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NO 24,802

A TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929.

CHINESE POLICE STEAMER AFIRE IN CANTON IN STATE SUSPECTED LOSS

OUTRAGE.

3 JAPANESE RAILWAY GUARDS SHOT.

DRASTIC ACTION BY NIPPON MILITARY COMMANDER.

TIEHLING INCIDENTS.

Mukden is a buzz of excitement this morning as a result of a re- port from Tichling, a city some

INDIAN OCEAN.

SILTONHALL CREW TAKE TO LIFEBOATS.

·AUSTRALIA-BOUND.

Perth, Sept. 3.

Disaster has befallen the Bri- tish sa. Siltonhall (6,055 tons gross), on her way from Imming- ham to Adelaide, according to a wireless message picked up at Perth from the steamer to-day.

Fire appears to have broken out on board, rapidly growing out of

OF PANIC.

INSURGENT LEADERS TO ATTACK CITY?

VIGOROUS ACTION BY CHIANG

KAI-SHEK.

TENSION IN NANKING.

Shanghal, Sept. 24.- While official circles in Nanking appear to be confident that Mar- shal Chiang Kai-shek has the in-

OF MAIL.

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miles up the railway from Mukden control, forcing the master to give ternal situation well in hand, in- Post Office this morning it seems

to Changchun, giving details.of a serions' incident. involving Japanese soldiers and railway guards and the Chinese policemen in the city.

It appears that after a fracas in

restaurant,

Chinese policemen opened fire on a group of unsuspecting Japanese railway guards, wounding three.

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the order to abandon ship.

The last message picked up from the deemed steamer stated that she thousand miles from Perth, and was ablaze in the Indian Ocean, two that the crew had taken to the Jifeboats.

The Siltonhall is the biggest steamer of the fleet" of the West Hartlepools Steam Navigation Com- pany, which controls a line of cargo steamers between

England and Australia. The vessel is of 6,055 tons gross, is 415 feet long, 55 feet. in breadth, and 30.6 feet in depth.

She was built at Stockton-on-

Tees in 1912. by Messrs. Ropner and Sons and is registered 100 A I

The Japanese garrison coni- mander, acting apparently on his own initiative, ordered a battalion of Japanese troops out. Theyat Lloyd's. raided the Chinese police alation and took a number of the culprits away with them ay prisoners.

Quarrel in Restaurant,

The sensational affair 'occurred i

in Tichlin vesterday accordin

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AN OPIUM DIVAN IN BRITISH TROOPS IN BOTNIA MASTER'S

BARRACKS.

DISCOVERY BY R.E.

CORPORAL.

FUTILE CAMP SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN.

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AMAZING SCENE,

KOENIGSTEIN SEND-OFF TO THE LEICESTERS.

WILD ENTHUSIASM.

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ORDEAL.

STORY OF A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

BATTERED WITH STONE AND LEFT FOR DEAD.

victim of the ruthless pirate gang which attacked the vessel near Haichow eleven days ago, are in-

The question of the possible dis-

Wiesbaden, Sept. 23. appearance of the Siberian mail, despatched from Hongkong on

Judging by the remarkable. July 8 is raised by a correspondent

scenes at Koenigstein to-day, when who writes to the Telegraph ask-

the 2nd Batt. of the Leicestershire say what happened tp the mall as ing if the Post Office officials can

SERVANT FINED $25.

Regiment entrained for London, CHIEF OFFICER'S FATE. the writer has met no one who has

the German realdents are almost received replies to letters sent

The First Magistrate (Mr. E. W. sorry to see them go.

Fears for the life of Mr. H. on that date, although Jater mails Hamilton) was told this morning The farewell took place in soak-Westerheim, the chief officer of have been acknowledged. how an opium divan had beening rain, but the continuous down the Norwegian s.3. Bótnio, and a

From inquiries made at the secretly maintained in Victoria and the send-off was an amazing pour did not damp the enthusiasm formation official sources reveals

certain that the mail referred to, Barracks by Chinese servants who tribute to the respect and esteem situation is extremely critical. President Jackson, was divert-conferred by their military sur-

that the which was sent to Shanghai by the took advantage of the immunity in which the British troops on the

Rhine are held. civil war on a large scale is im-via the Pacific route. When the Somo circles are of opinion that ed at the Northern port and sent

The battalion marched to the roundings. minent, and it is reported that local

station from the quarters to the Fost Office, and that

A Chinese domestic was charged accompaniment of such tunes as panic prevails in Canton on which in Shanghai were

in com- with the possession of a little over "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your city the insurgents are alleged to munication last month be converging.

regard- a tast of contraband opium, and Old Kitbag" and "Auld Lang Ing the Siberian route, Shanghai it was related how, in quite an ac-Syne," played by the regimental intimated that Siberian mails sent cidental way, he was seen pouring band. The Leicesters are the the stuff from a bottle into small first unit of the British Rhine from Hongkong. from July 6 to July 12 were forwarded by way of pots, in a room in the domestics Army to follow the advance America.

quarters, of which the other oe-parties back to "Blighty" and cupants were two other Chinese. Koenigstein turned out en masso

to, bid them farewell, Government Consulted.

Civilians crowded the doorways, Corporal W. Blakeborough,windows and streets all the way R.E., who made the discovery, to the station, and there WIS seized the stuff and reported to assembled a huge crowd under a chase. Acting Staff Captain De Linde, sea of umbrellas. R.E. The officer was undecided

Trouble has been brewing for some time past. There have been rumours of a gigantic plot to over- throw the Chiang Kai-shek regime, the allegations implicating Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen. Ilsi-shan, Chang Fat-kwel, Ho Chien, Fong Chen-

Will.

Tang Seng-chi, and the Kwangsi leaders.

Embroiling the South.

Matters came to a head on Sep- tember 17th, when Chang Fat- kwei's Division, the Ironsides, refused the orders of the Nationalist Government to move

Router's report, which has been CONDITION REPORTED MOST from Ichang to Shantung..

obtained from the Mukden car respondent of the Reigo Agency. the well-known Japanese news agency.

UNSATISFACTORY.

Berlin, Sept. 23. The leading banks in Berlin The Rungo Agency's correspon- have agreed to convoke a bankers deat says that the affair originat- | ed in a quarrel between number meeting to discuss steps for the of Chinese policemen and A Japanese soldier at a restaurant yesterday afternoon.

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The Ironsides are now reported to be marching through Hunan to Kwangsi, where they will join up with other disaffected military leaders, headed by General Yu Tso-pen the Governor of Kwangsi, Simultaneously, telegram improvement of the condition of alleged to have been signed

General Chang The Berlin Stock Exchange.

Fat-kwei and ether generals, has been circulat- ored throughout China, denouncing Dr. C. T., Wang's negoliations with foreign Powers and the Dis- beniment Loan, alloring that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has been insisting upon the disbandment of other armies, with no inten- tion of permitting the dkband- ment of his own.

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very unsatisfactory When the Japanese soldier garisation of the Stock Exchange left the

incidents of Inte proved very disquiet- appeared to have closed, but ing.--Reuter, it assumed seriona dimensiona later on when a number of Chin- ese police fired on Japanese rajj- way guards from behind, wound- ing three.

The Japanese garrison com manders, adds the Rengo correspondent, rushed a bat- talion of Japanese troops to the Chinese police station, disarmed every member of the Chinese police force, and arrested those responsible for the outrage..

Bad Feeling. The incident is the most serious of a number which have becurred in Manchuria since the develop ment of the Sino-Soviet dispute, bad feeling having arisen as a re- sult of the refusal of the Japan- ese authorities to permit the use of the South Manchurian Railway by Chinese armed forces,

A number of Chinese soldiers have been disarmed at different stations on the S.M.R. and always there has been a measure of dis

SCIENCE OF FUNGI.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE ON

THE SUBJECT.

London, Sept. 23. At the opening in London to-day, of the Imperial Mycological Conference, Earl Buxton wel- comed the delegates and paid a warm tribute to the work of the Bureau of Mycology.

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He announced that the Empire Marketing Board proposed grant £5,000 to the cost of the new mycological building in the course of erection at Kew, the total cost of which will be £12,000,--Rhe

INTERPORT BOWLS.

The attitude of Feng Yu hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan is stili obscure. It is taken for granted practically that they are decidedly unfriendly to- wards the Nanking Govern- ment, but it is thought probable that they will pursue, a policy of procrastination. Marsha! Chiang Kai-shek is moving troops, guns and planes up the Yangtsze.

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Chiang's Troops Fired On.

CHANGE IN THE SHANGHAI Ichang, thirty of the soldiers on

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The steamer is reported to have

London and Hongkong on

Gables have also passed between the question of arrival of mails and if the mail sent from Hongkong on July 8 had not been received the Home pestal authorities would

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PHIL SCOTT BEATS CAMPOLO.

Giant Argentinian Loses

on Points.

New York, Sept. 23. Phil Scott, the heavyweight champion of Britain, defeated Vittorio Campolo on points.' in a ten rounds contest" to-night.

Scott's "victory puts him in line for the world's champion- ship-Router's American Ser-

vice.

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to this

They cheered the British troops as to the proper procedure to take,vociferously, and the Leicesters and after unsuccessfully consult responded by singing "Auld Lang ing brother officers, he telephoned Syne."--Reuter.

to

the Colonial Secretariat; by whom he was advised that it was a . case for the police or Revenue Officers.

Three days elapsed before the Revenue Office received Captain

CONCUBINE'S ESTATE.

De Linde's communication. on | APPLICATION DELAYED FOR Saturday shortly after

noon.

When Revenue Officer Grimmitt took over charge, the only man whom he could then detain was the accused. The other two men, believed to have been associated with him, had disappeared.

One of these two, whose name was given as Maak Paan, was then thought to have gone over to the Shamshuipo Camp, and a request was sent to the military authorities there for his appréhension...

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tensified by the sensational story. related yesterday' at Panpu, by Captain A. Haaland, who was also made a captive, but escaped by a miracle.

Captain Haaland had a ter rible experience, being attack- ed by a pirate with a large stone and left for dead on the mountainside where he was dragged by the pirates when Chinese soldiers took up the

In view of the murderous as-

sault made upon the master of the Botnia, it is feared that the chief officer may have been murdered by the pirates, who were vengeful as the result of the attack made upon

their air by the Chinese

troops.

Troops in Pursuit...

It would appear that immediate..

ly upon receipt of the news of the piracy of the Botnia, which was Yue To-shi, alias To Man, con- temporarily stranded on a bar of cubine, who died intestate, at No. the river near Halchow, the 16, Luen On Street, Honam, on or Magistrate ordered Chinese troops about April 5, 1926, left Hongkong to pursue the pirate gang. estate to the value of $24,200. For Lettera of administration havė been granted to the husband, Yue Puiling, temporarily residing at No. 78, Connaught Road Central.

Survivors besides the husband include a son, Yue Cheung-hing and a grandson, Yue Yam-chuen. Explaining why he has not sooner applied for letters of administra tion, petitioner states he was not

apparently,

four

three or

days, and Mr. Westerheim were kept in Captain Haaland close captivity on board one of the junks which in which the gang carried out their attack on the distressed steamer.

"House in the Hills,

Round-Up in Camp. What followed was that a whole have notified Hongkong

sale round-up was made by the effeet. No such notification of a military of the Chinese found in ware it was necessary to do so course of a personal statement of missing mall has been received the camp, and eighteen suspects here and no complaints of non- were sent to the Revenue Office; to enable him to protect the in arrival of letters have been re- but Mank Faan was not amongst ceived by the Hongkong Post this number.

He has not since Office from local residents who been traced. sent letters on this date.

AN ANGLO-GERMAN ASSOCIATION.

ADOPTED.

Berlin, Sept. 23, The long-mooted Anglo-German Association has been definitely formed.

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Accused said the opium belonged. to Maak Faan and the other man. the His Worship regarded evidence as conclusive, In view of the fact that the accused was seen handling the opium. It showed that, at least, the accused had a fourth share in the matter of possession, and so accordingly he would be penalised in a quarter of the full fine ordinarily imposed.

Accused was fined $25.

Junk Master's Case. The master of a junk trading The President of the Britisn between Hongkong and Wuchow Earl Randing, while the President presence of the large quantity of Branch of the Association will be was called upon to explain the of the German Branch, will be the 2,250 taels of raw opium and 60 ex-Chancellor, Dr. Cuno.

thels of prepared Chinese opium on his boat.

One of Chiang's transports, a LONG-MOOTED-PROPOSALS Ching Merchants S.N. steamer, is alleged to have been fired upon by Chung Fat-kwei's troops at a spot about twenty miles from

board being wounded. Commenting on the coming returned to Hankow. terport bowls match the N. Caged in pressing Chang Fat-kwel At the same time as he is en- Daily News states that Mr., C. on the Yangtze, "it is learned The allegation that the Chinese Glover will take the place of Mr: that Marshal, Chiang Kai-shek is police deliberately fired upon the. C. Aitkenhead, who now finds it taking strong steps to ensure the Tallway guards from behind is a impossible to make the trip. serious one, and action by the It is added that a cable has been safety of Canton, on which the moting Anglo-Germag friendship Reizure of the drug, valued at over Japanese authorities in connexion with the affair will be awaited with interest.

turbance.

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received asking that the team ex-insurgents are reported to be con- tend their stay in Hongkong until verging. The city of Canton is October 12. Members of team are, said to be very panicky. therefore, requested to make ar- rangements" accordingly.

Division to Defend Canton? Changchun Demonstration.

It is understood that Chiang is Chinese reports state that high

contemplating the despatch almost tension between the Chinese and.

immediately of the whole of the Japanese developed in Changchun to a statement made by General Third Division to Canton. on Saturday, as the result of a

The China Merchants S.N. Com- Ho Chen-chun, personal repre- big demonstration parade by the sentative of President Chiang Kai-pany has been instructed to make Japanese military. They paraded shek, in the course of a speech de-ready sufficient transports for the through the Chinego city, it is livered at the weekly memorial General Chan Ming-Shu is still in carriage of the troops to Canton. alleged, for over an hour, arousing service of the Provincial Party Shanghai, and it is reported that the indignation of the Chinese Headquarters to-day.

he will be leaving for the south in residents.

a few days.

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M. Karakhan's Threat.

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Pence With Honour.

General Ho also said that while

The Association aims at pro-

and closer understanding, and re- presentative committees have been established in both countries, in cluding members of all political parties. Router..

of Nanking, where high tension Is exleting

This is shown by the fact. that the main roads in the vicinity of Central Party Headquarters were yesterday afternoon picketed at intervala of every fifty yards by soldiers carrying revolvers in their hands.

The case resulted from the $7,000, by Revenue Officers who mided the boat while it was un- loading cargo at Taikoktsul, last 'week. In the course of the search, the officers had to remove several tons of maganese ore before they could reach the stuff.

terests of the estate and to give. a valid discharge in respect of any matter connected with it.

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WOMAN CARRIER OF OPIUM.

FINE OF NEARLY $2,000 IMPOSED.

On the night of September 17th, says Captain Haaland, in the his terrible experience telegraphed to Reuter's Agency in Shanghai last night, the pirates took their captives (having alrendy released the third officer and Chinese mem- bers of the crew) into the interior. They marched and climbed through treacherous paths over the hills all night long, reaching the pirates' rendezvous, a small- house high in the mountains, round about three o'clock in the morning.

A Chinese woman, who arrived

Pirates Surrounded. by the Shum Chun train yesterday

They had settled down for evening appeared before Mr. T. Sapproximately an hour only, said Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Captain Haaland to Reuter's re Magistracy this morning, on 4 charge of being in unlawful pos- warning was received that the presentative, when, apparently, session of 64 table of raw opium.

The contraband was stated to have been hidden in a specially made jacket.

A fine of $1,920 or eight months' hard labour was imposed,

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MOTHER INDIA.

CHILD MARRIAGE BILL

PASSES ASSEMBLY.

Simia, Sept. 23. The Assembly to-day passed by

soldiers had found their lair, and were surrounding the building.

The pirates attempted to escape up the mountain taking their cap- tives with them.

"I was completely exhausted after the long trudge of the night" said Captain Haaland, "and I lagged behind with one of the pirates keeping guard over-me,"

Afraid to shoot, Eventually, fearing that he would 'fall into the hands of his The master told the Court that

parauers, the pirate decided to he had to engage some new hands

murder his captive. Although he was carrying a pistol, he was for the last trip to Wuchow, and these, men had disappeared alnce 07 votes to 14, the Child Marriage apparently afraid to shoot on the proceedings. He was unable Bill, which provides for a month's account of the danger of attract to explain how the opium could simple imprisonment for anyone ing the attention of the soldiers, be there, except that it was taken solemnising the marriage of girls secretly on board at Wuchow while below the age of fourteen, and of

boys below the age of eighteen.--. he was ashore,

Peuter.

SOVIET FLIGHT.

PLANE HELD UP BY BAD WEATHER.

"He tried to kill me," said, Captain Haaland, with a large stone, battering me -about the head and leaving

me on the hillside for dead.". "Roviving, I crepe back towards the house, and reached the place: just about daylight." I was then taken by the soldiers to the Magis- trate's Yamen at Panpu."

Nanking Startled,

One Charge Falla. With regard to the Sino-Soviet the Soviet Government had not Nanking was somewhat startled

Mr. Hamilton held that while dis pute, a Reuter message from declared open war upon China, it on Sunday by the news (reported Moscow states that M. Karakhan had resorted to military demon in the Telegraph yesterday) that a

Other were armed with auto-the onus was on the master to disprove guilty knowledge, still has declared that barring a solustrations across the border with a strong guard had been throw theless, Government eireles show made it possible that he did not matics ready for action. Never he had given an explanation which tion of the pending issue within view to frightening the Man-around the residence of the Goon signs of perturbation Reuter. know. The recused would, there- two months, the Soviet will recover churlan authorities Into accepting vernor of Anhui, General Fong the Chinese Eastern Railway by Moscow's terms for peace. "The Chen-wu. It was learned later Ho Ying-ching Resigns.

foro be discharged on the two

force.

National Government,

counts of possession. that General Fong Chen-wu was

Shanghai, Sept. 24. On the charge of unlawfully

Seattle, Sept. 23. A.Kuo Min message says that does not intend to resort to the in residence on Saturday night,

A message from Nanking atates allowing his craft to be used for

It is now learned that the Soviet the damage to Chinese property use of force, neither does it regard but he got wind of the proposed in the Manchurian border districts such Soviet threats seriously. We action and made good his escape. that General Ho Ying-ching, Import'ng opium, to which a ples seroplane, "Land of the Sovieta"

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek yes formerly Chief of Staff to Mar of guilty was returned, his Wor-la. still at Attu, the weather beinithe hurried departure from the as a result of recent raids by wish to have peace but it must

house on the hill, since when Soviet troops is estimated by the bo ponce with honour it must be terday brought into Nanking, his shol Chiang Kai-shek and Intership imposed a fine of $2,000, or ing unfavourable to flying.

trusted Division which has been Inspector-General of Military 12 months' imprisonment,

The machine is attempting a nothing has been heard of the th-Eastern authorities at ap amicable peace,"

concluded stationed at Hauchowfu. It will Training, has resigned all his Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the flight from Moscow to New York,

chief officer. mately $50,000,000, according General Ho..

be entrusted with the garrisoning * posts-Reutor,

defence.

vís Siberia, Reuter.

however,

Of Mr. Westerheim's fate, Cap- tain Haaland knows practically. nothing. The pair, were separated.