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AMERICAN PRIEST JERVOIS ST. FIRE

IN PERIL.

MISSION UNABLE TO GET INTO TOUCH.

STORY OF THE CAPTURE OF

FR. KREUTZEN.

TORTURE THREATS.

Threatened with torture and possible death, éxposed to cold and given nothing but cold rice to eat. the Rev. Ulrich Kreutzen, an

ROBBERY.

COMMUNIST PLOT IN JAPAN.

LARGE SUM STOLEN FROM FIRM'S SAFE.

SOVIET GOLD THROUGH SHANGHAL.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

The theft of a large sum of money has occurred as a sequel to the fire which took place on Wednesday morning in Jervois Street.

DRAMATIC CLUE SECURED AFTER A ROBBERY.

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"Hongkon docan't object to red. A great deal of the kudos for propaganda so long as it's con- Hongkongʻa ilisplay is fined to Flanders poppies.

Hughes.

O O The glory of a landscape is in its trees, but they isn't what men look at when they're waiting on

It's very difficult to have an old soldier on toast!

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Every cat avoids the street fur the Peak Tram. vendors-if it's unble!

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Some of those pupils don't-need caning to make them smart. EXTENSIVE INTRIGUE.tinct depressions formed recently Meteorological Note:-Two dia-

@a over Shanghai and Malaya respec "How does one hear

A stray bat from the belfry :-- After eighteen months, the presstively. Strangely enough, although

a powder puff ban оп information in re Hongkong appeared to be the gard to tho Communist plot centre of the disturbance, the

Cheer up! Only 39 more days 找 Jamn has been lifted. Colony escaped the full, force of till Christmas. According to the Japan Times, the the blow.

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plot was the most wide-apread ever discovered in Japan.

We note that work on the Singa-

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London, Nov. 15.) The bare fact that three, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion. The Argyll

Sutherland and

Highlanders, stationed in the West Indies until

Ho Tak-po, the manager of the recently, were, court-martialled: and found guilty of mutiny was

Kwong San silk shop at 28, Jervois first publicly disclosed at question-

Street, which suffered considerable damage from the fre, yesterday From a British resident of Swa- time in the House of Commons

informed the police that, on in- tow, who signs himself "Outport to-day, Reader," we have received an in-

As the result of enquiries,

vestigating the contents of the teresting letter on the treatment Reuter's correspondent at Kings-

firm's safe, which was left intact of young offenders in Hongkong. ten, Jamaica, states that the men American Catholic Father attach-by the fire, he found the door of In it, the writer criticises, in awers charged with mutiny, with ed to the American Franciscan the receptacle closed but not lock

"Ollie Factory:”~~Quite a brain. friendly spirit, some recent sen refusing to buy the orders of Mission at Wuchang, is still a pri- ed. tences on youths who have come their offrers, and with resisting soner in the hands of a band of His fears of a loss were cou-of Red revolutionists in Japun, Street Rotten Roe!"

The first inkling of the existence wave of yours to re-name Fish Pore base is to be slowed down as much as possible.. We forgot before our Police Courts, especially arrest.

that it was not a Government job. Chinese Communist bandits some firmed when he discovered that aaays our Tokyo contemporary,

otherwise- those involving corporal punishment, The trouble occurred at New-where between Tawangtion and sum of $1,000 in coin, together dawned on. the authorities In The two principal motoring and suggests that the time has come castle, near Kingston, in the Weirgankow, about 20 miles below with a number of jewellery boxes, September, 1927, when they came evils in Hongkong are tooting and. for some form of "after-treatment" middle of June.

Huanahihkang on the Yangtze. which he was forced to leave across a foreign newspaper article touting The Court-martial sat for for young criminals. This, he

on account of their bulk describing a mesting of the Japan- The outlaws took the pries: from hind thinks, could be done by some Flyhteen days and cach of the

five his church at Weiyuankow on No when the fire broke out, had been ese section of the Third Inter- voluntary Association working in reused

sentence to

"A Beautiful Ball," says a news- conjunction with the Government. years! penal servituds. They vember 9 and are holding him for stolen from the safe, as well as national at Moscow at which a

No; it was.

There is no truth in the rumour were sent to England a month ago, ransom, declaring that they will notes of various denominations. definite programme of activities in paper heading. It is pointed out that when the the departure of the put their captive to death unless The key was found left in the Japan had been drawn up. The nothing to do with St. Andrew's that Mrs. Haslewood is to be made question of the abolition of ex battalion for Tientsin.

the sum of $10,000 is paid within lock.

interport cricket a Dame of the Order of the British Métropolitan Police or Tokyo in

Empire. trality is dealt with, there will be

Inspector A. Clark proceeded to conjunction with local police The Argyll and Sutherland | 10 days. Fi соне scrutiny of those

Highlanders, who gained the A Reuter message from Hankow, the ruins yesterday afternoon to headquarters throughout the land models of Western. justice which are

There is го name of the "thin red line of received last night, states that carry out investigations, upon immediately started a nation-wide carest China. and the writer

was round-up of the Communists truth in the would like to see the Hongkong heroes" in the Crimean War, are every effort has been made to get receipt of this report. It

They passed into tour with Father Kreutzen stated that when the alarm of fire which resulted in the wholesale rumour that.. practice err on the side of human in Tientsin,

was first given, the manager of the arrest of over 1,000 men and visiting cricke ity: rather than otherwise; in dent-through Shanghai last week on the without success.

Kwong San firm had the presence women by March 15, 1928.

ters were 30 ing with young criminals. The transport "City of Marseilles" on their way to, the more northerly

of mind to remove notes amounting letter is in the tollowing terms: "

profoundly im- area of the Chipa Command.----

to $3,400 from the safe. He now

has cause for congratulation that The Letter.

Reuter.

he took this precaution..

When a magistrate has to say with a sigh that he does not know what to do with a young criminal and then In despair passes sentence of three months' hard labour, pub- lic spirited people must ask "Is the

was

SINISTER RUMOURS

DURBAN.

Whereabouts Undisclosed. Two betweens were sent by the Mission and they managed to secure an interview with represen-

INtatives of his captors, who refus: I

to disclose his whereabouts. It is believed that he has been hid- den in the mountains in the vici nity of Weiyuankow.

community doing all that is possible "ANOTHER PURPOSË BEHINO] Father Uriel Kreutzen is

for auch cases? Is it not necessary,**

to come to the help of the harassed magistrate, and provide some other means of protecting the community and of saving the criminal than the law as yet affords ?"

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DEATH."

native of Kalumet, Mich., and has THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S been in China many years - missionary.

Durban, Nov. 15.

Welyuankow, where the priest Yesterday's police raid, whica ostensibly was carried out to deal was kidnapped, is a small town in East Hupeh on the northern bank A number of cases in the last few with poll-tax defaulters, was reof the Yangtze Swarming down months have shown that there is peated to-day in the heart of the from Kuangtai, a city in the grip of entirely inadequate provision for town."

Red terrorismi, Chinese Com- There is considerable public mun-ts numbering nearly 2,000 the treatment of bags and youths who have broken the law in the uneasiness dud to rumours in cirant claiming to belong to the Colony. One of the most painful culation to the effect that the "Fith Red Army" "made a surprise you reported in your issue of Oct, police Eave got wind of a sinister attuek at about five o'clock on the 20th under the heading "Habitual native organisation workings omurning of November 9 and took Young Criminal". The dad con-hind the scenes. It is suggested possession of the town without cerned was 10 years of age, and if that the real purpose of the raids ch fighting. was shown in court that in the preis ennnected with this' peril. vious three years he had been out of guot only some three months Your account anys:The boy pleaded, with tears in his eyes, that he had no parents, and although the gaoler had given him u fred hawker's licence, he had no money with which to start any business."

Pointed Queries.

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Consider, sir, the situation: little Ind at various times during

Large numbers of natives stilli refuse to pay the poll-tax, pleading conscientions objection. They have accepted, the alternative of imprisonment.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI THEATRE

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Garrison Overpowered. The small number of garrison soldiers was overpowered.

The River Police Bureau was the first government headquarters to be stormer, the outlaws succeeding in disarming without difficulty thi entire government foree. There was a terrible panic and wholesale leating took place, The gang broke into Father Uirich's chapel and captured him together with his

SYMPATHY, A

London, Nov. 15. The acting High Commissioner for Irak has been instructed to convey to the Irak Government, on behalf of the British Government, an expression of the sincere regret with which they have learn- ed of the untimely death of Sir Abdul Muhsin Irak, the Premier, who was found shot dead.

The British Government convey their sympathy with the Irak Government in the loss of one who had rendered such signal service to the Kingdom and whose loss will be so keenly felt throughout, the whole of Irak.-British Wire- lens.

SHANGHAI ANXIOUS FOR FUTURE.

At that time, the police authori- ties were congratulating, them-

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episode.

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selves for having stamped out the pressed by the

Red menace entirely The fact was, however, that some of the astute leaders of the revolutionists made good their escape through the police net into Russia.

Flee from Tokyo.

nergy and ability of Hong-" kong's

cricket

scribes, that they are making

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Directly after the arrest of their associates in March, 1928 Manabu Sano, formerly a profes-aine notes on sor of political science in Waseda the bagpipe. University and well-known pub One lictst. Shoichi. Ichikawa, Kenzo

eight! Yamamoto, and a number of other ringleaders fled from Tokyo in dis- guise and under assumed names to Russin viu China.

We understand that the St. David's Society is busy preparing An Ode to Owen.

"Would you say Yes if

asked you, to marry me?" he asked cautiously.

"If I should say: "Yes,"" she replied, with equal cantion,” "would you ask me?".

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We thought, cricket was A gentleman's game, until we read that one of the Malaya players daringly cut Colonel Wyatt.

At the Soviet capital these chiefs and the Japanese students of the Communist institutions of learning there joined hands to plain out a recrudescence of Red pro- paganda in Japan, and later in vestigations by the police show

M.P. salaries cost Britain that they were encouraged in the scheme by the Third International | £300,000 a year. Yet some people

say talk is gheap. both morally and financially.

Undismayed by the stinging blow

dealt on the Communist movement

of

"Motorists have too much side,"

in March, 1928, a score of the says a writer. Yes, but pedes- Japariese Communists in Russia trians never seem able to deter- returned to renew their drive. Amine" which. nucleus of the clandestine activities Tokyo soon came into being in

What with high rents and a low which was divided into five zones dollar, Hongkong folk appear to each with a local headquarter. be in extremities. Several hundreds univeraity

of A local sensation is promise women students responded to the shortly. It is believed that one of back of the red flag while in the Hongkong's "fast set" has provincos. boya and girls con-seen dancing with taminated with Communism were husband..

members recruited as

of the. the "youth" a juvenile wing of national body.

those three years turned from pri JUDGE DISMISSED FOR FIRING Chinese servant and five garrison CALL FOR MOBILISATION OF students including a number

son with not a cent, in his pocket,

and no home to which to go, nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. alone on the streets of Honkong. Which of us, even if we were a few years older than he, could good in such a case?

make

Yet in this case the police inspec- tor is reported as thinking that 12 months' hard "would do him good." What can the good inspec- tor conceivably mean by that opinion? While the boy is telling through those twelve months, what ray of hope can enter His heart? When eventually he is dismissed where will he get his first meat? What job can he turn his

to? hand

He received the maximum sentence of six months,

I remember two other cases which caused one much perturba- tion in the last month or two. One concerned a small boy whose em- ployer or relative indulged in the reprehensible habit of printing and fasuing lottery tickets. The man

REVOLVER.

Shanghai, Nov.16.

Dr. Hsu Kung-tien, one of the leading Judges of the Provisional: Court, has been dismissed from

soldiers. Then they made a hasty their departure and marched prisoners taļa place about seven

uiles from Welyunnkow.

Father Kreutzen's Letter. The Communists evidently were his post following a remarkable after foreign prisoners. Before incident at the Peking Theatre.

leaving the town, their commander

VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Shanghai, Nov. 16. A call has been issued for the obilisation of members of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps of the age of 36 and onwards as a "second line of defence,"

The matter, it is stated, is ur- were any other foreigners at Wei- gent in view of the whittling of wife and children. He stated that ankow or in the neighbourhout the Shanghai Defence Force by

It appears that the Judge fired o

revolver, ostensibly to protect hised Father Ulrich whether there

of the storming of the box office.

Our Owa Correspondent, ·

don't know.'

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Money from Russia. The evidence now in the hands of the law courts which have recently

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been own

0.0 "Enquirer:"Maybe they put flowers in saloon cars so that they can get in first with floral tributes for the poor pedestrian.

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Senator Gil- lett has been doing a lot of talking in the U. S. Congress lately. They say his speeches are quite cutting.

Local parents with children at Home in school are now receiv- ink letters re ferring to the nepr approach of Christmas, - "Give till it hurts is

the general theme.

Some folk have an itch for pro- gress; others again have fust put on their heavy underwear,

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McWhirter says he doesn't need any expert to tell him that there's a shortage of banknotes in the Colony.

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This has been a week of alibis, been "Alibi" at the There's Queen's Theatre and many others by office assistants who wanted to ace the cricket.

Despite the seeming difficulty, it would appear that it's easier to secure bails on the cricket ground than at the Police Court,

One thing about the worm. nobody expects him to put out his hand when he turns,

One thing, we hope it will be a long time before they get Alm- ing some of these after-dinner speeches for the talkies.

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Which reminds us that we met

a man the other night on his way home who was only 27% tolkie 口口

Most married men nowadays This rubber controversy l

completed a preliminary examina-are golfers," says a writer. That evidently worth at least one Pari he feared a stampede as the desultant to this, the priest replied in the British Government.

Chinese "Pu Siac Teh" meaning "I It is emphasised that every able- tion of the dane proves that may explain why they are always a day in the newspapers."

He was then chain-bodied man will be needed in the the Ginancing of the movement complaining about their handi ed and taken to a place between event of trouble.-Our Owen Coras mostly done by the Japanese raps., Tawangtien

Waiyuankow respondent. and.. where he was given a bowl of cold rice to eat and was forced at pistol

PAPER HUNT CLUB INNOVATION.

:

CHINESE STEWARD ELECTED

FOR FIRST TIME. e

Shanghai, Nov. 16. Mr. Stanley Wang was last night

SITUATION?

point to write a letter to his NEW TURN IN KWANGSI Mission Headquarters at Wuchany, saying that he had been capture". and that his captors demanded the sum of $10,000 as ransom which must be paid within four day?, Father Ulrich wrote, therefore, the following note which was taken

was rightly dealt with according elected the first Chinese Steward to Hankow by his Chinese, ser-

ter: he was merely doing what he was told. Yet he got a judicial caning, than which nothing is more ktly to produce an habitual crim inal.

Correspondent,

DATE OF THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.

In the hands of Com-

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REPORT OF DETENTION OF LUL WOON-YIM.

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Wuchow, Nov. 15.

agents of the Communists Shanghai.

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The art of conversation in this The unearthing of the plot by year of grace:-"Coming?" "No!" the Tokyo police was as dramatic Dol" "No!" "Why? : Can't" as it wax unexpected on the part of "Beally" "Yes," "Sorry."

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burglar broke into the home of "Sensational Fall in Grain

Mra. Kin Sasaki at Yotsuya. saya a Telegraph heading. A crop Tokyo, and the ward police was of trouble for somebody.

Newspaper heading:-"Drunken Man Falla. 30 Feet." A drop top much.

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We can't run to nightingales in- this Colony; ao what about broad- casting a few of our sleeping watchmen in the Central district?

For kissing a tri he did not know, a Brighton apprentice was fined £5. Apprentices are wonder. ing how they can obtain the neces- sary practice to become proficient. ២. ២ A Washington society woman testifled she couldn't remember Little shooting her husband. things like that are apt to slip one's mind.

With these renewed Arab raide

in Palestine, it in no wonder the B. Jews get Safer up.

mobilized to surround the scene of

00 robbery with a cordon of the force Cunton is planning a new Even Hongkong has with a strict order to question any menagerie. to the law: but in addition, and of of the Paper Hunt Club His hunt-Vant

and every suspicious-looking person. Its social lions. Martial law was declared in Wu- turning up in the vicinity. In the

O D course also in accordance with the ing experience includes participa munists. They have captured me chow at one o'clock this morning small hours of the following day.

"I am

If they humanise war much hw, the boy was sentenced to a tion in big Hunts in England.

*was directed to more, it won't be easy in future caning, From the account of the His election was accorded a most from the church and taken me to All is quiet in the city and no disattention

a young man rather shabbily to decide who won. case it seemed clear that the boy

this place, about 20 li from Wel-turbances are expected.

dressed passing by." An officer

0.0 The action of the military au- could have no, initiative in the mat-enthusiastic reception.-Our Oten vuankow. Thay demand a random

him and after a Invitations are now being sent of $10,000 (impossible!). Let Godthorities is believed to be in con-stopped guide and help us."

sequence of a report that General brief, altercation with the suspect out to the next naval disarmament to the police eonference in London. At the Servant's Story of Torture Threat. Lul Woon-yim has been detained he took the man

at Kwelping by his subordinates.station at Yotsuya. The sharp moment of going to press; it was When the bandita set the An expedition has been sent to eyed officer noticed a small pellet reported that Mr. William servant free with the Father's let-investigate the affair by General of paper dropping from a pocket of Shearer was still waiting for his. ter, they intimated that If he Chan Chai-tong, the Cantonese his captive as the Intter was told

to step into the station. This tiny. An opera singer says art cannot tax-payers in Durban have been should return within four days leader-Naval Wirelees.

ball of paper turned out to be the be manufactured. Judging in reduced to teara with the money he would be re- leased also, but in case he should

first clue to the nationwide intrigue some of the radio singers, it can't.. fail to return, Father Ulrich would

of the Japanese Communists to be broadcast, either: bring about a revolution.

that credit is often given where be tortured and possibly killed.

Before daybreak of April 16 a A new practice golf ball which credit in overdue. The servant reached Hankow on

.of The Mission authorities have raid only next to the previous will not travel more than 10 fontWANZON Father Ulrich's capture. *The Sunday last with the newa

notified the local authoritice of the round-up on March, 1028, in scope is becoming popular. A local dancing teacher says once, the first meeting of which 18 Father's letter is written on a

Incident and have asked that im was launched by the police ordinary ball, of course would that fort people who take the floor.

"only on their own, ofther. ' 1930.—Réutor's Amarican

paper, supplied by his captors and the Father's releass.

Other Cases.

U.S. ACCEPTS THE BRITISH INVITATION.

The other case was similar. Oplum had been found on certain premises and the householder had ed: but his houseboy was involved,

Washington Nov. 15. lad of tender years. It did not

The United States has accepted appear from the report of the case

the British Goverment's 'Invitation that he could have any direct res ponsibility for the business, yet he to the Five-Power Naval Confer

the envelope bears a seal reading "General Headquarters of the Fifth Red Army,"

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Judging by yesterday's, cables

One of Hongkong'a troubles fa

was, if I remember right, sentenced to be held in London on January Chinese movie beauty" letter mediate steps be taken to effect Altogether 826 Communista were save the same purpose for some are too heavy on their feet. Not

to o caning,

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21st,

Service,

arrested.

of our friends who play.