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Efforts to Save Viętima. To a man the Gillingham firemen, who in private life are plasterers. labourers, and clerks, ran to the burning tower and strove to save the victims,
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Time and again Fireman J. W. Langley dashed up the chute and erdeavoured to pull people from the tower. He was successful in reach ing man dressed as Charley's Aunt, who was wedged on one of the windows.
Despite the ferocity of the flames Langley remained on the ladder- which was itself burning-until he had pulled the man out of the win- dow and brought him to the ground amid cheers.
FAR EAST IN
"PARLIAMENT.
BRITISH NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA.
ELECTRICITY OF SHANGHAI.
COUNCIL CONTROL ENDED.
SALE TO POWER COMPANY CONSUMMATED.
In the House of Commons on July Mr. G. Löcker-Lampson, who opened a discussion on foreign
Shanghai-The sale of the Shang- 1 - affairs, wished to know how negotia-hai Municipal Electricity Depart tions were proceedings with China in ment to the Shanghai Power Co. regard to the disposal of the Boxer for Tls. $1,000,000, was consummat Indemnity. Since the Act of 1923ed when Mr. Samuel W, Murphy, was passed the Chinese had been representative of the new owners, promised by the British Government handed the Shanghai Municipal that they should have fuller autho- Council documents closing the deal. rity over the disposal of this money
The ceremony took place in the than they were given under that Secretary's office in the Adminis Act. Had it yet been decided what tration Building when Mr. W. was going to happen to the accu- Langley is suffering from exten-mulated funds and to the funds on Murphy signed the agreement, his sive burns about the bands and face which the instalments had not yet signature being witnessed by Judge and is receiving medical attention.
been paid! Was legislation going c. S. Franklin.
Mr. A vivid story was told by one of to be introduced to deal with the
S, M. the first firemen on the scene. matter, and, if so, when! These Edwards, Council secretary, then "We were quite helpless." he funds amounted to about 212,000,000, signed and sealed the document for said. The entire structure blew up The time had come when the Chi- the Council. as though it had been filled with
nese ought to have greater control petrol. We rushed our escape to
over the money, but before handing the wall, but within a "few minutes it over to them we should get ā the top of it was blazing. We could definite assurance in regard to the cot get more than half-way up, and
manner in which it was going to be ther our clothes were on the point spent, and "that it would not be of igniting.
frittered away.
"The men nad boys in the house were wrapped about in great sheet of impenetrable flames. The miniature searchlights which had been installed for the fete played on us as we worked. All we could do was to drag clear a few people who managed to get out of the inferno."
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New York. Failure of the New York City Police to make any head- way in the solution of the Rothstein, Yalo and other recent murders has resulted in the creation of a super- secret body within the detective: bureau-the members of which will mingle with gang leaders,
There will be fifty men in this
bureau, unknown to each other and to the other members of the Depart- ment. The first members of the force will be chosen from the moit
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ambitions young men of the detec tive bureau. Bright patrolimen and detectives in the regular depart- GIRLS' CLUB MOVEMENT. ment will be allowed to transfer to the body of "super-sleuths,” if} by alertness in bringing in valu- able information concerning gang operations they show themselves qualified.
MIXED HOLIDAY CAMPS SUGGESTED.
Mixed camps and the desire of The secret fifty will move about modern girls and boys to spend"" the city, ingratiate themselves with their holidays together were among the racketeers and, it is hoped by members of the underworld, join the subjects discussed at a confer Commissioner Whalen, gradually ence of the National Council of minul in the city and on every Cambridge, recently. get an inside track on every eri- | Girls' Clubs at Newnham College, outside thug whe lights here.
which concluded with toasts to the Those present at the ceremony,
prosperity of the Shanghai Power Company, included Messrs. H. E. Arnhold, H. Gordon Wright, A. W. Barkill, G. W. Sheppard, P. W. Sir A. Chamberlain said His Massey, K. Fukushima, R. McLay, Majesty's Minister in China had. R. Jones and T. H. U. Aldridge. recently been at Shanghai engaged
Letter of Credit. tives of the Narking Government, in conversations with representa-
Mr. Murphy handed the finance and he would be glad if the right department of the Municipal Coun hon. gentleman could tell them whe-cil with a letter of credit for Tis. ther there was any announcement 20,000,000, the expiration of which that he could make in regard to is dated June 30, 1930. The letter those conversations or the progress is drawn on the National City of negotiations. He assumed that Bank of New York. His Majesty's Government would In addition to turning over the "As a special favour," his mo base their policy upon the principles | letter of credit, Mr. Murphy accept- ther said, "I allowed him to put laid down in the British Declara ed on behalf of his company deben.ifty men, who will report in secret on for the fete a new suit which tion of December, 1926, and the furtures of the S.M.E.D. totaling we were giving him for his birth-ther document which followed it in Tis. 30,348,200.
Other payments day. It was burnt off his back, and January of the next year. If that ictaling Tis. 44,851,800 will be made. Cow I shall have to put away the
over a period of a year or more. were so, he hoped that between the other little presents we were going two sides of the House there would The new company also assumed the to give him. We had promised him be no difference as to the policy to
full indebtedness incurred in the that when he was 14 he could join. be pursued in circumstances which transfer. the Sea Scouts, He went last night were difficult. " as an ordinary schoolboy, and I was promised that he would come back sale. I cannot understand how he came to be in the building.'
His Birthday Suit. "Leslie Neale would have been 14 next Monday.
Mr Henry J. Barrett, a sick bay chief petty officer in the Navy, and the father of Reginald Barrett. whose body had now been identified. stated he had thought his son had gone to the fete just to see the fun, and not to take any part in the fire demonstration.
My son is a land Boy Scout, and I understood that he was go- ing to see the fireworks.
"In past years boys have been invited into the fire demonstration structure in order to slide down the shute when it is set alight, I would certainly never have allowed my son to do that. I hope there will be an inquiry and that the practice. will be stopped."
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The Commercial Treaty, Mr. A. Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that no doubt the right hon. gentleman aware that conversations had been recently conducted by Sir Miles Lampson, His Majesty's Minister at Peping, and the Chinese authorities, such as a commercial treaty between the two countries. Another question was the rendition of Weihaiwei, the future utilisation of the British share of the Boxer Indemnity, and the question of extra-territoriality. The right hon. gentleman must also be aware of the general lines of the instruction upon which Sir Miles Lampson had been acting, as those instructions were formulated on the authority of the right hon. gentleman before he left office. With regard to the commer
A high official at the Royal Nav-cial treaty, the right hon. gentleman al Barracks. Chatham, where the cadets came from, said.
"We had no knowledge that the boys were taking part in this spectacle. They had been dismissed some while after they had taken part in the gunnery display and a demonstration of dancing the hornpipe and we were no longer responsible for them.
Had we known, however, they intended taking part in the fire brigade's display we should never have allowed it without consulting
their parents first."
The boys mostly belonged to the Medway sea scouts, or as they are called locally, Naval cadets. They are really not attached to the Navy, though trained and financed by the Gunnery School at the Royal Nav- al Barracks:
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Leaps From Roof. Grim stories of the fire were told by a tall grey-haired fireman, whose bandaged hands were evi- dence of the part he played.
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In all my career as Breman, I have never been a spectator of such an awful thing. I was standing by close to the structure when the fire broke out. It was a question of seconds before the whole build ing was almost destroyed by the hungry flames.
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A fund of fifty thousand dollars has already been set aside for the initial work of the seleet group of by the three methods by mail, by secret telephone lines and by word to another of the body who in turn will transmit the information to headquarters. Commissioner Whal en said that he was determined to wipe out gangs in New York and that he was certain that this startl- upon
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The new Shanghai Power Coming innovations-modelled pany is a subsidiary of the Ameri- existing bodies car & Foreign Power Company capitals-was the way to do it. Delaware as well as local offices in with headquarters in the state of Shanghai. The decision of the Shanghai Municipal Council to sell the S.M.E.D, was made several months ago when the ratepayers of the Settlement voted in favor of the deal.
According to present plans, the ataff, both executive and labour, will remain unchanged. Changes in personnel may be made from time to time, according to Mr. Murphy, but then only when re- quired.
Governments to whom the Note was addressed had yet replied, but their replies were under consideration and would be forwarded to the Chi- nese Government in due course.
rights was directly discussed be- The question at extra-territorial, tween Sir Miles Lampeon and the Chinese authorities during his recent would remember that a draft treaty visit. The Chinese Government ad- on commerce and navigation was dressed a Note on the subject to prepared on the usual lines of such the Powers concerned on April 27, treaties. It made allowance for the when the right hon. gentleman was conditions existing in China. This still in office. That Note had been was recently submitted to the For-published in the Press. None of the eign Secretary of China, Dr. Wang. A reply had been received from the, Chinese Government sending a counter-dralt to the Government's proposals, and this was handed to Sir Miles Lampeon at Nanking. The draft indicated that there was con siderable difference of opinion be tween the British and the Chinese as to what this treaty should con- tain. At a perusal of the draft Sir Miles Lampson suggested to the Chinese Minister that experts should visions. be appointed by both sides, to meet shortly at Shanghai, in order to discuss the question and see how Fa: common ground between the two. Partica should be reached; and 'this' Groposal made by Sir Miles Lamp- son on behalf of the Government bad been accepted by the Chinese.
Rendition of Welhável.
Weihaiwei, the right hon. gentle- With regard to the rendition of man would remember that that was one of the first subjects raised by the Chinese Minister when Sir Miles Lampson reached Shanghai at
In the glare of the blaze I saw the end of May. The offer to res
tore the case was made at the boys and men leaping from the roof. They fell 40 feet, their cio-Washington Conference in 1999, and thes blazing and illuminating them a draft agreement was negotiated as they came. We could do noth- with the Chinese Government at ing. The building was destroyed
2:03: instant.
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To approach it was to risk death. All that we managed to do was to rush close to the flames and drag away, those boys who had jumped. Several of us were burnt in trying to do this. I managed to grab hold of two boya; one was badly burnt and his flaming cloth ing was in danger of killing him.
That was how I burnt my hand: so badly putting out the flames.
"The other boy I dragged away from the building. He was not 'un- conscious, but although terribly in- jured did not cry out."
"Diabolic," was the description of the scene given by Mr. Arthur Stewart, of Gillingham.
I saw several boys spring from the roof, living torches with their clothes alight, and crash to the ground," he said.
**Around the building there was horror and terror, but further away were thousands still laughed. They did not know what had hap- pened. They left the park still laughing, unconscious that death stalked in the ruined building.”.
Peping in 1924 Unfortunately the aubsequent civil war made it im possible to implement that propos ed agreement. Sir Miles Lampson therefore proposed to Dr. Wang that negotiations should proceed at once on the basis on the 1924 agreement. Dr. Wang, however, put forward a list of modifications and amendments which would require very careful consideration. With regard to the Boxer Indemnity, that had also formed, the subject of discussion. between Sir Miles Lampson and Dr. Wang. The question was discussed with a view to taking early action on the basis of the report submitted by Lord Buxton's Anglo-Chinese Committee in 1928. The Chinese but forward the suggestion that the indemnity fund should be applied far, the rebebilitation and construc.. tion of the railways, and that any interest accruing therefrom should be used as an endowment for educa tional purposes. The question was discussed in detail, and Sir Milea Lampson submitted proposals which were now the subject of considera- tion between the parties.
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Bequel to Murder Case.
by Scotland Yard will be used by Some of the methods employed
the new bureau, said the Commis information gathered by the secret sioner in announcing his plan, and service unit will not be accredited to it in such a way that an out- sider could ascertain information on the membership.
The names of the men in the secret service body will be discard- ed and they will be designated by numbers. They will not wear po- lice shields and will have no author- ity to make arrests. They will be kept out of investigations of vice and graft. The only written record and gambling to avoid temptations of their reports will be in the hands of their commander, a man who, it is understood, will be an officer with a runk above that of Captain, Commissioner Whalen backs up his The formation of this service by warning of a few months ago, when for the United Press, he said that án an article written exclusively the Police Department of the City of New York intended to prepare itself in such a way that the ganga
ters could not survive here.
Mr. Dalton, Under Secretary for It is understood that lack of de- Foreign Affairs, referring to the velopments of the mystery in the Razer Indemnity, said negotiations murder of Frank Marlow, boxing were proceeding. If they came to a promoter, who was lured from a successful issue, he was advised that restaurant and taken for a ride and some legislation would probably be shot to death on the outskirts of necessary to give effect to their pro-Flushing, led to the establishment
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Miss Florence J. Yele, divisional West of England Y.W.C.A., said general secretary of the South and. that, while she felt that boys and spend their holidays together, there girls were increasingly wanting to were too few places to which they could go at a cost within their boys had to do without wages if means. So many working girls and
they took a holiday that many more could be taken at camps were required at which they cast at from 158. to 18. She knew that there were many doubts in the minds of people concerning the advisabil ity of having mixed camps, but as the desire grew on the part of days together, she felt that such boys and girls to spend their holi-
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spoke of an industrial camp near Miss Jephcott (Birmingham) that city where first of all eight boys asked if their best girls" could come with them, and this year 40 would attend. The welfare supervisor said that it was work ing quite satisfactorily.
It was decided to approach na tional education authorities for ac- commodation in their buildings for mixed holidays.
At yesterday's meeting Lady National Council) said that she Eleanor Keane chairman of the was convinced that if the girls club movement were to go forward. they must in a few years time amalgamate with the boys' clubs taking their holidays and doing movement, Boys and girls were everything together in a way they ago, and she thought the first thing would not have thought of 15 years they must do was to combine in camps and holidays...
Mrs. de Beaumont said that the modern trend was towards combin- ing together, which did away with all the old prudery, which she sup posed did not make for morality
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they had run mixed clubs in that city for some years and they were a
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