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The Yunnanese pro-Government troops under General Fan" Shek- sang have been forced to evacuate Pinglo and nearby districts of Kwangsi upon the arrival of the allied Kweichow and Kwangsi forces.

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SING-SONG GIRL

ANOTHER STAGE IN ALLEGED DETENTION CASE

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENTS

Another adjournment was this morning by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy in the case in which two Chinese are charged with the unlawful detention of a sing-song girl in the Ka Chow boarding house, Central, on the in Connaught-road right of June 4-5.

given

YELLOW BIRD'S

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GREAT FEAT

EXCITING SCENES

ENGULFED BY A HUMAN MAELSTROM

HOISTED SHOULDER HIGH

Le Bouget, Yesterday. Scenes of tumultuous enthu- were witnessed ay the siasm

One of the men was further charged with having behaved improperly to Yellow Bird landed half an hour wards the girl and the other with aid ing and abetting him.

The second accused was alleged to have met the girl outside a restaurant acon after midnight and invited her to go to the boarding house to sing to

ahead of time.

Assolant appeared tired out, and almost fainted as be was hoisted out of the plane.

The three airmes and the stow- all hoisted shoulder

The Kwoichow troops under General Chow Sai-sing, it may be recalled, have moved inte Kwang si since the fall of Keirang, the capital of Kwelchow..

Eastern Kwanga is a quiet, with No. 1 who, allegedly, subjected It was only with the greatest diffi

the her to shameful treatment until No. 2culty that they were taken to the notwithstanding reports to

hangar where an official reception contrary. The Kwangsi forces returned at 7 am and released her.

was beld. are rallying in preparation for a counter-attack on the pro-Covern ment forces.-Nan Chung Kuo News Service.

a customer. The girl was conducted away were

into room No. 18 where first accised high and speedily engulfed by the the was. Second accused then locked the human maelstrom which

to check. door of the room, imprisoning the girl Police were powerless

.Detectives Evidence Having spent a night away from home the girl was afraid to return. So she wandered about the streets until she was found by two Chinese de

[Note: News received by the tectives. "China Mail" from Kwangsi, via Hai. phong, indicates that the headers of the Kwangsi clique: have resigned themselves to final defeat; that most of the leaders have left: and that the remnants are only holding out for the best terms on surrender.]

Up-Country Suffers

Flight Described Describing the flight the airmen among the said that they were clouds at a height of 3,000 feet They only saw the whole time.

or three times the Atlantic twe and only twice were able to take bearings.

One of the detectives said that at About 6.15 pm on June à he was on reserve duty when, as the result of a report made by the girl's mother that

They made for the Azores in she was missing, he and another de- lective were sent out by the Inspector order to dodge the storms and to look for the girl.

fog, but they did not see the is- They found her in Queen's-road Cerlands. They lost two hours going Swatow, Saturday. The pro-Government trop under tral with her fiddle in her hand and General Chen Wei-yuen have finally surrounded by

a ercwd of gaping out of their way. Chinese. She appeared to be very

This, with Schreiber's extra

folly in

arrived at Swatow. Before their frightened. Having made sure that weight, prevented them reaching arrival, the pro-Kwangsi troops she was the girl they were looking for, Paris,

stowing withdrew in order from Swatow they wanted to take her to the Polie Schreiber's and left the part in charge of the Station, but she wished to go home away might have cost them their Police, who succeeded in maintain-frst, so they accompanied her to No.lives but the American diers, ing peace and order without any 10, Wing Kat-street.

giri Chamberlain Acosta, and Lind- difficulty. Trade has resumed its mother then accompanied them to the bergh had been so sporting to normal course. The up-country station where the girl made a statement ward them that, they felt it their districts, however, are still suffering as to what had happened to her duty to look after the young

from the effect of military opera- tions.

The pro-Kwangel troops are with drawing towards the Fuken border --Nan Chung Kuo News Service,

The

AmericanReuter.

Earlier News

His Worship's. Query Later witness and the other detective She

Paris, Saturday. again went out with the girl. took them to Connaught-road, where she

The "Yellow Bird's" time, was pointed out the two accused as the men

They $1 hours. who had interfered with Her.

The "Yellow Bird's" landing in were then squatting on the pavement Spain instead of its goal in France is

U.S. AGRICULTURE outside house No. 185.

FARM RELIEF BILL PASSED AT LAST

WITHOUT THE "PLAN"

The Magistrate inquired if that was largely attributed to the fact that the ja boarding house, and the witness re- airmen found themselves unable to rise plied that he did not know. This drew to the required height after the start the remark from Mr. Hamilton to the awing to a mysterious extra weight. prosecuting officer: "Is this what you Consequently, they jettisoned part of

the petrol supplies. Later it was dis call a detective?"

covered that the extra weight was due to the presence of the 22-year-old stow- away.

The other detective gave corrobora tive evidence and added that after the accused's arrest they went to the Ko Chow boarding house, bat could not find anyone there who know the accused The register of the Ke Chow board

A Se re Gale

The airman B encountered bad weather at least two-thirds of the way.

Washington, Yesterday. The Washington Senate has, ap. proved the Farm Relief Bill. with out the export debenture plan and President Hoover has signed it. President Hoover describes the ing house was produced and it showed They battled through a severe gale for that room No. 18 had not been occu-four hours out of the 21 hours' crossing,

equivalent to as aonstrueled on the night in question..

112 miles an hour, Farm Relief Bill

Nevertheless it is the fastest hitherte tive start for agricultural relief,: and the most important measure

Mr. Hamilton asked the Sergeant stand unexpected. ever passed by Congress to aid a tached to the Secretariat for Chinese single industry-Reuter's Ameri- Affairs If he could take the matter up. which also had to be jettisoned, can Service.

Here they had evidence that the room are available and will enable the ma was occupied by firat accused and the chine to start again for Paris before

-

S.C.A. Report

Fresh petrol supplies, also a "start-

AFRICAN ELECTION girl and yet on the register it appeared to-morrow. Reuter.

GENERAL HERTZOG HAS A MAJORITY

FINAL RESULT

Capetown, Yesterday.

to have boon vacant on the night of June 4-5.

A Scoop?

New York, Saturday. The "Yellow Bird's" stowaway, The Sergeant replied that he was waiting for the decision of the Magie Schreiber, now claims to be a news- trate in the case before the Court to paper reporter. Reuters American make a full report of the affair to the Service. Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

The master of the boarding house

The final result of the election said that he did not know either of gave General Hertzog a majority of place on the night in question, and. the defendants. He was not at the eight over all parties, and the therefore could not say if room No. 18 three parties combined a majority was occupied or not.

of 26 over the South African

Party.

"Nobody Hears

The Police said that they had made General Hertzog is leader of the inquiries from fokie of the boarding Nationalist (Government) Party.

--Reuter.

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Le Bourget, Yesterday. The Yellow Bird" has arrived. Reuter.

ORIENT FLIGHT

TWO FRENCH ACES LEAVE RANGOON

Rangoon, Saturday. The French airmen Arrachart and Eignot, have left here for Bangkok Reuter.

{The airmen left Paris on May 25. They arrived at Calenita on June 5, having covered 6,060 miles In

55 flying hours. They had a f landing in a Bagdad street. The men have no definite destination expect to travel to China, and Japan, returning via Siberia and Germany.]

ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY

"London, Yestenlay. The Royal Empire Society's Gold Medal for 1929 has been awarded to Sir Hesketh Bell, for

his book "Foreign and Colonial Adminstration in the Far East."

-Reuter.N

house, but no one seemed to know any- thing of the presence of accused and the girl in room No. 18, and this in spite of the girl's statement that she had called out "ave life" when she found herself Ineked in with first accused. She added that her cries failed to at- tract attention, and she had perforce. to stay with first accused until morn- ing when second accused cams back and opened the door

The case was then adjourned. Mr. Frank I d'Almada was for the defence.

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