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THE CUINA GRISIS PLANE MISHAP ON

DEVELOPS

ETY INCREASING

FENG YU-HSIANG MAY JOIN

IRONSIDE REVOLT

SIAM COAST.

TH AIR MAIL SERVICE ***INTERRUPTED.

OCCUPANTS UNHURT.

Amsterdam, Sopt. 30. Flying from Bangkok, Siam, to Medan, Sumatra, the second ma

VICTIMS OF CER DISPUTE

TREATMENT IN SOVIET PRISONS

KARAKHAN THREAT DENIED" FROM BERLIN.

1929

TAXATION OF THE TERRIBLE FAMINE SHE

WEALTHY.

ILF MOTION DEFEATED AT BRIGHTON

chine of the new air mail service MORE TROOPS LIKELY Government, Mr Herbert Morri

between Amsterdam and the Dutch, East Indies, met with a mishap to-day owing to bad weather.

AK ON WEST RIVER?

Shanghai, Sept. 30. The high tension in Nanking lowing the revolt of the Iron sides and the persistent rumours Cable advices are to the effect

Moscow, Sept. 30. Regarding the Chinese allega tions of ill-treatment of Chinese

PREMIER AND HOOVER

London, Bept 30. Emphasising that he was speak ing as President of the annual conference of the Labour Party, and not as a tomber of the

son, who holds the position of Minister of Transport in Mr. Mac- Donald's Administration, alluded with satisfaction to the work already accomplished by Messrs.

ghal Chiang Kai-shek, has sudden-the coast for the ocean

sony and declared that economic hop to Agency, the official news agency of disarmament was as essential as ly intensified as a result of a sus Sumatra when a severe storm the Soviet Government, says that military disarmament in the in- picion that Marshal Feng Yu forced the machine to return. Fat-kwels

near Satul, on the west coast of has visited the Chinese who were Well-informed circles are of the Slam, and the machine was damag-arrested at Chita." opinion that Feng's active antaed.. gonism to Nanking would bring

It is understood that the occu- the resources of Marshal Yen Hsi-pants of the plane were unhurt, shan against the Central Govern and that the mails have been re- ment also.

covered from the machine and for- warded to their destination.

CONDITIONS

TEN MILLION VICTIMS IN HONAN

“500,000 DIE OF STARVATION IN SHENSI

SALE OF CHILDREN.

Shanghal, Sept. 28.

DENIES BEING

ASSOCIATES

OF CRO

RECORD RAKED UP.

Es

Wäshington, Sept. 30,

You have raked the sewern of London and New York In order to ruin me. thundered Mr. Willam

B. Shearer when vigorously deny.

LTD.

BANK DEPOSITOR:

CLAIMS

STORY OF DEALI

RA

of a military allianes against Mar- that the machine was just leaving prisoners in Siberia, the TaMacDonald, Snowden and Hender Chinese Pressmen's Famine Inves Shearer was an associate of in- by Chan

ing questions by the Senate erA CONTRA ACCOU quiry in connexion with alleged attempts by U.B. shipbuilding An action for the concerns through Shearer, to cause 8641 being the Hongko a breakdown of the 1927 Naval ent of $2,000- Coub Disarmament Conference from the Foo Lo The questions alleged that Queen's Road ternational crooks.

Whilst denying the accusations

Eastern Str

Shearer said he "supposed, he had Pulsne Jud spy, and admitted that he was once FOE. Endal arrested on a dock where a yacht manded the money

and des

Shearer said shipbuilders offered told none was due to him MG was unloading whisky,

posited with the bank but had been

Geneva and then drum the tended that nothing was due be to pay him £5,000 a year to go to MM Watson, for the defence, come Marine into the American public his money, necessity of a Navy and Merchant cause plaintif had already received

Court this

hsiang is ready to join with Chang The pilot made a forced landing the German Consul at Vladivostock/terests of world-wide perca. studying famine conditions in the been arrested in America as a Plaintiff, whos

The trouble arises from the failure of the Nanking leaders to. No information is yet available resch an understanding with Feng to indicate the nature, of the Yu-hslang As suggested a few days ago, Marshal Feng Yu-halang damage to the machine, or the has seen in the present internal

time required to effect repairs. Reuter. crisis an opportunity of forcing Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's hand in the matter of providing the funds which Feng alleges are dus. to him for diabandment purposes.

Feng's Demand.

It is stated that Feng demanded the sum of $20,000,000, using the unspoken threat of joining in the revolt to back up his request. *

When the revolt of the Ironside"

STRANGE REPORT OF AIRMAN..

COSTES STILL IN AIR AFTER 72 HOURS!

Moscow, Sept. 30."

He concluded Government doing well, but acccess is not polling us. We refuse to water aim at a new society, the Socialist down our final objectives We Commonwealth."

The German Consul, the report goes on, afterwards told representa- tives of the Chita newspapers that Mr. Morrison was presiding over the prisoners are being treated the frst Conference held during Russian prisoners-Reuter, aatisfactorily, and similarly to the

-Threat of Force Denfed.

Nanking, Sept. 27.

In a telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Chiang Tac-ping, Minister to Berlin, aaya that the press reports of M. Karak- han's declaration that, if the pre- sent Sino-Soviet dispute is not set- tled within the next two weeks, the Soviet Government will forcibly seize the entire Chinese Eastern Railway Line are entirely unfound-

ed

.

GENERAL STRIKE IN PALESTINE.

Arabs Protest Against Sentences.

A BUSINESS BOYCOTT.

Jerusalem, Sept. 80. After meetings at Halfa, Jaffa and Jerusalem in protest on Arabs in coxian with against the sentences imposed the recent disturbances, the Arab communities have decided to close all their establishments throughout Palestine and will cease alt work on Wednesday-Reuter.

A Kaifeng telegram to the Fast ern Times says that the Shanghai

tigation Party, who left here some weeks ago with the intention of

northwestern provinces, have ar rived in that city...

According to information which there are at present no fewer than has been received by these men. men

10,000,000 famine sufferers in

Honan Province alone,

During their stay in Hsuchowin, the telegram says, they discovered that the people there had bean hard hit through the civil wars.

Rice $20 a Plcul.

Owing to the constant Interrup tions of communications, the price of rice was not less than $20 per picul.

Fortunately, the telegram adds, crops are good this year and many foreign marchants have arrived there to make purchases. The mer the notes issued the Central chants are doing good business and

Bank of China and the Bark of China are accepted without ques- tion.

Terrible Beyond Words.

Ha denied having tried to sabotage the Geneva Conference.

Rear Admiral Reeves also gave evidence, saying he desired the success of the Conference Reuters American Service,

Settlement of Accouml;

Mr. Rendall said that plain purchased Central from defendant for $628: He received 100 as they were new m

RETURN OF CANTON they were in serial ninth

PLANES

FLY FROM HANKOW IN FIVE AND HALF HOURS.

TEN AIRMEN BACK.

and the "Nam Hof" under 1st

suspicious and doubted they were genuine. He. his doubts to a ciarka who wrote the numbe could be produced on a piece of paper

occasion for reference Plaintif however, satisfied and as idab mediata need for the k mo

deposited it with the benkov

That was the first

plaintif

General Chiang adds that he be vision developed about two weeks DESCENT SOMEWHERE? been reliably informed that the

Marshal Feng Yu-halang im diately sent an emissary. Mr.

Soviet troops along the entire kuk-fan, to Nanking demand-

Siberia-Manchuria border will not

Canton, Sept. 30, from the National Government Fears for the safety of the be withdrawn, but that instead,

plaintiff had had with bark. The Cantonese planes, Tung The notes appreciated in value and a huge sum to cover the cost of famous French airman, Coates, there is a likelihood of additional

Kun under Wing Commander plaintiff accordingly left them with disbandment of the Kuomin-who is engaged on a long-distance troops being sent from Moscow,

Teng Yuet-ming. "Peng Yu" under the bank. flight across Europe and Siberia, should the Soviet Government o-day Nanking official circles have been allayed by news from deem it necessary to increase ita

Gen. Yu Yu-jen, former Civil Wing Commander W Kan-ngar On about Augus ibited some signs of alarm when Novosibirak, reporting that Costes military strength along the border,

Governor of Shensi, interviewed by Squadron Commander Wong washed news went round that the was sighted to-day flying over the in order the better to accomplish the Labour regime, at Brighton, conditions in Shensi upon his ren Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.

members of the press on famine Kwong-yu, returned to Canton on and went to the resentative of Feng Yu-hsiang town, on his way to Irkutskite scheme of coercing the Na- the proceedings opening in an turn to Nanking, said that condi

the purpose of draw d dispatched a cable to Taiyuan Reuter.

tional Government into accepting atmosphere of rejoicing.

tions in Shensi were so terrible as day for Hankow where they spent plication the clerk looked up the

They left Nanking the previous money. When where Feng is staying, report- ng that lack of sincerity on the and suggests that Costes must

[The report is rather strange, its terms of settlement.-Ta Chung.

The Conference cheered the to be beyond words.

the night and left the following records and said there was no part of the Nanking leaders was

Photographer's Narrow Shave, reading of the reply to Mr. Ram In more than 20 districts, there morning at 8.30 for Canton, anak money deposited. Plaintiff left: rendering it useless to pursue fur- have descended at some

paint ther conferences.

already. Accompanied by

say MacDonald's message, the were no autumn crops to be haring the trip in five and a half hours, for Kongmoon and returned to Bel

Harbin, Sept. 26.

Conference asking the Prime vested, and, on top of this many Commander Wong Kwong-yu Hongkong on September 7 when he lonte, he took off from Le Bourget

A three-inch shell from the So Minister to convey to President of the districts were flooded. The will be acting temporarily for Gen, again made a demand. He was Field, Paris, at 8.20 a. on Fri viet troops across the border greet Hoover and the American nation, population of Wukunghaien was oral Chang Wai-cheung, again informed that there was no day, September 27th, In an attempted the cameraman of the Fox their gratification and their whole formerly around 100,000 but this Of the thirty flying officers who depoalt, in spite of the deposit note. on the world's record for long-Films Co. at Manchuli yesterday hearted co-operation in the great figure had been reduced to less left for the North recently ten which plaintiff possessed. distance non-stop flight.* when the

Reutor stated that his machine "ahobting" trench scones of the "was photographer task of promoting international than 30,000, the remainder having returned to Canting or apr_Wholly Untrue"

friendship. has a 600 hp engine, and was Chinese Defence Force. However,

leff or having starved to death,- A lively debate followed, on a

pointments by the Central Govern Replying to his Lorship, Mr. Taiyuan Conference.

carrying 5,200 litres of petrol. the shell missed him by over 100 resolution submitted by the In Half Million Dead.

ment, with the exception of Colonel Watson said the defence was time He hoped to fly about 9,000

dependent Labour Party urging a P

Art Lym, who has been appointed the plaintiff's story was wholly Ting Minister of War to the Na-hometres and remain in the air yards and no damage was done.

drastic increase in the taxation More than 500,000 people had Chief of the Technical Department intrue tional Government, General Lu for 50 hours. He hoped to reach The daily official communique of the wealthy to provide for the died of starvation in Shenal up to of the National Aviation Admini Chan Hang-shan man Chung-lin, and General Hsiung Tokyo.

from the headquarters at Manchuii development of social services, the present, sald Gen. Yu, andatration, and Colonel Hung Chiu-the Lee Bang Chung firm Bin, both staunch supporters of the If Costes was flying yesterday report the situation there to be including a system of children's hundreds of thousands of children to, now Chief of Military Affairs Eastern Street, and of the LE

Christian General" left Nanking at 8 a.m. without having stopped quiet. A majority of the stores allowances.

had been sold by their parents to of the Administration. — Canton

rice mill, Kongmoon, said he had. esterday for Shanghai, and it is at any point, he would then have at Manchuli have reopened their

News Agency;" earned that they are conferring been in the air for 72 hours, which doors, since no Soviet aeroplanes of the resolution by 1,260,000 votes Owing to lack of rolling stock

The debate ended in the defeat save them from a similar death.

had several other transactions with with other Ruominchun leaders in is beyond the capacity of his have been seen during the lato 866,000 votes. Reuter

the bank in purchasing Central Shanghai.

on the Lung-Haf und Tientsin-

Bank notes but those transactions The atmosphere in Nanking con- machine. Furthermore 72 hours few days. The cold spell like

Pakow Hallways, large quantities

were for cash and there were no sequently was electrical

of consecutive flight should have wise seems to have driven the other-

memoranda of foodstuffs Intended for dia- The feeling was, intensified later by carried him approximately 7,200 wise active Soviet raiders under

cover Te Chung

tribution among the famine suf messages from Peking stating that milee, while the distance between

ferere, remained piled up at vari- eneral Sheng Chen, the chief Paris and Irkutsk is about 5,000

ous railway stations and cannot be leutenant of Marshal Yen Hai- miles.]

sent to Shansi.

It Is understood that Liu Yuk fan secretly left Nanking this morning for Shanghal. His exit From the capital without inform

ng Chiang Kai-shek of his Inten- Tona has been severely criticised

the newspapers.

han, had left for Shansi Province, with a number of officers, to con-

er with Marshal Yen Hal-shan GERMAN NATIONALIST

Kuominchan Mobilizing.

Under the pretext of carrying utan anti-bandit campaign, the

CAMPAIGN.

Winter Hardships.

Nanking, Sept. 27.

WIDESPREAD HAVOC IN JAPAN.

The miserable condition of SC-STORM SWEEPS LARGE AREA Yu mentioned that the crops this

Poops of General Sun Llang-sing REPUDIATION OF ALL PACIS the Russian peasants there, ac

AND AGREEMENTS!

Former Military Governor of Shantung and Commander of the First Kuominchun Division, are

Berlin, Sept. 30. moving south from Central Honan Am plebiscite is being held in News from Hankow is to the effect Germany between October 16th that the vanguards have arrived and 19th on the "Bill Against the on the Honan-Hupek, border Enslavement of the German Ped

General, Sun Liang-sing, how aver, 28 not with his troops and it ple which repudiates all post-

war treatics and agreements.

is stated that he has arrived at The plebiscite is due to the Na- Taiyuanfu, and that he is attend-

pga military conclave with tionalist campaign in favour of the Sarah Feng Yu-hsiang

Bill which stipulates that any ond Marshal Yen Hsi-shad

German Minister or plenipoten-

Nanking Report,

As is often the case, when over there is a military Crisis. in North", China, there are conflicting reports regarding the

viet inhabitants across the border in the Amur region, due to the lack of foodstuffs there, have given Frise to bitter feelings against the Soviet Government on the part of cording to a mesange received to day. The message adds that duo to the suspension of communica tion by River, the people have been cut off from their food supplies Kuo Min

FIVE-POWER NAVAL CONFERENCE.

tiary signing an agreement impos- WAY NOW CLEAR FOR ISSUE ing burdens on Germany will be liable to trial for high treason

Reuter.

OF INVITATIONS.

London, Sept. 30.

FOR 24 HOURS.

Questioned as to the crops, Gen year were hopelons because seeds had to be sown in the eighth moon of each year but now that month had nearly passed and the farmers no rain, so sewing was out of the were without seeds and there was

Tokyo, Oct 1 Widespread havoc has been lands and the Lachus by a storm wrought in the Amandoshima Is which swept the area all day long on question. September 29th, Sundayı

Oficial figures received in Tokyo show that nearly six hundred houses have been destroyed and over eight hundred damaged. Five motor- boats were Bunk- and there were several casumities.

FRANCE AND RHINE EVACUATION:

The others are

MOTOR DRIVER PLEADS POVERTY

FINE REDUCED TO ENABLE HIM TO PAY PERIA

When he applied for his money and Ng Fan-mei told him there was no deposit, he made is fuss and told Ng that he could not de busineak in: that way don

Cross-examined by Mr Waton The driver of a motor lorry who plaintiff denied that he received was fined $20 by Mr T S Whyte the equivalent of his money o Smith at the Kowloon MagistracyJune 22. yesterday afternoon for speeding in Nathan Road and a further $5 for only licensed to drive a Chevrolet. He denied that on driving a Ford lorry when he was

vehicle, was again before his Wor- sold the notes to the ban, | ship this morning whon he stated $651, that he took that he had been unable to obtain the outer count sufficient money to pay the fine counter, that

Suspieleus of Note

estions,

June

trans

could

said that he was only able to money again and get $10.credited him with the

Addressing the defendant who settlement of an account. was yesterday given 24 hours in Answering further, Press" despatches from the area YOUNG PLAN MUST FIRST RE said that he was an old man and 22, he had a lot of

which to pay the fine, his Worship plaintiff admitted that put the damage figures even high- ery-Reuter,{"

She would propably have some difficul OPERATING PRIN

City in finding work and he also had actions with the bank. Parle, Sept. 30,

a good record. NEPALENE not remember whether $1,900, was

His Worship bald that he would deposited with the bank Taking the seat of M. Poincare, take into consideration his age and security against speculation In who for the first time for many good record, and make the fines $38 exchange because the mo years was unable to preside at the on the speeding count and $2 on not all deposited at the opening session of the Council the other

It consisted of several General of the Mouse Department,

BRITISH REVENUE

DEFICIT.

A wireless message from Rau-NOT SO BAD AS SAME PERIOD tere representativa on board the

LAST YEARS

WEATHER REPORT

M Maginot, the Minister of the pyalty of the Kuominchun leaders. River, where at least 6,000 Kwang-Cunard liner Berengaria, which is

Colonies, in a speech at Bar-le emi-official-Nanking sources say tung and Kwangs! troops are carrying Mr. Ramsay MacDonald

Duc, declared that the prematurely int a cable has been received by concentrating, ready for an offen-to the United States, says that the

svacuation of the Third Zone of London, Sept 80 the Rhineland, es contemplated by o The Nanding aabbrities from site, became disquieting this final communications have been The revenue returns or the the agreement reached at the The Royal Observatory reports enerdfis Shih Yiu-shan, Llu Chen- evening when telegraphic com-received from the Dominions Gay first six months of the financial recent Hague Conference, was that the anticyclone has moved to ul and Han Furchu, Kuominchun munication between Canton and braments regarding the questions year show a dedcit of 472,000,000, strictly conditional upon the the north of Japan and increased divisional commanders, pledging Wuchow was interrupted for on which depended the invitations the receipts being £117,000,000 ratification of the Young Plan by considerably in intensity Pressure meir support of the Chiang Kai- some unknown reason.

for the Five-Power Naval Conter and expenditure £389,000,000 the French and German Parila is low to the east of the Visayan. ek regime

Canton business circles were once,

The deficit, however is nearly mental hard day Fresh monsoon will prevail along perturbed by the suspension, and The way is now clear for the is £4,000,000 less than for the same Therefore, he declared the the coast and over, the North China West River Fighting?-

the uneasiness when it was sue of invitations to a Conference period last year and experts are French troope would remain in the Sex The forecast til noon to rumoured that fighting between to be held in London.in the middle of the opinion that the altuntion Third, Zong until the Young Plan morso Bis NAD winds tread

is not unkatkeractory Reuter, koe came into

Canton Sept. 80

(Continued on Re

When the cucution was put, plaintiff bald the money was not security but was in a current faccount w

The money in the present cade the bank and not for fa for actual money depos

transactions

Credit?

say that ho ney to the