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MURDER GANG|GREAT FIRE STABBING AFFRAY SEVEN KILLED IN BRITAIN

EVADES

POLICE SEARCH.

FIFTEEN RAIDING PARTIES OUT.

THREE MEN PRESENT AT SHOOTING.

WELL-LAID PLOT.

Special investigations dis- close that there were pro- bably three men actively con nected with the murder of the Cantonese detective who was shot down in Jubile Street yesterday morning. and who later succumbed to his wounds.

There is also little doubt that

BURNS AFTER FIFTY HOURS.

SNOW HAMPERING FIREMEN,

LONDON ICE BELT

London, Mar. 9.

SEQUEL.

FILIPINO CHARGED WITH MURDER.

BRAWL IN SHANGHAI IN SEPTEMBER.

AMERICAN'S DEATH.

(Our Own Correspondent).

LANDSLIDE

WORKERS BURIED ALIVE at SHEKLAIPUI.

DEATH IN

OSPITAL.

Soven male coolies were killed and another seriously injured in the landslide which occurred yea- terday at Sheklalpu, in the vicinity of the Shing Mun Valley, where the work of damming the river in connexion with the waterworks scheme is being carried out.

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LOCAL BRANCH.

ACCEPTS TORY INDIA

GENERAL ARBITRATION ACT.

PRESENT FOREIGN

POLICY AIM. ·

IMPORTANCE OF COMING CONFERENCE.

RECOIL.

NO CO-OPERATION IN FUTURE,

SURPRISE MOVE.

London, Mar. 9. -- The very surprising; but vital- ly important, decision has been GIVING THE LEAD. reached by Mr. Stanley Baldwin that the Conservative Party will At about quarter past twelve

not be represented at the con- London, Mar. 9. Yesterday, a large quantity of

templated sittings of the Round from earth become dislodged

n An important step towards Table Conference in India. cutting in the new byewash which the strengthening of the mi- is being constructed, and eight chinery for the pacific settler taken was only made known to-- workmen were buried under the ment of international disputes night on doris, Rescue work

Over fifty hours after the out- break of the great fire which has practically destroyed the huge Seven-storeyed tea and rubber warehouse at Butler's Wharf,

Shanghai, Mar. 10. near the Tower Bridge, firemen ane, still fighting the flames. Ramon Tobins, a Filipino musi- The blaze Kues raging cian, who was arrested by the furiously, and only the most re:American authorities in Shang-me markable efforts by the massed

on.

Was

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That such a décision had been.

the termination:

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fire-fighting organisation of this hat in September last year in/diately commenced by the work! was taken to-night, in the House meeting of the India Committee of

part of London, under serious connexion handicaps, has prevented the fire from spreading."

To-day, although the walls were he was the victim of Communaleeted with ice, volumes of amoke ists, to whom he was a constant from burning rubber were pouring threat.

from the roof, and occasionally

sible effort to apprehend the man-up. derers. No fewer > la

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in the

welcome of Mr. Baldwin's

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SKOPLIE'S

OMINOUS SILENCE.

THE EARTHQUAKE CATASTROPHE.

BOILING GEYSERS ADD TO TERRORS.

REVELLERS PANIC.

Belgrade, Mar. 9. Underground rumblings, rolling like thunder, the awo- some crash of landslides, the toppling of buildings, and the spouting of great geysers of boiling water Word among the terrifying features of the earthquake disaster in Jugo- Slavin, where, it is feared, the toll of life has been extremely heavy.

the of Commons, which approved the Party at the House of Com- on the Rcene, while

were also Britain's accession to the Gen-mons. with the death by Kowloon Fire Brigade

An official report issued at the stabbing of William Garcia, an

eral Act, subject to the four Three men, who were unearthed, conditions outlined in the recent clone said that the Irwin-Gandhi settlement had been considered in American citizen, in a brawl at were found to be dead and their Foreign Office memoramium. all its detalls by the Committee, the corner of North Szechuan bodies were taken to the Kowloon Mr. Arthur Henderson, moving Road, appeared before Judge Mortuary, while two others, who the adherence of the British Em-after which the members recorded were injured, were rushed to pire, except those parts which are decision not to co-operate in the

The full extent of the catas- The Police have made every pos- | great spurts of flame would shoot Purdy, in the American Court hospital. One of these later suc- į separately represented

to-day, for formal arraignment. cumbed to his Injuries, while the membership of the League, to the

further conferences.

trophe it is impossible for the

with He is charged

The subsequent explanation was time being to assess. Great de-. murder, other is still in a serious con- General Act, an elaborated by the that the sensational decision was vastation has occurred in many fiftern

Bitterly cold weather has been ifferent raiding partins were the greatest hampering factor. Two other men were arrested by dition.

League of Nations Assembly, said taken last week, before the ter- small towns and villages, but the police at the same time, and buxy resterday

and Many of the firemen have been

Chiu Nam, aged 10, was one of that it provides that disputes have been through the night, and swooping suffering from exposure accen-although no charges

the two men who was rushed to which cannot be settled by ordinary mination of the Irwin-Gandhi con- anxiety, is, increasing in the ab- well-known tuated by fatigue after strenuous preferred, they have been held a hospital, but he only lived for legal methods shall be submitted to eations, and after a deputation sence of any news whatsoever three hours. The other, Leung a special tribunal of five members, of the Committee had submitted from Uskub, the biggest town

in the stricken area. her of possible suspects were de Warehouse are engaged in the Shanghai as witnesses in the case.

Kam, 25, is still critical. The six one chosen from each disputant, a views to Mr. Baldwin.

To-night's resolution, therefore. men who were extricated dead

from and three by agreement

Every effort has been made to was only a formal acknowledg-get into touch with the city, which were Leung King (43). Cheung among the nationals of a third

has a population in excess of Leang (32), Cheung Keung (31). Power.

The announcement has taken Wong Lee (40), Aj Ching (28) and

40,000, and the silence la regarded Mak Fu (17). All resided at the

Parliamentary circles completely ля ominous, particularly as the by surprise, particularly after the worst of the shocks occurred in Koon Yik matshod.

satisfactory outcome of Conserva- the early hours of the morning tive association with the London when the vast majority of people

afternoon

down

numerul Communist haunts. a large numefforts.

~tained.

It is feared, however, that its spread. will be impossible to connect any of them with the crime.

Only 24 Years of Age. Yau Tak-yan, a young man of only 24 years of age, was attach ed to the Bureau of Public Safety at Canton, by which he was greatly valued on account of the special. knowledge he possessed of the Inner organisation of the Kwangtung Communist Party, and its ramifica-

tions

Thuse

gas-masks,

There is no further danger of The entire front of the building, facing the river, 18 coated with ice, and leleles hag from the hoses and the fire-fight- ing tackle.

The fire brigades were further handicapped in their work to-day by the heaviest snowstorm experi- cheed in London for many years.

The Snowstorm.

fact London in

suffered

consequence, was

Stabbed Three Times. The killing took place a few minutes after the Night Clair cih uret had closed at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. September 28.

Garein, who was in Shanghat is mechanic to the showmen at the

New World amusement resort at

the corner of Thibet and Nanking

On the street

HURRICANE DAMAGE IN MATRITIUS,

Binding Decisions,

ment.

conference.

Strumnitza Pane.

of the

disaster

at

If no agreement is reached by this special tribunal, the dispute then goes to an Arbitral Tribunal of five members, chosen in similar Rands, accompanied by Jean "Tex"

The Secretary for India, Mr. were asleep in their bode. manner. The latter's decision Wedgwood Benn, replying to seve La Franke, trick motorcycle per-

would be binding on both parties to ral questions in the House of former at the New World, had just

the dispute.

Commons as to the Government's A graphic story comes from its left the Tumble Inn, a small estab

Mr. Henderson declared that plans for carrying on the work of survivor coldest March day for decades.lishment near the Night Club WIDESPREAD DISTRESS OVER the British Empire's adherence the Round Table Conference, said Strumnitzo where practically the The streets were under snow from cabaret, and were on their way to

BIG AREA,

was a logical consequence of the it was hoped to make a statement whole town has been destroyed.

The firet avere shock in the city On the trail of some noted Com. [an early hour in the morning and La Franke's rooms.

Pact of Paria and a logical com- on the subject very shortly. London. Mar. 9.

A debate on India munists whom he had followed to by noon were buried to a lepth outside the establishment, the two

is taking was fel' at 2.55 am. when many of some several inches.

men encountered a crowd of alx A telegram from the Governor plement of the Optional Clause. Hongkong, he recently took up

Trame. in

The adherence of the United place on Thursday. Reuter and people were finishing their mercy-

making in the cafes, Then, according to of Mauritius to the Secretary of Kingdom would complete the coun- British Wireless, Filipinos. quarters at Yaumati, and it was almost a dally custom of his at the lowed dowe and traffic noises Tobias' statement to the police, I State for the Colonies says a pre-try's acceptance of arbitration for

Garcin walked into him asminary inspection shows that the

International disputes or every ing neeidents were caused by Many to cruss over to Hongkong In order | vehicles skidding and some roads he was passing and called him a hurricane damage is severe, caus-gines, subject to certain reserva-

bnd nume. After the epithet had ing widespread distress. A largo London, of the outskirts

small dwellings have including two main roads to the been repeated several times, Gar- number of

demolished and several Preparing For Conference.. For that reason, his movements south were rendered impassable. a struck him, said Tobias, and been probably were well-known to local

Traffic was held up owing to tee in order to defend himself he drew thousands are homelesss.

The heaviest damage was report. his knife and struck back at Gar-

The Government, he said, re Communists, the designs they had and snow in the Midlands and the is. By this time the other mem-ed in Moka and the westerngarded ratification as an important ot his life being well-set and the North of England, where, in some spot for the commission of the out-places, there were six feet drifts,bers of the crowd were also fight-suburbs of Port Louis. Moka Hos- act of proparation which they rage chosen beforehand,

Snow plugha. had to be used to ing, but when Gartia fell to the pital was badly damaged and will could make for the success of the clear the streets in certain East Kround, the six men took to their probably have to be evacuated. Coust towns.-Reuter and British heels. Wireless,

hour at which he was shot down,

to keep in contact with local Po lice officers at Headquarters.

Shot at Clone Range. The victim, after 'travelling by ferry from Yaumati, had just cross- o the Praya, and was at a distance of about 200 feet from the Ferry when he was shot down.

Near the junction of Jubilee Street, three men were seen to sur- round the detective, whose Euro- peun suit of a greenish tint marked' him out from the crowd hurrying along the waterfront at this busy time of the day.

Two reports were heard and the three men scattered.

were silenced.

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Later:

It is estimated that damage to of £250,000 has been the extent done at Butler's Wharf. The Fire Brigade was this morning (10th) still playing on the smouldering debris. -Reuter.

THE ANGLO-SOVIET DEBT ISSUE.

VERY SLOW PROGRESS WITH

| NEGOTIATIONS,

ነ

the

homeless.

Temporary relief measures are progress for feeding and shel- toring

The loss of life so far reported is twelve, but the reports are in- complete, as the roads are blocked with debris.

La Franke then summoned thei police offers, who found

that Garcia had been stabbed three times. He was rushed the General Hospital, but died a few minutes after being entered.

to

Deceased Identified. United States District Attorney George C. Sellet and Marshal Thurston K. Porter were notified hospital, and summoned to the where the deceased was identified by La Frank and Mrs. Mabel Dowd, secretary of the E. K. Fer- nundez Shows of Honolulu, Gar- cla's employers.

Tobius was arrested in his long- ing house on Range Road about 8 o'clock the same evening as he was engaging in a telephone com versation with a friend who had ostensibly called up to warn the

The damage to the cane crops, which wore exceptionally promis- ing. WAA very severe-British Wireless.

THE FRENCH WAR INSTRUMENT.

tions.

coming World Disarmament Con

they ference, which

believed would, by its results, determina the future course of events in Europe and the world.

MENSHEVIK TRIAL SENTENCES.

COURT TAKES 25 HOURS TO REACH DECISION.

Moscow, Mar. 9. After deliberating for twenty- five hours, the Supreme Court try- ing fourteen members of the "All- Union Bureau of the Central Com- Success would assure the future mittees of Mensheviks," passed constructive international centence of ten years' imprison- eo-operation. Failure would havement on seven of their number, extremely grave consequences, Groman, Scher, Sukhanov, Gina- Therefore, the Government had burg, Jakovich, Petunin and to put preparations for it in the Finnyenaelovsky. forefront of foreign policy.

of

Night in the Rain. Suddenly the lights falled and the ceilings Legan to fall an 1 build- ings to topple over. The gueste who were immediately sobered by the terror of the affair, rushed into the blackness of the rainy night, and lay huddled in the fields till dawn.

One of the most remarkable Incidents of the quake was the noted disappearance of the

away

- mineral springs at Strumnitra. They dried up suddenly, and

miles reappeared ten shooting up into the air a geysers in great cracks in the earth near Valandov.

There is still no telephone com→ munication possible with Skoplie They had pleaded guilty to (Uskub) and consequently it is charges of plotting to overthrow impossible to ascertain details of the Soviet State and to establish the catastrophe there. Anxiety is

capitalist regime with foreign growing hourly.

..

Serious Distress.

faithful service to the Soviet Villed in Salonika, and many

in South-eastern Jugo- have been almost complete-

Powerful Lend. Although not the first country to adhere to the General Act,help. Britain would be giving a power- Lesser sentences were passed on One of them, who is believed to

though tho fui lead to nations, as in the case their colleagues,

A message from Budapest sayi have fired the fatal shots at point- blank range, was scarcely more than

STRONG CRÍTICISM BY

of the Optional Clause. Before lowest was five years. The highest that cold and hunger is increasing the sufferings of the stricken peo- a youth. Not more than twenty

Britain signed the Optional Clause, was eight years' imprisonment. GERMAN MINISTER. is one description ap-. years of

London, Mar 9.

only seventeen Governments were The age

accused all promised to ple in the earthquake region. It is plied. He was of medium height In the flouse of Commons to-day,

Berlin, Mar. 9.

bound by it. To-day there were devote the rest of their lives to confirmed that a number of houses and build, and attired in dark several questions were put na to

That the French Army is the thirty-four no bound. blue native sait and, peculiarly the progress of the Anglo-Soviet

strongest and best-prepared war He pointed out that the United given a chance, Renter. enough, was wearing n hale-net. Debts and Claims Committee.

instrument in the world was con-Kingdom would not stand alone He fled up the short distance of Mr. Dalton said the main com- young mun that the detectives tended by the German Minister of for the Imperial Conference had! Jubilee Street and disappeared inmittee had met eleven times. Two were on his trail. Sergeant Stocks Defence, General Groener, in a approved the principle of the the crowd thronging Des Voeux Sub-Committees had held mart-happened to

Governl Act after enreful consi- ings, but had not yet reported, in the conservation and unde tepeesh in the Relching to-day on

the Army Estinmios.

deration. while the four other Sub-Com-arrest as soon as Tobins hang up

Referring He strongly opposed the French

Lo #n amendment mittees had not yet met-British the receiver. The arrested man idea that nations formerly aggres- moved later by Sir Ausion

stoutly maintained his innocence

should .be subjected to Chamberlain, Mr. Henderson sald into custody, but after an hour or than others.

he mado a more of questioning,

Ho snid Germany, statement in connexion with the disarmed to an extent, unexampled, crimo.

in history, was entitled to demand The ense is proceeding.

that the other Powers should also disarm as stipulated in the Treaty of Versailica, Reuter

Rond.

Plucky -Effort. The detective sank to the ground. He blow two blasts on a whistle which ho shatched from his pocket, and with the other hand he pointed to his body, indicating to an Indian soldier in civilian clothes, the first to come to his assistance, whare he had been hit.

The shooting was carried out almost underneath tho, Praya verandah of the new Government Building, which contains the offices

Wireless.

GERMAN RELATIONS WITH SOVIET.

ECONOMIC AGREEMENT

CONCLUDED.

Moscow, Mar. 9. Gorman-Soviet relations are

of the Importa and Exports Depart likely to be strengthøned as a re- ment, the Secretariat for Chinesosult of the conclusion of a Affairs, and the offices of the large body of watchmen and searchers employed on waterfront duty.

Economic Agreement between the Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Council and a delegation of Gor- Industrialists vielting Moscow. Reuter.

Man

the room dur-

for some time after being taken Beverer armament Imitations he recognised, fully the value of

DOCTOR'S MOTOR-CAR

STOLEN.

TAKEN FROM A PUBLIC- PARKING PLACE.

the action of the Lengue Council which hul and regarded the Council's action in the Mosul dispute and the Greco-Bulgarian dispute as classic instances of the strength of the machinery which the Longue con venant provided, but he could not agree that acceptance of the General Act would diminish the authority of the Council.

CHINA'S WAR ON COMMUNISTS.

OVER 200,000 TROOPS IN THE FIELD.

Conservative Congratulations. On rising to move the Conser

Sir vative amendment,

Austen the Chamberlain congratulated Foreign Socratary and paid a tribute to Signors Mussolini and on the Grandl and M. Briand success of the recent naval con- versations.

Turning to the issue before the

COMMUNISM CHARGES

DROPPED.

PROFESSOR HUNG'S COURT NOTICE.

(Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, Mar 10 The charges of Communiam against Professor Hung Sung have been dropped.

Iv destroyed. Those close to the Greek frontier have been the worst aufferers, though curiously enough there are no reports of an extensive damage In Greece itself.

A number of railway stations have been wrecked, and with the Hines damaged, truffle has brought to a standstill.

been

Assistance Refused. The Jugo-Slavian Government has officially. announced that it intends to meet all expenditure aris ing from the earthquake. Conse à notice formally notifying him raised, nor will contributions be ac Ho has received from the Court quently, subscriptions will not be that no charges would be preferr- cepted from abroad. ed and no ovidenco would be taken against him.

TRADE DISPUTES MEASURE.

Yet another instance of a motor- Inspector Takes Chorge.

car being stolen from a public Inspector Andrew in churge of

parking-place has to be recorded, the waterfront force, who, looking

the victim in this case being Dr. J. from a window, it is stated, had a The Royal Observatory reports, Anderson, the well-known medico. In a report which he made to glimpse of the man in the dark suit that the antleyclone, which has before he disappeared around the weakened further, is contral near the police, Dr. Anderson stated angle of the building, took charge Shangal. A depression has form that he left his car, an Overland Klangel in readiness to participate House, be observed that the United Prime Minister said he did not at

-of the case at the outeat.

Nachang, Mar. 9. The 5th, 6th 19th and 25th Nationallat Diisions and other Nanking regimetits," consisting of over 200,000 may have arrived In

NO FURTHER ACTION FOR THE PRESENT.

London, Mar. 9. In the House of Commons, the

The whole of the Balkans ap pears to have felt the quakes to a greater or lesser extent, but there is no doubt that the southern parÉ of Jugo-Slavin was the centre of the upheaval

"It is feared that at least 150 people perished in the region box- dering on

on the Bulgaro-Greek fron- tiers. Some reports declare, that 800 were killed. It aneme certain that 800 have been injured; while it is dstimated thất bổ, thouusmit housed collapsed in the frontier

munist bandit

Manga Paris, did not share the view that further proposals relating to the Kingsi Nanchang and Kanchow will be it needed other measures to give repaal or amendment of the Trade by the, Prime Minister made the head arters of the ex-it-force. He maintained that the Disputes Act of 1027. British the earthaus kan

Wirolean (Continued on Page 18) in pedition.

•

He came down into the street Local forecast:-Northerly winds, at 4 p.m. yesterday, and when he and found the wounded detective, moderate; gonemily: overcast, roturned at midnight he found inarticulate and almost unconscious foggy, possibly clearing tem that it had been taken away,

(Continued on Page th)

porarily.

The car is valued at $2,500

Yad to the east of tre Louchaos, I.Phippet, Ku 1768, in Charter Road | In the expedtilia • against Com- States, the author of the Pact of i prosont propose to introduce any dieTNEYAR