PIRATES AND THEN

ADRIFT. NINE HOURS

SECOND OFFICER'S

DESPERATE ACTION LEADS

TO PIRATES DOWNFALL.

from the Sunning. A thrilling story is told by the survivors, who were adrift for nine hours and once found themselves quite close to the boatload of pirates subsequently captured by the Bluebell but who were frightened off by the firing of revolvers into the air. Rough weather was experienced until the survivors, were picked up- by the Norwegian steamer Ravensfell, the mast of the boat breaking three times, and it was..with some difficulty that a rope was eventually picked up from the Norwegian steamer, Mr. A. Duncan, the third engineer, having to jump overboard to secure it.'

The most gratifying fentures of the Sunning piracy disclosed to-day is that practically all the members of the pirate gang have been accounted for. There are now between twenty and thirty held in custody here.

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DISARMAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE.

HOPES OF SUCCESS.

Rugby, Nov. 17,

of Houso

Lorda who

Labour

A. meagres report of a very In the serious happening on board the

Lord Parmoor, to-day British steamer Hongkong, now on represented the late its way from Singapore to Hong Government оп the Coun- kong, has been received in the cil of the League of Nations, rais Colony this morning. Twentyed the question of disarmament casualties are reported:

He said that although from the The boat, which belongs to the security of British residents or SURPRISE MEETING WITH PIRATE BOAT.

commencement of the work Seng Soon Hong, of 14, Bonham Geneva it was felt that disarma This morning, II. M. S. Verity brought into port the boatload and when the boat dropped into Strand, left Singapore on Tuosday, ment was the acid test of any ad of people, including the Russian lady passenger, who got adrift the sea, it was quickly/extinguis and is due her on Sunday morningvance in the direction of real A wireless message concerning the peace, no substantial progzean had affair has been sent out from the been made in seven years. He ship and picked up at Singapore, welcomed the decision of the last

Assembly of the League of Na from which port the Master Attentions that before next June some dant has wired advices and instrus declaration should be made by the tions to the Harbour Master here Commission which had been set.

up, but the attitude of Great Bri in Hongkong.

tain towards disarmament was all... The message from the ship stated important, and he asked if it were nearest craft was the pirate boat that 20 casualties had been, in- possible for this country to bring which had left the Sunning only curred due to a Sght with suspect-forward concrete proposals. half an hour before themed pirafos, The Harbour Master The pirate craft was only 200 here has been instructed to get yards away and the heads of into touch with the vessel and, if three men were soon above the günwile. The Second.. Offee suggested an attack but quickly realised the futility, and scared them off by ring his revolver into the air.

and children to leave that port.

Conditions in Mid-China were still uncertain and it would be premature, to pass judgment,

She got cut of bed, defended herself and caught hold of the Questioned as regards the Sun- knife, only to have it pulled from ning incident, Sir Austen Cham- her hand, eausing her fingers to be berlain asked for notice, and also slashed. Miss Frommel also re-requested notice of a question ceived a cut on the base of the neck, two on the back, one across the wrist, one on the chest and one across the knee.

ASSAILANT

ESCAPES.

The noise woke the servants hid their footsteps frightened the as- sailant, who ran from the housg and escaped. Miss Frommel, panic-stricken, also ran from the house and arcused the neighbours, who called a doctor and the police

Miss Frommel is now in hospital, where her wounds have been sewn up. She is doing as well as can be expected and is in nadanger of los ing her life, but is feared that i will be months before she will be able to straighten her fingers, if ever, and she will never be able to

school at Washington. She has been in Shanghai for several years.

Renter

ANGTHER VERSION. Our Shanghai correspondent, cabling last night, sent the follow-

whether he could assure the House that there was a sufficient naval force at Hankow to ensure the safety of British residents in case of need-Reuter.

BOY CULPRIT.

SAYS HE WOULD RATHER

GO TO GAOL.

THE PIRATE GANG. OVER THIRTY IN CUSTODY.

the pirate chief's right hand man

was wearing."

They had taken the rings off Mrs. Prokofier's fingers, but on request they were returned.

TRIBUTE TO SECOND OFFICER

"They pitched and tossed until day dawned and then found to their astonishment" that

the

That sounds peculiar, perhaps."

thorities and the Police.

ASSURANCE WANTED.

The Earl of Oxford said that

necessary, inform the Naval authe Eighth Article of the Ver

What has actually happened is alles Treaty, signed seven yeara not known, but it is presumed here age, recognised that the mainten that an attempted piracy has been tion of national armaments and

auces of peace involved a reduc frustrated,

declared that the Council of the League of Nations should formu

The vessel is a well-known trad

The official view of the police, į now that full enquiries have been made is that nearly all the pirates have been accounted for!

Mr. Duncan spoke in glowing said Mr. Duncan, "but the fact of ing ship between here and the late plans for such reduction. and that few got away entirely.) Some were killed in the fight on terms of the Second Officer, Mr. the matter was that the revolver Straits, and is of 2,500 tons gross, The disarmament of Germany, in boat found by H.M.S.. Blueboll. he wis, always talking", of ano ammunition. We did however ber of passengers and a fair cargo. Treaty of Versailles was not to be ship, some. were captured hi the Hurst, telling our reporter that was a 'large one for which-we had she left Singapore with a big num-the view of the signatories to the

A small, Chinese boy charged before Mr. R. E. Lindseil kong.

Some were arrested by the board-opportunity of turning the tables.have some 22 ammunition and by. It came about midnight when manipulation the Second Officer ing party from H.M.S. Bluebell, and more have been comb the Second Offices on the was enabled to explode the percus.

sion cap." ed out of those who said they bridge with Captain Pringle and The sails on the boat came in were passengers when the ship two pirates. One pirate was given

the wind and although the passage was was eventually brought into Hong-night-glasses when he was told very useful, the boat ran before

that the light had been observed; this morning with being in pos-forty Chinese, either pirates or sus naked eye, and while they were Ravensjell have in sight. Before There are between thirty and the other strained to see with the was rough, they made 25 miles South before the Norwegian 5.3. thus intent on Chilang Point, the session of a razor believed to have pected of being pirates, HOW

hand the mast had snapped three times, but each time they repaired been stolen.

in the custody of the police: One Second Officer, dropped them. Both

the damage. or two are in hospital, but the bulk from behind, neither making a are under detention at Police Hend-sound.

"Gotting our feet on that ship' "We of course in the cabin knew

Third Engineer; "but the heavy

IIIs Worship:--You'd like to

be

cult."

MR. DUNCAN'S BRAVERY,

COAL DISPUTE.

WALES AND SCOTLAND STAND OUT."

treated as an act necessary to Secure Europe from a repetition of the war of 1914, but as the firet step in a contemplated and consi dered policy of general disarman- ment Some small advance had been made at the Washington Con.. ference, but it was very limited. One hopeful feature of tho situa. tion was the convoking of an In A further 8,000 miners have re-ternational. Conference by the He asked for League of Nations:- sumed work.

un assurance that this Conference The South Wales' Miner's

wae, within a measurable distance

London, Nov. 17.

settlement terms.

Reading from the police record; play as before. Miss Frommel also his Worship observed that the de-quarters. The exact number to be taught tanjunges and formerly directed the Music Bepartment at fendant was convicted, twice last charged is not yet known, because nothing of this, but the Second was all we desired," continued the Federation by a majority of 79,000, of time, likely to complete. Its He recoguised the difficul year and once this year, for lar-police investigations" into all the described it afterwards," said the swell made operations very dif- has rejected the Government's work. ceny, and in each

cases are progressing. There are Third Engineer.

ties in achieving disarmament. case he was

"We heard bumps and scuffling,

Any effective system of disarma.. a number against whom definite

At a delegate conference of the ment would mean the abolition of given the birch.

charges can already be brought, and and many shots ringing out and Defendant:-I'd like to, be im- these will appear before the Magis- we thought our pals were done The Ravensjell worked round to National Union of Minoworkers at the use of chemical agents and of trate to-morrow morning for for- for." The Chief Engineer stag: shelter the boat, but the rope they Glasgow, from a membership of the submarine as outside the cate prisoned,

mal charging. The others, against red into the room with a bullet threw out fell short. Mr. Duncan 80,000 57,000 voted against the gory of apparatus of warfare whom there will eventually be pro-wound in the leg, though I did not a good swimmer; he made a mid-

peace teras.-Reuter that the night swim to the rescue of an ceedings, will be charged on Satur-know until afterwards Defendant would rather go day, Some of those being held pirates had used him as a shield officer in the Yangtze River re-

SETTLEMENT JEOPARDISED. may prove to be bona fide passen-in a desperate attempt to resumecently) dived over board, seized . swam back to the ship's boat, and

London, Nov. 17. gers in no way connected with the control of the bridge.

"We heard the glass of the sky tied up.

The prospect of a formal and light being smashed and thought The boat was then brought official settlement of the coal stop- that it was the action of the alongside and one by one the crew, page this week is jeopardised by pirates, but a friendly call rellev which had been struggling for the latest decisions of the dis ed our fears, and I jumped up and nine hours, were taken on board.tricts. opened the skylight from within," Mrs Prokofer had shown

ing story of the affair:

Miss Freda Frommel, directress

imprisoned?

of the music department of the American School, and among the to gaol. leading

planists

in China His Worship passed sentence of outrage. (formerly a teacher in Washing- ton, D.C.) was alone in her resid-three months' hard labour. ence, in the French Concession when she had a Efe and death midnight streggie with a discharg- ed Chinese servant armed with a butcher's knife.

She received numerous, not martal, wounds on the body, arms and legs, the encounter starting on the top storey of the apart ment and continuing down two stairways.

NEIGHBOUR ARRIVES.

JAVA REVOLT.

RINGLEADERS STILL AT

SURVIVORS ARRIVE.

THRILLING STORY OF

ADVENTURES.

"Talk of thrills; I have had

he continued.

RIVERS

For the

'amazing 'pluck throughout the

them off.

Besides Scotland. and South Wales, Lancashire, Cheshire and

possibility of rejection by the Miners' Delegate Conference, .to-

morrow.

Reuter,

FAMOUS AIRSHIP.

which it was legitimate to employ. The world was waiting impatient- ly, after seven years, for some serious, comprehensive, defnite and generally-agreed solution of the problem of disarmament,

many had carried out the greater part of her obligations. Despite inevitable delay in regard to International"

disarmament,

"ON THE MAP." Viscount Cecil, replying for the Government said the case for dis.. armament was overwhelming. It. was true that the central dif The party in the room were all whole afair, but she had to be Northumberland have rejected the culties of the problem, had not enough to last me a life-time," was pulled to the bridge with the exted round the waist and hauled Government's terms, raising the conditions up to now had not been been touched, but international. LIBERTY.

the remark of Mr. "Andy" Duncan.ception of the Chief Engineer, up. third engineer of the distressed who declined to make the attempt, The party thought they were

very favourable. The recent steps Amsterdam, Nov. 17. Sunning, when he was seen shortly but shortly afterwards he stag destined for Shanghai but after

would not have been possible-but A message from Batavia hays after arrival of H.M.S. Verity this fered up to the bridge from the about sixteen hour's cruising, the

for the Locarno Treaty and the there is no cause for anxiety, as morning by a Telegraph represen- companion way.

destroyer H.M.S. Verity came up The result of the referendum in great improvement in the interna- 40 rebels have surrendered to the.tative.

behind belching smoke, and took the districts, shows a majority tional atmosphere resulting frozi HOUR FIGHT. 3lor serenmg attracted a neigh-local police. The whole Executive When first the pirates gained

against acceptance. Meanwhile, it. The Government were anxious hour" Mr. George Fitch, secre- of the Communist Party of control, it was his watch, and hol

next five hours they They were brought into Hong-357,000 miners are working, or to dispose of the question of the tary of the Chinese Y. M. C. A. Bandoeng have been arrested, and got his first inkling of anything were lying on their stomachs, kong early this morning, H.M..nearly half those for whom disarmament of Germany. They whose pounding on the door and there have been 455 arrests at wrong when a fireman ran in and fighting for their lives. Only two Verity having made 28 knots all employment can now be found.agreed that, substantially, Ger ringing of the bell frightened the Weltervreden. Though the ring- told him. :

revolvers and with ammunition the way. assailant, who, however, paused leaders are apparently still as No pirate went anywhere near running short, they had to make Mrs. Prokofier was with Mr. long enough to cut the tendons of liberty, the Governor-General of the engine-room. He remained one shot da for one man and both Duncan while this conversation both hands of his velim, probably the Dutch Indies has cabled to the on watch, ignorant of what was the Chief Officer and the Captain was going on, and though she destroying her piano ability..

Colonial Minister stating that the

speaks very little English, she Miss Frommal, in her night situation in West Java is satisface going on above, for an hour and did deadly work. dress, stumbled down the stairs

half. Then the Chief Engineer At about half past one, when the tried to convey her gratitude at and opened the door, going then tory, except in the Pandeglang came down and told him the story ship was fired by the pirates; they what was done for her by the to hospital.

Regency, where the population is

of the subjection, of the officers, saw one boat putting off, from, the officers. The police of, the Settlements in serious revolt-Reuter.

sald he had bad enough and told poop deck. He did not think the The Russian lady was bound for are now seeking her assailant,

Duncan to go up.

type of boat could possible live in Australia and intended to catel I went up and found practical-the high sens running.

the s.s. Taiping, but it has al- ly all the officers in the Captain's Firing was kept up in a desul-ready left, room, and Mrs. Prokofior was tory manner until sometime about All her valuable luggage, has, it there also," continued Mr. Dun four o'clock when another boat is believed, been destroyed by fire, EARL WINTERTON'S. can. They were quite calm and load of pirates made off from the and she has at present nothing

HOLIDAY.

we had a little ukelele concert, ship, the wind having veored and more than she is wearing. myself providing the music." changed the direction of the fierce. Mr. R. Lapsley also joined the Hugby, Nov. 17. *

The pirates troubled them little, fire."

party, enquiring for ais brother, It having been concluded, that Mr. H. W. Lapsley, who it is fear- New York, Nov 17. Earl Winterton, Parliamentary Mr. Lapsley, who was in a nasty A message from Managua anys Under-Secretary for India, is, with predicament, having been forced the whole of the superstructure ed must have lost his life, either that President Diat has requested the permission of the Secretary by the chief pirate to act as inter-must be devoured by the flames, by the pirates who vented their American Intervention to put for India, proceeding to India on a preter, announced that the pirates Mrs. Prokofler, Mr. Duncan, the spite upon him after they found Nicaragua on a police basis saying short private and unofficial visit did not intend to take any of the Second Officer, the wireless opera they had lost control, or in the fire.

officers' property.

tor, and two quartermasters, were It is regarded as very unlikely that that a weak country like Nicaragua in December. Is unable to quell the revolution. He will return in time for the "Mr. Hurst, the Second," said told to man the last remaining Mr. Lapsley was taken away as which is aided by Mexico. Router's new Parliamentary Session in Mr. Duncan laughingly, "imme-life-boat. It was, aflame at the hostage.

(Continued On Page 18.). distoly asked for his hat which stern but the worst was put out, American Service..

| Feburary.—British Wireless. ́..

NICARAGUAN APPEAL.

SEEKS AID FROM UNITED STATES.

VISITING INDIA.

would be wrong not to recognise that great progress had been made in the last year. Disarmament was R33 TO BE SCRAPPED.

now on the map as it had never been before. It was a practical. London, Nov. 17. The famous airship, R33, which tory Committee at Geneva had now...

and live question. The Prepara

has been in commission for, ten agreed on their report and set Qut years, made its last serious flight answers to all the technical ques- before the Dominions Promiers at The Economic Commission had not tions which had been put to them.

Cardington. Probably within a yet finished its report, but it would few weeks, it will journey to be a unanimous one. Pulham and will be scrapped. Reuter.

TO-DAY

Dollaron demand Lighting-up

1/11 7/16 5.38 p.m.

BUDMARINE ISSUE,"

Viscount Coeli agreed that chemical warfare and submarines should be entirely abolished, but he sald" the matter was not a simple one. There was no unes animity of opinion in regard to Bubmarines. The broad results. (Continued on Page 4),