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AIR LINER DISASTER.
LATEST WATER STATISTICS.
GIANT PLANE WRECKED STEADY DECREASE IN
IN THE CHANNEL.
SEVEN PASSENGERS KILLED IN AN IMPERIAL AIRWAYS CRASH.
THE SUPPLIES.
ISLAND CONSUMPTION ON THE UPWARD GRADE.
KOWLOON MUCH LESS.
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FIERCE RIOTING IN SOUTH AFRICA OUT THE KOMAGATAKE
DURBAN.
EUROPEANS & NATIVES IN SERIOUS CLASHES.
MANY CASUALTIES,
Durban, June 17.
FOR 250:
MITCHELL MAKES 88 BY PATIENCE.
ENGLAND NOW LEAD BY 29 Fiorco native riots have broken} WITH ALL WICKETS INTACT. out in the centre of the city, during the course of which attacks were made on Europeans.
natives are known to have been So far, one European and four
killed, and ten Europeans and 41 natives seriously injured.
Later.
LARWOOD'S" VICTIMS.
London, June 17. South Africa gained K lead of.
runs first innings
SIX OTHERS RESCUED. servers of the Colony, munde up to purbo, nat vrewing the jete sure the Test Match of Birmingham,
The long immuilty from serious accident of the Imperial Airways was interrupted in dreadful manner yesterday when one of their biggest air-liners crashed in the Channel, seven of the thirteen occupants being killed, including three women.
The disaster ranks with the worst in the history of British aviation, and it concerned a machine which had previously covered over 250,000 miles without mishap, and negotiated the Channel crossing nearly a thousand times.
The giant plane was in mid-Channel when the pilot found that something was amiss. He immediately sent out distress signals, turned the plane round and made a gallant, but vain effort, to make the English coast, the crash occurring within three miles of Dungeness..
crease, the total shrinkage for the mainland and the island being more than 25 million gallons.
The natives, had objected to
plled at the Municipal Beer Halls, the last wicket falling soon after and also to Europeans preparing tea for a total of 250 runs. The their food.
outstanding effort was that of B. It is interesting to note that for The trouble was apparently en- | Mitchell, the Transvaal player, the first time in three weeks, the gineered by the International who scored 88, obtained by consumption on the island exceeds Coloured Union. It began at mid-laborious methods.. He went in 30 million gallons, whereas Kow-day, but quiet was eventually first wicket and was eighth out. ed decline, being only 14.04 million loon's consumption shows a mark-restored.
Mitchell and Catterall re Later, the trouble. recurred sumed their innings to-day in gallons, which compares with 19.59 when enraged Europeana attacked fine weather, the wicket being for the provious week and 24.86 for the Union Headquarters,
good. The score was carried the week prior to that. The
well beyond the 100 mark before figures include, in all cases, the
South Africa experienced their water supplied from Kowloon to
first loss, Catterall getting in Hongkong.
front of a straight one from Fen- der after scoring 67. He gave an excellent display, exploiting a variety of strokes.
On the basis of the supplies drawn from city maina during the
stored in reservoirs on the island is sufficient to last for about eight
A hundred yards away a trawler was steaming, but although assistance was thereby immediately forthcoming, the past week the water at present air-liner had overturned in its crash, and the body had to be amashed before the occupants could be rescued. Six were got out, all injured more or less seriously, but the remainder wore dead.
PILOT'S BID TO AVERT SMASH.
weeks.
The ometal statement on the situation is as follows:
1
The police intervened to prevent the rushing of the building, and shots were fired on both sides. ~
The chief injuries, however, were caused by brickbats and sticks, running fights, occurring many parts of the town. eventually overcome.-Reuter.
Moss disorder was, however,
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
PROSPERITY.
EXPECTATIONS.
Paris, June 17. Tho revenue returns for May totalled Fra: 3,293,000,000 repre- aenting a surplus of. Fra. 646,000,-
The Island Supplies,
The total storage in the island reservoira on the morning of REVENUE VASTLY EXCEEDS Monday, 17th. June, amounted to 192.75 million gallons showing a decrease of 19.98 million gallona London, June 17. believed, and it was learned that during the past week; the amount Seven persons are missing, be three persons were dead, four were collected from streamis being 4.40 lieved killed, one dead body has been missing and that six had been land-million gallons, recovered and landed at Folke-fed, all of them injured, four no The week's consumption totals 1000 as compared with the Budget stone, and four others have been seriously that they had to be 30.18 million gallons and is made forecasts, and Fru, 98,000,000 ne 'picked up badly injured, as the re-rushed to hospital where they are sull of the forced descent in the detained; English Chanel of an Imperial Always airliner.
An eye-witness of the crash sayя that the "City of Ottawa" struck; the water with a terrific splash, and overturned completely,
·
The great machine, "The City of Ottawa" one of the biggest of the British air-liners, was on its way to Paris from Crayden carrying A trawler was only a hundred eleven passengers, six women and yards away from the crash, and it five men, a pilot and a mechanic, lost not a second in getting to the and miscellaneous cargo,
assistance of the unfortunate oc- cupants.
the
and
up as follows:-
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From City Mains
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Lai Chi Kok
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A COMMON DUTY.
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Whether you are in the home or in the office, do your best to prevent the wastage
of water.
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Kowloon Water Works,
Effort to Reach Coast.
The storage in the mainland Passengers Imprisoned. reservoirs on the morning of Mon- The pilot found himself
day, 17th June, amounted to 80.51 compared with the same ia difficulties after crossing By excellent chance the plane million gallons, showing a decrease last year.
The surplus on the first five English Const
he kept afloat, but owing to the fact of 6.10 million gallone during the made a great effort to reach that it had turned over, the crew past week.
months of the year hus now reach land without success, the plane of the trawler had to work des- The work's consumption included Fra: 2,481,000,000 on the Budget crashing Into the sen at a pointperately chopping away at the ing supplies to Water Boats and forecasts, and Fre. 1,507,000,000 about three miles from Dungeness. fuselage, etc, in order to release Hongkong amounted
to 14.04 on
the same period in 1928,- Early reports of the terrible the passengers,
Reuter. million gallons. crash gave the information that Six of them
The yield from the streams dur- ing the week Js, therefore," 8.04 million gallons,
Later..
were got out in a trawler was at hand when the time, but the remaider were either plate was wrecked and that the killed instantly or drowned,' ship had effected a rescue of the occupants. The reports proved, An official statement by the unfortunately, to be unfounded, Imperials Airways Limited regard- The machine loft Croydon at ing the disaster, stutes that seven halfpost ten this morning for passengers were killed, and four Paris, Basle and Zurich. About passengers, the pilot and the an hour later, Croydon plekod up mechanic injured,, it is hoped not a distress message from the pilot seriously. Blating that the machine was in great dificulties and that he was turning out in an effort to regain the const,
Tanker Coming from Shanghal
on
The A. P. C. tanker Fu Kwang, 1,400 tons, which has been char- tered by the Government to carry water, is leaving Shanghai Wednesday with 950 tons of pat-- able water for the Colony. She la expected to arrive here Sunday morning. She carries a full pumping equipment and all The wreck of the airliner "City the necessary piping. She is, in
Shackled to Trawler.
Later.
FARM RELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES.
OVER £30,000,000 FOR NEW FEDERAL BOARD.
Washington, Jun 17.
In accordance with President on. Hoover's recommendation, the
A few minutes later he wire of Ottawa" has been shuckled to a fact, self contained in every way trawler and in belag towed slowly for the job for which she has Lo the const, though it appears to been secured,
lessed:
"Cannot make Dungeness. Am trying to land beside a ship."
be in imminent danger of breaking up-Reuter.
Tank Reported, Cracked.
A British Wireless message Then almost immediately after-statea:
It is reported that one of the wards come still more
brick tanks on the Praya East Re- ominous words;
"An Imperial Airways liner clamation has come to grief owing bound from Croydon for Paris to the reclaimed land refusing to "Going down."
crashed in the Channel this morn-support the great weight. The The officials
at Croydon had ing and several of the passengers tank is reported to have cracked. meanwhile been sending out S.0.8, have lost their lives. messages to all ships in the vicini
ity apprising them of the danger. This was repeated more anxiously when the last message from the aft
liner was received.
Lifeboat to Rescue.
Quick Dismissnis.
for a serion
ERUPTION.
JAPANESE VOLCANO GETTING
MORE VIOLENT.
VILLAGES WIPED OUT.
Tokyo, June 17. Although no casualties are thus far reported, the latest Press despatches from Hok- kaido state that two villages at the base of the volcano at: Komagatako, which erupted this morning, have been wiped out and another partially' destroyed, while communica- tions are disrupted.
The evacuation of inhabi- tants from neighbouring vil Jages has already started.
Flames and amoke are be- ing emitted to a height of 3,000 meters, whliat lava is flowing down the mountain-. side.-Router.
STRONG CRITICISM OF POLICE.
CHIEF JUSTICE ASKS FOR ACQUITTAL.
"DISGRACEFUL” HANDLING OF IDENTITY PARADE.
AN A.S.P. REBUKED. ̈
"I can't understand it. I have told the Police time after time that I insist upon these identiflen- tion parades being properly carried out. It is most disgraceful thing that they are not carried out with the most scrupulous care, Here is a witness who does not know Chinese and he asks the jury to believe what took place. I enn. not accept that," aald Sir Henry Gollan at the Criminal Sesalons. According to an official report hearing of a case in which a man
Later.
this morning when, during tho received, the Komagatako eruption was charged with robbery, he is increasing in violence.
instructed the jury to bring in a Stones from four to five inches verdict of not guilty. in diameter are falling on the vil- lages, whilst the lava now has Sau-wan, alias Choi Shing-on, was The case was one in which Chel reached a point a mile from Mori, charged with robbery by two or important railway station more on April 6 last year. It was. twenty-five miles north of Hako- alleged that he was one of a gang of man which raided a trodiag
an
dato,'
Thirteen hundred refugees have
His dismissal was the signal arrived at Morf, but preparations Junk and stole 20,000 bricks, cloth-
for a wholesale evacuation in the ing and jewellery. of disasters. Lar- wood clean bowled Christie and direction of Yakumo are being
Gang. Attacked, made-Reuter. Taylor in quick succession, and a few runs later, Tate scattered Morkell's wicket,`` ·
At the lunch interval 161 runs HONOUR FOR MR. OWEN were on the board for the loss of four wickets.
D. YOUNG.
ROOSEVELT MEDAL FOR 1929 AWARDED.
Mr. H. K. Holmes appeared for the Crown and said that the Junk was loading a cargo of bricks at Castle Peak on April 5 last year and later sailed for Hongkong. After | sailing for about The rate of scoring alowed down
hours the vessel anchored as two remarkably in the afternoon, only
the wind was not too favourable and 83 runs being added for the loss
the tide was against it. About of three further wickets. Mit-
eight o'clock at night a small boat chell was particularly restrained,
went alongside the junk and the adding only 20 runs between lunch'
New York, June 17.
gang of mon, including the accus- and tea! In the meantime, Deane' Mr. Owen D. Young, who was fed, went on board and put the fell into Fonder's "caught and chairman of the recent Ropara-junkmaster, his wife and, the crew bowled" trap, sending back an tions Conference of Experts in below the hatches. jenny one, Cameron was bowled by Parls, has been awarded the
They made away with the junk Larwood, and Tate dismissed Roosevelt Modal for 1929 for his cargo and aniled the vessel to Chin- Owen-Smith who batted brightly work in connexion with the settle- ese territory, anchoring in a creek. for a brief spell.
ment of the reparations problems. The junk remained there for two or At the ten Interval the score The Roosevelt Medals, three of three days. The local force of
234 for 7 wickets,
which are awarded every year, volunteers made an attack and the bestowed for distinguished gang was dispersed, somo, ho be.. service in the administration of lieved; being killed." public office, in the promotion of industrial peace, in the promotion
Arrested in Matshed. of social justice, in the develop
The prisoner was arrested this ment of public and international year upon information received.
Was:
Mitchell Sent Back,
are
At this stage Mitchell was not out 85, and Vincent not out 4.
Mitchell's long innings came to a close soon after the resumption. Tate whipped through his defence law, etc.-Router's American SerWhen the matshed in which he was with one of his heat balls, spilling vice. the baile. Mitchell had scored 88. Larwood bowled brilliantly throughout, taking five wickets for 57 runs, all his victims being clean- bowled. Tate got three wickets the same way.
Sutcliffe and E. T. Killick, the
Cambridge skipper, opened Eng- land's second innings and soon wiped off the arrears. Killick bat- ted with much greater freedom credited than his colleague, and himself with the bulk of the 34 runa,
The scores, as cabled by Reuter, are as follows
England 1st Inninge.
Senate and the House of Repre. H. Sutcliffe, e Cameren, b Oches sentatives have both passed a Bill, E. T. Killick, e Morkel, b Ochne $500,000,000 authorised by the S. Duloopainhji, e Vincent, b appropriating $181,000,000 of the W. R. Hanumond, b Quinn ............. Farm Relief Act, for the
Morkel Federal Farm Board.-Beutor's. American Service;
BOXER INDEMNITY FUNDS.
now
KUOMINTANG CONGRESS
DECISIONS.
E. Hendren, b Merkel
M. Leyland, e Taylor, b Ochac
P. G. H. Fender, c. Cameron, b
Quinn
M. Tate, c Mitchell, b Morkel
1. Larwood; 1.b.w., Ochse
J. C. White; run out'
G. Duckworth, not out.
Extras
The tanks themselves are very substantially built, the sides to a Four passengers and the crew height of three foot being throu (pilot and mechanic) were rescued feet thick, the second stage two and landed at Folkestone. They feet thick and the third fourteen were all injured. One dead body inches. They are cemented Inside was recovered and also Janded at so as to make them absolutely that two-thirds of the Boxer In-Vincent-
Folkestone..
waterlight,
V.R.C. Tank to be Used.
of
The City of Ottawa is a twin-
GENERAL BOOTH'S
;
FUNERAL.
TO BE INTERRED. BESIDE FATHER & MOTHER.
The funeral service for the late
living was searched a tin contain- Ing pawn tickets was found. In quiries from various pawnbrokers resulted. In certain articles of cloth- ing being recovered which were Identified by the junk people as be- ing their property.
Bir. Holmes added that in state- ments made when charged and during the Police Court hearing the prisoner denled being concern- cd in the affair.
London, June 17..
The Junkmaster gave evidence General Bramwell Booth will be bearing out Mr. Holmes' opening held on Sunday evening next and statement and said he was con- will be conducted by General Aned in the hold for two nights Higgins, the head of the Salvation and a day. He was allowed out Army, aaslated by International when the Junk anchored in Chinese Commissioners.
walers and was told to go nshore The Army's Inte leader will be and procure money for the reason buried next Monday afternoon fn of the crew and for the purchase
of his junk. 12 the family vault at Abney Park 70 Cemetery, London, beside his #father, the founder of the Army, and his mother.-British Wireless.
31
20
18
40
11
245
Total
Bowling Analysis.
M. R.
W.
Morkel
20. 4 40
B
02
25.1 21 -70
37.
10
Approved Mr. Sun Fo's proposala Uchse
Shanghal, June 18.. The Kuomintang Congress has Quinn
demnity Funda shall be
appro- Mitchell priated for railway, deyclopment, and one-third for conservancy and
It has finally been decided to electrical power projects.--Reuter,
of
A number of vessels in the vic-engined. Handley Page, one ity of Dungeness picked up the dis the big type of machine used by tress signals and rushed to the the Imperial Airways. It was accept the offer of the Victoria acene, one of the first on the spot pinced in commission, in March, Recreation Club for the uso being the Dungencan lifeboat 1926, since which time, without their tank for water storage pur- which rushed to the spot indicated the alightest accident, It has flown poses. So far definite plans for and found the machine afloat, more than 250,000 miles and has its use have not been made, but: though badly wrecked,
made approximately a thousand it is understood that an additional Meanwhile, believing that a traw Channel crossings. ler had rescued the passengers, Ma-
tank will be constructed outside
Croydon to Lympne in a special British Wireless. machine to take on the supposedly
Later.
TWO SCOTTISH APPOINTMENTS.
NEW LORD ADVOCATE AND ́SOLICITOR-GENERAL.
'London, Jgne, 17. : II.M the King has approved of the appointment of Mr. Craigie Mason Altcheson, K.C., to be Lord John Charles Watson, K.C., to be Advocate for Scotland; and of Mr.
British Wireless.
NJENKO.
South Africans 1st'. Inninga.
R. II. Catterall, b.w., Fender ... B. Mitchell, & Tato
J. A. Christie, b. Larwood H. W. Taylor, b Larwood D. Morkel, D Tate
II. G. Deano, c and b Fender H. B. Cameron, ↳ Larwood
IL G. Owen-Smith, b Tate C. L. Vincent, not out |N. A. Quinn, b Farwood |A, T4. Ochse, ₺ Larwood.
Extras.
Three of the dead passengers the Club building, to which water or Brackley, of the staff of en-are women, gineers at Croydon apeoded from rescued passengers are women. tank deposit, and be led through and three of the will be pumped from the swimming
piping along the Naval Yard wall where it will be distributed from The Belgian trawler, Gaby, stop cocks as is done in the case of whose crew throughout displayed the tanks along the Praya. This great heroism, has landed the would give an average supply Later it was discovered that the wreck of the City of Ottawa of over 200,000 gallons a day if Solicitor General for Scotland, Larwood pilot had not had the good fortune] Reuter,
'kept full for the 24 hours..
rescued passengers..
Terrific Splash.
Tato
Total
Bowling Analysis.
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FRENCH COMMUNISTS SENTENCED.
HEAVY PENALTIES. ON AGITATORS.
Paris, June 17. The Secretary-General of the French Communist Party has been sentenced to three years' Impri- sonment on a charge of inciting troops to disobedience,
67 The manager of the extremist 88 newspaper Humanite has been
1 tenced to five years Imprisonment
on a similar charge.-Router.
26 P. Fender 14 Hammond;
1 J.-White
.82 10 64
12
25 29
England 2nd Janings. :11
Batcliffe not out 200 ET. Killick not out
Extras.....
0. M. W. R 424 17 57 5
14 65
Total (for O wicket)
Painted n Revolver.
On the trip an amali he had engaged as cook disappeared and a small boy he was carrying, as a Passenger jumped overboard. Wit ness alleged that the prisoner. carried a short firearm. The junk master's wife gave evidonee and said the prisoner pointed 2 revolver at her and asked if she had any money." şek
Mr. Calthrop, A.S.P., gave de- tails of an identification parado at the Water Police Station. He said the prisoner elected to stand first in a row of nine men. objects of the parade wore explain- ed by an interpreter.
The
Sir Henry Gollan sald, that sen-identification parades were most Important. The interpreter at the parade was not in Court to give evidence!
Reuter.
If an interpreter was used, then 2 he must be brought to court. The 0Chief Justice added that he insist ⚫ed upon Identification parades being conducted most carefully,
Continuing, Mr. Calthrop said,
10 the first witness pointed to the 23 prisoner who was first In the line. 1 In reply to the Chief Justice wit- ness said he knew Just a littlö Cantonese and could follow what (Continued on Page 18.)