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DUTCH SEAPLANE
DISASTER.
EXTRAORDINARY MISHAP ON THE TIGRIS.
TAXIED INTO BRIDGE,
Bagdad, May 2. Lieutenant Everts, a Dutch fying officer, attached to the naval seaplane squadron on its way to the Dutch East Indies, was killed
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929.
PORTLAND VASE | FENG YU-HSIANG'S
SUPRISE.
HISTORIC TREASURE NOT FOR U.S.A.
CHRISTIE'S AUCTION OVER IN 35 SECONDS.
ACTIVITIES.
KUOMINCHUN CENTRED IN SHENSI.
STRANGEST RUMOURS.
Shanghai, May, 2 It is reported that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is concentrating hls forces at Loyang and Tung- kwan in Shenai Province, the exact
at Bagdad to-day, and his two BOUGHT-IN BY OWNER? purpose of which is difficult to de- companions were seriously injured.
The accident as the result of which the casualties occurred was most extraordinary,
London, May 2.
A dramatic surprise was In store for the largo gathering, at Christie's saleroom, King Street, Lieut. Everts was piloting his St. James's Square, to-day, when flying-boat, the D.22 on a test the famous Portland Vase was put flight after the engine had been overhauled. He was flying low up to auction.
It was advertised as "the world with the object of alighting on famous and historic the Tigris when the machine foul-antique glass, known as the Port-
of
Anc. It is rumoured that in the cvent of war with Nanking, Feng plans to launch an attack on Shanel.
The majority of the Kuomin chun movements take place during the night, according to newspaper correspondents.
The -Peking- Hankow Railway is much used during the night for the transport of troops.
General Sun Laing-sing is re
ed the telegraph wires and sud-land or Barberini Vase, the pro-ported to have delivered a speech denly dipped towards the river.
tish Museum."
con-
párty of the Duke of Portland, The pilot righted the machine which for over as 100: yours has magnificently in time to make been exhibited on loan at the Bri- perfect landing on the river, but he had had to increase speed to do so, and the flying-bont taxied swiftly across the water eraaliing Into the Maude Bridge of bouts.
The machine was badly smash- ed, and two of the occupants were extricated from the badly hurt. The pilot must have been killed almost instantaneous- ly.
at Kaifong; declaring his tinued support of the Central Go- verament, and stating that Mar- shal Feng Yu-halang has no inten. It has been regarded as ation of interfering with the Nan- national treasure and to be "price-king decision regarding the oc leas" and it was feared that this cupation of Shantung..
beautiful specimen ancient art was certain to go to America. wreckage
The D.22 was one of three Dutch Dying-bonts which were on their way from Holland to Java.-- Reuter,
SHANGHAI FUTURE
UNCERTAIN.
NO FURTHER REDUCTION OF ! BRITISH TROOPS..
SUBVERSIVE AGENTS.
London, May 2.
A suggestion that there is no further necessity for the retention of British troops in Shanghai was contained in a series of questions put to the Minister for War in the House of Commons, to-day.
con-
most
of
29,000 Guineas Offered, Within thirty-five seconds of the opening bid. the vase was going for 29,000-guinens.
It was then understood by the big crowd that the vase had been sold. A woman' demanded to know the name of the purchaser
as she said the British public were keenly interested in the sale of the
vase.
The quetioneer did not reply, and only later was it made known that the vase had been with- drawn!
'from the Buyers
United States and from the Continent had been na keen bidders as the British buyers.
General Sun says he resigned be-
undertake the onerous duties of cause he is not well enough to the Civil Governorship.
Another well-known supporter of Feng Yu-halang, Mr. Y. L. Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tong has resigned his position na riving no reason.
AIR SERVICE TO AFRICA.
Assurances of OFFICIAL SUPPORT.
FINANCIAL GRANTS.
The Evening Standard states
London, May 2. that the vase was bought in for
Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for the Duke of Portland himself. It is of dark blue glass, with while Air, stated in the House of Com cameo-like Ogures upon it, mons that the Government of ustrating figures of Peleus and Southern Rhodesia had Intimated Thetis, and it is reputed to have its willingness to arrange for a A period of five years towards the been found in a sarcophagus in contribution of £10,000 yearly for Rome nearly five centuries ago.
coat of the projected air service between this country and South Africa.
Govern-
Barberina Treasure.
The vase was at one thee in the possession of the family of Pope Barberini, or Urban VIII, and it
Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, who replied on behalf of Sir Laming Worthing ton-Evans, stated that British forces in China had been siderably reduced in the courie of the past year, and at the present remained in the Barberini Palace
until about 1770, when time, the War Office has no inten-circumstances of the family were had also been received from the
African The South ment had undertaken to provido » the subsidy, and offers to contributo substantial portion of the required
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part with some of their treasures. Tanganyika and Uganda.
As a result of steady co-opera- The vase ultimately came into the possession of Sir William Jamil- tion on the part of Adminiatra- ton, from whom the Dowager tions mentioned,, the finances Duchess of Portland, a famous the service were assured. collector, acquired it. After her
"
of
He made it clear that the reason for the War Office attitude was not because there was imminent danger to the International Settle meni in Shanghal, or of attacks in
death the whole of the "Portland that the airship R.100 was expect quarter, any particular
It was a fact that the Museum," as it was called, WAB ed to be ready for her trials by because
al auction 01 dispersed position is no means certain.
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but
Sir Samuel Hoate, also stated:
FORMER CHINA LEADER.
It was pointed out that sub- the premises by Messrs. Skinner about the end of May and the versive activities have not been and Co. in April. May, and June.R.101 by about the end of June.~
1786. There were 4,166 lots, and British Wireless, brought to an end.
Mr. Looker (Cons.) drew atten- the last but one was the vase from tion to the existence in Shanghai the Barberini cabinet. According of a considerable element of to, the auctioneers' elaborate and- Chinese Communists. There was inaccurate description, still a subversive tendency render- ing complete withdrawn) advisable at present.
It is the identical urn which in-contained the ashes of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and In reply to a further Labour his mother Mammen, which was question, Mr. Duff Cooper said deposited in the earth about the that Mr. Looker had conveyed year 235 after Christ, and was dug up by order of Pope Barberini,
to convey
Tlonsin, May, 2. Marshal Tuan Chi-jui's illness has reached a critical stage and he is not expected to live.
Nanking, May. 2. The resignation of Mr. Chu Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, bas been accepted.
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ANOTHER TORNADO
DISASTER.
years 1623 and 1644.
An Unrecorded Fact.
At the auction sale on Wednes- day, June 7, 1786, it was knocked chalcedony," Bartoli described it down for 980 guineas, but ap-as sardonyx, De La Chaussee as
Montfaucon AB parently it did not reach the re-agate, and serve, and so was not sold.
And precious stone, Count Cylus was
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his
at this point of the atory there is apparently the first to describe it an interesting and apparently on glass. It is in fact formed of be glass of a dark rich blue lot, and hitherto unrecorded fact to FIFTY KILLED IN WRECK OF related. In one of the catalogues may be described as an amphom of this famous sale there is about 101n, high. The theory long VIRGINIA SCHOOL,
written in the margin, probably held that the sarcophagus in which by the auctioneer Skinner him-it was found was the tomb of : New York, May 2
Serverus and Alexander self: "Sold June 7, '86 to his A terrible tornado disaster is re-Grace ye duke of Marlborough for mother, and that the figures on ported from Richmond, Virginia, Nid £ 1.8. From this it may be where fifty were killed by a tor- assumed that the Duke of Marl-the vase commemorate these two nado which demolished the Rye borough made some offer to pur-personages, has since been proved Cove School near Gate City.
chase the vase at a price which inaccurate. In 1766 Winckelman It is learned from Columbus, cannot now be decided from the not only rejected the Alexander Oblo, that a high wind sweeping auctioneer's private figures, but over the city to-day, blew down which may have been close on the part of the wall of the Columbus bought-in price. Prison, killing four and seriously Injuring six persona.
In 1800 the vase was deposited A dozen of the prisoners are
in the British Museum by the Seven people are dead, and fourth Duke of Portland; and here acoros were injured, while many it has remained ever since, so Thirty thousand gallons of farm buildings were blown down that the Duke of Marlborough's elaborate "Catalogue of the. En- burning through a tornado at Wheatley, negotiations for the purchase graved Gems," &c., in that depart-
Arkansas.
came to nothing. While on public mont. Three negroes were killed and view at the Museum on February
MAN KILLED WHEN HUGE TANK EXPLODES.
Rangoon, May 2. A serious fire broke out in the Burmah Of Company's refinery at Syrium this morning.
A hundred
thousand gallon The new picture Is a sories of adventures of Jiggs, kerosene tank exploded, and blew missing. Maggie, Dinty Moore and the rest off the roof, killing one man..
McManus
of
crowl of the characters, filmed on an elaborate
Rente, James Farrell McDonald is kerosene
seen in the role of Jiggs, and Polly Reuter. Moran as the redoubtable Maggic.
Marie Dressler appears us. Mrs.
are still
Broken by Lunatic,
Serverus theory, but was the first to suggest that the subject of the vase was the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, and this theory has, in the main, .been accepted by various scholars and is maintained by Dr. II. B. Walters, the Keeper of the Greek and Roman antiqui- ties in the British Museum, in his
In an exhaustive and learned
16 injured by a cyclone In Georgia.7, 1845, it was wilfully smashed to essay
on The Portland Vasc,"
A dozen persons have also been pieces by a lunatle named William which Mr. We Watkiss' Lloyd con-
Dinty Moore and Jules Cowles as cartoons, Ineldent after incident! Dinty, and others in the cast in from the pictures being taken and injured in a tornado at Fort Smith.Lloyd, and as there was no law to tributed to the Classical Museum, cope with this kind of outrage, all 1848, he stated that "the artist of clude Gertrude Olmsted as Jigge woven together into a complete-Router's American Service.
that the magistrate, Mr. Jardine, the glass vase proves himself a successor of the ancient daughter, Grant Withers as her story. Jigga adventure with his
could do was to fine Loyd £3, the true suiter, Rose Dione as the society wife's. French Poodle, the fights
value of the glass shade, with the Greek manufacturera and painters Tender and Andres de Segurola as for the two, the reception and
FAIR WEATHER
option of two months in gaol, of fictile vases." The bibliography the count. Bull Montana, Tenen Maggie's courting of nability—
were put of the Portland vasc la perhons Holtz, Bobby Mack, David Mir these are among the comical de- The Royal Observatory reports Eventually the pieces and others of nate are among the talis, and the episodes in Dinty that pressure is highest in the together by Mr. John Doubleday, almost as extensive as that of the players.
Moore's place and other incidents Facific to the cast of Japan and one of the Museum's employees. Venus de Milo.. It has been copied at by Wedgwood and others, and The smashing of the vase In the The story was adapted directly rre also echoes of the newspaper a depression is situated
least settled one long-disputed innumerable engravings have been' George McManus comic strip.
Eastern Sca, from
The local forecast is-South- point as to the material of which made and photos published of it or three called it the famous vase of centuries, east or variable winds, moderate, it was composed. Breval in 1738 during the last two. fair.
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