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KINGSFORD-SMITH REACHES LAND SAFELY
PLANE'S MOTORS
FAILED
REPORTED SINKING IN TASMAN SEA
RADIO TOLD THRILLING TALE OF ADVENTURE
Sydney, May 15.
Reported sinking in the Tasman Sea, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, and two companions, is now definite- ly reported safely landed at 3.30 o'clock this after- noon, local time.
Sir Charles was earlier reported down at sea, the engines of the tri-motor monoplane Southern Cross, having failed him. Rescue vessels were racing from this port:
Sir Charles has with him Capt. P. C. Taylor, who, was his navigator on the recent Pacific crossing, and a wireless operator, J. Stánnidge.
The three men were flying a Jubilee Air Mail from Sydney to Wellington, N.Z., and were 500 miles at sea when their engines first gave signs of failing,
AUSTRIA
The following despatches are through Reuter: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, famous Australian pilot, who left Sydney yesterday on a special Jubilee flight with a huge load of uir mall for New Zealand, har wireleased that he is in difficulties half-way across the Tasman Sea, with one propellar goue and another engine spluttering.
"I am dumping cargo. Unable
to keep height. May have to dump maila" and "petrol, Hope Sydney
TO BUILD
AIR FORCE
FOREIGN GUNMEN SOUGHT
DARING HOLD-UP IN SHANGHAI
JEWELLER ROBBED
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie | Mrasmyra Ejedima net, 1) Brevivedi May
18, 2.15 p.)
Shanghai, May 15. Three armed foreigners, beloved to be Americans, held up the well-known jewellers" establish- ment, Sennet Freres, in Nanking Road at 1.20 o'clock to-day.
They bound the Chinese clerks. with copper wire and gagged them with adhesive tape, and then
Lieut. Col. T. E. Lawrance, who sot about ransacking the safe, has been seriously injured in a motor- which was already open, tefsurely fashion.
cycle crash.
In a
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, noted airman, who has sent out an 5.0.5. whilst crossing the Traman Sea.
All this while hundreds of peo-F He is flying with mails to New Zaple were passing the doors of the store on their way to and from their luncheons.
land.
Reaction
To Rise
The bandits escaped 'with the contents of twenty-four trays of diamonds, jewellery of all sorts, and watches, valued at many thousands of dollars,
This is the first hold-up by
In Silver foreigners in the history of Shang-
Police are bending every effort towards the apprehension of the
H.K. AND SHANGHAI|gangsters.-United Press.
DOLLARS FIRM
BULLISH
TENDENCY
There has been no marked reaction in Hongkong or Shang-
will have fast destroyer handy but VON STARHEMBERG hai to the over-night Increase In
hope reach const.".
Later
́ ́Sir--Charles has sent¬üut ̄an 3.0.S., giving his position na 500 miles from Sydney.
Apparently there are no ships near him. Nor are there any planes here fit to go to the rescue,
The cruiser Canberra, however,
Is being despatched.
TO COMMAND
TESTING OPINION
Vienna, May 14
London Silver prices, or to the apparently "bullish" statements of the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Mr, Henry Morgenthau, with respect to the American silver policy.
The Hongkong dollar advanced a quarter to 29, 44d. and in
Following the example of Ger- Shanghat the foreign exchange
He has with him his companion many, Austrịu has taken what will market was steady, with
rates
of many adventures, Navigator be regarded as a decisive step around yesterday's closing levels.
HEADING FOR HOME
Sir Charles has now
Bent
towards the bullding up of an
The absence of firmness in
400 DIE IN MINE DISASTER
CAVE-IN NEAR -TSINGTAO
RESCUERS HELPLESS
Lawrence's
Condition Critical
MOTHER NOTIFIED
IN CHINA
BROTHER FLIES TO LONDON (Special 10 "Telegraph”)
London, May 14.
Colonel T. E. Lawrence, the man and who conquered the Turka their allies in Arabín, is lying un- conscious in hospital with a frac tured skull, and very near to death:
wrecked his
He deliberately motor-cycle in an attempt to avoid striking a boy cyclist, Albert Hargreaves, 15. Hargreaves was very slightly hurt in the collision which Lawrence could not quite prevent.-United Press.
MORE EXPANSION FOR R.A.F.
BRITAIN TO TREBLE DEFENCE FORCE?
CABINET CONSIDERING NEW PROGRAMME
There have been developments in the military camps of Europe during the past few days which are believed to be highly significant. The most important is announced from London by Reuter to-day. It is to the effect that Great Britain, in the immediate future, will probably treble the strength of her home defence air forces, increasing them from forty-three to a hun- dred and twenty-eight squadrons.
Meanwhile, in Vienna, it is announced that the Heimwehr has decided to follow Germany's lead and build an Air Force, with Prince von Starhemberg at its head. Paris is testing her air defences.
In Rome Mussolini has just announced that Britain and France will not interfere in the Italo-Abyssinian dispute and in Moscow M. Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister and M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Russian Com- missar for Foreign Affairs, are discussing ways and means of extending to Eastern Europe a form of Locarno pact.
LEAVING ITALY ALONE
_BRITAIN, FRANCE- WON'T MEDDLE
ABYSSINIAN PROBLEM
Received, May
London, May 14. The Daily Telegraph Air Cor- respondent understands that plane the for the rapid expansion of | Royal Air Force are being consi
dered by the Cabinet, for the pur- pose of trebling the home defence -forces.
It in suggested that the forty- three home squadrons of 498 planes will be expanded to 128 squadrona of 1,400 machines.
This expansion will tako place over a period of two years and will mean the virtual doubling of the entire strength of the Royal Air Force, at home and abroad.— Reuter.
MOSCOW TALKS
Maxim Litvinoff, to-day.
Tsingtao, May 15. It is feared that 400 miners. cave-in in the
Moscow, May 14. have perished In Chiehuen District coal mines, near OFFICIAL STATEMENT
M. Pierre Laval, French Foreign (Special to "Telegraph") Taylor, and a wireless operator official Air Force, contrary to the Shanghai is due to the belief that?
Telnglac. named Stannidge.
London, May 14.
Minister, conferred with M. Stalin, While over 400 were below
Rasalan Dictator, and the Russian They were
carrying 34,000 terms of the Treaty of Versailles. London silver prices rose to ground yesterday afternoon, the Lieut. Col. T. E. Lawrence, Mapes Ordisaner, 1884.
fly Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Foreign Affairs Commissar, M. A meeting of the General Stair sharply, which view is substantiat-whole roof of one of the largest Britain's hero of Arabia, Injured i letters and 1,400 pounds of freight, of the Heimwehr to-night, at ed by the fact that business was drift workings collapsed. part of which was taken from
yesterday when he attempted to
Their conversations were con- Ulm's former plane, Faith of which the Vice-Chancellor and done at a halfpenny below the
Besides the miners, there were avoid a collision with a boy on a
Paris, May 14.
cerned with the Franco-Soviet plan Australia which had intended to Heimwehr chief, Prince von Star-ocial price after the fixing, says eleven Chinese and Japanese bicycle, is known to be in a critical| Neither the French nor British for an Eastern European treaty necompany the Southern Cross of hemberg presided, it was decided the United Preta,
It is condition. He will be unconscious Government has any desire to If the occasion arose, to economic engineers underground,
obliging the signatorias to submit, her flight to New Zealand.
to form a special Heimwehr Fly- The general consensus of feared that all have perished. ing Corps.
opinion in Shanghal is that Mr. To add to the horror, immediate-
¡for soveral days, doctors said. annoy Italy, or to offend Signor
The veil of official secrecy was Mussolini, by intervening in the Penalties against any act of aggres- Prince von Starherberg will be Morgenthau's speech was bullish By after -the cave-in,
between the commander-in-chief.
water lifted this afternoon and it was dispute for silver and bearish for sterling poured into the workings. Even admitted that Lawrence, or T. E. Abyssinin, well-informed
Italy
and glon, and to insist upon the penal- ties against any of their number circles, radio message that he is making circles as an experiment to tost dollar, this agency adds..
The move is regarded in political in relation to the United States, before the Booding, the miners Shaw, as he is now legally named, declared here to-day.
which violated the treaty's provi good progress towards Sydney the Little Entente's attitude to-
might have been roached before was suffering from concussion and
sions-United Press, Although He is only 220 miles away now.
silver prices in
However, both Britain and Tell wives not to worry." the warda an Austrian Air Force. London yesterday substantially they sufocated behind the wall of a fractured skull.
rock which cut them off from suc-
France would probably discreetly Major-General advanced, following the bullish
W. West, express their desire for a mixed to la Majesty Arbitration Commission instead of interpretation of Mr. Morgenthau's cour, the rising water made hope speech on America's monetary considered.
wore called Into consultation. polley, the Hongkong dollar rose! Nevertheless, rescue gangs im-The consultation lasted
were the only nations represented, only a farthing this morning, the mediately set to work in the un-nearly midnight, after which it until
save for the neutral chairman. sellers and 28, 5.5/16d. buyers.
With the local dollar failing to cut a way to water and attempted condition was still critical but Signer Mussolini told the Senate damaged ond of the drift. They was announced that Lawrence's In a speech delivered in Rome, react to silver pricas,. the market
business rates being 2s. 6d.
1
fliers' message said. "Still flying." Renter.
The pilot steamor, Captain Cook, has gone out to meet the plane.
Shipping in the vicinity has been instructed to keep a look-out
for the Southern Cross.
PLANE FALLING
At 2.05 o'clock this afternoon
the Southern Cross wireless opera-
tor flashed the word that the plane was sinking.
Sir Charles sent a message to the shore-station to which they
had been talking:
"Afraid I in soa, old man. Contre motor gone now,"
That would leave the plane withi
but one motor functioning. and that imperfectly.
Later.
HEIRESS WFDS AGAIN
J.
honorary surgeon of rescue too remote to be the King, and another specialist, one in which Italy and Abyssinia
on opening was very quiet, the pump the Interlor workings there were hopes for his recovery. that the British and French were
DIVORCED ONLY DAY sellera and 25. 6.1/16d. buyera.
BEFORE
(Special to "Telegraph")
In London, silvor rose 14d. epot and 1.5/16d. forward. India and China bought, but sellers were scarce. The market closed un- certain, with business done at the finish a halfpenny under the rate.
SHANGHAI RATES
Reno, May 14, Divorced from Prince Alexis Mdivani yesterday, after a secret six-minute hearing before a court
Shanghai, May 15. which supported her charge of
Opening rates on the Foreign Sir Charles has landed safely cruelty, the former Miss Barbara Exchange Market to-day were al 3.30 p.m.
Ifutton, heiress of the Woolworth, US dollars, 413%, Sterling, 1/8 millions, was married again to- and Gold Bars $773.80.-United day.
Press.
REPORTS IN LONDON
London, May 14.
new husband is Count The An Exchange Telegraph mes Reventlow of Denmark, They
sage from Melbourne states it is were married this morning at a feared Sir Charles Kingsford-private ceremony.-Reuter Special. .Smith, whose plane, the Southern
Croas, dropped a propellor on a
NEW YORK MARKET
free. The pumps failed.
men
Hope for the entombed has now
been abandoned. Central News.
The authorities in London are not planning diplomatic action in being kept constantly informed of connection with the quarrel with
Abyssinia.-United Press. Lawrence's condition.
Lawrence was apparently flung RIOTS AND THREATS
considerable distance from the Tsingtao, May 15.
motor-cycle ho was riding. It is Serious incidents have arisenthought hoe jammed on his brakes following the mine disaster at the to their fullest in an attempt to Chichuca Colliery, near Telnan, avoid a collision with a boy cyclist, with the result that the Japanese who was alightly hurt and is Consul General at Tainan, Mr. suffering from a mild concussion. Koichinishida, has asked General Lawrence's brother has arrived Han Fu-chu to despatch troops to in London by air from the South threats by the relatives of the four of the famous "civilian soldier," scene, owing to riots and of France. Mrs. Lawrance, mother hundred Chinese minors who have and his elder brother, who are in been drowred.
China, have been notified by wira- The disaster was caused by the teas of the accident--Reuter. bursting of a hidden spring, which fooded the galleries within forty minutes.
tho
One Japanese engineer is also among those drowned.-Reuter.
MANCHULI PARLEY.
Changchun, May 16.
GREAT CROWD AT PALACE
THEIR MAJESTIES' FIRST BALL
(Spesial to "Telegraph”)
Grave Labour Troubles
U.S. GOVERNMENT WON'T INTERVENE
(Spacial to "Telegraph")
San Francisco, May 14, The Marino Foderation has 40 far not kont its threat to take a general strike vote unless Miss Frances Perkins, Socretary for Labour, intervenes in the tanker strike.
Mr. F. M. Kelly, the Federation Secretary, anys the rank and ale are exercising pressure to decree that neither longshoremen
nor seamen shall work on any vessel fuelling with non-Union oil. London, May 14. "Such a move," he says, "would New York, May 14.
Over 2,000 persons are dancing bo so far-reaching that we do not Messrs. Handy & Harmon quoted
to-night at Buckingham Palace at want to consider It, but the - silver 74 7/8 cents per ousco to-day,
the biggest and most Important pressure is heavy, due to the flight from Sydney to Wellington,miles from Sydney when she re- the dollar was stendy-United On the foreign exchange market
ball hold there since before the Government ignoring the request is lost.
orted herself in dificulties and Press.
Great War.
for intervention."-United Prass. Sir Charles' Inst message was Charles dreided to turn back,
It is now definitely established The Manchukuo authorities have
In the first two Jublice Court! received in Melbourne at 12.10 in two remaining engines.
that more than 400 Chinese miners notified the Outer Mongolian Gov 'p.m., says this newa source. Iter the neond engine failed. An old man named Yu Tak, aged 76, were drowned in the No. 2 pit of ernment of their concurrence in the Balls the King and Queen are not
are watching pro-i read:
On measure from the flere unemployed, was brought before Mr. is a joiat Sino-Japanese concern: be the venue of the coming Man-ceedings from dals at one end
the coal mine at Chichuan, which suggestion that Manchull should dancing, but "Now going down."
1:ld they honed to reach Sydney Grantham at the Central MagistracyThe collapse of a stone wall. In chukuo-Outer-Mongolia Parley for of the ballroom, which is docked
The death has occurred from The crowncludes Caps P. G.2m. They were then 200 in Wyndham Street, at the comthe pit was the cause of the sudden the settlement of the outstanding with a profusion of choice blooms. peritonitis of Mr. Edward Brant
morning, charged bogging! Taylor and Wireless Operator J.m'les out at sea. That message Glonealy, Defendant denied beg rushing-in of water from the border disputes. They also agreed The programme for to-night's Frost, the well-known astronomer, Stannidge.
The Southern Cross was 580 failed. United "Press"
was sent before the second motor ging, but was convicted, and finod Chichuan River "nearby, Cential that the parley should commence on ball includes waltzes, fox-trots and who was Director of Yerkes Obser-
$8, or seven days' imprisonment. News
May 26-Central News.
polkas-Reuter“ Special.
vatory from 1905 to 1952-Reuter.
Taingtao, May 16.
ASTRONOMER'S DEATH
Chicago, May 14.
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