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=AD ULTADA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928, HAMAZ
TSINAN CAPTURED LOCAL AERODROMÉ
BY FENG.
NORTHERN DEBACLE
FOLLOWS.
DESERTERS OVER-RUNNING
SHANTUNG.
MUCH LAWLESSNESS.
TRAGEDY. A CONSTRUCTIVE BUDGET.
́BRITISH A, B. ACCIDENTÁLLY
·SHOOTS HIMSELF.
EXAMINING REVOLVER STARTLING PROPOSALS BY MR.
A tragle affair, resulting in the death of a Service man, occurred In the early hours of this morning, at the Kai Tack Aerodrome, when Able-Bodied Seaman G. Othen, who was on guard duty at the air-base, Shanghai, Apr. 25.
accidentally shot himself with a Marshal. Feng Yu-hatang's revolver which he was examining. forces entered Telnan-fu yester- day afternoon from the south-west, The unfortunato seaman died encountering practically no resis within a few minutes of receiving tance from the demoralised North-the fatal injury, and his body was ernera, who are expected to break up and flood North Shantung. taken to the Kowloon Mortuary.
Tens of thousands of deserters are streaming across the country towards Chefor and Weihaiwel, with resultant lawlessness and brigandage.
that the deceased, with a comrade, It appears, from enquiries made, had been on guard duty at the air- base since midnight. At 6. o'clock the two man went into the cook- Marshal Feng's forces, com-
house to prepare tea, as a normal part of their duties, for the men manded by General Lu Chung-lin, who were to relieve them an hour advanced through Chengtsing-later, and it was while they were holen, and his entry Into Tsinan-in this building that the tragic fr ahead of Marshal Chiang Kai- occurrence happened. shek, who is held up in the vicinity
Generals Flee.
Both men carried loaded re- of Talan-fu, has caused consider- able perturbation among the Na-volvers, and it was while, making tea that they proceeded to unload Bonalista-Reuter,
these, in anticipation, it is pre- sumed, of their being soon réliov- od. A. B. Othen's companion, it would appear, had trouble with his weapon, which, like Othen's, was a Colt automatic, and he handed it to Othen, at the latter's request,
Shanghai, Apr. 25. According to the Foreign Office at Nanking, the Nationalist 1st Army Corps on the Tientsin-Pukow line and the 2nd Army Corps on the left flank, captured Tainan-fa yesterday afternoon.
Othen suggested that a cartridge had been left in the chamber and was investigating when the weapon went off. The other seaman' bad in the meantime turned away to look after the tea, when he heard
It is reported that General Chang Chung-chang and Marshal Sun Chuan-fang have left Taing-n tao by steamer-Nam Chung Pao.
loud report and he then saw A B. Othen collapse on the ground.
The shot had entered Othon's chest just above the heart,, and death occurred within
a few minutes. The body was taken to the Kowloon Mortuary on arrival of the police.
the
Big Captures at Taian.
Shanghai, Apr. 24" The capture by the Nationallats of Talan, the last step before the attack on Tainan, the capital of Shantung, has been confirmed by A. B. Othen, who came from reliable telegraphic advices from Dorsetshire, was only 24 years of the front..
age, and was unmarried. He A Hauchowfu telegram declares came out here about a year ago, that the Nationalists entered Tal- and was attached to the Fleet Air an on Saturday, shortly after noon.arm, No. 442 Flight.
The whole Army of the defented The funeral will probably take Chihli troops retreated to Tsinan, place this afternoon.
which is north-west of Talan,
The victorous troops" seized from
OF GIRL.
the Northerners cight armoured ALLEGED HARBOURING motor cars and 242 military trans- port carts. Large quantities of ammunition were also acized. whilst 20,000 Northerners are said to have been taken prisoner..
General Wounded.
More officials of the Hsuchowfu Nationalist headquarters have or- rived in Yenchow....
CHINESE CONSTABLE CHARGED
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Heavy
WINSTON
CHURCHILL.
Petrol Tax to Meet Relief
Rates on Industry.
DEBT EXTINCTION
50
of
YEARS.
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GREENLY ISLAND RELIEF PILOT DYING.
LINDBERGH'S EFFORT.
DISPUTE.
BANK OF CANTON AS DEFENDANTS..
PLAINTIFF ACCUSES SON OF FORGING SIGNATURE.
TITLE DEEDS FRAUD?,
An allegation that a son had,
New York, Apr. 24, The airman who flew to the ro Hef of the Transatlantic airmen on Greenly Teland is lying at the brink of death. Ho is Mr. Floyd Bennett, who against doctor's orders, piloted the machine from Detriot to Quebec en route to Greenly Island. He collapsed with paeumonia and has been fraudulently assigned and mort taken to Quebec Hospital, where gazed his father a property in the doctors say the only hope is Hongkong, to the value of about. the application of a special sorum $208,000, was made in the Supreme obtainable only at the Rockefeller Court this morning, bofore the Institute, New York.
Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, and a special jury, when a case concerning the ownership of the land was commenced
Colonel Lindbergh heard of it fand. Immediately volunteored. La dy with the serum to Quebec.
● He was rushed in a fast motor- car to.. Mitchell Field Aero drome from which, he took off
Addressing a crowded and animated House of Commons the first and most urgent remedy in an army heroplane capable for over three hours yesterday afternoon, Mr. Winston to be applied to the present trade of 150 miles an hour with the Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a remarkable position. He contemplated the serum and three white mice in a statement on the Budget for the coming financial year, outlining drawing up of a scheme to give glass jar for use in connexion with the most striking fiscal proposals in the history of the Baldwin between £20,000,000 and £30,000,- the treatment, in the cockpit. Ministry.
000 a year for a great operation
Quebec, later. Lindberg has arrived.--Reuter's
The feature of the Budget, which was described by to give the producers rating rellet, Opposition leaders as a brilliant achievement, was the an- is to be Introduced after the Bud-
A Valuation Ascertainment Bill Anierican Service. notincement of a new tax on petrol and other light spirits of get, and about twelve months will 4d. per gallon, Mr. Churchill detailing a new Government scheme be required for the now valuation by which the revenue from this source would be devoted to which will achieve de-rating. the relief of rates on producing industries.
The first measure along the The legislation necessary to effect the Government plans desired lines, was the appropria- in this respect, Mr. Churchill described as the most important tion of the 24,239,000 realised as of its kind in the past century.
surplus last year towards financ
The Chancellor of the Exchequer also announced a few ing the rate relief scheme, instead minor changes in Customs and Excise Duties, including an of going to the Sinking Fund. increase on British wines, an ad valorem tax of 38.1/18 per cent, on mechanical cigarette-lighters (for protection of the
* Petrol Tax For Rellet. match revenue), an increase on foreign films, and a reduction in the duty on raw sugar.
INCITING, FRENCH
SOLDIERS.
SENTENCE ON DEPUTY: 19: CONFIRMED.
Mr. Elden Potter, K.C., together with Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed Hastings, Dennys and Bowley by Mr. E. Davidson, of MessrU.
were for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., with Mr. F. C Jenkin, instructed by Mr. M. M. Watson, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, were for the defendants.
The special jury empanelled was: Mr. P. Tester (foreman), Mr. R. Rodgers; Mr. P. W. Parker, Mr, J. O. Sheppard, Mr. J.-H. Taggart, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, and Mr. Wong Kam-fuk.
The plaintiff, Fok Kam-chuan,. alias Fok Kom-taun, alias · Fók Kam-chun, 4, Hilljer Street, seeks a declaration that hs is absolutely ontitled to the land, which Is worth about $208,000. The de fendants are Mossra. Thos. · W.
Simmons and Co., Ltd., in liquida- tion, and the Bank of Canton, Limited, 6 Queen's Road Contral. Forgery Alleged.
Paris, Apr. 24. An appeal has been heard here A tax of 4d, per gallon will be against the sentence, in default of imposed from April 25th, on im- Imprisonment for eight months, of Other taxes remain much the same, though slight relief ported petrol and other forms of a fine of a thousand franes, prazed in Income Tax is afforded the married man with children.
motor-car spirits, Including koro-jon the Mr. Churchill produced another surprise for the Opposi- but heavy oils, known as fuel oil, insubordination in connexion with absolutely entitled to the thres
denc, white spirits and turpentine, Couturier, for inciting soldiers to Deputy, M. Vaillan tion, when he announced that he was adopting a Disraeli Diesel oils and lubricating ofla an
The plaintiff states that he is precedent and proposed to establish a fixed debt charge, placing will not be taxed:
article published In Le pieces, of land registered in the the amount at £365,000,000, which would extinguish the internal
Humanite in March, 1927. It is estimated that this will
Land Office as Inland Lot No-2155, and external debt, including the 'debt to the United States, produce 514,000,000 this year, and soldiers in China to fraternise with and-section “C” of Inland Lot No. The article called on French section "F" of Inland Lot No. 99 within a period of fifty years.
$18,000,000 in a full year, all of the Chinese workers. The estimated revenue was £781,088,000, and the estimated which will be applied to rate re-
1421, for all the residue of the expenditure, £727,381,000. Considerable economy in Govern lief.
The appellant was present, and terms subsisting therein under the ment Departments was shown last year, and further savings tion will be free of any counter-
A number of Communists, includ-Crown leasca. He further claima All forms of Home oll producing M. Doriot, gave evidence. are to be effected.
that no interest in the premises The conviction was upheld.-passed to either of the defendants vailing excise duty.
Reuter.
WINDFALLS FROM DEATH DUTIES.
hour at which Parliament met.
A number of prominent bank-
had had to face last year.
"
by virtue of an indenture dated February 22, 1921, purporting to be an assgament by the plaintif
The sugar duties are to be re- duced, also dating from April 26th, so as to enable a reduction PRIMATE'S TRIBUTE TO to Simmons and Co. in the retail price of a farthing a pound. The reduction will de- crease the revenue by £2,800,000.
Bugar Tax Reduction..
MISSIONS.
He claims that at all material. times he was the owner of the properly and that the signature purporting to be his was put to the document without his knowledge and is a forgery. Thos. Simmons and Co. mortgaged the property to the Bank of Canton on May 21, "The extraordinarlly high char-1921, without plaintiff's know- authority.
WONDERFUL WORK OF MEN AND WOMEN IN CHINA.
London, Apr. 24.
JUNK CAPSIZES.
consent?
London, Apr. 24. April lat was £7,627,000,000 an The House of Commons was compared with £7,544,000,000 last
The sugar tax reduction will be crowded and animated in anticl year. pation of Mr. Winston Churchill's The External Debt had been re on all imported sugar of a polari- equivalent to a farthing a pound Budget speech, and consider duced to £1,095,000,000 and the sation not exceeding 98 degrees able public interest was manifest floating debt to £688,750,000. The in the case of foreign sugar, and acter of the record of missionaries ledge, consent Lee Chik, a police constable, ap-ed in the long queues at all public sum of £65,000,000 was again of 99 degrees in the case Another telegram states that General Chang Tsung-chang, the peared before Mr. W. Schofield, it entrances to the House, which allocated to the Sinking Fund.
The Kowloon Magistracy this mor-
of in China" formed the basis of a Plaintiff further asks for the titlo Home-grown and Empire sugar, warm tribute by the Archbishop of deeds to be returned. Commander-in-Chief of the Chibining, on a charge of receiving and assembled some time before the.
Big Reductions,
usually described as raw sugar. troops, directing the operations in harbouring an 18-year-old Chinese
Canterbury to-day, at a meeting of
Defendants' Dentals. Taian, had a very narrow escape girl, without the consent of hering and other financial authorities ancial year, Mr. Winston Churchill ly smaller, but foreign Whate
The rate on Home-grown and the Society for the Propagation of from being taken prisoner by the parents, at
Dealing with the coming fin- Empire White sugar will be alight- the Gospel.
The defendanta do not admit Nationalists, who claim that he Street, between March 81st and occupied the Distinguished Stran announced that the estimated ex- sugar will continue to pay the the incidents and perils which without the knowledge of the The Primate said that some of that the deeds were put through was wounded in the leg during the April 23rd..
gers' Gallery.
penditure was £806,190,000 Northerners' general retreat from
There was a stir when Mr. compared with £893,390,000 in the
as existing duty.
faced men and women in China in plaintiff or that his signature is a the city.
Sergeant Hayward asked for a Winston Churchill rose to address nancial year 1927/28.
Mr. Churchill said he estimated recent years was only parallelled forgery, or that his signaturo was date to be fixed, remarking that the House. At the outset, the
that the surplus at the end of the by the martyrology of the early attached without the plaintiff's Mr. E. H. Williams, assistant Chancellor of the Exechequer sald
He proposed to establish a new year would be £18,741,000, includ-church.-Reuter. ! Secretary for Chinese affairs, he did not recall any Budget fixed debt charge of £365,000,000 ing last year's appropriated sur-
Alternatively, they declare he would prosecute, and he underwhich had succeeded despite, so which would extinguish the inter- Plus and the other preliminary.
adopted the signature as made on atood, a Superintendant of the many adverse factors, which he nal and external debts of Britain, provisions made for the Rating police.
bis behalf by his subsequent con; Including those to the United Reform Fund.
duct when bo ascertained the fact; States; within 50 years, without
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
and further that, se a partner in "Shaforce" Expenses.* ·
any addition to present taxation. spoke for over three hours,
RESCUE AFTER TWO HOURS Fook Lee and Company, he su He had had to contend with á He announced that British cur- "Brilliant Achievement."
thorised one or both of his sons; IN WATER shortage of revenue or additional rency notes and the Bank of
Fook Chung-yuen and Fok Tat-ful nearly England note lasue will be amal-
to borrow money upon the security expense, amounting to
A report was made to the police of the property. They further £25,000,000, a sum which included gamated in the coming year, and Labour Chancellor, and Mr. David yesterday by £2,500,000 for the Shanghal. De-, that there would be no change in Looyd George, the Liberal leader, trading junk, bound for Aberdeen negligent in locking after the title. the master of a state that the plaintiff has been fence Force, ordinary Supple the Betting Tax, which he estimat. formally congratulated Mr. Wine with a cargo of rage for a paper deede regarding the property. mentary Estimates amounting to ed would yield this year £3,250, Budget as a "very brillant was capsized by a heavy squall though there was no doubt there aton Churchill, describing the mill, to the effect that the boat Mr. Potter, in opening, sald al GETS AWAY FROM GENERAL £3,000,000, a loss on the Excess 000.
achiovement and an "extremely last night, Profits Duty, which actually yield- SANDINO.
ed £3,000,000 less than anticipated
had been fraud by certain people fine performance" particularly in The master and two of his fokis there was no suggestion that the and a shortage in the revenue Additional Customs and Excise refer of the rates for the hung on to the upturned craft and plaintiff was a party to such fraud. New York, Apr. 24. from the Betting Tax of £5,000,- Duties announced by Mr. Churchill. In the course of the Budget two hours in the water, by another Chang Tso-lin has ordered to
were rescued, after they had been concentration in Tehchow of more intendent of the American-owned in the revenue from beer,
Mr. Amphlett, the British super 000. There was also a failure were a duty of 6d. each on speech it was disclosed that there trading junk, which managed to
No Answer At All than 20,000 Kirin and Kellung-nine at. Laluz, Nicaragua, which
mechanical cigarette lighters, pro will be no reduction in the atan right the capsized boat and tow it gence with regard to the title klang troops to reinforce the de-was raided by rebels under Gen-
ducing £40,000 this year, a duty of dard rate of Income Tax, but the Into Aberdeen. feated Shantung Army, whilst n
38.1/8 per cent. ad valorem on statutory allowances for children oral Sandino, has escaped from telegram has also been despatched his captors and has arrived aafely tinued, that the Budget actually excise duty on British wines child and £50 for others, as com- The fact, Mr. Churchill con- buttons from April 28th., and tho will be raised £60 for the first to General Wu Chun-sheng, the at Puerto Cabezas, on the coast of Tupan of Kellungkiang, ordering Nicaragua. — Reuter's
surplus which was would be raised from 1/- to 1/0d, pared with 436 and £27 respectivo- yielded a American more troops from the latter pro- Service,
more than double the forecast, per gallon, producing an additional ly as at present. This will cost the was due, in the first place, to the £65,000 this year.
Government £2,100,000 this year,
When the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the Nationalist forces entered Talan, a large detachment The defendant was remanded of the victorous army immediate- until next Tuesday afternoon on ly left to "follow up the fleeing | $250 bail, Northerners,
Reinforcements for Shantung. On Monday night, the Peking Director, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, gave instructions to the Premier, Pan Fu, who left the same nghit for Tsinan, to consult with Gen- eral Chang Tsung-chang on the situation.
vince to join the Shantung-Chilli
forces at the front,
Wuhan and Feng,
ESCAPE OF BRITISH CAPTIVE.
STILL "SOME RAIN.”
Windfalls.
New Duties,
Mr. Philip Snowden, the former
Film Tax Increase.
The Government has also deeld-
HOME FOOTBALL,
BLACKBURN SWAMPS
With regard to the alleged negll-
deeds he would later subimit that," in law, that there was no negli--1 gence and that one could leave ons'a title deeds anywhere one liked. If those deeds were stolan the owner was, not in law respon"" sible. He would submit that the lattor paragraphs of the defence, coupled with the particulars given. was no answer at all. ·
Death Duties yielding £9,500,000 Mr. Churobili estimated that the above ..tho previous Budget; urplus on the existing basis of
POMPEY. secondly, the receipt of £4,500,000 taxation would bo £6,802,000, ex- In the nature of windfalls like the cluding revenue from the Post od to increase the duty on forelga A Naval Wireless message re-
repayments of advances by Kenya Office Road Fund, and Sinking films, by a halfpenny per foot,
London, Apr. 24. ceived in Hongkong to-day states To-day*A
The defendants could not say Blackburn Rovers, the Cup win. that Gonerala Chen Chien and Pol states: The
Observatory report Colony and Palestino; and, third- Funder Taung-hat are both in Changalia. atrengthened and is now central to Government Departments.
anti-cyclone hasly, the saving of $10,500,000 by The expenditure would be £676, which is estimated to produce pers, are now making themselves who authorised the plaintiff's £45,000 additional revenue. safe from the dangers of relega signature, when such authorisation They have been visited by repre- the south of Tokyo. It still domi
500,000 as compared with 2681,- Churchfil balanced the tion, having defeated Portsmouth was given, and where, and the only sentatives of General Yang. Sen.
Encouraged by the success of 000,000, a year ago,
conclusion he could come to was. nates the map. The forecast up the economy campaign, he propos- ·
Budget according to a new system do-day by six goals to nil.- No active support has yet been to noon to-morrow
Relief
In the Northern. Section of the that that plea was filed without a is: East, ed to repent the process this year. given by the Wuhan party to Mar-winds, fresh, moderating; over
of accounting The estimated ex- lot of Bates. hal Feng Yu-hslang,*;
cast; some rain,
Mr. Churchill announced that Mr. Churchill declared that the Denditure is 727,381,000 and the Third Division Nelsen playing at single fact to support it. It had tha nominal deadweight debt on relief of rates on production was
estimated revenue, $761,083,000, home, were defeated by Tranmere been done, no doubt, in the hope
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by five goals to three-Reuter
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