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SHOCKING INDIA AIR CHINA'S INHERENT SOVIET SABOTAGE ZEPPELINS TO RUN BRITISH PREMIER'S COMMUNIST RIOTS
MAIL DISASTER.
BRITISH PLANE FORCED
DOWN IN A GALE.
SEVEN OCCUPANTS DROWNED
TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES.
IN
TUG HAWSERS BROKEN.
One of the great flying-boats employed by the British Imperial Airways on the Croydon-Karachi air mail service has met with terrible disaster, sinking in the Gulf of Genoa during a furious gale, all aboard having lost their lives. There were seven people on the ill-fated machine, three members of the crew, and four passengers. The bodies of the pilot, Captain L. S. Birt, and of one of the passengers, have been picked up but after a long search through a stormy night no trace has 'been found of the machine or the other victims:
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The tragedy is rendered more poignant by the news that her S.0.S. message was picked up by a steamer which reached the "City of Rome," threw out a tow rope and pulled the machine through the storm for ninety minutes. The hawsers snapped in heavy seas, however, and the steamer went for assistance. No trace was found when the master returned on a destroyer.
Long searches availed nothing and there can be no doubt that the disaster is complete. Information is scanty, and there is no indication of the reason why no attempt was apparently made to rescue the crew and passengers when the Italian steamer came upon the doomed craft.
VAIN SEARCH THROUGH STORMY NIGHT
London, Oct. 27.
The Imperial Airways this even- ing made the grave u peement
miles an hour, and sent out a wireless S.O.S.
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VITALITY.
INTERVIEW WITH SIR ROBERT HO TUNG.
LONDON "OBSERVER" PRINTS STRIKING STATEMENT.
ON THE CER.
MINE EXPLODES UNDER A GOODS TRAIN.
ENGINEERS GAOLED.
Shanghai, Oct. 28.
1o A message from Beuter's cor- respondent at Harbin, dialet yes, terday, says that sentence has beon passed by the Chinese Court on a Russian engineer named Zataplin
AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW. sky, who prior to the Sino-Soviet
.Lendon, Oct. 27.
| The Observer, to-day publishes an interesting interviewt valuli pne
(conflict was charge of the tele- seraph patem of the Chinae East- fern Railway.
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BIG SPEECH SHORTLY.
London, Oct. 27. The Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay MacDonaki, who is on his way home on board the Duchess of York, is due to reach Liverpool on Fahlay. He will be welcomed on arrival by some of his Cabinet colleagues.
A públic demonstration of wel-
come is being planned by the Liverpool Labour Party.
The Prime Minister's most im e-portant public engagement after Hawaii, arrival in London will be the formed „to-day " under Lord Mayor's banquet at the
1 16-hour service
California and
AMBITIOUS SCHEME.
New York, Oct. 22: The Pacific Zeppelin Transport He the recal of assisting in Company, which has for its im- of its correspondent has had with Communistic propaganda in Man-mediate programme developmaat Sir Itobert Ho Tung on the ques-churia, and you scutereed to four | M tion of the future of China. years' imprisonment,
"China," said ST Robert, "is Judgment has Allo Leen deilver-was one through a violent convulsion, fed in the case of another Rusakan | the" charter ja,revolution and a period of rapid fergineer mamud Lebudell whd în co tion laws of the State of Delaware.
progrese, with le resultant, reac-ed similar chargea. He was for-
The company proposes, as soon tion on the political, sasiat va merly in charge of the C.E.C. tele as possible, to extend its service economic fabric of the country. phone system. He Weld found all the
way across the "The worst of the storm has pass.guilty of diseminating, Red pro-ocean to the Philippine Islands and Pacific cd: there are still some local dis-paganda and was also sentenced to Japan, the United Press learned turbances and I believe that order to imprisonment for four years. to-night. and tranquility will soon become
reality throughout the country and the people united in one grent effort for ecunoaste and iniluštrint regeneration."
A
Later.
Yesterday at eight o'clock in the morning, a section of the Chinese Eastern Railway line between Tsignne and Chalanor exploded under a goods train. It appears Agreed in Purpose.
that a land mine had been placed Speaking of the present position,Soviet sabotagers.
under the rails, presumably by various leaders, though differing and one of the guards was serious-
Robert remarked-The
The goods wagons were damaged in their views as to method, are agreed in their main purpose, ly injured,
Sir
which is to build up a strong and united nation. I know there willists were arrested recently and are About twenty-five Soviet terror- be found people who will join being charged with being implicat issue with me in this assertion, but ed in mining the truck, damaging they have not been brought, as railway property and murder.— have been recently, into personal Reuter. contact with the leaders of the nation. I am therefore in a better position to judge as to their unity of purpose.
"That China will emerge to take her proper place in the comity of i nations cannot be open to doubt. and, I am ennvinced that such
MIDNIGHT MOTOR CRASH.
emergente will be hastened if the AN lenders would endeavour' to com- pose their differences by "frank interchange of views at a Reuni Table Conference.
This sugges-
INDIAN POLICE OFFICER
BREAKS TWO RIBS.
CAR HITS STANDARD.
Serious consequences
for one
and incorpora
London Guildhall on November 9th.
IN LONDON.
WILD SCENES OUTSIDE U.S. EMBASSY.
POLICE BATTLE WITH MOB..
FOR HALF AN HOUR.
GASTONIA PROTESTS.
London, Oct. 27. Wild scenes, unparallelled in London for a long time past, were witnessed outside the American Embassy to-day, when' police engaged an unruly mob of Communists in a hand to hand fight for half an hour. The newspapers anticipate that The trouble was the outcome of special reference will be made to Trafalgar Square, at which in his speech on this occasion In demonstration by agitators in the Canada And to the Five-Power crowds by relating the Communist his visit to the United States and Communist speakers inflamed the Conference on naval disarmament version of the recent events in which is to take place in London Gastonia, North Carolina. U.S.A.. in January.
stating that The Secretary of State for Way, it is understood that bankers Mr. Tom Shaw, and the Parliamen are playing a prominent part in tary Secretary to the Admiralty, organization of the Pacific Zeppe Mr. C. J. Ammon, landed at Ply- in Transport Company. These in-mouth yesterday from the cruiser clude Grayson Murphy, Lehman Cumberland on completion of their Brothers, Inc., the W. A. Harriman visit to Malta and Gibraltar.- Company and the Goodyear Zeppe British Wireless.
in corporation.
Bankers Interested.
Mr. Paul W. Litchfield, president, of the Zeppelin company, sald. he two 100 passengers airships upon expected to begin construction of completion of the two Zeppelins now being built for the Navy.
American Capital.
The company is backed financial- ly by all-American capital. It will be the first dirigible Kne to:
FRENCH TENNIS
STARS.
"Even a ghastlier crime than the legal murder of Saces and Vanzetti is about to be perpe trated in America, since sixteen Gastonia textile workers are in- imminent danger of being sent; to the electric chair."
Red Resolutions: Following the Communist tirade, a procession of hundreds of Com- munists marched to the American Embassy to present the Ambassa
HOPES THAT THEY WILL PLAY dor with a resolution protesting
IN HONGKONG.
against the persecution of militant workers in the United States, par- ticularly of the textile workers of
operate to or from the United NEXT WEEK. POSSIBLY. | Gastonia. States on regular schedule.
"The meeting had also passed a Plans revealed to-night provide If things proceed according to resolution vilifying Mr. Ramsay that the Goodyear Zeppelin Com-plan, Hongkong will, it is hoped, MacDonald and President Hoover
any prepared to begin at once have the opportunity of seeing construction of two giant famous French tennis players in dirigibles capable of carrying 100 action on either November 4 or passengers „pach.
November 5.
. Work on the dirigibles to operate in service between California, and Hawii soon will start and will be rushed "to completion as soon as
The party comprising Cochet this year's winner at Wimbledon), Brugnon, Landry and Rodel, has been playing in Japan and has promised to play exhibition mat to France. Hearing of the teams' ches in Singapore on the way back
projected arrival here, the Hono-
and demanding the release of all political prisoners in Britain, the United States of America, India, and" elsewhere.
that the "City of Rome," an nir- The flyingboat alighted safely mail-lines on the Indian service, was and was taken in Low by the wrecked during a storm in the Gulalian steamship Famiglia: Altertion has been heartily supported
The mob marching on the of Genew yesterday, all seven ne-ninety minutes towage against the by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang,"
American Embassy were feres cupants, fur passengers and three gule, the tow-ropes parted, but the
Three Factors. members of the crew, being dead. Hyingboat appeared to be riding
talled by the London police who of the oceaparts, an Indian Ser-the Goodyear Zeppelin Corpora- Warning of impending disaster storm weli,
Referring to civil war and the Sub-Inspector of the Hongkong two big dirigibles for the United tion has finished construction of
threw a cordon of mounted police was given when the air-liner which
friction with the Soviet, Sir Robert Police Force, resulted from the Steamer Master's Decision,
round the premises. was due at Croydon this murring
srid: "It would be a mistake to collision of a public car, No. 140,
When the leaders expressed The master of the s.s. Famiglia Ching's present difficulties.
take an exaggerated view
with a tramway standard in front The new dirigibles will be put.rary Secretary of the Hongkong
Graf Lawn Tennis Association, Mr. S. E. their desire to tender the resolu- anxiety for her fate being immedi-decided to stium for Spezzia, and inherent vitality, her vast natural shortly after midnight. The In- Zeppelin which recently made a Green, wired to Shanghai and as-tion, permission was refused, and
Her Messrs. Lane. Crawford's store terned after the German ately felt as it was fenown that she returned later abordades-resources, the stamina of her indian was taken to the Government spectacular flight around the certained that the players will the procession disappointed and
fujjat to arrive mi schedule, grsive
time.
Descent in Rough Sens.
This intensified the fears armused by a message from Rome arriving late last night announcing that a British machine corresponding to the missing air-liner had sent out! an S.0.S. message. reporting that a heavy storm had obliged her to dex-}| cend into very rough sea off thuj Italian coast.
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At daybreak, the bady of the pilot, Captain L. S. Birt, was washed up at Viareggie, and was placed on board an Italian des-
troyer.
Change of Wind.
served: "Recent
'States nuvy.
world.
"Week to Const.
the new company are said to be The imposing list of backers of
feasibility of dirigibles for long thoroughly. convinced of the distance trans-ocenn service.
had left her last landing ground ontreger to the scene of the towrope dustrious millions, cannot fail to Civil Hospital where his injuries,
mishap. They were unable to place her among the Great Powers which consisted of two broken larger than the Graf Zeppelin and on November 4.
leave there by the Empress of angered by the refusal attempted Jocate the. City of Rome.
However, they will be much France and will reach Hongkong to rush the cordon. "Much, very much, has already ribs, received surgical attention. Subsequently, aircraft, tugs and been accomplished in the way of
Mob Dispersed. estroyers unsuccessfully joined social, educational, industrial and
in addition to carrying more pay-
It was hoped that the players in the search.
Apparently, the accident occur-sengers, mail and express matter could use the Hongkong Cricket The police dispersed the dis- In endeavouring to will be capable of greater cruising Club Ground for their matches, but turbers after a fight lasting about other reforms. But these reforms red when. naturally require great patience to overtake a motor-bus which was speed.
unfortunately their arrival clashes half an hour. Numerous people in perfect, since they have to operate travelling in the "same direction
with that of the Shanghai Inter- the mob suffered slight injuries as in a vast country with over four with it, the public car" swerved
port cricket team, who will be using the result of the haton charge by hundred raillion inhabitants.' and ran into a standar¶ between
the ground on the day of their ar the police-Router. Continuing, Sir Robert ob. the tram-lines. The collision was
rival.
The background of the trouble. Mr. Green hopes, however, that in Gastonia, which gave rise to the events have almost head-on, and had the effect. show, the accuracy of my predic-of throwing the occupants of the
C. R. C. courts on the afternoon of For some time there existed dis matches can be arranged on the disturbance, is quickly sketched. tion made it the annual meeting car violently forward in their of the Hongkong and Shanghai seats...
It is declared that the Califor-parture for Singapore aboard the owing to long hours and low pay November 4, prior to the team's de content among the mill hands night made conditions even more, financial position permitted, China inspector Karpa Singh, attached to the Philippine Islands and Japan
A change of wind during the Bank in 1928, that, as soon as the One of the passengers, Sub-nin-Hawaii line will be extended to Andre Leben on November 5. Bifficult than before the crush, and would honourably meet all her the Central Police Station, broke as soon as prospects for revenue veiling by the Andre Lebon from hour made little move to help and
In the event of the players tra refere prave fears vere ester pecuniary obligations. Since then two ribs against the metal part to and from those countries war- Shanghai to Singapore, which is the Communist group stepped In.. tamel for the safety at the flying | China has paid the coupons due on of the car, while the Chinese rant.
eat and the pix, other occupants.
A strike followed, the forerun- the 1912, 1908, and a part of the driver and three other passengers, A spokesman for the new com- quite possible, they will not reach The other nceupants were! Hakuane Bont from the Salt who were also Indians, received pany said to-night that the new longkong until November 5. Thuser of other strikes-under dif Pght-Engineer F. T. Pembelle Service.
minor injuries,
dirigible line should bring Manila the only opportunity of play will be ferent suspiced-in, the Piedmont "brake.
The radiator, and front axle of within one week's travelling of the on the morning of November 5, textile region, be in Gastonia, Will Pulfil Bargains.
the car were considerably damag-Pacific coast of the United States. When it is considered that only a handicapped by the radical leader- "Given time and, settled con-ed, and the windscreen shattered.
The dirigibles would cruise to very small number of spectators ship, the atrike failed. public tion in the country, foreign
opinion being against the strikers, Honolulu and there passengers could attend. The injured Sub-Inspector was
Mr. Green is keeping in touch Banihalders need entertain no afterwards taken to hospital.
und express matter from Manila
Police Chief Killed. doubt, that Chints in the end will
would be transferred to another with the French Consular authori dirigible for the journey to Culi-es, however, and is hopeful that fornia. It is believed that the satisfactory arrangements for ex- California base for the service will hibitions matches in Hongkong can l established near San Diego or. be made. Los Angeles.
A later message reported that tugs had got buld of the machine. and were towing the machin but the relief was dispelled when a further announcement was made that the two had desisted in their efforts owingį
- to the breakage of the hamsden. Aeroplanes were then despatch- ed from Sposziá lo senech Phr che missing machine, but delinite news was lacking To?"some considerablej tinic.
Fruitless Senrch.
The liner was lettered GAADNÍ and she was hoineward bound) from Iddin.
Dr. J.. Storie, wireless upera-
tor.
Mr. Turney, passenger. Mr. Rubinson, passenger.
Mr. Ritchie, passenger. Miss Bromferd, passenger.
¦ ¦ fulfil her bagymains,
"I hope that enterprising British manufacturing and engineering firms may see their way to send
Reports from Leghorn last night! The finding of the body of Cap-out experts to study the rapidly i stated that a British hydroplane tain Birt has, practically destroy changing conditions in China, and had come down in the sea neared hope of rescue, though informa. thus be prepared to participits in Spezzia, and bad signalled S.0.S. It'on is seanty.-Beuter and British the benefits of a large and expan It was immediately assumed that Wireless.
sive outlet for their goods.
the aeroplane was the GAADN,
The tugboats took the threaten-
ed, flyingboat in low, but the
hawsers broke owing to the high;
"In conclusion, considering all
Another Body Picked Up. the facts and factors in their true perspective. I entertain the most Mr. Turney, one of the passen-optimistle views ng to China's
Later.
seas and the craft was then fosters in the ill-fated "City of future."-Sperül Service, sight of Aeroplanes and torpedo-Rome" was a Customs officer at boats sent out by the local italian Croydon aerodrome. He was re "naval command engaged long turn to London after a holiday
search for the lane through the at Naples. night, without success.
Seventy Mile Gale.
Later.
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A cable from Rome aays that the Italian destroyer. "Selin" has picked up another body from the lost machine. It has not yet been An official statement issued by identified, but it is believed to be the Imperial Airways before it be the body of one of the three male came definitely known that all the passengers.-Reuter. occupants of the "Olty of Rome" had met a tragic end, stated:
BRITAIN'S GIANT AIRSHIP.
R100 TO HAVE TRIALS WITHIN "MONTH,
London, Oct. 27.
FRENCH POLITICAL
POSITION.
SOCIALISTS TO SUPPORT
M. DALADIER.
Paris, Oct. 27. Tho Socialist Group in the French Parliament held a meeting 10-day regarding the political developments of the last two days, and decided, by thirty-six votes to twelve, to co-operate with M. Daladier, who has been asked to
THE RUBBER POOLING PROBLEM.
́EVEN DUTCH PESSIMISTIC OF SUCCESS.
THE RED HAND OF
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MOSCOW.
The American, Federation of La.
An anti-Communist mob demo- Hished the strikers' relief hend- quarters, and later when the Chief
of Police entered the tent colony of the afrikers, he was shot dead. For, thle crime, sixteen of the strikers were at Charlotte charged with murder. The trinl,was inter- rupted owing to one of the jurors. losing his reason, and the collapse of the trial, which is now pending," DEATH SENTENCE PASSED led to the formation of a new mob
FOR "CORRUPTION."
at Gastonia, which attacked, kid- napped and severely bent leaders Riga, Oct. 27.
of the strikers after a vain search. Amsterdam, Oct. 27. The Soviet Court at Astrakhan for the lawyers who were defend Writing in the Telegraaf, a Dutch has passed sentence of death ofing the Communists at Charlotte: rubber grower says that the Dutch fourteen officials, traders, and are ready to pool about 8,000 tons others after a trial lasting two that In
A dozen or more arrests were of rubber under the Dutch rubber-mantha on charges of corruption. growers' scheme, so that the re- A hundred and eight others were with disturbing the peace. The made and these are to be charged maining 37,000 tons of the prop co-prigoners.. ed pool would have to be provided All were found guilty, and sentoula which have taken the lead elements in the population of Gas- by the British growers,
tenzed to various terms of im-in pecusing the Communists of Dutch growers, he adds, are in prisonnent ranging from one-to lawlessness have twice resorted to the Chamber that if M. Daladier clined to consider the scheme a ten years hard labour. Reuter. aucceds in forming a Government, failure,
extreme lawlosancas, Encmselves, i seems likely, he will propose. The newspapers report that the
somewhat remarkable situation, An Innocent woman, "Mrs. Wigginu,); was shot dead by the anti-Com- munists when they fired on the atrikers.
form a Government.
It is understood approsching the Socialist, M. Daladier promised them an equal share in the principal Cabinet portfolioa." "N
It is stated in the Lobbies of
It was definitely stated yester- Second Indian Disaster. day that Britain's second giant
AB | airship, the K100, which has been "The City of Rome came down The disaster is the second which built at Howden, Yorkshire, will in heavy seas during a fierce has overtaken the great airlinera leave her shed for trials at the gale, blowing at nearly seventy.
on the Indian mail service since Its Cardington mooring tower within
(Continued on Page 18.) the next month.British Wireless. Estimates-Reuter.
a policy of all-round retrench- British Rubber Growers Associa- The mv. Tai Yin, which called meat, including a reduction of tion, intends to formulate a new from Hongkong on the 12th Sep Franes, 300,000,000 in the Military scheme of restriction regardless of tembor, arrived at New York on
the Dutch proposal-Reuter. the 26th instant.
Anti-Communist Crime.