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SEAPLANE FLIGHT.

SURVEY OF SEA AND RIVER .AIR ROUTES.

[By R. Vaughan-Fowler.]

It will be remembered that General Cheung Wal-jung, Chief of the Canton Aviation Bureau, left Canton on the 11th inst. flying a Ryan landplane, to carry out an aerial survey of the air routes of China,

Last week the sister machine to the Ryan arrived in Canton. Sho la fitted with floats, but otherwfee is exactly the same as the machine General Choung is flying.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

1928.

THE CARVALHO YEO TRIAL.

MR. MESSER GIVES HIS EVIDENCE.

The Carvalho. Yeo trinl con- tinued at the Criminal Sessions yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Justice Jacks and a special jury.

Tsang On-wing, cash book clerk at the Treasury, was further cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, who suggested that the alignatures on the cheques were the genuine signatures of Mr. Messer and Mr. Black, and that they were obtained with Teang's knowledge.

This was denied by the witness. Mr. Black was recalled and ask- ed: Would it be true to suggest that you have sighed a cheque in blank at the Treasury?.

General Chan Hing-wan, Com- mander of the Forte, who is

Mr. Black; Not a shred of truth. administering the Aviation Bureau

In answer to other questions ho in the absence of General Cheung,

the said that no paymont could be la drawing up plans to fly Ryan seaplane on an aerial surveymade without a voucher and that of the sea and river air routes of before cheques were signed they were certified and the correctness China.

of the payor, etc., checked.

The preliminary plans includo a flight from Canton to the follow- ing places: Foochow, Shanghai, Chefoo, Nowchang, Tientsin, Nan- king, Anking, Nanchang, Hang chow, Changaha and Canton,

General Chan will have one pilot and one mechanic with him, and he hopes to complete the fight in ten to fourteen days, but of course, he says, if the pressure of work of Investigating local condi- tions at each landing place is too heavy, He may have to extend his stopping, timca,

14 Years & Pilet. Early in 1914, General Chan went to England to learn to fly he joined the Beatty Flying School at Hendon, and was there At that when the war broke out. time his training was all but com plete, and Colonel Beatty said that he could only complete the course if he would agree to go to France with the Flying Corps.

This it was obviously impossible for General Chan to do, as he had learn to fly with the express object of making an early return to China and assisting in the deve lopment of flying in his own country. Reluctantly he had to stop flying at Hendon, and so as not to delny, he went to America, where he quickly finished his training.

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At present it is not decided who will be the other pilot on this Alght, but it is possible, if work! permits, that Colonel Chow Po

Mr. Messer Gives Evidence.

The Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer was then called and said he had best Colonial Treasurer since 1918. Asked when the shortage of 30 cheques was discovered he said that it was found on the afternoon of January 18. He re- to him called a statement made by Teang On-wing previously to the effect that the wrong number of cheques had been received from the Bank, Tsang said they had sent 400 instead of 200 and also mentioned the shortage of 60 cheques. Witness inferred that he needed 60 more cheques and told Tsang that the Bank supplied the paper and that the Treasury did not.

Handed the ehequés alleged to be forged, witness said he was. positive that he had not signed them and proceeded to point out! differences between the signature purporting to be his and his own. Asked if he had ever signed a of the firms cheque in favour given as payess on the three che- quas, Mr. Messer said that in Oe- tober last year he signed a cheque in favour of Man Lee. That was for 360, being the return of de- ponit money paid in connexion with a tender for stores which was not accepted. With that exception he cheque in had never signed a favour of the firma named on the cheques.

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A RESTLESS NIGHT. REPORTED.

London, Nov. 26. General Booth passed a restless night-Reuter.

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Mr. Potter (producing the three The cheques). Is it usual for you to and The Ryan seaplane should be works and other purposes. ready in a few days for test, and Government had never made pay-produce three signatures with

as these have been ments to any of the three firms

are all three alike and all very GOOD satisfactorily completed, the flight with the exception of the $50 to such regularity as these? They will commenee, it not being pro-Man Lee. posed to await the return of Mr. Potter: Have you quite a

hand. Another thing is that the General Cheung from the North,

was that I must have had a steady body of the cheque is an imita-. tion of the clerk's writing.

Peking, Nov. 26. General Cheung Wei-chueng yesterday took Pei Chung-hsi up for a flight, and this morning hopped off for Mukden.-Reuter,

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PEKING CATHOLIC HEAD.

Paris, Nov. 26..

vivid recollection of Katz and Co. You were C. S. P. during the War and I believe the name came before you very prominently. Would it be possible for you as Treasurer them?-Of to sign a cheque to course it might be possible but .

. (witness indicated that it would be a highly remote possi- bility).

Cheques are presented to you for signature and they are always accompanied by vouchers7-Yes, there is no exception.

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Before you algn a cheque do you always check the name of the A Moscow message states that payee, the totals and the amount? Apostolic to Peking, has died Could it be possible to sign suddenly on the Trans-Siberian cheques one on top of the other Railway-Havaş.

so that you might not know what you are signing?-No.

Mr. Potier remarked that they

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Are you prepared to say It is not the clerk's writing? To me it This has is obviously not his. been my vlew 'since I first saw them,

Cross-examination To-day.

Mr. Messer proceeded to point out the differences in his signa ture, saying that the position was unusual and that the line under- neath was practically on the dot- the stroke on the dotted line. The ted line. He never tried to write bottom of the "M" was unusual in that it was not rounded.

Questioned with regard to the changes in Treasury procedure, Mr. Messer said they were not mistrusted but because they gave made because Tsang On-wing was clearer evidence of cheques and safer custody of cheque books, ete.

Mr. Potter's final question was whether witness liad ever signed a, cheque in blank, witness reply- ing that he had not done so.

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