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SALT RAID TO BE PREVENTED.
WARNING ISSUED TO ABBAS TYABJI.
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LEADER DETERMINED,
Jalalpur. May 11. A letter from the District Magistrate at Surat has been handed to the octogenarian. Abbas Tyabji, Gandhi's succes sor, warning him that the pro- posed raid on the private salt works at Dharasana on Thurs-
ALLEGED TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.
BRITISH MASTER MARINER ACCUSED.
REMAND TILL FRIDAY,
Pleading not guilty to two charges of trafficking in opium, Arthur Hall, holding a Master's certificate, was remanded until Friday afternoon, by Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning. The eharges were as follows:
M. Lindsell asked where the
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AGLE WOPY 10 Danta,
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TOP
DUNLOP CARRIES THE TRAFFIC.
They're British, too,
LOCAL BRANCH:
Pedder Building.
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FIGHTING RAGES COLONY'S REVENUE SHANGHAI RACING ANOTHER AERIAL JURY UNABLE TO
IN NORTH.
HEAVY CASUALTIES
REPORTED.
KUOMINCHUN ARMY MAKES STRATEGIC MOVES.
CHENGCHOW ALARM.
Shanghal, May 11.
FIGURES.
EXPLANATION SHOWS AN INCREASE IN 1929.
CONFUSING TABLE.
Owing to the confusing manner in which the tabulated 'financial statement for the year 1929 is set out in the current issue' of the Government Gazette, the impression
SENSATION.
HAIMOVITCH ON HIS
SUSPENSION.
SAID DUE TO A COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING.
RECORD.
ENGLISH GIRL FLIER ARRIVES AT KARACHI.
BEATS BERT HINKLER.
London, May 11. Miss Amy Johnson, the 22-year- old English girl who is attempting to fly alone from England to Aus- tralia, left Karachi to-day for
is wrongfully given that the TALK OVER A TICKET. Alahabad and hopes to proceed via
Colony's ordinary revenue showed
a big decrease last year when com- pared with 1928. It was this fact
CONVICT
COLLAPSE OF MURDER TRIAL TO-DAY.
DEFENCE NOT CALLED ON TO BRING EVIDENCE.
Calcutta and Singapore.
Shanghai, May 8. There was a sensation when.
She reached Karachi yesterday
nien
Mr.
was
three.
MEN DISCHARGED.
The case in which Fighting between the Nation-which caused s to state in our
were charged with the (a). That you had in your pos-alist and anti-Nationalist forees issue of Saturday that the decrease prior to the race for the Shang-after a six days fight, thereby murder of Cheung Hung-chun at session about. 2,500 tacks of pre- is raging in regions along the for the year totalled $1,413,923 hai Champions yesterday the establishing a fresh record for the pared opium
distance by a solo flier. She was 3. Sha Po street, Kowloon City, on board the s... principal railways in North This is the figure actually given most important race on any Kashgar, in Victoria harbour of China, following the announce. in the official statement, but an course in the Far East, and in then two days ahead of the ache on February 5th collapsed at the
ment by the Nationalist Com-explanation which we have since which this Colony on Saturday, May 10.
Haimovitch
dule of Bert Hinkler, who holds Criminal Sessions this morning ride one of the the record for the quickest fight when, after Mr. F. C. Jenkin had. day will be a criminal offence optum, you did something prepara-
th). That in connexion with the manders during the week-end of obtained shows that in fact there engaged to
opened the defence, the jury general attack against the was no decrease but an increase greatest possible racing certain to Australia.
Her most exciting experience intimated that on the evidence which the Government is retory to exporting it out of the Co- Kuominchun forces along the of over half a million dollars.
The explanation is to be found in ties for many years--it was
occurred solved to prevent by all means. Jany.
Lung-Hai Railway.
between they could not convict. After the items setting forth under Mis announced that he had been hitherto
from Baghdad and Bunder Abbas, when counsel for the Crown had stated Trabji thanked the Magistrale
cellaneous Receipts for the two suspended indefinitely
she encountered an extremely for his courtesy, but said the
years. These are given as $844, riding. The announcement was
She decided that he could bring no further programme could not be changed.
876 for 1929 and $2,647,859 for made in a notification published violent sandstorm. ever, as it should have been, that notice boards, and so available blocked its wheela with her lug turned a verdict of "Not Guilty" 1928. Il was not explained, how on the Shanghai Race Club's to land, but her machine was evidence forward, the jury re-
blown about on the ground and she
the latter sum includes $1,965,850 only to members.
and the three men were dis- recovered from the Public Works The announcement was :---
charged. Loan (1927) Account.. This money had previously been spent from current revende, but on the flotation of the loan it was repaid in 1928, constituting a "windfall" and giving the impression that ordinary revenue had enormously increased in that year, which was not true,
Police are massing here as a
ccaution. The Dharasana sali works have been surrounded by a wire fence, to cut which Tyab: intends to call for volunteers. Reuter.
Sholalpur Murmurings.
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certificate was. and Revenue Officer A, Grimmett replied that had not yet gone through all the Mr. Taylor, the Monopoly Analyst, packages, but there were approxi- mately 2,500 taels. He asked for a remand, and a date to be fixed for hearing.
was
Accused
accordingly re- manded until Friday afternoon, at 2.15 p.m. when the proceedings will be opened. The Crown Soli citor will prosecute.
Sholapur. May 11. A sulton, vicious atmosphere appears to be returning in certain sections of the town.
More
According to an early report of military have arrived from Poona the seizure. Mr. Hall, who is de- making a total of 800 troops here. scribed as a master mariner, was The shops and mills continue arrested on board the ss, Kashgar closed. Some of the former at just before her departure from the tempted
reopen and
thus harbour on Saturday. The arrest terminate the hartal due to was effected by R. O., Grimmett, Gandhi's arrest, but the mill who, it is believed, discovered ac- hands protested against the un-cused travelling as a second-class fairness of this until the mills resumed.
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At present it is considered too risky to do this, especially with the European-owned
Reuter.
Authorities Anxious,
mills. -
London, May 11, Reports from India state that although yesterday was 20 anxious time for authorities sines
passenger.
BRITISH VICTORY AT BROOKLANDS.
SWEEP THE BOARD IN BIG RACING CONTEST.
The proximity of Kweiteh to the Nationalist Headquarters along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Hsu as a strategic point of cardinal chow, has marked the former city importange, and consequently the Kuominchun Commanders are withdrawing some of their Divi- alons from the Peking-Hankow Railway for concentration at Kel feng and Chengchow en route to Kweiteh.
suchow Danger.
The Stewards after hearing evidence on a report made in con- nexion with Mr. V. Haimovitch and the drawer of Busy Bee" in the "A" Sweep, are unanimously of the opinion that improper suggestions were made and have suspended Mr. Haimovitch indefinitely.
By order of the Stewards,
A. W., OLSEN. Secretary. Shanghai Race Club. As a consequence of the above, Mr. Haimovitch, who would have ridden Busy Bee, gave the mount to
The fall of Kweitch may result in a severe Kuominchun onslaught against the Nationalist defenders
In actual fact, the revenue on the Honnn-Kiangsu frontier from Miscellaneous Receipts in and this in turn may result in 1928 totalled $684,500, whereas in
1929 it totalled $844,876. Hsuchow being jeopardised.
Heavy casualties are reported The net result is that the ordin- in the fighting between the two ary revenue of the Colony last Mr. W. Bowling, who had been en- opposing armies at Kweiteh and year, so far from sharing a big gaged to ride the stable's second Mamutsi, in north-east Honan. decrease competed with the pre-string, Banquet Eve, the latter Several detachments of Kuomin. vious twelve months, was $549,- being taken over by Mr. A. A chun artillery have passed through 436 in advance of that for 1928. Clarke, and the stable's third string Kaifeng during the week-end to We understand, moreover, that (Election Eve) being riden by Mr reinforce their comrades. at Ma last year's ordinary revenue almost T. J. Rothe. Busy Bee won very constitutes a record, if, indeed, it easily in time equalling record, and was not actually so.
Banquet Eve was fourth.
mutsi.
Big Troop Movements.
passenger communication between Chengehow and Isu- chang along the Lung-Hai- Railway been suspended since inter-week-end on account of festival of Bakrid, which is dis national motor race at Brooklands extensive Ruominuhun troop move tasteful to the Hindus, and also ended yesterday in a British ments. the anniversary of Indian Mutiny, | vieterry.
it was the date of the Moshen
London May 11. The double two hours'
it passed off without grave in- A Bentley ear, which averaged
cident.
86.8 miles per hour for 24 hours. adrien by Barnato and Clements
won easily.
Even at Sholapur, where Moslem policeman was burnt alive by a mob a few days ago, religious processions
Mohammedans of passed off without disturban e The Moslem authorities before hund made strong appeal for order.
Shanghai Shops Close,
Shanghai, May 8. Shanghai's Indian community: composed of about 3,000 Hindus and Sikhs, today joined the revolu- tionary movement in India by clos- ing all the indian shops here as a protest against the action of Bri- Lish authorities in arresting Mahatma Gandhi,
In addition to the shop closures, Indian silk dealers have discontin-
ued their shipments of silks, valued
at $50,000 gold a month, to India.
for a period of three months,
It is stated that a similar embar-
ge on silk shipments to India will
A Bentley, driven by Vies and Dunfee, at an average of 85,68 mile hour. was serowi.
A Riley car was third and an Auton-Martin fourth.
WOTA
The team lap was Morris Garage stock ars.
Several women were among the competitors.
Heavy rain in the last few hours caused some dangerous skids, and| Lord Howe, driving a Bugatti, had a narrow escape from disaster when his back wheel worked inge
KOWLOON MOTOR
FATALITY.
DOWN BY CAR
DAA
the the
It is understood that 15,000 Kuominchun troops have arrived at Chengehow during the past two days, while between 69,000 and 70,000 Kuominchun troops with. drawn from the Peking-Hankow Railway are massing at Cherg chow in readiness to move Kweitch and attack Hsuchow.
to
MUSSOLINI AGAIN ON WARPATH.
FLAMBOYANT SPEECH AT
LEGHORN.
ITALY'S FUTURE.
Leghorn, May 11. Signor Mussolini recovered his best flamboyant style in an address An equally heavy concentra- here to 30,000 people. after in- tion by the Kuominchun forces is specting the new cruiser Gorizia. reported at Kaifeng.
"Blackshirts, how Great concern is felt at Cheng-pulse?" he queried. chow by the populace following the bombardment by Nationalist
aeroplanes.
his
bombs smashed by WOM
The
is
gage.
For a time, she could see only a few yards ahead, and when the weather cleared she found that she had landed on the only smooth patch for miles.
Miss Johnson left Croydon an May 6th, and is making her flight in a tiny "Moth" aeroplane. -- British Wireless.
A. Reuter message add's that Miss Johnson will fly to Calcutta and in two non-stop stages to Singapore and Port Darwin.
EUROPEAN STILL MISSING.
NO NEWS OF WHEREABOUTS OF MR. O'SULLIVAN.
r
Statements made by accused to the Magistrate were read out by Mr. Fitzroy to the following the ext. First accused said that he was arrested in the street. He had four children, was innocent and- had not done the deed. He did not know the cther accused. The girl witness had identified him by mis- take. The case had been going on for some time and she had not identified him until the last hear- Ing.
Knew Nothing.
Second accused stated that be was employed at a boarding house and knew nothing, about the matri ter. On February 12, at half past two be left the boarding house to go out as a runner to meet some pas sengers. He met the passengers; but the police beat the men away with The whereabouts of Mr. T. F. their truncheons. He was one of We are informed by Mr. Ilai-O'Sullivan, a former bailiff of the the men beaten. He became movitch says the North China Daily Supreme Court, who has not been frightened and ran away, but he New, that his suspension was due seen since 6.30 on Thursday even- ran into a basket and damaged his to a complete misunderstanding by ing last, still remain veiled Dr. Edgar of certain remarks pass-mystery, and although a search
pions."
in hand.
Third Accused said that on ed immediately before the "Cham-party of 40 was organised by the February 17, Chinese detective Lo police on Saturday afternoon, they Ki told him a story and asked him He was in the dressing room, he could find no trace of the missing to be a witness and give help. The informs us, when he heard that Dr. man.
detective told him that if he could Edgar had drawn Busy Bee in the
The searchers scoured the whole not help he could get out of the sweep. An offer to buy a one-tenth interest in the horse made by Mr. hill-side from Kennedy Road to May Colony. Haimovitch, and certain allusions Road, without any results what- to the respective chances of Busy ever, and apprehensions as to the Bec and Banquet Eve, were appar man's fate are increasing. ently taken as meaning that a share in the ticket would be an incentive to win.
Mr. O'Sullivan disappeared from his home on Thursday, when he was seen in the Public Gardens, dressed in a white jacket and wearing brown
The word "cinch" regarding the chances of Busy Bee figured largely shoes. in the alleged misunderstanding. your This was said to have been heard as "switch." A statement by Mr. Hal- "dangerous" also featured in the back: movitch that Banquet Eve was
complaint to the stewards.
"Steady. We are at your orders
roared crowd
till death."
JUNKS SINKS IN SHELTER.
BIG CARGO OF FIREWOOD SAVED.
Mr. Jenkin, referring to the rag which was found in deceased's throat, said it had been handed about in a rather clotted condition and asked for it to be opened out.
Chief Detective Inspector Rey- nolds opened it out and Mr. Jen- kin inspected it.
This closed Crown.
the case for the
деп-
Case for the Defence..
Mr. Jenkin said that before he discussed with the jury the testi-" A Kuominchun Divisional Com-
"Men of Leghorn." proceeded
mony advanced by the Crown; he mander, General Sun Cho, had a Mussolini, whose is the sea?"
Ina Sporting Spirit.
wished to make a submission to hle narrow escape from being killed
"Ours!" yelled the lusty Tus-)
Mr. Haimovitch was confident
Lordship, in view of certain au- at Lanfeng yesterday when
cans.
thorities which he had discovered, the stewards would on closer consi- train
The sudden collapse of the bot-that in truth there was no testi- Italy, declared the Premier, deration of the whole matter, take dropped from Nationalist planes. wanted not only prosperity but steps to rectify an injustice. He tom of a junk yesterday, caused mons worth the name of evidence de-which should be allowed to go to Shantung Situation.
prestige and a place in the sun had been a leading jockey for many 750 piculs of firewood to be He warned all and sundry who years and his integrity had never posited in the harbour and the the jury to consider. Counsel re- ferred to the case of Rex v. Dick- It is said that the embargo will last AN AGED CHINESE KNOCKED between the Shansi-Kuominchun the whole people would rise and formed us that he was out to make
-While the reported encounters might strike at Italy's future that previously ben questioned. He in veasel to be sunk.
The crew of the boat were man, reported in 5 Criminal Ap allies and the Nationalist forces hurt themselves like a thunderbolt a record in the race, and that his thrown into the water, but they peal Reports, 135.
He submitted that should the are regarded as preliminary fight against whoever they were and offer to buy a one-tenth share in succeeded not only in saving them- The Rev. R. L. Philips, of 710, ing at this early stage of the war, from wherever they came. Dr. Edgar's ticket, which was not selves but also practically the case
go to appeal any
which. against the rules, was made in good whole of the cargo of firewood, tence Nathan Road, Kowloon, was conit appears that the Kuominchun Reater.
WAB pronounced the Indian Merchants' Associationcerned in an unfortunate accident Army has been successful on the
faith and In a sporting spirit. which was valued at $700.
by the Court would be unques at Bombay.
in Nathan Road yesterday, which whole.
A Bomb "Attack.”
The junk, No. 2394v, was owned tionably quashed on the ground of British authorities in Shanghai resulted in a Chinese being fatally
by Li Pal, who reports that the what happened at the identifica it being adjitted to-day arrested an Indian, Jugnt | injured. Singh, for
Prominent amongst the many sen craft was in the Yaumati Typhoon tion parade, distributing alleged
sations on Champions Day at the shelter about 3 a.m. yesterday, that the identification of accused seditious literature in the Interna-
Shanghai Race Club, yesterday, was when it suddenly collapsed. It by the little girl was of the ut tional Settlement. A pamphlet
the bomb attack." It occurred was valued at $2,500.
most importance and that it was, found on Jagat Singh declared that
sole substantial in fact, the just prior to the race for the Cham. "The Indians are no longer loyal
pions, at the time when all those
pillar pon which the case for subjects of Britain, hence they must
the Crown rested.. who had an excuse for gaining ed- not register at the local British
mission to the jockey room were dia- London, May 11. consulate. We hope the Chinese
When the new long-distance air cussing the suspension of Mr. Vic- government will extend help and
- inaugurated services are
this tor Haimovitch, while the general sympathy to the Indian indepen- dence movement."
be enforced at Canton and Yokoha-
ma, upon telegraphic Advice from
"No Tax" Campaign.
Bombay, May 10. The "no tax" campaign, of which Mr. Patel, former president of the Legislative Assembly is a staunch protagonist, is now taking definite shape.
A Gujerat message from Bar- dolf states that Dadubhai Desal. ex-member of the Bombay Legisla.
In many cases the Nationalist troops are outnumbered, necessi According to a police report, tating the dispatch from Nanking Mr. Philips was driving his car in and Shanghai of many training Nathan Road, and, when approach-1 corps to Hisachow. A full division ing Pakhoi Street, a Chinese, of training corps from Nanking named Yu Fai, aged 32, suddenly has arrived at Hauchow. walked in front of the vehicle, A comparatively quiet con-
knocked down and almost instantaneously.
killed dition prevails in Shantung Pro- vince where the Nationalist Divisional Commanders conferred
was
THE DAVIS CUP.
EGYPT ELIMINATED
BY ITALY.
Rome, May 11: Italy has eliminated Egypt from the Davis Cup.
Destefani (Italy) beat Riches (Egypt) 6-0,6-2,6-0 and
De
BRITAIN'S LATEST AIR SERVICES.
NEW SCHEDULES STARTING THIS WEEK..
ST. GEORGE'S CUP.
He continued it was laid down in the Court of Criminal Appeal that if it appeared in any case came before that Court. that justice depended upon the Independent evidence of identi- fication of a witness, and it tura-
yesterday morning with Marshal week, there will be fifty large air public and the uninformed in the SUCCESS FOR BRITAIN IN THE which
liners arriving and departing members' stand were wondering
with the
PLAY-OFF.
London, May 11.
other
Chiang Kai-shek. The Intter arrived at Tsinanfu yesterday and daily at Croydon, enabling 100-what had gone wrong
miles-an-hour communication with jockey board. summoned a military conclave all parts of Europe, as well na Of a sudden, from the corner of Rex. Hartley (Britain) won the ed out that that identification with General Han Fu-chu, Nation- North Africa, East Africa and the course abutting on Weihaiwei St. George's Cup at Sandwich to- parade was brought about by any alist Commander of the Shantung India-British Wireless.
Road, there was a loud explosion,day in the play-off over eighteen kind of suggestion or defenders, and General Chan Tiao-
accompanied by a cloud of smoke, holes with Dr. Willing, the veteran means, by any mode which did yuan, the Military Governor of
and a high-pitched Chinese voice American Walker Cup player. not make it absolutely indepen Shantung.
ralised the cry of "Jläng-daw.". Hartley returned a score of 79 dent, that the Court of Criminal
The racing public promptly show compared with Willing's 85.
Appeal. would unhesitatingly ed itself to be of two very clear
quash it. The two tied with a score minds those who preferred the
Chiang Leaves Tsinanfu.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and
FAIR WEATHER.
The Royal Observatory reports shelter of the very substantial walle 146
of
for 38 holes on Saturday,
Without wishing to affect Mr.
tive Council, has been appointed Morpurgo (Italy) beat Grand before mid-night for Hauchowa tends E.N.E. from Indo-China to and those who desired & near view Cup players participated in the counsel, he would put it to his his party left Tsibanfu shortly that a trough of low pressure ex of the Race Club's newest premises, when six other American Walker Sparrow's position at all, sald
dictator of the Kaira district to guillet (Egypt) 6-4, 0-1, 6-2, consider the question of non- payment of revenue.
Great precautions were taken to the Pacific.
Lordship, that the present was In the doubles match, De ensure the safety of the Nation-in its eastern extremity
A typhoon is forming of the ghastly results of a bomb competition.
the grossest of all the possible About thirty-five villages in Morpurgo and Gaslini (Italy) alist President and it is under-south of Naha. The local forecast dominated, and there was
to the
explosion. The latter rather pre- The St George's Cup is the cases which could come before Jambrusar, Talaka and the Broach beat Zahar and Riches (Egypt) stood that an empty train
a big most valuable tropy in golf.-- the Court of Criminal Appeal for left in West or variable winds, modé- -5-7,3-0,6-1,3-6,7-5,--Reuter,
Reuter. (Continued on Page 12.) (Continued on Page-19;) (Continued on Page 8.)
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