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TEL. C. 269.

NO. 22,373

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HUGE TREASURY SEARCH FOR ELLIS HONGKONG BANK INDIAN STATUTORY COMMUNIST

LOSSES.

STOLEN CHEQUES

CASHED.

POLICE RAID ON BOGUS OFFICES.

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MURDERER.

SENSATIONAL INDIAN CRIME RECALLED.

FRONTIER ROUND-UP,

Peshawar, Jan. 19.

The frontiur constabulary have

APPEAL.

DISMISSED BY PRIVY COUNCIL

MUTILATED BANKNOTE CASE.

London, Jan. 19. The Judicial Committee of the

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THREAT.

CANTON FEARS NEW YEAR OUTBREAK.

AT SHASI.

YANG SEN'S TROOPS GO TO ICHANG.

d.

ALARMED.

BIG ARMS SHIPMENTS TO NORTH.

ACTION AGAINST GERMAN FIRMS ́URGED.

UNUSUAL DEMONSTRATION OF FAREWELL.

TENSION AT HANKOW, MANY INDIANS JOIN.

CLOSE WATCH ON SITUATION.

Shasi, Jan. 19.- London, Jan. 19.

That extremist labourers at "Looting is expected here, follow- The departure for Bombay of Canton are engineering anothering the departure of the majority of Yang Sen's troops, who have carried out an extensive round-up Privy Council, consisting of Lord the Indian Statutory Commission Communist rising is the somewhat moved to Ichang-Naval Wireless.

Hankow, Jan. 19. [of the leading Orakzai clans for Buckmaster, Lord Blanesburgh and

Lord Darling, bus dismissed the Was attended by an unusual de sensational report which appeara

Martial law la still in force, but STRONG MEMORANDUM OFFICIAL RETICENCE. their refusal to surrender Sultan appeal brought by the Hongkong monstration, several hundred in one, of the vernacular papers outwardly there are no signs of Mir, the notorious outlaw, who and Shanghal Banking Corpora-people being assembled at Victoria this morning. Our Chinese cor- disturbance. Tension still exists

Shanghai, Jan. 20. The Nanking Government is bo- Although there is still a great was concerned with the murder of tior from the judgment of the

respondents have failed to dis-between the two Generals heré Supreme Court of Hongkong. deal of "mystery" attaching to the Mrs. Ellis and the kidnapping of

The Bank brought the appeal in Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord cover what truth lies behind the and there is still the possibility coming alarmed at the reports of that this may lead to fighting-large arms shipments to Marshal Viscount Peel. A order to discover the legal position Birkenhead, report, which became known inte her daughter some years ago.

Naval Wireless,

Chang Tso-lizi, "and a as regards a bank-note which has former Secretary for India, Earl story.

Shanghai, Jan. 19. dated yesterday, from Nanking. yesterday afternion, that

†. An agreement was made in 1923, had its number defaced.

Winterton, the Under-secretary The meagre messages received

General Hsiung Shih-hwei hasatates that with, reference to the Hongkong Government Treasury under which the tribes of Tirah

The respondent. Le Lee-shi, did for Indio. and a large number of say that the labour radicals are has been defrauded at a sum in wore pledged "not to allow any not appear.

members of Parliament of all believed to have decided to strike taken over the command of the various reports that a large ship- on the Eve of the Chinese New Shanghai-Woosung area-Naval ment of arms has been imported Lord Buckmaster recalled, in parties were present. the region of $260,000, it is now member of the gang concerned in

Case to giving judgment, that the wife of

Year, Sunday, bat if the success Wireless, definitely established that the the sensational Ellis

enter their territory, or, if theyLo Lev-chi bid two $500 notes in a

of the coup cannot be assured on fraud has taken place and that'n did,

that day then it will be delayed to surrender them to the garment, which she washed, dried,

until the second day of the Chin- and starched while the notes were large sum of money has been British authorities. secured by the perpetrators.

Sultan Mir, whose son Gulak still concealed. She did not re- Bar was arrested and executed at meniler them until she began to

se New Year. Peshawar in 1927, is believed to iron the garment. The notes were

multilated. be living in the Orakzai country

The Bank paid on one of the under the patronage of the in-notes which was fully re-construct fluential Mullah Mahmud Akhun- zada, who has recently been the fed, but refused to pay the other cause of a good deal of restless-as the number was missing. We have, however, been able to ass on the part of the Orakzai establish certain brond, facts, clars-Reuter.

The authorities and officials of whom we have sought detailed in formation are extremely secretive the maller still being considered to be in the investigation stage.

which appear to be as follows:

Three cheques, (one for about

4,

Not a General Principle.

Their Lordships. continued Lord Buckmaster, though not will- ing to lay down a general principle

$87,000, and two for about $90,000 GERMAN BUDGET OF of law, were of the opinion that

cach) have, by means of a con- spiracy and possibly also by, the forgery of certain signatures. beon cashed against the Govern ment. It is obvious, from the method #dopted that the perpe- trators were extremely intimate with the procedure obtaining in the Treasury Department.

Cheques Stolen.

It is known that certain cheques

ECONOMIES.

OPTIMISM MARKS FINANCE

MINISTER'S SPEECH..

Berlin, Jan. 19. Optimism characterised the speech at the Reichstag of the Minister of Finance, Herr Koehler, in dealing with the Budget for 1928.

He pointed out that the revival

the Bank's contract to honour the note was sufficiently evidenced by the mutilated document and the varbul testimony.-Reuter..

The strange adventures of the bank-note were related to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Dec. 12, judgment being then reserved.

Lump Manipulated. Mrs. Lo Lee Shi, of Wellington Street, Hongkong, was given two $500 notes by her husband, and put them in a pecket of an inner Kar- ment. Later she washed the gar-

notes.

were stolen from a large book of of industry and trade had con-ment without firat extracting the Government cheques by means of tinued throughou: 1927, with the two notes. She dried the garment the book being unbound and then result that a Budget sarps of and starched it, but when she rebound after the cheques had been up to 180,000,000 marks was availcame to iron it she noticed for the irst time a lump in the 'pocket The writing on the able. abstracted. cheques was either the writing of a

As regards, 1928, the Minister which contained the two certain Chinese clerk in the Trea-

did so certain small portions sury Department or else a clever remarked that a new phase of the She took out the lump, and as she forgery of his writing; antherman financial policy had be

were also either the run in consequence of the provi.adhered to the rough edge of the signatures

recovered. signatures of the Hon. Mr. C. Mel, jaion which must be made for the pocket, and these had not been She gave the lump to her hus- Messer (the Colonial Treasurer) normal payments to be mailo un- Med Mr. T. Black, Accountant in der the lawas Plan. As the rehand, who took it to the Bank and the Department) or else clever for-sult of the increased payments explained what had happened. geries thereof: We have been un- the Budget could be described as Certain portions of the lump

budget of economies."-- able to discover whether the cheques" were actually signed by the two Reuter. officials named, in the belief that they were genuine. or whether the signatures were forged, Ofelul reticence has been strict on that point.

These, three cheques (drawr. on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation) were, however,

the to "

Equil- presented

Cor- Banking Eastern able poration, the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. (Netherlands Trad ing Society) and the Instone-Bank- ing Corporation, the conspiracy not being discovered until after the cheques had been returned for ac- 4ountancy purposes.

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PERSIAN REVOLT

EXTENDING.

PLEA FOR REINFORCEMENTS FROM TEHRAN,

were examined. The number of one of the two notes was identified, and this note was cashed without further question.

Later the husband, having further manipulated the remaining contents of the lump, again at tended at the Bank and presented portlons of a note from which parts of the words "Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation" wure missing and the number and date were indecipherable. This note the Bank refused to cash.

"Unintentional Negligence.

his

Sir John Simon expressed thanks for the splendid sand off.

A great cheer was raised when the train" moved off, the Cabinet were many Indians in the crowd. Corps of unemployed labourers Ministers joining in. There also

Reaching Bombay on February described as "dare-devils" are now 3rd, the Commission will proceed in Canton and they will be or-

a few Kanised by the Communists. to Delhi. Staying there

The Canton Government troops weeks, they will observe the work of the Council of State, and at different sectors of the city examine the administrative ma-will be attacked simultaneously

when the signal is given...

TO-MORROW'S PICTURES.

Gallant Defenders of the

"San Nam Hoi."

"To-morrow's pictures in the Telegraph will be of special in- interest from the fact that they will include photographs of Captain N. H. Sparke and Chief Engineer M. F. Hough- ton, who put up such a fine- resistance to pirates who at tempted to seize control of the 3.8. San Nam Hoi. A picture of the ship will also appear.

Other pictures will be the Artillery Company of the De fence Corps carrying out operations at Tailam, a group taken at the wedding of Mr. 1. J. Cute and Miss G. M. Huglies, a snapshot of H. E. the Governor and Mr. A. H. Crook at the Queen's College prize-distribution, and a group of the Shanghai Interport "soccer" team.

ZEIGTEN JALKERENDESIS.

chinery of the Central Govern- ment. They will afterwards go to: Madras and Lahore, and, it is understood, will come into close contact with influential Indians in an unofficial atmosphere.

Highest Hopes of Success.

Later.

The reports add that there is also a possibility of another serl; ous question cropping up over the week-end.

It concerns the dismissal of em-

ployees on the second day of the Chinese New Year, an unsettled dispute between the Canton mer chants and labourers, which may finally lead to further heated arguments and which in turn' may, develop seriously.

Troop Movements. "

Chenglin, Jan. 19. The 13th and 14th Wahan Armies have passed through here and have proceeded in the direc- tion of Changsha, Up to the pre- sent no agreement has been reach- ed with the Hunan forces.

A rumour is current that the 36th Ilunan units may join to gather and move against the 8th Army, which largely consists of men recruited from Kinngsu. It seems possible that this rumour has some bearing on the recent report that the 3rd Klangsu Army is advancing from Wanchan to- wards the Hunan border.-Naval Wireless.

NEW HOSTAL FOR MUSLIMS.

The authorities at Canton, how- ever, appear to be aware of the undercurrent and are endeavour-TO BE ERECTED IN SHELLEY ing their best to suppress 'extreme labour activities, paying special attention to the movement of officials of the various guilds.

STREET.

message

from Germany by the Norweginn steamer Skule, by German firmas including Messrs. Siemssen and Company, and Messrs. Carlowitz and Company, and sold to Marshal Chang Tso-lin and Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, the Nanking Foreign Ministry has issued a Memoran- dum.

The document is addressed to the Nanking Government Counell and recommends that instructions be issued to the Military Council," the Nationalist Navy and the For eign Ministry for investigation and verification of the reporta.

Delain Ship

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs further recommends that, if the reports be true, instruc- tions should be issued to naval and customs authorities to detain the ship in Chinese waters, while all branch offices of the offending firms in Nationalist territory be immediately sealed, or otherwise properly dealt with..

It is also urged that all for- cigners and Chinese found to be Implicated in the illicit traffic of arina be arrested and handed over to the proper authorities for punishment, according to the laws of treason and rebellion.

A proposition is on foot to erect a hostel adjacent to the Mosque in Shelley Street for the convenience Railway Management.

of Muslim travellers passing The managements of the Canton. through this Colony. The plan is

Request to Consuls Kowloon Railway, the Canton being prepared by Messrs. Den-

The Memorandum finally re- Hankow Railway, and the Canton-nison Ram and Gibbs, architects. Samshuf Railway, have all been This scheme is the outcome of quests that the German and Nor.s changed since the return of Lithe suggestion of Inspector Khan wegian Consuls" be communicated. Chat-sum to Canton. The manager Sahib Nawab Khan, of the Indian with, suggesting that they warn of the Canton-Hankow Railway Moslem Society, and has the ap-their nationals against any such (Kwangtung Section), Mr. Leung proval of Mr. U. Rumjahn, the further violations of the law.

of the Hongkong The reports which have reached Kwong-yan having resigned, his Chairman post was, taken a few days ago Islamic Union Inspector Khan the Foreign Office at Nanking are, follows: The by Mr. Chuo Wai-yeung. Messrs. Sahib Nawab Khan was further substantially Ip Kar-chun and Tiu Koon-shun, instrumental in securing funds Peking Government has recently the executives of the Canton for the building, and the Muslim commissioned a number of German. Kowloon Railway (Chinese community is much indebted to firms at Tientsin, Tsinan and Tsingtao to purchase arms and Seçtion) and of the Canton-Sam- him.

ammunition from Germany to the shui Railway respectively, have also tendered their resignation

value of more than $5,000,000. and the Government has appointed Mr. Lo Min, former Chief of the Canton-Hankow Railway, to con- trol both the Canton-Kowloon and Canton-Samshul railways.

is

Canton Finance,

TERRIBLE DISASTER

IN VILA..

MANY EUROPEANS KILLED AND INJURED.

Consignment Delivered.

In accordance with the con- tract, the s.8. Skule, a Norwegian freighter, arrived at Tsingtao on January 1st, with a large "cargo of armis. The cargo was imme- diately unloaded by agents of Messrs. Carlowitz and Company and delivered to representatives of the various Fengtien armtés, days at Tsingtao for the con- sigament-Reuter.

Mr. Feng Cho-man, the Commia- sioner of Finance, who is respon-

Suva, Fiji, Jan. 20. Ten are killed and fifty-six in- sible for the collection of the revenues of the Canton Treasury, jured as the result of a terrfole Basro, Jan. 19.

has ordered the military com-fire and explosion at French-who had been waiting for several The Khuzistan revolt is spreading

manders of the different districts owned

atores in Vila, New Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of Kwangtung 10 remit all Hebrides. rapidly along the Persian border in

An action was brought in the

The damage is estimated to be the vicinity" of Slattalarab. The Supreme Court and after a hear-for India; speaking at a luncheon amounts collected to the Canton

The dead in insurgents were engaged with being lasting several days, the of the Association of the British Treasury. Whether the result of at least £200,000. military on Tuesday and over sixty Court held that as the obliteration Chambers of Commerce, referred the request will be eminently clude six Frenchmen, one British the Statutory Commission satisfactory is quite another mat and three Asiatics, while 11 were killed, but it was thought that

was caused by unintentional to

French and 45 natives have been The cheques were drawn pay-Ahwaz would be sufficient to copees She the Bank were bound to left London today for India to

a strong force being sent from negligence on the part of Mrs. Lo which, headed by Sir John Simon, ter.

injured. Reater. able to certain firms to whom pay-with the situation.

honour the note, and gave judginvestigate there the subject of ments under Government

constitutional reforms. Persian officials at Ahwaz and thent for $500 and costs. tracts were due at the beginning!

Raid on Bogus Offices.

eon-

of a new year, and, in consequence Mohanmerah are apparently seri-

to

Bank Note Trouble?

Concerning the Canton Govern This decision was appealed He said that the members of the ment's decision to maintain the

HUGE TIENTSIN value of the Central Bank note, the

BLAZE. of what the polles discovered on ously concerned as the situation against, the appellants submitting Commission had undertaken

a Full Court in Hongkong, task which meant that they must latest report points to the fact that being informed of the occurrence, seems to have developed to such an a raid was carried out on certain extent that they cannot hope to con- that the note was not duly pre-spend four months this year and at least a temporary plan to stab

TSINPU RAILWAY OFFICES A request has been made sented to them, that certain pieces. seven montha next year, in India,ilise the bank-note value has been offices on the fifth floor of China trol it.

DESTROYED. Building last evening. Sign-far strong reinforcements from Te of paper were presented, but that and then would have to devote found by the authorities.

more to studying Feny Cho-man, the Finance-Com- they were in such a mutilated con- many months boards outside these bore the heran-Reuter

Tientsin, Jan. 20. dition as to render proper identi-the, material, they had collected. missioner, and Wong Lung-sang, names. "Min Tak" "Man Lee," and

fication as a bank note impossible,He had the highest hopes of the the Chief of the Central Bank are that the note presented was subse success of the Commission, and said to have evolved the new The offices of the Tainpa Rail- materially altered without the view that the less I intervene several quarters of the city, Central buildings in the Chinese city, the from this side the better, unleds Bank note exchange offices will be were completely gutted by fire

Government authorities.

"Katz, and Co.," which are the

names on the cheques concerned. FOREIGN SECRETARY quently to its issue hy them added, "I have formed, the clear scheme, which arranges that at way, situated in large old-style

werc

the

From what they found, police believe these particular offices

bogas, being almost devoid of any office equipment. The rooms had ap parently been taken solely for the purpose of the conspiracy. There were no persons on the premises at the time, and no arrests were made.

Clerks Detained.

The police are still conducting enquiries and have detained for

Chinese clerks į examination two employed in the Treasury,

ON CHINA.

REALLY GRAVE PHASE NOW PASSED.

London, Jan. 15.

appellants consent by

Another steamer, the B.s. Praga, German-manned, but flying the Czecho-Slovakian flag, is on its way to Chinwangtao from Manila, with a consignment of 90,000 rifles for Marshal Chang Tao-lin's forces. A Reuter message from Manila stated that the Praga had made a wide detour to the Formo- san Straits in order to avold Na- tionalist gunboats said to be on the look-out. The same message. added that the Japanese cruiser Ohi was following in the Praga's wake:

Japan's Neutrality,

Peking, Jan. 20-

·the

crasure, destruction, or oblitera- any matter of real principle upon opened under the supervision of yesterday extent of the damage Ohi, published yesterday, the

tion of the number and date, that which the Commission desires such alterations were due to the consult me may become involved negligence of the respondent, and-British Wireless.. that such alteration constituted material alterations within the

in

The appeal was dismissed with costs (one. Judge dissenting), the Court aflrming for reasons.similar

Tokyo, Jan. 12.

Persons The exact

who produce notes to be changed (which is believed to be enor for silver will not be allowed to ten-mous) and the cause of the fire

cannot be ascertained.-Feuter.

der mere than $10...

In such a manner it is hoped that at least a portion of the poorer class who now possess Central Bank notes will not have to waifer the full effect of the low exchange during the New Year Holidays.

To find the, necessary silver to meet the demands at the exchanges

FRANCO-SPANISH AERIAL

AGREEMENT.

Madrid, Jan. 13. Negotiations for the conclusion

With reference to the message from Manila concerning Praga and the Japanese-cruiser. Japaneso Legation fears that the wording of the cable may lead to the assumption in certain qúar- ters that the cruiser. Ohi was con voying the Praga to North China.

The Japanese Legation declares. that any such assumption is with. out foundation,

The Japanese Government is not departing from its usual policy of

meaning of Section 64 of the Bills. JAPAN MAY SEND TROOPS The affairs of China are still a of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, and

TO COMȚAT BANDITS cause of anxiety, declared Sir Aus that the note sued upon was ten Chamberlain, the Foreign Secre tary, addressing a meeting of his consequence void. constituents at Birmingham. !

Owing to continual attacks by the Government has ordered that of an agreement on the subject of neutrality. It is pointed out that Sir, Austen Chamberlain added that he thought the position had to those stated therein the judge-Manchurian bandits the inhabi-all payments by the merchants on aerial lines between France and the cruiser Ohi cruizes the South No official statement on the mat- Forewhat improved, and expressed ment of the Court of the first tants of the Yalou Valley have account of the Canton 2 per cent. Spain ten has yet been made, and a re-the opinion that the really grave instance.. It was in these circum been obliged to take refuge in surplus tax must be made in silver

was Korea, and it is possible that coins.FA port of the affair appearing in a phase of the Chinese revolution had stances that the appeal

The exchange departments will local vernacular newspaper has passed with the passing of the Rus-carried to the Judicial Committee Japan will send troops to that re-

slan influence from China,-Reufer, of the Privy Council.

glon-Indo-pacifi. been considerably consored.

open to-day, it is stated.

have resulted in the Seas and calls in at Manila more establishment of a text which will than once in the course of a year.

be submitted to the Governments Its call on the 18th was in accord of the two countries concerned ance with customary routine. for ratification-Indo-pac

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