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TENSE SHANGHAI SITUATION.

COLLEGE STUDENT

DROWNED.

ANARCHIST PLOTS IN SPAIN.

KING'S CUP AERIAL THRILLS.

CAPTAIN HOPE WINS IN EXCITING FINISH:

DISASTER TO MR. WARWICK'S

PLANE FEARED, "

WAFDISTS ISSUE MANIFESTO.

EGYPTIAN ROYAL DECREE CONDEMNED.

"GRAVE SOCIAL CRISES"

Cairo. July 22,

A manifesto has been issued from the Wafdist headquarters in which the Royal Decreo dissolving the Senate and the Chamber for three years,

and suspending

LARGE ANTI-JAPANESE EUROPEANS RESCUE SISTER NARBONNE DISCOVERY

CONVENTION,

CHINESE LEADERS STRONGLY SUPPORT BOYCOTT.

LADY-PILOT'S ERROR. vera articles of the Constit ONLY POSSIBLE BLOW.

London, July 22. A disaster marred the famous, King's Cup air race round Britain, which was again won by the holder, Captain W. L. Hope, one of the competitors, Mr. Warwick being missing.

tion is unqualifedly condemned.

OF: VICTIM.

TRAGEDY NEAR SHEK-O

ENDS PLANS.

ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE MONARCHY ?

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EX-KAISER HOPES TO RETURN,

TALKS OF RE-ESTABLISHING MONARCHY.

OFFICIAL PROTESTS.

Amsterdam, July 22. Complaints that the ox-Kaiser Wilhelm is abusing-Dutch hospi- tality by volcing design for the restoration of the German monar- chy, have been made to the Dutch Government by the plenipotentiary It seems certain from informa-representative of the Republican

POLICE VIGILANCE.

London, July 22.

ROUND WORLD IN 23 DAYS.

AMERICAN PAIR BEAT MANY RECORDS.

FACED DEATH THREE TIMES DURING FLIGHT.

THRILLING STORY.

New York, July 22, Mr. John Henry Mears, the American theatrical producer, and Captain B. D. Collyer, his pilot, reached New York to-day having; completed their journey round the World In 23 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes, thus beating the previous record by over four-days.

A tragic affair, Involving the death of a St. Stephen's College boy, occurred at Shek-O on Satur- day afternoon. It was followed by a thrilling reacne ineldent in which a sister of the victim, in a plucky attempt to save the boy, Shanghai, July 23. was herself caught by a strong The Wafdists strongly denounca

Contemporaneously with the current, and had to be rescued by the suspension of Parliament and accuse the Government of forcing issue of the Nationalist Note to two Europeans.

tion leaking through that a wide-Complaint Bureau in Berlin. The scène of the fatality was back Erypt when Eastern nations Japan announcing the nullifying

The Bureau has called attention Island Bay, next to Shick-0, which spread plot has been discovered in like Syria, Trak and India are of the Commercial. Treaty, making steady progress in their National anti-Japanese Convention is one of the popular bathing re- Spain aimed at the overthrow of to the matter following a telegram efforts to secure Parliamentary opened at the Shanghai Chamber sorts on the south side of the the monarchy The Spanish police despatched from Doorn, where the and Constitutional life.

of Commerce at which, over a island.

have carried out acrests all over the ex-Kaiser is in exile, to the Kaiser The manifesto" accuses thehundred delegates were present.

Amongst those using the beach The chair was taken by Mr. Government of breaking their

being old surrectionary movement

This telegram acknowledged the nths in order to satisfy the Chen Ta-ching, who stressed the on Saturday afternoon where two country following rumours of an in-wilhelm Association. ambitions of forciners and their significance of the Convention and Chinese brothers and an the south of Scotland, but or-own aspirations, but without cal-urged co-operation in preventing sister. Leung Kwok-kit, one of the planned, though in some quarters Association's tribute of homago, the greater part having been

the existence of a plot is denied, the and expressed confidence that the Hsia Chi-feng, the former

statement being made that the ar-fighting spirit of a certain, Bavar lating the result of the grave the sale of Japanese goods. social erisea. Ilkely to arise and

ian regiment would again bo "whose consequences God alone Chinese Secretary to the League of

resta are purely preventive.

brought into action when It Came take can foresee."-Rentar.

Nations, addressed the meeting at

According to the Narbonne cor to the question of re-establishing some cansiderable length, advocat-tide. ing perseverance in the boycott of Japanese goods. Ilo declared that hut was herself caught by the currespondent of the che de l'aria, the Fatherland under the Kaiser the severing of economic relations rent and similarly swept away the plot was hatched in a wood on and a hereditary Drince.-Reuter.

the outskirts of Berceluni by a body was the only effective blew which from the land. the Chinese as a nation could

of anarchists. administer to Japan.

It is supposed that his machine crashed in the lonely moorlands in ganlaed aerial searches have failed to reveal any trace of his suichine up to the time of writing,

Captain Hope, the winner, wop in great style. He used a Moth, of a type similar to that in which; he scored his victory last year when he flew at an average speed of 129.8 miles an hour in very bad weather conditions..

Gruelling Flying.

This year, Mr. Hope maintained an average speisd of 113 miles per hour throughout the second day, arriving, first at Brooklands Aero- drome in his own De Havilland Moth after two days of gradling dying over the course of 3,098 miles.

THIEF JUMPS FROM VERANDAH.

RECEIVES INJURIES TO NOTH LEGS.

Hard-pressed by the tenants, he thought nothing of leaping from the verandah at the rear of the house and, dropping a distance of some 20 feet, was injured in both legs.

Mr. Fun the Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, endorsol these views.

brothers, who was aged 15, was swept off his feet by a wave, and before their horrified eyes, carried out to sea by the receding

WILA

His sister went out to his rescue,

Assassination Plot?

It was then that, for the first time, the attention of two Euro- peans was drawn to the incident Mr. D. H. Blake, the well-known The plot was directed against

Was Assassination

STARVATION PLEÀ.·

CASE.

Their journey makes one of the most remarkable of travel atorice, accomplished by air.

They set of from New York on June 29th in an attempt to over- the Transatlantic liner "Olympic" which they caught up after it was approximately 100

five hours in their dush, miles out to sea, and thus saved

:

After arrival of the nor at Cherbourg, they immediately set out for Tokyo, travelling by way of Paris, Berlin, Moscow and across Siberia.

Records Benten. -

local solicitor, and Mr. Harry King Alfonso and it is believed that SMART SENTENCE IN OPIUM

to have While being chased by the in- The Sino-Japanese situation in Owen-Hughes were on the beach an mates of 117, Woosung Street, Yau-Shanghai is becoming increasingly when they noticed the plight been attempted on the occasion

ол prompt of the opening.

July the girl. They mati, whose premises he had delicate and ateisiness is felt agor

upshot. Ourly struck out after her, and, | 18th. of the five-milen Som-

after a strenuous struggle with port Tunnel, through the Pyrenees sell, at the Central Police Court, entered with the object of commit to the ultimate ting a larceny, a young Chinese Orn Correspondent.

the strong current, brought her fron Forges D'Arbel to Canfrane, this morning, with the possession was severely injured on Saturday

Manchurin Problems.

in connexion with which an elabor- Rafely back to the beach. through a fall into the street from a

Shanghai, July 22, They next sought for the any, vérandah.

General Chang Hauch Hang has Leung Kwok kit, on being inform

delegates ined by the girl that he was telegraphed his

to similar plight, but they found_no Peking ordering their return Mukden. It is understood they trace of him.

The body of the unfortunate lad will later make a trip to Nanking with negotiations to complete Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. It was later recovered and removed reported that General Chang to the Mortuary. Isach-liang has important in-

Owing to this tragedy, a bathing stractions to give to the Fengtien picnic for St. Stephen's College delegates, the nature of which boys which was to have been held cannot be ascertained.

at Stanley this afternoon,, has General Chang Tso-haianz.been now canculled. Lapan of Kirin, has it is rumoured strongly opposed the delegates' re- turn and has insisted they should remain In Peking.

The remarkable flight was com- Charged before Mr. R. E. Lind-pleted in 5 days-21 hours, which of the French airmen, Costcs and easily beat the sensational record Lebrix, who took the sea route.

ale inaugural ceremony attended by of 25 taels of Wuchow optum, Bruter's American Service.

Alfongo King

and President Chinese said he was hired by an- Doumergue of France, was carried other man to smuggle the drug out without untoward incident,

Other prize winners were Mr. Uwins, flying the Bristal "101" for Sir George Stanley White, who

He was taken to the Government finished second, Mias Winifred Civil Hospital on the arrival of the Spooner, the only woman competi-police.. tor, In her machine, who came in third, and Captain Broast in Sir Charles Wakefield's Moth, who was fourth."

His Majesty the King telegraph- ed his congratulations to Captain Hope immediately he learned of the success.

A Close Finish. Hope's flying time for "the 1096 miles round Britain" was 10 hours, 21 minutes, 4 seconds, an average of over 1051⁄2 miles per hour.

Captain Hope was third at the end of the first day, but he made a great effort in yesterday's stage of 566 miles, which he covered at over 113 miles per hour,

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AMERICAN CIRCUS TRAGEDY,

EIGHT KILLED IN PECULIAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Boston, Mass. July 22,

A train, consisting of trucks packed with ornate circus wagons, under which three hundred of the circus employees were huddled, enme to grief at Farmington, New Hampshire, to-day, when one of the wagons rolled off, causing the the succeeding derailment of 1trucks.

Details of the disaster to hand show that eight were killed.

It is said that a split is possible among the Fontien dele- gales, some of whom support General Chang Tso-hsiang.

Conflicting Reports.

Shanghal, July 23. is reported that General Chang! such-liang has replied to the

SINGAPORE JEWEL

ROBBERY.

GANG LED BY VICTIM'S RELATIVE,

that $52,000 WORTH TAKEN.

Singapore, July 17.

In reaching Tokyo 12 days after leaving New York, they establish- ed now records not only for the France-Japan trip, but for the

The plot was fortunately dis-shore from the steamer Tai Iling.

"Why did you do it?" his Wor-New York-Tokyo fourney also. covered by the Narbonne Pulice be fore the day of the ceremony, and ship queried.

Defendant:-I had no cholee. and farther information secured, after two arrests had been made, several notorious Spanish haunts was starving. were raided, and many other ar rests effected.

French Anarchist Involved.

One of the men detained is un- derstood to be a well-known.French anarchist and his secretary, who were found to be in possession of a large amount of money.

His Worship: You don't look Bke it.

Defendant was fined $1,500, or four months' hard labour.

The name of another Chinese was called in connexion with a charge of being in possession of a much smaller quantity of opium.

The "City of New York" in which the most spectacular portion Iof the world-girdling fliers was cruising accomplished, linen radius of 2,000 miles. The fuse- lage is painted royal purple and while the the wings yellow, machine has a 525 h.p. Pratt Whitney "Hornet" motor, and a petrol capacity of 365 gallons.

Faced Death.

On their arrival in Japan, the The man failed to respond; and airmen stated that three times dur- The Police also seized a large quantity of compromising docu-pu its being ascertained that heing the flight they faced death. ments, as the result of which fur had not come le Court, the bail of Once, the last time, Mcara had ther

were made in $600, which he had deposited with given up all hope and had resign- ed himself to a forced landing in Catalonia.

the police, was estreated."

an unseen held--perhaps a crash, into trees or the houses of some village.

arreste

Hundreds Arrested.

"Lord! It's awful to think of it even now," anid Mears, "I'm not GIRL RESCUED AT QUARRY prayed in my life, I prayed to-

The attempt to stir up trouble in ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. the absence of the King has mani- fested itself in other parts of the country and arrests were recently made in the provinces of Madrid, Barcelona, Saragossa, Biscaya and Guipuzcoa.

POINT.

Japanese warning aaying

of the Three

a religious man, but If I ever the intention Eastern Provinces to recognise No- tionalist control is in accordance

night between 7 and 8 o'clock A sensational gang robbery was

circling around with the wishes of the people of

when we were o'clock this Manchuria and that Japan has no committed at one There was a very close finish for

It is stated in all the num-- Chan Hing-chee, a 17-year-old Tekyo 1,000 feet up and couldn't just over two minutes after Hope

right to prevent the hoisting of the morning at a house in Yio Chu had completed the journey, Mr.

Two wagens containing the wild Nationalist flag.

Kang Road occupied by a Chinese ber of arrests execed 1,000, includ-girl, has been admitted into hos- see our hands in front of us for animals attached to the circus Japanese sources, however, state Indy named Mrs. Lee The Leow, ng Socialists, Republicans and petal suffering from the elfects of the fog. We had only a few gul-

an immersion in the harbour. Uwina ushed over the line

lons of gasolene left.

"I said to myself it's all over. secure second place, and ninety remained intact. Reuter's Ameri-that General Chang has verbally who was robbed of jewellery valu- Liberals.

The Spanish League for the lenied to the Japanese Consued at $52,000. Thin Indy is a re

A police report issued this morn-- seconds later, 31ss Spooner. the ran Service.

General at Mukden that he will join Intive of Mr. Lim Peng Slang, Rights of Man on Thursday 16- only lady pilot in the contest |

the Nanking Government. He is Chairman of the Ho Hong Bank

sued a statement that there was no ing states that she was rescued, Then suddenly through the haze, arrived, to become third..

also said to have declared that no

she had thrown herself into the of the hegeon light. It was the Political Council will be established A remarkable feature of the plot and that the arrests were pure.yesterday, at Quarry Point, after Collyer picked out the faint gleum harbour with the intention of tak-light at Tachikawn. We heaved a sigh of relief and settled down in Manchuria and that he will ar-affair is that the robbers were led y precautionary.—Reuter.

ing her life,

enrefully but easily. The field was rest any of bla subordinates who by Lee Sio Heng, the 21-year old

Her case has been referred to rough, but we landed all ship- become associated with the Nation-grand-nephew of the victim. Yes

the Secretariat for Chinese shape. Collyer is a great flyer: alista-Nam. Chung Pao,

You can't give too much credit to Affairs.

Miss Spooner's Mistake, Miss Spooner wins the Siddeley Trophy, consisting of a Challenge Cup and £150 offered to compell- tlon among Light Aeroplane clubs.

She might have won the race but for a mistake. From Renfrew to within few miles of Lympne she led the way but then she lost ten. minutes by following the wrong railway line.

No Trace of Missing Fller.

WATER SHORTAGE.

SUGGESTED USE OF SEA WATER.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. Wang Kwong- tin will ask:

Ban on Bobbed-Hair.

Shanghai, July 22,

Herday afternoon this youth left the house after a dispute with his great-aunt, and did not return. When the house was locked up for The Nanking Minister of the In-the night he was still absent.

At about 1 o'clock this morning, In view of the senréity of water,terior has made a somewhat start- ling proposal to the Government

is it not possible for arrangements that an order shall be made pro- there was a knock at the door, to be made with the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade to utilise sea bibiting Chiness

women

Lisbon Revolt,

FORD WORKERS ILL.

BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.

.

Another Escape..

London, July 22. Details of the insurrectionary rising in Lisbon on Friday last, now available show that a number of It was stated that the girl was him."

48 4 servant at 384 officers at the Castello Sao Jorge employed Barracks mutinied.

Queen's Road Central:

Twice before they narrowly Loyalists forces were ordered to

miased a serious accident. Just disarm the rebels and they brought

after they left. Mukden and were from and the young man's voice was up artillery and vigorously beseiged:

crossing the Korean border, sud- denly the off began spurting out water from the fire font for cleans-bobbing their hair, and ordering heard, asking to be admitted. The the barracks.

Non-Combatant Casualties. '

through the Instrument board, It Unfortunately one flyer, Mt. ing purposes, except for general that those who have already done so door was opened by a servant girl, should be given six months in which and immediately four black-conted

meant, possibly, a broken connex- figures, who were standing beside

After a short engagement, the

lon. They were flying blindly in Warwick, ls,mlasing. He failed house cleansing? to arrive at Renfrew on Friday Is it a fact that water for cleans- to allow it to grow again.

The Minister also seeks to pro- the young man, followed him in: mutineers submitted. The casual-

the fog which they encountered Somerville, July 16, night from Newcastle on the lasting streets is obtained from the hibit wearing by women of any of He was armed with a knife, and ties are estimated to be seven kill-

soon after they took off at 3 stage of the first day's racing.. meine? If so, cannot the Head of the so-called modern modes which warning. the servant girl not to ed and, 80 wounded, including a

Approximately 150 employeos of o'clock in the morning. the Sanitary Department devise

"Take the controls" signalled Yesterday afternoon, four acro-means to ensure a supply from other the Ministry of Interior may think raise an alarm, he led the robbers, mutineer, some soldiers and also

to be indecent. So far the Nation-two of whom had pistols, to the the inhabitants of the neighbouring the Ford plant here collapsed to- plancs set out from Renfrew sourceaf

day from an ineas believed to Collyer frantically. alist Government has not sanction-sleeping apartment of the house houses, some of which were dam-

aged by artillery fire. Aerodrome and acorched the

od or commented on the proposals, hold.

Everything is now normal-have been caused by food eaten lonely moorlands of equthern

The sleepors were awakened and herded into a room. From the ter-Reuter, Scotland but no trace of Warwick's

Yangiaze" Unrest. machine was found-British Wire-

According to naval wirelessrified. Madam Lee Tae Leow, her messages received in Hongkong grand-nephew obtained the keys to-day, there are possibilities of and he and his companions rifled NEW TRANSATLANTIC FACILITIES FOR FAR EAST ghing the vicinity of Wan-the jewellery boxes, Those which hsien, following the revolt of the it was found difficulty to open local commander at Kal Haun, were broken. No cash was taken. He is reported to he marching on Among the stolen jewellery were Wanhalen which General Yang Sen five rings valued at $20,000.

Icsa.

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Still Missing.

BIRKENHEAD DOĆK

✓ ENTRANCE..

SHIPPING.

London, July 23.

London, July 23. Innumerable aeroplanes, motor- 1sty, horesemen, shepherds and police of six countries have been

The Earl of Derby formally is probably powerless to defend; vainly searching for two days for G. N. Warwick, a competitor in opened the new Mersey entrance owing to the wholesale.desertions the King's Cup race who failed to to the Birkenhead Docks. It has in his forces.

been constructed at a cost of

arrive at the last stage of the Alight from Glasgow on Friday.

The airman's whereabouts are completely unknown.-Router.

Shanghal, July 22,

ATTEMPT.

NEW TRANSATLANTIC ATTEMPT.

Brest, July 22 The French seaplane "Fregatte" A message from Kiuklang states The Nanking Government has £1,300,000, to meet the demand for that a clash between the bandit appointed Mr. Liu Chemin to be piloted by Flying-Commander Paris increased facilities for shipping army and the 6th. regulars is im-Mayor of Nanking, and the new has started on an attempt to fly on the Far Eastern service.minent on the borders of Anhui Mayor formally took the oath of across the Atlantic via the Atores,

and Klangsi,

'his office, on Friday.

Reuter.

Reuter.

at noon.

Work was suspended and am- bulances, and automobiles rushed the sick to the hospital.

TWO TYPHOONS.

Mears had never eat at the con- trols of an aeroplane in his life.

There was no choice,

"I moved up and took the con trols and tried to hold hor steady," ho said. Collyer then crawled out of the cockpit, around on the alde of the fuselage and hanging, there by God knows what, he lifted the engine cover and traced the leak ago," To-day's Observatory report Fortunately it was not a serious: states that a typhoon is approach-leakago. The Chinese mechanfo ing the Bonins from S.S.W., whilst who had alded in filling the oll another appears to have formed tank at Mukden had not screwed far east of Manila, moving west down the cap securely. The d

(Continued on Pago 12.) ward. The weather forecast up to was coming out through the top. moderata; fair, noon-to-morrow is: East winds,