NEW CONSTITUTION FOR THE REPUBLIC.
FIFTH PLENARY SESSION IN DIFFICULTIES.
JAPANESE TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM TIENTSIN.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN CHINA.
The question of China's wireless communication has been the subject of a resolution by the Committee on the Systematication and Regulation of Communications Contracta. In accordance with two agreements made by the defunct Peking administration, Sa virtual monopoly in wireless communication in China was granted to Japan and to an American Radio Corporation. The reasons put forward for the nullification of these agreements are, among“ othere, that the contracte, entered into by the Peking regime never received the necessary sanction, and that the contracting parties have taken no action si`a result of the agreement. The American- company has done nothing, while the station erected by Japan is useless.
The Fifth Plenary Session has been advised to take immediate steps to form a committee, to draft a provisional constitution for the Republic of China. This will be submitted to the Third National Congress of Kuomintang delegates. It is recommended. that the constitution shall contain définitions of the rights of the people, the organisation -óf the Central Government, relations between Central and local Governments and the powers of the Jatter, and the relationship between the Party and the Government.
The Fifth Plenary Session is still faced with great difficulties Towing to the refusal of the right wing leaders to attend. Though Marshal Li Ti Esin is still at Tangshan, his representative has held a secret conference with Chiang Kai Shek and others which is reported to have an important bearing on the future of the Session.
ק יד
CHINA'S CONSTITUTION.
(THROGON REUTER'S AQEEGY.)
NANKING, Aug: 14th. The Law Codification Bureau has recommended to the Fifth Plenary Session the immediate formation of a committee to drakt a provi- sional constitution for the Republic of China for eubmission to the Third National Congress of Koo. mintang Delegates.
The Bureau proposes:-
NOT UNSATISFACTORY.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}
LONDON, August 14th. The Daily Telegraph expresses the view, that the Sino-British settlement of the Nanking Incident is not unsatisfactory, and says the way is now open for the renewal of normal relations between the. British and the Chinese Nationalia Government.
FRANCE READY.
(Wah Ts Fat Pao)..
1. That the Fifth Plenary Seesion appoint a number of its members, together with several legal experts, to form a drafting committee for a provisional con-
SHANGHAI, Aug. 14th, stitution of the Republic of China,"
A report from diplomatie sources responsible for the formulation states that France will shortly within a specified period of a pro- open negotiations with the Nation visional constitution for the Realist Government for the settlement public.
of the Nanking incident.
WIRELESS COMMUNICA-
2. That the provisional constitu tion shall contain a definition of the rights and obligations of the people, a definition of the regulation of the organisation of the Central Govern ment, a definition of the regulation
of the relationship between the
Central and local governments
TION.
[TUROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.}
NANKING, Aug. 14th.. The Committee on the System-
the
THE HONG KONG
YANGTSZE RIVER DISASTER.
STEAMER SINKS WITH ALL, HANDS,
DAILY PRESS.
SEVERAL HUNDRED LOST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] »
HANKOW Aug. 14th.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1928.
LATVIAN MATCH MONOPOLY.
ALLEGED SWEDISH
ATTEMPTS.
A FORGED LETTER.
(THROTOH XEUTER'S AGENCY.]
“Rīga, (Aug.` 14th.
imminent
It is reported from up river that Several arrests the Chinese steamer Haiheutung arising from the newspaper pub- on her way to Ichang from Chung-lication of a facsimile of a letter, king struck a rock in the rapids alleged to have been written by and sank with all aboard.
the Swedish Match Company to its There are no details, but it is
representative here, in which' a believed that several hundred lives
payment of £10,000 to the Minister have been lost.
of Finance and a local solicitor is mentioned in sú connection - with efforts to obtaíá a monopoly in
FRANCE'S REVENUE. Latvia.
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK,
[THROUGH LETTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Aug. 14th.
The revenue returns for July totalled Fos. 4,200,000,000, showing an increase of Fes. 373,000,000 on budget forecasts.
For the first seven months the revenue totalled Fer. 23,327,000,000, showing
excess of Fcs. 1.672,000,000 on forecasts aid ol
ал
The police are actively searching for the original from which the
facsimile was taken., kol
It is admitted that the letter heading and the signature of the Director at the foot are genuine, but the text is only pasted on the paper and is found to be a forgery, The newspaper which published the document represents the opposi tion which is campaigning against the proposed monopoly..
Fer. 916,000,000 on the same period DERELICT PLANE IN of last year.
A MISTAKEN. REPORT.
ICE DAM STILL HOLDING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]]
SIMIA, Aug. 14th.
The Punjab Government states that the ice dam at Shayok has not burst.
B
It explains that the report pub- lished yesterday was based on fire seen in the neighbourhood which was mistaken for one of the beacons which was to signal the Bursting of the dam.
ATLANTIC.
WRECKAGE SIGHTED BY
VESSEL,
FRUITLESS SALVAGE
ATTEMPTS.
[THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.]
LONDON'S PERIL FROM THE AIR,
BOMBERS PENETRATE
DEFENCES.
THRILLING NIGHT
ATTACKS.
(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCT.].
LONDON, August 14th." "Seventy bombing aeroplanes attacked London. Seventy-two single-seater fighters were sent up to engage. them, and the heaviest fighting followed, but it is not yet possible to assess the casualties Some of the bombers succeeded in reaching London
SPEEDING UP THE MAILS.
EXPERIMENT ON 'ATLANTIC.
'PLANE CATAPULTED FROM LINER.
-LARITER BAMBRICAN : BERVICE L
New Yoax, August 13th. The Transatlantic mail-arrived in
New York twenty-four hours earlier than usual to-day, as the result of the successful inauguration of the sea and air delivery service.
POLICE METHODS ENQUIRY.
ROYAL COMMISSION APPOINTED.
OUTCOME OF SAVINGE
CASE:
LONDON, Aug. 13th. “As promised" by Sir William Jaynson-Hicks, the Home Secre tary, following the declosures in the sensational Byde Park case in which Sir Leo Chiozza Honey and
The mailbags were placed on a Miss Irene Savidge were involved, seaplane on board the French limera Royal Commission has been set Ile de France at Havre.
up to enquire into Police methods.
At one o'clock this afternoon while the liner was still 450 miles from the American coast, the sen- plane was catapulted from the decks
The personnel is a follows:- Viscount Les of Fareham, who was chairman of the Committee on Police Pay and Pensions, în 1925.
Sir Reginald Lane-Poole, the well-known historian, who Was
this year;
A terse official communiqué this summarises the first (daylight)- phase of the London air mancën
res, which are to last through and alighted in New York at 5.18 knighted on the King's Birthday
p.m. this evening.
from now on.
the week, in the form of day and. night operations.
A similar service will be main- Only two out ten daylight bomb-tained on both sides of the Atlantic ing raids on London yesterday by the "Eastland? enemy forces were successful, the raiders "bombing" the petrol depot at Beckton, Essex, and the stores depot at Kidbrooke.
Havoc In Richmond Park The raiders at night tim, how. over, succeeded theoretically is causing havoc in Richmond Park
Reuters special correspondent, who flew in the leading machine of the enemy squadron, reports that they crossed the coast at Shoreham ay 9.30 in the evening at an altitude of 9,000 feet and travelling at a speed of 110 miles an hour."
They were picked out by search light as they passed the ring of London's defences, but did not en counter any defending plazes,
They descended to 1,000 feet over A report has been received from the Park, and released a hail of *** bombs," after which they return- the British & Seapool on the red safely to the base in Hampshire. rival of the vessel at St. John's, Newfoundland that "while steaming for St. John's on Sunday night, some 600 miles to the north-east of St. John's, an aeroplane was spot-
LONDON, August 14th.
BOARD OF TRADE FIGURES. ted from the bridge.
THIS YEAR AND LAST.
[BRITISH
WIRELESS SERVICE?
Reay, August 13th. British exports for July amount-
(outlining the powers, functions atisation and Regulation of Com and organisation of local governmunications Contracts "of ments), and a definition of the National Communications Confered to £60,885,000, being an increase regulation of the relationship be-ente has passed a resolution call- of £1,412,000 compared with the tween Party and Government. ⠀
ing for the aullification of the
3. That the final form of the Japanese. wireless agreement with drait ehall be decided by the Fifth Plenary Session, and be submitted Chine of 1908, signed by the late
- after
Nationalist. Government,
previous month and an increase of £4,763,000 compared with July last
year.
In the first seven months of this
to the Third National Congress for Peking Naval Ministry and the approval and adoption, and there-Suzuki Company, and a similar
alitt promulgated by the contract signed between the late year, exports have increased by over Peking Ministry of Communications £7,500,000 compared with the same and the Federal Radio Corpora period of 1927. tion of California, which practically granted monopolist rights to Japan and America in the field of wire less telegraphy in China.
TROUBLES OF PLENARY SESSION.
A
The imports for July amounted to £85,488,000, showing a decline of £3,901,000 compared with Junë.
For the seven months of this year
The resolution points out that the the imports show a decrease of above-mentioned contracts never received
Moreover,
CON-
year.
JAPANESE TROOPS
(Wah To Tui Pao).
SHANGHAI, Aug. 14th... The Plenary Session is still fac- ing the dificulty of overcoming the recent split. Chang Ching Kiang,
the necessary sanction nearly £10,000,000 compared with Li Shib Cheng, Wu Chie Fei and from Parliament and were entered the corresponding period of fast. other moderate Executive members into between the Peking regime have not followed Marshal Chiang and the companies concerned in Kai Shek to Nanking, while defiance of public opinion. General Li Chung Jen, of the
the resolution Kwangsi Clique, is staying in Shanghai on the excuse that he is tinues, the existence of such an suffering from eye disease.
understanding is contrary to the Marthal Li Tsai Hain is still spirit and letter of the Nine-Power staying at Tangshan" although his Treaty signed in Washington in right hand man, Mr. Tai Chi Tao, 1922, which both America has returned to Nanking, and in Japan were signatories. reported to have had a secret con- Finally the resolution states that ference with Marshal Chiang Kai despite the lapse of about ten Shek, Tan Yen Kai, Yu Yiu Jen years, nothing has been done by and others in Nanking yesterday the American contracting party, afternoon. The result is not known, while, in the case of Japan, though obtained for the withdrawal of five but it is expected to have some the station has been completed, it important bearing on the future of has proved valueless for interna companies of infantry from Tien the Plenary Seesion.
FALSE REPORT.
--{THROUGH HIUTER'1-ADENCY,}------
SHANGHAI, Aug. 14th. Chang Ching Kiang and Li Shih Cheng did not accompany Chiang Kai Shek to Nanking this morning, as reported earlier.
LEGISLATIVE INSTITUTION.
(Fal Tu Fat Pao.)
tional communications.
and
YEN HSI SHAN'S ILLNESS.
(Wah-Tri Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI. Aug. 14th Marshal Yen Hai Shan's condition is considerably improved.
"CHANG TSUNG CHANG,
(Fah Tsi Yat Pao).
SHANGHAI. Aug. 14th.
A message from Tientsin states
WITHDRAWN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
TOKYO, Aug. 14th. The Imperial sanction has been
täin.
It is expected that the with drawal of the Sixth Division from Shantung will be ordered
5/80 shortly, as otherwise it will be necessary to organise winter quar- ters."
LOAN FOR MANCHURIA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, Aug. 14th It is understood that the Finance Department, through the South
The machine was floating with one wing and a large portion of the fuselage awash." Efforts to salvage the plane failed owing to the dark-
neas.
THE RETURN_ELIGHT...
MURDOCH SETS OUT.
[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1
CAPETOWN, Aug. 14th, Capt. Murdoch has started on his
ight to England.
return.
GERMAN FLYING ENTER- PRISE.
EUROPE TO FAR EAST.
OVERLAND AIR ROUTE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Moscow, August 13th.
In order to demonstrate that possibilities of an overlandair route between Europe and the Far Eust, the Soviet Government has accepted the offer of the German aviation firm, Lufthansa, to make two lights from Moscow to Irkutsk and back.
The German firm will co-operate with the Russian Dobrolet air ses vice, which is already operating over a part of the route.
REVOLUTION IN MINIA.
~TURE--
QUARREL OF TWO DIAMOND DIGGERS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 13th.
The Brazilian Legation has issued
NATIONALISTS IN INDIA.
NEW CONSTITUTION DRAFTED."
FULL DOMINION STATUS.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, August 14th. A demand for Domizion status in the fullest degree is being made by the Indian Nationalists, a group of politicians headed by Motilal Nehru, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and
Sir Howard Frank, the head of Knight, Frank and Rutley, pre- the famous auctioneering frm of
vious Director-General of Laads for the War Office;
Dame Meriel Talbot, the Intel- ligence Officer of the Overseas Settlement Department; **Lord...... Ebbisham, formerly Six Rowland Blades, who Was Lord Mayor of London in 1896-97
Mr. J. T. Brownlie, the Presi dent of the Amalgamated Engineer- ing Union;
Mr. Frank Pick, the Administra |tive Chief of the London: Under-
ground Railways group; and
Miss Margaret Bevan, who is the present Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
The Commission will consider inter alia, the practice followed
by the Police in interrogating or taking statements from persons interviewed during investigations of the Director of Public Prosecu of crime, and also the functions
tions
Bir Ali Imam having drafted a POLICE BESIEGE CONVICT. Constitution on behalf of the Swa-.
SHOTS AT FORMER WIFE. jarists:
JEALOUSY AT HER ENGAGEMENT.
The scheme has been submitted to Hitherto the Eastland forces have the President of the National Cen- suffered six casualties, the defend- two of their machines and another ing aircraft have brought downgrees. bas been forced to land undamaged.
נד
HARVESTERS FOR CAÑADA.
4.500 ALREADY ON THE WAY.
BERLIN, July 25th. A battle between Albert Flattau, an escaped criminal, and a body of police raged for two hours this in Monbit, a working-class suburb morning in the courtyard of a house of Berlin.
The Constitution drawn up de- mands inter alia the grant of Domision status to India; the transference of political power from England to the people of India, and the establishment of a Flattan had escaped from the prison at Brendenburg, where he two-Chamber Parliament with
was serving a sentence for robbery - supreme authority.
and for firing at a policeman who Among other proposals is a re-breaking into a jeweller's shop.
sarprised him and his gang while
quest that the Governor-General. The Ministry of Labour anand the various Provincial Gover nounces that the Canadian Governors should be given the same status ment authorities have now accepted
QUICK WORK.
[DZITISH WIRELESY' SERVICE. )
RUGBY, August 13th.
10,000 men under the scheme where- and privileges as the other British by that number of unemployed was | Dominions. ta de assisted to go to Canada for harvest work.
No fewer than 4,500 men have al ready sailed for Canada. This re-
The document also suggests the establishment of an Indian Defence
After escaping, Flattan came to the home of his wife, who had divorced him when he was sent to prison, and begged her to shelter him. There he found a workman. from the United States, Martin Voc Halden, to whom Frau Flattau became engaged two months ago.
At 3 o'clock this morning he re..." turned; and when Frau Flatten
salt has been achieved in the short Committee to assume control of the opened the door cried," You have space of a week by the close co-fighting services. operation of the Canadian author- ities, the steamship companies and their agents, and the Employment Exchanges.
-MOROCCAN COAL FIELD
DISCOVERED.
IMPORTANT FIND.
TRANS-SAHARA RAILWAY.
·(TEBOEGH, KKOTER'S AGENOT.)
Casablanca, August 14th, Important coal deposits have been discovered to the south of Ondida, The field has been prospected and is estimated to cover about 1,17% square miles, with a stratum 4 feet thick at shallow depth”.
The discovery is most important in view of the proposed construc- tion of the trans-Sahara Railway.
Large quantities of manganese. have also been found between Taza and Oudjda.
MOURNING RADITCH'S
DEATH.
COMMUNISTS TAKE ADVANTAGE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]
VIENNA, August 13th.
It is reported from Belgrade that
HARROW BOYS AS ENGINEERS.
betrayed me!" and fired a shot at ber. It missed sad as she -ded shrieking with her child in her arms be fired again and again without effect.
'Shot 11 Times,
Von Halden'rushed out of his room and was met by Flattau, who
MÄKING OWN MACHINES IN shot him eleven times. Frau
THE SCHOOL.
Flattau gave a quantity of her blood for transfusion, but no hope is enter- tained of Von Halden's recovery. Harrow School is shortly to be
A man who rushed from another come self-supporting in everything fist to try to overpower Flattau was mechanical. When the addition of also shot down and is in hospital. a-foundry and a testing shop to the existing workshops has been completed, it will be possible to make anything from & pin to a 5hp engine.
The improvements will cost about £2,300 and are the result of a grow ing interest taken in all branches of engineering.
When the police arrived Flattan fired a volley at them and rushed and attempted to enter by a win up a narrow staircase of the house down
Flattau's shots forced them to abandon the attempt: Flattan took
sbelter in an attic and erected, a barricade of boxes and furniture, from behind which he kept up a constant fre at the police.
They were forced to climb to the roof to carry on the siege. After two hours Flattan cried that he would stop firing. He was exhaust ed from wounds he had received and was arrested.
More than 50 boys are now work ing in the shops. They are able to learn electrical and steam en gineering, as well as carpentry and PRINCE CAROL IN BELGIUM.
woodwork. The work is mainly voluntary, though some of it is done in school hours.MAT
BRUSSELS, July 20th...
* This morning in the Roman It will soon be possible for the Catholic chapel attached to the boys to make complete engines up Hotel d'Ardenne, Houyet, where to 5-h.p.," said an instructor to he is staying, Princo Carol of Daily Mail reporter. Hitherto Rumania caused a special Mass" to we have not been able to make the be celebrated in memory of his Actual castings themselves. The father, to-day being the first an- ... boys often take the engines they niversary of King Ferdinand's
SHANGHAI, Aug. 14th, that General Chang Tsung Chang Manchuria Railway, is considering statement regarding the report the Jugo-Blavian Parliament has make home and use them for pump-death. There was no Ramanian, Nationalist Government will be tive to Peking to approach General yen on the domestic market, after Mattogrosso, in which the Minister ratification of the Nettuno Conven small workshops and for similar service according to the rites of the authorised by the Plenary Session Pei Chung Hai regarding appro the situation in Manchuria has been states that the stories are without to form a Legislative Lastitation priate terms for his surrender to stabilised. The Department intends which will correspond to palia the Nationalisto Ho-promises that to advance the proceeds of this ment. Mr. Hu Hao Min has been he will By the Nationalist flag iflash-to-the Mukden Government nominated to the presidency of the he is allowed to station. his troops for industrial and railway develop institution
in the north-eastern part of Chihli.ment.
foundation.
A message from Zagreb states tions with. Italy. that the Police has arrested a num The Minlater adds that jiber of Communist nevets Who will possible that a personal dispute be be charged with taking advantage tween two diamond diggers has been of national sorrow to promote un exaggerated.
| rést.
purposes.!
Orthodox Church. They will certainly be in a In addition to the Prince, who position to produce engines useful was greatly affected during the Harrow Boblbny where service, here were presen; Ame elee, but as they are their own they Lupescu, M. and Mms. Jonesco, will probably prefer to take them and 18 other persons, home.'
Rumanians, d
mostly