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SITUATION IN INDIA

REVIEWED.

EARLY START FROM CARDINGTON.

EXPECTED TO, CROSS OVER IN THREE DAYS.

IMPORTANT FLIGHT.

London, July 28. The airship R100 is now riding at her mooring mast at Cardington and may leave on the flight across the Atlantic to- exact. morrow morning. The time of departure and the course she will fellow will be determin- ed after a careful study of the probable weather conditions over the Atlantic.

The flight is being undertakes as part of the Air Ministry's development policy for airships with the object of testing out the reliability and behaviour, of an airship on a long distance flight.

Dath will also be acquired which will be of value in deciding upon the future policy with regard to the development of airships for commercial purposes, with particu- lar reference to speeding up Empire communications.

IN EGYPT.

OVER 200 POLICE WOUNDED IN DISTURBANCES,

WARSHIP STATIONS.

London, July 28.

LEGAL ARGUMENT IN FULL COURT.

COUNSEL ON APPLICATION BY

"PEEVED PERSON."

ASSET TRANSFERS.

In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Hugh Dalton, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an- nounced that the British High Commissioner in Egypt reported on July 27 that all was quiet in

Sir Henry Gollan's judgment Egypt. The total casualties since July 15 were 279 Police wounded. regarding costs was dealt with In addition twenty six people had by Mr. H. G. Sheldon when the been killed and 204 wounded. appeal case of the Russo-Asiatic Replying to further questions Bank, which centres round the on the disturbances, Mr. Dalton, allocation of $300,000 surplus said that HMLS. Ramillies had proceeded to Port Said and II.M.S. funds, was continued before the of Ameal, this Waterhen to Suez. The Queen Full Court Elizabeth remained at Alexandria, morning.

The Government was satisfied

to cali

On

ENGLAND NOW 251 FOR EIGHT.

MCCABE DEADLY.

London, July 28, England are 94 runs behind Australia on the first innings of the fourth Test match and they are two wickets still to fall. There was less than an hour's play to-day when England lost three more wickets, the total being 251 for eight when bad light stopped play. The detailed English ecore is as follows:

ENGLAND. 1ST INNINGS.

W. R. Hammond, b Wall... K. S. Duleepsinhji, c Horni-

brook, b McCabe

IMPROVED CONDITIONS ON THE FRONTIER.

DELEGATION COMPOSITION TO BE ANNOUNCED.

REPLY THIS WEEK.

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London, July 28.

The Indian Round Table Confer- ence will be held at St. James'a Palace at the conclusion of the Im-

BOMBAY DEPRESSION.perial Conference but the Secretary

London; July 28. The Government of India's appreciation of the position up

CHANGSHA.

WHOLESALE 'REIGN OF TERROR.

YAMENS & FOREIGN MISSIONS DESTROYED.

OFFICIALS KILLED.

News received in the Colony this morning by the local naval authorities says it is reported that Communists are now in possession of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, and have burned or wrecked all'

for India, Mr. Wedgwood Benn. said in the House of Commons to- day that he was not yet able to state what would be the com- position of the delegations. A aup piementary question as to whether to Saturday shows that in the a statement. would be made on this North West Frontier Province subject before the House rises on

situation in the

Waziris-Friday was answered in the affirma-

tive. tan continues to improve. Mr. Wedgwood Benn was asked Yamens, Government offices and Preliminary settlements with as to the procedure to be followed foreign missions. All foreigners Shabi Khel and Kikarai have before presenting the proposals to have been moved to gunboats. Hankow, July 28. successfully concluded, Parliament for the amendment of

the Government of India Act.

A reign of terror, coupled with 74 their sections having security in

He recalled that in" the corres-wholesale slaughter and extensive 3 rifles for good behaviour and pondence of October last between incendiarista, prevails in Changsha, 54 liquidation of any fine the the Chairman of Statutory Com-as a result of the city being storm

mission and the Prime Minister ited and entered by "Red" forces 35 Government may impose.

was contemplated that procedure by under Ho Lung and Pang Tak-wai, The Jirgas of other sections, a joint Parliamentary Committee who command some 20,000 Com- 1 except Nazar Khel, who are pro- would still be appropriate for an munist troops,

crastinating, have also come in examination of the proposals finally The first sign of uneasiness 15 with a view to a settlement and laid before Parliament as a result among the residents in Hankow and

are depositing rifles as security. of the conferesce.

Changsha was felt during the week- On the Peshawar border com- It was for the Premier to con-end and the precarious conditions 6tingents of Afrids have been sider whether it might be necessary prevailing in many parts of the moving about the Orakgai country or desirable to modify in any re- Yangtze District were reported 25 following the decision of the spect the procedure originally con- yesterday, when it was stated that Afridi Jirga to organise raids templated until the results of the both Hankow and Changsha were against the Government pending Round Table Conference were facing an imminent attack by Com compliance with the demanda of known-British Wireless,

munists. the tribes.

J. B. Hobbs,c Oldfield, b Wall 31

been Subsequently Mr. F. C. Jenkin, H. Sutcliffe, c Bradman, b that foreign nationals were reon behalf of the London creditors, Wall ceiving all necessary protection. dealt with the general merits of Up to the present it had not been the case and emphasised that there necessary

British had been six separate proceedings troops.

in connexion with the affair, and Replying to other questions on that up to the present appeal, the the subject of Egypt, Mr. Dalton appellants had, by the affidavits of said that in view of their ultimate their witnesses, proved as far as responsibility for the protection of they could that the Paris office was foreign lives and property in not the head office of liquidation, Egypt and the danger to public and that it had, in fact, nothing order which had manifested to do with Hongkong, and Shang-G. itself, His Majesty's Government hai. considered it necessary to hold strictly to account the leaders, of

Costa for London.

Largest in the World. When R100 was designed the both parties in the present con- Mr. Sheldon, addressing the was approximately twice the size stitutional conflict in Egypt. His Court, pointed out that on the last of the largest airships and she and Majesty's. Government's communi- page of Sir Henry Gollan's judg her sister airship, the B101, are cation was intended, by dealing in ment he dealt with the costs of still the largest in the world. The a practical manner with the the proceedings in the lower Court. experimental nature of the flight situation, to make this unmis He ordered the costs of the Lon- is therefore emphasised, for the takeably clear-Reuter and Bridon liquidators to be paid out of vessel incorporates many novel tish Wireless.

the surplus assets, but made no features.

order for the Shanghai liquidators. As regards an appeal for costs, if the judge exercised his discretion in the order, then of Appeal would slow to interfere with the exercis- ing of that discretion.

This will be the second flight of a British airship across the Atlantic, the first occasion being in 1919 when the R34 made the first Atlantic light from East to West. The R34 made a successful return Alght a few days later,

horsepower, has a gross life

AMERICAN BASEBALL

RESULTS.

PHILADELPHIA LOSE IN THE

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New York, July 28.

National

A be

Court very

His submission in that case was Food for Five Days.

that the late Chief Justice applied a The following are the results of rule in deciding the costs which The airship, which is equipped the baseball matches played in the oxcluded that discretion. He as- with six Rolls Royce Condor National and American Leagues sumed in the present case that the

developing engines each

650 to-day:

Shanghai liquidators were not made defendants. He (counsel) submitted that

the in fact Shanghai liquidators were made defendants because they were parties to the proceedings. He submitted that if they were parties to the proceedings, then they must be the defendants.

of over 156 tons. She is 709 New York feet long and has a maximum Boston diameter of 1 feet and Chicago

maximum height of 133 feet.

The

Chicago

5 Philadelphia

0 Brooklyn

1

3 Cincinnati

5 Cincinnati

American.

New York

She attained a speed of 81 miles per hour during the trials.

6 airship will have on board food Philadelphia

Cleveland

7 Detroit St. Louis 5 Chicago

--Router's American Service.

for five days, reserve rations and one day's emergency rations, and five hundred gallons of drinking and washing water will be carried. Throughout the journey the vessel will be in constant wireless com- munication with land stations.- British Wireleas,

Departure Time Fixed.

London, July 28.

for Montreal at 3.30 a.m. on July

29.

OIL DEVELOPMENTS IN MEXICO.

BIG UNDERTAKING BY A BRITISH COMPANÝ.

New, York, July 28.

Mr. Justice Wood said that they involun- might be voluntary or tary parties.

Must Be Parties.

a

M. Leyland, b McCabe..... A. P. F. Chapman, e Grimmett,

b Hornibrook M. W. Tate, e Ponsford, b

McCabe.... M. S. Nichols, not out

I, A. R. Peebles, e Richardson,

b McCabe

Duckworth, not out Extras

7

251

Total (8 wkts.)

108; 2

Fall of wickets: 1 (Hobbs) for (Hammond) for 119; 4 (Duleep- (Sutclife) for 115; 3 sinhji) for 192: 5 (Chapman) for 199; 6. (Leyland) for 222; 7 (Tate) for 237; 8 (Peebles) for 247.

FILIPINOS OBJECT TO MR. ROOSEVELT.

· Suggestion of a Revolt Like Gandhi's.

PROTEST TO AMERICA.

Manila, July 28.

The appointment of Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt as Vice- Governor of the Philippines has stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment among Filipino leaders, resulting in a formal protest to the United States Senate.

Local protests have culmin- ated in a suggestion of non-co- operation with the American Administration, and some of the Filipping leaders are even suggesting "a peaceful revolt like Gandhi's in India."-Reu- Ler.

Internal Situation.

The internal situation continues on the whole to improve. The number of under-trial and con- victed persons of the Peshawar District.connected with the recent agitation who have been released on giving satisfactory under- takings for the future now exceeds 180.

CONVICT PRODUCTS

BANNED.

AMERICA IN TRADE WAR WITH SOVIET RUSSIA.

City Invaded.

In view of the absence of the Government troops, who are fight- ing In Southern Hunan and in- Kwangsi, the militarists and Chin- ese merchants in Changsha or ganised several corps of volunteers during the week-end and equipped them with such weapons as were available.

New York, July 28. The first move has been made Late on Saturday, the 500,000 re- In Bannu City the picketing of in a great trade war involving thesidents in Changsha were terror- liquor shopa by women continues products of convict labour under stricken when they learned and the rural situation in the dis-Soviet rule. The authorities have that 2,000 Communist vanguards tricts is somewhat less satisfac-refused the entry of two ships had arrived in the suburbs` and tory. In other parts of India bearing pulp wood from Russia. were making preparations to in- there have been several clashes This is the first direct breach of vade the city with beavy artillery between the Police and volunteers, trade relations between the United and machine guns. mainly arising out of picketing. States and Soviet Russia, it being but none were on a large scale, understood that the decision to The following is a summary of refuse the entry of the ships was the general position in the pro-the result of direct orders from vinces. There is a definite decifne Washington.

in

Undar, the leadership of the Government officers, 20,000 volun- teers took up positions around the city intending to defend it, in spite of the fact that most of these

the movement in Bengal, The ships are the Norwegian volunteers had to be content with Madras, Behar and Orissa, Assam 8.5. Christbors and the British choppers or knives as their sole and Delh! but in Bengal student | ateamer. Grelisle, both from means of opposing the well-armed activity may give fresh encourage- | Archangel. Orders prohibiting "Reds."

ment.

Punjab Improvement.

In the Punjab there has been a marked improvement during the past month, but the Sikh situation is still unstable, The United Provinces report greater activity in the villages. In Bombay Presi- dency, Gujerat continues to show The signs of some improvement. CAKEELER BESAR position in Bombay City is little

changed.

The movement has had a very The match is being played at

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the discharge of curgoes of wood

Skirmishes between the advanc pulp loaded by Russian convicts ing Communists and the volun- came into effect on July 27teers ensued in various parts of Reuter's American Service,

the suburbs but the work of the Communists was made a complete success by an uprising of local. riff-raff and Communist agents in- sidé the city. The latter indulged in incendiarism and in looting re- sidences and Chinese firms.

Governor's Escape.

INQUEST OF CHINA EXPLORER.

SUICIDE OF CAPT. JOHN ELLAM AT EPPING..

London, July 28.

Mr. Sheldon submitted that it i did not matter whether they were voluntary or involuntary. The point was that they were parties according to

letter from The R100 will leave Cardington

the solicitors Instructing the

General Ho Chien, the Military A message from Mexico City other side, which meant that they

Governor of Hunan Province, was She will be commanded by states that the Mexican Government must either be plaintiff, defen-

A verdict of suicide while of un-one . of the first to leave Squadron Leader R.S. Booth and hus sangionea the construction by dant, respondent or appellant. Manchester and heavy rain fell serious effect on trade and busi- will carry five officers and a crew the British Eagle Oil Company of In that case he submitted that throughout the morning. There nose and the industrial outlook to sound mind was returned at the in- the city with his bodyguards, and gloomy. The civil disobedience quest at Epping to-day on Captain was followed by the few hundred of 32. all of whom are civilians with a 10 mile pipe line extending from they were made the defendant. was no play before lunch, but the movement has gained force in the John Ellam, a member of the Mc- Government troops who hurriedly the exception of two officers and athe Furbero field on the gulf of the

Sir Peter Grain, the Presiding weather cleared in the afternoon Central Provinces where it was Govern expedition to Tibet in 1922, abandoned the defence of the city non-commissioned officer. She will coast of Vera Cruz to Mexico City, Judge asked counsel whether and it was decided to make a start late in establishing itself on & who travelled extensively in Siam when they realised that the Com- also carry seven other officials: Work on the line will begin within supposing they found that Sirat 5.30. Leyland (35) and Tate firm basis and the situation there and China. He helped to found a munists were being assisted from The route will depend on meteors-two months.

Henry Gollan's judgment regard. (5) continued the English innings, has definitely deteriorated.

Buddhist society.

within: Casualties among the· - logical conditions existing at the

The Associated Press states that ing costs was wrong, but that all but the former did not add to his

Viewing the situation as a whole He was found dying in Epping volunteers were heavy, due to time of the start, but the airship the British Eagle Company will his other judgment was right, previous score. He played inside there are some Indications of Forest and at the inquest it was the fact that the majority of them will probably follow a northerly build a refinery at Mexico City would they be entitled to the costs the fifth ball sent down by McCabe weariness, and counter propa- reevaled that he was financially em- were very pooriy armed.:: General course via North Ireland.

of the appeal and of the lower and it took off his bail, England's ganda วิษ producing definite barrassed-Reuter,

Ho Chich I understood to have Court proceedings.

sixth wicket falling at 222.

results. The Viceroy's address

sheltered in Liling, near Changsha, to the Central legislature on July

While the Government troops re McCabe's Fine Bowling. 9 has been favourably received in

treated before dawn on Sunday the Press and has undoubtedly Nichols came out to join Tate strengthened the Moderates in

morning, the Communist army entered the city soon after. It but this partnership was a very favour of constitutional methods.

would

of seem that the state brief one. The light was poor The economic evils of civil dis-

affairs is very similar to the Com- and Tate, hitting out to McCabe's | obedience movement' are attract-

munist aprising at Canton in De- Mr. Alabaster, the Attorney bowling, fell to a good catch at ing increased attention-British

cember, 1927.... General, Karachi, July 28.

appearing for the mid-on by Fonaford. Poobles Wireless. The floods in the Upper Sind are | Official, Liquidator, srid that came out only to stay a few this morning for Montreal-Reu still endangering Shikarpur. Fif. Mr. Sheldon had failed to admit minutes at the wicket. He gave a

The flight is expected to last for three days but the airship carries provisions for five. Most import

Reuter's American Service.

ant meteorological observations INDIANS FLEE FROM

will be made during the flight while botanical experiments will be con ducted in the upper air-Reuter.

On Her Way.

London, July 29,

The R100 left Cardington at 3.45

Lord Thomson's Message.

ter..

London, July 29.

At midnight the weather reports were very satisfactory, the air ship being en route to the He brides via Liverpool. Those on board include Sir Dennistoun Bur ney and Major Scott (who flew the R34 across the Atlantic in 1919):

On the eve of the airship's de- parture, Lord Thomson, The Min- ister for Air, sent the following message to the crew:

FLOODS.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE LEAVE SHIKARPUR.

Mr. Sheldon said he was of the opinion they would only be entitled to the costs of the lower -Court, proceedings, and general costs.

Shanghai Claims.

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teen thousand refugees have with that as they were unsuccessful In chance to Richardson in the slips

drawn to Sukkir and Karachi and the Court below; then prima facie at 246 but was smartly caught at MORE UNEMPLOYMENT

IN GERMANY.

THEIR STAFFS.

a sum of five thousand rupees has they were not entitled to costs. second slip when he had made' been sanctioned from the Sind They were not able to bring them six, England's eighth wicket Relief Fund for the relief of the selves. within the conception falling at 247. Nichols was in starving refugees. Looting and of "Clark's" case, so that be with seven to his credit and MANY COMPANIES REDUCING robbery are reported from Khan could not see how His Lordship Duckworth, with his "duck" un- pur-Reuter.

could be wrong in that case... broken, when bad light caused

There was nothing in the Act to play to end for the day.

Berlin, July 28. say that every party should have The three English wickets which. The present Industrial depres costs and still more that any un- fell so rapidly were all taken by sion in Germany is emphasised by successful party should be allowed MoCabe, whose average to-day the announcement that ten per cent. its coats. They could not contend was: that they were dragged here to

ITALIAN AVIATOR GIVES UP.

MEETS MONSOON ON WAY Buit the convenience of the liquida

- TO‘AUSTRALIA.

Karachi, July 28.

tor. In order to save him-

R.

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IMPORTS CUT BY A

·HALF.

.RESULT OF AUSTRALIA'S RESTRICTIONS.

Canberra, July 28, The trade retorns for June show that the fiscal restrictiona... Intro-

duced by the Federal Government are beginning to show their effects. The imports for June totalled £6,000,000, compared with £12,000,- 000 for June last year.-Router.

WEAVERS IDLE IN INDIA.

"RESULT. OF DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT.

Burning and Looting. The Communist bandits were not

wearing uniforms, but by donning red badges or holding small red flags they made themselves dís tinguishable from their victims and from morning until noon many", parts of Changsha were on fire, the Comumnists robbing hundreds of people as they left their burning houses.

The presence of Japanese gun- boats greatly facilitated the imme-' diate withdrawal of the Japanese residents

of the employees of the Siemens

The Communists soon got busy company and twelve and a half per

Madras, July 28. "The R100 is setting out on the

cent of those engaged at the Gen-

Ten "thousand weavers at looting all Government offices and first flight yet made by an airship

-14 să așa eral Electric Company works are Coimbatore are idle owing slaughtering many - officials, a to a mooring tower erected by one

self from claims from them He took Duleepsinhji's wicket being dismissed.

to the lack of demand for was the case in the Canton out- of the great Overseas Dominions. The Italian aviator, Savino, has in the future. Whatever claims on Saturday, Wall being respon Other firms are also reducing silk, Cotton and lace Baris, rage of 1927, I confidently hope that this will abandoned his attempt to flying the Shanghai liquidator had were sible for the downfall of Hobbs, their staffs and the total number this being a result of the civil On Sunday evening, it was be the prelude to a new develop from Italy to Australia owing to discontinued and they only came. Sutcliffe and Hammond and Horni- of unemployed in the country is ex disobedience movement. The troops had entered the city, with ment in Imperial communications." the severity of the monsoon before the Chief Justice under the brook for that of Chapman pected to reach three millions by weavers at Salem are also idle.

(Continued on Page 14.) Reuter,

the end of this year-Reuter

Reuter.

Reuter.

Reuter,

found that 10,000 Communist

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