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London, May 21.

Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked in the House of Commona to-day whether the United States Government had submitted any proposals for the conclusion of conciliation And arbitration treaties between Americn and Great Britain on similar lines to the treaty which had just been signed between America and Ger

OFFICERS BLAMED FOR

LOSS OF SHIP.

BRITISH VESSEL ON THE

ROCKS.

22, 1928.

INVISIBLE DEATH DISASTER.

EIGHT DIE AS RESULT OF POISON GAS.

The question whether British ships should be manned by foreign ELECTIONEERS' PANIC. crows is raised by tho report of a Naval Court held at the British

Hamburg, May 22. Consulate-General, Marseilles, to

Five deaths in hospital to-day of investigate the circumstances of the loss of the Dallon, a vessel "of victims of the disaster at Wilhelms- 91 tons, belonging to Newcastle-burg, brings the death-roll to eight. on-Tyne.

Many more are in a serious con- dition as the result of the bursting of the poison-gas barrels as report. ed yesterday,

In the curly morning of Fobru- ary 19, the Dalton foundered off, the Planter Lighthouse, Marseilles. Drastic criticism is made by the Court of the way the ship was navigated, and comment is also made on the fact that "a heavily laden British ship can be manned Sir Austen sald the United and taken to sea by a foreign States Government had made pro- | crew."

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many,

| treaty to replace the Anglo-Ameri- can arbitration treaty of 1908 which would expire on the fourth

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No proposal had been made by the United States Government for a conciliation.treaty, because there was already such treaty in force between the United States and Great Britain, namely the Anglo- American treaty regarding the establishment of a pence commis- Bion.

between

the

He saw no reason why this treaty or conciliation treaties now being negotinted United States and a number of

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Stern Censure, The Court, which was presided over by Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt and whose findings are Issued by the Board of Trade, states:----

The gas after escaping from the tanks was awent along the ground invisibly towards the Canal.

Two men on the bank fishing vere observed suddenly to drop down senseless without apparent reason.

The gas then swept towards the thickly-populated Wilhelmsburg dis- trict, where hundreds of people were in the streets awaiting the election results.

Numbers of them were suddenly taken ill. As all were more or less affected panic overcame the crowd and they fled to Hamburg.

That the loss of the vessel was caused by the wrongful act or do-

The whole of the Wilhelmsburg' fault of the master, Panagiotis Dedes, in that he did not alter his streets were evacuated. It is thought course when in too close proximity that further danger is practically to the Planier Lighthouse, and in eliminated.-Renter, that he appears to have navigated his vessel in an unseamanliko manner.

That the Court finds grounds for blaming the conduct of the second mate, Antonios Logothetis, in that he did not take the necessary steps to inform the master that the vessel was in a dangerous position alter calling him to the bridge.

The Court adds that:-

SERIOUS FIGHTING AT HANKOW.

Heavy Fighting Reported.

Shanghai, May 22.

(Continued from Page 1.) Kunghaien, where the Marshal paid a visit to the Arsenal. He returned to Chengchow later in the day,

At Chengchow, Marshal Chiang The evidence "amounts to prac

After tically a-charge of culpable negli-was met by General Pei Chung-hai gence on the part of the master who recently arrived there,

a lengthy conversation with General and second mate in that, when the Pei, the Marshal and the Kuomin ship was within a few cables of chun officials returned to Hsuchow. à rocky island named Planter, with Nam Chung Pao. a light which had been plainly in aight for some considerable time, no steps whatever were taken to ASSASSIN PUTS UP FURIOUS prevent the stranding of the same

ship. FIGHT.

"The Court would further like to Shanghai, May 22,

draw attention to the misgivings There was a running gun battle which must wrise in a case like the An. attack carried out by the before one of the assassins who shot one under consideration, where a Shansi. troops on the Fengtien Liu Show-pang, Nationalist heavily-laden British ship can be forces on Friday and Saturday re- officer in Frenchtown, was cap-manned and taken to sea by a sulted in the Shanyi forces cap. tured.

foreign crew, none of whom have turing Mushan, just outside the The desperado, who is believed British certificates or are amenable Namkwan Pass.--Nam Chung Pao.

Negotiation Move. to be a hired assassin, fought furi- to any of the sanctions provided ously before he was Anally over-under Section 183 of the Merchant

Shipping Act, 1894."

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A telegram from Taiyuan states that heavy fighting is still going on at the central front along the Peking-Jankow line.

Tainan, May 11.

In reference to this case Captain Commander Saito received at 8 Sergeant Goueree, of the French Municipal Follee, was wounded in W. H. Cooms, joint managing o'clock this morning a telegram director of the Navigators and from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek slat- the leg during the encounter.

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Amsterdam, May 21.' It is reported from Khartoum that Mr. Van Lear Black's flight to Capetown, Tokyo and back to Croydon has been abandoned for the present in consequence of en- gine troublo and difficulties nris- ing from lack of suitable landing grounds.

"I should say there are 150 to 200 British registered ships manned by foreign officers and

men,

"I know of at least 250 captains

and other officers who are

un-

employed today, and many have been so unfortunately placed for a long period. The majority served. their country gallantly during the

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"It is wrong that foreigners should be employed as officers in British ships while such men are faced with starvation."

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

The P. and O. s.s. Ranpura left Mr. Van Lear Black is the Singapore on the 20th instant at Dutch-American millionaire. He 9 a.m., and is dué here at noon on contemplated a 40,000 miles flight the 24th.

Commander Saito immediately replied by a refusal, declaring that unless the demands sent to the Mar- shul some days ago are complied with and satisfactorily accepted there can be no further negolia. tions, whoever may be sent to Tai- nan by the Southern Government as a delegate.

Japan Insisis.

Tokyo, May 11. The following conclusions have been reached by the War and Navy Ministry and the Ministry of For- eign Affairs with regard to the Tai- nan incident:

1. That further negotiations in connexion with the Tsinan incident be carried on between the Division Commander, General Fukuda and the Southern General, Chiang Kai-

shek.

2. To insist that the Southern- The mv. Malayan Prince arrivers comply with all demands.

3. That the Southerners bear by easy stages intending to pay visits to all places of commercialed at Boston on the 19th instant,

and at Now York on the 21st in all responsibility for the brutal interest-Reuter.

murder of Tsinan residents, stant.

GREEK CABINET WILL RESIGN.

M. VENIZELOS AGAIN CALLED TO POWER.

Athens, May 22.

The political situation has clari- fied to the extent that the Cabinet is resigning and M. Venizelos will

4. To compensate all sufferers.

The m.v. Chinese Prince sailed from New York on the 17th instant, The m.v. Talleyrand, of the Nor- wegion Africa and Australia Line, troops at Tsinan and along the areas

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6. Not to call on any third party for arbitration until the Japanese Government have received a reply showing the sincerity and good faith of the Southern Government towards Japan.-Nippon Dempo. Soviet Welcome Tsinan Incident. The Soviet Government officials and the public are intensely inter- 1. Early comedies, letoria, more maturested in the Sino-Japanese conflicts. eamedia, 2. Under the Norman kings. Por While official eircles are unwilling tural and Aragon 3. 60,974 square mile to comment pending further deve- proximately. (a) The Lizard to Berwick-on- Meantime, M. Venizelos will per Tweed; Chi Land's End to lowestall. Elopments, unofficial opinion here sonally conduct 1. campaign: drama; poetry: fables: novels and let hopes that the incident will give a ters. 5. Shrine at the Great Mosque of Mr- ca, covered with a clath of black brocade, renew impetus to the Chinees Nation- pired yearly 0. Articulations produced allats unity, under pressure of chiefly by means of the Hos: p. b. m. and foreign attacks. -

The following are the replies to be summoned to form a Govern-to-day's questions:-- ment, which will dissolve Parlia ment and arrange elections in two emedies, great tragedies, romantle tragi months' time.

throughout the country.-Reuter.

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Paris, May 21.

50. John Bonnie, King WiKam-treet,

F.C., and High-street, Southwark. 8. it sat

almost continuously from 1640 to 1668. D.

The Communists' recent mani-

1024. The master of the Revels. 16. French Feato regarding China insisted that novelist. Inte niasteenth and early twentieth the revolution in China has not century. Toula Harle Julien Vlaud. 11. An

ansient district of Italy, nearly correspond ended, and denied both-Trotakista' log te inoderm Tuscany. 12. The hymn of pessimism, and therefore, the Com- Sim, sung by him at our Lord's Prosomunists are inclined to regard the sation in the Temple. Itocited at the office of Evensong

Tainan incident a signplising a new phase of the revolution.

Publie oplaton hero considers The death le announced of Mr. that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's M. Gustave Kahn, the former Porcival Helyar, British Consul in position is untenable, and that ho French Consul at Shanghai, and the Canary Islands. Mr. Helyar, inust completely accept foreign die former Minister at Bangkok, has who was thirty-nine, was on leave, tatlon, or yield the leadership of died as the result of injuries ro- and was about to enjoy a vacation the aggressive anti-Imperialist clo- ceived in a motor accident in England and France, when he ments based on the support of the

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