THE KIANGWAN PLANE INCIDENT.
AN OFFICIAL BRITISH STATEMENT. CHINESE RETURN THE WINGS.........
GENERAL SUN DIRECTING NORTHERN OPERATIONS ON TIENTSIN-PUKOW RAILWAY.
KUOMINTANG NANKING MILITARY OFFICES BEING REMOVED TO SHANGHAI
HANKOW TROOPS ADVANCING TO
INTERCEPT THE NORTHERNERS.
"All's well that ends well" may be exclaimed now that the Chinese military authorities have returned the wings of the British aeroplane, which was forced to slight at Kiangwan.'..
Hankow troops, presumably those of the "Moderates," have now entered the arena against the North, whom they hope to engage on Aubwei territory and put a stop to their further progress southwards.
Meanwhile, there does not seem to be anything in the nature of a rapprochement between the Nanking and Hankow sections of the Kuomintang, though probably force of circumstances will soon effect a union.
*
Marshal Feng, it seems, calls for the return of Chiang Kai- Shek, but that doughty warrier still remains in his native Che. kiang town of Ningpo.
HANKOW TROOPS TO
INTERCEPT GEN." SUN'S.
(Wah T Tat Paa.)
SHANGHAI, August T8th. Seeing that the collapse of the Nanking Government would present
KUOMINTANG'S FOURTH GENERAL CONFERENCE.
(Wah Tax Yat Pao.):
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SHANGHAI, August 18th. The Central, Kuomintang, Haa- Kow, has issued a notice postponing the calling of the Fourth General Conference until the 15th proximo,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1927.
NEW YORK'S MAYOR ON HOLIDAY.
TO BE OFFICIALLY RECEIVED AT THE GUILDHALL,
[THXOUGH KELTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 15th. -Mayor Walker of New York, his wife and four friends have arrived on a two months' visit to Britain and the Continent.
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PACIFIC FLIGHT.
TWO PLANES MISSING.
U.S. WARSHIPS TO THE RESCUE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
SAN FRANCISCO, August 17th." The navy radio station reports that at o'clock this morning, Pacific time, the Woolaroo was 1,900 miles out, runcing satisfactorily.
The Mayor, will be given a civic reception at the Guildhall, London,
HONOLULU, August 17th. to-day. He is going to Dublin to
The Wuolaren has landed at morrow to visit his father's birth-Wheeler Field here,, and thus wins place.
the first Dole prise of G895,000
•
The Mayor was very popular aboard the as Berengaria and refereed three fights.
4
Second Prize Winner.
HONOLULU, Later. The Aloha has landed, and wins the second Dole prize, of G.$10,000,
The Woolaroo took 28 hours, 20 minutes. Many thousands had gathered, and there was wild en- thusiasm among them as they cheer- the aviators in the Foolaroo, whose arrival. was greeted with a salute of bombs bursting in the air.
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THE FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENT. ·
MUTUAL COMMERCIAL
BENEFITS."
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PAZIS, August 17th. The newly-signed. Franco-German commercial agreement, which comes into force on September 8th pro- vides for the reciprocal grant of de facto most-favoured-nation treat- ment for practically all exports. tor, was in naval; uniform. The exchange will be at the present Foolaroo started last from Oak French minimum tariff.
Germany grants France the tariff land. already established for the benefit of other Powera.
The agreement reserves the com plete liberty of the French Parlia Customs reform.
The pilot, Goebel, stepped out dressed in a lounge suit, with his linen spotless. Davis, his naviga-
Pilot's Wife Creates & Scene.
The
LATER.
AN IRISH POLITICAL
FARCE
WHY MR. JOHN JINKS STROLLED AWAY.
QUESTION OF HIS EXPULSION.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRITAIN'S VITAL STATISTICS.
FEWER DEATHS AND MORE BIRTHS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rusay, July 17th. The Registrar-General's return for the second quarter of the year shows that deaths in England and Wales totalled '107,600.
Doaçın, August 17th. The expulsion of Mr. Jiaks from Captain Redmond's National League preceding quarter, and 6,000 less This is 61,000 jess than in the party will probably be the next step than in the corresponding quarter in the Irish political drams.
He left the Dail before the divi-serious epidemics is a feature of the of last year. The absence of sion, and did not return, He stroll- ed about the city this morning, and reports of his kidnapping "dre un- founded.
Mr. Jinks told an interviewer that his constituents were opposed to a coalition, and had urged him to support the Government which was best for Ireland
THE LATE SIR GEORGE LEWIS.
NO EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE. [TAXOGOS REUTER'S AGENCY.)
MONTREUX, August 17th.
death of Sir George Lewis, the The report of the examining magistrate in the enquiry into the well-known London eclicitor, who was run over by a train here last week, discounts the ides of suicide. It says that Sir George Lewis
Mrs. Jensen, wife of the pilot of slipped when running to catch a
an opportunity to Sun Chuan Fans! during which time the conferencement to proceed with the projected the Aloha, broke through, the ranks i
If the Hankow Government does not resolve to be beforehand, three divisions and 114 regiments of Haa kow troops have been ordered to Advance towards
Anhui, Other Hankew troops are moving towards Chekiang.
of the military police and raced Goebel's side, narrowly escaping
will be held in Nanking should it
The status of individuals and come under the control of Hsakow.companies, and questions of sea and river navigation and of German The troops under the command vessels in French colonies and pro- the whirling propeller.
tectorates, will be settled on the basis of international law.
of Sun Chuan Faog now engaging the Southerners in the Northern Kiangsu area are reported to have advanced to Yincheng, some 250 General Chu Yu Pok has issued piles north of the Yangtze River. an order for a general attack upor General, Liu Tio Lung is ordered Feng Yu Hsiang's troops at the by the Hankow. Government to be Lunghai Bailway. He declares that removed to Naaku for temporary be is personally directing the opera-imprisonment. tions at the front..
The military offices of many of Mr. Pan Fu, Peking Prime alinis. the Kuomintang army corps have ter, says that the Peking Govern been removed to Shanghai irom ment has entrusted Sun Chuan Nanking, On the morning of the Fang with power to direct opera-17th inst. the 1st Kuomintang Army tions against the Southerners along in Nanking commandeered 120 cars the Ticatsin-Pukow Railway, while on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway in the direction of the Lunghai to transport themselves to Shang Railway, General Chu Ya Pók will hai. Other Southern forces from be responsible for the pushing back Soochow and Chinkiang continue to of Feng Yu Hsiang's troops upon pour into Shanghai. Southern Honan. With regard to the area of the Kin-Han Railway, the Fangtienese are being kept prepared but will not begin their attacks on Honan until further orders from the Ankuochun leaders.
MARSHAL FENG WANTS CHIANG.
(THEOCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
it
The agreement will, remain in force until April 1st, 1050, after either party which it may be terminated by 03 three months' notice.
treatment will not come into ope- Unrestricted most-favoured-nation ration until December, 1928
W
VALUE OF FLYING BOATS.
MAY COMPLETE SERVICE TO ÍNDIA
[BRITISH WIRELESS SEXVICE.]
RUGBY, August 17th
Force fiying boats now proceeding The cruise of the Royal Air in Northern Europe, and the com- ing cruise Southampton to Singapore, have of flying-boats from
of using these craft on the last directed attention to the possibility section of the Imperial Airways route to India.
At present the flights on section between Basar and Karachi Are-held-up pending ratification by the Persian Government of, an agreement permitting flights along the Persian coast.
the
She exclaimed: "God bless you; can't you tell me something about Martin? Is he still in the air? Where do you think he can be 1"
She threw her arms about the before Governor Farrington and the flier and kissed him several times prize giver, Mr, Dole, could reach
Dini
Jensen's Aloha took-Sa-hours, 16 minutes,
津
When her husband's "machine landed at Wheelerfield, Mrs. Jen sea was hysterical with joy. She collapsed and had be carried to the machine by army officers. Jen- sen exhausted, stiff and haggard, feebly waved his helmet to his wife and the sheering crowd.
faint, rushed, hugged and kissed Mrs. Jensen recovered from her her husband.
train and fell underneath.
THE LATE MR. ARMOUR.
'A REVELATION REGARDING
HIS ESTATE,
[RECTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE. Į
return, but 1.700 died from influenza during the quarter.
THE
'LEOPARDS" OF
LIBERIA
SECT, THAT STEALS AND KILLS CHILDREN,
ARMED WITH CLAWS."
PRESIDENT'S STORY OF, HOW THEY ARRIVED,
Cannibalism is not prevalent in my country," declared President King, of the "black" Republic of
month. " Liberia, who arrived'in London last
4 *
"Somewhere about 20 years ago (he continued) the Sierra Leone," British Government broke the back of the Leopards a native
Birth during the same period secret society that practised child 1,000 more than in the preceding and the surviving dichards of the numbered 171,000 which is nearly cannibalian and child sacrifice,
of the second quarter of last year, quarter, but 10,000 below the total movement fled, unfortunately, into
our territory.
..
MAN WHO WORKS TOO QUICKLY.
450 EMPLOYEES STRIKE,
UNION ATTEMPT TO LIMIT OUTPUT.
manufacturers of gas stores, Aston, employees of John Wright and Co., Four hundred and fifty of the
Birmingham, are on strike because an employee persisted in earning more than the amount allowed under the rules of the Iron Found- ing Workers Association.
One of the rales declares that no dan shall earn more than 23a, 8d: a day, or £5 178, 5d. for a five- days week.
The employers state that the strikers are not willing to resume work unless the company will permit the victimisation of the man who has been the cause of the trouble. In any case, it is understood that CHICAGO, August 17th
they would refuse to handle the Commenting on Mr. Ogden Ar-man's output after it had reached says that although he was rated no employers federation, takes the mour's death, the Herald-Examiner the limit laid down.
The company, supported by the the world's second richest man, view that the uaton has right his estate is estimated at only G.820,000.
to impose a limit on caining, and
"He was a financial casualty of they refuse to compromise with a like a brave soldier. At the peakman making as much money as he the war, and took, kis punishment position which docs not allow of a of his reverses, he lost 0.81,000,000 a day for 130 days."
OBITUARY.
BRITISH - PAINTER'S TRAGIC DEATH.
G
can.
"From that moment we hara borne an unjust reputation.
"The Leopards," said the Prezi- dent, "were a religious sect which, on certain feast days, clothed them- selves in leopard skins, and, armed with huge claws, crawled into the nearest towns to seize
any mall boy or girl (boy for, preference) they could get hold of. The u fortunate children were then taken to the bush and sacrificed while palm today. the leopardi" danced and drank
done much to stamp out these hor "In the last few years we have rible excesses, and last year only Liberia was first colonised_in two cases came to light.'
ginia, Georgia and Baltimors were 1999, when 80 negroes from Vir taken to the African continent by
American colonising society. These settlers, dissatisfied with Sierra Leone, left and found a new home at a place which they named Montavia. They spent 20 turbu- lent years, but with all their vicia- "situdes throve and prospered
The Americans who ruled them withdrew in 1848., and the people declared their independence 1947.
in
elected for the third time in suc
President King has just been re- ccasion.
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE EXPENDITURE.
In the House of Commons last month Mr. Stephen asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total amount so far expended in con- nection with the Singapore naval base?
Mr. Alexander Ramsay, chairman of the management board of the Engineering Employers' Association, said he had never, in bis 35 years" experience of industrial negotiation, known a strike so little justified.
Sheer Marit, Employers, he said, were always The Parliamentary Secretary to being challenged about low wages the Admiralty (Lieut. Col. Head- and confronted with American lam): The total expenditure up to standards, and yet here was a case the 30th June is about £480,000. where the workers, sought to limit where piece work was involved, and
been earned by sheer merit and the earnings. The man's wages had
willing to take over his job on the other men in the shop would be un-
same conditions.
REOPENING OF ROSYTH BASE.
Searching For Missing 'Planes.
(TAROVON ZEUTZE'M AGENCY.]
alarmed at the fate of the Gulden The Naval Authorities are DOW
LONDON, August 17th Eagle and the Miss Doran, which was found shot in his studio in The artist, Mr. Caton Woodville, are believed to be down owing to St. John's Wood,, and died while lack of fuel. They have ordered en route for hospital 110 intensive search, in which Naval seaplanes will be most active, and west best known as a painter of Mr. Richard Caton Woodville, a warning has been broadcast to battle-scenes and made a name for all ships between San Francisco himself many years ago, but latterly and the Hawaiian Islands to keep was little known. He was born in
One of the men told a reporter TO CONCENTRATE RESERVE that the man's output was simply a sharp lookout for floating planes. London in 1930 of Anglo-American due to abnormal brawn and staying U.S. Warships Speedy Work, parentage, his father being also an power, and the union did not wish
artist. Deceased studied in Ger
a high-pressure standard to be
Egyptian War of 1889 and the many. He went through a number established. of military campaigns, such as the Turkish War of 1878, as well as the Albanian and other Balkan wars,
The value of flying boats in Im- perial communications is generally "..recognised, and the Times suggests that two large passenger all-metal SHANGHAI, August 17th boats now being built for the Air
SAN DIEGO, August 18th. THE WUHAN GOVERNMENT. Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, from Ministry might be used on the companied by an aircraft-tender, The aircraft carrier Langley, ac Basra-Karachi section to complete, Chengchow, has issued a circular without delay, the Egypt-India are going full speed to the far GOVERNORS OF KWANGTUNG telegram through General Li Lich service. In view of the 10 per Golden Eagle and the Afis Doran and had several foreign decorations.
Allone Islands in search of the cent. reliability of the Cairo-Basra Chun, who is chairman of the first section, and the increasing volume Admiral Jackson is aboard the
His first exhibition at the Academy conference of the new Government is justified that the commercial com- stroyers Hull, Summer, Meyer, for the Queen in Windsor Castle.
of mail letters carried, the belief destroyer Macdonough.
was in 1979, and after that he ex The de. hibited every year. He didmuch work. of Nanking, asking Marshal Chiangmanities will use it freely when Lavallette, and Hazelwood are also He published Random Recollec through service is established. searching for the missing aero-tions fourteen years ago and wrote
planea.
many articles for the press on travel and sport.
AND KWANGSI OFFER' TO CO-OPERATE.
ITALOUGH HAUTER'S AGENCT. į
SHANGHAI, August 17th. General Li Tsai Hain, the Gover nor of Kwangtung, and General Huang Shao Hung, the Governor of Kwangri, have agreed to re- cognise the Wuhan, Government and have offered to co-operate with Wu-han and Nanking against the
North.
Kai Shek to return to his post of Generalissimo. "
Trade Prospects On The Yangisze,
Representatives of commercial concerns with interests-in Yangtze ports, in company with British officials, are proceeding slowly to Ichang, Chungking and other cen- tres up-river, to enquire into condi tions prevailing in those localities.
BLINDING SHIPS FROM THE AIR.
SUCCESSFUL U.S. ARMY EXPERIMENT.
[BEUTER'S AMERIČAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, August. 17th. France were approaching New York *Passengers on the liner le de
and watching an army bombing plane swooping down, when they were astonished to see a smoko screen which completely "enveloped
QUESTION OF THE CHRIS-DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRA-the liner.
TIAN MINISTRY.
KNOTTY POINT BEING DIS-
CUSSED AT LAUSANNE
(THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.}
LAVEANSE, August 18th.
The World Ecclesiastical Confer- ence on Faith and Order is finding the question of the Christian Minis- try.very dificult
TION IN THE ALPES MARITIMES.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE."
(THROUGE REUTER'8> AGENCY.]
PARIS, August 18th. “ Twenty thousand acres of forest
It was later larned that this was as experiment by the United States army chemical warfare service, to demonstrate the feasibility of blind ing ships from the air in an attack.
In "Network" Formation..
HONOLULU, August 18th Admiral McDonald ordered the warships Holland, Ortolan, Sun- nadia and thirteen submariner to proceed eastward in network formation to search for the miss ing planes..
CHINESE IN JAVA.
ATTEMPT TO FORM ANTI- JAPANESE- BOYCOTT,
SCHOOL AGE IN ENGLAND:
GOVERNMENT NOT PREPAR
SPEECH RESTORED BY NICHTMARE.
EX-SOLDIER'S REMARKABLE
EXPERIENCE. ..
An ex-soldier's vivid nightmare, in which he dreamed that he was being bayoneted, has been the means of restoring his voice, which he lost ten years ago when gassed at Passchendaele.
He is Mr. Ernest William Den- nett, of Kingston-terrace, Wood- bridge, Sussex, once a private in the R.A.M.C. and now a boot maker,
DESTROYERS.
LONDON, July 9th. The Admiralty is reported to be considering the re-opening of Rosyth which was closed down in 1926 in the interests of economy, as & base for reserve destroyers which are at present concentrated in the Nore, at Devonport and at Portsmouth.
TYPHOID IN ENGLAND. DUTCH LETTUCES INFECT 25.
-PEOPLE.
Twenty-five people living within radius of from 12 to 15 miles of Maidstone, Kent, have contracted of para-typhoid-s mild form typhoid fever from Dutch lettuces.
Dr. A. Greenwood, the county medical officer, traced the infection to a consignment of lettuces from Holland He has asked all the medical officers in the county to see if any greengrocers in their districts are selling lettuces from
The astonishing thing to me,
" is that
ED TO RAISE. IT.
I was in the trenches in Octo Lord Eustace Percy, President of ber 1917, when I was badly gassed, the Board of Education, when losing both my voice and sight," naked in Parliament to define the he said to press representative. Holland." Government's policy in reference to "The blindness lasted only s the school-leaving age, said it re- month, but my voice never return- said Dr. Greenwood, mained the same as that which they ed, and until the miracle happen had followed since they had been ed a few days ago I could only in office.
whisper feebly.
Reallam.
people in Kent should be eat- ing lettuces from. Holland. I have so many in my garden that I could afford to give them away.".
BATAVIA, August 13th.
They had made it clear in various An attempt to boycott Japanese goods has started here, emanating statements during the first session of this Parliament that they would from the Kuomintang.
I went last Saturday week to Threatening letters have been consider on its merits any proposals see a film called Siberia, which sent stamped Patriotic League made by a local educational an- depicted scenes in the Russian re- MALAYA'S OPIUM REVENUE. SEAPLANE RECORDS. stating that Japanese troops have thority to raise the school-leaving valution. It was terribly realistic,
been landed in Shantung, violating the authorities by the Education dreadful-looking man rushing to State for the Colonies what the age under the powers conferred on and I dreamed about it that night. In the House of Commons, Mr. CLAIMED BY U.S. AIRMAN.
I remember in the dream a Campbell asked the Secretary of the sovereign rights of China, as a result of which a most rigid boy-
Act.
The Government
wards me with rifle and bayonet, portion of the revenues of the [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
"saw no reason oott has been proclaimed in the to depart from that, especially as I was terrified and felt the pain Straits Settlements, mother country, den 17
Federated?: SAN D1200, August 17th,
The mesange adds Your will the Consultative Committee of the as the cold steel went through me. Malay States, North Borneo, and
Board and the Association of. I woke to find
d my...
mother in the Brunei, respectively, was derived matter reported on and emphasised have been destroyed by fires fol: The Federation Aeronstique In agree that our duty as patriots and pducation Committees had express-room.
ternationale and the National brothers is to support the mothered the opinion that focal authori
directly or indirectly from opium the urgent need of measures to lowing a prolonged drought in the Aeronatic Association will be naked country. Should you prefer...perties could not provide accommods And then I spoke and heard my are available?
She said, You shouted Ohl in the last year for which figures ensure recognition of the common Alpes Maritimes of Var. Several to award the duration and long: interest you will be punished. tion for the proper education of voice for the first time since I was
sonal profit to the mother country's form of ministry by all sections of farms stock have been incinerated, 10 class to Lieutenant Consell hope you take the warning to 1932-3
Mr. Amery: The latest distance records of seaplanes of the
year for the Church The inability of the
children-between-14 and 15 before gassed.
which I have complete information delegates of the Eastern Orthodox herds of cattle roasted alive, and Rodd, who completed 2,525.313 kilo- heart."
"It is wonderful to be able to as to the proportion to the total Churches to accept any form of telegraphic and telephonic com
speak again, and will help me to revenue of the net revenue derived ordination not based on the uninter munications have broken down seconds, beating the records of the been arrested and will probably be existing circumstances to impose bear with greater cheerfulness the directly or indirectly from opium, rupted apostolic succession was one Ten million francs damage is German avistos Firts Loose by six expelled, Two distributors of let on the country the additional fm other disabilities which were caus- in 1925 The figures are as follows: of the principal obstacles to agree estimated to have occurred since hours in time and 923 kilometres into have absconded-Straits tailed by a general raising of the
ancial burden which would be en- ed when I was gassed.”” ma
Straits Bettlements 37.06 per Monday.
Mr. Dennett hopes shortly to be sent.; Federated Malay States 13.4; married.
North Borneo 24.44 Brunei 20.8.
A committee dealing with the
meat.
metres in 20 hours, 45 minutes, 40 Foar Chinaborn agitators have They were not prepared under
'distance.
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