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HAYNES LIBEL ACTION FAILS. PYJAMA SCENES IN FASCIST KILLED IN WONDERFUL CITY NANKING OUTRAGE ATLANTIC FLIGHT

CAIRO.

DESCRIBED AS MAKING LOT UNCONVENTIONAL BUT

OUT OF LITTLE.

“CHINA' MAIL” HEADINGS. ALLEGED TO BE MALICIOUS.

FIGHTING KAISERISM.”

NECESSARY:

BIG FIRE ON LUXOR TOURIST TRAIN DE LUXE,

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PARIS

ASSASSINATED AT FRIENDS' DOOR.

TELEPHONE ENQUIRY.

Parts, Mar. 14

While the Italian Faseft, Signor Bavorelli, who is vialling Paris, was lunching with some friends in their flat, the telephone bell rang and an enquiry was made if the guost was in the premises,

An affirmative reply was.given, and the unknown enquirer, rangi off.

WELCOME.

LONDON AT BEST FOR

AFGHAN KING.

BRILLIANT FUNCTION AT THE GUILDHALL.

DIVE FOR A CHANGE.

BLAZE OF COLOUR,

Cairo, Mar. 14.

London, Mar. 14. Strange scenes were enacted at

King Amanullah and Queen the railway station to-day on the

Souriya of Afghanistan had a Shortly afterwards, the doorbell wonderful welcome from the City crowded train de luxe, the passen door and three revolver shots rang the guests of the Lord Mayor and belated arrival from Luxor of a rang, Signor Savorelli. opened the of London to-day when they were gers consisting chiefly of Ameri-out while the door was slammed Corporation at the Guildhall. pyjamas or borrowed clothing, to Friends rushed into the corridor Palace with an escort of the Life can tourists who rushed, clad in heavily to.. catch a special for Alexandria and found Signor Savorelli lying Guards, they were chcerod all the Buckingham The aetion was brought, in respect of the use of the words where they were to board a White dead and the murderer disappear-way to the Guildhall by consider "Haynes Discharged" in the China Mail and on its poster, incidental Star liner, to the recent case in which Mr. Haynes was prosecuted by the Hong-George Eastman, would probably crime was one of political ven-

able crowds. The police theory is that the kong. Law Society.

King Amanullah saluted in acknowledgment while. geance.-Reuter,

Queen Souriya smiled happily.

For the Brat tima for many years a libel action against a local newspaper was heard at the Suprema Court before Mr. Justice, Wood this morning, when Mr. L. E. Haynes sued Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, managing editor of the China Muil, for $1,000 damages.

The plaintiff asserted that the words complained of were a mis- statement of fact, a deliberate and malicious act, perpetrated by the defendant for the purpose of doing harm to plaintiff, and that they conveyed the impression to the public that the plaintiff had been dismissed from his employment.

Mr. Haynes said he was not bringing the action for pecuniary gain, but was combatting what be described as "Kaiserism."

Mr. Justice Wood held there was no case to answer and dismissed the action with costs.

MR. HAYNES OUTLINES CAREER.

··Mr. Haynes appeared in person' nuthorities he liked, added that he and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., in- would leave the question of law structed by Mr. Areuili, was for for the present, remarking that Mr. Burnett.

in that particular case he would Prior to opening his case, Mr. have to submit that the particular Haynes informed his Lordship that circumstances which concerned he (Mr. Haynes) was troubled himself made the action all the with a cough which he hoped his more serious.

Lordship would excuse. He ex- In outlining his case, Mr. Haynes plained that he had been in bed said that when he was 22 years of

for two days and was going hospital after the conclusion the case.

No Il-Feeling,

age, he was employed in London as into as Secretury to a Company. He of was sent Home from Hongkong by Dr. Stuart Taylor and answered an employment advertisement in 認 newspaper. His father very gener- ously invested $2,000 in a company Mr. Haynes went on to say that in London in order that he (the the action was for damages for speaker) might get the appoint libel. It was, he believed, in such ment as Secretary. Certain typed cases usual for a certain amount letters were sent to his office for of ill-feeling to be introduced, but him to sign a Secretary, and he he wished to say, as far as he was did so concerned, that he would take every care to avoid such an at-

£2,000.

Bogus Company,

The Kodak millionaire, Mr.

have objected to being "snapped" : as he jumped into a vehicle and was driven to a hotel clad in a trousers. pyjama jacket and a pair of serge

The lady passengers endeavour- ed to conceal the sparseness of their attire beneath cloaks.

Alarming Experience.

The reason for this amusing if unconventional occurrence WGS that a fire had occurred on the

ATTEMPTED LIFE OF DR. C. C. WU.

Assassin Sentenced to Life Imprisonment,

Singapore, Mar, 14.

The Chinese Communist, Cheong Yok-kal, charged in connexion with the wounding

of Dr. Lim Boon-keng, has been found guilty, and 'sen- ienced to imprisonment for life.

Dr. Lim Boon-keng was leaving the Chamber of Com-· merce with Dr. C. C. Wu, when Can attempt was made to assassinate the Nanking ex- Foreign Minister. Dr. Wu escaped unharmed, but Dr. Lim Boon-keng was shot in the face. Reuter.

ed.

CABLE & WIRELESS

MERGER.

|PROVISIONAL ARRANGEMENT

REACHED,

"

London, Mar. 14. The Eastern and Associated Telo graph Companies and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, an- nounce that a provisional arrange- ment has been reached for the funion of the two Companies' inter- ests through the medium of a pro- posed holding company, subject to a satisfactory agreement with the British Government, the Dominions Governmentä and India, and also to the acceptance by the Companies' stockholders and shareholders.

It is added that no announcement of the terins of the arrangement can be made, in the meantime, na 'the consummation is dependent on the above-mentioned conditions.--- Reuter.

TO ASSIST SIMON COMMISSION,

PUNJAB COUNCIL FAVOURS CO-OPERATION.

Lahore, Mar. 15. The Punjab Legislative Council has passed a resolution pledging. co-operation with the, Simon Com- mission.

Driving from

DEMANDS.

SIR MILES LAMPSON PARLEYS FOR MITIGATION,

VITAL CONVERSATIONS

London, Mar. 14

and the other Powers are now pre-

MYSTERY.

HINCHCLIFFE EFFORT SEEMS CERTAIN.

Reuter learns that Great Britain, NO NEWS OF DARING EXPLOIT

HOURS "ADRIFT.”"S pared to mitigate the demanda pre- sented to the Nanking Government in 1927, following the outrages

against foreigners when the Nation HON. ELSIE MACKAY. allat Army captured the city.

It is felt in political circles that the situation has changed in view

London, Mar. 14, Captain Hinchcliffe's London of the fact that the outrages were agent stated to day that it can be undoubtedly engineered by the Bol-taken for granted that the pilot, expelled from the control of Chinese Hinchcliffe, when the "Endeavour" shevik element, which has now been Mr Gordon Sinclair was with affairs.

twenn Sir Miles Lampson, the don't know what to think."

The change of views is the result took off from Cranwell Aerodrome,

British Minister to Peking, and of the conferences at Canton, be- but as regarde Miss Mackay, I

Marshal Li Chai-sum, the head of sentatives that she had heard Mrs. Sinclair told Press repro-

the Administration at Canton, and nothing from her husband. Sir Miles Lampson's conversations with Mr. Hwang Fu, the Nanking Foreign Minister in Shanghai, • There are no indications of the exact nature of the discussions, but is understood that Britain is keeping the Powers concerned, fully Informed of the progress of the dis

cusalons.

A distinguished assemblage was gathered in the library of the Guildhall, including Sir Austent Chamberlain, the Foreign Secre- tary, and other members of the Government, Admiral Sir Charles Madden and Field Marshal Sir George Milne, Mr. Ramsay Mac donald, the tabour leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury · and prominent representatives of all

THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT

AT AMOY.

Concession Fails to Appease

the Chinese.

In connexion with the Japan- cso boycott in Amoy, a verna- cular paper states that, accord- ing to a telegram, the Japanese Consular authorities. there do- clared on Tuesday that they would relonso two of the detained. Whampoa students, but added that the other two students were Korean revolu- tionista and therefore should be extradited to Korea,

The telegtam added that this change of attitude on the part of the Japanese was duo,, to the resoluto attitude" of the Chinese,

Despite this move, however, the attitude of the members of the Amoy Kuomintang Ass0- clation and of the other Chin- ese organisations appears to be unchanged.

The Opposition did not chal- lenge a division after its motion male adjourn the debate had been

defeated by 55 votes to 14,

Sir Fazli Hussain, on behalf of spheres of civic life, many accom

panted by their ladios. appointmeat of a Committed to

Fanfare of Trumpels. participate In the proposed joint

The arrival of the Afghan King free conference with the Simon Commissioners, said it would be was announced to the assembly by a fanfare of trumpets and a fattle elected in the May session.

The Opposition maintained that of drums. though in a minority, a new,Party would soon spring up which would know how to win freedom, oven by the sword if necessary,

The Commission has now separated into two gections.

mosphere. He was not seeking a One day he came across a telo- pecuniary reward as a result of gram'signed by General Sir Charles bringing the action; he had Kavanagh, from Shanghai, indicat- nothing auch us that in mind, ing that the business that the Comtrain on the way from Luxor, the What he would later say would pany was supposed to be doing in passengers having a somewhat the Government, in moving the support that statement. He had the Yangtaze was bogus. Ho alarming experience... not even asked for a jury. Mr. copled the telegram and went Haynes added that he had sub- straight and interviewed his father, The fire has been attributed to poenaed the defendant for the pur- who told him to resign. He did so, the overheating of an axle which pose of producing certain copies of and his father anid good-bye to his act fire to the bottom of a coach his paper.

and ultimately spread to the After remarking that there were Eight months afterwards, he was sleeping coaches which were des- certain subpoenas on the record, in South Devonshire with his troyed. his Lordship remarked that they people, when he was suddenly ar-

Awakened From Sleep. wanted a copy of the Hongkong rested and charged with conspiracy. Daily Press for February 9th, 1928. Although his father.very generous

Passengers were awakened from Mr. O. T. Brakespeare, who was briefed one of the most eminent their sleep when the danger was In Court, and he had been sub. King's Counsel of the day, the precipitate, and they made their Reuter

Directors concerned and himself, as escape, abandoning clothes and poenaed to bring that copy, and Secretary, were found guilty. he produced it.

valuables. His Lordship:What was the Mr. Haynes, in reply to his date of that?The 10th, or tho

Fortunately, there were no MARSHAL LI CHAI-SUM. Lordship, said he would require 31st. of May, 1923,

serious casualties, though a num Mr. Brakespeare for other pur- Continuing, Mr. Haynes sald ber of the passengers were treat- poses as well.

After correspondence had been frey Morgan, committed suicide, The delay in arrival was due

that one of the Directors, Sir.God-ed for cuts and bruises, referred to as being required in and the others were sentenced to to the action of the engine-driver, the case, his Lordship remarked ponal servitude for various terms. who, observing the flames burst that copies of the China Mail for He (Mr. Haynes) was sentenced to ing from the carriages, stopped the ed yesterday to the effect that Mar February 8th, February 17th and six months imprisonment in the train at Minich, where it was held shal Li Chai-sum has been ordered the poster for February 8th, all second division. He appealed, up until further danger was over. to proceed to Nanking to namume this year, were required.

but althought he was quite succes-Router.

Motive Must Be Proved.

ful in getting the sentence ante- dated to the time of his originál Mr. Haynes said that, as far as arrest, he could not get the con- the understood the law, where the Viction removed, which was the circumstances under which, the thing he was Gghting for..... alleged matter was published did "I would ask your Lordship to not pressat any justifiable occa- bear that in mind, because it will sion for speaking or writing such, have a very important bearing" or show it to be done in pursuance added Mr. Haynes,

of some duty, or in the enforce-

ment of a right, the communication.

was deemed in daw to be maliotous,,

Cleared His Name.

Mr. Haynes went on to say that

Further, if the defendant sought many a young fellow in his post-

HINKLER WARMLY

GREETED.

TUMULTOUS RECEPTION AT

CANBERRA,

Canberra, Mar. 14.

REPORTED TO BE LEAVING CANTON TO-D/T

Conversations are also proceeding through the various Consuls-Gen eral at-Nanking-Reuter,

HUNGARIANS RIOT IN

"NEW YORK,

POLICE PROTECTION FOR DELEGATES.

Gale in Atlantic.

New York, Mar. 14, Although a sharp look-out has been kept by ships at sea and. wireless stations along the coast between New York and Newfound land, nothing had been heard of morning, but favourable weather Hinchcliffo up to ten o'clock this was reported during the night off Nova Scotia.

The liner "Celtic" however, [which is five hundred miles from Now York, has sent a wireless message to the effect that she is running into a northerly gale.

A message from Boston reports poor visibility and a dense fog off. the Now England coast, while at St. John's the noon weather was fine, with north-westerly winds of increasing force. ·

الأمر

Of, Captain Hinchcliffe's ma¬ chine there has been ne / nowa whatever,

Sighted?

London, Last Night. The only nowa which cha hava

New York, Mar. 14. Considerable disorder prevailed in a crowd of about three thou Band, who were congregated on the water-front awaiting the ar rival of 672 Hungarian delegates to participate in the unveiling ceremony at a memorial to the Hungarian national hero, Kossuth.

Photographers took a flashlight any possible bearing on the picture of the demonstration and whereabouts of Captain Hinchcliffe the crowd, apparently, thought up to this hour, is a message re- that a bomb had been exploded.ceived from the Western Union Revolvers were fired, but for Cable Company's operatorat

Heart's Content, Newfoundland. tunately there were no fatalities.

The Police dispersed the crowd

The "messages, states, that the and escorted the delegates to their Company's repairer says he saw & hotels, which were closely guard-plane passing in a north-westerly ed to prevent any attempt at dis-direction between Kellingrow and turbance by "Hungarian Liberals," Holyrood at 6.88 Greenwich Mean who are bitterly opposed to the present regime in Ilungary Reuter's American Service,

OBJECT TO PAYMENT

BY RESULTS.

AUSTRALIA' TO CLOSE WALSH ISLAND DOCKYARD,

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Sydney, Mar. 14. The Minister of Public Works has announced that the Australian Government has decided to close the Lord.

Their Majcstics were greated by down the Walsh Island Dockyard

Mayor and Mayoress, the latter presenting a obiection to payment by results.

Lady on March 16th., owing to the men's bouquet to Queen Bourlya.

He stated that the Government The Aldermen and Sheriffs in is considering the question of the their robes, the Afghan Minister disposal of the establishment with and members of the Legation, the existing contracts,-Reuter," Field Marshal Viscount Allenby and the British officers attendant Jon the Afghan King preceded the Duke and Duchess of York and Princess Arthur of Connaught.

Then came the, Queen of Afghanistan and the Lord Mayor, followed by King Amanullah and Following the telegram publish-the Lady Mayoress.

www.

Gorgeous Scene,

When the King and Queen

AMERICA'S · GROWING POPULATION.

Time.

The locality is seventy miles south of St. John's. The aviator should have been reported from | Newfoundland at noon to-day had he intended to land thore--Router.

Accompanied by Lady,

The staff of Lord Inchcape's town house waited all night long for news of Lord Inchcape's daugh- ter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, but she had not returned and nothing has been heard of her.' Thus a report that she is accompanying Capt. Hinchcliffe as a relief pilot, which she denied last week, fa ap- parently true.je

A message from St. Johns, New-: foundland, at six this morn said the weather was fine and clear. and favourable for flying. The wire- stations had heard nothing from Hinchcliffe during the night.

-Router. Cal po

Mr. Gordon Sinclair Explains.

London, Mar, 15. Mr. Gordon Sinclair has emerg“ ed from obscurity and has visit- ed Mrs. Hinchcliffe,

He stated that only a couple of hours before the "Endeavour"? started, the Hon. Elsie Mackay de- cided to accompany the aviator on the flight.

ESTIMATED TO BE OVER 120 MILLION:

-Washington, Mar. 14, "We are now waiting anxiously, Although the next Federal cen- but are full of hope d's Captain office of Chief of Staff of the Na entered the library, they were sus does not occur before 1980, the Hinchcliffe had frequently refer tionalist Army, a rumour is current | evidently fapressed by the Census Bureau estimates that the red to the possibility of pushing in Hongkong to the effect he is com ing down from Canton by train scene. The ancient hall was population of the United States on on to Philadelphia if possible, and glowing with the colour of July 1st will be 120,000,000, an in the petrol on board was sufficient to-day, on route to the North.

It is stated that he is being ac- the robes of the City Fathers crease of 14 per cent, over the certo last from 45 to 60 hours

companied by General Chan Ming and brilliant, military uniforms.ans of 1920. the largest gain.

shiu.

THE NICARAGUAN ELECTION,

AMERICAN SUPERVISION

Thoir Majesties were enthroned

Florida shows the

on either, side of the Lord Mayor-Router's American Service.

PORTUGUESE CURRENCY.

ESCUDOS DECLINE ON LOAN FAILURE.

Neuter.

COLOMBO RAILWAY;

SMASH.

DEATH ROLL MOUNTS TO TWENTY-SIX

and Lady Mayoress, while the members of the Royal Family. occupied golden chairs to the left. The Recorder of the City read an Address of Welcome to their Afghan Majestjes, thanking them to excuse auch acts by reason of tion, under such circumstances, Caplain Bert Hinkler, the horo

for the honour of their visit which single-handed cortalu circumstances that the would hayo taken the first boat to of the historie

REJECTED.

Illustrated, the friendly relations occasion was privileged, or that Canada or Australia, where he flight from Croydon to Australia

happily, subsisting between your thewords wore common to would be absolutely unknown, in fifteen days, flew to Canberra

Managua, Mar 14 Mafesty and our beloved matter of public interest then such and start again. He did not do to-day, and was accorded a tumul- excuse, could be destroyed If the that He had been In China and tous reception by a huge crowd. The House of Representatives, by sovereign plaintiff could prove an improper liked China. He had determined Mr. Bruce welcomed the famous Cor all, proposing to authorise bonds of peace and friendship of Portuguese escudos, presum with a passenger train, several 22 votes to 10, rejected the Me It expressed the hope that the market is the continued offering was involved in a head-on collision motive,

to return and clear his name, and aviator and presented him with a United States supervision of the might be strengthened still ably on disappointment at the carriages being telescoped, result Mr. Haynes, after giving the re- he did so. Within three weeks, cheque for £2,000 on behalf of the Nicaraguan Presidential election in further and that "increased trade failure of the Toan negotiations, ed in twenty-six deaths, ferences to his Lordship, who said he sailed from Birkenhead, and Australian Commonwealth Gov October, Reuters American Sex and commerce between our coun: The rate fell to under invoponée great many more suffered injuries. that Mr. Haynes could quote any

(Continued on Page 7) ernment-Reuter.

(Continued on Pago 24.) British Wireless,

vice,

* London, Mar. 14.

Colombo, Mar, 11, 4- The Ceylon-railway- disastër,

A feature of the exchange when the Galle-Colombo express

Beuter