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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927.

WORLD FLIGHT.

**PRIDE OF DETROIT" IN

JAPAN,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

The "Pride of Detroit" left for

'Tokyo at 5.46 a.m.

Detroit, Saturday.

Mrs. Schlee, whose husband is accompanying Brock in "Pride of Detroit," has cabled him

CHINESE CHAOS,

IMPOSSIBILITY OF BRITAIN ACTING ALONE.

PEKING NEWS.

THE CHINESE POLITICAL SITUATION,

THE CHINA MAIL

AMALA

OLD POLICY.

ན།

DIPLOMATIC FARCE IN

**PEKING.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS. ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

Entertainments,

Peking, August ID. The conference between Pre- The Nationalist movement in

Tupan Chong of Shantung, in re-sident Coolidge and Senator Bing-f China, writes Mr. H. W. Looker, MP to the "Morning Post," Ply to the Dictator's telegram con-ham relative to American policy

September 12-Queen's Theatra; cerning the convocation of a has brought out with renewed seems to be breaking up on the special conference for the discus-emphasis the fact that the "Love Thrill," and the Broadway rocks of its own incompetence sios of the Chinese general situa- American Government persists in Follies.

September 12-World Theatre; and the quarrels and self-seeking tion after the retirement of Chiang trying to deal with China on a motives of its various leaders. Kai-shek, says that owing to the basis of conditions which do not "Poverty of Riches."

September... 12-Star Theatre, at The casting off of its Russian pressure of military affairs, he it exist. The negative reply of the Kowloon: "Captain Blood." Tokyo, saying that while she does advisers, which really seems to not able to come to the capital Just President to the suggestions of October 1-HK & W.G. & not attempt to dissuade him from have taken place, has deprived it now. According to Tupan Chang, Senator Bingham for provisional M.C.L.'s "Fun o The Fair," Lee carrying out the projected out the of the only real ability and driv-as the military situation on both the recognition of the different: gov-Gardens projected trans-Pacific

Sports. flight, ing force it possessed, and the Tein-Pu and the Lung-Hai Rail-

Pong, nevertheless she hopes he will be process of disintegration has con-ways are turning in favour of the ernments in China means a con-

September 12-Ping northerners, there is no necessity tinuation of the farce of credit "quite sensible and take the Van- sequently set in,

for any conference at the presenting Peking with authority for the Recreio v. South China. couver boat."

If a new Chinese Gordon were moment. Regarding the military whole of China.

September 12-Water Pole, Scots If is not clear just how far Guards v. Kosbles; V.R.C. "A" v. Tokyo, Yesterday, to bring China back to a normal conditions at the two fronts, the re- The "Pride of Detroit" was state into whose hands would he perted capture of Pukow by Sun Senator Bingham would go in ac- Navy"

September 24-Tennis Leagues near deliver the country when his Chuan-fang's troops has not been cording diplomatic standing to the foreed to land at Omura

Even if officially confirmed as yet, not to various military governments, but Chinese Recreation Club v. the Rest Nagasaki.at. 5.45 this afternoon task was completed? owing to an insufficiency of Gaso- it were possible to hope that such mention the occupation of Nanking one thing is perfectly clear. He of the League.

October 8-10-Hong Kong Jockey line due to taking the wrong an authority would emerge from while on the Lung-Hal Line, the would have, the United States

away from

diplomatic Club's sixth extra race meeting at course, The airmen expect to a successful result of his efforts Ankuochun forces under the com- break. reach Tokyo to-morrow morning. there would be still the inter-mand of General Chu Yu-pu have theorising and political sham and Happy Valley Race Course.

occupied Kuciteh, on the Shantung- national situation to be reckoned Honan borders and they are still meet conditions as they exist.

Peking exerts no control over September 14-At Sales Room, with. This presents far more advancing in the direction of Kai-South China. Diplomatic protests Duddell Street, miscellaneous dangerous and delicate issuce feng and Chengchow. This success than existed in Gordon's day, of the northerners has been conto Peking against things happen- goods, 11 a.m.

-Rauter.

Off To Kasumigaura.

Tokyo, To-day. The "Pride of Detroit" hopped off from Omura to Kasumigaura atļ 7.20 this morning.-Reuter.

Forced To Return.

Shanghai, To-day,

A Tokyo Lesange anys that the

"Pride of Detroit" was forced

return to Omura owing to a storm.

-Reuter.

Abandoned?

London, Sunday, The "Westminster Gazette" has telegraphed to Courtney that it will net continue to support any trans- Atlantic attempt this year. The

newspaper announces that

p.11.

Lammert's Auctions.

+

America and Japan have now firmed by a telegram from Feng ing in that part of the country September 15-At Lammert Bros.' far-reaching and vital interests Yu-hsiang to Tang Sheng-chih, re- have no greater effect than to Sales Room, valuable properties in in Chiria which did not exist be- porting the "alight" reverses suffer- make it a matter of record that the New Territories, 3 p.m. fore. They would not be likely ed by his forces on the Shantung conditions are not satisfactory., September 16-At Sales Room, a to acquiesce for a moment in the frontier and he is concentrating South China has not the slightest large and valuable collection of to possibilities of advantage to us, vicinity of Kueiteh under the coming in the name of China. As for

50,000 Kuominchun troops in the respect for treaties made by Pek-Curios, etc., 2.30 p.m. Meetings. and of detriment for themselves, mand of Lu Chung-lin for attacking any intention to abide by the September 16-Annual general which would result from the the Shantungites.

of meeting Hong King, St.. This message terms of such treaties, South Andrew's Society, City Hall, 5.45 pacification and settlement of the was intercepted by the Chinese China deliberately goes in the op- country through the agency of a wireless station yesterday.

posite direction to express a de- September. 23 General meeting British Commander-in-Chief.

Nanking Representatives in Peking termination to defy any, such of contributorfes of the Hong The ingrained trading in- Generala Ho Cheng-chun and obligations.

Kong Development Building & stincts of the Chinese people, Fang Peng-jen, delegates of the Taxation is an excellent illus-Savings Society Ltd., (in liquida-| the the necessity for revenue which Nanking Government to Shansi,tration. In open defiance of Pek-tion) City Hall, 2.30 p.m.

can only be produced by trade, arrived in Peking from Taiyuanfu ing-made, treaties, South China October 22-Meeting of the New the advantage of peaceful condi- yesterday en route for the south. will levy taxes in direct ratio to Territories Agricultural tions for the profit they ensure, In view of the recent development the power to collect them. Committee," at., Sheung Shui, 2.80 Paris, Sunday. must in the end surely prevail | unfavourable to the Cantonese, it

That does trade no good, does p.m.

no General international relationships letter to "Intransigent" stating

Fang la leaving here shortly for good. It serves no beneficial pur- that he is determined to start, settled Government should exist Shanghai; but General Ho will re- pose for Faking and helps South accompanied by Le Brix, when as that settled conditions should main in Peking on account of "ill-China not one whit. weather permits He declares that exist, and conditions more or ness."+ the trans-Atlantic is no more less settled are all that can be hazardous than any other long dis hoped for in the immediate! tanee flight. He adds; "We are future. ready to take all responsibilities,

flight may therefore be considered

Frenchman to Try.

abandoned.-Reuter.

In spite of growing public opin- where it is not possible to see lenders will not discuss further American prestige no good, does

is reported that the Ankuochun ion against Atlantic flights the that anything else will. French airman Costes has sent a

It is not so important that a peace terms with them.

and even to risk our lives. It is

up to France lo return Lindbergh's

visit.Reuter.

thought

L

Levine's Try Off.

Soviet Flight.

Tokyo, Yesterday. The Soviet 'Plane hopped off from Tachikawa homeward via Osaka this morning-Reuter.

Czech Flight.

Shanghai To-day:

this morning and expects to over at Pingyang-Reuter.

It

Show

Miscellaneous. September 12 Philharmonic Society rehearsal, Cathedral Hall, September 24-Entries close for the sixth extra race meeting of the The whole problem is not one H.K. Jockey Club, Boun of splitting China, nor of uniting

September 29-H.K.V.D.C. route China. The splitting already has march from Polo Ground to Talkoo. Telegrams from a foreign source been done. Unification is not pro- December 5 Matriculation, arriving here

state, that the

total gressing. America has tried to Senior & Junior Local Examina- Southerners now have army of no less than 120,000 men support the principle of unifications at the Hong Kong University, in and around Kanking but they tion by assuming a blindness to Bonham Road.

fight,

Nanking Army,

a

We do not understand Senator

NE-ADMISSION PROPOSAL OUTVOTED IN SINGAPORE,

Levine in a message to Reuter great danger because it lay add that the General Staff is not the splits. That has not worked.

across desolate and arid country very enthusiastic regarding the It is doing no good now. that his fight to where to be forced down would enghting, possibilities of this foree. America was "off" for this year tail hardship and possible death. Many appear to be disinclined to Bingham as advocating the with GERMANS BARRED.. but, he added, "I will do it next-United Press.

drawal of recognition from Pek- Meanwhile year for sure.

foreign telegrams ing. It would be neither practi I reckon I will

Coolidge Sees "Lindy,”

from Shanghai state that numbers cal nor advisable to do that. But have a more powerful plane built,

Rapid City, South Dakota, of Nationalist troops are withdraw- we do understand him as advocat- probably a multi-engined sea-

Sept. 2. ing in that direction and the for- ing discontinuance of trying to plane." Reuter,

Flying his famed monoplanes eign authorities there are preparing hold Peking accountable for

There was a representative nt- "Spirit of St. Louis" in which he for a similar state of affairs such things over which Peking has ab- crossed the Atlantic, Charles as existed when the Nationalists

be both practical and advisable. the Singapore Cricket Club, which doubtless, (says the "Straits Lindbergh to-day flew over here arrived on the outskirts of the city solutely no control. That would tendance at the annual meeting of and performed stunts while Pre- last March.

Such a programme would mean Times"), was occasioned by the un- In view of the situation in Nan- sident Coolidge watched below.

Lindbergh, who has extraking the Maritime Customs staff that the American diplomatic re-usual items included on the agenda. has established itself on a steam presentatives should carry on They were the consideration of A message from Tokyo says the ordinary daring and coolness as a launch moored to the South bank with Peking as the authority in building a kitchen and providing a Czecho-Slovakian aviator, Colonel stunt flier, went through his of the Yangtse.

that part of the country under tiffin room for members, raising the Skala, hopped off for Prague at 0.10 whole repertoire of loops, dives, Long Distance Phone. exercisable control of the Peking subscription from $3.50 to $5, and. stop spins and other evolutions. Mukden and Soviet authorities Government, and then dealing the deletion of the rules relating to was an excellent opportunity for have concluded agreements for in-with the authorities which actual the exclusion of certain nationali. the Chief Executive to judge as to stalling long distance telephone ly do exist in other sections. ties from membership.

The President, Mr. R. J. Farrer, the qualities of the plane which services between Harbin and Chita That would entail negotiation leaped to world attention in a day. and Harbin and Vladivostock. The with the Nanking Government was in the chair.

After leaving Rapid City, Lind-total cost is estimated at $1,500,000, when and where it is in power. The Chairman spoke on the pro- bergh proceeded on a journey which will be borne equally by the

He recalled without landing.

Russian and Mukden authorities. If would carry the danger of mili-position that the rules 15a and 15b

tary complications, because the should be expunged. Lindbergh is conducting an air "C. C. Post."

use of armed forces would be that at the last meeting the matter But was brought forward and there was tour throughout the United

more likely to be required. States to stimulate interest in

armed force is likely to be requira amall majority in favour of the deletion of the rules. On account United

ed almost any time now unless of a very tactful appeal made by commercial aviation:-

anything and everything is to be Major R. R. Robertson the commit- endured."Manila Bulletin.”

tee allowed the proposal to be with- drawn.. They were now bringing the matter forward again, conselous of the fact that a great many pre- cedents had been established throughout the Empire for doing what was suggested. The feeling of the committee was that they

FOKKER'S PREDICTION.

America and Europe Linked Within Five Years.

New York City, Aug. 30. Flights of recent trans-Atlantic aviators mean that Europe and the United States will be connect- Press. ed by air within five years, Gallarza Back in Spain.

Fokker, Anthony

well-known

Madrid, Sept. 2. the Captain. Gallarza to-day return- aeroplane designer, told United Press in an interview. ed here after a trip abroad to "All that is needed is organisa-study the technique" of a round- tion," Fokker declared, "By this the world flight which he intends

I mean establishment of. air to make.

NEW ROADS.

JOIN FRENCH INDO-CHINA AND SIAM.

According to information re- ceived by the American Express

PROMOTION OF SLEEP.

AN INGENIOUS DEVICE INVENTED.

athletic

He

routes, communications and wea- While in London he made Travel Department, Manila, from

An exhibit which excited much should let bygones be bygones, but ther stations at key points. As special examination of air-cooled the Royal State, Highway de- Commander Byrd recently sug-motors, but is still undecided whe-partment of Siam, motor roada interest at the meeting of the In- they would observe that the pro- gested, the trans-Atlantic nero-ther to use air or water cooling between French Indo-China and stitution of Civil Engineers in posal had to have a majority of two planes should be scientifically ex- United Press.

Siam are now connected and London was the Yarrow-Hyde to one or it would not be carried.

Mr. Grimth-Jones supported the plored and charted. We will need

Aviator Burns.

overland travel from Saigon to bed. This was shown by Sir meteorological bureaus in New-

Honolulu, Sept. 2.

Bangkok, by way of Pnom-Penh Alfred F. Yarrow, for whom it chairman and cited the cases of

Gorman girls competing at Wimble foundland and Ireland, for in- Captain John S. Singer was and Angkor is quite easy. was constructed in order to pro- don and the Achilles. Club having

The present system enables motion he slept far better than won the international stance."

burned to death to-day when his Fokker sees recent flights aeroplane crashed after striking one to leave Saigon either on during a journey last summer sports in Germany.

A member asked why the club across the Atlantic as significant high tension wires near Wahiawa. Monday, Wednesday or Friday at from Vancouver to Montreal he chiefly as good advertising for-Associated Press.

5.80 am. by motor bus and ar- found, that when the train was in could not be a British club. aviation, but feels many of the

Flies for Movies.

rive in Pnom Penh on the same motion he slept far better than did not, think they needed the as- feats have been in the nature of

Hollywood, Cal., Sept. 1.

day at 12.30 p.m. The charge when it was still. He tried ex-sistance of outside members and "stunts" which aroused the Louis Mayer, "movie" magnate, is P13.10. Hotel accommoda-periments similar to those which they were quite satisfied with their imagination of the world but are to-day announced that Martin Jen- tions in Pnom Penh are very he made many years ago on the own company. Some of them still only preliminary to soundly or-son of Honolulu, the pilot who took -ganised long-distance flying. second money in the Pole Contest good and the charge is P14.30 a vibration of ships, and he deter- had memories of the war and who Major Robertson said that since. "When weather stations on the flight, had accepted a cabled offer day for board and lodging. Pnom- mined to repeat, if possible, in an caused it. coast are operating and the Atlanto pilot a plane carrying the Penh is the capital of Cambodia ordinary bed, the vertical move-

year the situation had not altered tic becomes only a lake so far as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer flying lion and has many places, such as ments of a train. He asked the he opposed the proposition last

on a non-stop trans palaces, museums, etc., of in- National Physical Laboratory to in the slightest degree.

Mr. Parsons said that the S.C.0. communications are concerned, "Leo" then we will be ready to run a continental begin in New York terest to sight-seeing groups. study the subject. Mr. Hyde, one

From this place one may travel of the engineering staff, provided as one of the foremost cluba in trans Ocean air service on an effi-City-United Press.

Goebel Is Welcomed. to Aranya Prades either by way a solution of the problem, and the Malaya, ought to rise above paro- cient and safe basis," continued

San Francisco, Aug. 31. of Angkor or Battambang. The result is the Yarrow-Hyde bed, chial feeling and delete the rules. Fokker. "Within five years

Mayor James Rolph to-day wel bus fare between the two which it is stated) has a move Mr. Barlow supported the op

ment that corresponds as far as position and expressed the opinion- comed back Arthur Goebel of cities is P19.00. York to Paris regularly within Santa Monica, winner of the Dole Private motor cars can be practicable in amplitude and fre that the club should be a British

Contest prize of $25,000 for being hired at Angkor to travel to quency to what was found in the Club. Planes: utilised in this service first to land in Honolulu, August Aranya Prades, arriving there train on the Canadian Pacific Mr. Elphick. auggested that the would be of the multi-coloured 17 on a non-stop flight from Oak-thin hours, for P145. Railway, A simple crank mech-fore the proposal was put the type, carrying five motora, accord-land Airport, Lieutenant William ing to Fokker. Two of these Davis, his navigator, accompanied From Aranya Prades there is a aniam worked by an electric should take an opinion of the meet- The motor provides's gentle rise and ing on the point that none but Bri- would be for emergency. The him on his return to California dally train to Bangkok.

fall of the bed, at its head. The tlah subjects could serve on the committee. He thought that it planes could carry twenty-four aboard the Matson liner "Manon. frst class fare is P11,00,

motion is, continuous and of a would affect the voting. Goebel, and Davis were taken to f passengers and be operated by a

varied extent, and the motor The chairman said that could not softly purrs as the mechanism be done as there was no notice on provides the movement that is in the agenda de poemen M tended to promote aleep.

A suggestion was made that a referendum of membera' should be

planes will be able to go from New

thirty-six houra.”·

crew of only three men-two a San Francisco, hotel. Later in pilots and a navigator.United the day they will be escorted to the lobby of the city hall, where Press

Mayor Ralph and other city off- Mexican Aviator's Dificult Sicials will give them dni official wel-

Juarez, Mexico, Sept. 2..

come. A Lieutenant Emilio Zarrinza, The official greeting will be with flying a Mexican aeroplane, arrive out ostentation or display, how- ed here to-day after a non-stop ever, and the entire affair is deep- flight of 1,222 miles from Mexico ly touched with sadness because of City be many tragic seatures connected His feat was hazardous in the with the Dole contest United

me, being attended with Press,

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At a fire at the oil shop and taken, and Mr. Grifth-Jones gave: living rooms of Mr. K. Westcott, the assurance that if the proposal was carried a general meeting Plashet Road, Upton Park, West could be called to decide whether Ham E, the husband and wife none but British subjects should be and baby escaped in their might allowed to serve on the committee clothes and PG Morgan The proposal was lost by 8 rescued their boy

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