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“MORE MENACING.”

The New Communist Movement.

CHINA'S POSITION.

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Sir Percival Phillips Makes, Frank Statements.

Of

Singapore, Oct. 21.

ARMY CRITICISM.

Control of Mechanised Transport.

WHEN PARIJAMENT OPENS.

Powers Of The Master General Of Ordnance.

DRIVER'S SKILL.

Aberdeen-London Train Derailed.

DISASTER AVERTED, "Hanging Precariously On Edge Of Gully."

London, October 5.

London, October 5. correspondents newspaper

:When Parliament. reassembles,

An engine-driver's skill is who live observed the course of the Secretary of State for War, Sir credited with having avoided an events in China, none has been Laming Worthington-Evans, at a appalling disaster, in connection more successful or is better quali-meeting of the Army Committee of with the Aberdeen-London. Ex- fied to express an opinion than Sir the House of Commons, will explain press.

Percival Phillips, special correspon- the reason for handing over com- The express, with 600 passen- dent of the Daily Mail," famous plete control of mechanical vehicles gers on board, was approaching a for his fine work in the war. to the Master-General of Ordnance. 150-feet viaduct near Stonehaven, Sir Percival, who. is now in Sin- It is understood that Sir Laming when the second engine left the gapore en route to Java for a short will meet criticism on the follow-rails, dragging off four carriages.

The driver of the first engine, | holiday, has been in China for ing lines:- eleven months. He was in Han- The R.A.S.C., having been re-realising the danger of applying kow during all that troubled period ponsible, under the Quarter-Master-the brakes suddenly, put on the when the barricades were stormed, General, for horse transport, na-pressure gradually and brought.. the British left the concession, and turally assumed the responsibility the train to a standstill within a ultimately, by the agreement be- for mechanical transport when it few feet of the viaduct. tween Mr. O'Malley and Eugene was introduced. Chen, it was handed over to the The introduction of the tractors Chinese. He has seen the fighting for drawing guns and as gun plat around Shanghai and in other forms gradually made it clear that places, and all through has been in the gunners should be responsible the closest touch with constantly for these unita. changing events. Previous to this, Sir Percival was in China in 1925, so he is well qualified to speak on the situation.

Sir Percival was good enough to consent to give an interview to the "Straits Times" to-day, and spoke quite frankly and openly.

An eye-witness graphically des- cribed the situation. He said that the engine and four coaches were hanging precariously on the edge of the gully. Another foot and the whole train would have fallen to destruction-Reuter.. Waste and Inefficiency.

locally called [Stonehaven, Was No practical compromise

market town in adopted, whereby the Master-Gen- Stanehive, a eral of Ordnance assumed respon Scotland, is the capital of Kin- track cardineshire, on Stonehaven Bay mechanical sibility for vehicles, while the Q.M.G., retained at the mouth of the Carron and control over

mechanical wheeled Cowie. It consists of an old and a new town connected by a bridge vehicles.

across the Carron.]

The duplication of repair shops, etc., although not a serious matter while mechanisation was in its in- fancy, is rapidly becoming a source of waste and inefficiency.

To enquiries as to what will hap-

The Inferiority Complex. "The Nationalist movement in the South," he said, "was really an exploitation of the inferiority cam- plex by the Russians. It was es- sentially an example of the Rus- sian policy of propaganda by slo-pen to the R.A.S.C. men who have devoted years of study to the needa gans, and as the western slogan of The Land for the Feasant was not applicable they seized "Unequal Treaties."

on that of

when the Western Influence

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CENSUS IN TURKEY.

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"I came to the conclusion that work, under the new Master-Gel-at Mona; where a short service and a two-minutes silence will be ob eral of Ordnance, the only real Was

Lust Post and withdrawn the whole thing would change being in the supreme com-served and the

Reveille sounded by trumpeters fall to pieces, and that is exactly

the times. of

proposed who fought at Mone. On the follow- what has happened. The Russians

changes have been postponed; no ing Sunday a drumhead service will felt that they were going ahead too decision will be taken until the be held on the spot near Mons

revise their

views of the House of Commons are where the first British soldiers fell in the War. Seven men who won methods. They have withdrawn

the Victoria Cross will participate from their method of open propa-

Minister's Visit To India.

in the pilgrimage-British Wire- ganda, and now they are employ- The Secretary of State for War, less Service.

Worthington-Evans, ing a different one.

Sir Laming

to India "The new Communist movement has postponed his visit is, if anything, more menacing until later in the year, in conse- An entirely new brand of agents quence of the possibility that ques- has been sent to China from Mos- tions may arise in Parliament, cow, and instead of adopting the which will open in the second week method of open propaganda they of November, concerning the re- prefer to work in secret. Though forms in Army organisation. Reu- they are under cover they are just ter.

They are principally as strong. concentrated in Shanghai, but a number are to be found elsewhere. Russian Agents Withdrawn.

the Chinese "After Hankow, started quarrelling among them-1 selves. Many of the Russian Chlang 2.20 p.m. agents wore withdrawn. 2.30 p.m. Kai-shek, who had been financed by 2.30 p.m. the Russians, could not be got rid

Calcutta, Yesterday. 5 p.m.

of, and started his own government at Nanking. That was the begin-:

Prominent Kindu and Muslim 5 p.m.

ning of the break-up.

leaders from all over India have "South of the Yangtse, there met under the auspices of the All- 8.30 a.m. was the phantom government of India Congress to solve the increas 9 am

Nanking and that of Hankow was ingly serious communal problem. no better. It was the old story of They passed a resolution prohibit- intrigue, disloyalty and corruption, ing forcible conversion and recon- "In Shanghai, for example, the version between the two commuz-! merchants, as a result of propa-ities and also one with a view to

two acute ganda, welcomed the Nationaliste eettling

problems, 2.30 p.m. when they arrived, but the mer namely, the slaughter of

the occasion of 4.80 p.m. chants have been bied white and 4.90 p.m. treated far worse than they were medan festivals and another

on Hindu under the old Northern Tuchuns.

processions passing 9.30

There the whole thing stands. mosques to the accompaniment of There is no outstanding personality rausic, both of which are such a

10 a.m.

Neon

p.m.

5. p.m..

3.30 0.m.

on

INDIAN FACTIONS.

TO SOLVE COMMUNAL PROBLEMS.

ALL-INDIAN MEETING.

COWB Moham-

Constantinople, Yesterday. The first regular census ever taken in Turkey is being carried out under most rigorous conditione. To ensure a correct tally citizens are forbidden to leave their houses throughout the day in consequence of which all shops are shut and pavements are deserted. There is no traffic in the streets and the waters of the Bosphorus and Golden Horn are clear of all small craft. 6,500 gf- cials In Constantinople alone, azgint- ed by police, drow up the lists and soldiers saw that no citizens left their houses.Reuter.

A ROUND-FLIGHT.

KOPPEN RETURNS TO HOLLAND.

Amsterdam, Yesterday. Koppen landed at Schipol, thus completing the return flight from Batavia, proving the possibility of performing the return journey with- in a month.-Reuter.

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in the North, though two or three fruitful source of riots. Past re- From a report issued by the Min- dominant men control their own solutions allowed Muslims to sacrl-istry of Transport, it appears, that districts. Chang Teo-lin is still fica cows anywhere but in the public one out of 20 persons in Great Bri fairly powerful. He was ready to thoroughfare or the neighbourhood tain owna a motor vehicle, the num Dentist. leave Peking if the Nationalists of a temple, and allowed Hindu pro-ber or vehicles for which licences reached Tainanfu.”

ccasions with music provided they were granted during last year being 1,729,000. This compares with Asked how anti-foreignism stood refrained from anything calculated 1,647,000 licences fasued in 1925.-- to-day in China, Sir Percival said to annoy worshippers in mosques, British Wireless Service. the position was much better. "A Reuter aaner feeling prevails, and the

Chinese. realise that there has been

a foolishness In

count of fool Buntas, talked to the concitation ne being due to fear

much easier."

ARMY RESERVISTS HOME.

London, Yesterday, Major-General- Sir Philip intense propagandâ, are still the With regard to the Nanking out-Robertson, in a letter to "The best hated of the foreigners, but in rage, Sir Percival Phillips said he Times," appeals to employers of ports like Shanghai the position is thought action should have been fabour on behalf of the 400 Army taken at the time. Afterwards it Reservists who recently returned A Shameful Thing.

was too late. T

from China, and who have been Asked how the British soldier demobilised Reuter. Regarding the handing over of 8.20 a.m. the Hankow concession, Sir, Per had taken to Shanghai, Sir Percival cival said quite frankly that he said his conduct had been splendid Noon

thought it was a shameful thing, and his health remarkably good. "Admiral Cameron, commanding He suffered from being confined the Yangtse patrol, was, of course to the Municipal limits of Shang Coincident with the new Amerly justified in withdrawing, but there hai, but the residents had done can Minister, Mr. Dwight Morrow's was no excuse for the British Gov- everything possible to make his first visit to Fresident Calles, ernment taking the action it did. stay pleasant in the matter of re- the latter cancelled the decrea The effect was very bad. The creation and entertainment, forbidding the departmental pur Chinese inevitably construed Sir Sir Percival will return to China chase of goods in the United States, Router's American Service!! Austen Chamberlain's gesture of after his holiday in Java.

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