The Archive · 1927

A Savings Bank Fund

As above stated, those who see the advisability of contributing to such]

safety and anti-kidnapping insurence fund can pay the amount they'

ish to contribute into the Shanghai Municipal Savings Bank Anti-[Kidnapping Fund Department, obtaining at the time of deposit a particular number in exchange for] the amount contributed. The Municipal Savings Bank will subsequently acknowledge in the Municipal Gazette, and through it, jin the local press, the various numbers and amounts contributed by same as a receipt to the various contributors without disclosing their identity' to evilly disposed persons.

We contributing Chinese amer-'

China Diocese.

'On October 19, 1027, Mr. Bazire was married Mise' E. Brown of the C. 1. M the honeymoon being spent at Dairen Dr, Mowll, Bishop in Western China, has just returned to Shanghai after a round-the-world journey, siting England and Canada in the interests of his large and distant

velopment and for devolution eons, New plane for Charch de-of authority from the Missions to the Church have been under consideration; and keen desire has been shown at home that work should continue to be carried Bishop Mowll hopes to leave for West China next week with a small party of missionaries, chants.are convinced that by following our lead in the building up lof a large fund, there will be a very. rapid diminution in the risks run generally by merchants and industrialists in the risks of kidnapping and armed robberies, well asin armed intimidation of peaceable industrial workers. We, therefore, urge our ce-industrialists and fellow merchants to support to, the limits: of their capacity the fund we wre now organizing for their The Council as Trustee The funds though paid into the Manicipal "Savings. Bank by the acpoitors wil nat be Ie ying ie there, bt wil be invested by the Manipal Gounel under the nice the Marchanta Advisory "Com: fittest such manner ay ty con: idea wit swath funda 30 25°70 Inereate them, withthe misiom risk to amounts adequate to meet [it vawards ened onder the con io of subscription, Any tone 30) desiring may" arrange through their own bank for the conebuton of" the amount they desir to beheld in that banat the tapioca! the. 'Municipel "Cnet sud the Merehants'Adbaory om: mittee, with a stipulation that the' Tank and the amount be netifed to the special department of the Municipal Savings Bani The fund now open and we trot ov flow hor chants will not be slow in eon-{siting a0" that all may" ace the urgency of preventing kidnapping armed reverie.

Intnl matter ie most be relied

Pre fe font on beh tastes of te fwd on bent the stibseribers. and, without knowing whether the wanted man wns armed, the detective entered the eave and groping in the dark cave secured his man, Bringing the man to Ningpo, he secured passage on a ship for Shanghai and both arrived here on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, Bab-zh is a bandit infested area' and the detective's courage in proceeding to such a hazardous spot is considerably and highly commented upon in police circles, Detective-Sergeant Wei Kyung-foh is an old and trusted officer of the S, M, Police and has: been responsible for the running. down of many criminals. Quite recently the taking of his life was attempted; he fortunately being absent from his house when the des-paradoes entered the latter dvrell-Piqued at the absence of their ian, the invaders shatand grievous ly wounded the detective's wife and concubine, the latter subsequently recovering after A long period in hospital.

Returning to the arrest of the wanted coolie, a voluntary and signed statement was secured from the man on Saturday the contents which have, of course, not been disclosed, but we are authoritatively informed that it contains a confession of guilt and implicates two other statement, Det-Sergt. A. Telfer, of the Special Branch, 8. Mf. P., rested another man, alleged by the coolie to have been present at the time the crime was committed. He is a hawker of fuel and was arrested at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the French Concession. The whereabouts of the third man are known to the police and it is expected'that he will be apprehended with. in a matter of baure.

Detective Branch Praised Although little properly has been said of the activities of Capt. W. G. Clarke, Director of Criminal Intelfidence, S. M. P., and hig detective staff, both foreign and Chinese, in connection with the tracking down of the deceased lady's murderer, has been known that the most minute clues have untivingly been pursued and when one realizes the immense difficulties which inevitably must be encountered in tracing the comings and goings of. man of the oolie class, sufficient praise cannot [be given to those responsible Zor his apprehension.

Jeasons loamed by then are pattern fed on the Russia of 1917. Informa. tion received in Shanghai seems to Indicate that the central body hero thas been insti disturbances in. other sections of Kiangsu, notably Wasih, Thsing, Kiangyin, Haimung, and other centres. In at least three of the cities mentioned, disturbances have taken place, which, but for prompt action by the military, who did not hesitate to shoot, would have spread through the country like wild= fire, The programme, urging uprising of violence, the culmination Jof which is hoped to be the overthrow and murder of the gentry and the establishment of a proletariat gov ernment, follows:—LmThe labourers and peasants to belonging, the wilttary. the labourers rative nower be YewThat riots be. started and. that ax" toldirs und leaders Tu the promo: Ting f the 1 to promote & riotous seit among stk Star and that arrangements be mae 9 Shore thal' Severn urges wil coe minate tua riot Seenae® Alcantent be promoted Fund tat their pay te th anear, and ug, oldierseapecialy wien Te a

fein them over to the revolutionary 'THe striking printers.of the Japanese establishments will receive 10 per cent. increase, will have a working day of 8) hours, and will have a one-hour tifin interval,"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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