THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 1927.
BYRD'S PLANE FALLS INTO SEA.
'REDS" GENERALISSIMO DEMANDS
HANKOW'S OVERTHROW OF
RUSSIAN ADVISERS. BORODIN AGAIN REPORTED AS HAVING LEFT HANKOW.
COMMUNIST LEADERS AND A "NEW ECONOMIC
POLICY."
SHANSI'S TROOPS ORDERED TO ADVANCE
INTO CHIHLI; ·
THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT.
Yesterday all the Government departments at Shanghai parti- cipated in the second anniversary of the Nationalist Government inauguration.
The Nanking Finance Minister proposes to issue a series of treasury bonds to the value of 800,000, carrying 8 per cent. interest and secured on the Salt Surplus, within the area of Kiangsu and Chekinng
Shansi troops have been ordered to advance into Chihli, with presumably Péking as their objective. The Model Governor " claims to have 10 armies and 22 divisions."
.
that
The British and French Ministers in Peking, paying a formal call on the new head of the Waichiaopu, expressed the hope the Chinese Government should early put the whole nation in order and be able to resist the encroachment of Russian imperialism,''.
TO ATTACK CHIHLI
PROVINCE.
(izh Tee Tat Pao.).
SHANGHAI, July 1st. General Yen Shih. Shan has ordered his troops, mumbering about? 10 armies and -22 divisions, to advance into Chihi.
NANKING'S TREASURY
BONDS.
(Wah Tez Tat Pan)
SHANGHAI, July 1st..
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
COMDR. BYRD'S FLIGHT.
GETS OVER BUT FALLS INTO SEA OFF FRENCH COAST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY",
CHERBOURG, June 30th. Throughout his flight, Comman der Byrd has kept in wireless com munication with the land and with ships, which gave him his bearings. He has now reported his position as as miles north of Lands End.
Premature!
LONDON, June 30th. Comdr. Byrd has landed at Iasy,
near Paris.
Only Three Hours' Petrol.
PARIS, July 1st. Byrd has not landed at Issy although he appeared in vicinity. His whereabouts are at present unknown.
the
Byrd announced at one o'clock that he had only three hours' petrol.
The Crowd At Le Bourget, Whilst the frenzy occasioned by Lindbergh'a flight was entirely absence, the Parisians, in large crowds, gathered at the offices of the newspapers where wireless mesanges reporting Byrd's flight were posted
up.
As soon as night fell, a million candlepower beacon was shown at Le Bourget and lights at Mont Valerien swept the cloudy sky. Only four hundred persons were waiting
the at the gates of aerodrome at nine o'clock in the evening, but the police were station- On the occasion of the seconded at every ten paces along the anniversary of the inauguration of the Nationalist Government, a mass meeting was held to-day at Shang- hai. All Government departments
were
Paris-Bourget Road and mounted police guarded the limits of the nerodromie horders, which outlined with little white and red lights. Rockets were fired at tervals to guide the airmen.
U.S. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
BYRD TO MAKE A DASH FOR THE SOUTH POLE.
[REUTER'S AMELIÇAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, July 1st. The newspaper American states that plans for an Antarctic ex- pedition, headed by Commander Byrd, are rapidly materialising.
A large whaling vessel will leave Norfolk on September 9th for Stewart Island, New Zealand, with three Fokkers pud fifteen airinen, including Byrd and Floyd Bennett, his North Pole companion and all the crew of the America. Two planes will be used only for cruising in the vicinity of the purposes Pale. A third will make a final dash, piloted by Byrd.
HAWAII FLIGHT
POSTPONED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MANA, Hawaii, July 1st. Grace has postponed his fight to Santa Monica,
SECRETARY MELLON'S SUMMER HOLIDAY.
REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
New Yoвx, July 1st Mr. A. Mellon, U.S. Financial Secretary, sailed in the Italian liner Conte Riancamand for Gib- in-raitar, from whence, at the end of his summer holiday cruise in the in his yacht It was evident in the early Mediterranean evening that Lindbergh's record Fenetia, he will return to America At a meeting called by the time of 33 hours was unbeaten.
The crowds at Le Bourget gradual- in September.
Communistic leaders in Hankow advocate the adoption of a "new economic policy similar to that in Russia in order to pacify the bourgeois class, on the one hand, I celebrated. and on the other to pay courtesy indirectly to the Nanking Govern- ment. A large number of pickets in
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Lindbergh's Record Unbeaten.
Political Council of the Nankingly increased and anxiety was caused
TO SWIM THE
CHANNEL.
TWIN SISTERS OF THIRTEEN YEARS TO ATTEMPT.
FINE RECORD.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
State.
CANADA'S JUBILEE.
CELEBRATION OF CONFEDERA· TION'S Goth ANNIVERSARY.
GRAPHIC DETAILS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OTTAWA. July 1st.
CAPTURED
PIRATES.
BY:
U.S. CAPTAIN AND COMPRA- DORE HELD TO RANSOM.
$20,000 DEMANDED.
(THROUGH RED (BR'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, July let. Ichang news has reached Ichang
A fiery chain of beacons blazing front the hilltops from ocean to Naw Yona, July 1st. Twins of thirteen, Bernice and ocean testify to the universality of Phyllis Zitenfold, who hope to the celebrations of the 60th, an- swim the Channel, claim a record niversary of the Canadian Conby junk that an American captain, of 102 miles swim in the Hudson federation, in which the whole named Fisher, iuster of the steamer River, from Albany to Now York Dominion is indulging in festivities, Chichuen, with hia Chinese com- prayers and thanksgiving, begin-
pradore have been captured by They reached the Battery afterning to-day,
Prairie hamlets, scattered bands of pirates between Ichang and Chung- 52 hours and 30 minutes in the
ranson in the water over a period of eleven days. Indhang and Eskimos in the remotexing and held to
North-West are synchronising in the The previous record was 57 hours.
celebrations with those of the and 11 minutes.
capital, where the jubiler was signalised by syren's, martial music, massed choirs, singing of the National Anthem, peels of the new Carillon bells from the tower of Parliament, the first note of which that was sounded was wirelessed to His Majesty in London.
Birthday greetings dre pouring in from the Dominions and foreign
FRENCH STEAMER
WRECKED.
S.S. "ST. FRANCIS XAVIER" STRIKES A REEF.
BRITISH STEAMER TO THE Premiers.
RESCUE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MANILA, July 1st. It is reported that the French steamer St. Francis Xavier from Noumea struck a reef.
The master and 40 passengers and 55 of a crew were picked up by the British steamer Dolius en route to Manila.
ANOTHER SOVIET EXECUTION.
WOMAN SHOT.
[IHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.I
Moscow, June 30th.
Hankow have complied with the Government, Mr. Koo Ying Fan, for some time by the America LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. nerskaya, accused of spying for
Hankow Government's order by voluntarily surrendering their armas to the Hankow military authority.
The British and French Ministers in Peking have called upon Mr. Wang Yin Tai, the newly appointed Foreign Minister of the Peking Government, on the 30th ult., and expressed their wishes that the Chinese Government should early put the whole nation in order and be able to resist the eneroachment of Russian Imperialism.
UNHAPPY HANKOW.
"RED LEADER'S STARTLING STATEMENT.
[SAVM WIRELESS.}
HARROW, June 30th. General Gallen is reported to be making preparations for the de- fence of Hankow and has stated that he has sufficient forces for the purpose.
In the event of defeat he asserts that there will be nothing left in
failing to answer signals.
the
wireless
It is reported that she has lost. her way south of Paris.
Suspense Ended.
Minister of Finance, proposed to issue a series of treasury bonds to the extent of 860,000 with 8 per cent. interest on the security of the
An official telegram, received at Salt Surplus within the area of Le Bourget, states that Byrd's aeroplane fell into the sen at 5.45 Kinngsu and Chekiang.
Mr. Koo's proposal was un-this-morning-off Versurer, after
at 3 in the morning. ? ** animously-passed and will be passing the neighbourhood of Paria Byrd and his companions are all brought into effect shortly.
safe.
[THYQUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
LATER. Byrd's airplane passed over Hankow Government to abandon parin district at 3 o'clock, and Borodin and other Russian advisers fell into the sea off the Calvados within the Hankow Government. It coast at 5:45. All the aviators are is reported that Borodin has left safe. Hankow,
According to foreign sources, General Tang Seng Chi has re- queated, in strong
terms, the
LUXURY TAXES.
NANKING'S SENSATIONAL
ANNOUNCEMENT.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, June 30th..
A sensation has been created by the Director of the Surtax Revenue Department tc-day advertising thut, in accordance with instruc
NOTABLE SPECELATOR'S SUDDEN DEATH.
MR. JAMES WHITE,
"[TAKOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 30th. The Stock Exchange has experi- enced a sensation and confusion arising from the sudden death, under mysterious circumstances, yesterday, of Mr. James White, the former bricklayer and one of the most spectacular financiers of the The lighthouse keeper at Yer was century, whose gigantic opera awakened in the early morning by tione, running into many millions, the knocking of four men who, ranged from land trusts and transpired, were Byrd and his
theatres to efforts to corner large companions.
Aeroplane Saved.
.
They reached the shore in a col-industrial companies' shares. Japsible boat, which they had nboard, and with the assistance of
aeroplane.
The shares of all the companies
A woman named Helen Vish-
Poland, was sentenced to death at Kharkov, and was shot forthwith.
EARTHQUAKE IN CRIMEA.
HEAVY DAMAGE.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, June 30th.
A violent earthquake in the Crimea caused, considerable fasures in buildings in the cities, and big landslides in the mountains, At Simeis the "Monk Rock" has fallen into the sea. The former palace of the Khans at Bahchisarai has been considerably daninged.
There were no casualties.
Governor-General Lord Willing- don, in a message, spoke of the pruud and loyal citizenship of this great and growing nation.
Prine Mr. Mackenzie King, Minister, in a stirring statement, commends the national erjoicing, peace, plenty, progress and pro- aperity attributable to the spirit of unity animating the nation.
sum of $20,000.
The Chichuen from Ichiang, on` July 24th, grounded 20 miles from Ichang, the pirates raiding while
she was out of control,
THE NAVAL CON- FERENCE.
| PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT.
THROUGH REUTER 6 AGENCY.]
GENEVA, June 30th. A communiqué issued by the technical committee states that at
The first official act of the United has reached a provisional agree- States Minister, Mr. Phillips, willment on future construction of the be his participation in the coin- so-called Class B vessels, namely
Even prisoners are
memoration:
blessing the occasion with thanks, smaller auxiliary surface craft, because of the remission of sixty including destroyers and flotilla minor sentences and the reduction leaders, under which it is on of sentences of more serious delin- quents.
ENGLISH FLAPPERS AND "PUSSYFOOT."”
HOW WILL THEY USE THE VOTE:
The
VARIED FORECASTS.
LONDON, Jume 21st.
officially learned that the first category of the destroyer class will be limited to 1,500 tons, with a speed limit of 20 knots and an age limit of 16 years.
New Zealand's Contribution..
WELLINGTON, June 30th.
The Prime Minieter, Mr. Coates, informied a deputation of the Navy
Cocktail girls" of Eng-League that the question of New contribution to the land will probably ruin Great Zealand's Britan's chances of getting prohi-Singapore naval base would come bition at some future date if the
before Parliament in the present. Government carries out, ita inten- tion of giving votes, to Happers, session: according to Dr. Alfred Salter, Labor member of Parliament states a-United Press-message in the Vanila Times...
Dr. Salter recently stirred up a national controversy as a result of his charges on the floor, of the House that members were attend- ing the sessions while in a doubt- ful condition of intoxication:
He hoped the proposal would be adopted unanimously.
There would also be a proposal to increase the size of the cruisersTM on the New Zealand naval station.
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CANNIBALS WHO HAVE IDEAS.
LEARNED AND THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATIONALISTS.
We trust that before long trial
"Prohibition is not a live issue in England," Dr. Salter told the United Press, and I do not think that an extension of the franchise to women of 21 and over will have the slightest effect in the matter. although many people know of misery that drink brings. I do not think that girls over 21 would be interested in the least unless they y red-hot iron, boiling water, and have drunken mothers or fathers.mwavi poison will be things of the
past. CONFIDENCE TRICK IN
On the other hand there are
This hope was expressed by Mr. PARIS.
many young girls of that age who are in search of life-the cock- W. F. P. Burton, a missionary, who AUSTRALIAN'S LOSS OF £865. tail girls who drink themselves lectured to the Royal Geographical and enjoy it and their support for Society on the march of civilisation PALE- the abolition of evil of drinking in Central Katunga, a strip of Darkest Africa lying to the north Another example of the amazing can certainly be not counted on." euse with which practitioners of the
From a group of opinions gather of Northern Rhodesia.
Since the days of the war this confidence trick are able to finded both among members of Parlia victims in Paris is afforded by the ment and in Prohibition and anti- strange country inhabited by the case of Mr. John Walker, an Prohibition circles, it would ap: Baluba, a people endowed with in-
of the Beecham Trust, of which robbed of 70,000 france (£585). upon the Government's proposal to some
with cannibalistic parts, Searches of the countryside and Mr. White was chairman, and
Mr. Walker had just changed a give the voting franchise to girls habits, has developed swiftly with continuous flares of rockets and wireless calls have all so far been which is indebted to the Bank for cheque for a large sum at a bank over 21 with a great deal of doubt the advent of the missionary and
near the Madeleine when he was so far as their causes are concern the trader. without result.
accosted as he left by a stranger, ed. Bcores of his followers are faced who asked if he were not an Aus-
tralian. with rain owing to the resultant slump.
fishermen the party salved the in which ho is interested have fallen heavily, especially of British- controlled oilfields, in which he is reported to be committed to the ex- tent of £1,000,000.
LATER.
All Night Vigil.
After
the neighbouring aero- dromes had been all night long very agitated and excited. the whereabouts of Byrd were still an morning.
The London and Westminster
Hapkow to make its capture worth tious from the Ministry of Finance absolute' mystery at six in the Bank has applied for a receivership Australian visitor, who has been pear that both sides are looking. telligence and industry, and, in"
while.
Yangiaze Ports Quiet.
SHANGHAI, June 30th. The situation here and at the Yangtsze ports is quiet,
MOSCOW AND NANKING.
SOVIET LEADER'S "ANALYSIS."
[THKOTAK REUTER'S AGENCT.]
Moscow, June 30th.
at Nanking, in addition to the existing surtax of two and a half per cent agreed upon with-reserva-
tions by the Washington Confer- ence, he will collect a further two and a half per cent. on all imports classified as luxuries, as from July 4th.
This makes the total duty on im ported luxuries ten per cent. ad valorem, which British merchants are constrained to pay, otherwise they cannot obtain delivery of im- ported cargo.
Meanwhile the Nanking Govern- ment hus agreed to the Finance Ministry's memorial on likin, and has instructed the Ministry to abolish likin and institute a new suhedule of import duties, on a
Anxious Spectators Dronched.
Rain was falling in torrente at Le Bourget, where there was con- stautly sending up of rockets. Hun dreds of spectators, drenched to
over £450,000.
V
The financier was found dead, the skin, were full of anxiety. They in hia home, with an empty are still waiting, including Cham- berlin, Levine and their wives with chloroform bottle at his bedside. flowers to welcome the crew of the He left a note saying, "Goodbye, of Paris America.
P
OTTAWA TO LONDON...
good luck."
Writing in the Pravda, Bukharin,basis of 30 per cent, far imported on a non-stop flight to London to White's death, was followed by a
issues.
Kingdom
At present 1,000 natives are work- ing on tin. There is also coal, and the men .cxtract sufficient iron in Bome districts to make their own speare, how, axes and knives.
Good Farmers, They have their fisheries, and cultivate, among other things
Tobacco. Tree-lentils. Pumpkins Cucumbers.
Ground-nuts Bananas Sweet potatoes Spring onions.
Mr. Burton ed that, while in
Both sides freely admit that the When he said that he was modern girls with a vote would a doubtful factor, both in his new acquaintance, professing be great delight at having met a com- domestic politics aud national patriot, introduced himself as John Kerr, a merchant of Sydney, and H. B. Wilson, Secretary of the the two adjourned to a neighbour Prohibition organization of Eng- ing cafe to exchange impressions land. The United
Alliance, said "The young girl On the following day, having to-day who really wants to vote is LATER. agreed to make a tour of Paris engaged or in battle of the rather than in a calm reffec- together, they met another Austra OTTAWA, July 1st. Nervousness on the Stock Ex-lian, who was introduced to Mr. tion of how she should best use her Captain Janney announces that change this morning, owing to Mr. Walker as Jack Dossinn, and the vote for the betterment of the coun he will leave Ottawa on June 30th,
three went to lunch together. Be-try. If the flapper gete the vote, 1014 scarcely a native could read or fore the
doubtful factor so far write, thousands now possess both meal was over Kerr, say she will be
Almost every celebrate Canada's jubilee... slightly more confident feelinging that he had an important pay as national issues are concerned accomplishments."
partly attributed to the fact that ment to make in france but had until she realizes the power the chief now has his secretary. U.S. AIRMEN AT LE
“Of the three scoret societies," no financial difficulties among the only English money in his posses her vote bas. However, I believe
sion, asked Mr. Walker to lend him that ultimately the vote, if given said Mr. Burton, the Bakasandil BOURGET.
members were revealed during the 100,000 francs for half an hour. to young women will bring some are far the most sinister.
Me
Walker advanced all he had decided change in the liquor ques-No one is allowed to be initiat- MEMORIAL TO LINDBERGH. | day.
tion as it exists now, even if it ed among them until he has eaten This reture of confidence was re-70,000 francs-receiving as (THROUGH" REUTER'S AGENCY.] flected in an improvement in pledge a small wallet which the does not bring Prohibition."
Lady Astor, another prominent part generally a bone-of some borrower said contained jewellery
other human being on the principle, quotations of most securities prin- and English securities worth four dry member of Parliament; also I am now a supor-man, for I am PARIS, June 30th,
times the amount of the loan pointed out to the United Press The American trans-Atlantic cipally affected by the slump yes Shortly after Kerr's departure, the large number of women who myself and the other man as well; Riera Chamberlin and Levine ar- terday
Dosslan found a pretext for leav drink in England. rived at Le Bourget by air from
ing the table, and it was not until Switzerland, and were welcomed by [Deceased was a Lancashire man, their wives, with large bouquets, by having been born at Rochdale in both he and Kerr had been absent the American Charge d'Affaires, 1878. He was therefore merely for about an the French authorities, and vine fifty years old. Besides his connec-realised four that Mr. Walker of the vote. to girls over 21 will watershed.
misfortune.
go a long way in furthering the "Ons" finds among these can From the description he was able temperance mevement, Lady Astor nibals," he said, “creditable iron- tion with the Beecham Trust, men matograph operators.
to give of his chance acquaintance and I am convinced that the ex-workere living in well-kept villages, the latter has been recognised as tension will not only greatly assist and capable intelligent conver an Australian confidence trickster in the dry anovement, but it may sation, which is as full of proverba for whom the polics have been look, even be a great factor in bringing and fore as that of anothen
complete Prohibition in England. Baluba." ing for some time,
analysing the situation in China, luxuries, and twelve and a half per points out that despite the streng cunt on all other commodities, thened position of the Nanking effective aa from August 1st, but Government, a a result of its not including tobacco, on which an excise duty of 50 per cent. is alliance with Marshal Feng Yu already imposed, and wines and A Hsiang, the Wuhan Government is spirits, which apparently are also
heavily taxed. tarrying on the struggule to rid itself of traitors within the Kuo- intang and the Nationalist Gov. ernment, and is loosening a power ful workers' and peasants move- ment;
The Soviet Government has no
“RED” LEADERS.
PREPARING TO LEAVE HANKOW.
[THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, July 1st.
reason to abandon. its relations Tan Ping Shan, Communist head with the Nanking Government, just of the Bureau of Agriculture, “has resigned on the grounds of ill as it does not refuse to have rehealth, and Teug Yen Ta and other lations with the bourgeoissgovern Communists are said to be prepar-
ing to leave. ments of the East and West.
1
The airmen arrived just in time tioned above, he was chairman of to attend the inauguration cero. George Edwardes (Daly's Theatre) mony for the laying of a granite Ltd., and a director of the Tyre Investment Trust Fund. Hir home memorial to Lindbergh's landing at Le Bourget
was at Park Btreet, Mayfair.I
"It will take a long time, but it is inevitable that the extension
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Cannibalism, Mr. Burton en- phasised, is practically confined to the neighbourhood of the Luvidyo
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