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WARSHIP
MR. SHIGEMITSU
IMPROVING
QUESTION OF LEG AMPUTATION
(Special to "Telegraph"), Shanghai, May. 2.
One of the most famous surgeons in Japan, Dr. Goto is expected to arrive in Shanghai to-day by warship, to give an opinion as to whe ther Mr. Shigemitsu's log must be amputated.
The Japanese Minister has im- proved, but his condition is still regarded as serious.-Reuter
SHANGHAI OPTIMISM.
Shanghai, May 2.
Mrs. Katherine Cenney, who was invested with the M.B.E. this
morning.
SHANGHAI CHAMPIONS
CASTLE RIBBON FAVOURED
(Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, May 2. The greatest interest is being
Further evidence of the optimism prevailing in official quarters, comes news from reliable Bources that Sir Miles Lampson, who has taken a leading part in kooping the Sino-Japanese nego-manifested In the Champions race, tiations afoot, hus arranged to leave for Peking on Thursday,
It is stated that the truce agree- ment will be signed, in all pro- bablity, on Wednesday. The full conference has not yet been con- vened, but the sub-commitice in meeting this afternoon.-Router.
THE ANARCHY IN ASIA
VIEWS OF LONDON MORNING POST.
London, May 2.
which will be run on Wednesday. It is expected that the total tickets sold will be fully 69,000, at $10 ench.
Possible starters in the race art Alligator, Boot Black, School Boy, Mr. Cinders, The Dour Bird, Cas- tle Ribbon, Subribbon, Fire Flash
and Bonnie Lad.
Should Busy Bee qualify this afternoon, he may prove a serious contender, although at the moment Castle Ribbon is favoured to win. Switzerland has not yet qualified, Hurry On is the only qualified pony of the Dallas stable,
HIGHWAY ROBBERY
SEQUEL
FIREMAN ARRESTED AS SUSPECT
DEMONSTRATORS
IDSPERSED
MARCHING ON JAPANESE EMBASSY
UPROAR IN MADRID
London, May 1. Baton charges by the London police were necessary this evening in order to disperse a May Day crowd which was bent on creating an anti-Japanese disturbance.
A typical Hyde Park scans. The pollenmaan stand aloof, seldom acting against the speakers, deaming free speech-an affactual safety valve. Sometimes, as yesterday, however, the orators exceed the limit of tolerance,
Instigated by Communists, who have caused anti- HONOUR-SLAYING Japanese demonstrations in many cities in the world recently, the crowd, on leaving Hyde Park, insisted on crossing Portman Square, where the Japanese Chancery is situated.
WATERLOO BRIDGE
SURPRISE
HALF-PRICE OFFER
TO L.C.C.
Further impetus is given to the controversy surrounding Waterloo
Bridge by a new scheme prepared by Sir E. Owen Williams, the well- known engineer.
The possibilities of such an en- terprise had not escaped the atten- ton of the Commissioner and two hundred and fifty policeman: had been stationed in the Square from the early afternoon.
The police employed their trun- cheons to disperae the May Day. procession and several
were in- jured and several Arreste were made.
FIERCE STRUGGLE
the
The demonstrators, when warned
Later. The attempt of London's May Day demonstrators' to roach the He has designed a bridge on an Japanese Embassy to protest entirely new plan and estimates that the total cast of the work against Japanese policy in would be £693,000, compared with Far East led to a fierce struggle, £1,296,000 estimated by the London that they would not be allowed to County Council.
This new scheme will renew the proceed into Portman Square, be- discussions to the type of san to throw stones at the police, bridge which should be constructed who on foot and mounted, charged
the mob with their batons drawn. to replace the present structure and as to the amount of money which should be expended project.
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the
In expressing sympathy with Japan in the outrage at Iongkew Park, the Maruing Post refers to the murder of Mr. Douglas, the magistrate of Midnapore, us "a
Foo Sang, 23, a fireman attached servants to the Mongkok sub-station, has sad reminder that the
The new design provides for six been arrested as a suspect follow- Great Britain of Japan and
ing investigations into a highway lines of traffic and two footways, have to face the same danger robbery which occurred in Argyle and Sir Owen has made a formal from the same enemy, namely. Street, yesterday, and in which offer to the L.C.C. to demolish the its Foo Sang with another man not present anarchy in Asia, which vents a
yet arrested is alleged to have successor according to his plans, maintain and ultimately demolish deadly hatred against all forms been implicated.
the temporary structure, at a total of ordered government."
cost of £693,000, including all con tingencies.
CHAO'S IN CHINA.
The revolutionary chaos in China has forced Japan, as before now it has forced Great Britain, to take strong measures for the defence of her subjects and their
interests
Japan, the journal further com- monts, showing admirable straint following the
re- outrage.
is proceeding with her attempts to secure a truce and the with- drawal of her troops from Shang- bal and might have been spared the entirely superfluous resolu- tion from Geneva.-Reuter.
STOP PRESS.
Paris, May 2. At 3.25 a.m., the Government parties had gained ten seats and loat thirteen.
It was stated that Lee Kwong- sang, a worker at a knitting fac- tory, was on his way home when he was stopped by two men, who ordered him to put up his hands. Being under the impression that they were police searchers, he obeyed, and was robbed of a metal watch and chain he had in his breast pocket.
DOLLAR STILL UNCHANGED
LOWER RATES SEEM LIKELY
bridge, construct
A
1
Day
VERDICT
NAVAL ARMAMENT
ANDRE TARDIE
RETURNED
Final Party State Doubtful
Paris, May 1
France polled in the gen éral election to-day and the
· occasion passed without seri, ous untoward incident.
All the great party leaders have been roturned, in most cases with easy victorica, but, the general results which have thus far been announced, give no indication of the "final state of the parties,:
The first resuita duclared In= cluded the name of the Prime Minister, M. Tardieu, who WA re-elected for, Belfort by majority of nearly thred"), thous sand...
HERRIOT-BACK-AGAIN,.
"11. Herriot, ex-Premier
INDIGNATION. IN MR. MACDONALD ON it thatch socalled
AMERICA
DEMAND FOR AN ENQUIRY
Washington, May-1. The verdict in the honour-"
slaying tri
trial-manalaughter
“Egainst all four accused, Mrs. Massie, Fortescue, Lieut. Lord and Jones-is sharply criticised
the throughout United States. Very strong comments were made in the Senate, the verdict being described by Senators as a cruel miscarriage of justice.
It is suggested that there should be a Congressional Enquiry or a
INSPECTOR INJURED. police-inspector and a con- Sir Owen Williams was consult-stable, and three of the demonstra- ing civil engineer to the British lors were injured during the dia- Empire Exhibition of 1921 and turbance, while elght arrests wero has been responsible for several effected.
Early news from the European important construction works.
that May capitals indicate passed fairly quietly-Reuter.
MADRID PARALYSED.
Madrid, May 2. All work was brought to a standstill in Madrid yesterday, the tramway service, the underground railways and the taxicab services all being paralysed by the May Day demonstrations, which occurred all over the country but took a serious Navy Investigation and that if form only in one or two centres. the facts are as reported in the
Three Communists
two Press,
the accused the pardoned. policemen were injured when police charged and dispersed a Coni-
NAVAL OFFICERS INCENSED. munist gathering in the centre of
Many naval officers are highly CORDOVA CLASH,
indignant at the verdict.
Colonel Granville Fortescue,
The Scheme. The bridge would be of rein- forced concrete," said Sir Owen "and would be supported on single cylindrical columns placed on the sites of the existing piers.
feet at
is slightly down both in London thick.
and
Bix
Col. and Mrs. Fortescue.
should be
That's
PROSPECTS OF REDUCTION.
(Reuter's Special Servics).
London, May 1ị
'Party, was re-elected før - Lyon by, a large majority, while, M Paul Reynard, the Minister of Justice, and M. Tardieu'srchle, fleutenant, was re-elected-for... Paris constituency with y fortable margin
Curiously enough.. the
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald arrault declared was from
| coming through: te rived at Victoria. Station to-day of the differences in well. His general health has resurit was negativo and been good c
1- during his absence.ballet will be necessary, Interviewed by Router regard~|| LEADERS SUCCESSFUL ing the Disarmament Confèroncs, the Prime Minister eald:-"A tremendous amount of work yet remains to be done, and difficult problems will have to be faced, but I believe it can done.
RETURNING - LATER.
M. Painlevé, ex-War Minister and ex-Promler, has been re elected 18 .have M. Rollin, Minister of Commerce, and M. Datadler, the Radical. leader.
M. Saure. the Secretary- General of the Socialist Party, was defeated,
The conversations which wore Enormous crowds are await- interrupted by the illness of M. ing the results at the Town Tardlez will be resumed as soon Hall and the newspaper oficem.
raturn as possible, and I shall to Geneva to participate therein. M. Chautemps, the Radical ex- Premier, M. Bouisson, the Pro "I attach the grosteat int- portance, and make it the acid sident of the Chamber, M. Leon test, to whether the London Naval Blum, the Sqclallet leader, Trenty signed by three Powers and M. Dumesnil, the ex-Minister Loula Marin, the Rightist leader, Britain, Japan and the United
of Marine, have all been re- States-can be made into
elected. Reuter. general agreement."
Later. The results up to 3 a.m. do not altor appreciably the position of the parties, Reuter..
LEADERS LEAVE GENEVA
QUIETLY CONFIDENT
OF SUCCESS
↑
Geneva, May 1. Mr. H. L. Stimson, the Ameri- can Secretary of State, loft for Cannes to-day and embarka for New York on Tuesday.
He declared that he was well satisfied with his visit and was confident that the Dinurmament Conference would be successful. Mr. Stimson udded that his dis- cussion of For East problems with the stateamen interested had boon of great value.
Other lending delegates are
STATE OF PARTIES.
Paris, May 2.
At 1.30 am."the state of the Parties was as follows:
Right
Left Republicans
Centre
39
17
(Tardieu's group)
14
Radicals Rep. Socialists Socialists
Communists
88
મૈં
22
Second ballots will be necessary,
in at least 198 constituencies.
M. Flandin, the Minister of also departing, likewise quietly Finance, M. Renaudel, the pro-.
"The underside of the bridge | Madrid. would be perfectly level, giving" a clear headway above high water. One man was killed and of 28 feet for its entire length, seriously injured in a clash be-father of Mrs. Massie, who was compared with the headway of 27 tween police and Communists at unable to attend the trial owing
the crown only of the Cordova, where a general strike is to illness, when he heard the ver arches of the existing bridge. The threatened for to-day as a protest dict exclaimed: "O God.
ΓΟΥ Bingle
of cylindrical piers against the events of May Day,terrible," and immediately left for would be of 20 feet diameter, com Renter.
Washington. the existing piers,
POLAND CLASH.
It is understood that he con- The Hongkong dollar remains pared with
Warsaw, May 2. aulted the authorities regarding unchanged to-day, although silver which are 76 feet long by 20 feet
May Day was quietly conducted the possibility of a new trial in the and New York. The market open-) "Special care has been taken in in Poland with the exception that United States and was advised ed steady, but later an easier un- the planning of the bridge to guard two Communists were killed in a that a re-trial could not be held confideat of the ultimate success minent Socialist, and M. Chappede.
subsidence, tho dertone developed, and lower rates against
plers fight with police at Dombrown.-legally at present. scem possible.
having been designed to take the Reuter, In London, silver declined proper pressures on London clay. 1/16th spot and forward. There "I consider that round plere are was no special fenture, the market ominently the moat suitable for boing very qulat.
Waterloo Bridge, for the river is MANCHURIA TOWN famous inventor of the telephone, Silver is down 1/8th in New at a right angle there, and the York, where the market is dull.water flows in all directions at the bond. The plers offer the same resistance to the water in what- over direction it is moving. Then, too, with round plers and with the underside of the bridge per- fectly level, river traffic may pass under the bridge at any place, instead of being compelled to take the arches in the centre.
Futures are niño weaker.
U.S. BASEBALL
WASHINGTON BEAT YANKEES
The stata of the parties was:
·Extreme Night ..
2
Right
..04
Loft Republicans
..25
Centre...
..20
Radicals
.66
Rep. Socialista
.12
Socialista
.30
Communiata
.0
Chiengo
LOOTED
REFUSED TO PAY FOR IMMUNITY
FAMOUS ANCESTORS. Mrs. Fortescue is a niece of the
of disarmament ondeavours-latne, the Minister for the Colônias, Reuter.
have boon elected.-Reuter.
which is one of the great show-TREE-SITTER HAS A places of the capital, and her summers were spent at Twin Oaks, the great estate of her grand- father.
Colonel
Granville Fortescue, her husband, in a cousin of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the present Governor-General of the Philip
pines.
GLOBE-TROTTERS.
FALL
A SLIGHTLY INSANE YOUTH
In the police list of mishaps and misadventures to-day there appears a brief report to the effect that Lam Yip choong, 22 AWAI slightly injured through failing from a tree. "He is slightly insane," the report added. A
Harbin, May 2. Bandits and demoralised troops aro reported to have occupled Sun- hua on the Hulan-Hallun Railway Now York, May 1. "Reinforced concrete has been and looted the town after the fail- Cleveland's third straight vic- chosen as the medium," he added ure of the leading citizens to pay
Both Colonel and Mrs Fortes- tory over Chicago and New York's "because it allows of reasonable $76,000 as the price demanded for
cuo have spent a considerable time defeat at Washington were the cost, while, at the same time, is leaving the town uzinolested,
In the Far East, as well as Central features of to-day's ball games as durable as any other material
Llout, and Mrs. Muszla.
America and Europe. Since the which resulted as follows:
There is now no communication
It appears that Lam had suf- war, they have spent their time There is no other bridge, so far between Harbly and centres to the Alexander Graham Bell, and National League.
as I know, constructed on this north of Sunhua-Reuter,
granddaughter of Gardiner Hub between globe-trotting and the fered from a slight sberration on bard, the wealthy Boston financier, huge mid-Victorian house on Long the mind, and yielding to a pass, who sponsored Bell when he dret Island that belonged to the Roosting fancy, climbed up a tree, from which he could not be Induced to the factors peculiar to the site. This means that it will probably put the telephone on the market. volts.
descend, in l'apite of alternate Appropriate action will be receive early, consideration by the|With her brother and sister she Mrs. Thalia Masalo, the central thruaimulando persuaa fons,ENG until he fell down of his own accord
Second ballots will be required Cincinnati
for 288 scats--Reuter,
7 Pittsburgh
1 St. Louis
· American League. Washington 4 Now York Cleveland 11 Chicago St. Louis
4 Detroit
6 principle, but I have made my
7 plans with the fullést regard to all s
2 taken in comhoxion with the Improvements Committee of the spent every winter of her child- figure of the grim drama, is the 1 scheme," an official of the L.G.C. Council, of which Bir Fery Bime hood at the famous Bell estate in oldest daughter of the family and failures blait ww the CDL- B informed the Morning · Post. mong in Chairmaste
Connecticut Avenue, Washington, Reuter and N. W. A.
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