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25, * A*** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

FRESH HANKOW AGITATION FATHER AND SON.

BIG ANTI-BRITISH MASS

MEETING.

POWERS WARN CHINESE ARMY LEADERS.

SHANGHAI PRECAUTIONS.

According to official naval news received hore to-day, there was a big anti-British demonstration at Hankow yesterday, a masa meeting, being followed by a procession through the British Concession. There was no incident, but a feature of the demonstra- tion was the part taken by a group of Indian agitators who toly the crowd that they undertook to stir up dissent among the Indian troops in Shanghai,

At Shanghai 3,000 Shantung troops arrived yesterday from Nanking and 5,000 more are expected daily for some days for the. defence of Shanghai. Marshal Sun's defeated troops are arriving, but are being kept outside the Settlement. and all foreigners living puiside are being brought in for safety.

QUARREL LEADS TO TRIAL

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DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT MANILA.

CHINESE MERCHANT KILLS WIFE.

FEARED LOST.

"ELKTON" STILL NOT FOUND.

FRUITLESS NAVY SEARCH. LOVER ALSO SLAIN.

The fate of the freighter Elkton Using a knife with a 12-Inch of the American Ploneer line and

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A quarrel between father and

The adventures of four Euro- son at a village called Fu Tol, near

penna who deserted from the The inaugural meeting in con-: Castle Feak, which is alleged to nection with the foundation of the French Foreign Legion and made blade, Ting Suy Pong, & Chineseits crew of 37 men still is no have reaclted in the death of the proposed British Empire Academy an extremely hazardous journey merchant, stabbed his girl wife known in Manila, says the Bulletin of Monday. The boat sent out father, had a sequel at the Crimin-was held in London to-day.

through China, after escaping and her paramour to death last alstrese signals Lord Howard da Walden presid-over the

on Thursday al Sessions this morning, "be-ed, and Sir Harry Brittain, M.Pfrontier, were related at the Monday) after finding the pair in degrees east longitude and 14.16 Tonkin-Yunnanese night (says the Manila Bulletin of night giving its position as 136:38 fore Mr. J. R. Wood, acting Chief moved a resolution approving the Central Magistracy, before Major, his lodgings at 564 Calle Alva-miles east of Manila:

noth latitude, or nearly 1,000 Justice, when the son," Wu Fat, op, formation of an Empire Academy C. Willson this morning. peared to answer a charge of man and the establishment in London

Wearing the picturesque bit rade, Tondo. slaughter. It appears the two of a central bullding. where the tattered uniform of the Legion Crispina Lim, 16 years old, is quarrelled over a monthly payment various arts of the Home country of $2. and the aen used a chopper, and the different Dominions would tangere, two of these adven the dead woman, while the slain which eat his father's hand. Alite in mutual co-operation, and vive the ordeal whereas two and the two dead were residents who managed to sur-man is Sun Ting Siu. The slayer though the wound turned septic, he also proposing that an appeal be others of their numbers paid of Iloilo where Suy Pong conduct- refused to go to hospital and have made for the necessary funds. his arm amputated. The amputa

for the escapade with their lives, ed a small business. fooked completely dejezted. tion was performed three weeks later after which the man died. Mr. H. K. Holmes was for the Crown, and the prisoner was not legally represented.

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The prisoner pleaded "Guilty," but his Lordship sald he would en-- ter a plea of "Not Guilty and hear the evidence. When this had been communicated to the prisoner by the interpreter, he replied:-"Is

guilty."

The Diplomatie Body in Peking has lasued a Declaration point-that ing out that the authorities of the International Settlement, at Shanghai have scrupulously abstained from favouring the con- flicting parties in China's civil war, and warning heads of the armies involved to take all mergures necessary to avoid incidents likely to lend of foreign action.

Shanghul, Feb. 25.

Three thousand Shantung troops

are now here from Nanking and

It is understood that 5,000 more

POWERS AND SHANGHAL

Request to Warring Factions.

Mr. Howard Robinson, founder of the movement, explained that site had been secured from the Duke of Westminster on the North side of the Thames, near the Lam- beth Bridge. A sum of £25,000 was required to start the scheme,

The resolution was carried and

a Committee appointed to carry out the scheme-British Wireless."

Surers

Desertion Admitted.

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The tragedy occurred about 10.45 pan, Suy Pong stabbed his rival through the back and plung The two Legionnaires, who ap-ed the weapon into his wife's peared in the dock on charges of heart. The pair are bolleyed to vagrancy and being without visible have died instantly. means of subsistence, were Fran-

Immediately after committing cis Stubkovink, 28, a Pole, and the deed, the slayer walked to the Sorge Kovahl, 23, a.Roumanian. In

secret service station headquar- reply to the charge, they made. 2fters and told Chief John Nevins. long statement, in the course. He appeared to have no regrets which they admitted that they had

Ho, my Lord, but I plead LEAGUE OF NATIONS.deserted from a Company of the over committing the deed.

Many Punishments,

Mr. Holmes in opening for the Crown, referred to the punishments which could be appplied to the

GROWTH OF INFLUENCE.

London; Feb. 24.

The dis tress signals were picked up by the steamer, Liberator. This boat searched over a radius of 200 miles but was unable to find the Elkton.

Four Navy dostroyers, the Prds: ton, Sicard, Stewart and Paul. Jones, were dispatched late on Friday evening to search for the received from the destroyers the n.isaing steamer. Radio messages same night said they had arrived in the vicinity from which the

kton sent out the distress eignala but that no trace had been found of the ship.

Hope and Fear.

Hope and fear for the fate of the freighter are about equally An investigation revealed that distributed among those interest- Foreign Legion, which is now stationed in a border, district in Ting Suy Poug, his wife and Suned. Members of the Shipping Ting Siu together with Prisca Board staff are of the opinion that

Tonkin.

In the case of the Pole, he Lim, arrived in Manila from Iloilo the terrific storm through which stated that he had served through on the previous Tuesday on the the Elkton was passing on Thurs- Speaking at a meeting of the the Great War, being early on.8. Cebu. They expected to leave day night, washed the radio aerial offence, and remarked that theeague of Nations' Parliamentary captured when the town of Kalish, for China in a few days. punishments for manslaughter pro- Committee, held at the House of in Poland, fell into German hands. bably had a greater range than for Commons, Sir Erie Drummond, re- He was taken prisoner of war in any other offenec. They ranged from ferring to Asia said that an en-14, and removed to a German the smallest possible fine to im-couraging sign was the remark prison camp.

He Was Later

We are officially informed that Prisonment for life, and it was posable growth of the League in- put to work in a coal mine in

ure coming daily for the next few the diplomatie Body in Peking days for the defence of Shanghai.to-day unanimously adopted the

General Chang Tsung-chang has following declaration: now taken over the complete mili- tary petrol of Kiangsu,

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LABOUR. GAIN.

from the ship dock and that it was unable to send out messages. They bellove, also, that the ship. is still afloat and on its way, to Honolulu.

Radio men think the boat is lost..

Westphalia, being continuously HOME BY-ELECTION RESULT. They base their belief on the fact thus employed until the signing of the Armistice in 1918.

Given Two Options.

that the Elkton would be able to. London, Feb. 24. send a message even though the The result of the by-election in antenna had, been destroyed. the Stourbridge Division of Wor- The ship would not be able to On release, he joined the 9th (cester, which was necessary owing send a message for more than five Infantry Regiment of the Polish to the death of the Conservative miles, but it would be an easy mat- Army, and was demobilised in Member (Mr. D. P. Pielou) was:ter to provide a new antenna with 1919. He then went to France, be- ing enrolled as a member Labour Corps, and worked first in coal-hine and then en à farm, until forced cut of employment. Conservatives. The voting at the

of a

Mr. W. Wollock (Lab.) 16,561 Mr. Hogbin (Cons.) 13,462 Mr. Edwards (Lib.) 9,535 This is a Labour gain over the

a single wire that would intercept or transmit a message for 1,000 miles or more.

According to naval officers, tho destroyers will not be able to con-

tinue the search for the vessel for

sible for the jury to make recom-luence in Japan. mendations if they wished to "do

As regards China, the Peking Government had always' favoured The father, Mr. Holmes conthe League, but the Canton Gov- tinued, whose name was Fu Fal-ernment was, apparently, awaiting "In the light of military events cheuk, who was more than sixty events and up to the present at which ure at present taking place years of age had three

Son least it had not declared itself The retreating troops of Mar- in the region of Shanghai, and the prisoner being one of them hostile to the League. There was

There had been some dispute be- shal San Chuan-fang have arrived which may at any moment have tween father and sons with regard little ground for entertaining in- creased hopes of the United States by train from the front and pre-serious consequences

the to money, and the matter was taken actually joining the League, but

before the District Officer, who de chutions are being taken to keep safety of the life ant property cided that each son should pay $2 there had been a marked develop them outside the Settlements." of their respective nationals, as monthly to their father.

ment in the cordiality of the rein tlons between the American State All foreigners living in more or was apparent from the bombard-

He eventually came to Paris, last election, in October 1924, was: Department and the League, while and was arrested as a destituteConservative, 16,023; Labour, more than 48 hours without an ad- less isolated places outside the ex-ment on the 22nd of this month, tended Settlement limits are being the Interested Diplomatic Repre- 11th, last year, the father went to conferences. Further, Americans either going to gaol or joining the

On the morning of December for American delegates at three him the choice of two options-Reuter.

Congress had voted appropriations by the French police who gave 14,113; and Liberal, 10,418-ditional supply of oil. A detailed brought in, in view of the arrival sentatives feel compelled to recall see the prisoner, and asked for had fully co-operated in of Marshal Sun's retreating troops. that the International Settlement payment of his $2, but the latter League detivities as Health Or-and, having signed on for five such Legion. He took the latter course, said he had no money. The father ganisation, the Opium Committee years, was sent to Barbary. He at Shanghai, like the other Con- went away and returned again at and the Children's Committee fought against the Moors in ccasions in China, was established about eight o'clock in the evening, British Wireless. in virtue of the regular agree- and again asked for payment. Ap- ments with the Chinese Govern-parently the prisoner wanted his ment, in order to make it possible father to wait, but he refused to do An anti-British demonstration, for foreigners to reside there freez so, and they started to quarrel. consisting of an enormous massly and carry on their trade.

The father struck his son on the

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HANKOWAGITATION. Plan to disaffect Indián Troops.

Hankow, Feb. 24.

Son Struck.

MORE DOG-BITES.

TWO FURTHER CASES.

WAR PENSIONS.

HUGE COST TO NATION.

London, Feb. 24.

Churchill, the

Mr. Winston

report on weather conditions and. their findings, if any, in the region from which the Elkton reported ita distress, is expected.

Three Manllans Aboard.

Relatives are anxious about the face of three Manilans, part of the Elkton's crew. They are

Algeria and Morocco, as a Foreign Legioner, and eventually was transferred, with his Company, to French Indo-China and employed on road construction, with prison-Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Drummond. Faustino Mer-

stated in the House of Commons tinez and Melecio M. Indick.

James Drummond is a son of W.

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each occasion

COLOMBO HARBOUR

He was a Atudent at: the La Salle College for two years and later took a business..course at the Cosmopolitan Business Col- lege..

meeting, attended in tremendous "In the course of the party head, felling him to the ground, number by the Chinese, employees strife of which this region has with an iron pipe which he

Not liking the work, he made to-day that the sum spent on war of British hongs and house-boys, been the scene, the authorities of was carrying. The son requin-

two unsuccessful attempts to pensions, including medical treat-B. Drummond, clerk at the Philip and followed by a great procession the International Settlement have ed his feet, however, and the Bitten by a dog belonging to desert, and, on being recaptured, ment and administration, from the pine Ordinance Depot. He is 21 through the British Concession scrupulously

date of the Armistice until March years old. pri- Mr. Ho, of No. 45, Conduit Road, on continued. The abstained

given was from quarrel

31st. this year, was estimated at and the district, passed off with-favouring any of the conflicting soner then picked up a chopper, a chair-coolic was taler. yester harder work and longer service. Gut incident, although it was a de parties involved, and, in spite of which was lying on a table nearby, day to the Government Civil Hos The third attempt to escape met £647,000,000.—British Wireless.

with success. With three other monstration in protest against the difficulties of the situation, and, according to the case for the pital for treatment. The animal British "Imperialism" in landing they are still maintaining in that Crown, struck his father on his was. scized and removed to Ken- comrades of the First Legion, he troops at Shanghai.

respect the strict neutrality wound about three and a half inches

left hand. The blow caused anedy Town for observation.

concerted a plan, and in the middle The temper of the crowd was posed upon them by the nature of long, and fractured three bones mongrel dog attacked and bit the ary last, they escaped from Cao- It is also reported that a of the night, on the 11th of Janu- much less virulent and excited affairs thus established. than for some time.

The Interested Diplomatic Re-between the wrist and the fingers, little, daughter of Sergeant Floyd, bang, their object being to eventu- Groups of Indian agitators ad-presentatives are thus warranted A report was made to Castle of the Royal Engineers, at Murray ally escape into Chinese territory. dressed the meeting, and, after in-in expecting on the part of the Peak Police Station, both by the Barracks, yesterday. The child flammatory speeches, undertook to Chinese Authorities the obser- sceused and another man, with the was trented at the Military Hos- stir dissent amongst the Indian vance of the same rule of conduct, result that a Chineno saw the old removed to the Kennedy Town tor of the hilly country which they detective was pital, while animal has been Such was the hazardous charac-

man sitting down with his hand Depot. wounded.

WAR MOVEMENTS.

Treatment Refused.

The father refused to go to lios- pital at first, but on December 14th,

regiments in Shanghai-Naval and they look to the heada of the Wireless.

Armies involved to take all measures necessary to avoid inci- dents which would constrain the foreign authorities themselves to take measures indispensable for ensuring the safety of the per- three days later, he agreed to visit.

property

the Kowloon Hospital, where it was recommended that his arm be

More Troops for Nanking.

Nanking, Feb. 24,

and

Shantung troops are still pour-sons. ing into Nanking. Marshal Sunnationals." Chuan-fang, and Chang Tsung- chang; the Shantung Tupan, are; bath at Nanking,-Naval Wireless,

On The Move.

Chinkinng, Feb. 24. Shantung troops are beginning

of their

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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Value of British Troops at

Shanghai,

London, Feb. 24...

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| amputated, as the wound was sep- He refused to consent, how- ever, but on January 4th, the opera- tion was performed, and on Jan. uary Glh he died.

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In order to save the jury un-

NEW GENERAL.

SIR CHARLES HARINGTON PROMOTED.

Killed by Tiger.

traversed, that before the Initial

stage of the journey had been completed they were attacked 'by tiger, and one of the futivies, also a Pole, was fatally mauled.

The other three eventually over the frontier. Inta escuped Kwangsi, and for a number of Iweeks were forced to subsist at times solely on leaves and wild

STRIKE.

VESSELS BEING DIVERTED.

Colombo, Feb. 24. Coaling has ceased here owing to

rele are being

Vesels are being diverted and

Drummond's first experience at sea was as an apprentice engineer on the sa. Mindoro during his vacation months from the two years at De la Salle. 'He left Manila on the Elkton on January 23 as a wiper.

Faustino Martinez joined the crow of the Elkton with. Drum- mond. Neither of them was re-... the troopship Herminius haa pro-gistered on the books of the local ceeded to Singapore to coal-agents.

Molecio Indick, the third Mani- lan, has been a member of the Elk- ton's crew for several months. Her was connected with the steward's department.

Reuter.

THE JAVA RISING.

AN ENQUIRY REMANDED.

The Hague, Feb. 24. The War Office announces the fruit, avoiding contact with sol-

Six Socialists in the Lower House promotion of Lieutenant-General diers and bandits. At other times, have introduced a rosolition de- Sir Charles Harington to be Gen-kindly-disposed villagers, gave manding an enquiry into the cause ́ erat..

of the Communist rising in the Dutch East Indies in November and January-Reuter,

them food.

General Harington was Com- mander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Constantinople in 1922

During the course of a speech at necessary anxiety over the case,

Another Drowned. to arrive here in small numbers. Birmingham, Some of Marshal Sun's troops have (Secretary

Mr. L. S. Amery Mr. Holmes added that his Lord- of State

Eventually the party reached loft in the direction of the Grand Colonics) declared that the events points as to whether the Brat blow Turkish troops at Chanak scomed Hef from merchants, who also pro- INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

fer the ship would direct them on the when a conflict between British and Wuchow, where they obtained ro- of the past fortnight had made was struck by the father, whether inevitable. The situation waovided their passage

Canal-Ngual Wircleos.

Left for Hankow.

it clear that if British troops had he at first refused to go to hospital, saved largely by his tactful hand-West River to Canton, not been landed at Shanghai a and the fact that it was after his ling-British Wircless,, Kiukiang, Feb. 24. disaster of the first magnitude arm had been amputated that he Mr. O. St. C. O'Malley and the might, at this moment, bo happen- died. British Consul left for Hankow to-Ing to the great British and

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When charged at the Police Sta

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day aboard H.MS. Cricket-foreign communities of that city. tion, continued Mr. Holmes, the Naval Wireless,

-Router.

TO-DAY

Dollar on domand Lighting-up

2/-5/16

6.24 p.m.

down the At this

stage of the journey, another ad- vonture removed a second mem-· bor of the party, this man being drowned in the floods at the upper end of the Canton River,

(Continued on page 12.).

NEARLY 1,000 DEATHS IN A WEEK.

COLONIAL APPOINT

MENT.

NEW GOVERNOR OF BERMUDA.

London, Feb. 24.. His Majesty the King has up- proved of the appointment of. Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Bols to be Governor and Commander in-Chief of Bermuda, in succession Deaths from influenza in Eng-to General Sir J. Asser, who will land and Wales last week numbered shortly complete his term of office,

-British Wireless. 987-Bouter.

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London, Feb. 24.