HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 3,
1931.
ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT COMPLETED.
POST AND GATTY, CIRCUMAVIATE THE GLOBE
IN 8 DAYS 15 HRS.
MILLION PEOPLE WELCOME FLIERS.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 1. The airmen Post and Gatly ar rived here at 4.15 p.m.
Actual Flying Time 41 Days, Col. Lindbergh, Col. C. Chamber. lin, and Bert Acosta, all Atlantic fliers, were among the crowd of
The flyers resumed their anal hop welcomers. to New York at 4.45 p.m.
Arrival at New York,"
New Yox, July 1. Gatty and Post landed here at. 8.47 p.m. Both were exhausted after circling the globe in 8 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes.
Gatty and Post handed over their machine to guards and stag、 gered to a waiting ear which drove them half a mile to the administra. tion building.
The actual fiying time was days, 10 hours, 14 minutes and the average speed was 145 miles an hour.
DIARY OF FLIGHT June 23,
4.55 a.m. left Roosevelt Field, New
York.
2.87 p.m. left Harbour Grace for
Berlin.
June 24, Noon. Arrived at Chester, 6.40 p.m. Arrived at Hanover. 8.30 p.m. Arrived Berlin,
June 25,
Crowds reckoned at over 1,000,000 broke through the Police cordou and the Seld became a bedlam. There were many fist fights as tho Police attempted to clear the way for the weary flyers, who eventually were seized and carried shoulder.10.55 am, arrived Irkutsk. high, a bombardment of flashlights making it a triumphal progress,
As soon as the Police had restor- ed order a car bearing the flyers and Mrs, Post (Mrs. Gatly did not arrive in time), was driven under the escort of motor cycle Police,. but after circling a few buildings entered the hangar to meet Press
7.38 a.m. left for Moscow, 5.30 p.m. arrived Moscow.
June 26,
5 nm. left for Irkutsk. 2.05 p.m. passed over Omsk. 6.30 p.m. landed at Novosiberek,
June 27;
1.10 p.m. left for Blagovestchensk, 11. p.m. Arrived Blagovestchensk.
men.
The crowd, however, stormed the hangar and the flyers hurriedly re- joined their car; which drove off to the City. The Press men left' with- dut interviews:
BRITISH 'PLANES FOR BELGIUM.
SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF NEW MACHINE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rucay, July 2
The first five of a large number of Fairey Firefly fighter aeroplanes will be delivered next week to re- presentatives of the Belgian Gov- eramat for whose Air Force they were ordered.
They are capable of astonishing performances, and during
con-
structor's tests this week one of them dived at a speed of 384 miler Per hour and climbed to six thou- sand motres in 342 seconds.
Capt. Staniland, chief test pilot of the Fairey Aviation Company, also conducted further successful. tests yesterday of a long distance Faires Napier machine which will shortly be handed over to the Air Ministry.
оле
This giant monoplans is built to thousand carry more than gallons of petrol in its wings which have a span of eighty-two feet.
It
hoped that within the next few weeks the new machine will attempt to break the World's long distance "non-stop fight of 4,019 miles.
GOVERNMENT GIVES
WAY.
LIBERAL AMENDMENT TO LAND TAX ACCEPTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 1. The Government has accepted the Liberal amendment which exempts playing fields from the Land Tax.
A massage dated London June 28 stated
June 28,
9.25 a.m. departed for Haliarovek. 2.30 p.m. arrived at Habarovsk.
June 29,
Hold up by engne trouble. 3.p.m. left on 2,500 mile flight to
Nome.
June 30.
+1
4
9.30 am. Arrived Nome. 12.30 p.m. left for Fairbanks. 6 p.m. arrived at Fairbanks,
July 1. Arrived at. Edmonton. 3.30 am. Left for Cleveland, 4.15 p.m. Reached Cleveland, 4.44 p.m. Left for New York, 6.47 p.m. Arrived at New York.
PROPOSED PARIS JAPAN FLIGHT.
JAPANESE PAPER OFFERS A PRIZE OF FRS,22,000.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOZ.]
TOKYO, July 2. The newspaper Nichi Nicht has offered a prize of Frs. 22,000 to the French airmen, Le Brix and Daret,
AIDE MEMOIRE FOR FRANCE.
GERMAN JACK THE CHILD LABOUR IN
RIPPER.
DEADLOCK IN HOOVER
· PLÀN® CONTINUES,
GUILLOTINED AT DUSSEL- DORF YESTERDAY.
(BRITISH WINELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, July 2 During yesterday's nogotiations in Paris on President Hoover's war debts moratórium plan an «" cide mémoire" was presented to the French Government on the position of the United States Government in the present negotiations.
The Memorandum which is con ciliatory in tone and which dis cusses the differences still to be settled states We must assume, that with the present situation in Germany, and a failure of the American proposals that Germany will unquestionably give notice of postponement of all conditionst Réparations, as provided in the Young Plan",
(THROUGH MEDIER'S AGENCY.]
The defence called a large num ber of witnesses,vidently in an attempt to prove the defendant
INDIA.
ROYAL COMMISSION'S REVELATIONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:
CHIANG'S ARMIES ADVANCING SOUTH.
"CANTON ADOPTS A POLICY| OF "WATCHFUL WAITING!!
ECHO OF SHANGHAI FRACAS.
MAYOR CHANG CHUN'S. DEMAND.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY,]
primanded.
SHANGHAI, July 2,
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
DUSSELDORY, July 2
CANTON, July 2 LONDON, July, 17
Rumours are current in Canton Mayor Chang Chun states that No fewer than three hundred and. this Kuerten was guillotined
fifty-seven recommendations are that Chiang Kai Shek in attacking bo has interviewed the Settlement made in the Report of the Royal the organized Communists in morning.
message from Düsseldorf Comussion on Labour in India, Klangei on his way to the south Officials regarding the Avenue Hoig dated April 22 stated: verdict which has been engaged in an ex- with Canton as his anal objective. indident and has demanded that haustive survey of labour con- His armies are, advancing south the officer who hired the shot be re is expected to-morrow in the proditions in that country under the from three directions:General longed trial, notable for its grue some and Althy details, of Peter chairmanship of Mr. J. H. Whitley Chu Shao Linng is in command of the former Speaker of the House of the right wing; Goneral Chen, Ming Kuerten,
Commons. Padalga Shu, the left wing; and the Non-
A message from Shanghai dated- king "despot" "the central sector. June 23 stated: Yesterday after- The armies of Nanking are still noon there was an unfortunate for from Hwangtung, and the legal fracas in the Avenue Haig an authorities are taking things easy"extra-Bettlement" road, The National Government in Can- ton has adopted a policy of "watch- ful waiting as far as attacking Haig called in the Settlement Police Nanking is concerned. No attempt will be made to dispatch an expedi- by a Chinese tradesman. tión against the North at present.
Tha, obscure attitude of the 19th Route Army, consisting the ad called two crack divisions of Kwangthing in Kiangai, is still a source of worry to the local nuthori tien. Are they going to side with Chen Toni Tong or with Chiang Rai Shek is still the unsolved quee
jusane,
The Judge, who presided over the court of investigation, testifed that Kuerten appeared to be sane, but how could a sane man commit such crimes!"
He expressed the opinion that Kuorten had a dual personality-on the one hand hereditarily and At the close of the afternoon criminally inclined, and on the meeting of negotiators in Paris other hand a natural lover of yesterday it was, announced that the American aide mémoire "eauty and clean morals," would be studied by the French Ministers affected by it and further examined at a Cabinet Council meeting this morning.
The next meeting of the French and American negotiators is fixed for to-night at 8.30,
British Suggestion, {THROUGH REUTER'S AUKNOT.]
·PARIS, July 2.
AMERICAN HEAT
WAVE,
DEATH ROLL NOW EXCEEDS SEVEN HUNDRED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
Dernoir, July 1. The best wave is becoming were daily, the death-roll throughout the country so far is 703.
It is learned that the British Government has proposed a prompt meeting in London of the repre- sentatives of the Powers signatory to the Young Plan, although con- firmation" of "this is not obtainable at the British Embassy or the Quai D'Orsay Reuter has, however good reason to believe that Britain
Fifty-two workers at the Ford has officially made this suggestion: to the French Government with the factory had to be treated for pros object of helping the Franco-Ameri.tration, and the foundary, has been
closed down, can moratorium negotiations out of the last ditch.
LATER. The United States not being a party to the Young Plan any. adjustment of the Plan's conditions necessitated by France's conditional acceptance of the Hoover proposal must have the consent of the signù- tories to the Young Planet that
A report, however, is current
a meeting in London may not be necessary and that the Franco- American solution may be reached at Paris.
{REUTER'S AMERICAŃ SERVICE,)
WASHINGTON, July 1 The United States Government has warned. France that failure to accept the Hcover Plan for if they succeed in their contem-world-wide debt moratorium would plated non-stop flight from Paris to unquestionably rosult in Germany
declaring 1 Japan
torium.
reparations mora-
The warning to France is con- tained in a Memorandum present INDIA'S FINANCIALed to Franco by Mr. Walter Edge,
POSITION
"NO OCCASION FOR ASSISTANCE WILL ARISE.”
[THNOGON REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, July 1, "No occasion for giving the Government of India financial assistance has arisen, and I trust and believe no such occasion will arise," anid the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons, replying to questions on the statement regarding India's financial position, which. he made on June 20.
the American Ambassador in Paris, The memorandum adds that if President Hoover's proposal fails, France will lose in the forthcoming year over G8100,000,000,
French Suggestions. The French suggestions that the credits established at the Bank of International Settlements should be re-loaned to German industries and not to the German Govern ment, and should be avaiable, as loans to other Central European countries, are described as incom patible with President Hoover's proposal.
Comidence in U.S.A. "Really cheerful" was the man ner in which Mr. Castle (who is acting Secretary of State in the absones of Mr. H. L. Stimson, who
COLOMBO SENSATION.
PROMINENT LAWYER
1. CHARGED.
Colombo, June 9.Mr. W. A. S. de Vos, until recently senior part ner of the firm of Messre. De Vos and Gratinen, črown proctors of Colombo, has been arrested in Bombay. The Criminal Investi gation Department has framed a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of a sum of Rs. 13,295.38 against Mr. De Vos,
Mr. De Vos was Lḥ passenger on board the P. & O. Comorin when the proceedings were taken in court and a warrant for his arrest was obtained,
The Commission consisted of six British members and six Indians, and their Report is unanimous
* Most of the recommendations take the form of advice to employ Crs in India, while proposals are made aiming at Anding a remedy for the appalling state of the unregulated factories, anamely, those factories which are not sub- | ject to the Factory Acts.
These factories are notable for unhealthy conditions, corporal punishment, long hours and loy pay. An example is given where a factory requires work "from ten to twelve hours daily for two annas from children of the tenderest
years.
Recommendations are made for the improvement of working con- |ditions in minde, plantations, rail- ways and docks. and attention is drawn to the chronic indebtedness of the workers, of whom the great majority are indebted for the greater part of their lives paying interest reaching one hundred and fifty per cent. per annum The Commission recommends that relief be granted from the consequent op pressive legal steps-
tion.
KWANGSI'S NEW GOVERNMENT.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, July 2
The new Provincial Government of Kwangsi was formally inaugur The Commission suggests a roduc.ated yesterday in Nanning, capital tion of working hours in factorice of the Province, with an impressive from sixty to fifty-four, with a ceremony. The new personnel of maximum of five for children! the Kwangsi régime, all nominces
of the National Government in- Canton, took their oath of office at the same time.
HUGE AMERICAN DEFICIT.
$903,000,000 AT END OF JUNE.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN ́BERTIOR ] ·
WASHINGTON, July 1. A deficit of 8903,000,000 is reveal. ed by the Treasury returns for the year ended June 30.
WARNING TO CHINESE WOMEN.
LEAD POISONING IN FACE
POWDER.
The new, Governor is General Wang Konk Chu, a trusted subordi, Date of General Li Tsung Jer, and a prominent figure in the present movement for the overthrow of Chiang Kai Shek and the Nanking Government.
EAST RIVER PIRATES.
MORE PROTECTION FELS"
* DEMANDED.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
An Amarionn living in Avenue
to deal with a disturbance caused
Sergt. Hillhouse went to the American's house and had almost settled the dispute when the chy uess Police from the native city arrived and forced their way into the house. One assaulted Sergeant Hillhouse and then two drew their pistols, with which they threatened him. Believing they would shoot and having regard for the safety of the householders, Sorgt Hill house drew his revolver and fired twice, wounding one Chinese police man in the arm. Soon afterwards. the house, was surrounded by police from the native city, but after three hours they were withdrawn.
The matter is now being discute ed by the Chinese authorities, Bettlement. Police and American Consular officials.
ESPIONAGE PLOT IN
FRANCE.
DOCUMENTS
STOLEN FOR
STOCK EXCHANGE PURPOSES
Paris, June 28.-An employer of the French Foreign Office and two alleged accomplices bave been ar rested in connection with an affair. which it is thought, may load to the discovery of an espionage plot.
Following an indiscretion in decoding a tolegrain certain:em-" ployees of the Foreign Office were watched and one was detected in handing a tranger in д cafo "strictly confideatial" documents received from French Embassies. and consulates abroad. {}
It is believed the documents re- CARTON, July 2 ́ ́. Three largo sapans from Hofer to important financial negotia
tions between France and other Yuan on the East River, while on
countries and were to be used by their way to Canton, were held up by a gang of pirates in the vicinity the stranger" in connection with
Stock Exchange operations, of Sheklung and cach payed a toll, or "protection fee," of $200. The boats were loaded with valuable When they were nearing cargo.
ODD CASE IN, SINGAPORE,
"I consider the Chinese com- munity should be notified of the Sheklung, they suddenly encounter THE NAVY LEAGUE
POSEIDON FUND."' The vessel left Colombo on Wed- danger and Municipalities and ed a band of brigands lining toth nesday and was expected to reach Sanitary Boards informed," was & Rides of the river. The ban Bombay on Saturday night.
passage quoted from the report of dits were heavily armed, and to police in Bombay had information a high medical authority when a show the boatmen that they meant of the fact that Mr. De Vos was series of cases dealing with the sale business, they fired a volley of shots
The
on board and he was taken into of certain brands of Chinese face into the air. The boatmen offered SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED
eustody on the arrival of the vessel there.
Crown Counsel, in applying for a warrant in the Police Court on Friday, said that it may be neces- sary to apply later for extradition proceedings.
He also said that Mr. De Vos had admitted to Mr. W. de Rooy, another partner of the firm, that he had not used the Rs. 03,293.38 in question properly.
Mr. De Vos resigned from the partnership as from Junea. A large number of Mr. De Vos' clients called at the firm's office both on Saturday and yesterday.
is due to arrive at Naples te-mor-The change against Mr. De Vos is row) described the out.ook in the based on the allegation that he had Franco-American moratorium nogomet private liability: by, operating on a bank account to which money tinticns.
of the firm's clients were credited.
Mr. W. A. S. de Vos has been a proctor since 1899. Two of his sona are in Australia.
His optimistic alatement carries all the more weight as it was made immediately after a conference in Prezident Hoover's office.
powder came up for hearing before Mr. C. H. Whitton, the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate,
The prosecution was brought at the instance of the Municipal Health Department and summonses were issued against the management of eight big Chinese stores, parti- cularly in the Chinatown area. They were charged with having in their possession for sale a cosmetic .containing 18.43 per cent. of lead. carbonate contrary to Gazette notification (Bale of Food and Drugs)
The danger, it was said, was almost a menace, and the report of Professor B. B. Hawes, of the Medical College, dated March, 1930, was to the effect that investigations had been made for two years to ascertain the cause of lead poison ing in young Chinese girls of good social position. N
Chincas cosmetics.of various kinds were examined by the Government Analyst and it was finally traced to certain brands of face powder.
Serious Position.
"I wish to to emphasise the seriousness of the position for although I do not see many women
no resistence, but rowed to the shore in compliance with orders from the pirates.
The outlaws made a thorough search of the sampans, apparently with a view" to kidnapping their passengers, but when they found no passengers, they demanded of the boatuen a protection fee" of $200 for each boat.
BRITISH NAVY TO VISIT KIEL.
(BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE]
Reasy, July 2 Admiral Rushton leaves Black- ton to-day in command of the cruisers Dorsetshire and Norfolk on an unofficial visit to the Ger-
an fleet at Kiel.
The informality of the visit in due to a desire on the part of both Governments to avoid unnecessary expense. G
Admiral Rushton, who then bad rank of Commander, was present as the Executive Officer of the light cruiser Southampton during the of this class, yet in this period last vizit of the British Navy to among the cases mentioned, there Kiel in 1014. were three cases of optic neuritis lending to blindness and two of ad- vanced paralysis," said the report of Professor Hawekada,
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The Premier continued that the object of his statement was to re- move apprehensions pending the and constitutional settlement formulation of provisions ensuring
maintenance of India's credit, No Interference by Britain. (BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE]⠀⠀⠀
Two police officers from Colombo Parley Adjourned,
left last evening by the Talaiman Rugby, July 1 The Prime Minister, in his state- Meanwhile a message from Paris par train for Bombay. They will ment in the Commons on India's states that important discussicas reach Bombay in four days and a P. and O. Moolten which is expect finances, said if the necessity for regarding the moratorium proceed half and will be returning by the cluded when they wore adjourneded to reach Bombay on the way assistance arose, the consant ofed this afternoon and had not con-
out to Colombo in about a week Parliament would, of ecurso, be re quired and an opportunity would until tomorrow night.
'Later:-Before the Third Addi- tional District Judge, Colombo, then be available to discuss the conditions under which assistance
mortgage-abtion has been filed by eculd be given.
Dr. G. Wignarajah of Kynsey Rond ngainst Mr. W. A. 8. do Vas for the recovery of a sum of Rs. 108,333 due on a bond dated August 12, 1925, hypothecating as a primary mortgage the estate called. Kiri metiya in the Galle District or Rs, Ruasy, July 1 100,000, with interest at 12 per crat. HM the King has approved the Dr. Wignarajab alleges that. Mr. appointment. of Mr. Reginald De Vos paid all interest up to consider the Chinese coming to Professor Cloud, by the The Hong Kong Daily Press, Hervey Hoare, CMG Minister September, 3030, but then default-munity should be notified of the success of German scientists in pro- Plenipotentiary at the Residency ed. The property was subject to danger and Municipalities and Sani- ducing synthetin albumen from conl in Exiro to be Envoy Extraordić, a accondary mortgage in favour of tary Boards informed tog after many years' experimenting. nary and Minister Plenipotentiary Dr. Wigoarajah and Dr. B. Thiya. All the representatives of the Synthetic Abramen je claimed 10 at Teheran,
garajah for Rs. 80,000,
accused stores pleaded guilty and be less expensive than natural al his Worship: imposed fines of $10 bamen and equally pure e opch as these were the first of auch The discovery was announced by cases to be brought and remarked Professor Cloud, during a speech at that this should be a warning to a meeting of the Coal Society at
Bochum, in the Rhino Valley, others
[The prospect of a Government
Discussing preference to British. defest in the House of Commons goods being given and a complete on Thursday has been brought, cessation of the boycott, as condi nearer by tho decision of a' iccettions of such financial support, the ing of the Liberal Parliamentary Promier said the Government had Party to press their amendment for no intention of interfering with the the exemption of playing fields Fiscal Autonomy Convention, from the Land Tax proposals.
The amendment will be pressed. to addivision: if the Government refuses to give way.]
Another
* Hòsignation......
Viscount Allendale has resigned the treasurership of the Liberal Party owing to its 'sacrifion of in- dependente, especially in regard to
mmentie the
and Tax-pro-
BURMA UNREST.
[DRITION WIRELESS "SERVICE.}
SP Ruany, July 1 A Langdon meage reports that further, hundred rebels have sur rendered in the Prome District.
NEW BRITISH MINISTER- AT TEHERAN.
[BRITISH WIRELESS-SERVICE.]
Mr. Hoare entered the Diploma tis Service in 1905 and has sprved in the Foreign Office at Constan tinople, Rome, Peiping, Petrograd and Warsaw.
Mr. S Somasunderam appeared for the plaintifA MARININ
The judge allowed mummons on the defendant returnable bu Juns
29.
FOODSTUFFS FROM COAL.
DISCOVERY BY GERMÁN ··
SCIENTIST,
"The number of growing girls that have suffered irreparable. damage to their kidneya and young married women that have aborted or given birth to infants that died Berlin, June 20-New prospects from lead poisoning must be con- for the artificial production of food- siderable.
stuffs, have been opened up, focord-
Previously acknowledged 843,517.27
..845,028.17
Total
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