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POLISH AVIATORS WORLD SOCIALISTS CHINESE CUSTOMS QUAKE SHOCKS IN MEXICO OUTRAGE BELGRADE EDITOR FINAL OLYMPIAD

RESCUED.

DISASTER TO LATEST ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

CRASH OFF CAPE FINISTERRE AFTER TURNING BACK.

IN CONGRESS.

MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON AND FASCISM,

TESTING TIME AT HÅND

Brussels, Aug. 6. Six hundred delegates, repre- senting 32 Countries, paraded the Brussels streets to-day on the occa-

CONTROL.

INSPECTOR GENERAL'

DISPUTE.

REFUSAL TO APPOINT MR. A. H. F. EDWARDES,

SAVED BY GERMANS.sion of the opening of the Labour NANKING'S DECISION. and Socialist International Con;

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who states that the plane crashed

about 60 miles off Cape Finisterre,

and not in the mid-Atlantic. -

Severe Storm, -

The Polish airmen set off on Friday for the Azores in a biplane equipped with two el collap sible rubber boats, and a bundle of

ment and war,

OPIUM CARRIER ARRESTED.

HEAVY SENTENCE AT MAGISTRACY,

Shanghai, Aug. 1. The British financial control of

MANILA.

FEARS FOR SAFETY OF MAYON REGION.

NO DAMAGE IN CITY.

Manila, Aug. G. Two vary sharp earthquake shocks were fell in Manila last night, but no damage of note is reported in the city.

Apprehension is, however, folt! on account of agingsible connexion between the quakes and the eruption of Mayon, which is two hundred miles to the south-east of Manila.

Renter.

volcano since its reign of terror

SEQUELS.

ASSASSIN BOASTS OF

"GOOD DEED.".

OBREGON BLAMED FOR RELIGIOUS POLICY.

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MANY NUNS ARRESTED

Mexico City, July 30, · The assassination of President-

Elect Obregon was described as a "good deed," and not a siti, by Jose Leon y Toral, the meshssin, whos confession was made public to-day by the Mexican Government.

de

Torul went to mass and confessed

MURDERED.

SHOT DEAD AFTER RESCUE FROM BLUDGEONS.

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

Belgrade, Aug. 5.

ATHLETICS.

MORE WORLD RECORDS. BROKEN.

U.S.A. EASILY LEADS THE

·NATIONAL LIST.

A dastardly crime was carried dut by political extremists to-day when M. Vlada Ristovitch, the editor of the Jedintate, who has recently been conducting an energe EMPIRE IN FOREFRONT tie campaign against Mr. Stefan Radich, the leader of the Peasant Party, was assassinated.

The determination of his assall-

London, Aug. 5. Three world records were broken

ants is shown by the fact that and another equalled at the Olym

number of unknown men as he was Kistovitch was first attacked by a plad to-day when the programme leaving a cafe. The attackers be- of field and track events was laboured him with bludgeons till concluded, tlie United States

man came to the rescue. he fell seriously hurt, but a police having repeated her previous

to a priest named Jimenez at a pri-Ristovitch, to hospital, when a work liats with 173 points.

The policeman was assisting M. successes and hended the national vate residence in Mexico City a fewman darted out from a side-street hours before he shot and killed Gen- and fired nine slots at the pair, eral Obregon, but, the slayer anld in killing M. Ristovitch outright and his confession, "I didn't confess wounding the policeman. only confess sins, and the killing of what intended doing because you Oregon was a good deed. You don't confess good deeds."

He denied that he had any no- complices or that anyone had any knowledge of his plane.

The definite nature of the United States leadership was consolidated when American toama carried off both the relay races for men, Ger-

The assassin was arrested. He told the Police that he was deter mined to slay the editor because of many being second in each case. the attack of the Jedintato on M. The 4X400 world record was Stefan Hadich.. The Peasant lead-beaten and the 4×100 metres re- er, it will be remembered, was seriously wounded in June witen M. cord 'equalled. Rachich, lost his temper in the Skupstina and fired six shots at the Opposition party, killing two and wounding four-Reuter.

SHARK FATALITY.

Canadian Ladies' Successes.

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A Canadian deam triumphed in the 400 metres relay for ladies, while Canada also secured the honours in the Ladies' High Jump. Mies Caterwood beating the world record of Miss Green, of Reading, set up last year, by clearing 1,59

The assassin said that he had no defence to offer in court. He ex- pects to be executed and to go to DIVER KILLED IN SINGAPORE metres.

Heaven.

HARBOUR.

Early disaster has befallen anference, in which considerable in- other attempt, to fly the Atlantic. terest is being taken. Major Idziltowski and Major Ku- Mr. Arthur Henderson, the the Chinese Maritime Customs bals, two Polish aviators, who set leider of the British delegation, which has existed for practically out for New York in the Azores, and the President of the Congress,

in his presidential address, sald three quarters of a century has

It was reported a week ago that "having run into a severe storm. that the hour of testing was at been virtually ended, due to the and on turning back being forced hand, for the next Session of the determined refusal of the Chinese the most aériuus eruption of Mayon down by lack of petrol,

League of Nations Assembly must agres to definite action or Expose Government to appoint a Britisher, began five weeks ago, came early It is the second Transatlantic to the world the plain fact that A. H. F. Edwardes, as successor on Saturday morning, seriously en- small flight disaster within a period of they have no serious intentions into Sir Franels Aglen who was dis-dangering the lives of a

party of explorers, from Legaspi, three days, but again, happily, the their promises regarding disarma-

niissed the first, of February of including Dr. H. Windsor Wade, mishap has not been accompanied Mr. Henderson urged the As-last year but was finally permitted chief pathologist of Cullon leper by tragic consequences, news har-sembly to repel "the dastardly to serve until February 1 of this on W. Sherman. The party colony; Mr. G. M. Riviera, and Mr. ing come through this morning attack of the Fascist Government

year. So says the Shanghai cor-

was camped at the 2,500 foot level in Italy on economic work." that the aviators have been pick-

Another speaker, M. Vander-respondent of the Chicago Tribune, within 50 yards of the lava slide, ed up by the German strajner

Darkness made escape extreme-

To Go to Heaven. velde (Belgium) declared that the who adds: "Samos."

ly difficult. All equipment had to Conflicting, stories are to, huid Internationale ought now to direct

Sir Francia Aglen was dismiss-be left behind. The party 'scram- Toral said that he was actuated of the circumstances under which its attention to the Colonies of they were reared, but relianceAsia and Africa "where Europeaned by the Peking Government due bled and fell across a deep river in his crime by Obregon's "intel- bed at 3 o'clock in the morning; leetual responsibility" for the re- may be placed in the message from capitalists are exploiting to aborito his refusal to obey orders re-just in time to escape being sur-ligious policy of the Mexican Gov-

garding the assessment of Customs rounded by red hot rocks and lava.crament. Reuter's correspondent at Lisbon, ginal proletariats."-Reuter.

surtaxes decided upon at the All the party suffered severely from henvy, choking clouds of Washington Conference of 1922.

The Diplomatic Corps at Pekingashea and volcano dust. Huge masses of molten lava falling on including, according to report, all aides lighted the unmarked path

In the final points, according American Minister, James Van A. af retreat, MacMurray, protested against the Those who saw and heard the

to an unofficial. ranking compiled up to this evening, the United Chinese netton but their protests eruption from the mountainside other Superior Arrested.

Singapore, July 27. States leads with Finland second were unavailing and since the Nu said that it was more severe even

Mexico City, July 31. amail Polish flags which they in- A haul of 89 tuels of prepared tionalist capture of Peking it. is than the 1900 outburst. Frequent

The presence of sharks in the and Great Britain third. If the Sister Conception Acevido de la fended to drop out at intervals so opium and 84 Laels of raw opiumi understood that the British Gov-explosions at the crater throw tone Latta, was held at police headquar Singapore harbour received tragic British Empire were included as that their progress could be fol-was made by the police early thin.ernment has been bringing pres- of molton lava high in the air. tera to-day, charged with having confirmation on Wednesday, when one unit, the Empire would be lowed in spite of the absence of morning at Queen's Street, shortly sure upon T. V. Soong the Nation Some of the big lumpa splashed fontered in the mind of Jose de Leona Malay diver was attacked and second with 108 points. wireless equipment.

after midnight.

alist Finance Minister, to appoint half a kilometer on landing. y Toral the Idos that he could killed outside the Breakwater. figures are as follows:

US.A... On Saturday, a British steameri In the course of ordinary search n British subject. Edwardes, to

The eruption was preceded by solve Mexico's religious problems' The deceased, Sahat in Bodat,

Finland.. wirelessed a message stating the duty, an Indian constable stopped a Aglen's post.

earthquakes close to the base and by assassinating President-Elect was engaged to recover some bag-

Great Britain Obregon. the biplane had passed over ricksha carrying a Chinese pasgen-

on the sides of the huge cone.

gage belonging to a Chinese pas- Failed to Name Edwardes. head heading for the Azores ger, who had with him two tine.

She denied the charge, declaring senger off a ship which was sunk and were within approximately an examination of the contents of

that she did not influence Toral, in about twenty feet of water. Soong held conferences with Ed-

nor did she know who did. hundred miles of their destination. the tins proved that they contained

He was working from a sampan, into a opium, with the result that the man wardes who has been holding the Apparently they ran

Sister Concepcion is Mother Sup-without diving apparatus or post of acting Inspector General severe storm, however, and decid-was arrested.

erior of A convent which Toral costume. He made one dive and ed to return to the European coast.

Appearing before Mr. R. E. Lind-at Peking but Soong declared to

visited frequently shortly before

down the second time his compan- today Apprehension for Safely.

She is about 32 years old. that he was only a carrier. He said

fons in the boat suddenly saw the London, Aug. 6. Fears were entertained for their that he brought the opium into the first time in three quarters of a

More Arrests.

water darkened with blood.

Haiti The death la announced of Sir

A few seconds later the unfor- safety as no further nowe of them Colony from Wuchow and received century without a foreign Inspec-

Sixteen other nuns were arrested tunate man

Chile came to the surface, was received. It seemed cleara lttle remuneration for his trou-tor General and the question of that, not having reached Hortable. He claimed that he was not whether a successor to Aglen shall Robert Henry Hobart, K.C.V.O.,

at Guadalupe, Hidalgo. They as and when he was dragged Into the was 91 serted their ignorance of Toral's in-sampan it was seen that he had they had abandoned the attempt principal in the smuggling of the be appointed must be decided by CB-Reuter."

the Nationalist Government and.

[The deceased, who contraband. at dawn on Saturday.

educated attentions.

been terribly bitten in the thigh. Fines totalling $9,000, or night the central executive committee of years of age, was

Newspaper men quoted Sister They were then about 800 miles from the European const and months' hard labour, were imposed the Kuomintang which is now in Charterhouse and Trinity Hall,

session at Nanking.". reach by his Worship.

Cambridge, and in his early years Concepcion as saying of Obregon's He died before he reached hospital. The Chinese bankers' who now he was Private Secretary to the assassination that "God must have wanted it, otherwise He wouldn't dominate the country's financial Duke of Devonshire, later becom- have permitted the crime."

determined to no ing private secretary to four Sec- situation are longer permit a foreigner to domi-retaries of Scotland. He was also that she expected to be executed nate the Customs revenues which secretary to

soon and that if she had done any- have been deposited almost exclu- (Duke of Norfolk) for the pur-thing wrong she wished to be pun- sively in the British Hongkong pases of the Coronation of King ished, for she could find happiness and Shanghai Bank,'

Edward and Queen Alexandra, in God's will.

Toral has steadfastly maintained and was Gold Stick OMeer at the It is reported that the Chin Coronation of King George and that he had no accomplices in his ០៤ bankers are determined to

crime and that one one knew of his force the issue by compelling the Queen Mary.

intentions.

A Denial.

should have been able to

land easily enough, while appre- hension was caused by the failure!

OBITUARY.

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sell this morning, the. niun chimed the correspondent of the Tribune: SIR ROBERT HENRY HOBART-he assassinated the president-elect. came up for air, and when he went

liners along the route to sight FRENCH COMMUNISTS - 10 machine.

Anxiety was relieved, however, when Reuter's correspondent atj Warsaw cabled that a message had| been received at Humbury stating that the Polish machine, made a forced descent in mid-Atlantic ati 4.46 p.m. on Saturday.

Rescue After 'Crash.

DEMONSTRATE.

OVER TWO HUNDRED ARE

ARRESTED.

Paris, Aug. 5.

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They also quoted her as saying

FOLLIES GIRL MARRIED.

APANESE.

WEDDED TO A JAPANESE.

Sweden

Germany. Canada

The

173

102

46

44

44

38

Franco

27

Japan

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South Africa Ireland Norway Hungary

Italy....

Philippines Switzerland

Holland...

Women's Placings.

An unofficial ranking for the women's events gives the placings

as follows:

Conada

U.S.A. Germany

Poland

Sweden

Holland

Japan,

France Austria Italy

The Marathon. ↑

New York, July 27. Eben Takashi Takamine, son of the late Dr. Jokich! Takamine, No fewer than 250 arrests were Nationalist Government to appoint |

He was Official Verderer of the

famous Japanese chemiist, and Miss Odette John, former Ziegfeld made by the police in the course Chinese Customs Commissioner New Forest in 1906, from which

Follies girl, were married at. The Hamburg message stated of rioting which followed a Com-instead of a British subject, in year until 1910 he was Liberal

Mexico City, Aug. '1. Elkton, Marylard, last Wednesday. that the biplane had been destroy munist demonstration before the order to obtain the deposit of the M.P. for the New Forest Division.

working-class

Sister Concepcion, named by News of the marriage became Customs funds in Chinese banks. He was Deputy Lieutenant and

Eighty runnera set out in the ed and that the airmen had been Town Hall in the rescued by the German steamer suburb of Ivry.

Since the question Involves the JP. for Middlesex and J.P. for Jose Toral as having indirectly public with the return to the

influenced him to

Marathon over a course of 26 miles assassinate couple to New York to-day. The Communists assembled at "'Samos."

future control of the Chinese London and Southampton.

Both had been previously 600 yards, which involved an Ivry despite a governmental bun.

The heir to the title is Lleut,-President-Elest Obregon, testified Those arrested include the De-Government finance, it is the arrival of the "Samos" as puty-Mayor of Ivry, who was lead-sidered one of the most important Col. C. V. C. Hobart, D.S.O.. who at Toral's preliminary trial to-day married and divorced. The bride extremely severe test owing to the

receiving consideration from the served on the Staff in the freat that she never told him or any is a daughter of William Jean, of rough, nature of much of Kuomintang central executive War and has been Deputy Lieliten-one else that the deaths of Calles, Birmingham Ala,

ant of the Isle of Wight since Obregon and Patriach Perez were necessary for the settlement of 1913.]

the religious conflict in Mexico.

Further details of the rescue were, however, made available on

Lexicoes, near Oporte, towing the ing the rioters-Reuter.

wreck of the machine,

Reuter's Lisbon correspondent

states

forced

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that the bipland Was AMOY AGITATORS

owing down

to

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fault which developed in the petrol feed pipo.

ACTIVE.

The machine came down more or less out of control, striking the ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT

Bea with considerable forte and smashing both wings.

One of Occupants Injured.

The crash occurred on Saturday

committee now in session,

Want Freedom.

con-

A prominent Chinese banker.in- formed the Tribune correspondent to-day that China is determined to obtain freedom of action in finen-, cfal matters in 'order to enable the country to enter the world's money markets, particularly the United States, for future financing In connexion with the economle re- It is reported that on Wednesday construction programme.

GROWING. Chinese telegrams state that the anti-Japanese agitation in Amoy la becoming more serious.

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BELGRADE DECISION.

COMMISSION ADOPTS NET- TUNO CONVENTIONS,

Belgrade, Aug. 5. The Parliamentary Commission Mr. Soong announced to-day appointed to consider the Nettuno afternoon, but an hour or 80 evening, a Chinese named Chan, afterwards the aviators were who fa the compradore of a Japan-that all Nationalist bonds based Conventions has adopted them by. sighted from the bridge of the ese firm, was assaulted by a ang of on Customs auftaxes which are 16 votes to ono, bridge of the German steamer, rowdies, who later stabbed him. administered by Chinese exclu-. It is hoped that the favourable which hastened to the scene of the Chan managed to reach his re-sively, have reached parity. mishap and picked up Majors sidence, but during the evening Kubala and Idzikowski, one of some agitators threw a bomb Into. whom was subsequently injured. hle house, with what result is not

The steamer took the machine known.

In tow and went into Lexicoes, though, one of the airmen, it is net yet certain which, had a curious. misfortune while on board, falling

The New Capital.

New President?

The newspapers, commenting on the political situation, say that the Obregonistas appear to favour Aaron Saenz, Governor of Nueva Leon, as their leader and possibly as President.

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U.S. OIL MAGNATE "WANTED."

SCENARIO REHEARSAL FOR

TO-MORROW.

tho

ground.

The first three miles were 'over cobble-stones and the course then THE GRAND TATTOO. followed the River Amstel. Half- way, the competitors crossed open country, reaching the river again and then back to the Stadium.

Steytler (South Africa) get the pace, leading the departure from the Stadfum, and the field was In connexion with the Scenario well strung out by the time the an-River Amstel was reached. Here of the Grand Tattoo, it is nounced that the first rehearsal the Japanese pair, Kanematsu will be held at 5.30 to-morrow Yamada and Seichiro Tsuda, of evening in St. George's Hall of the Keio University, were leading tho City Hall. This will be followed first bunch, and were running as if by another rehersal on Thursday they could go on for overmore. at the same time' and place.

'The Japanese were still leading The Scenario is in the hands of at the end of 21 miles, when Ray, the Philharmonic Society and the the. American, made a buret and Amateur Dramatic Club and these overtook Taude, with Martellin organisations will welcome the fourth. assistance of any ladies and gentlemen desiring to take part.

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With, five miles to go, Martellla patronised the refreshment stall, but he rapidly regained, his posi tlon..

It was in the closing stages that

ALLEGED PERJURY ON decision will finally dispose of anti-Italian feeling. The recent

INCOME TAX. friction, when serious rioting took The Nationalist Government place all over Jugo-Slavia in the

Denver, Aug. 5. announced to-day plans for a course of demonstrations against A Presidential warrant has been $50,000,000 (silver), loan for the Italy, arose from the Nettuno Con- tesued for the arrest and extradi- purpose of financing the construc-ventions, which M. Marinkovitch tion of the oil magnate, Mr. Harry Shanghai, Aug. G.

Among the passengers arriving a French Algerian named Elounft, On Saturday evening Mr. T. V. tion of the first section of the new had placed before Parliament for Blackmer, a missing witness in the

Teapot Dome case.

In Hongkang on the Dollar Steam and a Chilean named Plaza- and badly injuring his arm, necca- Soong arrived in Shanghai from capital project at Nanking.

He is at present living in ship Liner President eveland suddenly shot from the rear into sitating his going into hospital on Nanking and asserted that the mem According to the announcement, Agitation was carried on pro-

Mr. Issac arrival at. Lexicoes.

bers of the "Leftist Party, includ-the. Central Government will be testing against ratification, and France, and his extradition is be- this morning was It is, however, thought likely ing Mrs. Liao Chung-kai and Chen responsible for $15,000,000 while serious, clashes with the Policeing sought on a charge of perjury Dolbourgo from Manila. Mr. Afth and sixth places with well that both airmen will return to Shu-fen, would be admitted to the the balance will be apportioned occurred in the majority of the big in connexion with Income Tax re- Dolbourgd is a merchant of timer efforts... Paris on Monday (to-day).

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Fifth Plenary Session,

among the various provinces.

ratification.

cities-Reuter,

turns-Router's American Service. Shanghai

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