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WAS LORD THOMSON STRONG PROTEST BY FIERCE ENCOUNTER "RED" PROPAGANDA] SHENSI

NERVOUS?

TORY M.P'S.

·BY TRIBESMEN.

Anxiety to Get Flight Over Quickly.

Denial of Support of Japanese Police Killed

in Formosa. Anti-Baldwin Manifesto

IN BRITAIN.

Foreign Secretary's Plain Speaking.

PARTY LEADERSHIP.

VICTIMS BEHEADED.

London, aterday.

ADJOURNED R.101 ENQUIRY.

sary.

London, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday.

states

INDIFFERENT REPLY.

STOP

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR.

The

closing rate of the dollar. on demand, to-day was 1/8 7/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

SITUATION

PRECARIOUS

Feng Yu-hsiang to Join the Kuominchun.

INHABITANTS UNEASY.

CLOSER ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION.

Equal Status of the Dominions.

VAST PROBLEMS.

London, Yesterday.

· Dainty Eyeglasses

N. LAZARUS 'Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central.

DROUGHT - STRICKEN U.S.A.

Road and Driver Relief

Works.

GROWING UNEMPLOYMENT.

counties Three hundred

have

Hankow, Tuesday.

The effort to prevent disastrous London, Yesterday, Tokyo, Yesterday.

Tht Australian Premier, Mr. suffering and even a shortage of In the House of Commons at In view of the precarious The Central Conservative Office A Rengo message from Tai- At the adjourned public en-

Formosa,

Mr. Arthur situation in Shensi, Feng Yu-James Scullin, broadcasting on food in the drought-stricken Statsa timo that question quiry into the loss of the R.101, states that it has received strong hoki, Air Vice-Marshal Dowding, re- protests from some Members of tribesmen counter-attacked at the Henderson stated that as a result hsiang has intended personally to the Imperial Conference, anid porting on the trial flight, men-Parliament whose names appear-village of Musha last night, and of the inquiry into Red pro- lead his troops from Shansi to that the conference was now en- is President Hoover's latest problem, a short, fierce combat paganda, he had seen the Soviet reinforce the Kuominchun under gaged in bringing the forms of and one of his moet serious, writes tioned that they had trouble with ed as signatories to the anti- after the two reserving engines. Sir Baldwin manifesto, and who were two Japanese policemen were kill- Ambassador, and represented to Sung Chih-yuan in Sian. It, how. Government within the Empire the New York correspondent of the William Jowitt declared that Lord not present at the meeting. ed. An infantry company is ad-him that the Soviet had not been ever, arises doubt, whether or not into harmony with the new observer. The survey of the dam

vancing to Musha to reinforce the observing their pledge against Feng is able to reach Sian, since status. If the task were sticcess- Thomson never. knew that the-Reuter.

Police. It is officially reported propaganda, and asked the Am-the communications in the east-ful the present theoretical limita- age is still incomplete, but the totals trial was going to be under 24 Chlef Whip's Statement.

that tribesmen cut off the heads bassador to impress seriously on ern sector of Shensi have been tion of the powers of Dominion will stun the public when they are hours' duration, as originally con-

con-cut by the local militia, who are legislatures would disappear and known. There will be an agonising templated. When Colmore sug-

of many of their victims and car his Government that & A statement published in the ried them off when they evacuat- tinuance of propaganda was cal- the local inhabitants organising the British Parliament at West Winter for thousands of familles gested that the flight to India Press to-day, purporting to be ed ilusha. Over 80 corpses have culated to endanger British and the anti-Kuominchun campaign. minster would recognise and place would begin on Saturday evening, signed by 44 Conservative Mem-thus far been recovered. Three Russian relations.

A Shanghai message states on a legal footing of equal status unless the relief measures, carefully Lord Thomson said: "You must bers of Parliament who, it was hundred and eight persons were The Ambassador assured him that the Central Government has the Parliaments and Govern-planned by townships, counties, and not allow your judgment to be stated, attended a protest meeting wounded.

that the Soviet had done and given two weeks' grace to Yen'ments of the United Kingdom States, are efficiently administered. swayed by my natural anxiety, to and demanded a change in the

[The tribes of Formosa, which are would continue to do their utmost Hsi-shan and Feng Yu-hsiang to and the Dominions, get off quickly."

Mr. Scullin expressed the opin- leadership of the Conservative zatimetod to number 104,334, com- to observe their pledge, but the go abroad, warning the Shensi in- Vice-Marshal Dowding suggest-Party, is disowned by several ofprise the subjugated aborigines, whe Soviet could not control the acti-habitants to persuade the two re ion that the task would be crown-suffered so severely that any mea- ed to Major Colmore that as the the alleged signatories. The docu- largely intermingled with the Chin- 'airship had not had a full power ment was addressed to the Chief ass, and the uncivilised aborigines of vities of the Third International hel leaders to go away from the ed with success, and said that sure of recovery without outside

ordinates to assume new posts be held invalid even if inconsist-the rains test during the trial, she should Conservative Whip. Sir Eyres the eastern region who refuse to re-(Conservative protests)-Reuter. territory, thus enabling their sub- thereafter ne Dominion law would help will be impossible, in spite of now falling. A central offered by the Government and ent with British law, have one near home on the actual Monsell, who issued the following cognise authority and carry on raids. 18 the opportunity occurs, The-seml- flight, and so could return if neces- statement this afternoon: "I civilised aborigines, who adopted the

further apprehension. A possible he said that the conference had ablest men is striving to get the committee made up of the nation's also relieving the people from Referring to the economic side,! have received strong protests Chinese language, dress and customs, called Pe-pa-hwan (Anglice, Sir William Jowitt emphasised from some Members of Parlia- were

air raid on Shansi will be carried given a splendid impetus to the situation under control. while Pepp-houns),

their wilder

PRESS out on the expiration of the ideal of closer economic co-opera- that although Lord Thomson put ment whose names appeared as

Everyone believed that considerable pressure as regards signatories, but who were not brethren bear the name of Chinhwan,

period, if Yen and Feng ignore tion, which must bear fruit in Hoover's term of office would be a or "green savages," otherwise Sheng-

this grace. time, neither Irwin, Scott, nor even present at the meeting. fan or wild savages." They appear

the near future. Referring to period of unexampled prosperity. and Colmore suggested that the flight These Members of Parliament nato belong to the Malay stock,

Yen's Revenge.

tariffs he said that the problems But unemployment, which was the to India should be delayed or für-turally resent having had their their language bears out the supposi

Yen Hai-shan has sacrificed 18 were vast and complicated, but last thing he expected, is increasing. ther tests be made. All three names publicly connected with tion. They are broken up into almost

districts in the south of Shansi they must not despair, therefore, and public agencies are finding jobs countless tribes and clans; many of were most satisfied with the trial the meeting, the report of which which number only a few hundred

in assigning to Feng Yu-hsiang, if a few definite conclusions were for only a small proportion of flight, and expressed the opinion understand was inaccurate and individuals, and their language con-

only on terms that the Koomin reached during the course of the applicants. sequently presents a variety of that the airship was more man-junauthorised." ageable after the alteration than Later in the afternoon Mr. dialects, of which no classification has yet been effected. In the district of before.

Baldvin received disclaimers Pola alone a member of the Pres- Sir William Jowitt stated that from several other Members of byterian mission distinguished eight the height of the airship before Parlament whose names appear-different mutually untintelligible dia- The people themselves are the crash could not have been be-ed as signantories.-British Wire-ribed as "of middle height, broad. law 1,100 feet. He read a stateless Service.

chested and muscular, with remark- ment by a surviver, Church, who

Earlier News

ably large hands and feet,, the eyes large, the forehead round, and not narrow er' receding in many instances, Colonel Gretton has stated that the nose broad, the mouth

The emergency water ballast, but the the report of the meeting of Con- disfigured with betel-chewing, h custom af tattooing is universal. In crash came before he could do so.servatives, cabled earlier, is "un- the north of the island the dead are burled in a sitting posture under the Sir William Jowitt added that authorised and incorrect."

which they have expired, A declaration signed by forty-four bed on microscopic tests indicated that

are extremely common, the cable controlling the elevator, Conservative members sent to the Patty wars broke after the fire. Experts Chlef Party Whip submitting that not only along the Chinese frontiers, but between the neighbouring clans, have reported that no part of the a change in the Conservative leader-and the heads of the slain are caze- main structure of the airship ship is essential to the national In-fully preserved as trophies. In some terest, is made in place of a motion districts the men and boys sleep in 'broke in the air-Reuter

to oppose a vote of confidence in the skull-chambers, in order that Mr. Baldwin at to-morrow's Con- they may be inspired with courage.]

་ ་

had died, stating that a moment to re

Yesterday.

before the crash he received the order to release the half-ton

An Early Start.

Rugby, Yesterday. The inquiry into the R.101 dis-servative meeting, to which mem- aster was mainly engaged to-day bers of the party in both Houses In discussing the available facts have been invited, and over which regarding the only trial flight the Mr. Baldwin will preside. airship underwent after struc-

It is understod that Mr. Baldwin tural alterations. From state will vacate the chair, and retire ments made by the Attorney Gen- from the meeting, while the ques- eral, Sir William Jowitt, it trans- tion of the party leadership is dis: pired that this trial was shorten- cussed.-British Wireless Service. ed from the 24 hours as originally

arranged to 16, on the suggestion

from. experts at Cardington who knew Lord Thomson was

ROYAL PARTY.

anxious to push on with the de- ATTENDED BY THE DOMINIONS

parture for India, and who real- ised that the early completion of the trial would give more time to prepare the airship at the moor-.

DELEGATES.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Earller News-

Tokyo, Yesterday. The Rengo news agency pab- Hshes & Taihoku despatch stating that 86 corpses of Japanese- have discovered, butchered at been Musha, being twenty-three women, seventeen girls, twenty-one boys, thirteen police and twelve other males.

The latest official reports state that the bodies of police, their wives, and familles have likewise been found, butchered at outlying posts in the same district.

An official despatch from Formosa Nearly 1,000 guests attended states that tribesmen attacked thir- ing mast for the Indian journey. an afternoon party given by the teen out of seventeen police posts in The minutes of the meeting at King and Queen at Buckingham the disaffected area, and only sixteen the Air Ministry showed that Palace today. The guests includ-qut of more than 200 Japanese, and Lord Thomson, while asking for ed the Dominion delegates to the 112 of 400 peaceful Formosans re an early start, told Wing-Com- Imperial Conference and their siding in the district, have up to mander Colmore, "You must not wives, who were presented to now reached safety. The fate of allow your judgment to be sway- Their Majesties. The members the remainder is uncertain. ed by any natural anxiety to get of the Royal family who attend Musha, village was reoccupied off quickly," and added, "There ed the party included the Prince this morning, when only six per- is to be no rush on my account. of Wales and the Duke of Con- sons were found alive. It is The trial flight was, in Colmore's naught British Wireless Ser-thought that a number of refugees are hiding on the neighbouring

on the neig view, quite satisfactory with the vice.

bilaldas:** exception of engine failure due to

The body of the Chief District Administrator was found and number of other corpses were strewn around. The dead are known to Include the post-master and his wife, and also the wife of

a defective fin of the oil cooler, which was replaced.

the flight could commence. This Sir Sefton Brancker issued a leaves no margin for eventual certificate of airworthiness on ities, and assumes that the trial October 2, Sir William Jowitt light will be completely success pointed out that during the flight ful."

between Cardington and Beauvais Sir William Jowitt quoted the head master of the local school. It is significant that not a single minute of August 27 laying down,Reuter. 5.0.S. was received from the inter alia, that R101-musty carry

R.101, nor any message indicat out a satisfactory fight of not KIDNAPPED BANKER Ing that there was anything less than twenty-four hours be fore going to India, and stated wrong or any trouble.

Two main features of the ex- that Wing Commander Colmore FREED AFTER $50,000 RANSOM perta report on the examination suggested the fight should be

of the wreckage were that no part curtailed,provided Major Scott

of the main structure broke in the was satisfied with the perform-

air and that the fatal nose dive once of the airship,

was made it in angle of from 15

He mentioned that Squadron.

to 26 degrees from the horizonta. Lender Booth emmafider of the

British Wireleka Bervice.

Earlier Froc

was of opinion that the

ght of the R10

Tokyo, Yesterday. The authorities in the Musha district appear to

Yen

Mr.

have been caught napping.chun General Lu Chung-lin be dis- conference, and must be prepared Industrial prospects are better in miased from the Kuominchun to continue their examination of only a few lines, among which steel post, hence, the resignation of Luthe problems.

is noteworthy. Five thousand un- tendered last week-end.

Mr. Scullin said he hoped, how-employed have been registered in takes the revenge because Lu in-ever, that before the close of the New York, and a larger proportion sisted that

the Kuominchun conference, they would at least in other cities. Public works are should take Shansi as their sphere have planned a course which even-being hegun generally in advance of of influence during the evacua-tually would bring them to a com-schedule, and the President has tion of Kaifeng and Chengchow.mon goal-greater co-operation ordered the immediate use of

Fent Rallies Remnants. Feng Yu-hsiang is reported to have proceeded to the various fronts with the object of rallying his remnants, the majority of whom is said to have concentrat ed in the southern sector of Shan- si.

the leading newspapers in Tokyo taking them to task Accordingly. There are indi- cations, however, that the military intend to take drastic steps to suppress the uprising." The beadquarters.- of the punitive force has been established at Hori, with a Major-General commanding, though the troops thus far have been limited to two in- fantry companies, detach- ments of aircraft, mountain artillery, and a telegraphic corps. Attempts to mobilise. friendly tribeamen against the rebels failed, as they re- fused to participate on the grounds that harvesting was in progress.

Small parties of Japanese troops and armed police are, reported to be carrying out a converging movement for the purpose of hemming in the insurgents and preventing them from joining forces with other tribes, who are showing signs of unrest. The wild and almost pathless Jungle country is hampering the troops progress, neces sitating the greatest precau tions, owing to the possibi- lity of savages lurking in the thick undergrowth and am- bushing them. Machine guna helped to drive off the tribesmen when they coun- ter-attacked at Musha. An aeroplane bombed a party of be retreating in the direc- savages, who were seen to tion of Nakoetsu-Reuter.

Amsterdam,, Yesterday.

,"

The Senate has sanctioned

a Bill' authorising a loan of 75,000,000 guilders on behalf of the Dutch East Indies. Reuter.de bre

GENEVA EXPRESS CRASHES.

Over 15 Persons Killed and 40 Injured.

HAS BEEN PAID.

POLICE NOT CONSULTED.

COACHES TELESCOPED.

Galy

estárús

cum, the

who

Chicago

in economic affairs.-Reuter.

MR. R. E. LINDSELL.

COMPLETES 21 YEARS IN SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT.

£5,000,000 road money originally intended for much later use.

Labour Leader's Plan.

An interesting sidelight on the situation is the plan advocated by Mr. Green, President of the Amer- ican Federation of Labour, who sug" . gests employment under a yearly A USEFUL CAREER.

scheme, so distributing work as to avoid seasonal slackness, Many Congratulations will to-day be Labour leaders heartily approve this

Beginning from next month, Į Yen has promised to pay $800.000 as military expense to the Kue- minchun monthly, so as to balance the same amount payable to the extended to Mr. R. E. Lindsell, idan, and the most powerful union Shansi troops. Yen and Feng M.A., (Cantab), J.P., First Police leader in the nation and employers have further reached the decision Magistrate and Coroner on the are studying it. Mr. Green believes to divide the North-western pro completion of 21 years in the it might largely solve the whole pro vinces into three garrisoning dis

blem of hard times.

Among plans of a national, char- tricts: Shansi and Suiyuan being Government service..

Mr. Lindsell first arrived here acter is Mr. Hoover's of pressing' the first, Shensf and Kansu, the second, and southern Shan and on December 81, 1909, and after improvements in inland water-ways, third. being sent to Canton to study especially in navigable rivers, in- Northern Honan, the Prior to the receipt of final ex-Cantonese he passed and took up cluding the St. Lawrence. Virtually pression from the Central Govern-the post of Acting Second Assist all the great rivers in the Missie ment and the North-easter ant Registrar General, being sippi Valley are under consideration, authorities, Yen and Feng de transferred later to the Secre- and many schemes are ready for sire temporarily to remain in the tariat for Chinese Affairs. Dur- immediate execution."

ing his period of service, Mr. The drop of £8,000,000 in Cus country,

Lindsell has acted in many im- tema receipts in the fifty days from Nationalists Advance.

capacities, including July 1 led an unnamed high General Ho Ching-chun, head portant of the Hankow Provincial head-Assistant Postmaster-General (in Treasury official to predict the im- quarters, has wired to General 1916), Assistant Superintendent probability of a continuation of the Yang Fu-cheng, congratulating of Imports and Exports Depart-1 per cont. Income tax reduction. his success in capturing Tung-ment (in 1918) and Deputy, Re- The prediction obviously greatly ar- noyed the President whose belief is kuan Pass and the coming paci-gistrar, Supreme Court. fication of the entire Shensi pro-On January 19, 1921, Mr that the drop in Customs revenue 15 vince,

Lindsell became Second Police temporary, being largely due to ex General Yang Fu-cheng arrived Magistrate. In 1923, be held the cessive Imports during the debate on at Tungkuan on October 26, in post of Postmaster General, and the Tariff Bill, when importers were. specting the condition there, and a year later he acted as First endeavouring to forestall a probable directing his troops to take Sian, Magistrate and Coroner, this posi-increase in duties. P his vanguard having reached tion being substantiated on Mr. A drop of over £2,000,000 in it- Hwa-Yoh-miu. The defence of Lindsell's return from leave re-come tax receipts during the same period may have helped to animate Loyang is now undertaken by the cently.. 2nd and Sed divisions under Koo Mr. Lindsell takes a keen in Treasury pessimism. The Admin- Tsu-tung and Chep Chi-cheng. tereat in sports, being President istration organs were thoroughly, Evacuation of Sufyan. of the Kowloon Cricket Club for frightened. The dispatches from

• The Shansi troops, formerly very many years. stationed in Peking and Suiyuan, have massed at Tatung and Yanmconkuan, an indication of further abandoning Suiyuan.

BANK MERGER.

US CONCERNS.

They are now planning to guard IMPORTANT LINKING OF VAST Liangtzskuan in the east. Yan- moonkuan in the North and the Yellow River in the South Can tor News Agenty.

Nanding Yesterday

$700,000,000 DEPOSITS,

New York, Yesterday.

Washington, however, say that the President deems the statement ill-advised, and that Mr. Mellon, the Secretary of the Trea- sury expects nothing of the sort.

The Autumn Elections. The reassurance should tend to cheer tax-payers, and, in fact, a return to the old income tax rates would be disastrous to the Admins tration, as the Congressional can palgas for the Fall elections are The Kuominchus leaders. Liu It is learned that informal dis-ready begining. The Admin's- Yu-fen

h-yuan__tos | cussions are proceeding for the ration believes that the ba day

amalgamation of the Bank of the tonal Income Is ~ ~ now ghting in United States the Manufac minimum, but the

that the turers Trust Company, the Public weeks before, the elections are too obey the Gov National Bank Trust Company, short a time for such a recovery

and the International Trust would rob the Democrats of am-

Went

Pernment.

meat orders regarding

eking, Yesterday- message from Taiyuanza states

on the droppać

Nanking aeroplane

mbs,

pedreported to have killed

sons

wounded

The merger will have deposits munition for attacks on the tariff. of $700,000,000-Reuter's Ameri- and on Mr. Hoover as an can Service.

inchun the

administrator.