SOVIET BUSY IN MANILA.
FINANCIAL AID GIVEN TO LABOUR LEADERS.
"RED" LITERATURE.
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CIVILIAN AIR ACCIDENTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
ANALYSIS OF CAUSE IN 13 CASES.
Light is thrown on the accidents Involving privately owned and fying club alrcraft by an analysis of the causes of all such accidents that have occurred since January 1 this year.
ELLERMAN SHIP AGROUND.
CITY OF CARLISLE ASHORE IN PHILIPPINES.
MISTAKEN LIGHTS?
Manila, Dec. 21.. The Ellerman Line steamer
Manila, Dre, 20. . That some of the Filipino labour leaders are flirting with Moscow The analysis shows that private City of Carliste which went Bolshevists and are surreptitious and club flying has attained a high aground on the San Nicolas Shoals ly spreading Bolshevism to the degree of safety; that not one at 6.45 last Tuesday night,, was musses, was the startling dis- serious light acroplane accident still sitting on the rocks late last covery made yesterday by Govern can bo attributed to engine night. It was expected she would ment authorities. The findings failure, and that only one can be be refloated by to-day, at high tide. came as an aftermath of the cigar attributed to bad weather.
Four lighters were sent yester- makerk' strike on Monday morning. In all, there have been 18 day morning to take some of the Some of the labour leaders, it accidents, eight of them being cargo off the City of Carlisle. All is believed are getting financial fatal and one resulting in serious efforts of the U.S.S. Tennessee and aid from Moscow, and the fre-injury to the occupants of the the US. Naval ferry Wompatuck quency of strikes in the eight machine, two rosulting in slight factories in Manilla in assigned to injury, and two resulting in go pressure put to hear upon the rocal injury. labour leaders by the Moscow liberals.
It was discovered that the masses are continuously fed with Bolshevik stuff and that strikes had been declared not as 171 earnest protest against capital, but to satisfy the Moscow labour lenders,
Six accidents were due to stalling, and four of these werd fatal, so that the stall remains the most frequent cause of fatal air accidents.
Examination of each of the accidents due to stalling shows that in all probability net one of them would have occurred if the machines had been fitted with the Handley Page wing alots.
One accident was due to raah lying, one to racing, one to in expericnee in stunting, three to carelessness, and one to mechani cal failure.
Misuse of Controls.
Documents had heen seiad by the authorities, showing the con- nexion between Home Filipine labour leaders and the Moscow leaders. Leaflets and other Bol shevik literature distributed to the masses at the instance of the loent labour lenders have been discover- ed. Some of the important ducu- ments are understood to have been The accident due to inexperience aent to the office of the Governor in stunting was caused by the flot General,
using his controls harshly, and so Apprehensive of the danger throwing his body forward, break attending Inhour strikes, the coming the safety belt and falling stabulary hereafter will outlaw from the machine. the display of red flage by any The one due to bad weather group of persons in connexion occurred during the King's Cup with labour demonstration and air race, when a competitor hit the manders were instructed by the headquarters to keep track with the Inbour leaders blacklisted.
Colonel John W. Green, chief of police of Manila, also outlawed the display. of any red fings.
strike. All constabulary com-alde of a hill.
Praise for the absence of on- gine failures must be mainly bestowed upon the A.D.C. Cirrus engine, with which the vast majority of light aeroplanes aro equipped.
RUSSIA'S IMMENSE
ARMY.
ESTIMATES OF £80,000,000
FOR PAST YEAR. According to the latest official fures the Army Estimates of the Russian Soviet Republic for the year 1927-28-amount to 823,000,000 roubles, or over £80,000,000, twice as much as that allocated for the same purposes in Great Britain.
Sixty military schools, have been established, and there, are 5,600 centres for training and instruction.
Military service is compulsory, the active service age being from 21 to 25, and the age for reservists from 26 to 40. The recruits for the standing army amount to 270,000 a year, but preparatory in struction is given between the ages of 19 and 20 to 842,000 youths.
'Army of 15,000,000.
In addition to those included in this summary, there have been two accidents to private owned air eraft while, they were being used fur commercial purposes. One of thean, in which the pilot was drowned, was due undoubtedly to
rash ying..
The accidents caused by care- lesstions include those which re- sulted from machines striking obstructions such as walls, tele- Fraph wires, and flagstaffs. This may appear to be rather unfair to the pilots, but it must be pointed gut that more experience might huvo enabled them to avoid the obstructions.
FANLING GÓLF.
HUMPHREYS FOURSOMES.
About Hong Kong
Do you know that--
Needless nolase was prohi bited by. Proclamation early as 1843?
The Proclamation stated that no-one was permitted after eight o'clock to beat gongo, play drums, let oir crackers "nor to be engaged in loud or noisy vociferation." Chinese were not allowed aut between 8 and 10 p.m. Un- less they carried “a large lan- thorn," and no-one was per- mitted to be in the streets after 10p.m. without a puяs.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928.
RESTAURANT OF ALL NATIONS.
[GREAT SCHEME PROJECTED | FOR LONDON.
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Berlin, Nov. 19.
Herr Kronau, director of tha super-restaurant Haua Vaterland, to-day gave some details of the Restaurant of All Nations which he is to establish in London,,
He says that he has two offers under consideration, and will pro- bably be in London in about a fort- night's time to make the final ar- rangements for his ambitious pro- ject
Those interested in the scheme include a group of London banks and Quanciers of note. Sites In the neighbourhood of Hyde Park and in the West End of London are being considered for the building.
The great restaurant is to pro- vide for the tastes of all nationali ties. The main restaurant will be arranged to reproduce a Seven- teenth Century Scottish inn, and there will be, In addition, halls de corated in the styles of various countries. There will be an Indian restaurant, nd an Italian tarant so arranged that diners will have the illusion of looking out on a Venetian scene.
reg-
A cowboy bar will have a dance floor resembling a prairie of the Far West, and there will also be Spanish and Chinese bars,
In addition there will be ball rooms and rooms where concerts and' cabaret shows will be given,
WOMEN POLICE.
A NEW LAW WANTED FOR” "GUTTER CRAWLERS.”
OFFICIAL OPINIONS.
Miss E. Tancred, Chairman of the Police Committee of the National Council of Women of Great Britain; the Chief Constable of Cardiff; the Chief Constable of Staffordshire, and the Recorder of Dorby gavo evidence yesterday before the Royal Comralesion on Police Powers and Procedure.
ed.
Vikcount Lee of Fareham presid-
Miss E. Tancred stated that It was the opinion of the National Council of Women in Great Britain that if a person from whom a state- ment involving personal character was being taken was a woman, a policewoman was more Hely to be told the truth than a policeman, In the case of a young girl, auch as Miss Savidge, the sex appeal played an undue part, and vitiated any statement of fact.
The Chairman-The Savidge chae has very little to do with our in- quiry, but you can use it as an Illustration. What exactly do you mean by that statement?
Miss Tancred-A young girl is very apt to play, up when question- ed by a man in order to make an interesting story.
The Chairman-You mean to 'cx- ercise a sex appeal? Yes,
And, in consequence, you do not get as correct a statement of facts, as a woman would elicit?—No,
Statements by Women,
"Money no Object." Inquiries in London show that a mysterious emissary, who declined to disclose the name of the syndicate
Miss Tancred contended that for which he acted, has called on when a statement was being taken well-known West End property from a woman who was suspected. to pull her off at 2.09 a.m. yester-agents in search of suitable pre-in custody, or from a woman day wore futile, so the lighters mises for an exclusive and expen-witness, n woman police officer should be present, and were sent to diminish hor draft.
not merely a police matron.
nive restaurant.
On the shool, she was drawing His requirements were for 18,000 18 feet forward and 30 feet aft square feet of floor-space, and he yesterday, it was learned. She insisted that the building must be had an average draft of 23 feet on in the Hyde Park area. He was account of her being lightly load-shown various properties, one com- ed. She has not been making any prising two floors of a well-known Water and it is believed that she is not damaged,
It was learned that the City of Carlisle left port some minutes before 6 p.m. and was 16 miles out when the mishap occurred.
The Chairman-What-is, It you are guarding against by having a woman there at all? Against the police
Is a police matron incapable of building, which would provide the performing that role?-Those I floor-space for which he sought. It know aro not responsible women. was pointed out that this parti- You would not expect it of them. cular property commanded a rental Sir Leonard Dunning, in 1920, 1 of £15,000 per annum plus rates, think it was, said that 70 per cent. but he replied to this that "money of police matrons were charwomen. was no object."
They are aimply cleaners:
The Chairman-That is, not su ported by the ovidence we have hud so far.
As the light at the San Nicolas
Although declining to Indicate was burning at the time of the ac-for whom he was negotiating, ho cident, it was presumed that she gave a good address in the Hyde mistook Caballe light for the San Park area, and it is understood that Nicolas light.
ho in considering more than one site. This mysterious representative
The weather remains good and] the ship is in no danger, it was was undoubtedly English. " learned.
DONKEYS IN SACKCLOTH.
NEW METHOD OF ERADIĊAT- ING TSETSE FLY.
£1,000 FOR THE NATION.
ANOTHER GIFT TOWARDS
DEBT REDUCTION,"
Miss Tancred added that the Home Secretary had stated that police matrons were paid 188. a week, and they did not consider such a woman was a responsible
person.
of
Mjes Tancred said that her Council considered that grave abuses might result froni the em- ployment of pelicemen in plain clothes for the purpose of obtain Ing evidence of street offences, such as indecency or solicitation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer The Chairman-You would em- Johannesburg, Nov. 19. has received the sum of £1,000 as ploy policewomen in plain clothes? Donkeys dressed in sackcloth and contribution towards the reduc-Not in plain clothes, in uniform. birdlime are being used to eradicate Lion of the National Debt from a Lord Ebbisham, describing polica the deadly tsetse fly in the Zulu- gentleman who has previously made matrons na being in many checs iland game reserve,
aimilar contributions for the samu trained nurses and women Government experts have dis-purpose.
very high. feeling, asked Miss Tan- The following is the result of the covered that, tsetse flies invariably The donor wishes to remain ered If the engagement of those wor draw for the Humphrey's foursome attack their victims low down, anonymous, but Mr. Churchill demen to be present at the taking of to be played over 18 holes on the old generally between the foot and the sires to express publicly the thanka statements would not solve the course at Fanling:
Second
round (byes in first round): nee, and that they prefer the of His Majesty's Government, problem.
Miss Tanered replied that her All recruits are either drafted E. Towns (12) and G. E. Mitchell shady side of man or heast, Prone which he has already tendered
*(18) F. A.
for Perry (16) and S. objects are immune from allack, privately, V
this further only complaint was that those wo- into the standing army for two Mayer (17); E. B. Black (10) and the illes preferring a moving generous gift to the nation. men could not be made responsible, years service, or may, go to make W. J. Clerk (9) v F. Syme Thomson object and favouring warm bodies A cumulative fund for debt ex- because they were not police officers. up the territorial reserve forces (13) and J. P, Warren (7); A, D rather than cold.
tinction was initated last February
Women Police. The territorials train for three Humphreys (11) and E. 12. Matthews
A large number of donkeys are by an anonymous gift of £500,000. Mr. J. A. Wilson, Chlef Con- months during their first year, two (9) v0. E. C. Marton (Sr.) and N. therefore being clothed in sack In July Lord Inchcape and his stable of Cardiff City Police, gave months during the second year, and Smith (7); A. E. Cox (18) and D. cloth leggings covered with bird family presented the nation with evidence at the morning session. one month during the Inst your of M. Goodall (17) A. C. 1. Bowker lime and turned lexose in areas in- £500,000 for the same purpose in In a reply to a questionnaire. he
(19) and R. K. Valentine (9); Capl. la tiros (8) and I. Newton (7) y Capt, fested by the tesetse fly. Periodi- memory of the Hon. Elsie Maclony, stated: "With the advent of the per, by calling up all classes down A. W. Davison (14) and T. C. Monag cally the donkeys are rounded-up Since those dates many gifts of light motor-car there is an increas han (13); E. J. Edwards (17) and and the leggings, smothered with varying amounts have been received ing tendency for motorists in pur F. 3. Ellis (14) v J. Smith (10) and dead files, removed.
sult of their vica lo frequent main thoroughfares with their cars. Their deteatable conduct is obvious, but they infringe no statutory law, and the police are powerless. Their conduct should be considered as importuning, and power given to the police to arrest them when they Lake known prostitutes in their cars,"
service,
It is reckoned that in this man-
to the age of 22, Soviet Russia could put into the field an
V
Army of T. Rumsay (15); A. E. Lissaman (6)
15,000,000 of more or less trained and K. S. Robertson (0) y H. U. Tre effectives.
During the
land (7) and T. L. Christie (11); J. Great War Russia | W. Franks (9) and F. J. de Ronie was reported to have called up over } (6). 20,000,000 men.
Pirit Réand: R. K. Hepburn (10) and H. Spicer (18) v. G. E. Elloras (13) and W, K, Tait (17); C. E Holmes (10) and G. R, Horridge v
EX-M.P.'S LIABILITIES. IL W. Mean (18) and W. 1). Fiddes
!
"HEAVY LOSSES AND SUBSTANTIAL PROFITS.”
Wilson (17) A. II. Ferguson (3) and T. G. Bennett (8) v D, J. Gilmore (11) and K. S. MacLaren (9).
Second Round (byes, in the first round); A. B. Raworth (7) and M. M. Maan (12) v J. Morris (18) and C. D., N. K. Littlejohn (13) and W.
A sitting was held before- Mr. Liber S. Key (18)..v. I. W.
Registrar Mellor at the London shewan (Bor.) and E. D. Lawrente Bankruptcy Court for the (9); R. Hancock (8) and C. B. Johns: public examination.. of Mr. son (10) v P. P. J. Wodehouse (11) Arnold Willame, B charter and A. E. Wood (15); R, Young
y E. R. ad Accountant and former- and ly M, P. for the Sowerby Division Androwes (5) and A. B.
D. Brown (9) Art (3); |
of Yorkshire, described as of Queen C. B. Brown.(18) and C. C. Stark (6) v N. Croucher (17) and E. des Voeux Anne's-gate, S. W.
I. Geare (13); A. Lench (10) and I. X (13) v D. E. Clark (14) and J. D. Humphreya (18); S. T. Butlin (11) And "A.Sommerfelt (12) v A. G. Coppin (18) and A, D.
Those without handicap will
Mr. Williams had filed a state- ment of affairs showing total liablitics of 2130,806, of which £106,891 was unsecured, and necta estimated to produce £45,786.
will play
He stated that he had been diree from scratch unless a handicap is al- tor of great many companies and totted before any match. The mat- had suffered heavy losses and had ches will be played on three-eighths mado substantial profits. He combined handicap, and if the match agreed that tho companies goes beyond the eighteenth green, with which he had been strokes will be taken as in the first
round. connected dealt in all Borts
The first and kinds of merchandise and
on or before
has to be completed anuary 6, the second
in classes of merchandise of which by January 20, the third by February
he had no experience.
a, the fourth by February 17, the
He estimated that about 1922 he semi-finals by March 3. and the final was worth £50,000. He was, bo by March 17.
said, one of a promoting syndicato
who made a profit of £200,000 on
tho flotation of the Laburnham A Chinese woman attempted to Spinning Company (1020), Limited, commit suicide on Saturday by His share was £4,000.
The examination was adjourned, jumping off the Youmat ferry launch. She was saved by a the debtor being ordered to amend motor-boat and later handed over bis accounts.
to the police,
C ERNA, BY MEA JIHADE, SIG.
BOLAL SU PRE OPPS JOIN
for the, aame end.
"Careful? Well, I don't like to boast, ma'am, but people tell me they never believed in guardian angels till they rode in my cab."
On the question of clubs, Mr. Wil- son remarked that he thought 75 per cent, of the clubs in South Wales were not bona fide-they were nothing more or less than drinking dens.
Mr. Wilson, in reply to Mins Beavan, said that there were no wo men police In Cardiff. "I am op- posed to women police," he added. "I don't think It is a woman's job, There are so many things a woman police officer cannot do, and so few that she can do."
Miss Beaven asked whether it was not a protection for a woman in certain cases to be dealt with by a Woman.
Mr. Wilson No self-respecting police officer could work with a policewoman in sexual cases. The whole thing is revolting.
Sir Howard Frank Don't you think there are many things a wo- man can do which a man cannot do? Don't you think a woman would be more sympathetic with a child accused of crime?
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Mr. Wilson-I don't think so. have known men who were very very sympathetic.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. G. Å, Anson, Chief Constable of Stafford- shire, declared that "no
police" was his rule.
women
Mr. T. Hollis Walker, R.C., Re- corder of Derby, expressed the view that, generally speaking, he thought, the police exercised their powers with admirable tact and fairness. The Commission adjourned,
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