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WEN-TAM

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930.

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FORT

FORT

DUNLOP

The Tyre of Rugged Strength

LOCAL BRANCH.

Peddar Bldg.

ARMED SING SING JAPANESE SHIP IN A HOPEFUL TRADE BETHUNE OF SOUTH NANKING CHANGES LABOUR SLUMP IN STARTLING ARSON

CONVICTS

ATTEMPT ESCAPE.

REMARKABLE · SCENE

AT FAMOUS GAOL.

MACHINE-GUN FIRE FROM

PRISON WALLS.

TWO STILL MISSING.

DISTRESS.

DRIFTING HELPLESS OFF

PACIFIC COAST.

RUDDERLESS & A LIST.

San Francise, Nov. 3. The wireless station at Mussel Rock has pickel up an S. Q. S. message from a Japanese freighter.

OUTLOOK.

BUSINESS IN A STAĠE OF RECUPERATION.

BRITAIN'S COMPARATIVELY LIGHT ESCAPE.

AFRICA DEAD.

NOTED CAVALRY OFFICER

PASSES AWAY.'

TERRITORIAL CHIEF.

London, Nov,

The death has occurred in his 76th year, of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bethune, K.C.B.,

the Seiyo Maru, reporting that she FEDERATION'S VIEWS. CO., who will be chiefly remem-

is drifting helpless with her rudder lost and a heavy list.

London. Nov. 2. The ss. California is speeding Discussing the -world-wide Remarkable scenes were wit-to the wesen: Renter's Americna trade depression, the review is nessed at Sing Sing, the famous Service.

sued quarterly by the Federa- this tion of British Industries takes that the view that by comparison with that of certain other coun-

New York penitentiary. after Enquiries of the N.Y.K. darke had fallen m Saturday morning rise to a fear

night, when a sensational bid for the vessel concerned might stries British trade has been only

freedom, made by five inmates of the prison, was frustrated. Within a few minutes of the al- arm, the whole prison was flood- ed with light and a cordon of men manning machine-guns had taken up positions on the prison

walls.

Sing Sing officials had evidently profited by, the lessons of recent serious outbreaks in other prisons,

and every preparation had been made to deal with a riot should it

Decur.

Warders Held Up.

In a report of the incident cabled from New York, Reuter says that five armed desperadoes. inmates of Sing Sing, held up warders and took their keys, and then rushed into the prison yard,

The alarm was given, sirens shrieked!, flood lights were turn- ed on and machine-guns on the i walls were manned.

i

ut

the company's lated freighters, sibly be the Heiyo Maru, one

which has just left Los Angeler

moderately affected.

As to the future, the review certain that some of the more persistent There is, however, a Japanese and ng term cause of our in- freighter named the Seiyo Maru,dustrial ills are about to undergra

Mansei belonging to the

Kisela permanent chatige for the bet- concern. This is a vessel of 6.550 K.K.. a small Japanese shipping ter."

Already, despite the lack of any tons, built in Glasgow in 1913 by appreciable signs of greater wil Russell and Campany. She is 404 Engness to co-operate among the feet long, 52.2 foot broad

and gold using central banks of issue, draws 274 feet.

the international gold situation is Hong-perceptibly easier, and the world

for the South Amerisan coast. states "It seems almost

The Selyo Maru was in

kong abut three years ago under credit situation less rigid. - charter by the NYK. for a from Japan to Bombay.

trip

Short term money rates in the principal centres, with the excep A ennfusion of name is possible tion of Berlin, are at their lowest as the Morse signal for "" is level since the war, and show signs three dots and for "" four dots. For remaining there for some tinie.

FORMOSA REVOLT CASUALTIES.

JAPANESE SUBALTERN AMONG THE KILLED,

Tokyo, Nov. 3. Between seventy and eighty tribesmen are believed to have been

Crisis Relaxing.

bered as having raised Bethune's Horse during the Boer War.

Bethune, he entered the army in 1875, joined the 2nd Highlanders. and later transferred to the 6th

A son of Admiral Drinkwater :

Dragoon Guards. He served in Afghanistan in 1878-80, and in the Boer War of 1881. In the lator war, he was A.A.G. Ficht Force, South Africa, and was given the command of a cayalry brigade in 1901

In addition, judged by the re- sults of certain recent capitul is- sues in this country, long tern Interest rates are beginning to move in the same direction, though they still have a long way to go before the price of capital is down to the level required to restore the balance between in vestment, and saving. Prison in preparation for another kiest or wounded iw the com-rowing, in account of both inter-cashire. Territorial Division from

Similarly the pressure of hor- tl aperations, a national indebtedness and dis- 1960 to 1912. and during the War kal dopal (tressed industrial borrowers, ishe served as Directme-Tiggeral of www.bury Tow aboutth

the beginning tu at unoher be ankawn, as the ripetess,

relax-British the Territorial Forces-Router, triing non repently verry thir dead.

A vordion of men armed with tear-gas bombs

Pround

rint.

the

FRONT TRA

The convicts fred. wounding onions to the a warder. whereupan the ma- chinegans blazed and three of the convicts were -trètehed on the ground.

Companions Not Found. Their two companions scurried off and have not been detected, but the opinion is held that thee are still within the prison1.

Later. One of the convicts was killed and one was wooned. The other is suffering from the effects of tear-pas.----Renter's American Ser-

rice,

Startling enough in its way, the affair at Sing Sing. which is in Westchester County, is mild by comparison with other outbreaks in American prisons in the last twelve months...

1,000 con icts mutinied.

alter a

sharp

YACHT FOUNDERS IN STORM.

OWNER AND WIFE AMONG

DEATH-ROLL

.

..

He commanded the West Lan-

POSSIBLE.

MANCHURIANS MAY GET POSTS.

HINT OF REORGANISATION

OF GOVERNMENT, *.

CHANG'S PROPOSAL.

THE BOROUGHS.

INTERESTING MUNICIPAL ELECTION FIGURES.

THE TORY RECOVERY,

London, Nov. 2. Municipal elections for seats on local councils took place in County; Boroughs throughout England and Wales yesterday.

PLOT ALLEGATIONS.

TRAIL LAID THROUGH' BUILDING:

BUSINESS BEGUN WITH IDEA OF FRAUD.

INSURED FOR $20,000.

The contests are not always con- Shanghai, Nov. 2. ducted party lines and local af An important recommenda- fairs are the main issues before tion to the Fourth. Kuomintang the voters. The results so far de- That a trail of highly inflam- Plenary Session concerning theclared show that the Conserva-mable material was laid in the reorganisation of the Nankingtives have gained substantial sur. building, even up a ladder which of was festooned with shavings, Government is understood to esses mainly at the expense have been drawn up by Marshal labour candidates. The Liberals was one of the allegations made

also lost a few seats.

to-day during the preliminary Chiang Kai-shek, who will take

The final returns in the Munici. trial of four men, before Mr. the opportunity provided by the pal Elections in about eighty of Lindsell at the Central Mugis- Tsingtao Conference to discuss the largest cities in England' anding out of an alleged attempt to tracy on charges of arson, aris- the recommendation with Gen-Wales, reveal that the Conserva-set fire to No. 77, Winglok Street eral Chang Hsueh-liang, head of tives have gained considerably in the Munchurian Government. strength, as follows:

are

Gains.

Conservatives Independents Labour Liberaly

79

10

24

20

27

9

92 17

recently.

+

A deliberate conspiracy to de- Losses.fraud the insurance company was alleged, counsel stating that struc- Itural alterations for the purpose of assisting the fire were carried but soon after defendants had gone into occupation of the building."

pearing for the Crown while Mr. Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy is up-

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is leaving here for Tsingtao on Friday. The details of the President's recommendation not disclosed, but some important changes in the persoanel of the Nanking Government are expected to result from it. There is a dis-losses were sustained in industrial Some of the largest Labour tinct possibility of many Man-

churian Government appointees areas. It may be noted that last Leo d'Almada, snr., represents the being given high positions in the year, Labour gained 112 seats and first and second defendants, who Central Government at the sug-lost 12, whereas the Conservatives are stated to be the proprietor of gestion of General Chang Hsueh- gained 11 and lost 61. Labour the business and his son, respec- liang.

has not lost all the seats gained a tively. Mr. O. E. C. Marton was year ago Reuter

British originally retained by these two Wireless,

J

Conference Date.

that Lie

and

WENT TO BUY HER OWN MACHINE.

JAN SENTENCED FOR

RECEIVING,

159. Yu Chan, Street.

men.

Mr. Fitzroy informed his Wor- ship that he had finished with the witness who was originally a de- fendant.

Mr. d'Almada:I don't propose to cross-examine this witness at this stage reserve that for the higher court.

Defence Laler.

As the Fourth Kuomintang Plenary Session is scheduled to be opened at Nanking on the 12th instant, it is reported that, after

with the conference

Marshal eraf Staff with the rank of Brig. General Chang Hsueh-liang may

He was appointed to the Gen-

Chiang Kai-shek.. at Tsingtao, General in 1905. was

promoted Major-General in 1908 and Lieut.of Afarshal Chiang to attend the leave for Nanking in the company General in 1913.

Hauch-liang's trip to Tsingtao, racy this morning, with stealing posing to disclose any defence at Conference.

A Chinese was charged before! Referring tu General Chang Mr. Butlers, at the Kowloon Magis

His Worship:-Are you not pro- Makden cables stake

Young General" will take the the property of Lo Kwai-lum, of and receiving a sewing machine,

shall Dr. d'Almada :---1

oľ opportunity of inspecting the

course at the end of the case; it Manchurian forres on the northern sections of the Tientsinthe machine by a friend, whom he

Defendant said he had been given with be my duty,

In dealing with the facts of the Pukow Railway and also those at

ease, Mr. Fitzroy said there were Peking. Tientsin. Weihaiwei and could not now, find. Tsingtao.

Complainant said she was instill a good many enquiries to be formed defendant had a sewing made, and many of the witnesses.

·Manchurian Planes.

machine for sale, and she went to whom the Crown hoped to get The his house, to see it. He produced were out of the Colony. The Manchurian military com the machine from under a bed, and four defendants, continued Coun- mund at Mukden has announced she recognised it as hers..

Lael, had been living at 77, its intention of despatching thirty

Winglok Street and it was the case Defendant was sentenced to two for the Crown that the first aeroplanes to strengthen the de-months' imprisonment fences of Peking and Tientsin. The first squadron will leave on

charge of, receiving. Wednesday and the last plane will arrive at Peking before the week-

BRITISH LADY'S

FLIGHT,

MRS. BRUCE MAY ARRIVE

TO-MORROW.

General Chang Hsych-liang has If, however, she is able to keep reached an understanding with strictly to her itinerary, the fam-General Shib Yu-shan concerning ous British aviatrix should reach the garrisoning of Northern Haiphong either to-day or early Honan and part of Shantung, the to-morrow.

Manchurian ruler agreeing to

It is only a five hours' aerial Hop supply General Shib a monthly

noon.

ол

MORE SEDITIOUS PAMPHLETS.

ACCUSED MAN SAYS HE

WAS CARRIER.

"

the

accused carried on business as the proprietor of the Tin Sang Tong firm and the second defendant was his son. The other two were fokis.

Plan to Burn Building.

Gen. Dawes Optimistic. The Japanese casualties are three killed and even wounded. They

That betler times are close include a subaltern who was killed

ahead is the view of General during severe fighting on Saturday Dawes, the American Ambassador. in the vicinity of Mahab, the last who entertained at luncheon in stronghold of the tribesmen, whathe City Hall at Belfast by the

captured WHIS

Lord Mayor, seized the occasion to make an optimistic speech re- struggle.-Heater,

garding the business oullook. Beyond a message that she left Speaking of the world-wide in-Rangoon on Friday, bound for dustrial and trade depression, Bangkok, no news has been receiv- General Dawes said that "such a ed during the week-end as to the depression was due always to a progreas of the Hon. Mrs. Victor sudden change in the attitude of Bruce, who is making a Far East end. the world's people. This changed sok flight. attitude was often explained in the different countries as being the result of diverse causes, in-

The shop dealt in Chinese eluding unwise national policies, New York, Oct. 29.

medicine, and evidence would be undue speculation. over-produc-

produced before the Court to show Eight persons. perished when tion, under-consumption, and poli-

that the firm, after going into Canon City Mutiny.

the steam! yacht Dardarnes tical or social upheavals. These, from the Indo-China port to Hong military allowance of $600,000.

Occupation had carried out certain Nine armed revolts have secur

foundered off Delaware Capes however, were more the effects of kong, and it may therefore be General Shih Yu-shan is confer Mr. Lindsell, at the Central Mayis ship

Leung Wing was charged before structural alteratione, as his Wor- red since August last year. At

on Saturday.

had already heard from The steamship Henry Mallory than the causes of it.

the change of general attitude that Mrs. Bruce will land in Hong-ring with General Chang Hsueh-tracy this morning, with being in the foki who Canon City, Colorado, in October

was previously laat, eleven convicts were killed arrived here to-day with six

kong some time to-morrow after lang at Mukden, but will soon possession of a quantity of sedi charged. The staircase Was Misdirected Energy. and geven warders shot dead when survivors taken from a lifeboat

Icave for Peking to see General tious iterature.

formerly in the front part of the yesterday.

The Asiatic Petroleum Com-Yu Hsieh zung, the Manchurian The printed matter, stated the premises instead of at the rear, as The con- victs took the warders captive and The owner of the yacht, E. G. by a regrettable combination of ing the flight and is now awaiting and Tientsin.

"After, a hectic period induced pany is in constant touch regard garrison commander of Peking prosecuting police officer, was Com was now the case. After having shot one and threw him over thebers of the crew went down with Valverde, his wife and three mem-

munistle and anti-Hongkong. taken the shop, some of the tiles aver-confidence and misdirected the latest notification wall each time their demand for

as to Mrs. The Civil Governor of Canton,

Accused pleaded that he was only of the floor had been removed and freedom was rejected. A pitched the ship. Three other members of energy, the reaction and return Brace's whereabouts.

General Chan Ming-shu, arrived a carrier, being ignorant of the the wooden part exposed. battle lasting four hours quelled were buried at sea.

the crew died in the lifeboat and to the normal view of things

nt Hankow by aeroplane from true nature of the papers which he All this said Mry Fitzroy, was cause, first, a business collapse.

Nanking yesterday on an impor was instructed by the man who part and parcel in preparation of The ship's sinking was due to then the period of recuperation. then a period of stagnation, and

tant mission representing Marshal employed him to distribute

the to burning

premises down. a terrife storm.

Chiang Kai-shek. He will confer various Clubs in the Colony. He There was a big store room which Business mankind is now in the

with the Hankow garrison com was remanded for 24 hours,

made a regalar funnel. This was stage of recuperation. We know

manders.

ralled "the odds and ends room" that in a general way under the

by the witness. Then attempts law of action and reaction the

were made to insure the business. periods of under-activity in busi-

Under the auspices of the

A certain amount of the stuff in nese are somewhat proportional in

Military Governor of Kiangsi,

stock was contained in a variety length to the periods of over-

General Lu Ti-ping, a big Nation

of pots, with their names attached. Bombay, Oct. 29. activity preceding them.

Bombay to-day was stirred when alist conference was held at Nat- "That time is now considerably it was

Insured for $20,000.. Pittsburgh, Oct. 27.

announced that threats thang, the capital of Kiunge, yes- over a year behind us when the have been made against the life of terday, being attended by promin

Attempts were then made to Howard Heinz, plekle king of public suddenly turned over' from Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India. ent militarists from Haakow,

insure the business; The Crowns Pittsburgh and head of the house exhilaration and that confidence

Wuchang. Changsha and Yochow. of the "57 varieties," to-day made in the future which is the basis been taken to protect the person sider the steps to be taken in ammunition, to

Rigorous police measures have The gathering was held to conrevolver and several rounds of fairly, big ones but both were un- For the possession of a loaded had traces of two attempts, both Over three hundred convicts the longest telephone call on of prosperity to that lack of con-of the Viceroy, whe has been the tracking down the Communist pleaded guilty, a Chinese were burned

which charge he successful. At last an insurance to death at Ohio record,

fidence which is the basis of busi-centre of a storm ever since the bandits in Central China.

policy for the sum of $20,000 on State Penitentiary in April this Heinz opened the America to ness depression. I do not think now imprisoned Mahatma Gandhi' year, following incendiarism by Australia radiotelephone service, the business of the world left its started his programme of civil dis-action and decided that the anti-this morning.

sentented to five years hard Life Insurance was secured cover- the General Accident, Fire and The conference urged concerted labour at the Central Magistracy ing the furniture, fittings and malcontents among the prisoners. The circuit, routed v England, pormal trend earlier than 1927; obedience, who made a bid for. escape, cut- [functioned well. Conversation two years before the collapse of

Communist artny should eemmence ting fire hoses and shooting four was clear over a distance of no prices in 1020

The police, stated that the man on the leading.

its campaign by cleaning up the was arrested at. Causeway Bay ready, there seemed to have been Then when everything was of the firemen. A thousand troops less than 14,000 miles. There was Stock Exchanges of most nations, of a returning world business con-against the "Reds" will start on and Mr. Williams) heard the case. odds and ends room which was Klangsi districts. The war Two Magistrates (Mr. Lindsell In hole made in the floor of the fidence, but nothing is more cer-Thursday, and to assist. the army tain' than coming business re- the Nanking Government has com

the mutineers.

* W

In December, a similar outbreak occurred at Auburn State Prison. Twelve men were killed, seven by machine-gun fre. The convicts captured the Governor and held} PICKLE KING'S TALK, him as hostage. He escaped by a miracle when a gua bomb caused temporary confusion in the ranks of the convicts. National Guards armed with bombs, machine-guns and rifles obtained control after a long battle.

The Ohio Tragedy.

LONGEST DISTANCE PHONE CONVERSATION,

armed with all the panoply of war no interruption of communication. saved the situation. It was found Heinz talked to Australia about later that 4,300 men were in a | pickles.

em-

Summer Next Year.

VICEROY'S LIFE THREATENED.

POLICE PROTECTION FOR LORD IRWIN.

Anti-"Red": War.

· POSSESSION OF A

REVOLVER.

FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE ON-

CHINESE.

was

dothing.

filled with bales of palm, leaves, prison designed to accommodate

"If I am right in this, other covery. The business fool in 1929 missioned several aeroplanes to

shavings and such like highly in- things being equal, may we not was he who had no fear. The fool raid notorious Communiet haunts Central. Kuomintang was 1,500. Machine-guns were

re flammable material. On the top hope to see the normal trend of now is he who has no hope."in Central China. ployed against rioters, twenty be An American fireman on the world business resumed by the

presented by Mr. Sun Fo, while floor there was a hammer and nap- ing wounded, when a later attempt President Cleveland, Richard Pike, summer or fall of next year, which ister of Northern Ireland, said Industrial and Commercial Con behalf of the National Govern- smashed. Pots of gasolene were Lord Craigavon, the Prime Min- The official opening of the Dr. Wang Chung-hul spoke opthalene balls which had been was made to escape from Ohio. was admitted into the Kowloon will mark the end of the after-that the Ambassador's wise words ference at Nanking took placement.

Two prisoners and a warder IIospital yesterday suffering from two-year period?

My strewed about in various parts of were killed at Howard State injuries resulting from a fall

would carry weight overywhere, yesterday, in the presence of over The delegates will be divided the premises. On the ground Prison during a bid for freedom down a height of 12 feet on to the may in this or that country ad- be greatly cheered by the optimis of Commerce, dad. Industry, Mr. recommendations. Each group had been brought in at some time "Exceptional local conditions and the business community would a hundred delegates. The Minister into six groups to examine the 300 foor big bundles of palm leaves by armed desperadoca in June. deck of the vessel.

vance or retard the healing effect the views he bad expressed. H. H. Kung presided. The will under one Chairman,

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