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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927.
AIR SPEED RECORD. NEW WAR WEAPONS. U.S. & GENEVA.
Briton Reaches 300 Kilo- metres An Hour.
USED 32 H.P. MACHINE..
If Recognised Constitutes Britain's
Only Record.
London, Yesterday.
Britain's Mechanised Forces in Action.
SALISBURY PLAIN "BATTLE.”
Smoke-Tank's Huge White Blanket.
Increase In Naval Strength,
SHIPBUILDING PLANS.
Mr. Wilbur's Demands At Next Congress Session.
'London, Yesterday. Vallejo (California), Yesterday. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Captain Broad, flying a Tiger- Tanks, infantry, aeroplanes and moth plane nominally of 32 horse-cavalry combine. in "battle" at Wilbur, at a conference at Mare
It was
Island, said he expected to ask power, established a new world Salisbury Plain to-day. record for single-seater light aero- the first occasion which the new at the next session of Congress planes by reaching 300.10 kilo mechanised forces were engaged for a 100 per cent. Increase in the metres per hour over a course of in organised fighting. The scheme shipbuilding programme, and de- on Sidbury clared that the fallure of the! a 100 kilometres from Hendon. included an attack This, if internationally recog Hill. The battle was a thrilling Geneva conference should result nised, will be the only flying re- spectacle amid a pandemonium of in the strengthening of the cord held by Britain.-Reuter. noise as, covered by a dense American navy, Reuter's Ameri-
smoke-screen, the tanks rushed can Service.. down Pickpit Hill with their guns
in action and swept towards their
DEATH SUSPENDED. objective. An enemy machine
gun nest was quickly destroyed, enabling the infantry to advance. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SOVIET A smoke-tank created a huge
AGENTS.
WOMAN EXECUTED.
white blanket, effectively hiding! the advance of the land battle- ships from the anti-tank guns. The attack, however, was strong- ly opposed. Heavy rain did not diminish the enthusiasm of the 15,000 troops who participated.
Moscow, Yesterday. Madame Klepikoff has been executed. The Central Execu-Reuter. tive committee suspended the ex- ecution of Generals Annenkov and Denisov.
[An earlier message stated that General Annenkov and his chief of staff, General Denisov, who are accused of carrying on! an armed struggle against the Soviet in the Far East during 1918-1920, were sentenced to death after a trial lasting 19 days.]
'PLANES.
THE AFTERMATH. DISTURBANCES FOLLOW THE
EXECUTIONS.
PARIS OUTRAGE.
Paris, Yesterday.
SOVIET MUTINY.
EMBARGO PLACED ON "INKERMAN."
Moscow, Yesterday. The Odessa District Court has placed an embargo on the Soviet vessel "Inkerman."--Reuter.
A message of August 20 from Bucharest stated that the news- papers here publish reports of a mutiny of Soviet sailors on the Egyptian steamer "Costi" which left Sulina for Alexandria August 8. It appears that the "Costi" was originally a Russian vessel retained by Wrangel and which was eventually sold.
on
On the voyage from Sulina some of the Russian members of The rioters were estimated at the crew killed two of the ship's 3,000. Traffic was chold-up in the officers and severely wounded the Grands Boulevards. When the captain. They took the vessel to police ordered a "move on," the Odessa, where the Soulet flag was demonstrators invaded cafes and hoisted..
peared.
Return of Vessel Demanded.
HONG KONG FLIGHT, restaurants and then used heavy The newspapers also state that saucers and..glasses as missiles. it is feared that a French ship The mob, when dispersed in one of Russian origin and with a NO NEWS OF THREE MISSING street, re-formed in another. They partly Russian crew has disap- uprooted trees and used the trunks Las weapons, shattered shop and restaurant. Frontages, and innumer- able windows, looted boot and hat shops and formed a barricade of railings and vehicles to obstruct the police horses. The mob at Fifteen additional destroyers and tacked the customers of two well- light crufsers have been ordered to known cafes in the Champs Elysee join the 42 warships already engag-
MORE SHIPS.
Washington, Yesterday.
ed in a final intensive effort to dis- and shots were fired. cover the three missing aeroplanes
Paris, Yesterday.
Moscow, August 21. The Odessa District Court will shortly examine the claim of the Marine Administration for the return from the Soviet of the mercantile. fleet vessel "Inker- man."
According to the official Tass which set out for Honolulu, che] The Association of American Agency the "Inkerman" belonged Golden Eagle, Miss Doran and Volunteers in the French Army the Russian Black Sea mercan- Dallas Spirit, the last-named placed а wreath ing to Hong Kong for a G.25,00 prize, and the others being en- trants in the Dolt race to Hono lulu.-Router's American Service,
Unknown
which Was
spat
on
the tile fleet and was taken by the Soldier's" tomb white Guarda when evacuating upon by Odessa in 1920. She was subse- a number of communists quently sold to an Egyptian firm during yesterday's disturbances, and renamed "Costi." Numerous Parisians were present and vociferously cheered the
FAR EASTERN FLIGHT Volunteers.--Reuter.
R.A.F. JOURNEY OVER 25,000 MILES.
Press Concerned.
The newspapers are very con- cerned as to, yesterday evening's disorders, in which according to "Le Journal" a thousand were
London, Yesterday. The R.A.F. Far Eastern flight, injured. previously mentioned in the Air
The newspapers declare that Estimates' Memorandum, will be large proportion of the demonstra- carried out by a Far East flight tors were foreign riffraff, who were commanded by Group Capt. H. Mout aimply for loot. Some even Cave-Brown-Cave,
stationed at apat on the Unknown Soldier's Felixtowe.
tomb,
HAIPHONG RIOTS.
CHINESE AND ANNAMITES CONFER.
Paris, Yesterday. A message from Haiphong says that quiet has followed the dis- orders of Wednesday last. The authorities have stopped the anti- Chinese demonstrations. Leaders of the Annamite and Chinese com- munities have met to consider It is expected that the start, in According to the "Icho de Paris" means of restoring peace and put- mid-October, will consist of super- an American eye-witness of this ting an end to hostility between marine Napler all-metal flying outrage immediately afterwards, the Chinese and Annamites. All boats, and that the route will he with tears in his eyes, knelt and factories, except the Chinese, have 4.30 p.m. Mediterranean to Alexandria and placed flowers on the tomb. restarted work-Reuter.
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The personnel will be specially the Interior and the Chief de Statements by the Minister of trained at Felixtowe In acrial and sureto declare that the police nautical conditions-Reuter,
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A message from Osaka states that Dornier hopped off at eight London Scenes.
o'clock for Shanghai on a trial trip for the purpose of opening a London, Yesterday.. Several baton charges were re-regular aerial mail and passenger New York, Yesterday. quired to disperse sympathisers service between Shanghai and Messrs. Morgan announce that following the meeting of protest in Osaka. The weather was ideal they have opened their books on Hyde Park. The machine expected to arrive in the 24th instant for a $40,000,000 The police ordered the procession Shanghal in 10 hours-Reuter. Australian Government Loan at the to disperse when it was going to price of 98,, to yield approximately the American Embassy. Forty 61⁄2 per cent to persons were injured. «Order was
The ·loan “has been over quickly restored-Reuter. subscribed. — Reuter's American Service.
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MOSCOW DEPRIVES HIM OF A TITLE
More Troubless!
Paris, Yesterday,
BOMBS IN CHICAGO.
BOOTLEGGERS BLAMED FOR
EXPLOSION. The riots have been renewed on #smaller and scale. Shots were
Chicago, Yesterday.. fired and the mob dispersed Three buildings were wrecked in Mounted Republican guards are an explosion, which shook an en- patrolling the streete Brussels, tire city block. The police, who at- Two thousand rioters, proceed tribute the explosion to a dynamite ing to the centre of the town were bomb placed by a gang er- boot- dispersed by gendarmes with loggers to wreek a rival still on the It is officially announced that
drawn sword: Cafe windowa Basement: one of the buildings, Challapin has been deprived of the were broken. A police officer had are searc. title the
st of the tofre blank shot Seven
bodies of Republ
were arrested.
Moscow, Yesterday.
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WORLD THEATRE
A Romance of the Spanish Main In The Days.
When Pirates Sailed The Sens-
RAFAEL SABATINI'S
CAPTAIN BLOOD
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J. WARREN KERRIGAN Jean Paige and a Notable Cast
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY.
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STAR THEATRE
The Maddest, Merriest Light Comedy of the Year!--
CLAIRE WINDSOR AND CONRAD NAGEL
IN
DANCE MADNESS
A húsband who loves to dance with anybody but his wife-and the mysterious masked dancer who suddenly comes into his life, and as strangely disappears! Played against a background of the gayest haunts of Paris,
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY. Continuous from 2.30 to 11.15.
THEATRE ROYAL
TO-NIGHT THURSDAY, 25th August, at 9.15 p.m.
Complete Change Of Programme.
Charles Chamier presents
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OUR CABARET":
Including The Original
“DISORDERLY ROOM"
The Famous Military Burlesque written by Billy Bray
Grand Villain McKillop.
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