LESSONS OF
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"GRAF ZEPPELIN" FLIGHT.
GERMANY'S AMBITIOUS AIR PLANS.
A REGULAR ATLANTIC SERVICE.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1929.
SPLIT IN NANKING CABINET.
FINANCE MINISTER
RESIGNS.
"WONDERFUL TRIP," SAY PASSENGERS. SERIOUS LOSS TO CHINESE
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
The scheduled fight of the Rus- sian airplane Land of the Sovieta" from Moscow acrose Siberia to Kamchatka, and then to the United States rid the Akutinas, Alaska and Vancouver, or Seattle.
New Youx, Aug. 3. The Graf Zeppelin's ' trans. Atlantic Bight occupied 06 hours, 3 minutes, and all aboard were well and happy except the stow. Busso-Japanese Rivalry, away, who had been in solitary
"Graf Zep- The flight of the confinement since discovered.
Al the passengers were thrilled pelin Japanese aviation experts
believe, will do much toward estal by their Wonderful voyage."
The landing was one of the finest lishing Japan as the leading "way ever seen at Lakehurst. The air station for Pacific flights. The. ship tied up at the mooring mast fight of the Russian plane, they in a brisk wind, which gradually frankly admit, seems died down and at 1.53 in the morn. the part of the Soviets to elimin. ing she was pulled down and walk.ate a Japanese station in fights ed in to the hangar by the ground from Europe across Asia to Ameri
ca, making some Comdr. Excener stated that the return fight to Friedrichshafer would start on Wednesday evening and would be the first singe of a world flight.
frew,
A Little Stunting."
are.
move on
port on
the
Siberian litceral the chief station in Asia for take-offs on fights across the Pacific."
Japanese convinced their superior technical crganisation will win for them, and that Tokyo ar some point in the island of Hok. The actual time' in reaching Lake.kaido," will be the chief airport of hurst was 3 hours 43 minutes, but Asia. Comdr. Eckener was unable to rẻ. sist the temptation to circle the feld and then fly over New York, while the cecupants dined heartily on Frankfurter sausage, sauerkraut and wine.
Dr. Kiop manager of the Hapag," said the Company had decided to put ita whole organisa tion behind the project of building airships as the performance of the Zeppelin had proved that other ships could be built with stronger, engines, so that trana-Atlantic trips could be made with preater regu larity and specd.
nvailabie boat.
Plans For Return Trip.
Japanese Hopes,
GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH BECTER'S AGENCY.]
REPARATIONS AND RHINELAND..
IMPORTANT PROBLEMS AT THE HAGUE.
GERMANY DUBIOUS.
(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.]
DEADLOCK ONCE AGAIN!
RUSSIAN CONDITIONS
UNACCEPTABLE.
NANKING STATEMENT.
[IRCOUGH INTER'S AGENCY.]
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THE HAGUE, Aug. 5
NASKING. Aug. 8. Thirteen nations, the most in- The Foreign Othee officially an- SHANGHAI, August 6. terested of which are Great Bri-nounces to-day that the Sido-Res. The Nanking correspondent of the Lain, France, Germany, Italy, Be!- sian Conference at Manchuli is Tacheung New Agency telegraphs rium and Japan, will be represent deadlocked. The Chinese are un-
official con- that he has obtained
ed at the most important conference able to accept the Russian demand of the Powers opening to-morrow for reinstatement of the Russian firmation" of the resignation from
sesociate managers of the Chinese the Cabinet of Mr. T. F. Sbong, with the object of settling the re-
parations problems and the ques- Eastern Railway, before opening Minister of Finance.
Humours of the Minister's intention of the evacuation of the Rhine-formal negotiations. tien te resign have been persistent land. recently, but definite confirmation It is hoped that as the result of ed the Chinese Minister at Wash the conference the final pacificationington to notify the signatory of the news has caused a great sen-
of Europe will be achieved. The Powers to the Kellogg Fact of the sation in the capital.
It is considered in political delegates are most optimistic on the details of what has happened. circles that Mr. Soong's decision to leave the Cabinet, at the present im portant juncture represents a very. heavy loss, to the Government.
MADAME SUN YAT SEN ATTACKS NANKING
GOVERNMENT.
SHANGHAI August 2
The Japanese are pushing avia- A scathing attack upon the tion, hard. Two missions are now National Government at Nanking abroad studying American and has been made by Madame Sun Yat European aircraft manufacturing Sen, widow of the late National organisatione, und the design pf leader, in the first statement she has airports with methods for handling issued since her return to China large traffic. The big airport at from abroad last spring to take part Tachikawa, near Tokyo, has been in the Government's ceremonies of enlarged and is to-day probably the laying the body of Dr. Sun in its finest in the Orient in its 'equip million-dollar mausoleum on the ment and facilities for the hand-slope of Purple Mountain, just cut- ling of planes., Ite provisions for side Nanking. handling passengers
tion.
still leaves Madame Sun is living in the much to be desired, especially as. French Concession in Shanghai. to approaches from Tokyo. The Every effort has been made to create The immigration authorities have field is more than 20 miles from the the impression that she
in - taken over the atowaway, who will capital, and the motor roads leadpathy with the present Government. he sent to Germany by the firsting to it are not wide enough to She was given a place on the Cen-
assure fast transport,
tral Executive Committee of the Plans For The Zeppelin's Arrival. Kuomintang, though she has made LAKEHURST, N.T., Aug. 5. Very busy preparations are being at the main Japanese paval
The Graf Zeppelin "will land gesture toward active participa·
air made for the Graf Zeppelin's return on August 7-8 to Friedrich-station at Kusunigaura, in Iberagi Prefecture, more than 41 miles frem shafen, from whence she will cit the capital. The station is situ cumnavigate the world.
Workmen warm over the air-ated on the shore of Lake Kasuni- gaura, which offers an excellent ship patching tiny holes, torn in
hase for seaplanes. The nearest the envelope by the wind.
town is Tsushiura, which is two while hydrogen fuel and provisions hours hy rail from Uyene Station, are going aboard. Crowds gaze at
Tokyo. the monster which is expected to arrive at Richmond, Virginia, os August 29, froin Tokyo sia Los
Angeles.
Menn-
Japan's Air Services,
Airplane construction is making
what the authorities consider satis Comdr. Eckrener announced that | factory progress, and completely four new Zeppelins, each twice the Japanese-built machines now are size of the "Graf would be built flying satisfactorily .00 some air for the trans-Atlantic service, he lines. In addition the Navy has Finding in 153.
just completed construction of a new dirigible of the semi-rigid type, which made satisfactory trial flights on July 23
The Graf last night landed 19 passengers and one stowaway, 600 canaries, 15 bags of mail, a gorilla and a chimpanzee.
ال
Two Months of Sience. For two months she maintained silence, saying nothing and seeing no one. Personal friends were told that her health was bad. The strin of long travel in Russia and Europe, coupled with her retura under trying circumstances, gave sufficient exeuse, although there was comment on her apparent continued withdrawal from her family and its
connections
whole.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Bri- tish Foreign Secretary, in an in- terview with Reuter's representa- tive, expressed the opinion that the conference would certainly lead to the withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhineland
The Foreign Office has instruct-
C.E.R. SERVICE TO BE RESUMED.
MESSAGE TO LEGATION BODY.
A- German delegate, was not so confident, but he said that Ger-
Wah Te Fat Pao.) many expected a binding Anglo-
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6. French promise of evacuation as
The Legation Quarter in Peping soon as the Young Plan came into operation. The delegate also indi-is in receipt of a telegram fron Harbin to the effect that Mr. cated that the German Government might compromise on the French proposal for a Committee of Veri. Sention and Conciliation in the Rhineland, provided the Committee was not imposed beyond 1935.
A Contradiction..
LATER. The views of the German delegate are not in accord with that of the German Government circles. It is pointed out from Berlin that the latter consider the evacuation of the Rhineland is no longer a mat- delegation has been instructed to ter for argument and the German
insist that this claim be settled in dependently of the other problems. Furthermore, if the Conference desires to liquidate financially the consequences of the war, the de- mand for a "Conciliation Commit- the" must be dropped.
Conference Op6z5.
THE HAQUE, Aug, "6.
Chu Shao Yang, the Chinese Minis ter to Moscow, has arrived at Harbin, and that the international railway service will be resumed shortly.
It is added that the Chinese Eastern Railway is arranging with the Tientsin-Pukow Railway for the loan of rolling-stock, so as to resume the railway services.
It is now believed that the forma Sino-Russian Conference will be held at Harbin, and that the Central Government will ap-
representative, together with Hain point Chu Shao Yang as China's Wei Sung.
TSINAN COTTON STRIKE
SETTLED.
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(Nan Chung Kuo,) Mr. Chu Shih, Chieh, the Com- missioner of Foreign Affairs Reparations Conference Tsinan. has wired to Nanking that opened to-day. The Dutch Premier the strike in the Japanese cotton made a speech of welcome to which mills has been settled, and the M. Briand and Herr Stresemann workers have returned.
The
replied.
Herr Stresemann said he hoped
"
Madame Chiang Kai Shek, wife to see World Economic Confer of the President of the State Coun-ence called to discuss the removal cil, is a sister to Madame Sun Yat of International Customs barriers. Sen; so is the wife of Mr. H. H Mr. Philip Snowden hoped that Kung, Minister of Commerce, the Conference would make The Labour and Industry. Mr. T. V. Hague still more famous in the Soong, Minister of Finance, is her history of the progress of interna brother. Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of tional peace. Railways, is her step-son., No man or woman in China to-day has such. strong family ties with the present Government, yet in face of this Madame Sun sent the following cablegrain to the Anti-Imperialist League in Berlin on the anniversary
the Soviet Revolution:-
A regular airplane mail and par Another Project,
senger service recently was opened LATER. hetween Tokyo and Fukuoka, Commander Eckener, in an inter Kyushu, Osaka, with air mail view, declared be intended to have flights to Dairen, South Manchuria, built at Friedrichshafen, in 1930, ai Seoul, Koren, These lines are new Zeppelin, shorter, thicker, and operated by the Janan Air Trans-of faster than the "Grat Zeppelin." port Co., Ltd. Air mail flights It would have eight engines in. from Fukuoka to Dairen are made etead of five, and make the trans- three times a week, each way. Atlantic veyage in twelve hours faster time.
two
It would carry only 24 passen- gers, but considerably more freight and mail, which is more profitable.
The "Graf Zeppelin," on visits to the United States, had paid expenses, and demonstrated the feasibility of dirigible trans. portation.
THREE WEEKS ROUND THE .WORLD.
NEW YORK, July 0. The Graf Zeppelin will begin its round-the-world flight on August from Lakehurst vid Friedrich- shafen, Tokyo and Los Angeles, returning to Lakehurst on August
20.
The following is the tentative schedule for the fight:-
JAPANESE MINE
TRAGEDY.
PATHETIC SCENES AT
PITHEAD. "
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
TOKYO, Aug. 8.
Reactionary Government. "While oppressed nationalities to-day form a solid front aga.ost imperialist war and militarism, the reactionary Nanking Government "a combining lorces with the Im- perialists in brutal repressions against the Chinese masses striving for national independence.
German Payments;
BERLIN, Aug. 6. For the fifth annuity year, up to July 31, under the Dawes plan. Germany "transferred a
12,000,000 sold, marks, including 1,100,000,000 to France. 476.000.000 to Britain, 4.000.000 to America, and 12,000,000 to Japan.
total of
KING OUT OF DOORS
AGAIN.
[THROUGH LICTER'S AGESCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 6. Never has the treacherous char-
The King spent a considerable neter of the counter-revolutionary time in the gardens of Buckingham Kuomintang leaders beeri so sbume Palace yesterday. It was his first lessly exposed to the world as to time out of doors since he last
operation
A terrife explosion of gas occurray. Having betrayed the Nation- ed this morning at Bashinai coalist Revolution, they have inevitably mine, Hokkaido, while 83 miners attempted to provoke war
degraded into Imperialist tools and with were working undergound.
Soviet Russia.
The bodies of ten of the dead have so far been recovered with four other who were gassed but revived."
working Rescue parties "are feverishly to save the remaining 8b, but little hope is help for their
recovery.
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LATER.
Leave Lakehurst on August 7 and arrive at Friedrichshafen on 10th; According to the Nichi Nichi 52 leave Friedrichshafen on 13th and bodies had been recovered, 24 given arrive at Tokyo on 17th leave up as dead, five injured, and three Tokyo on 20th or 91st and arrive escaped unhurt at a late bour last at Los Angelee on 26th; arrive at night in the Hokkaido coal mine Lakehurst on 23th, and spend a disaster.
few days there before returning The Aah puts the figures at 71 to Friedrichshafen, completing the dead, five injured, and eight un-
who hurt.
passengers Voyage for the boarded the dirigible there.
JAPAN'S INTEREST IN THE FLIGHT.
["D.P." Special Service,]
TOKYO, Aug. 6. Japan, lying athwart the great continent of Asia, believes she is destined to play an important role in trane-Pacific aviation, and will assume the same relation to traffic in the great Pacific. domain which she already has assumed to tea "traffic.
Despatches
describe pathetic scenes at the pithead, where an- xious wives, mothers, and children of the entombed miners gathered awaiting the latest reports.
HOLIDAY'S TOLL.
BRITISH MOTORING
ACCIDENTS.
daunted by repressions and us
But the Chinese massee, UD- deceived by lying propaganda, will fight only on the side of revolu tion.. Terrorism will only serve to mobilise still broader masses, and to strengthen our determination to triumph over the present bloody reaction within the shortest possible period.
"SOONG CHING LING." Such a statement from a woman, in Madame Sun's position is extra- ordinary, settling most definitely all doubt as to her position with reference to the present alignment
at Nanking.
Something over two years ago, just before Madame Sun left for abroad, she prepared a longer state- ment of somewhat the same general Lenor. That was in Hanków, in the days when the Wuhan Government was tottering to a fall before Nan- king's power. Those in charge of
affairs at Wuhan could see the handwriting on the wall, and gave orders that the statement was to be suppressed.
BENGAL JUTE MILLS
STRIKE
A SERIOUS SITUATION.
(THROCOM REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Aug. 5.,
A serious situation has arisen in the Bengal jate industry, as the result of the extension of the mill strike and owing to propaganda by agitators.
Twenty thousand looms-about 40 per cent. of the total in the Cal- catta area-are not working, caus-
in 150,000 wenvers to be idle.
The women weavers of several of
CHIHLI FLOOD DAMAGE.
200 SQUARE MILES UNDER WATER.
(THROOM REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEFING, Aug. 5. The flood waters are gearing the Peping rapidly. Roads in western suburbs are under five feet of water, which is now less than a mile from the city walle,
A hopeful sign came this after noon when the rain ceased and the prevail in the mountains through sky cleared. If similar conditions which the Yungting Ho runs, fer- ther serious damage may avoided.
that
more
be
JAPAN AND THE NAVAL LIMITATIONS.
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NEW CRUISERS THOUGHT
NECESSARY."
10:10:7 RATIO FOR AUXILIARIES.
ADMIRAL'S STARTLING PROPOSAL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
TOKYO, Aug. 5. What appears to be a confirman- tion of Japan's intention to arge the 10:10.7 ratio for auxiliary vessels was mentioned in speech which the Navy Minister delivered at a conference of Prefectural Gov- erors,
fen chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, declared in a statement which. was issued here this morning. In the statement, Mr. Britten declares that Britain has never intended to build twe cruiser, whose construction Premier MacDonald ordered suspended.
Discussing President Hoover's Referring to the question of naval action, Mr. Britten asserts:-
There is no authority under the limitation, Admiral Takarabe is existing law for suspension of the quoted as saying that: "Although some observers arm that Japan's cruiser construction, but on the insistener upon an auxiliary vessels contrary there is every reason why ratio is based upon a weak founda- we should not this time do anything that will farther submerge the tion, they are wrong, as it has a
the high Arm basis. Consequently, Japan Americas position on
seas." will insist upon this ratio and en- deavour to obtain the acquiescence Mr. Britten who sailed aboard the of the Powers at the future Dis- Leviathan, Saturday midnight, de- armament Conference."
teigred- While emphasising the necessity No one is more, anxious than I for the ratio Admiral Tukarabe as- um for an international, limitation serted that the Japanese naval agreement, but I do not think that auhorities favour further disarmun-
the economy yardstick should be ment for the sake of world pence,
applied to our national defence, Though Admiral Takarate appar-when we are already so hopelessly ently failed to specify what ratio inferior to England on the seas. would be demanded it is presumed National defence cannot be mannur- that he referred to the 10:10: asd in dollars and cents.' this has been frequently mentioned in the past..
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The two cruisers which Premier MacDonald suspended the construc- Ratio" Essential,"
tion of were first approved by the TOKYO, Aug. 6.
British Admiralty in 1926-27, but no Following the Navy Minister's appropriation was made in these In 1920, Parliament refused speech, well-informed cirelés in years. timate that the Government has to appropriate for their construe- decided that the 10-10 tio for tion. The Baldwin Government also auxiliary vessels is essential for refused to appropriate for them in Japan. It will hence he necessary 1929. England had no intention of to build several more 10.000-ton building them. cruisers. unless both Britain and America are prepared to reduce their existing cruiser strength,
Mythical Ships Scrapped. "It would appear that Premier It is contended, therefore, that MacDonald's offer to suspend the these two countries set, whether a much as entail the scrapping of it will depend upon what standard building of these ships did not even Japan will give up further construe.blue prints. They are mythical tion. The Nary Office, however, ships intended only by the far- asserts they have been misquoted, sighted British diplomacy for as the question is still under distrading purposes and we have cussion, though well-informed cir- grabbed the bait. cles believe this is merely said be. It is evident that we have not cause Admiral Takarabe does not profted by the tremendous sacrifices we made in the Washington Con- wish to be quoted so definitely.
While Japan appears to have ference of 1922, when we scrapped decided to insist upon the 10-16-7 the real warships and Great Britain We were ratio for auxiliaries, Naval officials scrapped the prints are known to favour retention of the sincerely for naval equality and if present capital ship ratio, nag as England had been equally, sincere ready to support the extension of she would not have proceeded to the sge-limit. and reduction of build more new cruisers than all maximum tocoage of capital ships. the rest of the world combined.
“PERFIDIOUS ALBION »
AGAIN.
AMERICAN BIG NAVY" MEN INDIGNANT.
NEW YORK, July 28. "The United States has once
again been made a goat' by Great Britain in the last naval limitation movea," Mr. Fred Brit-
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.
BRITISH TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN?
SOME FAR-REACHING .". PROPOSALS...
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"If Premier MacDonald would suspend construction of the fire big" frat-line cruisers England is now building, he will be lending the way for a real nával disarmament. If President Hoover suspends the enn-. struction of our cruisers already appropriated for, he will be leading the way for still further dispropor- tion between the navies of England and the United States. As in the
Washington Conference, we are the goat and British diplomacy is laughing in its aleeve."
TONG WARS IN AMERICA.
NEW YORK'S THREATS OF
DEPORTATION.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
New Yoan, August 6. "After a series of murder and shootings by rival Chinese Tougs in Chicago and Boston, a Torg war is now threatened in New York City. Consequently, Federal U- thorities have ordered the heads of rival Tongs to arbitrate their differ- ences, otherwise they will be de- ported.
The Hood has spread so rapidly. this week-end that it is impossible to obtain information about the area flooded and the number of However, it is people involved.
than estimated
900 square miles of land are ander water, and hundreds of villages have been inundated; unquestion- been ably, many people have drowned.
Yesterday the flood waters swept through the country like a tida wave. Two policemen and ricksha men taking supplies to houses on the Western. Hills were swept of the main road leading to the hills and have not been seen since,
Thousands of heads of cattle
The Foreign Office. bas, issued its
A Chinese laundryman was shos have been drowned. The promis
General proposals for an Anglo-Egyptian dead at his ironing board in New ing harvest is ruined. prices here are rising rapidly, Treaty, consisting of sixteen ehort York last night, and two more » The Wenyu Ho, to the eastward clauses. The treaty will be valid Chinese were killed in a similar
manner in Boston, of Peping, is now overflowing also
These crimes and a food is threatening Tung,
suggest that the perpetrators, of show, which is 12 miles east of
no longer Peping.
Chinese murders are restrained by the threat of deporta- tion, which has been effective in the past.
for 24 yearE,
LONDON, Aug. 6.
Its terms provide that British military occupation of Egypt eball be terminated, but suficient British forces necessary to protect the Suez Canal are to remain in a specified arca east of longitude 32.
An Abatement,
PZPING, Later. Twenty-four hours of fine wea ther bus dispelled the worst food fears, although flood water from the mills, who did not arrive this the hills is still causing the Yung
Ambassadore will be appointed morning, declared that they were ting Ho to the slightly. However contented with their wages but it is expected to begin to subside in London and Cairo, and an were threatened with molestation it very soon.
water has entered the Anglo-Egyptian alliance establish- they went to work.
The fute strike originated with southern part of the city, where ed, including active support in the few event of waz, and responsibility for the weavers' demand for extra pay there are fortunately very for extra hours work on Saturdays houses. The aren between the awing to the introduction of the Temples of Heaven and of Agricul- lives and property of foreigners.
64-hour week. ・...
The millowners announced that they had decided to pay the weavers the old rate with bonus froui July 23 and complained that the weavers had been intimidated.
Much
ture is under water but there are
Egypt devolves upon the Egypt no signs of its reaching the higher ian Government, and the jurisdic. levels of the city.
Paris,
courts will be to Mixed Tribunals,
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THE FLYING DUCHESS.
REACHES KARACHI IN
"THE SPIDER." ·
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE, }
KARACHI, Aug. 5. The Duchess of Bedford's giant monoplane "The Spider" landed at Karachi at 0.55 pm, to-day, after a splendid flight from Eng-
land.
The Duchess, who is 64 years of age, proposes to commence the o'clock to-morrow morning. return fight to England at 6
It is now learned that the Shation of Consular The People's Tribune, a daily
Ho has hurt its banks fifteen transferred (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
miles north-west of Peping, de- Foreigners will be subject to newspaper owned by the Wuhan LONDON, Aug. 0.
Governinent, nevertheless printed
The situation is relatively quiet molishing an iron railway bridge,
Her machine is piloted by Capt. statement, and committed Twenty-five persons were killed the
but the Police have been reinforced, and stopping traffic on the Peping. Egyptian legislation:-
LONDON, Later.
D. C. Barnard, and the only other Wuaiyuan Railway. The surround. and 7 injured during the week-end, suicide thereby. Madame Sun ?eft
and many of the labour leaders are
mechanic named occupant is a King Fuad has left for Egypt vid Little. It is hoped to complete a Two flights this month. may do as the result of road accidents, for Moscow soon after. Previous under suretics for their good being countryside is under five feet
haviour. much to prove or disprove the The most serious incident con- to her return she had indicated
of water, and there is great dam-
return flight to India and back in Japanese contention. They are:-- cerned a motor-car which erashed an unaltered view of the present
age to "cropt, "while many cattle have been drowned.
a week, and the beginning has been The scheduled flight of the Ger- through the parapet of Staines grouping, but without question a
This view it shattered by the The flood water in all the rivere
excellent. The giant machine took man dirigible Graf Zeppelin." Bridge, falling twenty-five feet. large proportion of Chinese and
off from Lympne just before dawn around the world from her base in
As a result one of the occupants foreign observers alike construed Berlin cablegram, but present in-is flowing towards Tientsin and is
on Friday, thus they flew to India Friedrichshafen to Japan, 414 was killed and four seriously hurt.her participation in the Govern- dications are that news of Madame, likely to beatit the Hai Ho. It is Siberia, across the Pacific to the Accidents were doubtless mini- ment's ceremonies of re-interring Sun's continued adherence to Left reported that the tremendous few
in 3 days..
KARACHI, Aug. United States Naval Air Station mised because the roads to London the body of Dr. Sun as at least a Wing ideas of an extreme nature is washing out the silt to een, and New York City) and across the i tor-cars were obliged to proceed at of affairs.
rigid restrictions upon the Press will eoon be able again to reach
Tientsin. Atlantic back to Friedrichshafen. a funeral pace.
(Continued at foot of next column). I here.
"New Commissioner.
CAIRO, Aug. 6. The newspaper El Akram an- pounces that Sir Percy Lorraine,
J
at present Minister. to Athens, will
The Duchess of Bedford's 'plano
at Lakehurst, New Jersey (near last night were so jammed that mo- tacit acquiesence in the present state will penetrate elowly because of the it is possible that coasting steamers definitely be appointed High Com. "The Spider," left for England at
missioner to Egypt.
6.30 a.m.