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FOUNDED WILL 90 ##AXXEF MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1930.

.NO. 23,123

BEHEADING OF 13 ANNAMITES.

REVOLUTIONARY LEADER PAYS THE PENALTY.

SEQUEL TO RISING."

WHISKY AS HAIR RESTORER.

TERRIBLE WASTE BY KOWLOON AMAH!

SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBED EMPLOYER.

Under the heading of The Hour of Chastisement: 19 Heads Fall This Morning at Yen-Bay at Break of Day", the Avenir of Ton kin, a journal devoted to French EUROPEAN'S CHARGE. commercial interests in Indo-

THRILLING MOTOR RACING.

BRITISH CARS SWEEP BOARD

AT LE MANS.

TWO WOMEN DRIVE.

Le Mans, June 22. The road motor championship of Europe. otherwise the twenty-four hours' endurance test resulted in a

Le Mans, later. Barnato

triumph for British cars. Captain Woolf Barnato and Commander Shanghai, June 22. "

China, on Tuesday reported the The systematic pilfering of

Glen-Kidston, driving a Bentley car. Having decided to close the guillotining of the second batch household articles was alleged came in first. They covered 2,920 Chinese Maritime Customs at of convicted Annamite revolu-against an amah in the employ kilometres at an average speed of

of Mr. Wm. Brace, the Interport Tientsin to prevent the Customstionaries who were condemned for cricketer, on the appearance of/112 kilometres an hour. funds from getting into hands their participation in the recent the servant before Mr. Whyte

Another Bentley was second with rebellion.

Smith at the Kowloon Magis-Talbots taking the third and fourth Particular, interest attached to tracy this morning on a charge places-Reuter, this second series of executions of larceny of four bottles of from the fact that one of the con-whisky and three bottles of

Captain, Woolf demned men His Nguyen Thi lemon squash.

Lient-Commander Glen-Kidston won at an average speed of 77 miles an hour for the full 24 hours, this speed constituting record. There was a thrilling duel at night between a Bentley driven by Captain Birkin and a Mercedes with Caracciola, the German ace of Italian descent, at the wheel.

of the Shansi militarists, the National Government at Nan- king has instructed Mr. F. W.

General Maze, Inspector

of Customs, to issue a notification to the effect that all cargoes Hoe, the organizer of the Annam intended for Tientsin should Quaediandang, or National Re- first pay their duties at Shang-publican Party, who headed the hai, Canton, Amoy, Tsingtao, recent revolt against French rule. Dairen, Yingkow, Chinwangtao With him perished the same day or Antung.

his chief aids and other party lea- ders.

The authorities at the various Customs Houses will accordingly stop any cargo from going to Tientsin in the event of duties nut being paid first at the port of departure.

Intervention Resented.

The death sentence on the thir teen men was passed by the ex- traordinary Criminal Commission, or Political Tribunal, at Yen-Bay, the chief centre of the recent out- breaks, on March 28. The appeal for mercy made on their behalf crce of June 10, and the sentence was rejected by a Government de

was duly carried out.

The Nanking Central Political Council held a meeting his morning and discussed steps to be take to prevent the Customs funds from reaching Marshal Yen Hal-shan. The meeting expressed strong disapproval at the decision of the foreign consular authorities Tientsin who were intending to act as administrative heads at the Customs House, collecting funds for the Chinese Government all that was necessary; commen- A fraction over two minutes was pending a settlement of the dis-eing promptly at 5 am. the grim pute between Nanking and Shansi. work was over by 5.30.

it

at

the

Mr. P. X. d'Almada, jar.. ap peared for the defendant and. entering a plea of guilty, asked his Worship to take a lenient view of the case, as it was the amah's first offence.

and

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BOY KILLED BY PIRATES.

DARING ATTACK ON A JUNK.

VOLLEY OF SHOTS PRELUDE TO CAPTURE.

London, June 22. The Colonial Governor's Con- ference la to be opened at the Colonial Office to-morrow by Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for FISHERMEN WOUNDED, Refrigerating tests carried the Colonies. The Conference la out with various produce by the held in accordance with a sugges-

One person was killed, two Peninsula Hotel during the tion made at the first conference wounded, and 13 kidnapped by week-end were submitted to the in 1927 that such gatherings pirates who suddenly swooped Court by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., should be held at triennial inter down on a junk with its sampans consideration of out off She Muk Island, in Chin- when the action in connexion vals for the with a refrigerating plant was questions of importance to the

Colonies. continued

ese waters, last night. The before the Chief

Nearly the whole of the Colonial fishermen were hardly aware of Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) this

territory, which has an ap- the approach of the pirates be morning.

proximate area of 2,000,000 square fore they had fired several shots, about and supports a population of boarded the fishing junk and about 50,000,000, lies within the tropies.

sailed away with it.

the

In giving the results of tests, counsel for the defendants said that the fish were found "iron hard," the chicken were "hard as rock": the beef was so hard that

Administratively, financially and

Chan Wai-tai, a 10-year-old boy legislatively each Colony is self- was killed instantly by rifle fire contained and there is a wide and Chan Cho-luk (46) and Pan diversity of race, language, re- Tai-shing (27), both fishermen, sources and needs.

have been admitted to Kowloon They have a common interest, Hospital with

bullet

serious

An enormous crowd waited up all top of the battle. The water however, in certain services such wounds. The exact number of

According to Detective Sergeant Kellett a report was made by Mfr. Brace on Saturday that he had lost from his premises, 193, Cameron Road, four bottles of night to cheer the two cars as they whisky and three bottles of lemon hurtled through the pitch darkness, squash. One bottle of whisky. together with the lemon squash.. Was subsequently found in the amah's room,

night took the condemned men Brace purchased his whisky by the A special train in the dead of The officer intimated that Mr. from Hanoi to the scene of the case and kept it in a execution at Yen-Bay, and in the He had noticed that bottles had cabinet. morning, at the break of day, they been stolen from time to time in were decapitated by the execu-the past. tioner's machine, one after the other.

His Worship (to Mr. d'Almada): -What does your client do with the, whisky, Mr. d'Almada? from her that she uses it as a hair Mr. d'Almada: understand.

His Worship:-That's a rible waste!

It is understood that the Cential Political Council

may deem

necessary.

issue tu official statements opposing the action of the Consular bodies, which is interpreted in Nanking as interference in Chinese internal

affairs.

restorer.

ter-

Every precaution had been taken to guard against interruption, the arena being surrounded by a de- tachment of the Foreign Legion.

The Amahs Club. several companies of tirailleurs Detective Sergeant Kellett men- (on whom the spectacle is calculat- tioned that since the offence was ed to have a disciplinary effect), detected it was discovered that a and detachments of the Native sum of $60 had disappeared from Guard.

the house. On the defendant the Police found

sum of $375 but the servant had claim alongside by the Native Guard, in- Amahs Club.

brought ed that this money belonged to the to which the bodies were moved; as soon as they fell.

Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister. and Messrs. Wu Han-

"All accepted their fate with man, head of the Legislative Coun- cil, Tan Yen-kai, head of the Nan-courage," says the Avenir Coffins

had been previously

king Executive Council, and Sun Fo were among others present at the meeting.

TESTING BUREAU IN CANTON.

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CENTCOMM

YANGTSZE STEAMER

ASHORE.

"Wanhui" Aground on the Tatuí Sze Rock.

BRITISH GUNBOAT'S AID.

Chungking, June 22.

The Japanese steamer Anzan Maru has reported that the s.s. Wanhui is ashore on Tatui Tze Rock and is requiring assis- tance.

The Japanese steamer Fuling is at present standing by the stranded vessel, whilst a Bri- tiah gunboat is being sent to her assistance.-Naval Wire- LEBA.

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RETURUKIZAREALİANOSA MARA NYC

In reply to his Worship, Mr. Brace intimated that the defen-one on the heels of the other at a dant had been in his employ since speed of over 110 miles an hour. January and had been a good ser

The vant although he did not

Mercedes broke down her. He had never

at three o'clock in the morn- had

like

if kicked it hurt the feet: the eggs were as "hard as bullets," and the milk was so frozen that the cream had separated from the rest and had forced its way out of the

inside was also frozen hard..

Mr. Rasey, Mr. Potter Continuing his cross-examina-

said: Have you considered this question of latent heat since the adjournment?-Yes, a great deal. Have you discovered the freezing points in the various bodies we discussed, such as poultry, milk and eggs-I have not looked into the freezing point for milk. The other freezing points were given by me on Friday.

Practical Test.

as medical, agricultural and public

Burst of Fire,

cal exchange of views is regarded pirated is unknown and the owner works, regarding which a periodi-people on the junk when it was

as valuable.

can pince no estimate of its value The Conference which opens to or the cargo... morrow is expected to sit for about three weeks and there will be three main subjects for discussion, namely Colonial development, with special reference to the working the pirated vessel, No. 3671 HC, and application of the Colonial tells a graphic story of the affair. Development Fund; secondly, ad- He lives on the boat off Chung ministration of scientific

and Chau and at 8 a.m yesterday said technical services, and thirdly he set out for She Muk Island with .... problems of Colonial administra-

Chan Chi-chau, (30) seaman on

You are still standing on those. tion in general.-British Wireless, 12 males, three females and eight You have no further information

to give regarding the points?-No.

freezing

CHINESE FREE PORT SCHEME.

CUSTOMS HOUSE BUT NO DUTIES

children aboard. The craft has a capacity of 1,240 picuis. They arrived at 6 p.m. and put out four sampans to fish. He and a fokl named Pai Fook. were in one, but be is unable to ay how many were in the other three.

Mr. Potter: I want to-give a practical test which has taken place since the adjournment, and if; you are not satisfied we will afford you facilities to make exactly the same test, which I think you will

"We were fishing about 100 feet agree is a fair offer. I am just

from the junk," Chan told the putting the facts to you, Mr.

Canton, June 21:

police, "when suddenly about 7 Mr. Wong Hue-sho, the Magis-p.m, we noticed another junk of Rascy, and we will see if we can agree with the conclusions, subject trate of the Chung Shan District, about 1,000 piculs, which had crept to the accuracy of those facts:

who was in Canton recently, spoke on us round a corner of the island: on the subject of the establish- As soon as we saw it a volley of On Friday, June 20, at 6.30 p.m. into the No. 4 room, which is the ment of a free port at Tongka Wan rifle or revolver fire came from it. Protest to Britain,

poultry room of a contractual to serve the Chung Shan district. It first fired at the junk and then temperature of 15 degrees, and

Plana have been made for the at the sampans and Chan Wai-tai Concerning the Nanking Gov-

which has been out of use for some establishment at Tongka Wan and, was the first to be hit. He was ernment's protest to the British

time, was put certain produce. curiously enough, although it is killed instantly. We tried to take Minister to China, Sir Miles Lamp- son, complaining of the action of

trouble with her although on one sequently retired, having sacric. six fresh fish (sea fish as used in drawn up provide for the building/ Cho-luk and. Fan Tai-shing were anying and Captain Birkin sub- This consisted of six fresh chicken, to be a free port, the plans so far shelter in the sampans but Chan Mr. Lennox Simpson, up to this

occasion he had reported to the morning the Nanking Foreign Min: THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST which was stolen from the roof up" the Germans.

ed his own chance of winning the Hongkong Hotel); two large of a Custom House. However, Mr. wounded...

Wong Kue-sho assures the people Police the loss of a table cloth the race by driving all out to blow and two small bottles of milk. istry es received no reply.

Two thermometers were hung in that this Custom House is not for whilst the defendant's mother was

the centre of the room, the tem- the purpose of collecting duty, but "The pirates then came alongside supposed to have been watching of the race. One American Stutz 36% degrees. The room was then

America was the next to fall out perature reading at the time being merely to examine the goods pass-our junk, boarded it and in a few the clothing. The defendant was

ing through.

minutes both of them sailed away under watch.

The plans further call for the in a westerly direction."

There were no small. arms on" the railways and highways. This is fishing junk although it was equip very ambitious, but such plana ped with two small cannon. It is were made five years ago for the thought. that 13 people have been port of Whampoa, and so far kidnapped but it is not definite. nothing has been done there.-Chan Chi-chau did not gather these Our Own Correspondent.

particulars before he hurried to a passing fishing junk and reported. the matter at Cheung Chau. He gives the description of the pirate vessel as boing about 70 feet long, having two masts and one brown Bail.

It is understood that the Nan- king Government has issued an in- vitation to Sir Miles Lampson re- questing him to come to Nanking or Shanghai to confer with Dr. C. T. Wang and Mr. F. W. Maze relative to the suggestion by the Consular authorities that they act as temporary administrative heads on behalf of the Chinese Govern- ment. Mr. Maze is understood to be undecided what to do.

SCHEME.

Canton, June 21.

A merchandise Testing Bureau suspected and was since then kent Car caught fire and had to be aban-locked and sealed, and the key construction of wharves, godowns,

of the The prosecuting officer said that

has been opened in Canton on the Shakee Maloo by order Commissioner of Reconstruction, the defendant had informed his sented by a Bugatti with two wo-

General Tang Yin-wah. Mr. Hu Hung-cheng has been appointed the first Director.

employer shortly before the thefts were discovered that she intended returning to Canton,

Left Under Pretext,

doned. Another also dropped out. leaving Italy, represented by an

men drivers, to contest the race with Alfa Romeo, and France, repre-

the British cars.

A number of officers for this

The Alfa Romeo finished fourth. Bureau have been sent to Europe

The Bugatti went steadily though and America to gain experience in

not very fast and completed the running bureau of a similar kind that when the Police searched the that women had competed in the Mr. Brace informed his Worship course. This was the first time in foreign countries and it is hop- ed on their return that the Testing household articles were found, ar-

defendant's quarters several race.--Reuter. Bureau in Canton will prove of ticles which should not have been great use to Cantonese merchants. A plan is also mooted to es- silk testing and con-

Gunboats Dispatched. With a view to making the sus- pension of the Tientsin Customs effective, the Nanking Government has dispatched gunboats to Chin- wangtao and Yingkow. They will tablish be on permanent patrol there to pre-ditioning house. This plan has al- Bench as to the defendant's past vent cargoes that have not paid ready been proposed on a

there.

He accused the servant of DRUGS FOR SHANGHAI systematic pilfering,

Answering a question from the

SEIZED.

employment. Mr. d'Almada

inti-

AT MARSEILLES.

duties at other Chinese ports from number of occasions during the mated that she had been in Hong- BIG HAUL MADE FROM SHIP reaching Tientsin..

past decade, but it is doubtful Chinese telegrams state that whether such a house in Canton some of the Tientsin Consuls sug- would attain any great degree of gested that no payment on the success or usefulness. Our Own cargoes should be made at present Correspondent. thus making Tientsin a free port, but the representatives of the Consular Body would make a re- cord of the firms concerned in car- goes to or from Tientsin, payments of these duties to be made after the conclusion of the Nanking-Shansi war.

The majority of the Consuls, however, prefer that the duties should be collected by representa- tives of the Consular Body.

400,000 WORKLESS.

NEW YORK'S TOTAL OF UNEMPLOYED.

New York, June 22. According to the provisional census estimates there are at pre- sent four hundred thousand people out of work in New York

Tientsin advice states that Mr. Lennox Simpson has warnes the Reuter's American Service. ex-officials of the Maritime Cus- toms to come back to their work immediately; otherwise, they will be dismissed from service. They are given two days to reach a decision. The ex-officials are un- derstood to be most anxious to

come back to their work, fearing otherwise that their pensions may be cancelled by the Nanking Gov ernment after the war.

MILLIONAIRE DEAD.

New York, June 22.. The death has occurred here of Mr. Leo Feist, the millionaire music publisher.-Reuters Ameri-

can Service.

entrusted with Mr. Turner.

Fish Was Frozen.

On Sunday, June 22, at 9 a.m. the reading of the thermometer outside of the door of the room was 16 degrees. The door was then opened and the inside ther- degrees respectively. The pro- mometers registered 17 and 18

duce was found in the following condition: The fish was iron hard, and when struck against the tiles, was just like one stone GOVERNMENT RESTRICTION

against another.

CONTROL OF RUBBER PRODUCTION.

FAVOURED.

London, June 22, The Kuala Lumpur correspon-

Thirteen Kidnapped.,

LIGHTER SUNK AT CANTON.

HALDIS INVOLVED IN A COLLISION.

A section of a fish was cut, and inspected under a powerful read- crystals in the flesh of the fish dent of the Financial Times, ing glass, and it sparkled with ice kong for 13 years, but he could

Assuming these facts to be true, I referring to the Asiatic Rubber not say where she had been em-

put it to you there is no doubt that Producers' meeting on Saturday ployed previously.

Paris, June 22. Mr. Brace remarked that the

the fish was frozen In the true when a sub-committee was A ton of narcotics, valued at sense, in so far as all latent heat appointed to consider schemes to defendant, prior to being engag£30,000, was seized by Customs had been extracted Yes, that is remedy the depression in the in- this morning, Capt. C-Boyce, mas- Arriving here from Canton early ed by him, was in the

em officers at Marseille. The drugs right.

dustry, says the overwhelming ter of the Bs. Haldia, reported to ploy of Mr. McFadgeon of were concealed in cases landed by Assuming these facts to be consensus of opinion favoured the the Harbour Office that she collid- Luna Building, who had told the an Italian steamer which arrived true, it is quite inconsistent with restoration of Government restriced with and sank a lighter at Can- complainant that the defendant from Turkey. Some of the cases your evidence on Friday that tion, with the proviso that the co-ton yesterday. left under the pretext that she was had been placed on board returning to Canton, where she steamer for shipment to the Fariat a temperature of minus 15 Planters must be secured and thated the matter to the authorities in

the latent beat could not be extracted operation of Dutch and Ceylon had a relative suffering from East. small-pox.

degrees?—Yes.' -

tapping must be stopped on Sun, The seizure was a result of in- The chicken were placed in the day and on another day, every

week-Reuter; to whether Mr. MacFadgeon had formation received in Paris that middle of the room and discovered. said that he had missed anything an international organisation pro- to be as hard as rocks. If that is since she left, Mr. Brace replied posed to send a cargo of cocaine, air description do, you agree in the negative..an

heroin and morphine from Stam- that they were frozen and the His Worship sentenced the de boul to Marseilles, to be tran- latent heat had gone? ... fendant to six weeks Imprison-shipped there for Saigon and

When asked by his Worship az

ment.

Mr. d'Almada asked his Wor shin to consider the question of a fine, but his Worship said that he was considering the case, one of pilfering from one's employer and in cases like that the penalty was usually two months. He was taking into consideration that the defendant was a woman

Shanghai-Reuter,

AMOY QUIET.

Amoy, June 22. The situation here remains quiet. -Naval Wireless.

Hammered Chicken.

Mr. Rasey-Were the chicken cut open?

Mr. Potter?-No they were ham- mered. Maybe they did not have

MALTA CRISIS.

CABINET RESIGNATION NOT CONFIRMED.

London, June 23.

Lord Strickland, Prime Minister

a sharp enough instrument thereof Malta, says be has no confirma-

at the time (laughter),

Capt. Boyee immediately report- that port, after which the Haldis proceeded to Hongkong, reaching the harbour at 7 a.m. to-day.

LINDBERGH JUNIOR.

SON BORN TO WIFE OF THE FAMOUS AIRMAN,

New York, Jane 22. Mrs. Lindbergh, wife of the tion of a Press report of the re-famous airman who made a lone Mr. Potter said he would not signation of the Cabinet, and the flight from New York to Paris, trouble about the milk, as it was report is discredited here British to-day gave birth to a son.

(Continued on Page 7.)

Reuters American Service.

Wireless,