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CANTON AIR CRASH

RUMOURS.

TERRIBLE FATE OF OBSERVER.

PILOT OF BOMBING PLANE IN TROUBLE.

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FOUNDED IN - 09-16F MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929. BMA-† SINGLE-COTT #:CAMI

MR. BREWER AGAIN CO-ORDINATION OF

IN COURT.

HEARING OF CHARGES TO OPEN NEXT WEEK.

TRANSPORT.

DETAILS OF THE NEW TRAFFIC BILL.

DRASTIC TREATMENT OF THE RECKLESS DRIVER.

BERLIN SCIENTIST LUXURIOUS MOTOR

HONOURED.

AWARDED COPLEY, MEDAL BY ROYAL SOCIETY:

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THE QUANTUM THEORY

Tonda Dec. 1. The well-known Bernau scien- tist. Professor Max Flanck, has been presented by the Royal Society with the Coffey Medal,

Society can confer.

LINER HERE.

· ́ASAMA MARU NOW

IN PORT.

THE FIRST OF THREE NEW

* N.Y.K. BOATS.

PREPARING DEFENCE.

Mr. N... Brewer made mother appearance before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at the Central Police Count this morning, being accom- panied by Mr. E. Davidson, his sol- R.A.C. & A.A. APPROVE. which is the highest honour the MAGNIFICENT CRAFT. THE WAR SITUATION.

icitor, in the ease in which he is charged with offences under the Cunton, Dec. i.

Perjury and Larceny Ordinances A most "remarkable report in connexion with the affairs of comes to hand from Sumshui in the lustone Banking Corporation." Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, appearing connexion with the aeroplanic crash which occurred there after police gested next Monday for the bearing of the a bombing raid in the middle of ense, to which Me. Davidson Inst week. It is stated that the agreed, stating that he was sure machine was completely wreck- Mr. Fitzroy would be able to say

ed, the pilot being killed instan-

taneously.

the time he (Mr. Davidson) would

require to prepare the defence.

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"Mr.

Mr. Fitzroy said the time entail- The observer, the reported by the proceedings would on, staggered out of the ma- depend on whether Mr. Brewer chine, apparently not seriously would give evidence himself. hurt but ebviously very much thought there was plenty of time ahead of them if they fixed the duzed, and was immediately shot hearing for next Monday.

Brewer the Public Prosecutor dewn by some nearby soldiers.

on bailand is in resumed, "is I should be stressed that this no serious inconvenience excent remarkable story is only a ramone for this thing hanging over his which has reached your corres-head, which is not pleasant." pondent at Shameen and it may not be correct,

Hospital Bemb Mishap." Another somewhat exceptional report concerns the 'unfortunate incident of the bomb which fell on the Fong Biri Hospital at Can- ton, killing and wounding a large number of the patients, according to reports.

Since the accident, all nero- planes have been instructed either to fly over the river or to proceed around the city, but in any ense not to fly over Canton.

The Cake

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London, Dec, 1.

Drastle proposals. affecting all classes of traffic on the highways of Britain are contained in the text and to-day of the Road Traffic Bill which will be introduced in the

use of Lords next Thursday. The chief proposals are the abolition of the speed limit of though twenty miles

per hour,

motor-coaches are to be subject to a speed limit of thirty miles per hour. There is no maximum speed limit for light motor-cars and motor-eycles.

Heavy Penalties,

Heavy penalties are provided for "Careless driving" and "Danger | our driving," a second conviction for the latter offence involving the cancellation of the driver's licence.

The minimum age for a motor- cycle driver's Heence is to be raised

да accordingly from fourteen to sixteen. All ap adjourned for hearing on Monday plicants for driving licences are to afternoon, at 2.16. The after-make a declaration of physical noons of the following Tuesday fitness. and Thursday were also set aside. for other sittings.

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MINOR MINISTERIAL

. CHANGES.

MADE NECESSARY BY LEGAL

OBLIGATIONS.

!, London, Dec. i. That, of course, is a sensible

The re-arrangement of juntor step. In regard do the pilot, from Ministers of the Labour Admini. whose machine the bomb drapped,stration was made in order that

Compulsory insurance is to be effected against third-party risks, all drivers being obliged to carry their certificates of insurance.

The Bill also makes provision for the restriction of. duly hours for drivers of heavy motor vehicles, -

The Area Commissioner la to Hechse public service vehicles and to regulate the rates and the serviceR

The terms of the proposed mea-,' sure are generally approved by the Automobile Association and the Royal Automobile Club, the two great organisations of the motoring.

Out-of-Date Laws,

It is reported that he has been the number of Under-Secretaries of world. arrested by the authorities and‹it | State in the House of Commons is likely that he will be court- | should be reduced from seven to The Minister of Transport, Mr. martinlled and probably shat. six as required by law.

Pilot's Difculties,

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Morrison,

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FREEDOM OF THE RHINELAND.

TENSION AROUSED BY ALLIED COMMUNIQUE.

SHORT-LIVED SCARE.

Cologne, Dec. 2.- The thousands of people who || gathered to celebrate the evacua tion of the Second Zone'; were thrown into a state of consternu- tion by a repar! that the Presl-

THE SINO-RUSSIAN DISPUTE

| NANKING MAKING NEW PROPOSALS?

DETAILS OF THE MUKDEN SURRENDER.

dent of tllo Inter-Allied Rhineland WORKING SEPARATELY High Commission had informed

The altuation ass, between. Nan- A day ahead of schedule, the the Reich Commissar of the occu- Professor Planck thirty years

discoverail the quantum Asama Mare, the first of the new pied area that although the Allied king and Mukden on the one hand go

motor. passenger

troops had departed, the zone other seems at the sumo: "tianci theory, which Sir Ernest Rather-ultra-moderd ford, the President of the Royal ships built for the Nippon Yugongs had been struck and the and the Soviet Government on the Society describes as having effect Kalsha's Orient-California must, in the absence of a declara clarified and rendered in anoth ed not only a veritable, avolution vice, arrived in port this morning tion from the Ambassader's Con-sonse more complicated by in in physics, but profourly chang and berthed at the Kowloon ference, still be regarded as submation reaching us from Calluse

She was, during the ed our methods of thought and Wharves, concepts of philosophy

day, the object of general admira-ject to the ordinances of the Inter-sources this morning regarding Planck also tion. The two sister-ships, the Allied Rhineland High Commis-the negotiations for the settlement. Professor

new invention Chichiu Maru and the Tatsuta sion. responsible for a which in Sir Oliver, Loua view Maru will be seen here in the The three will have an important effect upon srl of next year. the future development of X-rays liners are truthfully described as and light generally.

the largest and most magnificent motor ships ever built in Japan.

The Asama Maru was ordered aram from M. Briand stating that from the famous Mitsubishi Dock-German sovereignty in the Second yard in Nagasaki. The construc- Zone had been completely restor tion work was started in Septem-ed. ber, 1927 and the launching took pisce on October 30th in year.

world

Professor Planck famous. He attracted attention

JAPANESE NAVAL DEMANDS.

Anglo-American Move

Prevent Impasse.

CRUISER RATIO ISSUE,

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Tokyo, The

It is learned the glas cles that Britain, and, Amüf=" ch, apparently Tenring" the possibility of an Impasse, if Japan insista on a 70 per cent ratio of big cruisera'vis-a-via America, are attempting to find an alternative"-solation meeting. Japan's requirements for national defence.

With this object in view, they have requested Jupan to indicate the total number of auxiliary vessels she will re- quire, instead of seeking a ratio.

No reply has yet been sent, but it is understood that the authorities here are now con- sidering the matter,-Renter.

Earl Russell, who has a seat in ¦ its effect will be to free the House of Lords, therefore be motorists from hopelessly out-of- The again may not be true, but comes Parliamentary Under-Seere-date restriction, but will "call to if it is, it certainly seems a very tary of State for India, Mr. Ar order the considerate and incum- heavy penalty to pay for anther Ponsonby taking his place as petent driver. He hoped that by accident for which the vinter Parliamentary Secretary of Tran-it pedestrians would be helped to could hardly be lield responsible.' sport in order to allow the read- co-operate with other users of the

According to his story, the homib justment.-British Wireless,

highway to common advantage,

The Bill provided machinery release machine jammed after he

on the second law whereby the various public service with a thesis had released a number of bambs over the Kwangsi positions. One

vehicles would work on something of thermo-dynamics when he of the bomis, he states, was

of a co-operated basis. Practically graduated at Munich, and before partially released, but he fried un-

everybody agreed that reckless he was thirty years of age, he suc- competition in transport wan con- eceded Gustav Kirchoff availingly to get it cleared.

trary to the interests of the com- fessor at Berlin, munity and for the first time under He became world famous when the new legislation we should be he brought out his law of radio- able to take and largely to enforce tion which was founded on the the antional view of British trans- corpuscular nature of radiation port requirements-British Wire- and on the quantum theory. less...

in fact, it is said, he was very much afraid that the bump on the moment of landing might release the bomb and blow up both the However, machine and bimanelf.

the bomb unfortunately detached itself just as he was flying over the hospital when he was nearly home.

THE HOLE IN ONE

CHAMPION.

SANDY HERD DOES IT FOR THE 18TH TIME.

London, Dee, 1.

Sandy Herd, the veteran British professional golfer, playing at Moor Park, Rickmansworth, to-day. holed out at the eighteen in one. stroke.

The hole is 146 yards long.. This is the eighteenth occasion in his long career on which Herd has performed the holing-in-one fent and his record in thin respect in quite unparalleled.

War Situation In Hand. The situation here continues quiet and a confident air, is pre- valent. Six Chinese vessels have arrived from the North with large numbers of reinforcements from Nanking. The situation certainly appears to be well in hand, the

An American golfer has promised Cantonese armies having taken up Herd a solid gold putter when he very strong defensive positions does his twentieth hole in one- from the West to the North Rivers. Reuter.

In the meantime the Kwangsi troops have advanced still nearer and have occupied Shiuhing. This they did without fighting, the Cantonese having withdrawn to their defence line above' Samahni the day before.

New Planes in Canton. The aviation field at Tai Shu Tun has been especially busy late-

ly; large numbers of sir ralds are

J

IN MEMORY OF THE "TIGER,"

WAR HEROES PAY RESPECTS A'T ARC DE TRIOMPHE,

Paris, Doc. 1. Ten thousand ex-Service men being carried out daily on the from all over the country marched Kwangsi positions. Further aero in procession through the streets of planes have arrived from the North to supplement the Provin Paris to the Arc de Triomphe to

day in memory of the late M. Cle- clal Air Force.

menceau.

"Amongst the latest arrivals are

The demonstration was marked three enormous Junkers all-metal monoplanes; these are the well by its quiet dignity.

Commission's Report. That part of the Bill which denis with the co-ordination of public vehicle traffic is based upon the recommendations contained in the second Report of the Royal Com- mission on Transport, practically all of which have been embodied. The appointment of commissioners to control services in various areas is the most important advance.

The recommendations of the Bill are not intended to apply to the London, traffic area, but the Gov ernment attitude in this respect is not made quite clear.

us Pro-

The Society has also awarded Royal-Medals to Professors Little- wood and Muir, the Davy medal to Professor G. N. Lewis and the Hughes medal to Professor Hans Geiger, British Wireless.

CHINESE LEGATION

INCIDENT.

SEVEN SENT FOR TRIAL IN KRUSBELS

A minor riot occurred on the premises recently when students visited the Legation to demand the release of a compatriot who has caused trouble and had been ar rested.-Router.

584 Feet Long,

The liner has a displacement of 22,000 tons and the gross tonnage of 10,974 tona. Her length is 584 feot, beam 72 feet, depth. 42.0 feet.. The Asama Maru is equipped with four sets of Sulzer Diesel engines 19,600 capable of developing S.H.P. in total and a speed of 21

knots. The passenger accommo dation comprises 239 first class, 96 ("#Ecoŋd-class, titul 804 steerage

class.

of the ship and the safety of pas- seva are inchided in the equip

ment:

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Propelling Machinery,"

Despite the announcement, how- ever, the authorities decided to

carry. on with the celebrations.

Later in the day, the tenso situation was relieved by a tele-

Occupation of the Second Zone officially ended on Saturday, when the last of the French and Belgian troops were withdrawn.-Reuter,

EUROPEANS IN A MOTOR SMASH.

of the CE.R. dispute,

There is no further doubt that Mukden acted Independent- ly of Nanking in offering to resi tore the status quo ante on the railway. It is stated, however, that Chang Hauch-llang Inter informed Dr. C. T. Wang of the steps taken.

The situation is complicated by news that Nanking is taking separato steps for the reopening ✨ of direct negotiations, and poli- |tical" observers express the view that if Russian shelling and bomb, ing raids in Manchuria are relax-: ed, Chang Rauch-Hang will order- a stop to the negotiations, at COLLISION IN KOWLOON BUT Khabarovsk and leave the matter

in the hands of Ninking,

London Parley?

Shanghal, Dec. 1.

NO-ONE HURT.

The top of Waterworks" Hill on Pr the Peninsula was the scene of a In planning the construction of motor ameah shortly after two the liner and her sister ships, com- o'clock yesterday afternoon when a A spokesman of the Foreign fort, speed and safety have been motor car (driven by Mrs, Dock Office announced to Chinese news- the foremost thought of The Com- nay, containing her husband, Com- paper correspondents in Nanks pany. All the latest devices, for mander Docksay, and friends travel-the intention of the National assuring the security and stabilityling to the Kwanti racecourse) and Government to change the venue.

a P.W.D. moter lorry, came into for formal negotiations, with the collision. Fortunately there were Soviet from Berlin to London. no casualties.

Following instructions from the Others in the motor car were Nanking State Council, accordin Mins Eunice de Bierre, Misa Bow-to the spokesman of the Foreign leigh and another gentleman and it Omee, the Foreign Minister at A feature of an especially im-

the vehicles were Nanking recently wired to Mr. appears that portant and interesting character travelling in opposite directions Chiang Tao-ping, (Minister to incorporated in the design of this So far as can be ascertained it

Berlin), Mr. Wang Yung-pao vessel is the adoption of the in- would seem that the front wheels (Minister to Tokyo), Dr. O. C. Wu ternal combustion engine for her of the respective vehicles missed Minister to Washington) and Dr. main propelling machinery. The euch other but the front of the car Alfred Sze (Minister to London) engines, which were built by came into contact with the rear and Mr. Kao Lu (Minister to Messrs. Sulzer Bros. at their works part of the lorry, the collision being Paris) requesting these Ministers to hold informal conversations in Switzerland and installed by aggravated by the lorry driver. He' the builders, consists of four sels suddenly applied his brakes but of eight-cyclinder, single acting this had the unfortunate effect of regarding the recent Soviet in motors developing 16,000 11. P. causing the lorry to skid so that the leaders of foreign governments.

It is a great credit to both the rear part swung towards the front Swiss firm and the Japanese of the car. builders that a successful official trial run of the ship, which took place ut Nagasaki on the 1st August list, far exceeded all ex- developed amounted to 19,600 pectations for the power then K. P. and the highest speed at- tained was over twenty-one knóts.

IMPORTANT STEP IN INDIAN T.U.C.

vasion of Manchuria with the

The Foreign Ministry on the 28th and 20th November received lengthy reports from Mr. Chian Tao-ping, Dr. Alfred Sze and Dr. C. C. Wu. The speaker was not in the position to make known the terms of the reports but he could SECESSIONS, IN PROTEST, OF say that the Governments of the

Powers were sympathetic. ANTI-MOSCOWITES.

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A 'New Policy.

Nagpore, Dec. 1........ Motor Lifeboats.

Serious differences have arisen The Nanking Foreign Minister, Не king from Shanghai to-day. Special attention has been de- within the Indian Trade Union Dr. C. T. Wang, returned to Nan- voted to the provision of a com- Congress.

A number of the most prominent told Pressmen that he is pursuing plete and efficient equipment of life-saving appliances, and this has members of the organisation, in- a new policy regarding negotia been installed in accordance with cluding Fatullah Khan, Dewan Lal tions with the Soviet Government the latest requirements of the and Mr. Josht have seceded from adding that the Manchurian Pro- the Congress and are considering vincial Government and Nanking Teishinsho, the United States a scheme for the formation of a are unanimous in their views on Steam-boat Inspection Service and new Labour organisation, the motto these new negotiations. the British Board, of Trade, and, of which will be "legitimate Trade moreover, they comply in all res- Unions free from nects with the rules recently laid down by the International Con- vention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929.

The outfit of lifeboats includes twelve class 1 A lifeboats, six decked lifeboats and, two motor lifeboats, the latter having wire. less and searchlights, of all 30 feet length and approved for 60 to 70 persons,

Passenger Accommodation. Not only does the Asima Maru the technical represent fram

fluence."Renter

Moscow's in-

THE GARDEN ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

WORK OF WIDENING NOW STARTED.

Brussels, Dec. 1 Among the Commission's recom-

Seven Chinese students have been mendations were the following:

Modern road passenger trans- committed for trial by the Cor- port has grown to such importance rectional Tribunal on a charge of that the present chaotle system of recently assaulting a diplomatic licensing public service vehicled, agent at the Chinese Legation. which is based upon obsolete lawe

Work has already commenced on passed long before mechanical

the widening of the lower portion traction existed, must be replaced

of Garden Road, adjoining Mur Pray: Barracks, an improvement by an entirely new syatem more suited to present-day needs.

which will be much appreciated by motorists.. For the purposes of the licen

Under the scheme, a consider-- point of view, the last word dnable portion of the grounds adjoin- sing of public service vehicles and the co-ordination of all passenger. carrying services Great Britain THÉ R101 GOES BACK TO | shipbuilding, but the Company Ing the Officers Mess at the west has also spared no pains to ensure ern end will be taken in, whilst the should be divided into traffic areas, and in each traffle iren there'

that it shall meet the demands of road will be set back some distance should be appointed three' commia.

the modern, discriminating travel- for a considerable distance up the ling public in respect to cabin slops. Ten Arcas,

accommodation, culaine and ser- The Improvement will cost over vice, thereby converting. It into a $4,000, and should soon most luxurious floating hotel picted; rather than an ocean liner.

known German machines, very President Doumergue drove up stoners,

in an official carriage and laid a heavy and capable of taking up an enormous weight in bombs and wreath at the tomb of the "Un- carrying out long distance fights.known Warrior."

It is suggested that there should and four in Scotland.

Two of them are fitted up as hydro- M. Clemenceau's chauffeur head-be ten areas in England and Wales planes with floats, the other beinred one of the nections-Reuter.. the usual aeroplane.Our Own Correspondent.

HANGAR

R.100 TRIALS NOW TO BE UNDERTAKEN.

Mukden's Fears.

According to Peking cables, the Mükden Government's sudden declaion to negotiate directly with the Soviet was a result of the ten- slon in Manchuria last week, when Harbin was jeopardised, The fall of Manchuli and Chaluinor: ahook the confidonée of the Man- churian authorities in the res ability of their armies and on November 21, negotiations were opened with a former attache of the Soviet. Consulata at Harbin and a former translator of the C.E.R. (also a Russian).

"One of the Russians returned to

Harbin with a reply to the effect that the Soviet Government desired peace settlement but considered

it impossible to enter negotiations until the Chinese fulfilled the con- ditions of the ultimatum of July 13, namely, the restoration of the be com- status que, the reinstatement of the Russianmanager and assistant London, Dec. 1.--

manager and the release of all The Royal Observatory reports Soviet citizens imprisoned. The commissioners shall be with-The Alrahlp R10) was moved last

The salient features embodied

Condition In their respective areas the sole night into its hangar from the authority for licensing public ser- mooringmast at Cardington in the accommodation for pussen- that the anticyclone over, Man-

are its extraordinary churia continues to increase in In-1 15 D Canton attacks.

vice vehicles constructed or adapt- aerodrome, where its place will❘gers,

"roominess". In decks, public tenalty. Fresh monsoon will. The Harbin Comisione Foreign Consuls at Wuchowed to carry nine or more persona shortly be taken by the R100.

The R101 has been in the open rooms and staterooms. There are provoji along the south-east coast algns Affairs In connexion with the bombing have protested against the raide, and also for licensing the drivers raids on Wuchow, the Associated pointing out that the foreigners in and conductors of these vehicles. for a month when the weather has both glass-enclosed and open of China and loger, the Northern Press reports that scores of Wuchow, totalling thirty or to, are The commissioners shall have been exceptionally bad, but it has promenade decks. There are also China Sea. The forbokst "people have been killed and many endangered. No foreigners have, power to grant or refuse to grant stood the conditions very well ladies hairdressing parlour is to-morrow iss

(Continued on Page 7:). British Wireless. others wounded as a result of the however, been injured so far.

Consulur. Protest.

Litvinonon

(Continued on