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PEKING.

REPORTS TO FOREIGN

MINISTERS.

POSSIBILITY OF A PROTEST TO NANKING.

PARLEY INTERRUPTED.

Peking, Aug. 27. The officials at the Peking Legations have made a lengthy report concerning the aerial bombardment by Nanking planes to their Ministers now visiting Peltaiho, with a view to lodging a strong protest to the Nanking Government.

When the Nanking aeroplanes arrived this morning, a political Conference was in progress at "Hunijentang, the headquarters of the Enlarged Plenary Session. The conference was scheduled a

EMPIRE.

EVERYTHING READY FOR THE INDIA SERVICE.

FAR EASTERN LINK.

London, Aug.' 27. The Daily Mail learns that every. thing is ready for the opening of the wireless telephone service be- tween Britain and India.

Suitable stations. in both coun- tries are prepared to link up as soon as the necessary agreements have been reached with regard to the working of the system.

Plans for a service between Bri- tain and South Africa are also well advanced.

The speedy opening of these two services mainly depends on the outcome of the forthcoming Im- perial Conference, the agenda for which includes important ques- tions affecting the development of the proposed Imperial system of wireless telephony.

PARLIAMENT.

·PILSUDKSI HITS AT CONSTITUTION.

ALTERATION TO BE HIS FIRST

CONCERN. ·

TREASURY DEFENCE.

Warsaw, Aug. 27.

ATHLETICS.

U. S. WIN NINE OUT OF FOURTEEN EVENTS.

RECORDS BROKEN.

Chicago, Aug. 27. In the athletic contests between the United States and the. British Empire. held here to-day, the United States won the 400 yards relay race. in 37 seconds, the team being Eddie Talan, George Simpson, Russell Sweet and C.

for the meeting..

Miss Amy Johnson

used

DUNLOP

TYRES and WHEELS

on her Moth machine

Pedder Bldg.

Tel. 24554.

PROPERTY ISSUE A NEW ROUTE TO RADIO AND CABLE

DECIDED

PREVIOUS JUDGMENT

UPHELD.

APPEAL IN ASSIGNMENT CASE FAILS.

JUDGES UNANIMOUS.

. In the Court of Appeal this

before morning,

the

Chief

THE EAST.

RAILWAY FROM BAGHDAD TO HAIFA..

27.

OLD PLAN REVIVED.

Baghdad, Aug, -Definite progress is now being made on the project for a railway, six hundred miles in length, for directly connecting Baghdad with the mediterranean. It is anticipat- ed that the line will form an al- ternative route from Europe, not

East.

SERVICES.

RECENT CONFERENCE DISCUSSION.

COMPANY WOULD TAKE OVER COLONY SERVICES.

Marshal Pilsudksi, who was Yeland. The time was a record Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) and only to Irak but also to the Farnexion with cables and wireless

summoned to form a Cabinet after the crisis at the week-end The British team, consisting of when the Premier, M. Slawek, Wilson (Canada), Walters (South intimated that he was unable to Africa), Brangwyn (England) and carry on, has frequently in the Goulding (Australia) won the mile past expressed contempt for relay race in 3 mins. 16.4/5 Parliamentary institutions, and seconds. he has now told an interviewer of the Gazeta Polska that his chief an- Government organ, xiety was to alter the constitu-

The 480 yards hurdle race was

seconds, a meeting record. won by the United States in 59% The successful team consisted of Steve The Post Office álso contem-tion.

Anderson, Charles Caster, J. H plates the ultimate development of Marshal Pilsudski said the Con-Hatfield and Lee Sentman. direct services not only with all stitution at present was "like a In the Four Miles Relay Race, Dominions, but also with piece of rotting meat mixed with the British Empire team, compris few days ago and the information Egypt and the Far East. When foul bacon and patrid cabbage. ing Thomas (England), Whyte

the services are opened, subscri- The entire work of Parliament (Australia), Cornes must have been known to the Na-bers will be able to ring up those stinks so that the air is poisoned."

(England)

tionalist raiders.

in India or South Africa via Lon- don.-Renter.

The meeting was broken up and the Garrison Commanders imme- dlately summoned a meeting with Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, the Shapsi] Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, asking him to advise the foreign. Ministers to protest to Nanking.

Reports of Damage.

One of the bombs was dropped near the Garrison Command, and another near the newly-built Pe-! king Government Library. Chin- ese telegrams state that one of the bombs exploded near the new Library.

·

The aeroplanes swept the city with machine-gun fire while flying at a low range near the Peking Municipal Government Office.

The last of the bombs was drop- ped near the residence of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Kuomintang Leftist and president of the En- larged Kuomintang Plenary Ses-

sion.

Chinese sources state that one Chinese woman was injured dur- ing the explosions which caused some damage to buildings in the vicinity.

To "comfort the people," the Peking Government has officially announced that anti-aircraft guns will be erected at the Tienanmun to await the next visit of the Nan- king bombing planes.

movements of the Shansi troops along the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-, way. The populace was perturb ed by the visit.

the

LONDON SWELTERS IN HEAT WAVE.

TEMPERATURE OF 92 IN THE SHADE.

London, Aug. 27. After weeks of unsettled wea- ther, the greater part of England to-day and yesterday has been sweltering in a heat wave,

The shade temperature at'three in o'clock yesterday afternoon London was 86, and to-day at the same hour it was 92. This has been the hottest August day since 1911, when a record temperature of 100 was reached at Greenwich, on the 9th.

century in which

> Marelink Joseph Pilsudsk The new Premier announced that his greatest care would bej

"gainst Deputies who wanted to spend money on their party toilets. -Reuter,

NATURAL ARENSET IS ENSURTILÁTORKS STANLEY INFANTS BOLSINAČITANDAONVE

INDIAN ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE.

Postponement Suggestion Under Consideration.

APRIL NOW PROPOSED.

London, Aug. 28. According to the Morning Post official quarters in Simla are considerin, suggestion to postpone the Round-Table Conference on India. until April in order, among other things, to allow the present political distemper to spend itself. Reuetr.

ISOFIERANCANTOTASUN

RATES MAY BE CUT.

Important matters in con-

Mr. Justice Wood, one hour and

communication were discussed five minutes were spent in read-at present, employed on the Irak

A number of British engineers at the Colonial Office Confer- ing three judgments concerning railways, who have a practical ence held in London recently, at an appeal in which all judg knowledge of working conditions which Hongkong was represent- ments found that the appeal on the desert railways, are being ed by Sir Henry Gollan. A com- must be dismissed with costs. " lent to the British firm which will

The case concerned a judgment undertake immediately the plan- prehensive scheme has been out- delivered by Sir Henry Gollan, inning and survey of a railway from lined by the Imperial and Inter- an action brought by Li Po-kwai Baghdad to Haifa,

national Communications, Ltd.. alias Li Kan, No. 1, Seymour Ter- It is expected that the railway which stipulates that its pro- race, against Tsang Chaen, will take four years to complete.posals must be accepted or re- partner in the Kam Chung Bank, It will be built in conjunction with jected as a whole. The possibi- No. 105, Queen's Road Central, the proposed pipe line from the lity of reduced rates was men- and Li Nga-ching, whom plaintiff oilfields of Irak to the Mediter- tioned at the Conference, and it claims as his son although this

was also stated that the Com- The new line will divert a consi-pany were ready to consider the was denied by the defence.

Plaintiff claimed to be the Crown lessee of certain lands and derable volume of the middle question of taking over the in- buildings which he transferred to Eastern trade from the Suez Canal,

ternal communication services himself under the name Li Kan

It is interesting to recall that of any Colony on suitable terms.. and the second defendant by a

The subject was discussed by. deed of assignment on March 9, King Felsal of Irak recently paid

a visit to England and that after his the Conference after it had been for a consideration of $16,000. Plaintiff declared, how-visit in 1926 it was suggested that examined by the appropriate com- ever, that he never intended his the proposed railway was the ob-mittee, whose report had been

previously circulated. son to have any beneficial interest, ject. The project was outlined the $16,000 was not paid and the four years ago, when Mr. Amery son had no knowledge of the declared it to be under contempla. The railway will be of stragetic importance to the British Empire. At present there is no overland

1927,

ranean.

--Rouler.

assignment at the time. Subse- tion. quently, it was alleged, the son

mortgaged the property for $25,-

000 to first defendant and

known.

his

Scheme Proposed.

Sir Samuel Wilson explained the circumstances which had led up and cable interests under the con- trol of Imperial and International.

to the fusion of various wireless

whereabouts, were stated to be un-easy route to Persia, which has to Communications, Ltd. The Com be reached by the Suez Canal and pany had now produced a "com the Indian Ocean. The new rail prehensive scheme" which had What Plaintiff Claimed way across the Syrian desert will been referred to the appropriate Plaintiff claimed an order that give a direct approch from the sub-committee of the Committee first defendant re-assign the pro- Mediterranean to Mesopotamia and of Imperial Defence with a request perty and a declaration that he Persia and makes an overland for observations on its strategical (plaintiff) was entitled to the pro-route to India a possibility within aspects. The scheme would later perty free of the mortgage,

the near future. The line will be referred to the Colonial Sir Henry Gollan delivered judg-falso open Irak to direct European Governments concerned, for their

views, ment in favour of plaintiff on trade.

appealed.

Augusts this

There have been only five other to defend the, State Treasury and Walters (Canada) won, the April 8, this year, and defendant London's temperature went into the nineties and in only two of these was such an extreme of heat registered as late in the month as the 27th-British Wireless.

POOR SCORE BY THE

AUSTRALIANS.

The Constitution.. The legislative organ of the

time being 17 min. 22.2/5 secs. This also was a Meating record. The United States won the Put ting the Shot event with a throw of 148 feet 1.7/8 inch.

The British Empire won the

Townend

CAR CRASH.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by FIVE FOREIGNERS IN Mr. F. X: D'Almada, senior, of Messrs. D'Almada and Mason, was for appellant, and Mr. Eldon Pot- ter, KC. together with Mr. F. C.

of advancement

1.

Sir Samuel said that, with re- gard to the Company's stipulation that the proposal contained in its scheme must, apart from compara- tively minor modifications, be accepted or rejected as a whole, it must be remembered that the

must necessarily be influenced by the attitude taken by Colonial

Governments towards those parts of the scheme which concerned them.

However, in accordance with on the views expressed by the motor car, Imperial Wireless and Cable Con-

Polish Republic consists of a Diet Two Miles Relay Race in 7 min. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. E. David- ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN decision of the Secretary of State

SHANGHAI and a Senate. The representa- 42.3/10 secs., the team being com-son, of Mesars, Hastings, Dennys tives of the Diet, who must have posed of Hampson (England), and Bowley, was for respondent.

Shanghai, Aug. 28. reached the age of twenty five, are Chandler (South Africa), Ed- President's Judgment. elected on the basis of universal wards (Guiana) and

Attempting to pass a party of suffrage for all over twenty-one: it (England).

Reading the judgment of Sir Chinese, police and merchant sits for five years. A high per Tientsin Visited.

FREEMAN'S FIVE WICKETS

In the Three Miles Event (six Peter Grain, Sir Joseph Kemp said volunteers on Hungjao Road, near centage of the electors participat-to run and four to score) the Bri- the judgment of Sir Henry Gollan Tuesday evening, a

in part:This is an appeal from the Municipal; Sanitarium, FOR 75 RUNS. Tientsin telegrams say that two

ed in the first elections, and much tish Empire won, the team com- sitting as Chief Justice in which driven by a Chinese chauffeur and ference of 1928, he considered that Nanking aeroplanes believed to

London, Aug. 27.

political talent has been shown, prising Evenson (England), Win- he gave judgment for the plaintiff. carrying five foreign passengers, there was a "gentlemen's agree- but the fierceness of party strife field (England), Hillhouse (Aus-The come from Tsinanfu passed Tien-

The Australians batted first at within the Diet augurs badly for tralia) and Sutherland (Scotland) against the whole of the judgment with a telephone standard.

defendent now appeals swerved, skidded and collided ment" that, as far as possible, the tsin this morning at 10.30 and Canterbury to-day when they met a stable constitutional life.

wireless and cable communica- manoeuvred for twenty minutes.

The time was 14 min. 34 secs, & in the Court below.

The car then turned turtle and tions of the Empire should be Kent in a three day fixture. The No attempt was made to bom- Australians could do little against from insoluble racial, social, and

Polish Parliamentary life suffers meeting record.

The judge in the Court below, the five foreign passengers were placed under the unified direction bard the city, and it appears that the Kent bowlers, however, and religious differences.

The United States won the Pole after hearing the respondent, Lall thrown out. They were Mr. and control of the Communica- National Vault with 38 feet 10 inches, the Po-kwai on oath found "that on J. Gottlieb, Mr. D. Balis, Mr. G. tions Company. they simply desired to study the the whole team was dismissed for minorities have a representation British Empire height being 35 the execution of the assignment a/ Udler, Mr. Levy and Mr. R. Elias.

181 runs.

Rate Reduction Possible. Richardson and Hurwood were of over eighty members, L.e. twenty feet 4 inches.

Mr. Elias sustained serious resulting trust in favour of the responsible for half the total, both Their presence is a constant threat won by the British Empire, the sumption

per cent. of the entire Chamber. The Steeplechase Event was plaintiff arose and that the pre-injuries and has been detained in

Sir Basil Blackett, chairman of "In the Country Hospital. The other Imperial and International Com- making 45 before their wickets fell Freeman took half of the to orderly debate. The Senate is team comprising Tathan, Leigh favour of the son had been occupants of the car were cut by munications, Ltd., said that the wickets at a cost of 78 runs.

composed of members elected by Wood, Morgan and Lord Burghley, rebutted." The judge also found flying glass-Our Own Corres-idea underlying the amalgamation Kent went in to bat and when several provinces: each province all of England. The time was & that the use by respondent of the pondent.

was that, by having wireless änd. name L Kan did not make him play ended for the day four wic- constitutes a division, and its re-minutes 40: 3/5th seconds.

cables operated by one concern, the wireless services would," in kets had fallen for 87 runs, presentatives vary in number ac- The United States won the High a party to any fraud and that the Reuter.

It sits for Jump with a jump of 19 feet 1 inch,

fact, subsidise those cable services which it was considered essential the same time as the Diet, its elec- the British Empire registering 17 tions, being based, however, on un feet 91⁄2 inches.

to keep in being; and it was hoped versal suffrage on

that the economies in working the principle of P. R. of all over thirty-

Americs also won Throwing the

which this rationalisation would Hammer, Black doing a throw of

effect would enable progressive re- Amendment Discussion.

162 feet 3 inches, Wright 161

| duction in rates to be made. .. feet 11 inches and Flanagan 166 merely a trustee of one undivided The President of the Republic feet 9 inches.

molety and that that omission

Unfortunately, the financial constituted gross negligence."

The Hague, Aug. 27.

effects of these economies took may dissolve the Diet with the con:

The judge decided that the pro-

Various shareholders in the some little time to appear; more. perty in question was free from Royal Dutch Company have re-over, message receipts had fallen the mortgage of March 7, 1929, queated the management to supply heavily in the last six months and he made an order that the information in connexion with the owing to the depression in world- present popellant re-assigned the rapid drop in the Company's trade. Thus there was no early moeity mortgaged to the present shares during the past few days. prospect of the Company being respondent.

The Company has informed able to earn even its standard. them that nothing whatever has revenue of $1,800,000. It might, accurred to shake the manage therefore, be necessary for the near Company to approach the Governi-

Kaifeng Attacked. While the strongholds of the visited by Shansi troops were Nanking planes, it is significant to note that their allies, the Kuo- mischun, had the same experience at Kaifeng, the capital of Honan. which was visited by Nanking planes from Kweiteh, along the Lung-Hai Railway, on Monday afternoon.

FEDERAL RESERVE

BOARD.

RESIGNATION OF GOVERNOR - ACCEPTED.

Washington, Aug. 27.

cording to population.

At Kaifeng, the planes manoe- avred for over half an hour and

The Long Jump went to the swept the Kuominchun fortifica-

sent of three-fifths of the Sena United States, the distance being tions with machine-gun fire.. No

tors: this action of the Senate, 69 feet 5% inches, the British Em- bomb was dropped. The Nanking

however, determines its own dis pire doing 04 feet 1 inch. planes were

Mr. Roy Young, Governor of the solution. The Diet has the initia- sent to pursue the

America won by nine events to Kuominchun troops fleeing from Federal Reserve Board, has sub-tory power of legislation and every five. Reuter's American Service. Lanfeng and Kaifeng.

mitted his resignation to President bill passed is submitted to the Hoover, who has accepted it; .. Senate...

Mukden Threatened,

9%

Mr. Young has been elected If the Senate raises no objection Governor of the Federal Reserve after thirty days, the President of The Manchurian Government at Bank at Boston-Reuter's Ameri- the Republic orders the Promulga Mukden has discovered a sensa-can Service.

tion of the Bill, If the Senate de- tional Communist plot to stage

cides to amend or reject a bill pass disturbances in the Manchurian

ed by the Diet, it must within thirty. capital.

days refer back the bill to the Diet If the amendment proposed. Is passed by the Diet by a simple ma- jority or rejected by a majority of eleven-twentieths, the Bill is pro- mulgated in the form it leaves the Diet.tu

OIL MAGNATE'S FORTUNE.

LEAVES OVER 15 MILLION

STERLING,

1.

A large quantity of Communist leaflets and literature has been discovered, together with secret Communist documents and tele- grams in secret codes purporting to urge a general strike among the factories and the bribing of the Manchurian garrison to facili- tate a Communist uprising

Extensive arrests have been was known as the wealthiest in-discussion. effected following raids on Com-dependent man in the oil industry, munist haunts. General Chang has bequeathed between $15,000,- Hsueh-liang is determined to re-000 and £20,000,000 to his widow, turn to Mukden from Peltaiho be three children and mother cause of the tension.

Reuter's American Service,

Clarion (Penn.), Aug. 27,

Towards the end of 1928, the amendment of the constitution be The late Mr. Thomas Slick, who came the tople of much political

ÉBOR HANDICAP® RESULT.

DEAD HEAT FOR FIRST PLACE

failure to take reasonable pre- ROYAL DUTCH SHARES caution of calling for the title deeds (the 1917 assignment), fixed

him (the present appellant) with knowledge of the fact that the son

had no beneficial interest but was

Admissibility of Evidence.

DECLINE.

ANXIOUS SHAREHOLDERS

REASSURED.

The judgment continued it was ment's optimism in the now argued on behalf of the appel-future-Reuter. lant that the evidence of LiPo-

kwal taken on cath In the Court

below was not admissible against | HOARDING SILVER IN

a third party who was not a narty. to deed. and that evidence could not be heard to vary or contradict the deed. Therefore, there was

RUSSIA.

ments before very long and ask either for a free hand to sub- stitute wireless, for cables or for financial assistance towards the maintenance of the cables:

Appeal to Governments.

Sir Basil went on to inform the

no evidence on which to find as a TEN MORE MEN SHO BY THE Conference that the reason why

London, Aug. 27. The Ebor Handicap, one of the great races of the year for York- shiremen, was run at York to-day fact that the assignment" of 1917

SOVIET.

the Company asked for the right- It resulted in a dead heat be- was a resulting trust. It was

to be entrusted with the operation tween Mr. Arkwright's "Gentle further argued that there was no

Moscow, Aug. 27. of the communications of the Em- man's Reliah" and Sir Hugo Hirst's negligence by him (the appellant) It is officially announced that pire wherever possible, and for con Jack" was third, half production of or inspection of the to death by the State Political whole of the substance of the pro- "Coaster. Sir H Wernher's or his agent in not asking for ten more men have been sentenced the acceptance or rejection as 3 length away.

1917 assignment when entering Department for buying and hoard- posals contained in its "compre- The prices were 20/1Gentle into the 1929 mortgage, and.cering large sums of silver and for hensive scheme, was that it was A Supreme Court of Control is man's Relish," 100/8 "Coaster" and tainly not such negligence as spreading counter-revolutionary only by pooling remunerative and also established charged with an 13/2 "Brown Jack-British Wire would amount to gross negligence rumours. All ten sentenced to unremunerative services that the

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Administration.