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NANCHANG CAPTAIN'S STORY OF PIRATE COUP Pirates Bundle Four Officers into Junk and Escape within a Few Minutes

REICH AND JAPAN'S MANDATES

GERMAN ATTITUDE ON

ISLAND ISSUE

REFUTE IDEA OF WAR BOOTY

(Special to "Telegraph")

(Telegraph, Ceryright.

Apex

Urdinaner. LAPI.

Telegraphis Mem

Received March

Berlin, Mar. 30.

The future of the former Ger- man islands held by Japan under League Mandate is the subject of much discussion in political cir- cles.

HMS. Bridgewater, now on her way to Weihaiwel, which, in

view of the kindnapping of four British officers of the B. and S. a.

Nagchang, may be ordered to Newchwang.

MARKS OF ORIGIN

NANKING'S NEW REGULATIONS

REPRESENTATIONS BY AMERICANS

The general concensus of opin- Lion appears to be expressed by Deutschetages Zeitung, which com- menting upon Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations, and the position of the mandated is-: lands, remarks that Germany, in no circumstances, wishes" to be-sapra come involved in a conflict with Japan.

FRIENDLY DISCUSSION.

16

(Special to "TelegraphTM)

(Trieprask, "Capuright,

Telegraphie Mon↑ Opdimaner. 2005. Berit March 21 KM) FOR

Shanghai, Mar. 30. The Board of Directors of the

ATTEMPT TO WRECK EXPRESS

MR. MATSUOKA THOUGHT TO BE OBJECTIVE

"An

Boston, Mass, Mar, 29."' apparent attempt to wreek 'the express train in which Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese diploma-. tist, was travelling to Boston, is reported by the railway police. who state that two iron rails, wrapped in red and yellow flags," were discovered laid across the track just before the train was das Renter.

American Chamber of Com FAMINE STALKS

Undoubtedly, the journal says, merce have passed a resolution. it will prove possible through asking that representations be open and friendly discussion to made to the Nanking Govern dissipate all Japanese fears and gands which is also active in this the newlya-nnounced Custom to quell the anti-German propament for the modification of Regulations regarding marks or origin.

matter. A

At the same time it adds, we must contradict the asser- tion that the mandated by- lands are really the war booty of our former opponents and we must hold firm to the wisting legal standpoint as expressed in right supervision by the League over, the man- dated territories-Reuter.

The new regulation issued at the beginning to March to take

IN RUSSIA

MILLION DEAD IN *KAZAKSTA

NANCHANG GIVES CHASE

RAIDERS ESCAPE INTO SHALLOW WATER

VAIN EFFORT TO SAVE COLLEAGUES

(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH.")

(By Telegraph. Copyright Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Reccired, March 30, 2.18`)

NEWCHWANG, MARCH 30. THE DRAMATIC SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH PIRATES CARRIED OUT THE COUP ABOARD THE BUTTERFIELD AND SWIRE s.s. NANCHANG THIS MORNING, WAS GRAPHICALLY RELATED BY CAPTAIN ROBINSON ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE VESSEL IN NEWCHWANG.

Only the speed of the enterprise enabled its success. The pirates were aboard for a few minutes only. They seized the four junior officers, bundled them into junk and made aff.

THE NANCHANG WAS QUICKLY IN PURSUIT B THE PIRATES ESCAPED INTO SHALLOW WERS WHERE THE DEEPER DRAFT STEAMER WASONABLE TO FOLLOW. WHEN

Captain Robinson was never in the hand of the raiders. On hearing the sound of shooting, he rushed the wireless room to

effect as from August 1 requires TALE OF BRITISH give the alarm; only to find that the nerator had already fled.

all imported goeds to be marked with the name of the country of origin in Chinese characters,

The American Chamber of Com- merce states that if the regula-i

TOURIST

Mr. M. C. Harman.

ARMS FOR FAR EAST

HEAVY JAPANESE PURCHASES

(Special to "Telegraph")

FINANCIER ON TRIAL

CHOSEN SHARE SALES

CHARGES AGAINST MR. HARMAN

London. Mar. 29. Grave allegations were made to-day, when after a three weeks' interval, the case against Mr. Martin Coles Harman, the well- known London financier, and three other directors of the Chosen Corporation, was resumed at the Guidlhall. The accused are

Martin Coles Harman, Berkeley Fairfax Conigrave, E. G. Changest,"

H. Hely Pounds...

They are charged with, between November 10, 1930 and August

(Telegraph, Copwright. Telegraphic Mea 31, 1932, unlawfully conspiring to Popea OritingMOR, ARPAL Rarefeed March defraud the shareholders of the 3 K40 d..

Chosen Corporation.

London, Mar. 29.

IN DIFFICULTIES.

of Commons this afternoon by Dr.

It was announced in the House.

L. Burgin, of the Board of Trade, money belonging to the Chosen The prosecution alleges that that exports of ordnance and high Corporation was used by Harman, explosives from the United King-with the concurrence of his co- dom to China and Japan during defendants, to bolster up" his the eighteen months ended in other companies to get them out February totalled £51,816 in the of grave difficulties. case of China and £299,000 in the case of Japan.

of

The problem of the export arms in relation to present condi- tions in the Far East is being! examined at Geneva by a sub-com- mittee of the League of Nations Advisory Committee which was set | up to follow the developments of

He then hurried to his ova cabin to obtain fire-arms, but returning found that all four officers had been kidnapped.

Mustering the terrified Chinese crew, the Captain ordered Berlin, Mar. 30. the anchor to be weighed and gave chase only to lose the pirates in tions as promulgated are enforced, Russia to day is gripped by a shallow water. The captain and chief engineer were powerless very harmful effects will be seen, famine as disastrous as the cat to aid their fellow-officers, being compelled to watch the junksthe Sino-Japanese dispute. not only from the viewpoint of astrophe of 1921, when millions receding into the distance while the wireless operator frantically "TURNING-POINT IN, foreign business, but also" from died of starvation, declared Mr. signalled 3.0.S. calls. Reuter.

the viewpoint of Chinese con-Gareth Jones, who arrived in Ber-

1)

sumers.

FAR EAST

- FRENCH VIEW OF WITHDRAWAL

lin after a long walking tour in The new regulations would, it Russia. was stated, in many instances

mean the cutting off of certain Mr. Gareth Jones who at one imports altogether and in the case time was political secretary to of others it would involve an in- Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal [crease in prices. Reuter...

leader, is now on his way to London.

(Special to "Telegraph";

-¿Telegraph, Copyright, Telepraskie Mes magia Ortiñanor, 1894, Received March -* 20, 630 6!

He describes conditions as ap

Paris Mar. 30. JAPANESE NAVAL paling

Japan's withdrawal from the League has caused very little comment in the French Press) which is inclined to view the ac- tion as of little moment in view of the knowledge that the step! was intended.

Le Temps, however, in the course) of a leading article, is of opinion that the withdrawal marks a ser- ious turning-point in international collaboration in the Far East.

COMMAND

APPOINTED TO

· MANCHUKUO

(Spocial to "Telegraph”).

77dlegraph, Copyright.

Magda

W

Everywhere was the cry: "There is no bread. We are dy- ing!"

A million persons are already reported to have died in the Kazaksta district.

PEASANT REVOLT.

There is insufficient seed and many of the peasants are too weak to work the land. The tragedy is due to the peasants' resistance to Telegraphie Bek

Received March the Government's policy of col- lectivization and the lack of skilled Tokyo, Mar. 30....labour, together with the collapse It attributes the withdrawal to Japan wil maintain the Naval of transport and finance. errors of procedure by the League Command at Changchun as from The arrest of the British en- Kince September, 1931, and is of to-morrow instead of entrusting gineers of the Metro-Vickers com- opinion that the only chance of the naval affairs of Manchukuopany and the recent shooting of Japan reconsidering the decision to the special Naval Mission.

ERRORS OF PROCEDURE.

Ordinance," 199. 50. 1.18 p.)

The arrests followed a per- sonal application by the Director of Public Proseca tions (Sir E. Tindal Alkin- son), and were made at No. 11, Angel Court, the offices of the Chosen Coproration.. Harman is the director of at least fourteen companies, the chief of the House of Commons to-day that with a capital of £600,000, of which Capt. Anthony Eden stated in them being the Chosen Corporation

the members of the Committee Harman owned three-fifths and the yesterday agreed to consult their public the remainder. Governments on the specifle ques- The co-defendants are also direc- tions of principle and of execution tors of the Chosen Corporation as with disputes in another part of the companies. world. That sub-committee might facts as soon as possible, he added. be in posecssion of the essential

-Reuter and British Wireless.

SHIP LYING AT ANCHOR placed before them in connexion well as of some of Harman's other

Newchwang, March 30.

The B. and S. steamer Nanchang was pirated this morning outside Newchwang Harbour,

Four British officers and several Chinese were car- ried off for ransom in junks, from which the raid was successfully carried out.

The European victims of the outrage are:

Mr. Clifford Johnson, the Chief Officer, of Berlan

Cliff, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

Mr. W. E. Hargrave, Second Officer, of Ripon,

Yorks

Mr. A. D. Blue, Second Engineer, of Glasgow, Mr. F. L. Pears, Third Engineer, of Newcastle. The Nanchang was lying at anchor just outside the Newchwang Bar, awaiting for a pilot to come aboard to take her into harbour when the attack was launched. A heavily armed gang invaded the ship from three junks

FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT

COOLIE RUN OVER

AND KILLED

A fatal train mishap occurred at Taipo yesterday morning, when Liu Wong, a coolle employed by the Waterworks Department, was run over and killed.

The victim was walking along the railway lines on No. 32 Rail- been oblivious to the approach of way Bridge and appears to have

spot at 10.50 am. He was on his way from Talpo Market to Taipo

lies In the possibility of China) The Japanese Naval Command thirty-five prominent agricultural- and seized control of the Nanchang within a few the No. 5 down train passing the

ists were, in the opinion of Mr.

agreeing to direct negotiations will co-operate with the Manchu Gareth Jones, attempts to appease with Japan which has good rea-kue authorities in patrolling the the popular wrath at the famine. zen to believe that events in China inland waters and coasts in pur-Renter.

will solve the problem,

juance of the Japanese-Manchu-

Until then, the intrigues, confu-kuo Protoepf, according to a de- sion and disorder which are orjeree issued by the Navy Office, dinary elements of Chinese poli-) The Naval Command will be tics, will continue to prevail-authorised to use force to main- Reuter.

CATHOLICS WITHDRAW INTERDICTION

Accept Hitler's Promise

of Respect for Rights

tain peace and order if necessary, Rear-Admiral Kobayashi has been chosen as Chief of the Naval Command.-Router.

DOLLAR RISES SLIGHTLY.

REAFFORESTATION

BILL APPROVED BY U. S. REPRESENTATIVES

minutes.

OFFICERS CAUGHT IN SALOON.

NEWCHWANG REPUTATION,

....

Кан,

Death was instantaneous, the re-

mains being afterwards removed to the Mortuary,

CONSUL ON WAY, (Special to "Telegraph")

SHARE YALES

The prosecution alleges that be- tween January, 1931 and August 1982, they spent £130,669 in pur- chasing for the Corporation or its three subsidiaries registered in Japán, 173,029 Chosen shares at an (Continued on Page 7.)

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NORMAN DAVIS'S: MISSION

MEETING MEMBERS OF CABINET

(Special to "Telegraph")

(Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic Me

18-69)

Ordinance, 3404, Received Murah London, Mar. 30...

amateur diplomat! is spending the Mr. Norman Davis, America's freak-end discussing with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and other members of the British Cabinet, the preliminary details of the World Economic Conference.

He will then go to Genera to re- sume leadership of the United

armament, Conference, arrived at Plymouth and before proceeding. to Geneva will spend a few days- in London, where he will have an opportunity of discussing dia armament and the World Econo- mic Conference with the Prime

The junks appear to have ap escaped the fate of their col proached the Nanchang and draws leagues but Messrs. Johnson, Itar- alongside without attracting any grave, Blue and Fears were com- aboard in view of the probability States delegation at the Disarma- attention aboard. The first warn-pelled to go aboard the junks, that they would have been kidnap-ment Conference Reuter ing of anything untoward afoot which immediately set sail. It is Ped in preference to the officers.

The Nanchang is a vessel of Mr Norman Davis, principal

London, Mar. 29, (Special to "Talegraph”)

was provided by the opening of a thought that the pirates will ef heavy fire by the pirates as they feet a landing down the coast and 2,488 tons, built in 1922 by Scotts United States delegate to the Dis- (Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphie Mboarded the ship,

take their captives, into the in-of Greenock She is 208 feet long, wagen Ordinance, 1891. Received March

has a beam of 44 feet and a depth 10, 11,59 1.6.)

Fourteen of the gang actually terior-Reuter. Washington, Mar. 29.". took part in the boarding, blazing

of 19.6 feet." The House of Representatives away in all directions with their to-day passed the Bill, which was revolvers with the object of ter-

The kidnapping of the four Bri approved by the Senate by 38 rorising the crow

tish offerts suggests.a. possible' re- votes to 3, permitting the Govern- There was no opportunity for petition of the events at New- ment to enlist a quarter of a defence. The officers were in chwang last year when Mrs: Murielle Grass, 11

ry Telegraph. Copyright, graphia Minister-British Wireless. million unemployed for reaffore the saloon when the attack was Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran 40, 146 pont The conference of Catholic' Bi-

station work.

were carried off and held in capti- shops at Fulda issued a manifesto The Hongkong dollar-rose 1/8th President Roosevelt is expected

Newchwang, Mar. 30. As far as is known, no attempt vity for several weeks, to-day withdrawing its previous this morning to ls. 3%d. The to sign, the BI immediately was made to loot the ship the Newchwang is in Manchukue ter

The British Vice-Consul, Mr. prohibition "and warnings against local-market få, however, easy, with Reuter,

pirates having rouson to fear the ritory, now virtually under Japan-Clarke, who handled the Pawley the Nazi movement in view of no-one inclined to do business,

arrival of the pilet boat and the coa.control.o Herr Hiller's promise that the In London, sliver advanced

Corkran giving of warning....

case, left Mudken for The Nanchwang left Hongkong rights of the Catholic Church in 3/10ths, whilst in New York there loaded from the s.a. Hydra II yes- Germany will be respected-Ren was a rise of 1/8th. The crogs-terday, a cargo coglie was taken to of the Nanchang, and Mr. A, chwang on March 16. It is believed news of the Nanchang piracy

rabe in 8.41%

the Kowloon Hospital

Jeffrey, the Chief Engineer, that no European passengers were Reuter.

for.

Berlin, Mar. 29.

MARKET CONDITIONS VERY DULL

Struck by a sack of rice being un-

raade.

Enosiwek, Murch

FORD STRIKE "ENDED

Captain J. Robinson, the master for Sancho, Shanghai and NewNewchwang to-day on receipt of works at Dagenham, Essex, which "

London, "Mar, 29. The strike at the Ford-motora began on Monday, was settled this IufternoonBritish Wireless.