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TRAINING IN AMERICA.
London, July 10. young German woman, Fraulein Thea Rasche, has ar rived at Croydon en route to America whence she intends to fly the Atlantic.
She says that facilities for training for long flights in com- mercial machines are better in the United States than in Ger- many, where only sports machines are available.
WUCHOW BOYCOTT.
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The Japanese also propose that; the Japanese quota of submarines
An American Denial of Tsingtao be 70,000 tons.-Reuter.
Landing.
Japanese Precautions.
Tokyo, July 9, The Navy Office states that '900
More Hopeful View.
Geneva, July 5,
A more hopeful view of the out- Tientsin, July 9. Admiral Williams has arrived look persists to-day. It is under- stood that capital ships were dis- on board the U.S.S. "General cussed yesterday and it was agreed Alava." Authoritative circles
to exchange views on the subject emphatically deny an American held at the present conterence. landing at Tsingtao. Moreover, Reuter.
Destroyers Agreement. Admiral Williama has received no information that a landing is con-
Geneva, July 9. templated. Reuter.
As regards destroyers the British proposed 2 maximum individual tonnage of 1,750 to 1,400 tons, Ave-l inch guns, and an age limit of 20 She declared that Mr. Charles bluejackets landed at Tsingtao y curs.
The Americans proposed 2,000 to A. Levine was anxious that she yesterday for the purpose of
jimit of 16 should sign a contract to fly his guard duty until the arrival of 1,500 tons un age firm's machines.
the troops from Dairen on Mon-years.
The Japanese suggested 1,500 day.
tons and an age limit of twelve The bluejackets will probably
years.
Finally of Essen, gave his daughter an the Shantung situation is appar-leaders to 1.850 and destroyers to The Foreign Office says that reached to limit destroyer aeroplane a few years ago.
1,500 tons; five-inch guns; and an "Now I fly everywhere," sheently serious. told Reuter. "I flew on the pre-are closed.
All foreign shops in Tsingtao age limit of 16 years.
The Americans preferred at pre- sent trip from Essen to Paris, and
No heavy fighting has been re-sent not to submit definite figures crossed the Channel, landing at ported up to the present but com-of their total destroyer tonnage. French and English coast towns
disturbed. The British required 221,600 tons, to replenish my petrol
of which not more than 23.600 tons shall
was composed of units exceeding 1,500 tons, though the figures are provisional pending a final ugree- ment regarding submarinee.~ Reuter.
She hopes to attempt the Atlan-
tle flight later in the summer.
Her father, a wealthy brewer be withdrawn thereafter.
fly to Southampton to-morrow to join the steamship "Leviathan.” -Reuter.
Received by the Prince.
Le Touquet, July 10. Commander Byrd and his com- panions were presented to the Prince of Wales who was present at a gala in their honour..
munications Reuter.
are
at
News From U.S. Consul
Peking, July 9. The American Consul Tsingtao telegraphs to the Lega- tion here that the only Marines Innded there were 750 Japanese, who are entrenched on the bill side dominating Japanese pro- perty.
A Japanese cruiser, with 450 more, is expected.
The British cruiser "Despalch" arrived at Tsingtao on Thursday and is under orders to remain til further notice.
Wild enthusiasm marked the arrival of the airmen at Dan- kirk. Monuments were hung with the French and American flags. The freedom of the city was be- stowed on Commander Byrd who is the first freeman for a cen- ter." tury. Reuter.
Back by Ship.
The situation is quiet.-Reu-
POCKET PICKERS.
JAIL AND BIRCH FOR OFFENDERS.
un agreement was
BAGDAD FRACAS.
FATAL RIOT AT A PAMOUS MOSQUE.
COOL OFFICER'S TACT.
Bagdad, July 10. Two Iraqi soldlers were killed! and 16 were wounded, and three civilians were killed and 23 were Injured in a fraens outside the famous Kadhimain Mosque.
Cherbourg, July 10. The "America," Commander Byrd's "Fokker" plane is being
A crowd estimated at 100,000, was commemorating the historle returned to New York. on the
Sub-Inspector Cotton this martyrdoms connected with Muhar "Leviathan" on Tuesday-morning charged a Chinese youth ram when the soldiers, who were
Router.
before Major C. Willson with unarmed, somehow angered the snatching $20 from a Chinese crowd, a section of which attacked man in Bonham Strand West the troops, many civilian Arabs last night. He pleaded "guilty." freely using their knives. The police proved nine previous by the coolness and tact
A very ugly situation was saved convictions and accused was sen- Iraqi officer who led his men from of an tenced to six months' jail and the vicinity of the Mosque. Sub- two years' police supervision,
Dog Team by Air.
Paris, July 10. Commander Byrd has now publicly revealed his plans for the forthcoming flight to the South Pole. The expedition.will consist of thirty or forty men who will leave New Zealand by water and
sequently the police restored order, The same Inspector charged-Reuter.. will then employ two aeroplanes another youth with picking the which will convey a team of fifty pocket of a Chinese woman in dogs and a number of Esquimaux Des Voeux Road Central and to establish bases.
Commander Byrd adds that the "guilty and
stealing $62. He also pleaded received. four South Pole will be the beginning months hard labour and 20 of the expedition. It is hoped to strokes. penetrate further into the un- known regions.--Reuter.
are enthusiastic efficiency.
GROCERY THEFTS..
· CHINESE CONFESSES AND GOES TO JAIL.
BEACH RAIDER.
SCHOOL TEACHER WHO STOLE.
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When a Chinese youth appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this! morning, the Biagistrate enquired what the fellow's age was, remark- ing that it was given in the charge Dentist. sheet as 187! The police quickly corrected it to 16.
The accused, who claimed to be
He pleaded guilty." school teacher, and yet you go Magistrate: You call yourself a about stealing things- yielded to sudden temptation.
Magic Compass.
Paris, May 29. Lindbergh's "magic" compass, which he used on his great flight,
Going to a grocer's shop at has been closely examined by the technicians of the French Air No. 108 Queen's Road Central Service and by leading pilots, who yesterday, a Chinese took de-
its livery of 12 tins of milk, 2 boxes a Chinese school teacher was charg- about
of cheese, 2 pots of Bovril and ed with the theft at the North 1 tin of cigarettes which he re-baset containing two pieces of Point beach yesterday of a rattan One of the latter said:-
All that Lindbergh had to do Steward of the ss, "Haiching." 20 cents.
presented were ordered by the
clothing, a bathing costume and was to glance occasionally at a A smart piece of detective work dial on his dashboard, instead on the part of a shop foki re- of being continually obliged to sulted in the mane arrest, and make a series of difficult and he was this morning produced complicated mental calculations. before Major C. Willson.
Lindbergh's compass con- made a straightforward sists of three essential parts mission of his fraud and was first of all, a compass fixed on sent to jail for one month. the right-hand side of the pilot's seat; secondly, a small electric generating plant placed near the aeroplanes tail; and, 4.30 p.m. thirdly, an amperemeter fixed 4.30 p.m.
on the dash-board in front of the pilot's eye.
Naturally these parts are A foki of the Commercial Press, connected electrically. On the was charged before Mr. R. E. Lind- compass is an indicator which sell this morning with the theft of can be set in the desired post-eight pieces of clothing worth $47 tion.
from No. 6 Catchick Street, and twój
1 p.m.
8.30 a.m,
A CLOTH THIEF.
SIX WEEKS PRISON FOR EMPLOYEE.
He
ad-
A representative of the P.W.D., Works pressed for said that the Director of Public heavy penalty as there had been many thefts go- ing on at the various beaches, Sentence of six weeks' jail passed.
was
SOLDIER'S DEATH,
DROWNED AT TAIWAN BEACH.
So long as the seroplane is pieces worth $12 from No. 7. North
A sad bathing fatality occurred! travelling in the required direc Street, Kennedy Town. According at the Taiwan bathing beach at tion the needle of the am- occupied by the accused's employ- Private Maurice Prince (23), of the to Sergeant Post, both houses were p.m. yesterday. The victim was peremeter remains at zero, buters, and he helped himself to the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He the moment the machine de- property when no one was about, was drowned through one of his viates from its course the The Magistrate passed sentence of feet becoming entangled with the needle oscillates and the pilot six weeks' hard labour. notices it at once. All be
the proper
chain used for mooring the diving raft. As he was not a very strong swimmer, he was out of his depth
then has to do is to put the 500,000 dollars, the building is in being in the vicinty of the raft: 'plane back on course.
A Munificent Gift.
complete with every detail, includ- There were many of his comrades ing testing laboratories, a depart of the K.0.8.3., and other soldiers ment for the construction of in the vicinity at the time, and actual planes, an aeronautical when Private Prince disappeared, A school of aeronautics, the gitt library and an aircraft museum. a search was immediately made and he was brought to the surface.
New York, June 4.
of Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, was (Mr. Guggenheim is & finan-Artificial respiration failed to re- opened to day, prominent men in cier Last year he gave 2,000,000 vive him, so the body was taken to 1.30pm York University, of which the Guggenheim Fund for the Promo-
Industry attending at the New dollars to establish the Daniel the mortuary new school forms part. Costing tion of Aviation.].
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