MINERS TRAPPED.
DISASTER IN NORTH OF ENGLAND.
INFLOW OF WATER.
Entombed
Men's
יך
Critical
Plight.
The constant peril in which miners work is brought home again
a startling disaster in the North of England.
FOUL AIR DANGER.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, March 30, A number of miners have been trapped in the Montägüe Pit at Scotswood, near Newcastle, owing to an inflow of water due to holing.
Nearly 300 men were below. when the accident occurred but all but 83 escaped.
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sibility that the remainder are in a sheltered spot.
[Scotswood is on the Tyne, & miles west of Newcastle. There is a station there for the North British Railway,]
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"ONLY A MIRACLE."
LATER.
The rescuers were withdrawn at midnight..
The opinion is held that only a miracle can save the entombed
men.
The volume of water is suged to A rescut party which descend-be increasing rapidly in parts of ed to erect a canvas door for the the pit. One pump has been purpose of diverting the foul air drowned out, was compelled to retire.
MIDDLE COURSE.
Trend of the German MALABAR
Election.
EXTREMISTS "DEFEATED.
INTERESTING FEATURES OF COMPLEX SITUATION.
(Reuter's Service.).
Berlin: March 30. The principal fact emerging from the election is that the pos sibility of an extremist swing to either side is ruled out by the sound defeat of the Fascist Ludendorff and the Communist Thuelmann,
An interesting feature was the failure of the Rightist Jarres to come up to expectations. It is noteworthy that he is losing votes in Duisburg whence as burgo master he was rejected by the occupation authorities.
Braun did better than he was On the other hand the Socialist
expected.
STORY OF A PLOT.
HILL TRIAL EVIDENCE.
LARGE SUM FOR HELP.
Motor Car With a Speed of “100 Miles An Hour."
Further evidence implicating Indore officials in the Malabar Hill outrage was given when the trial was resumed yesterday.
BRIBE REFUSED. j
(Reuter's Service.)
Bombay, March 30. Farther evidence of the rami- fications of the alleged plot to abduct Mumtaz Begum was given at the resumption of the trial by Mahomedan shopkeeper from Ahmedabad, uncle of Shafihmed, one of the accused
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the south-west of the Central Indian Agency, and composing the territories of the Holkar dynasty. The capital city is Indore, which is the seat of the Residency of the British Governor-General's Agent for Central India. The city stands on an elevated and healthy site, and has a college for the educa- tion of sons of native chiefs, nobles and upper classes in Central India-affiliated to the Calcutta university, The prin- cipal products of the state are the wheat, poppy, raw, cotton, chief manufactures are cotton tobacco and valuable timber. The and opium.
He related how another of the accused who described himself as attached to the Indore police came to him at the end of laat been sent by the inspector-general year and represented that he had of police in Indore to solicit his The problem that now
The 'Malabar HR outrage Anxious thousands are keeping a
con- assistance in securing Mumtaz. vigil at the pit mouth in the hope Democrats is to hit on a suitable which he said the inspector-gen-Abdul Kadir Baula, &rich!
fronts the Republicans
and
He described the motor car occurred early in January when The entombed men, who in-that rescue work will be resumed. joint candidate when the Republieral clude several fathers, sons and
purchased -
Mahammedan merchant and a speed "one can presidency is practically hundred miles an hour"in member of the Bombay Corpora brothers, are clutching a pro
which it was intended that tion, was murdered in his motor- iesting ridge near the roof.
Mumtaz ahould be carried off. CRT, and Mumtaz Mustapha
Little hope is entertained for pine of them, but there is a pos-
SPANISH STROKE.
NEW LANDING IN MOROCCO.
ATTACK ON FLANK.
(Bruder's Service.)
MADRID, March 30. An official communiqué states that a column commanded by General Souza, with the co-opera- tion of the fleet, and air force, effected a landing at Elkazrseguir, half way between Ceuta and Tangler, on the exposed Spanish Bank
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The enemy was weak in his resistance.
It is noteworthy in this regard that the zone which the Spanish general staff has selected for the long-expected counter offensive is occupied by Ahjera tribesmen who were formerly friendly to Spain but who recently adhered to the so-called Riffian republic.
The reopening of hostilities coincides with the Mahammedan fast of Ramadan which the Riffians strictly observe.
TEST CASE.
IRISHMEN IN ENGLISH JAILS.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, March 30. The first step in a test case affecting numerous.. Irishmen imprisoned in English Jails was taken in the King's Beach Division by Sir Henry Slesser, K.C, applying for a writ of habens corpus in connection with a maf named Maguire who was sen. tenced to four years' penal servitude in Belfast in 1923 and is now incarcerated in Maidstone Prison.
The Justice of the conviction is not "questioned, hut the issue is raised whether a person convicted ia Ireland could legally be imprisoned in England. A writ was granted and will be argued at the beginning of the next session.
NEW SEA LAWS,
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, March 30. The House of Commons passed the second reading of the Merchant Shipping BIII.
HOUSE OF LORDS.:
-assured.
Otherwise Jarres. will continue favourite since minorities. He the Bavarian people's romines, Held, CABINET TO INQUIRE INTO and the Democrat Helipach have
REFORM.
also been relegated to obscurity. EARLIER FIGURES.
(Reuter's Service.)
LONDON, March 30, "In the House of Commons, the Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. announced that it was proposed to establish a Cabinet committee to examine the question of reform of the House of Lords..
MURDER IN TRAIN,
COMMUNIST OFFICERS
KILLED.
TROUBLE BREWING,
(Reuter's Service,)
Moscow, March 31, The Rosta agency states that the two Polish Communist officers. who were sentenced to death by a Polish Court for an attempt to blow up а Warsaw fortress but who were to have been exchanged at the Russo- Polish frontier for two Poles and a priest arrested in Russia were. -murdered to-day in a train as they were going to the frontier, for which a Soviet representative at Warsaw has been instructed emphatically to protest to Poland, demanding a strict enquiry and punishment of the murderers,
FOOD RIOTS.
LENINGRAD BAKERIES
DESTROYED.
(Reuter's Service.)
RICA, March 30. continue. The unemployed have Food disturbances at Leningrad
destroyed a number of bakeries
there.
Troops have been despatched to the spol
Some arrests have been made,
KUOMINTANG,
seomtesy of the Daily Bulletlo,
FEXING. March 30
Hu Han-mia is renotted to have voiced his strong disapproval of Tang Chi-yao's assumption of the post of Viče-Generalissime of the Kuomintang
[The use of Lords has already
A rapprochment between Tang passed the second reading of the Chi-yao and Chen Chinngeming is Merchant Shipping Bli, giving considered possible in so he circles effect to a number of draft can in Canton, as the latter is known ventions of the Washington, Labour to be a supporter of the scheme Conference of 1920, laying down for the federation of the autonom the minimum age for the employ-ous provinces.
ment of trimmers and stokers, and
compensating seamen who lose their employment, through the foundering of ships.]
man
Berlin,, March 30. The following are the latest approximate figures of the Ger Jarres, 11,000,000 votes: Braun,
presidential election:-
8,000,000: Marx, 4,000,000; Thaelmann. 2,000,000: Hellpach, 1,500,000;
sum was offered for his assistance Witness declared that a large but he declined.
Indore is a large native state in Central India, Malwa, consist ing of several isolated tracts in
STRIFE IN HONAN.
bay polise hold the opinion the Begum, a girl with him, was dis figured with knives." The Bom-
crime was the result of an attempt to abduct the girl. Baula, who had been protecting the girl for the last four months; bad been repeatedly warned from hostile, and friendly sources that his life was in danger, but he continued to keep the girl, and disregarded the warnings. The girl was formerly attached to the
Indore. Some time ago, she escaped from Indore and made her way to Amritsar, where, it is alleged, numerous attempts were made to make her return to Indore..
Held, 1,000,000 (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.) palace of the Maharajah of Ludendorff. 25,000.
It is roughly estimated that 27,300,000 or seventy per cent. of the electorate voted, 3,000,000 less than at the parliamentary elec tions last. December.
PEKING, March 30.
Ti is reported in Chinese military circles that Hu Ching-yi has wired to the Military Council of the Chief Executive: to the The Social Democrats, the effect that the military operations Reich bloc and the Centre held in the western part of Honan are thefr ground, while the Bavarian ended, and that he is stationing Peoples Party and the Democrats one brigade at Tongkuan, another lost 400,000 votes. The National at Shenchow, and the rest of his Socialists and Communists lost troops will be withdrawn to
Loyang. respectively 700,000 and 800,000.
STEAMERS COLLIDE
GERMAN VESSEL BADLY DAMAGED.
STRUCK AT ANCHOR
(Heuter's Serpice.)
LONDON, March 30, A message from Port Said states that the British steamer Meriones fron Yokohama to Amsterdam leaving Suez collided with the German steamier Sturm- fels from Hamburg to Bombay, which was anchored.
The Meriones proceeded on her way and her damage is not known.
The Sturmfels' counter badly holed and temporary repairs will take a fortnight.
SAFE IN PORT.
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was
DR. SUN YAT-SEN, (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)
PEKING, March 30.
The crystal coffin ordered from Rússia for the remains of Sub Yat-sen arrived to-day, and was taken to the Peking Union Medical College for scientific examination.
According to the present arrange- ments, the remains will be convey ed-in-the crystal-coffin to the Western Hills.
BOTH LIARS."
AMAGISTRATE ON TWO
WITNESSES.
At the Kowloon Magistrasy yes- terday, the case against Harem Bux charged with unlawful pos session of poisons and practising as a doctor was adjourned until to- day.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-S nith appeared for "the Crown, and Mr. Elsley. Zaitlyn (instructed by Messrs. Deacons) represented the defend- ant.
At yesterday's hearing, Abbas Khan, the last witness for the prosecution, was submitted" to a lengthy cross-examination by counsel' for the defence. To all♦ remark by Mr. Zeitlyn that he was Fanxious, to test the credibility of Tokyo, March 30.-The Agricul- the witness, the Magistrate in- ture and Commerce Department timated that the previous witnesś has been. divided into two and Abbas Khan were
"both departments.-Courtesy of the liars." "Daily Bulletin."
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Tokyo, March 30-The passage of the Suffrage Bill is generally acclaimed by the Press as a significant turning point in Japan ese constitutional Government.”
The Persens is making for Port-Courtesy of the Dally Bulletin." with a
arsenic. The bottle containing
PORT SUDAN, March 30, Sudan rowing the Idomeneus.
The defendant giving evidence denied ever having compounded medicine or prescribed for any of, the witnesses for the prosecution. He admitted ownership of some of the battles which were found in the Mosque containing powder
certain percentage of
the nux vomica was not his and LATER." Peking, March 29.-Chinese was placed in his truck by some The Idomeneus has arrived. military circles, report that Hu body. Yesterday's cibles stated that Ching-vi has sent Yueh Wai-chun the Dutch steamer Idomeneus,in persuit of Lin Chen-bna's troops. from Batavia to Amsterdam, Yueh Wai-chun has captured sustained a broken shaft to the Lingpao and Tungkuan.-Courtesy ] north-east of Port Sudan. The of the "Daily Bulletin." British steamer Perseus has pro- ceeded to her assistance.]
EARL OF YPRES.
DISQUIETING SYMPTOMS
DEVELOP.
INCREASED ANXIETY,
(Reuter's Service.)
London, March 30. To-night's bulletin says that the condition of the Earl of Ypres is not satisfactory.
Disquieting symptoms have de- veloped, giving rise to increased
Manila, March 30. Several Moro bands are threatening in-anxiety. surrection. Тhе Балао Con- stabulary are watching but have Manila, March 30 H.M.S. been ordered not to kill unless it Ambrose and Submarine 12 are becomes absolutely necessary, here from Singapore and three Governor-General Wood has an- more submarines are expected i nounced.-Router. to-morrow-Reuter.
$9,000 A. YEAR.
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
SUBSIDY.
(Reuter's Service.)
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Puris, March 30-M. Lemans, Paris, March 30.-Another of the leader of the Socialist bloc, in the steps towards bringing the a speech said that the Socialists aeroplane into greater favour in will continue to support M. the Far East as regular mode of Herriot's Cabinet even under transport, is being taken by the circumstances, which might be departure of the well-known air- most dangerous for them. M. to a resolution moved by Mr.) man-J.-F-Laporte (the holder of Painleve-pointed-out that--the the world's altitude. record of Republicana duty regarding the 4,755 metres for seaplanes with a Municipal elections was especial tead of the hundreds to anfeguard the franc and grammes), for China and Japan guarantee France's security. He where he will give a number of emphasized that the Government demonstrations, especially with has no intention to persecute peaplanes-Reuter.
Catholica. Havas.
London, March 30. The House of Commons agreed Ormsby Gore, Under Secretary of State for Colonies, providing for the payment of £9,000 every year for five years towards. the ex- penses of the Imperial Institute, thus giving effect to the Imperial Economic Conference's recom mendation in this respect.
ARMED "ROBBERS.
A $600 HAUL AT PRAYA EAST.
Tokyo, March 30.—Baron Makino is appointed Privy Seal in success ion to Baron Hirata, who resigned owing to ill-health, Dr. Kitokuro
Four armed robbers gained ad- Tehigi, at present Vice-President mittance to No. 123, Praya East, of the Privy Council, succeeds yesterday afternoon. After in- Baron Makino as Minister of the timidating the inmates of the Household, being succeeded by second floor, they escaped with Baron Chincho Hozumi, ex-Pro- property to the value of $629. fessor of Law at the Imperial. Another attempt by three armed University. Count Uchida, ex-men at No. 5. Lung On Street, first Foreign Minister, will become a floor, proved unsuccessful, the rob- Privy Councillor.-Courtesy of the bers belug forced to flee on a time-
Daily Bulletin."
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Tornad
To Mencoy PE
Cuzco
Pococh
INCA CITIES DISCOVERED A
from Lima, Peru, tells of the finding of two ancient cit les of the Inca, period in the mountains near Cuzco, | Stone buildings and temples have been unearthed, with
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