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* BYRD'S FLIGHT TO

SOUTH POLE.

NOW RECRUITING MEN IN NORWAY.

DIFFICULTIES AHEAD.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CARRIED AN OPIUM "BABY."

A WOMAN'S CLEVER RUSE FAILS.

FINES OF $11,000.

Revenue officers in Connaught Road West, yesterday, stopped a sampan woman who was proceed ing from the Sai On Wharf in the direction of the Harbour Offico.

TUESDAY, AUGUST

1927.

CHINA'S CURSE.

THE MISSING PRESS CORRESPONDENT.

SHANGHAI BURGLARS

BEATEN.

WAR LORDS AND POLITICIANS.

IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGNERS.

Mr. Silas H. Strawn, of Chi- cago, who was an American de- legate to the Peking Tariff Con- ference of 1028, was on July 25 entertained at luncheon by the President and board of directors of the Manchester Chamber of

Oslo, Aug. 22. Balchen, who accompanied Com mander Byrd on his tranq-Atlan ile flight, is now here preparing for Byrd's expedition to the South

The woman at the time was Pole.

Balchen was formerly in the seen to be carrying a baby on her Commerce. Norwegian navy, and is now a no-back, and a caricua crowd were turalised American. He has en- gaged Lieutenant Omdal, a par ticipant in Amundsen's North Polar flight from Spitzbergen and the airship Norge flight, and is

voyage--Reuter,

Difficulties To Be Faced. Washington, August 15.-Com- mander Richard E. Byrd's pres- pective flight to the South Pole promises to bring the airman in contact with some of the most rugged barriers nature has reared in the pathway of man.

On the subject of China Mr. Strawn said he could prescribe no panacea for the condition of things that existed; he did not believe anyone could do that. The burden on the woman's Morcover, whatever they might

somewhat dumbfounded to see the revenue officers order the woman their to unstrap the baby for examination.

little one.

The woman

ADVENTUROUS AUSTRALIAN SENNET FRERES SAFE TOO

TO SEARCH,

THROUGH HONAN WILDS.

With nothing but a knapsack, a eense of wanderlust, and an in- elination to rescue one of his more unfortunate nationals, and friends, Mr. A. G. Macallister, of Sydney, Australia, has made preparations to start to day for the wilds of Honan in an effort to rescue Mr. Bail Riley, who has now been reported missing for about three weeks, says the North China Daily News.

All unaware, Mr. Macallister, &

also trying to engage the Polar baek proved to be no human baby say about China. to-day would hero of the World War, came to explorer Captain Nisting, for the but two parcels of oplum done up probably be out of date to-morChink about a fortnight ago in

in such a way as to resemble an row. Infant sleeping peacefully. In One of the difficulties of deal tont on finding a new outlet for order to make the deceptioning with China he could illustrate his passion for wandering, which complete, the sumpan woran gave by describing what happened to has taken him through the South an occasional tap to the supposed him and. Sir Kenneth Stewart Seas, the Straits, French Indo baby, and was singing a lullaby when they went to Peking, with Indo-China, practically all over the and swaying, as if to comfort the the Tariffs Commission. As one explored parts of Australia, and warring section or another tri- most of the Near East and Europe: umphed the Chinese members of Shortly after arriving here he appeared before the Commission would disappear picked up a newspaper and saw Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, to take refuge at some foreign that Mr. Riley, the correspondent The Antarctic undertaking is charged with being in possession concession, and presently he and for the Times had been missing in faced with difßculties for different of 80 taels of prepared opium and Sir Kenneth Stewart, who had Honin and, thinking back' over gone thousands of miles to at his days in Sydney, he remembered from those encountered by the 60 tacle of raw opium, Commander when last summer he She was fined $0,000, or in de-tend a conference with the Chin- that it was that youth's father successfully flew his plane over fault nine months' hard labour, ese, were left with three innocu- and mother whom he had known a few years before. Here was a the waste and barren/regions off for possession of the prepared ous people with backbones about

strong as wot macaroni. chance for him possibly to do a the North Polc,

opium, and $2,000, or two months, as on the charge of possession of (Laughter.) The Chinese repre- good turn for an old acquaintance aentatives were cordial, but they and, at the same time, provide raw opium.

could do nothing. They could himself, with an added amount of make no treaty because there was excitement. So for the past two no Government. There was no weeks Mr. Macallister has been semblance of orderly Government inquiring into every possible in China to-day. Sir Kenneth source in order to find out the Stewart and he agreed upon a topography and general lie of the fair tariff scale that was satis-country in which the young factory to the Chinese experts, journalist could be found. but after a time the distinguish- .ed chairman of the Commission ran off to a foreign concession,

Mr. Macallister, who is both and had not been to Peking since.

wanderers, journalist, and capital (Laughter.).

No one could go to China with-ist, will start off for Nanking, out sympathising with the patient where he will spend a few days long suffering Chinese coolie who in trying to get direct information Mr. Riley. From was being continuously enslaved as to what course to pursue in by the war lords and the poli-locating ticians. Eliminate the war lords that place he will go to Hankow, and the politicians and you would where more investigation will take this connexion the eliminate all anti-foreign feeling. place. In There was not one Chinaman in representative of the North-China remarked that he a hundred who knew anything Daily News

what 2 about foreign imperialism, tariff might not realize. in

or difficult, position he might find autonomy, unequal trading, extraterritoriality, or any of the himself, but the wanderer, behind a heavy growth of black beard, cries the politicians used to

uncertain terms camouflage the iniquities they per- declared in no

that he would be able to get some petrate upon the coolie.

clue.

National geographic society topographers and today that in the little known land around the southernmost part of the earth other the Commander among things would be forced to navigate his plane over a jagged mountain chain with sentinel-like peaks that rise anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 feet. In contrast to the verdant summer vegetation of the Arctic region and its Eskimo in- habitants, the, topographers point- ed out that the South Pole, lands are mostly barren of plant life And without human inhabitants and even animals due to its severe

climate.

ACCIDENT TO AIR LINER.

RUDDER CAME OFF AND CAUSED NOSE DIVE.

London, Aug. 22. An accident to a Dutch liner

acar Sevenoaks, in Kent as report ed briefly this morning, resulted in Their survey summarized the the death of a mechanic, Broen Antaretle conditions in the follow-Klaus, and injuries to the pilot. Vandyk, and seven of the nine ing way:

Of the fatter, five are Dutch and

The North Pole is an ocean Passengers. while the South Pole is roughly in the center of what has come to be called the Antarctic continent or Antarctic.

The in

Lwo belong to London. juries were only slight, and after treatment at hospital all were able to return to London.

World's Great Ice Field"

The aeroplane, which was a From Spitzbergen Byrd flew Fokker machine, belonging to the over floating ice fields rising only Royal Dutch Air Line, was on its a few feet above the sea level, way from Croydon to Amsterdam, with here and there open leads of and was flying at a height of 1,000 Without water; from the edge of the ice feet in a strong wind barrier south of New Zealand warning, the tail of the machine where he plans to take the air on trembled, and the machine began his Southern expedition, he will to dive. The pilot managed to fly over one of the greatest ice keep her nose up until the rudder fields in the world, an accumula-came off, when the aeroplane tion of ice rising 150 feet or more crashed, nose first, between two above the sea and as solid as land. trees. These somewhat broke the

There is nearly 400 miles of full this barrier to be crossed south The petrol tank hurst into of New Zealand before the moun- tain, marking the first exposed land are reached. took Amund- sen 27 days to cover this portion of his journey the men travelling on skis and the sleds of provisions drawn, by dogs.

The peaks of the mountains that rim the land rise 12,000 to 15,000 feet. Amundsen climbed up a glacier and crossed the crest at 10,000 feet, Farther south there was a slight descent to a great plateau for the most part level. The highest point crossed by Amundsen was 10,750 feet above sea level."

The pole itself was found to be in the middle of a vast plateau which is perfectly level, at an altitude of approximately 10,600 feet. It is covered with smooth snow and should afford an cellent place for landing.

REPORTS OF SHIP MUTINIES.

ex-

flames, which did not, however, reach the fabric of the machine All the passengers consider themselves fortunate to bave es- caped with their lives, and paid a tribute to the pilot for his handling of the machine-British wireless,

TYPHOON WARNING.

EAST OF LUZON.

The American Consulate Gen- eral. "Hongkong, has received the following telegram from the Manila Observatory

morning: Cyclone or Typhoon, E. of Luzon, more than 300 miles distant, difcction unknown.

F

this

Latest Report.

1

The Chinese needed foreigners a great deal more than foreign- ers needed China. China was a country of greater area than the United States, but it had only 7,000 miles of railway compared with 265,000 in the States, and 93 per cent, of the people could not read or write. It was diff cult to reach the people or to bring order out of chaos. people were the

Mr. Macallister's Plans.

J

GOOD.

PROFITLESS WEEK-END.

Washing their hands in porfume before leaving, a gang of ingeni ous but not expert crackamen left the premises of Messrs. Sonnet Freres, diamond merchants and jewellers, at 24 Nanking Road, some time early last Monday morn- ing, after spending the week-end in what fortunately proved to be an abortive attempt to drill open- a large Fichet safe containing some $200,000 worth of diamonds and other jewels.

It appears that a person, öd- viously Russian, visited Messrs. Theodore Sopher & Co., the owners Boy Landry and of a vacant shop formerly ocen Pied by Messrs. situated next door to Messrs. Sen- net Freres, and intimated that it was desired to rent the vacant shop. A deposit of Tls. 100 was paid and the keys of the premises secured.

*Two Holes in the Wall.

The gang, duly supplied with beer, cheese, and sandwiches, en- tered into the occupation of the shop some time on Saturday last and working behind a wooden par- tition made a hole about three feet square in the brick wall separat- Finding that ing the two shops. this hole abutted on to the back of a safe, the cracksmen made another hole in the wall about the same size as the first one and, breaking through a wooden book. case which was situated on the other side, entered the jewellers' and commenced work.

in any

Singling out a large Fichet safe in which were jewels of a value greater that contained other safe, the burglars commenc ed operations with an electric drill, first erecting a large velvet. cur-

front of the store. tain between themselves and the

In spite of about 100 drill holes, and one lock being completely lift- ed out, the ante withstood the onslaught and the ernickamen after many hours of abortive work were forced to give up, and left the premises after securing about $1,000 worth of ladies' hand-bags and fancy goods which were dis- played in glass show cases.

enter it would be

At Hankow Mr. Macallister pro- The door of the safe in question poses to board a train on the is made of three layers of steel Peking-Hankow Railway and go to plating and although the lock was Chengchow, in the northeastern removed, to part of Honan and there pick up necessary to cut through these

heart of the necessary equipment for a two-other two layers. months' trip into the China where he will "And a trace of the journalist or know, the reason why." The slaves of the dominant wär lords, and they continued in slavery without knowing what it was all about.

Forcible intervention Impossible.

too

The natural tendency was to go in and spank the Chinese, but that would be like spanking a feather bed. (Laughter). It would have no effect because there were many of them. It would cost a great deal more than there was to be got out of it. If the Powers went in together, the result would be to solidify the Chinese, and that would mean interminable guerilla warfare. In no way, as he saw the situation could they go into China, by force. But they could not permit irresponsible soldiers and war lords to destroy the lives and property of their citizens in the treaty ports, where most of those citizens and most of the pro- perty was situated.

The Royal Observatory reports

It was unfortunate that many at 11.10 a.m. to-day: The anti- cyclone has moved Eastward to missionaries had gone into the Interior. Many of the mission- Japan.

aries had done splendid work in There appear to be two typhoons, China, but some had been indis- one about 400 miles east of Manila creet, for they had talked to the Chinese about unequal treaties, tariff autonomy, and extra-terri-

and one about 200 miles N.W. of Yap.

:

A Traveller. Mr. Macallister has been away from Australia this time about four months, having left his home in the Pine Creek district, in the North Territory, in the latter part of April. His holdings in that said to be quite ex- district are tensive, consisting of several tin mines and several thousands of acres of farming land,

Up-to-date Gentry.

No finger-prints were left, the burglars wearing gloves. In ad- dition to the electric drill which was driven by means of a small motor connected by flexible wires to a lamp plug, small crowbars and other prying Instruments were used on the safe and these, to- gether with empty beer bottles, were left behind.

The time spent on the safe evi- dently precluded any extensive work on any other, and one small $50,000 safe containing some worth of loose diamonds was un- touched.

Mr. N. Concoff, of Messrs. Sen net Freres, told a press represen-

From there he came to Java, on to Sumatra, back to Singapore and finally up through the Straits. Mr. Macallister served with the Australian troops from 1914 until 1919, enlisting as a private and tative later that one of the gang ending as an officer in the artillery. had evidently called at the store At the Somme he had the dis- some time previously and asked to tinction of having been captured see some expensive jewellery, not- on three. separate and distinct

were taken, thus forming au occasions. He also served in ing from which safe the articles Egypt and at Gallipoli,

While doing his various interest opinion as to which safe contain- ing turns about the countries, heed the most valuable collection of is writing a series of articles for jewels. the Sydney Sun and for Smith's Weekly in Sydney.

"OUTSIDE THE PALE."

Thoir direction of motion is toriality under the impression LAST HOURS OF SACCO AND

ONE OF THEM UNFOUNDED.

. Bukharest, Aug. 22. It now appears that reports that the Russian sailors on the French (ex-Russian) atcamer The forecast up to noon to- Dreyfus had mutinied, were un-morrow is: S.E. or variable winds, founded.

moderate to light; fine.

The vessel is reported to have arrived at Constantinople.- Reuter.

A Bukharest message of August 20 stated:

The newspapers publish reports of a mutiny of Soviet sallors on

Egyption the

unknown.

ANTI-RELIGIOUS. WRITINGS.

that it would help them in their The Chinese now said to work.

"You have these missionaries:

been talking about these things and there has been no remedy, You must be the advance guard of imperialism. Get out of it."

Costi, INDIAN GOVERNMENT TAKES changed. steamer which left Sulina. for Alexandria on the 8th inst.

It appears that the Costi was originally a Russian vessel, re- tained by General Wrangel and eventually sold..

On the voyage from Sulina some of the Russian members of the crew killed two of the ship's officers and severely wounded the captain. They took the vessel to Odessa, where the Soviet flag was holsted.

The papers also state that It is feared the French ship Dreyfus, of Russian origin, with a partly Ruasian, crew, has disappeared.

ACTION.

Simla, Aug. 22.

VANZETTI.

Boston, Aug. 22, On the eve of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, their counsel are still desperately attempting to obtain a respite.

Sacco and Vanzetti themselves On the question of unequal treaties Mr. Strawn said the Anglo-are in fair spirits. They have re- Saxon view and the view of Eur mained obdurate as regards their opeans and of the Japanese was religion. Father Murphy visited that a treaty held good until it was them this morning and urged them A contract, was good to prpare for eternity, but both re- until it was changed. They were fused, saying they preferred to die as they had lived, "outside the ready, willing, and anxious to re- nedy any unequal treaty with pale."--Reater's Amèrican Service, China. Personally he did not think As a sequel to the Ranglarasul the treaties were unequal, for they ense, in which Mohammedans have were wanted at the time, and were been stirring up to anti-Hindu feel-entered into in good faith. But it Ing, the Government of India, "in was the duty of Sir Kenneth view of the deplorable prevalence Stewart, himself, and the rest of of malicious writings intended to them, to change some of those They were willing to insult the religion and outrage the treaties. religious feelings of others," has give the Chinese all the tariffs that decided to introduce in the As traffic would bear, and they agreed sembly a Bill to Include such upon a schedule, but when the offences in the Indian Penal Code, time came to do business there was and similarly to amend the Code nobody there (laughter)-so that

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ALEEN VISITORS TO BRITAIN,

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.

Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.

1

What are the chief relics of the Stone Apo in England?

3 Who was Boadicea, and what did

she do?

8 Why and where was the Roman

Wall built?

Why is York celebrating an anniversary this year?

5. Who was the Vonorable Bede and

for what was he famous? What English place-names show where the Vikings chiefly Bottled? 7 Whore did William the Conqueror land, and why was Harold un- able to prevent the landing?

8 How doce one recognise a Nor

man churchi. @ What king's son was drowned in ahipwreck in 1120, and ichy was the event specially impor- tant?

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Richard's, Crusade, and what What event caused the Third, or

island did he take on the way? How long did Henry VIII, reign?

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