1928-06-11 — Page 7

MONDAY, JUNE 11; 1928.

WHARF DRAMA.

FOREIGN LEGIONARIES DESERT.

AT SINGAPORE,

Singapore, June 1, People assembled on the wharf-| in front of Number 11 gedowa, Tanjong Pagar, to say goodbye to friends leaving on the French mail steamer "Allies II yesterday afternoon witnessed an extiling steamer by four escape from the German members of the French Foreign Legion.

The "Athos" II" came In from Saigon yesterday morning. She hnd ninety men of the Foreign Legion on board, seventy belts Frenclumen and the others Germana and other European nationalities, It appears that the Frenchnen were allowed to go ashore during the day, but the remaining twenty men were kept on board.

men

When the ship was leaving the wharf at about six o'clock, and was about fifty feet out into the chan nol, four in full uniform jumped overboard. Three of them reached the wharf safely, two being hauled up by spectators and the other climbing up some steps. The fourth man never came to the sur- face after his dive overboard and

·ft is thought that his coat came up over his head and presented him from swimming, Two European spectators courageously dived in after him, but their efforts were fruitless. The body has not yet been recovered, and it is thought that it may have been swept out with the steamer.

The other three men were taken, into custody by the police on the wharf, but were released this morning, and it is understood that the German

Consul-General is

PRAYER BOOK,

THE HOME SECHETARY DEVISES A NEW PLAN

CONTENTIOUS MATTER.

Rugby, June 9.

A new and important develop ment in the Prayer Book contro verwy was announced last night by Sir William Joynson Hicks, the Home Secretary. This was the pre- paration of an alternative measuru for consideration of the Church Assembly,

U.S.A. -AUSTRALIA.

THE CHINA MAIL,

FIRST FLIGHT NOW ACCOMPLISHED,

M.P.'S FREE FIGHT.

HOW THEY SETTLE DISPUTES

"SOUTHERN CROSS."

Brisbane, June 8. The "Southern Cross" has_ar- rived, thus completing the first flight from California to Aus- tralia.

Brisbane, Later.

The storm yesterday night blew the "Southern Cross" out of her course and delayed her arri- val.:

The Home Secretary, who is Pre-

the National Church The machine eventually made sident of League and is one of the leaders a perfect landing, the aviators of the opposition to the Bishops' being tumultuously welcomed proposals, stated that the commit- by an enormous crowd.

Captain Kingsford Smith was tee of competent men, who were al ready engaged in the trak, would carried shoulder-high and crown- produce a book to cover the non-ed with a wreath of roses.

The airmen, who were in excel- contentious enrichments and varia-

lent health, subsequently took the ions which were found in

part in a procession through the Book," and "Deposited

which

streeta, being greeted with un- were there was reason to believe

paralleled enthusiasm.

Federal Government's Grant. generally acceptable. It was only contentious matter relating to holy communion upon which difference existed.

Canberra, Saturday. The Federal Government has decided to make Kingsford Smith a grant of £5,000-Reuter.

Pleased Backer.

IN THE SKUPSHTINA.

POLICE AND OPPOSITION.

Belgrade, June 9. The usual dullness of Parliamon- tary proceedings was enlivened by free fight between Deputies and Police at the opening of to-day's Bession of the Skupshtina,

Eight

Opposition members, whose suspension for three sittings had not expired, rosumed their places and pointblank refused to quit. Police were thereupon sum- moned to eject them.

PEKING ENTERED.

KUOMINCHUN SURROUNDING THE CITY.

ASSURANCES TO FOREIGNERS.

Peking, Saturday. General Shang Chen's Shansl troops have peacefully taken con- trol of Peking while Feng Yu- hsiang's forces, now occupying the south and east suburbs, have been reinforced, but they have not made any attempt to enter the city-British Naval Wireless.

Doubt Removed.

London, Saturday.' According to Press telegrams, The Deputies colleagues rallied Peking was occupied on June 8 to their ald and fisticuffs were by troops of General Yen Hsi- liberally exchanged. When order shan, Governor of Shansi. It had was restored the public was clear been uncertain which of the ed out of the gallery, and the sit-Southern forces would enter

were outside the north gate of the ting continued behind closed doors. Yen Hsi-shan's troops (which elty) or the Kuominchun troops (of Feng Yu-hsiang which were joutside the southern gate).

-Reuter,

SLATER APPEAL.

DÉCISIONS OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

FRESH WITNESS ALLOWED.

London, June 9.

Doubts Set at Rest. Doubts on this point were set at rest on the morning of June 8 when the Shansi troops entered! by_the west gate.

Previously the Mukden brigade which had remained in the city to preserve order-pending the ar-

It should only be necessary therefore to take out of the Prayer Book the contentious parts to en-

Los Angeles, Saturday. able common agreement to be Mr. Allen Hancock, the finan- reached. Such a new Frayer Book cial backer of the flight, as a tri- Mensure would of course have to be bute to their success, has present-

the "Southern Cross" sponsored through the Church As-ed sembly.

Kingsford Smith and Ulm and has discharged all their indebted-hearing of his appeal, which is fix-be kept under control, but a com- ness.

He believed that if the Arch- bishops and Bishops would agree upon a scheme of this kind, the matter would go through by gen- eral consent and thus an end would be put to the controversy. British Wireless Service.

Message From Pres. Coolidge.

to

arranging for them to be sent back ENAMELLED WARE.thened the bonds between your

to Gurmany.

Washington, Saturday. Pres. Coolidge in a message to the "Southern Cros3" crew. states: Your brilliant, and cour- ageous pioneering has advanced the cause of aviation and streng.

Commonwealth and our country." -Reuter's American Service. Experiences in the Legion.

OLD TAX TO BE RE-IMPOSED Conversing with a "Straits Times"

[Captain Kingsford Smith and IN ENGLAND. representative this morning,

Mr. Charles Ülm, were both formerly pilots in the Royal Air through the medium of an inter.

"COMPELLED TO CLOSE." Force. They were accompanied preter, the men spoke with great

by two men, formerly in the U.S. feeling and bitterness about their

Rugby, June 9. Navy. The "Southern Cross" is a experiences in the Foreign Legion.

The Two of them served throughout the The House of Commons yester- three-engined neroplane. Great War, and they hail the ap- day passed a resolution imposing a distance from Los Angeles (Cali- pearance of tough and hardened safeguarding duty of 25 per cent.fornia) to Austrália is 6,000 miles soldiers. All three men enlisted in for five years on enamelled ware. (twice the distance from New The first the Foreign Legion in 1920, when Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, Presi York to Liverpool). they were living in the occupied dent of the Board of Trade, recall-lap was 2,100 miles to Hawaii and territory of Germany and were an ed-that-the-original-duty-had been the second. Hawaii to Fuji, 8,000.] able to find other employment, imposed in 1922 by Lloyd George's They spent their first five years Government. When it lapsed in fighting in Morocco and Algeria, and 1924 foreign imports had increas conditions were no and that theyet, but not to such an extent as to applied to be transferred to French persunde the Safeguarding Com- Indo-China. They state that escape mittes in 1926 to advise the re-im- was out of the question in Northern position of the duty. Africa, and their one object in applying for a transfer was to indi an opportunity for deserting.

Service in Indo-China.

They have spent the last two years in Tonkin, and they com- plain that they were not soldering at all, but were compelled to work on roads, in quarries, at bridge building, at brickmaking. The dig cipline was extremely strict, and the conditions of service generally bad. One thing of which they! Complained with particular eth- phasis was the alleged discrimina- tion between the French and other members of the Legion. They quoted a case of a Frenchman who killed one

of his comradés ín #. drunken brawl, and who TAS punished, they say, with fifty days Imprisonment. If that man hay been of any other nationality thas French, they allege, the penalty would have been five yeara. At the time of their desertion they werz being sent back to Algeria, and they were determined to escape during the voyage. They state that there are no Britishers amongst the Legionaries on board the "Athos II," and the only · one they have known during their term af service escaped in Casablanca,

There have been several other cases during the last few Fairs of Foreign Legionarles deserting at Singapore.

ROME'S GOVERNOR.

ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO LONDON.

Rugby, June 9.-Prince Spadas Potinziani (Governor of Rome) and his daughter, Donna Myriam Potinziani,, were welcomed by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London and by the sheriffs when they arrived at Victoria Station last night. They are on an official visit to the city of London. The vialtora drove to. Claridge's Hotel where they will stay. To-day they will visit Windsor Castle and Eton College and in the evening will be entertained to dinner by the Lord -Mayor, British Wireless Service,

The death is announced in London of the well-known Factor manager, Mr. Dennis Eadio, Mr. Eadle, who was 63 years of age, was an actor of great versatility and a man-of broad ideas. Hé mande his first appearance, in- London, as long ago na 1990, but it will be for his work towards the fatter and, of the War that he will be besk re- membored. "Billeted". which wAN produced in 1917, wäl onnure that

Beuter

A fresh claim before the identi.

DIPLOMATIC,

SOVIET AND JAPANESE FISHERIES.

The Scottish High Court of Jus-rival of the Southern forces, left ticiary has granted the preliminary by the east gate. It is stated to as yet impossible to judge appeal of Oscar Sinter for permis- be ston to call a fresh witness at the whether the Southern troops will mittee of public safety which has ed for July 9.

been formed has received assur- ances from the Southern generals will be protected. British Wire- that foreign life and property less Service.

re-

The Court also allows him to recall Helen Lambie, but has fused to permit the appellant, who did not give evidence in the ori sinal trial, to give evidence be cause such would be merely a re petition of the plea of "not gulity."

The Court has further refused to allow Sir Bernard Spilsbury to be a witness, as he never saw the body of Marion Gilchrist.-Reuter.

DUTCH WARNING.

MUST BEGIN EAST INDIES ·

AIR SERVICE.

"IF NOT, BRITAIN."

The Hague, Saturday. The Second Chamber has approv- ed of a credit of 750,000 florins voted by the legislature of the Dutch East Indies for the estab- lishment of an air service.

The Minister for Colonios de- clared that if a beginning was not made "immediately, they, would be forestalled by the British from Singapore and Penang to Batavia.

Router.

Tokyo, Saturday. The Soviet Government replying cal Committee had now succeeded to the Japanese protest regarding because new evidence, including the violation of the Fishery Con- statistics of the census of produc-vention promised to investigate the tion, had been adduced showing complaint but it is geenrally be that several firms in England had lieved that s settlement of the been compelled to close down.-trouble will be attended by no leum Co., Canton, to Miss Marin Gritish Wireless Service.

small difficulty.-Reuter.

The forthcoming marciage is an- nounced of Mr. Willem Johannes van der Star, of the Asiatic Petro-

Juliana Leur of Bandoeng, Java.

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[Note: Earlier messages will be found on page 3.]

·SONGS & DANCES.

LATEST HITS COMING TO QUEEN'S.

SPECIAL FEATURE.

Something unusual in the way of entertainment is promised at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday when the famous revue artistes, Eleanore Ninon and Leo Martin, will appear at the 9.15 p.m. performance as an additional attraction, Coming direct from l'Abbaye, Paris, and the Knickerbocker, Monte Carlo, this brilliant couplo will present the latest songs and dancer. Mlle, Ninon, who is famous for the beauty of her figure as well as her skill as a dancer, will wear beautt- ful and costly gowns of a kind not seen here before, and M. Mantin will present his astonishing dance, "Acro-Doodle,"

which startled Paris. Mlle. Ninon-and M. Mantin will appear at 9.16 each night from Thursday to Saturday; when the big feature film will be Metro's acreon version of Sir James Barrie's famous play, Quality Street," with Marion Davis in the leading role.

BARRIE'S "QUALITY STREET” COMING.

"Quality Street," the fourth of Sir James Barrie's stage plays to be transferred to the screen, will be the chief attraction at the Queen's Theatre from Thursday to Saturday next, according to a special adver- tisement in this issue. Sir James, who saw his "Kiss for Cinderella” and. "Peter Pan" so successfully produced as motion pictures did not hesitate to entrust the role of mis- chievous, impulsive Phoebe Thros- sel to Marlon. Davies, beautiful heroine of many great screen romances. Conrad Nagel appears as a young English doctor in the Napoleonic period who, through not having courage to declare his love, goes to the wars and returns yeārs later to find his sweetheart an old mald-until she turns flapper again with surprising results, The screen version of the stage play has lost none of ita delicacy, and wist- fulness under the direction of Sydney Franklin who directed Miss | Davies In "Beverly of Graustark” and many other outstanding pre- ductions.

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