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brought in the cook of the Hala Wah, who was found clinging to possible to maintain a foothold on a raft, in a bad way, result- the decks, and, bearing, in mind, ling from a long exposure and the heavy list which the vessel took immersion. With Mr. Jacobsen,
FUTURE CONTROL OF SHANTUNG.
JAPAN MAKES FIVE NEW PROPOSALS.
БООР after striking, it more this man is now confined in the INTERESTING REPORTS. than likely that dozens of people Government Civil Hospital. were washed overboard and drown- od long before the vessel sank to her doom.
Shortly after the arrival of the second junk, another fishing craft, registered as No. 4268 H.A. brought Another point that has been my in another lot of survivors, two stifying the authorities, the rea-passengers found lashed to a water son why, with an hour's clear warnlogged life-boat, the sole survivors ing of tragedy, only two lifeboats of 28 passengers and crew who managed to leave the ship in safety, originally left the sinking vessel in is partially cleared up by another this particular life-boat. survivor, who states that those on board forgot any stations that might have been allotted to them, and tried to scramble into the near
est bonts.
50 in One Lifeboat!
They toki a story of how the other occupants of this life-boat, the second and only other life. boat to be launched before the Hsin Wah, went under, were washed overboard one after the other, by heavy seas and drowned, Gallant Efforts.
Nanking, Jan. 16. From an unofficial report it is said that the Japanese have made the following proposals in con- nexion with the evacuation of troops from Shantung:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.
FAMOUS ACCUSER OF GERMANY. ·
DEATH OF AUTHOR OF "J'ACCUSE.”
SCATHING ATTACKS.
Berlin, Jan. 18. The death has occurred in his 76th year of Doctor Richard Grelling, the German author of the famous war book "J'Accuse," denouncing Germany,
TRAINING CHINESE STUDENTS.
MIDDLE SCHOOL" AND THE UNIVERSITY.
BIG STRIDE FORWARD.
The annual prize distribution of the Vernacular Middle School took place this morning at the old Sai- ringpun School Building.
A large number of those In- terested in education were present, including the Hon. Dr. R. H. Koto Wall, Hon. Dr. S: W. Tao, Mr. A. E. Wood, Director of Education, Mr. Yick-muf, Vice-President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. T. N. Chau.
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gaily decorated with laurels and The exterior of the school was bunting and the school hall was bedecked with finga. The Head-
| Kuominchun
(1) Only the finest corps of the
Born in Berlin in June, 1853, le troops, Marshal Feng
under adopted a legal caroor and was Yu-hsinng,
be secretary of the German Authore stationed to Shantung. (It is to Association. As early as the be noted that since the end of the 90's he had become a pacist and Northern expedition the Nanking he grew steadily more hostile to leaders have nominally agreed to the spirit of pre-war Germany. assign the Shantung territories to The result was that he left his Feng).
(2) Complete removal of all
native land and since 1900 had In one instance, he says, at least
lived abroad-in Brussels, and fifty persons were huddled In at
Nationalist troops not under: Feng Paris and then in Florence where master, Mr. K. H. LI, BIA. read from districts along the Tsingtao-he bought a villa-occupying him- small lifebont high in the air. When i
Tuinanfu Rallway." an attempt was nade to wing A tribute was paid this morning (3) Appointment of Chinese self with anti-war propaganda.
High Standard. her out on the davits, the load was by a police officer to the bravery magistrates in Districts in Shan- After the outbreak of the war
Addressing, the gathering prior too heavy, and it was impossible and efficiency shown by the fisher-tung who are well equipped with ho transferred his activities to to the distribution of prizes, the to gat any valueers to leave the folk concerned in the rescue work, knowledge of the customs and Switzerland and it was there that lon. Dr. R. H: Kotewall sald that
His daily duties, bringing him babits of the Japanese.
his book "J'Accuse" was published he felt he must congratulate the (4) Additional and frequently into contact with the
special in 1916, One of the most scathing school for the excellent progress people who man the fishing fleetspolice corps should be established attacks on German policy and it had made. A feature which from Aberdeen and Shaukiwan, by the Chinese to assure ample mentality that appeared during the the police officer drew a picture of protection and preservation of the difficulties to which these order and peace. craft were subjected in attempt-
· boní to enable the remainder to get L-Tay,
One boat was cut down and drop ped into the water empty, numbers of those on board then jumping inte the craft. Many who jumped over board failed to get near to the small bout, being dashed against the side of the Hain Wah and knocked un- conscious.
The Survivors.
to effect such rescue work
in a heavy sea.
To bring their frail craft along- side for the purpose of picking up The aurvivors have been identi-drowning victims was a task which
fied as follows:
Chief Ofleer? Mr. P. Jacoligen. '17 members of the crow,
8 passengers.
The Dead.
entailed much skill and not a little danger. Most of those picked up were numbed by the cold beyond the
stage of being able to manage for themselves, and they had to be lift- ed bodily into the boats after ropes and been passed under their should-
There is little further prospecters.
d any further rescues, and it is
(5) The consolidation of the power of the Shantung Provincial Government.
It is understood
that Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister to Peking, in leaving Tokyo this evening for Nanking via Shantung.
LADY ABE BAILEY'S
TRIUMPHS.
the school report,
pleased those who had always taken an interest in the Middle School was to see that several of the students had qualified to enter the University's School of Chin- ese Study. That showed the high standard attained by the school.
Dr. Kotewall recalled that when
the
presumed that the following died the story of how one of the mur
To furnish an instance, he related RECORDS SET ON 18,000 MILES Democrats in Switzerland, as ject of the promoters and their In the disaater:
Master:-Capt. M. P. Jensen,
vivors were brought into Aberdeen
Chief Engineer:Mr. Patrick harbour, yesterday at noon.
Campbell.
Second Engineer:-Mr. Harold
Humorous Aspect. -
SOLO FLIGHT.
many.
conflict, it was made great use of by the Allies in their propaganda. Similar books were published by Grelling in the succeeding years "The Starting Point," "The Crime," "The Revelations of the Schomlinoff Trial," "London-Ber- lin-Vienna. "Petersburg. They the Middle School was first estab were issued anonymously and even lished, he had a small share in when Grelling was fixed upon as getting it to come into being. The the author, be denied that he had promoters were strongly supported written the books. It was only by the then Director of Education. after the collapse of the Central Mr. Orme, and the then Acting Powers that he admitted their Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. authorship. In the "Freie Zei-A. E. Wood, who was now tung," the organ of the "German Director of Education. The ob Grelling'e group was called, he supportera was to provide higher took a similar line against Ger- Chinese education to the Chinese students, combined with a know- Since the war he has not best in the old could be, grafted on ledge of English, so that what wna CROYDON'S WELCOME. played a prominent part. His what also was the cream of the The man referred to was a parti- Third Engineer:-Mr. P. Solo-cularly fat individual, The fisher-
offer to give evidence before the new. They had then no ambition London, Jan. 16. Reichstag committee on the war- men recovered him from the sea Lady Abe Bailey landed at guilt question was declined. His School to the University, and only to send boys from the Middle somewhere off Poo Tai islands and Croydon this afternoon in her Deson K. Grelling strongly resented recently had this big stride been he was completely paralysed by his Havilland Moth acroplane thus his father's attitude and has taken. long immersion in the water. They completing a unique solo flight of written two pamphlets on the gave him a blanket and for addition-18,000 miles from London to Cape subjectAnti-J'Accuse" Dozens of dead bodies have been warmth, dropped him into the town and back. She was greeted by a appeared in 1916 and "Germany's which sighted by the various craft which hold of the craft, within the nar-large crowd, which cheered the German Enemies" (1923). Heoured the vicinity for survivors row conflues of which he was firm-intrepid airwoman vociferously. yesterday, and several were pickedly wedged.
She had been escorted from up, including one by, the Ilenry When the fishing boat returned to Berck Plage in France where she Keswick on board which were the Aberdeen, he was still within nishad made a forced descent owing maunger and other oficials of the little hollow. Half-demented by the to engine trouble, by a machine China Morchants' S. N..Company. cold, he could not be induced to of the Air Union which had been The "Henry Keswick" was come out, and considerable energy sent specially to accompany her searching for over eight honra had to be exercised before he could owing to the bad weather over the without. Onding any trace of life, be bodily lifted out.
Channel. und finally, the aea grew so rough that the majority on board were sen-sick and the tug put back into Harbour.
Beveridge.
monlunk.
87 members of the crew; and,
over 300 passoligers.
Many Dead Bodies.
AFGHAN POSITION
OBSCURE.
FIGHTING CONTINUING IN KABUL.
His first thought later was Lo-
The Moth plane in which the wards his personal possessions. It whole of the flight was accom- appears that he had a purse contain plished left London for Capetown
London, Jan. 16. Ing the accummulation of many on March 9th last year.
The position in Afghanistan is Lady still confused, and very little The Henry Keswick" has been years' savings before he set out on Bailey started the return light on direct information is available, commissioned by the C.M.S.N. Co. the ill-fated boat from Shanghai. May 12th, flying via the Congo. No immedinio apprehension, how to cruise in the vicinity to-day to The money was tied up in his girdle Nigeria and Morocco. pick up dend bodies, and wreckage before he left the ship. While in
ever, She is the first pilot to use that safety of the British and other is felt in London for the and the tug left for the segne of the water it slipped off, and the loss route. She reached Paris on the disaster at. 11.30 a.m.
foreign Legations, seemed to obses him apparently to January 7th, and had been detain- the exclusion of the thought of aed there by bad weather for ម providential escape.
week.
Another body was picked up by a Police launch off Lin Tin island, lying on the remains of 'n raft. The body now lies at the Kowloon Mortuary. A lifebelt was on thei body when it was found.
Tung Wal Aid.
Mob Law.
First statements to the police by those who have survived the catastrophe, indicated a scene of In response to an appeal by the utter confusion the horrors of local office of the China Merchants which were intensified by the S. N. Co., the Directors of the Stygian darkness and that psycho Tung Wah Hospital, at a special logy peculiar to a Chinese mob meeting held late last night, decid-] which has got out of kand. ed to take measures for the pro-
Lady Bailey says she has been "just flying about" but the feat is generally acclaimed as remarkable evidence of the progress of civil aviation.
Fighting appears to be con- tinuing in Kabul between followers of Bacha Saqno and the Govern ment troops.-British Wireless.
More Precautions,
Allahabad, Jan. 16.
Lady Bailey has created several new records by her flight. She is Four sons of the late Ayub Khan the first women to fly to London have been escorted by the police and Capetown and back. She has e Calcutta. It is understood that made the longest flight ever accom- they are being deported to Burma plished by a woman, and her as a precautionary measure in view
or Renter
Chinese Study.
Last year, said Dr. Kotewall, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clement, whose interest in Chinese education was boundless, nade a proposal of starting a school of Chinese Study at the University as a preliminary to a fall Chinese Faculty later on. The Chinese took up this schemo whole-heartedly, with the result that within the short space of two months nearly $200,000 was sub- scribed. The Chinese School was new an accomplished, fact, having been opened at three days ago, and
the University
gratifying feature of it all, re- the most
majority of the students marked the speaker, was that the
the from School.
were Vernacular Middle
There was a
which exhorted
Chinese saying with a small beginning and end one to "start
with a great result" (the equivalont of which was "all great things have a small beginning"). This saying, observed Dr. Kotewall, could most aptly be applied to the Middle School.
Now that the students kad such an opportunity to study at the University and of training them- solves both In English and
The suddenness of the dienster/18,000 miles journey is the longest of the situation in Afghanistan Chinese, they should pursue their
per accommodation and disposal of appeurs to have taken most of Bolo flight by either the rescued survivors of the ill-those aboard by surprise. There woman.
man
In addition, she is the first
Congo and the Sahara desert.-—-—- Reuter and British Wireless.
fated steamer, as well as to engage was a rush for the boats, as woman to have flown over the steamer launches to cruise the steerage compartment and hutches vicinity where the disaster occur- disgorged their mass of screaming red, in order to pick up any humanity... possible survivors and corpse.
Fighting, screaming, each man Two launches were commission-| ed for the purpose and these left for himself, and everywhere the harbour at 1 o'clock this afternoon ry, pitiable because of its utter under the charge of Messrs. Tang futility, of "save life" the passen Shiu-kin, Ng Wah, Mak Shiu-cho xers would not have helped to- and L Chak-man, directors of the wards any orderly marshalling for Tung Wah Hospital.
Official Story..
evacuation from the ship.
WOMAN'S POIGNANT
PLEA.
"BABY IS CRYING FOR HIS DADDY,"
Prince Deported.
Lahore, Jan. 16.
Prince Abdul Qadir Effendi, an Afghan refugee, who has been deported, has gone to Rangoon. The deportation is believed to be connected with the unrest in Afghanistan.
A Rebel Capture,
Peshawar, Jan. 16.
studles with unflagging zeal and application. For those who could not, for some reason or other enter the University, the desire to pursue their studies to the utmost should be cultivated and no better place can be found for such a noble desire than
within the pA A precincts of the Middle School.
Bad Locality. Unfortunately, sald Dr. Kote- wall, the school which served such a useful purpose was situated in a locality highly andt for the promotion, of education, being surrounded on all sides by Chinese tenement houses and having motor-cars coming and going past its doors every minute of the day. It was noisy, and, further, it was In a densely populated district, and the hope was expressed that the Director of Education would soon take up the matter with the authorities for the provision of a bettor and more, suitable site.
Concluding, Dr. Kotowall said far gone that the boys had so through three successful years.
It appears that fighting was re- newed In the vicinity of Kabul shortly after the Mullahs had fixed up the armistice.
Communications with Kabul aro again intermittent. The altuation obscure, but all foreigners are reported safe.
The bandit leader Bacha Sakao, around Kabul.
A Delhi mensage says it is re-just that progress. They muat ported the Afghan rebels have cap continue to forge ahead, for to tured. Jagdalak, midway between stop was to go back. Jalalabad and Kabul-Reuter,
junks which landed them at Aber-children, and went down with the had record for a young man and evidently commands the nituation They must not rest satisfied with
Prince Abdul Qadir is a brother of Sirdar Mahomed Sarwar Khan, who on the 12th Instant was lodged in the European lock-up at Allaha Only two lifeboats appear to
bad as a precautionary measure, have been launched, one by A "Give him a chance for his Ifitload of the Afghan Prince, Omar
Khan-Reuter, The police official report, accen-European oflcer," and into these child's sake. Baby is crying for
crowded as many as could sarily, brief, issued to the Press
be his daddy and is breaking his wait heart." this morning, accounts for a total safely held. Some did not of 20 survivors only, amongst for the boats. The police were This poignant appeal was made them being the Bathonian Chief told that after donning life-belts a by a young wife at Marylebone great many threw themselves into Police Court recently, when Leonard Officer, Mr. P. A. Jacobsen.
Of this number, 20 were picked the sea. Some must have perish-Icudley, 27, of Ferncliffe-road, up from a water-logged lifeboated through being dashed against Dalston pleaded guilty to stealing which left the sinking vessel with the ship's side. In the heavy seas, a clock valued at £16 belonging to the quartermaster, while the re-few could have survived. A great the National Federation of Laund- mainder, with Mr. Jacobsen, were many are believed to have remain- ferers at Lanchaster-gate, Bays-is rescued by three different fishing led cooped below, women and water.
A detective said Headley had a had several previous convictions for theft. Headley sald he committed the offences because he could not vivors was No. 2306H.W. which Except that the number of the get work. Latterly he had been had aboard Mr. Jacobsen and two crew were given as 104 and that working. A reference from hin em- Mr. Jacobson was found still of the passengers as approximat-ployer was read in which Headley was described as ari. "extremely swimming though almost finished ng 400, it is to bo doubted if the valuable workman, most obliging, in the water off the group of precise number of lives lost will clean, and a good time-keeper." rocky islets off Stanley, known as always sold at the embarking and following her appeal given Jever be revealed. Tickets are not Mra. Headiey then came forward the Poo Tal Group. He the last stages of exhaustion, hay. point, Steerage passengers in above, burst into tears and said:- Wat Ken, was charged with forging reef and was being towed to! ing been in the water for six convenience of purchasing fares here. I worried him for things. I particular avail themselvos of the "It is really my fault that he is at the last moment on board, so wanted a new coat for Christmas." Aberdeen Rescues.
statisties to be obtained from tho The Magistrate (Mr. Bingley) shipping office are likely to fall be said he would give Headley an- The second-boat to reach Aber low the actual number of pas-other chance, and remanded him deen was Junk No. 2500H.W. It]sengers who travelled steerage. on bail for three months:
deen.
The first of the rescue junks to return to Aberdeen with the sur-
Chinese survivors.
hours,
was in
ship.
The Casualties,
San Francisco, Jan, 12. The Chamber of Commerce hero received a dispatch to-day saying that the steamship President The accused whose name was Adams had been pulled from the
. A serious charge against a Chi- nese maker of lifebelia was dealt with at the Magistracy yesterday.
was proved to have chopped his a Government stamp with which he Balboa. lifebelts as having been passed by the Government Marine Surveyors' Department.
After the case had been proved, the defendant was fined $250.
·
ran
The President Adams aground a reef off the Cristobal breakwater on the 11th inat The ship and landed at Cristobal. passengers were taken from the
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