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PIRATES KIDNAP FOUR BRITISH OFFICERS Butterfield Ship Attacked from Junks While Lying at Anchor
DIXMUDE AIR MISHAP
INVESTIGATION PROCEEDING
FIRST DISASTER OF CLASS
London, March 29,
The examination and removal of the wreckage of the air liner "City of Liverpool" which met with disaster, near Dixmude, began this afternoon "in the
of a presence
British Air the
Ministry Inspector and Belgian air authorities.
The King, in a message to the Imperial Airways Chairman, Sir Eric Geddes, expresses deep sympathy with the relatives of the passengers and crew who lost their lives and with the Company.
COMMONS QUESTION.
Sir Erie Geddes, in a public statement, says that to those who direct and work for the Imperial Airways, the deplorable accident in a great blow and the shock is
greater owing to the pride they took their nine years record," during which 10,600,000 miles had been flown,
As official inquiries are being conducted. It is undesirable to! hazard a guess as to the cause of
Mr. M. C. Harman.
FINANCIER ON TRIAL
CHOSEN SHARE SALES
CHARGES AGAINST MR. HARMAN.
London, Mar. 29. Grave allegations were
the dienster, but every possible made to-day, when after a that the passengers, who had ap plied for reservations to-day on three weeks' interval, the some of their services exceed the case against Mr. Martin)
accommodation available.
In their grief at the bereave- Coles Harman, the well- ments suffered, the Company find known London financier, and some consolation in the confidence shown on all sides and in the fact three other directors of the that the passengers who had applied Chosen Corporation, was for reservations to-day on some resumed at the Guidlhall. of their services exceed the ac- commodation available..
PUBLIC STÁTEMENT.
in the air.
The accused are
:
Martin Coles Harman, Berkeley Fairfax Conigrave, E. G. Changeat.
H. Hely Pounds.
IN DIFFICULTIES.
DARING EXPLOIT
AT NEWCHWANG
ALL JUNIOR OFFICERS CARRIED OFF
HEAVY FIRE OPENED
NEWCHWANG, MAR. 30.
H.M.S. Bridgewater, now on her way to Weihaiwel, which, in “. view of the kidnapping of four British officers of the B. and S...
Nanchang, may be ordered to Newchwang...
ATTEMPT TO WRECK EXPRESS
TO BE OBJECTIVE
ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING ACTS OF MR. MATSUOKA THOUGHT PIRACY IN THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE CHINA COAST OCCURRED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING WHEN THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY'S S.S. NANCHANG WAS THE VICTIM OF A DARING COUP.
Four British officers and several Chinese were car- ried off for ransom in junks, from which the raid was successfully carried out.
The European victims of the outrage are:
Mr. Clifford Johnson, the Chief Officer, of Berlan
Cliff, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
Boston, Mass. Mar. 29. An apparent httempt to wreck the express train in which Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese diploma tist, was travelling to Bostan, is reported by the railway police who state that two iron rails, wrapped in red and yellow flags, were discovered laid across the track just before the train was due-Reuter,
CHELSEA SURPRISE
SOVIET ADAMANT:
METRO-VICKERS TRIAL TO PROCEED
AMBASSADOR'S VISIT
B
Moscow, Mar. 29, Acting on instructions from London, Sir Esmond Ovey,, the British Ambassador, paid another visit to the Foreign Commia- sariat "to-day in connexion with the arrest of employees of Metro- politan-Vickers.
VALUABLE WIN AT posed to take if the trial was not
DERBY
HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS
According to a semi-official state- ment, the Ambassador went to in-. form the Foreign Commisar what steps the British Government pro cancelled, but Sir Esmond Ovey re- frained from specifying the ma sures when M. Litvinoff declared that the case will be tried shortly add that it is useless for the Bri tish Government to attempt to change that decision.
London, March 29,
IZVESTIA INTERVIEW. Six matches were down for decision
Izvestia has published an inter- In the English and Scottish League to-day in an effort view with M. Vishinsky the Public to clear off some of the arrears case, in which M. Vishinsky vigor. Prosecutor, in connexion with the of fixtures.
Gusly denies the rumours that the Results ran much in accordance prisoners have been subjected to
Mr. W. E. Hargrave, Second Officer, of Ripon, FAMINE STALKS with expectations except at Derby "third degree or any other kind of
Yorks.
Mr. A. D. Blue, Second Engineer, of Glasgow.
Mr. F. L. Pears, Third Kngineer, of Newcastle. The Nanchang was lying at anchor just outside the Newchwang Bar, awaiting for a pilot to come aboard to take her into harbour when the attack was launched. A heavily armed gang invaded the ship from three junks and seized control of the Nanchang within a few minutes.
OFFICERS CAUGHT IN SALOON.
IN RUSSIA
MILLION DEAD IN
KAZAKSTAN
TALE OF BRITISH
TOURIST
4.
where Chelsea snatched victory pressure. by the only goal scored, gaining
The accused, he states, will be two very valuable points in their given. a effort to avoid relegation. The Supreme Court and the trial will public trial in the foot of the table now reads:
probably commence early next Bolton 35.10 8 17 63 78 28 month. Foreign counsel may at Blackpool 34 12 3 1 67 70 27 tend the hearings but will not be Middlesbro 33 10 6 17 40 63 20 Chelse
permitted to act for the accused. Wolves...
The public prosecutor said the Leicester 936 11 16 50 76 23secuting authorities by the 0.G. case was passed over to the pro- Southern Section matches both P.J. on March 19. It was now
34 12 4 19 42 81 23
34 D 7 18 68 87 25
resulted in a sharing of points but being investigated with a view to in the Northern Section, Chester, a thorough elucidation of all the by a five-goal victory, resume circumstances. A number of the leadership, the three leading teams accused, both Russian and British, being:
had already been examined. Chester
Derby
34 20 4 8 81 47 46 33 19 7 7 78 37 46
The air disaster was the subjuct
Berlin, Mar. 30. of a question. In, the Commons
Russia to-day is gripped by a where the Under-Secretary for Air,
The junks appear to have ap made, out of reach of arms even famine as disastrous as the cat Hull. Sir Philip Sassoon, said the air
proached the Nanchang and drawn if they had felt disposed to resist astrophe of 1921 when millions Wrexham ... 32 19 6 8 92 47 43 craft appears to have caught fire November 10, 1930 and August attention aboard The Arst warn with a fait accompli
They are charged with, between alongside without attracting any the outrage when practically faced died of starvation, declared Mr. Until the receipt of the pre-131, 1982, unlawfully conspiring to ing of anything untoward afoot
The Chinese crew were marshall- La after a long walking tour in Gareth Jones, who arrived in Ber
The results are appended: liminary report from the Inspector defraud the shareholders of the was provided by the opening of aed and threatened while the of Russi
FIRST DIVISION.. of-Accidents this morning, it is Chosen Corporation.
heavy fire by the pirates, as they ficers were carefully guarded in the not possible to make any further)
boarded the ship.
saloon.
0 Chelsen Mr. Gareth Jones who at one statement, ."
Fourteen of the gang actually
As far as is known, no attempt time was political secretary to
DIVISION JII (SOUTH). In the meantime, reports such The prosecution alleges that took part in the boarding, blazing was made to loot the ship, the Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal Aldershot as that the fire started in one of money belonging to the Chosen away in all directions with their pirates, having reason to fear the leader, is now on his way the engines should be treated with Corporation was used by Harmon, revolvers with the object of ter- arrival of the pilot boat and the Landon,
to Bristol R.
1 Bristol C. the greatest reserve.
with the concurrence of his rarising the crew.
giving of warning.
DIVISION III (NORTH), Sir Philip Sassoon recalled that defendants, to "boleter up" his
He describes conditions ná ap- since the last accident attended by other companies to get them out;
palling.
Chester 2 loss of life, nearly 24 years ago, of grave difficulties. Imperial Airways had ficwn over four million milos and carried over 99,000 passengers," a record of safety in which the country might take legitimate pride.
The type of machine involved bad. been in constant use for six years and this is the first accident in the course of over 2,000,000 miles flown by this type on regular services.
THE INVESTIGATION.
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The arrests followed a per- sonal application by the Director of Public Prosecu- tions (Sir E. Tindal Atkin- 'son), and were made at No. 11, Angel Court, the offices of the Chosen Coproration.
"Harman is the director of at least fourteen companies, the chief of them being the Chosen Corporation wwith a capital of £500,000, of which Under approved International Harman owned three-fifthe and the procedure, the responsibility for public the remainder.
the investigation rested with the
SHARE SALES
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There was no opportunity for defence. The officers were all in the saloon when the attack was
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Á million persons are already reported to have died in the Kazaksta district.
Dundee
INTER-VARSITY GOLF MATCH
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"SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS."
They were being prosecuted on charges of deliberate injury to the equipment of electrical enterpri- ses, deeds perpetrated in accord- ance with special instructions," constituting a crime as defined in Article 58 of the Criminal Code, also for other crimes including the giving and acceptance of bribes. The present Judical in- vestigation would be completed within the next ten days or so and the case would then be tried by a special session of the Supreme Court.
"The present judical investiga....... tion is being conducted in strict keeping with the provisions of the Soviet Code of Criminal Prace- dure. Only enemies striving by every means to worsen our rela tions with other States could. spread absurd rumours alleging deviations from the established rules of procedure, which we are “ strictly carrying out.
Captain J. Robinson, the master of the Nanchang, and Mr. A. Jeffrey, the Chief Engineer, were allowed to remain with their ship, bat Mesars. Johnson, Hargrave, Blue and Pears were compelled to go aboard the junks, which Im-
PEASANT REVOLT. mediately set sail It is thought that the pirates will effect a land-
There is insufficient seed and ing down the coast and take their many of the peasants are too weak captives into the Interior. Reuter. to work the land. The tragedy is due to the peasants' resistance to NEWCHWANG REPUTATION. the Government's policy of col- The kidnapping of the four Bri-lectivisation and the lack of skilled tich officers, suggests a possible re- labour, together with the collapse petition of the events
of transport and finance. at New- chwang last year when Mrs. Muriel | The arrest of the British en played over the Prince's course at sky explained that the accused, In the Inter-Varsity golf match, fence of the accused, Mr. Vishin Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran gingers of the Metro-Vickers com-
vity for several weeka..
LIGHT BLUES WIN EASILY
London, Mar. 29.
DEFENCE ARRANGEMENT. - In answer to levestie's inquiry as to arrangements for the de
The co-defendants are also direc- country in which the accident oc- tors of the Chosen Corporation as curred, though it was customary to well as of some of Ifarman's other associate with the enquiry, the companies.
Reorived March Were carried off and held in capti-pany and the recent shooting of Sandwich, Cambridge University including the six British subjects. technical representatives of the
thirty-five prominent agricultural Proved vastly superior winning by were at liberty to engage any country to which the aircraft be- longed.
Newchwang is in Manchukuo ter-ists were, in the opinion of Mr. ten matches to three, two others member of the Bar for their de The prosecution alleges that be- It was announced in the House ritory, now virtually under Japan Gareth Jones, attempts to appease being halved.
fence. Otherwise they would be No doubt in the present case the tween January, 1931 und August of Commons this afternoon by Dr. ese control.
the popular wrath at the Tamine the foursomes, Cambridge winning provided for by law.
Oxford put up a good fight in defended by a person specially responsible Belgian authorities 1832, they spent £130,669 in pur-L. Burgin, of the Board of Trade, The Nanchwang left Hongkong-Reuter. would work in the closest and most chasing for the Corporation or its that exports of ordnance and high for Sancho, Shanghai and New
by, three matches to two, but were cordial co-operation with British three subsidiaries registered in explosives from the United King-chwang on March 16. It is believed
overwhelmed in the singles, Cam- of the U.S.S.R., as with most other "According to the existing laws experts. He conveyed to the re-Japan, 178,029 Chosen shares at an dom to China and Japan durlag that no European passengers were latives of those killed, the pro-
bridge winning by seven matches countries, including England, for (Continued on Page 7) found sympathy of the Secretary
of State and himself at the loss
so tragically sustained-British CATHOLICS WITHDRAW
Wireless,
DOLLAR RISES SLIGHTLY
MARKET CONDITIONS
VERY DULL
INTERDICTION
Accept Hitler's Promise
case of Japan...
of
the eighteen months ended in aboard in view of the probability February totalled £51,816 in the that they would have been kidnap- case of China and £290,000 in the ped in preference to the officers.
The Nanchang is a vessel The problem of the export of 2,488 tons, built in 1922 by Scotts arma in relation to present condi- of Greenock. She is 295, feet long. tions in the Far East is being has a beam of 44 feet and a depth examined at Geneva by a sub-com- of 19.6 feet. mittee of the League of Nations
| Advisory Committee which was net up to follow the developments of
of Respect for Rights the Sino-Japanese dispute,
Berlin, Mar. 20.
Capt. Anthony Eden stated In the House of Commons to-day that the members of the Committee
MR. NORMAN DAVIS IN ENGLAND
London, Mar. 29,
FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT
COOLIE RUN OVER AND KILLED
to one, with two halved-Reuter.
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eign barristers are not permitted. to act for the defence.. This na- turally does not mean that foreign
FARM · MORTGAGE counsel cannot be present at the
A fatal train mishap occurred at Taipo yesterday morning, when BILL Liu Wong, a coolie employed by the Waterworks Department, was run over and killed,^^..
BANK
INTRODUCED IN probably commence U.S. SENATE
The victim was walking along
(Special to "Talegraph”) Mr. Norman Davis, principal the railway lines on No. 32 Rail- The conference of Catholic Bi- yesterday agreed to consult their United States delegate to the Dis way Bridge and appears to have degrank, Caparthi, Theprankis Mas The Hongkong dollar rose 1/8th shops at Fulde issued a manifesto Governments on the specific ques- armament Conference, arrived at boon oblivious to the approach of mese Ordinance, 2884. Encsiană“ March this morning to 18. 3%d. The to-day withdrawing its previous tions of principle and of execution Plymouth and before proceeding the No. 5 down train passing the .....) local mare is, however, easy, with prohibition and warnings against placed before them in connexion to Genova will spend a few days spot at 10.50 am. He was on his A Bill for the creation of a
Washington, Mar. 20. no-one inclined to do business. the Nazi movement in view of with disputes in another part of the In London, where he will have an way from Taipo Market to Talpe.$50,000,000 Central Farm Mort
In London, silver advanced Herr Hitler's promise that the world. That sub-committee might opportunity of discussing dia Kau,
gage Bank was Introduced in the 4/16ths, whilst in New York there rights of the Catholic Church In be in possession of the essential armament and the World Econo-
Death was instantaneous, the re- Senate to-day by Senator McAdoo was' á rise of 1/8th. The cross Germany will be respected. Row- facts as soon as possible, he added: mic Conference with the Prime mains being afterwards removed to
The Bill is backed by the Gov rate in 8.414N
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ernment Reuter,
trial, since there can be no limita- tions in this respect. The case will be tried at a special public session of the Supreme Court. It will
early April."Ratter and Tass.
FORD STRIKE ENDED
WORKERS BACK AT DAGENHAM
London, Mar. 29. The strike at the Ford motors works at Dagenham, Eanex, which began on Monday, was settled this afternoon, British Wireless,