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WANG CHING-WEI'S PLEDGE.

TO REUNITE THE "KUOMINTANG.

Shanghai, Sept. 8.

That his present visit to Nanking is prompted by a sincere desire to atone for his share in the "unfor tunato mistake which led to the party's disruption," was the gist of is speech made by Mr. Wang Ching- wei at a dinner on September 6 at Nanking.

Mr. Wang Ching-wei gave a pledge that he would try his beat to facilitate the successful reunion. of Nanking and Hankow, after which he would resign the chair- manship of the Kuomintang.

Tax Abolition Law.

The Nationalist Government an- nounces a law for, the abolition of the transit dues, tariff law, and ex- cise tax, the law to be operative only in Kwangting and Kwangsi, as from September 1, and temporarily not to be effective in Kiangsu, An- hwel, Fukien, arid Chekiang, until all preparations are completed.- Reuter,

SOUTHERN ADVANCE.

Further Successes.

Shanghai, Sept. 9. The 2nd Battalion of 1st. divi-

sion, 14th Army exptured Tai Ling yesterday following their advance from Chingkiang, and by evening the Nationalists had reached Tai- chow. Sua Chuan-fang's troops have been withdrawn to Hingfa and the remnants at Sui Pak were dis- armed.

FRIDAY.

SEPTEMBER

9,

1927.

CANADIAN AIRMAN MISSING.

Captain Terry-D. Tully (on the right) is overdue at London, where he was expected yesterday in a non-stop flight from Ontario. He was accompanied by a navigator named Medcalf On the left la Capt. V. Ray Maxwell, who was originally to have accompanied Capt. Tully.

SEQUEL TO SEA TRAGEDY.

CHARGE AGAINST CARDIFF SHIPOWNER.

AN "UNWORTHY SHIP."

C.P.R. AS EMPIRE BUILDER.

TRIBUTES BY PROMINENT PERSONAGES.

At a banquet on board the s.s. Empress of Australia held at Quebec, at which many prominent people were present, H. E. the Governor-General of Canada Vis- count. Willingdon, stated that, a shipowner, appeared to answer during the last two years especi-

At Cardiff Police Court in mail week Watkin James Williams (46)

The 18th Army, following their enemy's track, have advanced as far as Koaya. Part of the Nation- a charge that he was a party-tally during the last nine montha, alist force has been sent to Kwa-sending unlawfully the steamship he had had the opportunity of chow and Chingshan to clear out Eastway, being a British ship re-learning something, of the Cana- the remaining Sun Chuan-fang gistered at the port of Cardiff,dian Pacific Railway and he had

from Norfolk (Virginia) to troops there.-Nam Chung Pao.

gea admired its efficiency; turning to In such an unworthy state that Mr. Beatty he said, "You may LIVERPOOL AS AN

the lives of the master and crew well be proud to be the head of were likely to be thereby en- this great organization." R AIR-PORT.

dangered.

ferring to the Confederation céie-

Mr. Alan Pratt, prosecuting, In-bration, he said that much of the ATLANTIC PASSENGERS' NEW formed the Bench that as accused credit of Canada's progress was

FACILITIES.

London, Sept. 8. Sir Sefton Brancker has inspect ed suitable landing areas on the outskirts of Liverpool, which it is proposed to make an airport.

The Air Ministry is stated to be favourable to making Liverpool a halfway air-port between London and Scotland, and London and Ire- land.

Imperial Airways are similarly inclined, and several continental air line companies are willing to make experiments in conveying Atlantic passengers between Liverpool and the Continent.-British Wireless. "RUBBER SHARES. - Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been advised of the following dividends on rubber shares:-

Teluk Anson 5% Interim on both fully and partly paid shares.

Nyalas 8% Final

Bukit Katil 12%.Final.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

APPROACHES TO AMOY.

was only arrested yesterday, heldue to the pioneers who built the was not in a position to proceed Canadian Pacific Railway and, with the case. He suggested a before concluding, made reference remand until September 7.

to the Canadian Pacific's im- migration programme in the West, Mr. Pratt went on to explain its influence on the industrial life Com- that accused was one of the land to the link which the managing directors of the St. pany formed between Canada and Mary Steamship Company, of Great Britain. Cardiff, they being the owners of

The Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie the steamer known as the East- way, and accused was registered King, Premier of Canada, on same occasion, said that during the last manager of the vessel:

few days everybody must have In October of last year the been stirred by the marvellous tostory of the nation. He paid steamer was under charter

Confederation by the carry a cargo of coal from Nor-tribute to the great service render- folk (Virginia) to Pernambuco, ed to and evidence, he said, would be Canadian Pacific Ry-and said brought at a later stage to show that, when one reflected, one was that when the steamer left Nor-impressed by the parts played by folk she was seriously overladen, the City of Quebec and the Cana- and in such a condition as to rer-dian Pacine Ry. in the history of der her unsafe for the lives of the nation." those on board, '

The steamer left on October 15 and on October 22 she foundered, "A Complete Answer."

further Evidence would

Quoting a letter from Sir Ro- bert Borden, the Premier said that, had it not been for the French along the St. Lawrence, there would have been no British be Dominion in Canada to-day. forthcoming as to the instructio 13. It was conceivable, sald the given by the accused to the master Tremier, that if the Canadian of the vessel, the instructions, Pacific Ry. had not been built The following notice to mariners which, according to the prosecu there would have been no British has, been issued by the local au- tion, could only be complied with Dominion in Western Canada to- thorities under to-day's date:: by the vessel being over-loade 1,

a danger of It is notified for information and it was under these circumday. There was

penetration from the south, but; that Chapel Island Light was stances that the prosecution

the C.P.R. had brought British reported not burning at 8 pm, on alleged prisoner was a party

added:- September 8, the authority being the vessel having gone to sea in settlers through to the West. He

the master of the s.3. Himrod.

STOP PRESS.

WUHAN-NANKING FRICTION.

Shanghai, Sept. 9. Mesars. Wang Ching-wef. Hau Chien, and General Chu Pei-teh

arriving are

at Shanghai this afternoon, where they are meeting Mr. Sun Fo and General Tan Yan- kai.

It is understood that these Withan leaders will endeavOUT to effect a reconciliation with Messrs. Hu Han-min. Chang - Ching-chang. Wu Taz-wei, Tsai Yuan-pei, (who left the Nanking Government with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek), preparatory to the Nanking conference" on September 15,

It is probable that Wang Ching-wel will proceed to Fanghwa to see Chiang Kai- shek."

are

In connexion with the con- ferance, it is understood that the Wuhan officials demanding the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Communications for their nominees, which will give them practical control of the new Nationalist Government, which is expected to be announced after the confer-

These demands ence. already causing friction between Wuhan and Nanking. while it is understood that General Tang Seng-chi is unwilling to place his armies. under the control of the Nan- king Government.-Reuter.

are

such an unworthy state.

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"We have been celebrating the A serious part of the case was development of the former colo- that the loss of the Eastway was nies into a mighty nation in a unfortunately attended with a losseommunity of nations. We have of life. The whole of the officers come forward from a colonial were lost, and in all 23 persons status into

status," were drowned. He could imagine He went on to say that:

a national

no more terrible retrospect than The new development was in that the conduct of the prisoner an international direction in which should have to be the subject of an the development of water trans inquiry in that Court.

portation again came to the fore, Mr. Norman Ingledew, who de-as typified, he thought, by this fended, agreed a remand, and said vessel which they were on tho he had a complete answer to the Empress of Australia.

Other speakers also referred in charge. Williams was remanded until September 7, in his own re-laudatory terms to the Company cognisances of £500 and one sure-and the great work it had done and is still doing in the develop- ty of a like amount."?

Mr. Watkin James Williams ment of Canada.

before the war was A boatman

and dock hobbler at Port Talbot

ན་ ༈༙

Docks. He went to Cardiff in HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? 1915, and made a fortune in the shipping industry during the war. Afterwards he became a race- of his horse owner, and for one horses, Syrian Prince, he gave 8000 gns. as a yearling.

Mr. Williams was the principal witness at the recent inquiry into the loss of the vessel before the Cardiff Stipendiary and nautical nasessors..

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-

1-Dante's "Divina Commedia the poet Virgil 2.-The Mystery Flays (representing the mysteries of Christ's Life and Redemption) ceted first in churches during the services by the clerzy tenth and eleventh centuries). To these were added later the Miracio Plays lives of the rain's) and Morality Plars, in which the characters were personified virtues and vices. They were acted by the elty guilda Tout of doors, usually at Whiuuntice or the Feast of Corpus Christi 3-obert Harrick (1891-1074). 4.-"Barchester Tawers and

COLOMBO COOLIES ON Browning (1506-1861) John Dryden (1681-

STRIKE.

Last Chronicles of Berant" -Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Elizabeth Barrett 1700). Thomas de Quincey was an essayist, celebrated for his imaginative and melodious prone. A tendency to discursiveness possibly marred his clear critical faculty. 7-Willam Blake, who was also a painter (1757-1827)} "Songs of Innocence," and "Bongs of Exper ence." 8--Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Pope's "Esny on Man 2 Daton's essay, "Of Beauty." 9.Lvick, in Nicholas Nickleby 10- Bir Andrew Auechoek ("Twollth Night"). 11-Joseph Addison: in the famous CHRYS A lightning strike of 300 coal which they brought out in the Taller and coolles broke out this morning, earliest poems are translations

"Spectator." 12-The Facosh inuence his from the

SHIP DELAYED TEN HOURS.

Colombo, Sept. 8.

the cause being stated to be a French, and be had read, extensively In grievance on the part of the coolies French, notably "Le Roman de la Rose," n Jamnus medieval boom; the Italian Influence, against a contractor.

whence ho derived knowledge of plot and cop

Consequently the steamer Oster-truelion from Boceselo. Hla Jater poems ley is delayed ten hours,-Reuter.

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