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DEATH.
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on
ATLANTIC FLIGHT,
[Continued from Paye 1:)—
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1927,
FOG AND RAIN
FRENCH FEIERS FORCED DOWN.
OVER 3,000 MILES COVERED.
Honour For Lindbergh. The Governor of :Missouri an- nounces that a commission as colonel of the national guard has
Paris, June 6. been conferred on Captain Lind-
The French airmen Costen and bergh. Reuter's American Ser-ignot landed at Tafil, in there Hon of Tobalak, after a thirty Boura Right-Havak,
Paris, Later.
vice.
FRESH CRISIS.4 *
EGYPTIAN SITUATION AGAIN SERIOUS.
BRITTEN REPLY TO-DAY.
Cairo, June 6,
on
again becoming Herlons. According The Anglo-Egyptian situation is
Earlier Messages.
to the journal! Elmokattam,” Lord Lloyd, the British High Commis- Amsterdam, June 6.
aloner, Informed King Fund The "Columbia" passed over Cre- Costea and Rignot flew 5,000 Jume that he was unable to accept feld, Rhineland at 3.20, this morn-kilometres in 29 hours and a half, the Egyptian reply, and was com ing and aver Dortmund at 4 a.m. fifteen kilometres of which foremnicating with his Government, At the latter place the aeroplane traversed in mist and rain. They The British reply is expected on was flying at a height of only were obliged to halt and searched June 7. sixty feet. All was well, however. vainly for three hours for a land- The Mokattam" says that if --Reuter.
ing place in the Urals, and finally Britain insists on the acceptance of landed in a little field--Havas.
J
New York, June 6, Chamberlin landed at Pader-
all her demands, the Egyptian Paris. Later, born, Westphalia at 9.30 am-
Government will throw the respon- Reuter's American Service.
Costes descended, at Nijitagilak.sibility for decision upon Parlia- Record Beatën.
seventy-five miles north west of ment.--Reuter. Berlin, June 6. Ekaterinburg having travelled a
A shortage of petrol compelled distance of 3,120 miles. It was MORE RAIN.
OBSERVATORY'S WEATHER
FORECAST.
Chamberlin to land at Eisleben, the most arduous and difficult flight'
I love ever Saxony after forty-two hours of
experienced," "he Aying. beating Lindbergh's long telegraphs. distance record. A machine has Costes says that the last fifteen left Halle to take in petrol to en, hours was spent in fog and rain, able the Americans to reach Berlin, and petrol had to be jettisoned to "Moderate E. winds, overcast, where enormous crowds have been lighten the machine. For three rain" is the official weather fore- waiting all night long. Numerous hours they were searching for an cast till noon to-morrow for Hong planes are continuously in the air open space in which to descend in Kong, the adjacent coast and the rendy to escort the "Columbla."--the Ural forest-Reuter.
Formosa Channel, Reuter.
[A Reuter message yesterday Again Forced Down.
stated that the atrmen, Costes and
During the 24 hours ended at Berlin, Later. Rignot, left Paris at 9.01 a.m. on 10 a.m. to-day, 2.98 inches of rain- The "Columbia" re-ascended at the 4th inst, on a non-stop flight to fall were registered, making the Eisleben at 9.30 and headed for Chita,1
total for the year 44.72 inches against an average of 26.88 inches.
Berlin but he had not arrived in two hours so the tired and dis- appointed crowds dwindled away convinced that a premature land- ing had been offected.
This was confirmed at midday by news that the neroplane had land- ed in the marshes at Klinge, nine miles from Kottbus, seventy miles; south east of Berlin with the pro peller broken. Probably Cham- berlin will be unable to resume the flight--Reuter.
Beer Goes Flat
TERRIBLE HAVOC.}
FEARFUL EXPLOSION AT CRACOW.
Warsaw, June 6.
At 10 a.m. to-day, the Royal Observatory reported:
Pressure has decreased slightly at Naha, is nearly stationary over Indo-China and has increased
Sick and maimed inmates of the slightly elsewhere. hospitals, jibbering and wailing in A belt of high pressure extends
the streets of Cracow and worship. from the Yangtse to the Pacific pers rushing screaming from the with maximum to the S.E. of churches followed an appalling Tokyo. concussion which was at first be- A trough of low pressure ex- lieved to be an earthquake,
tends from N. Indo-China to the
Berlin, June 6. A large mug of iced lager or- It transpired that a neighbouring E. of Formosa. Pered for Chambertin and Levine powder magazine had been rent by. when leaving New York, remained an explosion due to the decompost- untasted.
Much Needed Rest..
Kottbus, June 6.
the
lished.
י.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
North Arm, Wivern and Mara-
At the Tempelhofer aerodrome tion of wartime Austrian munitions which were stored near Fort group, it might be possible to the bandla ceased playing and the Witkowice. The latter was demozion; South Wall, Wolsey; West see the anticipations of a few influential reception committee de-
parted when the news arrived of At present it is known that ten Wall, Titania; In Dock, Woolston, months ago realised-namely, the the inauspicious ending of
of people were killed and over 200 Wolverine and Moth; Taikoo creation of the Yellow River as fight. virtually within sight
seriously wounded. A hundred ork Aphis; Kowloon Dock, their destination. Router.
people were blinded by the glass (Ladybird; Buoy 1, Hermes; Buoy the dividing line between the
from the shattered windows and a 4, Dragon; Buoy 9, Hollyhock; zone of Chang Tso-lin and that
The "Columbia's fight has end-score of houses were obliterated. Buoy 12, Wishart; Buoy 13, Fox. of Chiang Kai-shek. Much de-ed, the machine being disabled. The The damage is estimated at £500,-glove: Buoy 18, Ruthenia; Buoy 25, Kharki; Buoy 2A, H. S. pends on how the existing differ- airmen are dog-tired and have re- 000 at least.-Router.
Maine; Kowloon Anchorage, Francol and Belgol; Foreign Men- o'-War, U.S.S. Helena; Portu- guese, Patria and French, Argus, TRAGEDY NEAR LAW COURTS.
SEX EQUALITY.
LADY ASTOR'S FIGHTING SPEECH.
tired to bed. They will go to Berlin to morrow.Reuter.
America Frantic.
New York, June 6, America is frantic with delight.. Newspaper sales broke all records churches last night for the safety and prayers were offered in the
London, April 29. of the airmen, whose wives to-day The discussion was resumed in telegraphed affectionate congratu- the House of Commons to-day of lations to their husbands.
the private Bill regulating the Mrs. Levine declared that if she
BURMA SLAVES.
GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESSFUL
EFFORTS.
Mr. Charles Henry Pettitt, Boli- citor, a member of the firm of Pettitt and Ramsay, New-court, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, was kill ed by, falling 60ft. from a fourth-
foor window of the building in which his firm occupy offices on the
from
ences between these two war lords can be composed in the best interests of China as a whole. Both are avowed anti-Commun- ists and here they can meet on a common platform. Both have sworn to sweep the Communist foes out of the country-and here, again, they must persist templated making the trip she Lady Astor (Con.), in a fight had known that her husband con-employment of married women. with the war so far as that con- would not have allowed him to going speech, turned sharply on her cerns the Communists.. With
but "now I am proud of him.opponents, notably Captain R. C. second floor. Mr. Pettitt was about. Reuter's American Service.
Bourne (Con.), for saying that 60 years of age. Several people windows overlooking the that objective reached, either by:
married women were inefficient, separate or combined action, it
Lady Astor caused roars of square saw the body fall to the ground. A girl artist, Miss E. laughter by saying, "I know Brier, whose studio is on the top should not be very difficult for
some women who, if they had floor of No. 10, was at the entrance Chang Tso-lin to accept the in-
twins every year, would be more when Mr. Pettitt struck the pave evitable-the development of Chi-
éfficient than many members of ment a few feet away from her. Mr. Pettitt's clerical staff were unaware Parliament." nese Nationalism, entailing the
Proceeding, Lady Astor said that he had left his private room | recognition of the territory south
that while every woman natural- until the discovery of the body was the home madeWell, I'll be court, and, looking up towards her frank"-made it Hell. It was studio window, saw the body of a Rangoon, June &
nonsense to say that married man falling through the air. + The Governor of Burma has sent women should be kept by their could not have been more than a letter to the Viceroy announcing that slavery has practically censed husbands. There were scores of twelve yards away from the door- It will be conceded that the in Burma. Over 400 slaves have men, many even in the House of way near which he fell, said Miss position is one of "ifs," and district of North Burina and it is their wives.
bean released in the triangle" Commons, who were kept by Brier. "I was the only one in the court at the time with the exception of some people · In motoričar. without an inside knowledge estimated that between 4,000 2110 Sir Basil Peto (Con.) opposed When the body hit the ground of the personal views and 5,000 remain to be released. the Bill because it ignored plain people at once came rushing out of After punishment of the trib biological and physiological facts. the offices. The poor man did not Intentions of Chiang Kai-concerned, in the attack on the "God did not make the two sexes scream or shout. In fact, he did shek and Chang Tao-lin con-slave-releasing party in which equal," he said, "and we cannot not make a murmur. Death must jecture at the moment would be Captain West was killed it to hoped do it on a Friday afternoon in the have been almost instantaneous. futile: In any event the menace cones-Reuter.
that human sacrifices will shortly
After the discovery of the tragedy House of Commons."
the offices of Mr. Pettitt's firm were to Manchuria, of which the
The House rejected the Bill, closed and a notice posted on the [A] Rangoon table dated March French Press speaks so glibly, Indians have been killed and three was to prevent marriage being a until the next day.
30 stated: Captain West and two one of the chief aims of which door that they would not reopen has not really arisen. If-again wounded, while a civil interpreter bar to employment in the Civil
of the Yellow River conquered by ABOLISHING HUMAN SACRIFICE. ly wanted a home, some men in reverte
Miss Brier had just entered the
June 6th, in a street accfident. Ronald Malcolm, the beloveți younger son of Mr. and Mrs.be hard for Chiang Kai-shek to permit Chang Tso-lin to remain supreme in Manchuria.
the Southerners. Nor should it
P. Douglas Wilson of Heng Kong, aged 10 years.
Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 7, 1927.
CHANG TSO-LIN'S DILEMMA.
Although the French Press may get excited over the develop ments in the Chinese civil war and hold that the Powers can no longer observe strict neutrality so long as the fate of Peking hangs in the balance, there is still a great deal to warrant less pessimistic views. It should be observed, firstly, that the report of Marshal Chang Tso-lin's in- tention to abandon Peking and
to
concentrate at Tientsin:
emanated from the Communist headquarters at Hankow, and is therefore suspect. Even assum- ing, however, that its sources of information are correct in this
SHOCKING CRUELTY
an "i"-it do it will be for is missing, as the result of an at Service. the Powers to confer and frame out early in January for the Naga tack on the expedition which set their policy in accordance with Hills. In the Kachin Country, In the new situation.
connection with the liberation of The British alaves. The affair occurred in the Foreign Office has so far been district where slavery still exists.] kept admirably informed of the position in China, and it cannot be doubted that it will be equally alert in regard to anything that may disturb the status quons that in itself affects British, and other foreign interests,
OF COURSE HE WOULD.
15-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S CLIMB.
Was
RCCOM
of
A 16-year-old giri, Miss Dorothy Baker, who lives with her parents ALLEGED.
at Northgate Street, Canterbury, climbed the chimney-stack London, May 5. the Canterbury Electricity An extraordinary story of Works, which is 145ft. high.. cruelty to a feeble-minded aer-She was watched by her vant girl, extending over three other and sister, to whom she years, was told when Alfred-Boe-waved her hand from the top of the
Miss Baker croft and his wife were charged stack.
Spanien panded on her daring citrüb by Mr,“ Chinese who made a sensational It was alleged that the girl steeplejack. It was a schifce re- The police have recaptured the with inficthing Bodily Harm. William Thomas, a well-known escape early last month from the went into service with the Beema by Mr Thomas which led fo custody of a Chinese detective crofts in 1923. Since then she Misa Baker undertaking the climb. while being conveyed by motor was starved, received no wages; (ii conversation, he had mentioned. Since the foregoing was penned bus from Aberdeen to the Central was hit on the head and body that a similar feat was performed in a Reuter's cable has come to Magistracy. He succeeded in with s poker, and thrown to the Chicago by nworn, and he had instance, there is nothing to pre-hand informing us that negotin slipping his handcuffs unobserved ground, and held by Beecroft would do the same. When Miss naked whether any Canterbury girl Vent the anti-Communist factions tions, are afoot for a tri-pactite and diving through the window while his wife stamped on Her Baker heard of this she at once patching up a peste of some kind alliance between, Chang Tso-lin, passing the University
of the moving bus while it was She was terrified of everybody volunteered for the climb. She is and concentrating their combined Chiang Kai-shek, and Yen Hal-
Neighbours gave evidence that balleged to be thesars the He was yesterday produced in they frequently Viljèsrdi terrified country to perform such a feares efforts on an attack on the ter-shan on the lines indicated above. Court, an charged before Mr. screams and shouts of "Murder!" ritory held by the Hankow clique. The main condition of any such quantity of fishing nets know A doctor said that when ad making the "Charleston Banda
R. A. D. Forrest with receiving and "Don't, don'tl"); 42 Fine weather Home Is One great effort on the part of allance is the expulsión ing them to have been sigjen, mitted to hospital the girl's body so popular that many thước mahu- Chiang Kai-shek, Chang Tao-lin, Borodin & Co. If that is const
¦ Corfain witnesses which ac was a mass of bruises,
facturers are now devoting the and, Bay,
Bay Yen Hsi-ahan, the mated the next step will be
cured had called
The court was invaded by whole of their Tuchun of Shansi, could not but
failed; "appear
crowds of twomen, who hissed at hundreds of Tro-lin and Chiang Ka
he
go the defendants, and when the are being mad succeed in ridding China once andhek to:
eir willingness and
Magistrate committed them non, facturene sa for all of the Communist erup to land
know you wới trial there was loud clapping in would take në mj tion. Then, uniese Chiang Kai-
want another, the court, whereupon the accused sailings 6 4Beopl mekte bent or eliminating Chang which Boun
appea to them to be, British blue, and. Fetwo and wait to hear the other side red to canvas.
before demonstratings
as well as the Hankow
al questions:tot Mr. For
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