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"GRAF ZEPPELIN" COMPLAINTS

AN INQUIRY

ORDER FROM U. S. SECRETARY OF NAVY

"FALSE IMPRESSIONS"

Washington, Yesterday.

STORY OF ISLAND RAID

FOUR PRISONERS

POLICE REPORTS SEQUEL TO THE RECENT PIRACIES

SYSTEMATIC SEARCH

How a posse of Police. over 30

ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL

COMPANY

THE DIVIDEND

J

7 1/2 P. C. ON ORDINARY SHARES

ENORMOUS CARRY OVER

London, Yesterday.

|. The Secretary of the Navy has strong, including men in the Emer The directors of the Anglo- ordered, the Commandant of the geney Squad and from the C.D., Persian Oil Co, have decided to re- Naval Air Force station at Lake. raided an island in the southern commend, at the annual meeting of harat to hold an inquiry with re-whters of the Colony was related November 6, payment of an ordinary ference to the reports regarding by a tired but happy band on their dividend of 7 per cent, less tax the treatment accorded by Customs return to Hong Kone last night with for the year to March 3, 1928 and officials, police and others to the four prisaners, 14 rifles (some say carry forward £2,224.266.-Reuter. passengers and crew of the "Graf 17); a revolver, a basketful of am-1 Zeppelin" on the latter's arrival. munition-and the corpse of a

LONDON THEATRE The officials of the Navy De man. partment have stated that no com- Following this Įplaints have been received, but that of piracica 口詐 an inquiry is being held in order off Lantao and to dispel false impressions. Reu- systematic raid ter's American Service.

AIR DISASTER

'PLANE'S NOSE DIVE FROM

600 FEET.

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PANICKY PASSENGER?

Atlantic City, Yesterday.

week's series native craft elsewhere, a WAR made

on

SEVERAL NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

FOUR MORE PLANNED

I number of islets to the! south of Cheung Chau." The Police A new theatre was opened in were under Det.-Inspector L. P. London last month-the Embassy Lane and they carried rifles, water- Theatre, Swiss Cottage, N.W. bottles and other equipment as The Embagay is a small theatre though prenared for a siège. De with a policy of original produc- tectives with close knowledge of tions. The opening play là to be, the locality were also sent out. "The Yellow Streak," by Miss Mabel One island (Pu 0) was found Ellams Hope, with Miss Jeanne de to be deserted except for an old Casalia in the leading part. woman. The dozes or so huts A number of other new theatres A party of bankers attending a were searched and a revolver was are being built in London. Chief convention of the Investment found. The Police withdrew to No. among them is the Dominion, at the Bankers Corporation was taken on 4 launch and passed Thursday junction of Tottenham Court-road a sight-seeing trip over the city in night with look-outs on duty. Yes and New Oxford-strect. It will be

Junker's monoplane when the machine nose dived from 600 feet, terday morning four men were seen a big musical play house.

The Empire, Leicester-square, is returning. They were rounded up. Two of the passengers were killed and five seriously injured before and the rifles and ammunition was rapidly being rebuilt, and will short- the eves of their wives, who were

Investigations continued ly be ready to be opened as a cinema theatre; and recently Miss Evelyn until yesterday afternoon, watching the flight.

Mystery attaches to the dead Laye laid the foundation stone of a The cause of the disaster is un- body brought back but it is known big new theatre at Streatham which known, but the manager considers that he was not shot down by the is to be run rather on the lines of that a passenger crawled from the Police.

the Golders Green Hippodrome.

found.

gether with their armoury.

The erection of four more new

south side of Leicester-square, in Soho, and near Drury-lane.

cabin into the relief pilot's cockpit It is beloved In Police circles and got panicky when the pilot exe that the base from which the junk London theatres is also being cuted a wing over. He then seized pirates operated was found, to planned in Charing Cross-road, the the controls, This theory is pug gested by the fact that the pilot while being taken to hospital kept shouting "Get to hell away from those controls."-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.

THE "MOTH"

MACDONALD STILL MISSING

COOLIE'S DEATH

.SEQUEL TO MOTOR LORRY

SKID'

JURY'S SUGGESTION

In the provinces. the Moss Em- pires are building a large up-to-date theatre in Southampton. This com pany's entirely rebullt, Edinburgh Empire was opened on October 1.

A VILE CREATURE "

GIRL WHO TERRORISED AN OCTOGENARIAN

An accident involving the death of a coolie was investigated by Mr. W. Schofield, sitting as Coroner, and SEEN FROM DUTCH STEAMER a jury at the Kowloon Magistracy

yesterday afternoon,

A girl of 18, who was said to London, Yesterday.

The fatality occurred on a path-have "worried the life out" of un The aerodromes at Croydon and way leading from the hillside into 80-year-old man, Mr. William Bell, Stag Lane have been brilliantly on Sept. 27 when a Ford motor truck was sentenced by Mr. Hay Halkett Prince Edward-road, Kowloon City.

and threatened to murder him, lighted all night, while the staffs driven by a licensed driver, with at Marylebone Police Court to six have kept a vain watch for signs only four days' experience; turned months' hard labour. of MacDonald. Anxiety grew to- wards 4 o'clock in the morning load of stonees on to the road. One of James-street, Camden Town, over, throwing four coolies and a She was Florence. Mansbridge, when it was realised that the air of the coolies received injuries. N.W., and she was sentenced for man's petrol supply was likely to which necessitated his removal to stealing a be exhausted, but the only news the hospital. where he died later.

wallet containing £6 of MacDonald's whereabouts since

from Mr. Bell's room at the same Dr. I. Newton, in his evidence, address. he set out is a report that he was eald that defendant had succumbed seen by a Dutch steamer at 12.30

Detective Quinlan described the yesterday morning at, a spot 600 to multiple fractures with shock as girl as the vilest creature he had miles from his point of departure. a contributory factor.

ever had to deal with. For some Sub-Inspector Mason said that time, he said, she had been going on Sept. 18 the brakes bad been to Mr. Bell's room with her dog CRAIGENGOWER C.C. properly fitted and he had made and worrying him." Whenever he examination. Regarding the went out she got in with a false celdent, witness said that both the key and ransacked his room. PRESIDENT REPORTS A GOOD, front-wheels of the lorry were had not prosecuted her before be- He

YEAR

amashed and the axle bent. The cause he was in fear of her. bands of the rear brakes were found After she had been arrested she to have been ineffective. Accord. declared, "I will murder the old ing bo the driver, "the lorry skidded man yet.”

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At the annual meeting of the just before reaching the base of The "officer said

that when he Bookbinders. Cralgengower Cricket Club, held the incline.

went to arrest her she used moat! Sergeant Scrim also gave evi- vile language and was so violent that he had to obtain assistance.

In the clubhouse yesterday even- Ing. Mr. R. Basa, Presfilent, in dence, the chair, congratulated the club

The jury returned a verdict of She had been discharged from on the fine remalts of the year's "Accidental Death" and suggested several homes as they could, not working. Discussing the club's that drivers should be more strictly tolerate her. "bad debts" the President said, in teeted and that the age limit should answer to certain questions, that be raised to. 22 years.

the. club aimed at helping everyone, and the laying down' of a hard and fast rule that a members' debt should not exceed $50, would not serve any good or useful purpose. There must be bad debts every- where, he said, and the Craigen- gower was no exception,

RHODODENDRONS

CHINESE VOGUE IN BRITISH

GARDENS

amall rhododendrons are moet de- sirable. The advent of Chinese rhododendrons has done much to lay the ghost of the notion, so persist- ently held by past generations, that peat is necessary for the welfare

of

all rhododendrond. They will Writing of the present vogue for flourish in soll innocent of peat pro rhododendrons, in British gardens, a vided it is also Innocent of lime Ba The election of officers, for the correspondent of "The Times" for Instance In East and West ensuing year resulted as follows:- states that many of the new species Sussex and the "district" of}

President: Mr. R. Bas.

from Chine and Tibet are hardly Haslemere, in Surrey, where the Vice-President: Mr. A. A. Alves, enough and when all the testing rhododendrone planted by James Hon. Secretary: Mr. D. Rumjahn. and sifting have been done there Mangies at Valewood 60 years ago Hon. Treasurer: Mr. D. K. will remain a residue of hardy wild are a proof of their Hiking for a Kharas.

rhododendrons of incomparable rather heavy loam. The fact that beauty, Cricket Captain: Mr. R. M. Omar. The Chinese rhododendrons, he and Lichising mountains the two hododendrons flourish on the Talf Vice-Captain: Mr. R. C. Reed. Captain 2nd XI: Mr. E. Mow their ways. Some are in a hurry to ma led to a hope that the species of

continues, are curiously unlike in great limestone ranges of Yunnan- Fung.

show their qualities, and begin to those mountains may settle down on General Committee: Mesars. B. bloom within a few years of the Hmy so here. Time and a clearer WBradbury W. P. Muskett, W. nowing of the seed; others are slow, understanding of the functions of Allan, E. Mow Fung, P. A. Dixon, and may show little of their true the minute fumo which sound in C. B. Rosselet, F. K. Mody and D. form in the lives of the present association with the roots of Fritz,

generation. There is nothing aur rhododendrons will doubtless eluci

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