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HANKOW TENSION LESSENS.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927.

of A great number others (Continued from Page 1). cipline has, in some casos, suffered sustained injuries which wore as a consequence. It is also re-treated at the British Volunteer

but ported that the economic and Headquarters,

throughout 21 British financial dimculties experienced by the entire affair not the Chinese business community as rifle was loaded, and tot a The a consequence of the unsettlod British bayonet was used. conditions continues to cause non had orders not to injure the anxiety to the Cantonesc autheri-Chinese, and in the carrying out tles-British Wirelcas.

of those orders suffered badly, Holding their rifles in their hands they pushed the crowd back, being benten with poles and pelted with bricks and stones, and gradually forced the thousands of Infuriat-

KUOMINTANG'S PLIGHT. BAGER FOR RESUMPTION OF BUSINESS.

A Chinese telegram from Han-led coolies outside the barrior on kow last night states that owing the Bund.

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down of the Banks the Kuomin- By this time coolies at the rear tang Government at Hankow le of the mob had torn up and re- confronted with great difficulty moved the barbed wire barricades and much financial stringeney, which had been colled at either which is greatly affecting the side of the road, so that it was carrying out of military and politi-impossible to block off the street. cal activities.

Resistance was maintained against An urgent request has been the crowd with a single line of made by Mr. Eugène Chen to the bluejackets, marines and police, leaders of the extremists to check which in the face of the odds any further mob agitations and to against them, was truly herole. ensure that the British Concession The behaviour of the marines is not further molested. He ex- and sailors in the landing forces plains that a continuation of this is worthy of special mention. business dislocation слп only Their courage was magnificent and result to the disadvantage of their self control deserves" the Chinase and British alike.

highest admiration and praise. It seemed many times between the Hours of half past one and four o'clock that their officers must give the order to fire in order to save the Concession, from being A further account of the hap-invaded and to prevent the men penings at Hankow on the 3rd defending it. from being torn limb instant is given by the Hunkow from limb-but the word which Herald as follows:

would have brought death into the ranks of the mob and dispersed At twelve o'clock hoon Monday them inmediately was never given a large crowd of conlies gatheredad any bat the coolest and most Concession and 'swarmed about the experienced had charge of the de- fending party. there would have font of the Custom House, They

been many deaths to record this were bent on holiday festivities, and no one was particularly dis-morning among the crowd that

gathered on the Bund. about their presence turbed

Finally, after the greatest crisis

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rose upon boxes in their midst,und

in the afternoon, Chinese soldiers began to harangue them: Begin- ning with a history of British in-appeared upon the scene and mem bers of the political office address- dignity to China. they recited a series of ills which had befallen cd the crowd. Between their en- China in recent years, all of which deavours they quieted them down they laid to the doors of Great and order was castored, although the crowd did not disperse. Britain. Their voicos became

Finally the authorities requested louder as they became more excited and they soon worked the British to withdraw their arm ed forces for the distance of a themselves into a state of hysteria. The mob, which in half an hour block and they would guarantee had grown from a few hundreds that the crowd would leave. This as the Lo a few thousands, were quickly was dece, and as soon invested with the spirit of the marines and naval forces speakers, and from a holiday drawn a block away, the crowd By eight crowd they turned into a. milling began to drift away. mass of humanity shrieking for o'clock the Bund was clear. vengeance..

GERMAN HACKED TO PIECES.

POLICE ATTACKED,

QUEEN'S THEATRE ORGAN.

NEW INSTRUMENT BEING BUILT.

The arrival in the Colony of M. Groving to take charge of the Queen's Theatre orchestra, is, we were, informed in an interview with Mr. H. W. Ray this morning, the precursor of a new departure by the enterprising management of the Hongkong Amusements, Ltd,

At present thero la Jnstalled In- the theatre an, Orgaplan, which, while it provides a source of de- light to picture-goers, is not en- tirely satisfactory, and it is pro posed to re-place this by an up-to date organ which will compare very favourably with similar "installa- tions In Home theatres.

The new Organ, which, in addi- tion to the qualities of the ordinary church-organ, will be fitted with extra pipes especially designed for will theatre work-pipes which emit a sound of motor-horns and the hissing of rain, and so on- is now under construction in the Colony by Mr. Blackett, well- known for his organ-building work at St. John's Cathedral and the Roman Catholic Cathedral.

The work of construction ie ex tremely delicate; every pipe need- ing to be acclimatised, and it is unlikely that the installation in the theatre can be. started for Ave for six months, "At present" it is planned that the pipes shall ran on the two sides of the stage, while the console will naturally be in the orchestra pit,

M. Grovini is an organ player of reputation. This evening at the Queen's Theatre he will demon- strate by contrast, the range of the Orgapian, beginning his perform- and concluding with "Poet and nee with a well-known jazz tune,

Peasant."

U. S-MEXICAN TENSION.

SOME MORE "EXPLANATIONS:"

Mexico City, Jad. 12. The Spanish-American Commit- fee of Organisation for the pur- pose of establishing closer rela

Latin-American tions between wore

States, suggests the boycott of all United States' products in Latin- America,

General Pina, the Mexican Un-" der Secretary for War, denies Pre Mr. E. Burmeister, manager ofsident Coolidge's assertion that a The crowd was growing so large Mee Yeh Handels Compagnie, on ship with a cargo of arms for that it began to spread on to the the S. A. D. Bund, was literally Nicaraguan revolutionaries left The hacked to pieces on Monday after-Mexico, commanded by a Mexican" British Concession Bund. police

and noon by knives wielded by coolics naval Reserve officers, and he on Sin Seng Rond, and is lying near points out there is no Naval Re- through peaceable means en- deavoured to get them to move denth's door at the International serve in Mexico. back. The crowd moved, but only Hospital. to gather up bricks and stones

became anxious,

Mr. Burmeister had been ont to A message from Washington, which were sprinkled about the visit Dr. Clyde, at the Melotto Hos- says that the Mexican Ambassador! foreshore. Then opened an attack pital Monday afternoon, in the nahad issued a statement describing upon the police which promised to tive city, and was returning to his as, "groundless," the charge that end in the same manner as that home when he was attacked by a Mexico has intervened in Nicara- of June 11, 1925, when the police crowd on Sin Seng Rond shortly gua as an offset to the policy or Mr. Burmeis interests of the United States and marines withstood the mob after seven o'clock.

The

that attacked them as long as waster, who is a German, knew nothing there, and declares thut Mexico humanly possible, and then fired as of the demonstration which had has no political views to impose a last resort to save the Concession been staged on the British Bund, on Nicaragua, nor any Mexican and was proceeding along Sin Seng properties or commercial interests from being destroyed.

Road when suddenly the ery of to protect, and that her purpose From twelve-thirty, noon Monill the foreigner" went up. He and wish is to live undisturbed, day, until one-thirty, in the brief was attacked by a mob with knives solving her own problems by her- space of one hour, the crowd work-in their hands, and in a few. mo- self.--Renter's American Service. ed itself into a state of fury until ments Was stabbed thirty-six it shrieked and howled.

times, and was a mass of blood from police were rendered helpless.head to foot. Bricks and stones were hurled at

He dragged himself to the near them as the crowd moved in upon est barricade manned by a British in the garage at bay with their the Concession. A number of the landing party on Hunan Road, and pistols. They could not get ahead special constables were injured, was immediately assisted to the with the job, and ordered the particularly Mr. H. E. Smith, of International Hospital. by Dr. F. foreign mechanics of the garage Mustard and Company, whose face Wendt. Mr. Burmeister was at once to put the wheels back. was badly torn by a brick:

taken to the operating room Assistance was asked from the where he was attended to by Dr. navy to defend the Concession, and Wendt. He suffers thirty-six knife, sailors and marines were landed to gashes and it is questionable whe- reinforce the police and special ther he will live. constables. The Volunteers were mobilised at headquarters, but did not go into active duty.

NAVAL CASUALTIES.

FRENCH CONCESSION INCIDENT. The garage of the L. E. Gale Company in Hankow was the re- cipient of attentions in the

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One of the soldiers was intoxi- cated, and waved his pistol about dangerously, pointing it in all directions and threatening every- one in sight with it. Finally, he pushed the gun into the ribs of Mr. P. H. Li, automobile salesman of the Gala Company, and madė Mr. Ll enter the car in which they

had come.

J. J. Reed, of H. M. S. Woodlark, morning from a carload of soldiers

All this had taken some time, was knocked unconscious by bam-attached to General Tien Tung, boo poles wielded by fifteen or Kiang Han Pacification Commis-and fearing the arrival of French twenty coolies who attacked him. (sioner's Office, located at Chung reinforcements who had been sent

. Charlock, of H.M.S. Magnolia, Hsin IA, Model District

for, they drove off with Mr. Li ng went to his assistance as Reed was Five soldiers armed with pistols prisoner. They released him later being pounded while insensible.on climbed out of the motor-rar, in the afternoon.

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Strasbough. When an express Bulawayo. While stalking a train from Frankfort arrived at rallway gang at work a large lion Hamburg railway employees found

the ground: One of the coolies License No. 340, and entered thio When they first ontered the lying on the roof of one of the was run over and killed by a mail of 18. She had train never "Ndola, beyond Vic- took Reed'e rifle from his helpless Gale Company's garage, whichs garage, Mr, Gale asked them to coaches a girl hands, and plunged the bayonet located in the French Concessión, show their authority to remove been travelling at night with her toria Falla. The passengers loft He mother, who suddonly awoke to the train to examine the corpse, into. Charlock's thigh, which on Rue Dautremer. They then the car. They had none. brought Charlock to the ground. demanded the Bulek motcr car of then asked them for a card to find that her daughter had dia- but dashed back to safety when F. H. Hunt, of H.M.S. Woodlark, Mr. Karl Statz, of the Tan Zung Identify them. They refused to appeared. The girl, who was an they heard a second llon growling was another casualty, having been Company, Hankow, which was in give one. "He requested that they, inveterate sleep-walker, und get in the bush. Lions have been ter beaten unconscious by the mob, the garrage for repairs.

accompany him to the Commisioner out of the compartment during the rorising the natives in this. dis- his helmet torn away and his head The two rear wheels of the of Foreign Affairs office, only a night und had climbed on to the trict. They besieged a

Sheganger's cottage on several nights badly bashed All three were wanted

car were lying on the block from his offices, but this they roof of the railway coach. removed to the Catholle Mission garage floor next to the machine, would not do. They would have was still in a state of catalepsy and ate a native woman. One now as the repairs were not yet com the car they wanted at the point when the railway employees went dragged a railway guard's blan-

kets out of his van, Hospital, where they are boing cared for.

pleted. Two of the soldiers tried of their pistols, and nothing less. to wake her at Hamburg.

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