LATEST GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 6

LATEST GENERAL CABLES

OE VALERA WELL GUARDED. ... i i / ■ ■ - * (Renter.) (Received 12.20 p.m.) , London, October 27. i De Valera was taken to Belfast under a strong police escort f;'t ■ | ________ . ■■■ LATEST FROM CHINESE FRONT. ; - i (Received 13.30'- p.m.) ; - . Peking, October 27. < The city was deilude-dtef troops last night, except the guards,.surrounding the Presidential'Rahice and a small party at) the telegraph office. A Tientsin message states . that Wei-pu-fu, who -arrived at Tientsin yesterday, established temporary headquarters in the city, and issued a message to the Diplomatic Corps ionouncing Feng-yuhsiang as a traitor and ingrate, asserting that Tsao-kum had specially -instructed Wu to take steps to cope with the situation,Therefore he was assembling ah army of IOOjOOO to eliminate Feng and restore the situation, M u who holds the railway to Peking, as far as Jolla, states that Kiang-su, and the • Sbaatungites are coming; up by Tail via Tsinauff and the Hupe-sites by rail from Hankow. The Slian-wai-kwan front at present is being held on the defensive.

MISS SWIM-Y’S GRATE.

(Received 1.10 a.m.) (Sun cable), i London. October 27.

The Free State troops’ presence at the graveside commemoration of, the anniversary o£ the death of, the hun-ger-striker McSwiney aroused Republican indignation. The troops refused. to leave until they tired yoileya and sounded the Last Post; McSwiney’s sister, seeing an officer laying a wreath, snatched it and smashed it to pieces. The Republicans later held a meeting of protest at the desecration of the graves of the dead, and the insulting presence of British soldiers in green uniform. The Mail says, De Valera, prior to arrest, addressed a meeting at Sligo, and announced his intention of speaknig at Londonderry on 13th November.

IMU AX UXREST IX BENGAL.

Delhi, October 27. !

Though outwardly the Government of Bengal’s action i n arresting a large number of persons suspected of complicity in revolutionary crime has been received calmly, there is a strong undercurrent of resentment discernable. A huge public meeting at Calcutta passed a resolution expressing the strongest protest to dedicate next Saturday, as a day of mourning throughout the provinceThe European community is profoundly surprised at the extent of the revolutionary propaganda disclosed in the Government’s declaration of reasons for promulgating the ordinance British troops i n full war equipment marched through, the Indian quarter of the city this morn-

ing, and armoured cars patrolled the streets.