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GERMANY'S AIR PLANS.

TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICES

WHAT THE ZEPPELIN FLIGHT" MEANS.

(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.)

FRIEDRICHSTAFEN, May 18.

Sea and Air Shipping. Indeed, the Zeppelin concern's latest undertaking in flying to The Graf Zeppelin, with a few South America is a logical con passengers and a rrew of forty-two

tinuation of the triumphs of Ger- 'on board, has started from here on" a flight to Seville. She will leave mar technology in Atlantic ship Seville on Tuesday for Pernamping. If the present fight is suc

THE HONG KONG DAILY

MOB RAIDS SALT

PANS.

FLYER.

PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1930,

INTREPID GIRL JAPAN AND NAVAL

TREATY

·THE CAMPAIGN IN KWANGSI

POLICE POWERLESS.

LEAVES FOR SOURABAYA. BITTER FEELING REVIVED.

WHOLESALE ARRESTS.

CONFERENCE DELEGATE'S

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ARRIVAL,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

BOMBAY, May 18. Five, hundred policé and auxili- arice were unable to repalse a raid made by four hundred volunteers,

NO HOPE OF BEATING RECORD,

(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY,]

SINGAPORE, May 18. Escorted by two Moth planes,

(THROUGĘ REUTER'S AGENCY.] *

Tokyo, May 19. Admiral Takarabe, Naval adviser

MILITARY CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED.

AUTHORITIES TO DECIDE

WHAT TO DO NEXT...

The Canton Gazette learns from the Garrison Headquarters of that

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MADAME FENG'S AUSTERE LIFE.

CONFIDENT OF HUSBAND'S SUCCESS.

STILL SYMPATHETIC WITH CHRISTIANITY,

(UNITED PRESS.]

huco, Rio de Janeiro and Lake, cessful, as experts firmly believe it assisted by thousands of khaddar and was cheered by an enthusiastic London Naval Conference, is appar./reached the second stage of its the Northern coalition, is living

hurst, and will then begin her trans-Atlantic flight. The homeward flight is expected to be completed by June-S.

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elad spectators, on the salt pans at Wadala. These numbered twenty thousand, covering an area of six square miles.

Miss Amy Johnson landed perfectly to the Japanese delegation at the the R.A.F. ently destined to become the centre crowd. She went to

Renter's of the revived storm over the Lon Mesa. Interviewed by over

correspondent she said that it was don Treaty. quite impossible to beat the record owing to head winds, rain storms and poor visibility before reaching Singora. The new propeller was not so satisfactory as the first

With access easy from all sides, the raid was splendidly planned and

She believes firmly in his ultimate success.

This is one of the few times that

will be it is likely to be the pre- cursor of organized German.com- mercial aviation between the Euro-: pean continent and Latin America. The fulfilment of such German The flight is a survey vojage in

projects, which have already ass21D- preparation for a fortnightly sered tangible form, will undoubtedly vice from Friedrichshafen to Per-require the aid of foreign, prefer arrested, but a large quantity of therefore she was unable to fly at Treaty, two hundred extra police the capture of Pakliu and Watlum sad arduous career, in "which sud-.. expected to take three days and the ably Spanish and South American salt was removed. Much of this full speed.

nambuen. The outward journey „is

return journey four days.

South American Service, [UNITED PRES9.]

capital, but the Zeppelin officials are convinced that this finansial support will be forthcoming as soon 115 the feasibility of European South American rapid air trans- BERLIN, MAY 19. When the ground crew at Fried-party with strong assurance richshafen released the Graf Zep- safety, has been established.

pelin from its home ties to-day and

of

With his departure from Fried-

lasted for four hours.

Four hundred salt raiders were

was scattered over the heads of the police.."

Good humour characterised the whole proceedings and there was no violence.

Further Arrests.

Bony, May 19 Seventy more arrests were made

the dirigible seared southward, therichshafen to-day, Dr. Eskener and at Wadala. The police used ther first flight of an airship from his far-famed "Graf Zeppelin" will lathia in rounding up the salt Europe to South America started. probably add a new wreath to the raiders. The Zeppelin, under Dr. Hugo mountain of laurels, gathered by Eckener's familiar command, is ex-Gorman scientific and engineering pected to land in Seville in appro skill. ximately twenty hours..."

The pooling of Germany's two After a short pause the airship's great steamship lines, the North Lloyd and Hamburg- nose will be turned to the west for German a non-stop cruise across the Atlan-America, last March. foreshadowed tie, expected to last about 75 hours, the rationalization and increased to Rio Janeiro. Topographical and activity of German shipping to and meteorological conditions will def from South America. termine whether there shall be an intermediate landing at Janeiro,

Rio

Dr. Eckener told the United Press that he will decide about the landing while the Graf is hovering above the Brazilian capital. He explained that the mountains there may render landing and restarting difficult, perhaps dangerous, and adverse winds might also foree him to shen the ground.

In any case, the Zeppelin will head from Rio Janeiro to Pernam buco-another twenty-hour stretch--- and alight in the latter town to refuel with the blaugas which steamers have in the meantime ear. ried from Germany to the coast of Brazil. From Pernambuco, the Zeppelin's route will proceed to Lakehurst, a three day flight, by way of Jamaica, Haiti, and per- haps Cuba. After a two day visit to the U.S. Navy hangar. in Lake-

Germany in 1928, moreover, was the first European country to open a regular wireless telephone service. to South America. The flight of the Zeppelin' will tighten the honds between Dr. Eckener's fatherland and the Latin American republics still further, and yield another proof that Germany has emerged from military defeat with a strong determination to make new con- quests in the fields of peaceful pioneering.

COAL MINES BILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS AMENDMENTS.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S, ADENOT.]

LONDON, May 18. The newspapers suggest that if hurst, where Dr. Eikener and his the House of Lords amendments to aircraft have become familiar quests, the airship will fly eastward the Coul Mines Bill are resisted

All except 279 arrested yesterday were released. The remainder w

A new wing is being fitted and she expects to leave for Sourabaya on Monday.

She will not attempt the return flight..

Leaves for Sourabaya,

SINGAPORE, May 19, Amy Johnson has left for Soura baya.

MUSSOLIN'IS BOMBAST,

Madame Feng Yu Hsiang, wile of city that the Kwangs campaign has the Generalissimo of the Armies of

operations. It may be mentioned quietly ia Peping awaiting the day that the first stage was to clear all when her husband will return to the that section of the country, south ancient capital as conqueror of all of the Upper West River, extending China. When he arrived at Tokyo he was

from Wuchow down to the border greeted by Mr. Hamaguchi pod

north of the Lingshan district, of other members of the Cabinet.'

Owing to fears of hostile demon- the presence of enemy troops. This strations hy opponents of the was accomplished some time ago by The second stage was to capture guarded the station but Admiral Takarabe's arrival passed off with Kweiping, the junction of the Up- per West River and the Kweiho out incident,

river, and also Kweibsien, which is National interest is focussed on Admiral Takarahe's course because the junction of the motor road run ning to Nanning on the west and he is the first delegate to return

Madame Feng has been separated from her husband, during his long

des flights and, hair-breadth escapes have not been lacking. She has lived with bim in remote provinces, where he has been a refugee both from Northern and Southern Gov-

ernments..

from London and moreover occupies going northward to Liuchow. As During her stay in Peping,

a stragetic position between the civilian authorities who concluded the Treaty and the Naval General Staff which is still bitterly opposing ratification.

already reported, this stage was reached as well. The fall of these cities from a military viewpoint means the cutting off of communien tipus between Nanning and Liuchow and the northeastern part of Kwangsi

It is learned that after the fall

be charged with unlawful assembly RECENT SPEECH CRITICISED. BIG INDIAN COTTON BLAZE of the Kweihsien city, the major and violating the Salt Act..

Salt Raiders Hunger-Striking.

BOMBAY, May 19. Two hundred and eighty salt raiders who were arrested are hunger striking · at an

interment camp at Worli, and 223 are hunger. striking at Dharasana.

Etin Sentences by Military Court.

SHOLAPUR, May 19. Twenty-six more

sentences of rigorous imprisonment, accompanied' by fines, were pasand by the Mili tary Court in connection with the Sholapur riots, The most severe sentence was seven years' imprison- ment and fine of 10.000 rupecs on

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, May 18. Mussolini's latest speech at

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[THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]

BOMBAY, May 18: Damage estimated at two

hun- Florence is severely criticised by dred thousand rupees was caused French newspapers, the Journal today by fire at a cotton godown de Debuta, for instance, referring to it as "the most bellicose haran- gue in peace time in the course of the preseny century."

In his speech, Mussolini said thas nothing was more insulting to the pride of the Italians than the insinuation that the naval programm me would not be carried out. Ec

Rajonde, editor of a local vertaçu-emphasised that it would be carri ed out and twenty-nine ships launched.

Jar daily.

The sentences were confirmed by the Commanding Officer, who, how ever, commuted, the sentence on Jaja to five years' rigorous impri- sonment. The sentence on Jadhav of seven years rigorous imprison- ment and the original fines wai confirmed.

Six boys, aged fiteen, were awarded floggings.

Improved Situation at Sholapur. SHOLAPUR, May 19. The sustained improvement in the situation bas caused a great increase in commercial activity in the main bazaar areas, The mills are resuming normal hours and banks and post offers are reopen

for abous fifty hours to Seville, when the Bill returns to the Heuseng. The Military Court has been

land there for a few hours to un-

of the Commons, differences will

load mail and give the crew abe settled by compromise. chance to regain its land-legs, and then sail home to Friedrichshafen.

The most important amendments made by the House of Lords deal with miners' working hours and with compulsory amalgamations of collieries

dissolved and the Civil Court was opened on May 17, though witnesses are mostly too nervous to attend.

SIMON REPORT,

An Important Experiment...

LONDON, May 18. The first part of the report of the The journey is far more than a

The first provides for the spread Simon Commission on Indian con- sporting event or an outlet for German publicity-craving. It is over of the working time of miners, stitutional reform, which will be the most important effort yet made permitting agreements for a forty published on June 10, is completed to pave the air" for a regular five hour week or a ninety-hour and a large edition is being print. mail and passenger service between fortnight, instead of a fixed worked. It will be available simultane-

Europe and South America, Zeppelin concern recently conclud-

The ing day of seven and half hours.

The second provides for sub- ed an agreement with the Lufthan-mitting to the Board of Trade, for sn, Germany's commercial aviation the advice of Commissioners, as the company, which provides effective authority to be responsible for co-operation between airship and floating aeroplane in the speedy transmis schemes. sion of mail and light freight be tween Europe and South America.

It is assumed that within a year

colliery

amalgamation

NEW ZEALAND'S PRIME MINISTER.

RESIGNATION REGRETTED,

ously here and in India. A large supply will be sent to India within the next few days.

The second part of the report states that the Commission's recom- mendations are reported to be un- animous. It is also stated to he ready for printing. It will be pub- lished on June 24.

The Secretary for India will be asked in Parliament, to-morrow to arrange for publication of the re- ports at a price that will not bar wide circulation.

METHODIST BISHOPS IN U.S. POLITICS.

FUNDS TO DEFEAT AL, SMITH.

PERSIAN RAILWAY

ABANDONED.

CONTRACT ANNULLED.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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at Sewri,

SINO-JAPANESE TRADÈ RELATIONS.

ERA OF PROSPERITY PREDICTED.

(UNITED PRESS.}

Madame Feng is following her usual custom of living quietly, austerely,

so unostentatiously that most resi dents have not been aware of her presence. She still wears cotton garments in a country where silk is common, and does not employ more than two servants in a land where anybody of consequence has half à dozen...

Education is one of Madamɔ Feng's chief interests, since the days when she **** Y.W.C.A. secretary. Her only public appear, ances here have been at school

functions.

part of the Kwangs troops retreat- ed in a northern direction, that is to Liuchow. That they have not retired towards Nanning was prob- ably due to the fact that in case of further defeat by the National troops, they would work their way towards Hupeh, and eventually join up with the Northern insurgents.

At the present time the Canton Attending the athletic meet of military authorities are studying the Bridgman Academy, Madame Feng question whether they will either was asked to make an address and cut off the enemy's communications present prizes. She commented hetween Liuchow and Eweilin or humorously on the fact that girls follow them up towards Liuchow. of to-day could take part in athletic. Nothing definite, however, will be contests even in China; whereas, in decided until a military conference | her girlhood they were barred from is called-Canton News Agency. such pleasures.

HOW SUNCHOW WAS CAPTURED.

CANTONESE GENERALS

RETURN.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ].

CANTON, May 10. Generale Chen Trai Tong and Chu Shao Liang, Commanders of the 8th and the 6th Military Routes at present fighting in Kwangai, re- turned to Cantor from Wuchow last

night.

"Little Wild Donkey."!

She told how she was enger to play tennis when she was a little girl, but that one day when a con- servative woman teacher discovered her engaging in this undignited fashion, she dubbed Madame Feng "Little Wild Donkey," and this undesirable nickname stayed with her for some time. The girls of China to-day, said Madame Feng. are luckier, and can play without

comment.

Lud

Judge Paul Lineberger, legal ad- viser to the National Government at Naaking, recently predicted an era of intense and prosperous trade activity between China and Japan "as the result of the recent signing of the Sino-Japanese tariff treaties.

"A new and great period of business relations will commence as soon as foreigners begin their

Although the Fengs, husband and hands off policy in China," said

wife, no longer are associated with Judge Lineberger, who stopped in

once supported, they have retained the Christian church which they Tokyo for several days en route to

missionary Nanking. The trade will take en

friends; many an international turn which, by the

Madame Feng has visited number exchange of complimental products

of American and British mission- In an interview with local press-aries since her return to Peping... TEHRAN, May 16.

and credita, will bring prosperity men this morning, General Chen The missionaries report that the According to the newspapers, the to both Japan and America.

In fact the only thing which Tsai Tong said that he returned to Fengs still are sympathetic with Government has annulled the con.

can relieve the depressed conditions. Canton to make preparations for tract with the Anglo-American and

in America to-day is the revival of sending an expedition to the North Christianity, although they may not

openly espouse that faith.

No Bodyguard for Marshall Fang. Franco-German Railway Syndicate the trade markets of the Far East, to fight against the Yen-Fong coa.i- owing to the Syndicate's failure in a more orderly way, however, tion in Recordance with the orders,

Marshal Feng continues to wear to adhere to the terms.

He said that the two divisions the uniform of a common soldier in The idea was to construct a line than during the hectic period fol of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek.

under General Chiang Kwang Nai his army, according to foreigners from the Persian Gulf to the Caglowing, the world war." pian Seo.

and via Hamadan

Japan's Good Standing in China.

and General Troi Tiog Kai are who have visited him in Honan re- Teheran. The cost of the scheme Judge Lineberger pointed out that being withdrawn from: Kwangsi tocently. He travels about in a motor was about twenty millions ster- the Chinese will not trade with the North River where the Iron- truck with one driver and without" ling.

their enemies and as a result Chinn rides " are azsin concentrating. a bodyguard. His officers are, al- has been only half-hearted in trad-These troops will first clean up the ways on the watch, as he enjoys ing with the world. He added the "Ironside " remnants and then descending upon them unexpected- prediction that China will astound march North to help Nanking. Jy. the world when the nations follow The Ironsides" quietly slipped A story recently printed in the out their tentative programme of out of Kwangsi some ten days ago. Chinese Press in Peping says that giving her full control of her own when the pro-Nanking forces were Marshal Feng arrived in a Honan Government.

making intensive preparations for walled town one night after dark, their offensive on the upper part of and called to the gate-keeper to the West River. It was the strata | open.

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MISSION STATIONS AS ARMY BILLETS.

YEN MAKES HIS TROOPS COMFORTABLE.

[UNITED PHERS.]

PEPINO. American and British mission-

aries are coming into Peping from all the Northern provinces as civil war extends to the towns in which they are stationed and armies con- fiscate their property, ***

The number of missionary re- fagees here at present is larger than at any time since 1997, when the allied Communist and Nation alist armies reached Hankow, and missionary leaders feared that the. Northern provinces would rise up against mission work as those in the South had done..

on two, at least two dirigibles will be plying between Seville And Pernambuco regularly; in thir evont, the Lufthansa's fast aero- plapa service would carry post, from Germany to Seville, load it on the

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Zeppelin which, arriving on the coast of Brazil; would disgorge-the-j

LONDON, May 18.5 mail on to the airplanes of the In & telegram to Bir Joseph Lufthansa's Brazillian subsiding Ward, whose resignation as Prime the Condor syndicate, which would Minister of New Zealand was an distribute it among various South nounced on Friday, Mr. Ramsay American centres. Thus a lester MacDonald expressed his sympathy which nowadays requires at least and regrets, adding that "by this

(UNITED PRESS.] eighteen-days from Berlin to Rio announcement we shall be deprived Janeiro or Buenos Aires, would be of the benefit of your presence at James Cannon Jr., who is attend. Hsiang and Marshal Yen Hai Shan

Washington, May 12-Bishop delivered in one third of that time. the Imperial Conference. We

nitals for barracks and mission German Enterprise,

earnestly hope this relief from the ing the Methodist conference at have taken over schools and hos- burdens of office may soon lead to Dallas to-day telegraphed to Whomes for their own quarters: This shoulder full responsibility for the there is little which can be done distribution of funds used against about it.

The chief difficulty at present 'is the seizure of mission-property-for armics. missionary leaders declare. Subordinates of Marshal Feng Yu

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he was inside,

Japan, he added, has an especially good standing in China because she has sent no 'missionaries to inter- of the Kwangsi-" Ironside " Who are you?" asked the gate- fere with the course of Chinese coalition to lure the pro-Nanking keeper, Marshal Feng replied, "I policies and politics and also partly troops far into the interior of am the bearer of important mes- because there is a natural racial mountainous Kwangsi, while the sages." The gate-keeper then open-

Ironsiden "* were dashing te cd the gate. He also pointed out that during Northern Kwangtung to join up affiliation between the two peoples. the revolutionary period Dr. Sun with the small bands of anti-Nan Marshal Feng said, "I am Feng Yat Sen frequently made Japan a king men for a concerted attack on What have you done, to let me in place of refuge, adding that the Canton, This according to into easily'! Do you not realize any great Chinese leader once said to formation received from indepen- robber chief could have got in by him, "What would we do without dent and reliable sources, explains using the same words !?? Japan as a refuge now? Let us why the pro-Nanking troops.. cap ever be grateful to our friends, the tured" Sunchow and Kweihsien so Japanese."

easily.

As the theatre of conflict in being buy a coffin for his cat, and have widow Chang and demanded the transferred to the North River, the the pet buried according to Bud Canton-Samshui Railway has been dhist rites at her own expense. To taken over by the military, and the this the widow agreed, niter some service is consequently interrupted.

discnasion in which neighbours freely joined.

COMMUNIST · SCARE IN. NEW YORK..

DOCUMENTS NOW SAID TO

"BE" FORGERIES.

[UNITED PRESS.]

A NEW ANGLE ON AN

OLD TRIANGLE.

But Mr. Wang was not yet satis fied. He demanded further that the Widow Chang's eldest son..aged twenty, should march in a funeral

Washington, May 12-Comment TWO NEIGHBOURS, A DOG AND Procession as the Wang cat's chief

Indirectly, of course, the Zeppe an improvement in your bealth "shington that he was willing to action is contrary to treaties, but ing upon recent testimony by Mr..

SHAMROCK V.S. TRIALS.

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Grover Whalen, New York commis- sioner of police, to the effect that he was not able to tell exactly where his purported Soviet com- munist documents" had come from,. Representative Fiorgile H. La Guardia declared to-day that they

lin's flight is intended as a har binger of German trade in South America, to impress the Latin American Republics with the su- periority of German enterprise and initiative, and remind doubting observers that efficiency is not a ingnanoly of the North Ame

Americans, Altug Germans are calle finders quest

and eager to collaborate with the United States in aviaiton, as well

EXCELLENT RESULTS.

A CAT.

[UNITED VRISS.]

maurner. The son did not care for' this role, but after farther conver- sation with the still heated Mr. Wang, agreed to accept it.

the Presidential candidacy of ex-Mission property, it is pointed Governor Alfred E. Smith.

out, usually is the best in interior

At this point a neighbour named He said that he had made,, no

towns. While mission houses are

This ancient capital, Peping, har Wu, who had no particular interest farmal report of his activities in

much the same sa all Americans

provided new angle on the old in the affair except a love of fair this connection because he was not

are accustomed to."they are luxuri

triangle of a dog, a cat, and a pair play, intruded the remark that legally required to do so."

ous for Chinese. This accounts for

of quarrelling neighbours.

Wang had gone too far, and the son Autostigmas, pool Wang had at the foolish he esteed to cust Washington after the Methodist them as billets.

He exhibited sheets of paper cat he prized

A widow ignominy. LONDON, May 18, conference.

Canadians have concentrated"

Mr. Wang's wrath was revived, identical with those on which, the named Chang owned a doz who Sir Thomas Lipton'e yacht, a in other fields of industry, Ger-

At the present time he is occupi- large part of their mission work in Whalen exhibits were written, and relished cats. Madam Chang's and he and his neighbour Wu Imany is not reconciled to play "Shamrock V." which has been seed with the task of answering China, in Honan province. They said that newspapermen had obtain dog encountered Mr. Wang's cat, engaged in fisticuffs, to their mutual

damage. Police arrived at this. ing the second aerial fiddle to any cretly built to challenge the holder charges which have been placed were driven out in 1927, but sooned them in the course of individual and the casualties were one cat.

Mr. Wang was highly indignant. point, and took off neighbour Wu. country, and is bent upon pioneer of the American Cup, created exagainst him and other bishops in went back. Now many of them investigation. The Boviet, paper ing in the Atlantic's air, as the cellent results yesterday when it connection with their political have been compelled to come to was supposed to have been mana. After he had passed through an Mr. Wang, the widow Chang" and fast, palatial Europa and Bremen was raced over a course of some work, which is said to have been Pening for a time, until things factured in Russie and to be uni- incoherent stage, he visited the the Chang son. The dog stayed at have done on the high scan.

beyond their jurisdiction as bishops. quiet down again,

*(Continued at foot of next column), I home,

miles at Harwich.

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