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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

CAPT. LOEWENSTEIN'S ANOTHER "COUNTY" “LIKE AN ATLANTIC

DEATH.

FALLS 4,000 FEET.

THE FATALITY STILL A MYSTERY.

:

STOCKS DISORGANISED.

Boulogne, Yesterday.

CRUISER.

H.M.S. "SHROPSHIRE”.

PROVIDED IN 1925-26 PROGRAMME.

LAUNCHED IN CLYDE.

London, Yesterday.

The

LINER."

THE R100.

BRITAIN'S BIG AIRSHIP WEIGHS 156 TONS.

100 PASSENGERS,

London, Yesterday. airship "R100" was in-

FAMOUS BLACK TEMPLE.

THE CREW OF THE “ITALIA.”

BURNT ALIVE ?

NOBILE'S REPORT OF FIRE ON THE AIRSHIP.

GENUINE SIR WILLIAM CROOKES

(English Mado)

LENSES

Are the ONLY PROTECTION against the tropic aun-they absorb the ultra violet and infra red rays so dangerous to the

eyes.

Many Imitations the genuine "from

LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician.

AUSTRALIANS. IN FINAL.

AT WIMBLEDON.

TILDEN AND HUNTER BEATEN IN THE DOUBLES.

A MERCILESS SERVICE.

Wimbledon, Yesterday.

In the semi-final of the men's;

IN HONOUR OF 1ST. GOVERNOR.

NEW P.Ó. BUILDING.

SIR HUGH CLIFFORD OPENS SINGAPORE STRUCTURE.

CHANGE CRITICISED.

'Singapore, June 27.

PEKING OUTRAGE.

IRREGULARS SET FIRE TO ANCIENT BUILDING.

A SEARCH ADVOCATED. 1,000-YEAR OLD RELICS.

Rome, Yesterday. Peking, Yesterday. Learning that number of bad The possibility that the airship

"I suggest to the public of Captain Alfred Loewenstein, the The cruiser "Shropshire," pro-

characters among the irregular "Italia" caught alight is contain-

this building of 1925-26, was launched in the

Cochet and should "be called henceforth Clyde.

by many members of Parliament, ing in the famous Black Temple Government. He says he learned championship,

saw 20 Brugnon beat Lott and Hennessey Fullerton Building." Her length is 595 feet, she is of and Dominion High Commission-which contains what is claimed to that some of the crew

be the largest bell in the world, minutes after the "Gondola" (America) 11-9, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. In these words H.E. the Gov- 10,000 tons, and has a speed of ers.

Yen Hsi-shan sent some Shansi crashed a high column of: troops to disarm them.

In the other semi-final Patter-ernor, Sir Hugh Clifford, in offi- thick black smoke. He says that The irregulars, on the approach if the airship caught afire there son and Hawkes beat Tilden and cially opening the new Post Office of the troops, set fire to the Tem- was no hope for the crew, but Hunter 7-9, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4, 10-8. building this morning, perpetuat- ple and fled.

doubts there was a fire, as he says Tilden made his exit after a led the memory of Mr. Thomas Before the Shansi men and the it is difficult to believe that a three hours' continuous thrill. Fullerton who was the first Gov- fire brigade could extinguish the gradual bursting into flames flames many of the famous build- should not also be perceived by Patterson, with a merciless ser- ernor of the United Settlements

vice, replied to Tilden cannon-

of Singapore, Penang and Malac- Anyway Gen. Nobile argues ball for cannonball. Hawkes put ca a hundred years ago. that owing to the leakage of gas in some heroic network, with Fullerton Building, which has which was suspected before the

famous Belgian millionaire finan-vided for in the Naval Programme spected at Howden (Yorkshire) Nationalist troops were quarter-¦ed in Gen. Nobile's report to the doubles at the Wimbledon tennis Singapore 'that

cier, has been drowned by falling out or an aeroplane. Captain Loewenstein was lying from Croy. don to Brussels when he apparent ly opened the wrong door and fell into the st. The accident neur red while the machine was between Dunkirk and Ostend

Captain Loewenstein, who travelling as a passenger, had with bim a pilot and a mechanic, while he was accompanied by a valet and two atenographers.

"MISTOOK THE DOOR."

eight 8-inch guns, four 4-inch 156 tons, has six Rolls Royce en- 32% knots per hour. She carries She is 700 feet long and weighs and anti-alr craft guns.-Reuter. !gines and develops a total of 4,200

horse-power.

is compared with 215 and spectively yesterday.

sharply. Brussels, Yesterday.

51 re*

She accommodates 100 passen- gers and has 50 of a crew,

There is a dining-room for 50. A trans-Atlantic flight will be! jundertaken immediately the

tests are finished.

The "R100" can fly to India in four days, to Canada in three and to Australia in eight-Reuter.

SHARE PRICES IMPROVE. The prices of Loewenstein shares showed better tendency in the course of the ciny and finally rallied

International boldings! are 146, Hydro-Electric 39 after According to information recejy being about 110 and 30% respec-) ed by Capt. Loewenstein's tank tively. Both companies, in a state-

The British Wireless report from one of Loewenstein's seere- ment say that the financial position states that the airship is as large taries, the financier left his com is sound and that there is nothing as an Atlantic liner and is fitted panions in the lounge to visit the in the situation to give rise to an- with wide carpeted staircases, lavatory. Apparently he mistook xiety.

the door!

Wide Staircases.

TEASERS.

"China Mail" Original Feature.

the crew.

The

crash, the airship could only re-any jack-in-the-box intercep taken a little over four years to erect and has cost four and three- tions, wonderfully 'angled. main in the air for 30 minutes.

The Americans were within a quarter million dollars, is to house He advises, therefore, a search within a short range of the posi-point of the match at 6-5 in the the new Post Office, the Singa- was the pore Club, the Chamber of Com- is,tion where he was found.-Reu-fifth when Tilden who

best player on the court for merce, ten other Government de- ter.

the first two sets, made four partments and a number of de- errors and let in the Australians (partmental officers. The postal 9 to 8. The latter seized the op-authorities will enter into occu- portunity and Patterson took a pation of the new premises next love game on service.

month and the building will be The players received an ovation fully occupied in two months

time.

In the course of his speech Sir Hugh Clifford referred to the

drawn to the fact that replies to

The attention of readers

"Teasers" will be found on page seven in future instead of page living rooms and lounge, furnish-nine, thus obviating the necessity of turning the leaves of the paper to check the answers. This change has been mode in response to numerous requests,

Later, ed like a hotel.

Alarm AFAK occasioned by his The tone of the market has im- Its six Rolls-Royce Condor en- prolonged absence and the lavatory proved somewhat, the fall being gines were given a prolonged test was then found to be empty.

'stopped. Numerous quotations yesterday and to-day and when, The machine was Capt. Loewen- have slightly improved.

the other, trials are passed, the! stein's own Fokker monoplane. in

Berlin, Yesterday. airship will emerge from its huge which he has been lying almost Prices slumped but not much as hangar and fly to Cardington air daily between Croydon and Bel had been feared. Foreign favour- station where it will be attached gium recently. Experts at Croydon ites lost up to 10 points and arti- to a specially erected mooring state that the exit door in the fuse- ficial silks from 30 to 40 points. mast lage was secured by bolts inside Reuter. and a putent lock.

COBHAM MYSTIFIED.

London; Yeaterday.

Probably, in the Autumn, it will, New York, Yesterday. fly to Canada, when it is expect- The Stock Exchange is apparent-'ed that Captain Scott, who has 1 undisturbed by Loewenstein's flown the Atlantic each way by Sir Allan Cobham stated in an death-Reuter's Amertean Service. airship, will be in command. Interview that he was mystified, at¦

such a thing happening as the doors

In 1926 he made offers of immense sum to the Belgian and French Governments,

HIS UNDERTAKINGS..

The

London. Yesterday, British Wireless report

WORLD TOUR.

AND AIR.

NEW YORK-TOKYO.

Paris, Yesterday.

"Teasers" was the first feature

LABOUR MEETING.

MR. LANSBURY AND THE INDIAN DELEGATION.

London, Yesterday.

from a packed stadium.-Reuter.

Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., pre- THE SCOTS GUARDS. criticism of the transfer of the

of its kind to appear in Hong siding at the Fourth Session of the menced some while ago when the drew attention to the withdrawal Kong journalism and was com-

Commonwealth Labour Conference, stereotyped method of reproduc-of the Indian delegates from the ing "questions and answers" from London newspapers was dis- carded by this paper after a very short and unsatisfactory trial.

All “Teasers,” Including those of general as well as those of local interest, are compifed in the. cffice of the “China-Mall”

conference late last night as a pro- test against the attitude of British Labour towards the Simon Com- mission, and the conference's methods of procedure.

THEIR ARRIVAL AT SHANGHAL.

ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES.

Shanghal, Tuesday. Ever since the early, days of last

postal headquarters for Malaya from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and said that, although Singapore was the prime postal unit in Malaya and required very special facilities, he was nevertheless convinced that Kuala Lumpur must remain the centre of the

SEDITIOUS PRINT.

Mr. Lansbury said "they have year nothing has enthused Shang-postal administration, not accepted our friendship, and had more than the march through repudiate our offers of co-opera- the Settlement of the battalions of tion." He declared that the British the Defence Forces. That there is Labour Movement was pledged to no diminution in this interest was constitutional netion. There were

very

CHINESE BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE.

Mears and Collyer landed at tion to be given by Yen Hsi-shan may think, and however harshly sport, on which they arrived, the copies of seditious pamphlets.

.

wealth of Nations.-Reuter.

RY-ELECTION

of passenger aeroplanes open out- wards, and the force of the wind states that Loewenstein was large- RECORD-BREAKING BY SEA makes it almost impossible to open ly concerned in electric powers, ar- them while the machine is flying.

ing's relics, more than a thousand tificial silk undertakings and in- The victim of this accident, who vestment, companies, and news of

years old were burned. Several Labour members on the Simon Com- evidenced yesterday when

A Chinese was charged, before is reputed to have been one of the his death affected particularly the

hundred irregulars have been ar- mission because thus they might large crowds turned out to see the richest man in Europe, has been hydro-electric

rested.

secure the interests of their Indian 2nd battalion of the Scots Guards Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central and international ach in the public eye during the holdings of the companies.

or their arrival from Hong Kong. Magistracy this morning, with It is learned that Chiang Kai- brothers. last few years. He gained a great

'shek is not attending the recep- On the London exchange the

Whatever our friends in India It was unfortunate that the tran- having in his possession 363 deal of publicity from his almost shares of the former at one time Cherbourg from the "Aquitania" for foreign Ministers this evening they judge us because we are un- fog, for she was expected to reach |I-C.S. “Yuensang," was delayed by invariable habit of surrounding touched 20 hut near the close re- with their own monoplane in and has decided not to call on the able to accomplish the impossible. her berth at 9 a.m., and it was watchman, the defendant. was According to the district himself with an immense retinue covered to 5% and international which they flew hither. Thence Legations as originally intended. we will continue to work for the day hoped that the battalion would be seen carrying a parcel under his of attendants. It was his custom holdings were quoted at 145, hav-! to keep several aeroplanes, with ing earlier dropped to 100. by air they will fly to Berlin, not again enter Peking during and fully self-governing partner of the wharf to their quarters by Wilmer-street on June 28.

Chiang Kai-shek possibly may when India shall become a great able to commence marching from arm at Queen's-road West near their pilots, invariably at his dis- An advisory Committee Issued a Siberia and Tokyo.-Reuter. posal, as well as a fleet of motor statement this afternoon declaring

the remainder of his stay in the its own free will in the Common-about 11 am. In the hope of see defendant attempted to throw the The cars and a large staff of secretaries, that the financial position of both June 29, stated:Mr. John Mears

[A telegram, dated New York, North.

ing the battalion disembark a very parcel away when challenged by Feng is Tired. atenographers and servants, while is sound and that, so far as they and Captain Collyer took off in al

large number of people motored to the watchman, who demanded he entertained upon

Peking, Yesterday. 1 princely know Loewenstein's large holdings seaplane from the battery to

the Old Ningpo Wharf in the morn him to open the parcel. Lu Chung-lin has arrived, but scale.

One of ¡were unencumbered.

overtake the "Olympic," which Feng Yu-hsiang is remaining at

ing, only to learn the news of the the pamphlets was taken out SPECTACULAR FIGURE. sailed at midnight, and thereby Pantingfu. Feng has been inter- BIG CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY delay and that the Yuensang" and found to contain seditious

could not tie up before noon. This literature. save five hours in their attempt] credited with

to beat the world's record for a

meant that it would be at least half!

652 documents were seized, but.' nid them in the stabilisation of an immense although greatly flue-round-the-world trip by sea and

pant two before a start could be on being translated by the S.C.A. their currency, but it was thought tunting fortune and his huge finan-nir. via Europe, Siberia, and

made, but as matters turned out it was found that only the num- that his

The Epsom by-election caused by was later when all the disembarka-bers mentioned were seditious. offers were

not as fis-cial deals, his numerous estates in

Japan.] different countries, his racing es- interested as he made them out to

the elevation of Sir Rowland tion arrangements had been com- One of the documenta advocat- be, and neither government found tablishments and his flight of pri-

Blades, late Lord.Major of London, pleted.

ed the farmers to rise and over- itself able to accept his conditions. vate acroplanes helped to make him

Cordial Reception. in spectacular figure.

to the Peerage, has resulted in an-

throw the Canton Government The first event following the ar and also "to deal with the Bri- Loewenstein's friends state that)

other big Conservative victory. Alfred Loewenstein, the "ying he was very absent-minded except.

Miss Helen Keynes, the defeated rival of the transport, after the tish, and Japanese imperiallats. millionaire." was born in Brussels. where business

Labour candidate, ia chairman of Military Landing Officers had visit- and also the American." was concerned.

ed the ship, was a note of welcome the Fabian Women's Group.

Another copy urged the Chin- Comdr, Southby (Cons.)...19,864 from the Scottish community of ese "to rise and deal with the Mr. Parnell Kerr (Lib.) ... 5,095 Shanghai. This is the only Scot- Shakes affair of 1925."

The defendant flatly denied Miss Helen Keynes (Lab.) 3,719 tish regiment that has been here

since the institution of the Defence that he knew anything about the Conservative majority ... 8.269

the General Election, Sir Force-the Cameronlane, it may be pamphlets. He said that he only Roland Blades had a majority of remembered, having remained in carried the parcel for a 14,868 over the Socialist condidate Hongkong-and to mark the seca-whom he did not know, and who sion n deputation from the Com- 'offered to pay him 20 cents for in a straight fight,

mittee of St. Andrew's Society cail-this trouble.

Case proceeding.

in order to

"FLYING MILLIONAIRE.”

Loewenstein was

He had extensive financial interests The machine was 4,000 feet up at: in Britain, America and Eurupe, the time, but the pilot alighted on and owned an extale in Leicester-Dunkirk Sands when notified. shire with a private aerodrome.

Coastguards and shipping were)

Once, when he was living at warned but it is unlikely that the Biarritz, he hired a fleet of aero-body will be recovered,

NINE SHOT DEAD.

ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO

BREAK PRISON.

ONE IS LUCKY.

Bukharest, Yesterday, Тел life-sentence prisoners attempted to escape from the

planes to ferry his guests through- Deceased leaves a widow and Ognetimari prison by way of a

out Europe. It was Capt, Loewen-On.

hole in the wall. The sentries stein who employed the British CONSTERNATION IN BRUSSELS. pilots Minchin and Hamilton, who

Brussels, Yesterday.

fatally shot nine and the tenth, Were lost in an attempt to fly the Loewenstein's death caused con-though wounded, escaped in the

sternation in the Stock Exchange forest. Reuter.

Atlantic.

He left Croydon last evening for and all the securities in which the Brussels in his own elaborately Loewenstein group was interested equipped six seater Folker mono-

It

reacted more

FOR PALESTINE.

or less strongly. plane, with a pilot employed by For example Latubize, previously SIR J. CHANCELLOR AS HIGH Imperial

12.185 opened at 1.670.

COMMISSIONER. that in Mid Channel Capt. Loewen- Measures, it is reported, are be- stein went to the rear compartmenting considered to protect the mar

London, Yesterday.

Airways.

appears

of the acroplane and did not re-ket.

turn, so that the valet went to look

for him and discovered the exit- door open. The pilot landed

the first available spot on the coast.

jately landed.

DEPORTED

Bobbed Hair Girl Goes Away.

The bobbed hair girl who (as exclusively reported in the "China Mail") was arrested a few days ago for being suspected in con- nection with the communist movement, has been deported.

Chatting

and and smiling dressed in fashionable clothes, she marched from the Police Station to the 2,5. “Kwangal," together with 13 young men who were also in their Sunday "best." Much excitement was caused among the crowd that followed her along the Praya.

At

.

AT EPSOM.

London, Yesterday.

U.S. BONDS.

ad upon the commanding officer, Major E. C. T. Warner, the party was headed by the President, Dr. J.

NEW ISSUE TO REPLACE 3RD Elliot Murray, and he was accom-

Reuter.

LIBERTY LOAN.

panied by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. G. Clay, Mr. George Hogg and representative members. They ex-j

man

· LADY'S ESTATE.

viewed by two foreigners, one a

VALUED AT $61,200. doctor, who states that Feng ap- peared to be worn and tired, but Washington, Yesterday.

Re-sealing of probate of the not ill.

The Treasury announces It is reported that Feng has offer of 8% per cent. bonds, arrival of the Scots Guards and (widow) deceased,

the pressed their pleasure. upon the estate of Mrs. H. M. Hutchison asked the other leaders to go to maturing in 1940-3 to be used uttered the hope that they would granted to Mr. D. H. Blake of has been Paoting for a conference, as he is primarily for the retirement of have a pleasant stay in the port. Boulogne, Yesterday. The King has been pleased to unable at present to

Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, soli- come to outstanding Third Liberty Loan The pilot of Loewenstein's aero-approve the appointment of Sir Peking. However, it is believed Bonds in unlimited quantities. It is interesting to mention

citors. Average Height,

The deceased, whose local at plane, when informed that Capt. John Chancellor to be High that they will not agree to the The latter will be accepted in ex- that the average height in the estate is valued at $61,200, was

Loewenstein was missing, immedi-Commissioner and Commander- may go to Peking later.

suggestion, in which event Feng change, but cash offerings will Right Flank is 6-ft. 14-in., in late of "Clovend," 18, Holly Park, ILL HEALTH.

be restricted to $250,000,000. the Left Flank about 6-ft., with Finchley, Middlesex, and died at Interviewed by Reuter, the pilot in-Chief for Palestine. and High Japanese Troops, Capt. Loewenstein had recently said the accident must have oc. Commissioner for Trans-Jordan

Takyo, Yesterday,

a slightly smaller average in the Hampstead on January 17, 1928. beep shewing signs of Il health incurred at an altitude of 4,000 feet. in place of Field Marshal Lord An officer Has Been despatched

two other companies. The tallest She appointed as trustees and consequence of his unceasing ac- Nobody was quite sure of the exact Plumer, whose tenure of these to Tsingtao with orders for the

man in the battalion, who comes executors of her will, her three tivities. It is believed that he was place.

offices will shortly end..

partial demobilisation arid

from Glasgow, is 6-ft. 5-in.; while sons. Messrs. D. C. Hutchison very disappointed because the AEROPLANE TO BE SOLD.

Sir J. Chancellor, who is 58 organisation of the Third Divi-

the tallest officer is 6-ft. 4-in. It (Shanghai); J. G. Hutchison and Belgian and French Governments

years old, has had a distinguished sion. *

is interesting to mention that the A. Hutchison, and also her bro- rejected his reported offer to lend

Pipe-Major since coming to China ther, Mr. A. M. Chalmers, C.M.G., career as a soldier and Colonial It is understood that the administrator. He has been majority of the reservists will

Niagara, Yesterday. has composed two new pipe tunes of 11 Ashburn-place, South Ken- Commander-in-be released and will be sent back

man has "shot" Niagara Falls.

For the third time in history, a march and a retreat and the sington, London, S.W. 1.

commanding officer has instituted Bequests made under the will 160,000 spectators lined the banks for the best titles for these.

a compétition among the battalion are all of a family nature. when a French-Canadian, Jean

A motor-coach conveying a troop Lausalar of Springfield, Massachu Two films dealing with lubricat-of musicians in the commune of setta, went over in a huge rubber ing oil and lubrication will be Estepa, near Seville, overturned, ball. He was rescued by a boat-shown at the Institution of two of the pecupants being killed, man, and was merely bruised by Engineers and Shipbuildent at 8.80 four gravely injured, and fifteen his terrific bouncing-Reuter. | p.m. to-day.

islightly hurt.

;『

Calais, Yesterday. Loewenstein's .aeroplane

has

She said: "Let it be!

re-

them many millions of francs to been taken to Croydon by the order Governor and stablise their currencies.

of his widow, who has arrived from Chief of Southern Rhodesia since to Japan shortly, thus bringing ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Brussels.

The death of Capt. Loewenstein sold, I never wish to see it again.” 1923. British Wireless Service. the division on to a peace basis.——

Reuter. caused a sensation on the Stock-Router, Exchange, and the Loewenstein

Mexico City, Yesterday, The = Group were demoralised at the Berlin, Yesterday The Reich-engineers, Mitchell and Hooper, opening. International holdings stag by 261 to 184 votes has ap-have been released without pay- were marked down 140, and Hydro proved of the Government's proment of ransom. — Reuter's The clearing rate of the dollar Electric to between 32 and 40. This gramme.--Reuter,"

American Service.

Jon demand, to-day was 2/0 3/16.

J

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

NIAGARA “SHOT”.

FRENCH-CANADIAN RUBBER

BALL ADVENTURE.