CHINESE FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND.
AN EARLY MISHAPË
NEARLY CRASHES ON CLIFFS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March,” End.”
The Chinese airman, Wen Lin
Chen, accompanied, by a Danish colleague, started from Croydon on a fight to China on one of four teen Cirrus Avian aeroplanes or dered by China to train Chinese to fly at the new school at Nanking. He intended to y vid Berlin, Constantinople, Irak and India.
He was, however, nearly forced down in the sea soon after he started his fight to China. The engine misbehaved in mid-Channel so the pilot decided to turn back to Dover, He was rapidly losing height and cleared the cliffs by only thirty feet, but managed to land - safely just inland. Valuckily a
* gust of wind tipped the machine on to its nose, damaging the pro- pellar."
LIU'S PRICE.
[THROUGH, BETTER'S ADENCY.]
༴། ༔ PEPING, March 1st.
From a very reliable source it is learned that the present cessation of hostilities in the vicinity Chefoo ia due to negotiations be tween Generals Chang Tsung Chang
and Liu Chen Nien.
of
-
General Liu Chen Nien asked for half a million dollars to turn over to General Chang Tsung Chang, who offered $100,000, after which a truce for five days was declared for negotiations, the result of which is not yet known.
REVOLT IN PEPING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEFING, March 1st. The west section of Peping was panic-stricken this morning when a regiment of Northern troops sud- denly revolted.
At dawn twenty plain-clothed gunmen decorted the Shansi guards in the vicinity of the well-known Lama Temple, disarmed them, and fired shots in the air, whereupon the disaffected regiment billeted in the temple manned the walls and commenced a furicus fusillade on
the street.
P. & O. VESSEL ON FIRE.
OUTBREAK ON "MIRZAPORE."
LONG FIGHT WITH THE FLAMES.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, March 3rd.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 4th, 1929.
FORGED MILITARY | THE BENEFITS OF MURDER IN COURT MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S
AGREEMENT.
PERPETRATOR, ARRESTED,
A FULL CONFESSION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BOGNOR.
KING'S INCREASING: STRENGTH.
SLOW RECOVERY.
(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
..
BLESS, March 3rd. The newspaper Nation Belge de
LONDON, March 2nd clares that the alleged Franco- "A bulletin signed, by Lord Daw. Fire broke out this morning in Belgian scoret agreement, publish son and Sir Stanley Hewett states the hold of the P. & O. 8.8. Mired in the Utrechtse Dagbind was that the King in the past fortnight zapore, which arrived from. India forged by a well-known Flemish has made satisfactory progress, on March 1st with a cargo of activist employed by the German His weight and strength have in cotton
secret service. The German Authori- creased and his sleep has been re- ties were not aware of the forgery.
freshing His Majesty is now able The activist, who was born In for the text of the 1990 Convention, basiness over short periods. Belgium, was offered 100,000 marks to read and apply his mind to and proceeded to forge it when he
The fire brigade after six and a balf hours controlled the fire, but it is believed that it will require twenty-four hours before it is com pletely extinguished..
wwwwwwww..co
was able to procure
The
document came to be offered to the Utrechtse Dagblad, which published The cause of the outbreak is uit in good faith. known and the damage cannot yet
General Gallet, chief of the Bal be ascertained. ·
gian General Staff, whose name figures argely in
the alleged minutes, has repudiated them as a forgery while General Deberiey, who is alleged to have signed the minutes on behalf of France, says that the only time he has been in Belgium was in 1923, two years before the alleged conference.
DIFFICULT POSITION IN HANKOW.
[RAVAL" WIRELE88.)
February 28th Rumours are prevalent at Han- kow that an attack on Haskow is impending, but it is not clear whether this is to be an endeavour by Nanking to bring the Wahan authorities into line with the Cen. tral Government (following the recent attacks and capture of Changsha) or merely a change of
local commanders.
The Anti-Japanese Boycott situa- tion appears to be getting more serious and the Japanese police were again obliged on Thursday te are owing to the aggressiveness of the Chinese pickets.
The wine stocks seized from the Hankow Race Club about three months ago have not yet been re- turned, in spite of Nanking's orders that they should be, and the condi- tions of return put forward by the Tax Bureau are such as to make it impossible to accept them.
SHIPS COMMANDEERED.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, March 3rd. The Sunday Timer publishes a report to the effect that ten vessels, among them four belonging to the China Merchants, have been com mandeered by the Chinese author?
Official Dezial,
RECALLED.
INSANE ASSASSIN RUNS “AMUCK,
-AVENGER OF CENABEG.
{THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCE.]"
SCHEMES.
SCORNFUL CRITICISM.
"WELSH WIZARD'S NEW.
·TRICK."
(THROUGH KIUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, March 2nd.
Telegrams in Brief.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, still showing signs of his recent chill, has departed for Paria en.. route to Geneva to attend the Council of the League of Nations.
The New York Times learns that
President Coolidge took emotional farewell of his Cabinet. - I minded my own business.” was BELGRADE, March and.
the only comment of the President Vuciterna, the Albanian assassin
Mr. Lloyd George's scheme to re-when interviewed on his record of of Agividi Bebi during the latter's duce unemployment in a single year national economy and prosperity. trial, who was released on medical has been hailed by the Liberal evidence of insanity, to-day ran newspapers da evidencing the Mr. Arthur Hyde, ex-Governor of inspector of the Ministry of the national influence, but the Conser Missouri, will be Mr. Hoover's amack at Skoplje and killed an ival of the ex-Premier's dynamic Interior and wounded one civilian,vatives and Labour supporters are Secretary for Agriculture. and three soldiers.
most scornful. During the trial of Bebi, a 23 year old Abanian student, who a year ago shot dead in a hotel the Albanian Minister Conabeg. Vuci terns fired seven shots in court and ease, accends The assailant killed the ated minister's brother, was arrest
It is recalled, however, that one of the most anxious features of the illness was the severe exhaustion due to prolonged toxaemia, anded and the trial ended. therefore a careful avoidance of any sustained effort of body or mind will be necessary over a lengthen ed period in order to ensure the complete recovery which, although some months distant, is confidently anticipated.
Sir William Joynson Hicks in speech said:" It is a lively rabbit to get from a hat.
Are 80
Because the trans-Atlantic wire- less telephone facilities overloaded, the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company has decided to spend a vast sum in laying a special telephone cable across the Atlantic.
Mr. L . S. Amery, Dominions Secretary (referring to Mr. Lloyd national insurance) said: "Where George's promises when he launched is your ninepence for fourpeace Exchange was a sharp rise to the.. now It is a modest slogan com-
A feature of the London Stock
respondent of the Trieste Piccola, nothing.
An Italian journalist, the cor-pared with a hundred millions for prices of oil shares, on the an
nouncement of an increase of 2id. was seriously wounded in the dressing a Labour demonstration. tion with reports of an agreement Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ad- per gallon in petrol, in conjune- firing.
said:"Lloyd George has renewed between the Anglo-American Oil some of his old pledges, many of Company and Russian interests re- them still in the pawnbrokers For garding the marketing of oil in example, homes fit for heroes.
this country. Mr J Thomas said:-" The Welsh Wizard's new trick entitles
HUGE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Wizard."
The bulletin, which was issued at 8.15 p.m., is the first long state. | NEW SCHEMES IN PROGRESS. | him to be called the world's ment issued since His Majesty's removal to Bognor and is regarded a definitely satisfactory and reas
ring. It indicates that the ex- periment of removing the King to the South Coast has been success- ful. Nevertheless. the guarded phrasing is designed to restrain undue optimism, and a further long period of slowly recovering strength and bealth must elapse before the |'| King is completely recovered.
In the Second Chamber the Foreign Minister (Jonkheer Dr. F. Beclaerts van Blokland), declared that in view of the denials of the British, French and Belgian Cor- etaments regarding the Utrechtse Dagblad's articles, there was reason for the Dutch Government to make representations to the above mentioned Governments with re- gard to the subject.
The German Ambassadors in London and Paris have been in- formed by the respective Fortiza Offices, in
connection with the latest allegations published in the Utrechtse Dagblad, that neither of the Governments had done anything to impair the Locarno Pact.
The French Foreign Office again emphasised that the publications are a forgery.
BRITAIN'S AIRSHIP
DEVELOPMENT.
FLIGHTS PLANNED TO THE
COLONIES.
THE AIR ESTIMATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruony, March 3rd.
The Federal Reserve bank has increased its discount rats at Dallas, Texas; to 8 per cent.
Mr. Van Lear Black, the Amari- Scheme Propounded. can newspaper magnate, who has Lloyd George's, schemes for the been engaged in a world fight by RUGBY, March 3rd.
rehabilitation of the country and aeroplane, has arrived at Pretoria. Sir Andrew Duncan, chairman of the solution of the unemployment In his Fokker deroplane, with the Central Electricity Board, problem were fully set out to-day Dutch pilots, he left Croydon stated yesterday that the Central at a luncheon given in London to Aerodrome on February 11th, and Board had already placed contracts the Liberal candidates at the forth has arrived at Pretoria in eleven for over £3,000,000 and were in the coming General Election. The days. He is continuing his journey coming week to place contracts for Liberal leader accused the Conservato a pawn, a to onion by the another £3,000,000 in connection tives of ineptitude in dealing with tends to return to London with the scheme under the Elec-present-day problems, and suggest same route, and then to fly to tricity Supply Act.
ed that the recent bye-election re- India and the Far East. sults revealed that the country wanted none of the Socialist Party. Mr. Lloyd George further daimed that the Liberals were the only united party in the State.
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR.
RECORD ATTENDANCES,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, March 3rd.. Over 140,000 people visited tas London section of the British In dustries Fair which closed ·Inst. night. The attendance of overma buyers, home buyers, and the public was a record. Mr. Rodgers, the Chamber of Commerce, stated yes president of the Birmingham terday that the amount of actual
Forger Arrested?
LATER On the arrival of the Amsterdam express at Brussels half an hour after midnight, a man correspond. ing to the description in the Nation Belge was arrested and charged with forging the document published in the Utrechtse Dagblad. Albert Frank Heine, the arrested Belgian activist, is alleged to have plied by him. to the editor of the activist newspaper Schelde and reproduced in the Utrechtse Dan blad was a forgery, for which he was entirely responsible,
He confessed that the "treaty" was an imitation of a former treaty Air Force is equivalent approxi/clared. The Liberals were his between two foreign Powers, and mately to a squadrons, of which torically the Party of commercial was concluded long before the war, eight are on an auxiliary basis.Prosperity, and he assured the can- Mr. T. V. Sung has sent a tele.and Boiland. The so-called official been added to the Indian establish- Liberals were reatly with schemes It had nothing to do with Belgium In the past year,two squadrons have didates and the electors that the gram to General Chang Hauch Lang asking that the Customs ports of the military officers are ment two new units of lying boots for work which can immediately
also forgeries, he admitted.
for the coming year, totalling In submitting the Ain Estimates £10,500,000, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary for Air, in a membran- ; business done at the Birmingham growth of the Royal Air Force and ly satisfactory nad that the nu civil aviation, none of the votes her of trade inquiries had beca shows any very notable variation largely in excess of last year. and the total as compared with last year is actually reduced by 850,000.
The authorities acted with com. ties. It is reported that the vessels admitted that the document sup dum says that notwithstanding the section of the Fair had been entire- mendable promptitude, quickly under the instructions of Nanking bringing up loyal troops, isolated will receive orders for the transport
silenced the the temple, and mutineers fire and then began dis- arming them.
Business and traffic were at a standstill. but the situation is now quiet. The casualties are not known as the Shansi troops have a cordon round the area.
Forces Disarmed.
There has been no further trouble
in the west city, the entire force, sumbering 1,000, having been dis armed and imprisoned "within the Winter Palace, Two of the re- volters were killed and 35 wounded. Officials declare that no revolt occurred, but that the troops were disarmed under orders from Gen- eral Yen Hai Shan at Taiyuaníu, who had learned that their leaders had been communicating with Gen- eral Chang Taung Chang.
The arrested leaders of the rebels
admit that they were acting under the orders of General Chang Tsung Chang
AGITATORS IN PEPING.
: (Woh Tus Fat Pao).
*D
SHANGHAI, March 3rd.. The Nanking Government March 2nd ordered the arrest of Chu Hain and Pen Fe, two notori- ous members of the Antu Cüique, who are in hiding at Peping and are attempting to stir up trouble.
MERCHANTS ROBBED BY TROOPS,
- 1x
Wah Tez Tat Pas.):
SHANGHAI March 3rd. Troops under Jen Ying Chi mutinied at Bangyuan, Shantung on Friday. They raided the Bureau of Public Safety and stole about a hundred rifles and pistols, and then robbed the railway station and the telegraph office. The loss of pro- perty on the part of the merchants is reckoned at $100,000.
THE HUNAN TROUBLE "Wah Tez Tat Paol.
SHANGHAI, March 3rd. General Ho Chien has assumed the post of Chairman of the Pro- vincial Government of Hunan and has taken charge of bandit suppres- sion since March 2nd,
of troops,
"
THE NEW TARIFF.
(Wal Tez Tat Poo).
SHANGHAI, March 3rd.
at Dairen and Antung houses should again notify the merchants in those localities that all dues are to be paid in accordance with the new Tarift
PROVINCIAL COURT AT
SHANGHAI..
(Wah Tes Tot Pao).
SHANGHAI, March-ard: The Nanking Government has
decided to notify the Powers by the end of June- of the retrocession of the Provisional Court of Justice of Shanghai. Fourteen regulations governing the transfer have been drafted.
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SLOOPS FOR CHINA:
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Mar. 1st. H.M. sloops Blueball" and "Foxglove will be replaced on the China Station by the new loops "Bridgewater" and "Sand wich."
· BRITISHER SEIZED BY BANDITS.
RAID ON AMERICAN MINE.
(REDTER'S AMERICAS BERVICE)
NEW YORK, March 3rd.
The present strength of the Royal
new
have been formed and one flight has been provided for the Fleet air arm. In 1929 it is intend. ed to add the equivalent of seven
CONGRATULATIONS new squadrons.
TO KELLOGG.
10
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S
MESSAGE.
ANGLO-AMERICAN PEACE. (TEECUOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 2nd:
of Britain's ratification of the On the occasion of the deposit Kellogg Pact, Sir Austen Chamber lain cabled his heartiest congratula tiona to it, Kellogg. He says that his name will ever be associated in the minds of men with the com- pletion of this great act and hopes
that it will link the nations of the world in peaceful co-operation, sad in particular will confirm evermore the peace which for over a century has endured between the United States and the British Empire.
SENATE OF ALL THE TALENTS.
NOMINATIONS BY KING OF ITALY.
[THROUGH REUTRE'S AĢESCY.]
A hundred rebels, have captured
Rome, March 2nd. the American, Mr. Henry Hanson,
Under the new powers governing the resident manager of the San the composition of the Senate, the Nicholas Mining and Milling Com King has nominated twenty-nine pany of Vocas, Mexico, and also Senators, consisting of the leading Mr. J. W. Reid, a British employee artists, scholars, litterateurs, BT of the Company. The rebels are geons and industrialists. demanding a ransom of 24,000 pesos, and also blankets, kegs and natis. WINTER'S GRIP IN EUROPE.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.
The transport" Dorsetshire Jeft Shanghai for Hong Kong on March 2nd, and. is due to arrive here at
a.m. on Tuesday, March 5th. On Saturday, March 2nd H.M.8. Cornflower left Weihaiwei and ar- rived at Cheloo, and H.MS. Mag- nolia arrived at Weihaiwei from
ICE FLOES BLOCK BOS-
PHORUS TRAFFIC.
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HELSINGFORS, Mar. 1st. Evidence that the severity of the European winter of 1920 is unpre- cedented is indicated by a proposal to establish omnibus services be- tween Sweden and Finland via the Aaland Islands,
be operated to redu the number of unemployed to normal proper tions within a year without adding a penny to national local taxation. 41
of
What Is Needed. Increased "Reliability,
Mr. Lloyd George went on to ex- The Ain Minister states that the plain that the Liberals were not increased reliability of the aircraft proposing relief-works, that is to and aero engines now in service has say, works simply for the purpoee rendered it possible still further to of providing jobs for the unem- reduce the provision for aircraft played. They had in mind very and engine pares by £136,000 necessary works for the proper Regarding safety devices it is stated equipment of the nation. to service aircraft is proceeding immediate necessity for the Tear- that the fitting of automatic slots In the first place, there was rapidly. A parachute is now pro-ganisation of the chaotic transport vided for every machine service system, and the completion of roads except sea-going aircraft. A new finished owing to the detention of which is capable of carrying it, that had been started but not design of quick release attachment fands. for use in these latter has been made out, but it requires further development before it is finally pro- ounced suitable. In 1928 six lives were saved by the aid of parachutea
ake Two Airships.
The two airships, R100 and R101, should be completed early in the financial year, The construction has takes longer that was anti- cipated owing to the fact that both sirships represent a great step, for ward in size, and embody novel principles of disign. The airships dhould make their flying trials in the Spring and the Air Minister hopes to sea fights to oversen, bases such
as Karachi and Montreal succcessfully carried out during the year. The airship tower which the Canadian Government undertook to erect at the imperial Conference has now been completed at Saint Hubert, the air port at Montreal A site for an airship base at Groutville, nean Durban has been. acquired by the Government of the Union of South Africa, and a shed
at Karachi has been erected. The erection of a mooring tower ot Karachi by the Government of India is in progress and should be finished during the Summer,
Reforms Demanded. countryside was vital to the nation. Secondly, the revival of the There must be better arrangements for the marketing of country pro- immense areas of waterlogged land duos, and furthermore, there are
out of cultivation which must be drained.
It was essential, he argued, that the rural industries should be re stored in order that women and elridren should be enabled to sup plement the family income.
The third proposal that the Liberal Party had in mind was con- corned with re-afforestation, the mines, and the telephones. Big reforma were demanded in these spheres and he was certain that if the Liberal Party were allowed to go ahead with their schemes in this connection they would provide work for two yeare for at least 60,000
men and worner.
"Postpone Singapore" Referring to Government ex penditure, Mr. Lloyd George said it was essential that unprofitable outgoinge must be cut down He cited the question of naval arma ments as an instance, saying the ery of the country was "Postpone Singapore until you have attended to England." (Cheers),
RAF Flying Boats. The thres Royal Air Force Southampton flying boats which He concluded by saying that the left England on Thursday arrived. Conservative Government had bor yesterday at Marseilles and are due rowed. £10,000,000 to keep mon in- to-day to make a further stage to enforced idleness. Surely money Naples on their journey to Baarah, could be borrowed for the schemes where they will be employed in the he had propounded to remove the Persian Gulf with the object of diagrace, and the humiliation of
To prevent misunderstanding. General Li Teung Jen despatched telegram to Brigadier-General Yang Ting. Fei. on March 2nd giving orders that the troops under his command be not stationed on the border of Kiangel,
Generals Hu Tsung Tok and Hais Wei returned to Hankow from Changsha on Sunday morning, y HS Dartmouth left Malta, oned, the ses being blocked by ice this type of aircraft under the he added, was the only party General L T Ping still at February 28th for Port Said and focs from the Danube and the climatic and other conditions ob capable of executing such a busz
Hong Kong Nanking.
Party of Prosparty, He added that these recent elections showed that the electors were shrinking from entrusting power to a Party pledged to over- throw Britain's commercial and industrial system.
The only Party "competent to restore the country's trade and commerce was the Liberal, he de (Continued on Previous Column),
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THE FINANCES OF SAN DOMINGO.
DAWES HEADS A COMMIS- SION..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SAN DOMANGO, March 3rd. It is announced that ex-President Dawes will head a commission of American financial experts to re- finances of Ban Domingo. General organise the administration of the James Harbord has been appointed vice-chairman of the commission.
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