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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930.

INDIAN TACTICS

CONDEMNED.

LORD IRWIN ON DOCTRINE OF COERCION.

LOOKING AHEAD.

London, July 9, The Secretary of State for India, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, in the House of Commons to-day, referred all members who desired to ask ques- tions regarding the forthcoming Round Tablo .Conferencë on Indian affairs to a statement made

FIGHTING NEAR TSINANFU.

*FOREIGN CONSULAR

PROTESTS.

NATIONALISTS INTEND BIG ATTACK ON CITY.

REBEL RESISTANCE.

PROBLEM OF FIVE VAGRANTS.

REPATRIATION AT. EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT.

SENTENCE SERVED.

The presence of five Filipino vagrants in the Colony, fresh from serving a term of a month's hard labour for stowing away and steal- ing a passage from Manila on an American ship, is in the nature of a problem to the local authorities. It is indicated that at their own expense, the Government will have to find a passage for these to their place undesirables back

of origin.

ALL THE STARS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SHINING IN ONE RICTURE!

'My Stars!

JANET GAYNOR

CHARLES FARRELL WILL ROGERS

EDMUND LOWE

MARJORIE WHITE ~WALTER CATLETT VICTOR McLAGLEN

RICHARD

KEENE

FRANK RICHARDSON N WILLIAM COLLIER, Sr. ANN PENNINGTON

DIXIE LEE. EL BRENDEL + DAVID ROLLINS " GEORGE JESSEL

J. HAROLD MURRAY REX BELL FARRELL MACDONALD - LEW BRICE FRANK ALBERTSON • NICK STUART SHARONLYNN Whispering" JACKSMITH GILBERT EMERY THE SLATE BROTHERS CHARLES EVANS MARTHA LEE SPARKS. CLIFFORD DEMPSEY... GEORGE OLSEN JAMES J. CORBETT GEORGE MacFARLANE.

Detective Sergeant Whant stat- ed that the prisoners had served a month's term for stowing away. were then allowed to and outside in the hope of their being able to get a ship.

Shanghai, July 9. The foreign consular authori- ties in Tsinanfu conferred yea to-day by Lord Irwin on behalf of terday and decided to lodge

strong protest with the Shansi His Majesty's Government to the

and Nationalist Commander Indian Legislature in Simla, an urging both sides to cease fight- The matter came before Mr. impression of which Mr. Wedging along the Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Grantham at the Central Police wood Beng circulated to the

Railway on the ground that Court this morning, when Raphael House.

The Viceroy, in his review, dealt hostilities have affected the Manjures (20), Pedrico Salvado, with the campaign of civil dis- railway traffic and trade in (20), Sixdo Domingo (18), Ignacio Sayd (20), were charged as obedience which had now been in Tainanfu..

It is understood that the many vagrants, without visible means of three months. He progress for

They stated they described the movement as a dell foreign and Japanese residents subsistence. berate attempt to coerce establish are perturbed by the continued desired to return to the Philip ed authority by mass action which fighting along the Tsinanfu-Kiao-pines, but were without the means

chow Line, fearing a big Nation- for doing so. must be regarded as unconstitualist counter-attack on Tainanfu. tional and dangerously subversive.' "After all," said Lord Irwin, "is it not a very dangerous doctrine to preach to the people of India that it is patriotic and lawful to refuse to obey the laws or to pay taxes?" Earlier in his review, Lord Irwin recalled that when he took office as Viceroy it was clear that

The Nationalist high officers at his principal duty was to devote all his energies to the mainten-Hsuchow attributed the presence

of the enemy at. Yenchow to ance of the progress of the coun-Ruominchun plot to engage the try and contentment within the services of bandits near Yenchow orbit of the British Common- with the intention of creating dis- wealth. It was also evident that, turbances in the Nanking rear. looking ahead, it was hardly to be

However, it is understood that excepted this. India, justly sensi- severe fighting has broken out near tive of her position and growing Yenchow between the Shansi and every year more conscious of na-Nationalist troops, the former tional feeling, should, of her own being amalgamated with and free will, desire to be a partner assisted by local riff-raff. in a political society such as the British Empire upon terms which implied the permanent security of her status.

It was for this reason, and with object of removing avoidable mis- understanding on this matter, that His Majesty's Government last year authorised him to declare that in their view the attaintment of Dominion Status was a natural completion of constitutional growth.-British Wireless.

Hopeful Response,

Yenchow Assalled. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanking Generalissimo, has re- turned from Kweiteh to Hsuchow on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, in view of the appearance of some Kuominchun forces around Yen- chow.

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Nationalist Strategy. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's aud- den return to Hsuchow is said to be part of the Nationalist strategy to abandon some ground along the Lung-Hai Railway and to con- centrate the best of the Nation- alist Divisions, which will be under the personal direction of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in an attack against Tsinanfu.

Peking telegrams state that! Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, Comman- der-in-Chief of the Shansi forces, for Simla, July 10. left Taiyuanfu yesterday There has been an important Tsinantu. The Shansi Comman- response to Lord Irwin's speech at der is desirous of holding Tsina a meeting held under the chair- fu at all costs, despite the Nation- manship of Sir Phiroze Sethna, alist threat to attack the city from president of the Liberal Federa- along the Tientsia-Pukow Railway tion. The meeting issued a state- and the Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Rail- ment signed by leaders of severat way... political parties all of whom are members of the Legislature ex- pressing relief at the Viceroy'a anouncement in view of the un- popular Indian reception accord- ed to the Simon Report.

live

That hope did not materialise, and it was then found necessary to take them again into custody. It impossible, said Sergeant was Whant, to do anything for them

now, as having prosecuted through the Police, responsibility in the matter coased on the part of the steamship company on whose ship and the prisoners stowed away arrived here..

Detective Sergeant Whant said. the Police would now have to ask the Government to repatriate the men. He applied for the committal of the men to the House of Deten- were while arrangements tion being made.

An order for committal was made by the Magistrate.

POSED AS BRAVEST MAN ALIVE.

TEN FICTITIOUS DECORA- TIONS OF BOGUS V.C.

A bogus V.C. who also wrong- fully assumed the D.S.O. and M.C. decorations was fined £5 and £6 costs at Birmingham.

An amazing course of conduct was diselused. The defendant. Geoffrey Herman Garratt (30), of Kuominchun Finance.

Harborne, was formerly president While the Nationalist troops are of the Cradley branch of the Bri- shortening their defence along the tish Legion. From time to time Lung-Hai Railway it is not anti-reports were published of his sup- cipated that any spectacular ad- posed exploits, and the prosecu vance will be made by the Kuo- tion declared that he must have. The statement urges India to participate in the Round Table minchun forces in view of the fact secured this publicity himself.

that they are fighting under great Mr. Pugh, on behalf of the Public Conference and also urges the

hardships owing to lack of funds. Prosecutor, read extracts accord- repeal of emergency measures and Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has re-ing to which Garratt had won 10 the granting of an amnesty for turned to Chengchow, on the or more medals. Except that he political prisoners. It farther Lung-Hai Railway, and has de- was entitled to the India service appeals to the Congress Party to manded a big loan from the salt medal these decorations were fic- abandon civil disobedience and merchants in Shensi, Kansu and titlous.

take the present opportunity to Honan for the maintenance of the He had been described. as a shy make. A concertive demand on

war. The demand has caused hero and.as the bravest man alive. Britain.-Reuter.

great resentment and the salt

He became a cadet at 17 and merchants have temporarily sus went to India where in 1919 he pended business, with the resulttained a commission. In 1924 that salt cargoes sent to Shensi there were eight charges of em- and he Are affected.

bezzlement against him The Nationalist Division under was dismissed the Service by MOTHER BURNS HER BABY TO General Kam Han-ting, formerly court-martial.

CIGARETTE TRAGEDY.

DEATH.

stationed on the Kwantung- Fukien, which revolted recently, "I should not be doing my duty has arrived at Pukow after a long if I did not censure the mother, as march through Central'. China the life of her child was thrown covering many hundreds of miles way by an act of sheer careless. It will be amalgamated with the ness," said the coroner at an in-Nationalist forces to take part in quest at Brailsford, near Derby, the war.

on the fivemonths-old daughter of General Kam Han-ting will be Harold Walker, an estate labourer, leaving for the front in one or two of Brailsford.

days;

The Discovery.

Recently a circular, addressed from Great Charles-street, Bir mingham, which he issued to V.C. holders, asking for their moral support of a patent in metal photo. It graphy came under notice. bore the words "Our slogan; Work not Charity, and there ap peared the sub heading:

"Depot for training disabled ex-Servicemen and their-dejen- dants in the art of special crafts- manship in all kinds of metal. Promoter and manager, Capt.

Mrs. Walker said she took the

Nanking Claims,||- child out in a perambulator, and

Concerning the fighting on the when about to call at the farm auf- fed out her cigarette, putting the Tientsin Pukow Railway, official stump in the foot of the per- Nanking reports claim that the ambulator to finish later. She left Nationalist troops are still hold. the perambulator with the baby as- ing Talan, Taining and Yenchow Ieep some distance from the house, and are waging battles against Frederick Yates, who was work- the advancing Shansi forces which ing in the fields said that seeing are fighting under great risk on

Garratt (aald Mr. Pugh) caused smoke he thought the farm build account of the activities of strong ings were on fire. He rushed to squadrons of Nationalist aero- to be published an extract pur- the spot and found the perambula planes. The planes have suc-porting to be from the India Army tor burning fiercely. He was un- ceeded time and again in bombing Gazette, which announced that he had been awarded the V.C. for the Shansi insurgents. able to save the child,N

A police constable said that a burned box of matches and several partly smoked cigarettes Wore found in the perambulator.

G. H. Garratt, V.C., D.3.0. O.B.E., M.C., A.M.”.

The Nationalists estimate that saving a wounded native officer 15,000. Shansi troops are engaged under fire. There had also ap in the attack against Taian with a peared glowing accounts of three much stronger force assailing fictitious acts which had obtained Yenchow, which is only 120 miles for him the Albert Medal. A verdict of death from suffioca- from the Naionalist Headquarters, tion was returned.

Hsuchow.

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TYPHOON NEAR PARACELS.

No Money Involved. Detective-Inspector Richardson eald there, had been no fraud re- Mr. Alexander Leash, a walter of garding money and the metal the Railway Tavern, Battersea, was photography concern was genuine. assaulted and robbed when of his He thought Garratt's action was way back from the bank after due to sheer vanity.. obtaining £47 for his employer. He was found stunned on the floor of

The Royal Observatory reports that a depression is central to the

Mr. Finnemore, defending, sald N. E. of Peking. A typhoon has formed near the Paracels. Its dira lavatory in Northcote-road, his that Garratt was married last year. action of motion is uncertain face being covered with pepper, and His wife, who discovered the truth Hongkong is not threatened at pre- there being a bruise on his fore-only-a week or two ago, would

start abroad. winds, treah; fair to showery.to been robbed of over £87. Bent. The local forecast is:-East head. It was found that he had stand by him in making a new

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