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WALA

DOOM OF HANKOW CANTON ANTI-"RED" SEAPLANE AFIRE

SEALED?

HO CHIEN DEFECTS TO] NANKING.

BATTLE FOR KWANGCHOW THE DECIDING FACTOR.

MARSHAL LI'S CLAIM.

Shanghal, Mar..31.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has completed the formulation of plans for the attack against Hankow, and a big offensive on all fronts and a bid almost immediately.

CAMPAIGN.

HUNDREDS OF CHINESE SAID TO BE EXECUTED.

WOMEN INCLUDED. Wholesale executione have taken place in Canton during the past three or four days, according to re- porte received from the Telegraph correspondent there,

IN MANILA

MONDAY, APRIL

BISCAY MISHAP

NARROW ESCAPE OF":"

TWO MEN..

CRAFT TOTALLY DESTROYED BY EXPLOSIONS.

EXCITING SCENES.

Manila, Mar. 27.

It is stated that close upon 300 people have been shot during the! campaign, the victims being all Two enlisted men of the United described as suspected Communists. States Navy miraculously escaped figured amongst those executed, and serious injury and possible death

Women na well as men have

BIG FRENCH LINER

GED.

COLLISION WITH BRITISH TRAMP STEAMER:

PASSENGERS SAVED.

The general opluton la that the batches of flity or..sixty all man-plane caught fire and fäter explou-being, despatched

acled and roped together on their ed early inst evening on Manila Way to the execution grounds.

Wuhan resistance will collapse within a very short space of time and that the war will soon be över. The Wuhan clique are in parlous plight. General Ho Chlen who commands a large force of the Wuhan arrates in the west of Human is reported to have declared his neutrality, Canton has an-

Judging from appearances, these lowest classes, but the fact remaine unfortunate people are of the that they have been put to death on mere suspicion, without, trial and, in many instances, without even being questioned, it is stated.

Bay.

ondon, Mar. 31.

Later.

B

INLAR ALVER ANN BUICK.

any other

Bour

THE DRACO

CO., LTD:

STEAMER CRASHES ROBBERS HOLD UP AMERICAN LADY

ON CRUISER

WOOSUNG DISASTER

DETAILS.

HUGE HOLE RIPPED AMIDSHIPS IN ILL FATED BOAT.

*FINE RESCUE WORK.

200 PEOPLE

RAID ON ROADSIDE INN AT:

CASTLE PEAK

of

ATTACKED

UNCONSCIOUS

DITCH

SENSATIONAL INGIDENT:

SHANGHAI

Shartha

A foreign married lady, 28 yours

age, recovered consciousness

SAFE RANSACKED.

Late on Saturday night, a road side inn at No. 141; Castle Peak was raided by five armed men, who made their escape after affecting

substantial: haul in money DRUGGED BY THIEVE The Charget Reunis liner

#Although there were in the ^^"" Biscay, according to 8.0.8. mess- Rammed by the Italian man-of- era and visitors, the robbers ware "Ceylan" la sinking in the Bay of g

Shanghai, Mar. 28. building no fewer than 100 board ages picked upon the coast. war. Libia yesterday afternoon, the able to enter the building without while help is buoy in a position dangerous to The robbers entered the ground Her crew and passengers have about one mile off Woosung Spit ling with the regular habitues.'s

atr. Kangtai, 2,700 tons, les sunk arousing, any suspicion, by ming,

navigation. Two infants were floor, which was used as an office drowned and as far as is, known and held up Tao Pak-leung, the It is now learned that the Cey-at present over 30 persons are proprietor, and his fokts. While ateamer "Clodol" which struck noon yesterday while the Libia face with a revolver, but this fail- lan was badly damaged in a col- missing. Ilsion with the small British

one man hold Tea by the jacket, The wreck occurred just after another mnde, passed before his

and holed her near the stokehold. waiting to receivo, survivors from for inslating that he did not have the Ceylan somewhere amidships was at anchor just off Woosing of to have any effect, the proprie the cause of the fire by Commander fler, passongers and crew have the Italian destroyer Muggin which the keys of the safe. However,

The lady, who is the wife of a of the air squadron of the Asiatic

near Foochow two days ago and him, and the robbers removed over fleet. The flames on the bay

ls also a total loss. Four tuga which responded to

$700.

business in the Settlement, had caused high excitement in Manila. the Ceylan's 5.0.S. calls have Kangtal arrived here yesterday gag the victims, who proved to be body by her assailants in their . Survivors from the ill-fated No-attempt was made to bind or part of her clothes, torn from her taken the vessel, ip tow, and hope afternoon In the Customs Revenue quite tractable. After the gang search for valuables, but they fall- to take her safely into Bordeaux, Cruiser Likin and were interview had left. the proprietor reported ed to got anything worth: while. though she leaking badly.ed on board by a representative of the affair at the local district It is believed that showa

the NC. D, Newe. They present- Police Station, The Ceylan laan 8,480-tóns edn forlorn appearance and some steamer, built in 100% at Nowcastle told pitiful tales, of their adven by the famous fra of Swan, Kun- ture.

The two men were D. B. Derry, radio operatorlat class, a pas pilot 1st class, and V. D. Kemspoy, senger.

to the carburetor was given as A leak in the gasoline feed line

Edinburgh Road, after the hatt about 2 am yesterday, in a ditch boon attacked for the purpose of robbery by three Chinese, at about 10.40 p.m., on Wednesday. Sho managed to crawl to a foreigh

selatance. residence nearby and obtain

nounced its allegiance to the Nan- the quirive to provent any "Red R. KeTurner, commanding officer been anfely, picked up by the 8.8.was wrecked at Henchu Island these were avontually found on prominent American engaged th

king Government, while Feng Yu- hsiang is sending large forces to attack Wuhan from the North.

:

Feng's Activities.

of

way, state that over 70,000 Feng's Kuominchun forces have passed down the railway to the

The authorities are evidently on uprising, and this probably accounts for the large number of arrests and

excentions,

an

Clodoald,

It is feared, however, that among- st those who have been executed aro

Totally Destroyed,” The plane was later placed Reliable reports from Cheng-many who have been innocent of chow, on the Peking-Hankow Rail-fence whatever, political or aboard the U.S.S. Huron but is Neuter.

criminal.

totally destroyed. The damage was placed at 89,000. The demolished genplane war obervation single float plane, type U.O. Observation seaplane.

beam of 56.0 foot and a depth of According to Commander 33.4 feet. Turner the engine hað been giving trouble for the past couple of days dumage Is only 828 tons TORE

The Clodoald which did the but in a test fight yesterday was She is Southampton-registered. apparently in good condition again. .:

north of Hupeh and they will be "SOUTHERN CROSS"

ready to open an offensive imme- dlately the word In given.

Marshal Chlang's troops on the Anhui front have already pino- trated into Hupeh and over 80,000 troops are reported to be within Aday's march of Hwangchow. Chiang's men have also progressed wenty miles beyond Wuseuh, and It is Solleved that they will be ap proaching Wuchang by the end of this 'week.

Wuhan "Betrayed."

HAS MISHAP.

►

FORCED DESCENT IN REACH

OF DESTINATION.

CREW OF FOUR SAFE,

$

Sydney, Mar. 81. Shortage of Patrol has caused arty shop to the projected flight of Captain Kingsford Smith end Mir. Ulm to fly from Sydney to London.

Several attempts made to start the engine last night by Pilot Derry proved fruitless. However the engine was finally started and Immediately backfired causing the motor to stop.

"

Uses Extinguisher.

ters. She is 482 Leet 19ng, has

Struck, de fock.

Carried on to the Ram

UPROAR AT MUSLIM CONFERENCE.

NEHRU REPORT.

POLICE INTERVENE

drugged although yesterday's examinations perhaps.were made too late to reveal the presence of arcoties Settlement and French Concession police are makin every effort to apprehend the miles creants).

Mysterious Altair, byg

It appears that the Kangtal left a full cargo of appen lows (matchi- Vladivostok on Thursday inst-with wood logs) and approached Woo, DISPUTE OVER ATTITUDE TO sung just before noon yesterday.

Much of what took place is The Italian man-of-war Libia was:+1-

mystery," inasmuch as the victim anchored about one mile off the

aither falsted Almost atithë-bagih ning of the sesault--she "bas buet ocking an anchorage. As she ap breakwater and the Kangtai was

allius for some months and che pronched the Libia, she apparently

did not recover for about three reduced speed and the strong flood:

hours, or she was drugged, but the New Delhi, Mar.. $1, tide swept the vessel on to the averted free fight at a special been called out on business at Only prompt action by the police lady remembers leaving her residence her husband having arly Thursday morning underwater ram on the bow of the The Sceidant attributed to the man-of-war ripping a huge hole session of the All-India Muslim vailing in this Barticularly dangerous excabilonally trong current pre amidships abaft the engine room League called at New Delhi for on friends and walllagway the about 10.15. She intended selling portion of the Normandy Coast near No. 3 hold.

the express purpose of bringing time until her husband, returned.

London, Mar. 30. tos Anchor liner Transylvania, whon During a dense fog the 17,000 approaching Chibourg after als wesks Gitarrena, Arize, struck the rock of Le Coque off Cap De La

Hague

It is now fairly certain that the

While the plane was still rest Wuhan Icaders were depending | on support in the struggle which

ing on the water, fire broke out they have not received. It Southern Cross" the great ma-wing. All planes are equipped she sprang leak and began a ordered full speed astern and did Muslim political parties.

They set out yesterday in the and spread at once to the left the vessel had 800 passengers aboard. The master, Capt. A. Rasmussen, about unity in the ranks of the To reach their honed she had about bolleved in well-informed poftical circles that Marshal Feng Yu-chine in which they crossed the with fire extinguishers and Derry heavy lata alatance was move away from the man-of-war aussion was broken up amid scenes ne mile to walk along Edinburgh halang had arranged an alliance Pacific to Australia, on a non-tried to put out the flames with summoned.

but the water rushed into the of dissension and disorder, and a Road to where friends Jived.

serious crisis was only avoided

on

Wire

stitution...

The

"that he throw them over at the ham, West Australia, but made a avail and he then resorted to the j;and by skilful handling, the Transyl helplessly away with the tide the League who adjourned the She had nearly reached the in- with the Kwangal - Cliquo, and atop flight from Sydney to Wynd- the chemicals. This proved of a By jettisonink 600 tons of oil fuel engine-röom' and the ship, dried by Mr. Jinnah the President of rown to the PAGA

over at the forced landing near to their dee- hand fire extinguisher with no Harbour, without help and crow, slon, the starboard anchor was vania was able to make Cherbourg With the engines out of commis Jast minute: when shek assured him that Shantung tination. They ran out of potrol success.

any injury; to passengers or While out on the wing fighting Perfect order was maintained and the dropped but the ship even at this would be given to him immediate having nearly completed the 2,000-

miles journey, but brief messages the fire, combustion caused an resource of Captain Erskine was time-a matter of two minutos fy;

Marshat Feng has already sent received suggest that the plan explosion of the right gasoline highly praised by all. It was it was setting storm frat and getting 30,000 troops to Shantung await- alighted without damage. | tank. The explosion went to the last trip in command ing the evacuation by the Japanese Captain Kingsford Smith and left and Derry escaped injury vanis and he was due to retire with startling rapidity. Her dam trobps before taking over. It is his colleague of the Pacific Bight Flames inmediately enveloped the reaching England-British

nge was on the starboard quarter. helloved Ikely that Feng are accompanied on their present entire plane and all the fabric was

Panic reigned on board, there may be given control of Hupch trip by a navigator and a wireless destroyed.

being 88 passengers, 12 of whom also, though this is not confirmed, operator. None of them was hurt,

foreigners and the ship's It is not yet known whether

crew consisting of 40 hands. ན་ Battle for Hwangchow.

their forced descent will occasion an, alteration of plane It was Intended to fly from Wyndham to Singapore, and thence by the usual route to Egland.-Reuter

Shanghal, Apr. 1. The Hankow forces are being overwhelmed by force of numbers. Nanking troops are entering into "The attack from all directions and Kichow, Kwangtal, Hwangmol; and Susung have all tallen to the inyaders..!

"

are con-

The Wuhan troops centrating on Hwangehow and Intend to make a stand therer The result of the battle for Hwangchow will probably docido the war. Nanking troops are already launching a severe assault on Kishui, which is only a few miles to the south of Hwang

chow.

PRESIDENT. HOOVER AND OIL-LANDS.

NUMEROUS PROSPECTORS GIVEN A SHOCK.

Washington, Mar. 31.

While Derry was fighting the flames Kemapoy took to the water equipped with a life preserver and swam away from the ship. A second explosion took place a few second later and Derry a180 abandoned the flame-engulfed sca- plane.

Ship to Rescue -

A ship came to the rescue of both men who wore picked up and plaged aboard the U8.5. Jason where they were examined by

MISS EDERLE NOW DEAF.

EFFECT OF SWIMMING THE CHANNEL,

New York, Mar, 22.

It was revealed to-day that as Gertrude Ederie, who made a for tune from her feat in swimming the English Channel, has paid for

were

The trouble was due to differ Edinburgh Road, when we saw meeting eine dile,

tersection of Avenue, Haig with ences of opinion in regard to the three Chinese approach, two from Nehru Report containing pro- one side of the road, and one from. posa's for the future Indian Con the other. She dropped a light- While Mr. Jinnah was absent, with remarkable presence of mind, ed cigarette, from her hand and negotiating with the opponents of she removed her valuable rings the Nohru Report, the party led from her, fingers, and placed then by Maulana Azad, which was in in her mouth. the majority and is warm in its support of the Report, elected

Having done this, she remembers". Muhammad Alam to the chair. very little other than that the This led to an uproar, members gang throw her to the pavement; of the audience rising, and pro- to which she had walked from the testing against Alam's election." |rond!"

Appalling Confusion, Men, women, and children jump. ed into the water and the confu- alan was appalling. The Libia Police intervened and prevented They beset her, and she thinks had already lowered boats and rioting.

¡that she tried to raise an alarm, many Italian sailors dived into the When the affair had quietened but medical authorities do not sen and rescued many ebule taking down a little, resolution favour think fant she was a able to scream them into the lifeboats and then tong the Report provided one-third she does, however, remanser that the war vessel, Reports show of the seats in the Central Legis the men searched her thoroughly that the bravery exhibited and the lature are allotted to Muslims, as it would seem, now, for the pur

doctors and pronounced free from by losing her Hearing conduct of the officers and men was moved and declared carried pose of finding her valuables,

The Department of the Interior has cancelled 350 permits, for the prospecting of Government oil It is confidently expected lands, while a similar number of that Hankow will fall in holders have been called upon to to save the plane. - Jess than a week after Hwang-abow cause why their permits chow falls to the. Central Govern- should not be cancelled. nent.

CHINESE SUICIDE.

"VICTIM BELIEVED TO BE

124 HOUSE-BOY

Refused Admittance,

Injury. The pontoons kept theed the swimmer for a violation of ficent. But for their prompt Mr. Jinnah returned at this ing until she found herself, crawl A tralle onger this week arrest from the man-of-war was magni amid shouts of protest. Bubsequently she remembers noth seaplane afloat and after the fre the municipal motor driving on action many more lives would have stage and adjourned the sessioning on hands and knees from a and placed on deck. Commander brought into court to day she of the Kangtal was visible ten was out it was towed to the Huron dinances and when she was been lost, as nothing but the bow Reuter

ditch in the field. Turner stated that only a miracle explained she had been unable to minutes after the occurrence, In 40 had saved the men from injury.hear the officer's signal, since she minutes the vessel had completely He praised the efforts of, Derry has become increasingly seat disappeared, and she now lies In

The lady dragged herself to an since shortly after. The Channel the fairway in fen (athons.

adjacent foreign house, but at first The Navy air flest has been swim. She is unable to appear on

the servant would not permit her. staging night manoeuvres for the the stage any longer she said, and

Help from the Ldicin.

to enter, so dishevelled was hor Nearly a thousand applications past week and the planes were just cannot hear ordinary phiverse It was at the time when the

Fúppearance. She convinced them have been refused in the past starting out on their expedition, tion.

A jjl-fated vessel was about to

of her misfortune and they inform three or four days.

when the necident occurred. The The Court suspended sentence, disappour that the Customs

A paragraph reporting a case ofed their master, who called a mos almost the same. The Nanking follave, President Hoover's defrom. Its mooring but never took should not attempt to drive if ahe on the score having noticed the ed the attention of Mr. A. W. ly awaited her. While in the Thle, action by the Government damaged plane had been loosened but warned Men Ederle that, she Revenue Craiser Likin appeared suicide which appeared in the tor car and escorted her to her Chinese papers on Friday attract home, where the husband anxious. troops have truimplied in all the claration a fortnight. ago, that the air. is unable to hear the signals disaster when at a distance. Hayward, who to-day reported to strange house, she replaced her fighting on the border and have during his regime there will be no stated it was his opinton that the August 6, 1926, from Cape Gris noticed the cloude of steam and alalife by jumping off the The victim of the outrage was

Although Commander Turner Miss Ederle swam the Channel about three miles. She rat the police that the man who took rings on her. Ungers, N taken the Tung Koo, and Shiu Biu leases or disposals of all lands fire was accidental and that no one Nez, France, to Dover, covaring-the vessel heeling over with the districts of Hunan. Pagka

xcopt If "auch dispositions are. These places are to the north-made mandatory by Congress" was to blame, a board of inquiry the 31 miles in 14 hr., 81 min. Shesca dotted with boats. She put Tung On on the previous day, was in state of nervous tension, and will be held in accordance with received wide-spread publicity and on a big turn of speed, and arrived. Hayward, who lives at No. It required emergency, methods to Reuter's American-Service:

own house-boy, Navy regulations.

sarned more than a quarter in time to save many She had May Road, stated that he had quieten her. The gang, had torn million dollars, from the feat United Press.

Hunan Fighting.

*In Hunan the situation Is

cast of Changsha which la now)

2 threatened: Över 40,000 Nanking

troops will be engaged shortly in

the attack against Changsha,-

It is also stated that General CITY FIRE LAST NIGHT. located a fire at No. 226, Queen's

Ho Chien, who is the commander Lofat least half the Hunan armies, has announced his neutrality, and has sent a delegate to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek with peace over tures.

BRIGADE PROMPTLY DEAL

WITH OUTBREAK...

Road West,

It appears that dried meat was being cured over a chetty on the roof of this three-storey building, and sparks blow on to a pile of At about 8.30 last night, a call shavings, causing an outbreak was received at Fire Brigade which had assumed quite large dimensions upon the arrival of the

THE KING & QUEEN.

just come from another wreck which took place 18 miles of Wes- given the boy leave to go to the upper part of her dregs to the Canton and the coincidence of waletline, but her other garments, sung In which the str. Epohal is this, combined with the similarity were intact though there WAI total loss of the name reported in the para every indication that she had been

Frantic efforts to save all werd made by officers and crew of the graph, made him fear that blend, by the feet through mud.” HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE ed by survivors, as magnificent. ceeded in confirming the man's somewhat the gentleman informed

Lilin and their efforts are describ. servant had committed suicide, water and over et garth,

So far the police have not suc- After, he had calmed his wife AT GRAIGWEILER AU this time also an American

the police station, and togather with Identity A destroyer apeared on the scene

officers, went to the scene of the British naval wireless meage Headquarters, the switchboard in- Aremen

London, Mar, 31. and atopd-by. Observing, how!

Foutrage about 100, ands from received in the Colony this morndicating that an alarm had been Promptly setting to work, the to-day administered Holy (kommun Libin had the situation well. In

The Archbishop of Canterbury ever, that the Likin „and the TETHE DAVIS CUP.

Avenue, Halg on Edinburgh Bondk tates that Marshal Chiang sent from the fire-signal box in fremen, were able to extinguish lon to the King and Queen the hand, she proceeded to Shanghal

where ther. " cafe rac Vek, being satisfied with fie Jervois Street,

place - Monte Carlo, Mar, 81.

where the flames and eave the building King's bedroom at Cra gwn House, Interviewed yesterday on board. In the Davis Cup Competition, assaulted. It was the campaign has left Three appliances Immediately The damage done was not very nobody else being present at the the Lakin, the chlel foncer of the Monaca dedeated Switzerland by edge of a large

pulled out from the Station' and considerable.

Bervice, Router (2)

Continuad on. Page 14, 2

three matches to two --Reuter

Chiang Satisfied,

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