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ANHWEI TROOPS

MOVING.

FIGHTING IN CHINA SPREADING.

FENG IN DANGER.

THROUGH REUTER': AGENCY,]

GRAF ZEPPELIN”

MISHAP.

NO FOUL PLAY, SAYS

COMMANDER.,

THANKS FOR HELP.

[THROTÙH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.

COMMUNIST SHIP HELD UP.

TROUBLE FEARED IN OILFIELDS.

IRAQ POLICE ACTIVE,

(THROTON, REUTER'S AGENCY.]

GRAVE NEWS FROM INDIA.

HIGH OFFICIALS STRONGLY GUARDED.

FIRES IN LAHORE.

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGINCY.?

UNLUCKY DUTCH

'PLANES.

ANOTHER ONE LOST AT BATAVIA,

DESTROYED BY FIRE.

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(THROUGH REUTKE’B AGENCY.]

BATAVIA, May 20

The D23, another one of, the

reservoir.

Two natives were badly burned and one European less seriously.

HELP FOR THE GRAF

ZEPPELIN.

LONDON, May 20. ANKING, May 20.

BASRA, May, 20. LONDON, May 19. The Kuo Mina learns that General

the The Iraq police boarded The Daily Mail Calcutta corre- The fact that four of the five Fang Chen Wu left for Nanking engines of the Graf Zeppelin broke Soviet steamer Kommunist, from tpondent says that most stringent Dutch seaplanes which few from being taken to Holland, was totally destroyed by last night, in response to a sum- down has led to the talk of Odessa and an armed guard was precautions are

the Viceroy," Provincial fire which broke out owing to a mona from Chiang Kai Shek. A sabotage at Friedrichshafen but placed aboard. The crew was not guard large force of Anbwei troops have Dr. Eckener is reported to have allowed to lead. Local English Governors, and high officers, and short circuit exploding the fuel been, transferred to Pengpu; and declared that he did not believe banks refused to negotiate bills also the public buildings.

It is rumoured" that troops are it is stated that after conferring there had been foul play. In the for the "semel. It is understood with Chiang Kai-Shek, Fang Chen meanwhile three spare motors are that this action was taken at the being secretly moved to Northern Wu will go to Pengpu to establish still lying at the works pending request of the authoritics, and it India. There have been five out his Military Headquarters there instructions from Dr. Eckener, is reported that nearly 700,000 breaks of fire in the railway work- whilst the fourth, which had been silver rupees were aboard the ship, shops at Lahore in the last three consigned to Japan, has been inter destined to be used to stir up weeks. A telegraphic report from Nat-cepted at Genoa.

further wouble in the Anglo-Per- The police hold evidence of the king states that the "order for a Dr. Eckener has telegraphed to an oilbelds at Abadan, where imminence of grave' happenings, general attack on the Kuominchun the French Ministers of War and rioting, attributed to Communist necessitating alt preparedness. troops of Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang Marine paying warm tributes to propaganda, occurred recently. on the Peking-Hankow Railway the French soldiers and sailors for has been announced and signed by helping in the landing of the Grof

The Marshal Chiang Rai Stik; General Zeppelin.

of the Yen Hai Shan (who controls Shanti messages, to which cordial replies and Chilli Provinces) and General were sent, made a favourable im Tang Seng Chi (formerly of Hupeh pression in France. and Hunan)..

A General Attack.

SHANGHAI, May 19.

Advance" on Swstow, Reports from South China state- that Fukien troops have entered Kwangtung and are advancing upen Swatow to oust the pro-Kwangsi

administration.

CHIANG KAI SHEK AND

FENG,

(Wah Te: Fat Paa.)

Sucronat, May.. 20. Chiang Kai Shek bas repeatedly wired to Feng Ya Hsiang asking him to come to Nasking but so} for no reply has been received. Chiang held a meeting on afternoon of May 18 to the situation.

tone

Another air-Liner DownL

BUDAPEST, May 19. While a Vienna-Budapest air liner was flying over the Danube near Budapest an explosion oc eurred and a wing dropped off. The machine fell into the river and the pilot and a passenger were drowned.

CANADA'S MINISTER TO JAPAN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, May 90. Although Mr. Marler, Canada's the first Minister" to Japan, is not ex- discuss pected till October, Mr. Hugh

On the same day, Be Ying Ching also held a conference with his subordinate generals at Hankow.

THE POSITION OF SHANSI.

(Wah Ter Fat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, May 20 Feng Yu Being has detailed a delegate to persuade Yea Hai Sher not to join Chiang Kai Shek on the condition that if he (Yea) agrees, Feng's troops will abandon their intention to attack Shanei.

Yen-seemed to be convinced and

at is quite probable that he will

declare nectral.

On account of this, Feng detail ed his troops from Tus kwan.`te] Fancheng and Singyang in West ern, Hupeh to fight against Chinng's

forces.

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

(Wah Te Yat Paq.)

SHANGHAI, May, 20 It is rehably reported that Feng! Yu Hsiang has decided to abandon Houan and massed his troops at Loyang and Tungvan. to attack Shanai.

The situation in Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi, is grave.

Keenleyside has arrived to take up the post of First Secretary of the Legation, which is opening next week.

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AUSTRALIAN FLYERS MISSING.

GRAVEST FEARS FOR THEIR SAFETY.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SYDNET, May 19.

The airmen Moir and Owen are

missing. They were due at Dar win on Saturday evening from Bima, but have not been sighted since passing over. Koepang at 11.45 on Saturday.

The British sloop Cyclamen and the special service vessel Triad ave standing by.

FRANCE'S HUGE PROJECTS.

LORD ROSEBERY GRAVELY BILLIONS OF FRANCS FOR

ILL

CONDITION CRITICAL.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 20.

Lord Rosebery is reported to be"

critical

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THREE SCHEMES:

CONSTRUCTION WORK TO ENSURE WATER SUPPLY

TO PARIS.

AMERICAN INTEREST:

[British United Press.)

Tokyo-In connection with the world fight of the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin the Air Forse Head quarters of the War Department reports that the Mitsubishi Trading Co., has placed an order for 450 drums of liquefied gas in the United States with the intention of offer ing the gas to the Zeppelin Com- mander for ure in proposed Trans Pacific fight from Japan. Each

Paris The Government has laid | drum of gas will contain 240 litraș

gravely ill. His condition is before the Chamber a Bil concern- It also is reported the War. De Lord Rosebery was on Maying a aurober of big construction partment has decided to accept an His public career covers the projects costing altogether some mvitation of the Germans for a great period of 56 years.].

thing over two billion francs of passage across the Pacific on the which about 887 million fraces are airship for several. Japanese army to be covered by German repara- and navy officers,

TRAGEDY AT A BALL GAME.

نام

FATAL RUSH FOR SHELTER.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN HEVICE.)

tion deliveries in kind.

The fire of these projects is for

the construction of huge pipe-lines HAVEN FOR REFUGEES, from the valley of the river Loire c Paris, which are to improve and safeguard a regular and sufficient wraber supply for the capital. It is to cost 1.500 million francs.

NEW YORK, May 19: a med rush for shelter from a Two were killed and 50 injured thunderstorm on the part of specta-a tors at a baseball game at the Yankee Stadium gate, leading to a 15-foot pit.

prehure the crowd and many

The gate collapsed under the persons fell pell mell into the pit.

DAVID'S TOMB.

MAY BE SHORTLY BROUGHT TO LIGHT.

The second is for the creation of network of canals in the prefac tures of the Seine and Seine-et- Osso and estimated to cost 500- francs-

GENERAL AND HIS WIVES THERE

[British United Fress,]

Beppu hot springs in the island of Kyushm have become a haven

The third, costing million for Chinese refugees of the deposed

tion of very large water reservoir

franes, provides for the constris. Simanting clique, according to the and coffer dama on the rivers Yanne Nippon Dempo Agency. and Marne, which are to prevent

Ride.

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA TO-DAY.

General Chang Tsung Chang's the annual fooding of the country-fourth wite, four wives of Wa Kuang Hsin and a number of other Chinese, escorted by Mr. Chaha chire Shirokuchi, Japanese adviser to the deposed war ford, arrived in Beppu this week. The party" included the former chief of police of Chefoc, the ex-president of the Bank of Shantung, and others.

The Nippon Dempo correspon

STARVATION WAGES FOR

ESTATE WORKERS.

Moscow-The president of the Council of the Soviet Republic of, the Volga district has filed a com-

PARLIAMENTARY NOMINATIONS.

1,700 CANDIDATES,

THE UNOPPOSED

DWINDLE.

[THEOGGE ALUTER': AGENCY.)

LONDON, May 20 Over 1,500 candidates will be nominated to-day for the Farlis. mentory elections.

There are very few unopposed returns, but they include the fol loving ex-member:-The Speaker (Captain Fitzroy), Mr. T. P. O'Connor, Commodore H. D. King and Col. T. Sinclair,

CONVICTS' INVENTION,

PATENT FOR POWER PLANT GRANTED IN AMERICA."

Two convicts at the Maryland gael although hampered by their inability to spend any time to- gether or erect anything in the way of working models, have perfected a device for the hydraulic genera- tion of power on which they bave been given a patent by the United States.

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Telegrams in Brief.

With Madame Alphonse Daudet, the widow of the great French writer as godmother, the Dayang- muda of Sarawak, Lady Bertram Brooke, has been received into the Catholic Church..

DIT

Two Japanese naval amphibians are hopping off from Yokosuka on a round trip of 2,544 miles to Saipan. Inland, in the Marianno Group and return. The phibians expected to arrive,st Sai-- pan Island on Sunday, stopping at Chichijima, in the Bonins, route. This is their first attempt.

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The death is announced of the actress, Mary Shat. From New York the death is also announced of the actress, Miss Hilda Moore.

Ex-President. General Calles ban resigned from the Mexican Ministry country to engage in farming. of War, and is retiring to thã

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"BALLOON”. TROUSERS

FOR WAITERS.

LIVELY DEBATE IN MANILA.

KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES.

Manila-A spell of unusual

lethargy on the part of the memo-

bera of the municipal board due a⠀ newspaper story about the "hot"! season, was broken by a lively de- bate over

whether waiters in Manila restaurants should be re- quired by law to wear more than B.V.D.'s when serving patrons.

Councillor Jose Topacio Nueno proposed an ordinance which would make it obligatory for all waiters to wear shoes, coats and pants and to appear decent."! Councillor Pascual Santos opposed the measure on the grounds that it was "discriminatory," The ordinance was not passed...

"No Trousers Revolution."!. The council's weighty discussion caused considerable public interest ad resulted in a number of editoriala, one of which follows:

They are, says New York message, Frank Allers, a member of the Norris murder gang, and Raymond "Scott serving & sentence for highway robbery. Scott, who has practical experience in power plants, supplied the technical knowledge, while Allers, always in- terested in hydraulic power, furnished the theory.

They passed books, plans, and blueprints back and forth under the supervision of the prison guards, working by day in the furniture factory of the prison and studying by night. Finally, when the plans were completed they sent

King Amanullah of Afghanis- them to a Washington attorney, tan tried to force his Afghan sub- who had a working model construct-jects to wear balloon trousers and ed on which they obtained a patent. The device, which costs extremely little to operate, forces water into an air chamber by its own pressure; from there it is forced by compress ed air into a turbine, and then returns to the original container to be used again. The prisoners have told the Warden, they would be able to supply the prison with electricity for 81,000 a year instead of the 870,000 the prison now spends annually for power.

8-MILES-HIGH FLYING,

+ ACROSS ATLANTIC IN 19 OR

15 HOURS.

+

[British United Press,]

Jerusalem-The tombs of King David and those who came after him in the monarchy of Judah may soon be brought to light. This is the belief of the Rev. C.. B. Mort lock, who has come to Palestine glaint with the Moscow authorities dent reports that all the leaders of to report on the progress of

on account of the lack of mechani- the Shantung clique arriving in In no aspect of the world race archæological excavations on the cal power and other working facili. Beppu appear well supplied with for aircraft of greater speed, Captain Grosvenor, in a Moth site of the City of David.

tics in his district.

money

range, and power is rivalry now Beneath the surface of the rock aeroplaze, flew out to see from Darwin and searched the coastline, but after a 400 miles fight, he re- ported that he found no trace of

the airmen.

The gravest fears are entertained of their safety, though it is possible they may have landed at. Atam- boewa..

DR. SUN YAT SEN'S ·

RE-INTERMENT.

THE POPE'S DELEGATE.

(Nom Keung Pao.)

THE DAMAGED. RAILWAY.

It is stated that the Pope has detailed representative to be Sun Fo, Minister of Railways, present at the re-interment of Dr. says that much", damage has been Sun Yat Sen done to the Peping Hankow Re way by Feng Yu Hsung's troops and that part of the railway bridge across the Yellow River has also been destroyed. He added that it would take buge sums and consider. able time for the repairs.

Madame Sun Fo, Lin Sen, Wo Teh Cheng and Cheng Hung Nier arrived at Tientsin on the after noon of "May 18. Madame Sun Yat Sen arrived the same Liternoon and the party left by rail for Peping,

The conveyance of the remains Since the disorganisation of the of Dr. Sun Yat Sen will take place Lung-Hai Railway, service between Hauchow and Kweitch has been on May ; as originally decided

suspended, Telegraphic services has been aleo interrupted,

A SHIPPING WARNING.

the excavators have found a series of five communicating chambers; Mortlock says. They are hewn out of the solid rock; the walls have

been finely tooled to a smooth sur face; and they are approached by a staircase cut with marvellous precision into the rock.

Agree With Biblical Facts. "They tally well with what is known of the royal tombs," Mort Jock declares. "The chambers have Been used through successive ages, with the result that nothing re mains but the relics of their last Occupants, the Arabs."

derby hats and the result of his attempt to reform the Afghan dress was a revolution which forced him out of his throne."

regulate what restaurant waiters There is now an attempt on the part of the municipal board - to and vendors on the streets should wear. This is not Afghanistan. And such a comedy as a trousers in Manila even if the municipal revolution is not likely to break out board should pass an ordinance regulating the clothing of waitere and vendors. A

Public Taste and Opinion "But it seems a pity to waste so much perspiration these hot days over a triflo such as this question. which now occupies the attention of the councillors.

"It must be admitted that waiters in drawers and undershirts But it seems that the modern ten- are not such an edifying sight.

ing to fy higher and higher above is, indeed, quite a task to go the surface of the earth.

against the spirit of the age..

the fact that the workers on the a number of his followers fed to

Another point of complaint is General Chang Trung Chang and keener than in the ceaseless stridency is toward. nudity. And it fiscal estates get monthly wages of but 25 to 30 rubles, which is ab solutely insufficient.

Without early and far-reaching improvements, the economic situa tion and the discipline among the workers will go from bad to worse, be'declares.

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- BURGLAR SURPRISED.

ESCAPE AT THE POINT OF REVOLVER.

Japan after their defeat by forces of the Nanking Government. It is understood they are kept under close surveillance by agents of the Japanese Government.

ECHO OF MAY DAY RIOTS.

POSITION OF AMBASSADOR KRESTINSKI DEFINED.

The fighting airman, rushing up to an seria duel in a great mechanical "bird of steel, must depend largely for his victory as do the real fighting birds on out- soaring and out-climbing his ad "versary,

"What is more, there are such things as public taste, and public opinion. If the public is willing to be served in restaurants by waiters en deshabille," surely it would be in restraint of trade to force the waiters to put on balloon So, by secret work in laboratory trousers and winter coats while and workshop, scientists and de- they are attending to their busi- rigners are endeavouring to in-ness. crease by thousands of feet the As for the tourists, they go to ceiling," as it is called, or height strange places to see strange sights, limit of aeroplanes.

something diferent from what they see at home:

· Moscow.-it-is understood that in

What are contemplated are great pite of Fress reports to the con- streamlined machines of metal There is considerable evidence,

Exciting incidents are connected trary, the position of Soviet Am which, rushing up till they are six, Mortlock says, in support of the with a burglary in a busy part of hassador to Eerlin Krestinski, who even or eight miles high, may belief that they are the nate chara. Bradford. Mr. P. Normington, sins held his present post since July whirl above the Atlantis at such TANK INVENTOR'S CLAIM. bere to the tomb of David,

Not only are they near the walladesman, whose place of business 1822, has not been affected by his speeds that a fight between Europe and the gate, as recorded in the at a shop scase distance from his recent stand against the ant Ger and America will be accomplished Bible and at the royal or citadel residence, was held up at the point man demonstrations and certain in not more than 12 or 15 hours

utterances made. by Commissary of NANA JEAN and of the city, but they answer,

He and his wife were in the shop War Woroshilov in connection. with to the description and allusions of when their daughter, aged 12, ran the May Day riots in Berlin, and Josephus.

in saying that there was a light the suppression of the Red Front Bodyguards Slain.

in the house, which had been locked fighters Association..

get"

says

of a revolver in his house..

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MALAYAN PRINTERS.

An elderly man who claims to be the inventor of the tank applied to Mr. Graham Campbell at Bow- Street Police Court recently for advice as to how he could proceed in order to prove his claim. The applicant, Mr. George: Quantrell, of Lamb's Conduit Street, W.0,1, told the magistrate that the idea of the tank occurred to him in 1915, when by the Germans. our troops were being mown: down

AN OMINOUS LETTER.

OLD MAN WHO SENT MONEX FOR HIS FUNERAL.

roof, James Shoebridge, an old Hanging from a rafter in the

man, was found dead in the house Four gentlemen who were inter where he lived alone in Wilmingcated in his iden discussed the mat ton, Kent. The police had pre- ter with him in Hyde Park at about viously visited Shocbridge's home that time, and he explained to upon receipt of a letter he had them his conception of a land addressed to his daughter in Brigh battleship with caterpillar wheels. ton, and in which be enclosed money They were henly interested, and for his funeral.

after going into details one of them Shoebridge was then alive and said Can't we make something of. well. Apart from his explanation this "Ther then assured him of wishing to induce his daughter that if anything came of his idea. to act him, he assured the police there would be something for him. that he had never thought of any

seemed to be in good spirits.

Subsequently, however, the local watched for Mr. Shoebridge, and, pot ageing him about by nine o'clock in the morning, knocked at the front door of the cottage

Getting no answer, ba broke in and found the man dead.

In the Antiquities of the Jews" up earlier in the evening, Mr. Nor- The Ambassador has been called it is related how Hered rifled one mington at once went to the house, to Moscow only in order to parti of the chambers of the tomb and where he found a light in one of cipate in the

congress of the took away a great deal of money, the living rooms. Inside he dis Soviete the Union, in bis capia.

And

Josephous, covered a man busy, ransacking the city as member of the Central neither of them came at the drawers. On seeing Mr. Noring Executive Committee. coffing of the kings themselves, for tan the intruder pointed a revolver their bodies were buried under the at him, and threatened to blow his earth so artfully that they did not head off if he attempted to detain appear even to those that entered him The man made on, and Mr. Normington chased him down the the tomb."

In a later chapter he tells how busy High-street, but lost him. --

FORMATION OF COOPERA Herod bad a great desire to make A search disclosed that, although

TIVE SOCIETY. more diligent search and to go there was a considerable sum of further in, even so far as the very money in the house, only a few, coffins of David and Solomon. But pounds were missing, in addition

Penang-A meeting called

-Printers' [THEOTOH REUTER': AGENCY.] two of his bodyguards were slam to an old revolver which was out form

by a flame that burst out upon of order, and is believed to be the Thrift and Loan Society. was held those that went in, as the report one pointed at Mr. Normington's in the Town Hall. Mr. A. H. SAMBEUI, May 10.

went, so he was berribly frightened, head People near the house ap- Lancaster, editor of the Pinang auch thing as suicide. He before..or sincey and he was now Another notice relating to ship and went out and bailt a pro- peared afraid of the revolver, which Gazette, was in the chair.

Mr. Gammons addressed the Hunan troops under Ho Chien ping on the West River has been pitiatory memorial in white stone the burglar held in front of him all are not purning the Kwangs issued by the Harbour Authorities at the month of the tomb at great the time. The man's face was meeting on cooperation explaining police constable, rot quite satisfied, armies, but attempting to march

expens

to mark the fright he had covered with a muffler, and Mr. the objects and advantages of

Normington stated that he was having such a society. swiftly southwarde with the object It reads:-

been in Vessels are not to proceed mouth looks just the place to sup recognise him.

A large stone platformin at the afraid he would not be able to Mr. Gazumrze stated that it was the first meeting of the kind among and thereby to make a function above Samshai as no protection it port such a monument," says the It is believed that two men were printers in Malaya and he was glad

afforded."

that Penang was leading the way, Rev. Mortlock.

concerned in the robbery, with the Kwangtung loreen,

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST

KWANGSI.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

CHANGA, May. 20.

of capturing Waches, where the rebel headquarters are established,

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to

Co-operative

He had never seen the men

anxious to get into touch with them in connection with a claim which he intended to make against the Government, ***

The Magidrate told the applic sat that he could do nothing för him, and advised him to see, a solicitor.