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WOMAN'S FLIGHT B.A.T. COMPRADORE SUDDEN TURN IN US. KEEPS GRIM TRAGEDY IN HILL SIXTY FOR

TO FAR EAST.

HOLDER OF SEVERAL RECORDS.

HON. MRS. VICTOR BRUCE MAKING ATTEMPT.

A NOTABLE CAREER.

London, Sept. 18. The famous British airwoman, Mrs. Victor Bruce, interviewed by Reuter to-day, confirmed re-

ports that she was departing on a.Far East flight.

She said the date of her de parture and the route she would' follow were com- pletely uncertain, depending on the results of tests of her machine, but it was very · un- likely that she would depart within a week. Mrs. Bruce has chosen a Black- burn Bluebeard machine, fitted with a Gipsy II engine.--Reuter.

The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce is already distinguished in the sphere of motoring and explora- tion, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Formerly Miss Mildred Mary Petre, of an Basex familly, she married the Hon, Victor Bruce, youngest son of the second Baron Aberdare, in 1926. She has published two in teresting books on motoring, covering her experiences, namely 49,000 Miles in Eight Weeks," and "The Woman Owner-Driver."

KIDNAPPED.

ANOTHER DARING COUP AT SHANGHAI.

MESSAGE TO FAMILY.

Shanghai, Sept. 19. Mr. P. L. Tsai, the compradore of the British-American Tobacco Company, was kidnapped outside his residence in Hart Read last night, thus adding to the recent series of daring outrages of this nature, in which wealthy Chinese have been the victims.

The kidnapping in this case was very cleverly perpetrated. Mr. Tsai's daughter, was indisposed,

and a Chinese doctor, was called

THE NORTH.

COLLAPSE OF PEKING

GOVERNMENT.

MANCHURIA WARNS THE

NORTHERNERS. ·

NANKING JUBILANT.

Peking, Sept. 18. Great hopes are being enter. tained in diplomatic circles of an with the receipt by the Peking early cessation of the civil war

THE CUP.

SHAMROCK V LOSES FOURTH RACE.

EASILY BEATEN.

SINGAPORE.

A FAMILY OF SIX

WIPED OUT.

RELIEVED TO BE MURDER

AND SUICIDE.

Ride safe

ONE

DUNLOP

"Britain's best.”

Pedder Building. Tel. 24554

HAVOC BY FRENCH PLANES.

-INDO-CHINA REBELS

SLAUGHTERED.

HUNDRED KILLED AND MANY MORE WOUNDED

LIVELY BATTLE.

THE EMPIRE.

FAMOUS WAR SITE NOW A BRITISH MONUMENT.

BATTLES. RECALLED.

London, Sept. 18. The site of the famous., Hill Sixty, which has a special asso- ciation for practically every British Empire regiment which fought in the Great War, has been acquired through the generosity of Mr. J. J. Calder, and will The most serious incident shortly be transferred to the War from the point of view of the Graves Commission as a gift to enormous number of casualties the nations of the Empire. caused since the start of the Hill Sixty was so called because revolutionary movement against

French rule in Indo-China,: altitude, and is merely spoil-happened last week at Vinh, an heap formed during the cutting of important centre in North situated two and a half miles with an army of rebels, great the Ypres-Lille Railway. It is Annam, when in an engagement south-east of Ypres, in Belgium, slaughter was inflicted by a and though of previous insignifi-squadron of military planes. cance became the scene of intense fighting and great heroism in the late war, so that the mere men- reports contained in Indopacifi tion of the name conjures up for messages which have just reached most ex-Service men memories of the Telegraph, left over a hundred the more poignant kind.

dead on the field, besides many hundreds of wounded. A great number of prisoners was also taken by the military, who in this case, appear to have been fully prepared for the emergency”.

Reuter.

in to attend her. On his denar Government of ah announcement deciding race was sailed yester- drama which was enacted at of its being sixty metres in

ture, Mr. Tani showed him to the gate and into his motor-car. The compradore was returning to the house when two men, both of whom were, armed, dashed up and forced Mr. Taai to enter an open motor-car which was standing

nearby,

In this car were two other men, one being at the wheel. The vehicle, it was subsequently established, had a false. number plate. Mr. Tsai was rapidly driven away by his captors.

A member of the gang lele phoned to the compradore's family after the outrage, saying that the victim was safe. The relativea were warned not to notify the police, because any attempt to trace the captive was likely to lead to very undesirable circumstances, for which the kidnappers would decline to assume responsibility! Incidentally, Mr. Tsai in April last year was similarly spirited away, but was afterwards re- leased.Our Own Correspondent.

COMING IMPERIAL

CONFERENCE.

Tampenis Road, in the Upper Serangoon area last night.

VICTIM OF SLUMP. Whatever hopes there may. have been of Sir Thomas Lipton

Singapore, Sept. 12. regaining the America's Cup

An elderly Chinese rubber have now been definitely dispos-planter, described as a victim of defeat by the Enterprise." The been responsible for a terrible ed of by his fourth successive the slump, is believed to have

day, in a choppy sea and some what boisterous wind, evidently a very good test of the sailing qualities of the two yachts. The Shamrock had a slight lead at the start, but the American boat again proved much the speeder, Meanwhile, General Chang and at the end of two-thirds of Hsueh-liang has cabled to Peking the course already led by nearly and Nanking declaring his deter-seven minutes, going on to win mination to dispatch a strong Man easily. The America's Cup has churian contingent to effect 3 thus been retained by the United forceful occupation of Peking and States.

from its President, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, who avows that he in- tends to resign because recent developments in North China generally and Manchuria in par- ticular have been most unfav- ourable to his campaign.

Tientsin

Marshal Yen attributes the col- lapse of his Government to lack of strength to resist the Manchurian occupation of his capital, Peking.

half-

with his throat cut, and two young The man himself was found dead children were also dead. Six other inmates of the house, all members of the man's family, were lying about in pools of blood terribly wounded, and three died: Inter..

House Ablaze. -

The house itself was ablaze and would have been reduced to ashes had not the neighbours come to the rescue..

months old.

Financial Difficulties.

The rebels, according to official

יי,

Daily Clashes,

When the scene of hostilities moved in the direction of Ypres, The Peaking members of the new

Newport, R. L., Sept. 18.

the earth-mound became of mili- Government, including Mr. Wang The Enterprise won the fourth

tary importance as observation Ching-wei and the Kuomintang race for the America's Cup, aver According to information gather. post. It was in possession of the Leftist politicians and the members a triangular course set to-day, and ed by a Strait Times representa Germans until April 17, 1915. of the Western Hill Party, were the United States has thus retain- tive, the man, Ong Kok, who was when the British forces exploded

when they ed the Cup.

about 65 years of age, was a well seven mines that had been laid greatly surprised

A review of conditions within The course was ten miles west-behaved and respected resident in under the crest and the top of received a cable from Marshal Yen, who is at Shihchiachuang, north-west, ten south-by-east, and the locality and was popular with the hillock was occupied after the last month, has revealed a his neighbours. He lived in a fierce fighting by the 1st Royal chaotic state of affairs, as incident expressing his great disappoint-ten north-past half-east. ment at his inability to continue The first ten miles were to house off the 9th mile Tampenis West Kents and the 2nd King's occurred upon incident, and few with the Peking regime because windward, and the yachts crossed Road with his wife and seven child. Own Scottish Borderers. On the days rarely passed without an colony of the Manchurian Government had the line about level, driving, the youngest being only five following day the Germans began armed clash. The

a furious counter-attack, which Cochin-China” with 'Saigon as the refused all Peking efforts for a through a choppy sea into a

continued amidst heavy" fourteen-khot breeze. The Sham-

can-capital, and the province of compromise.

nonading until April 22, when it Annam in the region of Vinh have rock opened up a lead of two hundred yards, but the Enter owned about 30 acres of rubbered their most determined effort,

been singularly affected by re- It appears that Ong Kok, who still remained in British hands.

On May 5 the Germans launch-volutionary agitation. prise, gathering speed every minute, led by one and a

was in a bad way financially, being which included a

Following a number of daring! gas attack attacks by rebels massed in force, indebted to the extent of about $7, against which the defenders were the military posts in these two miles at the end of the first leg. Wholesale Slaughter." The Enterprice continued to out-000. About a week ago, meeting a then inadequately protected; but regions have been reinforced and The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce is

neighbour, Ong Kok unfolded his by this time Hill Sixty had been increased, the wide character PREPARATIONS NOW WELL Marshal Yen has sent a similar sail the Shamrock, and led at the troubles and after referring to the so blown away by mine explosions of the military preparations, which the foremost British woman motor.

IN HAND.

telegram to Mr. Wang Ching-wei, end of the second leg by 6 minutes, recent refusal of the Dutch Govern and artillery fire as to have Its include the basing of a squadron car racer, and has several records

Mr. Shih Tze, leader of the Western 49 seconds, to her credit. Taking up track

ment to support restriction, said whole contour altered and its of planes at Vinh, a point most London, Sept. 18.

Hill Party and. Mr. Tang Shao-yi |

The Enterprise, taking no risks, that he would like to run away from altitude lowered, so that when the threatened by the new danger, giv racing with her husband, she Preparations are well advanced stating that he intends to resign in slowed down when an eighteen- Singapore but he had to consider Germans, who succeeded after a became noted for exceptional cool for the Imperial Conference, which order to save China from further mile breeze came on to blow, but his large family. The neighbour sharp encounter in retaking the Ing the country the semblance of ness and judgment, combined with begins on September 30th.

internecine warfare which has been the Shamrock, in a do-or-die effort, tried to cheer him up and told him position, came to use it in subse- unfaltering. courage. She first The Dominion delegations will responsible for the wholesale carried every stitch, but gained he was not the only person affect- quent fighting, they, found it came into prominence in January, begin to arrive within the next few slaughter of youths for the past only slightly-Reuter's American ed by the slumpe 1927, when as a competitor in a days. They will be accommodated few months. Marshal Yen adds Service.

valuciess. from the extreme north of in various large hotels, and a fleet. that all his Shansi troops have been Scotland to Monte Carlo, she of cars will be placed at their dis- withdrawn from the Tientsin-Pa- covered the distance in three days posal during the Conference, kow Railway front to Shihchia-

On the eve of the opening, thechuang. without sleep. In July of that year she and her husband drove British Government will give a ban-

Arctic through Sweden to the Circle, going 200 miles further north than any motorist had been

race

before.

Motoring Feats.

A Fine Record.

a

In December they achieved feat which for pluck and superb driving skill had never been. equalled. In bitterly cold and

HEALTH OF BRITISH CHILDREN.

SCHEMES...

While the sudden turn in events quet in honour of the Imperial has apparently caused great sur- guests, at which the Premier, Mr. prise to many with confidence in Ramsay MacDonald, will preside, the strength of the Northern conti- VALUE OF § „HOOL HYGIENE after which a reception, to which ation, it has been pointed out by thousand invitations will be issued, reports appearing during the past will be held. All the Premiers will few days that a most important, dine with the King and Queen at decision, which might have far- Buckingham Palace in the follow-reaching political consequences, ing week.-British Wireless. was anticipated to emanate from the Manchurian conference. These predictions seem to have been con- firmed by the latest developements. Shansi Retreat.

All appeared to go well with Ong Kok and his household until about 11 o'clock last night, when neigh bours heard the piercing scream of a child. Rushing out of their houses they saw that Ong Kok's large attap house was on fire.

Ghastly Spectacle,

Attempts were made to rouse London, Sept. 18.

the occupants, but it was soon found The report of the Health Or that all doors and windows were from the In ganisation of the League of Na securely barred tions was presented by Miss Susan side. While some willing hands Lawrence, Parliamentary Secretary tackled the fire, others burst open to the British Health Ministry, to the door and the first man to enter the Second Committee of the League was so overcome with the ghastly at Geneva to-day and was unanim-spectacle which confronted him

that he collapsed ously adopted. In fact, when Marshal Yen order- Miss Lawrence particularly men- Others followed after the fire had ed the withdrawal of his best tioned the great progress made in been successfully dealt with, and several records. It was not until THE PRIME MINISTER LITELY troops from Tehchow, the first children's health in Great Britain the whole place was seen to be Shansi defensive line along the by school hygiene, and the bene-covered.with blood and saturated Tientsin-Pukow Railway it was fits of the study of tropical medi- with paraffin oll. In one comer pointed out that the Shansi-ites cine--British Wireless. contemplated to giving up Peking and Tientsin for Shansi to

stormy weather they drove a car INDIAN ROUND-TABLE for ten days continuously on the Monthery track in France, cover-

ing 16,000 miles at an average speed of 68 m.p.h. and beating

the fifth day, when an accident delayed them for 16 hours and Injured her husband, that she accepted occasional relief · în driving from another motorist.

In November, 1928, she drove from Stockholm to Monte Carlo over roads which for about 500 miles were covered with, deep

snow.

CONFERENCE.

TO PRESIDE.

con-

FOR 1931-32..

London, Sept. 18. Although nothing has been decid ed regarding the chairmanship, of the Round-Table Conference on solidate its position... Indian Affairs, it is generally a sumed in London that the Prime Yen will leave China as soon as his

It is now learned that Marshal THE FRENCH BUDGET Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, forces retire into Shanel, where he will preside at the plenary session. will hand over the adminstration of The nature of the task before the his army to General Chao Tai-wen. Conference makes it obvious, how- ever, that most of the work will be done by Committees of delegates.

Cross-Channel Feat.

Returning to the racing track

It is expected that un' announce the next year, she accomplished at ment regarding the members of the Montihery the most remarkable House of Parliaments who will be feat standing to the credit for delegates at the Conference, and woman motorist. Driving er who will be selected from the three continuously for 24 hours with parliamentary parties, will be mad only one or two brief breaks for within a few days-British Wire snatches of food, she covered over less, 2,200 miles at 90 m.p.h. This broke not only the previous 24-hour speed record (73 m.p.h.), but also that for the finest non- stop run by a single driver"

In January this year, she was again close to the Arctic Circle, and thence drove once more in bitter winter conditions to Monte Carlo.

GERMAN FASCISTS

DEMONSTRATE.

WALK OUT OF CHAMBER

·OF CITY COUNCIL

Berlin, opSt. 18.

As the first manifestation of

Considerable troop movements are taking place between Tehchow and Shihchiachuang and conting- ents of Sbansi-ites are seen arriv

BIG CUT IN EXPENDITURE PROMISED.

Paris, Sept. 18.

was Ong Kok, scated on a pile of crepe rubber soaked in paraffin. He was dead with his throat cut and a

butcher's knife beside him.

Bodies Found

Under a béd, the dead bodies of a five-year-old girl and a five months-old baby were found." Be- sides them were sheets of crepe rubber also soaked in parafin. Ong Kok's, wife was lying terribly ing at Taangchow, between Tientsin sued the Budget proposals for children, who consisted of four The Ministers' Council has is-wounded as were the five other and Tehchow, for Shansi Province: 1981-32. The total amount is 50,- grown-up girls and a boy of four

Nanking Jubilant,

100,000,000 francs,

teen.

The Nationalist forces fighting It is not proposed to impose In the house was a large heavy along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway any further burdens on the tax-axe, covered with blood. are content to adopt a waiting at- Payers and for the first time since The neighbours quickly summon titude to permit the Manchurian 1826 there will even be a out of ed the Paya Lebar police, and Mr. occupation of Peking and Tientsin 300,000,000 franes in the expendi-R. O'Neill, A.S.P., in charge of the before effecting a truce with the ture, compared with the present division, and Inspector Smith pro- Manchurian Government, provided Budget-Haves, that both Marshals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan will resign and leave' China.

The decision of the Manchurian conference was received with much. jubilation in Nanking, and Marshal

Chiang Kai-shek has ordered - ́ún

CHINA'S NEW CUSTOMS TARIFF

ceeded to the scene and removed the living and the dead to the Tan Tack Seng Hospital.

immediate resumption of the of TO BE PROMULGATED NEXT mother. The remaining two girla their newly-acquired strength as fersive on all fronts along the Lung-

a political party, the National Hai and Peking-Hankow Railway,

-MONTH.

Nanking, Sept. 19.

UNITED STATES AND EXTRALITY.

ja war zone.

All these preparations were not futile, as later events have shown. Just as often as they were repulsed and dispersed, the rebels returned. to the attack, culminating, appar... ently, with an offensive on a large scale which was launched on Fri- day last.

Thousands of Rebels. GRADUAL RELINQUISHMENT IN PROSPECT.

Columns of rebels, numbering, Indopacifi messages state, several Washington, Sept. 18. thousands, converged on Vinh, but The State Department announces when at Hung-Ngyuen, only two that negotiations will be resumed miles from the city, they were met with China with a view to the by the garrison of the local post, gradual relinquishment of extra-after having their previous progress territoriality.-Reuter's American slowed down by barricades and Service,

barrages prepared by the alert mill- Extrality proposals will be dis-tary.

There ensued a lively encounter, Geneva in October. The Ameri- as a result of which Government can proposals are very similar to forces, assisted by a squadron of Britain--Reuter's American Ser-checking the advance of the rebels, those recently submitted by aeroplanes from Vinh, succeeded in

vico.

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cussed on Dr. Wu's return from

"A" CONFERENCE ON NARCOTICS.

A Hundred Killed,

The aeroplanes, with bombs and machine-guns, must have wrought great slaughter amongst the rebels who were badly armed.

E Indopacifi messages convey the official report that over a hundred LEAGUE PLANS MEETING IN dead were left behind by the rebels

LONDON:

when they retreated, besides many hundreds wounded. Numerous arrests were also effected by the pursuing military,⠀⠀

Geneva, Sept. 18- The League of Nations Council has decided to convene a preli London on October 27, attended by the countries producing narco minary Narcotice Conference in

tics, to discuss the quote assign-Vinh,

Subsequent to the affray at Communists Attack Militia.

Hue (Annam), Sept. 14.

detachment of militia, operating in the region of Bich- A fall conference of all the Hao, was attacked by Communists. signatories to the Geneva and The militia fred, causing casual- Hague Conventions will be held in ties amounting to ten killed or April, 1931. Reuter-

able to each country.

LIMITING OPIUM MANUFACTURE.

wounded

The following day, in the same province, at 3 o'clock in the morn ing, a band of rebels attacked the railway station at Yen Xuan, near Vinh, wrecking the premises and maltreating the station-master. A column of the Civil Guard inter CONFERENCE TO BE HELD vened. They dispersed the rebele

NEXT YEAR.

and made 23 arrests. The train which arrived after the incident, parsed on without difficulty, after, minutes having been delayed for only tem

Mother and Girls Die. Shortly after admission two of the girls succumbed as did also the Interspersed with these activi- ties were speed trials with motor

and the boy were attended to and sent to the General Hospital where boats, of which she possessed four

London, Sept. 18. In 1927 she crossed the English Fascist members of the City Coun- aiming at an early dispersal of the An official newspaper here an- The theory is that Ong Kok first the Conference on the limitation

they are now in a critical condition.

The League Council to-day fixed Channel from Dover to Calais and cil marched out in a body from Kuominchun defenders.nounces this morning that a new attacked his wife and children with of the manufacture of opium for Tranquility has now been res back, a distance of 45 miles in the Chamber as a protest against

n's Warning

Customs Tariff is at present under the heavy are and set fire to the May 27th next,

tored to the province of Vinh, and 107 minutes, making a new record the majority's refusal to act im-

examination by the Legislative house before catting his own throat. It will be preceded by a Conferno further incident in reported.. But in August, 1929, she heat, this mediately on a National-Socialist

Nanking, Sept. 19. Yuan and will be promulgated on A match box which was lying nearence of the manufacturing States A supplementary section of the and also a record of 88 minutes set motion, seconded, by the German It is officially announced that October 10th,

N him supports the belief that he had in London on October 27th and a Foreign Legion has left Namdinh up by Kaye Don in the interval, | Nationals, to dissolve the Council General Chang Hsueh-lang has is- Lakin abolition, originally fixed intended to set fire to the bundle meeting of the League's Oplum by train to reinforce the garrision for the covered the distance in and reduce the salaries of the sued a circular telegram announc- to take place on October 10th, will of paraffin-saturated crepe rubber Committee on January 10th-Bri-in this area Indopacífi 79 minutes.

1 heads of departments-Reuter! | (Continued on Page 7.) probably be postponed. Reuter on which he was seated,

tish Wireless

(Continued on Page 7).

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