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BUS CATCHES FIRE.
A'MATCH: SEVEN DEATHS.
Losnos, August diat. - Seven persons were burnt to death and live serious injured when a. motor-bus caught on fire at Nuneaton. The bus was erowofed with shoppers and burst into flames, while desernding a hill. The fire
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NORTHERN WAR RUMOURS.
CHEKLANG CHIEF INTERVIEWED.
BLAMES NANKING;
DÁNÖKE OF SHANGHAL.
SHANGHAI. September 1st. General Lu Yung Hsiang, interviewed)
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"The Central Government is illegal. It pays no heed to the Constitution of the will of the people. Officials often like basdits taking what they can in any cir- cumstances. They do their work in a most peculiar manner. A man will come to Peking from Kwangtung, Yunnan, Kweichow or Kwangst. He will say that
SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1924
AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
[FROM CRYLON PAPERS.]
VAQUIER PAYS THE PENALTY.
LONDON, August 12th. Vaquier was executed this morning. There was a crowd of people round the
prison gates to see the noties posted, and several children who were, in thnger of
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PROFESTATIONS OF INNOCENCE.
he can unify the province. The Govern-being crushed were rescued by the Police, ment without investigation and without finding out whether the people of that| province „ want that particular man authorise them to assist that general to
a due 10 someone" striking n. match by the North-Chino Daily New said:~/tuin the province, to 81 it with thibli against his sentence, ".
ow tile the driver was filling the petrol
tank.
THE KIFF CAMPAIGN.
FIGHTING, IN PROGRESS.
MOROCCO, August 31st.
I war is to be avoided. Nanking must make war impossible. I want pesce, but Kanking has made war. and it is up to Nanking to
make peace."
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La Yung Hinng declared that accord- ing to an article in last year's pact, if any army came from another province
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Vaquier, who was exrouted at 2 o'clock this morning, pratented his innocence till the last. "and paced the cell all night, giving vent to frequent violent outbursta Since being informed of the Rome tion on the people. That is not unifica-Secretary's decision not to grant i re tion; that is supporting banditry. Thereprieve, Vaquier had been in a hysterical fore I strongly oppose Wü Fei Fu's policy condition, and was constantly under the of unifcation by force.
soldiers, so as to bring misery, and desola-
"There is only one way to unify China.
That is, by recognising the will of the people, Let each province apenk for
doctor's care.
KICKED IN THE STOMACH. 83 COMPENSATION FOR AGED
WOMAN.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cell- irpi Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese was charged with Sassaulting aan aged woman, the mother of his landlady. The case was partly heard in the morning, and carried on into the afternoon.
It was stated in the early stages of the that the defendant had kicked the woman in the stomach, inflicting such injuries that she had to be admitted to
spital.
AIR LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE.
Unless we
A comanniqué, from Morocco reports into the territory of either Chi Hsieh itself. Let each province select its own All the world. is now drinking tea garrulous. I must strike you.
THE NEED FOR ACTIVITY, Presiding on July 24th at the annual general meeting of the Air League of the British Empire, Mr. Philip S. Foster, in reviewing the work of the organisation daring the past year, said, that much End been done in the way of propaganda by addressing Rotary Clubs and metings in various parts of the country. The League had been able to form an advisory com- mittee of airman on both light and heavy ant body, a consultation Dominion nad types of machine, and an equally import- Colonial council, which it was felt would be of great help as the overseas work of The aged complainant, who tottered the League increased. Mr. Foster em- phasiseil the necessity of a large member- into the wiess box assisted by hership, to enable the League to exercise daughter, denied the suggestion of Mr. pressure on Governments when it became Lyson, defendant's solicitor, that his necessary, and continued: client did not struck her. She protested have a satisfactory Air Force to protect us we canust feel immune from danger that he struck her one with the fist, and from the air. Russian and German aerial kicked her once in the stomach.
activity is increasing, and what we want to do is to impress upon our people the GROWING DEMAND FOR TEA.
Complainant's daughter.. giving evidenced for similar activity on our part. ence, said that she heard the defendant The one great country that is immune LONDON. August 12th..
in the air at the present moment." The Haily Repress. in an article headed say to mother, "Old woman, you are then the air is France--the greatest power The report of the Executive Committee, plainant was knocked down, and the wit- which was approved, stated that during Yuan or bins 16 that army was to be
representative. Then let the Central
the past year it had been thought well tax was reduced disagraed and disbanded.
says that, when the tet
|ness had to carry her upstair
to draw up a statement of the policy and The Fukien
Government recognise that the representa in the Budget the public expected a re-
The defendant in the witness-box. | objects of the League. applicable to the divisions, to which the Chihli party obtive is genuine. Instead, of the people duction in the price of fea, but this was
stated that on the day of the quarrel ke circumstances existing it, the present time. That policy was Imperial and ject, came into Cheklang by way offering, they would beacht. Let the will not realised- On the contrary 'most-re
was returning from the shop where he national, and independent of all parties. Kiangen. Chi Hsieh Yuan was also the of each province be freely expresses.tailers advanced their prices.
worked as a grass-bag maker, when he The objects of the League was to seenra Yesterday's ten auctions in the city Inspector-General of Kiangsi, and these
Again I want to repeat I want no war;}
Ministry, failing the establishment of a troops. Lu Yung Hsiang contended
I made no attack; i was attacked, but showed a rise in price from a halfpennyw, the complainant, her daughter, and the maintenance of an independent Ait side their house. As be approached them, Home Defence Air Force equal to any the complainant's daughter pushed her other air for within striking distance of our country; the maintenance of an other against him, and he pushed her Air Force capable of obtaining the mas
to operate: the provision of again. The daughter then attacked very of the air wherever it may be called him, tearing his trousers. (Here defend-/ upon
sufficient aircraft to enable the Navy und the Army to perform their duties effec ant held up a pair of trousers with large rent in them for the inspection of tively; the fullest development of British the Magistrate), Witness suggested that civil aviation; the building up of a
reserve of pilots and machines the old woman's internal injuries (certi-national defence; the establishment of a fed by a doctor) were caused when her thriving aircrafe industry; the early daughter pusheal her against him, and he provision of aerodromes in the vicinity
vere fighting to-day on the Ellay Jine.
Details are lacking, but is stated the Spanish columns fall Back 'normally,
THE WORLD'S SPORT. NURMUS FINE RECORDS.
HELSINGFORS, August 31st.
Com-
"
Nurm, the Finn, was credited with should have been disarmed by Chi Hsieh, cannot negotiate on the basis of desert. to a penny a pound, and the canse is said witness' wife wrangling in the lane pot-Ministry of Defener; the maintenance of
five world's muning records today" as Yuan, instead they were permitted to ing Chekiang or opposing the will of the
follows:-
10,000 metres in, 30mins. 62-3sees,
4 miles in miss. 14.7-10sees,
5 miles in 24mins, 13.2-58eck,
Juines in 20mins, 74-res
In addition, he put up a record by runding 9957 metres in half an hour.
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PRINCE IN AMERICA, AMONG THE HORSES,
NEW YORK. September 1st.
The Prince of Wales yesterday morning
spent two hours exercising his pola ponies on the polo grounds near Westbury. One of his mounts, was a pony "Kitty," which Major Metcalfe will use, in the cup matches. After that the Prince went for
واره
come to the boundaries of Chekiang. He could bare disarmed thein, but they would probably have turned bandits, sn he took the wiser Blep and reorganised and in- corporated them in the Chekiang army.
people."
to be that Great Britain is drinking more ten now-a-days, Although the imports for the twelve months which ended in June rose by 60.000 lbs, stocks at the end of that period were about 11,000 lbs. Franc, Turkey, North higher only. America and Germany' are drinking twice a
as auch tea as compared with the past, and the extensive propaganda in the United States is calculated still further to add to consumption.
1.S. NAVAL BOATS.
WASHINGTON, September 1st. Three destroyers have been ordered to Shanghai and a gunboat to Amoy as precaution.
Originally he had no idea of incur porating these troops in the Chekiang
DAILY BULLETIN." army, but Chi Hsich Yuan's attitude [BY COURTESY OF THE made it impossible to send these troops
MENINGITIS IN JAPAN. home, and he had to krep them in Che-
FATAL OUTBREAK. kiang.
Toxyo, August 31st,
Asked whether there was not sour basis
The first certificated case of meningitis for negotiation on the Chibli 'prace party's terms, Lu Yung Hsiang laughed. in Tokyo was recorded yesterday.
inshed her away.
The Magistrate decided to convict, and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 810 and also to pay 85 conisation to
ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA:
CALCUTTA, August 12th- The Government "of India has issued the following communiqué: — Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess and said that the thought of negotiating. The number of enses throughout the Arthur "of Connaught will come to India the old woman. on the basis of these terms (which were country since the outbreak of the epide-for the cold weather. Their Royal High- that he should become inspector-fieneral mic are reported to be more than 2.500, of nesses' visit will be of a purely private of Chekiang and Fukien and that General | which 1.500 have proved fatal
Ho Feng Lin, his lieutenant, in Shang hai should become Tuchun of Chekiang, and that Shanghaipand the 11 when, be
a long motor trip and sail up Long Island returned to Kiangsu, and that independ Bound in a steam yacht. To-day he partience should become void) amused him. cipates in semtch game of polo and will These terms are a bribe and i won't possibly visit Belmont Park to sce Epinard and meet some of the best American horses, incinding Zev and lad. kin, the winner of a six furlòng race, the first of a series of three international sweepstakes.
Ú.S. WORLD FLIGHT..
THE NORTHERN STRETCH."..
New Yox, September 1st. Lieut. Smith and Lieut. Neison's flight from vigtut to lentickle was performed in perfort weather with a north-west wind at 20 to 40 miles per hour. Souretimes the machines travelled at 12 miles per hour, A group of Pressmen and a few fisher folk on the shore welcomed the aviators.
SUICIDE AFTER TORTURE. RUSSIAN SAVANT'S DEATH.
A political observer writing to a Lon- dou paper says:--
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF FORMOSA.
"
Touro, August Slat
It is semi-officially announced that Baron Uchida. Governor-General of Formosa, has resigned, and that Baron Izawa "succeeds to the post.
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HIS
nature, and there will be no ceremonials or public functions. Details of the tour are being workeri gut în consultation with the Viceroy."
WAS EVEREST CONQUERED?
ILOCAL MAGISTRACIES.
POURED KEROSENE ON
WIFE. Charged with having poured kerosene climb on his wife with the iden of setting fire to her, a Chinese was sent to gaol with hard labour for one month by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yes terday...
:
A. FORGED BANKNOTE.”
KEEPING OF FUBLIC ACCOUNTS,
for
of large towns, and the allocation of addi- tional funds for experiment and re-
Mr. Lyson sabmitted that both parties search. were blameworthy, and asked His Wor-"The Excentive Committee of the Air League of the British Empire look for- ships to bind them both over.
ward to a continuance of the useful wörk that has been done during the past
The same watchfulness and the game. twelve months," the report concluded. promptitude, there can be no doubt, will be displayed in the ensuing twelve months as in the past, but the great and most important consideration with regard to the work of the Air League is at this CANE FOR. YOUNG THIEF.
Impotent a sufficient income to enable them to dreuse public opinion. The moment is SLAUGHTERER TELLS. HOW
propitious. The defence of the country HE LOST $4
is a matter of paramount importance to Before Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon, and the creation of a prosperous and efficient system of commercial Aviation is Magistracy, yesterday, a small Chinese only second in 'importance; but these all boy, and an older youth appearer toge, important facts must be brought home to ther in the dock, charged with larceny the public at large. from the person.
The
A MOSQUITO TRAP. CATCHING THE PEST BY SEARCHLICHT.
BELGRADE
CALCUTTA, August 13th. Cioneral Bruce, speaking at Darjeeling,
The complainant, announced that another attempt would be
H slaughterer, said) made to conquer Everest next year. that he watched a game of chess in the Dr. Somervel. lectured on the achieve-street, and felt a touch at his right hand raents of the expeditions, expressed him-reast pocket. He sized the younger the self personally doubtful as to whether fendant, who was standing close by his
One of the great troubles of Serbia is Mallory and Irvine were successful inside. The ad struggled and get free. reaching the top in their last desperate Later, the witness saw-the saine boy, and the malaria epidemic and even in the neighbourhood of Belgrade there are seized him again, saying" Are you going favourable breeding grounds for the malaria mosquito The heavy spring to return the money you stole !"*
floods have made the plains facing the boy promised to get it back for him, and town more awampy than usual, and those took him to a house, where witness saw whose blood "pleases the mosquito palate
The latter pro-are constant in their lamentations. the second defendant.
Now an ingenious locksmith of the town has decided that something more mised to pay back the amount (34). The three went into the street, and seeing adrustie than the labours of the Anti- malaria Commission should be under- Chinese constable, witness gave the two taken, and he has devised a wonderful defendants in charge.
apparatas for the mass capture of the The constable corroborated the compest. The first evidence Belgrade had of his experiments was the appearance in plainant's story of the arrest...
Kalemegdan, the little park that over- Eventually the elder defendant was looks the plains and the meeting of the rivers (Sara and Danube), of a powerful warchlight. It was thought the polico.. had adopted a new means of raking in vagrants bedded in the park it was really the mosquito-trap, and any who approached the apparatus saw the invga- tor remove.. a vessel from the inside and show it to be full of a cushion-like, ma of mosquitoes,
LONDON. August 13th. The report of the Select Committee on Public Accounts just issued shows that £164,000,000 was raised unnecessarily by artments in the last two Government D
When a man was charged at the Kow-years
be bribed everybody has tried do that since the days of Yuan Shih Kai. I have resisted bribery from others and resist iz now. The whole question is one of prin eiple, not of my own position. 1 not holding out for a bigher position for myself; I have certain ideals, of which' the people of Chekiang approve. Those ideals I adhere to. I am not a coward. I am not afraid to fight. If I discuss peace now, the people will say I am afraid of Wu Poi Fn and Chi Haich. Yuan, and that I am ready to accept any offers they true. Lust might make. That is not summer was willing to meet Che in Shanghai face to face to discuss our differences and to find a means of settle the Magistrate said that he could not can Army, £12,500,000. Navy, £7,500,000.
Air Force. £2,000,000. Civil Service, discharged, while the "boy received sen-
Revenue inent. He would not come. Now it is vict on the evidence, and that a strong
Departments £46.230,000
tence of 12 strokes with the one. too late. I do not accept bribes and point in the defendant's favour was that £5,000,000.
he waited in a shop while the proprietor These savings, says the Committee, were won's run away from danger.
took the note, to a money changer. The to some extent due to the Geddes Axe," but it should have been possible consider- “My position is different from that of accused was discharged, the note being ably to reduce the Departments' demands ether military officials. I am the Tupan confiscated.
for supplies. The Departments have made excessive provision against contingencies. FIVE MEN APPEAR AT KOWLOON
Attention is called to the comment of the Treasury that the miscnlealation of Fines of each were imposed by Mr. £12,000,000 in the case of the Army's re-
affect the Budget Estimate. Melbourne at the Central Magistracyquirements is sufficient itself seriously to yesterday, on LWO men who travelled. on the tramway without paying their fares."
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I have received definit information of Cheklang by will of the people. Che- from Russia which should give food for thought to those who still believe in the kiang public opinion selected me as possibility of normal relations with the Tupan. Wu Pei, Fa's offer would meas Bolsheviks. Some time ago there ap- peared in the Soviet Press an obituary that I have to desert the province of notice of M. Alexis Rafialovich, who, it
was said, had died suddenly in. Petro-Cheklang and probably live in Foochow grad. He was described as a valued Pablie opinion in Chekiang would be specialist and a trusted servant of the Boviets. Alexis Naffetovich was
opposed to that. The people would "say of one the best Russian economists, and long I was not true to my ideals, nor faithful ago his reputation was well established abroad. He was not a Communist, but to the trust they reposed in mic The
loon Magistracy yesterday with uttering. 1 points out that the over-estimates in
forged 810 Straits Settlements, note, the year 1922-23 word
EXPENSIVE RIDES ON TRAMS.
ILLICIT CRACKERS, The old Chinese cracker-maker who, was summoned last week for storing
f;
Бр
TSUN WAN ROBBERY. SEQUEL.
COURT.
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Expert officials who were present at the trials have decided, it appears, that the apparatus is too costly for use as a means Five Chinese appeared before Mr. of extermination, but that it will prove A Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy very useful as a specimen-catcher. yesterday afternoon charged in connec-strong searchlight attracts the insects into the conical light projector, at the apex tion with the armed robbery at Taun Wan of which is a small hole. In the interior on Friday last."
pamps and fans produce a strong current of air into the interior, and the mos- quitoes are sucked inside.
AFFAIRS OF ALLIANCE BANK.
CALCUTTA, August 14th The present state of affairs of the Alli- Another man, who is in bospital wound ance Bank of Simla (in ligidation) and ed, is to take his trial with them later. the steps taken by the liquidators to realize its assets were explained at length Yesterday's proceedings were purely.
Was intensely loyal, and, although he Peking Government exists on a military crackers of a type forbidden by the Orjat a joint meeting of shareholders and Formal, and the men were remanded for)
criticised the Communists freely. he never by word or deed did nor could be
these years he
Con
dictatorship. Of course, anywhere
dinance, was fined $60 by Mr: Hamilton)
R
at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
persuaded to do anything against government can be unified by force. If tinued his scientific work and was of you use enough force, but has it proved great use fo the Soviet Government bes Cause of his knowledge and the sune ad- | practicable i
suddenly The horrible truth is that
Two shopkeepers, similarly summoned, In my opinion, it only were ordered to pay 80 each. `
ereditors.
As is known, a dividend of eight, annas in the rapes for creditors bad deady been declared.
vice he save. And now he has died proved that the policy which ruins prQ" | SENTENCED FOR STABBING A that, taking a conservative view of the he committed suicide in the prison of the vinces makes the people suffer. Take
Cho-Ka, where he had been thrown on for instance the example of the province
"
an accusation of economic espionage
for foreigners. There he was
ان اینکه
a week.
CRUELTY TO DUCKS.
NEW ANESTHETIC. FRENCH DOCTOR'S DISCOVERY.
tortured and took his life Basler of Fukien. There has been fighting passed by Mr. Lindsell at the Central moved directing the liquidators to take ton yesterday, with cruelty to ducks, hypodermic injection of morphia has
to that previnee for eleven years, yet there escape further agonics at the hands of the agents of the Red Terror.
is no unification there and no peace. Wu Those who are fighting the Bolsheviks pei Fu claims he had unified Szechuan, tooth and nail, with no quarter asked or given, always reproached Alexis Raffale but careful investigation has proved that wich with the punctilious way in which
he avoided dotaz anything which could Szechuan to-day is not really unified nor help them. His level observance of So at peace. Many different parties are pro- viet decrees did not preserve him in the
end from the cruel late which hangs like longing the processes of the disunion of the sword of Damocles over the heads of all peaceful citizens in Russia.
China,"
It is announced from Paris that a new anesthetic known as "Sompifent" is "At the meeting Mr. C. E. Walker.
now being used with success by Dr. senior liquidator, who presided, indicated CHINESE OFFENDER SMARTLY
Fredet at the Pitie Hospital, and that FINED.
the first results have been communicated assets of the Bank still to be. 'realized, it
to the French Bociety of Surgery. The dose of from ten to MAN.
should be possible to declare further When a Chinese was charged at the anesthetic, in a dividends amounting to another four Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. Han fifteen cubic centimetres, is injected in Sentence of six weeks' hard labour was annas in the rupee Resolutions were
a vein half an hour after a preliminary Magistracy yesterday, un a Chinese con legal proceedings to bring the guilty a Chinese constable stated in evidence been given: Long and complicated 29th of last month. victed of stabbing another man on the parties to justice and to recover from the that there were fifty ducks in one crate, operations can be performed under it is claimed; and directors and officers of the Bank ap. Eight were dead, and two others nearly this anesthetic,
it in rare that it is necessary V
proximately two crores of rupees lost doad. UNLICENSED: HAWKING. owing to their negligence, breach of duty Inspector W. R. Mac Walter, in the resort to the administration of a very and reckless investment, so that creditors witness box, said that one of the ducks slight amount of chloroform. The patient. A man charged before Mr. C. D. may be paid in full. The resolutions are bad its head protrading from the crate, remains fren, twenty-four to twenty-six state of coma," from which," Melbourne at the Central Magistracy, to be decided by a poll of shareholders so that when the latter was put on the hours in yesterday, with hawking toys without and creditors, voting separately, and it ground. ite whole weight would reet on however, it is possible to arouse him to
was announced as the meeting that molla the bird's head.
administer nourishment. The anesthetic licence, pleaded that he intended them for distribution children in church. would be taken next Monday, and Tues A fine of $10, or fourteen days' hard is not followed by sicknese, and is fate His Worship fined him 16.
labour in default, was imposal
to be entirely harmless in its netion, day.
to