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RIFT IN MANCHULI ZEPPELIN'S ROUGH
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LUTE.
GUARDING OF THE RAILWAY.
CHINA OBSTINATË.
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TOKYO, Aug. 4.
PASSAGE.
STRONG ADVERSE WINDS.
STRUGGLING ACROSS
ATLANTIC.
(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 3. The Graf Zeppelin, after a long struggle against adverse winds, is Conditions now in mid-Atlantic. are improving, but it is calculated she will not reach Lakehurst before Monday,
Reports from Manchuli are that the Russo-Chinese negotiations ara threatened with a rupture as a result of the Soviet demanding the right to station troops along the Chinese Eastern Railway, and
An Earlier Esport. sharing the guard with the Chinese. It is understood that the Soviet
WASHINGTON, August 3 The Graf Zeppelin has established contends that the Chinese under- taking to restore the status quo is direct wireless communication with valueless without such a guarantee. the United States. She at 7.05 p.m. It is reported that Tsai Yua Sheng referred the matter to Mak(Washington time) was 90 miles to den, and was instructed to refuse the South of Pice in the Azores. the demand.
Nevertheless, both sides are said
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929.
MR. BARON'S " BIG ESTATE.
LAVISH · BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES,
HUGE DEATH DUTIES.
[THROW REUTER'S, AGENCY«]
ta
AFTER FIFTEEN. YEARS!
BRITAIN'S WAR DEBTS SACRIFICES.
EX-SERVICEMEN STILL SUFFERING.
(THROUGH 'REUTER'S AGENCY.)
BANK HOLIDAY
EVE.
BRITAIN IN FESTIVE MOOD,
MANY ACCIDENTS.
!!
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LONDON, August 3. Thousands of metor cars, motor
LONDON, August 3. The Tressary get £2,000,000 from
LONDON, August 3.
coaches, and motor cycles, with death duties on the estate of Mr.
Fifteen years ago the Empire was
hundreds of special trains took Bernhard Baron, which according breathlessly awaiting the sequel to
millions of holiday-makers to the Britain's ultimatum to Germany.easide and countryside yesterday. to his solicitors will amount £3,000,000, of which £1,000,000 will
To-day the British, Legion and ex- go to charities-one-fifth to the
Services Welfare society are urgent- Jewish and four-fifths to Christian
ly appealing for funds to help ex and undetominational causes. The Servicemen, and on Tuesday dele money
gates of thirteen nations meet at The Hague to try finally to settle twenty years. ....
The Marquis of Reading is one the problem of War Debts and of the exeators nad trustees. Gen-
penalties. erous legacies are left to Mr. Baron's employees and servants, and the will directs that a small Union
will be distributed over
to be preparing for a formal SOVIET PRESS DISPLEASED. Jack and Stars and Stripes be
ference at Chita very shortly.
Conference On A Train.
Tokyo, August 3. Frem Harbin it is learned that M. Melinikov crossed the border from Siberià into Manchuria en the night of August 2.
He subsequently conferred with Mr. Tsai Yun Sheng, the Chinese Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Harbin.
ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.
UNACCEPTABLE.
[TEROUGE LEUTER'S AGENCY.)
Moscow, Aug. 3.
A repetition of what Sir Aus
This conference took place 4tten Chamberlain maintained for Manchuli, which is just inside Chi-
two years" summarises the Soviet nese territory, aboard Д train
Press comment on the rupture in heavily guarded by Chinese troops.
the London negotiations. This is the third of a series of
that Mr. day's parleys at the border which began. The Investia
It is understood that Henderson has made more deter- on July 30. "a virtual agreement has been rench- mined demands than those accom- ed to withdraw the troops on both panying the recognition of the sides, as a guarantee of peace, and Soviet in 1924. also shortly to resume the inter- national trains along the Chinese Eastern Railway.
Soviet And Maidan"",
Moscow, August 3 The Soviet Foreign Commissarint has published the reply of M. Karakhan to the letter from "Gen- eral Chang Heuch Liang of Man- churia, received here on August 1, containing proposals for settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dis- pate.
M. Karekhan notes that the Chinese letter completely omits an earlier proposa by Tan Ting Kan that the Soviet appoint the manager und assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and that the letter contains a proposal for legalisation of the present situation created by the violent seizure of the line.
"Up To Manchuria," M. Karakban declares that the
The Pravda expresses the opinion the Mr. MacDonald's and Mr. Baldwin's policies are identical.
KING'S MESSAGE TO SCOUTS.
"A UNIQUE ASSEMBLY."
[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 3
The Prince of Wales read, at the Jamboree, the following message from His Majesty the King:- "This is a unique assembly, re- presentative of the youth of all the grent nations of the world. I ask them to remember that it is chiefly upon the coming generation that the future peace of the world de- pends."
His Majesty congratulated all the Manchuria Government's new pro-workers of the Jamboree, and add- posals constitute obvious violation
ed that it had given him great plea. of the Peping and Mukden Agree-
sure to mark this signal event in ments and are contrary to the Man history by conferring 'peerage churia Government's own suggestion
upon their Chief Scout. on July 25,
M. Karakhan, also declares that the proposals disrupt settlement of the dispute, which can only be effected through acceptance of the Soviet's proposals of July 25.
This creates a situation fraught with very grave possibilities, M. Karakhan adds, and the entire res ponsibility for it. 'rests with the National Government of China and the Provincial Government of Man- churia.
Chinese Ship Fired On.
HARBIN, August 3. Chinese officials here allege that two Chinese passengers were killed two wounded when Soviet and troops opened fire on a Chinese steamer on the Amur River. The vessel was seized by the Russiaca.
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placed with the ashes, which will be buried buide those of Mrs. Barap in the obelisk at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue at Willesden.
"MEDITERRANEAN FLEET
REDUCTIONS.
MORE HOME SERVICE.
[TERCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 3. A zubstantial reduction in the Mediterranean Battle Fleet is an- nounced from Malta.
The biggest delegation will con- sist of about erventy Germans. It is antisipated that Mr. Philip Snowden, who will lead some forty British delegates in addition to Dominions delegates, will insist that Britain cannot make further sadri-
aces.
By the Young Plan the British Empire will receive an average annual sum of £20,450,000 instead of £98,000,000, the sum previously provided under the Dawes Plan.
LONDON, August 4. Mr. Henderson, Mr. Snowden and Mr. Wm. Graham have left for The Hague.
International Commage?
BUENOS AIRES, August 3. The battleship "Queen Eliza-
The League of Nations Society beth," "Barham," "Valiant," and "Malays" will join the Atlantic here has decided to suggest to the Fleet in November, the "Warspite Hague Conference that the Inter- becoming the flagship of the Medi-national Bank proposed in the terranean Fleet.
Young Plan use national gold coinage.
Reuter learns officially that the idea is to give men more home scr- vice.
It is also pointed out that Malta Harbour is congested and provides men with insufficient recreational facilitie
AMERICAN PRISON
BATTLE.
MACHINE GUNS. RIFLES AND GAS!
AMAZING SCENES.
["D.F." Special Service.]
AUBURN, N.Y., July 29. Auburn's state prison is a dread- ful sight as a result of an outbreak which ended in the killing of two convicts, the wounding of 11 and Mr. T. Whitehead, of Perthshire, the escape of 11 more. has banded, Lord Baden-Powell The prison was almost destroy. £5,000 for the Boy Scouts' Associated by are, and during a 10-hour tion of Great Britain.
H.M.S. CORNWALL IN
COLLISION:
[SAVAD WIRELESS.]
machine-gun battle a small band of guards held 1,700 convicte at bay. The guards shot two men and gassed many more.
A riot started when prison ring: leaders overpowered the arsenal guard during a ball game. Ap parently the affair had been plan- ned for weeks.
Wardon E. S. Jennings at Whilst entering the" Whampoa River on the morning of August 3 one time an officer of the US. H.M.S. Cornwall was run into by Army, allied the guards and direct Those endeavour. the Hamburg-Amerika 6.s. Scheer. ed the battle. Both vessels were, slightly daming to cape dashed at the main gate, barling gas bombs. Machine. aged.
guns tre swung into action to supplement the guards' rifles..
At the same time a burry-up call was eent for troops. By this evening 400 had arrived and others had been summoned.
SERIOUS FLOODS NEAR PEPING. WAR PREPARATIONS.
HUNDREDS OF VILLAGES ·
IN UNDATED. BOTH SIDES SENDING REINFORCEMENTS.
[TEROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.} (ah Tez Tat. Pao).
PEPING, Aug. 4. Continued very heavy rains are SHANGHAI, Aug. 4.
Suilenho tele said to have caused the Yungting According to a
runs from gram, the Soviet troops are still Ho (Huc Ho), which making preparations for war, and the Western Hills past the south Two firemen were shot, while striv over 10,000 Soviet cavalry and west of Peping, to artillery bave arrived to reinforce
the Russian troops there.
On the other hand, ten fighting aeroplanes have been dispatched to Suifenho by the Manchurian authorities.
Japanese Precautions,
It is stated from Mukden that Japan bas sent reinforcements to Manchuria, and will also erect barracks at Changchun, to cost
· 82,000,000.
CANTON-NANKING FLIGHT.
YUNNANESE AVIATOR'S
To-night most of the prisoners have been buddled into the yards, with the troops guarding them. Many of the prisoners are still bar. ricaded, however, and there is occasional sniping.
Communications from the prison have been severed. At midnight some of the fire was still burning.
its
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inter-
Already casualty reports are com ing in, which describe the inevitable road accidents. There was a spec- tacular crash at the Bouthend Kursaal when a "flying boat” 'at tached to a whirling roundabout, became detached, and shot the ce cupants into the crowd below. Twenty-three people were injured.
WALL STREET AFLOAT.
BROKERS' OFFICES ON LINERS.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
to
NEW YORK Aug. 3. The Stock Exchange has given permission for two members operate branch offices aboard the libers Berengaria, Leviathan, Paris
and Ile de France.
The brokers will have regular upon which offices, with boards atock quotations will be posted as they are wirelessed from Wall Street.
LANCASHIRE MILLS | Telegrams in Brief.
STILL SHUT.
ORDERS GO ABROAD.
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SERIOUS LABOUR
CRISIS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
LONDON, Aug. 3. The most serious labour crisis since the General Strike, namely, the stoppage of the Lancashire cot- ton mills, which has now lasted a week, shows no signs of settlement: Thirteen thousand more cotton workers are affected by to-day's ex- piration of wage reduction noticea by the Cotton Waste Spinners' Manufacturers' Association.
Several Nottingham lace manu- facturers have placed big orders for cotton yarn abroad.
Lieut. Robert James Gardner. R.N, who was in command of H..'s submarine H47, has been tri- ed by Court-Martial at Portsmouth in connection with the loss of the vessel. He was sentenced to be re- primanded.
Rear-Admiral MacLean is leaving for Shanghai by the P. & o. "Macedonia" from London on September 8. He will succeed Rear Admiral Tweedie as Rear Admiral and Senior Naval Officer, Yangtze.
Count Rayi Van Beerenbrouck has failed in his attempt to form an administration from the Right Parties in Holland.
Mr. Winston Churchill accom- panied by his son and daughter, have left for Casada on a holiday.
Mr. E. C. Wilson, First Secre- tary at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, will be the American observer at the forthcoming Enge Conference.
Miss Margaret Bandfield, Minis- ter of Labour, in a statement to the Press, said she was convinced A world-wide-working agreement that the unemployment and inser has been concluded between the ance machine was faulty, both in Allgemeine Elektriziacts Gesells mechanism and working, so she in-chaft and the General Electric Com- tended to introduce a new bill. »
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More Reductions. --
LONDON, Aug. 2 The Master Spinners' Federa tion have appointed - a special committee for the purpose of secur- the ing a general reduction in finishing charges, which means that the bleaching, dyeing, printing and packing trades are asked to modify their charges so as to bring the price of cotton" goods down.
ALLEGED MURDER BY
ASPIRIN."
DRAMATIC LETTER OF A
YOUNG MOTHER.
A remarkable letter was read at Brighton Police Court during the hearing of a case in which Mariel Alice Ellen Peirce, aged twenty- FREED FROM GAOL AND five, was accused of murdering her JLDO three-months-cld child, REARRESTED.
Patrick.
PRISON GATE DRAMA.
William Henry Podmore, who was known as the man with the scar,' one of the principal figures at the inquest on Mr. Vivian Messiter, the Ivictim of the Southampton garage KING'S GOOD PROGRESS.murder, was released from Winches
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EARLY DEPARTURE FOR SANDRINGHAM.
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LONDON, August 3. There is a distinct possibility that the King will be able to proceed to Sandringham within a fortnight.
His Majesty has attended to much routine business during the pass weeks, and his progress continues satisfactory,
ter Gaol on the completion of a se: tence of six months' imprisonment for stealing a motor-car and motor, cycle.
He was rearrested as soon as he left the precincts of the prison én
It was alleged that the child died from an overdose of aspirin.
Mr. G. Paling, prosecuting, said that Pearce was an unmarried wo man and had been living with a man named Patrick for some years. She was known as Mrs. Patrick.
John Patrick said that when he returned home Pearce ̈ called,
Come quickly.”.
She said, "You will be very angry with me. I bave taken 300 grains (Continued on next Column),
pany of America, by which the latter acquires a nominal 30,000,000 marks worth of shares in the for- mer.
The Cabinet has approved of the Anglo-Egyptian draft treaty, de tails of which will be published as soon as possible.
of aspirin, and I have given some to baby. I do not know why I did it."
"Ghastly Tear.”
Mr. Paling here produced the letter, which read as follows:-
Dearest. Forgive me and try to forget me. I have become so frightened of living that I. shall, I am afraid, go mad if I stay here. Why I should be like this is beyond me.
I thould be very happy, but I have been getting up day after. day feeling worse and worse, absolutely terrified of everything. You have been a wonderful has band to me, far better than I de- serve, and I have been happy un- til this ghastly fear came over me. I am going to try to take little Jane with me, I am so the afraid she may, grow up same. If there is a God I hope He will understand and forgive.. Please try to understand and forget me. All my love, Muriel. Am taking three bottles of aspirin.
Pearce, who made no statement, was committed for trial.
a warrant granted by a Balisbury Tired Nature's Sweet Restorer
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magistrates in connection larceny alleged to have been com- mitted at Downton, & village eight miles from Salisbury.
Two plain-clothes men of the Wiltshire Constabulary motored over from Salisbury to the prison, and Padmore was brought to them inside the main gatea,
Alieged Theft,
One of them read the warrant and charged him with stealing moneys from his one-time employer at Downton. He was then bandcuffed and escorted to a waiting moter-ear.
He wore a grey overcoat over a peat blue serge suit and light grey spats and smiled as he entered the car.
The court proceedings at Salisbury lasted only a few minutes.
AN INVENTOR IN
EMBRYO. MR. EDISON'S CHOICE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. A 16 years old boy, Wilbur
Podmore was charged in the name Huston, the son of an Episcopalian Bishop, has won the scholarship of William Frank Thomas, and his offered by the world famous inven- address was given as "Lately lodg- tor, Edison, for the best answersing at 3irs, Green's, Woodfalis "—a to a questionnaire (set by Mr. Edi-village near Downton,
The charge against him was that son himself) by any American un-
an December 21 he stole £130 198. dergraduate
Master Huston will now have a 9d. in notes and coin, the moneyя chance of becoming Mr. Edison's of Joseph George Stewart Mitchell, successor. He will undergo four at Downton, years' training in the Massachusetta Institute of Technology at Mr. Edison's expense.
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Forty-nine boys, representing every State in the U.S.A. sat for the examination.
Mr. Edison assisted Mr. Stratton, the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conduct ing the examination. Mr. Henry Ford and Colonel Lindbergh sat up all night examining the papers sent in,
change its ing to extinguish the flames, and SURPRISE FOR A CORONER.
one war hurt in a fall.
course for some distance, causing a most serious flooding.
Enormous arcas south and west of Peping are like an inland sea, hundreds of villages are inundated, and there are many, thousands of refugees. It is believed that num- bers of people are drowned, but no statistics are as yet available.
The right bank of the river has gone in several places, bat so far which protecte the left bank, Peping, is holding. If the water continue to rise the situation will be almost hopeless, as all available timber along the river has been cut, for strengthening the barks
It is still steadily-raining to-day.
RETURN OF JAPANESE MINISTER.
(Nan Chung Kuo.)
The affair is one of the moat sensational in American penal his- tory.-Inited Press.
TOBACCO EXPORTS
FALL.
WASHINGTON FIGURES.
{"D.P." Special Service.]
WOMAN MOTOR-CYCLIST WITH
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA.
The coroner at a Kensington in- quest expressed surprise that a WC- suffering from locomotor ataxia should have driven an 8 hp. motor-cycle combination.
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Sergeant Hood gave evidence of arresting Podmere that morning at Winchester Prison. Padmore replied when he cautioned him and read the warrant, "I understand. know nothing about it."
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Podmore, was remanded for eight days. He did not apply for bail, and was driven back to Winchester Gaol.
PRISON AND £1,000 FINE. TAX FRAUDS BY A LAUNDRY PROPRIETOR..
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John Morris, aged" fifty, laundry proprietor, was sentenced at Nottingham Assizes to six mantha in the second division and £ued £1,000, and William John -West, aged fifty-four, accountant, to three months, in the second divi- aion, for income tax frauds. He was investigating the death of They both pleaded guilty, and it Mrs. Bessie Matilda Wickerson, was stated by Mr. J. G. Hurst, aged forty-four, of Golborne-gar-K.C., prosecuting, that in fourteen dena, Kensington, who died from an years the aggregrate of income tax, injury she received when a motor- super tax, and excess profita duty WASHINGTON, July 28.
cycle combination which she was evaded amounted to 214,120, Tobacconists are moderately en-driving came into collision with a Mr. Hyrst added that mis-state- motor-car at Blough a fortnightments had been repeated for thir previously.
teen years, and but for the fact Mr. Wickerson, the husband, said that the fraud had been discovered that his wife had attended 8t. the total loss to the Revenus would Mary's Hospital, Paddington, for have been £174,000. locomotor ataxia. She required a A redeeming feature was that all stick to keep her balance while the money had been paid by Morris walking and swayed if abe closed with the exception of a balancë her eyes. She drove the combina of £8 tion, and it did her good. She was an excellent driver.
couraged by reports of lowering of leal stocks in Shanghai, it was learned to-day.
They point out, however, that exports total 20,000,000 pounds as at the end of May, as compared with 43,000,000 for the previous cor- responding period.
ACHIEVEMENT; (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Aug. 4.
Cigarette shipments for the same A Kao Min message from Non-
It is understood that the Japanese period came to only 2,718,000 as king says that the Yunnanese avia-
Mr. Yoshizawa, will compared with 3,239,000 pieces for tor Liu Peh Chuan in the aeroplane Minister, "Golden Steed," arrived at Nan- shortly leave Kobe on his return the same period of last rear.
Acreage in the United States has ting aerodrome at 1 o'clock this to China. He will afterwards pro- afternoon making a record for à ceed to Nanking to resume the fluctuated a great deal. This year non-stop fight from Canton, in teas negotiations in connection with it declined only 2,000 acres. than seven hours,
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United Press.
A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.
Locomotor ataxia is a disease of the nervous system which, affects the co-ordination of the, muscles.,
West's part in the fraud was the rendering of balance sheets, all of which be certified as correct, and all of which were inconsistent with ' the true returns as shown"in the books of account. He was charged with conspiracy.
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