Besides providing the Prime Mi ister with a- disciplinary triumph! in the party conclave, Sir Oswald Mosley has obligingly assisted his lence Suggesting Three Finnish Missionaries Were Murdered on Communist [instructions 'A remarkable succession of coincidenees lends support to the theory, would stop at _nothing—judging from their other and definitely proved accomplishments—to em-
Commander-in-Chief, China, Station, has been promoted Admiral.
Rear-Admiral H. J. Tweedie, who recently held the position of Senior Naval Officer, Yangtze, has been promoted Vice-Admiral—Reuter, There is only a 20 per cent. crop of silk cocoons this year. The best cocoons are selling for $65. a picul, and the price ranges down to $50 for the inferior grades. The small already held by many acquainted Chief to arrive at a partial solution facts, that the three of a cabinet making problem, The ish missionaries, the Misses E. vacant post of Chancellor of the Cajander, E. E. Ingman, and-A. A. Duchy of Lancaster now goes to Hf, Hedengren, who were murdered Major Clement Atlee, the junior by Communist bandits in Kiangsi of the two Labour members of the on February 3, were killed on in-Sirion Commission for.whom the structions from some outside body, Prime Minister is virtually pledged probably from Soviet Russia or the to find office. Moreover the Go-Third International. Missionaries in vernment benches profit by the touch with the situation as it was accession of a true representative of at the time of the killing of the three the best type of Labour p Indies are inclined to consider the in place of the meretricious theory" too improbable to be trae. ance ®f a nouveau riche. An Old But responsible investigators on the Haileyburian with Modern History spot have expressed the belief that the Indies were killed deliberately honours of Oxford, legal training and in revenge for anti-Communist and experience of social work activities of Mr. Lauri Ingman, the gained at Toynbes Hall, Major!
Tate Miss Ingman's brother, who is Atlee is distinguished for one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet. dustrious application of his energies movement in Finland to-day. Proof to any cause which he is called upon of this theory is impossible to obtain, As Mayor of Stepney, but a review of the facts of the as Privaie Secretary to" Mr. Mucmurders appears to provide at least Donald when in Opposition and, prime facie evidence in its favour. from 1914 to 1919, as a soldier in It will be recalled that the three Gallipoli, France and Mesopotamia, ladies were murdered at the village no less than as a Member of the of Lao Chiao on the Kan River while Indian Statutory Commission, he travelling by native boat. They has displayed qualities which have were a few miles outside Kixn, knined for him the esteem of col-Iurge city in the province. The first Teagues and political opponents. reports received here stated that alike. He is 47 years of age, has a they had been taken captive, but charming wife—content to" share these are now known to be untrue, his political activities without singe members of the Communist cherishing parliamentary ambitions gang responsible have since been on her own account—and he thoptured and have told the auroughly deserves his promotion, thorities that the throe ladies were killed almost, immediately, in circumstances of extreme brutality, and their bodies thrown into the river.
Chinese in the Police Some of their clothes have been Under the scheme for the direc: covered! and identified by fellow misappointment of suitable Chinese to sionaries. the posts of assistant inspector"
The Chinese authorities still re-and—sub-assistant inspectors fuse, however, to believe in the police an examination was held on death of the three ladies, stating Saturday. About, 160 candidates of that definite proof cannot be had very good typo sat for the 20 until the bodies have been recovered, vacancies and the result will be Others believe that the tale told by mnowneed in due course. Some the captured Communists is true candidates. possessed university and that all hope of the Indies'
alifcations and one of them had safety should long ago have been town from Hankow to participate abandoned. Reports subsequent to in the examination. The intention the murder stated that Miss Cajand-is to form a police training school ex died of exposure and that the for the successful candidates who other two ladies were slain: these probationers will undergo. a are now, however, discredited and thorough training in police admini the fact' is stated that the ladies tration and discipline. It is hoped were killed outright at the time of that this. scheme will not. only their capture, provide a good outlet for the Chinese According to mission sources of ung man of better education but information the murderers were not Iso introduce into the Municipal the same as those who later captur-Police force an improved type of ed Mr, and Mrs, Porteous and are officer. still holding them to ransom. These sources state that the three ladies were killed by the Nang Min Hsien 'A. runriter order has been ea Huei or Farmers' Union—a union of by the Chiaotungpu, saying that ints who have been trained to foreign ships will be subject to hate all foreigners and wealthy people by means of con! tent pro-fo arch by Chinese soldiers just as are native vessels. paganda. This union is said to have killed and robbed a number of n people in Fengtien in the Tue Commi ion for the Re-province, and it is reported that 300 organization of Shanghai-hsien of them were at Lao Chiao when the Kuomintang has sent a telegram to haches were killed. the Central Kuomintang Party, re-But a review of all the circum-questing the latter to order, the stances leading up to the murder Anhui Provincial Government not throws rather @ different to allow foreign vessels to call at the crime. Miss Ingman had re-Anking, Wuhu and other non-treaty turned from furlough in Finland ports so as to prevent foreigners only a short time before the Com-from encroaching upon China's munists became active in the sovereignty, neighbourhood of her station, Yung. hsin. Her brother, Lauri Ingman, avery prominent man in Finland to-Tue Chinese press reports that day. From November, 1918, to the Commissioner of Social Affairs April, 1919, he was Prime for Greater Shanghai was recently of the country, while it was still in asked by the management of various te of war with revolutionary Native cotton texile factories for Russia. "The severance of Finland permission to enforce a wage cut. from "Russian domination had 80 as to enable them to meet the already been achieved, and Mr. kkeon competition of foreigners. At Ingman had been one of the most the same time, the Chinese press active in bringing this about. says,. workers of these factories Shortly after this Mr. Ingman asked for an increase in wages on evolved the scheme of defence for the ground that the cost of living his country which is still being had become higher than ever before. After investigations were carried out today. This scheme of defence created a great stir made, the Commissioner found that Soviet Russia when it became both the management and workers. known, since it was mostly directed of these factories were justified in against possible encroachments from presenting their respective demands that quarter. Eyer since that time and the fundamental remedy was to 'Mr. Ingman, has been yinment in' improve the domestic industries by' iving the merchants. financial as-movements in his country, and has sistance and reducing taxation. The more than once attracted the ire Commissioner accordingly made rethe Soviet.
presentations to effect to Tt may be supposed from these jo Mayor of Greater Shanghai. facts that the heads of Communism barrass such an enemy to the: utmost.
The first report of danger to the! three Finnish ladies who were stationed in Yunghsin, Kiangsi, came in December last year. Some days later a very graphic account of the ladies' escape from Com ts, which did not mention names, was published in the "N.-C. Daily News." One of the ladies then out of the neighbourhood, but two others took refuge in am loft during the Communist outrages or. the people, They were in a village in the district, and for two days hid in a mud house near the river, returning every night to their loft On December" the Conmunists searched the village, while the two ladies were in their loft, Every Toft in the house they wore in was searched except theirs, though Communist soldiers even peered into that and, seeing nobody, left without a detailed inspection.
So obvious was it that the Com munists were looking for the for: igners that the other villagers, after the bandits had gone, threatened the man in whose house they had been concealed. He, however, would not hear of " their departure, and, since a wall was being constructed in his house built them into a small, specially contrived compartment, where they lay hidden in dark and discomfort for three nights and two days. Then, on a night when the coast seemed clear, they took flight. from the district."
The Communists, however, seem-especially anxious to capture them, and on hearing of their escape set out in pursuit. The wif= of the man who had been hiding them had been beaten until she confessed where they had gone, And so on during the whole of their flight. At one place they learned that the Communists had looted the home of one who had given them a night's shelter, sixteen men coming to the place and searching it thoroughly for signs of them, Everything in the account. seems to point to the fact that the Communists were especially anxious to lay their hands on these Indies—fact which becomes most signi ficant when it is remembered tha: when the Indies wore finally cap: tured, when they considered themselves safe, they were killed without ransom being asked. The; were murdered without apparent motive, whereas other missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Porteous, for instance, who are still in the Communists' hands, appear to have been well-treated, pending negotiations for ransom. In the case of the three Finnish ladies, no ransom was asked. They were just, butchered.
Finnish missionaries have been recalled from the province by their local authorities, following this murder andthe narrow escape from capture, and possibly death, of Miss M. E. Keranen and Miss T. E.
Sihvonen, the former of whom is now in Kiukiang, and the latter Shanghai. These two ladies we stationed in Yungfeng, which was Miss Hedengren's station, but the city was attacked by Communists 29 and they had to lly, with nothing bat what they stood up in. They travelled three days on foot, over roads which had been covered with snow and were heavy and muddy, before they reached safety. Cor munists pursued them as far as they dared.
A report received from an eyo-witness in Kiangsi is to the effect that this person saw a white officer with one of the Communist gangs. The witness believes the man to have been Russian. Contrary to the first report that Mr. and Mrs. Porteous had been ca) tured by the same gang that had murdered the Finnish ladies, it is now learned that the bands, while being Communists, are not the same, though the district in which they now are corresponds with that occupied by the murderers of the ladies.
'Admiral Sir Arthur Kipling Waistell, Ct X.C.8 Commander-in-Chief' of "the China Station, arrived in Shanghai on March 16, 129, to relieve Admiral Sir Reginal Trywhitt crop is due chiefly to the cold rainy weather, but the eggs from last year were not up to standard, which also is a contributing cause.
The bad weather has also resulted in a 50 per cent. wheat crop, Born on March 30, 1873, Admiral Waistell has had a distinguished naval career. From 1922 to, 1923, he commanded the Destroyer Flotilla attached to the Atlantic Fleet and, from 1923 to 1924, he served as Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. For! two years after that, he was in coi-mand of the Fixst Cruiser Squadron. During the Great War, 1914-1918, Admiral Waistell saw service throughout and was mentioned in the despatches. For his services, he received the C. B. In the last King's Birthday honours list, he was promoted a Knight Commander of the Bath, JAPANESE STEAMERS,
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