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C. N. C. STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS. DISASTROUS QUAKE
COMPANY
RESULT
AND GUILDS MEET · IÑ
SHANGHAI.
LIKELY
TO-DAY.
After having been in progress for more than one calendar month, the strike of the officers and engineers of the China Navigation Company may possibly come to an end. almost at once, owing to the fact that negotiations have been opened in Shanghai between the Company had the two Guilds.
IN CHINA..⠀⠀
100,000 PEOPLE SAID TO HAVE PERISHED.
DISTRICTS ISOLATED.
What is regarded as one of the
world's greatest catastrophes occur
red on May 23 in the romnete pro vince of Kansu, China, when scores of towns and cities were levelled by
fre
an earthquake.
The casualties are placed as high as 100,000.
The first details of the disaster contained in a letter from There was a Conference between the partics on Saturday, a Monsignor Bruddenbrock, Aposto- meeting of the Guilds in Shanghai last night to consider the latest pro-le Vienr of the Steyl Mission at Lanchow, Kansu province, and just posals, and there is to be another, conference this afternoon.
communicated by the Shanghai correspondent of the Westminster is eagerly awaited here regarding the outcome.
Gazette.
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News
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There was an interesting deves SOME NEUTRAL VIEWS. Jopment in the C.N.C. dispute over "Flinging Away Their Heritage." the holiday, , conference being
Mr. W. Bruce Lockhart, hold in Shanghai between repre- Shanghai, writes to the North- sentatives of the Company and China Daily News:
One of the men on strike has the officers. This 'meeting, it is been quoted in a contemporary as understood, was arranged with the fallows:
"We fear that our acquiescence object of discovering what com-
in the Consulate's request that we mon ground there is on which carry on has led the owners to imagine that we are in a weak negotiations could be based.
The conference sat on Sunday position. We are in far a strong- when the causes of the dispute er one, as we see it, than the com- were discussed: Representatives pany for "they are losing from of the Company made certain pro- $200 to $500 a day, while we lose
nothing."
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Cities Wiped Out.
Monaignor Bruddenbrock says the cilles of Stslang, Lanchow and Kulang were wiped out.
At Liangchow, 10,000 persons were killed. The city of Tuncese, he says, was buried beneath a moving moputain.
Dozens of worshippers, including the mother superior of Sisiang church, were buried when the build- ing collapsed. ;
The news of the catastrophe had not been previously reported in Shanghai owing to the destruction of the telegraph wires.
An Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai received in Manila confirms in part the foregoing, though it gives a different date and has no information of the number of casualties. It says:
posals to the Guilds, but whether. If that indeed be the mental at- these were merely inquiries re titude of the majority of the strik- garding a possible base for
ers and results are to be gauged negotiations, or whether they were by the capacity of each party for definite terms hus not yet been losing money, one
can only hope made known. The representa- tives of the Guilds, informed the that common sense will commence
"The city of Liangchow, Kansu to prevail soon in the councils of conference that the proposals the strikers, for the following rea- province, west China, has been would be submitted to a meeting ann, that the idea while we lose virtually destroyed by an earth of members which was to take nothing," is quite erroneous, if quake, according to long delayed place yesterday.
simple arithmetic be any guide. dispatches received here from the There are some 400 men on dietant province. The quake is strike, and the average pay of believed to have happened during!
Joint Meeting To-day.
Upon inquiry this morning we each of those 400 men including the last few days of June. Pro
day,
put out.
Amoy and Swatow Ships
is that correct?
"Rescued."
Asía.
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Mission Damaged,
its
observatory disturbances
OBITUARY.
AUGUST
2,
1927.
·日五初月七
TSINGTAO COUP.
NORTHERN ADMIRAL
ARRESTED.
PICKETS IN THE STREETS.
Shanghial, Aug, 2.
A Tsingtao, message of August
1 states that the Shantung au-
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telophone & tral 1248or 1247.
Happy Valley,
53, Wong Net load.
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CLOSING OF B. A. T. PACIFIC AIRWAYS PROJECTED.
FACTORIES.
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EIGHT THOUSAND HANDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
A NEW COMPETITOR FOR FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN.
RAW TOBACCO HELD UP.
As a result of the abnormal con-
thorities on Saturday arrested Additions in Shanghai's hinterland U. S. NAVY'S AERIAL PLANS.
miral Wu, commanding the Second the British-American Tobacco Co.. Northern Squadror, and ordered Ltd. have been forced to close Rear-Admiral Lin te take over their Shanghai factories, thereby
command.
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Admiral Wu's acrest was ap-throwing out of work some 8,000 parently due to the authorities be- labourers, more than 50 per cent. itig auspicious concerning the in-of whom are women. The lockout! activity of the nary
will last indefinitely, according to The populace were nervous en officials of the company-until Saturday, owing to there, being orders are received that the stocks numerous pickets in the streets, have been depleted enough to war- but the coup was elected without rant a reopening on a trouble at a military conference scale..
-Renter
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smaller
The recent successes of airmen who flew from California to the Hawaiian Islands, has revived interest in the proposed trans-Pacific flight, in which Hongkong is to be the final stopping place. There are also plans afoot for long flights from America to Japan and to "New Zealand.
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The "hop" from San Francisco to Honolulu has suggested the feasibility of a regular service from America to the Philippines, via Hawaii; and United Sintes army and navy officials are contem- to which Admiral Wu and two of Orders to the effect that such plating the possibilities of extensive connexions in the Pacific, and his captains hind been Invited. netion was advisable were received
extension of the fleet defence and fighting power, by means of nero- more than a week ago Trom the
planes. Thend ofce and within the past four or five days department after department have been entting
Los Angeles, July 23.-Richard down their staffs, says Fridays Grace, who unsuccessfully attem- N. C. Dully Newes
pted a fight from Hawaii to Call received the smaller factory in fomnia recently, announced to-day Yangtszepoo was closed-some two that his plane would hop eff for weeks ago affecting 800 or 000 Tokyo on September 5. He will fly persons. Then came the instruc
by way of llonulu, as he intends tions that all manufacturing operations should be curtailed and to participate in the flight for the the staff of more than 7,000 in Poo- Dole award. tung was gradually turned off.
CHIANG'S ANXIETIES.
Giving Many Orders.
Shanghai. August 2, wired to the Nanking
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has Central Military Council asking that the
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JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER.
Official Report of Casualties.
Tokyo, Aug. 2. It is officially reported that 38 were killed, including five officers, and. 47 wounded in yesterday's disaster on the warship Tokiwa, which i Japan's largest mine-layer- Reuter
CANTON COMMISSIONERS.
Even before the final orders were
The departments of the com- pany in Pootung include two factories in which are manufac- tured the cigarettes for native consumption, two printing depart ments, where the advertising posters are made and an engineer- Jing department.
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Generoso Syquin, formerly of the Philippine constabulary, a member of the first crop of native aviators, is reported to have announced his anxiety to fly over the Pacific. "A plane is all I nood," he stated.
us. War Department Interest,
Washington, July 26-The suc ceas of the flight made to Hawail Ly Lieutenants Maitland and He- genberger has increased the seri- ous interest of the war depart- ment in the proposed flight to the Philippines.
To Beat Globe Record. Detroit, July 23.-Edward F. Senlee, president of the Way Com- pany Air Service, who with Wil- Although it is understod that a liam Brock, pilot, is planning a decision is not imminent, it s world flight, announced to-day he known that tentative plans have hoped to take off on a 20,000 mile developed considerably for a journey between August 5 and 11 flight via Hawail, Midway, Wake in a Stinson-Detroiter plans pow Island and Guan to Manila.
Maitland and Hegerberger are ered with a Wright Whirlwind motor. A test fight to New York in Washington preparing reports down to 2,500. Most of these, it is planned early next week. An for the department on the is said, live in the districts near attempt will be made in the world Hawaiian flight, and are well in- by and can come back to work on fight to lower the record of Ed formed on plans of the proposed
The last of the workers left the Factory last evening (Thursday) the total number having been cut
short notice.
of
It is said that other foreign, as: jwell as Chinese, tobacco concerns
To New Zealand.
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He will use a Bluebird plane with a Wright Whirlwind motor.
an
army
Vast Plan by Navy.
even when American
ward Evans and Linton Wells of According to the officials the 28 days 14 hours 36 minutes, to 15 trip to the Philippines. They pro- were informed that the officers met value of cost of keep on board | party damage is said to have Standing Committee of the Cour-closing of the factories is not con- days. The route, starting from ounce it both practicable and In Shanghal yesterday evening ship-le., board and lodging they mounted to several million cil should be inaugurated without nected by any way, at present, Detroit, wil be via Harbour Grace, feasible. The flyers pointed out and, in fact, decided on replies to must pay while living on shore,dollars...
any delay to take charge of the with the increase in taxes levied N. F., London, Berlin, Moscow, that they had completed the long- the proposals made by representa- may be said to be not less than
military affairs at the base so that by the Nationalist Government in Krasno-udinsk, Kurgan, Omsk, est leg of the preposed route to tives of the Company. The na- $300 a month. That figure is pro-
he (Chiang) can devote his entire Nanking. It is simply a case of Irkutsk, Chita, Harbin, Vladi- the Philippines, but that the ture of these replies has not been bably understated as an all-round
Ilawali, San Francisco and from Mawali on to Manila." "Among the properties damaged attention to military affairs at having on hand mare, stocks than vostok. Tokio, Midway Island, greatest difficulty of the flight was
can be disposed. In normal times, Detroit.
Lieutenant disclosed, but a further joint meet average for all
Hegenberger CX- ratings, Thus
the front.
plained that direction finding ing is being held in Shanghai to when 400 men have completed 30 was the China Inland mission, a Marshal. Chiang has also wired with the factories running at thel
confining missionary body
would be increasingly difficult and days of shore life off pay and on
22. Would be like shooting at a pip- Chekiang Garrison Commander, to stocks would be under supplied,
Detroit, Mich., July "Interest in view of the fact that will be out of pocket, in the aggre- of Kansu and Shens, the two the effect he should adopt severe But the company within the past Farther news will be awaited board and lodging outgoings, they China activities to the provinces to General Chau Feng-chi, the rate they have been lately, the
Frederick A. Giles, well known point. He said: “Our expori- ence shows that pilots would need the parties in the dispute have gate, to the tune of $120,000. That most western provinces of China, measures to cheek rumours now few months as is the case
Australian aviator, proposes "Liangchow is a town of several come together and that feelers for works out at $1,000 a day that the
being circulated by Wang Ching-practically all such concerns
astronomical and radio naviga- to Wellington, N. Z. negotiations at any rate bave been strikers are out of pocket as.com-thousand inhabitants in the northwei, in Cheldang, and which are have been forced to withdraw flight of 11,151 miles from Detroit to use dead reckoning, as well as tion in order to keep their course. the near pared with the $200 to $500 a day of Kansu province,
Giles hopes to start from De- The plans for the Manila Aight quoted by the above striker as the Mongolian border, and within the causing dissension in the Cheklang their representatives.
However, much speculation is daily loss of the Company.
Great Wall. It lies on one of the camp,
Marshal Chiang has also order- going on generally as to what the troit early in August and parti- propose the establishment of radio He saysWe lose nothing."old trade routes into the centre of ed that the employment of military proposed increase in taxes will cipate in the Dole prize flight to beacons on all the islands along
The crux of the whole strike
Shanghai
force in "Ching Tang" movements bring forth when the time comes. Hawail, continuing to Brisbane, the route."
The type of airplane which should be discontinued, as no The company is also being put thence to Sydney and thence to.
Wellington.
carried the seems to be that the men demand states that severe
aviators to another disadvantage by the There was no appreciable change to drag their owners before a com- were registered by the seismo- troops can be spared for this pur-to
Hawali would have to be trans- large stocks of raw tobacco which on Wednesday in the situation re- pulsory arbitration on all or any graph but that their location was post-Nam Chung Pañ.
have been held up in the interior
formed into a seaplane in order. garding the stoppage of the China question that arises, and that the not known."
for some time past.
to alight in the sea near the small Navigation Company's fleet, and owners refuse to go to compulsory
Airway to Philippines. islands enroute, Lieutenant Mait- the stalemate continues, with any arbitration on certain economic
Formally Accept Office. prospect of a antisfactory settle factors affecting their business,
Washington, July 22,-Speaking land said. With such equipment
ment as remote as ever, says a except by mutual consent.
Canton, August 2. are being more or less subjected at the dinner held in honour of he believes that the flight is on-
the same things as are Shanghai paper. The Guilds stat-
Rumours were current recently to
the himself and Lieut. Lester Mait- tirely feasible.. Herewith the text of the letter ad on Wednesday evening that dated December 11, 1917, which the
that the Canton leaders were not B.A.T. These have gone through land, the San Francisco Honolulu' there had been no change in the Company addressed to the Guild :-
DEATH OF LADY LAUDER. honduring Nanking's appoint a similar curtailment for some army fliers, Lleut. A. D. Hogen-
A vast screen of airplanes for attitude of the officers, and that no "All the outstanding questions"
ments, and that the Nanking order time past but are reported to be berger declared to-night that he communication had been received in the settlement of May 12, 1916,
London, Aug. 1.
for the reorganization of the running more or less normally, at believed the fight would lead the the American fleet,
air journey to the battling far from from the company in regard to the between the companies and the
Lady Lauder, wife of the come-Kwangtung Government was not the present time, though they are way to reported intention
to refund the the captains and officers' repre- dian, Sir Harry Lauder, died yes- rumours have now been nor have they been doing so for session of the United States.
going to take any effect here, not manufacturing up to capacity. Failippines, the furthermost pos- shores, is the ond to which ex- perts of the navy, department are ten pur cent. for the April-June sentatives having now been settled,terday-British Wireless. quarter.
our principals have instructed us
Hegenberger added that he ex- working, it was announced to-day [Lady Lauder was Miss Annie proved fabrications, the new Com several wecks, The steamer Shantung (known to advise you that so far as they Vailance, and married Sir Harry missioners of the Provincial Gov-
pected such a flight would be by officials of the department.
When these plans are complét- to the Guilds, it acems, as the are concerned any future pro- Lauder in 1890.
She visited orament appointed by Nanking
made soon, by way of Midway
ed, overy warthly will carry their "flagship" left on Wednesday posals to refer to arbitration must Hongkong with Sir Iarry during having taken up
offices FLIGHT FROM SHIP TOjaland and Guam.
"planes supplementing those bas- morning for Amoy and Swatow "At the same time they desire it
SHORE.
Major General Charles Summer- ing on a fleet of air craft car- with a number of foreign deck and to be made perfectly clear that this his world tour two to three years yesterday afternoon, at Govern-
ago. There was one son of the ment House.
all, chief of staff of the army riers, which will be formed with engineer officera, who were to is by no means to be takin as an in- marriage, who was killed in the Mr. Tal Chi-tan, a prominent
dwelt on the vast military impor- the commissioning of the Lexing bring back the ships of the C. N. dication that the China Navigation war.]
Nationalist leader, who recently
of the hop to Hawaii. ton and the Saratoga." Co. now held up at those ports. Company is opposed to arbitration:
arrived from Nanking, officiated at
tanco "From a military point of view," With even the most conserva- This information was confirmed it means only that the Company
the inaugural ceremony on behalf
he, gaid, "and considering the tive among the elder naval offi- later by Messrs. Butterfield and cannot hold itself bound to sub-
of the Nanking Government, and]
necessities of the defence of the cars realizing, that the first task Swire. The paper understands mit any and all questions which
presented the seals of office to the
New York, Aug. 1. Pacific, the accomplishment of in a future sea battle will be that the Shantung, took ten deck may possibly arise to arbitration
new Commissioners.
What is claimed to be the first these two army fliers is the most clearing the air of enemy planes. officers including one of the com- and be bound by the result."
Mr. Li Wan-fan, one of the nowj pany's marine auperintendents, To which the Guilds replied on AN AMERICAN TRADE
appointees, accepted the seals of flight to be made from a passenger vital since the construction of the experts picture that a clash of major surface fleets would take and six engineer officers.
COMMISSIONER.
the Provincial Government on be-liner was made in the Atlantic by Panama Canal." "I am instructed by the Man-
the trans-Atlantic airman, Clar- half of his other colleagues.
General Summerall declared that place in somewhat the following agement Committee to inform you
The now Commissioners are: ence Chamberlin, who took off in Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in reply to your letter of Decem-
Wellington, Aug. 1.
With contact established with were still unable to make any ber 11, that this Guild cannot The first United States trade General Li Chal-aum, who is also a Fokker biplane from a special it had long been recognised that way:
chairman of the Provincial Gov-runway constructed on the boat the nation holding Hawall had the
He the enemy, plane after plano concrete statement regarding the consent to the breaking of the commissioner to New Zealand has eroment, Mr. Li Wen-fan, who laldeck of the United States liner military key to the Pacific. reported decision of the company Agreement of May 2, 1916, which arrived here.-Reuter
concurrently the Commissioner of Leviathan, when it arrived off Fire added that the successful negotia- would arise from each American tion of an air lane between Call- battleship, cruiser, destroyer and fornia and Kawali simplified the submarine, until several hundred Civil Affairs, Mr. Ku Ying-fang Island from New York.
Chamberlin'e destination
matter of the defence of the Ha- air fighters would be searching (represented by Li Wen-fan) who
Augmenting is concurrently commissioner of Peterborough, New Jersey:
Two destroyers have followed walian islands as well as other for enemy planes.
these would be combat planes and Finance, Mr. Li Lao-chew, who is concurrently Commissioner of In Chamberlin to the shore to render Pacific positions."
"Can you imagine," he prophesi- bombers from the aircraft-carry- dustries, General Feng Cho-man, assistance in case of necessity.
The object of the experiment is ed, clouds of airplanes taking off ing fleet numbering several hun- Then a battle be- who is also "Commissioner of Chen Koh-yul, concurrently combining steamship and aeroplane landing in Hawali, and augment tween the opposing airforces. missioner of Military Affairs, Mr. services, in order to expedite mailing the island forces to form a would be staged over the sea area separating the two battle Accts. Chan Yung, also commissioner of services, and also urgent pas great air defence?" a remark by one of the officers re-ed that the attitude takon up by
Naval experts say that the afr senger travel-Reuter's American
Another Filipino Aspirant. Justice, Mr. Chang Nan-heen, con-
force winning a victory would in maining with the ships of the our principals and referred to in
Rain fell almost continuously to-currently Commissioner of Lands, Service. New York, later. Enthusiasm among company to the effect that he had our letter to you of the 11th ul-day in London and many other parts and Mr. Chang Yang-pao, con-
Filipinos turn insure victory for its surface... received reliable information that time is correct. We have there of Southern England, completely
Owing to fog, Chamberlin aban-over the proposed trans-Pacific fleet, unless there was an over- the ten per cent. would be re- fore only to confirm what we have marring the enjoyment of August currently commisioner of Recondoned his plan to fly to Peter-sight from Manila to San Fran- whelming preponderance of num
atruction.. funded as for the quarter ended already written, namely, that any Bank Holiday
bere against it. borough, and landed at Curtia cisco apparently is not dead.s makers-British
(Continued on Page 14.) Field Reuters. Ameriçan Service. Į
A Refund?
January 4, 1918:-
to refund the ten per cent. for the establishes compulsory arbitra- April-Juno quarter, but from the.
tion on all future differences statements they did make it. is a which cannot be adjusted by cor-
reasonable assumption that
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respondence
decision to refund the ten per. board." cent. for the period, stated has
U.S. AND N. Z.
To which the Company replied
or the adjustment. A WET AUGUST BANK
HOLIDAY.
"We have submitted our lettor
really been taken, and that Messrs, on January 26,1918
Butterfield and Swire are waiting
CHAMBERLIN DEMONSTRATES
PRACTICABILITY.
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for definite Instructions from the to you of the 11th ultimo and your SOUTH OF ENGLAND'S BAD Labour and Peasants, General to prove the practicability of com- from California and in a few hours dred more.
company's head office in London.. reply of the 4th Inst. to our
This assumption is borne out by legal advisera and are now advis
June 30.
(Continued on Pege 14.) Wireless.
LUCK.
London, Aug. 1.