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TOUNDED - 198 一拜禮 號十月八英香 MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1931.

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MACAO POLITICAL MURDER.

GEN. NG YEE-WO

SHOT DEAD.

Assassin Escapes in Confusion.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Macao, Aug. 9. General Ng Yee-wo, a pro- minent Chinese military lead- er, living in partial retire- ment in Macao, was the vic

tim of a political assassina- tion late last night. He was wounded in three places by an unknown assailant and succumbed early this morn- ing.

The murderer made good his escape, but the police are carry- Ing out an active search, and it is reported that an alleged ae- complice has been arresteel.

General Nr Yok-wo was beaving! bis re ilence, which is near thei old ruin of the Church of St.. Pruthout ten, o'clock last 5 night, weermaniei, by two friends.j when a man emerged from thei glama of nearby house sad: opened fire on him,

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UGLY SCENES FOLLOW PLEBISCITE REBUFF.

“RED” TERRORISM IN

BERLIN.

POLICE CHIEFS KILLED

IN COLD BLOOD.

BULOW SQUARÈ REGION VIRTUALLY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.

MURDER AT COLOGNE.

PRUSSIA, SEETHING with plebiscite excitement,

was the scene yesterday of two dastardly outrages

by Communists, in Cologne and Berlin. In the capital,

two police captains were shot dead in cold blood in the presence of a huge crowd in Bulow Square. “Ugly scenes followed in which one civilian was killed and fifteen seriously wounded. The district is practically in a state of martial law. In Cologne, Red fanatics murdered the leader of the Steel Helmets.

The plebiscite in' Prussia culiminated In grave outrages by Communists. Our photo shows typical Berlin street scene during the recent unreit.

ARCTIC SEARCH FAILS.

SZE YAP COMPANY- DISPUTE.

BASEL-BERLIN EXPRESS BOMB OUTRAGE,

DR. BRUENING AS OBJECTIVE.

NOT ON BOARD.

Berlin, Aug. 9,

Coming as it did on the eve of the plebiscite in Prussia and in view of the fact that some of the carriages on the Basel-Berlin express were from Italy, the bomb outrage has created

A tremendous

sensation.

FEARS

FOR U.S.

AIRMAN.

HOURS OVERDUE.

Missing on Trip to Copenhagen.

Copenhagen, Aug. 9. Anxiety is felt for the safety of Mr. Parker Cramer, the American airman, who is cn- gaged on a survey flight from the United States to Europe.

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Mr. Cramer was due at Co- penhagen at hoon to-day from Lerwick, in the Shetland The belief is growing that the

Innds, where, he took refuge Itrain-wreckers. thought that Dr.

from storms. He left the Shet- Bruening, the Chancellor, and i

lands early this morning nod is Df. Curtitts were passengers

now nearly ten hours overdue.

No Information whatsoever has that the outrage was planned to been received regarding his where Jencompass their deaths.

abouts, and anxiety. is keener in low of the fact that his machine has been in trouble on several oc- ensions in the course of his fight across the Atlantic,

Malyguin's Quest APPEAL BEFORE FULL aboard the ill-fated train,

Disclosed.

ITALIA MYSTERY.

Thick

fav

COURT.

Hoverély.

Political Fanatics.

and

the

The distance between Lerwick and Copenhagen is roughly five. hundred miles, but at no point on the journey would the aviator be more than two hundred miles from land-Beuter.

Count Sibour Safe.

Seven of the catches were hurled off the line by the explo STORMY HISTORY. ion, and rolled for two hundred yards down the banking. It was The affairs of the Sze Yap remarkable that the casualties Moscow, Aug. D. Steamship Co., Ltd., and its were HO light. Three were The Bulow Square outrage appears to have been

The search of the Soviet jee management were again aired in seriously injured and sixteen less breaker Malyguin for traces of Court this morning, when un ap-j the sequel to a clear indication that the Communists and Amundsen and the missing mem-peal to the Full Court for the Nazis had failed in their effort to bring about a dis-bers of the crew of the ill-fated reversal of a judgment delivered The both appears to have been solution of the Prussian Diet. The final (though¦airship "Italią,” have failed. by Mr. Justice Wood was com-exploded by an electrie fuse. A unofficial) plebiscite figures reveal that only thirty-

and compact en menced. The Court, was com-wire was found altached.to

Shanghai, Aug, 10. seven per cent. of the electorate supported the bulked the plans of the Maly-posed of Sir Peter Grain (Pre-1 leading to this inference

guin expedition, to reach'

There is no doubt that the out- Kurljsident), the Chief Justice (Sir)

Anxiety regarding Count Sibour.. agitators.

Alexander Land, where the balloon Joseph Kemp) and the Puisne fanaties, but it has not yet been who should have arrived at Nanking

rage was the work of political Sporadic firing occurred in the streets. of Berlin until the of the crew. is believed to have

part of the Halfs, with members Judge (Mr. R. E. Lindsell). established which party Woa

in Saturday to take Sir Miles early hours of this morning, but was dying down round at four been wrecked when it drifted away D'Almada, jnr., Instructed by Mr.

Mr. P. C. Jenkin, and Mr. Lee responsible,

Lampson back to Peking, has been o'clock. The search for the murderers of the police officers is' after parting company with the Leo D'Almada, senior, are for

Nazi Dentals.

relieved by, news to the effect that continuing relentlessly. Civilians entering the Bulow Square, gondola.

appellants-defendant, while Mr.

the airman ran into heavy storms aren, which has been isolated, are forced to raise their hands! will be recalled that the. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. which were pencilled "Up, the Re-

Copies of a Nazi newspaper and is still held up at Talnanfu, above their heads and to submit to a most searching police tatia was wreeked on May 25.F. X. D'Almadi, senior, of Messrs.volution!" were found fixed to a

Shantung, owing to the bad scrutiny..

1928, after a successful flight to D'Alamda and Mason, is for the Pole. The craft planged and respondents-plaintiff's.

weather-Reuter. struck the jee, téaring away the gondola.

PLEBISCITE EXCITEMENT.

in

H

Rd Amundsen set out as one

aleny emphaticnliy any connexion

DROWNED.

HANKOW FLOOD DISASTER.

STAND COLLAPSE AT RACECOURSE,

HOSPITAL SAFE.

telegraph pole near the wreck, but this may have been intended to Old and New;

throw suspicion on the Nuzis, who Originally the Sze Yap 8.5. Co., with the hint ontpage of the many rescue expeditions on itd., brought an action against its June 18 from Tromme, and was Directors, Chung Cheung-she, Chu reward of twenty thousand marks The State Bullway has offered a (never heard of or seen again. Yun-ahi, Lo Man-pan, Lau Fai-for information leading to the ap WIS hoped that the Malygintong and Lau Hou-sang, claiming protension of the criminals.--Rei Berlin, Aug. 0. stained and thus to have ensured, would nd some trace of either an injunction to Pestrain thum fer. The plebiserite polling stations the failure of the extremist nt-Amundsen fir the Italia. but from Interfering with ather closed at five o'clock this after-tack on the Prussian Government, weather conditions made this im-) Directors, Li Lam-ping, La Koon- Hit Three Times.

¦noon and an army of workers Reports from some of the conn-(possible.

ying, Lui Chap-shan, alior Sney | Thy

first bullet struck

counting thes now engaged

the try strongholds of Hitlerism have The ice-breaker managed how- Len General in the abdomen and he votes,

not att erived, but it is not ex-ever in keep its rendezvous with Yun-tong Mok Yuu-sam Chan EX-PREMIER'S SON

Tum Puk-sang and Maj staggered. Two morel sits were The final figures will unt be pected that these en make any the Graf Zeppelin.

The leaders Hung-ching, attending fired, both taking effect and he felt known until lais lusnight, but the decisive difference to the general also discovered the islands. Directors of the Company to the ground. The shooting took indications are, that the National-results, place at very close range, but theists and Communists have

The Sgures available to

up

AFTER GALLANT utrage was carried out with such secured the 13,260,000- voles ner-eight o'clock this evening show)

RESCUE. suddenness that The assassin Cessary to assure their success in that in districts in witch 6,250,000

securing the abolition of the Prus-pitizens were entitled escaped unrecognised,

to vote!

Biarritz, Aug. 3. Neither of General Ng's friends!stan Dist.

Tonly 343 per cent, voted for The pulling has passed off fair-dissolution.

The death has occurred here, was injured in any way, but they)

heurd in the region, but the police costs of the action and the appeal. Arture Berenguer, youngest son of not the hospital which collapsed, but

Occasional shots can stiff bejan order that respondents pay the ander tragic clemmstances, DI all

Prussia. 31cF were able do nothing to pre-ly quietly

arrests havi

Hitlerites To Fure, jappear to have the situation. well! After vent the escape of the assailant.! Hitherto, seventy

explaining

that the cam the Jin hand. He ed down a dark inne, firing been made for

Premier, obstructing the Many Communists apparently,

Juny was

on January General Berenguer.

the grandstand of the Chinese behind him as he ran.

otice and distributing forbidden

It later transpired that the dead, 1905, whit at

at all material times! jabstained!

the police officers who were the lead-operated the sa. Tai Lee and

close in

shore, Racecourse, which is adjacent to the General Ng Yeewa was rushed leaflets,

to the General Hospital, but

only hospital. Herlin palice some trouble. The other hand, especially the women, dispersed Communist demonstra-19 March 27. 19:30, Messrs. Hall birthday, heard the cries for help į grandstand was crowded with flood

The Nationalist Party, on theers of the police who yesterday 8.8. On lan, Mr. Jonkin said that Arture Berenguer, who had the

recently celebrated his seventeenth At the time of the disaster, the examination revealed tint he could

set advertising pillars in the streets Burned up in strong force every-[tors) were shot down in cold! Brutton sent letter to the of three girls who were being ear-

The

Communists caused

not

en Gre, smashed street lamps and where.

hoisted the Red Flag on the top of The only serious incident occur. Berlin's highest chimney.

-ring hitherto is reported from In the early part of the day, most Cologne.

them seemed to treat it as a rag rather than anything

not survive and at the request of his family, he was conveyed to his? home where he died this morning without recovering consciousness: He was an elderly man. living in partial retirement, though of

connected with the great vaguely military forees of the neighbour-felse. ing district of Chungshan. There is little doubt that the murder was chimney by the Fire Brigade. actuated by political motives.j though there is no clue to the perpetrators of the plot.

DUTCH RUBBER

POLICY.

POSSIBLE CHANGE

FORESHADOWED.

London, Aug. 9, The Amsterdam correspondent ef the Financial Times understanda that the Dutch Government has now decided upon the polley it wil follow in regard to rubber restric- tion, but an official announcement will only take place after the arrival of the Governor-Gontra of Batavia in September.

The flag was removed from the

Journalists Assaulted.

Bulow Square Battle.

In this case Mr. Justice Wood Grave

For

plaintiffs with made an order for the declaration asked for.

Reuter

costs

street,

pedestrians, cyclists and, motorists, fur weapons.

J

blomi.

Police Infuriated.

and n

1 Appellants are asking for that judgment to be reversal, and for

1

farmer Spanish Swimming

to the

Hankow, Aug. 10,

The report of the collapse of the Union Mission Hospital here, caus- ing the death of 400 inmates, now turns out to be incorrect

Investigations reveal that it was

Directors containing a requisitioned out to ven by of strong current refugees, and when I collapsed it general meeting. On April 16 the succeeded in bringing two of the Reuter, Directors replied, decliving to call

for calling" 7023 extraordinary le harried towards the spot and killed 400 of these poor people:-

her of reasons.

•

The Resolutions.

win

4

RECORD-BREAKING AIRMEN.

The police, infuriated by the the meeting and pointing out that girls to safety, returning Im- attacked murders, are taking very drastic the requisition was bad for a num

to rescue their com- Communist akankina

mediately Herr Albert Felster, the leader in action.

panion. Cologne of the Steel Helmet or They have cut off the whole dis- |

Before reaching her, however, Hanisation. He shot dead. trict, which is now being patrolled

Was

Young Berenguer, whose strength Nine Communists have since been by motor-jorries equipped with

appears to have been taxed to the arrested in connexion with the searchlights...

On May 8, another requisition otment by the previous effort, sud- terrible outrage.

All doors and windows in the being the resolutions: (1) That

submitted. the following denly disappeared, having presum- The first unpleasant scene oc-

district have been closed as the the meeting, being dissatisfied the third girl was drowned.

ably suffered

REACH MARSEILLES. a heart-stroke, while feurred when Communists attackel

police have bwurd a two British journalists who were

warning with the conduct of the Directors Berlin, Midnight. that open windows will im or persons acting as such, calls time of the disaster, the two swim- The beach being deserted at the

Marseilles, Aug. 9. trying to photograph people unter-| It

Russell Boardman and John: was perhaps too much. mediately be fired at. ing a polling-station. There was expect that a day so pregnant

upon them to retire; (2) to pass mers, whose life Arture Berenguer Polando, the Boston airmen who a brief scule, but the Journalists with

It is belieyud that several resolution remoring all auch had saved, falled in their frantic recently broke the world's record dangerous possibilities civilians were also killed in the Directors as the meeting might efforts to summon assistance. Iwere not seriously hurt,

should pass off without gravel Bulow Square battle, but a rum deen expedient; (3) to appoint One of the most amusing incidents incidents in Berlin. As it became'

for a long-distance nonstop non- of the plebiscite was an offer by the increasingly clear that the apon.

The body of young Berenguer refuelling flight, by flying from was inter recovered. Communist organ Rotefahue to pay sora of the plebiscite had failed! the Prussian Government twenty in their objective, the Communista marks for the privilege of printing (*** its manifesto (which it was com-grew more and more restive and. pelled hy emergency decree nally were responsible for publish on Friday) on the ground dastardly outrago in the centre of that the manifestó was a priceless the city.

asset to the “Red” cause.

to

The incident occurred. In front Later. of the Communist headquarters in It can now be stated that the|Bulow Square.. plebiscita will not show the nee

fow

The correspondent says the odds Cessary majority of the electors are still against Government re-in favour of a dissolution of the striction measures, but possibly the Diet. The figures obtainable Ro new Governor-General, not being for indicate that in only a

in East Prussin, bound by the Cunor rogata policy of his predo- districts

the protection of Pomerania and Holstein-did over will be able to fifty per cent. of the electors

favour the dissolution.

native Intercats, follow. a. more active polley.

The opinion is gaining ground in Government circles that, things cannot be much longer loft to take. their own course. Reuter.

Extremist Attack Falls. The majority of the electors-in the towns appears to have

ab-

Two police captains were shot dend. A poilce, sergeant Meriously wounded.

A large crowd had gathered in the aquare to watch the plebiselte results being posted ap.

Buddenly shots rang - out. The police officers fell, both explains Intally wounded. Their comrades -using-their-revolvers-and-swords cleared the square rapidly and fre now making a house to house search

for the murderers-They -are-also marching all persons moving in the

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TYPHOON NEAR FOOCHOW.

The typhoon is passing less than 100 miles N.E. of Foochow on a N.W. track. A trough of low pres | sure lien over the N, China San.

The Empress of Canada, which Jaaves Manila at 4 p.m. to-day, is dus here on Wedspaday at 65 ara. Éko. will proceed to Taikoo Dook for dry- docking and painting, and will berth at Kowloon Wharf on Thursday at about 9 s.m., Leaving for Vancouve | noon on Baturday,