BRITISH LADIES SHOT.
TROOPS ATTACK BANDITS' HEADQUARTERS,
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENUT.]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 0.
Reuter's correspondent at Kien-
GERMAN 'PLANE
DISASTER.
PILOT, MECHANIC, AND PASSENGERS KILLED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S "ADENCY.]
BIMLIN, Oct. 6.
A Luft Halsa passenger sero- ning states that on September 17 plane from Berlin to Vienna crash- the go-between left the Communist jed near Dresden. headquarters in North Fakien for Kienning to make final arrange- ments with the British Consul, Mr. Martin, about the ransom for the Missra Harrison and Nettleton,
All the occupants, the pilot, mechanic and seven passengers, were killed.
This is the most serious aeroplane accident that has ever happened in Germany.
. LATER,
Ransom Arrived Too Latel Chinese troops on September 20 The machine was a single-engined attacked the Communist headquar- | 15-scater Messer-Schmidt type. tera, whereupon the Communists, Shanghai Resident a Passenger,. Falsely asserting that the go- The neroplane was preparing to between had treacherously instigat-land at the Dresden aerodrome And the attack, shot the hostages,
The go-between returned to the Communist camp on September 23 with the ransom, only to learn that he was too late.
The go-between has now been do tained by the Communista.
WAR HERO'S FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
ATTEMPT ON HINKLER'S RECORD.
(THROUGH REUTER'S KOENOY.;
LONDON, Oct. 5. Flight-Liout. C. W. Hill started from Lympas acrodromo this morning in a Moth machine on a flight to Australia to visit his pár- ents in Queensland.
Ho hopes to beat Bert Hinkler's time.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.
GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF AIRSHIP DISASTER.
BRITISH AIR CONQUEROR STRIKES LOW-LYING HILLTOP.
WORLD DEPLORES LOSS OF HEROIC PIONEERS.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.)
Imperial Conference's Resolution
of Sympathy.
LONDON, Oct. 8. An Imperial Conference: com. munique states that a resolution was moved by Mr. Bennett, Premier of Canada, and seconded by Mr. Scullin, Premier of Australia, re cording their sorrow at the loss of the R.101, paying homage to the gallant men who had given their lives as pioneers in the cause of human progress, expressing their when it crashed on a slight hill and heartfelt grief with the bereaved sanshed the occupants instantly. relatives, and offering their deep Mr. P. W. Blackwell, an English-sympathy with our Chairman" at man from Shanghai, was a passon- the loss of a distinguished colleague
and well-beloved friend.
Discrepancy in Casualty Figures.
The Air Ministry, London, state that the discrepancy in the casualty figures cabled from Beauvais and those issued by the Air Ministry is possibly due to the fact that the French figures were based on the statements of the survivors, who
ger.
CASTLE CLAIMED BY
SQUATTERS.
FAMILY DEFY A CITY.
at
Members of a family named Law have pitched a camp in the grounds of Lauriston Castle, Cramond, near Edinburgh, to draw attention to the claim that they are the rightful inheritors to the castle and estate, said to be worth £30,000..
The castle is the property of the
Scottish nation.
The Laws declare that they will occupy the camp in relays until Hill was the hero of a dramatic Edinburgh Corporation, as true- escape from a
Turkish prison tees of the estate, are forced to camp during the way, after feign-resort to legal proceedings to test ing madness.
the claim....
Day and Night Piloting,
Londini, Oct. 6.
There are thirty-three claimants, thirteen of whom live in the Sun Another attempt on the Austraderland area. They state that lina flight record held by Bert they have in their possession all Hinkler began at Croydon this the papers necessary to establish
morning.
Flying Officer Chabot and Major Pickthorne, altercately piloting, Puse Moth machine day and night, hope to reach Australia in a week.
NEW RUNNING RECORD.
FRENCH ATHLETE'S FINE PERFORMANCE.
(THROUGH`LEUTERʼN AURNOY.]
PARIS, "Oct. 5. The Franch runner, Ladomegue, covered 1,500 metres flat in 3.min. 40.1/8 secs., thus beating the world's record of 3 min. 61 seca established hy. Dr. Otto Poltzer, the German Junner, at Charlottenburg in 1826.
FOREIGNERS LEAVING
CHANGSHA.
EVACUATION OF CITY
[their claim.
One of the most prominent is Mr. John Law, aged seventy-seven. He and other members of the family have made a long investigation into the history of the castle and ite early owners
Missing Documents.
were probably without an exact
knowledge of the number of people aboard the airship:
Three Missing..
The Air Ministry announces that the Air Council propose to arrange a public enquiry into the loss of the R.101, to be held in Britain, subject to co-ordination with the arrangements being made by the
French Government.
It is anderstood that the bodies of the victims of the R.10i disaster are being brought to Great Britain by warship as soon as possible...
The bodies are now lying in a chapelle ardente, in the village of Allonne,
It is hoped if possible to identify at least some of the bodies to-day,
At nine o'clock last night, the oil tarks were still burning, casting a
Flames Sweep Envelope From End to End.
Another Victim.
"BEAUVAIS, Oct. 6. The rigger, Radcliffe, one of the An explosion "followed and the injured survivors of the B.101 dis immediately burst into flames, aster, died at Beauvais this morn-which swept the envelope from end
ing.
World Gripped, by the Tragedy, Hearts throughout the world have been gripped by the tragedy.
to end.
Undoubtedly it was the hydrogen 84 and not the heavy oil fuel which exploded the gas valves, which were found blown out from the wreck.
Homage to the Glorious Dead.
Sir John Salmond and Colonel
Universal Sympathy. Messages of sympathy are pour- ing in from throughout the world.
Typical of thest messages, Bone, the British Air Attaché in French newspaper, in the course of }
Paris, visited Mairie village,
a leading article, exclaims: "These Allons, and paid homage to the are not foreigners but brothers dead, whose coffins were laid on whom blind chance has sacrificed trestles covered with sheets and upon the altar of progress."
decked with wreaths, :
Another remarks that the catas trophe has added to the long roli | of British heroes who have met p glorious end on French soil.
Identification Impossible.
A number of coffins were oponed, but identification so far is impos- sible.
LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE.
WHAT A MINORITY GOVERNMENT MEANS.
(TUROVOK REVIER'A ADENOX,3
LONDON, Oct. 0. Miss Susan Lawrence, presiding at the annual conference of the Labour Party at Llandudno, said that a minority Government mennt leaping from one hairbreadth on capo into another, steering & Bill through Parliament tacking against a head wind to the accompaniment of much advice from the jetty, and, "most galling of all, it meant de- pendence upon doubtful and uncer. tain allies.
As regards the House of Lords, Miss Susan Lawrence predicted that the Labour Party sooner or later would have to take up this great constitutional question.
[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE} Smoking Debris.
Rugar, Oct. 5. The airship was passing over the The United States Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Adams; seat a mes
village of Allone, just outside The British Air Ministry re Beauvais, in a heavy storm. She ango to the First Lord of the presentative states officially that rooms to have struck hilly ground. Admiralty deploring the loss of 47 bodies have been recovered and There was one or more violent ex- pioneers who were animated by a three are still missing. determination to conquer the air until comparative safety could be achieved.
It is noteworthy that the authori-plosions and the airship sank to tics are basing their seardres for the ground in a sheet of fame.
Assistance came promptly from the victims, on the very positive.
villagers and from the Beauvais The American newspapers com, statements of the survivors that ment as upon a national disaster, there were 58 men aboard the R.101 police, military officers and doctors They dwell on the setback to diri. when she left Cardington.
hurrying to the scone. gible progress, as the 101 was Tu Air Ministry's representa- accounted as the very type design- tive has officially stated that the ed to ride out successfully adverse cause of the disaster is not yet de weather such as caused her down.finitely ascertainable, but there is every reason to suppose that no fall.
explosion occurred until the air ship touched the ground,
BEAUVAIS, Oct. 5. The eighth survivor is a rigger named Church.
It is stated in the local hospital that none of the eight survivors' lives is in danger.
Germany's Sympathy.
BERLIN, Oct. 6. The Government wont a message of warm sympathy with the British Government on the loss of the
Lerch, Binks and Bal, we left hospital after being, dandaged, 're-R.101. turned later and are now fast asleep.
Forty-seven Bodies Recovered. Hitherto 47 bodies have been re.
sinister gloom over the wreckage covered, of which only 15 are likely of one of its most brilliant Minis
during a downfall of rain.
Scene Reminiscent of Wartime. The scene was reminiscent of war time, the mounted troops being lit up by the grim blaze and slithered in mud around the wreek to the necompaniment of the drone of the
In 1926 they thought they were on the ove of success, but it was point-lorries bringing material for relief.
ed out that certain documents wero missing.
Since then the search for docu-
montary evidenca has continued, and it is now asserted that the papers are complete.
Another claimant is Mr. Henry Lauriston, an elderly minor, of Marsden Colliery, Durham.
The family is descended from James Law, who, in 1016, was Arch- hishop of Glasgow. Mary Queen DURING WINTER. of Scots, it is stated, was connect
led with the Laws by blood tios. Hankow, September 20-It is reliably learnt that the Anglo- The claimants are not moved by American community in Changsha the romance and glamour of the pro contemplating evacuating, the
ancient castle. They want the tity as soon as the water level on
he Siang River is four feet lower £38,000 which it is believed to be han at present, in view of the worth.
Nation Mourning..
to be identifiable.
It has now been ascertained that when the disaster occurred only 12 men were engaged in navigating the R. 101, all the others being asleep...
Tragic Budderness of Oatastrophe. The tragic. suddenness of the catastrophe is shown by the dis- While the whole nation is plung-covery in the engine room of one ed into mourning for the R.101's engineer, almost incinerated, still gallant dead, and now that the first dutching a spanner. stunning effects of the news gre beginning to pass off, one of the questions taking form in the minds of the public is," Aro lighter than air craft practicable ?**
Press Tributes.
A French eye-witness said that when the airship was burning he could see the bodies in the cabin, "like twisted, lumps of burned choose,"
Union Jack Burvives Tire, The half-burned Union Jack, still Buttering at the stern of the R.101,
The morning papers one and all unite iu paying tribute to the skill and heroism of the gallant pioneer. crew who met their deaths in the was removed this afternoon and tragio flight, but very grave doubts handed to the British Military are being voiced whether airships Attaché. generally are not by this disaster shown to be too vulnerable.
Simultaneously the newspapers demand a most searching public enquiry, not only into the disaster, heavier than air craft. but into the whole question of Wireless Operator's Prayer-and
ters.
Parts of the airship had boon scattered in all directions and the débris continued to smoke until mid-day to-day.
The few survivors were quickly burried to hospital, and this morning the bodies of 40 victima, many unidentifiable, were collected.
The clothes had been burnt off spost of them, but some bodies were identified by their rings and wat shes, among them boing that of Lord Thomson...
tho
BRAZIL IN THROES OF REVOLUTION.
OUTBREAKS REPORTED FROM VARIOUS STATES.
(REUTER'S AMERIUAN 651VICE;}
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. Brazil is reported to be in the throes of a revolution, practically the whole of the State of Nie Grande do Sul having rovolted against the Government.
Outbreaks are also reported from other states.
The whole of the Federal military fores is expected to side against the Central Government.
The movement apparentlyIs directed against the President and the President-Elect (Julio Prestes), whose opponents sesert that he was fraudulently elected.
Plot to Assassinate Cabinet Mombera
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.
A message from Havana states that a plot is reported to have been discovered to assassinate high": Government officials, including `the members of the Machado Cabinet,
The alleged leader of the con- spiracy has been arrested.
A quantity of hombs and armá has been seized.
1
Martial Law,
NEW Yong, Oct. 6.
A message from Rio de Janeiro: states that the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has passed a resolution
enforcing martial law in the three.. States, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gernes, and Parahyba, where re- velations are reported.
Cavalry Barracks Surrendered.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct; & Nows from Brazil is being strictly censored...
A crowd of rioters at Santang ara reported to have captured a Gen cial and several officers of the Federal forces in an hotel,
They then surrounded the cavalry barracks, which surrendered after
To-day the French Air Minister, The Executive Committee of the Laurent Eynac, and other one oficer had been killed and three Socialist Party sent a message from French officials, were early on
men hurt.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 5, the Labour Party gympathizing with
the moment be definitely stated. scene...' the British Government in the loss The cause of the disaster cannot at Governments of the States of Rio It is officially stated that the
Air Chief Marshal Sir John
Air Commodore Holt, Director of Balmond, Chief of Air Staff, with
Technical Development, and other officials, flew over this morning to pesist at the invitation of the French authorities in the collection
Dr. Eckner, who learned of the Gral Zeppelin landed in the course eatastrophe at Leipzig, where the of her fight, was very shocked, a he had many personal friends Dr. Eckner and other German air abin experts sxpress the opinion that the British airships are rather heavy.
among the victims.
France Observes Day of Hational Mourning.
*Pania, Oct, 0.
of information.
It appears, however, that al- though bad weather with heavy storms was encountered by the air
Grand do Sul and Minas Gorana oro supporting and directing the revolu tionary disturbances.
ed Congress, besides victing martial, law is these States, also to vote the credits necessary for rapid sup pression of the movement, .
The Federal Government has sak.
The disaster has cast a gloom over the whole country and especi-
Bir Sefton Brancker, resided. In the airship personel, including
numerable mesenges of sympathy have been recolved from all over the world.
The Prime Ministor, M. Tardieu, chip, all went well until shortly ally over Bedford, where many of observed as a day of national the last direct messages received in bas decided that to-morrow shall be before the disaster. Apparently mourning for the Rt.101 disaster.
Instructions have been telegraph Britain from the airship were gent ed to all civil and military authorito Croydon Aerodrome. ties to fly the national fing al half- mast.
Airship Receives Assistance from Croydon.
Shortly after midnight the R.101 said: "Thanks for valuable as The Prime Minister in a moes- Anglo-French Enquiry... sistance. Will not require you, age, said he was “grieved boyand
Pazis, Oct. B.
further to-night." Croydon ro-words at the loss of so many, splens An official enquiry into the R.101. disaster will be jointly carried out plied: "Still remaining on watch." did men whose sacrifice has been by the British and Freach experts. Two hours later came an inquiry added to that glorious list of
Graphle, Account by Survivors. for position and Croydon worked Englishmen who have
gone, into
M. Tardieu, will attend the re- moval of the bodies of the victims from the Town Hall at Beauvais at 11 o'clock this morning,
-
Prime Minister's Message of Sympathy
ossibility of the repetition of Lauriston was the early home of jommunist menace. there.
John Law (1671-1720), a financial Nearly all American and British genius, who had a meteoric and aidents in Changsha, with the disastrous career, ception of these foreigners in the
sirship was overtaken by a terrible Beauvais Within He founded the first bank in ines Customs serving and mis-France, and involved that country marice, are anid to be consider deaply a tris wild Missippi
evacuating during the winter scheme.
A survivor, Leech, gave a graphic cut that the airship was then the unknown on pioneers and path- story in which he said that he was about one kilometro south of finders and have met death." in the navigation cabin when the
son, when the water on the river The chetle was given to Scotland usually low, thereby practically by its last private occuptor, the lking river navigation.
late Mr. W. T. Roid
EUROPE A PREY TO DICTATORS."
COOMY FUTURE BEFORE
REPUBLICANISM.
Legal Advico.
Escape.
2. vory fow storm at Beauveis. She appeared minutes the disaster must have to be pitching dangerously and monde headway very slowly. He happened.
Batches of coffins are arriving and the bodies, are being most care fully placed in them. Some are so shrivelled that they can fit child- ren's coffins
The crowd of spectators is ever growing, and dozens of aeroplanes are flying overbend.
When the R.101 passed over Beau A most vivid story of frantic vain she was very low and the efforts with teeth and anils to tear enginee, boing very noisy, woke had no idea at what height he was The nows that the R.101. was through the fabric of the blazing everybody and frightened the child-navigating, and had to resist the fire was told Croydon by Lo airship is told by the wireless opera- ren,
force of the wind with all his might. tor, Disley. He said that he was
Then the airship began to feel Bourget, lying in his bunk when he saw
the weight of the rain and respond sudden tremendous burst of flame..
dered to be driven nt. full-apsed, altitude.
Airship Drifted Sideways."
A terrifio wind 'was blowing and
Lord Thomson, was Air Minister in both Labour Administrations He retired from the Army with the rank of Brigadier General. At ope time during the war he wag's mense, bor. of the Supreme War Council. Progress reports received from Sir Sefton Brancker had been
One of the Sunderland claimaats.He rushed into the corridor and the airship seemed to be drifting badly to the motors, which he or the airship during the flight re Director of Civil Aviation for
01
attacked the fabric in an effort to cacape, but the fabric resisted all efforts of his teeth and nails.
"I rank down exhausted and offered up a prayer, I believed my fate was sealed, when suddenly Into what seemed a raging tornado of fire. I felt something_wot. was the wet grass, and I got out just in time."
sideways. She disappeared behind the rising ground to the south and an instant later a crash, abook the houses of Beauvais four miles from the scent of the accident to their foundations. Then a ghastly yel minutes.
in order to try and obtain an corded that moderate rain was en eight years, having carned great
Collision With Hilltop.
countered over London at 0 p.m. distinction during the war as an and that the course was wat via Air Commander and an Organiser. Colmore was Suddenly the disaster occurred, Paris, Toulouse, and Barbonne. Wing-Commander and the nose of the airship, after when Hastings was reached it was the Director of Airship Develop
Ouge, France, September. 29,- of the first Marquis of Lauriston, felt something give way, and I fell low glare thone in the sky for fivo | dipping twice, violently struck the raining hard and a strong south meat and was responsible for all
То
said to a reporter that the family had been legally advised that claim was' absolutely sound.
We are all descended," he said, from James Law, the Archbishop of Glasgow He was the ancestor
top
of a small hill. A terrible ex-west wind was encountered. The In connection with the question plosion followed and everything In speech at the Radical Party's whose ostater became alfonated at congs to-day tho chairman, M. the rebellion of 1745...
cruising spood. of 84 knots main Canada and back recently in the Dalder, referring to affairs in
David Law, the heir, fled with
as to whether the R.101, was dam began to blaze Hurling himself height had been increased and a airship servicen He travelled to aged before the disaster, it is Euro
noteworthy that a quantity of the inst the cabin wall, and smash-ained. The ship was said to be R100. the Earl of Perth over the horder. anid
ing it with anything that came to behaving woll generally. "remember the famous pre- They reached County Durham, and Collection of Information.
airship fabric was picked up two hand, he managed to make an open-
Major Scott in 1010 commanded. The French coast was crossed at the 34 on its flight to and froz miles from the wreck, King and dashed through the flames. St. Quentin, and the wind was the United States and also travel!- dictiomade in 1830" After 100 were befriended by miners, who hid LONDON, Oct: B.
them in coal pite for some time. Sir John Salmond, Chief of the Statements from the survivors. years Curope will be completely
Bisky and Bell also had a very Romutan
This is very far from Subsequently David Law mar- Air Staff, accompanied by Air Com show that the airship dipped twice dramatic escapo. They thought in 30 miles per hour with the orl to Canids in the R100 realizon
ried A Sunderland koolman's daugh-
Technical Development, flew this from height of about 1,000 fest the reserve water tank overhead last report stated that after an ex- previously navigated the 1100 on
cellon supper, the passengers had her Canadian trips becom more marked. After Italy His posthumous-son, David, work- morning to the reene, of the disaster when flying at about 53 miles un barst and drenched them and they smoked their final cigars and, hav-The bodies were this indexists in Hungary and ed as a blacksmith at Harton, near August 16 conuering span South Shields, and was repeatedly series, including Squadron Leader in thought TCT WAY the
patient looked at the French boast sized more this afternoo and Airia and as miffion day urged by Sir Walter Sent to cleim Bootie Sprain of the 100,bove level registered-brotho According to survivors, the 1101d lume to bed, while the man mans vid for Herr Hitler whose his father's inheritance, but he few over from Croydon to Franco airship's altimeter, but the spot carried 58 persons, thus the casualty had settled down to watch keep into a chapelle ardente The Nation Socialists and at the same preferred to remain at the anvil later to assist in the collection of where she crushed ia over 700 feet list is 47 dead and eight injured. Ing routing with the essential sor walls were draped with tbo. Britis
vlos functioning satisfactorily..
and French flag and religions time dugogues and belligerents. We are the lineal descendants of information in regard to the oirahove the sea, so that the airship This leaves three missing.
the blacksmith. Poor. Roblic.'
cumstances of the accident.
was at flying under 300 feet high. 3. (Continued on next Column.) (Vontinued on nezí Volumn.) service was hold.
"Tendency to dictatorship istor and was drowned a year Intermodore F. V. Holt, Director of before finally falling to the earth their fast moment had come, when Airship flying at 1,500 feat. The Squadron Leader Johnston had
of the R.101.' A
of nine ex-hour. Sue crashed noso first, it
were hurled out unfuraed.