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NANKING AFFRAY.
Soldiers Fire On Mob.
CENSORSHIP OF DETAILS,
Communists Also Blamed For The Firing.
Shanghai, Saturday. Another serious shooting affair is reported to have taken place in Nanking on November 22, the full details of which, owing to the Nationalist censorship, have not come to hand
AIR TRAGEDY.
Pilot's Anxiety For Observer.
NOT USED TO PARACHUTE.
Evidence At Inquest At Easi Grinstead.
London, Nov. 18.
MURDER PLOT.
Governor of Bombay Menaced.
COMMISSIONER ALSO WARNED.
Failure of Attempt To Wreck Sir L. Wilson's Train,
Bombay, Nov. 13.
· Anxiety for the safety of his ob-
"Now that His Excellency the server who was not used to a para-Governor of Bombay and Lady chute before was held to be respon- Wilson have returned to Bombay, sible for the death of Flying Officer we can refer to the extraordinary Richardson (not Richards, as cable stories that have been going ed previously), at the inquest at round during his tour that a plot East Grinstead..
was on foot to wreck his train, or to throw a bomb into the party somewhere on the tour," says the "Times of India."
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"It wil be recalled that, after the special train which conveyed Poona, at the end of last month, His Excellency from Nasik to had passed Igatpuri, it was re-
From reports available, it ap- pears that, on that day, the popu The observer, Green, described lace were celebrating the victory how they unsuccessfully dropped of the Nanking armies over flares to find a landing place, owing General Tang Seng-chi, the Hu to engine trouble. nanese militarist. A procession Richardson re-ascended 2,000 feet: was formed by those who took telling Green how to use the para part, and the main streets of the chute. The latter was uncertain city were marched through. when to jump, until the pilot push-ported that some fiabplates had What exactly happened after ed him in the face. Ile jumped, been removed from one section of that is not known because reports and landed safely. differ. The processionists, how-
the line, but, owing to an extra- Richardson's body was discovered ordinary piece of good fortune, ever, proceeded along the road, later embedded in the ground. Įdemonstrating as they went. One
the train was not wrecked. report has it that the soldiers opinion that Richardson was think- Phaltan some days later, at the
Coroner expressed
"While His Excellency was at fired first on the mob and killed & Ing of Green's safety and not realls- beginning of the Southern tour, man and a woman and wounded ing that the machine was nearing news was received that an attempt two other men and four children the earth, jumped when it was too was going to be made, either to Another account states that radiate to make safe use of the para-wreck his special train or to throw cals in the mob fired on the apec-chute. Times of Ceylon." lators or that some Communista
a bomb at him.
"It is, of course, impossible to among the spectators opened fire
the demonstrators to show London, Nov. 10. The report from find out where such stories their disapproval of the celebra Cherbourg that the wreckage of a originated, but we understand tions and their support of General allver-white aeroplane has been dis-that their source was sufficiently Tang, and the result was that a covered in the sea was wrongly sup-authoritative to justify special number of people, exactly how posed to have solved the mystery precautions being taken by the many it is not stated, were killed. of a machine which was seen fly- C.I.D. to guard His Excellency
Strict martial law was at once ing crewless over Sussex, yester- from Phaltan onwards. enforced and the Nanking censor- day evening. The latter was a Precautions, Increased.. ship was successful in preventing Royal Air Force machine, from "The rumours became more the news from coming to Shang which two men were seen to jump, alarming, with a consequent in- hai until they found it convenient at a height of 2,000 feet over East crease in the extent of the precau-] to make it public.
Grinstead. The pilot. Flying Om- tions that were taken to guard the Shanghai Protesis.
cer Campbell Mackenzie-Richarda | Governor.
on
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As a result of the massacre (sic) was killed. His parachute "As far as 'can be ascertained, Shanghai students and Street failed to open. The observer, Nor-the first threats were made Unions are raising an uproar and man Green, floated safely to earth. against the Commissioner of the meetings were held throughout The aeroplane disappeared. Several Southern Division, Mr. L. L the Settlement and in Chinese ter-people said that the machine, before Painter, and we hear that this is ritory yesterday. Another mect the two aviators jumped out, was not the first time that the Com- ing, at which persons from Nan-apparently uncontrollable, but it missioner has been warned of his king will be entertained, is fixed righted itself and flew out of sight. impending doom. for this afternoon.
The neroplane was found in a wood "But it seems that when the At the preliminary meeting of at East Grinstead, only 200 yards Governor was in Southern Divi- the 4th Plenary Kuomintang from the spot where the plot was sion, the plotters thought that Conference held on Thursday, found.
celebrities It was a coincidence that an they could kill two those present, who had sensed the unknown machine crashed late in with one bomb.
"The plot was apparently De-indignation among the Chinese the evening at Cherbourg.]
people, passed a resolution which i
thought to be more dangerous as authorised the despatch of Tani
His Excellency got further away Yen-kai and Tsai Yuan-pei to
from Bombay, and the last word Nanking. These delegates are to
we received was that the plot- guese India, and that story seem- ters were operating from Portu-
ed to find support in the still| greater precautions taken at Savantwadi (which is adjacent to the Goan territory), where the Governor neither went in proces- The Indian session of the sion through the town, as had Trade Unions Congress at which been previously arranged, nor left British Trades Unions Congress the palace grounds after the ban- delegates were present, resolved quet to witness the fireworks.- to demand the revision of the "Times of Ceylon." Workmen's Compensation Act, a 48-hours week, and boycotting the Statutory Commission.-Reuter.
Cleavage of Opinion,
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GERMAN FLIGHT.
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MISHAP OCCURS IN TRIAL Moslem opinion in Bengal regard-
AT HORTA.
VENTURE ABANDONED,
Herr
ing the proposed boycott of the Statutory Commission.
ARAB RISING.
FORCE ADVANCING AGAINST KOWEIT.
SHEIKH RECALLED.
Sir Abur Rahmin is said to be considering the reaffirmation of
Basra, Yesterday. Horta, Yesterday, the retraction declaration.
The Sheikh of Howeit has been Junker in seaplane Mr. Chuz Navi, ex-Minister and urgently recalled from a visit to D1280, when rising on a total President of the Central National Basrah owing to the advance of flight this morning, bent the port Moslem Association, has declared a large force of Wahabis under floaters and stanchions.
unequivocally in favour of co-Feisal ed Dowish against Koweit. The flight to Newfoundland has operating with the Commission, Every effort la being made to been abandoned and the sca-[adding:: "We Moslems have had cope with the emergency and plane will be shipped back to Ger-enough of non-co-operation, warn the tribesmen on the
Reuter. many.-Reuter.
DISMANTLED STILL.
SIR H. WILSON,
ECHO OF DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN.
Koweit frontier.
It was previously reported that Dowish had concentrated 5,000 troops on the Iraq border follow- ing a dispute over the construction of a police post at Nasiriyeh which Dowish's brother attacked on November 14, killing five and London, Nov. 13. " An attack on the late Field-wounding 12 policemen and la SEARCH FOR BOOTLEGGERS Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, was the bourers.
FOUND ON "PUSSYFOOT"-
· JOHNSON'S 'FARM.
feature of a remarkable speech de British bombing 'planes have Smithville Flats, Yesterday.livered by General Sir Ian Hamil recently been closely watching the Adlerantled still consisting too, in addressing the Royal Naval frontierReuter. of fourteen 200-gallon copper Division Officers' Association." 1.10 p.m.hoilers, colls, and other appara. He described Sir Henry Wilson 2.30 p.m. tus, was found in a clump of as the "arch enemy of the Dar 2,80 p.m. trees on "Pussyfoot Johnson's that the latter in July 1915, told danelles campaign", and asserted
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REBELS BOMBED.
AMERICAN ARMY AIRMEN IN ACTION
CASUALTIES: INFLICTED,
Managua, Yesterday.
United States operating near vere fired on by a band
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