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SHAUKIWAN MURDER TRIAL. FLIGHT COMEDY. ANOTHER LONG "HOP" COLONY'S BUDGET CANTON TO PUT DOWN NORTH REPULSED.
OPENS AT MAGISTRACY THIS
STORY OF
MORNING.
CRIME RECONSTRUCTED.
TELL-TALE BLOOD STAINS.
MILLIONAIRE SEIZES AEROPLANE.
aviation circles by unexpectedly
ATTEMPTED.
UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT BY
CANADIANS.
BILL PROVIDES, FOR $17,450,103.
www
.
REVOLT.
SENDING EXPEDITION TO SOUTH DISTRICT.
In view of the fact that the re-
HOW MONEY WILL BE SPENT. A PARIS-LONDON DASH.
GUNBOATS PARTICIPATE. STORM CAUSES RETURN. London, Aug. 29.
At the meeting of the Legisla- Mr. Charles Levine, the Ameri-
n, Ont, Aug. 29.
Canton, Aug. 30. tive Council which is to be held can millionaire who
Lately there has been an upris- flew the
The aeroplane "Sir John Carl-on Thursday afternoon, "the Hon. AND ARREST Atlantic with the airman Clarence
Chamberlin, on July 8, and who ing" piloted by Captain Tully and Secretary will introduce the Bud-ing in southern Kwangtung, and aince his arrival in Europe has Lieutenant Medcalf, started at six got, doing so by moving the first the remnants of the Chan Kwing- been the subject of a very lively o'clock this morning in an attempt reading of "an Ordinance to apply ming army together with the controversy over the question of what pilot should accompany him to fly across the Atlantle to Lon-
a. sum not exceeding $17,450,103 "Red" peasants and bandits, are back to America, dropped a don.
to the Public Service of the year now very active in the Yamchow, metaphorical bomb in French
Later.
Limehow, and Hainan districts. The Canadian airmen, Messrs. 1928. Tully and Medcalf, flying a Stin- The above sum, which is apart son monoplane, for a prize of a from the contribution to the volt has become more and more quarter of a million dollars offered Imperial Government in aid of serious, the Canton Government by Mr. Charles Burns, have both Military Expenditure and Charges yesterday ordered an expedition resigned from the Ontario forest on account of Public Debt, is made to start immediately against these patrol service in order to under-up as follows:- take the flight.
His Excellency the Gov-
ernor The flight was initiated by a Canadian Brewery firm..
Cadet Service Tully was wounded in the Dard- Sentor. Clerical and Ac- anelles and holds an Air Force count Staff Cross. Medcalf served in the Bri-Junior Clerical Service ..
and Legislature tish navy for acven years and has Colonial Secretary's Office down the Atlantic, the Mediter- rancan and the Red Sea.-Reuter'a Secretariat for American Service.
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The trial of the two Chinese who stand charged with the murder of Mrs. Mackay, of Taikoo, who was attacked, robbed and fatally injured while she was walking back to Shaukiwan from the Island in Chaiwan Bay, opened at the Central Magistracy this morning before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the First Magistrate.
The case for the Crown is being conducted by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, who, in the course of his opening address, related the story of the crime and how the police, as the result of investigations,. arrested the two men the day after the murder had been committed. The significant points in the case for the Crown are that the men had blood-stained clothing when arrested, had also some blood-stained money, and, most significant of all, one of them had half a cut forged $1 note which was known to have been in Mrs. Mackay's possession.
SMART WORK BY THE POLICE.
taking his own aeroplane, the "Miss Columbia"-which for the past few weeks had been kept in n shed at Le Bourget aerodrome, at Paris, being unable to leave chiefly owing to differences of opinion between Levine and the French pilot Drouhin, in whose favour 3 contract Levine had signed engaging him as a pilot for a year at a salary of 100,000 francs.
Levine to-day visited Le Bour- get, ostensibly to test the engine. He suddenly rose and headed northwards. Drouhin immediate ly leapt into another aeroplane eventually landed at Croydon. and started in purauit; but Leving
Narrow Escape from Death. Professional pilots at Croydon aerodrome held their breath and gasped at the astonishing perform ance of the "Miss Columbia," which arrived in the afternoon. Levine, after making several cir cuits of the aerodrome, missed" sudden death by inches when he nearly collided with the observa- He once hit the tion tower. ground, but rose again, and even- tually landed safely.
He was as cool as a cucumber, and explained that it was not his first solo flight, but his longest.
The full story of the tragic was actually into the bushes that death of Mrs. Rone Mackay at the Walter was pushed. As I said, he hands of two armed highway could not very well see what was robbers was related by the Assist- going on, but he could say this: ant Crown Solicitor (Mr. T. S. that the smaller of the two men HA the Central was Whyte-Smith) at
attacking his aunt. Polles Court, this morning, when would say he struck her, but whe Kam Shun, 25, and Cheng Tsang, ther with a weapon he could not 31. were charged' with the murder say. He could also cay that after of the deceased lady. The hoar the taller of the two men had push- ing took place before Mr. R. E. ed him into the nullah he went Lindsell, the accused being un- and assisted the smaller man." He defended.
would also say that Mrs. Mackay In opening the case for the was putting up a fight, she was Crown, Mr. Whyte-Smith said, in defending herself and striking A Paris message states that *port:
with an umbrella. The decoused lady, Mrs. Mackay, By the time Walter "got out of was the wife of Mr. Charles the nullah, the men had cleared of Mackay, a timekeeper at the Kow- with the basket and the bag, going loon Docks. They lived at "Black"
in the direction of the motor-road. head" House, just close to the There is a bend in the road, just Dockyard. There
staying out 30 yards further up, the with them on a short holiday visil, road near the bridge. Walter says the nephew of Mrs. Mackay, boy that they disappeared around this Walter Eckert, a boy of 14 years bend.
Was
of age, who came from Shanghai.
On the 6th August in the after-
noon, Mrs. Mackay and Walter
Eckert went to pay a visit to Mrs.
Tried to Walk Home,
7.
Attempt Abandoned.
Affairs Treasury
Chinese
Audit Department District Office, North District Office, South
New York, Aug. 29, The monoplane "Sir John Carl-Post Office ing" encountered a storm south of Imports and Exports Office
Harbour Department Oakville, and has returned to Lon-Royal Observatory don, Ontario--Reuter's American Fire Brigade... Service.
HOPES FOR INDIAN AMITY.
VICEROY DECORES RACIAL
DIFERENCES.
9
Supreme Court Attorney General Crown Solleitor's Office Official Receiver Land Office Magistracy, Hongkong Magistracy, Kowloon Police Force
Prisons Department Medical Department
Sanitary Department Botanical Bnd Forestry
Department
A Simla, Aug. 29. In a crowded Assembly the Vice-Education Department
Public Works Department roy, in a speech on the communal
Public Works, Recurrent question, emphasised that within Public Works, Extraordin 18 months communal strife had
beer. responsible for between 250 and 300 deaths, and 2,500 persons had been injured.
Levine, interviewed in London, said he was anxious again to fly tired of the Atlantic, and was
decided to take waiting, so had
He matters into his own hands. might pilot himself across. Drouhin is most indignant at Levine's. departure, and says that
There was much in Indian social he will investigate the possibilities of seizing the "Miss Columbia" in life that cried out for remedy and reform, but the task would be sore- London.-Reuter.
ly handicapped so. long as the The Advantage of English.
Later. country was distracted and torn Interviewed by the Press Asso-uy the present animosities. India clation, Levine declared that he desired to win self-government. and it was Great Britain's task to had run away from no-cne.
guide her towards this end. They were both vitally confronted with the necessity of laying the spectre besetting their path, and their common hopes.
every
IC
was
ary
Railway Kewicon-Canton Volunteer Defence Corps Miscellaneous Service Charitable Services Pensions
Total
enemies in the southern districts.
The Kwangsi brigade under Gen- $101,828 eral Liu Kwang-kwai, now garri- $25,608 soning Yamchow-Limehow, and the Provincial Guards regiment under 167,578 621,987 General Wang Chin-kau, have been ordered to join this military cam- 47,955 paign. The gunboats Kwongkam and Kwongyuk have also been 11,947 ordered to help in operations at the 8,978 coastal cities. The Kwongkam 45,003 will leave Canton for the south 23,067 to-morrow.
11,144
274,820 The cause of the revolt in south 805.170 ern Kwangtung is that, since .899,547 the withdrawal of General Li 36,558 Chai-sum's troops from the south- 217,924 ern districts, the garrison there AL- 148,559 has been greatly weakened.
33,798 though a brigade has come from 39,855 Kwongsi to reinforce the garrison, 9,871 these Kwangsi troops are not co- 26,677 22,250 operating with the native guards, 2,058 and the defence measures have been 2,012,117 greatly handicaped-Wah Kiu Yat
Po. 529,591 801,058
PRODUCTS
645,425
100,158 AMERICAN
1,229,018
DECLINE.
1,464,258 1,010,150
2,467,164 OUTPUT SHOWS FALLING OFF,
720,693 97,400
New York, Aug. 29. 924,404
The iron and steel production 94,624 833,979 last month was the smallest since 1925, according to the Federal .$17,450,103 Reserve Board's monthly report..
CAR FALLS INTO THE HARBOUR.
NARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS.
An alarming accident occurred
TRANSPORTS SUNK ON YANGTSZE.
JAPAN TO WITHDRAW HER TROOPS.
BRITISH SHIPS HIT.
Nanking, Aug. 28. The 7th Army has been sent
on the river to repulse the North- ern crossing, and so far they appear to have done so. The Southerners state that they are confident of being able to repulse the Northern attack. Part of the 7th Army is returning to Nanking. At Wulungshen yesterday, the Southerners were seen to be follow ing up retreating Northerners, going in an eastward direction.
Three Northern troops were picked up in the river by H. M. S. Witherington, and they state that their army was the ninth which crossed the river to attack Wulung- shen, but which was subject to a counter-attack and defeated.
..
Nanking, Aug. 29. Troops are now moving out of the city to the east, to meet the futher crossing of the Northerners above Morrison Point, which is rumoured. There was no gunfire from either side of the river yester dayNaval Wireless.
1
CHINKIANG ACTIVITY,
Inhabitants Conscripted.
Chinklang, Aug. 28. All transports are ready to leave at.short notice. The civil popula tion is being conscripted for mill- tary purposes. Some of the officials here have already left.
Heavy gunfire was heard to W. A 8. W. early this morning British steamer was heavily fired on from the south bank at Kuel- shan, and reported that Northern. troops are concentrating at Cin- nimue Creek and are crossing to Rose Island in junks-Naval Wire- less.
Klukfang, Aug. 29.
A small number of troops passed down the river yesterday. Small troop movements down the river' were observed between Klukiang and Wuhu.-Naval Wireless.
were
SHIPS UNDER FIRE,
in The output of motor-cars
Hit Several Times. July and early August was con-
Wuhu, Aug. 28. siderably below the figure for the
Four British steamers corresponding period last year.
heavily fired on last night from the The production of tyres, non-right bank of the river below the ferrous metals, food products, and
The steamers were hit town. several times, but there were no. woollen textiles, also declined.
Factory employment and wages casualties. were smaller than in any month since 124.
His hopes for ngreement be- tween the communities had been"
Cotton consumption, however, disappointed, although he pleased to see the recent indica- in the small hours of this morn- though smaller than in June, was ions of fresh efforts to bring to-ing, when a public motor-car skid- unusually large for this season of gether Hindus and Moslems. He ded into the harbour near Blake the year-Reuter's American Ser- would gladly associate himself Pier, carrying with it the Chinese vice. with any genuine attempt to find driver and two Chinese paasen- a practical solution of these miser-gers, who had narrow escapes able differences. He would throw from drowning.
"It appears that the car, No. 431,
his whole energies into this hon-had brought three persons to the ourable quest.
Blake Pier stand, about 1.15 this There was loud applause, and morning. One of the passengers got out, and the remaining two
intended to continue their journey! in the direction of Wanchai.
As the car started, just beyond Blake Pier, towards the Star Ferry,
CHICAGO-NEW YORK DERAILMENT.
NARROW ESCAPE FOR PASSENGERS.
Convoys between Wuhu and Vine Point have been instituted again.
Large troops movements down the river are expected to-day.- Naval Wireless.
Wuhu, Aug. 29. There were only small troop movements down the river yester day. Intermittent firing on ships below here continues.-Naval Wire. lesa.
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JAPAN'S TROOPS.
An Early Withdrawal
Tokyo, Aug. 29.
announced at a The Premier Privy Council meeting that it had been decided to withdraw the Japanese troops from Shantang in the immediate future.
Drouhin would receive penny due under the contract, but When he got up he found his Levine thought it was a mistake to was ly the Atlantic with a mai speak- and Miss Barker on an Island in aunt just getting up: She Chaiwan Bay. They had ten there obviously wounded, and she was ing no English.-Reuter.
hands over her Levine-Drouhin Contract. and had a bathe and started home holding her
Paris, Aug. 7. on the return journey, leaving the wounds. Walter would say that Island at about 7.15 p.m.
he saw blood-marks. She said that
The Chamberlin-Levine trans- Walter Eckert was carrying a she had been stabbed and robbed Atlantic flight is having a comic
sequel. basket with the bathing things, of the money.
The former already has and Mrs. Mackay was carrying a
They started to walk, but after returned to America, but Mr. ladies handbag which probably going a few paces, about 30 yards Levine, after having engaged a contained her money, and there is or so, Mrs. Mackay fell down.French pilot named Drouhin to reason to believe that the bag even she got up again and with Wal- take him back to New York in the contained a great deal of money. ter's assistance carried on for a "Miss Columbia, wishes to an There will be evidence to show bit further, but she again fell point another pilot. Drouhin ob- that on that day Mrs. Mackay took down. In the end they seemed to jects, and has taken possession of her money out with her because have walked altogether for some the aeroplane and refused to al there were workmen in the house. thing like 300 yards when Mrs. low the spare engine to be remov- the speech made a marked impres
It was evidently Mrs. Mackay's habit to visit Barker Island once Mackay had to give it up. She jed. Mr. Levine went to La Bour- sion on Indian circles-Reuter.
1 breezy or twice a week. They started, na told Walter to go and get assis-get yesterday and encountered I said, on the return journey at tance. She took off her wrist Drouhin who, after
the rear wheels skidded for some The passengers in the famous They took the watch and handed it to him, think-scene, got a lawyer to procure the about 7.15 p.m.
unknown reason, and dropped over Broadway, Limited, express from road which leads from the Island ing of course that if she kept it padlocking of the doors of the
the edge of the Praya wall, with Chicago to New York had a thrill-dience with the Emperor to-mor and which joins up with the main she might have it stolen from her, shed in which the "Miss Columbia"
the result that the whole machine ing escape when 12 miles west of row, it is believed for the purpose. road, leading uphill all the way. Walter went off to get assistance. is lodged, pending a settlement
London, Aug. 8.
dropped into the harbour, being Altoona. After they had walked for about a Being a stranger to Hongkong he of the dispute,
completely submerged, The Paris Intransigeant. states
The foremost of two engines of obtaining Imperial sanction for
the withdrawal.-Reuter. quarter of an hour they came did not know how near he was to
Police Station. He that a definite contract was sign-
At the time it was raining
NO DISSENSION. heavily, with the result that the drawing the express was derailed, the junction with the motor- went back all the way to Taiko, ed by Levine under which Drou-
The second engine rond, where there are some steps. he having left his aunt propped up hin was to act as Levine's pilot roof of the local barracks collaps-hood of the car was up, and the and plunged 200 feet down an em
and Walter against the side of the road.
for one year, from July 7th, at a ed, entombing 70 Infantrymen, of sidescreens wore in position, so bankment. When Mrs. Mackay
When he got back with assis- salary of 100,000 franes, whom three were killed and 24 in that the two passengers were hung on the edge.
No passengers were injured, but Eckart were approaching some
Levine also undertook to pay jured.
caught in a trap. The driver was steps they saw two-men coming tance, Mrs. Mackay was dead.
wounds, two Madame Drouhin 300,000 france in Other soldiers and firemen dash- not so dangerously placed, how-two of the engine-men were killed two injured. Reuters towards them, one of whom was She had three
wounds near her left breast and the event of Drouhin's death dur-ed to the rescue but there are still evor, as there were no sidescreens and
American Service. taller than the other.
one in her abdomen. Dr. Cannon ing the proposed trans-Atlantic 15 buried in the debris.-Reuter. to box him in.
Later. The Men Return.
who made a post-mortem examina- dight.
two The contract also specified that The death roll in the barracks Mrs. Mackay and Walter con- tion, will say that the
way and after wounds near the breast were both Drouhin was
to receive 50 per collapse at Leghorn is now placed The abdomen cent. of any profits from the suc- at 18.-Reuter. tinued on their
stopped by ribs. they had passed the men and gone for about 75 yads or so they heard wound was the only fatal wound. cessful exploitation of the flight, Jon which Drouhin was to be ready
to start at any moment.
to a point about 400 yards from Shaukiwan
A BIG ARGENTINE LOAN.
ITALIAN BARRACKS COLLAPSE.
MANY SOLDIERS ENTOMBED,
Leghorn, Aug. 29." In the middle of the night the
ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT
Pittsburgh, Aug. 29.
·TYPHOON CLOSE TO HONGKONG.
LOCAL SIGNAL HOISTED.
As far as can be gathered, the driver left the sunken car by get- ting out over the door, while the passengers succeeded, by great presence of mind, in opening a door, with the result that: they One being a Police Investigations.
were both freed. steps coming up from behind.
strong swimmer had no difficulty. Walter turned round and saw these
in saving himself, but the other two men coming back-after them. Police investigations started at The place where they had now got once. That same night a large
was in danger of drowning when he was rescued by the Chinese, to was about 75 yards further on. party of police under the instruc-
coxswain of a motor-boat, lying It was just near a stone bridge or tions of Mr. T. H. King, D.C.L.,
HE SECOND STAGE
at the pier. culvert. When they were actually made an extensive search of the
UNDERWRITTEN IN NEW
ACCOMPLISHED.
The car was raised this morn-known. crossing over the bridge the two country around. There is a path
YORK.
ing, by means of a big junk and men came suddenly after then, which runs. off the motor road
Munich, Aug, 29.
Extensive damage has od at 9.17 a.m. a crane, and separated them. Walter will about 600 yards from the janction
New York, Aug."29. The aeroplane "Pride of De-been done by water, and the hood say that the taller of the two men of the Chalwan and the Stanley-
The Chase Securities Corpora-troit" on which Brock and Schleels completely ruined. pashed hm with both hands into Shaukiwan road, further down the
right of the road, nearer Shaukiwan. It is tion and the Blair Company are are tying round the world, has the nullah to
very long path but very incon
offering, on August 30, G.$40,000 landed here from London, on the bridge.
i quite a deep nullah with a spicuous and it is very shukiwa 000 of Argentine Loan, at 6 per second "hop," the first of which great deal of undergrowth and A person living in Shaukiwan
London, Aug. 29. bushes. It was six or seven feet could take the path down and cent, at a price of 993, the pro-was across the AtlanticReuter
ceeds to be applied to refunding deep, and anybody who was push emerge in Shaukiwari East, but not the debt on the Argentine State The Pride of Detroit" took off Railways-Reuters American Ser- from Croydon for Munich this
morning-Renter.
ed into It would not have a good at the tram terminus. chance of seeing over the rim. It'
(Continued on Page 14.)
více.
TO-DAY.
Dellar on demand - 1/11 7/18 Lighting-up
6:43 pm
Baron Tanaka is having an au-
Two Generals One in Heart.
Shanghai, Aug. $0. The Nationalists claim that General Sun Chuan-fang's troops, On five junks, attempted an attack on Chinking in the small houra yesterday morning. They were discovered and shelled by the Tungchi. Nationalist gunboat, Two of the junks were sunk, and the others retreated to the northern bank.
Generals Ho Ying-ching and Li Chung-jen have jointly sent out a circular telegram stating that The Royal Observatory reports they both formerly studied in the that a tvnhoon 1s forming near same school and are now serving Pratas, the direction being un-under the same colour. Although their bodies are two, their heart The local No. 1 signal was hoist it but one. The reports of dis- sension between them, are de- The following warning was later clared in the telegram as rumours. irgued:
of the Nationalists' enemies, and Typhoon of unknown intensity not worth any consideration at all. within 60 miles of Lat. 21 N.
It is reported that General Tang Long 118 E., direction unknown. Sang-chi, the Hankow military The local weather forecast, up chist, has arrived at Nanking, to noon. to-morrow, is:
where most of the Hankow leaders N.E. winds, possibly increasing are being assembled. Nam Chung to a gale generally overcoat, Pao. occasional rain.