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LOCAL RICKSHA PUNCTURE CAUSES
COOLIES.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THEIR LIFE.
HIRING RATES AND AVERAGE
EARNINGS.
PLANE CRASH.
ROUND WORLD FLIGHT ENDS IN DISASTER..
OCCUPANTS ESCAPE.
Harbour Grace, Aug. 3. The monoplane in which Mr. John Mears and Mr. Henry Brown are attempting a record round the
CAF MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930.
FIVE U.S. SAILORS SHAMROCK AT THE
WOUNDED.
GUNBOAT IN ACTION AT CHANGSHA.
THIRTY "REDS" SAID TO
BE KILLED.
AZORES.
WEATHERS NORTH ATLANTIC IN GOOD STYLE.
SKIPPER SATISFIED.
Horta, July 30. Har sails full spread, Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht, the Shamrock V, arrived here to-day
world fight crashed when taking off | HOUR'S ENGAGEMENT from England. She is en route to
CONTENTED WORKERS. from here to-day.
The plane started in darkness The suggested increasing of aided only by flares. It was mov- ricksha fares in view of the ivg rapidly when one of the tyres high cost of living prevailing in of the landing wheels punctured the Colony, makes it interesting and the plane swung round at a to consider the manner
these tangent. It crashed into some trees and was smashed to pieces. Chinese workers contrive to Both Brown and Mears escaped un- "move and have their being," hurt, however, and in order to afford the public. They left New York yesterday in accurate and authentic details an attempt to beat the Graf Zep- in this respect, the Telegraph pelin's record of 21 days 8 hours. has conducted an enquiry and The first stage of the fight was gleaned the following not un- from New York to Harbour Grace and when the eash occurred the interesting information.
Not the least surprising feature of the system under. which the rickshas are plied for hire is the prominence of the "middleman," whose presence does not in any way appear to be resented by the coolies, despite the fact that he stands between them and their
direct dealing with the ricksha farmers." and, as a consequence, is able to reap a useful profit at
the expense of the pullers.
Contented Workers.
as one
the
of Furthermore, oldest local ricksha farmers in- formed the Telegraph, the coolies are perfectly content not only with this system, but with their existence. They have no Union, hey pointed out significantly, and they have no desire for one-in fact it is only the farmers who have a worry, of which more anon.
As is generally known, rickshas have been one of the chief means,
airmen were heading for Ireland.
Mears, with a companion, went round the world partly by aeroplane in 1928 in 23 days 15 hours. He hoped, by the tempt which has
failed, to reduce this time to well below twenty days.-Router's Ameriron Service.
After reaching
Ireland Mears
proposed to fly to Southampton and then across Europe to Berlin. The succeeding stages of the flight were planned as Moscow, Khabora- vak. Seward. Seattle and New York.
AMERICAN BASEBALL
LEAGUES.
RESULTS OF SATURDAY'S MATCHES.
New York, Angust 2. The following are the results of of travelling on the low levels of the baseball matches in the Nation Hongkong for many years past, al and American Leagues played but with the advent of the motor to-day: vehícles, the necessity for man- pulled conveyances has declined
Brooklyn yearly and we now find that al-Baston though there are some 600 public Boston rickshas plying for hire in Hong-Chicago kong and on the mainland, their Cincinnati number has been reduced by near-
ly fifty per cent. during the past New York ten years.
Further reductions New York are to be effected by the Govern- ment at the end of this year, all of which is causing the farmers anxiety.
Ricksha-Hire Rale.
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Shanghai, July 31. Chinese Communist-bandits and American sailors engaged in open warfare at Changsha to- day as the "Red" scare in China grew to such serious proportions that Chinese authorities here deemed it necessary to declare martial law,
For 48 hours martial law will prevail in Shanghai, it became effective at 6 o'clock to-night. It is feared that Communist distur- bances, accompanied by anti-for- eign sentiment, will cause a situa- con- tion fraught with serious sequences unless adequate preli
minary precautions are taken,
Five Americans' Wounded.
Grave concern is felt as a re-
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CANADA'S TARIFF
NEW PHILIPPINE POLICY.
APPOINTMENT CAUSES
'RESENTMENT.
INDEPENDENCE NOW IN BACKGROUND.
POLICY.
NEW HIGH DUTIES TO BE IMPOSED.
EMPIRE PREFERENCE.
Pedder Bldg.
SEVERE FIGHTING IN NORTH.
REBELS BEGIN NEW *OFFENSIVE.
ALL-DAY BATTLE CAUSES BIG LOSS OF LIFE,
ATTACK REPULSED.
Ottawa, July 30. The high tariff policy to be adopted by Canada's now Govern- ment-to-day-was-explained in an Interview with Mr. R. B. Bennett, leader of the Conservatives who this week overwhelmingly routed the Liberals in the general elec-
Tsinanfu, Aug. 3. tion.
After a comparative full of Mr. Bennett declared that in over a week, serious warfare has boosting her tariff schodule
QUEZON'S MISSION. the United States where again Sir Thomas, will challenge for the
Manila, Aug. 21 America's Cup.
Senor Manuel Quezon, the Accompanying the Shamrock V. President of the Philippines a veritable symphony in green, Senate, sailed aboard the was her convoy ship, the ateams.s. President McKinley, from Canada will act in recognition of again been resumed along the yacht Erin.
which he will transfer to the the value of the United States Tientsin-Pukow Railway, in the policy as embodied in the Hawley Smoot tariff law. He said Canada will not raise her schedule merely in retaliation or as an act of resentment against
own tariff
After the Erin has been re- Empress of Japan in Hongkong, fuelled here the Shamrock V will en route to America. He is in resume her slow but gallant vey-broken health, and he insists age across the rough Atlantic to that he will not return to New York where she will prepare to meet the American defender.
Manila until he "obtains a final
the United States. statement regarding America's intentions in the Philippines.cies, as outlined by Mr. Bennett The Conservative party's poll-
to-day call for: Special Service.
The Shamrock carried a crew of 22 men, commanded by Captain Ned Heard, a man of Essex and a sturdy, squarely built skipper of He reported that the 40 years. Shamrock, salled splendidly from England the Azores 200 weathered nicely the
waters of the North Sea and of the" Atlantic
ocean..
to
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New Colonial Policy.
Manila, July 28. The significant developments in the Philippines in the last two months are finally shaping up to the inevitable conclusion that the
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Yenchow District, with the. Shansi forces under Marshal Yen Hsi-shan launching a deter- mined attack in a final endeavour to break through the strong Na tionalist fortifications between Yenchow and the Headquarters at Hsuchow.
The Shansi assault commenced yesterday morning, but the Na tionalist Commanders are under stood to have been well pre- pared for the attack. The Na- tionalist and Shansi forces both utilised heavy artillery and bomb- ing parties, and authentic Nan- king reports say that the all-day battle near Yenchow resulted in prodigious loss of life.
1. Revision of Canada's general tariff schedules in an effort to in- sure production at home of a large portion of $6,000,000 worth of goods purchased every year in the United States by Canadians.
2. Promotion of trade within the Captain Hear said he is not a United States is embarking on a British Empire through reciprocal sult of the open hostilities be- bit troubled over the prospects of virtually new colonial policy in the tariff preferences extended to tween Chinese Communists and the voyage from Horta to New Islands, possibly as a result of sec-England, other Dominions and American naval sailors at terror-York. It is one of the conditionsret agreements reached at the Lon-British colonies.
3. Cancellation of countervailing ridden Changsha,
governing competition for the don Naval Conference.
The most recent manifestation duties. America's Cup that the challenger
This tariff programme, It is the Atlantic. So Sir of the new attitude was Washing-
Heavy Casualties. Thomas' men take their task philo ton's appointment of Mr. Nicolas known, will be opposed by the Li- sophically, as have others of their Roosevelt, as Vice-Governor, suc-berals, who will expect to rally some
Following a severe engagement ilk on four other Shamrocks be ceeding Mr. Eugene A. Gilmore, support from Independent
resigned, which has
a groups in Canada's Parliament. The in the morning, the Nationalist veritable hornets' nest of resent Liberals believe in maintaining low trenches and dugouts at Yenchow In 1920 wheq Shamrock CV ment among Filipino leaders, re-tariff rates, regardless of the ac-were strewn with dead and wound- crossed the ocean the weather wassulting in a formal protest to the tion the United States has taken. ed, and the Nationalist Comman- so calm that fresh supplies were United States Senate.
The Liberals, however, in the Parders had an extremely busy time transferred in a dinghy in mid-
liament will be heavily outvoted by in attending to the wounded, con- ocean from the convoy to the
the Conservatives, yecht. Such luck would be great-
Cross
Dispatches received from Chang- sha via Hanków, declare that five American sailors from the U.S.S. Palos, a gunboat, were wounded when from the shore Chinese Com-fore. munists opened fire on them with- out warning.
to-day.
A
stirred
Racial Issues," v
The commanding officer of the Palos, was swift to take reprisale. He opened fire on the Changsha "Reds' and, according to the most
The Filipino attitude is re reliable reports available, 30 Chin-ly appreciated on the present jour-cognized as being no longer poll ese were killed by the anell fire nay, said Captain Heard grimlytical, but racial. They are strong- from the gunboat.
ly resenting the derogatory state- ments contained in Mr. Roosevelt's book, "The Philippines: A Treas- ure and a Problem," in which he frankly paints the Filipinos as no' inferior race incapable of govern, ment, Draph
Horth gave Shamrock V and the Erin a great reception when they arrived here. There com-
was much cheering for the yacht seeking to recapture the Cup England lost to America at Cowes as far back as 1851.
Another account says the cour ageous 'action of Lieutenant Commander R .D. Tisdale, mander of the U. S. S. Palos, who braved rifle and machine-gun fire from Chinese Communists at Changsha, apparently had the effect of saving considerable American and other foreign property as well of 2 as possibly saving the lives Americans still within the city.
Prior to the occupation of Chang- sha by the Communist army Tisdale succeeded in getting all American residents excepting two or three and several Europeans aboard the Palos, but due to the falling of the water in the Siang River, he was forced to drop downstream for a distance of five miles,
LATEST RADIO SCHEME.
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SHANGHAI TO FRISCO DIRECT,
Washington, July 30.
With the ad interim appointment
the
BATCH OF FATAL ACCIDENTS.
veying them back to Hauchow, where the populace and news- paper correspondents began to realise that war had been resum- ed on a large scale.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Northern rebels, Marshal Yen. Hai-shan, is personally super- TWO FALLS AND A MOTOR vising the Shanel offensive at
MISHAP.
Tam Chi (28).
a carpenter, of
Tainanfu and he has also with- drawn the 18th Regiment of the Shansi troops from the Tsinanfu- Kiaochow Railway for
the Tientsin-Pukow Railway to join in the assault on Yenchow.
the
Aeroplanes Commissioned.
of Mr. Roosevelt imminent pend-486, Reclamation Street, died at the g the approval of the United Government Civil Hospital on Sat States Senate and the early arrival urday from injuries received in of the new Vice-Governor pro- a fall from window of an upper
Latest messages from Yenchow bable, the storm of local protest is floor at No. 9, Chancery Lane, while
state that the Nationalist troops. now culminating in the suggestion engaged in house repairs. of non-cooperation with the Ameri- Cheung Shing (19), a shop foki, were able to hold their own and can administration, while sunte was killed as the result of being run that they succeeded in repulsing Shansi offensive. General Filipino leaders are even suggest over by a motor-lorry at the June- ing a peaceful revo't like Gandhi's tion of Argyle Street and Nathan Chang Wal-chang, of the Nanking Road on Saturday. In reporting Aviation Department, is directing programmno in India.
the driver of lorry ten aeroplanes which have been An Island wide school strike, both the accident,
The Agents of the United States De- of pupils and teachers, is another No. 2399, which was concerned in sweeping the Shansi dugouts with squadron partment of Commerce in Shang-plan suggested, this being calculat the accident, declares that the vic machine gane. Early this morning, noticing that hai to-day notified the Departed to embarrass Mr. Roosevelt tim crossed the road in front of commanders state that the aero- the water had risen two feet dur-ment of Commerce's bureau of since the new Vice-Governor car-his vehicle regardless of the warn- planes have caused havoc among
the Shans troops, ing the night, Tisdale gave the or- foreign and domestic trade here ries the portfolio of Secretary of ing given on the horn.
Through falling from the second [4 der for the Palos to return to that before the end of the ap-Public Instruction. Changsha, hia purpose being to in-proaching autumn
floor of 457, Shanghai Street, Yau- there will be
Governor Embarrassed. mati, a Chinese, named Leung Tse vestigate the status of the remain-direct radio-telegraphic service
(35), suffered Injuries from which ing Americans as well as the Am- between San Francisco and Shang- The situation' is most embarras he died yesterday at the Kowloon erican property.
hal.
sing to the Governor-General, Mr.Hospital. At present the Radio Corpora- Dwight F. Davis, who in a year's tion of America, the Radio Cor-time has succeeded in establishing When the Palos reached the out-poration of the Philippines and an admirable liaison with the lead. SEEKING ADVENTURE ment of Shansi troops back to
maintaining penco skirts of the city the Communists the Chinese, Government redio ad-ing Filipinos, opened fire from the shore less than ministration maintain radio tele- and fostering economic develop three hundred yards away, with graphic circuits between Shang- The Manila Daily Bulletin, the more than 100 rifles and 10 machine hal and San Francisco with a relay only American newspaper in the GIRL FOUND WANDERING AT guns.
Philippines, predicts iri its
RAILWAY STATION. Since the river is too narrow to.
editorial columns that the appoint ment of Mr. Roosevelt will raise
An extensive echeme by the turn around, Tisdale gave the order
The authorities connected with Shansi insurgents to defend to steam past the city, meantime
the issue of forcing Mr. Davis out ordering the Patos batteries to re-
of office and leaving Mr. Roosevelt the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs Tsinanfu is evidenced by the and the Po Leung Kok are in- erection of brick-works and strong turn the fire, which was carried out until the Communist batteries were silenced. The Palos struck more than 100 times.
Five American sallors received flesh wounds, none of them serious,region. while casualties among the Com- munists are thought to be about 30.
Communists Open Fire,
ment.
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IN HONGKONG.
All the Nanking aeroplanes in Hauchow have been commissioned to take part in the Yenchow war. Communication on the Teinanfu- Kiaochow Railway, has again been interrupted by the extensive move-
Tsinahfv, and the express from Tsinanfu can proceed only to
has Taingchow which
been occupied by them from the resign- Nationalist Commander, General Han Fu-chu
ed
Coming from Hoifung, Lukfung and Walchow on the East River district, the coolies, who for the most part speak the Punti and Hokio dialect, come to Hongkong, where, after securing their licences two of them approach a local rieksha farmer with a view to hiring à vehicle. Should they
London, Aug. 3. deal direct with the farmer, they Esperanto as a means of bridging will pay 54 cents per day between the gulf between the workers of the them for the ricksha. A 24-hour East and West was advocated by day is allowed, the two men cach Mr. Hu Yue-tse of Shanghai when doing a shift of 12 hours.
he spoke at the International Work- The success of their trade de-ers Esperanto Conference in Lon- pends very much on the weather, don. Mr. He declared that the rainy days being welcomed as greatest barrier separating Chinese' sure sign of increased business. workers from the workers of the On the average, however, each West was the question of language. will earn from $2 to $250 per Club in Moscow sent messages to The British Labour Party Artists day, upon which income they manage to live fairly comfortably, the five hundred delegates, inelud- Their biggest expense, after paying various. European contingents ing for the hire of the ricksha, is and also Japanese and Chinese.
Reuter, food, which generally costs them
Palos, the Luzon, the Panay, Oahu, between 60 and 70 cents a day.
Tuilla, Guam and Monocacy, but Clothes provide small worry and
due to the large area, are not as chief executive, the reason call for infinitesimal exponse,
considered sufficient to meet the being that the Davis administraterested in a case arising from the barbed wire entanglements at Contrary, perhaps to the gen
crisis, since more than 2,000 tion "is torn to pieces by cross discovery of a 16-year-old girl, who Tawenkow and Talan railway eral impression, the coolles do not
missionaries and more than 100 fire" in the battle between the was found wandering aimlessly at stations. Keen observers of the the Railway Station at Kowloon. situation predict that the end of steep outdoors, but enjoy their
businessmen are stationed in the Washington Administration and She attracted the attention of a the war is near at hand. They own lodging houses, some of
the Filipino Legislature: ?.-
The local outcome is uncertain, Police searcher, who after obtain-forecast a decisive battle on the which are to be found in West Point and Staunton Street, where
Missing Missionaries, but the conclusion is inevitable ing an admission that she had run Tientsin-Pukow Railway some fifty of them gather together
according to astute political ob away from her parents to Hong-time this month. under the same roof, this shelter The Executive of the Textila The firing lasted about an hour,
Advices from Changsha revent servers, that Washington is com- kong in search of adventure, hand- costing them about one dollar Workers' Trade Union has decided while the Palos made an entire cir- cach per month. Here also they to call a strike to-morrow for in-cult of the island in the centre of that foreign naval authorities, prior mitted to a new, firm policy in the ed the girl over to Departmental
to their forced withdrawal, manag- administration of the Philippines, officials. a protest the river in front of the town, la-ed to rescue all the foreigners, total completely abolishing the possibi- While au effort is being made to Indulge in quiet forms of recrea- creased wages and as tion and convert their apartmants against the workers contribution ter dropping down to regular an-ling almost 50, excepting four mis-lity of independence for at least 30 get into touch with the parents, the
under the National Insurance Act.chorage adjacent to the Socony in- into something approaching a clubhouse,
About a hundred thousand work-stallation. ers are involved.Reuter,
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TEXTILE SARIKE IN. FRANCE.
HUNDRED THOUSAND WORKERS INVOLVED.
Lille, Aug. 3.
PRINCE TO VISIT ARGENTINE.
Damage to Property,
at Manila.
sionaries.
| years.
THREE BATTLESHIPS TO GO.
These four include a British wo- man, Misa Gertrude Rugg, of the Bora Gamblers,
China Inland Mission, who is re- The flight of the Communists af-ported to be ill in a village not far They are born gamblers, and although the stake must of neces-
ter the encounter evidently prevent from Changsha. Her fate is un- sity be low, they display all of the
ed the burning of the foreign rea-]known. excitement of the more "wealthy
idence section on the island," al-
Three men refused to leave AMERICAN SCRAPPING UNDER punter. Here, too, they hold their
though the Japanese Consulate, Changsha despite the insistent, EMPIRE INDUSTRIES FAIR club, hospital and a British ship-pleas of naval officers that they
NAVAL TREATY.: meetings and although not form-
NEXT YEAR ing themselves into an organised
ping warehouse on the island al- come aboard the waiting gunboasts. * body, they do exchange their
Buenos Aires, Aug. 3. ready had been fired before the The two Americans who record Washington, Aug. 8. grievances, if any, and contrive The British Ambassador has in- generally to derive some hap-formed President Irigoyen that the also stated that the Jardine counted as missing are W. H. the London Naval Treaty, the Navy piness out of their life.4 12 Prince of Wales will attend the Matheson's wharves were burned. Lingle, of the American Presby- Department has decided to scrap terian Mission, with headquarters the battleships Utah, Wyoming and Wine le very largely drunk as opening of the British Empire In-American river patrol boats now in New York, and Allen Cameron, Florida before October 1, saving at this is the chief means of austen dustries Fair in the Argentine in stationed in the danger zones of the Faith Mission, with head- least four million dollars a year
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1981 Reuters American Service. along the Yangtaze include the quarters in Denver.
Reuters American Service,
girl is being cared for, at the insti- tution of the Po Leung Kok.
FLIES FROM EGYPT.
AMY JOHNSON NEARLY: HOME AGAIN.
Alexandria, Aug, 2.
some.
Ten-Wang Conference.
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan arrived at
Shihchlachwang this morning and an armoured train has been dis patched to Peking to convey Mr. Wang Ching-wel and his party of politicians to Shihchlachwang, where Marshal Yen has arranged a conference with the Kuomintang Leftist leader" and Marahal Feng Yu-haiang. The latter is under-.. stood to be leaving Chengchow some time to-day for Shihchin chwang
Mist Amy Johnson, the young, The Shihchluchwang conference Croydon to Australla recently, ar which Mr. Wang Ching-wet has met rived here from Port Said, where the Northern militarists in person, she left her steamer, the P. and O. and many believe that this meat- ss. Naldera, and to-day new to ing will have far-reaching effects Britain by an Imperial Airways on the formation of a new Peking
Government. mail "plane.Reuter.