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一拜禮. MANDRIT MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1929.
SUSPICIOUS MOVE TASMANIAN FLOOD
BY FENG.
TROOPS MASSING ON HUPEH BORDER.
CHIANG HURRIEDLY SENDS DELEGATE.
DISASTER.
EIGHT CHILDREN KILLED IN LORRY MISHAP.
SIX OF ONE FAMILY.
Hobart, Apr. 7.
A terrible tragedy occurred to- day as a direct result of the un- precedented Tasmanian floods, a motor-lorry crowded with school children ernahing through a
DESIGNS ON HANKOW? imaged bridge into a river.
Hankow, Apr. 7.
With the Wuhan armies in retreat and Marshal Chiang Kai-
The saddest feature of the dia- aster was the death of six mem- bera of que family. Seven were on the lorry, but only one was
rescued.
PILSUDSKY'S NEW OUTBURST.
AMAZING DIATRIBE IN PRESS ARTICLE.
W
POLISH DIET OF "MALICIOUS MONKEYS."
日九廿月二
WATER SHORTAGE JARDINE SHIPPING
NOW ACUTE.
CLAIM,
POSSIBLE RESTRICTION ON WHOLE ISLAND.
TWO MONTHS' SUPPLY.
:
In spite of the rainfall last week-end there is no appreciable improvement in the state of Hongkong's reservoirs, and we were officially informed this morning that they contain sup- CORRUPTION CHARGE.pies only sufficient for 70 days.
Warsaw, Apr. 7.
MUNITIONS SHIPPED AS NEEDLES.
PISTOLS FOUND IN CASES OF CHOCOLATE.
SINGLE OOTY JE GENTE
1920 Kodal T-19. G.M.0. Track Okassis have a motor with 200 cúblo inches piston displacement B.A.0. Rating 20.95 Homa power--23
B.HP, at 8,000 B.P,M.
Chassis price..
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Talophons Central 1246 ur 1247.
35 Wong No! Cha Happy Valley Road.
INDIAN FRONTIER
UNREST.
AFGHAN TRYING TO EMBROIL BRITISH TRIBES
DRASTIC COUNTER?
atan.
New Delhi, Apr. 7.
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STILL FASTER AIR SPEEDS.
NEW BRITISH MYSTERY "MACHINES.
SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR SCHNEIDER TROPHY.
The British authorities in India are now faced with another sori- ous problem, namely, preventing tribesmen on the frontior from EXPRESS CO. SUED.
joining in the civil war in Afghoul TO BE READY IN JUNE. The seriousness of the position mhy be judged from the fact that
An official communique dealing Shanghai, Apr. 5. the Tytam Reservoir would be completely dry now, but for the yesterday, before fact that water is being poured in Judge Milton D. Purdy, Messrs, been made recently to embrall the seaplane is being built in secrecy. In the US. Court for China, sued by the Government to-day, reed for the first time that a new
London, Apr. 7. with the present position was is- The Air Ministry-to-day reveal- his Honour
vealing that atrenuous efforts have from the Intermediate Reservoir. Jardine, Matheson & Co., general Indian frontier tribes in the for the Schneider Trophy, and that re-pressure in the Colonyesans of the Commercial Express & Storage attention to the measures taken by for speed planes.
At the present time in the effort managers of the Indo-China S. N. Afghan civil war. to conserve supplies, the water Co., Ltd., brought action against
there is every confidence that the The communique 'draws special Britain to retain the Blue. Riband
new machina will enable being reduced. A great deal of Co. (Mr. J. B. Katz) for Tls. 10,000, the Government of India to ensure
Great waste is, however, still going on damages alleged to have been absolute neutrality in the Afghani- and the lowering of the pressure suffered by plaintiffs on account stan embroglio; is not yielding any appreciable of the detention of their vessel,
The revelation was made in the course of an announcement regard. economy,
It was hinted in official circles the Slangwo, last Jutie, and loss of eircles indicate that the authorities speed team, to the effect that the Enquiries by Reuter in official ing the British Schneider Trophy this morning that unfess by heavy time and damages, caused, accord-in India have been increasingly dis- airmen will be transferred from rains, the situation is improved bying to plaintiffs, through a ship turbed at the persistent efforts of Felixstowo to Calshot, Southamp the eul of the month, the Government or 25 cases of needles by the varlene factions in Afghanistan ton Water, next week-end. ment will have to give serious con- defendants to Chungking, auch to draw in British India tribesmen. sideration to a system of restric-cases having been found to con-
There they will enter on the Manifestoes tion of supply on the whole of the Lain revolver, ammunition,
to the British final stage of their training. island.
Mohmauds and the British Afridis According to plaintiffs, the calling: upon them to join in the We were also informed that at Siangwo left Shanghai on June 13 fighting have been seized and it is ing along the aqueduct at Shing was searched by the military and been circulated among the Waziris
Secret Machines, the present time no water is pass-last and, upon arrival at Ichang, rumoured that similar appeals have Mun. Normally there is a flow Customs authorities, who found and the Mahsuds.. of 2,000,000 gallons daily, but the the
ammunition among the needles,
A most amazing diatribe by Mar- shal Pilsudsky, the Dictator of ahek in Hankow as the conqueror,
The accident occurred at It was generally supposed that the bridge on the Gawler River, the outburst of which ha
Poland, recalls the extraordinary situation would clear up rapidly. Another miuius cloud has, how-structure collapsing when the last year when he tendered his
was guilty ever, appeared on the political of children were hurled into the signation of the Premiership.
vehicle attempted to cruss. Dozens horizon.
swollen river and there were re- It is understood that the move-markable rescue scenes,
He then created n flutter in ments of Marshal Feng Yu-eight lost their lives, but six of
Only Polish political dovecotes by a rank hsiang's forces are causing grave them, us sluted, were all of one interview, in auspicion among the Nanking family.
which he declared Tenders. Some reports state that:
** that his resignation had nothing to The total death-roll as the re-do with his health, but was forced the Kuominchun vanguard issult of the floods is how placed almost within striking distance of at 25. The waters are abiding upon him by his utter disgust of Hankow, but the truth of these rapidly, and already it has been the political system in Poland, reports cannot be ascertained,
possible to restore road transport fo a Hmited extent. Many bridges have been destroyed and the dam-
No Longer Required,
re-age is estimated to exceed £1,000,-
It is, however, stated on Hable authority that the troops 000,- which were mobilised ostensibly!
Stupid Parliament.
The work of Prime Minister, he
decinred, constuted in floundering The number of persons missing in a morass of trivialities and red to assist the Central Government at the Brisels tin-mine, where tape, which effectually prevented the Wuhan Campaign are dam by est, la now given as four-him from exercising his office for moving rapidly towards the Hopeh teen. Earlier it had been report the good of the country. The non- border, though obviously Feng's ed that twenty-seven were miss-sensical behaviour of a corrupt assistance is no longer required. 5g-Reuter
in
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek In apprehensive and has despatched
?
a delegate to Marshal Feng Yu- ENGLAND' TO INDIA hsinng to enquire the reason for these movements and to come, If possible, to a niutual understand- ing.
Generals Pardoned?
In the meantime it is reporteji that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has telegraphed to General a
AIR MAIL.
and tupled Parliament, moreover, which was only worthy to be operation of self-respecting Minia- trampled under foot, made the co- tera impossible.
To-day, all the leading nows- papers in Poland, appear with a contribution by Maralal Pilsudsky,
MORE FREIGHT CARRIED ON which has been actuated by the
SECOND TRIP.
Toung-lo and General Tao Chun, NOW IN FULL SWING.'
the leading Hupek military officers;
action of the Siejim (the Diet) in impeaching the Finance Minister, M. Czechowicz, for exceeding the Budget Estimates.
Trenron Alleged.
Marshal Pilsudsky says he con- sidders himself personally respon sible as Chief of the Cabinet for exceeding the, so-called Budgetary
but whose whereabouts have not
Loudon, Apr. 7. been disclosed to foreign sources, India received her first air mail stating that since the Kwangs from England yesterday. Thus Clique were obviously the real the great onterprise which culprits in the intrigues against launched
was the Central Government, he bears earlier is no longer merely an
at Croydon week Law, no animosity against them,
He proceeds to accuse the Marshal Chiang his offered to plished fact.
ambitious scheme, but an accom-Deputies of the First Diet of high pardon them both on the condition)
treason during the War, alleging that they will place their armies 840 miles, from the Persian Gulf against the Polish armies.
The last stage was a fight of that they paid for espionage under the control of the Contralto Karachi, where the aeroplane Government.
arrived only three hours late, despite its having been delayed by aaandstorm after leaving Bagh- dad.
He further states that if Gen. Hu Tsung-lu and Gen. Tao Chun should personally wish to pursue, their stulles abroad, the Central Govern- ment will be pleased to render them every assistance,
THE FRENCH MIXED COURT.
Shanghai Chinese Ågitation for Rendition
NEGOTIATIONS LATER?
Shanghai, Apr. 8.
The Chinese have comment ed an agitation for the rendi- tion of the French Mixed Courl.
The movement has been in- itiated under the auspices of the Diplomatic Problema Dis- cussion Committee, which is composed of prominent Chi-
nese,
It is believed that the deve- lopment is a prelude to nego- tiations on the subject.~~. Our Own Correspondent.
NCAA
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Mr. C, 8. Franklin appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. F. J. Schuh represented defendants.
For first two months, the pilots
will continue fiying in the present type of high-speed Super-marine Energetic efforts are being made Trophy was captured and which Napler S-5, seaplanes, In which the and it would not be surprising If hundred miles an hour. It is ex to trace the disturbing agencies, are capable of just over three- the Government of India resorted to drastic, action-Reuter.
pected, however, that by June, special secret machines which are now being built for the Interna- Honal race on September. 7th will
Pistols and Chocolates. Mr. Franklin atated that defen- dant knew or should have known, when he shipped the needles, that the cargo contained ammunition. Plaintiffs, said counsel, would! show that about two weeks after POLICE INJURE A HUNDRED the cargo had been shipped, the defendants had shipped two cases of chocolates to the same con- | signee in Chungking and that these were found to have con- AN AUTHOR'S MURDER.
DISTURBANCES AT ready,
LAHORE.
IN BATON CHARGE.
A quadrangular course Just over forty-eight miles in length has been decided upon for the con- Cowes; Selsey; near Ryde; and test, the turning points being Hayling Island. This course will have to be traversed five times.
Schneider Trophy Race, which I
It has been agreed to attack the world speed record after the is hoped will be won at a speed of not less than 320 miles an hour.
360 M.P.IL Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy Grolg attained a speed of 2191⁄2 miles an Nepler 3-5 type of scaplanes, and hour with one of the Super-Maring: it is anticipated that the new craft. will attain a maximum of 340 or evon 800 miles an hour on a straight course.-British Wireless, It is thought likely that the greater speeds have been brought into possibility by the invention of a form of new cowling for
tained pistols, the ammunition for which was cinitained among the needles involving the present case.
Lahore, Apr. 7. Plaintiffs, said Mr. Franklin, Official apprehension of serious would further state that Mr. trouble In consequence of the Katz had presented a shipping murder of Raj Pal, the author of order to them and asked to be the anti-Moslem pamphlet "Rangi allotted apace for two other cases in Raaul,, the Merry Prophet," of chocolates, which plaintiffe would not ship because of the dia- proved to be justified to-day, when covery of the contents of the two the police came into conflict with a "In the Second Diet," he goes
previous shipments. Counsel,procession. on, "which was half composed of
therefore, asked the Court to the Deputies of the First Diet, the
award to plaintiffs punitive and to-day, but the authorities, fearing The funeral of Raj Pal was held Deputies became so accustomed to villagers in the district have been
exemplary damages.
communal tension; had issued an an atmosphere of such widespread diverting the water at its source
Judge Purdy aald that he under-order prohibiting processions for The second service of the week of a deputy would not cost more vernment has completed negotia Katz might have been innocont: crowd assembled In. Procession covers the entire engine, but lets
corruption that sometimes the vole for their paddy fields. The Go stood that the consignment canie a week. ly air mail
originally from Germany. Mr. to India began
than twenty-two shillings."
In spite of the order, a huge radial air-cooled engines, which. yesterday morning. The n.achine which left Croydon, carried a
villages in order to proceed withe might not have known that the with an empty hier, and they were in enough air to cool the cylin larger quantity of mail than the
ather work in connexion with the contents included ammunition.addressed at some length by the ders and at the some time so con- machine which started on March
One of the ablest of the Polish Shing Mun scheme, but the or. Even if it were proved that he Secretary of the local Congress." trols the flow that it Jesues from 30th. There Was. alse
Ministers, he goes on, has com-cupants have been slow in getting was negligent, it was not alleged
The procession was about to
the rear of the cowling in a pared the Diet to a "Zoo inhabited out. Action will be taken to hurry that he had wilfully chipped con-proceed when a large squad of smooth stream round the fusilage, freight...
To-day, the first air mail
by malicious monkeys whe do not them up. A to
Work at Kowloon Bye-wash is
Mr. Schuhl admitted that the rived on the scene and held up the
police, mounted and on foot, ar- thus cutting down air resistance. England left Karachi and by it
even try to uppeur human."
being pushed on as rapidly as goods came from Germany and Marshal Pilsudaky declares that possible and it is expected to be reiterated his statement at a A political correspondent writes travelled Air Vice-Marshal Sir
American Experiment, crowd. The bier was broken, but that Feng's actions are particular Geoffrey Salmond, the Air Officer the followers of some of the De- finished at the end of the year, former hearing that they had the crowd persistently refused to The Americans have produced Jy interesting as it is thought Commanding in India, and Vin-puties should be flogged in the yard This is of importance in connexion never
disperso. como into
the best-known type of this cowl- defendants' that the Wuhan leaders believed count Chelwynd, Chairman of the of the Diet..
with the pipe-line.
possession but had been with the Eventually, the police chargeding, and it was recently reported that Feng intended to join them Imperial Airways. London is due
Customs all the time. Mr. Katz the mob with batons and over a that in the course of tests on an against the Central Government to be reached next Sunday.
never seen or touched the hundred persons were injured, army puranit plane, the use of the right up to the last minute. It is -British Wirclose.
An armoured-cor section is now speed of a 200 h.p.. engine from cowling was found to increase the engaged in patrolling the danger 118 m.ph. at 1,000 revolutions, to area, but up to the present, qulet 137 miles an hour. prevails.-Reuter,
It is not known whether the officers in question have replied to this message. Reuter.
Curious Development,
now thought possible that he has designs on the province of Hupeh, as well as on Shantung,
more
NEW TREATMENT FOR THE KING.
APPLIED TO RHEUMATIC TROUBLE.
London, Apr. 73.
"Zad of Monkeys,”
"Should I become Prime Minister again, I declare openly that the State Tribunal won't dare to meet," he concludes.-Reuter,
them.
tions for the evacuation of their
CURIOUS ERROR OF JUDGMENT.
NAG PICKET SENT TO PRISON.
traband.
had cargo,
KINDLY CHINESE
SENTIMENT.
PRESENTATION TO MAJOR: GENERAL WARDROP.
Similar experiments have bçen earried out in Great Britain, and it is believed that designers have almost achieved the Ideal, which would be a smooth, pointed cone, like the nose of a shell, which would complete the Hnes of the acroplane fuselage, and have no projections. With such a sitting an increase of speed of anything from ten to thirty miles an hour. might be attained.
Manager's Evidence. Former Pleasantries.” Commenting on the fall of Han
Mr. C. T. Tod, manager of the Regarding his resignation from kow a well-known Kuomintang
Indo-China, S. N. Co., testified that the Premiership last year, Marshal
he had been with the company leader attributes the Kwangei
Pilsudsky said that "the Seljim failure to three factors: (1) The
for some 20 years and that for (Diet) of prostitutes created the unsound anticipation of
A rag-picker got out of his depth 15 years he had' boon in chargo utmost difficulty for me--the most the Kwangai Clique that Marshal,
popular man in Poland. I had to when in the course of peregrina- of the company's departments or Fong Yu-hsiang would join them
resign or I would have been unable tions on Saturday he strayed into offices in the outports, Witness against Murahal Chiang Kai-shek;
to control myself, and would have the compound of Victoria Barracks gave a long description of the (2) General Wang Shao-hung's
14.31. the King Passed a good struck Deputies and trampled on and included in his bag three procedure, in theory and practice, inability to lend the large armles night. The weather at Bognor to-
pieces of pyjamas and a military concerning the shipment and trans- jacket belong to Borgt George shipment of goods up the Yangtze of Kwangtung and Kwangai into day, was sunny and warm, and His
"Ministers have to behave them- Graham, of the K.O.S. Borderers, and mentioned that the Indo-China Klangsi on account of the un- Majesty went into the grounds of selves In Parliament but the De- They were apread out to dry in the boats were popularly known
Shanghai, Apr. 8. expected turn in South China; (3) Craigwell House soon after break. puties yell Insults and behave like
Anglo-Chinese amenities were Hitherto, the housing of radia] The early mobilization and war fast
blackguards and pigs. 1 could not
the Jardine bonts. The Indo- omphasised when the Chinese engines in such a streamline cowl- Charged with theft before Mr. China S. N. Co. was a preparatione of the Nanking!
hold out for another hour in an at E. W. Hamilton this morning, the fability company, registered in presented Major General Wardrop, cooling difficulties. The engine Imited Company of the Volunteer Corps ing has presented insuperable Dr. Howitt and Dr. Woods ap-mosphere where even files, cannot rag-picker said he thought the London. Witness then explained on the eve of his departure, with a cylinders have shown a tendency Government, who went to war un-plied the new diathermy treatment stand the, Deputies' speeches." expectedly oarly.
to His Majesty for the first, thino
clothing was discarded stuff. Is the Customs procedure to be silver pagado and an illuminated to overheat... Kwangtung Troops,
this afternoon. Thla consisted of
Worship was unable to understand followed in Shanghal regarding address embodying their kindly an application of heat and light"
how the man could have inistaken the release of cargoes and mensentiments. Genoral Fan Shek-song, who rays to the rheumatic trouble in
perfectly good clothing for rage, tioned that, in the present case, commands the Kwangiung troops His Majesty's left shoulder-Ren- stationed on the Hunan-Kwang-ter and Brithik Wireless. tung border, has wired to Hankow pledging his support of the Cen-
mont
4 personal
tral Government, while a almilar recently telegram has been sent to General emissary to Taiyuanfu, Bhansi, to Ho Chien of Hanna, in order that confor with Marshal Yon. Hsi-shan no misunderstanding may arise for forming an alliance between between the Kwangtung and Manchuria and Shansi, with the Human troops on the border. full understanding that it aims at the preservation of peace in North China. The reported alliance has A report from Peking says that been published in many of the General Chang Hsueh-llang, head Chinese newspapers in North of the Manchurian Government, China,
North China Alliance,
GERMAN PRESIDENT
INDISPOSED.
WAS SERIOUSLY ILL FOR WHOLE WEEK,
Berlin, Apr. 7.
BUD.
daya hard labour.
£18
and ho passed sentence of fourteen the goods had been shipped Incepting the gifts, was visibly move Major General Wardrop, in ac the Shanghal & Hongkew Wharted-Our Own Correspondent. godowns and were accessible to the skipper.
FAMOUS NATURALIST
DEAD,
RESEARCHES IN CEYLON
He Called Him "Jimmy." In the afternoon Mr. Tod was cross-examined at some length by It has just been announced thint
Mr. Schuhl, who brought out some President Hinderburg has been
Bale, Apr. 7. discrepancies in the datos men The death is announced of the tioned by the witness and by the Feriously ill for a whole week with influenza and gastric complications, naturallet and othnographor, Paul captain of the str. Kintang. Mr. danger, but is still confined to life researches in the Sunda. Strait, Stangwo could not have been at He has now been declared out of Baraain, who was famous for his Tod was quite positive that the house-Reuters By Ceylon,--Reuter,
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THE DAVIS CUP.
PORTUGAL SCRATCHES TO HOLLAND..
Classic: Example.
air-cooled engine cowlings was on The classic example of radial
the Short Bristol "Crusader," which was built for last year's Schneider trophy race, and prov ed itself the fastest machine ever built having an air-cooled engine.. In this machine every cylinder head had a soparate streamlino holmet,
British designers have recently, Holland has received a walk-over to suiting the shape of air-cooled Paris, Apr. 7. been directing their attention more
Competition owing to Portugal form than to devising streamline in the first round of the Davis Cap engines themselves to streamline. @having seraichel Peuter Diatra cowling for theme.