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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.

LAID TO REST IN COMMON GRAVE.

FUNERAL OF THE RIGH VICTIMS.

FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC.

AN ANXIOUS JOURNEY DESCRIBED.

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE ON

TARIFFS

London, Oct. 11.." There was no formal. meeting of the Imperial Conference or of its various Committees to-day, and as usual business. will also be dis- continued to-morrow. The Prime Minister left for Chequers this morning after the funeral proces- sion of the R101 victims had pass- ed through London: Mr. and Mrs. Scullin and Mr. McGilligun

Chequers and other members of Australian and Irish Delegation will be guests there at luncheon to-morrow."

Meanwhile the economic ques-

"London, Oct. 11.

London, Oct. 11. The funeral of the dead of the The Trans-Atlantie airmen Boyd Airship R.101 took place to-day and Conuor landed at Croydon with due ceremonial and whore they were welcomed by a solemnity. It began at West- huge crowd. The first person to minster at ten o'clock this morn-greet them was Mr. C. A. Levine, Ing and dense crowds witnessed the millionaire, the original owner the long and melancholy proces-of their plane, in which he crossed sion through as it' passed the the Atlantic three years`ago, London streets to the railway A graphic story of the flight was terminus at Euston. The coffins told by Captain Boyd. He said were there entrained for Carding-that after leaving St. John's, New- are spending the week-end at ton where, within sight of the foundland, at 4.35 pm. on the 9th, airship shed and mooring, must, they encountered headwinds, rains preparations had been made for and squalls and were forced to their burial in a common grave. fly "blind," mostly by dead réckon- The procession through Londoning, all night, but Connor. next was both military and civilian in morning, succeeded in Anding tions before Conference are re- character. Three military bands their position but the storms had ceiving widespread attention not- played funeral music and

driven them about 400 miles southably the proposals for tariff modi- detachment of the Army, Navy of their course. Five hours befication and increased preference and Air Force took part, but the fore landing they discovered that for Empire products. In this con route was held by the police, no the rear tank, containing a hunnexion the suggestions of Mr. Ben- troops being employed for this dred gallons of petrol, was not nett, the Canadian Premier, are re- purpose. Each of the forty-eight functioning and they dumped it garded as an important contribu- bodies was carried on an Army into the sea, landing very caution to the discussions now pro- waggon drawn by a team of four tiously as they were practically seeding within the Conference. horses with postillions mounted in khaki aniform. The procession without petrol and the wind was was headed by mounted police and blowing at from 50 to 60 miles the first twenty-four waggons were preceded by a detachment of the Royal Air Force, three Royal wreaths, the Air Council wreath and the Royal Air Force band.

A detachment of Grenadier Guards, the Army Council wreath and a band of Welsh Guards fol lowed and then came the remain- ing twenty-four waggons with coffins, Immediately

an hour.

The United Kingdom Government has made it clear to other Govern

ments represented at the Con- There was only a tiny strip of Cerence that while it is willing to beach on which to land, but they consider any proposal which may came down safely after a light be brought forward—not exclud- of about twenty three and a halfing preference-any such hours.-Reuler.

Reaches Karachi.

Karachi, Oct. 11. The airman, Flight Lieutenant it arrived here at 5 p.m.- following Reuter

the waggons were the Prime There was a curious error in Minister and other representa-Friday's British Wireless, which tives of Great Britain, the stated

that Hill had reach, Dominions and India. Behind cd Karachi, having flown from them were relatives on foot and England in the record time of five efficers and officials representing days. He left Lympse on Oct. 5. the Aeronautical Societies 'of London, the County Council and other institutions. Then came Dominions afficers and attaches of Foreign Powers.

MURDER OF LADY MISSIONARIES.

BRITISH PROTEST TO BE LODGED.

A Cardington wreath, one of the hundreds of beautiful floral tributes, was carried before the third watch of R.101. The Naval contingent consisted of the band of the Royal Marines and a It appears that two of the detachment of the Royal Navy. go-betweens. despatched in

A

German Expert.

London, Oct. 11.

Foochow, Oct. 11.

con-

con-

sideration must be based on two central conditions-that the Gov- ernment cannot agree to any pro- posal which will involve an in- crease in the cost of living in this country, and that nothing can be done which would interfere sud- denly with commercial treaties with Foreign countries which are already in existence.

Own

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In the Same Boat. Empire trade was the subject of several speeches by Ministers and othera last night. The Dominions Secretary, Mr. Thomas emphasised in other words the' view of the Government as stat ed above. Their position, he said, was exactly that of the Dominions which naturally place their own part of Empire first. The Bri- tish Government, he said, also must give their first thought. in all The rear of the procession was nexion with Miss Nettleton and these discussions to their brought up by representatives of Miss Harrison went to the Com-Country with their difficulties and

responsibilities. various organisations carrying munist camp, and one was taken The President of the Board of wreaths and several tenders loaded prisoner, but the other returned with Rowers and cars convey-with a letter from the Communists, Trade, Mr. William Graham in a ing relatives who were unable to The go-between states that the speech at Edinburgh said proceed on

foot, and mounted heads of the ladies were taken taxation of foodstuffs and raw police.---British Wireless.

from the scene of their decapita- materials would be disastrous for tion to the bandit headquarters, the British people as consumers, the village of Shanmei, seven and for important sections of their prominent figure was the miles distant. Villagers inform-industry and commerce. It would Zeppelin commander, Dr. Hugo ed the go-between that they had immediately raise the cost of pro-

the heads. The Com- Eckener, in uniform, who was a seen friend of Major Scott. Business munists original intention was to places along the route were tem- despatch the heads to Kienning, pararily closed and the church but this was found to be imprac- bells tolled.

licable.--Reuter.

British Note of Protest. At Bedford the town was silent and almost deserted during the

Peking, Oct. 11. understood It is

that the real wages. In the Imperial afternoon, the population joining. the crowd of 75,000 lining, the British Government has only been Conference the Government would road to Cardington, which silently waiting for details of the murder do everything in its power to watched the passing of the long of Miss Harrison and Miss Nettle-secure an agreement with the representatives in procession of coffins of the R101 ten before sending the strongest Dominions"

various forms of commercial de- heroes to St. Mary's churchyard protest to Nanking. where the victims were buried in

velopment. In that sphere there a great common grave lined with

was much of most valuable grass and flowers.

ciprocal character that could be undertaken without imposing tariffa on foodstuffs and raw materials imported into Great Bri- tain. The best of Dominion opinion recognized that it was im- possible to expect the United Kingdom to impose duties on its foodstuffs and raw materials.

Two lights of bombers circled The overhead in a jast salute. Bishop of St. Albans and the Chaplain-in-Chief

Air of the Force were among the clergy who conducted the service, after which three volleys were fired and trumpeters sounded the Last Post and the Reveille.—Reuter.

DISARMAMENT.

PRESIDENT HOOVER CHOOSES

TWO DELEGATES.

Now that details have been published by Reuter, a note will be despatched at the shortest possible moment.-heuter.

DEATH OF COL. M. MCRAE.

HEAD OF LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS.

Santiago, Cal., Oct. 11. The death is reported of Colonel Milton A. McRae, one of the founders of the Scripps-McRae league of newspapers.-Reuter American Service.

duction. It would throw Great Britain into a turmoil of tariff reprisals, the futility of which in the conditions consequent on the War had been abundantly demon- strated: and it would involve for millions of people a reduction in

re

The First Lord of the Ad- miralty, Mr. Alexander in a speech at Sheffield protested against the Exploitation of the Imperial Con- ference by those who advocated a change of policy regarding tariffe. He invited Mr. Baldwin to clear up doubts as to whether he pro- at the next Posed to advocate election, food taxes, without ference to a second election. British Wireless.

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[Colonel Milton A. McRae was born at Detroit June 13, 1858. Washington, Oct. 11. He was a stockholder and one of President Hoover has appointed the founders of the newspaper lea- Mr. Hugh Gibson. the Americangue now known as the Scripps- Ambassador to Belgium, and Mr.Howard Newspaper Syndicate. He Hugh E. Wilson, the American was a stockholder in other news Vice President of the Boy Scouts Minister to Switzerland, as-dele- paper concerns in the United of America, and Trustee of hte gates of the United States to the States and was also Chairman and Harper Hospital of Detroit. He League of Nations Preparatory controling, stockholder of the was officially connected with Bey- Commission .on Disarmament, McRae and Roberts Co., manufaceral philanthropic and charitable which will

inturers of brass goods, of. Detroit. institutions. He was the author meet in Geneva November, Reuter's American He was at one time President of of "Forty Years in Newspaper- Service.

the Detroit Board of Commerce, I dom."]

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