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YOUNG GENERAL

CONFERS.

FENG YU HSIANG IGNORED.

DIRECTORATE OF POSTS.

PEKING OFFICE, CLOSED.

(Bah Tez Tat Pao).

SHANGHAI, June 25th.

THE MARKETS OF

THE EAST.

SHELL TRANSPORT AND

TRADING Co.

OIL WAR SETTLEMENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 28th.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27th, 1928.

"LEVIATHAN” MAIL ROBBERY.

RIFLED BAGS IN BERLIN.

THE STOLEN PROPERTY.

[REUTER'S AMERIČAN BERVICE].

New York, June 98th. The postal authorities have learn- ed that two bags of mail have At the annual meeting of the Shell

renched Berlin rifled. They con- According to a message from Transport and Trading Company sider that this is further evidence Lord Bearsted announced that the in support of the theory that the Peking, General Chang Hsuch Liang held a military conference in Directors" had selected the present Leviathan robbery was carried out Mukden last Saturday night. Be time for the issue of new capital, sides

because only recently prices in the A number of Fengtienese

principal markets of the East leaders, like, Chang Tso Cheng and

had been re-established. Ho. Feng Lin, there were several Japanese advisers in attendance,

The Final Timex construes

on the voyage.

Postal inspectors will be surpris ed if the value of the stolen pro- perty totals £10,000 sterling.

RESCUED ARCTIC FLIERS.

LUNDBORG MAROONED FOR A MONTH?

WALKING PARTY LOST.

{THROUGH REUTER'S-AGENCY.]

PARIS, June 90th The Ministry of Marine has or- dered the veteran explorer, Doctor Charcot, who is preparing to cruise

BALDWIN'S, LTD.

REORGANISATION SCHEME.

SHAREHOLDERS' APPROVAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

EXCITEMENT

EGYPT.

IN

WAFD MINISTRY DISMISSED.

LEGAL ACTION BY PRINCIPALS.

---THROUGH" "BEUTER'S AGENCY.}

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LONDON PAPERS

PUZZLED.

JERVIS BAY MESSAGES.

FURTHER TROUBLE AT COLOMBO.

(THROUGH RYUTER'E ADENCY.]

COLOMBO, June 95th. That the Commonwealth Line ■.5.. Jervis Bay was in serious peril for some little time was disclosed

on the coast of Greenland in his observed that the company's plight ments making serious allegations in the Police Court this morning,

vessel Pourquoi Par, to proceed immediately to Spitzbergen to join in the search for Amundsen and Guilbaud,

Capt. Lundborg, whose machine

overturned after the rescue of

As a result of the conference and the statement to indicate that the DEMOCRATIC ACTIVITY AT Nobile, je marooned with the rest

the

largely in compliance with advice of the Japanese advisers, the Manchurian authorities will only

recognise General Yen Shih Shas and Marshal Chiang Kai Shek as proper authorities representative of the Nationalist Government, with whom they may open negotia," tions for permanent peace. More-

over, in doing so they, have in view the fact that, if General Yen and Marshal Chiang achieve a rap- prochement with the Fengtièmese'

ail war has ended, but on the other band the Financial News says that Standard Oil officials refuse to confirm the reports from India

that the differences with the Royal Dutch have been settled,

It states nevertheless that the

opinion is growing that a settle- ment will result from further dis

eussions.

Enquiries by Reuter of oil com

HOUSTON.

AL. SMITH'S STRONG ..

POSITION.

WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

of Nobile's party. He has asked for spare parts to be dropped by parachute.

Another Fokker monoplane and also a de Havilland Moth 'plane will be sent to Spitzbergen, special- ly equipped for landing on small areas of ice.

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CAIRO, June 20th. Subsequent to the publicstion in Opposition newspapers of docu-

against Nahas Pasha, and two when the eight stowaways were charged on five counts, including the serious one of arson. thris Bay, in evidence, stated Captain Daniels, the master of

Losnoy, June 9th." The re-organisation scheme of Baldwin's, Ltd. ha been approved as a meeting of the shareholders.

Sir Robert Horne, presiding,"

'was largely due to the generous re- sponse to the Government's urgent other prominent Wafdiets, à Royal requests in war time. As ́a resultRescript has been issued dismissing of this they had extended the plant the Ministry on the ground of the to meet National necessities. Then break-up of the Coalition. the post war period and depressed

trade followed.

The reduced capital would be re- presented by real assets.

(A cable dated June 13th says:- Drastic financial reconstruction of the big iron, coal and steel en terprise, Baldwins, Limited, is re- commended by the Advisory Com- mittee appointed by the Boardi

proposes reduction £8,000,000 sterling of the capital to by £4.913,568 by writing down the 21 Preference shares to 16/ and the £1 Ordinary Shares to 4/-]

It

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Wiss Bey Warsef, President of the Chamber and one of the alleged signatories to the documents, in the course of an interview stated that the fees demanded by himself, Nahas Pasha, and Gaafar Fakry in return for their services in connec- tion with the claim of the mother of the mad Prince Seifeddin were justified by the enormous interest involved.

Premier Withdraws,

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A telegram to Oslo from the New York, June 25th.

relief ship Quest said, that the CRIES ABOVE THE FLAMES. Pasha had become Premier of the Shirt-sleeves are rolled up literal-rescue of the rest of Nobile's party pany officials in London have noty and figuratively at Houston,

and Lundborg is unlikely for 3 or 4 elicited more than a sanguine hope Texas, in preparation for

weeks when it is hoped that the

the

clique, the Nationalist coalition that a settlement will shortly be National Democratic Conventionce will break up sufficiently to per-

Government would certainly split and the tabley will be turned.

THE SUPREME LEADERS. -

(Wuh Ta Yat Pan).

SHANGHAI, June 25th.

reached.

LABOUR ATTACKS

TEA DUTY.

WHOLLY UNNECESSARY.

Chiang Kai Shek, Yen Shih Shan AMENDMENT REJECTED

and Feng Yu Hsiang, now aptly described as the three supreme leaders of the Nationalist Gov- ernment, will all meet in Peking before the end of this month. "As soon as Chiang and Feng arrive a meeting will be held in camera, after which follows the plenary session." One of the items in the agenda for discussion is the resolu- tion of dealing with the Feng- tjenerer

CHINESE POST OFFICE,

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

The

NANKINO, June 26th.. Nationalist Ministry of Communications has notified the Foreign Ministry, that, as the need for a separate Directorate-General of Posts at Peking no longer exists, henceforth the bead office of the

COMMONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

which opens to-morrow (Tuesday).

The temperature to-day was over ninety degrees in the shade.

The forces of Mr. Al. Smith, the Governor of New York, dppear to be in supreme command of the situation, and there, is no doubt

among acute observers that Gov- IN ernor Smith will be nominated on

LONDON, June 25th. The House of Commons, during the Committee Stage of the Fin- ance Bill, rejected a Labour amend- ment challenging the Tea Duty 25 wholly unneccesary.

Mr. G. 3. Gillett, Labour MP., aid while there had been a de crease in the amount of tea com- ing in from the British Colonies, there was a large increase in the amount from China, the Dutch. East Indies and other countries.

It would be interesting to know, anid Mr. Gillett, whether the move ment for the control of output: was having any appreciable effect on the amount coming from parts of the Empire.

Mr. A. M. Samuel, Minister for the Department of Overseas Trade...

the first ballot.

The strong Prohibitionists and the anti-Tammany defenders who come chiefly from the South, and are the backbone of the anti-Smith faction are fighting furiously in their efforts to block his candida- ture, but it is almost certain that he will be nominated, and that his principal rival, Senator Reed of Missouri, will be nowhere."

mit the landing of a seaplane.

The hopes of saving Malmgren, Mariana and Zappi (the walking party) are fading into air. Recon- naissances are fruitless and the party was only provisioned until

June 21st.

Lundborg's Crash.

LONDON, June 25th. A graphic story of the rescue of General Nobile and one of his com- panions is related in messages from Reuter's correspondents at Rome and Stockholm.

Captain Lundberg boldly landed on the ice near the distressed party

100 GIRLS IN FIRE TRAP.

RESCUERS SMASH A WAY THROUGH.

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One hundred girls working on the top floor of a four-storey building at Manchester, narrowly escaped being burned alive when a fire broke out at the premises of Messrs, W. and H. Pownall, Ltd., hosiery and underwear manufacturers, of Stock port-road, Longsight.

The fire started in the cutting room of the lingerie.department and burned with such rapidity that be- fore the girls had time to throw down their work their escape across a bridge leading to the main build- ing of the works was cut off by the Aames.

Screams Heard. Fortunately there was another door on the opposite side of the the building, hearing the girls' workship, and other employees in

down the door, and liberated them. For a time panic reigned, several girls fainted and had to be carried

He explained that since Nahas

Egyptian Government, he had with the content of his clients, not pro Likewise, ceeded with the affair. Wissa Bey himself bad withdrawh from the case.

Gaafar Fakry alleges that the document purporting to be a con- tract and published in the Egyptian Press was falsified and a transla tion from the Turkish is now being made on behalf of the Wald.

It is learned that this document stolen from the house of Gaafar Fakry Bey about three

Was

months ago.

Defamation Of Character.

The three accused lawyers are

an action bringing new

for criminal defamation of character.

The Chamber met to day and adjourned until a new "Cabinet is formed.

that wireless messages were sent from the ship for several reasons, one of the principal of which was

the extreme nervousness of the passengers.

He denounced the imputation that the crew was involved in the disturbances a wicked..

Danger To Steering Cables; Captain Daniel explained that he first wirelessed for immediate assistance when the etowaways, set fire to the mattresses and volumse of spoke were issuing through the

ventilators of the room in which they were being held prisoner, and he did so because the electric cables, vital to the steering of the ahip, ran near the room.

If they were severed by the fire, or if the etqwaways smashed the connections with the crowbar in their possession," the ship would. have been adrift. He stated em- phatically that no member of the crew was involved.

wero COD-

Large Oil Tank. Another officer stated in further explanation of the alarm on board, that a large oil-fuel tank was situate just beneath the room in which the stowaways faed. If that had taken fire, which wat possible, there would have been little hope for the Jervis Bag

„After a two "Eours- sitting the Jervis Bay stowaways were found guilty on four counts and not guilty on the charge of arson.

The Magistrate expressed a doubl as to whether the desperate men really intended to destroy the veseel.

Each was sentenced to five and a half months' rigorous imprison-

Strangest Since Jonah.

Nahas Pasha, the Premier, read the Royal Rescript dismissing the Cabinet amid loud cheere.

Through an excited crowd of ment. Cowards, Traitors!" (apparently

and students

others yelling

resignations led to Nahas Pasha motored to Saadist Chub, where he made

A curious feature of to-day with a Swedish- 'plane, equipped screams, rushed upstairs, broke in reference to the Ministers whose puzzled at the explanations given..

happenings was a demonstration by. three thousands Southem "women militant anti-Catholics and "Drys” to whom the name of Smith is anathema.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S RECEPTION.

SYMPATHETIC ATTITUDE..

PRESS IN FAVOUR OF

KELLOGG SCHEME.

{BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rucay, June 25th. The Kellogg Note on the renuл- ciation of war is receiving most sympathetic consideration by the British Government.

Questioned in the House of Com. mons, Mr. Locker Lampson, Under: Secretary for Foreign affairs, said able advance.

with runners The fue on which he landed was only about 300 yards long and about 200 yards wide, while it was covered by about eight inches of snow.

Following on the accident to Captain Lundborg's 'plane on his second attempt to land, the Swedish Government is preparing to despatch a number of similar light machines to Spitzbergen.

It is learned that the other mem- ber of Nobile's party who has been saved ie Ceccioni, the mechanic.

A wireless message from the Citta di Milano states that General Nobile is Euffering from a partial

out.

the

The newspapers аге frankly

the crisis), of the Jervis Bay affair. The Daily Telegraph, for example, do clares that there has been nothing.. stranger than the tale of the stow." aways on the Jervis Bay since the voyage of Jonah.

All of them, however, escaped speech from the verandah appeal ing to the people not to create without injury. Soon afterwarde trouble and to leave the leaders to the roof of the workshop fell in,

deal with the situation in a calm and in less than two hours the

atmosphere. whole right wing of the factory was destroyed.

A girl employed in the cutting room said that the floor seemned to go hot under her feet and then a tongue of fame rose from the rolls of cloth on which she was work ing.

In her own words, she "seattled like a rabbit."

Six-feet Jump.

A window had to be broken to enable the girls to jump into the street, a distance of aix feet.

The factory is on the main road.

and for 250 yards the traffic was

off.

Chinese Post Office will be estab- said he was looking into the mat ter, and hoped in a few weeks to lished at Nanking. The Director obtain an analysis of the position. the new Note marked a consider- fracture of the right tibia, while stopped and the electric main cut General and Co-Director-General. They would then be able to come

to a conclusion.

Public opinion; as reflected in the have heen instructed to wind up. The Government, added Mr. Press, strongly favours the aims of the Peking office and remove to Samuel, was unable to accept the the American Secretary of State, Nanking,

amendment, because it could not and it is assumed that, should any afford to lose the £0.000.000 or further communications pass be £7,000.000 which the Tea Dutytween London and Washington, brought in.

they will be directed towards strengthening the working of the Kellogg plan.

WAR COMMITTEE ABOLISHED.

(Wah Te Tat Pao).

SHANGHAI, June 25th. The Central Kuomintang has decided to abolish the Political! Committee for the War Area" ari soon as the provincial government of "Hopea" province (formerly Chihli) is inaugurated.

MAYOR OF TIENTSIN.

(Wah Tez Tat Pao)."

SHANGHAI, June 25th.

Mr. Nan Kwei Chin, General

Yen Shih Shan's subordinate, is

EX-SPEAKER HONOURED.

PEERAGE OFFERED AND DECLINED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 25th.

ALICE'S WANDERINGS.

MANUSCRIPT RE-SOLD.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

It is announced that H.M. the

PHILADELPHIA, June 25th. King has expressed a wish to con The original manuscript of Lewis fer Feernze on

$

the former Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," Speaker, the Right Hon. Mr. J. H.sold at Sotheby's in April to Dr. Whitley, but has allowed him to Rosenbach for 215,400, has been re- decline the honour, for personal sold, together with a copy of a rare first issue of the book to an Ameri: can collection for G.8150,000. Bacrotary Knightad,

LONDON, June 95th: A Knighthood has been confer

reasone

appointed Mayor of Tientsin Chi- red on Lieut. Col. Ralph Verney. nese City, while Mr. Ho Chi Kong | C.LE., C.V.O.. the Secretary to the Is Mayor for Peiping (Peking).

JOURNEY TO PEKING.

(Wah Tu Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, June 25th. Chiang Kai Shek has taken the craiser Lun King to Hankow where he met General Li Chung Jen. He will probably proceed to Peking with him.

ARMY IN REVOLT..

(THROUGH REUTER'S “AGEŅOS.),

SHANGHAI, June 26th.

It is reported that the Sixth Army at Changsha, which was responsible for the Nanking out rages, has revolted, and is now marching towards Kiangri.

Speaker of the House of Commons since 1921.

AN IMPOSSIBLE SCHEME.

LANCASHIRE COTTON

PROBLEM.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

LONDON, June 9th.

In the House of Commons, reply- ing to questions. Mr. L. M. S. Amery, Secretary for the Domi nione, said it, wnd impossible to make a grant from the Empire Marketing Board Fund for the encouragement of the sale of Lan cashire cotton goodi abrönd

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"KENT" COMMISSIONED.

LEAVES ON JULY 3RD.,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 25th H.M.S. Kent has been commis sioned at Chatham, under the com- mand of Captain J. Wolfe Murray. She leaves for the China Station op July 3rd, to replace H.M.8. Hawkins, the flagship.

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away.

THE PRINCE'S "AFRICAN TOUR.

AWAY FIVE MONTHS.

Nakas Paeba added: "I know there are enemies of our constitu- tion but with God's help, we shall. triumph in the end."

The journal Mokattam in an editorial comment this morning. mentions that this is the first occa- Bica since the British occupation that an Egyptian Ministry has been dismissed without Britain having a hand in the matter.

MYSTERY GIRL'S DEATH. "EDNA CHARMAINE."

"DOCTOR" FRIEND

DISAPPEARS...

The only clue they have to her identity is that letters found in her Joom were addressed to Edua Charmaine. Her bead was resting on pillows and the apparently died from gas-poisoning. She had been dead for two or three days.

that the The landlady stated woman took a single room on Sun- day night, having, been introduced. by there for a year.

man who had been staying

The Daily Mail is still not clear why the messages were sent out which alarmned the world. There must surely be other important cir cumstances to be disclosed.

The Morning Post suggests that Captain Daniel feared that desper ate stowaways might make centre of disaffection among the passengers and crew.

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Further Trouble.

COLOMBO, June.. 20th. As the Jervis Bay was weighing anchor last night prior to depar ture, a delegate from the engine- room Trade Unionists approached Captain Daniels, and declared: "We won't take the ship to 'res."

Captain Daniels ordered the man off the bridge, but the latter pro- tested that he approached the Captain perfectly constitutionally.

The Captain ordered him eft from the bridge and said he would dea! with him immediately the ship.was cleared.

The Jervis Bay, sailed at mid- night with no further interruption.

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CORSICAN VENDETTA.

MURDERS.

FATHER AND TWO" SONS

* SHOT DEAD.

AJACCIO, Corsica, May 30th. Three men were killed to-day at Lava in what appears to be a con- tinuation of the famous Nonce-

he right foot has been badly crush-Bales of cloth, girders, and fallen masonry littered the tramway lines, ed. There has been considerable and so fierce were the flames" that

LONDON, June 2nd. suffusion of blood, but the Italia's at one time they shot across the

The death of a girl of about 25, road, setting fire to a tree in an commander ise progressing favour apposite garden and cracking the who was found in a house in Great The Ormond-street, Holborn, is engag ably, and it is hoped that he will windows of private houses.

within flames could be seen five miles ing the attention of the police. be completely recovered forty days.

The Rescue. General Nobile's own account of "the daring rescue by Captain Lund- borg shows that when the Swedish 'plane made ita landing," General Nobile requested Lundborg to fy CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE. back with the injured mechanic. Ceccioni, Professor Behounek (the

The Prince of Wales will probably Czecho Slovakian member of the mechanic, expedition) and the Troiani.

leave England early in September Nobile then hoped that Lund- for his African tour with the Duke borg would be able to return for of Gloucester, and he is expected to himself, Lieutenant Viglieri, and be away four or five months. the wireless telegraphist, Biagi.. It was proposed originally that

Captain Lundborg, however, in the outward journey should be It is stated that on Thursday the celebrated Corsican bandits who: sisted that General Nobile should made by way of Egypt and the man, who had been away, return- took to the falls over 20 years ago, be the fret to leave, pointing out White Nile, and thence to Kenya, ed and found the door of his room but was tracked down and shot. that he wae badly wanted for any Uganda, and Tanganyika, but the locked. He climbed over the bath- doad by the gendarmes in 1928. information he could give regard climatic conditions in the Upper room roof and entered his room by Local rumour ascribed his alleged ing the men who were carried away Nile region and the Sudd area to forcing a window. He at once betrayal to the family of Mancini, with the wreck of the Italia who warde, the end of the year are such rushed downstairs and, asking the his father-in-law, who lived in

that in all probability this route landlady not to enter the room, Romanetti's ancestral home. The remainder of Nobile's party will have to be abandoned

said he was going to fetch the backed up-Captain Lundborg 30

Bea Voyage.

police. The landlady waited all Nobile, agreed: "with & heavy

In that event the Prince will night for him, but he did not Heart and banded over command travel from England to Mombasa to Lieut. Vigleri.j

by sea, and thence, up country through Kenya, Uganda, and Tan- ganyika.

are lost.

MISSOURI EXPRESS

DISASTER.

HEAVY TALE OF INJURED,

[ZEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

Afterwards he will proceed through Rhodesia, bis ultimate aina being to reach Capetown in time, to epend Christmas with the Governor- General of South Africa, the Earl of Athlone, and the Countess of Athlone, sailing from Capetown in January for home.

"I do not know her name," she added, and the only luggage she had was a mall handbag."

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return.

Rushed Downstairs.

The next morning she communi- cated with the police, who forced the door,

The woman "is known to have stayed at several hotels in the Liverpool-street area, but she has not been seen in the district for about six weeks.

A "Doctor."".

Romanetti vendetta

Romanetti was one of the moab

Last night four masked men broke into the house and, having down M. Mancini and two of his ordered the women to leave, shot

The third son, who was sleeping in an upper room, jumped from the window and, though wounded by a shot, was able to Lava is hidden away among the escape down the mountain side. hilla, and the police and judicial authorities, only reached there to day by the mule-track leading from Ajaccio.

FLOODS NEAR NIAGARA.

HEAVY DAMAGE DONE.

[RETTEL'S AMERICÁN BERVICE]

The man whom the police are. Romanetti during his lifetime OTTAWA, June 20th.

.TOLA, Kansas, June 25th.

anxious to trace is said to have was quite a feature in Corsica and Four persons have been drowned Between sixty and seventy per- The tour will not be a private frequently stated that he was ahia adherence was always consider He added, however, that he and damage caused to the extent sons have been injured as the re- one, but it is desired that there doctor on the staff of a Landoned of value by candidates for par

Police inquiries show liamentary election. favoured doing anything possible to of about £25,000 in the Niagara ault of the derailment of the Misshall be a minimum of official func hospital.

by the foreign This fresh tragedy will, it is hela Lancashire producte, provided Falls district by heavy foods, fol- souri Express near Yates Centre, tions. The Prince's party must that the man such help were given in another lowing fifteen hours torrential. It is believed that the disaster was necessarily be small owing to tran- name he gave at his lodgings in feared, result in further crimes and

►a revival of banditry.

form.

rain.

due, to a broken rail;

sport dificulties.

not known at the hospital.