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SMUGGLING MEN INTO
AMERICA.
SPECIAL STOWING AWAY
ORGANISATIONS.
STRANGE NEW INDUSTRY
If any evidence were needed to Brove that the peasants and the workers and perhaps the crooks of Europe still dream of the United States as an El Dorado, it is to be foumi in a statement attributed to the Havre police.
In that port alone the speelat police have arrested more than Reventy would-be-stow-ways liners about to sail for the Golden West since the beginning of 1930.
This means that on an average man is prevented from stowing away at Havre on every day of the year.
These men who are prepared to undergo great privations in the at tempt to gain unauthorised admis- aion to the United States are of all nations. Spaniards, Portuguese, and Italians aru
the must persistent offerulers, but some times a fair- headed Russian or Pale is caught.
DOCTOR'S FEUD;" A Comedy of Icelandic Politics.
Oslo, May 7.
Dr. Helgi Tomason, Iceland's best authority on psychiatry, has publicly decld that Iceland's Minister of Juste, Mr. Jonas Jonsson, is in
gane.
Mr. Jonsson has answered by discharging Dr. Tomusen from his position as chief physician of Ice- lana's official asylum for diseases.
mental
Mr. Jonsson is at once the most loved and the most hated man in The farmers especially Iceland:
ilmire him. Most of what the pre- sens Icelandic Government has ac complished is said to have been in- spired by Mr. Jonsson, and he is popularly called the Dictator. Many of the Bills which he has made the Allting pass are definitely, against the anered tradition of this island State.
Dr.
Tomason went to the
because of insanity.
"THE
U.S. AIR FORCE.
Result of Senate Investigation.
CRITICISMS UNFOUNDED.
-
MAIL.
CHINA
DIPLOMATS CORPS.
Find It Embarrassing in Peking.
Peking. May 27, The foreign diplomats in Washington, June 5. Peking are facing a more per- The United States navy to-day plexing problem than any of the
absolved was
from charges of long series of diplomatic puzzles operating an antiquated and ineff-which have been set before them cient air force.
when this was the capital of A subcommittee of the senate China. The problem is develop naval affairs committee acquitted ing very slowly, fortunately, giv the navy department of all charges ing them time to think, arising from criticisms resulting from the resignation of Lieutenant Alford 'J, Williams, navy speed king and America's sole hope in the sea- plane races for the Schneider Cup.
The senate committee reported that in aeronautics the United States navy may claim parity with other navies in the number and speed of
COMMANDEERING OF CARS.
CHINESE POLICE ACTION AT TIENTSIN.
MOTOR-LORRIES SEIZED.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930. BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
A NEW SHIPMENT OF PRINTED CREPE-DE-CHINE AND
Tientaln, May 30. Early yesterday morning Chin- ese Military Police in the City and the Ex-Austrian Concession com- menced to busy themselves with the commandeering of motor-cars and motor lorries belonging to the public for "urgent military pur- 5, Wyndham St. poes."
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The question they must ansiver is this: How shall we act when we are living in one part of China' which does not recognise the It is reported that, during the Government in another part, but morning seventy cars were collect- when the chief foreign Powersed in the ex-Austrian Concession have recognised the latter Gov- these having been seized, together ernment as the national Govern with their drivers, by the Chinese ment of China?
Police and parked near the Polico its bombing planes and general The diplomats still reside in Station. The intention, it Was airplane equipment.
Peking, although they are on understood, was to take these cars
AIR CRASH.
Big Plane Hits Boston Bay.
Buston, Mass., June 5.
the Government there,
Thus far, the diplomats have travelled back and forth, from "rebel" Lerritory into that con- trolled by the recognised Govern- ment, without protest from any Chinese group. But the diplomats are waiting nervously for the time when General Yen's foreign office" asks, "Why do you live in our country and not recognise our Government?" or when the Government at Nanking asks, "How can you continue to keep your Legations in rebel territory and still recognise our Govern ment as the national Government of China?"
One of the vehicles aeized in
was
the Ex-Austrian Concession a motor lorry belonging to Messrs. Keen and Co., mineral water manu- facturers, of Victoria Road, Tien- tain, which was delivering mineral waters. This lorry had made some deliveries in the Italian Concession
and entered the Ex-Austrian Con- cession about 9.30 a.m. for the pur- pose of turning round in order to proceed back to the Third Special Area when it was pounced on by the Military Police.
Lieut. Williams resigned from the the road between here and Nan-to the Central Railway Station and The personal controversy hetween navy because he was ordered to sea, king so often that they call them to tranship them by rail to Teh- the Minister and Dr. Tomason was making it impossible for him to cun-selves "travelling men." Peking, chow where motor transport la brought to public notice by a letter tinue his speed tests or work on a however, lies within the territory being collected for the converance from Mr. Jonsson which the Govern- plane which he was building. Criti- controlled by General Yen Hai- of troops to the front. ment's paper printed. Mr. Jonsson | cism arising from his resignation shan, who has defied Nanking. Some are dreamers determined to wrote that his political opponents suited in the sweeping investigation and is in open rebellion against see the world. Some are criminals for years bad spread ugly rumours which closed to-day-United Press. trying to escape from their own
about him. and that at countries. The majority are men the beginning of this year whose imagination has been fired by tales of a land where the streets are Prime Minister and urged the paved with gold. The tales are told i
latter, to exclude Mr. Jonsson from not by romancers but agents of
the Cabinet clandestine organisations that spe- When Dr. Tomason was repudiated efalise in the transhipament of
by the Prime Minister he asked for Europe's white cargo.
A private meeting with Mr. Jonsson himself. Mr. Jonsson. was ill in A large Because the strict emigration hed, but received the docter, who at crashed into
transport neroplane Boston Bay to-day. laws and the erowded quota list of
once began a long-drawn-out poli-killing one passenger and injuring the United States make it impossible tient conversation. "I broke off and 12 others. for men of many European nations asked him
tu yo," writes
Pearl Thursen of Brookline is In obtain proper passports, these Jonsson. "When he had left my dead. So severely were
the 12 men cheerfully pay £100 or more to bed-room and reached the hall, he other passengers injured that their be stowed away and smuggled met my wife, gripped her wrists, removal to a hospital was necessary. secretly into the promised land. and aald. Your husband is mad. Many were badly bruised and some
The stowing-away organisations These same words he repeated in the may suffer internal injuries. leave little to chance. A "recruit" from the farthest corner of Europe
streets of Reykjavik."
The transport plane had just It was this public letter which taken off from the Boston airport: is piloted across frontiers and pass caused Dr. Tomason to declare pub-It crashed into the waters of the ed from hand to hand until he liely that the Minister was insane, bay from an altitude of only 100 reaches one of the great French When Dr. Tomason left his hospital fect. Motor trouble is held respon parts, where he is hidden in on out he took several of the staff with sible for the accident.-United of-the-way sailors', hotel until a liner him, and he now advertises that ho Press. is due to leave.
is willing to treat all patients from
Fees of £100.
Mr.
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steward OT
1 waiter, leave the asylum. he is sent on board, where. other agents of the "company", te which he has entrusted his fortune see that he is safely hidden in some obscure corner of the ship, and, he is not found before the ship sails, supplied with food during the voy- age.
At his journey's end the slow- away is piloted past all dangers once more. If he is arrested at this atake he is sent back to his home
ALPINE TRAGEDY.
8 Months' Disappearance Explained.
Rome, May 7. Early last September a young
man and woman giving the names of Ferdinando Mezzari and Maria Berrard, both of Milan, arrived one
HOOVER'S WAY!
Insists on Senate Taking Up London Treaty.
Washington, June 5. President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson again
to-day moved to speed up action on the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
There have been diplomatic difficulties galore in the past in Ching.
The driver managed to effect his escape and the matter was report- ed by the company to the British Consulate-General and the B.M.C.
Police.
Another vehicle belonging to a the Third Special Ares yesterday foreign corporation was stolen in
morning. This was the Fordson and trailer belonging to the Kailan held up in one of the streets of Mining Administration. It was the Area by body of Chinese
Diplomats have declar ed time and again that experi- ence elsewhere was of little use, because diplomatic procedure in China was necessarily, irregular
soldiers and policemen and taken compared with traditions else where.
For years there, were away.-P. & T. Times. two Governments in China, one
at Canton and the other at old SIR CECIL ON TOUR.
WAS re-
Peking. The latter cognized, but the former was al
!!
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Highlands.
ways appealing for recognition East Coast & Cameron's Consular officials living in the territory controlled by the Canton Government had to deal directly with that Government, whether it was recognized or not.
Kuala Lumpur, June 4. His Excellency the High Com-
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President Hoover has
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take time.
The mayor of his home town has to sign a "receipt" for him, which 1 States authorities. For it is the the Lake of Como, saying that they
their archives. It will take G. Sillitoe, R.M.. A.D.C. will
more men attempting to stowaway;
made to move. They and Japan have officially accepted room for Legations in Nanking;
There is no feed to Fraser's Hill by road, on some mountain climbing, back to his home. It costs a good begged the landlord to take care of America's interpretation of the re-
the 13th inst., after having stay- deal, and is costing more every
a small amount of luggage, which placement clauses of the London propriations for such bulldings Officer's House). From Kuan-
ed the night build, and ap-
the District year, for
not only are more and more men attempting to stow away aturled off. They were never seen
they said would hamper them, and treaty.
tan His Excellency will proceed In his conference with Secretary those who have been sent back often try again and again.
or heard of again.
If the Government in the north to Kemaman, Kuala Trengganu. Stimson and Senator Borah the Mazzari
begins to push for recognition. Kuala Besut, the Redang and WAS married man President reiterated his desire to
ů living apart from his wife, whom he have the senate consider the treaty the diplomats will be more em- Permentian Islands, and Tumpat.
barrassed than
From used to visit occasionally to see his before congress adjourns for the When the Government at Canton special train to Kuala, Gris.
ever before.
Palel:bang H.E. proceeds two children. When some weeks summer. Since adjournment is passed without
to Pergan, en the Thence he goes Remanded his
recognition, appearance, slated for 'June 14 the senate must diplomats at least could deal with route to Kernubu, Bertam, Gua Signora Mezzari began making in act swiftly to either ratify. or reject them gently at a distance. {quiries, and finally came to, the con- the treaty.
But Musang, Kuala Lipis and Fraser's clusion that her husband and the threatened to convene the senate in now they are in the very centre Hill, arriving there on Monday, girl with whom he was known to be extra gession unless action is taken
June 23. of the "rebel Government." on intimate
terms, had purposely before June 14.-United Press.
The northerners have been con-ecil will leave Fraser's Hill for On Wednesday, June 25, Sir gone off together, leaving no traces.
siderate, the diplomats feel. They have moved very slowly foined here by Lady Clementi on Kuala Lumpur. He will be in establishing their foreign the 26th and they will leave by office." giving diplomats time to the night mail for Kuala Kangsar consult their home Governmenta about eventualitles.
that The
evening. On Goy-
Sunday, June 20, H.E. and Lady Clementi ernment at Nanking has been equally considerate in omitting Rata Rest House, where they leave Kuala Kangsar for Tana [to ask embarrassing questions
legations in "rebel cities.”
They about diplomats who keep their will spend the night.
remain at Cameron's High- But the time of reckoning leave for Teluk
lands until July 5, when they
Anson If China continues Penang.
and to the President's rustic camp on draws near. the Rapidan river in the Blue Ridge divided into two parts, with rival Clementi remain
Sir Cecil and Lady at Penang Mountains of Virginia for a period Governments, foreign diplomats until
June 15, of rest and recovery.
are forced to solve a puzzle more sail for Singapore on
when they She is confined to a wheel chair. perplexing than any before pre- Belle II, arriving in Singapore the Sca While her condition is not believed sented United Press.
on Thursday, July 17.-Malay to be serious her physicians belleve
Mail, that abe should remain at the camp the Rapidan 'for an Indefinite perlod.
In view
MRS. HOOVER.
Long
• Rest Advised.
One day last week, a peasant Ipoh, June 2.
roaming about the hills above Lecco, of the recent planting came upon the skeleton of a young controversy on the evils of toddy woman clothed, and partially hidden Wrenches Back and the methods of the coolies in by earth and foliage. Further search obtaining other liquor forbidden by revealed the skeleton of a man about law, Interest attaches to a case in 150 yards from that of the woman. which a Chinese was charged be-Both were subsequently identified by fore the Ipoh Magistrate to-day relations, from their clothes, as with selling a bottle of beer to a Ferdinando Mezzari coolle.
Accused
and, Maria Was describ- Bernard. How they came by their ed ав A sneak-thief. There death remains a mystery. were previous convictions against
him. He said he got
present
beer as
話
and
the
gave
It to the coolie. The Magis-
trato finéd him $50 or two months"
rigorous imprisonment-Ex
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DEAN WILLIAMS.
Noted Journalist.
Columbia, Missouri, June 5., Walter Williams to-day was in- stalled as acting president of the University of Missouri, succeeding Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, resigned.
Williams, dean of the university's school of journalism strice 1908, will become permanent president of the institution on the first of next year when Dr. Brooks' resignation finally
becomes effective.
PIGMIES IN AFRICA.
Position in Anthropology to Be Ascertained.
Signori Gatti and Cipriani is An important expedition led by leaving Northern Rhodesia short- ly for Rome via Central Africa. This Italian scientific expedition will be joined' by Professor Dart, discoverer of the famous Taungs skull.
The expedition will probably enter the Itur! Forests and The new president of Missouri has examine the pigmles with a view no college degree, other than those to ascertaining the proper place conferred upon him as honorary re of the pigmies anthropologically. cognition of his accomplishments. The enterprise hopes also to visit Hie formal education stopped in the gorilla country at Kivu, sub- high school and for many years he sequently proceeding to Egypt, was a printer and newspaper Mesopotamia, and the Balkans to editor.
Reme
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