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FRENCH AIR CRASH LIBERALS ABSTAIN LASTING NAME IN CURIOUS EXHIBITS LUXURIOUS YACHT SHANGHAI EDITOR TROOPS MUTINY AT
IN KWANGSI.
ONE OFFICER KILLED: ONE KIDNAPPED.
CHINESE ATTACK WOULD-BE RESCUE PARTY.
REMARKABLE AFFAIR.
A most extraordinary affair, resulting from the capture of Captain Auclerc, a French mili-
FROM VOTING.
COAL BILL COMMITTEE STAGE COMPLETED.
|LL. GEORGE EXPLAINS.
London, Mar, 20. When the House of Commons went in to committee on the Coal Mincs Bill, Mr. Lloyd George ex-
|plained the Liberal Party's decl- sion to take no further part in moving or supporting amendments during the committee stage.
He felt that hostile action on
HISTORY.
LOSS OF A NATIONAL STATESMAN.
EARL BALFOUR THE LAST OF
THE ATHENIANS.
COMMON'S TRIBUTES.
London, Mar. 20.
IN COURT.
ARRIVES.
MAN WHO THOUGHT TO STEAL
A LADDER.
MILLIONAIRE OWNER AND PARTY.
THE "BARRACK” LAW.
Amongst the curious exhibits "ORION" HERE ON CRIUSE OF taken into Court this morning as evidence in a number of petty. larceny cases were
A bulky 12-foot ladder.
A wooden step.
A pair of woman's trousers. A bamboo pole
THE WORLD.
RETIRING.
MR. O. M. GREEN OF THE N. C. DAILY NEWS.
SUCCESSOR'S CAREER.
Shanghai, Mar. 21.
The North China Daily News announces that Mr. Owen M. Green, its editor for over twenty,
PUKOW.
REVOLTERS OBJECT TO MÄRCHING OVER.
THOUSANDS OF KUOMINCHUN TROOPS ON MARCH.
TRIM-LOOKING CRAFT. yours, is retiring towards the end WAR DRAWS NEARER
Hongkong ΠΟΥ has two
midst, the recent arrival of Mr. American millionaires in its
of June.
His successor will be Mr. Edwin year has been Information Officer Haward, who for a little over a
Shanghai, Mar. 20.
Wednesday evening, consequent Pukow city was thrown into. a state of considerable alarm on
tary airman, by Chinese bandits. the part of the Liberals at the pre-Party leaders in both Houses of of an undersized Chinese. When Van Lear Black, who is making at the India Office. Mr. Haward is on a mutinous outbreak by a con- is revealed in news received in sent time would critically affect|ference being made to the great aciously to his spoils, being eventu. an aerial trip to the East, being expected in Shanghai round about tingent of Nationalist troops, but
:
The ladder was scan moving away Lord Balfour were paid by the Road yesterday, on the shoulders Glowing tributes to the late from a printer's shop in Hollywood
Parliament to-day, special re-chased by a policeman he held ten-
ally caught "with the goods."-
A fine of $4, or 7 days, was in flicted. the front of a shop in the same The wooden step was stolen from locality. The culprit, a ragged locking young Chinese, said he of sleeping contending that he had merely borrowed it for the purpose
a perfect right to do so because somebody else had stolen his bed plank.
the Colony from Haiphong totood that the fate
the Naval Conference. He under Conservative statesman's bril- day. It is probable that it will
of the Con-liantly conceived contributions to the peace of the world, his create a complicated interna
remarkable energies during the tional problem, as France and
Great War, and his intense love China are involved in the inci
of his country.
dent.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime In the House of Comnions, Mr.
Minister, asked the House to unite in paying homage to the work and
the to the memory of one who sat in House for nearly half a century and led it for, nearly twelve years.
followed by the appearance in harbour this morning of the luxurious motor yacht Orion Julius. Forstmenn, and party with her millionaire owner, Mr.
smart-looking
aboard.
The
May 4.-Reuter.
corres-
The new editor-designate of the of age, and has long experience in North China Daily News is 45 years journalism. He joined the staff craft came here from Manila,
of the Civil and Military Gazette in 1909 and in 1920 has attained the Mr. Forstmenn, a retired bust position of Manager and Editor. nessman of New York, is travelling He was appointed. Times around the world accompanied by pondent at the headquarters of the his wife, two sons and a daughter, Government of India in 1921, a He was found to have had two and Mr. and Mrs. W. Blanchi, in-position he held until 1925 when previous convictions, and was fined timate friends of the family. he became Editor of the Pioneer, $5, or eight days...
Allahabad. He took the India Those on board the yacht re- Office appointment in 1928. The trousers wero stolen by two ported an uneventful but enjoy- men from a bamboo pole on which able cruise from New York with
Mr. Haward is the author of
the conspiracy was quickly dis covered and some of the ring leaders placed under arrest.
The mutinous troops were for- merly Kuominchun units, and were under the command of Gen-" eral Ma Haung-kwel. They had been given orders" to proceed on service along the upper section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Re- senting the order, they decided to mutiny, and were for a time out of hand. However, prompt action by the military. Command caused the outbreak to be nipped in the bud. General Ma has since re-
ference was in the balance. was a matter of life and death and, therefore, the Liberals felt they should not undertake the respon- sibility for defeating the Govern It appears that Captain Auclerc,ment, or even of putting them in whilst on a flight, crashed in China humiliating position. ese territory and was captured by Undoubtedly any action of the a band of Chinese, alleged to bo Liberals which would weaken the robbers. Subsequently negotia-Government at this moment migat tions were commenced for his re-have a very damaging effect on the lease, and, in accordance with a fate of the Conference. mutual arrangement, a French de-
Later. tachment proceeded to a point on the border which divides Kwangsition, the House of Commons
As a result of the Liberal absten- Balfour, he said, was a haughty
in the city. they were left to dry, in Bridges calls at Havana. Teneriffe, Italy, several publications, including: ported to Nanking that all is quiet -politician and party leader, but well, and this proved to be their lands East Indies, Bangkok, Zand Fioneers on Four Fronts. from Tonkin, to receive the rejected by 274 to 229 a Conservative even when he was the object of an undoing. leased airman.
The pale rattled as it amendment proposing to remove angry attack he never lost bls struck the ground, and attracted the power to fix a minimum price calm. His personality was shown the attention of Lance Sergeant for each class of coal.
in his work. His politica were McLecd patrolling in the vicinity. philosophy, his methods intellec- One man escaped, but the ether was tually balanced.
caught, and was given two months. Mr. Grantham.
All three cases were heard before
Whilst the French troops were awaiting the arrival of the airman, they were suddenly attacked by a Chinese force:
Three Assailants Killed.
In the encounter, as the defen- ders vigorously resisted, a num- ber of casualties were inflicted on the attackers, who left three dead on the field. The French claim to have suffered no casualties.
The affair had its origin in a reconnaissance flight carried out by a French military squadron at the beginning of this month, when
against the op.rations Annamite rebels were still con- tinuing.
wad
The committee stage of the Biilu was completed before the House rose.--Reuter and British Wircless,
KAYE DON TRIAL FIASCOS.
CAR JUMPS INTO AIR ON ROUGH TRACK.
Politica a Philosophy.
In his latter years, as an elder statesman, Lord Balfour had exercised more influence than ever before on British life.
His work for the League of MUTINY NARROWLY Nations was embodied in its foundations.
AVERTED.
Do- CHINESE PASSENGERS CAUSE
TROUBLE.
His handwriting was enshrined in the surety of freedom now being developed by Our minions,
The world emerged from the war bearing his name or many of its gateways.
Daytona Beach, Mar. 20. Kaye Don, the British racing motorist, who is to attack Sir His insight was recorded in the Henry Sexrave's world speed re-happy recollections which were
growing up now between United States and ourselves.
Captain Baronna, who piloting one of the machines, with cord, engaged in two trials to-day -Captain Auclere as observer, was in connexion with the projected
flying over the Chinese. frontier, in the region of the important attempt. French military post of Langson, when he was overtaken by fog and other adverse weather conditions. The machine, it is thought, stot drawn into a wind "pocket" and crashed.
Parachute Descent.
From that time until recently, no definite news was received of the fate of the airmen, except that Cap tain Auclere was known to be alive, having been seen to jump out and to alight safely by the use of a parachute.
Last of the Athenians.
the
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"YUAN SEE” AFFAIR.
boanga and Manila.
Started in November,
Faker, India's Defence Problem,
The Orion left New York on SPIRITS IN HOLLOWED November 5. She will, on leaving
BAMBOO. Hongkong, call at Keelung, Naga- saki, Beppu; Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu and Panama Canal en- route to New York.
WORTHY OF AMERICAN BOOTLEGGERS,
War Activity.
In the meantime, war activities are proceeding apace, the breach between Nanking and the Shansi- Kuominchua allied forces being. daily more emphasised. ·
Marshai Yen Hsi-ahan has been. officially installed at Taiyuanfu.as. Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces, whilst on the same day, The yacht is manned by a Ger-
Marshal Feng Ya hsiang was in- man crew, from the Captain down "It must have been invented' installed3é as Vice-Commander at to the ordinary seamen.
the United States," said Mr. Shenchow. Grantham, at the Central Police Thousands of Thirty years ago Mr. Forstmenn Court this morning, on being forces are passing Tungkwan for emigrated from Germany to the shown how a smuggler had man- concentration United States, where he made his aged to conceal half-a-gallon of Chengchow. It is anticipated that at Loyang and fortune. The ship, however, fleadütiable Chinese spirits in the flag of his adopted country.
thethe Kuominchun mobilisation will of a long be completed in about a week's
H.A.L. Officers.
He attained only 90 miles anservative leader, said the charac- return from French Equatorial later operator of a freighter which aroused by the fidgety demeanour
hour in the first trial, on extremely bumpy beach.
A
heated argument between Kaye. Don and Mr. Coatalen, the designer of the car, followed, after which Don set out on a second trial.
The fact that the French author-postpone ities of Indo-China became involved Saturday.-Reuter's American Ser
vice.
Africa.
manner
+
56.
DEFIED
CONSTABLE.
CRIPPLED HAWKER IN A BELLICOSE· MOOD.
A crippled
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Chinese yesterday
time.
Kuominchun
Leader's Plans.
Shansi troops are concentrating in Northern Hupeh. In Honan, Shansi-Kuominchun allied
the forces
are occupying Lung-Hai- Railway following a general re- treat by the Nationalist forces. The Shansi forces in the vicinity of Shantung will be employel for the attack on the Tientsin-l'akow Railway. Rolling stock belonging" to the Peking-Hankow, Tientsin- Pukow, and Lung-Hal Railways fa mainly in-hands of the Shansi. Commanders.
Appeal to Manchuria.
hollowed-out interior bamboo pole.
R. O. Grimmitt said this was a All deck officers and most of the new trick of the smugglers. The News has reached the Colony of engine officers are veterans in the condition of the pole showed that
serious affair which occurred service of the Hamburg Amerika it had been
Marshal Feng will make Cheng- much used for the chow, Honan, his Headquarters, recently on the s.s. Yuan See, Linie.
purpose for which it had been in-and his arrival there will mark aboard. which over hundred Captain F. Krulls, master, was vented. Chinese labourers
the commencement of hostilities. were being in the Hamburg Amerika Linia A Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Con-
Chinese
as Marshal Feng announces a gen- Revenue Officer Marshal Yen has indicated his in- repatriated to China upon their before the World War and was stated that his suspicions were tention to leave for Peking'as soon. teristic of Lord Balfour, through- out his life was his rare courage,
he sold previous to taking com-of the man as he emerged from the cral attack on the Nationalist physical and moral,
It appears that the labourers mand of the yacht. a courage
On Lee Wharf, yesterday, carrying forces in Honan... shown particularly during the
were most discontented over the
the bamboo pole. years when he held, the office of
The chief officer and the second in which the conditions officer are also veterats in the month's hard labour.
The man was fined $50, or one Chief Secretary for Ireland.
of their employment had been
service of the German shipping No finer intellect, no greater regulated.
On leaving Africaine. The number of officers and On this occasion he achieved a lialectician, had been engaged in they were shipped to Saigon, crew abroad the Orion aggregate speed of 101 miles an hour, On politics. It had been said of Lord where they underwent interroga- several occasions the car jumped Asquith, the late Liberal leader, tien on 1 number of matters seven feet into the air, owing to
that he was the last of the before being sent on their way the roughness of the track
Launched Last Year. Romans. It might be said of to China. Lord Balfour that he was last of
The yacht, built exclusively for The examination was completed, Subsequently it was decided to the Athenians. His mind was all- and they were embarked on the pleasure cruises, was launched in
further trials until embracing.
He loved Science, s.s. Yuen See for Hongkong and Germany last year. She is of Music and Philosophy.
tons. She has Chinese ports. The vessel had 3,015 gross Ile had an intense love of his not been far out at sea, however, straight bow and an ordinary defied an Indian policeman who country, an intense belief in the when trouble broke out.
stern, the hull and superstructure intended to arrest him for causing part she was playing in the world,
obstruction on the side-walk The passengers became extreme-being painted white, with a yel- an Mr. Baldwin believed that Lord ly mutinous, threatened the low funnel. Her powerful en-
with his wares. "I am not afraid Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, former Balfour's career as 蟲 national statesman, dating from the first Captain and crew with violence, gines give her a sca speed which of anybody," he said, "I have a Peking Premier and recognised
free licence from the Magistrate." head of the Pelyang 'Military : and, finally, they Master, feeling averaged 16 knots on her voyage day of the war until the last day that the lives of his men and the from New York. of his life, would be remembered safety of the ship were
Actually, it was true that pity-Fretion, has addressed a lengthy being The Orion is the most luxurious ing his condition, which has ren-cablegram to General Chàng as long as the history of this coun- endangered, abandoned the voy yacht which has called at Hondered him incapable of pursuing Hsueh-liang requesting the young Tokyo, Mar. 21.
age and headed the ship back to kong in recent years. She has any other vocation, the Magistrate Manchurian leader to form an An agreement has been reached
Saigon, where the passengers were four decks, the lowest deck form had granted him a free licence alliance with Shansi. disembarked.i
Marshal Tuan says that he has But for having said what he did an interchange of military
ing an alleyway leading to the Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal į officers between Japan and
Indopacif states that the course cabins; the main deck extending to the constable, he was warned no faith in the Kuomintang Party leader, said that by Lord Balfour's has been decffed upon of return from fore to aft, with wide pro by Mr. Grantham when the case and that for the unification and death we seemed finally to have ing the trouble-makers to China menades and public rooms; the sun Court this morning. officers to be attached to Soviet Victorian epoch. He would rank
thus enabling Japanese severed the link with the, great in small groups Soviet,
came up at the Central Police peace of the country a complete reorganisation of the political deck on which sports are played
machinery of the Central Govern military units and vice versa.
Lord Balfour with Gladstone us
and on which a winter garden is- A caution against a repetition mont is imperative. Pilet Reported Drowned,
A similar agreement has long tary debater he had ever heard in the most formidable Parliamen-
located; and the captain's dock. of the offence was also given Following the unexpected de On Saturday, further informa- existed
before the man was discharged.parture of Marshal Chiang Kai- between Britain and
Luxurious Appointments. tion was received by the French Japan, and for the past few authorities which threw fresh light years, between Japan and America, were better adapted to the part But Balfour's rich faculties
The rooms of the yacht are The Royal Observatory reports the machine caught fire in mid-air national circumstances, and that not only Captain Auclerc interchange between Japan and most valued assets of the British China
no such after the war. He was one of the pressure extending from Southed, with artistic and expensive rugs in evidence on all floors. to South Manchuria. but also his companion, Captain the Soviet has hitherto been Empire during the terrible days of Fresh to moderate monsoon along music room, a library and reading The public rooms include 2 Baronna, were able to make use of carried out.-Reuter.
the war, and afterwards, when the south-east coast of China and room, a dining room and a tiled their parachutes when they leaped
passion was still raging, and over the North China Sea. The swimming pool. There is also volcanic fires were still unquench local forecast 18-N.E. winds, a gymnasium as well as a well ar- ed, his calm judgment was “u moderate; fine to cloudy. treasure.
in negotiations with the authorities of Kwangsi ia explained owing to the ill-fated machine having crash- ed in Chinese territory. Resent- ment was expressed by the Chinese that the aviators should have en- gaged in what amounted, it is con- tanded, to military operations over their territory.
Apprehension first felt over the uncertainty of the whereabouts of the airmen, was increased when it became definitely known, last week, that Captain Baronna was still missing and that Captain Auclerc
was alive, but held a prisoner by
the Chinese.
JAPAN AND SOVIET.
INTERCHANGE OF MILITARY
for
OFFICERS.
the
try was written.
the House.
Link Severed.
FINE TO CLOUDY.
f
on the mishap. This atated that but owing to a difference in the which he had played during and that there is now a belt of high/luxuriously and tastefully decorat-
out of the machine.
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Contain Auclerc, it was further atated, had his left arm severely burnt, but he landed safely in spite of this handican. Nothing known of how Captain Baronna" fared, but later Chinese reports state that he fell into a river and, oncumbered by his parachute, was drowned.
The hand of Chinese, whom the Fran
Kotharities regard 48
CARNERA STILL WINNING.
KNOCKS OUT ZAVITA IN FIRST ROUND.
New York, Mar, 20. Primo. Carnera, the Italian bandits and into whose hands giant, claimed his eleventh con- Cantain Auclerc fell, aent a messecutive victory to-night, at Jack- senger to the French military post sonville, Florida, knocking out at Tangson, with a demand for Frank Zavita in the first round. $20.000 as ransom for the release of the airman, offering to lead him The fight lasted 111 seconds. Z
{Continued on Page 12.). ! Reuter.
ROYAL DUTCH LOAN ISSUE.
shek this morning, Generals Ho Ying-ching and Tan Yea-kai have been appointed as Chief Execu-- tives of Military and Civil Affairs respectively, pending the return of the President. Nanking.in quiet, although rumours of war and conspiracies against Marshal Chiang are rampant.
MAY BE CONVERTED INTO
ORDINARY STOCK."
To Hold Nanking. ranged winter garden on the sun
Amsterdam, Mar. 20." deck. All rooms and cabins of the The head office of the Royal Marshal Chiang will visit and Three Great Achievements.
yacht are well ventilated and those Dutch Oil Company has con- supervise the fortifications along There were three outstanding four Note regarding Britain's while in tropical seas.
future of Palestine and the Balon board do not suffer from beat firmed the report of the forth the Nanking-Shanghai and Shang- coming issue of a new loan of hal-Hangebow Railways in a events which would give him a remission of war dehta. The war lasting name in history. The first debt Note, was his greatest sides a number of life-boats and issued in Amsterdam.
The pleasure yacht carries, be- G$40,000,00, part of which will be determined attempt to hold the capital, Hanków and Wuchang was the Washington Conference, achievement: It was worthily other life-saving equipment, three The greater part will, it is under- Chiang but it is not known will also be visited by Marshal the success of which was largely made by a great man.
motor boats used while the ship is stood, be issued in New York. It whether he will stay at Hankow attributable to the wonderful Tributes to the dend xtatéiman! the responsibility of bold decision. of Lords, hy Lords Parmoor, Salis- shore-host, used to transport four per cent, and may be convert the threatened Shattsi invasion. courage with which he accepted were paid we in the House in port. One of the motorboats is will bear Interest at the rate of to direct the operations against
Conference that had ended in disrespectively of the Tahour. Con- other two are speed boats used in a period of three years at the rate
It was only the Disarmament bury, and Beanchamn the lende persons from ship to shore. The ed Into Royal Dutch stock within Shanghai, Mar, 20
It is learned that Chiang Kal- armament.
cervative and Liberal Parties, and sporting races indulged in once in of 500 per cent, and during the shek inspected the Silver Island The other two events were the the Archhishon of Canterburya while by the passengers aboard following three years, at a rate forts, near Chinklang, this morn Balfour Declaration regarding the British Wireless..
of 525 per cent "Reuter,
ing-Reuter.
the Orion