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CIN MOTAROT THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928.
TERRIBLE FLYING
ATRAGEDY.
THREE MEN HURTLED INTO STREETS
GĦASTLY ACCIDENT.
Copenhagen, June 13. A terrible flying tragedy Involving the lives of three naval airmen occurred right over the heart of the efty to-day, when a
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SERIOUS AFFRAYS ROYAL SCOTS FOR
IN GREECE. ·
TROOPS FIRE ON. MOB OF STRIKERS
AGITATION BY "REDS
SACRED ASSOCIATIONS. monoplane, in which cadets were BRAGANZA'S EFFORTS. Plag lies is the demands of the COUNSEL'S SPEECHES complications are feared.
London, June 13.
receiving instruction, crashed.
The three occupants, the pilot and two cadets were killed instantaneously,
1
King's Bay, June 18. General Nobile and his party
HONGKONG.
ANOTHER LOWLAND
BATTALION.
SCOTS GUARDS & QUEEN'S TO BE RELIEVED.
Kapsas City, June 14.
Athena, June 1 The host formidable obstacle
Grave developments have drieon to the efforts of the Republicaña
from the strike of tobacco workers to compose suitable programmie
which took place in Athens for the Presidential election 'cari-
suddenly on Monday, and serious formera, whocare disgruntled at
OLDEST REGIMENT. The strike is spreading rapidly President Coolidge's action in ve-
in all contros, and Communists are toing the Farm Relief Bill,
London, Jurie' 18.- using the dispute as a
Important changes In the diss fortile The farmers demand a lowering
A 'sonsation was caused at the ground: for agitation.
position' of military units now in can still be observed from North of the tarife of necessarios. Law Courts this morning, the Already, the strikers have got Hongkong will take place in the
Convention "yesterday was East Island, though the ice-does enlivened by number of demon-closing day of the official enquiry
entirely out of hand in certain autumn, when the 1st Battalion of and several. serious the Queen's Royal Regiment will on which they are marooned, are strators attired in overalls and into the interrogation of Miss collisions with the Folice have leave the Colony and proceed to slowly drifting in a north-westerbee-hive stry hats, who endea Irene Savidge at Scotland Yard, been forced to fire on the mob, and
Malta. deavoured", forcibly to enter the
one striker has been killed and
The 2nd Battalion of the Scots ly direction.
hall and present the farmore when Mr. Lees Smith, the Labour several wounded.
Guards, now in Hongkong, will claim to the Convention.
M.P., who is sitting on tho An unruly crowd about 8,000 probably leave for Home about the The police restrained them with Tribunal with Sir Eldon Bankes strong, assembled outside Cavalla same time.
and attempted to enter the town by truncheons.
Nothing can be done at present to rolleve their desperato plight, has been making heroic efforts to get through.
districts
...
The Benches of the House of Commons were well-filled for the The monoplane was flying over opening of the two days set apart the densely populated streets, without a sign of trouble, when It for the Debate on the motion in was seen suddenly to turn turtle new at a height of about five hundred favour of presenting the Prayer Book Measure to the King, feet..
The occupants were all thrown for the Royal Assent.
out of the maching without para- The yote will be free, on non-chutes, and one of the bodies land party lines..
Sir Boyd Merriman, the Soli-two ended the terrible fall on the
A New York message says now tracts from the diary of Sergeant citor General, in his private capa-roof-tops,
that Mr. Hoover's nomination as Chambers, of the Now Southgate city, moved the motion in support The bodies were quite un- The commander of the "Bra-Republican candidata seems 1 of the Measure, contending that recognisable, practically every
reports that he is only foregone conclusion, interest Is Police Station, the revised Prayer Book main-bone in the body being broken. making slow progress against tained the Protestant character The plane continued its career immense difficulties, owing to the being centred in the Vice-Presi of the Church of England.
for & short distance, razing He emphasised that the two chimneys and trees and crashed fact that there is a huge fee of vital matters in regard to the De- . posited Book were discipline in the Church, and the underlying doctrines of the new Book.
ed in the street, while the other though the ice-breaker "Braganza" difficulty, after drawing theland Mr. J.`J. Withers, read sheer force of numbera,
Suggestion Repudiated, · ·
He declared it was possible to give undue weight to certain ex- travagance within the Church of England in proportion to the general body of loyal servants faithfully doing their duty.
He strongly objected to the sug- gestion that the new Book was designed to legalise their illega Ilties.
In regard to church discipline,
with the engine still running in a children's playground.
Had the weather been fine,' the crash might have had still mara terrible consequences, but the playground had just been vacated owing to a heavy shower.-Reuter.
OSCAR SLATER'S
APPEAL
REPORT THAT IT MAY BE ABANDONED.
Sir Boyd Merriman naked what CAN'T GIVE EVIDENCE.
.chance would there be if the
ganza"
pack-ice east of North Cape.
Alarming Bear Visit,
Lieutenant Luetzow Holm, the Norwegian airman, who with a mechanic, has been held up in Brandy Bay, and cannot get pro- ceod to the relief of the "Italia" crew, had an alarming experience. Apparently attracted by the amell of the airmen's reindeer skin sleeping bags, the distressed plane was visited by polar bears, and Lieut. Holm and his companion were obliged to keep a constant watch all night in fear of a bear attack.
No News of Missing Men. Although almost frantic efforts.
been
It made,
has have.
to
establish impossible been contact with the seven men, who wrecked with the "Italia" on a floo about 30 kilometres from the point where the gondola crashed, have! drifted into the unknown. fate la uncertain, through hope has not been given up-Reuter.
Their
Measure were rejected of retain-
London, June 14 ing the loyal clergy, who Oscar Blater is reported to have had already been
adopting decided to abandon his appeal, as ceremonies which were permitted a sequel to the ruling of the High In the new Book and which were Court in Edingburgh on the 9th 80 permitted with the knowledge instant that he would not be that behind them was the over-allowed to give evidence. whelming majority of Bishops Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who and of clergy+"\
for many years has championed Sinter's causs, stated in an inter- view that Slater was terribly dis- And if the measure were reject-appointed that he was not allowed ed how could the Bishop possibly to give evidence.
A big Dornier-Wahl seaplane has ...demand that those who were ex Sir Arthur expressed the opinion left hound for Spitzbergen to re- ceeding the proposed limits should that Slater's brain was almost scue the marooned "Italia".crew.- come within, those limita? He turned by what he had undergone, Router, submitted that on the grounds of and he (Sir Arthur) was making the restoration of discipline there every effort to Induce Slater to was an overwhelming chee for the change his mind regarding the passing of this Measure.
abandonment of the appeál.
Overwhelming Case.
He again contended that the Meanwhile, Slater's counsel, in- book maintained the Protestanterviewed, denied knowledge of the character of the Church of Eng-reported decision by Slater land and that the additions or Reuter. amendments which had been in- stituted made that position abun- dantly clear,
Defending the reservation of the Sacrament, Sir Boyd Merriman reminded the House of those padres to whom the Army owed so much during the war.
On the Battlefield.
SHANGHAI STRIKE
THREAT.
|
Italian Plane Leaves.
Pisa, June 13.
Oslo, June 13.
asked for American financial sup Captain Ronald Amundsen, who
port of the flight of a Dornler-Wahl machina from Germany, to aid the distressed crow, has now abandoned the plan of organising an expedition for the relief of the "Italia" as, his American friends only desired to take such steps if requested by a Government.
Lamentable Delay,
Captain Amundsen now declares
that more progress is now being. made in the preparation of various relief expeditions, but remarks that it la lamentable that the work was not taken in hand immediately..
The "Italia" crew has been marooned since May 25th, roughly.
SILK FILATURE WORKERS IGNORE ORDER.
Shanghal, June 14. Those padres who had never, In spite of the Defence Commis- practised Reservation before, Jeloner's threat to close up the reserved the Sacrament which had Union headquarters unless the been consecrated in battery orjallk filature workers who are an 20 days.-Reuter, battalion headquarters, and strike resume work immediately, carried it under their gas helmet at a meeting of the Union held Into the front line trenches or yesterday it was declded that they gunpita and there administered it must persevere until the object is to men who were in greater peril achieved. than those who were in hospital.
The strike, therefore, continues.
"SOUTHERN CROSS”
TRIUMPH. '
АС
KRISTA, ZA MEMORISTITECHUSTLE
IMPORTANT SHANGHAI
DECISION.
Deputy Protests Against - Court Ruling.
BANK ACTION FAILS.
Shanghal, June 14. An important and far-reach- ing decision affecting the en- tire commercial community of Shanghai, and involving bank, trust receipts, was delivered in the Provisional Court this'- morning.
The Hongkong and Shang- hal Bank charged two Germân merchants, Messrs. Barblinger and Leyer, with misappropria- ting trust goods. **
The Court held that no mis- appropriatión can occur under trust receipt terms, and only a civil action can lie. The American Deputy protested against the judgement, and the Bank intends to appeal.-Our Own Correspondent,
Mr. Lees Smith had previously requested the production of the police diaries of the officers con- nected with the case, and the ex-. tracts created considerable sur prise.
"
The Queen's are to be relieved
at the scene, endeavoured to stay Egypt and it is most likely that Troops by the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots, now on foreign service In the rush by the use of hose-pipes, the Battalion will arrive in Hong ineffectively, and finally were obliged to resort to rifles. The strikers indulged in stope-throw Ing and many casualties occurred on both sides.
The violence is attributed to Communist agitation.
The strikers demands are re "Discreet Enquiry?
markable in that they require increased pay, now houses at the The most notable, evoking a stir merchants' expense, and a seven- in the Court was an entry in hour day--Reuter, Sergeant Chambers's diary which read:
"Discreet enquiries re Irene NEW DUTCH AERIAL Savidge."
Mr. Lees Smith declared that auch an entry proved that the Polles were making enquiries into the characters of the parties con- cerned (Sir Leo Chiozza Money, Miss Egan and Mias Savideo) right up to the time of the sitting' of the Tribunal.
+ Sergeant Quentioned. The Tribunal decided to recall Sergeant Chambers, and nestion-
land Yard.
Blow At Fabric of State. ·
PROJECT.
EAST INDIES FLIGHT IS TOO RISKY.
three
kong about September or October.
At the moment, the question of relief for the Scots Guards is under consideration. It has not yet been decided whether another. Battalion will come out to Hong, kong to take their place. *--****
When the Royal Scots arrivé here, it will be the first time in the history of the Colony that two Lowland Scottish, regiments have been stationed here at the same time. The other Battalion is, of tish Borderers. course, the 2nd King's Own Scot
Oldest Regiment.
It is noteworthy that the Royal Scots formerly the 1st Foot-have the distinction of being the oldest regiment in the British Army. Their identity can be traced to a well-known Scottish troop which under John Hepburn, entered in FLYINGBOAT CAUTION, 1925 theilervice of Gustavus.
andpipaùn, Klan of Evaden. Later, Amsterdam, June 13 the remainder of this - troop wils" a Scottish amalgamated The Minister of Marine has now ed regarding the entry, the officer decided that the proposal to allow Brigade in the French service, make said that bis instructions came the
Ing Le Regiment d'Heborn.. Dornier-Wahl
-In 1996, it became known as Lé from Inspector Humphries and flying-boats, just acquired by the Regiment de Douglas, after its now Soverintendent Nicholls of Scat-Dutch Navy, to make the journey Colonel; and later as Dumbarton's to the Dutch East Indies as a Regiment, after Ita next Colonel The matter was then allowed to flying squadron, will not be in 1884, it was designated the drop, counsel making the final | carried out this year.
Royal Regiment; later, it bora al- speeches.
The new flying-boats. Areternatively the names of the 1st or destined ultimately for the Dutch Royal Regiment, and let or Royal East Indies, naval flying service, Scots. In 1881, it became a Ter Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C. who and the ground of the Minister'sritorial Regiment, as the Royal represents the Police, submitted ban is that in engaging on such a Scots. (Lothian Regiment).
Amongst the Regiment's several that all the evidence went to show long journey, there is too great a dency, in which connexion besides that the case against the Police risk of the machines not reaching nicknames are "Pontius Pilate's (Ambassador to London) is fre-on the attack on the organisation General Dawes, Mr. Houghton had signally failed. Remarking their destination in good condition. Bodyguard and The Duke's
It is now the intention to pon- Canaries," W quently mentioned.
of Scotland Yard, Mr. Birkett said duct further experiments with the It is possible that Mr. Hoover's that a blow struck at the Police was fiving-boats over long distancea in
Princess Mary Colonel-in-Chief. followers will support Mr. Hough- a blow struck at the whole varying weather conditions, after The Royal Scots have as their tan in order to conciliate the New fabric of the State..
which the desirability of carrying Colonel-in-Chief H.R.H. the Prin York delegation, of which Mr.
out the squadron flight to the cess Mary, whilst the Colonel of foughton is a member-Reuter's
Dutch East Indies will be recon- the Regiment is Lieut-Gen. Sir American Servico.
sidered.
Edward A. Altham, K.C.B., KLE, C.M.G. It has its Depot in Glen- corse Barracks, Midlothian, where the Officer Commanding Is Bt. Lleut:-Col. J. G. P. Romanes, D.SU
The Regular and Militia unita
Foot), 2nd Batalion (1st Foot), and 3rd Battalion (Edinburgh'-, Light: Infantry Militia), and its uniform 1e somewhat similar in appearance they wear trews Instead, of the kilt, pipers however wearing the latter.
The Territorial Army Battalions
both of which have their headquar- tere in Edinburgh. There is also an Allied Regiment of Canadian Militia, the Canadian Scottish Begi» ment, with headquarters as Vic toria, British Columbla,
RALLY ON NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
IMPORTANT, STOCKS AGAIN RISING.
New York, June 18.
System Intolerable.
Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for
Miss Savidge, declared that a There is no possibility of par system which permitted an ex-mission being granted until 1929. amination like that which Miss Router. Savidge was forced to undergo at Scotland Yard was absolutely in- tolerable.
The merd method by which she was taken to Scotland Yard was an outrage.
,
LORRY FATALITY AT comprise the 1st Battalion. (1st
KOWLOON.
MORNING.
Sir Patrick invited the Tribun- CHINESE GIRL KILLED THIS to that of the K.O.S.B.a in tist After yesterday's flood of selling al to say that Miss Savidge's story orders and conanquent" alump in of the interrorgation was a "true prices, the New York Stock Market account of an episode in her life,
now turned into a great públic ......Radio Corporations which closed advantage."--Beuter.
A twelve-year-old Chinese, girl
rallied this morning, at the open-which, unfortunately for her, Wawas knocked down and fatally in-are the 4th/6th and the 7th/8th,
at 171 yesterday, opened at 176, while sales of Steel and 'General
fured by a motor lorry in Canton Road, Kowloon, shortly after
Are these men, he asked, rightly The workers have downed tools going to give up a practice which in protest against the inadequacy ANOTHER WINDFALL FOR Motte also showed considérable LIVING CONDITIONS OF o'clock this morning.
4-
has such sacred associations for of the sentence imposed upon them and of which they have constable for shooting one of their realised the spiritual benefit?
colleagues during a disturbance last year. Reuter.
Primate's Assurance. Concluding, Sir Boyd Merriman read a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury giving a reassur- ance that if the Book were legally sanctioned, the Bishops would do their utmost to secure obediente to the new 'rules.
Not Protestant Iteligion.
HEROIC FLIERS.
Melbourne, June 18. The triumphant tour of the "Southern Cross continues, and the fllers, Captain Smith" and Mr. Charles Ulm Kingsford
arrived at Melbourne to-day from Sydney. "MUST TALK IN TERMS OF
Before gracefully landing at Essenden norodromo, the "LEFT" AND "RIGHT.” -. "Southern Cross" flew over and
SHOCK FOR NAUTICAL MEN.
the
Improvement/
A black of 3,700 Steel shares were sold at 137% while 4.000 General Motors changed hands at four polcte up-Reuter's American Serviss.
WORKING CLASS.
INVESTIGATION BY LABOUR INTERNATIONALISTE.
Geneva, June 13.
THE PRINCESS XENIA" At today's session of the Inter-
FLIGHT.
national Labour Conference, the question of the living conditions of the working classes, was briefly discussed.
Mr. Chaman Lal (India) propos ed a resolution requesting the Labour Office to kavestigate the in- dustrial housing and the general
It is believed that one of the Wheels of the larry went over the kirl's body. She was rushed to the Water Police Station for con- veyance to hospital, but dled be fore medical treatment was pos- sible,
CONSOLIDATION LOAN SUCCESS.
FRENCH ISSUE HEAVILY SUBSCRIBED.
The Regimental Coloure Sava ma, Badge the Royal Cypher within the Collar of the Order of the Thistle, with the Badge appendant. In each of the four corners is, the Thistle) within the circle of the motta of the Order, unsigned with the Ita- perial Crown. The motto is Nemo me impune lecernit.” ("No," one provokes me with impunity. The Regimenal collar badge is the thistle.
Battle Honours.”
The Royal Scots have a ne array of battle honoure, dating. back to nearly 250 years, These, Paris, June 18. Include Tangier, 1880, No
The new five per cent. Consolle mur 1695 "Blenheim, Ramil-
New York June 15.wround the city which was packed DELAY CAUSED BY ENGINE Bir Samuel Roberts (Conserva-The International Shipping Con-with excited sight-seers.
TROUBLE. tive) moved the rejection of the ference attended by the fourteen It la announced that before the Measure on the ground that it in-leading maritime nations, under departure of the "Southern Cross”
London, June 18.. volved an entire change of charac- the presidency of Sir William on her brilliant fight from the A message from Bushire states ter of the Church. It would bring, Seager, the President of the Brit-United States, the Vacuum Oll that slight engine trouble is pro-living conditions of workers, with he argued, not peace but strife, sh Chamber of Shipping, has Company advanced the airmen venting the aeroplane "Princess a view to placing the matter on ntion Loan offered by the French les "Oudenarde," "Malplaquet and would prevent re-union with given its approval to the recom- £4,500 on the understanding that Xenia, in which, the Duchess of the agenda at an early Session of Government, the public, subscrip- "Louisburg, Tavannah,ER the great Nonconformist Churches.
Sir Samuel declared that the mendation of the International- the New South Wales Government | Bedford and Captain Barnard are the Conference:
tions to which closed on June 3rd, mont-op-Zee. "St. Lucia, 1808 Collisions Committee that the guaranteed. a similar amount. dying to India, from resuming its hellof in the Real Presence which words "Port" and "Starboard" be The Company has now written fight to Karachi.
Mr. Yonebuko (the Japanese yielded 21,500,000,000 francs. Corunua,Euanco Salamanca,
Approximately one half the total "Vittoria," "St. Sebasti was indicated in the new Book substituted by "Left" and "Right, to Capo, Kingsford Smith - It is feared that the flyers will workers' delegate) warmly sup- was not the Protestant religion, or their ordinary national equiva- [nouncing all claims to the money, not be able to leave Bushire to-day.ported, and eventually the resolu- was subscribed in ready cank, the "Peninst
tion was unanimously passed remainder in National Defence 100," apore,
and Treasury Bonds Reuter,
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