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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1928. JINGLE COPY SHOWER,

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PROF. JOHN SMITH EXCEPTIONAL ARMS TERRIBLE PIRACY BRITISH TRANSPORT FENG AS MINISTER GRAPHIC ZEPPELIN STORIES.

DISILLUSIONED.

BRITISH SYNDICATE BUBBLE BURST.

LETTER OF APOLOGY TO THE SHANGHAI PAPERS.

SEIZURE.

*A THOMPSON MACHINE-GUN

DISCOVERED.

HIDDEN IN TRUNK.

Waterfront police sc

searchers nmdo 'an unusual arms haul`yes- terday afternoon when they seized á Thompson machine-run in “MY OWN STUPIDITY,” Acarch made of the luggage of, a

passenger goin to Hongmoon,"

Shanghal, Oct. 17, Something of a sensation has been created in Shanghai by the publication of a remarkable letter from Professor John Nind Smith,

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THREE MEN SHOT IN

COLD BLOOD.

PIRATES' EFFORT TO COVER UP THEIR CRIME.

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ONLY TWO ESCAPE.

One of the most dastardly Junk piracios in waters Colony has adjacent to the been

in .connexion

revealed

with the robbery of a fishing junk, which occurred on Monday after noon, as the boat was sailing off Sze Chai

PROBLEM.

ROYAL COMMISSION TO SIT TWO YEARS

“POOLS” PROBABLE.

London, Oct. 16. | The Royal Commission on Transport begins on Thursday. what is probably the biggest in- quiry In recent years. It is CX- pected to taita at least two years and to provide the basis of legisla tion which will change the trans- port system of the country, radi. cally.

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The whole field of transport put side London-which will be treat- ed separately under the London traffic pool schumo-is to be con- sidered, including transport by coast and ferries, with the ob- Ject of organising to the greatest public advantage.

FOR WAR

AND

IMPORTANT NANKING ALTERNATING CALMS

DANGEROUS STORMS.

APPOINTMENTS.

STATE COUNCIL HOLDS ITS FIRST MEETING.

UNPLEASANTNESS BY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS IN U. S.

LITTLE ALTERATION.

Nanking, Oct. 16.

The new Stats Council of the PASSENGERS'

Prior to the departure of the

National Government held its frat Tai Lee for the Bzo Yap port, a European police officer and a mern,

meeting to-day, the only notable her of the Chinese waterfront search-squad went through the

absentees being Marshal Yey Hai. luerage of the passengers, more as

chan and General Chang Haueb- a matter of routine than with any

liang, The Council proceeded to a discussion of the Government formerly on the staff of the Hong-definite anticipation of discovering kong University, who has come to anything. On lifting a trunk they Following the capture of the

Ministries to be established under China ostensibly as the commer- found it to be suspiciously heavy, boat and crow by a gang of pirates

the Organisation Law of the Executive Yuan. and when the trunk was onaned who boardled it from another junk,

following appointments cial representative of a "British up, parts of what appeared to be a series of murders as wanton as It will be the task of the Com-

approved, syadicate comprising manufac-a gun of an unusual type were dis- they were cold-blooded was commission to adjust rival interests of were proposed and turers with interlocking Interests covered concealed in a false bot-mitted as the desperadoes, who local authorities owning tramways though the formal appointments apparently had in mind the truism and omnibusos, private road trans-will not be made until to-morrow! after a meeting of the Central! in almost every phase of British

The search was then extended that dead men tell no tales, port interests, and railways,

Political Council: Industry and trade."

to other pieces of baggare includ-sought to exterminate the crow ta

Traffic experts, taking a long It will be recalled that the ed in the same, lot, and from a the last man. In this, they nearly view, anticipate that the result Daily Express reported the farma number of card-board boxes other succeeded, and there would have tion of the syndicate for the pur-metal parts were taken which, been no-one left to tell the talo, pose of reconstructing parts of war-ravaged areas of China, the firms mentioned including:

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

Scottish Lustreen, Ltd. (arti- ficial silks).

Messra, Stanley Costa and Soten V.. Coats (cotton).

Wrigley, Parkers, Ltd. (the Yorkshire wooller firm).

Chinese Minister's Denial." Professer John W. N. Smith is reported to have prepared, with the full sanction of a Chinese economic and financial delegation, ho skeleton of an Anglo-Chinese Trading Alliance, and arrived in Shanghal recently claiming to be the commercial reprosentative of the syndicate.

in the On the publication Shanghal papers of statements to this offect accured in inter- views with Professor Smith, the Nationalist Minister of Justice, Dr. Wang Chung-haul, immediately fasued, a formal denial that Profes Bor Smith had been appointed as the commorein! reprosentative of the British syndicate,

Lost Control.

tom.

when fitted together with those discovered in the trunk, made a complete Thompson gun, of the type often used by crooks in Chi- engo and other cities in the United States,

The Thompson gun is smaller than the well-known Lewis. It is the first of its type to have been seized in this Colony,

The passenger who brought it here was not to be found on the steamer when sought out. He is returned supposed to be emigrant from the United States, new on his way back to his native village in Iteungshan.

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The seizure of the Thompson gun by no means represented the limit of the haul made In the case. Other arms taken from the sch ger'e luggage included three Win chester rifles, three automaties and over 1,000 rounds of corres- ponding ammunition.

but for the escape and return of two of the victims to the Colony,

Cargo of Fish.

The ill-fated craft was a small trader of 160 piculs capacity, and was attached to one of the local fishing fects which sail periodi On this cally from Hongkong. occasión, however, the junk had separated from the others, and, when pirated; was sailing to Chinese port with a load of fish valued at $120, ...

In spite of the small value of the prey, it offered sufficient in- ducement for a gang of pirates! who apparently had been lying in walt just outside British terri- torial waters.

At 4 pm on Monday, as tha Junk appeared off Sze Chau, a group of Laiets woll-known to local fishermen, a native craft of the The arms have been turned over same type as the trader, appeared. to Police Hondquarters, and an the offing, and consternation formal amplication for forfeiture was created when this boat fired a will be made before the Magistrate fusilade of shots from smalls arm in due coursC.

BIG CONTRACT FROM RUSSIA,

U. S. ELECTRIC COMPANY'S SUCCESS.

as an indication of its intentions.

Junk Boarded.

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In all, six or seven shots were Ared, the fishing junk being fore- ed to stand by while armed mon from the pirate vessel boarded her and took charge.

waters.

.. HOPES OF MISS TOBIN'S

RELEASE,

Negotiations With Brigand

Chief Being Opened. ·

LADY IN GOOD HEALTH.

Hopes of the early release of -Miss Tobin, the British missionary, who has been in the hands of Kwangsl bandite for many weeks now, are held out in the latest news 'to hand.

This is contained in a tele- gram from our Wuchow cor- respondent to hand this morn- ing, stating that Bishop - Halden has wired from Chao- ping to the effect that a re- presentative of the Magistrato na made arrangements to meet the brigand chief to nogatiate the release..

Miss Tobin's life and health- are guaranteed, and it is anticipated that a settlement will be reached to-morrow.

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emmat

The

Minister for Foreign Affairsiļ Dr. C. T. Wang, the prosent holder of the office, a warm supporter of Marshal Fong Yu-hsiang, who hald the same post while the Kuomin- chun controlled Peking in 1926-26,

Minister of Finance. Minister of Finance: Mr. T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, present holder, a keen financier, who has designed: several schemes for the anifica- tion of the country's financial affairs.

Minister for War: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the lender of the Kuominchun.

Minister of Agriculturor Mr. Yi Pei-chi, who has been President of the Labour College, Shanghat, since 1927.

Minister of Industry: Mr. H. H. Kung, a well-known politician.

Minister of Education: Mr. Chiang Meng-ling, a former Chan- cellor of the Peking University, educated in America.

Sun Fo's Post, Minister of hallwaya: Mr. Sun Fo, son of the founder of the Kuo, mintang Party, recently returned from a tour of Europe and Ameri-

ch.

Minister of the Interior: Mar- shal Yen Hajshan, the "Model Ruler" of Shansi.

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Health Mr. Chu Ming-ya.

COMPLAINTS.

Unpleasantnesa has unfortunately generated at Lake- hurst Aerodrome, passengers arriving on the Graf Zeppelin complaining of discourtesy by the Police and Customs officials. A German Police Chief, one of the passengers, is most in- dignant, and declares that they were treated like smugglera, the Customs men going through their baggage with a fine comb.

Mutual recrimination developed between the Police and Navy' officials as a result of the failure of the Police to cope with the rush of the excited spectators.

Gr hic descriptions of the adventurous journey are given below, together with complaints of the conditions on board. One passenger says succinctly "Nover again" mentioning that they were prohibited from opening windows and from smoking,

It is reported that the Zeppelin will be handed over to a Spanish company for operation on a regular service to Fouth America.

LURCH WHICH BROKE HORIZONTAL

New York, Oct. 16, era. Hè scoms, however, very: Vivid, and sudden contrasts. contant with the Zeppelin's per marked the Atlantic voyage of the formance, remarking: "I bollove Graf Zeppelin according to the that the achievements of the trip graphic descriptions of the pas- have demonstrated the possibili- sangers, who have been besieged ties of Transoceanic airship ser- by newspaper reporters at the vices, despite one li

littla mishap.” Lakehurst naval aerodrome ever

None Describes Huge Ares, since their arrival.

All the passengers have tender- At cortain phases of the cross- ་་ Ing, the giant airship appeared to ed stout denials of their individual be in a serious predicament, at the susceptibility to air-sickness, but mercy of the elements, but there one Petty Officer declared that periods alternated with others in there was a suspiciously light at which the Zeppelin made swift and tondance at meal-times which was 2. not surprising ds during the worst smooth progress.

By atcering clear of the storm qualis, the Zeppelin pitched so centros in the North Atlantic, the much that her nose described arca craft behaved perfectly through of nearly five hundred feet. out Thursday and Friday, though she rolled a little and gave some of the passengers air-sickness.

Shock on Saturday,

"Never Again,”

Mr. Rainer, one of the American passengers who paid £600 each for their, passage, declared he would

The first real shock occur never repeat, the trip. He com- In response to this denial, Pro-

Communications: Mr. Wang red on Saturday after the Zeppelin plained that the heat was almost had passed the Azores and was unbeatable, and that the passen- fessor Smith has now written to the Shanghai papers, declaring that

The crew were transferred by will be the creation of transport Po-chun,

heading for Bermuda. It sudden- gers were forbidden to open win. the pirates into their own boat and pools for important areas in the ho was so tired and overworked and

It was also proposed by Marshally ran into a severe squall and be dowe to get a breath of fresh air, He also said that drinks gave out Be appalled by the apparent failure

kept below in the hold while a provinces, similar to the pool pro- Feng Yu-hsiung that there should fore, the passengers were awago of hia plans, which were designed

New York, Oct. 16. course was set for a place named

jected for London..

be a general reduction in salaries of the cause, the airship's nose long before Lakehurst way reach.. to create an Anglo-Chinese alliance against the "world revolution" that Through the Amlorg Trading Naal Chau, which is altanted

Chinese territorial Sir Arthur Grifth Boscawen, of all civil and military officials, whirled upwards and then dropped od, and that the passengers were

former Minister of Health, is he lost full control of his words and Corporation, Soviet Russia has further in

and that severe penalties should down with a thump, severely jolt- informed that they might have a The chief hardship emphasised actions during his stay in Shang-aigned a contract with the Interna-

tional General Electric Company. It appears that at this stage in Chairman of the Commission be laid down to deal with cants of ing all on board, and ripping the drink of rain-water.

embezzlement of public funds. - port horizontal,...........

by some of the passengers was the Thai.

The State Council is also con-

prohibition of smoking. for at least $1,000,000, but not the piracy, the desperadoes dell- British Wireless.

of their victims, and then decided

sidering the publication of an an- more than 1,000,000, worth of berated for come time on the fale electrical apparatus for export.

that the most effective means of

nouncement to the Powers, the The contract holds good for two ebitarating all traces of their

final touches to which are now be years, after which, if satisfactorily crime was to dispose of all their

ing applied-Reuter completed, it will be extended for victims by murdering them in a further four years, Involving at cold blood. The result was that on least £800,000 annually-Reuter's roaching their destination, the DEATH OF MR. BENJAMIN American Service.

Ho ventures to hope that these mistakes on his part will not dis- credit or handicap the efforts of the patriotic and munificent Eng- Tishmen and Scotsmen who are be

hind the scheme.

Professor Smith says he arrived Shanghat like a broken basin. Apology to all Concerned.

He apologises to all concerned for hle action and words, which he ad- mits were an exaggeration, and he says that his wild statements were attributable to a physical break- down brought about by the hostil- Ity of the Shinghal Press.

LONDON TO INDIA IN. FOUR DAYS.

master of the fishing boat and the four members of his crew were put into a sampan and taken to an- other island near-by.

*NOTED AMERICAN

BANKER.

STRONG.

-New-York, Oct. 16. The death is announced of Mr. Benjamin Strong. Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank

Li Chai-sum and Canton.

Shanghai, Oct. 16. A message from Nanking states. that Marshal Id Chai-sum will re- turn to Canton for a brief spell as soon as the immediate meetings of the State Council are conclud-

The damage to the fin necessitat cd, immediate though temporary repairs, and the passengers relate. with great admiration, how Dr. Eckener's son assiated by three members of the crew volunteered to carry out the work

Critical Stage.

Annoyance By Customa Serious allegations of discourtes ous treatment of the passengers arriving on the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst, are made by the Prus alan Minister, Herr Grzinski, who is Chief of the Prussian Police and-- who was on board the Zeppelin.

In an interview with Verwaerte correspondent in America, sinca published in the Berlin paper, ka

immediately taken to the Customs After this experience, with the House as though they were smug- airship so affected, it was decided gen to reduce to half. spend and they proceeded in this wise to the end

The critical stage was reached of the adventurons journey.

They were swung in mid-air to the side of the shimmering bulk and holding on precariously to positions, from which the slightest the void.

Mr. Gates W. McGarrah, Chair, ed. He will be, accompanied by lurch would have hurled them into alleged that the passengers were.

man of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank, bas been appointed acting Governor Reuters Amer! can Service.

General Chan Ming-shtu, who left to-day for Hankow,

Three Murdered. Here, in surroundings which offered a secluded spot for the AIR TRIP TO COST £112.

purposes of the crime, an attempt Professor Smith now says that he

was made to kill all the crew one

It is also reported that the agreement between Franca and Basrah, Oct. 10,

China in connexion with the Nan- was shocked to discover that his

It is learned that the Imperial after the other.

The Junjonaster was the first to The late Mr. Benjamin Strong, London journalistle friend, Mr. Airways, Ltd., has definitely decid Maurice Lewis, of the Daily Ex-ed to extend the Cairo-Basrah air be, put to death. Ho was shot who was born in 1872, was a clerk king. Incident will be issued for

through the head and his body with Cuyler, Morgan and Co., of publication on Thursday,

The Consul General, Mr. Yada, press, had mistakenly stated as a service before or during Janutty thrown into the water. Two of New York, in his earlier years and will leave for Nanking on Thurs willst the London-Cairo section the crow were' next killed, in suc-later became Secretary of the At- Jalt accompli what was

will be rendy by April:

cession and, in the case of the first laatle Trust Co. and the Metro-day morning. It is known that The journey from London to In-victim, the pirates throw the re-pollton Trust Co. He had been very important Sino-Japanese nego tiations are going on in Shanghal, dia will take only four days, and mains overboard.

Governor of the Federal Reserve the fare will be £112.

Bank since 1914 and for a time but the utmost secrecy is maintain served as President of the Bankers d and no details are obtainable Trust Co. He was an LL.D. Princeton and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

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magnificent, reconstructional

scheme.

Leaving With Flen In Ear, The publication of the proposals In that form had given him (Pro fessor Smith) undue and unex- pected prominence.

The letter concludes with an an- nouncement that Professor Smith is returning to England"with a flea in my ear, where I will try to rectify, my own' stupidity,"

It will be recalled that before he

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Two Jump Overboard, The stopping-places for this xer- vice will be Genoa, Alexandria,

Seeing death boing, thus relent Caire, Basrah and Bushirelessly meted out and realising that Reuter

the turn would come next, the other two members of the crow managed to struggle free and

LESS UNEMPLOYED.leap into the sea, where, swimming

SINGAPORE DOCK.

of

Reuter

Passenger Struck.

The American police pushed. on Sunday morning when the Zep them about, and says Horr Grzin- pelin battled for hours against ad sd, one of them was retually verse winds, unable to employ its struck in the face. He made a full power. The craft was then very pointed comment to the effect above Bermuda etruggling to reach that if a Prussian policeman was the mainland, and little progress guilty of behaviour like that of stantly be dismissed. WAN was apparently made for a period the American, police, he would in: of twelve hours.

As a matter of fact, the friction Reasured When Eckener Leaves generated in connexion with the arrival of the Zeppelincat Lake- Bridge:

hurst la not condned to the com- The passengers admit that they pisints of passengers that the Cus- were growing extremely anxious, toras men were most discourteous when Dr. Eckener, the designer and went through their baggage and navigator of the Zeppelin, de- with a line comb," scended from the bridge and ted his pet canary, and they knew that the worst was over

The Johol Situation.

Peking, Oct. 10. Ho' Ying-ching has wired to.. Peipine from Nanking stating that Chiang Kai-shek destres to adopt a waiting policy for the pro fent as regards Jehol and will not attack. Tang Yulin, as negotia tions with Chang Hanch-llang are London, Oct. 10. still going on. He still hopes The second section of the new that fighting may be avoided. y mission to its conclusion. For The latest unemployment retually cast badly battered about, and floating dock arrived to-day at Sin-tt Hankow, Oct. 8.

gapore and was sally moored. Li Chung-yen has returned from bros years I have worked turns show an improvement com ander the most appalling pared with recent weeks,

B this time night had fallen, The first portion was moored on Nanking after four months absencs and heart-breaking conditione On October 8th, the registered concealing their presence from the Saturday and the work of jolning worden, huge,

cement Anglo Chinese reworkios numbered 1319.700, pirates who were moving about the sections will begin shortly, hich alone, I am con which was 16,679. less than the searching for them. The two The cost of the Journe

tam nữ de imbed is the frock and

left England; he said:

"I am going to China to bring

LATEST FIGURES SHOW IMPROVEMENT.

London, Oct. 16.

about and keeping afloat, they found a batter chance of holding on to fo than in company with the pirates on the boat. As it happen- £200,000 SPENT ON JOURNEY. ed, the current carried them swiftly out of the pirates' reach, to, an. Islet upon which they were oven- exhausted, but alive and safe, a

Mutual Recrim

Mutyal recrimin As one passenger remarked?: "We didn't know what to think or been expressed by the off expect till Dr. Eckener came down. then we know all was well?

Dr. Eckener ilmself has so

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