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LETTERBOX THEFT

SENTENCE.

ACCUSED TELL CONFLICTING STORIES IN COURT.

ALL SENT TO GAOL.

MOSLEMS SLAIN BY THOUSAND.

WHOLESALE MASSACRE IN KANSU.

When the case in which three MEN ENTICED OUT & KILLED Chinese were charged with rifling

a number of letter boxes was re- sumed at the Centrul Magistracy this morning before Mr. H. W. Hamilton, Mr. A, E Hall appear- ed on behalf of the second defon- dant, but the other two were not legally represented.

After Liu Ho, the Chinese con stable concerned in the case, had given evidence of arresting the three defendants, the first defen- dant stated that the letters were picked up by the third, who gave them to him and the second to read.

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The second defendant said he a photographer and had known the other two men for only about two months. When the Chinese constable approached them at Hin Hong Road he was reading a letter given him by the first mian, but where the first de- fendant got it from, hè did not know.

Continuing, he said that when the constable' asked him how the three of them were sitting 201 conveniently together, he inform- ed the constable that he and the first defendant were on their way to visit the Cutter's aunt at West Point when they met the third de- fendant at Third Street. The third defendant gave them two letters, which were already opin.

The third defendant ind different story to tell. He said he took from the first defendant two letters which he knew the latter had taken from letter boxes. All three were convicted on the charges of conspiracy to steal and were sentenced to six months' hard labour.

On the charge of theft, his Worship said there was no evidence to show that they actual- ly stole the letters from boxes, and accordingly discharged them. With regard to the charge of re- ceiving stolen letters and opening them, the first and second defen dants were each sentenced to three months' hard labour,

HIGH TENSION, AT

WUCHOW.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Leftists in the Plot?

Shanghai, Oct. 3. The National Government has secured proof of the complicity of the Kuomintang "Leftist" politi cians in the " "Ironside". revolt. The arrest of several has been ordered. The politiciana on the "black list" include Mesars. Chon Kung-poh, Wang Fa-chun, Pei Mn-hui, Chú Tsai-ching, Pei Yun- tai, Kuo Man-yue, Chen Shu-jen, Kuo Chun-tao and Poon Yun-chi Notable absentees from the list are Wang Ching-wei and Mrs. Lio Chung-kai..

ton.

IN 'BATCHES.

2,996 DIE TOGETHER.

Shanghai, Sept. 28.

From Kansu province, where many strange and revolting things have taken place, has come an au- thentle report of the cold-blooded massacre of thousands of Moslem males, who were lured from their homes and families under the pre text that they were to be given a lecture, after which roasted barley flour would be distributed.

Full details of the sordid scenes of death; where men innocent of any wrongdoing were ruthlessly glain, have not reached here as yet, although the massacre la re ported to have occurred in August. From Taochow, Old City, Kansu Province, through Hankow, how- ever, has come sufficient informa- tion to verify the first reports.

A Terrible Story.

Private letters received at Tao Chone Prince under orders from chow contain the news that the Lanchow let the Moslems come back to Old City but when inside the city he separated all the males from 15 to 50 years old from the women, children and old men and marched them out of the south gate under pretence of giving them a lecture and distributing roasted barley flour,

As soon as the men had passed through the south gate they were seized and taken to the empty lots and debris strewn yards in the south and southeast suburb and butcher- ed like sheep. By actual count 2,996 were killed in one day. Ten or more were slaughtered later and all the while not one of the women, children or old men got word of it until the next day.

Weeping Women.

It was a mournful wail which burst from them 'when they realiz- ed they had been deceived and all their fathers, husbands and sons massacred I looked down from the wall two days later, says a corres- pondent, and was horrified at the gory sights Moslem women moved among the stain, walling and weep ing, trying to recognize their dead. Chinese who had been pressed into service were either digging holes in which to bury the dead, or were dragging the corpses from the ex- ecution grounds to the place of

burial.

Pools of blood still remained after two days; the sun, though hot; bad not evaporated them.

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The defendants pleaded guilty. Mr. G. B. Twemlow informed his Worship that quite a lot of trees had been damaged by young children who were obviously sent out by their parents. All the Department could do was to arrest the children, as the damage was getting serious.

His Worship remarked that the question was what could they do with the young children.

Desperate Conditions. Before the Moslems came down they had been dying like flies in Mei-U and Heh-Tsoh from starva tion and disease. Forced to live

Mr. Twemlow suggested that out in the open without shelter they became an easy prey to they be remanded for their parents plague. Their desperate condition to be communicated with.

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His Worship remarked that it was all nonsense to say that.

Addressing Mr. Twemlow, his Worship asked if the Secretary for Chinese Affairs would interest himself in the case.

no doubt made them accept the The mother of one of the girls under the was in Court and in answer to his It is now stated that Mr. Wang proposition to return Ching-wei is in Saigon,,awaiting protection of the government. They Worship denied that she had sent the arrival of Kuomintang ex-carried passports from General Talher child to cut the trees. tremists to confer with him on the K. M. C. and these were said she did not know that her taken away from them before they daughter had gone to the planta- the possibility of establishing an independent government at Can- passed out of the south gate. All tion."

their money was also taken away. Chu Chak (a Tibetan), was onc Chen Kung-poh la wald to

of the executioners, ho was re- be in Kwangsi stiring up the

sponsible for the death of 2 and his militarists against the Nanking testimony is that not one of the betrayed Moslems naked for quar Chen Kung-poh is also alleged ter or mercy; they went to, their to have visit Hongkong last week.death stocially with nothing but the It is said he was seen by Chinese word "Allah-Hu" on their lips. merchants who knew him by Though they were stupid to start sight. Chen Kung-pob was at a rebellion and can be given no ex- one time a journalist working on cusa for their actions still no one one of the Hongkong Chinese can say they were cowards. dailies, which is now functioning though its connexion with the Kuomintang, extremista has been

regime.

severed...

10,000 Lose Lives,

They have suffered the loss of everything. More than 10,000 have War Declared."

last their lives, their wealth is gone Canton, Oct. 3. and now there is talk of segregate- General Chan Chai-tong, the in those who have come back to a Commander-in-Chief, issued an village called Chiang La-Ch'uan order this afternoon upon instrue and moving the Chinese who have tions of the Canton Government in crops and property: there to Old which he officially declared war City, The New Sect Moslems and against the Kwangai forces who 20 other familles of Moslems who sided with General Chang Fat did not rebel will come back to their kwai.

original property. The whole force of the 3rd Divi- Since the massacre the weather sion of the Nanking army under has been of the hazy leaded type the command of General Mo Ping. sky ao ominous to the Chinese.. man, has arrived at Bocen Tigris They fear some awful calamity will by vessels of the China Merchants fall upon them because of the af Steam Navigation Co., but owing fair, and it will, not now, but the to low tide they have decided not day will come when Talao Chow to enter Canton till to-morrow Moslems will rise to wreak their morning.

vengeance on the Chinese.

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Mr. Twemlow replied that he did not think so.

His Worship said he did not mean from the point of view of cutting trees, but he might concern himself with the welfare of the children. It was a question of child welfare,

The defendants were all remand- ed till to-morrow morning while their parents are being com- municated with.

CHINESE GIRL SENT TO GAOL.

TOO OLD TO GO TO THE PO LEUNG KUK..

Sentence of one month's hard labour was imposed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning Chinese girl who was accused on remand of stealing and alternative- It is a rare thing to find a Chin-ly of receiving a pair of rattan

on a

Immediately on the arrival of the Nanking troops, the Proene who loathes the murder of theen bangles from a child in Shanghai paganda Department of the Moslems. They all are happy over Street, Kwangtung Provincial Kuomin-it but what of the 800 or more

H.E. the Officor Administering

The defendent was remanded

case.

tang fagued an official statement Moslem men under Ka Hai-Shuen from yesterday to interview the expressing a welcome to the Nan- who are menacing the peace of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and king forces, at Canton.-Wak Ktu large city and county of Hochow, this morning Detective Sergeant Yat ro.

and may come back with their Fitches Intimated that the S, CA comrades to pay off the debt.

naked his Worship, to deal with the

His Worship:-They can't do anything? It is advertised that the "offices" R Southorn, C.M.G.) will formally and stations of the Chinese Mari- They can't do anything. She's too

Detective Sergeant Fitches open the Chinese Y.M.O.A's Kow-time Customs for Kowloon and old for the Po Leung Kak loon branch building at Waterloo Road on Thursday afternoon of next District will be closed to public The defendant was sentenced to business on Thursday, October one month's hard labour on the

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