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INSPIRING SPEECH FATE OF C.I.M. LADY COUNCIL SPLIT IN NANKING & SILVER ERMLAND & JUNK

BY PREMIER.

NAVAL CONFEREES OF

GOOD HEART.

NO THOUGHT OF FAILURE BEING ENTERTAINED.

AN END TO DISTRUST.

London, Mar. 9.

MISSIONARIES.

DEATHS REPORTED IN AN

· ANONYMOUS LETTER.

A SHOCKING AFFAIR,

Shanghai, Mar. 10. The North China Daily News appears this morning with in anonymous letter from Kuling, dated March 5, in which it is stated that Miss E. Cajander, of the China Inland Mission, who was captured by brigands while travelling by in Kiangsi on February 3, died of boat between Changshu and Kianfu exhaustion after a terrible experi-

ence.

Her companions in distress, Miss Hedengren, met a cruel death at the hands of the bandits, and their bodies were thrown into the river."

E. E. Ingman and Miss A. H. H.

The China

Inland Mission is

MR. ARNOLD EXPLAINS RESIGNATION.

STATES THAT PUBLIC LIFE IS DEGENERATING.

CHINESE PROBLEM.

Shanghai, Mar. 7; In the course of a letter explaining his resignation of the to the North-China Daily News Chairmanship of the Shanghai Municipal Council before his

CRISIS.

PROPOSED NEGOTIATIONS WÌTH BRITAIN & FRANCE.

DR. KUNG'S PROPOSALS.

COLLISION.

CLAIM FOR $5,000 ON GERMAN BOAT.

HARBOUR MASTER SITS WITH CHIEF JUSTICE.

Nanking, Mar. 6. The Central Daily News, the official organ of the National Government, publishes an article this morning stating that Dr. H. H. Kung, the Minister of Industry. NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED Labour and Commerce, recently submitted proposals to General Chiang Kai-shek regarding the silver situation.

COMMUNISTS RAID NEWSPAPER.

MACHINERY AND RECORDS DESTROYED.

SHANGHAI INCIDENT.

Shanghai, Mar. 9. Communist demonstrations in connexion with "International Unemployment Day" which in

were

DUNLOP-

LONDON

British and Best

THE "RED” TERROR IN KWANGSI.

COMMUNISTS' ATTACK

NANNING.

CRUSHINGLY DEFEATED BY

LI CHUNG-YEN. ·

cluded street parades by Com-ILL-FATED PROVINCE. munist students in the Concession "Be of good hope and heart,

The Harbour Master, Hon. and native city, culminated in a We are!" declared Mr. Ramsay

Dr. Kung was that the Chinese the Supreme Court this morn-

Commander G. F. Hole, sat with Communist raid on a well known juvenation of the Kwangsi Fac- The inner history of the re- MacDonald, in the course of a

Customs

Among the suggestions made by his Lordship the Chief Justice in Chinese daily newspaper, the Tetion, and the resumption of the powerful address, broadcast to the United States from Chequers

Administration be in- ing as assessor in Admiralty

Po resulting structed to put a ban on the im- Jurisdiction, the action concern-machinery and

campaign against the Canton in printing Government. to-night. He displayed the

term is completed, Mr. H. E. port of silver.

together other valuable graphic descriptions of recent with fullest confidence in an eventual

Arnold, who was defeated in the It was

ing a collision between a fishing records in the newspaper officeghting and the deplorable state agreement at the Naval Con-

recent elections, states:

also suggested that junk and the motor vessel being destroyed. negotiations be started with the Ermland which occurred about a ference, and cleared up mis-

As Chairman of the Council, I British and French Governments year ago near Waglan Light- marked anti-Communist attitude. regime in West Kwangsi, is con- of affairs brought about by the The Tze Po is well known for its setting up of a givings regarding the French

Communist mutual security proposals, stat unable to confirm the report of theed upon me for what appeared to prohibit the export of silver for a

have been unable to agree to cer- with a view to getting the govern-house." tain requests which have been press-ments of India and Annam to.

Shortly before noon to-day, atained in messages received this ing that an agreement would deaths of these Indy missionaries, be a disproportionate increase in specified time.

The plaintiff in the action was munists; some of whom

hundred or 50 Chinese Com-morning from the Telegraph's not be based on a military who are all Finnish, and who the Japanese police and other mat-

Cheung Yau-kam, owner of a fish-armed with pistols, forced an Poseh. alliance. The bonds of war, he rived in China in 1898, 1903, and ters, which could not be granted in Kung was that the National Gov-

Another suggestion made by Dr. ing junk, who claims $5,000 from entrance into the printing rooms

correspondents at Nanning and pointed out, cannot be a security 1909 respectively. of peace.

of the Tac Po and demanded an I was given to understand a few gold from China and impose their entirety. As a result of this ernment should ban the export of

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., explanation for the attacks on the story are belated, the complete dis-.. Many essential features of the days prior to the election that I import duty on silver.

an instructed by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, "Reds." should only receive 200 out of the

appeared for the plaintiff, whilst

organisation of ordinary services 600 Japanese votes.

Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by assistance, but before the arrival news from getting through.

An attempt was made to obtain of communication, preventing the Deacons, represented the owners of the police, the Communists of the Ermland.

Our Nanning correspondent says smashed printing machinery and that when the capital was resigned Outlining the case, Mr. Alabas-destroyed many valuable docu-to the thought that the Kwangsi ter said the Ermiand was a

ments. occurred on March 25 last year,

The raiders were clear leaders had been completely dis- German vessel and the collision away before the arrival of the comated, an envoy arrived stating.

Lighthouse. about two miles south of Waglan

that Wong Shao-hung, Li Chung- As a result of the raid and its yen, Pef Chung-hai and Chang Fat-

Waglan light was invisible at the one sheet to-morrow.

No-one wás quite inability to repair the machinery kwei were united and were pre-

time.qn.account of fog.“

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Meanwhile, it is semi-officially At the outset, he said that cir-reported that the Chinese Govern cumstances which none of the ment's offer to pay reparations and delegates could control had delay-with the deaths of the Rev. A, the funeral expenses in connexion ed the Conference's progress for three weeks during which pess-Chargtse, and of Father Carvario, Versiglia, Salesian Bishop of mistic rumours had been circulat- who were murdered in Northern ed.

Kwangtung recently, has been ac During the interval, the experts cepted by the Italian Government, had been busy clearing up points who have requested that the amount Conference later on.

for the benefit of Chinese poor "During that time we have worked hard, but not one-tenth so hard as we should have done had there been any serious sign of the Conference falling."

votes.

A further proposal was that 50- cent silver-pieces be coined to pre- Japanese Voting Machine. pare for the eventual adoption of the silver-dollar standard in Shang- If this actually occurred, the hai. foreign community must have sup ported me to the extent of 515 ferred to the Administrative Yuan Dr. Kung's proposals were re-

for examination.. I understand that 90 per cent. of tive Yuan suggested that negotia- The Administra poll, as compared with about 50 per and French. Governments regarding cent. of the British. It is there the present silver situation; and in fore evident that so long as the regard to the proposed ban on the British Community do not turn out import of shiver and the coinage numbers to cast their of 50-cent dilver pieces, that these vate, municipal affairs will be con- anggestions be referred to the trolled by the Japanese voting ma-Ministry of Finance for considera-

the Ermland.

Police.

which would have delayed the of reparation be donated to a fuba the Japanese electorate went to the tions be started with the British certain of the actual spot, as the in time, the Tze Po is printing.only paring for another advance against

Belief In Peace,

The thought of failure, he added, is not entertained at St. James's Palace.

Reuter.

AMERICAN AID TO THE in larger

FARMERS.

PRESIDENT HOOVER TAKES IMPORTANT STEP.

chine.

The Chinese Problem,

tion.

The

ment.

HUGE ARMS HAUL.

TRICK CYCLISTS FEEL THE BAN.

Evasive Answers? Dealing with the preliminary ct, and answers to questions given by both sides, Mr. Alabaster said the answers given by the defendants lacked precision. The SEVERAL OFFENDERS IN COURT defendants, he suggested, had not answered the questions fully and had adopted an attitude by which they could change their case if necessary when it came to them to give evidence.

recommendations of the After dealing with the record Administrative Yuan have been Washington, Mar. 9.

of the Council under his chairman-approved by the National Govern- The Premier said the delegates

ship, Mr. Arnold says:-When I President Hoover has asked Con- were now at work discussing the

came into office, the general at- actual programmes, and the pro-million dollars to be immediately the community towards the Coun- kreas to approprite a hundred titude of the Chinese members of xrammes were a test of their be-available as part of the Farm cil was one of suspicion and un- lief in pearo.

Board's G$500,000,000 Fund, which certainty, and Shanghai appeared "Up to this moment, we have not is to create to make loans to to be drifting, with the grave pos- met with any obstacle which looks assist in the effective merchandis-sibility of disaster looming on the as though it is to continue to ing of agricultural produce, be insurmountable. Technical

horizon. To-day, as a result of a It was recently announced that great deal of time and effort ex- experts will never get us over and the Fund was being called upon to pended, a spirit of friendliness and through the ground, but in Lon-supply G$26,000,000, for the purco-operation exists and an atmos- don, the last word rests with the chase of American corn for famine Phere has been created, in which it record seizure of arms and at four minutes

statesmen and every one of us is determined to get an agreement-relief in Cana, '

OVER 100 CASES ABOARD JAPANESE BOAT.

Shanghai, Mar. 9. What is considered to be almost

may be possible for Judge Feetham ammunition was made by Nation- an agreement not with two or President Hoover's action is re-

to work with every prospect of suc-alist soldiers near Tsingtao when three of us, but an agreement he-garded as possibly foreshadowing 30 incident after many conferences pistols on a Japanese steamer cess-The settlement of the May they found a huge consignment of tween the whole five of us.

one hundred and two cases of a bold expansion of the Board's and a decision to appoint two more "If you hear one day that we activities-Reuter's American Ser-Chinese members to the Council is

yesterday. are in a difficulty, another day that vice.

illustrative of the work done to we have stuck, that may well be

achieve this. so, but do not then imagine us ritting in despair. Rather picture us as thinking and planning, pro- posing and arguing, trying to find ways out.

"We shall not give up ti human ingenuity and patience have been exhausted, and that is long way off yet."

Anglo-American Outlook,

SOVIET GOVERNMENT AND COMINTERN.

GERMANY DECLINES TO MAKE DISTINCTION.

Berlin, Mar. 9.

Government in this respect.-

it

The cargo is worth over a mil- lion dollars, It was largely due to my initia- The Nationalist authorities are tive that Mr. Fessenden attended investigating the case in the hope the Kyoto Conference and was of tracing the intending pur- authorized, whilst in Kyoto, to upchasers. proach Mr. Lionel Curtis, with the suggestion that the Municipality was considering, with a view to

putting an end to the period of drift described above, taking the initiative in trying to solve the pro-

year's work?

LOTTERY TICKETS.

7

REVENUE OFFICER.

Mr. Alabaster said it had been agreed between the parties that sunset on March 25 last was at 6.36 p.m. The plaintiff put the time of the collision at somewhat more than half an hour before sunset, and the other side put it after. Mr. Alabaster said he would submit that at the time of the collision it'

that whatever lack of visibility was sufficiently light to make the quesion of sunset immaterial and

there was, was due to fog.

THIS MORNING.

....

board the s.s. Susane failed to ap- Martin Gutterez, cabin boy on

Canton.

The entire force of Liu Woon- yin's army, stationed at Nanning, immediately rebelled, captured all their officers, attacked the Treasury and carried off silver coin vari- ously estimated to be between' $70,000 and $700,000.

Li Chung-yen entered Kwal- yuan and took over the troops there by Informing them that they could they could discover. As funds had help themselves to all valuables Pear before Mr. Whyte Smith at just been sent from Canton to the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- cover the expense of the campaign bicycle without a light and had his tained a remarkably large haul. ing to answer a charge of riding a against Kwangsi, the soldiers bb- bail of $2 estreated.

Attack on Wat Lam

Lám.

been carrying a passenger on the A youth, who was stated to have back step of his bicycle in Shang- the troops were re-officered and Immediately after the turn-over, hai Street, was fined $10 by his sent to Wat Lam, Chang Fat-kwai Worship who pointed out that that assuming command. Wat Lam was street was not a suitable place for strongly garrisoned and fierce fight- such riding.

A fine of $7 was imposed on a of troops sent to the relief ing took place. A large body cyclist who was charged with rid-

Wat Lam clashed with

Pakloh.

at the Star Ferry by proceding Fighting lasted two days. Chang ing on the wrong side of the road the Kwangsi-ites near

of

direct from the Railway Station to Fat-wei lost 1,400 killed and 1,600 Salisbury Road instead of passing wounded. The Cantonese casual- No Direction Given.

the Ferry pier.

ties are believed to be even heavier. Another Chinese who was stated questions he pointed out that on handle bars was fined $7, the de- planes dropped several bombs into Dealing with the answers to to have had both his hands off the inch guns for over a month, while Wat Lam was shelled by three- the question of the place of the fendant remarking that he had the city, which has suffered tre- collision the plaintiff put it at be done it for a bit of fun while amendous damage.. tween one and two miles, south-second who stated that he had east of Waglan. The other side taken his hands off the handlebars. said it was between one and a half to adjust his hat was ined $5. and two miles off the lighthouse. They did not give the direction which, he submitted, was of

liminary acts. ·

ANKING-TANDA COLLISION.

COURT OF INQUIRY, ON

WEDNESDAY..

Hotel Hombed.

Four bomb were dropped on Kwai-yuan, and the To Yuan Hotel, the largest in the town, was badly damaged, several residents losing their lives.

Nanking is crowded with band- Eged soldiers as the result of recent fighting. and It is feared that if severe hostilities con.". tinue, medical supplies will be, ex-" : hausted.

In the course of recent discus-blems with which it is faced, by ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY BY extreme importance in all pre- sions with the Soviet Ambassador appointing one or more persona of in Berlin on The Prime Minister reculled the Bolshevik propaganda in Germany, here and study the situation and the subject of International reputation to come joint statement which, during his Dr. Curtius, the German Foreign advise them.

During a raid on No. 96, Bo-

As regards the state of the American tour, he and President Minister, according to the Socialist

clamation Street, Revents Officer weather, they said it was foggy Hoover issued and which stated:

Grimmitt, who was searching for with a visibility of about 200 Better Understanding. newspaper, Vorwaerts, made "The part of each of our clear that in future the

contraband tobacco and oplum, yards. The other side merely said German Thanks to Mr. Fessenden's tact found a Chinese in the cockloft it was foggy. The plaintiff's Governments in the formation tion between the utterances of the whilst he was in Kyoto, a far bet- The Police were sent for and the of the other side.

Government will make no distinc- and able handling of the situation writing po pin lottery tickets. answer was more precise than that

A Court of Inquiry will be held of world peace will be different. Third Internationale and those of ter understanding and more sym- man arrested.

at the Marine Court on Wednes-

Communist Terror. as the one will never consent the Soviet Government.

pathetic attitude towards the pro-.

On the point of the course and day morning when the circum. to become entangled in Euro-

Meanwhile Yu Tao-paak and Li The German Government is fol-blems with which

Charges of writing po più speed of the ship when the other stances attending the collision Shanghai is tickets and of being in possession was first seen, the plaintiff said between the E. and A. steamer Ming-shui have set up a Communist pean diplomacy, and the other lowing the attitude of the British faced, has resulted, both in England of 50 such tickets were brought the junk was travelling in a north-Tanda and the 5.3. Anking, which Government in West Kwangst and no barren results to show for the ed before Mr. Whyte Smith at the up and a yulo in action. The It will be recalled that a thick wishing they were born poor, and and in America. These are surely against the man when he appear-westerly direction with the sail occurred in the early hours of reign of terror over an immense February 26, will be investigated. ares, extending from Lungchow Kowloon Magistracy, this morning. other side said the course of the fog prevailed along the

to Poseh, prevails. The rich are -Since, however, the electorate by The defendant was fined $50 on ship was altered true south 42 China coast at the time the col of "characters" for these two its decision, as shown in the elec- each charge. tion, hus, not endorsed the policy

officials that they were ignorant upon which course she proceeded lision took place. Both steamers classes have been the object of the pursued, I obviously cannot, with

with engines dead slow. At 6.88, were dainaged, the Tanda being Red" wrath. Sun Yat-sen was cut chibarrassing the present during the period when Mr. Bell was sighted off the starboard bow repairs and the Anking at Taikoo pictures in the schools were pulled a fishing junk, not, the plaintiff's, now in Kowloon Dock undergoing held up to public scorn, and hle Council, give any guldance with was Vice-chairman, and which spe and the engines were then stopped Dock MISHAP NEAR THE KOWLOON forthcoming year, which will during cal Council may disclose or dis-ly under her own way at a speed Commdr. G. P. Hole, B.N., will his wife and two children, was

regard to the policy for the cifically laid down that no member and the ship proceeded more slow- the next few weeks, have to receive cuss in public, whilst still a mem of about three knots.---

The Harbour Master, the Hon. down and burned.

Our Poseh correspondent, with consideration.

J therefore felt that my continued ber of the Council, any divergent

preside and the following officers presence on the Council would only opinion from the Council as pr

will make up the Court: Lt. forced to take refuge in the house whole.

Commdr.-L., G. Addington, R.N.of a Chinese friend, until the have resigned, although in taking, it sus the least, misleading plaintiff's junk was sighted almost (8.5: Teucer); Capt. D. Lefevre son to return to their home.

that letter Immediately afterwards, the (H.M.S. Tamar) Cant. D. Evans "Red" leader gave them permis this step I have deprived myself but I will confine myself to stating dead ahead at a distance of about (8.5. Benreoch) and Capt. A. M. Lee Tin, steeraman of the junk, the ratepayers and submitting an

of the opportunity of addressing that public life in Shanghai is 150 feet. The helma of the Erm-Frame (as, Taiping).

is resolved to pursue a policy of Reuter. active co-operation with ita European neighbours. But each of our Governments will direct

its thoughts and influence to-

wards securing and maintaining the peace of the world."

The Premier said that there had been no departure from that declaration.

No Military Alliances. They would not agree to base any treaty which might result from the Conference on en-

JUNK AND LAUNCH COLLIDE.

DOCKS.

Damage to the amount of $2,000

is estimated to have been caused

to junk T6728H, which came into. collision with a Kowloon dock launch yesterday morning.

J

be a cause for embarrassment, and

Junk Sighted.

tangling military, alliances, but reports that as the boat was account of my afewardship for the rapidly degenerating, when a newa land was at once ported and the

engines put full astern..

Mr. Alabaster pointed out that the plaintiff said he was going north-west. The other side did

South

Farmers In Revolt, some of them would strive to approaching Kowloon Docks, to de: past year. secure as an essential part of an liver a cargo of sand; one of the

There have been several re paper of standing extols and des-

bellions against the Communists, agreement, a pledge of goodwill

scribes as courageous" the fact and pacific intention, similar to Dock Company's launches collided

Public Life Degenerating,

DRIZZLE OR MIST.

A large body of farmers and that a member of the Council has that made by the President and with it. The junk capsized and

peasants attacked Poseh with des himself, after they had convinced and to the value of $40 was lost. briefly to the disloyal letter, which, ter that he favours admitting the merely said they saw anoher junk N Chida Fresh to strong monhocause the Red Army was broken faith with his colleagues, a Before closing I would refer member, who has stated in that let not put the direction at all. They that the anticyclone is central over only suffering defeat eventually parate courage recently, actually themselves that a naval agreement The junk is now lying water- you published prior to the election. public to the deliberations of the on the starboard bow and the soon along the S.E. coast of China equipped with machine-guns and The Royal Observatory reports fighting their way into the city and logged, but not enti ly submerg-I was unable to reply so long as 1 Council although, to the best of my plaintiff's boat dead ahead. They and over the N. China Sea. The light artillery

remained Chairman of the Council recollection, he has not thought fit did not say which way either junk local forecast is:NE. winds, Later, the Communiste ventured There were no personal. In- without committing a breach of to raise this subject in the Council was pointing

the rules, which were confirmed Chamber.

fresh generally overcast, come an attack on Nanning Li Chung- (Continued on Page 7) drizzle or mist,

(Continued on Page 18.).

was possible,

Such a pledge ought to allow the programmes to be reduced to (Continued on Page 12)

ed."

juries.