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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19rs, 1926

THE SPANISH AVIATORS.

GREAT RECEPTION IN MANILA.

WARM WELCOME ACCORDED

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Colonel Langhorne, who also was there, THE OCEAN ACCIDENT AND expressed to Captain Loriga, the golight of the governor general over his safe Arrival,

Captain Loriga was in the firss, kne with Mayor Romualdez with Miss Blan

In the Honse of Commons to-day, on the committee stage of the Army and Air An enthusiastic reception was accorded quita Danon at the wheel. In the second Force Bill, Mr. E. Thurtle (Läb.) moved by huge crowds to Captain Gallarza andere Captain Callarza. Emilio da Motta, the Spanish resul-general, Colonel Lavg- an official Tabour amendment" to abolish Captain Loriga when they landed thorne, and Mist Mariņa Waquiza, who the death penalty for cowardice or deser- Manila last Thursday morning on the tion. Such a penalty, he said, could.net | completion" of their fight from Madrid. be defended as a military necessity, be The airmen arrived at Manila from cause the Australian troops were not sub- Appari, where they had spent two days jected to it.

following their departure from Macao..

The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Capt. H. D. King), replying, said that the death penalty was not always imposed. Personally, he believed that every man in the Great War knew fear. The only difference between individuals 'was the extent to which they controlled their fear. The existence of she death penalty was a deterrent.

Aif the Power

who participated in the tirat War had retained it. The War Offer thought this

Hower was necessary.

The warmness of the welcome given to

the aviators is shown in the following interesting account from the Manila Bulletin.

When the airman were sighted, anys, the paper & great shout went up from the crowl. Hats were thrown in the air, and many a Spaniard in the group was not ashamed to be seen sobbing.

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The planes circled around the held three times then the spall piane headed down. I settled to earth and was brought to rest underneath the tree at the side..

Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Headlam (en) derlaced that none doubted the courage and fighting qualities of the Australians,

A group of soldiers specially detailed that it could not be denied that there were seized the plane and ran it forward, "On a certain number of Australian soldiers the faces of Loriga and Gallarza were not of the right "quality. There were a broad smiles, smites of relief from 28 great many who escaped back beyond the days of atriving. Fine, and lived like bushfangers. The !

drove.

Through a long line of cheering growds the procession went in Calle F. B. Har- vison, Calie A. Mabini, Isane Peral, Dewey Boulevard, and on to the Luneta.

It stopped before the Rizal Monument, where Captain Loriga got out, and was presented with a wreath by the Misses Baldmori Captain Loriga nerepted it with thanks, and it was laid on the monu- ment by Mayor Romualdez

At the Legaspi Monument the parade stopped. Captain Callarza got out, and taid a wreath with which he was present ed at the font of the monument.

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From there the procession headed GILMAN & Co., Ltd., directly for the cathedral. A chowed that overflowed from the steps onto the s helow and extended out into the radiat ing streets awaited them. Entrance into the cathedral was almost impossible in spite of the numbers of policrigen who t fought to keen the crowd back.

Finally Loriga managed to squeeze his way through. The crowd closed behind him, and Gallarza, despairing, of another opening, made his way in through a side door.

In the coal of theenthedral was anotherį crowd. On the benches where the prople usually knee the crowd was standing. On the seats men and women stood erect. The pillars supported still more.

The Te Deum was chanted. Before the altar and facing the crowd were Captains stopLoriga and Gallarza. The Te Deum end- crowded and the aviators knelt for the Bless

Other soldiers vainig endeavoured to British Army had none of these, I then the crowds back. Braving swinging Australians had had a death penalty, clubs and the imprecations of the mili- these men would not have existed in the kary poller, they dashed forward. numbers, they did..

The plane was brought to The amendment was detented by "Gallarza jumped out before the

could reach it. There were no first words. He was seized from every side, Embraced, kissed," and then, protesting, hoisted on the shoulders of the crowd and borne through a cheering mo along the narrow roped lane that led to the

votes to 1223,

The House rejected by 253 votes to 10 a' Labour clause to probitis the use of the military in trade disputes, except when a proclamation had been issued that a state of emergenzxisted.

Captain King, replying for the Govs | hindquarters building. ernment, declared that there was no ques tion of timidation or taking sides The troups were availalife as rouch to the strikers as to protret the rest of the couring of his voyngé. Safe within, and the munity. The Governmetie did not intend | dévor guarded more affretively by the mass

In use ilers for strike-breaking or Marklegging.

SOVIET PROPAGANDA.

He was carried through the doorway, dicking his head just in time to save himself from a moat "unsatisfactory end-

jammed inside than by the soldiers stationed without, he showed himself at the window.

Shouts of Viva Espani," Viva Finions Viva America." • Viva fallarza Viva Loriga." Viva Este vez." and Viva' Arozamena" went up from the crowd. Long before the cheer- ing had subsided, tiallarza expressed the desire to bathe and change.

Sir Alan Burgoyne (Con)" tabled a motion that rigorous measure should be taken to suppress revolutionary pro paganda carried or in Britain and the Empire among the civil populations and armed forces, with the object of

Bir Alan throwing the Constitution. Burgoyne described the Soviet ships of state as

rotten from truck to keelson, manned by a verminous, starving crew, The archbishop of Ching, Aguirre Y.

Labour members protested, and the Speaker ruled that such phrases werePratt entered the room, and Gallarza undesirable when applied to a Govern ment with which Britain conducted re lations

hent for his blessing.

Then be sallied forth. Again he was Mr. S. Enklatvala. (Communist said raised on the shoulders of the crowd. that the propaganda in the army was not Half-way t he was deposited for the for the purpose of causing a mutiny to benefit of the photographers Colonel morrow, but in preparation for the conLanghorne approached him. ing Sofalist revolution.

The Home Secretary (Sir Willian Joyuson-Hicks), replying to the debate. pointed out that Britain had been built up upon freedom of opinion, thought. and speech, but when Englismen tried to bring about changes by armed revalu tion it was the duty of the Government

to intervené.

The motion was talked out.

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I understand you speak English, Captain." he said.

I do not speak English," replied allarza, in a precise accent.

"The governor-general has asked me to convey to you his official and personal gratification in the successful conclusion of your flight," said Colone! Langhorne.

Gallarza bowed, sailed his thanks,

Tu view of the possibility of the Bad-suid fragins," and was hurried away

get proposal to tax betting, interest was

aroused by the rejection by 126 votes into the quarters of Lieutenant Monoban.

90, of the first reading of a'private fill introduced by Mr. A. C. N. Dixey (Con.) to legalise betting and to provide for the registration of bookmakers.

Loriga however, remaining longer in his plane, was lifted out bodily on the arms of enthusiastics admirers.

The first to greet him was an old com- rade of his Aying days in Morocen.

You remember me, pal, he cried. Sure." said Loriga, and they em braced.

QUESTIONS. Answering a question, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain) said that, notwithstanding Russia's declining, "in terms which were not very courteous to the League of Na- tions or favourable to its objects" to at- tend a preparatory disarmament confer ence if it was held in Switzerland, the conference would meet at Geneva on Mag 17th. Strong efforts to settle, the differ- ence between the Soviet and Switzerland also embraced and then blessed Loriga.

had failed, and it was impossible for the

League to transfer its seat from Switzer-

Then came. Mrs. Romero Salas, the first, in but by no means the laat woman Manila, to kiss the aviator. She was followed by the Archbishop of China, who

Anindo Salas, son of Don "Romero In the air

land at the bidding of any Power which Salas, suddenly shouted, happened temporarily to have a dipin- with him," and Loriga was hoisted on a matie disagreement, with the Swiss dozen shoulders. Government.

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He was taken to the post hospital where he was greeted by Captain Jacobs of the air service and by Antonio Ossorio, secretary of the Spanish Club.

The Secretary of State for Air (Siz Samuel Hoare) said, regarding patents relating to the Brennan helicopter, that so far the matter had been treated a secret, Photographs, therefore, were not available for reproduction, but the whole question of secrecy was being considered The extra sum of £3,000 appearing on the Estimates relating to expenditure on the helicopter represented Mr. Louis, Bren- On the porch. he met as great a crowd man's salary for seven years. Mr. Bren-as had forced him bat. He ton was con- nan would not receive any further emolu- ments from the Government.

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The crowd, however" kept pressing ato the room in which he had, inken shelter. and he sought to escape by the back dqur.

dacted over to the quarters of Lieutenant Monohan, where he and Callara met for the first time since their plane stopped.

There

Com- too ibey encountered modore Guillermo Ivens Ferraz,"captain of the Portuguese cruiser which crossed the China sea beneath the Legaspi, the Giers' plane.

A bill was introduced in the House of Lords conferring on Indian" and, do- winion Courts jurisdiction in certain cases for dissolution of marriages of per sons domiciled in England and Scotland. Replying to an enquiry by Lord Par. moor, Lord Cecil reaffirmed the British view that only the great Powers should -Captain Loriga expresscil bis thanks be permanent members of the League of for the assistance and protection that the Nations Council, but the delegation to at Portuguese, had given him, and assurerl tend the forthcoming commission to dis- the captain that while, they had been un- cuss the constitution of the Council able to see the steamer, they had perceiv would be free of any obligations and deed ita sinoke ascending, and that it gave

them a feeling of security.

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ing. The service ended and cheer after cheer, lead by the fathers themselves, į shattered the calm of the cathedral.

The Aiers were borne cft, among their ¦ carriera being a lew of the Fathers They were both put in the sime ear, in which was riding A. J.Croft. of the laneta Motors, which had donated and decorated the cars.

They hastened to the Manila. Hut where they had a brief rest and lunchese.

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