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KING AMANULLAH'S “IRON HAND”

NEW REFORMS

ARRESTS "MOSLEM SAINT" FOR RESISTING HIS AUTHORITY

BIG SENSATION:

Peshawar. For opposing reforms contemplated by King Amanullah,

THE NEW BRITISH AIRSHIP R100

FOR CHRISTMA

TO ESTABLISH AN ENGLAND- AMERICAN SERVICE

100 PASSENGERS CARRIED

Loudon, Yesterday.

A BEACHY HEAD SENSATION

TRAGIC AFFAIR

UNCONCIOUS FOR 17 HOURS

· AFTER 80 FEET FALL

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POLICE TO THE RESCUE

Seventeen hours after he vanish-

It is stated that the British aired from sight, a man who fell over such as the abolition of purdah (the ship R100,, now under construction Beachy Head, after crying, "Good- nt Howden, Yorkshire, will be com-¡ bye, everyone,” was found alive on vell) and the compulsory education pleted before Christmas. The tests a ledge 80 feet down the cliff. for women. the Moslem Saint, will probably include a demonstra- Coastguards who were lowered to Hazrat Sahib, who wields great In-tion flight to America and it la pro- the spot were astonished to find the ,fluence in Afghanistan, and was the posed later to establish an England-man, though unconscious, was not

favourite of the late Amir, bas mercial basis.

America alrship service on a com- dead.

Police set out in a boat for the foot been arrested with some of his fol- The R100, although her of the cliff, and a telephone message) lowers.

length is less than that of the "Graf was sent for a doctor, who Zeppelin," which this afternoon was raced to the spot in a fast motor- nearing the American coast, is de- boat. signed to carry 100 passengers, and her angine is more powerful.

Troope escorted the party to Kabul from Charbagh. The arrests have created a big sensation.

DONE TO DEATH

SWEDISH MISSIONARY IN SHANSI

NIGHT IN A HOSTEL

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Peking, Saturday.

The man was strapped to a stretcher and lowered stage by The airship R101, which is under police and coastguards to the bench, construction by the Air Ministry at where he was placed in a motor- Cardington, is also almost ready for boat and carried to hospital in shed tests-British Wireless Ser- Eastbourne. vice.

RAILWAY SMASHES

INJ.

THE COLLISIONS AT CHAR- FIELD AND GLASGOW

LATEST DETAILS

London, Saturday,

His Identity is unknown, but he fa described as being of medium height, aged about 40, dark, and

well dressed.

P.-M.-R. POSITION

CHANG HSUEH-LIANG CALLS CONFERENCE

The Swedish Legation states that Chinese bandits have murdered a Swedish missionary, Mr. Robert Elias Blomdahl, of the Swedish Alliance Mission.

Seven persone were killed and HIS RELATIONS WITH NANKING Mr. Blomdahl was going from many injured when a mail train Kweihwating, in the north-west of collided with an empty goods train Shansi province, to Tokto. He was which went on fire near Charfield, attacked while spending the night Gloucestershire, in dense fog at five | of Oct. 3 in a small hostel shout o'clock this morning. 30 miles from his starting point. -Reuter.

Peking, Saturday.

The vernacular

papers state that General Chang Heuch-liang, 3 Coaches Telescoped

the head of the Manchurian Gov- The mall train was travelling ernment, who has been appointed

Newcastle. [Note: Both Kweihwating and from

The express a State. Councillor by Nanking, is Tokto are outside the Great Wall, struck the front of the goods Bummoning a conference to be the latter being less than 50 miles train which was backing into a south of the former, Kwefhwating siding.

held at Shanhaikwan (at the boun- dary between China Proper" and Manchuria) on Oct. 15.

is a recognised Protestant station,: Three coaches of the express and the terminus of the Peking were telescoped and both trains Delegates of General Yen Hel- Bulyan Railway.. Shanel is under burst into flames.

shan of Shansi and of General Paí General Yen Hal-shan, but that The passengers of the mail Chung-hai (the Nationalist vf part of Shanai province outside the train were imprisoned in the Kwangsl who directed the cam- Wall comes within a special ad- wreckage, which piled up.

paign against the Northerners) are ministrative area, of which Gon- The impact was so terrific that going to the conference with the eral Shang Chen (a supporter of some of the wreckage struck and object of discussing the return to Yen Hel-shan and now promoted to partly demolished a road. bridge.

the Nationalists of rolling stock Peking) is the Tutung.]

9 Kilted: 21 Injured

taken away by the Manchurians Nine were killed and 21 Injured. and the Northerners when they The express was from Leeds and evacuated Peking a few months was travelling to Bristol, when it ago. The re-opening of through collided with a shunting goods train, traffic on the Peking-Mukden Rail- Another goode train up the line way is also to be discussed.-Res- was involved, some of the carriages ter. of the express swinging into the latter after the collision,

:

EX-EMPRESS DIES

FORMER CZARINA OF RUSSIA

·PASSES AWAY

COURT MOURNING

Both engines were smashed and burned and were unrecognisable metal work.

Copenhagen, Yesterday, The death is announced of the The rescue was very difficult, and ex-Empress Marie Feodorovna of the coaches were still blazing st Russia.

H.M. the King has commanded one week's full and another week's half court mourning, from to- morrow, for the ex-Empress Marie

Feodorovna-Reuter.

FLOATING: DOCK

FIRST SECTION ARRIVES AT ITS DESTINATION

Singapore, Saturday,

9.8.0.

THE GLASGOW SMASH

London, Saturday.

Nationalist Go Home

Tongshan, Saturday. General Yeh Chih, commander of the 12th Nationalist Army (under General. Pei Chung-hai) went to Mukden by special train on the night of Oct. 12.

Traffic of the Peking-Mukden Rall- way has been stopped from crossing One person was killed, and 60 Lanshalen bridge during the hours were injured when an empty train of darkness, including coal trains. crashed into a stationary and heavi-These are halted to the east of the ly ladan Glasgow to Edinburgh bridge and searched, only the en- train in a tunnel outside Glasgow.gine crew and guards being allowed

Three coaches were telescoped. to proceed beyond that point.

The 'dead man was a bridegroom on his honeymoon. His bride was injured.

Large movements of Nationalist troops to the westward are taking place. It is estimated that 11,000 troops with transport have moved Newly Married The condition of some of the west, either by foot or train, dur- The first portion of the mammoth injured in the Glasgow colision is the direction of Lanhsien have been ing the last 24 hours. Partles from floating dock for the new Nayal very serious. Rescue work proceed- Base, which left the River Tyne on ed all night, the darkness of the Passing through Kuyeh to the west. June 21 and was towed, by Dutch tunnel Intensifying the horror.

The Tongshan mining area is tugs, arrived this morning, the Three telescoped coaches had to be quiet-British Naval Wireless. second portion le due on Monday.

The task of joining the two Beci chopped in order to release the vic- tions will probably occupy fobris.The dead bridegroom was still at the wearing the carnation he wore morning ceremony. One woman carried out still held a half-eaten

months.Reuter

FRENCH REVENUE orange in her hand.

THE ESTIMATES EXCEEDED

Graphic Details

When the rescuers, after two

| hours' hacking at the wreckage in

TREATY REVISION

PORTUGUESE MINISTER'S

CONVERSATIONS:::

SIGNOR VARE NEXT

Shanghai, Yesterday.

the long narrow. Queen Street tun- The Portuguese: Minister to Faria, Oct. 4.

|nel, ⠀⠀ dragged out the body of a China has returned here from Nan- The revenue returns for Septem- man confetti duttered from bis king after several important;con- ber show Fes. 3,107,000,000, an-in- clothing:** He had been crushed.veriations in connection with Sino- crease of Fcs. 238,000,000 on the From the comation in the button- Portuguese Treaty-revision. budget estimate and of Fcs. hole, the body was identified as Reuter [481,000,000 on September, 1927, that of Mr. Donaldson Gray of

Reuter,

BIG RUBBER FIRE

Winnipeg, Oct. 18.

Peking Saturday.

Glasgow. He had been married The Italian Minister to China, three hours previously. His bride Signor Vare, is leaving Peking for was one of the first of the injured Nanking on Oct. 14, sense the the Chinese-Italian with the Chinese National

to be removed and she had to have her leg amputated the Infirmary, SVA second newly wedded pair ware

Fire has destroyed the warehouse Mr. and Mrs. James Ross of Glas

of the Dominion Rubber-Co any gow

Both were injured eas

here and the damage is estimated ing a broken leg.

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