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WELL-KNOWN WALL LEADER OF THE HEAVY EARTHQUAKE
STREET FIGURE
JOHN J. RASKOB
SPECULATION AS TO HIS FUTURE INTENTIONS
BUSY WITH POLITICS
New York, Yesterday.
SALVATIONISTS
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London, Yesterday.
The "New York Times" under- A British Wireless message stands that Mr. John J. Raskob will states:
"ROCKED""
MUCH DAMAGE
Los Angelea, Yesterday, Two heavy earthquake shocks. rocked the town of Lompoc and the
nat return to his old position with General Booth, head of the Sal-country surrounding Santa Barbara General Motors after the Presiden-vation Army, is
tial election, and it is unknown) whether he will retain his vice- Presidency and directorship in the Corporation; but it is reported in Wall-street that he intends to sever all connection with the Company. -Reuter's American Service.
[Mr. Raskob left General Motors recenly to assist Governor Smith In his campaign.]
F
GRAF ZEPPELIN "
DR. ECKENER ON HIS BIG FLIGHT
Berlin, To-day.
The "General"
His doctors have issued the fol- lowing bulletin:
"General Booth is suffering from 'nervous prostration and his condi
last night, deatroying all the com- munications and causing much dam- age.Reuter.
MELBOURNE RIOT
2,000 TRADE UNIONISTS ATTACK VOLUNTEERS
POLICE FIRE "AT MOB
Melbourne, Yesterday. The police were forced to inter- vence to-day when 2,000 trade unionists threatened to attack volunteers at Port Melbourne.
The mob Ignored a volley fired over their heads and advanced,
STRONGER ENGINES NEEDED tion gives rise to some anxiety. It armed with atones, whereupon the je essential that he has complete pnilce. fired, wounding four, trade rest from all work for several unionists. One of these was, seri- The jubilation at the safe re-months and this will, we hope, en-ously injured. Mounted police and turn of the "Graf Zeppelin" is, Bure his complete recovery."
A huge not likely to end yet. torchlight procession was held this evening, at which Dr. Eckener ad- dressed the crowd, saying that he had never regarded the flight as a small matter.
A COALITION
(Continued from Page 1.)
foot police used their, batons freely and quickly cleared the pier, but strong trade union pickets lined the roads to the docks and intimidated the drivers, preventing delivery of cargoes to ships.
Over a hundred police recently sent to the country have been re- called.
Their experiences at some stages: 'fight for the Nationalist cause. of the journey were so serious that He lost his command through be he was convinced that the idea of
A tug conveying volunteers to having conquered the decan was ing jockeyed out. On and off, in
his travels round the world to stir work was fired at from the river- still far away.
Dr. Eckener described the dim-up the enthusiasm of Chinese side at, Williamstown-Reuter.
his fortune vanished. culties of the fight through both abroad,
At SIR A. KENNEDY fog and storm, especially near Then he became a politician, Newfoundland where they were one time he held the office of "act
driven far out of their course. ing President of the Military Gov-DEATH OF A FAMOUS BRITISH
erament"
absence. in Dr. Sun's Mastered the Storm
ENGINEER. "I had a feeling it one time When the break between Dr. Sun
London, Yesterday, The death is announced of Sir that the ship was breaking to and his lieutenant, ex-Generalis- pieces, but finally we mastered the simo Chen Chiung-ming (Chan Alexander Kennedy, the well-known storm."
Kwing-ming) came in 1922, Li engineer-Reuter. "The Zeppelin steadied herself, Lieh-chun retired for a while and but only after we had mended one then re-entered the political arena Yen-kai (one of the three consist of the engines which had broken in Central and East China. down. We must build stronger
elements."
Laat Reshuffle
ent administrators mentioned in a engines so that we are no longer He is one of three Nationalist preceding paragraph) has been a plaything in the grip of the leaders who have been consistent¡ well treated,
ly in office since the National Gov- After reverting to the perils of ernment was formed at Nanking in This mail is due in London on the 14th December. The regular morning mail for Macao will be resumed on Mon- dying near Newfoundland, Dr. April, 1927, in opposition to the day, the 5th instant at the usual hour viz, 7.15 a.m.
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Eckener stressed the necessity of, Red regime at Hankow. When the building airships capable of cross- fortunes of the Party (nominally Tan Yen-kai (Premier) and the ing the ocean without seeking to acknowledged to have authority Christian General" (Deputy-Pre- over all else) were waning because
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Zeppelin were later entertained at practically constituted the kai was probably chosen because
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Mr. Yu Yueh-jen, like General L like the others, they were not sug- Lich-chun, has not been favoured, pected nor distrusted. The other
EXCITEMENT IN THE MIDDLE two are General Tan Yen-kai (Tam although his name appeared in the
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Yin-hof) and Mr. Yu Yueh-jen (Yu list of probables, Yau-yum).
General Li and Gen- re-cast at the last moment to please eral Tan are closely related by the greatest majority.
Marshal Li's Power marriage. General Li's "pupil,"
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Excitement was caused in mid-har-General Chu Pel-teh, rules Klangei bour yesterday afternoon, when a province and has upwards of 80,000 been very high in Nationalist coun- man was seen struggling in the men with not less than three years' cils, and the lifelong friend of war experience. Yet General Life Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, bas to
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Shortly after the appointments of Chiang Kai-shek in the Army, trolling the waters, was soon on the were approved, General Li left for Beneath the "table," in acene of the mishap, and the man Kiangal, his native province, on second column, is a list of the
I quote his various bodies under. the three) was rescued. When taken on board two months' leave.
an example, but most Important Yuans. The names the launch, he was in an unconscious 'care merely as condition, and artificial respiration this is an example that counts for alone will support the allegation that the system is confusing. And was at once made. The man was much in Chinese eyes. Iater taken to Kowloon Hospital in
His seniority, his age, his this causes. me to wonder how an ambulance.
knowledge of the classics, his Marshal Lf. Chai-sum. of Canton, proved ability, his consistent' as spokesman of the Kwangsi mili- non-squeeze policy, his military, tary group (with its absolute power -tactics and his victories in the over four rich provinces), agreed
field would have obtained for him to such. the highest office in China if
New Organie Law aelection had been made on That Marshal Li was consulted, merit.
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But Chiang Kai-shek had to from the length of his sojourn in satisfy the turbulent spirits first. Nanking, 1 venture to say that A sensation was caused on a He had to bring in Fang Yu-halang without his approval, the new or Dentist. tram car yesterday in Queen's Road (the "Christian General") who was ganic law of the National Govern- East, when an unknown man jumped stoutly pro-North (and, therefore, mant could not have been passed. on to the car and threw pepper and anti-Nationalist), then Christian, He is a State Councillor, and so Band Into the eyes of the conductor and then Red, in his political creed, are his friends, General Li Tsung He then Jumped to the street again before he embraced Nationalism.en and Mr Tai Chi-tao, the lat and made his escape. The tram The "Christian General" is Minister having hitherto been Chancel was delayed for some time. Thuster of War (one of ten Ministers lor of Sun Yat Sen Univeralty In motive of the unknown man's In the Executive Yuan, or Cabinet) Canton. Yet Marshal Li was only strange behaviour is thought to be and concurrently Vice-President of a zubordinate field oficer under one of revenge on the conductor, the Executive Yuan, or Deputy- Generál Li Lish-chun, M
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