MURDER AT SHANGHAI
CHINESE SHIPPING MANAGER THE VICTIM.
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SEANGHAI, July 24. A daring attempted murder on the Bund took place this morning when Mr. T. C. Chao, General Manager of the China Merchants' Steam. Navigation Company, was shot by two Chinese,
Mr. Chao was shot in one lung, but he is expected to recover.
The motive for the deed is un-
known,
Death of Mr. Chao.
LATER Mr. T. C. Chao died at nine c'clock this evening.
INQUEST ON AIR CRASH VICTIMS.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER A MYSTERY.
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LONDON, July 23.
The inquest opened to-day on
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WANG CHING WEI BRITISH SEA-POWER
BUSY.
BELOW SAFETY.
RESIDENCE STRICTLY
AUSTRALIA'S POSITION IN TIME OF WAR.
GUARDED.
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PEIPING, July 94. Wang Ching Wei-has established his headquarters in Dr. Wellington Koo's former residence, where he spent a busy morning interviewing callers, including the representa tives of Yen. Hai Shan, Feng Yu Hsiang and Chang Hsueh Liang.
Owing to persistent, tumours of a
plot to assassinate Wang Ching Wei, the place is being strictly guarded by police und plain clothes detectives.
CONSULS RESCUE
MISSIONARIES.
REBEL LEADER RENDERS EVERY COURTESY.
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FooChow, July 24.
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SYDNEY, July 24,
A warning that recent events
tended to reduce British sea-power below the safety minimum is given in the annual report by Sir Henry Chauvel, Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Forces.
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While drawing attention to Aus tralia's dangerous position in time
ofwar, Sir Henry Chauvel suggests
that her contribution to Imperial naval defence should be revised in accordance with what she can
afford.
EARTHQUAKE IN NAPLES.
FAMOUS CATHEDRAL
COLLAPSES.
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NAPLES, July 23.
It began at 11a.m. and lasted for 45 seconds.
Mr. A. J. Martin, British Con- This morning's earthquake is the victims of the aeroplane dis-sul, and Mr. John J. Muccio, believed to be the severest in the aster at Meopham Green or Mon- United States Consu! here, return-history of the city.
ed last night from Yenpingfn,. day was adjourned after identifica tion until August 13, when it will bringing back all the British mis- be re-adjourned if the Air Minissionaries, numbering 23, and most try and other experts have not of the Americans, numbering 21. concluded their, investigations by then.
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The Consuls received every cour tesy and facility from Lu Hsing
The streets, which were deserted, moment thronged bene, with terrified people rushing in the open spaces, and storming the churches, where they implored the priests to bring out the miraculous
At present the cause of the dis-pang, the rebel leader who is menac-images.
ing Foacho, and from Govern. aster is a mystery.
meng officials opposing him.
Misses Nettleton and Harrison [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
are believed to be comfortably Eye-Witnesses Evidence.
boused and well-treated.. RuGay, July 53. The coroner's inquiry into the
day's air disaster was opened near
for their release.
were
RUSSIANS STEAL $2,000,000.
MYSTERIOUS GOLD SHIPMENT.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
1} SHANGHAI, July 24. Two Russians are alleged to have arrived in Shanghai with 82,000,000 worth of Siberian gold stolen from the Soviet Gold Mining Company at Vladivostock.
How the huge consignment was shipped is a mystery.
Three Soviet secret service men are reported to have arrived here wish the object of trailing the booty.
An interesting feature of the robbery is that the men decamped from Dairen disguised as women.
KING GEORGE AND CHRISTIAN REUNION
ADDRESS TO LAMBETH CONFERENCE BISHOPS.
.
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BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
RUGBY, July 23. The King and Queen to-day were greeted at Buckingham Palace by 300 Bishops who are present in London for the Lambeth Confer-
ence.
DUTCH RUBBER PRODUCTION.
REDUCTION PROPOSALS
-AGREED TO.
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AMSTERDAM July 24.
LONDON NAVAL PACT.
SECOND READING PASSED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 23. The House of Commons to-day passed the second reading of the'|
A cominuniqué issued by the meet-Bill to give affect to the London. ing of the Dutch Rubber Producers Naval Treaty without a division. Association held last week, when 119 producers, representing a pro-
duction of 38,900 tons, declared in favour of the proposals of the Com- mittee of the Dutch Rubber Pro- to negotiate ducers' Association with the Dutch East Indies Govern ment for the purpose of achieving restriction for all rubber producers, including native, to 75 per cent. of the 1999 crop.
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JAPAN TO RATIFY.
GANDHI PARLEYS.
·WRITTEN - MESSAGE, TO CONGRESS PRISONERS:
THROCUM REUTER'S 'AGENCY..]
POONA, July 24. Gandhi handed Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakár a written message for the Pandit Motilal and Jawahar Lal Nehru, which dele- gates are taking to Allahabad, where the Nehrus are serving their terms of imprisonment.
EUROPE AIR
RACE.
COMMANDER BUTLER FIRST
AT SEVILLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, July 24. The London Naval Treaty is now in the hands of the Privy Council.
Following Mr. Hamaguchi's visit to the Hayama Palace this morn- ing to formally place the Treaty before the Emperor for his "ap- proval, the Emperor's aide-de-camp
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE) Twenty-one producers voted journeyed to Tokyo this afternoon and asked the Privy Council to
Ruday, July 23. against the proposals, representing deliberate and advise upon, the
Commander Allan Butler to-day a production of 93,999 tons, includ-Treaty.
Returning to Tokyo, Mr. Hama-continued to hold the lead in the ing 11.800 tons belonging to Ameri-guchi conferred with Baron Kura- Round Europe Air Contest. can producers who work up the tomi. President of the Privy Coun product in their own factories. ' cil, who promised early action.
It is authoritatively expected that ratification will be made before September.
PRESIDENT HINDENBURG
RETURNS."
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
BERLIN, July 23, President von Hindenburg has returned from Coblenz.
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this morning, making the journey, He was the first to reach Seville from Madrid in a little over two hours.. Later he passed over Ma- drid on the return fight, procced- ing onwards in his Gipsy Moth to Saragossa and Barcelona..
Thorn, another British competi
BOLTED DOORS AND Ator, had been following him close
SAWN. PULPIT.
A remarkable scene in Pembroke Baptist Chapel, Liverpool, where the Rev, C. H. Birrell, the father
of Mr. Augustine Birrell, and the Rev. C. F. Aked had been pastors, was described to Mr. Justice. Ear-
During & speech to the visitors, His Majesty referred to the effect of the war on religion and to the possibilities of Christian reunion. Hic expressed particular pleasure NIGHT LIFE IN LONDON, well in the Chancery Division re-
at meeting Bishops of the Anglican Communion not only from the Dominions but from the United States, and said he had observed with interest that among the dele- gations had been an important one from the Orthodox Church.
A hundred years ago, said His Majesty, the Anglican Church was little more than the Church of a single Kingdom. The present Con ference was a worldwide gathering
ONLY A HEADACHE!
cently on a motion by the Baptist Union against Mr. James Golder, who said that he was a member of the congregation.
The union claimed an injunction Lights are popping out in the windows of the little Soho restaur-restraining Mr. Golder until trial or further order from entering the ants. Over there, where they have green chintz and unhappy oysters chapel premises except for the pur on a plate in the window, a waiter pose of attending Divine worship in shirt sleeves and a dickey is
and other meetings. hosing down the steps., yawning.
aftermidnight crawl,
clock
Mr. Roxburgh, for the union, read An affidavit by the Rev. David Lewis, the present pastor, in which
Above the sound of rushing feet were heard cries of mothers call- ing to their children, who torn from their sides in the con- fusion, which was increased by the inky darkness, due to the first shocks short circuiting the electric Lu Hsing-pang assured Mr. Mar- lighting, while through the crowd- death of the six victing of Mon- tin that every effort would be made ed streets vehicles of every descrip- of the united, though mostly self- The taxicabs have begun. the he said that on June 6 he went to tion dashed wildly, running over governing, churches which had at- many pedestrians in a generaltained the proportions of a general stampede.
council. Remember that ten years ago the question of the reunion of Christendom was foremost in your thoughts. You put before the world a call of unity, pleading for new endeavour to heat rents in the fabric
I have £15 and a quest to find of the Church. I am most happy the romance of London a night to learn that this appeal has not Night clubs. Romance. What been fruitless. It is my earnest pitcous lie! Usury in cellars.. hope and prayer that the work synthetic champagne in The latest casualty list is 278 which your last Conference began mugs, all the cheapness...
the scene of the crash this after- acon..
The evidence of eye-witnesses and the doctor was heard.
Mrs. Henderson, widow of the pilot, expressed sorrow for the relatives of the victims and added: "No one would have been more brokenhearted than the late pilot.*
Shortly before the inquest four representatives of the Junker Com- pany, the makers of the machine, had arrived, having flown from Germany.
CLOUDBURST IN YORKSHIRE.
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RAILWAY BRIDGES
DESTROYED.
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Loscos, July 23. The remains of the machine were It is feared that lives have been taken to London for a further de- lost in a flood which followed a tailed examination by officials of cloudburst in the Eek Valley of the Air Ministry, who are investi.. gating the causes of the accident, Yorkshire. which at present remain a matter of speculation.
DISORDERS IN EGYPT.
REGARDED AS TRIVIAL.
Many ronds became raging tor- rents, and the Whitby constguards, with lifeboat rocket apparatus, rushed inland to rescue those whose homes had been swept away.
The flood extends for a quarter of a mile on either side of the river hed.
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The water mains burst at Whitby and the town has now only a two Jays' supply.
Several railway bridges were de stroyed and telephone communica- tion was stopped.
The affected area extends noroes the Basilicata region from Naples to Bari and from. Taranto to. Salerno.
The last-named part has a fam ous cathedral, dating from 1080, which collapsed. Fortunately it was unoccupied at the time.
LATER.
dead, of whom 180 died at Malf.
Two hundred and twenty people
were injured in the whole area.
Official Casualty List.
ROME, July 24.
The official list of casualties sulting from the carthquake show that there are 1,778 dead, 4.264 injured, 3,158 houses completely and 2,757 partially destroyed.
HEAT WAVE IN
AMERICA.
may prosper and that the delibera- tions of this present Conference may result in some notable advance to great and desirable
wards this end.
"The main subjects for your con- re-sideration are, summed up under the general head The Faith and Witness of the Church in this Generation. The subject had been well chosen, and with a keen in. sight into the needs of the present day. The obvious and material damage of the War is not now so manifest as when you last met. The wounds are to some extent scarred over. But men's minds and souls are still troubled by the wounds which the War inflicted, THREE HUNDRED DEATHS. and perplexed through the shocks thereby dealt to old beliefs and spiritual loyalties. At such a time, the fathers of the Church. do well to take counsel together how best to bring home to the world to-day, in ways most appropriate to the times, the truth of the everlasting Gospel. God reigns, and, I pray that His blessing may rest upon your deliberations."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
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NEW YORE, July 23, The four days' heat wave has RUGBY, July 23
now ended. Giving particulars, in a Parlia-
The deaths in the New York area are officially given as 83, in- mentury answer today, of last Monday's disorders in Egypt, the Sleights, Rushwarp and Egton,cluding 25 people who were drown
ed.
The villages worst affected.. are
Foreign Secretary, A. Arthur three of the beauty spots of York The heat wave was responsible. Henderson, said that in Cairo 13 shire. demonstrations took place, varying.
for 300 deaths throughout the it amoved eastward country as across the Continent from the Rockies.
in size from 100 to 300 people.
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The demonstrators broke tram windowa and street lamps. No other damage to European property had been reported. Only one Euro
pean
tram conductor
Hungarian were injured.
and
one
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Several Lives Lost.
"Ruqar, July 23. Severe and sudden foods occurred
in parts of North Yorkshire to-day.
A cloudburst occurred in the valley of the River Esk, which flows The situation in Cairo was now into Whitby harbour, and the roåd well in hand, and no British forces bridge and the railway bridge at. were employed either there or in the village of Sleights nearby were Port Said and Suc, where disturwashed away.
* "bancès also "occurred.
The disorders, be added, were nowhere serious, and there was no participation in them by respectable Clements of the population."
The workers everywhere kept out of the demonstrations and remain- ed steadily at their employment,
SARAWAK RAJAH'S GIFT.
[DRITVAH WIRELESS BERVICE.)
RUGEY, July 23,
It is now proposed that one quarter-of-the-gift of £300,000 by
Roads were under several feet of water and many villagers were in prisoned in their homes.
A lifeboat and may, other craft were taken inland and coastguards are still engaged in the rescue work, It is feared that several lives have been lost...
COAL BILL COMPROMISE.
MEASURE READY FOR ROYAL ASSENT..
MACE INCIDENT.
CALL FOR APOLOGY,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, July 29. A meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, by 20 votes to 29. to-day recorded strong disapproval
ment.
A TRIBUTE TO NERVES. SOME OF THE BEST WORK
-IN-THE WORLD.
Some of the best work in the world has been done by nervous people.
This view was expressed at the Sanitary Congress at Margate by Dr. Millais Culpin, lecturer on paychoneurosis at London Univer sity,
chimes the half, and an archaic gramophone somewhere in the tiles is yelling "Singin' in the bath tub
The night clubs are getting un- der way now.
anyway.
A
eanme}
ly in the lead, after the Barcelona route via Lyons, Berne, Munich," Vienna and Breslau to Konigsberg and then to Berlin, the finishing point.
OBITUARY.
MR. GLEN HAMMOND CURTISS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SEVICE.]
BUFFALO, July 23. The death occurred here to-day of Mr. Glen Hammond Curtiss, the well-known inventor and air-
map.
the chapel and found that the main the congregation being now small, door from the testry to the chapel it was desired to sell the chapel for he heard a noise in the chapel. was also bolted on the inside, but
not less than £15,000, with which money it was proposed to "build another place, of worship in a more” suitable district.
by Mr. Golder. He requested Mr. He called out, and was answered Golder to leave the premises, and when he refused Mr. Lewis fetched a constable.
Stairs Removed. Eventually the door was opened, but and Mr. Lewis found Mr. Golder and two workmen busy. The stairs ing these night cluba. You say, moved, and the workmen were saw There are two methods of enter-leading to the pulpit had been re "Yes, I am a member," and give ing the legs of the pulpit at the the doorkeeper 108., or "No, I am base. not a member," and give the door. keeper 108. There are one or two with slightly closer rules. You give the doorkeeper £1.
The union had no desire that Mr. Golder should be dealt with at all hardly, and they were not asking for damages.
"High Principle."
Mr. Gelder argued that in what he had done, he acted as a properly constituted member of the congre............
gation, and was anxious to save the chapel.
He made, a statement in which Mr. Lewis asked the workmen to he said he based his objection to stop and leave the chapel, but they the sale on the ground of high refused. He also asked Mr. Golder principle, and also on the trust to stop doing further damage, but deeds of the chapel. Those who I visited five clubs." I met a he declined, and said that he in- were with him wanted to introduce. a new form of service, and what strange little man in a yard, with tended to finish the job:
Then he tried to eject Mr. Golder had been done in regard to the the face of an apostle and the ac cent of a fretsaw. He makes £10 From the chapel, but two of his pulpit was to make it into two a week in tips waiting for people confederates came to, his assist-pulpits, which was symbolic and ance, and he was unable to take natural, It would be wrong to to be refused admission to a cer tain club and telling them of one him outside. He went to the police restrain him from finishing off a
station to ask what he could do fine piece of craftsmanship. of Soho's "wide-open places."
The monotony of it! "Are-you-and when he returned he found a-member-no-ben-shillings-dance that the pulpit had been completely with-me-dearie-no-cheap-champagne sawn through. national-debt-tariff-tired-band- Singin'in-the-bathtub... kippers
at-58.-each'
I danced in a cellar under a shop. That cost £2 10s. and a sprained ankle, A generous Hebrew in a little den near Wardour street permitted me to pay £1 for the pleasure of sitting in a yellow ochre room and cating yellow ochre fish.
And yet in one street when I asked a taxicab driver, "Where can I get a drink?" be quoted an old jest and pointed to a shop.
See that he chuckled. "Yet."
"Well, that's the one place you
can't!"
I found Mrs. Meyrick sitting in her little cubby hole at the Forty- Three in a charming evening gown and the happiest of smiles.
"How about the raid?" I asked her.
I sat at one of Mrs. Meyrick's tables and listened to Mrs. Mey- rick's jazz band. I got bored.
Summing Up.
Oh you know how it is," she But such people, he added, can laughed. "Anyway, I'm proud of only do that work if they are in my record. Nine years, and still of the action, of Mr. John Beckett jabs whore their nervousness will going! When I was running a club in Paris they used to comer in removing the mace from the not hinder them. Speaker's table in the House of There is not a great deal of and tell me, 'Meyrick, you'll be Commons last week as bringing harsh administration in modern raided to-morrow tnless you get an discredit to the Party and conjadustry," he said. The most extension,' and I used to trat up- stituting a grosa affront to Parlia-serious difficulties arise in fits stairs and get the extension from
where everyone is afraid of every a guest!". The meeting decided to report ons eige--where the employers are the matter to the National Execu- afraid of the union, and the men tive of the Labour Party and to are afraid of the boss. ! call on Mr. Beckett to apologise. "Many of the diseases from to the House of Commons.
which coalminers suffer are pure
At six o'clock I had seventeen ly nervous. Men are afraid. That is the whole difficulty. They are shillings left, a "goo-goo" woollen afraid of all the possible disse mascot priced 21, and a sick tere which may happen in a mine headache. I had seen nothing, Far too little is known about those done nothing, experienced nothing.
HEART BEI strolled slowly home throughTM disease
Sir Francis Goodenough said: Covent Garden in the grey of "Promotion is definitely bad for morning while the good honest Secunderabad, July 23. some people-men who do excellent wheels were rumbling to market Captain T. E. Pitts, Commander work and have some of the quali- and a good fellow was opening a of the F. and O. lines Rawalpindi, ties of "leadership, but are tem- shop, fine tobacco scenting the air The compromise effected between and Major Stroret, of the 3/10 peramentally unfitted for proma from his jolly pipe curling up the two Houses regarding the Punjab-Regiment, were drowned in tion The worry and responsibil into the morning. spread over of hours will thus be a squall which capsized the boat ity of the work of a foreman would incorporated in the measure for from which they were watching the be fatal for a certain nervous typo Koyal Assent.
regatta on Hussainsgar Lake,
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Roger, July 28
the Rainhof Batawak to the Bride After snor discussion, the House. tish Government should be offered of Lords this afternoon agreed to to the Imperial Forestry Institute, the slight alteration which the the main portion will be used House of Commons had returned as a fund to asist the education in the Lord's amendment to the of Children of Colonial civil ser vants.
The offer of the gift was an nounced by Lord Passfield at the opening of the Colonial Conference
last month.
Coal Mince Bill,
P&O. CAPTAIN
DROWNED
THROUGH ELUTEX'S AGENOT.]
of man.
And I drew a deep, clear breath and dropped "goo-goo" into a "Place. Littor Here" basket.
Mr. Roxburgh read another a davit by the secretary to the Bap tist Union, in which he said that (Continued on next Column:)
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