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MUTINY OF TROOPS,
IN SHANSI.
Towns and Cities Looted
by Bands of Soldiers.
- WARLIKE PREPARATION,
Canton, Saturday.
the Shansi troops, who are to be
AIR MAILS.
U.S. SCHEME ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
DEFINITE STEP.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
FROM CANTON.
'Plane Leaves Canton
for Wuchow.
PARCELS DROPPED.
As
Canton, Yesterday. Washington, Saturday, As a result of the meeting be
As previously intimated, the tween President Chiang Kai-shek inauguration of a trans-Atlantic A definite step toward the
Canton-Wuchow passenger air and General Chang Hsueh-liang, air mail service was taken to-day on December 1. According to the service will be put into operation it was decided to entrust the re-by the Post Office Department. schedule, the 'plane is to leave babilitation of Shansi to General Bids will be opened at noon on Cantor. at 10 o'clock in the morn- Shang Chen; to reorganise the December 29 at the office of Mr. ing, and to return from Wuchow Shansi troops into Border Defence W. I. Glover, Assistant P.M.Gat 2 p.m. Packages only will be Corps; and to appropriate for an air mail route from New accepted for Samshui and Shiu- sum of $2,500,000 from the York, through Norfolk (Virginia) hing, two middle stations, where National treasury for the re- organisation and disbandment of or Charleston (South Carolina), the will be dropped from
Hamilton (Bermuda) and the the
'plane 23 it passes placed under the direct control of route, to Europe, to be designated time.
Azores or some other practicable over, 80
to save (General Chang Hsueh-liang.
Prior to the receipt from The "grey troops under Sun by the Postmaster General. The the Ministry of Communications Tien-ying mutinied yesterday in return flight is to be made over of regulations governing the the southern sector of Shansi, the same route.
The contract is for 10 years behandling of air mail, only passen- looting towns and cities, accord- ing to telegraphic advices from ginning on June 1, 1931. As it iagers, packages and newspapers contemplated that the service will will be carried from Canton to Peking.
Chaotic State.
be once each way weekly, with Wuchow, and back, mails being expected.-Canton News Agency,[ the P.M.G. reserving the right to On account of the concentration increase the frequency, the con- in Shansi of the overwhelming tract will not require a mail car- CHINA AVIATION CO. number of soldiers including the rier to fly east of Bermuda until Kuominchun and the "grey" after July 1, 1932, or later, if the troops, who have exhausted the P.M.G. thinks necessary. -- food supply, a chaotic state is pre- The Postal authorities may re- vating in the province. More- over, the Shansi Provincial Gov-quire the flying equipment used to be made in the United States ernment continues to issue its and the pilots to be Americans. bank notes, forcing the people to
The maximum-rate-authorised-is accept them at par. In refusing 2 a mile for a specified load of the local bank notes, the mer-300 lb. and $1 a lb. for 1,000 miles chants of Huihsien district caused for mail in excess.
Shangi are
A
BUSINESS LICENCE ISSUED AT
NANKING.
Nanking, Saturday, The Ministry of Industry, Com- business licence to the China merce and Labour has issued r Aviation Company sanctioning its registration.
a general strike a week ago, with It is indicated that the project- other districts ready to follow
The Ministry of Communica suit. In a word, the conditions of ed trans-Atlantic route may be tions has erected an aerodrome at connected with the South Ameri-Anking, capital of Anhwei pro becoming worse can air mail routes. In a state vince, so as to provide one more ment, the P.M.G. aaid that the station for the Shanghai-Hankow Warlike preparations are pro- route may be extended to connect air mail service.-Canton Nows cecding apace along the Yellow with other foreign air mails at
daily.
Warlike Preparations.
FIRE ON DO-X.
River Eight National divisions Florida or San Juan (Puerto Agency. will shortly move to the south Rico). This may require a con bank, awaiting order to head for tractor to carry mails for such Shansi, while there are several routes
Under the present plans the tens of thousands of armed Kuominchun guarding the north United States will operate the en- It is believed that this tire route to Europe and back- movement is to bring direct pres-Reuter's American Service. sure on the Kuominchan in order BOLSHEVISM IN U.S.
bank.
to test their loyalty.
Yen to Get Abroad.
Yen Hsi-shan who is reported OVER HALF A MILLION "REDS"
IN THE STATES.
WELL ORGANISED,
Washington, Yesterday.
¦
LEFT WING COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
A GREAT RISK.
Lisbon, Yesterday. Further disaster has been en-
countered by the German air lin-
er flying boat, the Do-X, which is ona flght across the Atlantic.
WGS
A fire that broke out on board soon extinguished, but the left wing was completely destroy-
As
to be still staying in Hopichun is planning a safe route to get abroad. His followers Chao Pe- nien and Chia Ching-teh propose that his departure for foreign countries be kept strictly secret, Mr. Hamilton Fish, chairman ed. thus to avoid a possible detention of the special committee of the The outbreak was caused by a by the Hopel authorities when House of Representatives which spark from the auxiliary engine passing Tientsin and Peking. is investigating Commanist acti- for recharging the batteries.
Shansi Troop Movements. vities in the United States, says soon as dames were noticed the The Shansi forces under Sun that "the Communists are far crew dashed for the extinguish-) Tao, Wang Ching-kuo and Yuan more extensive, pernicious, and ers and aided by local firemen and Tseng-ching are advancing for better organised than I anti- members of the Portuguese Air the northern sector of Shansi cipated before the investigation Force, soon had them out. and Sufyuan, aiming at the cap-began." He estimates that there With the fuel tanks practically ture of Ninghsia. This step is are 500,000 Communist men, full, there was a risk of complete said to be influenced by Yen's women, and children. in the Unit-destruction. The repairs are ex- failure to go abroad. Canton ed States. --- Reuter's American pected to take several weeks.— News Agency.
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