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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931.

BOMB EXPLODE IN CANTON.

THREE OUTRAGES IN TWO DAYS.

Canton, May 27. Three bomb explosions within forty-eight hours, the wrecking of part of the wall attached to the Provincial Government House, in-

jury to a pedestrian and an attempt to destroy a building on the South Bund are alleged to be parts of a plot to take the lives of some of the

RAILWAY DISASTER, phone, but found the telephone

ABNORMÁL RAINFALL PRIOR

TO ACCIDENT.

out of order, Ile walked to Tai Wal, to which place ko had sent asked them to go to the scene of hfa men owing to a washaway, and the accident. He himself went Adjourned from last week, the in the rescue work. In his dis along, and with his men assisted Inquiry into the recent railway strict on the anme day there was disnster was resumed before Mr large washaway at the Man Hang E. W. Hamilton, sitting with a village, in which ten people lost special Jury, at Kowloon yester their lives. There was heavy day afternoon.

rainfall between 3.30 and 4p.ni.

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to the Coroner, Mr. Con that day. reply D. Lambert, Chief Mechanical Engineer, said that fatning of had given evidence, Sub-Inspector After passenger of the train steel and wooden coaches W&B

Elston was called. He #nid that done in England. All the couches he took charge of police arrange- they had in Hongkong had steet

ments at the Kowloon station on Mr. C. P.W.D.,

from the railway authorities und

of 6.19 acting Engineer Way and Worka, said that he was and 16 motor buses to Shatin and

He sent out 22 quite satisfied with the arrange recalled the launches. The police ments at the waterfall and

prominent Kuomintang and military underfrum; Wardell, engineer receiving news of the accidont

leaders Including Messrs. Wang Ching-wei, Sun Fo, Eugene Chen and Gen. Chan Chai-tong who are taking active parts in the move- ment against Nanking.

Practically all the Canton leaders. were dining at a big banquet given At the Government House on Mon- day evening when the party was shocked by a bomb explosion out- side the main entrance, The nt- tempt failed miserably as only a outer very small portion of the wafl was damaged. The body- guards of General Chan Chai-tong were patrolling outside, but failed to trace the desperadoes,

p.m.

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lunnel No. 3. He attributed the knew of the washaway on the road accident to an abnormal rainfall, brigade and two ambulances had The Kowloon Are about 6 pan. which caused the water to flow left. Three launches over the wall and andermine the called, and n wireless mesango embankment, He was of

of opinion was sent out to No, launch, that there must have been a heavy which was near Bins Bay, to pro- rainfall for half an hour and the coed to Taipo. By 9.30 p.m. they flow over the wall for a quarter were receiving messages direct of an hour. They Were taking from the scene of the accident. steps to prevent a similar occur on the following morning, he took rence. He considered that the wall should be rejsed and the slope of The bank pitched in masonry and cement mortar. The "cut"

also would have to be widened and some of the boulders remured. He considered that these alterations were sufflelent. ព normal circumstances. and

Gen. Chan Indignant.

General Chon is said to be in dignant and immediately ordered Gendarmes Commissioner Lin Shih-

without ITKY unforeseen catos Commissioner Chan Hing-wan who were diningtrophe, to prevent a recurrence of

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search of streets in the vicinity of Government House. Considering the mild nature of the explosion uffield elrelves regard this as a more i demonstration. The leaders seem- jed to be unperturbed and the con- ference which discussed the elec Tion of the fifteen members to nerve in the new National Government proceeded well after mid-night

Bomb in A Garden.

the

Almost simultaneous with explosion at Government Hons a second outrage occurred it the Public Garden where a concert was in progress with hundreds of meu and women in attendance.

A D- sation Wha created amuny the visitors and this was followed by the arrival of a large posKĖ of Police. The explosion was located in the north-western side of the Garden. This outrage is also in- terpreted as a demonstration tu create uneasiness among the resi dents. The cancert was interrupted with the Police searching for sus- perle and interrogating many of the visitors. No arrest was made. The explosion. apart from causing injury to a pedestrina, failed to do any serious damage to the Garden.

It wrecked some trees and left a hole a foot deep in the ground. The Klass panes of the former residence of Marshal Li Chal-sum, opposite Government House were shattered. The house is believed to be occupied at present,

Un-

A laber message was received that a third explosion occurred on Tuesday evening on the south bund, the attempt being made to wreck a building. Messrs. Wang Ching- wei and Eugene Chen were staying at the Naval Club, on the south Bund. The outrage occurred late in the evening, but it has been as- certained that no casualty resulted.

Following this series of bomb explosions the Police are conduct- ing searches at the numerous board- ing houses and hotels along the .Band.

Well Conceived Plol.

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That the bomb outrages are con- nected with a plot to take the lives. of the rebel leaders is suggested by previous reports from Shanghai that prior to their departure for

Fo Hongkong Messrs. Sun Wang Chung-hul were spotted by members of the Tsing Hung Society, a notorious gang of robbers and kidnappers operating in and around Shanghai Members of this gang are associated with cer- tain people in the Chinese Govern- ment and at times their service has been quite useful to their political patrons. The Tsing Hung Society has at various times been compared. with the Cheka in Russia.

the disaster.

Police Evidence,

In

new party of police to the ne cident, and removed the body of woman Chan Chu (on whom the Inquiry is being held) with some them to the Kowloon mortuary. other bodies, and sent

From in- quiries, he estimated the number of passengers in the train to have been about sixty. Of these eleven were dead, two dying later hospital. Nine others were de- |tained in hospital with inquiries, | two of whom were still in hos-

Sergeant J. H. Cordens, officer | pital. In charge of the Shathu police | Mr. Walker here informed the! station, said that on the evening Coroner that the engine driver of April 30 he received a note had left the hospital last Friday. from Dr. Farr informing him of Further hearing was adjourned. the accident. He tried Lo tele- until this afternoon.

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