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PEKING TRAMWAYS CHENGCHOW FALL LONG FLIGHT OVER INDIAN IS FOUND TROUBLE IN KENYA FRENCH CABINET

PARALYSED.

ORGY OF DESTRUCTION

BY RICKSHAMEN.

AMAZING RIOT SCENES IN

FORMER CAPITAL.

THE

REPORTED.

JAPANESE STORY OF

FIERCE BATTLE."

KUOMINCHUN SAID TO BE IN OCCUPATION.

NANKING" STATEMENT.

Shanghai, Oct. 22. Aceprding to Japanese sources. the Kuominchun troops under General Sun Liang-sing, Marshal

THE ATLANTIC.

U.S. AIRMAN KEEPS PLANS A

DEAD SECRET.

HEADED FOR LONDON.

New York, Oct. 22. Without disclosing, his plans to anyone beforehand. in American Irman, Mr. Diteman, of Billings, Montana, set out from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to-day, on a flight across the Atlantic.

"NOT GUILTY."

TRIAL CONCLUDES AT

THE SESSIONS.

JUDGE ANALYSES EVIDENCE

AT LENGTH.

ANTICIPATED.

`MASAI AND LUMBWA TRIBES RESTLESS.

GOVERNOR'S ACTIVITY.

Loudon, Oct. 22. According to Press messages from Nairobi, Sir Edward Grigy. the Governor of Kenya Colony, has made a personal tour of the ferri- tory of the Masal and Lumbwa

RESIGNS.

M. BRIAND DEFEATED ON VITAL VOTE,

UNEXPECTED DOWNFALL OF THE GOVERNMENT.

tribes, enquiring into the reports. ON DAY OF ASSEMBLY! of a tendency to trouble between

Paris, Oct. 22. these tribes.

The Briand Cabinet has tender-

Sir Edward Grigg made a state-

APPLAUSE IN COURT. Until the venture had actually begun, na-one had the lenst idea The case in which Gurduit Singh was charged with committing of the aviator's proposals.

A letter addressed to the airport an offence on a married woman, officials afterwards, opened, in-Chung Mi-sau, at her house near Yu-hsiang's second-in-timates that he proposes to fly the Felix Villas on the night of August command (in the absence of Ly Atlantic with London as his de-30-31, was concluded this morning nsai and Lumbwa tribes, which Cabinet was the natural develope

Feng

SYSTEMATIC WRECKING. Chung-lin) fiercely assaulted the stination.

Ricksha" coolies completely wrecked the entire tramway system of Peking last night, running wild for a space of three hours, stopping all traffic in the city, and indulging in an orgy of destruction among the trumcars on a scale which must be unparalleled in any part of the world.

Over a hundred smashed cars are to be found littering the streets of the former capital to-day. The rickshamen, acting under "orders from their union, attacked the service at all sections of the city simultaneously, hundreds of men being engaged in the carefully organised riots.

Drivers, conductors and passengers were hustled off, and beaten with heavy clubs if they resisted, the windows of the cars were smashed, all, wooden parts of the cars torn off, and the mechanism damaged.

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Amid almost indescribable scenes. the police looked on helpless. They hold back enormous crowds thoroughly enjoy ing the spectacle, giving the rioters room in which to continue their task unhampered.

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Troops were rushed into the city at ten o'clock last night, three hours after the amazing affair commenced, and, when all the damage was done. Martial law was declared and order has been restored.

POLICE LOOK ON HELPLESS!

Peking, Oct. 21.

before Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessions.

The jury, after a retirement of half hour, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty" and accused was dis- charged.

nient on the subject to the Legised its resignation to President lutive Council to-day.

Domergue, who has accepted, it

The fall of Mi Briand's twelfth

moat of the adoption of a motion: by the Opposition fixing November debate on French 15th for a foreign policy.

The Opposition mobian was margin of eleventh p carried by 288-votes--to 277, a

There was always a danger of a collision, he said. between the

Diteman is thirty-two years of

were traditionally antaronistic, Nanking troops at Chengchow

Of late, the young warriors of yesterday afternoon and captured age, is married and his two child- the city after inflicting and

ron. He is better known as a

both tribes have been gathering receiving heavy ensualties..

Cattleman than as an airman. al-

without the permission of their though he is a licensed pilot and

chiefs, and as a result there hąd The report of the fall of

has bean dying for some time.

Both Mr. H. K. Holmes, for the cattle thefts, burglaries and dis- been an increasing number of Chongchow cannot be confirmed "The Golden Hind," the machine Crown, and Mr. Leo D'Almada, orders. Any general attitude of from any other source. Official in which he is making his hazard-inr., Counsel for defence, address-hostility to the European settlers Chinese circles are reticent regardous trip, is a small. Barling aero-ed the jury, the latter quoting an was unlikely but the possibility of ing the prevailing situation in the plane, only recently put on the authority as saying that only one a collision between the two tribes

market. It has an extremely low out of twelve such cases vicnity of Chengchow.

petrol consumption, and this, no genuine. It was

was had caused anxiety to settlers on charge that lonely farms in the danger zone. doubt, explains why Diteman cour could most easily be brought Extra police had therefore been ageously took off with only 165 against a man, but it was also one drafted into Lumbwa territory and gallons of petrol on board.

fute... of the most difficult charges to re-a company of King's African

Opposition Demand. Rifles had been ordared to patrol Masai territory. As a In the debate which led to the The carrying of armis had been unexpected downfall of the Go- prohibited in the vicinity of the verament, a Radical Socialist de- boundary between the two nativeputy, seconded by a "Die-hard" territories.-British Wireless,

Nanking Statement.

The only report given out by official sources in Nanking says that Kuominchun infantry made

Friday afternoon, but after a An attempt to enter the city on struggle with the Government troops under General Tang Seng-

chi, the Kusminchun were driver. off, leaving a large number of wounded men in the suburbs of Chengchow.

The skirmishing between the rival armies lasted`untij dawn on Saturday, and the firing could be heard for hours in the centre of the city.

Reinforcements Sent.

Following this attack, large einforcements were sent to Chengchow to strengthen the defenders.

there are are practically no public Sung-chi, prior to the reported at- It is stated that General Tang Peking this morning presents a vehicles available. remarkable spectacle after a Furthermore, it would

tack by the Kuominchun yesterday, seem

He will follow the same course as Schlee and Brock, who successfully flow "from Harbour Grace to Croy- don with 350 gallons on board.

Diteman started off at 5.15 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time-Reuter's American Service.

ROCKET PLANE'S

EFFORT.

MISHAP MARKS THE FIRST ASCENT.

it

Reputations at Stake. In summing-up, his Lordship said the woman's reputation and the man's liberty and reputation were involved he did not wish to influence the minds of the jury

either in favour of the Crown. case

GENEVA MARITIME CONFERENCE.

RESOLUTIONS BY OWNERS REJECTED.

Parliament - reassembled only to-day when M. Briand, the Pre mier asked that the debates.on foreign policy and the reparations. question be postponed until the Hague Agreement had been dia posed of

member of the Right Wing, de- manded a discussion of foreign policy before Parliament was faced with a fait accompli.

He also demanded definition of the conditions of the evacuation of the Rhineland.

or that of accused. Where in timacy occurred, the law presumed that the woman consented. They. might suppose it was for accused to prove that the woman consented, but that was not so. The legal position was that it was for the Crown to prove that the woman had not consented, and if there was any doubt as to consent, then SICKNESS AND HOURS, tance or rejection of all agree-

WING CATCHES ON FIRE accused must be discharged.

"His Lordship continued that the Crown Solicitor had said they were

Geneva, Oct. 22.

M. Briand pleaded for considera- tlon, in view of the International negotiations now proceeding, and assured the Chamber that it would have a free hand in the accep

ments.

When the Chamber showed no

The Committee of the Mari- disposition to postpone the de- on firm ground in finding that the time Conference dealing with hours bates, M. Briand made the matter

a vote of confidence. two persons were intimate on the of work on board ship has rejected,

sensational outbreak by ricksha that the rickshanen were joined shek informing him that if the Dusseldorf, but owing to one of night of August 30-31. That by thirty-seven votes to twenty-

by

coolies last night. They conduct-at the height of the affair ed organised riots in all parts of sympathisers from the Municipal the city, completed wrecked the Workers Union. tramway services and fótally dis-l

rupted vehicular traffic for several | hours.

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The affair developed, from dispute between the, ricksha coolids and the tramwaymon." The riot commencing on a tremendous! Henle shortly after darkness had fallen on the city lust fight.

Union Orders!

is eqnservatively éstimat-

ed that more than a hundred wrecked tramway cars, fitter Peking's streefs this morning.

Ceolies Control Streets. Up to nine o'clock lust night, the loters were in complete control of the situation, holding up motor- and other vehicles" in "the

Berlin, Oct. 22. The trial flight of the rocket wired to Marshal Chiang Kai-plane was carried out to-day at National Government is determin- the wings of the machine catching es to launch a general offensive fire, the inventor, Herr Espenlaub, against the Kuominchun, he has did not fire the second rocket, but Sufficient troops at his disposal to landed, unscathed. capture Tungkwan, the strong- hold of the Kuominchun

The rocket plane is in the form on the

of a glider without a tail, and the ¿Elónan border, within ten days.

Tang Seng-chi appeared to be rockets are fired from behind the confident that he had numerical pilot's seat. -Superiority 'over the Kuominchun

forces.

Lack of Details.

Battles are raging at other

MS Swing.

the

might be a right view, but he four, a proposal by the ship-owners wished them to remember that they that the Governments should be con- He fulled ket the expected were conducting a very difficult en sulted regarding the cost and the majority owing to the action of quiry indeed. It was an enquiry cconomic reprecussions of the Intro- some forty members of into the conduct of prisoner and duction of the eight-hour day, or Moderate Group, which usually complainant in the latter's room at the forty-eight hour week with re-supports the Government, but night when they were alone and he gard to ships..

which on this occasion throw thought it was their duty to sift The Committee, decided, in lieu, themselves alongside the two the evidence from top to bottom, to submit to the Government that hundred and fifty members of the. The machine was elevated by a taking nothing for granted, not the hours of overtime devoted to Left. 'rope for the trial; by an acro- even that intimacy occurred on the certain work for the safety of the They turned against the Govern- plane, and was disconnected at a night in question,

ship should not be entitled to ment mainly because they desiredi height of sixty feat.

limitation or compensation,

to see the commercialisation of Might Be Deception. The pilot, then fired, the rocket,

The Committee dealing with part of the German debt before The jury should consider the measures for the protection of any evacuation of the Third Zone into the air,

In taking this action, the Moder- A second flight will be carried to the last and think how much to by 27 votes to 21, a proposal by the out shortly-Reuter.

accept. It was quite true that both employers that venereal disease ates exhibited support of M. Poin- complainant and accused had said should be omitted from sickness care's conception of the repara- intimacy occurred, on the night in benefit, and adopted by 31 votes to tions problem, rather than that of

1 question, but the jury was not 20. a resolution declaring that the M. Brined. → board to find it so. They might question of the insurance of sen- M. Briand Immediately after- think that both parties were trying men against sickness is capable of wards announced that the Cabinet to deceive the Court for their own being dealt with by an interna would resign.-Reuter. purposes and if they suspected such tional Draft Convention. Reuter. was the case, then the charge had not been proved.

Union oficials, the rickshumenstreets, refusing thoroughfare in points in Honan and in Hupch and which shot the machine upwards evidence from the first statement seamen against sickness,' rejected of the Rhineland,

Acting up orders from their cars roved throughout the city armed streets in which the wreckage of with heavy clubs, and attacked the the trams was still proceeding. trams at all sections, and proceed-three hours after the riots and At ten o'clock last night, some ed to smash them up.

were The coolles advanced on the pars wrecking began. soldiers at their stopping places, ordered drafted into the city and martial "the tram-drivers and conductors law was declared,

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It is understood that up to the present, the tide has been against communications, however, preveels the Government. The absence of

the news of serious developments from reaching the outside world except through Nanking sources, though occasionally independent enquiries are able to obtain reliable information.

· Troops and polive began to clear the streets of the rioters and, the broken out between the Kuomin-

Fighting is reported

to have

The

were then huge crowds of onlookers.

chun and Nanking troops at hustled out of the vehicles, after

Order is gradually being restor-Heisphilkuun on the Lung-Hai been Railway. The two armies found which a systemati: wrecking of ed. Several arrests have

made.

themselves only 800 metres apart. the cars was carried out.

off their cars, badly beabing those who refused.

Systematic Wrecking.

passengers

The windows were smashed to smithereens, the woodwork on the ears was bodily ripped. off and the mechanism was damaged, insome cases, he yond repair.

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The notable features of the exploit were that the attacks throughout the city were carried out simultaneously, the union officials having apparently posted their men and given them a "zero" hour, and that

the police. apparently con sidering themselves helpless to control the outbreak, con- fined their activities to keep- ing back the crowds, allowing the sabotagers "elbow-room." The Hatamen Streets presented A remarkable spectacle of one long line of completely wrecked trameara and trailers, and the

were in a similar situation.

· Huge Crowds,

فرار

As far as 48khown 'there were 110 fatalities as a result of the outbreak, though at least three conductors

from are suffering

severe head injuries inflicted by the maddened ricksha-pullers when they refused to desert their duty.

Cause a Mystery. The immediate cause of the outbreak is still somewhat of a mystery, although it is known that for some time past there has been very bad blood between the tickshamen's and the tramway- men's unions.

It seems that both of these" unions have been striving for

Hupeh Fears.

KING MAKING GOOD -PROGRESS.

SPENDS MORNING SHOOTING AT SANDRINGHAM.

London, Oct. 22.

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TRADE DELEGATION

TO RUSSIA.

OPINION OF A SPECIAL COMMITTEE.

M. Briand.

The Prime Minister, the most picturesque figure among world statesman to-day, took office only a few months ago, succeeding on the resignation of M, Poincare owing to illness.

The woman had said she was at- tacked at night by accused who entered her bedroom and surprised HM the King spent yesterday was

It is officially announced that her. The man, she aald, dressed in his under. morning shooting at Sandringham. clothing only and carried his

Twelve times. since. 1009 he has This is the first time he has used carbine. His only way of 3p-

been Premier of France, and the gun since last November, when, proaching her, according to her

twelve times his Government has while out with a shooting party at story, was by way of the rapi.

London, Oct. 22. fallon, creating a world's record. Sandringham, he caught the chill The jury had to consider whether The Report of the Anglo- His political career seems to which led to his long illness.

they believed it probable, taken in Russian Committee on the British have been developed round his conjunction with all the facts, it trade delegation to Russin in ability to overcoma a national was an attack made for the first March last, says that the Com- crisis. The very adversaries who time in that way. If it was so,mittee is satisiled that a great caused his downfall come back. then he very curiously divested volume of business in available to later beseechnig him to forgive himself, for the purpose, of his Great Britain, if diplomatie end take the helm again. He con- uniform and elected to leave his lations are restored and recogni-sents with indulgence that makes Parliament appear like a naughty ammunition below and bring his gun tion afforded. with him. If that was 80, BLA The Committee also says that | child.. counsel for the defence had point arrangements must be made for

Indolen in munner, ha movea ed out, the marks on the woman's financing business by long-term slowly and calmly. His lonx curly hair falls over his collar. throat did not correspond with the credit or otherwise. Reuter.

His moustache dropps in a long type of marks one would expect lo

half curl, His hands are small flad from a rough assault;

and expresisve. The fag end of an eternal black cigar or cigarette- hangs from his lipa.!

On the Lo Ho, the Kuaminchun troops, with tanks, are taking up positions and clashes with the Central Government troops. ure anticipated at any mobient,

It is some weeks since the King General Liu Chi, Commander of want to Sandringham from Buck the Firat Nanking Division, leftinghm Palace, following his sec- Hankow yesterday for an inspec-end operation! The fact that he is tion tour of the Hupeh-Homan able to shoot again is, regarded as frontier. Sinyangchow, the pro- further proof of bis progress to sent stronghold of the Nanking warda complete recovery. troops; is expecting an imminent Towards the end of last month attack by the Kuominchun. it was announced that the King's stay at Sandringham had so great- ly expedited his recovery that he had begun again to take fairly long rides on horde back-British Wire-

Yen's Sympathies.

Tientsin, Oct. 22. Until recently Nanking Minis-

dominance..of the Federation of ter of War and now the Chlef Icaà. the Unions of Peking, the jealousyHeutenant of Marshal "Feng Yu-

yesterday

of the ricksha-pullers of the hsiang, General Lu growing power of the Tramway Hn arrived here Workers, Union being one of the and is staying at a Japaneso principal reasons for the amazing Totel. affair-Reuter.

Previous Trouble..

A warrant has been (Continued on Page 9.) (1

manner.

majority of the other main streetsTrouble occurred on the Peking For two days, before the matter

Service Paralysed.

LANTAU CHANNEL

MARKINGS.

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man,

PRIME MINISTER TAKING REST.

If that was 80 the curiously enough, seemed to have coupled a demand for money after- wards; further, a threat to the woman's family which had no "connexion whatever with the al- STAYING FOR TWO DAYS-AT foged attack. His Lordship there- ford suggested to the jury that they should consider the womnri ̋e,"

CHICOUTINI.

Briand's personal tastes are ex- ceedingly simple. When he la not in the Chamber of Deputies or his. small apartment, he is on his farm in Normandy, where he' HAVE NO NAVIGATIONAL

Quebec, Oct. 22, raises pedigreed sheep and in-. SIGNIFICANCE. :

evidence very carefully in all its Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his duties in his favourite pastime of tramwaya in November last year was settled, the drivers took the

aspects to see if she had spoken party have arrived at Chicoutini fshing It aid he hatches plots The naval authorities in Hong- the truth. when soldiers boarded the trams.brams out and ran them throughout

Lin Quebec Province; from Montreal against his enemies while watch- refused to pay their fares and the city without charges. Half the kong inform us that a report has The man's story was to thewhere he will spend two days in Ing the fish nibble at the bait. com-assulted drivera and conductors. population took advantage of the flags and other marking are being Not only did he say that but he gramme of the last week or so.

been received stating that various effect that Intimacy occurred.resting after his strenuous pro- Of Raymond Poificare and The fatter demanded the provision opension to go joy-riding, the com- erected on the island in the vicinity further said It WDS has them plant and rule works at Chicoatini understands nothing, in

Briand, Clemenceau once said: It appears that every ricksha of guards and when the manage-pany lost thousands of dollars on

was the eighth- He Inspected the hydro-electric "Poincare knows everything and puller in the city responded to ment of the tramway company each day and the ricksha coolies of Lantau Channel.

credible to the jury? If it was so, this morning-Router's American | knows nothing and understands the call of their loaders and refused to comply, they brought protested bitterly at the unfair

(Continued on Page 8.) participated in the sabotage al pressure upon them in a unique competition.

Service,

everything."

The tram service was pletely paralysed.

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It is pointed out that these have

|no. navigational signification,