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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928.
GREAT ENGINEERING CIVIL AVIATION IN
FEAT
NICE-CONI RAIL
PIERCING THE ALPS & LINKING UP VAST REGION
ITALO-FRENCH AMITY
Paris, Yesterday.
BRITAIN
A NEW APPEAL
AIR MINISTRY'S REQUEST TO MUNICIPALITIES
GENERAL SPEEDING UP
London, Yesterday.
THE BIG AIRSHIP'S VOYAGE
MAKING PROGRESS
WIRELESS MESSAGES AS TO HER POSITION
FAVOURABLE WEATHER
London, Yesterday.
The achievement of a magnificent A remarkable new step towards The liner 8.8. "Mauretania" has engineering feat was marked by the the promotion of civil aviation has wirelessed that the communicated inauguration to-day of the Nice-been taken by the Air Ministry.with the "Graf Zepplin" at 12,19 Coni Railway, which pierces the The Ministry has addressed a Greenwich time, which gave her Alps and links up the Riviera direct-letter to the town clerks of the position as approximately midway ly with Turin and consequently chief provincial cities and towns between Cape Cod and the Azores.. with Switzerland' and Central asking them to consider the ad- of S.W. of Ireland Europe.
visability of establishing municipal Reuter learns by wireless that? At the opening ceremony, held at aerodromes with as little delay as the "Graf Zeppelin" has reported the International station at Brell, possible.
her paaltion to be 560 miles due
M. Tardieu, the French Minister of
The letter says:The develop west of the extreme south-west of. Public Works, in a speech declared:ment of internal flying is almost Ireland. The weather is reported "It is the duty of France and entirely dependent on the provision as being fair-Reuter. Italy to know, understand and love of aerodromes at the large centres.
The Stowaway each other batter, and to-day's The provision of aerodromes and
New York, Yesterday.
#4
an
bound to favour rapprochement---Reuter.
SECOND LANDRU "
HUNGER STRIKE IN PRISON ENDS IN DEATH
Marseilles, Yesterday. Pierre Rey, known as "Landru the second," who has been on hunger strike since his arrest, has died in prison.-Reuter.
1
SENT TO PRISON
AN OPIUM DEALER SMARTLY DEALT WITH
UNLAWFUL' POSSESSION...
ceremony is a symbol. of that ancillary services by the State must An earlier telegram stated that, rapprochement."
Signor Giurati, the Italian Minis- necessarily, if only on the grounds four hours after the "Zeppelin" ter of Public Works replied that of capital cost, bé confined to ter- took off at Lakehurst, members of the Inauguration of the line was minal points on trunk routes. The the crew discovered a seventeen- Italo-French establishment of a network of aero-year-old American youth, who had dromes throughout the country, to stowed away on board. This ad- serve the general purposes of in-venturer is believed to be a golf ternal flying, must develop on the caddy-Reuter's American Service. local authorities, who may indeed expect to benefit ultimately by the traffic and commerce which will fol- low the provision of these facilities. It is the opinion of the Air Council will sooner or later find it just as that every town of any importance essential to possess well-sited aero- dromes, as it does to-day to possess An opium dealer of Shing On- railway stations, roada and garages. street, Shaukiwan, was this morn- The first development in this.
Other Services,
ing charged. before Mr. R. E. ghastly Marseilles villa crime took
This appeal to municipal authori-Lindsell with the unlawful posses- place on June 28, when the Chief ties is reinforced by the statement sion of 108 taels of raw non-Gov- of the Algiers Police announced that of the progress made by the regular ernment opium, which Revenue Off- he had arrested a man answering British air services. These consist cer Grimmitt found concealed in a the description of Jerome Frat, the at present of the operation of cross bucket, when he raided the defen- man "wanted" by the French Police. Channel air routes and of the route dant's shop yesterday. in connection with the murders. between Cairo and Basrah.
Under
The Magistrate imposed The Chief of the Algiers Police ad- vised the Marseilles Police that the an agreement recently negotiated of $3,000 or, in default, six months'
with the Imperial Airways Company hard labour. man he had detained was described, it is expected that on April next In addition, the defendant was as Pierre Rey, alias Jerome Prat, or a through weekly service in each sent to jail for three months with- Jerome Gallard.*
direction, between England and out the option of a fine. [Sixty years of age, Jerome Prut India, will be commenced, and it is
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15, after neighbours' attention had Imperial services will be established been attracted by the screams of a to South Africa and elsewhere. woman, who subsequently was found The growth of traffic on the 'cross- strangled in one of the rooms. He channel air services is showing a left in a motor-car and was carry marked increase. ing a sack in which it is believed
In 1927 British machines carried was the body of yet another woman 16,533 passengers compared 5,256 in victim of his dreadful crimes. The 1921.
.
The opfum was conflacated,
$4,000 FINE
a fine
OPIUM IN THE RIES OF A
PACKING CASE
Arrested on the Fook On wharf yesterday afternoon, a Chinese was, this morning, charged before Mr. case was described ELA a new Notwithstanding the keen com R. E. Lindsell with the unlawful "Landru" case, the Police suspecting petition by the four foreign air lines possession of 50 taels of prepar- that other women had been murder operating to Croydon, from various ed non-Government oplum, which so in addition to those whose bodies parts of continent, it is pointed out was concealed in the ribs of a had been found.]
that British machines are carrying packing case, of which he had by far the largest number of pas-charge. A fine of $4,000 or eight sengers. In 1927 Belgian machines months hard labour was imposed, |FRENCH ROYALISTS carried 1,490 passengers, French and the oplum was confiscated.
SEQUEL TO THE RIOTING AT PONS
POLITICAL CONTROVERSY
machines, 5,199, German machines, 1,972 and Dutch machines, 8,580,— British Wireless Service.
WEST INDIES
SIR E. DAVSON TO
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RULE
COLLISION SEQUEL
Paris, Yesterday
(Continued from Page 1.)
London, Yesterday. Following the riot at Pons, in
The Colonial Secretary announces which the atatue of M. Combes was
Mr. Brott testified that he had that Sir Edward Dayson has ac- mutilated, all but seven out of the been driving since 1919. His aver cepted the unanimous invitation of 46 members of the Royalist organi-¡ sation "Camelot du Roi" who were age for the last four months was 900 the Governments of the Colonies participating in West Indies Can- jarrested at Pons have been releas-miles a month.
When he pulled in more to his left ference to act as Chairman of the. ed. None of them was armed.: The charge to be brought against and Sgt. McLeod went towards the first West Indies Conference which the remaining seven will be that same side, they were about ten yards will meet in Barbadoes next Jan- of assaulting the police.
apart: His back brake was very uary-British Wireless Service. The Bishop of la Rochelle, who efficient but no matter how powerful
ROBERT LANSING DEAD had ordered the clergy to treat his brake was, he would have tried Sunday as a day of mourning, has to avoid the collision in the manner Issued a statement in which he which he did.
New York, Yesterday. The death in "announced of Mr. condemns the violence of the He had purchased the combination Camelots du Roi and others, but from a policeman and the front Robert Lansing-Reuter's Ameri-
Ican Servicee. expresses more than pity" for the brake was already disconnected when
The late Mr. Lansing was Secret! dend Camelot..
the sale was made. The tendency to The political controversy con-skid when a front brake was used ary of State in the Woodrow Wil-
son Cabinet.] tinues around the question of the was the explanation given to him by alleged provocation in honouring the seller as the reason for the dis- the former. Premier, M. Combes
Reuter.
5 Committed for Trial
connection, and this man had further would never have happened. He des said that three pairs of cycles forks cribed Sgt. McLeod's action as a had been broken in the Police force "ly thing to do" but added that through the use of such front there was no animosity between Five of the seven arrested, de- brakes; and-it was the tendency to them. He denied that the accident happened just on Sgt. McLeod's aide tained in connection with the Ponaj dieconnect them.
of the road RADEN
St. Ese, Yesterday.
affair, have been committed for Cross-examining, Mr. Ruse ask trial, while the other two, of whom d
Sgt. Wallington of Mongkok, who one was charged with mutilating a Can you suggest any reason why, was standing outside the station at public statue and the other with: If these front brakes are so useless, the time of the collision, gave a de realsting the police, have been re-manufacturers fit them?-Well, the monstration with models as to the respective movements and positions manded. Reuter.
law says 80.
And why the legislature of the of the two cycles. le Colony should pass a regulation that For the defence it was alleged motorcycles shall have two indepen- that skid marks 87 feet long, attri dent and ancient brakes if they are buted to Mr. Brett's combination, useless?The Police are in the were found on the road. Sgt. Wal- habit of disconnecting it themselves lington said he took no measure- and condone the offence when comments, Mr. Brett said that a wheel of his combination: had become mitted by others.
stuck and a police officer had help
MR. BEN STRONG
ESTATE VALUED AT
G$500,000 ARTI
New York, Yesterday,
Demonstration
Mr. Benjamin Strong, who died Mr. Brett agreed with, Mr. Buss ed him to drag the combination recently and who was Chairman of that it was an estonahing sock- along the road in order to free the the
Föde
He thoug that If more wheel The dragging may have left man than Sgt. McLeod the marks attranted to skidding.ne
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