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Tal, C. 269,

NO 2 1 9-ALAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928.

TWO AIR CRASHES IN ENGLAND:

MISS HONOR WELLBY KILLED INSTANTLY,

SHOCKING TRAGEDY OVER BROOKLANDS.

R.A.F. OFFICER MISHAP.

London, Sept. 20.

A shocking air tragedy occur- red at Brooklands to-day when Miss Margaret Honor Weilby, a well-known woman aviator, crashed after a short solo light and was killed instantly.

She is the first woman pilot to be killed in an a disaster in Grent Britain.

日八初月八

BIG AMMUNITION HURRICANE HAVOC A BLOW AT BRITISH WOMEN'S FATAL

EXPLOSION...

MANY CASUALTIES: MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED.

NANKING DISASTER.

2.

Shanghai, Sept. 21. A terrific explosion of ammuni- | tion occurred in Nanking yealer- day, causing many casualties and; the destruction of much property.

SEQUEL.

NEGRO RIOTS FOLLOW CREMATIONS.

DESPERATE PLIGHT OF THE FLORIDA SUFFERERS.

SHIPPING.

INDIAN OPPOSITION DEFEAT

THE GOVERNMENTÄ

FIRST ROUND ONLY.

Simia, Sept. 20. Government circles are serious- ly concerned by the latest move of the Opposition in Introducing racial discrimination in an attempt

tion of coastal shipping to Indian vessels through the Legislative Council.

QUARREL.

TO-DAY'S WATERFRONT

TRAGEDY.

VICTIM COLLAPSES ON BEING SEIZED BY THROAT.

It appears that a huge consign- DEATH-ROLL GROWING, to force the Bill, for the reserva- ASSAILANT ARRESTED.

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SHANGHAI COURT SENSATION,

BRITISH FIRM'S ALLEGED

· EMBEZZLEMENT. A

A DISMISSAL ORDER.

Shanghal, Sept. 21. Sensation followed sensation dur- Ing the hearing in the Provisional Court this morning of a 'caso in which Mr. O.B. Gainsborough, "li member of the Shanghai Share-

pany.

BRITISH COMBINE FOR CHINA.

PROFESSOR JOHN W. N. SMITH'S EFFORTS.

FORMER H. K. UNIVERSITY `MAN & NATIONALISM.-

brokers, Association, le suing the BIG CONTRACT IN VIEW ment of ammunition, which was

"C.O.C." claiming Tle. 50,000 as being sent to Marsin! Feng Yu- hsiang, was

Amplified details of the reported" being transported

New York, Sept. 20.

A waterfront tragedy was annet salary and commission. across the city in waggona to baj

After a long argument, the Court formation of a syndicate of ed at nino o'clock this morning, The violent gale in and around

The unoficial groups of the when as the result of a squabble ordered the dismissal of Messrs. British arms for reconstructing shipped from the waterfront when New York has abated consider- an explosion Buddenly occurred.

ably and it is supposed that the Legislative Assembly have combing between two women, one of thom Seth, Mancell and McClure, a Bit-parts of the war-ravaged areas of As a result, six Chinese were havec-wreaking hurricane has ated to defeat the Government and lost, her life, while the other lash firm of chartered accountants, China, recently, cabled to Hong- on the Bill, boing held in custody on suspicion, and liquidators of the C.O.C. cum kong as a report appearing in tho killed and over 40 wounded, last blown itself out. The trail the European group whilst some 00uses in the of devastation left in its wake is which as its title indicates pro

In the brief struggle which fol-

London Daily Express, have boon. The dismissal, was ordered owing received by mail. vlcinity of the Northwest Gate, almost indescribable. Miami la poses to reserve the Indian coastal lowed a long altercation no' wen- to the refusal of the firm to comply

No Information in local cont pona were used according to in-with the Court order to pay where the explosion occurred,

trade to Indian-owned shipping.

After a long debate to-day, formation made available to the Tis.15,000 into the liquidators' bank syndicate is available, but it is now.

mercial were completely wrecked.

circles regarding the number of eye-wit- account. when the Government strongly police. A Opposed the Bill, the Opposition nesses state that the detained wo-

definitely disclosed that Mr. John succeded by 71 votes to 40 in get man used her bare hands in her to an exceedingly tense session.

The removal order was the climax Nind Smith, bho organizer, is an English professor who spent some ting the Bill referred to a Select attack on the victim.

Previously, Mr. Meinhardt, the time on the staff of the Hongkong Committee of 23 members with in-

American deputy, had charged the University. The syndicate in re- structions to report to the next

British liquidators with dishonesty, ported to comprise "manufacturers embezzlement and contempt of with Interlocking Interests in almost every phase of British In- Messra Suth. Mancel and Me-dustry and trade.” ....... Clure strongly protested, stating that they only desired to protect the accountants' fees.Our Own Correspondent,

Military guards and coplies com- Miss Well bed when the ma- and wounded. All who lust their had, anly been up prised the majority of those killed ching was seen to be acting strange-lives were instantly killed. ly. The plane was almost over the rallway line when it suddenly deve loped into a spin above the tele phone wires, and plunged headlong Lo the ground...

The explosion caused a panic amongst people residing in the locality, but it has not yet been ascertained how many people were killed or injured as the result of house collapses-Nam Chung Pao, A brief Reuter's message states

Crush Into Embankment, The plane missed the railway line by a few yards only and crash-that more than twenty were killed

ed into the embankment.

| and injured by the explosion.

the Eye-witnesses rushed to scene, but when Miss Wellby was pulled out of the wreckage, she was already dead, having sustained tor- rible Injuries,

The deceased air-woman had held a pilot's certificate for some time, and was regarded as a most pro- mising aviatrix.

Previous Woman Flying Victim,

As stated, she is the first wonian to be killed in England flying alone, though the and death of Lady Car- bory at Nairobi earlier this year, when she was giving instruction to

NAVAL POWERS AND

DISARMAMENT.

EFFORT TO BRING PARTIES

TOGETHER.

GERMAN DISSENSION.

:

Geneva, Sept, 20. The disarmament problem was a man pupil in Nairobi will be re-again to the fore at Geneva to-day, The sub-committee appointed to called.

draft a resolution for submission

The crash

occurred over the

wrecked, Palm Beach has suffered seriously, and the whole of the east coast of Florida is devastated. The death-roll in Florida mounts steadily. Many of those reported missing have been found dead, a. revised estimate by the and chairman of the Red Cross, which is doing admirable relief work in the devastated regions, places the figure at between seven and eight hundred.

In Desperate Plight.

The desperate plight of the sufferers from the disaster is vividly portrayed in a report re- celved in New York headquarters of the Red Cross Society, giving an instance of the appalling. uitary conditions along Lake Okeechobee.

Session.

Come to Grips.

The two women were first seen At the present time, the Inch to be quarrelling while they walk-court. cape interests enjoy a virtualed along the sea-wall for a dis- monopoly of the coastal tride.

tance of two hundred yards or so, to the cast of the Wing Lok Wharf, Alternately halting and walking as the argument developed, they Anally stopped near the Macao bont whart, and came to grips.

The Opposition Bill provides that by the end of five years from the date of its acceptance, the constal trade shall be reserved to tonnage in which the controlling interest is vested in British Indian subjects..

JAPANESE COTTON RESTRICTION:

SHIFTS:

Ono is alleged to havo darted forward and caught at the apron The fate of the Bill is regarded of the other, who is alleged to have as of supreme importance as the retaliated by closing both hands in Indians argue that its passage will

a firm grip around her adversury's Bodies, mostly of negroes, con-establish the right of the Indian throat. They remained in this EFFORT TO Abolish Night tinue to rise to the surface, and legislature to adopt any methods position apparently for a few hava bien piled up, wwaiting an it may,desire to hater Indian in seconds, according to the state- opportunity for removal to higher dustries.

ment of a number of 'cge-wit- ground.

Sir George Rainy when the do- nesses, after which the victim Hundreds have already been bale was opened, asked how the dropped to the ground. On exami-YARNS CURTAILMENT. buried. without Identification, Raj could fight other "Dominions nation, life was found to be ex- which is impossible in the circumagainst racialidjucrimination when tinct.

it was sought to place it on the sinucos

Indian Statute book.-Reuter. ·

Aerodrome at Nairobi when Mrs. the League Assembly, embrace been rendered homeless, (formerly Lady) Carbery wasing both the French and German

Enthusiatic Airwoman.

Mr. Carbery relinquished his

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CHINESE MERCHANT'S

ESTATE.

LEAVES WELL OVER $180,000,

Another Theory?

This is the story brought out by the preliminary Investigations which followed the arrival of the police at the scene,

failure.

the

The Daily Express rejiört states: about to be signed botwcon the Contracts of great value aro

| British · manufacturers and the Chinese Nationalist Government. The total capital involved fe

stated to be more than £15,000,000.

Among the firms who are parties to this contract-are:"

The shipping firms of Cammell Laird, John Brown, Ltd., of Clyde- bank, and John Ellorman's.

Scottish Jastroen, Ltd. (arti ficial alka).

Saton V. Coats (cotton). ~~~

Messrs. Stanley Coats

Wrigley, Parkors, Ltd. Yorkshire woollen firm).

and

(the

Osaka, Sept. 20.

The ayndicate is expected to After a lengthy discussion, the' Committee of the Japanese Cotton develop to its full activity during Spinners Association has decided the next six months. that the present 20 per cent, cur». tailment of the production of cot- ton yarns, will be continued until July 1st, 1929.

Negro Riots.

Thousands of residents have

Roads And Railways, It is reported that negroes in

Another syndicate, supported by Aying with Mr Dudley Cowle, whom resolutions, on the subject, havo the Pahokee district have been

How much will fit in with the

an important firm of constructional rioting in protest against tie:

medical conclusions to be formed At the end of that timo, it is engineers backed by British An- she was tenching. Both were kill-completed their task.

The new resolution expressed cremation of bodies-Reuter's

from a post-mortem examination, nronosed that the midnleht shift ánce to construct roads and rail- ed instantly in front of a large crowd of horrified spectators, in-the hope that the next meeting of American Service.

the Preparatory Committee on Dis-

remains to be seen. It la suggest shall be abolished, and will thus ways in Chekiang and Kiangsu, cluding Mr. Carbery.

Mexico City, Sept. 20.

ed by police officials that the first make it unnecessary to resort to two of the most important pro- armament will be held at the end.

The rivere in this region, Hongkong estate to the value of theory of the cause of death may further organised curtailment.vinces in China, is in negotiation. of 1928 or the beginning of 1329.already swollen by the torrential $181,200 was left by Tsang Yan-be later varied to one of heart-

It also invites M. Loudon, the

It was also decided that any with the Chinese Nationallats. mills which voluntarily abolish the Industrialists in the North of titlu on becoming a naturalised chairman of the Preparatory Com rains brought by the hurricano, po, alias Trang Yankee, formerly

Meanwhile the marks on

midnight shift before April 1st England regard the possibilities of American, and both he and his wife/mittee, to privately converse with Buddenly flooded to-day following managing partner of the Kwong

a heavy storm which broke yester-Fang Wo Firm, merchants and dead woman's neck have been not-next will be permitted to work its trade with China as incalculable, the representatives of the great day between San Geronimo and commission agents, of No. 80, Bon-ed for future reference. He

machinery to its full capacity and they are convinced that tho were enthusiastic aviators, flew from London to Nairobi in naval Powers with a view

hum Strand East, merchants and The other woman engaged in the without any artificial restrictions. ruins of our once great cloth November last year in a Fokker obtaining a solution of the exist-Tuxpan,

Serious damage to buildings and commission agents, who died on quarrel was arrested on the spot By this agreement, every industry can be rebuilt on monoplane, and Mrs. Carbery, who ing differences and to fix a date. held a pilot's certificate, left London for the meeting of the Preparatory crops la reported, the present April this year, at No. 189, by a Chinose detective, and taken encouragement is being given for basis of Chinese contracts which

to the Central Police Station.

the discontinuation of work late may well lead to the revival of in January of this year to join her Committee if an agreement is ostimates placing the damage at Jervois Street.

over $5,000,000.

thoso key industries-textiles and Probate has been granted to his But for its tragic ending, the at night. husband on his coffee plantation, reached.

M. Loudon, it will be recalled, n The heavy rain was concentrat-two widowa, Tsang Woo-shi, alias incident is but one of the many having previously sent dut a light

few days ago announced bis inten-ed chiefly in the petroleum fields Woo Shi, and Tsang Mak-shi, alias similar occurrences providing an aeroplane, their fourth machine.

11 was the ambition of Mr. and ten of inviting the naval Powers and it is stated that the petroleum Mak Shi, and a daughter, Tsang interesting sidelight on our water Mrs. Carbery to make Kenya a private conference in Paris companies have suffered consider Hing-sung, alias Hing Sung, all front activities.

able losses-Reuter's American living at No. 11, Burd Street. An- Colony "air-minded."

other pelitloner to whom probate has been granted is a son, Tsang Hungsum, alias Hung Sun, mer chant, of No. 60, Bonham Strand West,

A

A. Suffolk Crush,

Another serious accident in England to-day is reported from Martleshan Heath, Suffolk, where a crash occurred which may seri- ously delay the contemplated at- tempt by Great Britain to set up a new world's air endurance record,

shortly.

to

It is understood that Court Service. Bernstorff, the proposer of the German resolution, which was to

have been embodied in the re80- lution above, has indicated that the new motion is not acceptable

to him--Reuters

A Schooner Lost,

The bequests are of a family

Nassau, Sept. 20. the Bahamas show £200,000 dam- Estimates of hurricane havoc in

age on Providence Island alone.nature. Public services in Nassau Cily have been restored. Many sponge-

"

Squadron Leader Nonites, who is DANGEROUS WEAPON. fishers' beats are unaccounted for. GENERAL DE RIVERA

the Royal Air Force Officer chosen to make the attempt, was testing a machine over Martleshan Heath to-day, when engine 'trouble deve loped and the machine crashed.

QUE.

CHINESE SENTENCED FOR

HAVING KNIFE.

It is believed they have sheltered in the outer lalands. A three- mastod schooner which was torn from her anchorage has been found bottom up, six miles out.- Reuter's American Service,

Jamaican. Damage.

London, Sept. 20.

IN MADRID.

PUBLIC SATISFIED OF HIS SAFETY.

Madrid, Sept. 20.

"

Rice Sweepers. Among the many thousands who make a living out of cargo move- menta on the waterfront, are those who carry on a hand-to-mouth, ex- latenca by sweeping up rice and other grain as it drops from sacks and other containers. Within this filter category are included the

The decision of the committed shipping. is to be communicated immediate- to all the members of the Cot ton Spinners' Association and it is anticipated that the proposals will be accepted without hesita- tion-Router.

TEXTILE STRIKES IN EUROPE.

two figures involved in this morn- POLISH & FRENCH WORKERS ing's tragedy.

Originating from the district of

Sunwul, Kong Han, the dead wo.

man, arrived here at the beginning

'MAKING DEMANDS.

Romantic Story.

the

A romantic story of difficulties overcome lies behind the formation. of the syndicate. Mr. John Nind Smith, un English professor, was largely instrumental in creating It He is known throughout China as John Smith, and returned to Eng- land recently to set as an inter- mediary between an official Chinese economic and financial delegation and the British industrialists. He has now left for China to place the results of his, successful efforts be fore the Chinese Nationaliste

A special correspondent of the describes the trade

Warsaw, Sept. 20, Forly thousand textile workers nowspaper of the year with her 14-year-old struck work to-day in protest field in China as follows: Shipping daughter to beg, and otherwise

The Chinese who was arrested a few days ago in Connaught Road

carry on a precarious existenes on against the new system of fining and textiles are but a tithe of the .Net Seriously Hurt.

West with a long knife in his

the waterfront. Common interests which the mill owners have re-trude that China is offering to territories administered by the Squadron Leader Noakes was in possession, was brought before Mr.

Paris, Sept. 20. brought her into contact with the cently put into operation Router, Great Britain. The whole vaat General Primo de Rivera, the other woman, resulting in rivalry jured, though it fa hannily reported R. E. Lindsell again this morning

Practically all the seven thou- Chinese Nationalist Government. that his injuries are not very serl-and was sentenced to threa That the hurricane havoc

In Spanish dictator, arrived anfely it is kald, as to their respective and textile workers at Halininle wrecked in consequence of the.. islands under Jamaican control is from: Barcelona to-day. A large

"pitches." months' hard labour. The injured pilot is famous as It will be recalled that on the much more sorlous than at first crowd was present at the station

The quarrel had been carried on have "downed tools" to-day, and recont war. Most of the roads, the Inventor of the so-called crazy | defendant pleading guilty at a pre- | reported, 'is revealed by a further to welcome him, and a warm ova for days, according to witnesses have submitted a demand to the suth as they were, are broken and whose statements are being taken mill-owners for Increased wages. impassable; the railways are dis Tumours have been freely cir- by the police, culminating, it is It is feared that the strike move located and disorganized, and thus

wholo Lillo district-Rouler. the recent Royal Air Force display knife was an ordinary butchers received by the Colonial Office to-culated during the past two or three alleged, in this mornings tragic afment will spread throughout the the vital arterled of China are

days that General de Rivera had fair. News has at last been received been the victim of an assassina- depended largely on the nature of from the Commissioner of Turk's lon attempt in Barcelona, and fil Island and Caicos Island, who some quarters credence was given the weapon.

states that communication has to the reports until the Dictator's now been established with Cock- arrival finally disposed of them

urn Harbour, disclosing that the Renter hurricano havoc is eerlops,

flying, and was in charge of the vious hearing the Magistrato or report from the Omeer Adminis-tion was accorded. largest monoplane in the world at dored the police to enquire if the tering the Government of Jamaica.

at Hendon.

implement or a specially sharpen- day. De la also one of the oldest anded one, as the matter of sentence most experienced flers in the Ser- vice-Reuter's and British Wire-

Leas.

England to Cape.

London, Sept. 20, The first news of the progress of the attempted flight of Captain' Hope, winner of the King's Cup on July 21, from England to the Capo via Kenya is contained in a Cairo message announcing his ar- rival at Heliopolis and his depar

When the defendant was brought up this morning, Inspector Clarke, prosecuting, sald the kalfe was an ordinary ono,

CUBAN INVITATION.

Seventeen lives were lost, in- cluding those of eight married received, men. Caicos Island has also suffered but details are not avail nble,

The Governor of the Leeward Islanda In a telegram thanking

THE HAGUE COURT JUDGES.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TWO

MORE APPOINTMENTS, A

London, Sept. 20;

FRESH MONSOON.

National Demand,

With the emergence of the Kuo- mintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party), which Is Imbued "with" western ideals of trading and mechanical efficiency, there, arose n national demand for the impove». ment of transport., kad ne

To-day's · "Observatory report states: An anticyclone is central over E.E. Mongolia. A depressión is central to the east of the Para-

Agriculture, one of the most Im-'-- cels. Fresh monsoon may-bo ex-portant factors in the life of the pected along the coast of China country, has been thwarted owing the Colonial Secretary for tho A revision of membership of and over the northern portion of to the impossibility of transport telegram of sympathy, adds, the Perfianent Court of Inter- the North China Sea. The fore iny produce cheaply and quickly; Relief Work In Hand, .⠀

"Although the damage as re-national Justice, which involves cast till noon to-morrow ig:-N. L. and it is further realized by the modern Chinese that, until the Replies were received to-day ported in my telegram in very an increase in the number of winds, fresh, fair, Captain Hope quietly left Stag-conference to be held in January from the Governors of the Leoward serious and many are homeless. Judges of the Court, thus allows Manila warning states that whole country is officiently linked dane on the 11th inst, and flew to to discuss the restriction of the Islands and the Bahamas express-relief work is well in hand and, ing for the election of a German there is a typhoon, north of the by fast modern transport, it will bo of the cases of immediate distress are Judge and one from the British Macclesfield Bank, moving west. Impossible to consolidate strongly Cairo via Frankport, Budapest, Bugar output and the conditions ing the grateful thanka

of the sugar markets throughout sufferers to whom the King sent being dealt with and assistance Dominions, was to-day approved This would take it between the the position of any Government in Bukharest and Constantinople.

messages of sympathy when the rendered as far as possible by the League Assembly. British Paracels and Hairan Island if it

continues on this, course, Reuter,

first news of the disaster was British Wireless.:

ture this morning for Halfa.

Havana, Bept. 20. The Government has despatched invitations to an International.

the world, Reuter.

Wireless,

China,

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