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the confirmation of it. We would impeach him for it. It is obvious that Poking in the existing circumstances. could not be counted upon to act with

GIANT AIRSHIP EXPLODES SPECIAL CABLES.

DISASTER OVER HULL.

INTERESTING TRIP ON THE N 36.

STEAMER WRECKED.

LITTLE HOPE OF SAVING THE "CORDELLIERE”

CREW ABANDON SHIP.

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AMERICAN MINISTER.

VISIT TO SHANGHAL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921-

NEW TAIKOO STEAMER.

THE “KWANGTUNG " LAUNCHED.

the strict regard for China's interests WHAT AN AIR LINER IS LIKE. as a whole that ought to be forth. eeing, and we confess to some little [surprise at Mr. Harnisworth's state--

ment that Peking referred the" agree

In view of the news cabled torlay ment" back for further discassion of the points in detail with the Cantos that the giant airship R. 28, which authorities" our impression being as to have departed for America na Monday, has exploded over Rell and that the Canton authorities have refallen a flaming mass into the riter, fised to consider it from the first the following account of a trip on the

SMANCHAL, Aug. 25. If. tempted by its urgent need of R. 36, another giant airship recentiv

The French Ener "Cordelliere "23 feet. money, the Casten government has completed will convey an impression which went aground last Sunday beet negotiating since our last re-lot what the disaster mears

near the Yangtze estuary has been To go on board your air liner, is practically wrecked. The vessel has EQUAL TO ANY BETTER THAN MOST-||ference, we shall have nothing more

to say except that it should insist en still a sort of adventure. You wedre fallen completely over and there is The crew |much better terms for the people yourself through an angle of the steel little hope of saving her whose affair it is charged with. There lattice of which the mooring mit is have abandoned ship and come to Glaucus and the are, as we understand it, to be five constructed and climb a vertical iron Shanghai The

ladder fer about 120 feet, and then | Heinrich " are still aground. million dollars worth of A shares

pats by a duckboard gangway into for the directors, and $5.000.000 (or the trap opening of the ship.

The three-fiths of the "B" shares) are to interior of the monster through which his allotted by the same at their dis- you walk is strange as the interior of i ererion. (1 the remaining Two the whale must at first have been to millions, half represents the cash paid Jonah. The narrow, wooden catwalk to the Kwanusi traitors (to be repaid that runs through the ship is support- to the company with six per cent.ed by thread-like wire braces every interest out of dividerels that mayFard, and on each side is a network fiact

SHANCHAL Aug. 25. gote the Provincial Government of metal airders like a

Mr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the new dividends on half of two-fifths" "Meccaco" set.

After a long way you reach 2 American Minister arrived at Shang- while the other half (the last million) hatchway that takes you down to the hai yesterday by the steamer Nan. is to virld dividends to a trust fund passenger cabin, which is like a great king." He is the guest of Mr. for the poor of the province and Pullman car of 131 feet, accammedat- Cenningham, the American Consul- For lucution. Before this tenth of ing 50 presengers. A passageway General. The Minister who lea Ltd. the capital gets a cent of dividend runs down the centre, and the sides companied by his wife and two however, the "A" shates for the can be rend into separate cabins daughters remains in Shanghai until [directors) must have på eight per Tables and beds can be unhinged Saturday. feet.. with Ballar a ton reyalty upon and het in position when wanted. all the coal brought out. That extYou took out almost beneath you cessivo royalty, and that preferential There is a conking galley. pantry, eight per cent. make the provierial bagagernom, and lavatories. income for your relief and education) forward part of the car is the contro! AN

cabin, with all the equipment for very shadowy indeed.

navigatine and manevring the Mr. Hornsworth did not answer ship, and the wireless also is there. that part of Mr. Kenyon's question! There are five power cars, which which suppested that the Amatican de velha 1.570 horse-power, driving representative on the Consortium re-lite lirer at a cruising speed of about | gantel this "agreement has violating 50 miles an hour, with a high speed!

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RENTS' ORDINANCE

WHAT IS PREJUDICE?

INTERESTING SUMMARY COURT CASE

to argue, as he did on the first of his four points, that apart from the Rents' Ordinance so and so applied. He brought in Smith's Leading Cases.

BUILT FOR BANGKOK TRADE-

The launching took place at Taikoo What constitutes prejudice under Dockyard yesterday of the "Kwang- the Rents' Ordinance was the subject tung" a finely modelled steel screw of legal argument before the Pulsae steamer that has been built for the Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood), in the Sum- China Navigation Company's Bangkok mary Court, yesterday, when the trade. The "Kwarglung" has a bearing was continued of the case la gross tonnage of about 2,500 tons and which the Tai Tung Firm claimed her chier dimensions are-length from the Fock Tung Firm session 321 fee:, beam 44feet, depth moulded of the house and premises known as

No. 93, Connaught Road Central Mrs. Stephen, wife of the Chief Mr. F. C Jeskis, instructed by Manager of the Hongkong and Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, Shanghai Banking Corporation per appeared for the plantiffs, and Mr. formed the launching ceremony. On C. G. Alabster, instructed by Messrs. Mrs. Stephea pressing the switch and d'Almada and Mason, for the defend- breaking the bottle of champagne on ants. Mr. C. D. Wilkinson, of Messrs. the bows, the ship immediately glided Wilkinson and Grist, was present in the smoothly down the ways to the interest of the Tenants' Association. water,

At the conclusion of the plaintihis” Mr. Edkins, the Hongkong Mara-case, Mr. Alabaster submitted there ger of Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire, was no case for him to answer. On thereupon asked these present to join the case, as presented. defendants him in trishing a prosperous career Ware protected by section 4 (1) of the to the "Kwangtung" and continued Rents' Ordinance. The plaintifts had prosperity to the China Navigation not brought themselves within any Company. He said that the name of of the provisions of that section. the vessel was a fitting one, represent Another point was that the Ordinance ing as it did one of the great previn- took away, some of the ordinary ces of China, with which the trade jurisdiction of the Court. It took of the vessel would be concerned away the retrospective part of the The ship was designed to trade bet-individual's natural right to contract. wern Bangkok and Swatow. the it was therefore tutile for Mr. Jenkin second largest port in Kwangtung.

After the company had responded cordially to the toast, Mr. Etkins asked them to join him in thasking Mrs. Stephen. He commented on her good nature in agreeing to come during the great heat of the day, to give the ship a good sendoff, and, in thanking her, mentioned the great pleasure

The Judge: He only did so for a IN they had of having her there as the

wife of Mr. Stephen, Chief Manager certain purpose. He did so to show of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank that the tegant had agreed in writing between which institution and the to quit. That is an act independent China Navigation Company close rela- of the. Ordinance and for that pur- tionships had existed for many years. pose he quoted this case.

Mr. Edking asked Mrs. Stephen to Mr. Alabaster: I contend you SINGAPORE, August 21.

accept a small souvenir of the cannot ignore this Ordinance at all. An important process has been occasion and added that he felt sure Such an agreement must be made dicovered in Malaya whereby rubber with her good wishes and graceful and interpreted and governed by this bat we may reall that the British can best be realised by the fact that can be vulcanised direct from the launching, the "Kwantung" would Ordinance. Chandlers of Commurrer associated at if she were stood on end she would latex. Forty-eight hours after tapping make for a successful career for Shanghai. well as Sir Charles be almost as high again as St. Paul's the manufactured article can be Cathedral. The crew consists of four exported. Shoe soles of ebonite have Addis deprecated any further nation cers and 24 men, and they keep already been produced. fal concessions. China was to be watches after the ancient custom of exploited internationally, and with of the sea. Air-time, too, is by bells, an ere to China's own good. If these although they are not struck, and an professions were not hypuentical, we airship is "ste." expect our own nationals, whatever others may do, to live up to theta, The Cassel concession is not con- sistent with the so we opposed it. and shall oppose it if it er up again This Parliamentary reference to i which we mistakenly minded among our telegrams yesterday) was dated August 5th, and was part of a Japan service. Reuter at the time does not set to have thought it would in-

terest is here.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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NEW RUBBER PROCESS.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

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[China Mail SPECIAL.]

makers. Most of the time she is a

"I do not care if he brings in the whole tibrary" Mr. Alabaster ex- claimed. If his argument was apart rom the Ran's Ordinance you must infer certain thines"

Proceeding, Mr. Alabaster pointed many years to come.

out that the object of the Ordinance The Hon. Mr. Stephen, in respond was to protect the person in posses. ⚫ing on behalf of Mrs. Stephen, states sien so long as he paid the standard that it had been a great pleasure to rent. Even at the end of the ten- his wife to be asked to christen the ancy, even if there was no tenanty at experience for her and she had been not regarded as one of the implied "Kwangtung" It had been a new all,failure to deliver up possession was R 26 left her mooring mast at Pui- Reyal policewoman on the Windsor very gratified and pleased to take the terms of the tenancy under the beat. Windsor, with the Royal part she had in launching the Ordinance. The Ordinance created ham (Norfolk) about hal'-past seven

'Kwangtung." It had always a new type of tenancy which had in the morning, and was over London Standard over the round-tower, looks at a quarter to nire. She did not like a tin castle, for its leaden roofs been a pleasure to him to come into been described by certain judges as take quite the Zeppelin route which glimmer in the sur. Round it are touch with the Taikco Dockyard statutory tenancies A statutory passed near Ipswich, but icined that tattoed parterres of flowers and the which he regarded as a testimony to tenarey was not subject to the obliga dolorous way on the south, and fol- broad walk has a trimming of par- the enterprise and efficiency of the tion to deliver up at the expiry of lowed it over Enfield and Eppingsley. The round tower, even from grest Swire firm. What they had the old term. Counsel quoted a case Forest. The motion of the ship is a beight, looks as strong and self-seen that day, and what he had always dealing with this point. He claimed very curicus. A sense of buoyancy contained as a seashell An inch neticed it "he past in his association that the whole object of the Ordic- possesses you. But it is the earth two away is the white little dome with the doings of the firm, made ance was to protect such persons as that is moving, like a magic carpet mausoleum of Frogmore, and another him feel that the enterpise of the firm, his clients against such persons as of all colours, and you who are sitting inch off is Virginia Water in its forest in conjunction with the thoroughness Mr. Jenkin's clients. The Ordinance still having it unrolled before you by of trees and rhododendrons. Very and good work of their employes went aimed at prohibiting a person who little traffic here, and the wireless to make "Talkoo" spell efficiency, between December of last year and some celestial salesman.

What a patchwork is the English finger was not upraised to stop the He wished them all continued success. July of this year obtained possession At Staines there are groups Mr. Edkins congratulated the staff of premises from the over-landlord countryside! It serms incredible that motors.

of the dockyard on the care and skill by offering a higher rent because he they had shown in the construction i hoped to recoup himself by so doing. of the vessel

The Ordinance attacked him by Mr. Reid, Chief Manager of the making its provisions retrospective. Dockyard, suitably replied.

Mr. Alabaster was proceeding 10 The "Kwangtung" was built to argue on the question of notice to the order of the China Navigation quit, when the Judge interposed with

anyone should trouble to cut it into

gets one's air eyes.

THEN LONDON******

of crawling motorcars and some coming frem Guildford.

A huge tonnery in the Paris such snippets and colour them with

WHAT THE AIRSHIP MISSES. suburb of Gentilly was completely from blood-hued poppyfields to pale such variety-every shade of red

As for Ascot, we could see the destroyed by fire, the damage being brown ploughed earth and every white stands but what horse won estimated at £400,000,

shade of green from a harsh.bice the Coventry Stakes or the Gold A superior selection of genuine green to a green that was almost Vase, or whether the ladies were

crange. The roads curl and twist as really wearing organdie, whether Co, Ltd., for their Bangkok trade, the remark "Mr. Jerkin's point is old Chinese curios of extreme rarity though they had teen made o im Gehenna hair has gone out and betel and has two decks, a long combined that your people volunteered to go." will be put up for auction by Messrsitation of the streams. It is only red teeth come in, the strongest air poop and bridge deck and top gallant Mr. Alabaster replied that Mr. Lammert Bros. to-morrow afternoon. canals that show straight lines. The glasses on the ship could not tell, forecastle. Accommodation is pro- Jenkin having opened his case by Norfolk and Cambridge-villages and--Then back to London, and the R36 vided on bridge deck amidships for saying that prior to the date of the at mixed up, invoices thoughtless Hughes and Hough will auction farmhouse, with their carrow red circled over Croydon and dropped a the officers, engineers and first class letter the defendants received a roots and smattering of outhouses parachute containing the first part of passengers. Cabin accommodation notice to quit, he could not say that. Chinese porcelains, curios, and lac and ponds like bits of broken mirror; this account of the airship's trip. is also provided at the after end of they volunteered to go. It could Best C. THEY, Arucar 23, 1921. and (how classify them) some well. Guered ware, also a 7-foot carved the old russer-toned manorhouses set The parachute was launched from the upper deck. The 'tween decks only be an the assumption that hav ivory rusk. In the moming two cases cosily in a nest of trees, with parks an opening on the bow, and have also been made suitable for ing had notice to quit they accepted meaning patriots alse. Thus ajout of adres, a lawn mower, three and little grey churches close by and we watched its white Cobrella carrying passengers. The cargo gear the possession, The defendants Hongkong tulpan, arguing with as

American fold iren beds, and sundry rhododendrons colouring the shrub descending softly, missing the aero- consists of eight steam winches and letter was written on the assumption A "CASSED IN THE AIR. about it. trim to show that every furniture will be sold.

beries: windmills which, when going, drome, and after touching a tree it derricks capable of dealing with that they had received a valid notice quit. How then could thing was quite in order. The road We hoped and chemin me Tyd is there. The Chinese will Ent develop The head and breast of a coolie are the only moving thing in the lands fell in a field against a wall The weights up to 30. tons, The steam to

Wilson Mr. Jenkin say that the letter was 2 capes; sheep clustering together; drop was 2,000 feet. A tiny figure steering gear is of the hear the last of ibu meille1**Cait for themselves--or nor for a bundred beforging to Ramberg Sailang Estate, ornamental waters with white parti could be discerned scrambling across Firric" type fitted in house aft and voluntary ebullition of spirits not earl monoply in Kwangtung that years yet. Consequently they lose Sumatra, have been discovered. The cles on them that reust be swans the field for it. All was well. controlled from amidships by tele- engendered by any notice to quit? The light was better as we bit the motor gear. The cellular double It was impossible to conceive that untimely at pt at cessione nothing. Can you blame your own coolie is supposed to have been eaten these were the points in the panorama bing and conesia ngering a cuatrysen for locating it, and get by & iker as they are plentiful in the for the first fifty miles. What was Thames over the docks and the bottom is constructed for the carri they would voluntarily desire to enter disclosed itself age of oil fuel, if required, and the into other premises which were less a Hongrong syndiede. The fig ting it and making as good a bargain district as are wild elephants which that white smoke down there where historic London Afed depounced it as assured for themselves as they can. It is have done great damage to newly was the train? Oh! so it was clouds, beneath us. The streets seemed half fore and after peaks can be used as convenient and more expensive except It takes a little till one empty, the trafficiall crawling, and trimming tanks. The propelling that they thought they had received of it, at afterwards took thereau Insiness." That, in effect. is how opened up estates in that area, of course.

recently.

the barges on the river all deserted, machinery consists of a set of a valid notice. We answered tion of armaging so that certain he reasoned with us,

What a jam of streets, all the "Brown-Curtis" type of turbines, Mr. Alabaster further contended watch dig of political, trundlity at that sometimes it happened that an William Charles Bions, a warder The strange thing in the un-same--however do these insect people comprising of HP. and LP. turbines, that the plaintiffs had failed to show Home should be warmed of the attempt. infant, incapable of developing its at Victoria Gaol, appeared before occupied look of the country. The find out their houses at night? combined with astern turbines, that they would be seriously pre- Mr. Cecil Hamasworth. as Cader own property-became heir to a Magistrate Lindzell in the Police

reduction gear, capable sion, They merely wanted the working in the fields. Nothing is big bear on the Mappin Terrace at double Secretary for Fareiza Affairs peaks great estate. Would it be legitimute Court to day on a charge of having loads are empty; there is no one The biggest Egure we saw was the driving a single propeller through indiced if they did not obtain posses she is told to speak, and we ed net business to wangle the estate from absented himself from duty. At the moving. No birds are fying below the Zoo, R 36 roared over the animals. cf maintaining a total combined premises to carry on a business which ES. One expected to see larks-One wondered if the elephants and shaft horse power of 1,600 on ordin-had never been fairly started ard to be angry with us for saying that that child? We are not. we said request of the Chief Warder, Mr.

in this ene there ad not been any acting especially as trustee for the Passmore, who mentioned that the surely they know that we belonged to camels locked up and got a free ary sea service, with the turbines torn out a much older firm with a marked apposition other n that Chinese infant's estate. We are nisa case was being dealt with depart their crowd now? The first town we sight of R. 361 What was the luck running at 3.500 revolutions per much large staff.

The Judge: I think a certain. instigned for political troses." acting as guardian of the British re-entally, the charge was permitted passed closely was Saffron Walden, at Lord's? The field was empty. minute and propeller at 102 revolu

after Cambridge halls and towers had The worst was feared.

tions per minute. This machinery is amount of prejudice has been proved. He was evidently instructed, redirect putation. Just now these are tick-

Back been glimpsed in the distance. The

again to Ascot and supplied with superheated` `steam Mr Alabaster: A very tiny ly by some one interest d. Carlish times. World peace bangs large- Arrested on the Canton wharf neatness of the pinched rows of this time we went over the race from the large maliitubular marine amount; not sufficient to come within opposition was marited. and it wasly upon the treatment of China by the last right with a revolver in his houses, each with its apron of garden, course, but the races were almost boiler at a working pressure of 200 the words "seriously prejudiced." based on moral grands, and had re- | Powers. So far as we can contribute possession, a Chinese was fined $50 and the delicately articulated church, finished, and the black roads were Iba, per square inch. The boiler is Op "the question of alternative: gard for the good mpate of car oso to such an end, British hands tuust by Magistrate Line sell at the Polkits slender spire and the trees running well sprinkled with little shapes over fitted so that either coal or fuel accommodation, Mr. "Alabaster Eation. ir. Harmsworth's state-be kept clean. Our own country Court to day. The defendant ex into it all round, gave it a good ap taking and passing one apptner. The oil can be used for generating steam pointed out that the rients about the "concession" were (while allegations are being bandied plained that he had just arrived from pearance. But it is the great houses stands were deserted, but there was under forved draught on the "How placed the onus on the plaintiffTM alwong, it wasa't a mere prospect against others) must be above suspic- America by the "Siberia Maru" and like Audley End that come off best in still a pack of cars and crowds of den" system. The vessel is also to establish that the alternative- ing permit, and it did mean a virtualion. The British firms interested," was ignorant of the regulations but an aerial scrutiny. They look like booths and tents, and pinheads that fitted with a "Cochran" donkey premises were reasonably equival monopoly, if it had succeeded. As says Mr. Harmsworth, "include those the Magistrate reminded him that the models you see in the old port may have been people possibly even boler and the latest auxiliary machinent. The method adopted by the for the Sinu" part of this "Sino- of the highest standing in the Farnotices were posted in every ship raits in the hands of the founders of wincers. Esen from the top Ascot ry, and is lighted by electricity plaintiffs in this case of discharging warning passengers to declare their ancient churches and colleges. looked pretty with its ringlets of throughout. Messrs. Scotts Ship that onus was to call three witnesses- British котразу." Мг.

Harms East." That may be. We propose arms to the police on arrival here. At last. London, with its suburbs trees behind the grand sand and its building and Engineering Co., Ltd. of who considered the premises, were worth's inspired apologia would have to help them to remain in high stand-

stretching out like coils and rows of green, Lawnlike expandes, A tiny Greenock are the builders of the not reasonably equivalent. Under boca more amusing if the Chineze ing, by pointing out that it is not

tubes and a film of smoke dulling the spot of moving colour was discerned turbines and gearing, while the boiler those circumstances, was there any- names had been given. The message reputable to buy (too, cheaply, and

view. However did the Germans as a jockey on a hore walking on and all appurtenances have been made thing more to argue? It was for is comforting in one detail, which with humbugging pretences of benefit-

manage to miss with 10 many of their the course. So the RG6 saw some by the builders of the vessel them and not the defendants to shows that op by October 20th even ting education and the poor) the bulk

shots! The air liner swings to the thing of the Ascot rates. All the The "Kwangchow," sister ship of satisfy the Court that the accom the corrupt Peking Government had of the mineral wealth of one province

west. Hammersmith Bridge is plain time she had been serving the affair. the "Kwangtung," which was launch-modation was equivalent,

ed two months ago, is almost com The Judge intimated that he not been persuaded to sell Kwang-fram venal carpet-baggers belonging Magistrate Lindsell heard further and the streets are busy with traffic, Here are two sample messages tang's birthright for a mess of pottage, to another province, and since re, evidence in the theatre murder care some of it for Ascot There are few" R36 to Stalces: Omnibuses and pieted and ready for trials. A third thought the plaintiffs bad satisfied such as tamped the Kwangg traitors pudiated by the province immediate yesterday afternoon and the trial will signs of it on the way up the river. heavies are not being diverted at vessel of this class is under construe him upon that paint.

Egham from Basingstoke Road, as tion and will be launched shortly. Mr. Alabaster asked that a note. who temporarily held the provincely concerted. The moment that the be resumed again to-day. Mr. T. MR36 will have an easy day. when the oreticed deal was put Kwangtung people, through their Hazlerigg, the assistant Crown Solic Chur bear seemed to be between arranged, towards Windsor. Please The Talkoo Dockyard are now in a might be made in the event of it being through. If we could deal with all de facto government, denounced that or is ecnducting the prosecution. Kew Bridge and Ascot, but not with communicate sad resort reason" position to undertake construction as necessary to appeal upon that point.

'Staines to R36: Egham police on well as repairs of turbine machinery - Mr. Alabaster then opened his case- parties exceed mending the common," it should have bow and Mr. D. J. Lewis appears for the in three miles of the racecourse, for

defence. - Mr. A. E Hall Waching even the genite pürring of R36, it way to rectify this et once.

in their own workaboos"; which-baye, and proceeded to call a ridenstren British · Minister—as rogues; the imposable for the British Minister the proceedings in the interests of the was thought, might disturb the race. Now for Croyden and the second racently bend attended and aqui þed↑ «Further hearing was adjourned. argument world be simplbed.. But to demand, (or even, an Mr. Hatzis deceased's family.

horses, or, at any rate the book | parachute...

for this purpose,/?

emrit Saturday morning.

to be withdrawn.

THEATRE MURDER,

HEARING CONTINUES.

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