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SHELLEY STREET SEQUEL TO DOUBLE HOW THE BOTNIA

AFFAIR.

TRIAL OF K.O.S.B. MEN

RESUMED.

LOCAL JOURNAL ASKED TO APOLOGISE.

SLUR ON IRISHMEN? The case in which Privates

MURDER.

SON OF VICTIMS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

ON CAPITAL CHARGE.

Charged with the murder of his father and mother, a Chinese has been arrested at Tai-O in con- nexion with the double tragedy which occurred there on Friday last, when a man and his wife were foully, done to death with a

chopper through motives which were at first attributed to robbery: O'Shea and McEwen of the 2nd

The arrested man, who is known Battalion of the King's Own Scot-amongst the other inhabitants of tish Borderers are charged with the village as the "pock-marked assaulting a Chinese woman living couple. He disappeared on the In No. 3, Shelley Street was con- morning of the murder, but was tinued before Mr. E. W. Hamilton located after an intensive police at the Central Magistracy this search "during the week-end. morning.

Mr. D. L. Strellett informed his Worship that he was representing O'Shea and that he would later call McEwen as a witness for O'Shea.

man," is the son of the murdered

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The police are working on the case on the lines that a quarrel occurred between father and son, in the course of which the younger

man had

WAS PIRATED.

BANDITS' TRUCULENT

BEHAVIOUR.

TORTURE THREAT TO THE

FOREIGN CAPTIVES.

ATTACK FROM JUNKS.

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SUSPICION OF GERMANY'S MOTIVES.

"STRONG OPPOSITION.

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SERIOUS RIOTING

IN BERLIN.

NATIONALISTS AT BLOWS. WITH COMMUNISTS.

REMARKABLE DEMAND

Berlin, Sept. 224 Riotous scenes followed a great Nationalist demonstration in Ber- lin this afternoon, when a most

Geneva Sept. 2. A lengthy discussion of the ro solution submitted by Dr. G. C. Wu, on behalf of the Chinese déle- gation, urging the League to make EIGHT MONTHS' TOLL. remarkable demand was made on

more effective Article'Nineteen of details of the piracy of the Nor

Shanghal papers to hand give the League Covenant, whith deals wegian steamer Botnia near Hai- with the revision of obsolete trea- chow, as a result of which

the ties and treaties which are no master, Captain A. Hanland and longer applicable to circumstances, the Chief Officer, Mr. H. Wester. heim, were seized and threatened has not resulted in very mach pro- with death by torture unless ran-gress. sont of $500,000 were immediately forthcoming.

The matter is now being con- sidered by a special sub-committee of the First Committee of the As sembly, and the task of finding an agreed text for submission to the Assembly is giving consider able difficulty. “

The sub-committee will hold its

Shanghai, Sept. 18.

the German Government.

At the height of the demonstra The murder of a Roman Catholic tions, a body of Communists in Bishop and two priests in Hupeh, tervened, hooting the Nationalist directs attention to the large num-speakers, and serious, collision

of murders and outrages of victims in the interior of China which foreigners have been

occurred between the rival parties the scene to restore order.

before sufficient police arrived on

NEW CHALLENGE TO NANKING.

GEN. CHANG FAT-KWAL IN OPEN REVOLT.

PLOT TO OVERTHROW CHIANG KAI-SHEK?

CRISIS DEVELOPING.

Shanghai, Sept. 22. General Chang Fat-kwel, the noted al Chang Fat-kwel, the It is common knowledge that

Nunking 4th Division, is in open revolt against the Central Govers-

the

ment, following his refusal to take his troops north and, later, to hand over his command.

Trouble has already developed I-tu, on the Yangtze, up

near

this year. We leave out (says the

It was feared at first that the N. C. Daily News) the murders and armed robberies in Shanghai and affair would develop more serious- These two officers, together with

other large cities, risings of dis-ly than it did as a number of one other foreigner, also an officer

contented and "mutinous soldiers, revolver shots were fired. No-one river from Hankow, the fighting of the Botnia, and five Chinese,

even the many organized piracies was hit, however, and distur having artsen, it is understood, members of the compradore's staff

which are of constant occurrence bances began and ended, in the as the result of the action taken the length of the China coast. of the steamer, were taken from

main, with free fights.

by Chang Fat-lowel against troops the vessel.at the point of rifles and

Major outrages on foreigners in The Nationalists held their under Gen. Chiang Sze-shut. Before going on with the case

pistols while the steamer itself, said Mr. Strellatt, he would

stuck on a bar asar Haichow. All is hoped that it will be possible (all missionaries except one) muring all Treaties entered into by though some fighting has occurred. was fourth meeting to-morrow and" it the interior during the course of demonstration to obtain suppordisarmed by the Ironside leader,

this year include nine foreigners for a plebiscite on a Bill repudiat-i like to mention a leading article which appeared in the China Malwife were not found until some Haaland and Mr. Westerheim, and

The bodies of the man and his were, however, subsequently re-to frame a resolution satisfactory dered by brigands, 32 captured Germany since the way, repudiat- Chiang Sze-shut's troops were

leased with the exception of Capt. to all parties. on September 12 referring to cer- 15 or 20 hours after their,death, news has since come through that from France and the representa ously ill-treated during the period | political, and providing that any connexion with, the trouble with tain cases which had come before being discovered in an isolated hut the first-named has made his tives of the Little Entente, who of their detention and

The principal objection comes, and held to ransom, often barbaring all agreements; financial and ordered up river from Nanking in

the Court, as a result of which about two and a half miles from escape, Mr. Westerheim being the apparently fear that the German others the victims of violent rob- tiary, who signed an agreement is reported on the river near I-tu.

seven German Minister or plenipoteni- the Ironside. A field gun battery

soldiers hud been convicted. Among the cases commented upon by the article was the particular one which his Worship was taking this morning.

recourse to a chopper with which he first slew his father, afterwards turning the weapon on his mother when she intervened:

Pak Mong village, Lantao Island.

The disappearance of the son out for him, and they have now led the police to keep a sharp look-

arrested him on the capital charge.

PHIL SCOTTS FIRST

· BIG FIGHT.

Still Sub Judice.

The reference to that case, said Mr. Strellett, was most unfor .tunate, as it was still sub judice.

Mr. Strellett then read part of" the article, as follows:-"We refer, of course, to the brutal and unprot voked attacks by privates of the 2nd Battalion of the 'King's Own Scottish Borderers upon Chinese

New York, Sept, 22. residents of the Colony. These

Tremendous interest hus been incidents have aroused the indigna- tion of the Chinese community here, aroused both in Britain and the

MEETING CAMPOLO IN NEW YORK TO-NIGHT.

The contest will be over ten rounds, and the men are advertis- Mr. Stellelt went on to say thated to enter the round at ten ho did not refer this article to his o'clock. Worahin because he wanted it to go

the

only one still in the hands of pirates.

Story of Piracy. The story of the piracy, in brief, is this:

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support of the Chinese proposal means that Germany will seek a revision of the peace treatles, though it is generally felt that their action, if successful, would The Botnia, à 2,500-ton vessel be deplorable from the League loaded with a cargo of salt, was point of view. bound for Sheriweih, from. Hai- chow, in North Kiangsu. Not far from Haichow, the vessel be came stuck on a sand bar and was waiting for the high tide when two unable to get of: The captain was

pirate junks, loaded with armed men, appeared.

"The junks drew longside and the pirates, despite the warning of the the Botnia. officers, boarded Greatly nutriumbered, the foreign

י.

The opponents of the resolution urge that the Assembly should be asked to "appreciate" and not "ap- prove" the resolution. Reuter.

LORRY'S DEFECTIVE

BRAKES.

DRIVER FINED FOLLOWING.

bery and treatment which only just stopped short of abduction.

Following is a summary of the outrages ---

Murders,

Telegraphist J. H. Snow, of H.M.S. Tern, was stabbed to death by unknown persons at Shasi, on April 5.

On April 7, Mr. Herbert K. Smith, an American missionary, was murdered whilst on an evan- gelistic tour in Kualchow.

Father Walter Coveyou, Father Clement Seybold, and Father God- frey Holbein, of the American Passionist Mission, were murder- ed by bandits on April 24, at Chenki, Wast Hunan.

imposing burdens on Germany should be tried for high treason,

Free fights followed the hooting of this resolution by Communists who thronged the scene of the de- monstration.--Reuter.

The latter's troops are being

Ship Ashore.

One of the China Merchants S.N. Company's ships has gone ashore and others have been com- mandeered for the transport of troops..."

General Ho Chien is believed to have signified his readiness to COTTON INTERESTS IN join Chang Fat-kwel and it is

CONFERENCE,

DECISIONS OF BARCELONA GATHERING.

Barcelona, Sept. 22.

The annual congress of the International Cotton Federation closed to-day.

reported that the Ironside, leader is making his way to Changsha, Ha Chien's headquarters.

It would appear that a move of unknown strength is foot to over- throw Marshal Chiang Kai-shek..

Naval Wirelése.:

Facing a Crisis.

and the shame of the British United States by the contest - officers of the Botnia were helpless residents. The fact that two of ranged for to-morrow evening he

AN ACCIDENT.

Chinose correspondents express the men are Irishmen does not tween Phil Scott, the ex-London before the rush of pirates, all of

On July 15, Father Timothy

the view that the National Govern mitigate their offences, They policeman, who is heavweight hum seemed to be armed with

Following an accident in Léonard, an Irish priest of St.

A resolution was unanimously ment at Nanking and the Kuomin-" should be as thoroughly ashamed champion of Britain, and the giant either pistols or rifles, some, in Gascoigne Road over the week-end, Columba's Mission Society, was passed, firstly, requesting the tang Party is facing the most of themselves as their Regiment, Argentinian boxer, Vittorio Cam-addition, carrying long kaives.

the driver of a motor lorry appear taken by bandits at Nanfeng, in Government of India to have serious crisis for some time past. which has an honourable reputa- pulo.

The pirates ignored the captained before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, Kiangsi, shockingly ill-treated and bales for export marked with the That a conspiracy to oust Chiang tion, is of them and their indefen-

when he called their attention to at the Kowloon Magistracy this fully murdered, his body when characteristics of the fact that the vessel was lying

the cotton: Kai-shek from leadership då. dave- sible conduct."

the Norwegian flag and was a Nor-morning, on a charge of failing recovered showing a multitude of secondly, requesting the early loping to its height is fairly wegian vessel.

to maintain his vehicle in goud wounds, whilst the head was establishment of propaganda com certain, The only doubt which order and condition, to the autis-practically severed from the body-munities in all countries to stimu-exists, concerns the strength of Lender in Foreign Clothes.

faction of the Captain Super- On August 27. Reuter's Agency late the demand for cotton tissues; the movement. "་་ ; to a higher authority, but because A victory would put Phil Scott

intendent of Police.

reported from Ichang the murder and thirdly, fixing the humidity of It is believed that Chang Fat- he was actinted by a sense of duty in line for the world's champion- One of the pirates, a man wear- The defendant admitted that is of Father Tibcrce Cloodts, of Egyptian cotton at nine per cent. kwei is assured of most" support, to the Court, and that he was ship, but the odds at present are ing foreign clothes and evidently brakes were not in proper emidi-Antwerp, a member of the Fran- instructed to do so by his client, 6 to 5 on Campolo, whose victory the right hand man of the bandittion.

In connexion with the later and one observer states that, while ciscan Procuration in China. Mr. A. el Areulli, who was in Over Heeney has brought him into chief, spoke very good English and According to Sergeant Scrim, Reuter's Agency reported on part of the resolution, it was also it sounds alarmist, eight of the Court with Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, high favour,

informed the captain that certain the defendant was driving his Monday this week that Bishop laid down that manufacturers will most important of the eighteenth the proprietor of the China Mail,

Scott's possibilities have not the compradore were to be taken suddenly awerved on to a piece of and. Rupertus, of the Franciscan per cent., while producers are for sympathetic with

officers and members of the staff of lorry along Gascoigne Road and Trude Jans and Fathers Brundo be allowed from eight and a half provinces of China Proper aro said that the article was not been underrated, however, and the of us prisoners and held until vacant ground near the Club de i Procuration, had been murdered bidden to mix cotton, either in cause, which is starting pressure

teniled to be discourtėms to any body in particular, and there was no allegation against Irishmen in general, On behalf of the pro- prietor and the editor of that newspaper, he apologised offence had been taken,

Apology Asked.

in

keanest contest Reiter's American Service.

ír

The

is anticipated.ranson was paid.

Recreio, knocking down and Chinese pirate made seriously Injuring a pedestrian it quite plain that

unless who was off the roadway. the rutsom tas forthcoming The lorry was subsequently LABOUR'S PROMISE TO | within a certain period the tested and it was found that the prisoners would be put to death. hand brike was useless, while the THE MINERS.

All the while the pirates had foot brake was only fair, their loaded guns trained on the His Worship imposed a fine of foreign officers and members of $35. the crew. Some of the pirates be- came extremely, belligerent, as if

STEPS TO BE TAKEN TO REDUCE HOURS.

His Worship. after reading the article, said the article was not discourteous to the King's Own Scottish Borderers; rather, his Worship's opinion, on the con-

London, Sept. 22.. If Mr. Arculli would say trary.

Mr Ben Turner, one of the. that the China Mail, would in due | leading figures in the Trade Union'

accking a pretext for a quarrel in order to open fire.

No Resistance. course publish an apology regard- Cangress and Minister of Mines that they were at the mercy of the The officers, however, realizing ing the article referred to, bis in the Labour. Government, Worship would be satisfied, announced in the course of a pirates, were clever enough to offer

Mr. Burnett stated that an speech at. High Greeni

aple would be published.

ncar

DUTCH TRADE UNION

PROGRESS.

LARGE INCREASE IN THE

“MEMBERSHIP.

Amsterdam, Sept. 22.

At the annual meeting of the Netherlands Trades/. Unions

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at Liao-tang, in Hupeh. Abductions.

It was officially confirmed that on January 22, an American, Mr. Eward Young, a missionary, and a German missionary with his wife and child were aducted by Com munist brigands. at Nananfu, Kiangsi. We have been unäble to trace what eventually happened, but believe they were released.

Messra. Edgar Truax and Harry Schwenderer, of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, were captured

Rouler.

the Leftist

ginning or pressing, mixing being on Nanking In this way. permitted only in milling.- The Alleged Plotters.

Tang Seng-chi, Fong Chen-wu, Yen Hsi-shan and Feng Yu-hslang are all reported to be in the con- spiracy, though the' Anhui leader, Fong Chen-wu, is the only one of the number against which action' bas | been taken by Nanking up tô the

present.

CORROSIVE ACID ATTACK.

TOBACCO CO. MANAGER BADLY BURNT.

secuted, said that on August 30, be taken to reduce the workinged the captain and the compradore Federation, the Chairman, Heer and kept captive in shocking con- evening, he was suddenly attacked |

at about 11 o'clock, Inspector hours of the miners. Shannon saw the two defendants

Reliable reports state that Fong Chen-wu indicated his anti-Chiang

no resistance. Sheffield; to-day, that as soon as

After a long consultation be- Inspector Murphy, who pro-Parliament is re-opened, steps will

tween the pirate chief and his fieutenants, during which they ask-

many questions, the pirates forced in Caine Road and, noticing their eight hours a day, and it is die them and third foreign ship of the Federation had in

Captain Hanland. Chief Oficer Kupers, stated that the member- behaviour, he directed Skt. Howarth to keep an eye on them manded that this be reduced to officer, whose name was not learncreased by 30,000 in the course and Miss J. P. Brook, all of the Chung, who was severely burnt by missal of Feng Chen-wu. from the Sgt. ilowarth then went down to recently stated that the Governed, to beard one of the junks. In of the past three years. Shelley Street and was attracted ment would proceed by progres the other junk the pirates took the

At present, miners are working

seven hours 1 day. It was

by nolees, which he later found to give stages, the first reduction five Chinese prisoners.. have been caused by an assault by being from eight to seven and a two soldiers on a Chinese woman, half hours daily,-Reuter.

Woman's Injuries,

on.

Dr. Tseung Fat-in, M.B., B.S. (H.K.) in the box, said that he was called to No. 3 Shelley Street at 11.45 p.m. on August 30. He saw Mrs. Chan Lai-sze, whom he found to be semi-conscious Arrival. On examination he found marks and severe swellings on her forehead. The lady was apparently suffering from severe pain on the right ankle.

TSARIST ADMIRAL

PASSES AWAY.

"

his ONE OF LEADERS IN TAKU

FORTS ACTION.

She was X-rayed on September

Nice, Sept. 22. The death has occurred' of the famous Russian admiral, Admiral 21 at the Tung Wah Hospital and Vesselago, who will be well re- membered in the Far East for his participation in the capture of the Taku Forts in 1900.

it was found that her ankle was frattured.

At this point, his Worship aaked if under the circumstances, it was advisable for her to remain in out to which Dr. Tacung repiled

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Late in the same day the pirate junks, after disappearing with their captives, again approached the Botnia and after some conver- |sation the third foreign officer and Chinese prisoners were allowed to return to the ship,

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Ransom Demand,

The memberah now exceeded a quarter of a million. Con ditions of the Dutch workers had greatly improved-Reuter.

WEATHER REPORT,

A fiendish attack with corrosive fatentions on Friday by neizing acid was reported to the police over a hundred coaches and loco- at Sungtao, Kuecihow, on April 24, on Saturday evening, the victim motives on the. Tientsin-Pukow being Chung Kung-lu, the Man- Railway, and that he is holding tortured and released on May 13.

Miss Monsen, of the Norwegian ager of the Eastern Tobacco Com-this material for the transport of

appears that while his troops. Baptist Mission, was taken prisoner pany. It off the coast of Shantung in May Mongkok, at about 7 o'clock in the in the piracy of a Chinese steamer Chung was in Shanghai Road,

Nanking Measures, The headquarters of General. ditions for 23 days.

by two men who poured corrosive Fong Chen-wu's troops at Nan and Mrs. John Walker and child,

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Waller, Mr. liquid down his back.

king was raided on Saturday by“ The asanilants ran away, and Nanking gendarmes while the dis- China Inland Mission, were captur- ed by bandits at Shekichen on June the acid, went to have his injuries Post of Governor of Anhui has

also been announced." 8 and held, for over a week on a

dressed by Dr. Wong,

Strong rumours are current that demand that the bandits be in- The police, on receiving a re-other prominent generals in Nan. corporated in the Nationalist army. port of the affair, went out

toking have been debained by Chiang... Father Dalmasso, an Italian look for the assailants, but they Kai-shek, including Lu Chun-lin, priest, was released on June 16 after being held captive for three weeks by Chu Tak's brigands in Kunngtung. He was badly treated and constant efforts were made to get him to renounce his religion, to profess Bolshevism, and to take a command in the brigand army.

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest to the At the same, the pirates reiter-north of Hokkaido and relatively ated their demand for ransom of low over the Visayas and the Pack $500,000, which had been deraand- fic to the eastward. The forecast Dr. Holleman, of the Reformed, ed before they left the scene of the till noon to-morrow is:-East or Church of America Mission, Lung kidnapping the first time.

variable winde, moderate; fairyengchow, escaped in July after

The Chinese prisoners reported that they had been badly treated by the. pirates, who, after much deliberation, decided that they would gain little, if anything by keeping the Chinese as prisoners.

SOVIET FLIGHT.

Seattle, Sept. 23.

He was afterwards the Com-It was also decided to hold the The "Land of the Sovieta" has mander-in-Chief of the Russian captain and chief officer but to left Attu Island for Dutch Har Naval Squadron in Pacific Waters allow the third officer to have his bour, Maine. Reuters, American

freedom.

Service,"

-Reuter.

had made good their escape.

DUTCH EAST INDIES FINANCE.

CONVERSION LOAN ISSUE ANNOUNCED.

(the Minister of War and Chief Lieutenant of Feng Yu-halang). Ma Fu-cheung and Hsieh Tu-pel, (Minister of Health).

Nanking official circles appear to be alarmed by the insubordina- tion of General Chang Fat-kwel. Unconfirmed reports have it that. the Nanking Government has ordered the First Nanding Divi- sion, under General Liu Chi,, to open the offensive against the "Ironsides."

being held by handits for a fort

Amsterdam, Sept. 22. night. His wife and children escaped capture by hiding and then A new. bond issue by the Dutch walked across country, to Amoy, East Indies Government to an disguised in Chinese, clothes. amount of £5,800,000 at four and. Mr. Riva; an Italian engineer in a half per cent la..nnnounced, the employ of the Lunghai Railway, The bonds will be issued at 984 was released last month after being and le being made to cover the assistant commander of the "Iron- for 44 days in the hands of bandits conversion of the 1028 loanside, has declared his loyalty to

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Reuter

"Olleial",Report, Moanwhile, it is officially stated that General Wang Chen-kau, the