R.A.F. DISASTER.
TWO AIRMEN KILLED. -IN EGYPT,
'PLANE, RECENTLY USED BY PRINCE OF WALES.
[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.) -
LONDON, April 23. The Air Ministry states that Pilot Officer Francis Barron and Air- craftsman Cyril-Fred Davis were killed in an aeroplane crash at Heliopolis. Both were attached to a bombing squadron at Khartum...
It is unofficially stated, that the wrecked seroplane was the one in which the Prince of Wales travelled from Khartum" to Cairo.
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL
SETTLEMENTS,
SIR CHARLES ADDIS VICE.
CHAIRMAN,
'[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BASLE April 2 The Bank of International Settlements was formally launch-
PIRATE OUTRAGE NEAR SWATOW.
JAPANESE STEAMER
ATTACKED,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.
INDIAN TERRORISM
STEMMED.
FIRM ACTION BY GOVT."
RIOTS IN MADRAS.
WARSHIPS SEARCH FOR MISSING CREW.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, }
"':
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, April According to reports reaching the Navy Office, Chinese pirates raided the Japanese freighter Kamiyoshi Mary which grounded on Sunday night off Swatow.
The Japanese crew totalling about thirty are missing, and Japanese warships are searching the nearby shore and islands.
FOREIGN GUNBOAT SALUTES FOR CHIANG.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
NANKING, April 23. When Marshal Chiang Kai Shek was leaving here for Hankow, the foreign qurbonts Bred salutes. Chiang is expected at Hankow this evening.
AMERICAN PRISON HOLOCAUST.
OVER 300 TRAPPED IN CELLS,
TERRIBLE SCENES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]
COLUMBUS, April 22.
SIMLA, April 23. The situation is distinctly
The death-roll in the prison easier after last week's ferment,fire is now officially estimated at according to reports from all the 307, it is now revealed that the the civil first alarm of fire was given by important contres of
a well-known campaign. The convict who is disobedience
practical joker and his warning promulgation of the
was greeted with laughter which Bengal Ordinance outwitted the the flames which soon appeared Bengal errorists and the situa- silenced. tion at Calcutta has improved con-
siderably.
prompt
•
The Punjab is quict and, while there was excitement in Amritsar, it calmed down later on.
An even more satisfactory fea ture is the absence of dangerous excitement in the towns of the United Provinces, despite the ar- rest of local Nationalist leaders.
Sporadic disturbances are not regarded anywhere in India as in- dicating general uprising
T
ed to-day at a, director's meeting GERMANY AND ARMS FOR against the Government, but it is
which unanimously adopted the report of its organisation sub- mitted by the Britian delegate,, Sir Charles-Addis. The meeting ananimously elected. Mr. Gates W. Magarrah, of the United States, chairman, and with one dissen- tient elected M. Pierre Quesnay (France) as managing director.
The meeting also discussed the question of share issues, of which the Reichsbank will take up the sixteen thousand allotted to the
German market. The American and Japanese groups will each have sixteen thousand, distributed among a number of private banks in New York and Tokyo.
The shares held by Germany, "America and Japan. will not bo "offered to the public, but, on the contrary, in the case of Britain, Italy, France and Belgium, each bank of issue will offer sixteen thousand shares to the public.
Sir Charles Addis (Britain), and Doctor Melchior (Germany),
both of whom played a large part in the elaboration of the Young Plan, were elected vice-chairmen of the Bank.
Owing to the fact that Great Britain has not yet ratified "the Young Plan, the meeting to-day was only of a semi-official charac
Its decisions will be confirm.
ter.
ed at an official meeting to be held
Boon.
All the States, concerned have ratified the Young Plan.
CHINA.
GOVT. "ISSUES" "WARNING.
"THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, April 22,
Believing that a general release of prisoners was being attempted, prison keepers rushed to and fro placing machine guns in position and shouting for ammunition, while outside the prison guarde trained guns on the convicts until they realised at length that many prisoners were locked up in the blazing cells..
Keepers and convicts then joined in the rescue efforts to release the screaming man.
Frenzied Prisoners.
A Negro convict climbed up a recognised that the situation de burning building carrying a rope mands constant vigilance.
and entered through a window. Other convicts then followed and attempted to release the frenzied prisoners.
Police Stoned.
MARDEAS, April 27 -
A large crowd gathered near a In view of the renewal of civil police station in the centre of the war in China, the German Gov-city to-day and stoned the Police, ernment has issued a warning to the effect that exporters and ship- ping companies are not to partici-
pate in the transport of arins and munitions to China. -
the
According to one report. doors of the cast call block, where thousand men, including bad men," were incarcerated, could not opened owing to the failure of the electric power by which the keepers unlock the doors.
Hammers and acetylene torches were used in vain to
open the
The mob ignored the repeated warnings of the Deputy-Commis-be sioner of Police with the result that the police charged with their lathis (cudgela). »
The mol was dispersed, but it EMPEROR OPENS DIET.
again gathered and, threw stones [TRROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] at another police station. A 20- quel to the disturbances was the TOKYO, April 23. The formal opening of the speci-arrest of ten volunteers charged af Parliamentary session was held with intimidating shopkeepers. in the House of Peers to-day.
The Emperor, wearing the full dress of a Generalissimo, read the Rescript declaring the session be
igun.
U.S.. SHIPPING BOARD. SENATE ORDERS SWEEPING
INVESTIGATION.
بلسم
{RZOTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE
WASHINGTON, April 22..
The Senate has ordered a sweep
doors and when the electric power was restored many prisoners in- side were found incinerated or suffocated.
An inquiry into the disaster has Later, eight people were injured been opened. At this the chief here when the police made a charge warder testified that his only in
demonstration by following
structions in case of the fire were to prevent the convicts from escap ink
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50,000 persons on the beach, The gathering was under the auspices of the civil disobedience committee.
Further Arrests. ******
BOMBAY, April 29, K. M. Munshi has been convict ed on a charge of incitement.. to disobedience of the salt laws and hne been sentenced to six months* simple imprisonment and ordered
One of the keepers on duty in the cell block where most of the fatalities occurred has been sus- pended.
Floors Covered With Dead,
Over one hundred nurses were
"HUGE FIRE IN THE
PHILIPPINES."
TWELVE THOUSAND RENDERED HÖMELESS.
DYNAMITE AND BOILERS. EXPLODE.
Iloilo, April 15.—Involving a loss estimated at 5,000,000 pesos,
can
A "DARE-TO-DIE' CORPS FORMED.
THREE HUNDRED VALIANTS TO ATTACK SUNCHOW.
THOUSAND BAMBOO RAFTS TO TRANSPORT MEN.
WARSHIPS IN EPIC DUEL
STORIES OF THE NAVY
IN WAR.
TRAWLER'S- HAULS
Why is it that nearly all war hooks are concerned only with the armies 1
Advices from Wuchow state that the report that serious fighting has
The Navy was certainly not of the Insular Lumber Co., an Ameri- broken out at Sunchow is exag
gerated. The military situation, secondary importance. Without it, firm at Sagay, Occidental
however, is developing, as prepara-we could not have scut soldiers to Negros, burned yesterday and totions by the Cantou-Nanking troops France or to any other theatre of day.
for the attack upon
War Without the Fleet, indeed,
Great Britain would soon have been
are under The conflagration left 12,000 per Sunchow." son, homeless.
Machinery, lumber stock, labour, era' quartara-everything connected with the company, in fact-bas, gone up in flame, according to telegraphie reports here.
The blaze started at 10 o'clock
last night and was still "raging at 6 o'clock this morning.
. Continuous explosions of stered dynamite and the boilers of steam engines inercased the panic which
spread with the growth of the fire. Many are known to have been killed, but the exact number has
not yet been ascertained.
Reports indicated that this was the greatest Bre in the history of Occidental Negros. The fames were allowed to
rage
without efforts.
at control as it was plain that they were beyond any human power not aided by more than the small emergency equipment at the com- pany's plant.
At last reports, everything in
spread of the blaze. the vicinity was threatened by
Damage Estimated at Ten Million Ревод,
Iloilo, P., April 17.—While it is still impossible to obtain ac curate reports on the conflagration still raging at Sagay, Occidental Negros, it is known, that at least four are dead and that damage is estimated at P. 10,000,000 twice the estimate made yesterday.
The Insular Lumber Co., an American firm, where the fire start- ed, is the largest lumber plant in the 'Orient, It has been wholly de- stroyed and the fire is spreading.
The disaster represents the great
way
Recently, a
"dare-to-die corps,
consisting of 300 men, has been reduced to famine. organized to attack Sunchow, which
But here is a book about the -
Some Naval-
Tronside forces. A thousand or rendered:- has been strongly fortified by the Navy in the Great War.
more bamboo rafts are being made at Wuchow, and these will be taken to Suachoy for the troops to cross the river. General Chen Tsai Tong has left for the front to direct operations.
"Sur- War
Secrets" is the title, and the author Grif" (A.S.G.), who publishes it from Cross Deep, Twickenham.
Griff's "
account of his own ex- periences as an officer in the 10th Cruiser Squadron is told briskly and well. He describes many stir-
years.
Sank Boarding Boat.
According to & military expert, the capture of Sunchow is no easy matter in view of the strategic ing episodes in the long fight nature of the place and the strong against German commerce raiders defensive works erected there. The in the Atlantic and off the North- "East Scottish Coast, that region of attackers have to be cautious so as to avoid needless sacrifices. The mysterious happenings in the war Kwangs troops and the Iron- sides," according to this military man, 'are very poorly equipped. They can hardly obtain sufficient supplies owing to the difficulty of transportation in the mountainous districts of Kwangsi. It is reliably reported that each soldier of the combined forces has less than 200 rounds of ammunition. Under such conditions, they will scarcely be able to make a determined stand Sanchow. In point of finances, they are worse off than their adver
sarics.
PEPING STUDENTS ARRESTED.
SUSPECTED COMMUNISTS.
(Wah Tas Fat Pao.)
PEPINO, April 23. Among the 44 students who were arrested for holding a meeting against Yen Hai Shan, there are twenty-one students of the Peking National University,"
A meeting was held yesterday by students of the University to dis cuss measures for the release of their colleagues.
Some of the arrested are suspect rst single destruction in the hi-ed to be Communists. In conse-
has been declared in the city, havoc wrought by typhoons.
Reports are coming from Fabri- Sagay municipality, 100 kilometres from Iloilo.
A steamer was seen east of Shet- and steering for the Atlantic. She looked like an ordinary merchant vessel. A boarding party was sent to examine her papers.
Without any warning, a'conceal- ed machine-gun spat out and sank the boarding boat, deck houses and obstructions swung apart simultane- ously, revealing hidden guns; and strong armour-plated shields were discerned, affording protection to observation the gun crew and Bosta
A desperate fight began. Tho British cruiser's 4-inch guns re plied, hurling high explosives across the German boat's decks and riddling her water line with shells.
Like Fights of Old,
A terrific smashing up was now going on, burning splinters were ying in all directions; her upper works were but a shambles of torn and twisted steel, and through the holes in her aides could be seen dull red glows as the flames gradually gained the mastery between decks,
Accuracy of an was scarcely needed, the range being so short. It was like the fights of olden days.. Tongues of flume were belching forth through her decks; volumes
Ling investigation into ship sales, to pay a fine of three hundred sorely needed to attend to the in tory of the Philippines except for quence of the incident, martial law of smoke and flashes of fire were
U.S. SENATE AND NAVAC construction loans and mail con
tracts entered into by the Ship- TREATY.
ping Board.
TO BE RATIFIED AT ONCE 1
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WAS. INGTON, April 28. President Hoover has decided to. submit the Naval Treaty to the Senate immediately it arrives here. This decision followed a confer-. ence with Scuate leaders who in- formed the President that submis- sion of the Treaty at present would mean a prolongation of the pre- sent Session or the pigeonholing of the Treaty until the regular Session in December,
Senator Borah stated that he would try to secure ratification during the Bession and expressed the opinion that two or three weeles would he sufficient time.
The "big navy" men hold that -no action-should be taken until the Naval experts have been beard. President Hoover is of the opinion that much of the effect of the Treaty would be lost if he delayed asking for its immediate ratifica tion.
LIGHT AGAIN,
(CNITED TRESS.]
THE "ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
ATTACKED.
rupees. He was given an alterna jured and dying. The floors of tive to the line of an additional
two months simple imprisonment, the building were covered with, which is a barrio (village) of
Munshi was a prominent mem victims. ber of the Bombay Legislature until he resigned recently to join the civil disobedients.
Professor Gharpure, president of the "War Council," and the ALLEGED VIOLATION OF COK joint secretaries of the Bombay
Provincial Congress RUPT PRACTICES. ACT.
Committee have been arrested at Bhatiabang. Chittagong Rebels Surrounded.
[UNITED PRESS.]
Washington, April 15-A charge that the Anti-Saloon Langue of. America "agrantly and audaci ausly violated the Corrupt Practi- CCB Act
was made before the Scanfe lobby committee to-day by Congressman George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts in continuing testimony which he started last week.
Mr. Tinkham declared that the Southern-Methodist Board of Tem perance and Social Service, headed by Bishop James Cannon Jr., "is indulging in offensive and coercive lobbying activities."
CHITTAGONG, April 22. Business here is now proceeding as usual after the recent uprising when rebels raided the armouries and then escaped to the hills.
Forty members of the Eastern Rifles, together with a troop of Light Horse, engaged thirty rebels a few miles from Chittagong to- day and it is believed that the lat- ter were surrounded.
drivera.
It is feared Incendiariam Suspected.
that Cadiz,10 kilometres from Sagay, may be There was no concerted attempt destroyed if the fire does not die on the part of the convicts to es- down itself. The confiagration is cape, most of them engaging in
so great that it has been found in- possible to fight it effectively. Assisting the fireman.
Communications in the devastat- Many of the victims died of suf-ed ares are crippled. The Red focation.
Cross is preparing to render aid There were 305 bodies in the to the homeless. Prison Yard at 8.45 p.m. when the The same plant was similarly fire was still burning. It is be- destroyed six years ago. By a lieved that the fire was of incen- coincidence, the former fire Was diary origin, as it started in sev-alau in Holy Week, a time of great eral places.
+
hundred
five One thousand troops; armed with machine guns, tear gas, and bayonets, are station cd in the prison as a precaution. against disturbance.
".
There was considerable unreet The number killed in Saturday's when the grave perile was over to be and there ja evidence that same outbreak is now believed nine, comprising two. Europeans, of the prisoners are now promot
taxi-ing trouble. Fire hoses were cut three constables and four
and four firemen shot, while there were still 2,000 prisoners wander- The Anti-Saloon League, accord:
Ennger Striking Starts.
ing in the yard, an hour after ing to the witness, paid the cam-
CALCUTTA, April 22.
their return to their cells had been paign expenses of Representative
The Police raided the premises ordered. FAMOUS DIAMOND IN THE Andrew Volstead, knowing that
The penitentiary was built to Mr. Volstead would introduce the of the newspaper Advance which
is published in English, and ar- house 1,500 but the roll call this so-called Volstead Act. and be chairman of the committee to rested the editor, P. K. Chakra morning showed a population of which would be referred bills deal-varti, on charges in connexion 4,350.
with an article on civil disobedi-
decision in the cans of the famous despite public announcements that evil disobedience council had also
Washington, April 16-Finaling with this question."
Congressman Tinkham said that cace
The Secretary of the Bengal Nassak diamond, weighing the Auti-Saloon League's budget been arrested. carats is due to be rendered by for 1927 amounted to G8760,000 a Political prisoners in the Alipore the Court of Customs Appeals.
This stone was originally obtain-year; the League's returna. under
the requirements of the Corrupt goal, including Ben Gupta, the by the East India Company Practices Act showed for the years Mayor of Calcutta, and S. C. Bosc, from a temple in the town of 1927, 1023 and 1920 less than another prominent Nationalist, are now hunger striking as a pro Nasaak. Later the Marquis of
test against the alleged undue use Westminister possessed it, follow. This amounted to a direct vola- ing which it was lost to the public tion of the law, according to Mr. of violence by the gaol officials to enforce obedierice to the gaol re- eye for many years.
Tinkham, and he felt that action
gulations.
An American jeweller imported
$100,000.
it recently duty free, as a work should be taken.
of art because of the beauty of
ita entting...
Volstead's Denial.
Three Policeman Killed."
CALCUTTA, April 23. St. Paul, April 18.-Questioned Other jewellers opposed this here to-day with reference to
Professor Bijaykumar Bhatta antyfesto on the ground of chargeshington that his Cheavys, the Swaraj ice persident unfair discrimination. They point election to Longreat was backed of Howrun Munitipend ed out that it was the work of financially by the Anti-Baloon other persons were arrested while artisans and that it was possible Lenguo of America, Andrew picketing foreign cloth shops in to eat and make ranny costly act Volstead,
Congressman | Howrah market most of which are tings which were actually artistis from Minnesota, and author of the Moslem-owned. Several persone, in. but which had not in other cases famed Volstead prohibition enfor- cluding an English police superin beon construed to be such as to cement act, to-day denied that hetendent, were injured in a melee render the jewellery exempt from had ever received any Anti-Baloon between the police and volunteers. duty,
Lengua money.
(Continued at foot of next column),
former
1.
importance to the Catholics of the Philippines. The company was founded by former Senator Fassett of Elmira, New York.
#
WORKERS "AGAINST
PROHIBITION.
DESIRE TO ENGAGE RER- VICES OF SENATOR.
"LITERARY DIGEST'S" POLL ON PROHIBITION.
(UNITED PRESS.]"
soaring high above the vessel, the whole superstructure collapsing in burning heaps, fore and aft, Her guns ceased to bark; she was settling down by the head and sinking fast.
But our cruiser, the Alcantara, was in as bad plight. Both ships went down.
It was off the Shetlands, too, that a couple of German submarines New York, April 10-The latest and their cruisers were captured. 6gures on the Literary Digest's "
A Swedish steamer carrying dried nation-wide prohibition poll to-day fish aroused suspicion. Her crew showed the following vote totals: was taken off and replaced by
For continued efforts at enforce-naval ratings in plain clothes.
ment-915,081.
Fot modification-951,375. For repeal-1,308,016.
Next evening an enemy sub- marine came alongside for oil fuel. It was disabled and the crew sccuz- ed. Not long afterwards a second boat asked for oil, and shared the The death of Mrs. W. G. Grace, same fate. When the little atenmor wife of the famous cricketer, at towed the two captives into harbour. Hawkhurst, Kent, recalls the fact there was, says Griff, many a that she was married to the doctor hearty laugh.
a few days before they sailed on He has a very interesting chap an Australian cricket tour which ter about doings at the Crystal hecame known as "the honeymoon Palace, which, shortly after war tour." Mrs. Grace was greatly in began, was sade the headquarters. terested in cricket and attended the of the Royal Naval Volunteer Cambridge and Oxford match when Reserve. her eldest son, the late W., G. The was great mystery about the caves under Grace, junior, played for Cam vigilantly-guarded Bridge. He had the misfortune to Camdenplace, Chislehurst. "Griff" register two ducks," and as he tells us that they were used for returned to the pavilion the second storing great quantities of high ex- time, two women sat with tears plosives, from which the require
were his mother and "sister.
[UNITED PRESS,]
Washington, April 16-Mr. Henry Curran, widely known as falling down their cheeks. They mente of Wool#ich Arsenal were
supplied daily.
This process went on all through lawyer and former newspaper cor- respondent, told members of the
the war, unknown to even the near- Senate "lobby committee" to-day Thomas A. Edison the famous est, residents in Chislehurst, so well that the Association Against Pro-inventor, expects that machinery kept had the secret been." hibition employed only persons will soon be completed for produc- A report from Noakhali states favouring modification or repeal of tion of emergency rubber from that Jatin Drauathroy, the officer the national prohibition law. goldenrod, to be planted on a large in charge of Feni police station, I would like to employ Senator scale at the Henry Ford plantation Mr. Justice Hill in granting a and two constables were shot while Brookhart of Iowa because of a near Savannah, Ga. Give me five decree nisi to a naval officer in the searching four xuen. Their "ngeal letter I have here, and also because more years and the United States Divorce Court said that he was every time he speaks in favour of will have a rubber crop which can very much shocked to see that a ants escaped.
Another "Volunteer" Bentenced. prohibition he turns thousands be utilized in less than 12 months wife should have entered into against it," declared the witness. time," anid Mr. Edison."Right marriage with such dreadful levity BOMBAY, April 23, Sadhu Swamidrand, one
Mr. Curran was not allowed to how I am working on machinery as was shown in her letters, and to extract commercial rubber from that with equal levity she should Gandhi's volunteers who was put read the letter mentioned.
Mr. Curran said that the As goldenrod," he said When the commitmiconduet. The suit was in charge of the civil disobedience camp at Villeparle near Bombay sociation Against Prohibition had machinery is ready, we will start brought by Lieut.-Comdr. Vivian spent 8427,000 on behalf of repeal largracale planting. We have die Russell Bowlby, R.N., of H.M.S. when the former superintendent was arrested has been sentenced to of the prohibition law. It had as covered a variety that grows 10 Courageous, who accused his wife, cight month rigorous imprison- sisted "wet" Congressmen but had feet above a man's head but by Mrs. Honor Cecilia Bowlby (nen de cross-breeding wo will produce a Paget) of misconduct with the Hon. were fe of 530 rupees for agent nothing for labirine be its
plant carrying. Berat fine Anthony Crepigny Chande Vivier breaking the ER
Replying to Senator Caraway inquiry as to whether it was doing tical for an emergency crop." Al- time of the marriage in 1028, Mrs. anything to destroy liberty. Mr. though Mr. Edison does little of Bowlby, it was stated, was a ward Curran, denied that this was the the actual labour in his laboratory, in chancery. Comdr. Bowlby said. case but insisted that the prohibi- he inspects his goldenrod daily and that while he was with his ship in tionsts had tried for 20 years to can furnish his staff enough ideas the Meditedranean, his wife twice. destroy liberty, and had Bnally in an hour to keep the assistants cabled him suggesting he should
busy for work.
divorce Ber. been successful.
of
Gandhi's Allegation Refuted.
JALALPUR, April 23. Enquiries in official circles in regard to Gandhi's complaint that the police had thrown powder in the salt show that the allegation is entirely false,