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. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928 PAGE NINETEEN ------ _ ~ SANDINO'S REBELS MAKE THIRD RAID ON AMERICAN MINE Only Two Buildings Left Standing on Pjis Pis Property THREAT IS'MADE Americans Falling Into San- dino's Hands Will Be Killed Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, May 20.--Rebels commanded by Augus- tino Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel, made a third aid on {he American- owned La Luz mine in the Pis Pis district and burned all buildings ex- cept two, Harry P. Amphleti, a Bri- ton, superintendent of the mine, said upon his arrival here en route to New York to consult with officials of the La T.uz Company. Amphlett said he found a letter addressed to him at the mine threat- ening to kili all Americans who fell into the hande of the Sandinistas. The letter was signed by Sandine and hore a seal picturing Nicaragua under the heels of 2 United States marine with a drawn sword. The letier said Sandino had be- come convinced that North Ameri- cans were 1 sympathy with the Gov ernmeni's nolicy in Nicaragua, and if any of them fell into his hands "they will have reached their end." A translation of the letter Sandine gent. to Amphlett follows: "La Luz and Los Angeles Mine. "Pear Siv: "I have the honor te inform you that on this date your.mine has heen reduced to ashes, in accordance with the disposition of this command, and to make more tangible our protest against the warlike invasion that your Government has made in our territory without more right tien brute force, » No Guarantee "In case the Gevernment of the United States does not order the, re- tirement of the pirates from our ter- ritory there will be no guarantee in the country for North Americans re- siding in Nicaragua. "At the beginning 1 believed that the people of North America were not in agreement with the abuse committed in Nicaragua by the Gov- ernment of Calvin Coolidge, but I have been convinced that the North Americans in general applaud the in- trusion of Coolidge in my country and it is for this reason that all North Americans whof all into our hands will have reached their end. "For the losses that you have had in the sald mine you may collect from 'the Government of the United States and Calvin Onolidge; who: Is the one responsible for the horrible and dis astrous situation which actually ex- ists in Nicaragua today. "If you are an honorable man you will be able to understand that the above mentioned is an accomplished fact. The pretext that Coolidge brings forward for his intervention in Nicaragua is that of protecting the lives and interests of North Ame- ricans and other foreigners in the country which is a tremendous hypo- crisy. "We, the Nigaraguans, are respect- ful men, and never has there occur- red in our history sich happenings as actually are occurring, and this is 'he crop of fruit that has been raised by the polities of your countrymen in our country. "The most honorable resolution that your Government could adopt in this conflict with Nicaragua would be to retire your forces from our ter- ritory thus permitting that we Nicaraguans elect our national gov- ernment. This will be the only me- thod of pacification in our country. "It depends on your Government to conserve the good or bad friendship with our national government and you, the capitalists, will be respected and appreciated by us always if you treat us as equals and not in the equivocal manner that you are at present doing, ruining our souls and bodies and interests, "I am your obedient servant for couniry and liberty. "(Signed) A. Sandino." Amphlett, who was captuted by Sandino and released because he was a British citizen, had returned re- cently to the mine from Puerto Ca- bezas where he had come to report after Sandino's first raid when the property was looted but not de- stroyed. 5 Captain Wounded Managua, Nicaragua, May 18. -- Capt. Robert S. Hunter, of the Unit: ed States Marine Corps, was wound- ed, ono unnamed marine was killed and another wounded, and a Nicara- guan National Guardsman was slain, in a battle with Nicaraguan revolu- tionists near Pena Blaca, 45 miles northeast of Jinotega about May 14, it was announced yesterday. The revolutionists are kndwn to have lost five killed and five wound- ed. IL was sald other marines prob- ably had been wounded. Medical supplies were dropped to Hunter's forces from airplanes on Wednesday. Hunter, with a detachment of 25 marines and ten guardsmen, engaged a force of 75 men under command of Jose Leon Diaz. The rebel forces had been located by airplane and Hunter ordered the 'attack with his roving patrol. vi The marine captain progeeded in the direction indicated, but. Diaz' scouts had reported the advancing troops and the Nicaraguan piepared an ambush. Theo engagement began at leng range, however, and the ma- rines pushed the attack and soon dis- lodged the Diaz forces, which fied. Two strong marine patrols have been' ordered to proceed to Hunter's position and pursue the rebel forces. How seriously Capt. Hunter had been wounded was not made known. ALBERTA MAN CLAIMS SHARE IN ESTATE Calgary, May 20.--~Edward Leon- ard Hemion, of Brooks, Alla.; de; clared at Passaic, N.J., to be legal- ly déad on the ground that he had been missing for 22 years, denies emphatically that he has been "missing" for that period. On the contrary, he states that he had been in touch with his father and his brother during that time, al- though not with his wife. He left vestarday for New York to press his claim for a share in his father's estate. His wife is sald to have been responsible for the court ruling to the effect that he was dead. Hemion and his wife parted 22 years ago, and for the nevt year he says he lived with his father. Then he drifted westward, located in North Dakota for a while, and finally came to Alberta. Of late he had been one of the superintendents of the Duke of Sutherland's farm at Brooks. ------ ST. JOHN, N.B,, MAN DIES AT PORT ARTHUR Port Arthur, May 20. -- While out in the country driving Satur- day afternoon, Ross D. Woodrow, ratired Post Office Superintendent at St. John, N.B.,, who was here visiting his son, Alan L, Wood- row, manager of the Bank of Nova Sdotia, died without warn- ing from apoplexy. , A. L. Woodrow was called to St. John five weeks ago on ac- count of the death of his mother, and brought his father back to Port Arthur with him, hoping the change would be beneficial, but grief at his wife's death was a constant anxiety to him and con: tributed to his sudden end. Thus Mr. Woodrow was bereaved of both father agn mother in five short weeks. The body, accompanied by A. L. Woodrow, left by TranssCanada this morning for St. Joh®, where interment will take place. CE ------------ a romp in a snowstorm? Hambly's When one of these sizzling days comes along, just lift the cap off a frosty bottle of a De- lightful Hambly Beverage and pour out a sparkling glass full. Man! Can't you feel that cold tingle that somehow "Hits the Spot" and leaves you feeling as refreshed as though you had Try a drink of one of Beverages next time you're thirs: ty -- let it pep you up on drowsy afternoons, NUCH UNRESTIN DUTGH EAST INDI Active "Red" Propaganda is Blamed for the Trouble The persistence of unrest in the Duteh East Indies can be attributed to only one cause -- propaganda inspired by Moscow. Ever since the Java rising of November, 1926, in which Bolchevist complicity was proved beyond all doubt, there has been an undercurrent of disaffection that has occasionally become mani- fest. There has, indeed, been a chain of incidents to prove that sedi- tion is scotched but by no means dead. The Island ef Bali is the lat- est centre of disturbance, writes a correspondent of the Lond Times in that newspaper. The Government has reinforced the normal garrison of three infantry Lrigades, and has decided to hold an official investiga- tion into the matter. Instances of Bolshevist activities are too numerous for all to be noted here. The few given are, however, ample proof. Towards the close of last year, for example, a "cell" was found to have been formed at Singa- pore by two notorious Javanese Com- munists, Muso and Alimin. About the same time there appeared an or- ganization called the Pan-Pacific Trade Union, whose published aims embraced "war against Imperialism" and "tlle formAtion of a united anti- colonial front," with headquarters at Shanghai and a committee which in- cluded Alimin as representative for the Dutch East Indies, Further, there was reported an in- cident of a Chinese listener picking up wireless transmission from Vladi- vostok which urged the people of Java, in good Malay, to rise against the Dutch. At the end of November an article in the Imprekorz, the offi- cial organ of the Komintern, enjoined the Communist Party of Java, "while preparing for the new attack on Dutch Imperialism," to "educate" and organize the masses to that end. Finally, it was only in March last that a man, was arrested in Singa- pore i nthe act of putting up a sedi- tious poster addressed to the "Prole- tarviat of the Weak and Oppressed Races of all Nations." Appeal to Credulity The procedure of the propagandists since November, 1926, has varied to suit different areas according to lo- cal conditions. In districts where the natives are of a particularly low intellectual average, attention has been focused on their credulity, The extent of that credulity is exempli- fied by the success which in certain areas has attended a mystic type of propaganda based on the Hindu myths so familiar to Javanese of every class, Even such statements as that the legendary wars of - the Bharata-Yudda were about to ngcur in the form of strife between capital and labor were accepted. Other gee- tions of the populace, notably in ds- tricts where the greatest poverty was prevalent, were won by the announce- ment of the coming of a mysterious "reformer-king," under whom there would be no payment of rent or taxes, with the additional bait of rice at a purely nominal price, The population of West Sumatra, equally eredulous but more en rap- port with the outside world, was per- nouncenient that revolution would be supported by 41 aeroplanes and a like number of battleships from Rusgia and America, -In the Pre- anger Regency of Java, where Islam has the closest hold, the task of the propagandists was less easy. The in- habitants of this region, being bel- ter educated, would be less readily persuaded that Communism could be reconciled with the teachings of the Koran; also, a large proportion of the religious leaders have too impor- tant a stake in the land for Commun- istic theories to find any favor. Yet it was clear to the organizers that religion there represented the one potential channel for their propagan- da, and, ingeniously enough, agita- tors were put through an intensive religious training in order that they might establish themselves as expon- ents of orthodox Mahommedanism. Once firmly established as teachers, it was felt that they could gradually and insensibly introduce Commun- ism into their discourses. A convenient factor was present in the shape of the "Bond of Islam," a society originally established in 1912 for the fostering of the national reli- gion and the protection of its mem- bers against alien middlemen in the necessaries of life. The Bond speedily assumed a political tinge, but later, when extremist elements broke loose and adopted a definitely Communistic creed, large numbers gave up mem- bership of the society. The collapse of the 1926 rising, followed by the failure of one planned for July, 1927, caused a widespread reaction, and the membership roll of the Bond of Isiam went up by leaps and bgunds. Could the propagandists, therefore, make their: influence paramount in the Bond, an enormous and powerful in- strument lay ready to their hands, and to that end they have sedulously worked. : Although the slogan adopted is "Lands of Islam for Islamites," the stream of religious fervor is gradu- ally diverted into a political chan- nel by the specious contention that the capitalists, in forbidding their employees to join an organization whose aims are opposed to their. in- terests, unmistakably reveal them- selves as foes of the national faith. At a Bond of Islam congress recently held at Jocjakarta it was sufficiently apparent that the genuine religious element was in the ascendant; 'but the amount of influence exercised by the disguised Communistic element was nevertheless viewed with con- observers and by Javanese of the con- servative type. Dutch Settlers' Fears The Government is well aware that -90 per cent of the participants in the 1926 rising had not the slightest con- ception of the issues involved; it also realizes the need for the recognition of 'legitimate nationalistic aspira- tions. The official attitude is reveal- ed in the words of Count van Lim- burg Stirum, who has said: "We do not wish to estrange ourselves from suaded to contribute funds by the an- | siderable misgiving both by Dutch? those whom we. may greet as wel- come and necessary collaborators." The Government, indeed,. has de- clared in umeguivocal terms that it will differentiate between Commun- ists, who will not be, tolerated, and Nationalists, who will be encouraged rather than hindered. Its faith in the essential good will of the masses is plainly expressed in the projected establishment of a native majority in the Volksraad, or People's Coun- cil. b This measure, especially when con- sidered in conjunction with recent en- largements of the Volksraad's func. tions, is viewed with apprehension by the majority of business men and other employers of native labor, who see in a native majority another po- tential weapon to the hand of the agitator, and claim that the altered demeanor of the native towards the European is far from bearing out the Government's optimistic view of the extent to which Communistic theories have sunk into the consciousness of the masses. They point, moreover, to the Gov- ernment's action a short time ago in broadcasting an adverse report on conditions in modern Russia as di- rect evidence that it regards the state of popular feeling with leas complacency than it professes. On the other side may be ranged the considerations that, despite the proposed alterations in the constitu- tion of the Volksraad, the final au- thority will remain vested in the Crown of Holland, and that the Government has given an earnest of its avowed intention to differentiate between legitimate nationalism and mere sedition-mongering. It is shown by the wholesale banishment of Communists to New Guinea and the execution, in the teeth of strong opposition from certain quarters, of several ringleaders; and by the pro- visions in this year's Budget for an enlargement of the Colonial Army in all its fighting branches, and other new measures of a protective nature, NOTABLES HONOR TINOTAY HEALY One-Time Terror of British House is Tendered Banquet op -- London, May 20.--Roaring as gent- ly as any dove, Tim Healy, at one time the terror of the British House of Commons and from 1922 to 1927 Governor-General of the Irish Free State, last night entertained with subdued wit a company of Anglo American notables assembled to do him honor. : Throughout the courses of a ban- quet attended by as distinguished an audience as could be collected in London, Mr. Healy sat saturine and self-possessed, smiling faintly from time to time as Lord Birkenhead (whom Healy perhaps knew better under his old pseudonym of "Gallo- per: Smith of Portadown") in intro- ductory speech portrayed the one time Irish Nationalist leader as the enfante terrible of parliaments of a generation or two -ago. In accepting tribute offered by all the notables whom England knows 180 well how to muster--Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Bourne, Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancel- lor, I. 8. Amery and other members of the Cabinet -- the former Free State governor alluded ever so gently to the fact that while four British Cabinets have come and gone "the wayward and impulsive Irish have been content with the same govern- ment'; mildly twitted the American members of the Pilgrims present on the fact that "the Free State enjoys powers which the American states long since surrnedered to the Fed- eral Government" and dwelt with ap- parent unction upon the fact that Ireland together with the British Dominions got "a flat rate in the monarchy" at the last Imperial Con- ference. ) Graceful Tribute Then Mr. Healy, old and a little tired, paid a graceful tributeeto the British political method which vio- lated every accepted canon in deal- ing with subject peoples, but ended in attaching them more firmly than ever to the Empirg and sat down to the plaudits of a room full of men who twenty years ago regarded him as the most dangerous of agitators and left those who had expected any of the old fire, mordant wit or de- vastating satire with which Tim Healy enlivened Westminster in the days before he was accepted as a pillar of the community. MacKENZIE DROWNED MINISTER DID NOT BOARD C.P.R. LINER Glasgow, Scotland, May 20.-- After a careful investigation into the disappearance of William Mac- Kenzie, Hamilton, Ont., and Rey. W. A. Wilson, Vanconver, B.C,, from the steamer Melita on her last trip from Montreal to Glasgow, Canadian Pacific Steamship officials have decided that MacKenzie was drowned on May 3, and that Mr. Wilson did not sail. William MacKenzie, a Scotsman of three years' residence in Can- ada, left a wife and family in Ham- ilton. He was returning for a heit- day in his native Edinburgh. No record of a clergyman named Rev. W. A. Wilson could be found in Vancouver. His name was on the Melita's passenger list, but there was no record of his having board- ed the steamer, UP-TO-DATE (Hamilton Spectator) The phrase "Kiss and make up," is now obsolete. Nowadays the make-up always comes ahead of the embrace. 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