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TOUNDED 1931
NO. 23,117 -90 BATĦAXWF MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1930.
SEGRAVE INQUEST BURNED TO DEATH MUTTON STORAGE SERIOUS FRACAS
OPENED.
BOAT HIT A BRANCH
OF A TREE.
REACHED SPEED OF NEARLY
120 MILES AN HOUR.
IN SHANGHAI.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT TO TWO FOREIGNERS.
OIL CATCHES FIRE.
Shanghai, June 16. . Further details of the shocking accident which occurred yesterday at the Fearon Road sub-station of (briefly reported elsewhere) show the Shanghai Power Company. that the attendants were covered with scalding oil when the explosion: It is now, revealed that the late took place, being literally trans- Sir Henry Segrave's speed-boat, formed into human torches and suf- "Miss England the Second" atfering terrible deaths.
MISSING BODY FOUND).
London, June 15.
Windermere after a six hour search. In one hand was piece of paper and in the other a pencil. Apparently he was taking note of engine revolutions and speed when the disaster oc- curred:
Inquest Opened.
The dead are Mr. David Gunn,
injured.
QUESTIONS.
MR. HACKER STILL IN WITNESS BOX.
MORE CROSS-EXAMINATION IN HOTEL CASE.
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IN
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DEATH OF MONSIEUR LOUIS LUCIEN KLOTZ.
SCANDAL RECALLED.
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TIMES IN
INDO-CHINA.
NUMEROUS REVOLTS
SUPPRESSED.
LARGE-SCALE RISINGS BY
REVOLUTIONISTS.
FOUR DAYS' DOINGS.
Saigon. June 7.. At Bahom, some ten miles
on
Shanghai, June 16. Three hundred convalescent Chinese soldiers went into the yemen at Soochow yesterday after- noon and demanded fifteen dollars
BRIBERY ADMISSION. each. Their demand was refused. Eighty-one Japanese students, After being adjourned, from
Canton, June 15.
Louis Lucien Klotz was born inj last Thursday, the hotel case who are at present on a tour of accompanied by three teachers,
Paria in was resumed in the Supreme China, arrived at Soochow yester- assassinations for many years lawyer by profession he practised from this city, several hundred
One of the most sensational family hailed from Alsace.
January. 1868. His
Court this morning before the
day morning from tained the amazing speed of native of Wick, Scotland, who was when Mr. Hacker, expert witness sight-seeing and left their hotel Woon-yim, Governor of Kwangsi journalism and politics.
Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) They
Nanking. past, resulting in the death of at the Court of Appeal, but soon rebels came into conflict with spent the entire day in His Excellency Gerieral Lui began to occupy himself with the police, resulting in one being 119.8 miles an hour before she 28 years of age, and Mr. Theophilus for plaintiffs, Messrs. Andersen
In 1868 killed and five wounded. A capsized. This cannot be count-Poliavsky aged 31. The
former
the station in the evening. Province, occurred here in the he was elected to the Chamber second group, attacking the ed officially, however. The watch was an attendant at the sub-station Meyer and Co. Ltd., was further intending to take the 7.20 p.m.carly hours of Saturday mor- and specialised in financial mat Town Hall, was repulsed by used has been presented to the and the latter a Russian probation- cross-examined by Mr. Eldon train to Shanghai,
The students were all riding on ning when one late Sir Henry's father. Theary attendant. In addition a Chin-Potter, K.C.. leading counsel for
of the body-tery. From 1910 to 1913 he was reinforcements, and 30 arrests
Minister of Finance in the Briand body of Mr. Halliwell, the en. Pse named Wao Ming-chun, a defendants, the Hongkong and donkeys when, halfway on the guards of the Governor fired at Caillaux and Poincare Cabinets were made.
fatally wounded Mr. read, they met sixty wounded and gineer, was recovered from Lake witch-board operator, was badly Shanghai
Between 800 and 900, natives, In Barthou's 1913 Government he
who marched Hacker was questioned as to re- Chinese soldiers who attempted to Kwangsi official at the New Asia was Minister of the Interior.
on Hocmon The recidypt neered shortly befrigerating loads and the stor resulted in a quarrel with the
commandeer the donkeys. This Hotel.
Wednesday, were met by a Dia- fore seven o'clock yesterday morn
In September he held The assassination has caused the Finance portfolio in Poincare's deavoured to pacify the crowd. the trict Officer, who unavailingly on- ing The men were engaged age of mutton and beef.
mafoos. Sixteen students went on greatest excitement in polities Cabinet and later in that of Cle-A pistol shot was the signal for in switching over to a
large
Dealing with the question of ahead to the station, the remain-circles here and General Chan menceau, to whom he was chief the assailants to close in on the transformer. carrying car loads, or, in other words, the der of the party dismounting and Min-shu.
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the Civil Governor of financial adviser during the nego-Officer and his escort. rent of 6,000 volts, which amount of refrigeration, Mr. Pot returning to the hotel. supplies
Kwangtung, was amongst the first tiation of the Versailles Treaty the current for the ter pointed out that Mr. Hacker's
They were followed by the or the leaders in Canton to rush which he signed. It was he who wounded in the fight which follow- Two were killed and ветсл Shanghai trams, when the trans-estimated load on his calculations Chinese troops and a fracas en- to the New Asia Hotel carly this kept assuring the French public ed. Reinforcements former exploded. It deluged the at- | was 30,820 tons.
sued in which the Chinese are morning personally to
for the tendants with scalding oil, which Counsel suggested that as the alleged to have used their rifle into the regrettable incident.
enquire that Germany would pay. More official party arrived at 3 immediately caught fre, and the contractural load was 10 tons there butts. Two of the Japanese
than any other French stateman critical moment and saved the ren literally became human would be a reserve of ten tons, students were seriously injured
he was responsible for the finan- situation. Forty arrests were torches.
Mr. Hacker said that was so in while a number sustained slight
to the verge of bankruptcy and he cial policy which brought France effected. All three were conveyed to hospi-figures but not in actual practice, injuries. tal in à terrible condition. The He explained that they might get
induced the Govt. to buy for two foreigners were suffering from a little better transmission and so burns over practically their whole get a little more load than actually
Clemenceau's resignation he did objective of another attack by a
80,000,000 the largely useless U.S. war stores in France on which a The headquarters of the Dis.
.Officer triet
at Duchoa, 30 bodies, but the Chinese was not so shown by figures so that there
not hold office, but was a member second force
was incurred. After kilometres from Cholon, was the After the inquest had been ad-dy hurt. Mr. Gunn died at mid- would not be a margin of ten tons. on beday, being conscious for a few mo- He suggested that the minimum
of the Senate. Jour of the Maring Motoring As-ments before he passed away. Mr. margin lead would be about six
fraud and resigned his seat. He had recourse to their firearms. of rebels, but the assailants were repulsed by the sociation issued a statement sign-Poliovsky died an hour later in the tons.
In 1928, he was charged with arrival of the Civil Guard," who ed by technical experts who re- General Hospital.
were agreed He managed to rash from the ported that they
had been taken to a home for men- Two were killed and sir wounded that the boat, engine and trans- building, with his clothes one mass mission gear were all in perfect of flame. He apparently intended
tal cases, but was eventuaily pro-fas the result of this affair. nounced sane. On the eve of the Two thousand demonstrators, ndition for the first two laps to make for off Fake Cread, but on
and, returning to Paris, visited a thorities the release ove been public disclosure of his ruin he is proceeding to Thanh-Cheuong,- and part of the third when. ap to the ground exhausted, burned all the middle Fearon Road he fell
said to have left the sanatorium demanded from the local au- parently, something happened to
over. When picked up he
gambling club where with bor-volutionists cause the disaster..
that have without a single stitch of clothing
rowed money he tried From an examination of the with the exception of a pair of
to make arrested, and compensation for the boat before it sank, it appeared socks. He was found in tot road
good his losses and avoid a crash, families of those killed in the that the front step on the port side by firemen and given first aid im-
but lost heavily.
outbreaks at Nghean and Thaibinh. Later, the mis-mediately. was torn away.
They quietly dispersed upon an as- sing portion of the step was re- Mr. Gunn was found lying on the ceived which furnished sutleient
surance being given that the matter would referred to evidence to indicate the probable
higher quarters. cause of the disaster, namely that a Hosting object was hit by the rear portion of the step ranking it to be torn off.
At the inquest on Sir Henry Segrave. which WIN -formally opened yesterday counsel for Segrave's father said that evid- ence as to the probable cause of the disaster was now available and would be produced at the appro- priate time.
journed, Lord Brecknock.
Subsequently it has been learn- ed that twenty minutes after the disaster a waterlogged branch of a tree, approximately twenty feet long and three inches in diameter. was picked up 250 yards astern of the boat and, as near as can be ascertained, in its direct path.
The King's Sympathy.
Messages of condolence been received by Lady Segrave from all parts of the world. The King and Queen expressed their sympathy in the following message, "It is with much regret that the King and Queen have learned of the tragic death of Sir Henry Segrave, and I am commanded to convey to you an expression of
have
was
ground near the telephone room with his clothes burning. Mr. Poliovsky's eyes were burned out and he was unrecognisable. The only clue to his identity was furn- ished by his socks. He was con- scious at first and an indication of bis identity was forthcoming when he heard the voice of a fireman he recognised and he appealed to him by name for assistance.
The Brigade worked excellently, using gas masks and smoke helmets
a.m. to
to control the fire. Part of Hong- kew was without light from 7.01 8.14 a.m. and, the trams were suspended until 10 a.m.
The cause is believed to have been a fault in the transformer on the high tension side. It is possible that a short circuit in the trans- former coil fused the metal casing, making a hole through which the oil poured out.
Definite Reserve,
Japanese Consulate and a Chinese Police Station and Chinese police The students telephoned to the
arrived at 7.30 and dispersed the rioting escorted by the Japanese Consular soliers. The students, staff and Chinese police then went on to the station and took the train for Shanghai, arriving here early this morning-Reuter.
:
UNEMPLOYMENT
PROBLEM.
POLITICAL LEADERS MAY CONFER SOON.
London, June 15.
How Atlack Occurred..
a few Staff
General Lai Woon-yim arrived at Canton on Thursday from bodyguards and officers, to confer with the Ewang- Wuchow, accompanica by four
tung Provincial leaders regarding rehabilitation affairs in Kwangai after the recent civil war.
General Lui-occupied room No. 703 while his bodyguards and Staff officers resided in rooms adjacent. After a meeting with some
evening shortly before mid-night Cantonese militarists, General Lui returned to the Hotel on Friday He ordered the boys at the hotel to prepare à late supper of which he partook by himself.
When the last course was served it was about 1,15 a.m. and it was
The
huge loss
Other Demonstrations.
he
For the purpose of clarifying the position, Air, Potter explained that the contractural load was 40 THE said that the actual load on the lons. Mr. Hacker's calculations
Plant--the actual refrigeration re- quired-would be 30.826 tons, but they might get greater transmis sion so that, it would leave the plant with about six tons in hand.
M, Klotz was a regular attender In other words, instead of the
at this moment that one of tucat every race meeting and a well bodyguards quietly entered the known figure in the fashionable plant being too small, as the de
What is considered an important room and produced a revolver with places of amusement in Paris. fence would prove, Mr. Hacker had step regarding the unemployment which he fired at close range at stated there would be a definite problem will be taken on Tuesday, the back of the Governor.
He dissipated the fortune he in- Fake Football Match. reserve of about six tons.
herited from his parents and part
More than 500 rebels who as of the dowry of his wife, who sembled on a football ground at divorced him in 1929. NevertheVihlong, pretending to stage a less he continued to plunge and football match, were charged by eventually uttered a number of worthless cheques and forged Civil Guards and dispersed. A bills. Powerful friends tried to movere arrested being ins
number were injured. Several extricate M. Klotz from his dif-leaders, culties, but it was found that following day by the local Court to nearly £100,000 was needed and terms ranging between three and this amount could not be raised five years' hard labour. The alarm raised attracted the
Ten natives were wounded when. attention of the boys and residents
Put on trial in July, 1929, he Police and Civil Guards were was fined and sentenced to two rushed to a suburb of Cholon, the of the Hotel, some of whom saw the assassin dashing down
years' Imprisonment. By a most prosperous industrial centre staircase heading for the street at the time of his trial was debat emergency created by the ap strange coincidence' the Chamber of Co-chin-China; to cope with an One of the hotel boys who tried to ing the question of the payment pearance of Bome 2,000 rebels, who DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS stop the assassin was knocked for the U. S. war material for were marching on the town. A
In reply to another question, when, on the initiative of the Gov-bullet penetrated the body and dealing with what was termed asentatives of Municipal Authori
ernment, a conference of repre- passed out through the abdomen. emergency clause in the contract
Cry For Assistance. providing fog pulling down the ties will be held in London. temperature lower if required,
General Lui gave a loud cry for witness agreed that the six tons
assistance and after a fruitless reserve would be able to pull down
attempt to snatch the weapon the temperature a little further but
from the assassin he made a brave not to any practical extent.
endeavour to follow the murderer
as mutton
In well-informed political cir cles, it is believed that the Con- ference will be followed by some form of consultation between the leaders of the three Parties in Parliament.-British Wireless.
Mr. Potter-I put it to you that taking room No. 1, the mutton room, you could load in that room 10,500 tbs. of fresh mutton? Not POWER CONFERENCE hanging on the rails should be hung to be properly stor
IN BERLIN. ed. You might load a great deal more than that by throwing it on the floor with the carcases touch. ing but then it would not be pro- perly stored.
both Mr. You would not agree to stacking it on the floor? No, not in a room like that,
Curiously enough, Gunn and Mr. Poliovsky were ex- firemen. The funerals have been arranged for to-morrow.--Our Own
Their Majesties heartfelt syra-
loss. Correspondent.
pathy in your irreparable
The King recalls with pleasure the occasion at Bognor when he conferred: a Knighthood upon Sir Henry, and His Majesty mourns the death of one whose intrepid adventures on land and water were the admiration of the whole world."
The Prince of Wales also sent message saying, "Please ac- cept my deepest sympathy in your and this country's great loss"-- Reuter and British Wireless.
An Expert Opinton.
London, June 14, Technical experts at Winder- mere are of the opinion that the disaster to Sir Henry Segrave was due to the boat colliding with some floating object, probably a branch of a tree.Reuter.
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DISASTROUS FIRE AT
WUCHOW.
MOTOR-BOAT AND JETTY INVOLVED.
Wuchow, June 15. A disastrous fire occurred on the waterfront here on the mor- ning of the 11th. instant, starting on the motor-boat Kui Ngan. This boat and the upper Chinese Cus- toms jetty were burned.
Two people were badly injured and had to be sent to the Stout Memorial Hospital Our Own Cor. respondent.
•
PRESENT.
Berlin, June 15.
A number of the world's most distinguished scientists and en- gineers are amo 1g the 4,000 dele gates attending the second World Power Conference here which opened with a reception in the Reichstag.
Stacking Mutton. Frozen mutton is stacked on the floor at times?—Yes.
Why not
Every aspect of power energy on this floor?--Be- cause the temperature at which will be discussed at the Confer you are holding it is 20 degreesence, Professor Einstein being and where it is stacked on due to speak on physical space and
the
the ether problem. Reuter.
a
floor it is held at 15 degrees.
Why? Because you have to keep it frozen harder. It is different type of storage entirely to that contemplated here. In any case, you don't really stack it on the floor but on dunnage.
MISS JOHNSON IN CANBERRA.
CROWNING"TRIUMPH OF
·HER TOUR.
to the staircase.
the
In time.
were sentenced the
down by the latter.
whose purchase he had been res-police detachment had before this the Hotel the assassin ponsible. From
been compelled to fire to check the with the boys of the hotel in close ifberated in accordance with the dashed into the Tai Ping Road pursuit. After a chase covering law providing condition release
In September last year he was advance of the natives.
four streets the assassin was even-after half the sentence has been tually caught by the police.
the Police
served with good conduct.-Reuter and I.B.S.
CASUALTIES IN THE CHINA WAR.
15,000. WOUNDED TROOPS. IN HOSPITALS.
· Shanghai, June 16.
All in Four Days.
The many Incidents recorded above occurred within a period of four days. The Governor-General of Indo-China, proceeding to the localities effected, exhorted local native officials to discharge the duties which they owed the Government, in the cause of peace and good order.
poll-tax which constitues another- levy .had furthermore beeu reduced to less than half of what
$10,000 Bribe.
When taken to Station the assassin confessed that he had accepted $10,000 from political opponents of the Kwangsi Governor to take the latter's life. The assassin is only twenty years
At the same time, the Governor old, a native of Kwangsi and has
of Cochin-China,, in reply to the complaints which have formed a been acting as bodyguard to the Governor for some time past.
pretext for these disorders, has issued proclamation to the Enquiries from the members of
mass of the population, declaring the family of the Governor showed It is understood that at least that local taxes, both provincial I find from your book-Green on
the assassin, named Fung Ming- 15,000 wounded troops have been and communal, for the year 1930 "Elements of Refrigeration"--at
shing, was a most trusted servant distributed in hospitals from were less than the preceding year; page 411, dealing with a mutton,
of the Governor who had given in-Hsuchowfu, in North Kiangsi, to in accordance with the reductions it apparently says that you can
Canberra, June 15.structions at the Hotel that no-one Hangchow, but details are un voted last September. The native File carcases four feet high pro- The crowning honour was paid was to enter his room, not even obtainable-Router. vided you leave isles occupying to Miss Amy Johnson in her the other bodyguards, with the one quarter of the space?-Yes, triumphant tour through Aun-exception of the assassin. General we know in practice that you have train when the Federal, Premier, Lui usually carried a revolver but wounds five minutes after his it was previously. got to have 15 degrees or less. Mr. Scullin, welcomed her on the on the evening of the assassination admission to the
Mr. Green doesn't suggest that steps of Parliament House and he handed the weapon to the as- fore any operation could be per- hospital, be
Paris Reactions. Worldwide Tributes.
you should have a temperature of conducted her to the Speaker'ssassin shortly after his return
Paris, June 7, 16 degrees or less. It is rather chair where he made a speech. London, June 14.
from a conference with the Gov-
formed,
At a meeting of the Cabinet on strange he doesn't.
All the other bodyguards of the Saturday morning, prasided over Do you Mrs. Scullin, on behalf of the ernment officials. Sir Henry Segrave's death in
agree with Green that mutton'can women of Canberra, presented
Governor at the Hotel were diaurm- by President Doumorgue, the yesterday's disaster on Lake Win-
It is the irony of fate that the ed following the assassination and Minister of the Colonies, (M. Governor was killed by his own there is a slight suspicion that Pietri,) revealed the extent of the dermere, after he had achieved
London, June 15. the world's. water speed record,
Imperial Airways,
Bome of them were involved in the Communist agitations in Indo- has deeply shocked the country, arrangement with the Corporations
Victim Succumbs.
outrage,
China and oatlined the measures and the world's most famous of Birmingham, Manchester and
Generals Chan Ming-shu and taken by the Government drivers of land and water pay Liverpool, each of which is paying
to Shortly after the arrival of Chan Chai-tong have sent a joint counteract the danger. aloquent tributes to his skill and £1,000 to subsidise a three months fact In Green? I don't know but that the depression is now central the Canton Police, at the Hotel the reporting the outrage in detail of the Colonies, will prefit from General Chan Ming-shu and Gen- telegram to Marshal Chiang Kat The Temps says it has reason to: The Royal Observatory reports era! Au Yeung-kul, the Chief of shek and the National Government belleve that M. Pietri, the Minister experiment, will to-morrow open a 1know from actual experience and. with an engaging modesty which thrice-a-weck air service linking not from anything theoretical into the south of Kobe. Another is wounded Governor was taken to The assasination of General Lut long leave to proceed to Indo-?,
central over Tongling. The local the Chung Shan Hospital at Chang Woon-yim is expected to have some China to Investigate, on the spot forecast isSouth winds, moder-Shan University. It is understood effect on the political situation in the situation created by the
that General Lui succumbed to his Kwangs Province:
courage, which were
combined
made him one of the most popular sportsmen in England.
(Continued on Page 18.)
BRITISH AERIAL
EXPERIMENT.
LINKING ENGLAND WITH CONTINENT.
The
be stacked four feet high? Yes, Miss Johnson, with an opal neck-
under the conditions I set forth lace-Router."" that, the temperature be 15 de- by
grecs, or more of the room be piped to take up the load if necessity
rise
Is there any statement of that
up these cities with Croydon and a text book.
(Continued on Page 7.)
--British Wireless..
ate, fair
the air services to the Continent.
FAIR WEATHER.
weapon.
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