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NO. 23.17

BRITISH STEAMER

PIRATED.

CAQ VITALF. TUESDAY, JULY 22,

BLOODLESS ATTACK ON

THE HELIKON.

CREW FORCED TO DISGUISE SHIP

BY PAINTING

HAUL

FUNNEL.

OF $7,500 MADE

After ten months of inactivity, the Bias Bay pirates have again shown their hand, attacking the British steamer Helikon, Hongkong to Saigon. The vessel, which was commanded by Captain W. Anderson, and had three other British officers, left Hongkong on Sunday morning and was seized by pirates travel- ling as passengers in the early hours of Monday morning.

The pirates, who numbered about sixteen. boarded the vessel in Hongkong in the belief that the Helikon was carrying a big consignment of ballion. This, however, they found was not the case and they contented themselves with robbing the passengers and looting portable cargo of silks and tea to the value of $7,500.

TERRIBLE POLICE TRAGEDY.

INDIAN AMOK AT AN OUT-STATION. '

YOUNG WIFE OF SERGEANT

MADGWICK KILLED""

COAL BILL KEPT ALIVE.

1930.

SPREAD-OVER ACCEPTED WITH SLIGHT AMENDMENT.

COMMONS GIVE WAY.

London, July 21.

$30 PER ANNUK

It and CUFY 10 CENTS

CRITICAL TIME IN BOMBAY.

FIRMS CONTINUE TO CLOSE DOWN.

ECONOMIC POSITION AFFECTS COUNTRY'S TRADE.

RESISTANCE

DUNLOP

The Tyro of Rugged Strength

LOCAL BRANCH.

BRITAIN LEADING

IN RACE

AIRMEN MEET DIFFICULT FLYING CONDITIONS.

Ma

Pedder Bldg.

SIX DEAD IN AIR ACCIDENT.

PLANE CRASHES NEAR GRAVESEND.

PASSENGERS WELL-KNOWN IN SOCIETY.

VIOLENT BUFFETING.

London, July 21. Very difficult flying weather, The Coal Mines Bill has been

with violent rain-storms, gusts of kept alive by the action of the House of Commons in unanimous-

wind and low risibility, was THREE FATALITIES.

encountered by the competitors in ly accepting the amendment pro posed by the House of Lords with HUNDREDS WORKLESS. the round Europe air race who a slight modification.'. Last night's terrible tragedy

to-day started from Calais for The modification provides for

London. July 21. at Lok Ma Cháu Police Station district agreements regarding the

Bristol and London and backi The Government of India's across the channel. has tragically shattered the re-spread-over. This must have the weekly appreciation of the.

A terrible air accident cently-begun married life of approval of the mineowners and situation, which deals in detail cluding Lady Dailey and Misa Gravesend to a Junker machine All seven British entrants, in-occurred this afternoon near Sergeant and Mrs. C. S. Made the miners and the Bill will then with events during the week | Spooner, were well up in the first engaged on the air taxi service

October, the late Mrs. Madgwick,

be returned to the House of

Lords.

In its existing form the Bill was

ending July 19, was circulated

MACHINE EXPLODES.

London, July 12.

wick Married in England last had been in Hongkong only a killed by the House of Lords last day. It shows that during the been weatherbound at Calais all pilot and his assistant and their to members of Parliament to-flight after the competitors had between Le Touquet and Croy

don, as a result of which the month,, most of which time she week when by 163 votes to 30 period, despite inevitable fluc- the morning. Mr. Alan Butler, in four passengers, all well-known had spent at the lonely out-they insisted on the spread-over tuations there was no serious his Gipsy Moth, was the first to members of Society, were killed. station. Sergeant Madgwiek, amendment, a clause formerly re-

a state of collapse in the Kow- loon hospital,

In January, Sergeant Madgwick returned from long leave, having been connected with the Hongkong years. Police Force for nearly seven While on leave, he was

after a short honeymoon, it being married and left for Hongkong arranged that his wife should fol- low him out six months Inter.,

the

F

PASSENGERS.

The Marquis of Dufferin.

Sir Edward Ward, Bt. Viscountess Ednam,

Mrs. Loomer,

CREW.

owned by the Wo Fat Shing Company, while on a voyage from grief-stricken by the affair, is injected by the House of Commoneretrograde movement and that reach Bristol and he said he had The deathroll is as follows:

The amendment provides for a on the whole the atmosphere seldom experienced a more violent bumping. After him came Mr. permissive ninety hour fortnight had improved. instead of a seven and a half day In several areas where tension S. A. Thorn, Lord Carberry, Miss as proposed by the Bill in its had existed the situation had be- Spooner, Mr. H. J. Andrews, Lady original form.

come easier. More evidence had Bailey and Captain Broad. The Premier's desire to save been received of the effect of civil-French and German machines the Bill, one of the most important disobedient movement in encoure-

followed. measures introduced by the ging lawlessness in directions not Mr. Butler again led depar- immediately after present Government, was shown connected with the movement. tures for Heston air park, London, decisive vote when following a bances involving many villages were Engelvert, being closely followed

In Bengal, for instance, distur- and Lord's

was first away for Saint

Colonel J. L Henderson. meeting with the miners the caused by an attack upon money-by. Polk, Germany. and Miss Mr. Shearing. Government suggested to the lenders by debtors, as a reault of Spooner. Upper House that there should be which a dozen people were murder-

Both Colonel Henderson and

over clause.

There are sixty acroplanes in Mr. Shearing, the pilot and assis a conference regarding the spread-ed and much looting occured be-

fore order was restored.

the race. From Paris the course tant pilot respectively, were Students have been active in vari-goes

Spain, that the reorganisation features ous towns, and much interference Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland

Switzerland, formerly fn, the Royal Air Force. According to in the work of educational in- and so back to Germany. There there appeared to be an explosion eye-witnesses, the Bill ought not to be

stitutions occurred.

are twenty five control points in in mid air as the machine was addition to the two in England passing over Meopham, near which the competitors have now passed.British Wireless.

At the time the pirates took control of the ship the acting Second Officer, a Chinese, was on duty on the bridge, the remaining officers, including the Captain, being asleep in their cabins. The pirates forced the wireless operator to dismantle his apparatus, seized control of all vital parts of the ship and even went to the length of disguising the vessel by making the crew paint the black funnel yellow and obliterating the ship's

name.

No shots were fired and no casualties were suffered. The boat was ordered to Bias Bay which it reached at midnight and was released at 3 a.m. to-day. The Helikon returned to Hongkong at 8.40 this morning.

The pirates took fourteen Chinese passengers ashore at Bias Bay, as well as the compradore, Mr. Lui Po, and before going they returned to the officers all the money they had taken from them.

Arrived in June.

The opinion was then expressed

SENATE RATIFIES" "THE

June 19th and went to live at She arrived on the Morea on Lok Ma Chau, which Sergeant Madgwick, thought would not be too lonely for her as she hailed of from the country at Home.

Very few people in HongkongCUTECZKACAUNE knew Mrs. Madgwick, therefore, but one who had met her after her arrival described her as a young lady of about 22 years, with the fresh complexion of a typical English girl from the provinces,

Both Sergeant Madgwick and Dalip Singh, the Indian said to be responsible for Mrs. Madgwick's death, were previously stationed at Shamshuipo.. An Indian-con- stable there described Dalip Singh a. a well-built Sikh aged about

PIRATES BOARD AT HONGKONG. 24 years, of a jolly disposition and

The first news of the piracy was .contained in o message received by the local naval authorities at 4.46 n.m. to-day. This was from Capt. W. Anderson the master of the Helikon, and it stated that the vessel had been pirated whilst on a voyage to Saigon and been taken into Bins Bay at midnight.

"All the European Officers, my- self, Mr. W. M. Anderson (chief engineer), Mr. J. S. Kirkpatrick (chief officer) and Mr.. G. Marr (second engineer) were asleep in our cabins at the time. Pirates entered my cabin and held me up at the point of the revolver, where they kept me a prisoner until day break.

who gave no signs that his mind would become unhinged. He said he had been nearly five years with the police.

Two Killed.

quarters in connexion with the Official reports at Police Head-

affair are brief, the first two warn- ing all stations that the Indian had captured the station's Lewis gun and held command of the station where Mrs. Madgwick was. The longest message says, that the I.G.P., Mr. Wolfe, regretted to

Mrs.

NAVAL TREATY.

But No Approval of Any

Secret Understanding.

BIG MAJORITY FAVOURS.

Washington, July 21 The Senate to-day. ratified the London Naval Treaty by 58 votes to nine..

The ratification was accom- panied by a reservation that it does not imply approval of any secret understanding which may exist in relation to the Pact-Reuter's American Ser- vice.

Disobedience Declining.

All districts of Gujerat report an improvement and some local officers consider that the civil dis- obedient movement is definitely on the decline. District reports from the Punjab are almost unanimous that the situation is definitely more encouraging than at any time. since the civil disobedience cam- paign developed, and they indi-

este

n strong reaction against congress activities.

A

*

to

MACE INCIDENT IN COMMONS.

MR. BECKETT SUSPENDED FOR FIVE DAYS.

Gravesend. The engine Was found in the garden of a house in the village and one wing was found two miles distant.

Crash on Return.

Was

The Junker machine belonged to Colonel Henderson, who using it on behalf of Walcot Air Lines, which operated the air taxí service from Croydon.

It had earlier in the day London, July 21.

crossed to The mace incident in the House brought

Le Touquet- and On the other hand, there have of Commons last Thursday, when don one party to Croy- been signs during the last few days

and had then set off that extremists may give a certain

Labour member, Mr. John again to fetch Lord Dufferin and amount of trouble. The Central Beckett, seized the mace from the his friends.

The crash occurred Legislature completed its session leave the House with it, was conditions had been extremely dif Speaker's table and attempted to on the return journey. Flying during the week: While there was referred to during the question ficult throughout the day. inevitably criticism of the mea-time in Parliament to day.

Lord Dufferin who was 55 was,

sures the Government had been

MMDDI

compelled to take, there was a A Conservative member suggest- the first speaker of the Senate of general recognition of the harmed that Mr. Beckett should be Northern Ireland, having held the the civil disobedient movement is suspended until he apologised. post since 1921. He had had a dis- sacrificed if the standpoint of the and the desire was freely express the Premier, said many represen- also Sir Edward Ward who during deing to India in all directions Replying, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, tinguished army career as had House of Lords could be reasoned that the movement should be Latinns had been mede to ably met.

The House of Commons has now

the dawn had state that the Indian had killed given way on the spread-over

Indian constable, Chajja Singh.

Madgwick and another clause yet at the same time provid-

An official document says that ing for district agreements to the bodies were removed to the which, apparently, the House of Kowloon Mortuary this morning, Lords does not object-Reuter. Mrs. Madgwick and Chajja Singh having been murdered by Dalip Singh, who then shot himself. The police doctor has. estimated that Mrs. Madgwick and Chajja Singh died at 5 p.m. and Dalip Singh at 7 p.m.

A subsequent message, received half an hour later, stated that conditions were safe and that no

Ordered to Bias Bay, help was required. It was added that the vessel was proceeding to "As scon กร Hongkong under her own steam. broken, they ordered me up to the The boat arrived and anchored bridge, where, under their instrac- in Kowloon Bay about 8.40 this tions, enforced with the flourish morning, und was immediately ing of revolvers, I steered boarded by Inspector Dorling and course set out by them, which took members of the Water Police, who us to Bias Bay. took charge of the vessel and the "We arrived at Bins Bay a few passengers.

minutes after midnight on Mon Subsequently Mr. Booth, A.S.P., day, where the pirates lowered the arrived from Central Police No. 3 lifeboat, and taking with Headquarters and assisted in the them fourteen passengers, the Na. examination of the officers, crew compradore and our Chief No definite funeral arrange. and passengers.

Omeer, the latter

ments have bear made, although Members of the Press were not hostage). they rowed off to the it is possible that Mrs. Madgwick allowed on board until well after land. Other lifeboats

may be buried this afternoon. 11 o'clock, when

were also Although not wounded, Sergeant Telegraph used for the conveying of cases of Madgwick was ordered to the Kow representative interviewed Capt. valuable silk and tea, the total loon Hospital, where he is in state W. Anderson, who revealed the value of which can be placed at of nervous collapse.

full story of the attack!

Courteous Pirates.

to

to act AN

Formidable Cordon.

INDIA AT IMPERIAL

CONFERENCE.

THREE DELEGATES CHOSEN FOR PARLEY.

London, July 21. Imperial Conference, which is to India will be represented at the be held next month, by the Secret. some $7,000.

ary of State for India, Mr. Wedg- wood "They subsequently released the

Benn, the Maharaja of Chief Officer, and brought him

Bikanir, and Sir Muhammad Shafi. "They were most courteous to back the boat. but

The police forces that sur--British Wireless. the the officers," said Mr. Anderson in other fourteen passengers

rounded the solitary police station describing the actions of the retained. We were ordered to most formidable detachment that were in the dusk of last night was the pirates subsequent to their seizing set off again at about 3.50 a.m. this the Hongkong Police Force has the ship.

morning, and we arrived back at turned out. Realising the com "We left Hongkong about 9 a.m.jabout 8:40. on Sunday morning, to proceed to Saigon. We carried no arma on board whatever, and the ship is: not provided with piracy grilles, as we do not come under the Anti-Piracy Ordinance.

the

mand a maniac with a machine- Money Returned.

gun' could have over the whole" of the country-side, practically every "There was no ever," answered Capt. Anderson in spared

violence what-available man who could be reply to a question. The pirates estimated that the cordon around was secured and it iK

were most courteous to us all. They the station was more than 60 It

U.S. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES,

ADVANCES TO BE MADE TO MEMBERS.

Washington, July 21,

ended.

Effect of Recent Speech, The belief is steadily gaining ground that the solution of India's difficulties is to be sought along the lines indicated in the Viceroy's recent speech of attempting to reach agreed conclusions at the Round Table Conference; the prin- ciple of which was supported by the Legislative Assembly after a full debate without dissension..

The Viceroy's speech created a marked effect and moderate, opi- nion in expression more strongly in favour of the abondonment of

Wireless. unconstitutional methods. British

Conference Representatives.

London, July 21.

him the war was a Captain in the showing the strong feelings that] Grenadier Guards. Viscountess all parties held in connexion with Ednam is a sister of the Duke of 3 gross affront to the House, Sutherland and wife of the heir She and He added that it seemed to him to the Earl of Dudley. preferable, in all the circum-resin London social linent prominent stances and after the most careful} consideration, to abide by the. Standing Order (five days' suspen- sion).-Reuter.

EWO MILL STRIKE AT AN END.

WORKERS IN OTHER COMPANY MAKE DEMANDS,

British Wireless.

were

Marquis of Dufferin

The late Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (Frederick Temple- Blackwood) was the third holder of the title, which was created in 1888, He was born at Ottawa, Canada, on February 26th, 1875, being the fourth son of the first

He Marquie.

sueezeded his brobber in the title in 1918.

He entered the Army in 1897, Shanghai, July 22. and retired from the 9th Lancers The Ewo mill strike has ended as Captain in 1913. In 1914, he but the Nikka Company's Pootung was Military Secretary to the mill is affected by the walk-out of Governor-General of Australio, It has been decided that Labour 2,000 hands who demand an in- and he later saw service in the men, Conservatives and Liborals will be represented in the British Crease of ten cents a day rice Great War (1914-18), in which he Delegation at the London Round allowance and a holiday on Sun- was wounded. He also served in Table Conference on

days with pay,-Our Own Corres the South African War from 1899. October. Reuters

pondent.

to 1901, in which he was twice mentioned in despatches and severely wounded, and was award- ed the DS.O.

India in

Economic Crisis,

Simia, July 21, Having obtained the views ra garding the Simon Report from the Indian Princes and from some

CARNERA TO LEAVE. AMERICA.

REQUEST TO EXTEND STAY TURNED DOWN.

the

A-Privy Councillor for Ireland, Vice-Admiral of Ulster. and

Senate Speaker of the

of Northern Ireland since 1921, he Viceroy to-day privately conferred is announced that the Co-members of the Legislature, the

had also been Captain In Ulster Volunteer Naval Reserve advance their members at least 65 with Provincial Governors. It is

since 1924. He was also Captain opinion in India that constructive

Omaha (Neb), July 21,

in the Grenadier Guards, from Immigration officials have re-which he resigned in 1920, and Round Table Conference.

Meanwhile the situation in India journ in America of Primo Carners, Naval Volunteer Reserve). It is especially bad in Bombay manager, is obliged to leave the cannot be described as cheerful. the giant boxer, who, with his

In 1908, he married the eldest where the situation is regarded as country immediately. Reuter's daughter of Mr. Robert Wood. very critical. Firm after firm la American Service.

house, of Bishops Stortford, and closing down putting hundreds of

there was

ona son and one employees out of work and causing

daughter by the marriage. The. an economic crisis which will visit by Sir Tej Sapru and Mr. heir to the title is the Earl of affect the trade of the whole sub-Jayakar to Poona this afternoon, to Ava. continent-Reuter.

"All of the passengers were detained every officer in his cabin, strong, armed with rifles and operative Societies have agreed to searched after they had boarded together with Mr. Smith, a first- Thompson machine-guns.

boat at Hongkong, although we were due to leave on from us which they later returned. Wolfe, himself directed operations their stock. Reuter's American proposals must be presented at the fused the request to extend the 80-watts the King (Royal

but class passenger, and stole money The Inspector General, Mr.per cent of the market value of felt by responsible leaders of Saturday, we actually did not de-

"As a matter of fact, the pirates, and other high officials who were Service. part from the harbour until. Sun-when they boarded the boat in present included Mr. D. Burling day morning.

Hongkong had received information ham. D.S.P. from Kowloon, Mr. that we

DEAD.

Revolvers and Knives.

were carrying a large W. Le B. Sparrow, ASP. for the SHANGHAI DETECTIVE quantity of bullion, but this, of New Territories, Inspector T. Mur "All was quiet up to 2.15 am. course, was not so. That their ex-phy, A.S.P., Dr. Smalley, Chief In- on Monday morning, when we press intention of pirating the boat spector P. Grant and many other were then travelling 19.59 N. as to obtain the bullion which they inspectors and sub-inspectors.

firmly believed to be on board, I

312.43 E, which is close to Gap have not the slightest doubt. The

- INSPECTOR C. E. HENRY Rock lighthouse. Then, without No. 1 pirate, a man who spoke pid-

Four Hours Skirmishing.

'PASSES AWAY, warning, our two Chinese officers gin English, and was dressed in a themselves around the station were Many of the men who spread

Shanghai, July 22. on watch, Lai Ping-kwan, acting white coat and black trousers, ask practically firing blind. The police

The death has occurred here of second mate, and Ng Hong, third ed me straight out, when he first estimate of the last shot from the Detective Inspector C.B. Henry of engineer, were confronted by covered me with his revolver, where station was 7 pm. but it was not the Shanghal Municipal Police pirates, who levelled revolvers and the bullion was kept, and I then until 11 p.m. that an entrance was Force. He was a native of Aber- effected thler capture.

(Continued on Page 7.).

(Continued on Page 7.): Ideen-Our Own Correspondent.

Meeting With Gandhi

see Gandhi in prison and consider, peace possibilities, has been: post- poned-Reuter

Bombay, July 21. [The proposed meeting is an Owing to a bereavement in Mr.unofficial one, but has the Viceroy Jayaker's family, the proposed approval]

Viscountess Ednam

Viscountess Ednam was the oldest" daughter of the fourth Duke of Sutherland. She married Viscount (Continued on Page 7)

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