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MURDOCH'S FEAT.
REACHES PRETORIA: NOTIFIED OF HIS ARREST.
AIR FORCE.
HIGHER COMMANDS.
IMPORTANT CHANGES NOW ANNOUNCED.
SIR J. SALMOND'S NEW FOST.
London, Yesterday..
TO CONTINUE FLIGHT.
Pretoria, Yesterday, The Cabinet has decided to Murdoch has arrived and has
The following changes in the proceed with the construction of been notified that he is under higher commands of the Royal Air the new cruiser which was recent-arrest and must explain to the Force are announced:
Chief of the General Staff why cently postponed by the Reichs- he has overstayed his leave from has been selected to succeed Air Air Marshal Sir John Salmond rat on the ground of economy. the Air Force.
Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game as This objection has been over- It is understood, however, that Air Member of the Council for ruled by the assurance that the he will be allowed to resume his personnel at the beginning of necessary first instalment of flight to Capetown.
January next and Air Vice-Marshal 10,000,000 marks has been saved elsewhere.Reuter.
FIFTH PLENARY.
RIGHTIST LEADERS LEAVE NANKING.
QUARREL WITH EXTREMISTS
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Murdoch hopes to accomplish Sir Edward Ellington will, at the the return flight to England in same time, succeed Air, Marshal ten days, starting on the 12th Sir John Salmond as Air Officer inst-Reuter,
Commanding-in-Chief the Air De-
Sir John Salmond bas. had, a
[A telegram from Khartoum, fence of Great Britain. dated the 6th inst., stated that distinguished career as a fiying Captain Murdoch, of the Royal officer. On the outbreak of war in Air Force, who is engaged on an 1914 he went to France in com- attempt to fly from Lympne to: Capetown and back, a distance mand of Number Three Squadron of 16,000 miles in eighteen days, Royal Flying Corps and subse- Latest information to hand had arrived at Montaila. Captain quently received rapid promotion. concerning the split in the fifth Murdoch took off from Lympneral and in the following year was In 1916 he became Brigadier Gen- plenary session of the Nationalist on July 30.1 Party (predicted by a political correspondent in the "China Mail") is as follows:-
Nanking, Yesterday. It appears that prior to the fifth plenary session friction de- Mr. Chang veloped between Ching-kiang and Mr. Li Shih- taeng (the Rightist leaders) on the one hand and the Cantonese (extremist) members of the Cen- tral Executive Committee on the other, the latter being the asso- ciates of Mr. Wang Ching-wal (who went abroad because of the Communist taint).
U.S. PRESIDENCY.
MR. HOOVER MAKES HIS OPENING SPEECH.
J
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.
Washington, Yesterday.
promoted Major-General. Then hel became General Officer Command-i ing the Royal Air Force in France, ! which appointment he held until the conclusion of hostilities.
In October, 1922, he was. ap- pointed first air officer to command the combined British forces in Irak.
In 1923 he was promoted Air Marshal in recognition of his dia-
Mr. Herbert Hoover, in a speech tinguished service in frak and, on formally accepting the Republican returning to England, was appoint- Presidential nomination, made it ed Air Ofcer Commanding-in- clear that Prohibition even more Chief the Air Defence of Great Bri- than Farm Rellef may be the vital|tain-a new command formed to The friction was due to suspen- deciding factor of the campaign. organise and control the air de sion of "youth" movements by He declared that he stood for the fences of the country. the Nationalists (a legacy of efficient enforcement of the Pro- At present Sir John Salmond ja direction from Moscow).
hibition laws and described Farm in Australia at the request of the Mr. Chang and Mr. Li advocate Relief as the nation's most urgent Australian Government, advising curbing the students' political ac economic problem and outlined a on the air defence of the Common- tivities and the inculcation of serfes of tariff. increases to give wealth and on the organisation, better discipline, whereas the ex-agriculture the "same protection as training and equipment of the tremists (or the left wing) fa- other Industries." Although he Royal Australian Air Force. vour continuance of students' did not refer directly to his oppon- Air Vice-Marshal Elkington be- ent the Roman Catholic Governor came Director-General of Military Provincial Autonomy.
"AI" Smith, Mr. Hoover made an Aeronautics in 1918 and, shortly Another difference was that impassioned appeal for religious afterwards, he was appointed Con- the right wing favours mainten-tolerance. He recalled that he troller-General of equipment at the ance of the provincial branches of himself was of Quaker stock, and Air Ministry. On the reorganisa- the Nationalist Political Council declared that the glory of Ameri-tion of the Air Ministry in 1919 (in other words, provincial semi- can ideals was the right of every he became Director-General of autonomy) whereas the left wing man to worship God according to Supply and Research with a seat is pressing for their abolition. the dictates of his own conscience. on the Air Council, and held this When the session formally be--Reuter's. American Service. appointment antil 1922 when he gan, friction broke out.
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Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had a conference with Mr. Li Shih- tseng, Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei and Mr. Chang Ching-kiang on Wednes- day evening when the latter group openly denounced the left wing.
Then followed the secret de- parture from Nanking of Mr. Chang and Mr. Li (referred to below).
May "Bust!"
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proceeded to Egypt to take over command of Royal Air Force Mid- dle East: He relinquished this command in 1923 on his appoint- the Royal Air Force in India. ment as Air Officer Commanding
Since November, 1926, he has com- manded the British forces in Irak.
-British Wireless Service.
CHINA'S STATUS.
NATIONALISTS RECOGNISED BY CUBA,
Bombay, Yesterday. The Associated Chambers of Commerce which claim to reprezent the greater part a thousand mil- A delegate representing Chiang lion sterling of British capital, Kai-shek has gone to Shanghai to supposed to be invested in India persuade the "absconding dele has sent the Simon Commission a gates" to return for the second Memorandum recommending, the meeting of the fifth plenary ses-most liberal trial of self-Govern-] sion.
mont in India and giving the pro- Although the presence of the vinces constitutions varying up to
Shanghai, Yesterday.. "absconding delegates"
It is officially reported from Nan- would full responsible autonomy while asking that the Republic of Cuba has mean that there would be no regards the Indian States the formally recognised the Nationalist quorum at the session (because Chambers recommend a constitu-Government of China. their opponents, the extremists, tion making the whole
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TREATY REVISION.
The French Consul General in
would boycott it), their absence graphical India a single economic Shanghai has received official in- may have a demoralising effect unit. Reuter.
they are persuaded to attend, it seems very likely that the confer- ence will have to be postponed again until Monday, Aug. 13. ..
It is likely that Chiang Kai- shek will go to Shanghai in per son to persuade the rightista to attend. Reuter,
Documents in Car-Loads. An earlier cable on the topic [reads:-
Shanghai, Yesterday.
CARS IN INDIA.
BRITISH MACHINES NOW. FORGING AHEAD..
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Istructions to announce the French Government's willingness to revise their Treaties with China, also to negotiate a settlement of the Nan- king incident.
The Italian Government is agree. able to enter Into negotiations for treaty revision but expresses the opinion that the tariff question should be discussed simultaneous- ly-Router.
SINGAPORE BASE.
ADMIRALTY CONTRADICT A
London, Yesterday. The number of cars and ormi- buses Imported at Madras, by sea during the year, shows a record in- Mr. Chang Ching-kiang and Mr. crease of 84. per ecat. While not Li Shih-taeng, leaders of the Na- many years ago practically every tionalist right wing, had an in-car in India was American, in portant interview with Marshal Madras now nearly half of them
REPORT. Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. Toal are British made. Britain is still Yuan-pel (of the centre party) on unchallenged in the motor-cycle
London, Yesterday. Wednesday, during which the ac and cycle market. These Imports The Admiralty announces that tivities of certain members of the have increased by 60 per cent, and there is no foundation for the re- 12.80 fifth plenary conference were 26 per cent, respectively-British port that the contract for the Sin-
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gapore Base has been postponed.— Reuter.
Dean of
loved that it was the members of important documents, leaving a I am afraid of the extension 'of the Cantonese (extremist) clique letter addressed, to Chiang Kai- central bodies.The who were under discussion.shek, which was delivered to him Canterbury,
Chang Ching-klang and L1 Shih- after their arrival in Shanghal
taeng left Nanking secretly yes The fifth-plenary conference ses- Houseboats are as old-fashioned terday morning. They brought to elen has been postponed until Aug, as the tricycle now. Mr. C. H. J. Shanghai three motor-car loads of 11—Reuter,
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