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SEVERE REVERSE POLICE INSPECTOR FRENCH MINISTRY VICEROY'S INDIAN IMPRESSIONS OF MR. SNOWDEN'S BIG ACCIDENT TO R101
FOR NANKING.
FOUND SHOT.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS JOIN ENEMY.
ELDEST DAUGHTER MARRIED ON SATURDAY.
TIDE OF BATTLE AGAINST CHIANG KAI-SHEK ?
SUCCESSES CLAIMED,
SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
Shanghai, Nov. 4.
The Shanghai Police Force has been shocked by a tragedy which Occurred yesterday under particu larly distressing circumstances,
West
PROBLEMS.
M. TARDIEU'S CABINET CONSERVATIVE.
MAGINOT AND BRIAND LIKE. TO CLASH?
ene of its oldest and most respect AN ENERGETIC START, Lil imembers, Inspector G. Morgan, being found dead, having appar Shanghai, Nov. d. Router's Hankow corresponently, committed suicide. dent has received a report from A shocking feature of the affair reliable sources to the effect is that Inspector Morgan's eldest that the pro-Government garri- daughter was married on Saturday
to Sub-Inspector F. G. son at Sinych in Honan has gone of
the Settlement Police, the over to the enemy, the Kuomin-couple having left for Hangthow chun, and is now, marching to on their honeymoon when the join the troops of General Sun shooting occurrad. Liang-sing.
The British Registrar, Mr. L. T.: The latter's forces are now Morriss, who is the acting Coro- threatening Laoirakow, having al-ner, will open. the inquest this ready occupied the important cen-morning. tre of Yunyang, where it Is pro-; bable that they will await further reinforcements in view of the fact that the Governnient concentra tions at Laohoków, Siangyangehow and Fancheng ure in the strongest numbers, and well dug in.
Meanwhile, there is no further news from the Lunghai front, except reports that the fighting in stil raging on a big scale. headquarters in Hankow claim additional Government sue
césses.
STATEMEN hop
ty
NO LIKELIHOOD 'O'
eath ed by which nd I of
IN THE COMMI
k ead
GOVERNMENTS, ASE.
Londo, No. 3. Expectations of a political crisių
of the first magnitude Jover the Labour Government's in policy,
end.
THE TALKIES.
PRESS PREVIEWS THE
"SINGING FOOL"
QUEEN'S THEATRE'S LATEST ATTRACTION.
LOAN OFFER.
INTEREST TO HOLDERS OF WAR BONDS.
AMOUNT UNLIMITED.
London, Nov. 3. The first indication of the in- ancial proposals of the present. "Government was made yesterday in the issue of five per cent, loan ut par.
AT CARDINGTON.
GREAT AIRSHIP HITS MOORING MAST.
ENVELOPE TORN BUT REAL DAMAGE SLIGHT.
as revealed by the Proclamation THE MUSICAL SCORE.
The stock is to be redeemable. AN ALL-NIGHT. FLIGHT. regarding Dominion Status, have Paris, Nov. 3.
finally in 1964 but it may be re- First Impressions of the M. Tardieu has completed the
evidently lessened over the wock-talkies" which will be offered to deemed on or after May 1st, 1944,
London, Nov. 3. task of building his Ministry,
public entertainment for the first at the option of the Government
An accident befel the giant- and while there are certain to
One of the most important time in Hongkong on Wednesday on three months' notice being British dirigible R101 on her
given. be some conflicts in the Cabinet, considerations is that those with are, that the synchronisation of
Cardington round No indication is given in the return to out whose active participation dialogue and "noises off" with the it can be said that the new Prim such a crisis is impossible, are silent action of the screen has Prospectus of the amount Govern./ about ten o'clock this morning, Minister has not attempted the exceedingly reluctant olther to given to the cinema, i
ment desires to raise by means of the great ship being carried realism spectacular.
endanger the securely of the Im-it never possessed before.
this loan and the subscriptions against the mooring mast, The Ministry is, in fact, the perial Government on Buch an
bruising her nose and causing A preview or "prehearsal" fare, therefore, unlimited.
The list will open on Friday damage to her envelope. The Queen's most Conservative since 1921. issue, or to say anything likely to the
programme for
next. weaken the Viceroy's position. Wednesday and the remainder of
damage will not take long to It includes nine out of the four-
Included in the prospectus is an repair, however." It is emphasised that there is no when Press representatives and war loan, redeemable from 1929 this week was given this morning offer to holders of five per cent. teen members of the last Briand
warrant behind the expectation others had their first opportunity to 1947, to convert their holdings Cabinet, and eight of these hold held out in some quarters of a the same posts, including Conservative vote of censure in of judging the merits or otherwise for an equal amount of the new of the talking films which have loan. Response to this offer must "Briand, who is Foreign Minister,the House of Commons. It is fore.
as follows:
shadowed that the Government in sprung into public favour in many be made between January 15th The important appointments are the forthcoming debate, will rest
parts of the world.
and February 15th next. their case on the acceptance of the must necessarily fotrude when Leaving aside the factors. which advice of "the man on the spot.cinema proprietors have audiences Reuter.
consisting of many nationalities to | cater for, it will probably be generally agreed that the motion picture of to-day is a far more
"It appears that Inspector Mor member of the Settlement Police, Kao, who was a Welsh veteran
was found dead with a bullet through his head at his quarters In Hongkew Station yesterday. A Premier ......M. Tardieu Service revolver, a 45 Colt was Foreign Affairs M. Briand lying beside him.
Finance
He joined the service in 1907 War . and is survived by a wife, two Marine sons and five daughters. All of Air...
her, with the exception of his Colonies. eldest daughter, who was married Labour on Saturday, are in England. No reasons for "suicide have so far been disclosed-Our Own Corres stpondent.
The present whereabouts Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the Geb- eralissimo, "are not definitaly known, but usually well-informed sources state that he reached Chongchow yesterday.-Reuter.
.
KILTIES GREETED IN SHANGHAI.
t
.M. Cheron
.M. Maginot.
M. Leygues
.M. Laurent Eynac .M. Pietri
. M. Loucheur
Displaced Minister. The most notable change obser- vable is that of M. Maginot, who goes from the Colonial office to the War Office, displacing M. Painleve. This is considered remarkable in
some quarters as M. Painleve has held the position almost
con tinuously since 1924, Thousands Killed:
Difficulties are foreseen in the Shanghai, Nov. 3.
HIGHLANDERS LAND ON WAY change in view of M. Maginot's According to .oficial communi-
TO TIENTSIN.
attitude on the question of the ques lashed by the military head-
security of French frontiers, quarters in Nanking, thousands of
Shanghai, Nov. 4.
whith he has clearly defined on the Kuominchua' troops have benn
several occasions." The firmness Enthusiastic throngs lined the of his views is liable to fit in killed in the last two days in the streets this morning to witness a badly with M. Briand's polley of course of an intensive battle round route march by the 2nd. Battalion the Tengfeng and Linyue districts. of the Argyll and Sutherland High- A message received from Marianders, the first kilted battalion to shal Chiang Kai-shek states: visi: Shanghai for thirty years, who
Early on
are en route for Tientsin. Friday morning, Nanking troops launched counter attack on the Kuomini out in a tripship, ac-be a fluid one, depending partly on
chun at Tengfeng and Lotien. A fierce battle for Lotten took place, and the Government forces were successful. Hun dreds of Kusminchun troops died in their trenches from which they refused to stir. Their commander, General Lnang Wan-men, was among the casualties.
It is also reported from Govern- ment sources in Honan that troops under General Wel Yih-ahna com. menced an attack from the west) against the Kuominchun at Teng- feng. The rebels again sufer heavy losses, but Tangfeng is still in the hands of the Kuominchup.
They landed this morning after a companiet by details of the Royal scots and draft of 67, men for the 2nd Batt. Worcestershire Regi-
mart. "
There was also a contingent of Roval Army Medical Corps on board.~Our Own Correspondent.
DEATH OF EX-RULER
OF AFGHANISTAN..
HANDED TO TRIBESMEN BY NADIA KHAN,
The
1
reconciliation.
announcement
Indian "Offer."
New Delhi, Nov. 3. In response to the Viceroy's attractive form of entertainment
in regard to than ever before. Screen play Dominion status for India, thirty are no longer artificial; they have members of the Congress and living characteristics and other progressive leaders, includ-more intimate and personal. ing Gandhi and Mrs. Besant have they hope to be able to tender signed a statement saying that
Hia
their co-operation with Majesty's Government in an effort to evolve a scheme for it Dominion constitution suitable for India's necds, provided a policy of general conciliation is adopted, political prisoners be granted a general amnesty, and representation of progressive political organisations be effectively secured. The National Congress, as the largest of such crganisations, should have predominant, representation.
They conclude by saying that It is essential for the success of the conference that it be convened as expeditiously as possible-Reuter.
The signatories say that they understand that the conference Fluid Majority,
will frame a scheme of Dominion There are few forecasts regard-constitution for India and urge ing M. Tardieufs majority in the that in the meanwhile & more Chamber, but in any case it will liberal spirit should be infused
into the government of India. the Right and partly on the bene volent neutrality of the Radicals. f. Tardien takes the Premier ship for the first time, and this is strange in away for the reason that when by the operation of un erratic electoral law he lost his seat in 1924, though obtainin more votes than his principal rival, Franklin Rouillon, he ile- finitely renounced his political career am confned himself to journalism, being á brilliant pali-, tical writer.
Clemenceau Tradition.
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NEW YORK › STOCK EXCHANGE.
EACHTING BÁI TODAY IN PROMISE.
Big Fillip,
arc
ed at 100%.
Five per cent, war loan is quot-
The mishap occurred at the conclusion of her first all-night " light. The airship" had been Dying for over thirteen hours when she returned to Carding: ton, having journeyed to Lon- don, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight and Reading in the course of the night,
The offer will, no doubt, appeal to many holders of five per cent. Government to redeem since June war loan, to whom the right of the
The flight was the last of the arst last, has been a matter of mis-mechanical tests of the R101 them five per cent. for a certain Ministry for normal purposes. It giving. Conversion will secure bafore being passed by the Air 15 years and a possible 35 years, is understood that she will very despite any period of cheaper shortly engage on a flight to India, money within that time-British while it is probable that either the Wireless....
R101 or the R100, which is due for her flying.tests in a fortnight, will." soon make a Transatlantic trip.
COWBOY PARSON
DEAD.
Behaved Splendidly." Major Scott, the commander of R101, after the flight declared that
The "talkies" as reproduced at the Queen's Theatre will un- doubtedly give a big fillin to this entertainment. People who hitherto have fought shy of the cirema will find that in "talking" films many of the things to which SERVED DURING THE BOXER she had behaved splendidly. they objected in the silent im have vanished and will enjoy the continuous musical score, the intervals of dialogue and song and, perhaps above all, the sounds of the actions of a play.
REBELLION.
Londesborough, Oct. 30. The world's foremost cowboy
parson died here to-day. He was Rev. Sir Gonille Cave-Brown-Cave. He was 60 years of age. Since 1923 he had been Rector of Londes- borough..
The test justified all expecta- tions and may be regarded as Highly successful:
Cardington shortly after eight The R101 left, her mooring mast c'clock yesterday evening. There was a full crew on board, with Major Scott in command, and the usual expert.observers.
The twelfth baronet of a boronet-
Remarkable Spectacle. Brown-Cave, after receiving his Movietonecy created in 1641, Sir G. Cave-
The giant airship's red, green education in universities and and white lights showed up clear- divinity schools, servled in India, ly as she started on her cruise and uprising in China. He had also an attractive spectacle in the dim during the Boxer her huge shapely form presented seen service in the Spanish Ameri-twilight can war.
Burma and
News Sound-Film.
first talkie, is to be preceded on "The Singing Fool," the Queen's Wednesday by the Gazette, a news flm with sound. People will hear the sounds of the streets of Shanghai, including the foot of a launch as it leaves the Bund, yodelling by a party of mountaineers on the Swiss Alps and the screams of passengers in Ordained a deacon in 1920, he be-ly over the Bedford district and For some time she cruised quiet- a scenic, railway. All tremendous came a pricat in 1921. He was then, travelling at a great pace, ly realistic-all much more In-chaplain to the Legion of Frontiera-ended for London, averaging, it teresting than, silent news fil·ns. men, a colourful organization. His
The story of The Singing Fo" heir is Commander Reginald Amis believed, over seventy miles an
hour all the way. does not enter into an attempt to brose Cave-Brown-Cave, R.N.
She "reported describe how "talking" films will
herself as being over the City at 0.50 p.m. appeal to cinema audiences in Hongkong. Those who visit the Queen's during this week, and it may be forecast confidently that few will be able to keep away, will find hurled at them from n invisible source the words of a song perfectly synchonised with the movements of the singer por-[... trayed on the screen. The repro duction is "gramophony" in effect
tinet and intelligible.
New York, Nov. 3. Reports from brokera late last In 1920, however, he decided to night indicated that an unprecedent Delhi, Nov. 3.
contest Belfort "as the situationed volume of buying orders have af- was such as to render increasing ready accumulated for the reopen Bacha-I-Sakuo)" and all his ac-who had once known responsibili- morning (Monday).
report that Habibullah difficult the abstention of those, ing of the Stock Market to-morrow complices were shot at Sherpurty and been actively engaged in The Stock Exchange was open cantonment by the order of Nadir Government."
to-day. an army of Wall Street Enormous Casualties.
Khan, appears to be inaccurate, M. Tardieu represents fully the clerks spending their Sunday in a bat clear and on the whole dis-
Latest Information from the Clemenceau tradition, which is a struggle to adjust accounts after Fighting has been going on u Afghanistan capital is to the tradition of authority. He was the Fecent Breworks-Reuter's romatlingly at all points on the effect that Bacha-I-Sakao, his two the principal collaborator with M. American Service; Lunghul front, according to latest
brothers and a number of his Clemencesu at the peace confer messages, which state that the followers were executed by tribesence and probably played a bigger number of wounded, is enormous men.
part than any other individual in the drafting of the Treaty of and that thousands must have
Nadir Khan is said to "have Versailles, been killed on the battlefield.
handed the prisoners to the tribes- Independent reports puggest that the Nanking Government is men with a recommendation, to reporting only its successes and mercy-Reuter.
not its defeats. According to one
source, the Kuominchun attacked
from Szeshulho the reinforced QUARREL OVER DEBT. Nanking troops, who were
pre-
paring an attempt to re-take the town.
!
3,000 Prisoners!
MAN STABBED ON ARM WITH PENKNIFE.
Hiu
GERMAN DEBTS TO AMERICA.
THE CHUNG HUA SS.
COMPANY."
OPENING OF THE HONG-
KONG OFFICES.
Speed Trials.
The night was very, dark and few Londoners could have seen her. The airship then proceed to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, and carried out in the early hours of the morning, speed and turn-
Needles.
A large number of friends and well-wishers of the Chung Huang trials in the vicinity of the Steamship Company attended a re- ception at the Chinese Club, on
She returned to Cardington, via- Reading and Tring, and moored
Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of the opening of this Company's at half past ten in the morning. Hongkong, Office.
Sub-tilles Retained. Captions have not vanished by
The Directors of the Company: any means. They are still numer- and Mr. K. K. Leung, who has been ous but many passages of dialogue appointed Hongkong Agent, were are heard and here, at the present the recipients of congratulations at any rate, it is necessary to and good wishes from the many Di@culties Ahead.
listen carefully, to hear every friends present. --- word. Naturally some voices are The occasion was made the more Ambitious as well as hardwork-
DISSOCIATED FROM THE ing, M. Tardieu will not lack self-
reproduced better than others, harmonious by the presence of the REPARATIONS BANK. Al Jolson is heard all the time andAloha Serenaders, their Hawallan assurance. This has come out lo
the film is mostly Al Jolson. The melodies making a decided hit with his speeches which are nationalis.
Washington, Nov. 3. tie and reactionary in tone.
ringing of telephone bella, ap- the audience, onponents have sometimes tuunt- American and German negotia-platee from audiences and all the ed him about certain colonial tore have completed the draft of rest are faithfully and realistically possessions and his reply is that an agreement under which Ger- reproduced. The continuous or those who blamed him for N'goko man debts will be paid direct to chestral score is most pleasing and Sangha were M. Caillaux, whom the United States instead of one soon forgets that there is no the Supreme Court, accused of through the International Bank, orchestra present.ad treason, and the English "defen-which is to function under the Owen
"Talking" films are a distinct tista,"
D. Young Reparations Plan-Reu-achievement. They make picture- ter'a American Service, His difficulties in the present condition of French politics are not under-rated, but his energy in forming a Ministry have canned an excellent Impression.-Reutur:
MANCHURIA "WAR"
CHINESE REOCCUPY CITY. AT
FUCHIN..
going enjoyable and it will be surprising if Hongkong does not welcome then enthusiastically.
LATEST CANCER DISCOVERY.
NEW METHOD OF TREAT- MENT FOUND.
Unfortunately the airship had aslight mishap during the moor» ing operations. In manoeuvring to the mast, her nose was crus- ed by coming into contact with the mast. The envelope was torn, but the structural damage was slight.
Another trouble experienced is engaging the attentions of experts. Although she came Into Carding- ton with only four of her six engines running, she had had trouble with three of them owing. to the bands of the pipes of the cooling apparatus splitting,
Vibration Problem.
They were repaired with rubber New York, Oct. 28.
hose, an operation. which in each The Homeopathic Medical College case took about an hour. The have announced to-day that Dr. experience proved that the vibra, C. E. Tharaldesen Has succeeded in tion in the engine cars was too normal living cells and the check much for the ripes of copper.. ing the growth of cancer.
Some modification will bo The announcement declares that arranged and it is not supposed
The Nanking troops seemed to
A dispute over a debt led to have been taken by surprise, the Chinese being stabbed in the arm Kuominchun carrying out a bril- by another in Shamshuipo over the lant enveloping movement which week-end, and at the Kowloon Ma- resulted in over 3,000 Nanking gistracy this morning the assailant, troops being taken prisoner!
who admitted a charge of assault, The Kuominchun are also mak-was fined $50, or one month's in ing rapid progress In the south, prisonment in default.
Before Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood, having forced their way to Cheng According to Sub-Inspector helen and Hiangynng, ready for a Hoare, the men had a quarrel over
at the Marine Court this morning, The Royal Observatory reports
the master and the mistress of two bigger offensive against Sinyanga debt and the defendant was al
fishing boats were charged with chow.
leged to have produced a penknife that the anticyclone has moved
failing to exhibit regulation lights the experiment has not reached that the trouble will recur. with which he inflicted a wound pa eastward and is now central over
"Shanghai, Nov. 4. on the masthead of their boats such a stage that it can be applied The airship will be ready for. the complainant's arm. The knife South Japan. Fresh Monsoon will
Foreign reports from Harbin whilst under way. Both defon- to treatment of cancer in human flight again on Tuesday.. was discarded and was not recover-continue along the S.E. coast of state that Chinese forces have re- dants pleaded guility but stated boings. However, it is stated, Dr. Apart from these minor
China and over the North China cantured Fuchin and that tele- that they had lights on their boats Tharaldesen by his work has sug-incidente, everything went splen The defendant had previously Sea. The forecast till noon to graphic communication between although these lights were not ex-gested a new method for treating didly. There was no trouble with been bound over on a charge of morrow la:-N.E. winds. fresh; that city and Hardin has been hibited on the masthead. A fine cancer which may be properly do the ship itself.-Reuter and Britisk Larceny,
restored Nam Chung" Po.
af $3 each was imposed.
veloped later.
Wireless,
Hand-to-Hand Battles.
Peking Nov. 3... Travellers returning here from Chengchow state that on the 1st. inst the Kuominchun were still (Continued on Page 12.)
ed.
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fair.