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NAPIER.
PANIC GROWS: GRAPHIC
DISASTER STORIES.
.DEATH-ROLL OFFICIALLY PLACED
AT OVER A THOUSAND!
GALLOWS.
DERVISH'S DARING
ESCAPE.
|SMYRNA HANGING.
curfew,
DETENTION.
DENIAL BY NANKING GOVERNMENT.
CONFLICTING REPORTS MAKE POSITION OBSCURE.
by
it
DROWNED.
WALKED OFF PIER INTO SEA.
NOT IDENTIFIED.
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his
TO CAR OWNERS.
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Washable. Durable-
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Carpet or Linuleum,~~-
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TRAPPED IN FUSELAGE.
HONGKONG GOVT.
DEFENDED.
SHARP RETORT TO LEAGUE OPIUM CRITIC.
which
were
NINE DEAD IN R.A.F. DISASTER.
HUGE CROWD SEES TRAGIC. MISHAP:
PLYMOUTH MACHINE BREAKS IN TWO.
London, Feb. 4. Thousands of people along Plymouth Hoe and the wa- terfront witnessed the ter- rible accident in which ping officers and men of the Royal Air Force lost their lives to-. day. There were three sur- vivors, one of whom is suf- fering from serious injuries. The machine involved was
Constantinople, Feb. 4.
unknown European or 1929 EXPORT FIGURES. An exciting and successful at-
CANTON MYSTERY.
foreigner committed suicide or tempt to cheat the gallows has
was accidentally drowned this just been revealed in connexion
Genova, Feb. 4. Nanking, Feb. 4.
morning, walking into the Har- Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the with the executions at Menemen In view of conflicting reports Kowloon Godowns.
bour from No. 5 Pier, at the British drug expert, was forced to yesterday. when twenty-eight concerning the alleged detention believed to have been
The man is come to the defence of Hongkong BIG PLANE SINKS. dervishes, hojas, sheikhs and of General Wang Shao-hung by the influence of drink at
under during the discussion at to-day's others were taken out to be the Central Government, which time of the incident, and there the League.
the scasion of the Oplum Committee of hanged in different parts of the is denied village while all the villagers authorities.
the Nanking is at present no clue to
Mr. Lyall, who is the Chairman were confined to their homes by that the
would seemidentity.
of the Permanent Opium Board, real position re-
disputed figures It would appear from a report before the Committee regarding garding the breakdown in the made to the Police by Mr. It, Gose, the weight of opium imported in negotiations between Nanking Fourth Officer of the impress of 1929 from Hongkong to India. and the Kwangsi Party will not Japan, which was lying at the
Sir Malcolm Delevingne sharply be clarified for some time. Pier, that the man feft the ship, retorted that the Government of Since his arrival in Nanking I walked the end of the wharf Hongkong was not in the habit of General Wang Shao-hùng has had font into the water.
giying wrong figures. | two conferences
with Marshal Lite-hours
Immediately In earlier discussion, the Com- Chiang Kai-shek and harmony had thrown from the ship, but he a-mittee passed a resolution, to the large Blackburn Iria flyingboat news came that the Kwangi Com- apparently been reached when peared to ignore them, swimming effect that diluted drugs shall be of No.209 Flying Boat Squadron, out for a time and then disappear-considered as falling within the pro-Mount Batten. It crashed and manders at Nanning. Generals Liing beneath the surface.
visions of the Geneva Opium Con- sank in Batten Bay, Plymouth Chung-yen, Pei Chung-lini
Blasts blown by the Officer on a whistle summoned the concentration.
Fourth vention, whatever the degree of Sound, those killed including the No. 6 Police launch to the spot. The Committee also passed amander C. G. Tucker, Flying pilot of the machine, Wing Com- and search дя carried out resolution that the Lengue Council Officer F. K. Wood, who
should urge governments to refuse
REEKING MASS OF RUINS.
The escape, which seemed al- most impossible, was made by a THE EARTHQUAKE upheaval at Napier defies dervish, zamed Hussein, who
description, the town having been converted into a caped from
of the hands reeking ruin, which is to be abandoned. The harbour-Kipsy hangman, dashed through a bed has risen eighteen feet! A hundred feet have been
acordor of astonished troops, and ran the gauntlet of an outburst added to the foreshore. The death-roll, it is feared, is
of drink. extremely heavy, but defeat attempts at estimation for made for the fus ve but he has Vigorous searches have been the present, though some hundreds of the injured are in not yet been recaptured. a critical condition.
Eye-witnesses of the hanginges pay a tribute to the outstanding courage of the only non-Muslim condemned, a dew named Junkman
Hastings appears to have suffered equally severely. Vivid stories of individual experiences are coming to hand, together with details of some appalling tragedies. The Dean of Brocklehurst was badly injured when St. John's Cathedral was destroyed beyond repair, the building crashing upon a number of communicants.
The latest message states that earth tremors have 'recommenced in the Napier region, further damaging buildings, and increasing the prevailing alarm. Red Cross officials now estimate the total death-roll as considerably over a thousand.
SHOP-GIRL'S TERRIBLE END.
Wellington, Feb. 4. A special despatch from Napier) describes it as a town swiped from the map.
The town is now a reeking mass of ruin. There is not a singi building standing in the centre of
the city. The streets have been torn up in a manner beyond dé- scription.
managed to crawl through the debris into the street." Everywhere. says Mr. Weston,
There
BIDANURILANDENERGIERRYALL
BROPHY RESUMES FLIGHT.
Hops Of From Foochow for Canton.
TO MANILA LATER.
Foochow, Feb. 5, After tuning up his machine after his recent forced landing. Mr. G. W. Brophy hopped off for Canton at 9.15 a.m. to-day: Ös arriving at Canton, he will fly to Manila, in connexion with the plans for inaugurating an air servies between Shnighni and the Philippines.—Renter,
Chang Fat-kwai, had repudiated the authority of General Wang.
Troops Disarmed.
Were
The Kwangsi Communders, re- | cumnat cording to news reaching here. took action on Monday when they proceeded to disarm all forers belonging to General Wang.
News of this development and of the commanders' threat to form an independent Military Govern- ment at Nanning, in defiance of Nanking, naturally enused strong suspicions to be aroused here.
The position at the moment is not clear, but if the Government has maintained strict surveillance over the movements of General Wang, he is none the less able to express his opinións to Chinese
correspondents newspmper
who interviewed him this morning.
Diplomalle Means. General Wang said the Nanking Government had not changed its intention of settling the military
for 1993 F3 chaos in Kwangat by diplomatic
were poor souls In panie, terror-stricken appents help coming from every side..
Appalling Sight.
Hains, fe adjusted the le what was once a not depart-round his neck himself.
Another villager who was ment, a man was seen desperately fighting for his life. Help was hanged left his entire fortune the for the equivalent of £30,000
new
GREYHOUND RACING IN SHANGHAI.
Council Adheres To Ils Decision,
TO STOP IN APRIL..
Shanghai, Feb. 5.. The Municipal Counell to-day informed the Greyhound Racing Club (Luna Park) and the Shanghai Greyhound Club (Stadium), in reply to the Clubs representations that the Council still adheres to its de- cision regarding the banning of greyhound racing.
Dog racing will therefore rease after March 31st.-Onr Our Correspondent.
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import and export certificates to rescued but died in hospital, and notorious traffickers in drugs. seven men.
Mr. Lyall drew attention to the Two other officers were rescued, excessive consumption of drugs in injured, one of them seriously, and Kwantung, the Japanese leased one Non-Commissioned Officer alone. territory, and Baron Sato said his escaped uninjured. government recognised that the Altuation was unsatisfactory and would take steps to effect an improvement.-Reuter.
OUSTRIC BANK'S AFFAIRS.
NOW DECLARED TO BE BANKRUPT.
Paris, Feb.,4. The Oustric Bank, which has hitherto benefited by the regime)
Occupants Trapped.
The disaater ocurred when the machine was about to alight and one report states that the course of the machine was auddenly altered to avoid a small boat, and that the fyingboat's tilting wing touched the water.
Motor-boats rushed to the scene und rescued survivors before the machine sank with the other occu- pants trapped in the fuselage.
Sunshine To Blame?
Later, Divers at Plymouth Sound are.
of so-called “Judicial Equidation," searching for the bodies of the was-to-day declared bankrupt by crew of the flyingboat, which wOB the Tribunal of Commerce.
a huge type of aircraft, comprising The Bank's liabilities cannot yet sleeping quarters, cookery facilities, emergency wireless, and carrying a collapsible dinghy.
later the
other heights behind the town, out of the question. In one corner erection of a tiny mosque.---Reuter, and a Military Council to which an hour without any trace of the footwearulser of a gigantic fonta in the air and the cabin sub-
will be
Bluff Hill, Hospital Hill, and ernshed down upon buildings, fire broke out, but an appeal for: burying them completely, and the buckets brought little response sea-line has receded perhaps from the panic-stricken people.) hundred feet from the Marine it was an appalling sight. The EMANICIPATION OF would leave Nanking
Parade.
Residents
tire-engines
were pinned inside their station.
rich
the
say that the earth watermains had burst. little could movement at the time of the worst he done anyhow, shocks was almost vertical, the ground suddenly subsiding with a sickening jolt.
Heavy Death-roll Feared.
A later message from Nupler A despatch from Hastings, states that the killed include nt nurses, and probably twenty miles away, reveals that, fenat seven at the time of the disturbanec, the forty students at the Napier Tech town was full of shoppers whonical School, who were
in the building when it collapsed. were caught like rats in traps.
The Dean of Brockleburst was conducting Communion Service nt St. John's Cathedral when the Buildings crumbled with deafening roar, crushing staff and gilding crumbled and burled the |communicants. The Dean was
gravely injured,
Deafening Roar.
customera.
The first thing a constable rush- ing from the police station saw the
It is still impossible to estimate
several hundreds among over
WOMEN.
of
Later.
Was
means, and in view of the prevail- uncer- nooseing rumours of political
be estimated. tainty at Nuuning, the Gavernment
Oustrie, director
On November 20th, M. Albert had decided to establish at the
of the Oustric The remains of the machine are earliest possible moment a Kwangai Provincial Government which was continued for nearly Bank, former Toulouse waiter, and now lying on the bottom with its
trust, who was charged berged. entrusted the task
missing man being found.
with Fraud and licit operations
The disaster, It is believed was military rehabilitation.
on the Bourse, has been further due to the pilot mistaking the level General Wang added that he
The mystery surrounding the charged, inter alia, with fictitious of the water owing to the reflection together man's identity and actions re-securities In connexion with the of bright sunshine. with General Chan Chai-tong asmained unsolved when the Em- cane pending against the famous soon as the Government had de press of Japan pulled out
Broken in Half. from financier, Rochette, who was sen- cided on the appointment of new port at noon. Investigations have, tenced to several years' imprison- The plane struck the officials for the Kwaugai regime. however, revealed that he
Bea too some years ago.
soon, It was badly damaged, and The ex-Commissioner of Re- not a passenger or member of the
Four other регаоль were sank rapidly, carrying Wing-Com construction in Kwangsi. General crew of the liner.
with Oustrie in charged
this mander Tucker and seven men un Wu Ting-yang, who is a close as
matter.
der, trapped in the cabin. Tokyo, Feb. 5.
sociate of General Wang, snid
The Rules Commission on the Four were rescued women's emanieination movement reports
The rapid advance made by the that Nanning messages denied the
Chamber on the some day adopted Officer Wood succumbed in hospital but Flying of the disarming of
the text of a motion in favour of and another officer is in a critical in Japan in recent years le shown General Wang's forecs. General
Parliamentary Commission to condition. by the Government's introduction Wu said that the Kwangsi pence
enquire into the Oustric affair.- of a Bill proposing to grant women delegates would not leave Nanking
Later. Reuter.
Divers have located the crashed equal franchise rights with men in until harmony had been reached elections for city, town and village with the Nanking authorities.
flying-boat broken in half. autonomous assemblies, as a pre- liminary to the granting of na-i
Canton Mystery. Linnal suffrage.
SUFFRAGE BILL PRESENTED IN JAPAN.
A similar Bill was introduced
Nanking, Feb. l. Government leaders officially
CIVIL AVIATION.
IN EAST.
WHAT GERMANY AND U. S. ARE DOING.
London, Feb. 4.
was a young girl sitting near the oft-roll, but the condition by private members in the last deny the report of a coup d'etat questioner drew attention to the
session. It passed the Lower
the ruins, and although the people Hitherto afty-seven bodies have verument Bill
who escaped tore frantically at the been identified. ruina, nothing could be done as the victims were soon swallowed up
by flames.
navai
FISHING TRAWLER GOES ASHORE.
1
The bodies of Wing-Com- mander Tucker and Aircrafts- man Rutledge have been re- covered.
In the House of Commons, TOWED OFF AFTER SEVERAL
The forward portion of the By- ATTEMPTS. road, with her legs severed below a thousand receiving medical at House but was shelved by the at Canton on the 2nd instant.
establishment of the German
Ingboat has been towed sahore. The the knees. Men. Women and tention is reported to be critical or Peers.
Wang Shao-hung, the Kwangai Berlin-Nanking air service and the Arriving here on Monday morn after portion, in which it is believed, children were acreaming beneath serious,
the the other bodies will be found, lies It is generally believed the Go-leaders, states that he has been attachment of an air expert to the lug. T. Matsui, master of
presented thin in daily communication by wire- United States Trade Commia-Karumo Maru, a fishing trawler, in deep water.
in Shanghai. He reported to the Harbour Office that morning will share the same fate, less with his colleagues in Nan afoner's office
Unable To Flatten. Armed Marines on Patrol.
but growing Interest in the ques-ning, and nothing has been men asked what steps were being taken the Mikore Maru No. 11, another
It is now bellaved that Wing- tioned, regarding the reported to advance British civil aviation in fishing trawler, went aground at Armod marines From
tion appears to Indicate that the women will be given at least a coup d'etai.
the Far East.
Hainan Straits. cruisers Dunedin and Diomede are limited share in the governance of
Commander Tuckor was unable to The report Floctors worked under most patrolling the town, and
probably due to Mr. F. Montague, Under-Seere- | The Karamo Maru etood. by for flatten out his machine as it was a misunderstanding, because whentary for Air, sald any proposals in 28 she was engaged in trying to speed of about seventy miles an the trying
few days, and on January 27 and about to land. He hit the sea at n conditions, operating parties are distributing food.
country before long. The
for Nanking, upon
Pre- this connexion would ba sympathe-tow off thu stranded boat. Many hour. The bowe went under and question affecta over thirteen mil he left many people without stulta. anaesthetics. One doctor was
parations, were being made to distically considered,—Reuter. The complete disorgantention oflion women.-Reuter.. seen early in the morning, his normal communications with the
arm the Communist troops "under" Gen. Li Ming-shui.—Reuter. cont soaked with blood, hacking area of North Island, New Zea- his way into a chemist's shop land, devastated by the disastrous to secure supplies.
earthquake, renders it impossible. to give a reliable estimate of loss Mr. Weston, the managing direc-of life involved. It will probably tor of Weston Brothers, Limited. be some days before the search; of Christchurch, describes the for the missing among the debris horror of the collapse of a shop of the falls in buildings is com at Hastings, in which he had just plated, and meanwhile extravagant *completed some business.
Agures should treated with re-
Оне
THE ANGLO-IRAK TREATY.
CORDIAL MESSAGES, MARK, RATIFICATION.
London, Feb. 4. "A young girl assistant rush-serve.
On the occasion of the exchange of the immediate effects of of ratification of the Anglo-Irak ed into my arms. I endeavour the disaster was a breakdown of Treaty, messages have passed be ed to pacffy her, remarking that the it would be all over in a second authorities, fearing an outbreak George and alea between the sewerage system and the tween King Feisal and King but then came the big crash. A of disenso, issued a general order Prime Minister of Irak and Mr. steel pillar fell across the girl's to-night, decreeing the evacuation tamany MacDonald, body, crushing her alongside the of Napler within two days. counter. She pleaded to be re- leased, but the pillar held her Jike a vice. "In a moment her
Lord Medisloe's Despatch.
A telegram recolved in London ily had gone real food that I this morning by the Secretary for fhad escaped death by Inches. I (Continued on:Page 8,)
The report is mystifying. It would avem that something out of the ordinary. 'has occurred i11. South China,, which has caused a great deal of confusion.
PRINCESS MAKES
PROGRESS.
FRENCH ADMIRAL'S
DEATH.
RESCUE OF 50 CHINESE RECALLED.
Paris, Feb. 4. The dont la announced of Vica-Admiral Gauchet, at the age
CONDITION CONTINUES TO BE of 74 years.
SATISFACTORY..
London, Feb. 4. The following bullentin was The King in his telegram to issued at Kensington Palace this King Faisal says share your evening:"Apart from weakness, hope that our two countries will which is to be expected at this be joined in an enduring bond of stage of the illness, the condition cordial friendship and prosperity!! of Princess Beatrice continues Britton Wireless.
satisfactory "--British, Wireless).
attempts were made to got the ver- the back of the craft buckled. · wel off, and on the evening of the The great machine was of all- 28th, this was achieved. The metal construction and was que of |Karumo Máru then returned to the largest and fastest of Ita type, Hongkong,
being equipped with three engines of 705 hp, each. It had a speed at sea level of 121 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 100 mile an hour and a landing speed of 50 miles an hour.
ALPINE DISASTER
RECALLED.
BUDIES OF THREE VICTIMS
DISCOVERED,
Wing-Commander Tucker had completed an exercise and was ro- turning when the crash occurred.- Reuter and British Wireless,
Brigue, Feb, 4. After esveral hours search, a The deceased. commanded the party led by one of the surviving
The Royal Observatory reports Allied forces in the Mediterranean guides from the recent mountain that depressions are shown to the In 1916 and had an eventful disaster in which three British lady west of Nagasaki and over Tong- Career in the Far East nineties. As Commander of the ceeded in discovering the bodles over North China. The monsoon In the tourists lost their lives has sucking. An anticyclone has formed gunboat Lion, he rescued fifty of three of the victims. There will wet in again along the 8.9 k Chine survivors of the British were Mrs. Furnivali, Mise Gallo Coast of China. The local forecEMESA steamer Kowshing, which was way and one of the guide. South of Bat Witida, moderate sunk by a Japanese warship during the body of Mian Furnivall has generally cloudy, tome dried the Sino-Japanese War—Reuters, not yet