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LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Taxes The Proviniial Department of Finance is making an assessment of the farm lands as preparation

The death under tragic circum- to levy provisional land tax.

stances of Mr. W. L. Plew, occur- a: the Hungaored yesterday morning. board of assessment is formed in

nérodrome to witness the trials. each county and the tax is to be

Golfers on the Hungjao golf course collected according to the value of

also saw the crash, though at such The shooting incident on the the land. To

a distance that details could not river steamer "Fatshan" was re- Justify this new collection, the Provincial Depart they had departed on their honey downward dive

be understood. They saw the swift called at the trial of Sarwan of Finance announces that after.

to death, with Singh at the Criminal Sessions the land tax is declared the num formality of marriage. Fortunate tached while it was still high in

moon without undergoing the pleces of the plane becoming de- yesterday. erous farm taxes will be abolishly, however, the ship on which they the air. But they were too far were travelling was fitted with away to understand the full im- wireless. A message was prompt-port of what had happened.

despatched, and they were The plane, one of a batch newly officially married by the Captain assembled for delivery to the in ample time to avoid any awk-

Nanking Government. was in "a ward consequences of their care-

power dive when the disaster oc- less departure.

curred. As it swooped down, the tall surface was torn off and the pliot was unable to straighten out. Mr. Welsh saw the break and There will be a dinner dance at jumped, while Mr. Nahmmacher Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow and made an attempt to follow suit tea dance on Sunday. at 4.30 As he pulled himsel out of the cockpit, however, the wings of the machine became detached, and ne dropped with the plane to the

Frofessor Ku defended himself by saying that his acts were ap- proved by the Executive Yuan. Then, Mr. Wang Ching Wel dered the newspapers in Wanking and Shanghai not to publish the impeachment against his right hand man. Minister Ku Meng Yu. The Control Yuan got wind nt this and insisted that the news papers must give full publication to this impeachment and accept- ed responsibility for the news. Forty-six miscellaneous and ex- Then there is a report that thecessive taxes are to be abolished Central Political Council has de- trom August" L These taxes were cided to limit the powers of the assigned to syndicates for collec- Contral Yuan, whereupon Mr. Yution, and

these

concerns have Yu Jen, its president, sent in his paid cash deposits to the Finance resignation. The impeachment Department. They will be reim- was started by Mr. Liu Hou Wu.bursed with proceeds realized from a member of the Control Yuan, the sale of government sugar. and formerly a follower of Mr.

Heat Relief Measures Wang Ching Wel. it is said started the proceedings against Minister Ku as a grude for not receiving a good job at the Exe- cutive Yuan..

he

In view of the heat wave here. the Municipal Bureau of Social Atairs has provided fifty free tea stands in the city. Seventy free tea stands are provided in other General Chiang Kai Shek, suburbs by the charitable institu- Chairman of the Military Affairs tions. The free tea is for the Commission. will shortly adjust henefit of "coolles, rickshaw pull- this dispute, as his decision willers, and poor people. be binding on the Contro: Yuan Ordinary tea leaves make and the Executive Yuan. There is this beverage, but certain Chinese

medicine is added in order ne truth that an effort is made to get rid of Mr. Wang Ching Wel as

prevent the drinker from getting suri-stroke. head of the Executive Yuan order to make room for Mr. Hu Han Min.

FRENCH CABINET

Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press")

(By Telegraph, - Copyright, graphic Hessages Ordinance, Received, July 19. 7-30 p.m.)

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Paris, July 19.

M. Gaston Doumergue; former President of the French Republic will return from his present-vaca- tion. In parliamentary circles the. opinion prevails that M. Tardieu's attacks are part of an attempt to blaɛt the present French Cabiner and bring about new elections— Transocean Kuo Min...

WORLD RELIGIONS

Special to iha "Hong Kong Daily

"Press" (Copyright.}]

Rome, July 18. The statistics published by the Central Committee for the Holy year show that the Roman Catho- de Church has more adherents shan any other religion in the world.

According to these compilations the Roman Catholics aggregate 19- per cent, of the world's population. Confucians 16.4, Moslems 13, Bindus 12.1, Buddhists 10.8, Protestants 8.8. Schismatists 7.1. Animists 6.6, Atheists 4.1 and Jews

1:19.

In the United States alone there are 52 million Cathoiles as against 85.5 million non-Catholic Chris- dans. In Europe, there are 202 million Catholics, 234.5. поп- Catholic Christians, and 31.83 non- Christians,Transocean Kuo Min.

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· IMPEACHMENT OF KU MENG YU

Control Yuan's Viewpoint

measure has never been passed. Conservatives and Liberals and some moderate Labour men are asking, What is to be done if an extremist government, swept into A dozen important, foreign news-

Nanking, July 19, power by a wave of popular papers to which Germans lately The Control Yuan is sending its feeling" "brlass in revolutionary" have been turning for clean news. secretary, Mr. Yang Chien T. to legislation? If the present House of happenings in their own coun-Kuling to express to Marshal of Lords uses its veto, a Labour try are now banned, including the Chiang Kai Shek the Yuan's view- government, pointing to its purely "Daily Telegraph," ""e">Matin," point regarding the political com- hereditary and unrepresentative | “le Tempa." "le Journal," Vienna plications arising from the in2 character, would have a 'strong "Reichpost," Madrić "Heraldo” and | peachment of Mr. Ku Meng Yu,

for demanding its total Prague "Bohemia," Reuter.

the Rallway, Minister --Reuter-

case

up

to

· Föreign Trade' Statistics The City Chamber of Commerce has circulated blank forms to for-

eign firms here with the object of

securing data. on the volume of

foreign trade, capital, and the

number of factories in Canton. *These forms arc distributed through the Municipal Bureau of Public Safety.

LIGHTNING STRIKES AN INN

(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press”) raphic Messages

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Tate Ordinance. 1895 Beceived, July 19, 7.50 p.m.)

Budapest. July 19. During a violent thunderstorm at a village called Leutschan, lightning struck the village inn where the innkeeper was Just Alling a glass of beer. The glass was smashed to smithereens while the beer barrel from which the | beer was being taken from passed clean through the bar which was reduced to

mess of molten metal The innkeeper was. unia- jured.-Transocean Kuo Min.

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CONVICTS SET FIRE

"TO" PRISON

Venice, July 18. As a protest against the severity Di ane of the warders, the prisoners at Guidecca and sat fire to the prison last night "by Igniting the wooden cellings of the cells after soaking them with s from lampa

The prisoners were safely trans- ferred, but the building, which is

a new one and which was to have. been opened by the Minister of Justice to-day," is still burning furiously,

One wing has been destroyed.-Reuter.

REICHSMARK QUOTA- TIONS

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

* Press? (Conuright.)1

Berlin, July 18. Reichsmark quotations (without guarantee); ~ New York

38.44 Paris

682.5 Amsterdam Paris Sterling Dollar

56.71 70.34'... 15.1 ---ITRUSOcean, Kao Min.

...DEFINITIONS

HAPPY VALLEY

A popular resort for lunch and Lea parties into which horses are sometimes introduced to entertain the guests.

GOSSIP

A

collective substitute among Hong Kong Matrons for knitting.. babies, good works and solitaire.

LIDO

A public-spirited and progres sive project to erect a Hollywood paradise by the sea at Repulse Bay,

This work is at present being ably performed by

two coolies, an old woman with gout, a duck with a broken wing, and a mall idiot boy.

ground.

Eye-Witness Tells Story Of Smash Unable to escape by means of bis parachute," Mr. Nahnimscher was just too late to save his life,

Welsh, managed to get to earth while his passenger. Mr. Richard safely by using his parachute a second or two earlier.

Travelling at an estimated speed of 350 miles per hour, the, ser- plane hit the earth with a terrine crash In a paddy field to the esst of Monument Road. two hundred yards away from the aerodrome hangara

THIS IS SERIOUS! My peace of mind, and my in- Ordered by Government terest in my readers which is ever

One of 53 machines of the type to the fore, are seriously menacad ordered by the National Govern- by the arrival in the office of a new sub-editor. He is the most Vaight Corsair was the third to ment of China from America, the unpleasant man I have ever met. His name is Joseph Sliggett, and six arrived in Shanghai in the be tested by Mr. Nahmmacher, be delights in practical Jokes. arst consignment, and Mr. Nahm- He wears loud check ties, and in-macher was methodically testing terferes with everything. Where he came from, goodness knows, but I am seriously worried. I am afraid he is going to cause trouble. ("In fact," gentle reader, said he putting оп his velvet smoking jacket with an air of swinish com- placency. "I am sure he is going to cause trouble next week, cause that is the precise reason I have invented him.")

TAIL PIECE.

WHITE CARGOES (With apologies to Mr. John

Masefield)

be

Lissom Local Lovely with a face

like porridge; Dancing through the evening at

the Hong Kong Hotels,

the shipment, as agent of United Aircraft Exports, Inc., who sent the planes here,

Two cases of enteric fever and one of cerebro-spinal fever were reported for the 24 hours ended. on July 18.

will be in attendance on these р.п. The "Andetonians" Band

occasions.

Bucharest... July 18.-The wife of a farmer in the village of Jontesti gave birth to six children and the Infants are all doing well.---Tran- socean Kuo Min.

Shanghal's keenest flying men, and had been a pilot for several years. He and Mr. Lewis were the first two foreigners to obtain ä "ticket" from the Chinese authorities to fly in China.

"Prior to the accident he had taken up, as passengers, Mr. Ran- dall Guold and Mr. T. Reynolds. Mr. Nahmmacher at one time flew as an air mail pilot in the United States service between San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles.

Mr. Nahmmacher leaves a wife and child, both in Shanghal

I

Golfer See Tragedy There were a number of players on the Hungjao Gulf Course who were involuntary eye-witnesses of the crash. Golfers there have be- Yesterday evening Mr. Nahmma- come almost accustomed to the cher took the Corsair into the air.

sound of aeroplanes and pay little taking with him as passenger Mr.

attention, to them. Last evening.

mechanic at the Richard" Welsh, who has been his į however, "the drone of the engine Modern Motor of Mr. Nahmmacher's plane sud- Service for some time,

denly changed and caused several players to look up from their game.

According to one of them, when he turned he saw a plane hurtling downwards at terrified speed. ZE seemed that at about the height of seven or eight hundred famete from the ground, the plané broke up. From the distance, he could not tell whether the pieces he saw were men or parts of the plane. Subsequently, it transpired that they were both the tall-piece of the plane having become detached, the wings having folded up, and the mechanile having jumped in

The machine was satisfactorily put through its paces, until the power dive, one of the tests, was reached. Starting at 10,000 feet. the machine rushed downwards with its engine full on

The plot pulled at his controls to get the machine out of the dive, when suddenly the tall sur- face came off,

Passenger Caterpillars Mr. Welsh saw what had hap- With a head full of emptiness,pened, and immediately baled

bunk and hooey,...

out" at an altitude estimated at Blatherskite, Poppycock and not between 1.200 and 1,500 feet.

much else,

fi

and

Mr. Nahmmacher, from the dif- his parachute, a ferent motion of the aeroplane, While those on the golf course

Portly Public Servant with

great big bank roll, Pulling in the shekels,

cutting down the trees, With a brain full of pensions

passages, promotion, Comfortable retirement, and

O.B.E.S.

Buxom British Banker, playing

with the Dollar,

also realized what had happened, Į stood horror-stricken for the few and started to do a "caterpillar" | moments it took for the tragedy to himself. He grasped the händle be accomplished, they saw a para- in the centre of the wing above chute straighten out. It appeared him in order to pull himself out to the watchers to be very near of the seat... when suddenly the to the ground, but actually there wings folded up, and came adrift was time enough for the parachute:

The body of the aeroplane to take the speed out of the rocketed to the ground, carrying || 'mechanic's fall and to land him Jaking with the brokers in | Mr. `Nahmmacher with it, while fairly easily.

Bunny Icehouse Street

Mr. Welsh's parachute jurt opened With a mind full of passbooks in time to enable him to land

overdrafts, interims;

safely, although with a few minor

In a few seconds several people Contras, forwards, and corner- cuts and abrasions.

with cars had started out in the ing wheat.

Crashing in a paddy held to the direction of the crash to see if east of Monument Road, what was they could give any assistance.. left of the aeroplane occupied a The force of the dive in which space not more than a few feel the plane had been in gave very Special to the Hong Kong Dal square, with Mr. Nahimmacher's little hope that anything could be

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body, terribly mingled, lå the done, and they motored to the middle of it. The fuselage was scene with only the alightest be completely telescoped.":

Bucharest, July 15, The wife of a farmer in the village of Jontesti gave birth to six children on Wednesday... The mother and the infants are all do- fhg. well. Transocean. Kuo Min.”

Keen Aviator

A native of Brooklyn, New York, My. Natommacher" was one of

Bush For Assistance

Hef that they could help. Others had got there before them, how- ever, and when they arrive, M. Náhumacher's body was being ex- tricated from the debris.