Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bitreau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 79, at noon ¢ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes today. Lowest, 62, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on plge 32. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as second class matter 29»628- post office, Washington, D. C. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,967 TWO CENTS. Star. 1925 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. The Foening SATURDAY, JUNE 13, ® (P) Means Associated Press. No. WASHINGTON, D. C, CAILLAUX'S STAND ON TAX OF CAPITAL BRINGS CRISISNEAR Socialist Bugbear May Wreck Painleve Cabinet. Truce Is Temporary. LITTLE PROSPECT SEEN OF AGREEMENT ON ISSUE Finance Minister Urges Thrift and Retrenchment in All Ex- penditures. By the Associated Prees. PARIS, June 13.—The bugbear of a ‘capital levy, invoked by the Socialists, still threatened both the Painleve cab inet and the Left bloc of Parliament today. It seemed probable that the firmness of Finance Minister Cail faux in opposing the capital levy de- nanded by the Socialists would mean the wrecking of either the govern- ment or the Left bloc, or possibly both. At the same time it was recognized son each side that this, like so many ‘others in recent French politics, might blow over, and that some simple solu- tion might be found, at least tempo- rarily, for what now appears to be a hopeless tangle. It was admitted today that yester day's truce between the cabinet and the parties of the Left only covered secondary points and left the general situation unchanged. Socialists Stand Firm. Soclalist leaders sald their slogan continued to be “Take the money from where it is,” that is, from the wealth- fer classes, under a capital levy. This, ey sald, was the paramount issue, with little prospect of a compromise. The rank and file of the Socialists are pressing their leaders not to vield, ap- parently because of fear that the lead- ers might sacrifice the principles of the party in order to secure individual power in the government. Along with the other phases of the financial reforms which Finance Min- ister Caillaux has in mind for the good of the country is a policy of| strict retrenchment in governmental expenditures. In urging economy to his fellow cabinet members today, M. Caillaux emphasized that if the confidence of | the world was hoped for it could be had only if France lived within its income. = And, he added, that income must be derived from taxation alone. Agree on Cut. It was learned after the meeting that the ministers were in agreement that expenses should be cut, .nfl promised to do everything possiblei to foster curtailment. The only other announcement was a_definite” agree- ment that 1,200,000,000 francs of this vear’'s Dawes plan payments would be used as budget receipts. Next year, however, these payments will go to| the payment of French debts, recon- struction expenses and other purposes. M. Caillaux probably will appear again before the finance committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Mon- day, as his financial reform bill awill | come up for open discussion in the chamber on Tuesday. ) The Dawes plan receipts for 1925, so far as they concern France, were the subject of study by the chamber finance committee today in connection with the work of the committee in drafting its report on the financial bill for presentation to parliament. The committee insists that France will receive only 1,000,000,000 francs under the Dawes plan in 1925 instead | 9,000,000 francs, as estimated in the original budget prepared by M. Clementel, who preceded M. Caillaux as finance minister. The committee decided to ask M.| Caillaux for further details as to the exact amounts to be derived from the reparations payments. These details will be furnished by Seymour Parker Gilbert, agent general for reparation payments. SUICIDE PACT TOLD BY WOUNDED STUDENT Boy and Girl, Who Killed Herself, Preferred to Die Rather Than Be Parted. By the Associated Press WELLESLEY FARMS, Mas: 13 —Because they preferred death ther than separation during the Summer vacation Sterling Mills, 18- vear-old high school student, and Priscilla Amidon, his 15-year-old sweet- heart, agreed to die together last Tuesday. Details of the suicide pact were ob tained by Assistant District Attorney Dudley D. Ranney after he had ques- tioned the boy for several hours in the Newton Hospital _yesterday. Mills is in a_critical condition with a bullet wound in his head. He sald he met the girl on the way from school by an arrangement of several days before. They went to her house and got the revolver and then walked into the woods off Glen road. He fired the gun once as a test and gave It to Priscilla. She shot herself through the head. Mills said he then picked up the weapon and turned it on himself. Mr. Ranney said the boy's story seemed true, and unless there are untoward developments there will be no prosecution. Mills, who has been unconscious three days, does not know that Priscilla is dead, and will not be told until his condition improves. CREMATED WITH HER DOG. Betired Circus Performer’s Ashes Share Urn With Those of Dog. ALHAMBRA, Calif., June 13 (#).— The bodies of Myrtle Ross, a retired circus performer, and of Snowball, a French poodle, teammates in a high wire act of two decades ago, were cremated together near here yester- day and their ashes placed in an urn to be returned to Syracuse, N. Y., the birthplace of Mme. Ross. Snowball was chloroformed and ' DAWES his ashes mingled with those of his mistress, in compliance with a re- quest made by her. Dead Labor Leader WARREN S. STONE. WARREN S, STONE RITES ON MONDAY Rail Labor Leader, Dead at 65, Did Much for Union. Started Big Bank. B the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13.—Ar- rangements were being completed to- day for the funeral of Warren San- ford Stone, 65, head of the Brother hood' of Locomotive Engineers and its trust companies, co-operative banks, office buildings and other holdings, whose resources approxi- mate $150,000,000. Funeral services will be held Mon- They will be conducted on the y Oberlin College was to have honored the labor leader and financier by conferring upon him the degree of master of arts. Mr. Stone died late yesterday from a general breakdown caused by Bright's disease. Death came in a hospital, where less than three months ago Mr. Stone had written an edi- torial for the May issue of the brotherhood organ, in which he indi- cated he had an intuition that life's end was near. At that time physi- cians said he was suffering from uremic poisoning. Collapsed Tuesday. He recovered sufficiently to return to his duties, but was taken to the hospital again Tuesday after collaps- ing in his office and never fully re- gained consclousness. “The highest temperature they have any record of here in the hospital is 1087 degrees,” Mr. Stone wrote in part in his first editorial. “T tried to break the record but could not, my highest being 108%, and that for only a short time. After you pass 104% you do not know the difference; the wheels are going round, but you do not know it. “Now I am back to normal tem- perature and the doctor says I am coming through and that the old machine is good for years to come. I hope he is correct, because, while that invisible intangible something we i call life has never meant so much to me, even at the best, yet I want to live as long as 1 can be of use to my fellow men. “By the time this reaches you I shall perhaps be back in the harness again. If I am, all right; I want to keep on as long as I can be useful. It keep on as ‘ong a8 - CA% 2 — = . (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) PLANS TOUR OF FAR WEST CITIES May Go Out to Pacific Coast After Speech in Denver on July 24. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—Vice President Charles G. Dawes is considering a Far Western tour. following his Denver speech, July 24, in support of his ad- | vocacy of revision of the Senate rules. Should he decide to proceed west from Denver he probably would speak at Seattle, Pprtland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. A Midwestern series of addresses also is under considera- ! tion for the Fall. The Vice President, who in several speeches has urged that the Senate rules be changed so that a majority may prevent fllibustering and proceed with its business, will leave June 21 for his second speech in the East on the subject, at Manchester, N. H., on June 23. In April he spoke at the an- nual meeting of the Assoclated Press in New York City. Since then he has spoken at Birmingham, Ala. Vice President Dawes may devote September, October and November to a Middle Western tour to inculde In- diana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, and possibly Missouri. Of Special Interest BERENENARTNSNERINERS = “Local Military Organizations of the Years Gone By” Older Washingtonians organizations of the 80s and heavily for bright colors, gold will CITIZENS T0 SEEK COOLIDGE AID FOR BATHING BEACHES Suter, Representing 40 Groups, to Ask Help in Ob- taining Swimming Places. PRESIDENT APPROVES TIDAL BASIN REOPENING Lacks Power to Act, But Expresses Hope Col. Sherrill May Find ‘Way to Provide Use. President Coolidge will be asked to- day by Jesse C. Suter, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, to consider what action he might be able to take to bring about the temporary opening this Summer of bathing beaches for the white and colored pop- ulations of Washington. 1 Mr. Suter, who also is chalrman of the Citizens’ Advisory Councll, said today that he planned to seek the ad: vice of the Chief Executive in view of the action taken by the federation, which represents more than 40 nelgh- borhood organizations, urging that every effort be made to have bathing facilities provided through some tem- porary arrangement in order to afford the people supervised water recreation during the hot weather. The federation instructed its com- mittge on public health to do every thin; possible to bring about the opening of the beaches as a safe. guard against persons being drowned by bathing at various points along the river where no safeguards are available. i As chairman of the Citizens’ Ad- visory Council, Mr. Suter several days ago sent telegrams to the chairmen of the Senate and House committees on | appropriations and on the District of Columbia, asking them to sanction the operation of two beaches this Summer with funds provided largely from private sources. Text of Plea. The text of the letter taken to the White House today by Mr. Suter fol- lows: “The excessive heat and numerous drownings make imperative the imme- diate reopening of the bathing beach on the Tidal Basin as an emergency measure. A like need exists for similar accommodations for colored bathers in a suitable location. “Col. Sherrill has a workable plan for immediately taking care of this emergency and has expressed to the Citizens' Advisory Council his read!- ness to proceed to put it into opera- tion if approved by the chairmen of the Senate and House committees on appropriations and on the District of Columbia. Representative Zihlman, prospective chairman of the House District committee, has given ap- proval. Senator Warren wires he is, willing to leave it to the judgment of our local city government, which is tantamount to approval, as the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia heartily approve. Two Not Reached. “Telegrams to Senator Capper and Representative Madden, sent June 10, remain unanswered, as their present whereabouts remains unknown. Our inability to reach the other gentlemen makes it necessary to appeal to you, Mr. President, with the earnest re- quest that you formally advise Col. Sherrill of your approval of his plans to provide such emergency bathing facilities. It is, of course, understood that the opening and operation of these beaches this Summer will be with privately contributed funds as well as from the welfare funds of which Col. Sherrill is the custodian. “It is suggested that Col. Sherrill seek the advice of the Federation of Civic Associations, the central body (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) —_— FIVE DIE IN STORMS THAT SWEEP WEST Three Children Killed by Bolt of Lightning Hitting Texas Schoolhouse. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—Five persons were killed last night in the Middle ‘West and Southwest by wind and elec- trical storms. Two were killed by storms Thursday night in Minnesota. Three children met death and 15 persons were injured, half a dozen se- riously, when lightning struck a schoolhouse 10 miles south of Breck- enridge, Tex., at the close of a com- munity meeting. Witnesses sald the bolt went down the flue and out a side door. An aged woman was crushed to death near Chicago when a shed toppled over on her during a freak rain and wind storm. Several persons in the city were cut by, flying glass from broken window panes. A Chicago woman was killed and her two sons were badly injured near Lake Zurich, Wis.,, when their auto- mobile struck a hole that had been washed out by the storm. to Washingtonians An Unusual Feature of The Pictorial Section of Tomorrow’s Star recall these picturesque 90s. Many of them went in braid and flowing plumes, and their appearance on parade occasions always elicited thunderous applause. In Tomorrow’s Star Order your copy from your newsdealer today. ! FOUR SLAIN, 4 HURT IN2 GUN BATTLES Two Police Sergeants, One Patrolman and Gangster All Fatally Shot. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 13.—Gangsters and police shot it out today at close quar- ters in a revolver battle resulting in the death of two police sergeants, and of John Genna, one of the attacking | gang, and the wounding of a third policeman and Genna's two com. panions. Genna is believed to have been a brother to Angelo Genna, gangster, Fecently assassinated. “ The killings are believed to presage a bitter police war against gunmen and beer runners. Supt. of Police Morgan A. Collins declared that the police killers should be indicted and hanged before the day were killed were: Walsh, almost in- who Charles stantly killed, and H. Olson, died in a hospital, and John Genna, gangster, died of wounds. The wounded are: Serzt. Conway, shot near the heart, who may die, and John Stale and Albert Anmalle, gangsters. Chase Lasts 1% Miles. The battle burst after a chase of nearly a mile and a half on Western avenue after the police squad of four sergeants from the detective bureau saw a large automobile speeding south. The police car turned and pursued. The gangsters increased their speed and at Sixtieth street their driver lost control, and the car crashed into an iron fence. The detectives stopped a few feet away as the gangsters tumbled from their car, with revolvers and shot guns ready. A fusillade of slugs and bullets was launched at the policemen. The first volley dropped Sergt. Olsen when a slug crashed through his mouth and shattered his jaw. A hail of bullets riddled Walsh, killing him almost in- stantly. Fifty Shots Fired. More than 50 shots were fired, the crashing of firearms alarming neighborhood. The battle occurred in front of an automobile garage and sales agency. As the police sergeants fell under the severe fire of the gangsters, Genna and his confederates started to flee. Sergt. William Sweeney, the fourth member of the police squad, virtually single-handed shot and captured the entire gangster crew. He pursued Genna into the base- ment of a residence as they made tar- gets of one another, their revolvers spitting bullets at every step. As Genna reached the basement, one of Sweeney’s bullets dropped him, and he fell, dving. Spurred by the shooting of his three (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) GRIFFS-FINED $500, BUT SAVE GAME Chicago Loses Forfeit Claim for Failure to Appear on Field. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 13.—The Wash- ington club of the American Ifague today was fined $500 for violation of the league constitution in its failure to play a game with Chicago on Tues- day, but Chicago's claim of forfeiture was not allowed because the White Sox team failed to appear on the fleld in_uniform. This action was taken at a meeting of the board of directors, before which appeared Manager Eddie Collins and Secretary Barbour of the Chicago team and President Clark Griffith of ‘Washington. Rain caused a postponement of the scheduled game in Washington Mon- day and, according to the league rules, this should have been played off on the next open date, which in this case was the following day, Tuesday. Griffith announced that Washington would not play on that date on ac- count of excessive heat, and claimed that the home club had jurisdiction over postponed games. B. B. Johnson, president of the American League, presided at the ses- sion and only two other members of the board took part—Thomas D. Shibe of Philadelphia and E. S. Barnard of Cleveland. A proxy for Frank Navin of Detroit was carried by Mr. Barnard. Griffith is a member of the board, but 48 an interested party was not allowed to vote. the | “Bond Street Bend” Gets Society O. K., Doctor Scores Gait By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 13.—“Have you got the Bond Street Bend?” is the question being asked by London's young bloods and society butter- flies. If so, they say, yvou are all right, but according to Lord Daw- son of Penn, physiclan-in-ordinary to the King, you are all wrong. Observation of people walking in the society haunts of London reveals the fact that 50 per cent walk with a bend, hunching their shoulders, bending their knees and walking in the form of a ques tion mark. ‘When asked: “Why do you walk this way?’ a fashionable woman replied: “Ch, I don't know. Fash- ion, I suppose. One simply can't have the old-fashioned figure. One simply has to droop.” Lord Dawson says: “The ma- jority of the population continues to walk with shoulders forward instead of square. The result is that we have, through abdominal protrusion and the bend gait, all sorts of ailments that should never happen.” FAVORS EXTENDING CLASSIHED SERVICE President Would Put Dry Agents and Postmasters Under Civil Service. President Coolidge is interested not only in the. full observance of the present classified service act, but favors important extension, notably the placing of all postmasters and prohibition agents under the merit stem, according to William C. Dem- ing. chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, who con fe-red with the President today. To extend the civil service act to cover postmasters and prohibition agents, Mr. Deming pointed out, will require an act of Congress. He be- lieves, however, that Congress will look favorably upon such a recom- mendation when it is made, inasmuch o UE MUUS & 1Vl > et wi Senators and Representatives for tak- ing postmasters and agents of the pro- hibition unit out of politics. He said also that he is of the opinion that both services will be improved by this change in the manner of appointment. Mr. Deming said that he is hopeful that the Personnel Classification Board, upon which the Civil Service Commission has a representative, will be able to settle the controversy over class specifications. He said that Guy Moffett, the commission's representa- tive on the board, is redrafting class specifications for the board and hopes to have them completed this Fall. GRANDMOTHER WILL GET PENN STATE DEGREE Woman Member of Faculty to Be Honored for Second Time in Two Years. By the Associated Pres STATE COLLEGE. Pa., June 13.— For the second time in two years a grandmother will advance to the plat- form to receive a degree from the Pennsylvania State College at the commencement exercises on Monday. She is Mrs. Susan A. Porterfield, for the last two years a member of the college faculty, who will receive the master of arts degree in Spanish. Two years ago Mrs. Porterfleld re- celved her bachelor’s degree from Penn State in the same class with her son Henry. An older son was gradu- ated from Franklin and Marshall Col- lege in 1914 and his two children are proud of the scholastic achievements of their grandmother. At the com- mencement exercises in 1923 Mrs. Porterfleld was one of two grandmoth- ers to receive degrees, the other being Mrs. Sarah Shoemaker Farley, who completed the course in botany. S o Reds Send London Platinum. LONPON, June 13 (#).—-The Daily Mail says a shipment of platinum, valued at £954,000 (about $4,607,500) arrived in London yesterday, con- signed by the Russian Soviet govern- ment to a London bank. Radio Programs—Page 21.| MOVE FOR TAX CUT GAINS MOMENTUM Underwood Out for 2 Per tax Maximum of 13. By the Associated Press. The subject of Federal tax revision culated to lead to some action by the next Congress. Senator Oscar W. Underwood, who helped write the first income tax law, in an address in Montgomery, Ala., last night declared for a flat 2 per cent income tax and a maximum sur- tax of 13 per cent, the pre-war figure. President Coolidge has formed some ideas on the subject and belleves a considerable reduction in the tax load could be effected by eliminating the Federal levy on inheritances. In this respect he agrees with Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, who has predicted that the next Congress will make an effort toward lowering taxes. Fears Effect on States. The Utah Senator’s view that the States should be called,upon, in turn, to quit the income tax field, however, suggests in the President’s mind that such a step would present many dif- ficulties. The revenue of some States, he feels, would be seriously curtailed it they were forced to abolish their taxes on incomes. The 13 per cent surtax maximum ad- vocated by Senator Underwood is about half of that contemplated in the Mellon plan and one-third of the rate |in the present law, which was develop- ed by Republican insurgents and Democrats in coalition. He suggested, also, that estate taxes be reduced to | the pre-war rate of 10 per cent from the present 40 per cent. Senator Smoot said he believed the surtax rate would be reduced to 25 | per cent or perhaps less. He predicted , that increased exemption would be ac- | corded small Incomes and that the tax |imposed on them would be lowered. | Would Abolish Bureaus. | The reduced rates proposed by Sen- | ator Underwood would, in his opinion, provide sufficient revenue for the Government, and, if not, he suggested that some of the Federal bureaus be ‘abolished until expenditures do not equal revenue. | “I would slow down the Govern- | ment,” he declared, “before it slows down the business of the Nation.” The high surtax rates, he said, had made it more profitable for the man of large means to “abandon produc- tive enterprise and invest his money where he need not fear confiscation.” He pointed out that under the pre- war tax law nearly 30 per cent of the revenue came from incomes of more tharr $100,000, and in 1921 only 415 per cent was realized from that source. FILM ACTOR DROWNS. Doubling for Star, Tries to Shoot Rapids in Canoe. MARSHFIELD, Oreg., June 13 (#).— R. D. Jones, a Hollywood actor, dou- bling for a star in the Famous Play- ers-Lasky Co., filming a motion picture here, was drowned in the Coquille River yesterday. Jones was shooting rapids in a canoe for a picture. The canoe overturned and Jones disap- peared. Accounts received here said that Jones was inexperienced in handling a canoe, and was warned by a log driver not to attempt to run the rapids. The film company has been here since the first of the week under the direction of Irving Willat. Jones was a young man and married. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—The death of George Schofield, 50 years old, after a boxing match, in which his 15-year-old sweetheart was a par- ticipant, has led to an investigation of “Heaven City,” a love colony, founded near Harvard, Ill., by Al- bert J. Moore in 1923. The colony, made up of twenty or more men, women and children, was formed when unfavorable publicity caused Moore to leave Chicago. It con- sists of a_130-acre farm. Schofield died shortly after exert- ing himself in a boxing bout with a colony member in which the girl Joined when Schofield failed to live up to his boast of prowess in the ring. A coroner's jury found that ATROCITIES BODIES OF SLAIN of Defeat of By the Associated Press. as well. The attacking forces landed counter attack. tarily given up their arms. roads. campaign of terror. the Kwangtsi troops, who quit gun fire. The most avenge the wrongs done today. Fighting Eight Days. Fighting began at Canton eight days ago between rival elements of former followers of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the South China leader. The immediate cause of the trouble was the efforts of the Cantonese gov- ernment to dismiss the Yunnanese army, former_ allies of the Cantonese under Sun Yat-Sen's regime. The dismissal was desired because the support of the army had becéme burdensome to the Cantonese govern- ment. Yunnanese generals under Gens. Yang Hsi-Min and Lau Chun-Wan and their troops had complete control of Canton. Cantonese troops under Gen. Hsu Ch’s _Ung-Chi, reinforced by Gen Chu Pei-Tak, attacked the Yunnanese occupying Canton with the object of freeing the city from their rule. Today's dispatches indicate effort has been successful. this trouble was not connected with the disturbances at Shanghai and else- where in China. Tuesday the Yuannanese fired upon a launch flying the American flag and carrying four Americans attempting to cross the river from Honam Island, site of the Canton Christian College, to the City of Canton. An American woman was wounded in the arm and others in the party were injured by splinters of glass. On Thursday the American gun- boat Pampanga was fired on near Canton as it was convoying a supply launch to the Christian college. The gunboat returned the fire but no casualties were reported. Thursday 10 foreign gunboats were at Canton and others were expected to arrive. 3,000 TROOPS MOVE. Cantonese Land at Tungpo—Ad- vance Into Tungshan. LONDON, June 13 (#).—A delayed Reuter’s dispatch from Canton says 3,000 Cantonese troops-crossed the river Thursday night from Honam Island, in the Pearl River, and land- ed at Tungpo, three miles east of Tungshan. Fighting began east of Tungshan before daylight yesterday, and later the Cantonese advanced into the city. At the time the dispatch was filed, fighting was going on near Kwanting University, mid- way between Tungshan and Sha- meen, the British settlement. The strategic points at Shamee were protected by sandbag barite “Heaven City” Probed in Oil Man’s Death After Bout; Girl Took Part death was due to natural causes. No arrests have been made, but the girl was sent back to her home in Dabneys, Va. Schofield, said to be a wealthy ofl operator from Oklahoma City, had met the girl through a matrimonial advertise- . ment. Attention was attracted to Moore in Chicago several years ago when his “life institute” was brought to light. Mrs. Shirley Talcott, whose husband committed suicide in Lake Michigan after he said he had fail- ed to persuade her to forget Moore, was found still aiding Moore at ““Heaven City"” Talcott once was, a complatnant in court against Moore, whom he declared had “hypnotic eye: Dispatches have said the Canton | INFLICTED ON CAPTURED CANTON BY RUSSIAN-LED ARMY Non—Coml_);tants and Soldiers Are Stoned and Beaten to Death by Victors. LIE ON ROADS; EXTENSIVE LOOTING CARRIED ON Treachery in Ranks of Kwangtsi Troops, Who Quit for Cash, Is Main Cause Yunnanese. CANTON, June 13.—The attacking Kwangtung and Cantonese forces under bolshevik officers, after a fierce attack on the de- fending Yunnanese army, forced them to surrender Canton and today imposed extreme cruelties on soldiers and civilian population 2,000 soldiers at Tungshan, and from that point they attacked, leaving the defending forces with- out river transport facilities, and therefore unable to launch a After landing the Kwangtung troops gave the surrendering forces no consideration, although the defeated troops had volun- NON-COMBATANTS ARE VICTIM The winning forces then began looting the city confined to stations of opposing army forces, 1 Cent on Incomes and Sur- |homes of non-combatant citizens g ) ] Revolting scenes followed in all parts of the city, many of which were witnessed by Europeans from the foreign quarter. Innocent people were stoned and beaten by mobs i Bodies of slain innocent bystar This was not but extended to lers are strewn along the The surrendering Yunnanese troops in many cases were is gaining increasing momentum cal-| beaten to death by the Kwangtung forces s foreign population saw a conquered soldier diving into the river after witnessing the killing of his comrades The winning forces either shot defeated troops or threw them into the river after beating them with bamboo, stones and rifles. Looting was carried on in an extensive manner. | troops took even petty articles From Shameen the commit suicide by The winning of household property in their TREACHERY CAUSES DEFEAT. The principal cause of the defeat of the Yunnanese troops. now driven out of Canton, was the treachery in the ranks of for a cash consideration. Considerable damage was done to buildings owing to heavy revolting scenes caused by the Kwangtung troops. The defeated army leaders swore they would return to inside the city were a cades as a precatition, but no trouble there was expected. CHINA FILES PROTE! May Demand Compensation from Brit- ish on Hankow. PEKING, June 13 (®).—The Chi- nese government today protested by note to the British legation the recent killing and wounding of Chinese at Hankow. The note emph d the seriousness of the situation and re. served full liberty to demand compen- sation later. The Chinese note requested the Brit ish legation to notify all British con- sulates to take measures to prevent recurrence of incidents such as took place at Hankow. In referring to the seriousness of the situation at Han kow the note pointed out that the Shanghai affair still is unsettled. Chinese students here were today attempting to promote a one-day strike of all native employes in Japanese and British business establishments and were also making efforts to extend the proposed strike to Chinese domestic servants of Japan and British resi dents. Vernacular newspapers printed lists of Japanese and British business houses, including those within the le- gation quarter, and said all Chinese employed by them had been can vassed regarding the proposed strike GUARD FOR ALIENS. Peking Government Expected Order Protection. SHANGHAI, June 13 (®).—It is unofficially reported the Peking gov- ernment has decided to issue on Mon- day a mandate instructing Chinese provincial authorities to protect foreigners during the present d turbances throughout the country. Two thousand troops from the Mukden army of Gen. Chang Tso- Lin ,the Manchurian dictator, arriv- ed in Shanghai this morning under command of Gen. Chang’s son, Chang Hsueh-Liang. The troops were posted throughout the city, and at the boundaries of the international settlement which was marked by Chinese flags. STRIKE IS PL. to NED. « May Go Out Generally if Reds Aid. HONGKONG, June 13 (#).—The Chinese Seamen's Union here con- templates a strike to begin Monday as a protest against the activities of foreigners in China. The strike will affect steamers used by the Indo- China and China Navigation Com panies. Decision to call a general strike on June 20 has been reached, Lut the strike call was dependent on the ability of communists in Canton to furnish the money for strike aid. CONCERN 1S FELT. Seamen Episcopal Bishop Cables Situation Is Serious. NEW YORK, June 13 (). —Con- cern over the spread of the anti- foreign demonstrations in China is indicated in an announcement that the Episcopal missionaries in the Middle Yangtse region are being withdrawn from outlying posts to the guarded cities. A cable message from Bishop Gil- man, at Hanko, conveying this infor- mation describes the situation as “serfous " _Thousands of refugees are pouring T {Continued on Page 2, Column 3.1