THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925.
INTO THE NORTH.
AMUNDSEN
STILL MISSING.
FEARS FOR A SON,
Death of Magnate Who Found the Money.
Where is Amundsen? The answer to this question still remains a secret of the icy North and steps are being taken to find the missing explorer.
ORGANIZED SEARCH,
Dale, June 3. Systemale plans have drawn
Amundsen.
which
For search
been
for
Two Norwegian naval seroplanes, are being equipped with wireless, will operate from Spitz -borgen towards East Greenland.
"Captain D., MacMilina,
The French explorer Charcot will probably be requested to search the East Cost of Givenlund. The MacMillan expalition will work from Ce Columbia.
DEATH, FROM ANXIETY..
Home, June 3.
The America od magnate Mr. Ellsworth, who financed the Amundsen flight, has died al Florence.
It is believed his death was largely due to anxiety over the lis appearange of his sou who is accoin- panying Amundsen.
Amundsen before he left said it
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHEERING HORDES.
THE SHANGHAI RIOTS,
Continued from Bags 1.)
When the Volunteers rushed into the building, they rounded up several hundreds of men, who were escorted to the police-station and searched.
No arms were found.
DURBAN
WELCOMES PRINCE.
CROWDS ON ROOFS,
The March Past
sta Superb
Sight.
Having completed his triumphal tour of the Orange Free State, The police have released the Prince of Wales is now receiving a wonderful welcome in Nata!. the arrested men.
It is believed that armed, rioters. escaped through a tunnel under gards provisions we are taking the street to the old "New World”
arty kilograms per head, chiefly building... consisting of pèmmican, chocolate, desiccnted milk, and biscuito-the
The
Plans Agley,
A SLA
OF FACES.
(Reuter's Servios.) «
Durban, June 3, The Prince of Wales received al enthusiastic reception ut
vory
The rioters who fired on the same rations that we took with us Volunteers yesterday had taken up Lou the Antarctic expedition.
strategic positions; intending to distance from the Pole to the depot fire on ratepayers motoring home- Durban City, which was elaborately already established on Cape Colum ward in large numbers from the and charmingly decorated. bin is about $87 miles. With pro special mesting. The early ter- Scores of thousands of yelling and visions sufficient for six wocks, and mination of this upset their pro-choering spectators crowded the taking twelve miles as the average gramme.
roods, windows, balconies day's march. we should be well on
roofs. the safe side."
WHO OWNS THE POLE?
The failure to secure a 'quorum was due to the absence of the Japanese..
The strike situation in the Inter- national Settlement is slightly Washington, June à. more tense. The fresh food Official circles are perplexed at markets and Chinese, shops are the report from Ottawa thas Mr. closed. The rioters are assaulting otherwise terrorizing all Stewart, the Canadian Minister of and
Student "Hot Heads"
the Interior told the Dominion Chinese remaining in the employ Flouse of Coumons that Canada ex-ment of foreigners; but the French pects to claim any ans discovered Concession is so far unaffected. Trk of Chandn as far as the Pole. The forthcoming Alacran ex- petition which will receive aid from the navy is intended to raise the American flag on any new land discovered which probably will be comparatively cúlueless except presibly as a future aviation base, but it is not thought that any serious Americo-Puundian controversy will carse on the matter.
ENVOY TO JAPAN.
SIR CHARLES ELIOT'S SUCCESSOR.
(Reuters Service.)
LONDON, June 3 Sir John Try, Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro, has been appointed Ambassador to Toklo..
PEKING, June 3. The students again held no public meeting yesterday, but the vernacular papers report various meetings in the colleges at which they made extravagant demands such as the withdrawal and punish- ment of the British Consul- General at Shanghal, the police who killed the students to be sentenced to death, an indemnity paid to the dead, rioters' relatives; the British Government to be made to apologise to the Chinese people, in addition to defiands for the return of concessions, etc.
It understood that the National University, which usually leads student agitators has decided to Istrike from to day as a protest, and
is calling all stúdents to gather there to-day for a demonstration against "British Imperialism,” also urging that all economic relations be severed with Great Britain and Japan, and that (Chinese) deposits [Sir John Tilley has seen diplobe withdrawn from (British and matic service in Brazie, and has Japanese) banks, the banknotes of served the Foreign Office in the two countries not to be accept different capacities.
ed and no provisions to be sold to their nationals, Chinese employees to be induced to leave British and Japanese employers and students to leave their schools.
NEW SILK PLAN.
A RAW MATERIAL CONCESSION.
(Reuter's Service.).
Reaching A Settlement
YERN
BECHUANALS
FREE ST
CAPE
BASUTOL
OF GOOD HOPE Cape Town
SOUTH
AMERICA
BRAZIL
Lund other fisheries. The town ex- ports tea, sugar, coffee, maize, wool, hides, skins, Angora hair, etc. There are good public buildings sad a wireless station. The place is fortified. The population is 69,000 (82,000 whites and many Indiane),
TEMPEST OF DRUMS.
4.
Mr G. Ware Price, Special and Correspondent in H.M.S. Repulse, writing from Acera (Gold Coast),
SURA
DON
AFRICA
Cape Town
The smaller map shows the progress of the Prince's tour of South Africa. From Capetown (1) he went to the Orange Free State (2) and then to Basutoland (3). He is now in Natal (4).
The march past of the battalions of the active citizen force and the naval battalion was a sight.
تعب
visit to
The ceremony of welcoming the said of the 'Prince's Prince, held in the square in front that place One of the most zoman- of the town hall, was marked by tic scenes I bave ever witnessed was almost continuous cheering and the gathering at the old white singing of "For He's a Jolly Good battlemented Christianborg Castle, Fellow."
the Governor's residence. "Black chiefs with golden crowns and powerful gleuning, naked shoulders. mingled with the Prince of Wales and his staff, Indy Guggisberg, the In connection with the efforts of
Durban, formerly Port Natal, is wife of the Governor, in a long- a extremely improbable that fly
the Chinese merchants to devise the chief seaport and largest town trained green Ashanti gown, and ing would become impossible owing
some form of compromise, which in Natal. The harbour with the British officials. to the total breakdown of both
will end the present disorders and projecting "Bluff," was improved The castle itself was the most ...machines "However, we have
save the faces of the Municipal in 1904. Durban is a beautifully picturesque setting imaginable for Methods for collecting the new Council and students, the North lad-out city, with a fine town hall, this exotic assembly. The silvery Taken such eventuality into account and are prepared for the worst- silk taxes and payment of draw China Daily News," editorially parks, gardena, Victoris Embaak-sea, gleaming under the misty namely, that we might have to re-backs on exported articles con- believes that the idea is that the ment, and ocean beach. Berea is tropical moon, washed the foot of turn all the way from the Pole on
students should withdraw the the handsome suburb. Much of the pate bastions, which still mount taining silk and artificial silk foot. We are therefore taking a were discussed at a conference at pickets and declare peace. The the Transvaal and Orange Free 18th-century cannondes. complete Polar outfit of clothes the Treasury presided over by the for adjustment. The paper says, town, which is noted for its ship that Hamlet's father's ghost would matter can be referred to Peking State trade passes through the Nothing seemed more likely than in bags, rifles, sholguas, amanum-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr however, that any interference by ping, coaling port, preserves, whale foolgear, ski-sledges, boats, sleep
Winston Churchill, and attended the Walchiaopu should be directed tion, cooking utensils, etc.
by trade representatives and towards the students after the Government officials.
fashion of the order recently issued
As re-
DEBTS AND DINNERS.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, June 3. The "Daily Telegraph's Geneva correspondent says that a good deal of adverse comment has been aroused by the fact that despite China's inability to pay its annual subscription to the League or the coupons on the bonds, it entertained lavishly four hundred guests Ri one of the most fashion- able hotels at a function that
London, June 3.
RAILWAY SALVAGE.
(Reuter's American Service.)
appear at this ancient fortress that
was built long ago by the Danes
I
At dawn the air began to throb
with a tempest of drums as the Mr. Churchill submitted a plan in Peking, ordering the students the present among the strikers southern chiefs assembled for re- whereby duties will not be levied back to their class-rooms. on raw material whether Home We appreciate the efforts of the are 21 killed and 65 wounded. The view by the Prince. It was to defenders have bad one man just such a menacing clangour that produced or imported which are Chinese merchants to restore order, seriously wounded and several 30 years ago the British garrisons intended to be utilised solely in but as these efforts are being alighly.
used to listen as the invading the manufacture of export directed at present, we tell them
A foreign woman has died as the Ashanti army approached the cost. articles. Consequently no claim frankly that they are wasting result of a blow on the head from All the splendour of the palaver for a rebate will have to be estab-their time. There is only one way a brick thrown when rioters attack-at-Kumasi, the Ashanti capital, was lished. The trade representatives in which peace can be brought ed a tram.
reproduced, with the strange will consider this scheme before back; that is by the unconditional
Armoured cars
rushed additions of devil-dancers were
with communicating their views. Fur-surrender of the students and other this evening into the Western crocodile-head masks. Not mly ther discussions will be held on
agitators
District, where the rioters are con the richness of their fantastic other points.
Peking To Investigate. centrating from Chapel suburb, accoutrements but also the personal PEKING, June. 2nd. the Chinese control of which gives jdignity of these inky dignitaries The Government has appointed the strikers a useful base of opera make average British mayora and aldermen seem by comparison Mr. Tsai Ting-ken and Mr. Tseng tions against the Settlement. Tsung-Chien (Vice-Minister for
Prosi Hopeful.
awkward; tawdry, and uncouth, Foreign Affairs) as High Com-
Shanghai, June 3. missioner to investigate the The Evening News, the only. Shanghai affair. They are expecte | evening paper published 10-day, ed to leave for there to-morrow.
In an accident on the sis. Kuong New York, June 3.
considers the situation is not so The Kuhn-Loeb Company an- this aftemoon
The Walchiaopu sent a Note grave. No doubt the Chinese are Chow, a Chinese was killed yester to the Italian feeling the cutting off of food sup. day by three bags of rice falling nounce a plan for the reorganisa Minister in his capacity as Senior plies much more acutely than the on him, The "Times" City correspon- tion of the Chicago Milwaukee Minister of the loterested Powers, foreigners, the latter possessing dent notes that the coupons due and St. Paul Railroad, which pro- relative to the Shanghal situation, large reserves of imported foods,
two out of three vides for the exchange of over The Note protests against the while the arrival of troops relieves ese are too excited to listen to calm yesterday in Chinese loans were met, and an four hundred and sixty shooting of the students and the Volunteers and Police of the counsels. Again, the arrival of announcement with regard to the four million dollars of securities requests him to bring the Note to heavy strain of continuous duts,fresh batches of frenzied students third is expected. He says it is and also the liquidation or fund the knowledge of the interested But there does not yet appear any reinforces the waverers. to China's credit that despite ing of all short term debts and the Powern.
common ground for a compromise. political disorders, the service of assessment of $28 share preferred The Foreign Office's protest The foreigners are determined to foreign debt is maintained undis stock as $32 share common stock reserves the right to formulate suppress the riots, while the Chin turbedly, except in a minor The plan also providès-for a big claims which may result from this degree, and interest is at present reduction of the fixed interest deplorable incident, for which the being met on all secured Chinese bearing debt, the creation of a autborities of the International loans issued in Britsin with the new share preference mortgage Concession are entirely "respon exception noted.
which will provide future capital sible." The Note requests the expenditure and the creation of two additional mortgages,
must have cost £1,000. It is re- culled that public subscriptions had to be made for the starving people of China.
J
LOANS COUPONS MET.
Ministers to give urgent necessary instruction to the Con. sular Authorities in Shanghai“ tó set at liberty those arrested,"
Peking Position.
PEKING, June 3. The students of practically all the Universities and Colleges In Peking are striking fo-day, 26 A protest against the Shanghai affair. They are holding 'a'mons- ter demonstration and parade this afternoon,
London, June 3.-The assertion The assessment plan will pro-} In Glasgow that Herr Stocker, a vide over seventy million dollars member of the Reichstag, did not in cash, for which new five per attend the communist congrels cent. mortgage bonds will be but was impersonated by a Ger issued. Allowing for the value man resident, is confirmed at of the bonds, a net assessment on Cologne where authoritative Comstock of about nine dollars per munist circles declare that share is indicated. neither Herr Stocker nor any other Germán Communist went to Glasgow in consequence of the Ottawa, June |-|-|8. ——— Mr. The Legation guards are „çon, British official embargo Reuter. Mackenzie King announced in the fined, to barracks and strong
House of Commons that the Gov-| pickets are posted at Sofa, June 3-The Govern ernment expected shortly to ap to the Legation Quarter, ment has ordered the demobilles point # Canadian. ntatives. Further tion of the ten thousand extra men at Wash which the Ambassadors' Conter-arm ence permitted to be called to the | wir Colourd to deal with the Cem- mianist menace. The conference previously rejected the myplies: Hon för mi malot of demobilis
ston bat
alty was badSHA
anyone Many of the
Thave been rescim
steady rain to-night is again emptying the streets.
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