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五拜囊 ·號九月一十英港香

1928.* FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9,

11 八廿月九

3 FEB ANKUM

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PIRATE SUSPECTS, ARRESTED.

BRINGS

H. M. S. FAULKNOR

IN OVER TWENTY.

ROUNDED UP ABOARD THE TAI LEE

LAST NIGHT.

HANDED OVER TO POLICE,

Reports current this morning that a number of pirate suspects had been rounded up aboard the 8.8. Tai Lee after she had left Hongkong for Kongmoon were proved to be well grounded when, at about 1 p.m., H.M.S. Faulknor, an armed launch on patrol duty on the West River, brought into Hongkong no fewer than 28 Chinese who had been removed from the steamer named.

The police had previously been notified of the fact that a number of suspects were being brought down by the naval boat, and a large party, headed by Inspector, M. Murphy, was at the Naval Yard when the Faulknor arrived.

The 23 Chinese were promptly handed over and were at once handcuffed and conveyed to the Central Police Station in two prison vans,

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NEW MOUNT ETNA CANTON AVIATION DEATH SENTENCE THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

HORROR.

RED HOT BOULDERS CRASH DOWN HILLSIDE.

RAPID DEVELOPMENTS.

Catania, Nov. 8. Tho. Mount Etna eruption has claimed its first human victims.

Three penannta Inslated 011 sleeping in their homes at Mas- cala after the evacuation, and it' is feared that they have perished. There are indications that the Etna eruption subsiding,

is

TRAGEDY.

FOUR BOAT PEOPLE. KILLED.

MACHINE NOSE DIVES INTO NARROW CANAL.

AVIATOR'S 'ESCAPE.

Chinese reports from Canton

FOR ASSASSIN.

END OF OBREGON MURDER TRIAL.

4.

GREAT EXCITEMENT.

San Angel, Mexico, Nov. 8.

GOVERNMENT REPLIES TO LABOUR CENSURE.

The trial of Jose de Leon Toral PAYING THE PRICE OF THE

for the gassination of the Pro- sident Elect of Mexico, General Obregon, was brought to a close here to-day in the presence of an immense crowd which hn throughout the trial been swarm- fal excitement.

GENERAL STRIKE.

though the lava stream is creeping give details of the aviation ing into the Courthouse in fever LABOUR ITSELF

on and is within 300 yards of the tragedy which occurred there on tary aeroplane crashed off the Catania-Messina railway line-Wednesday morning when à mili- Renter.

East Bund, falling close to number of sampans.

Later,

Toral was sentenced to death, and Mother Superior Maria Con- aception, who was jointly tried with him on a charge of being his necomplice, was sentenced twenty years' imprisonment..

Two boatmen are reported to

to

A New Horror.

To the enormous serpent of molten lava which is leaving a have been instantly killed and path of destruction in the forest two others to have succumbed to down the slopes there is now add. Injuries after their removal a further horror, Incandescent hospital. One other was serious boulders measuring ten cublely hurt and another slightly in- feet scattering broadcast and jured, falling with terrife force, The pilot and pupil, who were Taishatau Aviation sufficient to break the underground from the

College had a miraculous escape.

water mains.

Professor Ponte, the Director of the Etan Observatory, who re

bombardment, has reported to

Out of Control.

It appears that the plane (No. the Government that the eruption 14) had been flying for some time the East Bund, when for in twelve hours has

some reason at present unexplain-

reached

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At the moment, it is not definitely known how the pre-mains at his post despite the sence of the suspects on the Tai Lec first aroused suspicions, but one report is to the effect that Chinese passengers on the steamer noticed several strange-looking, men on bourd and

stage of development only pre- ventured the opinion that they were Bins Bay pirates.

These men are said to have secured accommodation some-iously attained in four days. A curious phenomenon is the fact where near the grilles, and it appears that when suspicions that the lava is apparently moving became aroused, it was decided to round them all up. Later in underground chanels from one a signal was sent to H.M.S. Faulknor and when she came newly-formed Assure to another. alongside the suspects were handed over.

REPORTED CHASE ROUND DECKS.

According to rumour, which we Chinese detectives forbidding any have been unable to confirm, some of the men to make statementa trouble was experienced in getting while on board the ship. the suspects under control, it

Reuter.

NEW ROADS FOR KWANGTUNG.

CANTON GOVERNMENT OPENS QUARRY.

Canton, Nov. 8. The progressive spirit of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment is further Illustrated by a recent act of the Mayor, Mr. Lam Wen-koi.

over

HABARIKIANA

THE "SHASH" PIRACY ARRESTS.

Fifteen Said to be Found' Guilty.

EIGHT MORE SUSPECTS.

Hankow, Nov. 8,

Out of the twenty-three inen arrested in connexion with the Shani piracy case it is stated that fifteen of them have been found guilty and eight innocent.

A further eight suspects have been apprehended and they are at present under examination at headquarters. Mr. Henvis, the American passenger who was wounded in the affair is progrossing favourably. Reuter.

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So widespread was the public interest that special arrangements had been made to broadcast the Court proceedings and listeners-In all over the country heard the ver- dicts pronounced to-day.

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"Mission of God.” Toral, in the course of the trial, admitted killing General Obregon as "a mission of God," He said he did not know exactly what result it would bring, but was con- Adent that it would help the cause of the controversy in Mexi- co between the State and the Ro- man Catholic Church.

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He made allegations of having been tortured by the police for the purpose of being made to impli cate others but these allegations were denied.Renter's American Service.

NAPTHA EXPLOSION

IN U.S.A.

TWELVE KILLED AND TWENTY INJURED,

A message

1926

BLAMED.

Taunting the Labour Party that it was largely at fault for the present industrial situation in Britain, Mr. Winston Churchill made a vigorous reply to criticisms by Mr. J. R. Clynes, during the course of a debate in the House of Commons yesterday.

Mr. Clynes had complained that the Government's pro- posals, as outlined in the King's Speech, were utterly inade- quate to meet the grave fact that there are over 1,300,000 per- sons on the unemployment register, and suggested that the dole should be turned into a wage for actual work and that the Government should reconsider opening trade relations with Russia.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer said it was misleading to imagine that the re-admission of the Soviet Embassy would make the slightest contribution to the problem, and reminded the Labour Party that the country was now paying the price of the disastrous General Strike and coal stoppage in 1926.

He argued that the problem of unemployment was world- wide, but that Britain was doing far more than any other country in caring for the weak and the poor. He outlined the practical steps which the Government was taking.

HOW BRITAIN WAS THROWN BACK.

London, Nov. 8. In 1926, being discredited? These The House of Commons to-day signs of amendment were welcome, debated the first amendment to the but they were too late. The price Address In reply to the King'a of 1926 hnd to be paid! Speech, dealing with unemploy-

World-Wide Problem. mont.

the

Mr. J. R. Clynes (Labour) mov- The problem of unemployment, New York, Nov. 8.

ed an amendment "that although continued Mr. Churchill, was wide the Government had had four and mysterious. There was heavy from Lynn, Mas-

years of office the country was unemployment in

United sachusetts, states that twelve per-burdened with unemployment in a States, and in Russia under the Bons were killed and twenty in- more acute form and that appal most ruthless-expression of soci- ling conditions prevailed in many jured in a naptha explosion in a of the mining areas, and that the alism there was also very heavy

unemloyment.

WRB countries shoe factory, including four occu- proposals outlined in the King's pants of a neighbouring house Speech were utterly inadequate to thing like

meet the existing-Industrial situa- where a woman with her husband|tion.""" and eight children were having breakfast.

After the men had been duly being said that one of the officers rettered with the latest type of had to chase some of the men patent "anslippable" handcuffs, round the deck at the point of their bonds were cut and they were

all revolver before they were

taken off the Faulknor. The safely rounded up..

A great deal of road-building At any rate, the Tai Lee sent Prison vans, by reason of the ob- out signals which were received struction caused by anchors and is going on in Canton and all over by the Faulknor, as a result of other equipment at the Dock, were the province, and recently Mr.

Neither of these which the armed naval launch not able to drive right up to the Lam Wen-kol made an intensive

making Any- came alongside the steamer and jetty, but stood waiting at a dis-investigation into, the reasons for

the provision to took on board the 23 suspects tance of some hundred yards away, the high cost of building

and

succour the unemployed that which were handed over by the The prisoners were then' march-atudied plans to reduce this cost.

Wad being made here. He esptain!

ed to the prison vans, under a The first result of his investiga-

believed it true to say that strong police guard, and, after tion had a consequence a few days

Wage Instead of Dole.

man for man and woman for First News..

having been separated into two ago when the Mayor opened a

In the course of his speech, Mr. woman in this island we provided The first news of the affair was groups, were driven away, hend- municipal quarry not far from

-A sheet of Rame leaped from Clynes complained that the Ses two or three times as much and it received in Hongkong by the ed by police motor-cycles and fol. Canton, so that the municipal naval nuthorities and a communi- lowed in the rear by more police authorities are, now able to pro-ed the machine got out of control the factory twenty feet away, sions programme contained noth might be four or five times as cation was sent to the police, re- men.

cure their own stone for road and made a sudden nose-dive burst the window and enveloped ing to lessen the despair of hund much as any other country, includ reds of thousands of workers, but ing the most wealthy and most 80- questing that a posse of constables

beds, thereby reducing the cost which had most disastrous con-

the family, incinerating the that, on the contrary, the Govern cialistic countries, upon the care and detectives be sent to the Naval

by nearly 40 per cent. Not only do equences.

As the machino was descending, mother and three children. The ment's policy would result in of the weak and the poor. Yard to take charge of certain As stated, the exact cause of they save on the actual cost of the suspects which the armed launch the detention of the suspects is not stone, but, the quarry being quite the aviators made an attempt to others were slightly injured.diminishing the volume of unem the year 1911, rellef of unemploy Faulknor was bringing in.

at the moment clear, but a repre- near Canton, a very considerable land on the big recreation ground] Reuter's American Servier, With customary despatelt, the sentative of the Telegraph was told saving is also effected on the cost near Tungyuen, which is separati authorities detalled off six plain that an attempt at piracy on the of transport.-Our Own Corres-ed from Kwangel Club by clothes European detectives, eight Tai Lee was probably frustrated pondent. Indians and several Chinese for just in time.

Piracy Attempt.

immediato duty at the Naval What actually occurred will Camber. The two Government probably not be known until the prison, vans were also sent and Tai Lee returns to Hongkong at there quickly gathered a crowd of midnight. sailors to watch the proceedings It was observed that the crew' from the various'men-of-war at or on beard the Faulkner, on 'arriving near the Naval Yard.

In Hongkong, were all armed with

Further cause for their curiosity revolvers, and that there was a was occasioned by a generous special guard kept over the pirates, display of arms, handcuffs, and the by a few ratings armed with rifles, rushing in and out of police re- presentatives on motor cycles.

Ship and Officers. All was ready for the caption of the captured men at

re-

'TILDEN NO LONGER AMATEUR.

DISQUALIFICATION NOW

CONFIRMED.

ASTRONOMA DRUNKANJENJEM

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small canal. At the time there were numerous sampang and other native craft in the canal, and it was on some of these that the machine later crashed.

Building Juel Missed. According to the stories of eye- witnesses, when the plane was

it narrowly missed

CHINESE CUSTOMS.

AUTONOMY.

HOLLAND WILLING TO NEGOTIATE.

The Hague, Nov. 8. A Memorandum by the Foreign

ployment. He estimated that at

Before

least £1,500,000 was weekly being ment was left entirely to Trade Un- received by those who were com- fonism which, however, rendered it pulsorily Idle in order to keep them only to the higher ranks of labour alive. He suggested that the dole and mainly only to males. He be- should be increased and turned Heved that in the years before into 'n wage for actual work and he the war there were rarely less or four hundred There thousand unemployed. urged the Government, as one solu- than three

were now 1,374,000 unemployed. tion, to reconsider opening trade relations with Russia.

By the Great War, a large part of the wealth of Britain and the

Labour at Fault.'. Mr. Winston Churchill, Chan-

world had been consumed. The

some fifteen feet from the ground Minister, accompanying the de- cellor of the Exchequer, replied world all. round had grown much which were quite ready before the New York, Nov. 8, According to an official bulletin, the Kwangsi Club. However, it the Government is determined to industrial situation. Dealing with war to buy our basic manufactures,

However, it the United States Lawn Tennis just managed to steer clear of the the utmost that the development the suggestion made by Mr. Clynes wished to make things themselves. with that this country should resume New and more vigorous competi of commercial relations The s.8. Tai Lee is a locaily built Association's disqualification of building but fell into the canal.

The canal is a very narrow one China shall, as far as possible, relations with Russin as a means vessel, having been constructed in Tilden as an amateur, for violat- After forty minutes of waiting, 1914 at the longkong and Wham- ing their amateur rule by writing and it appears that on its descent satisfy Chinese political require of reducing unemployment, he de- tors met us in every foreign market clared that anyone who supposed and old customers increasingly the Faulkner arrived and berthed poa Dock for the Sze Yap S.S. Com- articles for the press, has been the plane came into contact with ments,

The Dutch Minister at Peking that the Re-admission of the closed their doors upon our wares. in the camber. Her appearance pany, with a gross tonnage of 1,423, accepted by the International Lawn the mast of a junk, one of the pro- increased the tenseness of those and a length of 208.9 feet, beam Tennis Association, embracing 34 pallors striking it and badly has been instructed to proceed to Soviet Embassy to this island We were loaded beyond all other

nations besides the United States, 28.1 feet and depth 11 feet.

Nanking to negotiate in connexion would make the slightest contribu- producing countries with debt and assembled on the spot,

She is engaged with the On Lee-Reutera American Service,

with the proposed Chinese Cus- tion to the problem of unempley- taxation. toma autonomy.-Reuter. between Hongkong and Kongmoon

noon.

THE R.A.F. FLIGHT..

BOATS LAND AT MANILA TO-DAY.

Once the Faulkner had tied up at the jetty, the police officers, lling on alternate evenings, and is under Acting-Inspector M. Murphy, temporarily running alone, as the took charge of the situation. The on Lee is now in dock. It is under- Captain of the Faulknor had stood that she is chartered by a short conversation with the police Chinese Drm for the service, but officer in charge, after which he is actually British-owned and orders were given for the suspect- egiatered. ed pirates to be removed from the

The officers of the vessel are

Manila, Nov. 9. ship.

Captain E. Midgeley, Chief Officer The four R.A.F. flying boats, Bound Hand and Foot. Pichle, Chief Engineer George where and due hero to-day, were White and, Second Engineer. Wsighted ten miles out at 11.10 this There were, in all, twenty-three Wilson. Mr: White has already dis-

morning.

smashing it.

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Sampans Destroyed. The mast, in two pieces, fell on to a number of sampans lying near by, completely destroying BANK OF ENGLAND'S four of the smaller craft. For-

NEW ISSUE. tunately, the plane itself fell into the water clear of the campane, and the aviators managed to extricate themselves.

The aviators did all they could to assist those injured and helped to convey thom to hospital. ~

Later in the day, the damaged aeroplane was salvaged from the

OLD NOTES WILL BE CALLED IN.

Flight of Miners,

ment was misleading himself and would mistend others. It was very casy to say that the present indus- Mr. Churchill'pointed out that trial situation was the fault of the besides the great masses of per- Government but it was far easier sons under the unemployment in

there were at present to say and easier to prove that a aurance large part of it was the fault of 224,000 women upon the un- the Labour Party Had Mr. employed lists who were scarcely Clynes forgotten the general strike ever included In any pre-war total. and prolonged coal stoppage of There was a fourth class for whoge 10207 Through these we had been industries any Improvement in London, Nov. Ba

thrown back two or three years trade carried no direct and per Further detalls of the proposed behind the onward march of ether manent hope of alleviation. These Bank of England note issue were nations. The reserves of industry were the coal miners. Until three given. by Mr. Winston Churchill were exhausted during that period

engaged in coal-mining. Now to-day in answering questions in and the resources of the States to years ago 1,200,000 persons were aid misfortune had been grievous there were only $20,000 so that the House of Commons,

Had the Labour 280,000 had been discarded by the Mr. Churchill said that the pré- ly impaired. The British flying boats landed NANKING MILITARY AFFAIRS. sont currency would remain legal Party not admitted their respon coal industry. This was a grave enfely at 11.21.-Reuter.

tender after November 22nd, when nibility? Had there not been an misfortune for the miners but not the new notes would be avaliable, effort on the part of the reapon- ery of the poorer class, being dress- Those officers have also had much

Nanking, Nov. 8: Three months notice would be sible leaders of Labour to establish for the coal industry, which with ed in mean attire, without shoes, to do with the stopping of arms

On the departure of Marshal given to the public when the old a different and aaner polley? Were a reduced staff was now capable On the appearance of the police smuggling into Kongmoon, there this constant vigilance was in some officers on board there was a gen- having already been some three or measure responsible for the frus- Chiang Kai-shek on his tour of in- notos were to be called in, but not Communists being excluded, of supplying the whole demand for oral attempt at explanation, but four cases within the last few tration of any attack that might snection, affairs at the Nanking this was not expected to happen from Labour Party politics? Was home and foreign coal and could, paleed in domestic affairs? Was Out taking on another man pro all such efforts were stopped, the month and it is just possible that have been intended by the arrested Military Department will be in the for some considerable time, not Russian foterference being re- if need be quite osally with

hands of General Ho Ying-ching. Reuter,

not Mr. Cook, who led the miners

Chinese in custody on board the tinguished himself, being the hero The beats will stay a week in

Lator.

Faulkner and these were all herded of an incident on the sa Paul Beau Manila, later proceeding to Hong-canal. on to the fore deck. They were when, at great risk, he rescued kong-Reuter. bound hand and foot with cords. scalded men from the engine room They conversed occasionally in after an explosion. For this deed Cantonese and their appearance he was decorated at Government Indicated that they were Southern- Hause,

men.

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