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BROKEN CABLE ON BRITISH POLICY IN CHINESE MUSICAL TORY DECLARATION. HUMBUG ON EMPIRE KUOMINCHUN FLEE IN SAVAGE TRIBESMEN'S
THE R.101.
Possible Cause of the Airship Disaster.
ONLY ONE TRIAL FLIGHT
He mentioned that among the
PALESTINE.
INSTRUMENTS.
"CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP
ESSENTIAL."
Premier Replies to Mr. Baldwin's Criticism.
Demonstration Not Required.
BREACH OF PERMIT.
KEEPING TO OUR WORD.
CHIEF WHIP APPROACHED.
London, Yesterday. A meeting attended by 44 Con- servatives, presided over by
STRIKE ENDS.
+
AFTER COSTING WORKERS 10,000,000 MARKS,
a
FREE TRADE.
DISORDER.
RISING.
Premier Supporter of Shensi Capital Object 140 Police and Civilians of Nationalists. Preferences.
"RED SPEAR" UPRÍSING.
FOOD TARIFF OPPOSED.
Killed.
CAUSE OF OUTBREAK.
Nanking, Monday.
Tokyo, To-day. Rugby, Yesterday. Rugby. Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. A big drum, a small drum, Colonel J. Gretton, M.P., decided
General Yang Fu-chang has Fragmentary reports, official and In his opening speech to-day, at In the House of Commons to- cymbals and other such instru- to send a declaration to the Chief
Referring to the work of the circularised a telegram, confirm- unofficial from Formosa indiento ments used in Chinese theatricals, Whip, Mr. Thomas Kennedy Imperial Conference, the Premier, ing the report of the capture of that about 140 Japanese Police and the public inquiry into the R101 day, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, were brought into the Central (Labour), submitting that disaster, which he had not con- in reply to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Second Court this morning, in change of leadership is essential speaking in the House of Com-Tungkuan Pass. by the Nation- civilians have lost their lives in cluded when, the court adjourned said that the Palestine White connection with a summons, which to the National interest.Reuter. mons, said that he could give a alists on October 25, the Kuomin- the uprising, but owing to the dis- chun retreating in disorder. ruption of telephonic communica until to-morrow, the Attorney
was heard by Mr. E. H. Williams.
very good report of the proceed- General, Sir William Jowlitt, said Paper did not represent any The defendant was Hui Chi Sze,
Consequent on the fall of Tung- tion details are scarce and doânité ings. Although the economic kuan, the Nationalists are follow-confirmation is still lacking. that every possible factor which change in the British policy to- of 48, Bonham Strand West, who
jaide of the work was receiving ing_up__the rebels to Wahkow, Mountain Artillery and Tele. could throw light on the tragedy wards the Palestine Mandate. was charged as follows: "On
more public attention, he wes not Yufu, Shuichen, Wah-hsien, and graphic Corps units of the local Would be brought out publicly. The East African polley would October 21, did commit a breach
Wainan, midway between Tung-gurrison have been despatched to of condition of your theatrical
sure whether the more important kuan and Sian, which, being the assist the infantry, and Police to documents to be produced was a be announced as quickly as pos-permit by playing music and
work was not that whereby a de capital of Sheng, is now the im-regain control of the situation. report prepared for the Imperial sible.
beating gongs during prohibited
finite meaning was being put to mediate objective of the Nation- Aircraft are co-operating in an Conference by the late Lord
the various phrases and declara-alists. Mr. Baldwin previously express- hours to wit, 1.30 a.m." Sergeant "Thomson. It was a secret docu-
tions of the 1926 Conference re- ment, but he had obtained special ed the opinion that the White L. C. Russell appeared as com-
plainant.
Berlin, Yesterday. lating to the constitution and The metal workers' strike, political relations of the various imposed by the Kuominchun, the have clashed with
On account of the heavy, taxes permission to hand a copy of it Paper marked a most serious al-
Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the to the court and to read material teration of policy, the real danger defence and said that it was ad which has cost the workers dominions. Very rapid progress Shensi inhabitants have accorded passages from it.
of which was obvious, because if mitted that music went on up to 10,000,000 marks in wages, has had been made with that work, hearfelt welcome to the Nation- partmental letters and depart-
it were so, it meant that we were the hour stated in the summons.been terminated by an agreement which was approaching an end.
alists for their entry into Shenai. mental. minutes are always most jealously guarded:
ther beating of gongs and, using —Reuter. thought it right, without making peculiarly dangerous in the pre-of such instruments came under. any precedent, to put before you sent state of the whole of the the Ordinance., Apart from that
he would outline the circum-¡ and the public every scrap of
Eastern and Oriental world, at a evidence which documentary
stances of the case. exists. Whether that evidence time when we were embarking on exists in the files of the Air an epoch making conference with Ministry or any other quarter I
He added, "De
Heavy Taxes
endeavour to ascertain the true position of affairs.
The relief force is reported to a party of tribeamen yesterday afternoon.
Police Too Strict. - { Owing to the existence of the
But I have going back on our word. It was The only question really was whe-[to refer the dispute to arbitration. On the economic side the pur-Much of the success of the Gov. Formosan Sugar Compaiges plant
on the Scene.
..
pose of conference was to in-
crease inter-Dominion trade with-ernment troops is attributed to the out any Dominion suffering in its uprising of the Red-spear and the own economic development. Tre-rear of the Kuominchun.
local militia who threatened the mendous keenness was being A portion of Kuominchun under shown by all members of the con- Liu Yu-fen is
Interposing, his Worship asked STOP PRESSference to help Great Britain with crave to stated to have halted regarding the cause of the
within the limits of their ability. the majority to Sian.
propose to put it before you and our Indian fellow subjects that if the S.0.A. were going to prose-
make it public."
Moving Reference.
there should be any doubt in re- gard to our intention and ability to hold it to our word, however Moving reference to the R101 awkward and difficult it might be. disaster was made early in the-Reuter. proceedings of the House of Com- mons this afternoon.
Speaking
after an Address in reply to the King's speech had been moved and seronded.
Despatch from Viceroy.
Rugby; Yesterday.
cute, and Mr. Lo replied that he' had been instructed so far that
the S.C.A. had treated his client very neutrally.
Mr. Lo said that the defendant was one of a number of a com-j mittee of the Bonham Strand "kai, fong.". As his Worship was aware, that street was a very Replying to questions from Mr.well known and important street Mr. Baldwin said Baldwin, the Premier announced to the Chinese merchants of the that the that the Government had decided first class: They formed them- that anything thereon 'Premier might think fit to say to publish in the same shape and selves into an Association. Every would have the heartfelt sympathy form as the Simon Report the year for 20 years they had a and support of every man on the despatch from the Government theatrical show Confucius Opposition side of the House, of India on constitutional ques- Birthday. Every year they sent "Apart from the public tragedy tions, to be discussed at the in a petition to the S.C.A. He we feel a profound aympathy with Round
Ahad a copy of this year's petition time would first elapse which had been signed by 16 well- the Prime Minister in the loss of short Lord Thomson, who was not only while views were exchanged with known persons. It read: "Every a colleague but a proved and well-the Government of India on one night there will be a musical com- friend, added Mr or two points.-British Wireless pany, and in compliance with re-
Service.
beloved
Baldwin,
Speaking little Inter, Mr. MacDonald' expressed the grief of the House for those who died to- gether and appropriately, shared
A common grave.
Gallant Pioneers.
Their leader was "a devoted friend and a man who was also a great Minister, devoted to the ser vice of the State in many fields of action, and the inspiring head department of
of
อ
goliant
Table Conference.
$50,000 RANSOM.
Chicago, Yesterday.
on
gulations the beating of gonga and big drums will stop at eleven o'clock. After that there will be light singing accompanied by small instruments."
The Herald learns that the
A Treasure! family of Mr. 'Karl Yocum has re- No inconvenience was experi- fused to take the police into their enced by anyone in that street, confidence, and decided to pay the The music was a treasure to that kidnappers a $50,000 ransom de- class of people, and they all want manded. Reuter's American Ser-ed it. Their instruments were not jarring or shrill. Mr. Lo ex- vice.
plained that the Chinese pipe was very shrill, and could be describ
pioneers in whose ranks had been airship should be made, together ed as jarring.
Here, Mr. Lo, asked permission enlisted some of the finest, most with an extra bay, and that the single-minded, and most promis- fight should be made with a 55 for all the paraphernalia to be. ing of British
Lord tons lift to India at the end of brought into Court, and further- Thomson, Sir Sefton Brincker, September.
youth.
and their comrades were pioneers of conquest and they had handed
Only One Trial.
more asked his Worship if be would like a demonstration 80 aa to hear the difference between the
Shanghai, To-day.
The Mukden correspondent of the North China Daily News is informed by Chang Hsueh-liang that Chiang Kai-shek and he will meet in the near future to discuss arrangements for putting the stabilisation of China on a sound and peaceful basis.
Chang Hsueh-llang stated that there was no basia for the rumoured, friction be- tween himself and Chiang Kai-shek, both of whom de- sire to observe the best in- terests of the country. All military orders will be sign- ed by both Chang and Chiang in order to break down in the minds of the officers any idea of personal instead of State service, which 80 far has been the contributory factor in making civil war 'casy. The administration, there
fore, will be in the hands of the Central Government and orders emanating from Nan- king will be valid.-Reuter.
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FINE TO CLOUDY.
To-day's weather. report from the Royal Observatory states:-
J
A пож
anti-cyclone has formed over S.E.. Mongolia and a "V"ahaped depression over the Sea of Japan.
Forecast:-E winds, ate; fine to cloudy.
| British manufacturers made too
at Hori, near the scene of the dis- turbances, some anxiety is felt as to the possibility of suffering if the disturbance spread, but it generally considered unlikely,
Nothing thus
been
outbreak, which is the first aince Rebel Remnants.
1920, though it is considered pos- little use of the preferences they
The 3rd newly organised divisible that it is due to overstrict were getting. There would be sion under Li Yun-lung will short-police control, or, alternatively, that far more British goods exportedly be despatched to the southern the tribesmen are revolting against to countries overseas if our manu-sector of Shengi to clear the rebel a plan to erect a large dam facturers took full advantage of every-opportunity than if the remnants there. - Dominions increased their prefer- ences by five or 10 per cent, in
favour of "Great Britain.
The anti-Kuominchun troops under Cheng Yoh-hsou took com- plete occupation on October 26 of Hsien-yang, an important city in ¡Shensi..
Yen Hal-Shan Silent.
Taiyuan, Monday. Before releasing the telegram, an- nouncing his retirement from the political arena, Feng Yu-hsiang is said to have wired to the North-
Tariff on Food?. Two things had emerged from the conference. One
was the Empire Free Trade was an abso- lute fraud. The second was that the only tariff Great Britain could impose that was worth any thing to the Dominions in ex- change for allowing wider field Eastern authorities, demanding:
1 That nine division of Kuomin- for preferences was a tariff on chun troops be retained with each
food.
at
Nichigetsutan in connection with an electric power scheme for which a company is at present in nego tiation with Morgan's for a loan of 450,000,000 Yen..
The project, if carried out, will necessitate flooding several, square miles of territory and the fo- habitants will have to be moved elsewhere. Reuter.
Earlier. Cables
Tokyo, Yesterday. Poor communications and lack of transport facilities in the dis- tricts where the Formosan tribes-
"You can ask them how I can division consisting of 15,0000 men, men have risen are expected to help you to get more of your pro- to be monthly supported by the hamper the punitive operations.
The scene of the uprising is ducts into our markets. And the Central Government;
2 That Kansu, Shensi, Ninghsia, isolated and savage country to very first thing every Premier
is most difficult says is a tax on wheat. We can- and Tsinghal be assigned to the which access
owing to absence of roads, The not do it," declared the Prime Kusminchun-for stationing;' Minister, amid Labour cheers. That the Nationalists under troops which have been despatch- There were, however, other ways Yaung Fu-cheng be ordered not to ed to the scene are expected to encounter, great difficulty in före- than that of tariffs of helping enter Shonsi; Dominion, trade, and these would 4 That part of military expense, ing their way through the wild be carefully explored. British say. $2,000,000 cash, be first re-forest-clad hills beyond Horisha, Wireless Service.
mitted for the payment of his sub-to which point there is a light rail-
Permanent Work.
London, Yesterday.
ordinates and immediately upon way the receipt of which remittance; he will declare his retirement.
Yen Silent.
A more detailed official report to the War Office states, that the police posts in several localities
Mr. MacDonald, in the debate on the Address in the House of Commons, said that in spite of Yen Hsi-shan remains silent. He in Taichu Province... appear to the attention fastened on the does not further mention his re-have been completely annihilated."
Starting to rise up yesterday economic side of the Imperial tirement nor does he demand any
the Shanel morning, the tribesmen cut the However, Conference for party reasons, the terms. most important and most per gentries are reported, to have pett-telephone wires between Musha manent work was that of apply-toned Yen, persuading him and Jiseki, and destroyed a num- ing the various declarations made mediately to go abroad, thus reber of police stations in the over the sacred trust to the liv Sir William Jowitt read a letter big and the small drum. Much
by the 1926 conference se regards lieving the province from further vicinity of Musha where, accord- ing to aircraft reports, the tribes- ing to continue their work. The from Sir Walter Nicholson, Secre-interest was taken by all in Court
the constitution, and political re-strife. Premier added an expression of tary to the Air Ministry, after at this suggestion, but the pro-
moder-lationships of the various Domin- A radio message from Peking men's flag is now being displayed. mised demonstration did not special gratitude to M. Tardieu the now bay had been added to
The fragmentary information states that Yen Hal-shan has de lona. come off. and France and the people of the airship, saying that several
Continuing, Mr. Lo said that
That work was nearing an end. cided desperately to hold Shan, which has so far been gathered Beauvals for the practical sym-flights would be necessary prior he thought that the position was
British exports to the Domin- the new diepositions of his traps appears to indicate that the pathy shown, adding, "France has to the, India flight... h
fons would be much greater it being. as follows: Those under Pelice post at Hikel was set on once again touched the hearts of Sir John Simon observed that that the S.C.A. did not mind. He did not want to make an earnest
manufacturers fully profited by Kwan Fu-an, Yang Heou-au and Bre, and all police officers in the our people-British Wireless Ser- there was actually only one flying plea that those instruments did
existing preferences, instead of Sun Tao-wen in the southern sector, neighbourhood of Chinsha have vice,
trial of 16 hours on October 1 and not come into the specified Ordin
the Dominions increasing their to be placed under the command of been wiped out. About 100 rifles Public Enquiry.
October 2..
A native travelling in a tax-preference. He declared that General Hou Yung-chang, with the belonging to the Japanese Police Sir William Jowitt expressed ance under which one could play
a piano. All he asked for was cab near here was killed by a Empire free trade was an absolute headquarters established at Chin-have been seized. The insurgents the option that Lord Thomson that his Worship take a sympa stone thrown by a monkey while fraud. The only tariff we could cheng; those under Li Fu-ying, Feng are believed to number about into the of the command. A Sudden Attack
In opening the public enquiry began the night to India when thetic view of the case, in view the taxt was passing through the impose worth anything to the Feng-tze and Wang Ching-kuo in the 1,500. the Attorney-General Sir W. A complished while the Imperial
London, Yesterday.
MONKEY KILLS A MAN.
Algiera, Sept. 20.
Jowitt, K.C., said that the R.101 Conference was sitting. There annoy anyone in the street, and place between the two rival tribes had four trial flights before was no written report of the trial also that the people wanted it, of monkeys.
starting on her ill-fated voyage flight of the R.101. She had a certificate of air worthi- ness for long distance flights issued two days before the depar-
Hearing Adjourned.
the wheat tax, of General Chang Yin-wu, with the According to the latest official The Premier forcefully assert headquarters at Yangchuan; and dispatch from Formosa, a number Mr. Lo also explained that the
ed: We cannot do that."No those under Yang Alichuan, Chang of tribesmen suddenly launched big drum and the beating of
country in the world published Hul-chao, Chin Shao-kuan and Tso an attack on the Musha primary unemployed Agures as we did. A Chi-chin in the northern sentor, school on October 27, while an gongs were for fighting scenes, whilst the lighter music was for
big American Industrialist had under the command of General Yang athletic meeting was, in pro- Sir William Jowitt pointed out
dant for false allegation against told him that if a similar practice At-chuan, with the headquarters gress. The number of casualties singinge
by is not yet known, but it is feared The experts, when they examin Diesel engines weighing 17 tons,
that the R.101 was fitted with In Hospital Arca. the Police. He had a lot of wit were adopted in the United States, at Tatúng. .......
they are heavy. Asked if he had any evidence to nesses to say that he was per- 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 un- Report Not Confirmed
Six hundred armed police have ed the wreck of the R-101, found instead of nine, as estimated, give, Sergeant Russell said that fectly sober me employed would be showned The report that 6:00 Kuominchun that the cable controlling the cle- The disposal lift, estimated at 60 at 1.20 am on October 21, he His Worships Of course, that Reuter.
have arrived at Tatung, in northern been dispatched to the scene of
the outbreak vator fin was broken, possibly tons, proved to be 40 before the was on duty in Bonham Strand does not come into this case. 1
Shanal, is not confirmed. It is 30 Special dispatches received by before the accident. A micros, new bag was fitted, after which He noticed that a matshed had A Misunderstanding t FOREIGNERS' FATE. [current owing to the arrival of copic examination might show the disposal lift was 63 tons.
türe on her last voyage, N
- accident or after the scoldent, bot
whether it was broken before the The hearing was adjourned.
whether it broke cold or hot, s Secret Memoranda.
been erected, and also that there Mr. Lottimated that this was was music going on inside. He the first time that a summons
presta
REDS
saw the defendant and asked him like this had been taken out. He 21 MISSIONARIES IN HANDS OF troops under Hou Yung-chang were massacred, including twenty for his permit. It was, very late submitted that his client had no
Sir William Jowitt stated that The public Inquiry Into the loss at the time, and they were were intention whatever of committing the insertion of a middle section of the airship R101 opened in the banging gonga and beating a breach of condition of his per
101 in der to increase hall of the Institute of Civil En- drums. They
used the mit, It was a misunder Olved
the Bitt Unscrewi
cymbals
several thousand retreating Shank the Osaka Asahi report that about a hundred and ninety Japanese
There is only a small number of Kuotsinchun arriving in the south schoolgirls, but confirmation of of Shanat. Shincheng is still this is lacking.Renter. Peking, Yesterday. iding
rued'? rom foreign garrisoned by the Shanal-ites under
Yang will inaugurate the, Shenst that the Reds In Kwen Fa-ammen pital but of course, the defendant
and Kangal al Nationallats. Advance........
Procincint Government at Tungkuan might have been wrong or made a
together hold r-and foreign General Yang Fu-cheng has been as soon as it fails, and at the samG miste
the missionaries of nationalities personally directing the operations time will be formally inducted Into Fout
Bri American, French, on Tungkuan Fass for several days once as Chairman of Shenst
and and is confident of his ability to 75 Farg, Leaves For: Bhangl. might Italian, Norwegian
capture it within this month,
♪ng Fu helang has left Taiyuan red and Gen. Lu Thping
About 40%
the Kuomin tter under divisions t
up that th Inter|get::
tlier
the S.CA and holding? Kian: He imposed a
inal number of