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DANISH AVIATOR
COMMOR BOTVED'S FUTURE PLANS.
AN INTERVIEW.
Whether Botved, the Danish avaitor, will fly.
or nob Commander
his machine to Hongkong before
The
Hongkong Telegraph
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No. 21,859.
GIRLS FORM DEATH PACT
五拜造 ·魏六十月四英港香
CANTON RIVER.
THROW THEMSELVES IN HARBOUR.
MR. SUN FO URGES
IMPROVEMENT
A TIMELY RESCUE.
TAX ON IMPORTS.
A proposal submitted by Mr.
FRIDAY,
APRIL 16,
MR. SUN FO LEAVES FOR NORTH
STARTS ON IMPORTANT MISSIONE
NORTHERN OVERTURES. Mr. Sun Fo, the Commissionar
1926. 日五初月三
SWATOW SPLIT.
DISCORD IN KUOMINTANG RANKS.
SPEAKER SEIZED. News is to hand of an open con-
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PIECE GOODS SHOPS BAIDED.
ARMED PICKETS TAKE POSSESSION.
1
CANTON INCIDENT.
Reporta of armed, strike pickets having taken possession of the
Chinese piece goods frms are to.
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$4000
FIGHT AT SEA.
RAID ON STRAITS LAUNCH
FOUR KILLED
With her searchlight smashed and her well-scrubbed decks stain-
One of the strangest cases to Sun Fo, Commissioner of Recon- receive the attention of the struction in the Canton. Govern- for Reconstruction in the Canton ict between the right and left proceeding to Shanghai in cop/Secretariat for Chinese Affairs is ment, to organize a Committee for Government, who only recently re.wings of the Kuomintang Party in premises of a number of importam fed with patches of blood, the rub-
tinuation of his long flight from Copenhagan to Tokyo and back, Is entirely dependent on weather con- ditions in Canton to-day and to-. morrow.
under investigation by the Head
The flyer has had a very success story, as secured from them by the lower and shallower, so much so parture is connected with the new sen, five days being devoted to the later going on atrike because cer-
tween Copehagan and Canton on
the line of route followed is some
thing like 15,000 kilometres, or just
Improving Canton River Harbour turned from the North, again left Swatow and district.
ber restriction launch Simbang of that Department. It concerns has been passed by the Govern four young Chinese girls who were in the following dispatch
ment. The proposal is embodied Hongkong to-day by the Empress. It appears that the Kuomintang hand from Canton.
cruised into Singapore: habour of Australia, having arrived here was holding memorial services in picked out of the harbour, off
There has for some time past
from the west on the 6th instant "The Pearl River on which from Canton yesterday
connection with the anniversary of been serious trouble between the and drew alongside the wharf at Yaumati, yesterday, and whose stands 'Canton has become shal-
It appears that Mr. Sun Fo's do-the death of the late Dr. Sun Yat-merchants and their employees, Keppel Harbour, Those who that it needs immediate dredging. political developments in the ceremonies. On the final day, Mrtain demands have not been con-
boarded the chaser were present- ful trip to date. The distance be-police, is of a startling nature.
Formerly the previous Board
of North. Reports from Canton state Chang Ling-wan, the principal eeded. A few days ago, the mer
ed with the extraordinary scene of different mistresses as servant-proving the navigation route
It was whilst in the employment Conservancy drew up plans for im-that on Monday Mr. Sun Fo pro-
of four dead bodies on board the girls that they met together one Canton, and stepe were taken to a lengthy interview with General the midst of his oration, hooted, give in to the strikers, they would;
toceeded to Whampoa, where he had speaker of the day, was, whilst in day last week and formed a strange proceed with the project; but after- Chang Kai-shek, and on the fol- seized, and charged by members of close down their shopa. According
chants Intimated that rather than vessel, while the weary crew ap- over 9,000 miles and this trip has agreement, which was, in effect, a wards on account of the fact that towing day he notified the Govern
peared with bandages over wounds pact to die together.
which in some cases were so seri been covered in sighty flying hours,
the Provincial Treasury and the ment of his intention to leave for the left wing with being an anti-ly, clearance sales were began and ous that they had to be removed In fulfilment of that death pact, National Treasury, were not in a Shanghal. Leave of absence was revolutionary," other arrests als only parts of the various establish. to hospital at ones. though various difficulties have de- the four girls threw themselves position to do so, no funds, could be accordingly granted, and Mr. Ng being made, tained him at different points. He into the harbour at the same mo- appropriated to carry out the work, Sheung-ying is to act for Mr. Sun
The com ments opened..
ander of the Simbang, Mr. WI- has been in Canton since Mondayment yesterday, but, as fate would "Later on, Engineer Oliveerona Fo during the latter's absence.
The To Sun Chao newspaper have it, they were seen and re-of the Board of Conservancy draft- and the ground at Taishatau is so scused befored being long in the ed a scheme for raising funds by mission is an important one, and editorial staff arrested.
On Monday afternooh, a gang
liam Brown, was one of the most It is stated that Mr. Sun Fo's was later closed and some of the of strike pickets, armed with a seriously Injured. There were very bad after the heavy rainstorms water Boatmen took them out levying a surtax on foreign imports that it is connected with overtures
variety of weapons, from rifles to signs on board of a fierce strug- that his machine will not and brought them ashore. The
clubs, forced an entrance into the made by General Sun Chuan-fang rise with a sufficient load of fuel
premises of the Ta Kwong Com-gle having taken place. to the Canton Goverment, with a
pany, drove out the Inmates (in-! to take him to Shanghai,
The C.P.O.. and other police view to common action against
cluding the proprietors) and took officials, including the Inspectors Marshal Wu Pei-fu
possession of the place. Similar of the Marine Station, boarded the incidents occurred at the piece-vessel and took statements from goods firms of Cheun Hing and Co. the members of the crew. They and Nam. Fung and. Co..
were told a story of a suprise The Ta Kwong Company has attack by some Bugis smugglera, notified tho Government that while patrolling of Palau Pisang, decided to treat with themophy totalling $30,000 was left in which resulted in the killing of
THE AIRMAN'S FUTURE PLANS.
police were informed, and the four were removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital. It WAS found necessary to detain only one at the institution. The others were If the weather. In Canton clears turned over to the police and ste said the airman in conversa-now lodged at the local Police tion with a Télégrunk, represente Live this morning, "I shall proceed s previously arranged direct, from
Station
An allegation of unprecedented
andrame, vlamme going fur, eximinarer in the pan of their miss the hyn food at Kowlyen this has cause the intervons Iternoon, and if it is suitable, and ion of the Secretary for Chinese am unable to go direct from Can-Affairs in the case, and investiga- ton, a light load will be put on the tions are being conducted with the machine in Canton and I shall fly view to finding out how to Hongkong to fill up."
In further conversation, the air- man said he would prefer to land
In Hongkong on the return flight If the Kowloon ground is sotja- factory.
much
truth there is in these allegations.
600,000 NEW HOUSES.
Talking of his experiences, Com-BRITAIN'S POST WAR RECORD.
mander Botved said that he found the going very easy to Calcutta, though in the region of Karuchi;
they met with sandstorms over which, however, they were able to rise.
Rugby, April 15...
KUCMINCHUN EVACUATE
PEKING.
Tuan Chi-joi Returns.
-Peking, April 15.
The Kuominchun forces. have evacuated the city, and:
Chinese Alled troops faken over control.
Tuan Chi-jui, who recently took refuge in the Legation. quarter, has returned to the Presidential Palace and resumed the functions of his offico.
Tsao Kun, the ex-President who was recently released, from confinement by the Kuominchun, has now gone to the Logation quarter. Reuter.
COMMONS UEROAR.
GOVERNMENT
"
USEL OF
SCANDALOUS BLLAVIOUR
London, April 15.
There was a recrudescence of uproar in the House of Commons to-night, which culminated in Mr. J. H. Thomas announcing his in- tention to move a vote of censure on the Deputy Speaker.
The Government applied the closure to A Labourite motion opposing the Government's pro- posal to transfer a surplus of £1,100,000 from the services of the Insurance Fund:
to
Speaking at the opening of the through the maritime customs, in the Treasury, against which che Building Exhibition at Olympia, order to meet the expenses of the Opposition displayed much feeling.
ir Kingsley Wood, Under-secre-
project.
Mr. Thomas beatedly accused the tary for Health, said that accord-
"After receipt of the plars and Government of scandalous behavi The unfortunate accident to the ing to the latest figures the total
the procedure of raising funds our. kmachine used by his companion, number of new houses provided in drafted by Mr. Olivecrona, which points of procedure ensued, after An excited discussion on Lieut. Herschend, was serious and this country since the war up to Conservancy, the Department of that he proposed to take the neces were submitted by the Board of which Mr. Thomas solemnly stated would probably take, a long time to March 1st, was 602,724. This was Reconstruction in December last sary steps to ask the House, to ex- repair. Lieut. Herschend would;
a really remarkable record, he thought, join up with him at
· Rangoon on the way back. It was/ceeded by no country in the world year transmitted same to the Pro-fpress an opinion on the Speaker's
very necessary that they should reach India on the return trip be- fore the rainy season commenced.
FORCED TO RETURN.
ex-
vincial Government for decision.
built by private enterprise. Last No fewer than 574,418 had been
"partial and bisssed conduct," "Now many months have elaps- after which the matter was tem year the largest number of housesed, but still no decisions have as porarily dropped--Reuter.
yet been made. In view of this,
BLOW TO BOLSHEVIK“.
Wu and Chang Firm in Alliance.
Hankow, April 14. military conference at
the headquarters last night
Kom han under no other conditions han absolute and unconditional surrender.
Atelegram was subse quently received by Wu Pel- fu from Ching Teo-lin stating that Lu Chung-lin's invitation was an endeavour by the Kuominchun to create bad. blood between Chang and Wu, and further stating; that' the capture of Peking and the destruction of Bolshevism were absolutely assured.
Wu Pel-fu replied that he had already
several Occasions made it perfectly clear that he had no inten- tion whatever of treating with the Kuominchun, neither had he vouchsafed En answer to Lu: Chung-lin's telegram.
оп
Orders were issued for the troops to move on and." capture Peking.-Reuter.
·
its sale, whilst plece goods of the ty
Ford of the crow, whilst a third value of one lakh of dollars were man disappeared over the side of
fored in the shop.
the launch and was not seen again, The Piece Goods' Guild has made of the crew and two of the at The four dead. represented two urgent representations to the tackers, one of whom was shot Government for a settlement of in three paces by the Commander the trouble.
HIT
VICKERS HIT,
LITTLE ARMOUR PLATE REQUIRED.
Rugby, April 15, 'The small amount of warship construction in this country has had a serious effect upon such
and the other stabbed by the crew. The police took over the comman der's revolver from which the. empty cartridge cases had not yet. been discharged, and also a long, sharp parang, about two feet in length, and a short blood-stained acabbard, which are believed to have been left on the launch by the smugglers"
A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. The attack is the first on re- cord since the fleet of rubber re- striction launches was commis- firms as Vickers,
sioned for service. Smugglera Fresiding at the annual meeting have been chased and captured in of the Company Mr. Douglas all parts of the Malacca Straits Vickers said it appeared that their and off the coast of Johere, but armour plating plant.In Sheffield never before has serious resis- would be almost closed down for tance been encountered.
7 the year. The small cruisers al-Apparently, the launch crew lowed by the Washington Conven-were taken completely by surprise. tion carried very little armour The Simbang left Batu Pahat at plate, and as far as could be seen 10 p.m. on Monday and cruised
acting in conjunction with the try would not keep one plant even clous-looking craft until 280 a.m... half employed. There were five when a kotah under sail was Government, and, with the consent
such plants in the country Brit glimpsed in the darkness ahead. of General Ho Ying-lum, High Comish Wireless.
The searchlight was used and al- though it was a very dark night, those on board were able to make out a fair amount of rubber on board.
These actions resulted in re criminatory placards being posted at all public places, and the Society
ever built in one year in this coun-1, for the purpose of bastening the try were constructed They num- bored 159,026, of which 126,936 realization of the project, propose STRANGE JUNK STORY. of Sun Yat-senism,came forward, the total requirement of the coun- about without eighting any suspi On Sunday he left were built by private enterprise.the harbour should be quickly carr- that stepa for the improvement of
From Bangkok he had met with
bad weather.
Hanoi for Canton and had proceed ed a considerable distance when he encountered severe thunderstorms. and was obliged to return.
He was very pleased with the reception given to him" in Canton, There was a staff of some fifty men waiting his arrival,
CREW PUT ASHORE.
They looked forward to an even better record next year.-British ed out. All preparatory measures Wireless.
should be carried out in accord- ance with the procedure for rais- ing funds by levying a surtax on back by four men who formed part despatched a telegram to the Can- A strange story has been brought missioner of Tranquilization, it customs imports. With regard to of the crew of a trading junk
CHINESE CRUISER
CASE.
the plans concerning engineering, which left Hongkong for a Chinese ton Government requesting swift]
work, the plans for improving the destination on the 13th inst, |navigation route to Cantan drawn
and Immediate punishment of Li
the junk The tor, as being the principal instru- then again set up ments of the Russian Bolsheviks.
The fokis were thus
SPECTACULAR ERUPTION.
The launch approached "the kotah and want alongside, when the smugglers, who were five or
ACTIVE.
to the decks of the Simbang and attacked the crew with knives. New York, April 15. One of the smugglers was a Chin- ese and the rest are said to have bean Bugis. The number of
A message from Hilo Sandwich
Commander Botved," questioned
The men told the police that on Chi-lung, and the arrest of Chow as to flying conditions in the tro-
up by the chief engineer of the arrival at Lung Ku Tan they were Yan-dol, the Chief Political, Agent SANDWICH ISLANDS VOLCANO more in number, scrambled on ARMOURER SENT TO GAOL
Board of Conservancy in the your ordered to leave the boat and goof the Kuomintang in the East Sec- pical zone, stated that he had found nothing which was likely morning, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, found that some of the plans are charge of
At the Kowloon Magistracy this 1917 can be adopted. If it is ashore by Chan Sal, the man in to hamper any plan for a regular the case was concluded in which the not suitable, amendments will be vessel service. If he was asked to do the chief armourer of the Chinese made. We must allow for steam-sail and left for an unknown It is stated that this split has trip over again, he would probably craiser Kwong Ching was charged ers having a draught of twenty destination. give preference to a seaplane.with aiding and abetting in the feet being able to steam up
Asked his opinion of Capt. Pel-theft of six rifles, one revolver and river at all times. All engineer- the latter part of the journey bo political situation in Swatow and Marna Lon spectacularly erupted given by one of the crew as five. the compelled to return to Hongkong, not only seriously complicated the Islands, says that the volcano smugglers on Board the kotah was letler D'Olay's plan to fly from 220 rounds of ammunition from the ing work will be carried out by ing by bus, which they boarded the districts under the command Paria to Tokyo in four days across warship, and, alternatively, with the Board of Conservancy under at fin Mun.
last night, streams of lava descend- A Bugis who was one of the Russia, the Danish afrmas pointed conspiracy to commit a larceny. out the many difficulties in the
the direction of the Committee for
but haring twelve thousand feet from the first to beard the launch was shot The accused was sentenced to a Improving Carton Harbour.
On the trip from Hongkong the of General Ho Yink-lun, but has
at by the Commander, William way of such a flight and expressed a month's hard labour on the first
junk had only a cargo of sand, also provided a difficult problem forest and villages in the Kau dis wounded in the eye, in the shoul crater and flowing towards the Brown, and killed. He was doubt as to its fenaibility.
charge and
"The Committee I propose to and apart from the possession of for the Canton Government. acquitted on the Commander Bovted's companion second.
request the Government to organ-the junk ftools, the motive for
trict, The Bow Huminated the der and in the right arm The ize should consist of the Commis- this irregular get by the man in
A further report states that the entire island and was visible Chinese smuggler was stabbed by sioner of the Reconstruction De charge of the vessel can only be recently appointed Civil Adminis- by skipa at sea. Reuter's Amiri. the crew of the launch and also partment, the Mayor of Canton conjectured.
trator, Mr. Chu Foo, arrived, at can Service, Superintendent of Customs, Direc- tor of the Board of Conservancy, Commissioner of Customs, Chief Engineer of the Board of Conser- vancy and a representative of the Chambers of Commerce as men bere of the Committee. The Com
Bald that I was entirely wring
that the airman arrived unexpert-
edly in Canton. He was expected
In Canton on Saturday and officials bd the Canton Aviation Bureau turned out to await his coming, had two airplanes were waiting to
go up when he was sighted for
the purpose of showing the Danish
birman the way down. The Can-
LORD READING.
TO BE HONOURED BY LONDON.
Rugby, April 15.
At a meeting of the Corporation missioner of the Reconstruction
BAGHDAD FLOOD,
CAPITAL OUT OF DANGER
Swatoy on the 12th instant, and was sworn into office on the follow ing day at noon.
LOW FRANC
Baghdad April 18.
HUR RECORD
on Government had done every of the City of London, it was de Department shall be the chairman. The capital is no longer, anda htag in their power to facilitate cided to confer the freedom of the "In this way plans for the pro the Bight, and they were at present City on Lord Reading, in recogni-Ject can be conjointly devised In Endeavouring to drain the ground tion of his distinguished services order to realize the scheme of har
In order that it as Viceroy of India British Wire boar improve
PRESIDENT INDISPOSED.
died. The remainder of the
smugglera are said to have jump-
ed into the sea and were not seen again.
One of the first thing 1glora