TRIBAL DISTURBANCES

Evening Star, Issue 20028, 20 November 1928, Page 9

TRIBAL DISTURBANCES

OH NORTH-WEST FRONTIER TWO BRITISH SUBJECTS KIDNAPPED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, November 19. (Received November 20, at 9.40 a.m.) Reports from the'north-west frontier confirm the news ol serious tribal disturbances on the Dakka-Jalalabad road, resulting in tho suspension of traffic between India and Kabul. The Mohamand, Khugirani, and Shiinvari tribes are involved in the lighting. Probably the Afghan troops will be called on to restore order.

A Ghilzai tribe caravan was attacked by assailants, who were driven off. King Amanullah’s reform programme is generally popular, but it is not welcomed by a few clans, who may have caused tho trouble. Nows from Waziristan shows that a section of tho Mahsuds dislocated traffic on the Razmak road and kidnapped two British subjects

Air Force operations are being used against the tribesmen. Australian Press Association.

DEATH SENTENCE

DRAMATIC APPEAL BY CHINESE

HONEYMOON TRAGEDY RECALLED

Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright,

LONDON, November 19. (Deceived November 20, at 1.10 p.m.j Chung Yi-raiao made a dramatic three-and-a-half hours’ speech in the Court of Criminal Appeal against the death sentence imposed on him, alter calling two new witnesses, who stated that they had seen the Oriental neat tho scene of the murder on June 19. Addressing the court, Miao said that it was a Chinese custom when a woman married that her property went to her husband while she lived, but reverted to her family on her death. Judgment will bo delivered to-day. —Australian Press Association. [A message received on October 26 stated that Chung Yi-miao, a Chinese law student, was sentenced to death at Carlisle for strangling his Chinese wile at Borrowdalo during their honeymoon in the Lakes district on June 19. Chung Yi-miao heatedly protested his innocence alter tho sentence, but Mr Justice Humphreys intimated that he believed tho verdict was . right. Summing up, tho judge said it was evident that the murderer had staged the affair. Tho clothes of tho woman were torn, suggesting outrage, but there was no sign of a bruise on the body. He added that Chung was an extremely clever man, who always had a ready answer. Tho defence suggested that two Fasterncrs. either Chinese or Japanese, murdered tho woman for the jewels she carried, which were worth £3,0U0. She was tho daughter of a Chinese millionaire. The Crown, however, showed that the Orientals were not within three miles of the scene of the murder.]