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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN SHANTUNG

NORTHERNERS' CAMPAIGN

Chefoo, Yesterday. All is quiet here. There are about 1,000 ex-Northern troops (who ejected the Nationalist defen- der)in the vicinity. British Naval Wireless.

"Chang's "I Will Fight"

The death of Cardinal Lucidi has reduced the Sacred College to

Peking, Saturday. only 59 members, of whom 26 are

Chang Tsung-chang yesterday Italian and 33 non-Italian, respec-called on several foreign Consuls

tively.

at Chefoo and stated that Sun As the quorum or "plenum" Is Chuan-fang would shortly be join- 70, although customarily one or

ing him, His next objectives two places are vacant, the Pope would be Tsinan and Tsingtao and has now eight or nine red hats at that as soon as the Japanese with his disposal, a record since the drew he would fight Feng Yu- time of Leo the Thirteenth Reu-hsiang if he attempted to come in. As far as is known Chang Taung chang controls 35,000 men, includ- Ing Chu Yu-pu's troops.--Beuter.

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RADIO AND TELEPHONE'S TENTATIVE PLAN

JOINT STATEMENT

Japanese Murdered?

Tokyo, Saturday. Commenting on the Press re- ports that a Japanese has been murdered at Tsiho in Shantung pro- vince, the Government spokesman New York, Saturday. atates that an official report says The Radio Corporation and the that it has been unable to verify the ternational Telephone and Tele-murdered man's nationality so far, graph Company have jointly issuas the head was cut off. ed a statement to the effect that their agreement is merely an ac cord regarding the desirability of the consolidation of their com munications and interests and is a tentative plan under which this might be accomplished when the law permitted.

The Foreign Office has ordered investigations and fe awaiting a further report-Router.

Feng to Take Over

Shanghai, Saturday.

COLLISION IN BAY OF BISCAY

S.S. “CEYLAN”

FRENCH LINER AND A BRITISH STEAMER

ALL SAVED

London, Yesterday. The Chargeurs Reunis liner s.8. Ceylan" is staking in the Bay of Biscay. The crew and passengera have taken to the boats and help is being dispatched.

Towed To Bordeaux

Later, The "Ceylan" collided with the British steamer "Clodoald” and was holed near the stokehold.

Her passengers were taken aboard the latter and four tugs, which responded to the 5.0.8., are now towing the "Geylan" to Bordeaux. She was leaking badly.--Reuter.

BOY'S BRAVERY

TRAIN STOPPED AT THE EDGE OF OBSTRUCTION

Pomeroy, (Ohio)-A seventeen- Glen Cline year-old boy named crawled from his sick-bed at Po- meroy, Ohio, in mall week and saved an express train filled with pas-) sengers from almost certain dis- aster.

While lying in bed he heard a A Kuo Min news agency report load roar from the railway near his Convinced that a high from Tal-antu, in Shantung, saya house. that 80,000 of Feng Yu-hsiang's embankment had collapsed burying The statement adds that the troops have gone eastward to take the permanent way under tone of unification of communications such over the garrisoning of the Tsinan debris, the boy seized a lantern and

that fears were only too true..

as has accurred in the British Em--Kiachow area, following Japan-hurried to the scene, where he found pire will be to the interests of the ese withdrawal--Reuter. United States-Reuter's American Service.

{An earlier telegram was to the following effect:-

OFF TO INDIA

AIR LINER LEAVES FOR

BASLE :

5,000 MILES' TRIP

The "Herald Tribune"; states. that an agréement has been sign- ed in Paris for the sale of the Radio Corporation's subsidiary company, the Communication Co

London, Saturday. to the International Telephone & The Armstrong Siddeley air lin Telegraph Co. for G$100,000,000.] Jer, inaugurating the Imperial Air- [ways Service to India, left Croydon SYDNEY-WYNDHAM (at 10 o'clock en route to Basle on the first stage, of her 5,000 miles' flight.

START OF NON-STOP FLIGHT

SINGAPORE LATER

Sydney, Saturday. Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr. Ulm, the first airmen to fly across the Pacific, have started on

a non-top flight of 2,000 miles to Wyndham, West Australia, en route to Singapore and thence to Britain-Reuter.

Forced Down

Sydney, Yesterday. Kingsford Swrith and Ulmi, aboard the "Southern Cross" made a forced landing near Wyndham, owing to lack of petrol.-The-crew of four includes a navigator and wireless operator-Reuter.

Mr. L. Evans, of Denmark Cot- tare, Woodley, near Reading, who had been working fog signals," was knocked down by a train and kill en on the Great Western Railway near Sonning golf course early one morning last month.

The pilot is Captain A. -S. Wileackson.

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Knowing that the express train was about due, he rushed to the nearest curve, where he stood swing- Ing his lantern until the driver of the approaching expresa, seeing the faint light, applied his brakes in the nick of time and brought the train to a standstill within a few yards of the spot where the track had gone.

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Distinguished "Passengers" There was a complete absence of fuas when the first air liner for from Nanking says that according India departed to the scheduled to an official communique, Chiang

SELWYN ! Ting-wen's 9th division is nearing minute,

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