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HOW LANDINGS ARE MADE AT GAP ROCK.
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.
“In Honour of a Gallant Enemy"
A DRAMATIC incident in the wonderful
pictorial re-enactment of two battles which upheld the finest traditions of naval warfare -
The BATTLES OF CORONEL AND FALKLAND ISLANDS
These photographs taken at Gap Rock are interesting as showing how men and supplies
are landed. Left, three men being hauled up; right (bottom) stores being landed from boats, and (top) a good view of the lighthouse.
DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS ROBBED.
PICKPOCKET GETS SIX
MONTHS SENTENCE.
GRAVE TSINAN CONFLICT.
(Continued from Page: 1.)
Many Prisoners. · ·
U.S. GOLFER TAKES UP CHALLENGE.
ARCHIE COMPSTON TO PLAY FOR £1,000.
Observing an excited crowd col-
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek claims
London, May 3. Tected outside the Western Market that in the capture of Tainanfa, The challenge issued to the yesterday, a Chinese, who had the Nationalist seized over 1,000 world at large for a
world's of his master's money in his vehicles and a very large quantity
championship breast pocket, joined the crowd to of ammunition, while over 20,000 match-play golf ascertain the cause of all the ex-prisoners were taken.
Imatch, issued by Archle Compston The report that Marshal Chiang after his sensational victory by 18 Kai-shek has decided to remove his and 17 against Walter Hagen, has headquarters to Tainanfa has been.
been taken up by the Amertean, confirmed,
Meanwhile, the Nationalist army MucDonald Smith, continuing its advance beyond
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Before he had time to ascertain the state of affairs, however, a District Watchmen tapped him on the shoulder and asked him if he hasty any money. A had lost search revealed that he had lost the note which he was carrying in his breast pocket, although he was entirely ignorant as to how the money bad vanished..
The District Watchman. then
produced a $5 note and after the victim had identified it as the note which he had carried, a wretched- looking individual was marched ot to the Police Station to answer; a charge of larceny from the per!! son," which, in dess dignified
Tainan.
The match will be played in America during Compston's visit | At Chowtann, on the Tsinanfu-for the American Championship, Tainglao railway, east of Tsinanfu, the Nationalists completely routed and will be for £5,000, approxi-| Northern troops under General Liu mately £1,000, aside, Chi-liu with the result that the whole army, numbering 10,000 men, surrendered.
Organised Retreat. According to a telegram from language, is known as pocket-nick-onan, the general retreat of the
Fenglien armies from South Chihli |ing-
Produced before Mr. R. E. Lind-has commonced and Changle Ho sell this morning,' the defendant and Hantan have fallen into the pleaded guilty and was sentenced hands of the Kuominchun.
to six months' hard labour, the Shihchiachwang, one of the most police informing hla Worship that stratezic points between the Pe- he had previously served three king-Hankow line and the Cheng- other terms of imprisonment for tingfu-Taiyuan railway lines, has
Lalso been abandoned. the same type of offence.
Over seventy-two holes, the match will be played partly at Lakeville and partly over the New York course.-Reuter.
BRITISH PROPOSALS TO
MR. KELLOGG.
JURISTS TO EXAMINE
- FRENCH &. U.S. DRAFTS.
ال
MAKE London, May 3,
It is understood that the British In another case, a Chinese youth;] Marshal Yang Yu-ting, one of Reply to the Kellogg Note relating who pleaded guilty to snatching the Peking Dictator's most rel-to the Cutlawry of War Treaty is gold wristlet watch and bangleable commanders was at Shihchin-nearly ready, and will welcome the from a young Chinese girl on her chwang directing the retreat. proposal way to school yesterday, was sen- denced by the Magistrate to forty- eight hours' detention and fifteen Istrokes of the birch. '
| AVIATION DEATH ROLL IN AMERICA.
Shanghal, May 3.
The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent
that says
Bri-
Marshal Chang Tso-lin
has tain will propose to the now ordered Manchurian troops United States, Germany, Italy recently arrived in Peking to move and Japan that a conference of South as reinforcements at Ma-jurists representing the above chang and Tehchow, while large Powers and France should be held. quantities of amunition are being fat an early date to study the legal dispatched to Peking. It is report aspects of the drafts of M. Briand ed to have been arranged that and Mr. Kellogg for the outlawing the troops under Marshal Sun of war-Router. NEARLY HALF DUE TO FILOT Chuan-fang will defend Telchow, the Shangtung troops under ERRORS.
Chang 'Tsung-chang, Machang, Washington, May 3, and the Krin and Heilungliang An official announcement made troops will take the third line. to-day discloses that during 1927 in the United States, 164 persons. were killed in aviation accidents.
Of this number, the records show' that 48 per cent. of tho tragedies | were due to errors of judgment on the part of the pilots.-Reuter,
AFTER EIGHT YEARS.
PERSIA ABROGATES CAPITULATIONS.
FOREIGNERS TO COME UNDER JURISDICTION.
Teheran, May 3.
ነ-
ACTUAL German officers and sailors
played in this splendid British film which redounds to the fine courage of both sides in a manner that is beyond all praise!
-NOVELTY GAZETTE-
"Our Britain," with Miss Doris Woods as Vocalist
AT THE
QUEEN'S
A
With
F
EGYPTIAN MINISTER
RESIGNS..
| NAHAS PASHA IS SET A NEW PROBLEM.
Cairo, May 2. Mohamed Mahmoud Pusha, the Minister of Finance, has resigned from the Cabinet on the grounds of ill-health.
Mahmoud Pasha is the senior A decree abrogating capitula-Vice-President of the Liberal Party CHINESE BEFORE COURT ON ions and subjecting, foreigners, to and therefore a portfolio must be
· MURDER CHARGE. the jurisdiction of the National offered to the Liberals if the pre- Courte comes into operation on sent Coalition Government in In Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court, May 10th, which will probably be Egypt is to be maintained. this morning, a Chinese was proclaimed a National Holiday. Reuter. charged with murder, stated to The Mejliss has passed the Bill have been committed as long ago creating now maximum and
as 1921.
minimum tariffs. The minimum|PEAT FIRE TERROR IN The police officer in charge of has been acconded to Russia.- the case told his Worship that the police had been on the look-out! for him all these years.
The charge, it is learned, is in connexion with a brutal murder which took place in Yaumati.
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
BRITAIN AND "ARGENTINE BEGIN MATCH.
Torquay, May 3. In the first round of the Davis Cup, Britain and the Argentine played their first matches to-day, ench side winning one.
J. C. Gregory (Britain) defeat- ed Robson (Argentine) after a great fight by 10/12, 13/11, 6/3, 8/6.
·
Reuter,
Domestic fires are claimed to be responsible for depositing three million tons of solid matter on the soil of Britain every your.,
Fuel oll weighing 5,000 tons iş burned on the Aquitania in one trip across the Atlantic.
HOLLAND.
TREMENDOUS DAMAGE TUT NO FATALITIES.
Amsterdan, May 3. Extensive heat fires have broken out in the fen districts in the Sevoral Province of Drenthe. Flints are still cut, or million florins' worth of peat has "knapped," at. Brandon, in Ner- already been destroyed by the folk, near this town is Grimes insidious conflagration. Graves, where there are flint mines Dwellings affected in the area and the dwellings used by the have miners who worked in them 3,000 fatalities have occurred.-Reuter,
been evacuated and no yenra ago.
If a bullet from a modern high A baby airship that can be fold- power rifle did not lose its speed, ed up when not wanted, or attach- it could travel around the worlded to a mooring mast brought In a little over 15 hours; while the along on a lorry, is due to fly from impulse from radio-aending station England to America this summer. Higgs (Britain) 6/8, 4/6, 6/8, 6/3: less than one-seventh of a second. to a crow of six to den men.
Boyd (Argentine) beat would cover the same distance in It will carry 30 people in addition
-Reuter.
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