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THE RED ELEMENT IN CHANGSHA.

EXPULSION OF LEADERS DEMANDED..

TUESDAY, JUNE

1927.

SHANGHAI'S BARRI CADES.

INTENSIVE ANTI-FOREIGN

PUBLICITY..

We take the following very in- teresting correspondence from the latest Shanghai Municipal Gazette.

Changsha, Juno 22. At the present moment, the tide In Changsha seems to have turned ngainst the more extreme

Senior Consulato, elements, and it is of some interest

Shanghai, Juno 18. to note the charges that those in

Sir have the honour to in authority have brought against the form you that I am in receipt of communista. The. "Save the Kuo-

a communication from the Com- mintang Committee" has publicly missioner for Foreign Affairs In put out the followink proclamation which he quotes a Petition for in order that there shall be no uncertainly as to the sins of these warded to him by certain residents who oppose the Koumintang, stat-in North Chakiang and Elgin Roads regarding the wire bar- ing that the latter:

Took upon themselves the ricades erected by the Council in

that district. business of the Kuomintang.

1.

2. Broke up the Kuomintang

Party,

8. Disregarded the Peoples' Principles.

4. Despised the dictates Sun,"

Three

of Dr.

6. Shattered the united frout presented by the farmers, inbourers, merchants, scholars and soldiers..

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6. Worked against "the policy with regard to foreign affairs.

7. Opposed the decisions already reached by the Kuomin- tang.

8. Arrested and killed innocent peopic, thus creating a state of

terror.

these

9. Stirred up the rear-guard of the party and divided soldiers and the people.

10. Deceived the farmers and the labourers.

11. Oppressed and persécuted the educated section of the people

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This Petition states that owing to the hindrance caused to busi- nese by these barricades a num- ber of shops have been compelled to remove to other places, but the Petitioners themselves, owing to the fact that they are in a very small way of business, are unable to move. They. arc. however, suffering considerable hardships owing to loss of business and re- quest the Commissioner to use his good offices to obtain the removal of the obstructons complained of. I should be glad if you would in- form me whether, in the view of the Authorities, there is any like lihood of these wire barricades being removed in the near future whether those ON the and Boundary Road, which are also mentioned, are in the same posi- tion.

N. AALL. Consul-General for Norway.

and Senior Consul.

and thus caused, the decline of S. Fessenden, Esq;,

education.

Slogans Against Dangerous

Principles.,

THE FINISH OF THE DERBY

The above general vlew of the Derby, run at Epsom, shows Call Boy winning by two lengths from Hot Night. The third-place horse, Shian Mor, was eight lengths bohind.

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LISTENING-IN DEATH.

FAULTY LAMP AND EARFILONES.

to faulty manufacture, but pro- who was wearing a pair of steel bably caused by a slight fraying spectacles, was stretched on the of a flex.

bed. Her headphones were behav.. These fils make the tragedy ing in the same way as those in my easy of solution. She handled the room. I knocked them off her faulty lamp at a moment when her head and the crackling ceased, hand was in contact with the leak

Miss Rainford found burna on of the earphones, with the result her mother's hand and forehead. for the lighting current (240 volts) rouse her she sent for a doctor but that a path to earth was provided and across the eyes. Unable to through her arm, chest, and head, it was found that death had been through the leaking point of the instant. Carphones, and then, passing through the wireless set, to earth: Discovery Described. Expert examination of the bed Miss Rainford, who lived with of June 18 in reference to a com-room in which Mrs. Rainford was her mother, told a Daily Mail re- munication received by you from electrocuted while listening to a porters

Foreign broadcast programme showed that; the Commissioner for

To a tiny leak in a pair of wire less earphones, the cause has been Chairman, Municipal Council.traced of what is believed to be the first listening-in death on re- cord, that of Mrs. Rainford, aged 41, a widow, of Redstock, Eton- avenue, Sudbury, Middlesex.

The Reply.

Council Chamber. Shanghai, June 16. Sir, I have the honour to ac- knowledge receipt of your letter

Mrs. Rainford was an electro- logist in business in Albemarle

street, W. She had practised in several parts of London.

A leading expert of Messrs. Duncan Watson and Co.. electrical engineers, told a Daily Mail repor taxe

My mother often read or listened Affairs concerning the barbed wire while one is using a slightly faulty

If you did not come into con barricades in the Boundary, North wireless outfit a hardly discernible to the wireless when in bed, using leak from the house-lighting-sys a crystal set we have had for Chekiang and Elgin Roads.

Last night she went to tact with a fault of some higher- tem can cause instant death. It years."

valve or crystal, could hurt any was found that a brass electric bed at seven, taking a book with powered appliance no wireless set, reading lamp on which Mrs. Rain- her. ford had placed her hand had an At 9.30 when I entered my bed body. Such an accident, needing interior fault-a fault from which room, I found that headphones two separate faults, has a big members of the family had receiv- from the wireless set lying on my degree of unlikelihood about it,

In reply I have to state that in order to facilitate the business of the residents of that district de far as possible certain alterations in the wire barricades are already being undertaken.

In order to strengthen the hands of all true members of the Kue mintang. the publle are provided with a list of 14 slogans which they may hurl at any who are still suspected of harbouring dun- gerous principles. The document ends with the somewhat pathetic assertion, that, from this, all may truly see that the Save-the-Kuo- mintang Committee has faithfully, in its heart, decided to expel all Communists.

Recent news from Changsha indicates that the movement has

"In this connexion I should liked minor shocks in the past and bed were crackling and issuing and, especially with this accident been sufficiently successful to

my as a lesson, should never occur: that in the earphones she was as- sparks. I rushed. restore a certain amount of peace to point out that it is the Council's ing was a leak, not necessarily due mother's bedroom. My mother, igain. in the city. This is also partly earnest desires no less than it is due to the fact that all schools, that of the Commissioner for except a few primary ones, have Foreign Affairs, to secure the re- closed for the summer holidays,sumption of normal conditions at since most of the students have the carllest possible date; but that drifted away to their homes or are all efforts to bring this about are doing propaganda work in the country Much in the future will frustrated by the intensive cam- depend upon the condition of the paign of anti-foreign publicity new harvest and the earliest grain which is being conducted in Chin- is expected to reach the city in two eso territory outside the limits of the Settlement, apparently under or three weeks.

the auspices of the local National- ist authorities.

LIFE SENTENCES.

END OF D'AUTREMONT

TRIALS.

I need hardly say that in face of action of this nature, which is deliberately calculated to arouse the worst passions of the ignorant masses, the Council finds it im- possible to consider the adoption of measures which, had circum- stances been different, might Jacksonville, Ore., June 21-properly have been put into effect Hugh D'Autremont, youthful ban-

before this time. dit who, with his two brothers, held up a mail train in Oregon in 1523, in which four men were killed, was found guilty here to- day of murder. The jury recom- mended that his sentence be life imprisonment.,

A few hours before the jury ar- rived at their finding, Hugh's two brothers Ray and Roy, captured recently in Ohio, were arraigned They on charges of murder. pleaded not guilty.

the Hugh Was captured in Philippines early this year. Search for the three brothers had led "Department of Justice agents all over the United States, Canada, the Far East and elsewhere.

S. Fessenden,

Chairman.

COMMUNISM BROKEN IN KIANGSI.

SOME EXCITING DOINGS,

Yushan, K., June 15. We have had an unusually pence ful fortnight, though there was some excitement in the city, when they elty magistrate had to be changed. The members of the Political Bureau enticed him out for a meeting, and then kept him Twin Brothers Sentenced.

in custody for a day and night. He was opposeri to give an amount Medford, Ore, June 28.-Ray of $1,000 before he would be allow-

D'Autremont, and Roy

twined to leave, but the old trick of brothers accused of the robbery paying a small bribe soon. purchas- of a mail train and murder of ed freedom. four men in 1923, pleaded guilty The Mandarin's office is a very here to-day and were sentenced to uncertain one these days. No one life imprisonment. Their sen- stays very long in one place. tence follows that of their brother he can manage to hold his office Hagh, convicted of the same of for a month or two, he does well, fence and given a similar term asome only remain a fow days. İ few days ago.

heard of one city, where they have. Hugh who is held here, also three city magistrates in confessed last night.

month!"

According to their confession, they fired acvanteen shots during the hold-up of the mail train near Siskiyou, Ore. The twins assert

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ono.

Bandits abound in all districts in northenst Kiangal. But the soldiers have caught a gooil many, and a number havo been shot. In Ihyang

ed that the engineer, Bates, was they united with some runaway killed by Hugh, as were the fire- soldiers, and descended in the city, Soldiers from man, Seng, and the brakeman, starting to loot.

Hukow were soon brought down, Johnson.

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The fourth casualty, a mail and a regular battic took place, clerk named Daugherty, was k! which Inated for three hours. The ed by the explosion of dynamite bandits were completely routed, and which the brothers had placed at number of them shot. the door of the mail car.

The three brothers will be taken to Salem penitentiary to-night.

It appears that the power of Communiam in Klangsi is practi cally broken. Gen. Wong, the Com- munist leader and agitator, who Hugh was arrested in the dismissed a number of Gen. Chian Philippines Islands early this Kal-ahek's trops, has fled from Nan- year, Several months later, the chang. There are rumours that Li other two were arrested in Ohio. Lich-chun, may return to Klangsi One of the twins is married and and take up office again. Many in has a child a year old.

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