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HÓNG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.

RIOTS IN POLAR EXPEDITION JAPANESE AIRMAN'S

CAIRO

POLICE

.

FIRE

ON

BELIEVED SAFE.

Party Not Equipped with Wireless.

FRENZIED MOB.

MANY KILLED

GOVERNOR'S MOTOR

SMASHED.

Cairo, Yesterday, Six. demonstrators were killed and three injured--Wafd sources] say that the numbers were 8 and 46 by Police rifle fire during the riots at Beni Suef, and seven Policemen were injured.

The riot followed the arrival of Nahas Pasha, the ex-Premier, and six other prominent Wafd officials by motor car,

Police Stoned.

LACK OF INFORMATION.

London, Yesterday.

No importance is attached by

LONE FLIGHT.

"Eagle of Japan" Hops Off for Alaska.

BACKED BY NEWSPAPER.

Tokyo, To-day. Seiji Yoshihora, known as the the London authority on the Bri-"lone eagle of Japan," hopped off tish Aretic Air Expedition at the uraccompanied at 10.10 a.m. to absence of information of the day for Numazaki, north-east of whereabouts of Watkins and his Japan, on the first stage of a two companions, as they are not trans Pacifle flight via the Aleu- equipped with wireless or other tians and Alaska. means of communication, and carry five week's provisions.

Ice Bars Progress. Angmagsalik, Yesterday. The Swedish airman berg has arrived here from Reykjavik, but has found it in advisable to proceed further im- mediately, owing to ice forming on the wings of his machine. Later.-Reuter.

It now appears that eight

riolers were killed and 10 wound-1 ed and 15 Police injured in the] riots at Beni Suef. The crowd stoned the Police who at first vainly fired warning shots in the air, then fired on the crowd. which finally dispersed.

Governor Attacked,

-Reuter.

CANTON COUP

CHIANG KAI-SHEK UNIMPEACHED.

PLEA FOR UNITY

S.O.S. BY CANTON

EX-POLICE CHIEF.

Nanking. Yesterday.

TO-DAY'S closing rate of the dollar demand, to-day was 11d.

DOLLAR -The

On

DUNLOP Retired Matic Cysia Tyres

PRICE $3.00 Per Month. Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

TRIO OF TRAFFIC 'QUAKE IN

BRITISH SOLDIERS

DETAINED.

Alleged to Have Struck

a Detective.

MAN UNCONSCIOUS.

ACCIDENTS.

Elderly Man Knocked Down by 'Bus.

TRAMCAR COLLISION.

Three motor mishaps occurred¦

Suspected of having assaulted a Chinese detective in Pedder, Street over the

BRITAIN

SEVERE TREMORS

IN THE NORTH.

PANIC CAUSED

week-end, two on the DWELLERS SCURRY

at 11.10 o'clock last night, three Island and one in Kowloon.

privates of the South Wales Border- A man, Fung Fun, aged 61 years, ers are being detained by the Police, and living at 36 Argyle Streek, was pending investigations.

knocked down and run over by a The detective, we understand, China Motor Bus Ce. vehicle which

no weapons

ON TO STREETS.

Wild Rumours.

Later.

London, Yesterday, Manchester and a large area In spite of Marshal Chiang was in company with a colleague, was travelling in Nathan Road, The light is being sponsored by Kai-shek's expressed willingness when the incident took place. The near the Mong Kok Tsui Fire of Lancashire, including Eccles Fung received a and Bolton, experienced a violent. the newspaper Hochi Shimbun. for the charges against him to detective, who was dressed in plain Brigade Station.

tremor to-day. There The aviator is using a light 'plane.be investigated, the Central Con-clothes, was on duty at the time, compound fracture of the right leg earth

trol Committee has stated that and is alleged to have been struck and concussion, and is now lying were no casualties, and the dam- by the soldiers with their fista. It in the Kowloon Hospital in a serious age chiefly consisted of dislodged is stated that

chimney pots and fright. were condition, used.

Che Ching-soong, a licensed motor The detective was taken to the driver reported to the Police that

The earthquake was one of the Government Civil Hospital in an un-at about 5.40 p.m. yesterday he was

the driving a motor lorry in Queen's severest ever experienced in Bri- consious condition, and later soldiers were apprehened and Road East when near the Soldiers' tain, and is ascribed to the gud- he knocked down aman, den slipping of the earth's crust taken to the Central Police Station. Club

The man was owing to a "fault." Cheung Liu, (54). The China Mail learned later that carrying a long piece of wood on

Wild. rumours of mine disas- the victim regained consciousness his shoulder, and the front part of ters and explosions spread and this morning, and is suffering from the lorry struck the timber, which thousands, filled with panic, rush- internal injuries. It was further caused the man to fall and injure ed into the streets, many half- ascertained that the detective is of

¡ his eye. He was removed to the clad.--Reuter. weak physique.

Ahren-Starting & Landing places, 10,303 k.m. Tokyo (Haneda) to Numasaki 642 k.m. Numasaki to Nemuro ......478 k.m. Nemuro to Toketan (Urupp

.138 k.m. Tokian

15.) to Kaiauka Bay to Petropavlovsk 315 k.m. .722 k.m.

IN.)

(Upper Kataoka Bay

་

| Petropavlovsk to Nikolski ...602 k.m. British Co-operation.

Nikolski to Chichugof Bay..529 k.m. Chichagaf Bay to Adak Is. .733 k.m. Rugby, Saturday.

195 k.m. The British airman, Major Adak Is. to Nazan Bay Atoka Sidndy Cotton, is to sail on Mon-Natan Bay (Atoka Is.) to day for Reykjavik, Iceland, to tako

Dutch Harbour

.508 k.m. art in the efforts to rescue Mr.

Dutch Harbour to Chignik 620 k.m. Augustine Courtauld, the young Seward to Cordorn Chignik to Seward

.740 k.m. 241 k.m. British explorer, who is marooned

Cordova to Yaktat on an icecap in Greenland.

Yaktat to Juneau Captain Ahrenberg, the Swedish Juneau to Prince Rupert...570 k.m. 400 k.m. .200 k.m.

309 K.m.

306 k.m.

375 km.

31b R.m.

Bay to Alert to Vancouver Vancouver to Seattle Senttle to Medford (Oregon) 020 k.m. Medford (Oregon)

Francisco

.500 k.m.

to San

The Prime Minister, interview-airman, who set out from Stock-Prince Rupert to Alert Bay 400 k.m. ed, stated that the casualties at holm for Greenland on Wednes Beni Suef totalled four rioters day. landed at Reykjavik lust killed and 11 wounded and 15 night, and the patrol boat Odin, Policemen injured, of whom one carrying a seaplane, to be engag

wounded.ed in the search, has arrived at very seriously Another had his leg broken. the ice harrier which surrounds

The Police fired in self-defence, the coast of Greenland.-British metal seaplane A-60 type, is being

was

The crowd

was enormous and Wireless Service.

the rioters smashed the Gov- ernor of Beni Suef's motor ear and injured the chauffeur.

Earlier News. Copenhagen, Saturday. Search parties which are scour Three ambulance officers were ing the Arctic regions for Mr. injured and the ambulances Augustine Courtauld, son of the damaged, whilst a cafe belonging British millionaire silk magnate, to an Egyptian was sacked, who has been marooned on a aur. Beni Suef is in darkness, thej vey station in Greenland since electric wires having been cut. November, are now looking for

Forees have been sent to inter- Mr. H. G. Watkins, one of thei cept Nahas Pasha's party on their rescue party, of whom nothing has return to Cairo and bring them been heard for a fortnight. to Parquet, where the Attorney- Mr. Watkins is the leader of

pedition, and with two companions out to search for Mr.

General will interrogate them.the British Arctic Air Route Ex-

sel

Britain to Intervene? The Premier said that Egyp Courtauld a fortnight ago. No- tian troops had been sent to Beni thing has been heard of them Suef, but the town is now quiet. since. All necessary measures have been

of the

His Light 'Plane. A Junkers "Junior,"

am

all-

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.

used. The construction and the power of the machine is essential-the impeachment made by four ly as follows:-

of the Committee's members ati Span

10.00 metres Canton would not be considered.

Length overall Height overall Wing area Full flight weight Weight empty Useful load Cruising speed Range

ambulance.

A CAT BURGLAR.

We learned from an authoritative Government Civil Hospital in an source that the Police are undecided

Collided With Rikisha. as to what course to take in regard

The third mishap happened at

"He is a bit of a cat burglar" to the soldiers, who are atill in

3.50 o'clock on Saturday after said Inspector Clarke in the Kow- custody.

a tram car noon, when

collided loon Polica Court to-day, when Li with a rikisha in Connaught Road Kam was convicted on a charge of West near the Yuet On Wharf, stealing two jackets from the roof

to throwing passenger

the of a house in Yaumati. ground, and causing damage 10 the vehicle's left shafts.

BOMB OUTRAGE.

OUTSIDE JAPANESE MINISTER'S

HOUSE.

NO CASUALTIES.

t

3.00

13.70 sq. m

650.0 kg. 410.0

This important fact emerges from the publication, this even- ing, of documents dealing with

Tokyo, Yesterday.

240.0

11

19

135.0 .1,850.0

kma.

kma.

4

FLIGHT ABANDONED

MACHINE NOT TUNED UP FOR

THE VOYAGE.

RETURNING TO BRITAIN.

The defendant was discovered on the roof of the house on Sunday

The puller stated to the Police morning, and admitted stealing the that he was proceeding along Con-jackets on April 27.

naught Road West in an easterly,

direction, and on

- Two months' nearing the imposed.

wharf he swerved to the right to

imprisonment was

overtake a hand truck. The tram Taun Yusn, who was eentenced to 9 ear come up from behind and col- months' hard labour and 15 strokes Shortly after 10 pm. yester-lided with the rikisha. The pas- with the birch for Larceny.

Squad Drill-All recruits of, the the political situation. It is also day, a bomb exploded inside the senger received slight abrasions revealed that Wu Tieh-chien, ex-residence of Mr. Inouye, the and was taken to the Government Chinese Company will attend Police Chief of Canton, had wired Finance Minister. It was appar- Civil Hospital.

to Canton urging the Cantonese ently not a very powerful one, the only damage it caused to preserve the unification of the country, declaring that Chiang was the breaking of windows, al- Kai-shek and other Government though fragments struck the re- officials are urging Hu Han-min sidence of Princess Kuni, mother to attend the National Conven- of the Empress, on the opposite tion. This $.0.S. definitely dis- of the road. proves reports of his detention.

Early Cable.

Nanking, Saturday.

It is understood that the Gov- ernment leaders discussed the

There were no casualties. The assailant is unknown.-Reuter.

£238,000 DEBTS.

LOSSES OF A ONE-TIME MILLIONAIRESS.

POLICE RESERVE.

Central Police Station for Squad Drill on Thursday, May 7 at 5.30 p.m. under L. S. R43 Tso Chi-on,"

Flying Squad.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT Fins Squad will attend Central

WEEK.

Squad Drill-All recruits of the

Police Station for Squad Drill on 5,80 p.m. Thursday, May 7 at Orders by the Hon. Mr. B. D. C.under L. S. R888 A. W. Mooney. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector General

The weekly instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section' will take place to-morrow. Fall in at the Taim-

of Police, are as under:----

Constantinople, Yesterday.

Police Training School, They are apparently roaming

Captain Neville Stack and his taken in Cairo. Events in Beni on a vast ice sheet in the interior

The weekly classes for Police taa-tsal Fire Brigade Station at Suef have proved that the oppo-of Greenland.

companion Chaplin have abun-

Reservists at the Police Training 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Khaki sition are bent on inciting the few provisions when they set cut.flight owing to their machine not the trouble is purely local and due

They had only doned their Britain to Australia Canton situation to-day.

School, Kowloon, will be held The belief is expressed here that

a uniform and cap with khaki cover. mobs to disorder with the object)

usual to-morrow at 5.30 p.m. All After working feverishly night being tuned up for the hazardous chiefly to personal disputes be

The weekly Instructional patrol of making Great Britain inter-and day two membera

members of the Chinese Company of the Hong Kong Section will take Watkins' expedition who had been project, and damage to the actween Chen Chi-tong and Chen Cecilia Schintz, described as of not yet passed Part 2 of Training at the Central Police Station at 6.16

The affairs of Miss Susan Dora and of the Flying Squad who have place on Friday, May 8. vene. Reuter.

Fall in left behind at Angmagsalik, com- them here. They will fly back cumulator, which has delayed

Ming-shug pleted repairs on the Moth plane, to Britain to-morrow. The out-

It is expected that the Govern- Ottershaw Park, Chertsey, whose Course should attend.

a state- fortune in 1918 was estimated. at which crashed in February, and

ward journey from there-1,660 ment will shortly Issue left this morning for the expe- miles-was covered in 15 hours ment of its attitude, and it is un- £1,000,000, but who now has gross tion base inland from where they with a stop of 40 minutes at be severely reprimanded for his ed in a statement issued by the derstood that Chen Ming-shu will liabilities of £238,447, are detail- "serious blunders" and removed Official Receiver for the Kingston from his post, Chen Chi-tong being Division of Surrey. asked to reorganisé Kwangtung.-- Reuter.

OVERCAST.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:—

The anti-cyclone is central near Tokyo.

The depression over Indo- China is shallower.

Local forecast:-E. winds; fresh to moderate; overcast.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day-nil. Rainfall since January 1-18.11 inches against an average of 12.57 inches -- surplus 2,21 inches.

Temperature,

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning

at 6 o'clock was:--

Hong Kong

72

Macao

72

Pratas Island

79

Manila

77

Foochow

70

Amoy

70

Chefoo Shanghai

61

60

MAN FROM CALCUTTA.

Arrested in London on a Bigamy Charge.

will begin their search.

The relief ship Odin has reach- ad the ice barrier and is now ly Ing dangerously near the edge of the ice, which is eight yards thick,

In Lat. 66.25 N., and Long, 34.60

W.

The Swedish airman Ahrenberg has arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, and has joined in the search

Reuter.

CAPE FLIGHT.

FLIGHT-LIEUT. ROSE'S

PROGRESS.

Vienna.

Earlier Cable.

London, Saturday. Captain Neville Stack took off at dawn for the first stage of his

flight to Australia.

Captain Stack, interviewed be- fore his departure, emphasised that they did not want to "show

anybody up." They considered; that the Imperial Airways and the Post Office knew their own business best.

The object of the flight was to do the double journey, which had not hitherto been done. If suc- cessful, it would demonstrate the possibility of a fast air mall service. Reuter.

EX-NIGHT WATCHMAN

LEAVES £80,000,000.

American Banker's

Rise to Wealth.

"SPHINX OF WALL STREET.”

Chinese Company. Badge. Constable R57 Wong Police Reserve Badge. Mau-ying has qualified for the

p.m. Dress-Khaki uniform and cap with khaki cover.

Sharpshooters' Company. Rifle Club Meeting. The mem- bers of the Rifle Club are notified Training Course Part II.-The that a meeting of members will be following members have been passed held at the office of the O. 1/c. Co. Her public examination stands out as efficient in Part II of Train- to-morrow at '5.15 p.m.. adjourned until May 12.

Revolver ing Course (knowledge of Police

Practice. Revolver A receiving order was made Duties and Regulations) :----

Practice will be carried out by all Constables R16 Chan Kwan-yiu] members of the Company on Sun- and R70 Wong Yat-ping.

Members day, May 10 at 10 a.m. Commendation.--Constable R23 will assemble on the Range at that

against Miss Schintz in July last

yeur.

The account shows that £68,899

די

of the gross liabilities are expect. Ho Shut-yu of the Chinese Com- hour with their belts, holsters and

pany, Hong Kong Police Reserve is revolvers. Uniform optional, ed to rank.

(Sgd.) D. L. KING, D.å.F.. (B). Assets (apart from some plc- commended by the Hon. I.G.P. for.

Hong Kong, May 4. tures at Zurich and "rights to zeal and alertness in arresting one. royalties," the value of which are unknown)

to pro- are estimated duce £7,075, but this amount 15 absorbed by preferential claims for rates, taxes, wages, and other things.

New York, Yesterday. BULAWAYO REACHED.

The death occurred to-day of [An earlier message stated: Mr. J. B. Baker, the banker, who Miss Schintz has not yet been The Official Receiver states that Rugby, Saturday.

Another attempt to demonstrate had been a night watchman and fully examined on her affairs Flight Lieutenant Rose, in the feasibility of speeding up the a clerk before he began his bank-owing to the state of her health. British light acroplane, In his at Imperial air mail services is being career. tempt to fly from Capetown to ing made by Captain Neville Sphinx of Wall Street," owing to Receiver Miss Schintz'a fallura is Known as "the In the opinion of the Official London in four days and a half, Stack, accompanied by Mr. J. R. the ayletness of his movements, due to the heavy losses sustained arrived at Bulawayo yesterday Chaplin

he distributed over £10,000,000 through the financing of a moter from Capetown after covering They left Lympne at daybreak to charity and is reputed to have tyre distributing agent and his

left £80,000,000.

11,000 miles in 1234 hours.

to-day, in an effort to fly to Aus-

He left before midnight, hoping tralia and back in twenty-one American Service.

to reach Tabora by noon and days. Kisumu by nightfall.-British Wireless Service.

TROTSKY AGAIN. DESIRES TO RESIDE IN SPAIN.

Constantinople, Yesterday,

Bad weather on the Continent ha compelled Captain Stack to return to Lympne.]

AIR DEFENCES.

NEW COMMANDER APPOINTED IN BRITAIN.

When John Thompson, aged 28, a school teacher, was arrest- ed at the First Avenue Hotel,] Holborn, so it was said sty Bow Street Police Court, he said to M. Trotsky has telegraphed too London, Yeaterday. the detective, I expected you at the President of the Spanish and Air Commodore F. W. Bowhill, the boat. I tried to get a Catalan "Republica" asking for C.M.G., D.SO., has been appoint divorce, but she would not permission to resido in Spain.ed to command the fighting area divorce me.

The Spanish „Foreign Minister of Britain's air defence organisa- Thompson was charged under recently indicated that permission tion, in succession to Air Vio the Fugitive Offenders Act, with would be granted, providing all Marshal Felton Vesey Halt, who committing bigamy in Calcutta precautions were taken. Ben was killed in a flying disaster in

He was remanded in custody.ter.

Sussex on April 28.–Renter

Reuter's

STOP PRESS

Modern London. Yesterday, --Mrs, Edwin Montagu has cabled from Meshed stating that her plane crashed on May 3, She was pulled from the burning plane, and both she and her pilot were un- hurt Renter 15.

companies.ena

Miss Schintr's father gave her in 1808 a freehold estate known as Thickthorn, near Kenilworth, Coventry, which cost about £86,000.

In 1918, on the death of her father, she became entitled under his will to an interest in a settle ment, and also in a trust fund of £160,000, together with other in- terests representing, it is stated, in all about $1,000,000,0

In 1919 she purchased the free. hold property known as Ottershaw Park

It is stated that for a number of years' Miss Schinti has beeb concerned in numerous lawsuits. principally against the co-trustees of her late father's will

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