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EMPIRE'S HEROINE.

GIRL FLYER'S MAGNIFICENT ACHIEVEMENT,

FATHER'S RELIEF AT NEWS OF SAFE ARRIVAL.

AUSTRALITWILD WITH EXCITEMENT.

(THROCGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

DEATH OF LORD

DAVIDSON.

EX-ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

PASSING OF A GREAT CHURCHMAN,

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Loynoy, May 25. The death is announced of the

SYDNEY, May 24. Miss Amy Johnson arrived at Portex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Darwin at 3.53 this afternoon.

Guest of Government.

PORT DARWIN, May 24.

Mise Amy Johnson made

1930.

COMMUNAL RIOTS GHASTLY SCENES ON

AT DACCA.

PILGRIM SHIP.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 26,

MUSSOLINI AGAIN!

OBJECT OF RECENT SPEECHES.

ARMOURED CARS PATROL STREETS.

BRITISH OFFICERS" -- ̈ GALLANT RESCUES.

HUGE PROCESSIÓN IN BOMBAY.

A BURNING INFERNO.

"WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.”

THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.]

ROME, May 25. Signor Mussolini, in another striking speech at Milan before 300,000. people, said that the object Lord Davidson died in his sleep of his recent speeches, which had at I p.m. He had been unconscious been perfectly attained, had been

Davidson.

"{THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

DACCA, May 25,

"

10.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

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BRITISH SUBJECTS

WARNED.

VILLAGE LOOTED BY BRIGANDS.

DANGER ZONES IN NORTH. WOMEN FORM PART OF

COUNTER OFFENSIVE BY KUOMINCHUN,`

(THROCGK REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEPING, May 24

The British authorities have de-

PAB18, May 24. The Petit Parisien's Jeddah cor- The communal riots, which broke respondent has cabled details of theclared Honan, south of the Yellow out as a result of a Moslem Tad gallant rescue of five terror-stricken River, Hupeh, and Kinngai danger zones in which it is unsafe for being hit while playing with pilgrims from the Asia, which was Hindu lads, has been succeeded by made by two British officers of the British subjects to reside, the The peers former owing to air raids, and the numerous outrages in consequence steamship Arabistan,

scourge."

BANDIT. HORDE.

ÅGED FEMALE SHOT FOR RESISTING OUTLAWS.

There has been a rumour in tho Colony during the past few days that Shekki, in the heart of the has Chungshan Model District, fallen into the hands of bandits. We have received advices from the

district that the above report is incorrect and that Foo Chung Vil-

spectacular, landing at 3.58 p.m. for the greater part of the day to prevent. Italians from being of which armoured care are patrol.scrambled up the cable and picked other Provinces owing to the bandit lage, about 10 from Shekki, was - (local time) and was escorted by His aged wife sat up all the pre hulled to sleep by the bleating of are being proclaimed by the beat of grims singly to a boat below.

three aeroplanes and one seaplane. The Government Resident welcomed vious night as his bedside. She and

her on behalf of the Commonwealth the physician, Sir Thomas Barlow, lambs which are really wolves. Government, after which she was who was the Archbishop's close driven to Government House, where! she will be the guest of the Gov-friend, were with him at the end. ernment.

The present Archbishop was a con- stant visitor.

he

WILS

chaplain and private

He declared that Italy's economic positica was no worse than other countries. Some people were ne- The Arrival,

tonished at his style but forgot that PORT DARWIN, May 24.

his Government is not a ministry A GREAT CHURCHMAN. Miss Johnson's first act on land. ing was to throw off her life belt, Never, perhaps, has any Church- but a regime evolved from sanguin- unhook her goggles, take out her man had a more brilliant ecclesias-ary efforts of the Black Shirts. comb and begin to tidy her ruffled tical career than the late Arch. He was their creator and he ought thair. In conformity with the bishop of Canterbury. Born 1848, to be the defender of their revolu- quarantine regulations she saw the doctor and got a clean bill of health. To journalists she said secretary to Archbishop. Tait before tion.

In connection with attacks on he was 30; six years later Dean of Windsor and domestic chaplain to them, he referred to the "spirit Queen Victoria; in 1891 Bishop of Rochester; in 1895 Bishop of Wine prevailing with certain of our neigh chester; and throughout this period | hours," and derided certain of preparation for the greatest office burlesque reports in foreign news of all, as Mr. Charles Herbert puts it in s recent book, "the friend papers," and counsellor of Archbishops and Bishops and the canstant, trusted! associate of Royalty."

"Tell England, my father and the Test of the world that am here safe and sound and so happy. The last hop was excellent. I enjoyed it all the way and found Port Darwin without a trace of trouble." Arrival Broadcast,

LONDON, May 23. News of Miss Amy Johnson's arrival was broadcast throughout Australia two minutes after her Japding at Port Darwin. She was greeted with enthusiastic delight by the whole country.

Misses Escort.

PORT DARWIN, May 24. The aeroplanes to escort Mias Johnson from Port Darwin cruised

Queen Victoria, indeed, placed in him a confidence which is nothing. short of extraordinary. He was, at the death of Archbishop Tait, only 34, but his grasp of Church matters, his obvious ability, and his singular tact so impressed the Queen that we find her writing to him, apropos of the episcopal vacancies, "I feel you

in a circle at sea 50 miles north have had such immense opportu of Port Darwin, but a gale carried nities of knowing all the clergy that Miss Johnson slightly off the I could not look to anyone more

She missed her escort till likely to help me than yourself.” she sighted the town, and there- fore made the last lap unguided.

course.

Church Development.

When a slight, sunburnt girl step- In the affairs of the Church of ped on Australian soil, dressed in England the memory of the late Arch- khaki shorts, puttees, and a grean bishop will always occupy a posi sun helmet, she was acknowledged tion of dignity. Dr. Davidson con- by cheers from an enormous crowd. verted it into a position of leader- With a graceful bow and a smile ship, and he did this, not so inuch she waited patiently while an army by imposing his own will upon the of photographera snapped her, Church as by teaching the Church though obviously very tired and to have a mind and will of its own. partially dent from the roar of the Recognizing that spiritual authority engines. The flight from Timor it vital to the healthy life of n was apparently uneventful, except for a 'deflection from the course due "to the wind.

Great Enthusiasm.

&

SİR. O. MOSLEY'S SUCCESSOR.

MAJOR C. B. ATTLEE.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 24..

Major C. R. Attlee (Labour, Limehouse), a member of the Simon Commission, succeeds Sir Oswald Mosley in the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster.

CHIEF SECRETARY OF F.M.S.

MR. C. W. H. COCHRANE APPOINTED.

the appointment of Mr. C. W. H.

Church, and that the organ of that authority in a Church that is epis copal.must be the episcopate, he (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] strove to build up among the whole. body of Bishops a common mind.

RUGBY, May 93. SYDNEY, May 24. The success of these endeavours,

The Colonial Office announces Australia has gone mad with en- and the generalship, of the leader. thusiasm over Amy. Women, who were shown by the well-nigh unani- more than the men throughout the

Cochrane, hopes and fears of the flight never mous support, given by the episco- the revision proposals. lost confidence in her success, are Side by side with this development Perak, as Chief Secretary to the now animated by a fierce pride in came the creation of the Church Government of the Federated their daring sister:

A letter from a woman publish./ Assembly, which owed much more-Malay States. ed in the Herald to-day urges the to his steady support than appear- curtailment of the 47 addresses and red on the surface. The Assembly, once in existence, brought the

pate to

lavish entertainments in which it knowledge of the manger of man was proposed to crowd the four the Archbishop was before the rank days, Lest gallant' Johnnie finds and file of the clergy and represen Sydney's welcome worse than the tative laity in an entirely new way. Java sea."

His chairmanship revealed, in ad- dition to the consummate skill of the Parliamentarian, a mind im movably just and endlessly patient,

British Resident

PREMIER FLIES TO SCOTLAND.

(BRITISH WIRELESS, SERVICE]

At

a drum.

AMRITSAR, May 925." Twenty were injured in a bomb explosion at a religious fair.

ling the city, and strict regulations up and lowered the fainting pil The survivors' of the disaster in which it is now feared that 200 perished, relate that the heat was 30 terrife that the skulls of many of the victims lying on the blazing decks burst like pistol shots and their brains seethed out ke boying

MADRAS, May 25," An order has been issued pro- bibiting for two months meetings and demonstrations here in connec tion with the civil disobedienes campaign.

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Fifty pilgrims tried to escape by the iron ladder, but were driven A similar order at Surat will back and committed suicide by operate for a month and prehibits cutting their throats. Two boats the carrying of sticks and weapons, wert swamped by the panic-stricken and gatherings exceeding four per-crowd jumping in and many were sons within the villages near the drowned. Dharasana salt worka

Mönster Procession in Bombay.

BOMBAY, May 23.

Many others refused to try to escape and remained praying with their faces turned towards Mecca.

A

to the rumour that Shekki was captured by the lawless elements.

attacked and thoroughly looted by Ne definite order, has been given the bandits, which lact gave rise to all Britons to evacuate these regions, but they are allowed to use

On the evening of the 21st inst, their own discretion as...in spite of the danger of the present position, the Foo Chung Village was visited it is still unsafe in many cases to by, a horde of robbers, many of travel. The above naturally does whem were women. The handful of. village guards, being greatly out- The fighting on the Peping-Han-numbered, were overpowered after not apply to Hankow, kow. Railway is reported to be az encounter lasting three hours. growing in intensity. The Northern-The robbers then thoroughly ran ers claim that 30,000 Nanking troops sacked the village and stole pro in South Honan are about to join perty to the value of over $100,000. the Allies (Feng Yu Halang and No fewer than 101 residents, includ-

ing many returned oversea mázz. General Offensiva.

chants, were taken captive. Several Yen Hại Shan)."

PEPING, May 25.- were injured and old woman Military circles announce that was shot for offering resistance. Yen Hsi Shan and Feng Yu Hsiang Several of the captives were after- ordered a general offensive on Maywards released by the robbers, un- 23 with a composite army of 200,000, conditionally.

The attack upon the villages Sun Tien Ying'e covering troops was the result of the withdrawal `of who moved at dawn on May 23. the garrison troops and the "bor- "In view of the fact that Nan-roying" of many rifles of the king's principal forces haye been merchant volunteer corps by Gov- heavily engaged for the past fort ernment troops, night, they are tired and have few

At six o'clock this evening a monster procession, estimated at SIAMESE PRINCE IN PARIS. not counting Wan Hsuan Tsai's and

200,000 people and organised by twenty-eight Indian commercial bodies, marched from the Indian' quarter. They were confronted at Victoria terminus, the junction of five of the busiest streets in Bombay, by 450 police. The latter were drawn up four deep across the roadway and were determined not to permit the demonstrators to enter the Fort Arca.

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The demonstrators were equally determined, however, and they squatted in the road chanting Swarajist songs. The excitement reached feverish heights, traffic was held up and the crowds of onlookers began to swell rapidly.

(THROUGH SKUTER'S AURNCY.]

PARIS, May 23. Prince Damrong, uncle of His Majesty the King of Siam, has arrived here."

MILITARY TOURNAMENT

AT OLYMPIA..

TO BE OPENED BY KING.

[BRITISH WIRELESS GERVICE]·

After squatting in the road for

RUGBY, May 24. four hours the-gigantic procession The Royal Military Tournament, was allowed to traverse the fort area, the leaders giving an under-in which the Navy, Army and Air taking that the procession would re- Force combine annually to give at main non-violent in the fort area! | Olympin a display which is one of which contains the principal come the pleasantest and most pictures: mercial and Government offices.

Later the procession halted at que events of the London season, the esplanade at Maidan where a resolation was passed condemning will be opened by the King and the " police excesses against the Queen next Thursday. Satyagrahis throughout the coun- try. The meeting also decided to carry on the night of non-violence until freedom is won.

Gandhi's Son Sentenced.

reserves.

Decisive results are ex- pected almost immediately."

Vernacular papers state that the troops have been ordered to cap- ture Chowchiakow, and Tangshan before May 25, and Hsuchowfu and Sinyangehow before May 30.

FRENCH GOLF CHAMPION- SHIP RESULTS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. ]

PABIS, May 95. The French professional golf championship at St. Germain re- sulted as follows:-Saubaber 293; Boomer 285; D'Allemagne 300.

SIXTEEN KILLED IN CYCLONES IN U.S.

[UNITED PRE48,]

This year, there will be 54 officers. and 1,600 other ranks, together with 300 horses and a number of guns, tanks and other vehicles used in the performance, and an his- 7. BOMBAY, May 23. --

Dallas, Tex, May 18.-Cyclones Gandhi's son, Manila Gandhi, torical pageant in uniform of the who was arrested at Dharasana on Seventeenth Century will be pro-and raius have wrecked 19 Texas. Wednesday, has been sentenced to vided by the Second Battalion communities and three are known to be dead, while the casualty list one year's rigorous imprisonment.

Royal Fusiliers. Gandhi's secretary, Pyaralal, re-

will probably be lengthened when ceived sirailar sentence and the Last year £27,000 was raised by communications are restored. World-Stirring Event.

Moslem, Imam Saheb of Bawagir, the tournament, which lasted Syossy, May 24.

RUGBY, May 23. who co-operated with Gandhi in fortnight, and in all annual displays Mr. J. Seullin, the Premier, on

Ramsay MacDonald, the the latter's civil resistance cam- behalf of "the Federal Govern- but also unexpectedly friendly and

go seven months simple imprison- vice charities. ment, sent a message congratulat- human. Many who, looking at Lam- ing Miss Amy Johnson and invit beth from afar, had seen merely Prime Minister, accompanied by pain in South Afrien, is to under- £230,000 has been raised for Ser- ing her to visit Canberra while an experienced chairman discovered Miss Ishbel MacDonald, to-day flew ment. the Federal Parliament is sitting.a Churchman of profoundly devout from London to Scotland as ordi- The ex-Attorney-General, Mr. temper and unfailing courage. Latham, Mr. Bavin and Mr. Hogan, the Premiers of New South

Universal Counsellor.

Mr.

nary passengers, in the Imperial U.S. AND NAVAL TREATY. Airways liner, City of Glasgow,

towns.

service be-

POSSIBLE.

In the larger relations of the sec which was inaugurating a new ex. SPECIAL SESSION OF SENATE Wales and Victoria respectively of Canterbury the development also returned ex-soldiers of the under Dr. Davidson's rule was even perimental week-end League," have congratulated Miss

more remarkable. No one compar- tween Croydon and the Scottish Johnson оп her world-stirring ed with him in exact knowledge of achievement.

the affairs of the Anglican Con- There were 10 other passengers. Her Father's Relief.

world. En route a halt was made at Man- manion throughout the Bishops from Canada, Australia, or chester, where the Premier inspect LONDON, May 24. "Thank God," was the fervant Japan were continually astonished ed the aerodromę. exclamation of Amy Johnson's at the precision of his acquaintance father when Reuter's NEWS of, with their problems, and noted with Army's safe arrival in Australia surprise that this knowledge was, DEATH OF DUTCH RUBBER was telephoned to him at Hull, and apparently; always ready to hand in ho expressce the popular relief at the Archbishop's own mind and not the success of the explait, which has merely the product of secretarial captured the imagination of the research. The value of this know- British public Flags flying in ledge was revealed by the Arch- honour of Empire Day seem a bishop's chairmanship of two Lam special salute for the Empire's beth Conferences.. Empire Day heroine."

It was the

EXPERT.

OVERSEAS RED CROSS.

(THROUGH ERUTER'S AGENCT.)

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the

Dallas and Ellis counties appear

to have been hardest hit by the

storms.

Elaine, Ark, May 18.-A tornado which swept through the planta tion town of Lambrook to-day kill ed 13 pegros and injured 20.

THE MORROW SPEECH SENSATION.

Dallas, Tex, May 17.-Cominent-

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Shekki was not molested, but the and residents were merchants greatly perturbed. Their anxiety is. now over, as the bandits have been dispersed by the troops.

Two gunboats, with a large body of troops, have arrived from Can. ton to assist in the rounding up of the bandits...

SURREY TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.

BETTY NUTHALL DEFEATED.

(THROUGH AKUTEE's agency.}

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LONDON, May 24. Played at Surbiton, the Surrey Tennis Championships finel won by the Indian champion, Miss Sandason, who defeated Miss Betty Nuthall, the bolder, by 3, 7-5, 6-4.

THE DAVIS CUP.-

U.S.A. ENTER INTER-ZONE.

FINAL.

LETTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, May 23.

In the Davis Cup Competition Allison (America) defeated Tapia 0-4, 3-6, 6-8,-6-2, 7-8, whilst Wilmer and Allison (America) beat Manuell and Lano 60, 6-1, 6-3.

Having previously won a match, America aow enters the Inter-zone final.

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WOMEN'S DOUBLES

FINAL.

REDTER'S 'AMERICAN, SERVICE.)

LONDON, May 23. RELIEF THAT PROHIBITION The "formation of Voluntary Aið WASHINGTON, May 24.

Detachments in all the Overseas LAW WILL NOT BE CHANGED. Complete agreement has been Dominions and Colonies, on reached on the Tariff Bill by lines of the British scheme, was

[UNITED PRESS] spokesmen of bath Houses. The advocated in a resolution passed at

FRENCH PLAYERS BEATEN. agreement followed a compromise the Imperial Red Cross Conference,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. on the provision for taking from which has just concluded in Lon-ing on the recent campaign speech in which Mr. Dwight Morrow · ad- the President power over flexible don. rates. The debate on the Bill win The resolution urges that there Vocated repeal of the national pro-

PARIS, May 24. hibition law and substitution of an be resumed in the Senate immedi- should be common standard con-

In the final of the Women's amendment based op "States' ately,

ditions of recruitment and service, President Hoover anbounces bis and the adoption of a single unit rights" in the matter of prohibi Doubles in the French Hardcourt and Misa Ryan beat Madame intention to call a special session form, only modified by climatic tion, Mr. Josephus Daniels well Championships, Mrs. Wills Moody known Democrat and Secretary of Mathieu and Milld. Barrier (France). immediately after the close of the exigencies.

the Navy in the Wilson, Adminis- regular session, which has already lasted thirteen months, if the

tration, declared to-day that this by 6-3, 6-1. utterance indicates that the Hoover-

Their Majesties", Congratulations, specially showed the enhanced posi- rubber cstate owners in Holland, Senate finds itself unable to THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY OF Administration is "wet."",

[THOUGH REDZER'S AGENCY.]

BATAVIA, May 24, The death has occurred of Mr. atter of these two conferences that Marinus, the official delegate of

pose of the Naval Treaty now. Their Majesties have cabled the tion of the Archbishop, just as it known as the rubber dictator:??

Mr. Johnson, Chairman of the revealed the marked growth in the From that Governor-General of Australia their Anglican episcopate.

House of Representatives Immi- congratulations on "Miss Johnson's conference proceeded a stirring call of the interaction of secular and gration Committee, has announced wonderful and courageous achieve to reunion among all Christian religious life, cautious in expresion, that he is proposing an amend

people. The sec of Canterbury, Colonel the Master of Sempilla consequence of all these move firm in action, tolerant in temper, ment to the Immigration Act, so as to give Japan a proportionate cabled his congratulations on be ments, gained a new importance as & friend of unity and of peace. half of the Aeronautical Society. an international force and n in which the late Archbishop won are

The universal esteem and affection quota of immigrants. Other famous flying experts who fluence of which previous genera all the more remarkable in that he express their admiration include tions never dreamed

never in the slightest degree, sought Sir Sefton Brancker, who told

Weight of Responsibilities.

popular favour, or for that matter Reuter that Amy's feat. was more--

the favour of anybody at all, whe

ment."

SUN YAT SEN.

PRESENTED TO CHINA BY FAMILY OF LATE DR

CANTLIE.

"The people should know this, and Mr. Hoover's 'noble' experi- ment' designation Bo, indicated,"

aid Mr. Daniels

GROUP DESCENT. IN ·

PARACHUTES,

CINEMA PHOTOGRAPHER'S

STUNT

Newspaper comment throughout the United States on the Morrow speech appears to follow party

[UNITED PRE96.] The manuscript of an autobio-lines, although all the newspapers graphy which Dr. Sun Yat Sen, praise Mr. Morrow for his frank

Roosevelt Field, L. I., May 18, the late Party Leader, wrote outness and willingness to speak out NEW PREMIER OF NEW for the late Sir James Cantlie, the in contrast to more timorons cand. What is believed to have been a world record for group parachute ZEALAND

distinguished British surgeon, who idates who straddle the issue. Riffent to accomplishLindlass other rents, camurred due

Dr Daninle who is here to at- descents was set here to-day-when bergh's Hc rcntioned that she ing the last twenty-five years to ther ecclesiastical or lay, high or 1 flew in fog all the way to Cologue place aporte Archbishop - The source of his strong an LREIZER'S AGRICAN SERVICE BUT when he was kidnapped by the end the present national Methodist 20 men leaped from an acroplane Chineso Legation at London coefaren amitted that 2,000 ft over the Roosevelt Field. on May 5, when the pilots. of air weight of responsibility than had peal was to be found in his unre liners objected to starting."

fallen upon any of his predecessors.mitting and tireless devotion to an

WELLINGTON, May 23, been presented to the National at the present time the anti-por-and safely descended with the aid A cinema photographer leaped The Lord Mayor of Hull has In all of them the Archbishop show. arduoue duty of great importance The Minister of Agriculture, the Government by Dr. Cantlie's fami.bibition forces are getting the best of their individual parachutes. Cened a fund to commemorate the ed himself the same, alive to the to the nation, pursued under con- Hon. Mr. G. W. Forbes, is succeedly. In a report to the State Coun of the struggle, as indicated by flight by a special gift to Amy inner meaning of all that was going 'ditions of health that would haveing Rt. Hon. 1, G. Ward ng Prime, eil, Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister of newspaper publicity and the re

on, conscious of the need for the conquered a less courageous man, Minister and leader of the United Foreign Affairs, states that the sults of various straw votes presentation of Christian truthful without fear, without haste; and Party He will reform the Cabinet manuscript is now in the custody The Hon. Mr. Forbes is a pros of Dr. Alfred Ste, Chinese Minister ness and justice, ceaselessly aware without advertisement, to an age

to. London. (Continued at foot of next column), i far beyond the usual span of work. perous sheep farmer.

and the Post Office, has arranged

that she may telephonically con verne from Bydney with her parents ja Yorkshire.

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He said, however, that ho does not expect to see any change in the prohibition" Jaw.

the trip down beneath hia... own' with the experimenters and made parachute, grinding out a motion picture record of the amisaal spectacie.