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SINKING OF MOTOR BOAT.

NEARLY THIRTY LIVES LOST:

WEST RIVER INCIDENT,

Writing from Nanning, the Tele- graph correspondent says:.

Roports have reached here of the sinking of the motor bonf Kwong Hon, plying between Lan Chow and" Cheung Op. The bout was sunk at Tal Po IIai, and twenty-eight were drowned.

Chingehim, the 5th lender: Lam Chu-Jium, who is the Party representative of the 6th Army; Chun Kung-pok, head ef Paris, July 23. the Propagandist Department; and Other Cabinet appointments, in Tang Yin-tak, Chairman, of the Political Department; have all addition to those already reported, gone North from Canton in the are M. Qucullies as Minister of past two days. Some of Chan Agriculture and M. Fallieres as Kung-pok's workers have Konu Minister of Labour.

ahead and have already made pre- parations for spreading propa- M. Poincare, in a statement to ganda in the territory under con- the Press, said he had not encoun-trol of the Nationalist Army, Mr. tored any difficulties in forming a Chan' will personally superviza very broad-based Ministry of Na- this work, which will be carried tional Union, representative of all gut on a gigantic scale. The whole parties, but not attempting to ul of Hunan will be divided into dis- loente the portfolios ou a percon-tricts, with leaders assigned to Lage basis. I ho gave attention cach, so that the work may be the to all suggestions, he would have

Kuomintang often means disaster. effective. spent endless time in seeking an branch oflces will be opened in ideal solution, and at present there cach district and these will serve was no time, to be lost.

as district headquarters for the work of disseminating propagunda of the Government and Kaomin tang Party

M. Poincare WAB cheered by crowds on leaving the Elysee Reuter.

SOCIALISTS EXCLUDED.

Paris, July 23, M. Poincare's Cabinet includes six, ex:Premiers, namely, M. Briand, M. Barthou, M. Herriot, M. Painlevé, M. Leygues and M. Poincare. Others have been Ministers at least once, with the exception of M. Fallieres, a sen of a former President of the Re- public.

The Ministry represents every party except the Socialists, who here to a capital levy and are unable to collaborate owing to the decisions of their Congress.

more

Volunteers are being sought at the Kwangtung University for propaganda work at the front, and already some 120 students have eu Hsted their services, and many more, it is believed, will soon signify their intention of taking up this work.

BANDITS KILLED.

More details bave reached Can- ton of the recent fight between bandits and Government troops at Kwonghol, in the Toishan District. On the 6th Inst., Chan Cheung-po,| a divisional commander, co-operat- | ing with Commander "Chu King- The composition of the Cabinet tong, succeeded in driving the ensures it a substantial majority bandits to Po Cho, where they put in the Chamber and a practically up a stiff resistance. There they unanimous vote in the Senate.made their last stand. The fol

Reuter.

London, hy 28. The French frane has improved to 2051 and the Belging to 201,

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COAL OUTLOOK.

MORE MEN RETURNING.

Rugby, July 23. Reports from the Midlands coal- Beld to-day show a further addi- tion to the number of men, who have returnert to the pits.

Representatives of the owners in Warwickshire state that 650 more miners reported to-day, and that 7,700 out of normal 20,000 are now working..

In the Cannock area, another hundred men began work..

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Navigation on the upper reaches, of the river is always dangerous and when the floods are on the water rushes through the gorges with fearful rupidity. The slight- est deviation from the course.

respect for the skill of the up-river A traveller learns to have great pilot, and remembering the experi feeling the hair stand on end while ence of catching one's. breath and

gruzing a rock, one wondere, that the boat goes rocking along after there are not more disasters.

A big "Woh Ping. Wooi," or "Peace Meeting," was held at Lau Chow on July 1. General Ng is re- ported as saying that the reason why there were so many soldiers in that part of the province was for the peace and protection of the in- habitants. With so many soldiers stationed there, they need not fear. an Invasion, he said.

ROUGH VOYAGES.

TYPHOON WEATHER AT SEA,

More accounts of bad weather experienced by vessels on the way lowing morning, some soldiers to Hongkong are contained in 're- heard a child crying in the shrub-ports made at the Harbour Office by bery. The mother had been kid-vessels arriving yesterday. The napped by the robbers, and, com- master of the British steamer municating with the soldiers, she Borneo, froni Haiphong, states informed them that the robber that a moderate gale was experi- chief, Yow Ming-kai, was close by enced with a rough sen and con- The soldiers then fired a volley at tinuous rain. the spot where the woman indlènt- The Kwangchow, from Hoihow, ed that the robber chief was hid- reports there was a strong wester- ing, and Yow and foar members ty to south-easterly wind, with of his "family, together with six heavy seas. Henry squalls were comrades were killed, whilst six met with; also continuous rain. other robbers surrendered. the person

On Two Chinese male deck passengers $98,000 in Hongkong bank notes to Hoihow.

of Yow Ming-ka died on the way from Singapore was found,

PRISONER EXECUTED.

From Anty, the. Sui Yang on- countered a rough S.E. gale, with a heavy swell; while other vessels used of plotting the death of Liacther, and heavy swells. ^

The court which tried those ac- report variable and unsettled wea- Chung-kai recently

sentenced

while being held in gaol, awaiting Leung Pok to death for the crime.

the carrying out of the sentence,,

it is expected that in both, dis-Loung tried to commit suicide by tricts there will be, on Monday, cutting himself marked increase in the number observed in the act by his guards, open. He was returning.

This drifting of men back tomoned. The wound was not fatal, and a physician was at once sum- werk, is as has already been stated, "As it was feared that Leung might practically confined to the Mid-make further attempts to take his lands, and it is noteworthy that own life, he was next day exccuted it is here that the owners have at the East Parade Ground: offered the best terms, based on an eight-hour day.

It is expected that special efforts will be made by the miners' leaders to stop the resumption of work in these areas. It has been found in previous strikes that such a deift tends to increase "rapidly.

-British Wireless.

FUTURE OF FLYING..

JUNK WRECKED.

CREW'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE,

RELIGION IN MEXICO.

THE TRIALS OF ROMAN CATHOLICS.

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New York, July 23.

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COUNTESSES WIN LIBEL SUIT.

REFERENCES TO DISPUTED

"EARLDOM,

Instructions as to the truth of what he had written.

Parts of the Jetter alleged to contain the libel, which was 'sent to a Scottish editor, were then rend:

Have you heard the report that The Dowager Countess of Sea- the present countess is said not to field was awarded £1,000, and the be her daughter? [the Dowager

A Mexico City despatch states present countess- 20-year-old Countess. that President Calles has issued a peeress in her own right-was. Froclamation prohibiting religious awarded £500 in a libel suit: Lord Strathspey called upon a all brought by them in the High Court prominent society lady friend of

recently,

mine, and she came to call upon

instruction and worship in

chonts cteris to school.

and forbidding

direct

any

The story of five people cling-

a private The defendant in the action, me and gave me the particulara. ing for twenty-four hours to the

which contained references to a We can easily account for her . Telegrams wreckage of a fishing jonk-which Arizona, roport that the Arch- George Wilberforce Grant,,

from Nogales, claim to an enridon, was Mr. asking for a commission on which had capsized and thrown them into bishop of Mexico, Bishop Tobasco,

an article appeared in your paper. the water during the typhoon of has been arrested on a charge of countesses, said that the eleventh trustees and society, ay dhe is

This Mr. Spence, K.C., for the two|

news will startle the Wednesday morning, was brought violating the law by calling on earl (father of the present coun- drawing money to which she is back to the Colony yesterday with Catholfes to exert economic pros- tess and husband of the other not entitled, the arrival of a fishing funk at board. Aberdeen with four survivors on object of obtaining an amendment and they want to the Barbadoca. sure on the Government with the plaintiff met defendant in 1912,

1,000 MILES AN HOUR.

Rugby, July, 23.. The Daily Mail air correspon dent states that official British re- One of them, the master of the search werk directed to the pro-wrecked junk, was so badly injured duction of fighting and commer-in one leg,, and generally was in eial aeroplanes, capable of rapid such a serious condition from flight at a great altitude, now exposure, that he had to be imme- shows

that aero-engines fitted diately removed to the Government with a perfecte supercharging Civil Hospital. device can maintain Tull output of The narrative of their experi power at a height of ten miles. ence, as told" by the other sur With the greatly lessened air re-vivors, was. to the effect, that the alstance miles above the earth, ex-fishing boat was caught in the perts believe that u vast increase gale before she had time to seek in speed is possible, and Mr. Roe shelter in Chinese waters, and was has recently declared that in capsized. Her crew of six, all twenty-five years' time aeroplanes members of the family of the will attain a speed of no less than master, were thrown into the 1,000 miles an hour-bringing water. New York within less than four The unfortunate people clung hours of London-British Wire for twenty-four hours to the leas.

wreckage until picked up by a passing fishing junk on Thurs- day morning.

RAILWAY MERGER.

Before this help arrived the A BIG AMERICAN COMBINE, whilst one of the sons was washed master's wife had been drowned, away, being much too exhausted Kansas City, July 23. to cling further to the wreckage. The Southern Railroad directors The survivors are the muster, have approved of a merger with his daughter and two sons, who the Missoual, Kansas, Texas, Saare now being looked after by the Louis and South Western systems, polico..

of

wart,

Seafield's letter to me that he

American Service.

the Church laws-Reuter's As happened fairly frequently, the possessod evidence about the birth wife did not like the husband's of the claimant and know that ho friend, and that might have had visited, her (meaning the seventh Countess of Seafield), at Cullen COLONIAL SERVICES.”

something to do with the libel,

Mr. Wilberforce Grant met Mr. House before she died in 1911. BIG ECONOMIES EFFECTED.

Alexander Grant, who later start-Counsel pointed out that the sen-- ed proceedings in Scotland, claim-tence was incomplete.] Rugby, July 23.

ing a declaration that he was the This lealer was a very pleasant been effected in the

Considerable economies have lawful heir to the seventh Eart of surprise for me, and will win the Senfield, there having been a secretense for the claimant, coupled cost Colonial Services for 1926, which marriage, he said, between his with other of his letters, which I are explained in a White Paper father and the Hon. Caroline Ste-luckily have, refuting Lady Sea- issued to-day.

field's most insulting references to The total expenditure provided Grant's claim had been adjourned why she fled, for it will soon reach The hearing of Mr. Alexander myself. This will easily explain £1,107,000 last year. In East and Grant had glvon evidence for Mr. for is £442,700, compared with until October. Mr. Wilberforce the ears of the public. West Africa the situation is very Alexander Grant satisfactory. Tanganyike is now

Mr. Spence said the phrase, "We can easily account for her asking paying her way, with a consequent saving of £350,000 and, in Uganda, At this point Mr. Garland, for the court in the case of Alexan• for a commission," meant that the dowager was afraid to come into the progress of the cotton-growing defendant, said he was only pre-der Grant, and consequently sho industry has brought a substantia! surplus. Kenya, has also wiped sent to withdraw and apologise desired her evidence taken on com- Eastern services section, it is ania, while Mr. Wilberforce Grant damages, separately owing to a out her deficit. In the Middle and try to keep down the damages, mission.

After a consultation Mr. Spence pointed out that owing to the leas was prepared to suamit to a judg technical difficulty in the fact that,

The Jury were asked to assos

and Palestine the vote has decrens costs, he would not state that what without leaving the box, returned need for heavy garrisons in Irakmont, agreed damages, and pay the the countess to an infant and, £4,500,000 in 1926-Brittal Wire cd from £29,000,000 in 1921 to he had written was not true

verdiet for the plaintiff, with Mr. Garland said his,ellent was costs, and awarded damages as an old man, and had not given stated above...

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An ́ Apology.