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LORD THOMSON'S

R.101 PLANS.

INSISTED ON FLIGHT AS ARRANGED.

> INFLUENCE OF MINUTE ON

THE EVENTS.

£#* *A-+## FRIDAY, NÓVEMBER 7,

SCHOOL LEAVING

AGE BILL.

"CHARTER. FOR AVERAGE CHILD."

LIBERALS SUPPORT.

London, Nov. 6. The Government School Atten- dance Bill, raising the school- leaving age in Britain from 14 to

ENQUIRY EVIDENCE. 15, and providing for the mainten-

that ad-

ance of school-goers between the ages of fourteen and fifteen, obtained a second reading in the House of Commons to-day after the defeat of Conservative motion for its rejection by 294 to 227.

Many Liberals, obviously, voted with the Government,

a

The Bill, which it is intended to pass before Christmas, affects half lá million children,

the

Sir Charles Trevelyan Education Minister, described the

child

MRS. BRUCE LANDS BANK CRASH

AT HANOI

HONGKONG ARRIVAL

EXPECTED.

MAY REACH COLONY DURING AFTERNOON.

NO DEFINITE NEWS.

Flying solo from England to Japan on a Blackburn Blue bird machine fitted with a Gipsy II engine, the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, the noted British airwoman, arrived at Hanoi yesterday after- noon, and expected to take

WIS

IN FRANCE.

FOUR INSTITUTIONS CLOSE DOORS.

1930. 中七十九、

SOVIET TROOPS MOVING.

MARCHING TOWARDS

MANCHILI...

$30 PER ANNUM

COPY · 18 CENTE

SINGLE

M. TARDIEÙ ACTS, FIVE INFANTRY DIVISIONS ON

Paris, Nov. 6.

The Adam Bank has over.

THE FRONTIER.

MUKDEN NOTIFIED.

Locul Branch.

PRISON OUTRAGE

RECALLED.

WOUNDED WARDER MAKING GOOD PROGRESS.

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ACCUSED IN COURT.

Favourable progress by Mr. Bert Plumb, who was wounded by a prisoner in Victoria Gaol recently, was reported this morning when

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QUOTA FOR WHEAT APPROVED.

COMMITTEE REPORTS TO LEADERS.

GUARANTEES TO EMPIRE AT WORLD PRICES.

An

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The Prime Minister, M, Tardieu, has intervened in the

the alleged assailant appeared be NO OBSTACLE IN WAY. difficult situation created by the

fore Mr. Williams at the Centrall Shanghai, Nov. G. Magistracy, on remand, on a charge!

London, Nov. 6, failure of the Adam Bank, which

With a view to bringing pres-of wounding with intent to malm. closed down recently, and is

agreement has been personally taking steps to mini-sure on the Moscow Conference, Detective Inspector Shannon ap-reached by the committee of the mise the injury caused by the Soviet troops at Chifa are peared for the prosecution and ask- Imperial Conference dealing with collapse of the establishment, marching. repidly towardsed his Worship, for a further economic co-operation on the which is one of the oldest bank Chinese territory at Manchuli week's remand, ing institutions in France.

subject of the application of the and are building trenches twenty condition of Mr. Plumb and was Mr. William

His Worship enquired as to the]

quota system to Empire wheat. miles from Manchuli Railway informed that he was progressing hundred branches in Northern

Graham, the France, and the crash is particu- station. Barbed wire entangle favourably, but the doctor did not President of the Board of Trade, Early felt in Boulogne,. whose ments are also being erected.

think that he would be fit for was the chairman of the com- population had deposited their The Soviet militarists are dis- another two or three weeks. .mittee, whose report will be con- Savings with the Adam Bank,

playing an attitude of prepared- A hundred fishing, smacks are

Answering a further question, sidered by the heads of the

for the reason that their owners lying idle in Boulogne Harbourness for a resumption of active detective Inspector Shannon said delegations next week.

demonstrations in the event of a there were about-13 witnesses al-

The object of the quota, it is second deadlock. are unable to pay the crews.

together, but most of them would stated, is to secure that be formal. Only four would be of guaranteed, and if possible, an any length.

the United Kingdom should be increasing proportion of the total quantity of wheat milled in

of Empire origin.

London, Nov. 6. A Minute written by Lord Thomson, the late Air Minister, was put in evidence at the R.101 enquiry to-day, revealing he strongly insisted upon herence to the programme for the India flight of the ill-fated airship.

Sir John, Simon, questioning The Government claims that it Air Marshal Sir John Higgins, will keep 100,000 children off the elicited the fact that the necessity labour market for a year and will for repairs to gas-lags which were enable 150,000 adults to obtain holed through chafing, and also jobs.

off for Hongkong that an engine broke down during)

some time to- the trials, were not reported to the Bill as a "Charter for the average from Hanoi here takes about

day. The flight Air Ministry.

The President of the Court read

Lord Eastare Percy, opposing five hours, and it was thought the Minute by Lard Thomson.il, said that the Bill would in- this morning that Mrs. Bruce which read:

erease the taxution of the would leave the southern port in So long as R1 is ready to employee class by £8,000,000 per time to arrive in Hongkong ta liquidate the assets of the Bank, of the Heilungkiang Provincial go to India by the last week in annum. He said the need was either by tiffin-time or early this September, this further delay in that education should develop afternoon. At the time of go- getting her altered may pass touch with and in connexion, withing to press, however, no actual I must insist on the programime the machine on which the keen-word had been received of her

a reaction on other banking in for the India flight being adness would have to be exercised.departure from Hanoi, and it is stitutions. In direct consequence therefore not at all certain that of the Adam Bank's failure, the hered to as I have made my Reuter.

she will reach Hongkong to-day. Banque Lacour et Chasseraud, of She arrived at Hanoi from Bang. Angouleme, has temporarily ceas kok, which place she left lasted its operations, whije the im

dawn. Owing to grtant provincial bank, Saturday at

the heavy rains, however, she was Credit du Rhone has closed its compelled to make a forced landing doors. nt Nakom Panom, in Siam, where TO she waited for the weather to clear

before resuming her fight.

plans accordingly,"

Influence on Events.

Sir John Higgins was question- ed on the possibility of this Minute having influenced the course events.

of

The Air Marshal said that as he realised that Lord Thomson was determined to have the ship for a flight to India at the end of} September, every effort was made to speed up the work.

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Lient. Col.. Moore-Brabazon,

the assessors, asked whether, it Lard Thomson bul not wanted to go to India himself, Sir John Higgins would have ordered her to India in view of the alteratings

made in her.

mental keenness very largely in

AMERICAN PIT DISASTER.

DEATHROLL. NOW STATE

TOTAL 91.

Athens (Ohio). Nov, 6. Mine officials now state that the death-roll in the pit disaster totals 94 and that there were are handed men in the pit. at the time of the explosion.

An early report stated that in to nearly 360 killed, addition and 26 rescued, a score of miners entombed alive are expected be brought up safely.

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Mrs. Bruce set out on her Far Eastern Right on September 25th, in the hope of being able to reach Tokyo, 11,000 miles distant, in fif- teen days, with a non-stop flight of 920 miles to Budapest, continuing via Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon and Hanoi to Hongkong, Amoy, Shanghai and thence to finally Japan.

Crash in Desert.

Hypothetical Question:

She made excellent progress un- Most of the survivors are in

til after leaving Jask for Bushire, The witness replied that that bad condition. They owe their was a hypothetical question, which lives to bratticing themselves in in Persia, when she crashed. This he did not think he could answer, the chamber where the poison but on what he heard from Wing- gases were not dense.

Air Marshat Dowding, the next witness, asserted that as the R,101 had not done full power trials, he told Lord Thomson he proposed to instruct Wing-Communder Col. more to carry out full power trials as soon as possible after leaving MH. for India so that if anything unsatisfactory developed there would still be time to turn back.

"All Settled."

FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA.

was some 35 miles from Jask. She encountered a violent sandstorm and attempted to land on what

Assets Ample.

Arrangements are being mudė

which are stated to be ample to cover its commitments.

Meanwhile, the failure is having

It is understood, however that the Credit du Rhone has obtained support enabling it to re-open its doors to-morrow...

Another Shock.

Later.

Mokden Advised.

General Wan Fu-lin, Chairman

tion that certain evidence might be Regarding the previous sugges-

Government, has telegraphed to

taken before the discharge of Mr. Mukden for Instructions. The Plumb from hospital, the prosecut- Government is seriously considering officer said he had put that ing increasing the Manchurian course to the Superintendent but it garrisons 31 Manchuli and was thought there was no object in Chalainor.

starting the case immediately, as to wait for the evidence of Mr. Plum to be taken first, would make the case simpler..

The Soviet is known to have Ave full Divisions of Infantry along, the Chinese frontier in readiness for all eventualities.

Delegates' Hope.

General Mo Teh-hui, the chief Chinese delegate attending the Sino-Soviet Conference at Moscow, has telegraphed to the Nanking A further shock to financial Government suggesting that the circles came this afternoon with | whole Chinese delegation should the news of the suspension of the Oustric Bank, which has a capital of 100,000,000 franes.

This bank had been working in

close relation with the Adam

Bank and the Credit du Rhone

Beuter.

AMAZING SPEED ON MOTOR-CYCLE.

BRITISH RIDER AND CYCLE DO 150 M.P.H.

The defendant was remanded for another week formally.

MONGOOSE SOUP!

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SHOPKEEPER FINED FOR CRUELTY.

The report submitted hy, Mr. Graham's committee is the result of a preliminary examination of the scheme in its technical aspects,

A General Scheme,

Of the milling wheat and flour imported into the United Kingdom at the present time about forty- nine per cent. has Empire origin. The scheme for ensuring dr in- ́proving upon that position 23 examined in the Hght of a quota for the whole of the Empire,

The possibility of granting special quotas for different parts of the Empire was examined and ruled out 38 administratively impracticable.

A mangoose in a wire cage was remain in Russia for another three the curious exhibit produced in

At World Prices" months. He points at the possibi-the Central Police Court this

connexion with a The question of a guaranteed lity of reaching some form of pre-morning in

of cruelty against a price for wheat was not raised, liminary arrangement with M. charge: Kaharan in the not distant future Chinese shopkeeper at Shaukiwan. the scheme being examined as a A Police Sergeant said he saw method of securing to the Empire whereby both parties' may fix R

the animal exhibited outside the guaranteed share of the United date for the renewal

imports at world of formal shop, the idea apparently being to Kingdom's meetings.

attract customers. The cage was prices, The Nanking Foreign Ministry small, and in moving about, the conferred yesterday following the animal had torn its paws on the receipt of this telegram and de- wire, cided to instruct General Mo to Asked what he, intended to do endeavour to secure a resumption with a wild animal like the mon- of the discussions. The Nanking goose, the accused said he was Government has signified its in- going to convert it into soup! He tention of supporting the financial added that he was giving it a bath needs of the Chinese delegation when the Sergeant appeared. during the suggested period. A fine of $10 was imposed by the Nanking remitted by telegraph a Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell). · big sum to the Chinese delegates yesterday.

Anti-"Red" Drive.

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NATIONAL GALLERY

PICTURES.

Commander Colmore and Majori The positions of the dead indi-seemed to be hard sand, but the Scott about the results of the cate that they made a desperate plane sank into in it and overturn-. trial on October 1 and 2, he would effort to flee. Ten succumbed sted, have been satisfied that the ship the entrance to the ventilating Baluchi tribesmen. appeared on was safe to undertake the flight to shaft.-Reuter's American Service. the scene and seemed hostile, but India.

she made friends with them by in- teresting them in an alarm clock)

London, Nov. 6. and by dancing and singing to them. The amazing speed of 150 miles After some nights in the desert, an hour on two wheels was to-day living on water and dates given achieved by the well-known Bri her by the tribesmen, she persuad-tish motor-cyclist, Wright, on a ed the chief to send a message to British machine, an O.E.C. Jap LYONS RESIGNS OVER A Jask, and three Englishmen came cycle, at Cork.

BOND RESOLUTION.

to her help. They mended the dero- Wright.. averaged 119.68 miles plane and Mrs. Bruce flew it to an hour over a kilometre, thus re- Some 100,000 Nationalist troops Canberra, Nov. 6. Jask with one of them, Mr. Wilson, gaining the record from Henne by recently returned from the Mr. Lyons, the acting Federal an Imperial Airways engineer, ly-thirteen miles an hour.

northern warfront have been Treasurer, bus resigned following | ing along the fuselage,

Wright and Henne have been al commissioned to enter Human and a resolution by the Labour caucus Subsequently she continued on ternately breaking the record. Kiangsi for a concerted onslaught ordering legislation to compel the her fight, but was recently delayed After Wright had set up a mark against Communist bandits. The

London, Nov. 6. holders of the £27,000,000 matur by heavy rains between Bangkok of 218.18 kilometres an hour on an former plan to assail the Com- ing in December,

The Prime Minister Informed to kold their and Hanoi.

munists in Central China from bonds for another year.

three directions has been changed, the House of Commons to-day that and it has now been decided that a one-clause Bill would be intro the war will be simultaneously cuttes of the National Gallery at duced shortly empowering the launched in five regions.

their discretion to lend paintings The 60th and 61st Kwangtung and drawings abroad, under Divisions are among the Divisions proper safeguards-British Wire assigned to this work. Nanking eas has ordered the 60th Division, un- der General Tsoi Ting-kai, to clean up the Communist districts in the environs of Changsha and Pinghsiang.

"That's all settled, then." re- marked Lord Thomson, in reply, said Air Marshal Dowding, show ing that he was absolutely con- fident.

that

Sir John Simon declared there was no written report on the last trial flight and no written in- spection sheet of what was observed

during or after the flight.

"Is it a fust," he asked, "that just at this moment the Air Minis- bry granted an airworthiness cer- tificate?"

"The certificate was issued by the Secretary of State having re gard to the reports furnished him" presumably by Wing-Commander Colmore, replied Air Marshal Dowing. The enquiry adjourned. Compensation Awards.

In the House of Commons, Mr.

The resolution laid down that! interest on the bonds would be paid as usual and that recessitous holders would be enabled to cash small amounts of the bonds.-- Reater.

FINAL POSITION OF

NEW SENATE.

KENTUCKY SEAT WON BY REPUBLICAN,

New York, Nov. 6. The final position of the new

F. Montague, the Under-Secretary Senate gives the Republicans a mar-

for Air, announced that compen-gin of one over. the Democrats, as sation to the dependents of the follows: victims of the R.101, disaster would be paid as follows:

To Air Force Officers and men, pensions varying from £180 with a gratuity of £450, plus`· £24 annually for each child, to pen- sions of 22/- weekly, plus 5/- før each child..

'Republicans Democrats Farrier-Labour

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FAIR WEATHER.

Society,

Motoring Feats.

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9. E. C. Jap, Henne riding a B. 3. W. molor-cycle covered a mile in 26.38 seconds, averaging 219.618 The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce is kilometres an hour. of motoring and exploration, and is adding 13 miles an hour to the inirendy distinguished in the sphere Wright's latest performance, a Fellow of the Royal Georgraphical mark, will take a lot of upsetting.

Formerly Miss Mildred Reuter. Petre, of an Essex family, she mar- A British Wireless message adds ried the Hon. Victor Bruce, that Mr. J. Wright's fastest one- youngest son of the second Baronway run was 152.5 miles an hour. Aberdare, in 1926. She has ́úb- ished two interesting books on mo- toring, covering her experiences, namely."9,000 Miles in Eight Weeks," and "The Woman Owner- Driver."

courage. She first

STOP PRESS.

BRITISH ATLANTIC

Changsha is the capital of Hu- nan and was recently recaptured from the Communists. Since then the bandits defeated at Changsha have spread. to various districts. The work of rounding up these Hunanese bandits, near Changsha. will take several weeks, it is ex- pected.

FACILITIES FOR LENDING ABROAD.

JOHNNY CUTHBERT

MATCHED.

TARLETON DRAWS IN A TITLE BOUT..

London, Nov. 6. In a fifteen rounds contest at Liverpool to-day, Johnny Cuthbert (Sheffield), the holder, of the Bri- tish featherweight, championship, was fought to a draw by Nel Tarie ton (Liverpool).A

The title was at stake-Neuter.

The Committee came to the con- clusion that if the method were adopted, there would be no in- superable difficulties in the way of working it.---British Wireless.

The scheme apparently bears a close resemblance to the proposals outlined in Mr. Baldwin's recent manifesto on the subject of wheat quotas, though it naturally taken no account of any special quota that may be secured in Great Britain to home-grown whest.

Home Quota.

Mr. Baldwin, in his statement of policy, wrote:

"In the case of wheat, we have already stated our intention, as part of our domestic agricultural policy, to introduce a system under which a definite proportion of the four used to make the bread baked in this country shall be made from home-grown wheat.

"This proportion will be fixed": from time to time in such a way that all the wheat of the requisite quality produced in this country will be utilised..

"We have adopted this methol In preference to a tariff on foreign. wheat because no tariff which we could recommend 'would be suff- cient in itself to solve the problem- of the wheat producer. In this country. But by combining a guaranteed price for, wheat with the legislation to which I have referred we shall be able to gre the home farmer not only a guaranteed market for his pro- duce, but a market at a price which will make it worth his while to grow it.

The Empire's Share. Having provided that a fixed proportion of the British lont shall be made of home-grown wheat it would be a natural extension /of the plan to give an effective pre

She is the foremost British wo- man motorcar racer, and has several records to her credit. Taking up

UNDERSTANDING. track-facing with her husband, she became noted for exceptional cool- ness and judgment, combined with

London, Nov. 7. unfaltering

The Daily Herald says six of the

Other Arrangements. came into prominence in January, inrgest British trans-Atlantic.

The 61st Division under General 1997, when as a competitor in a shipping companies-the Cunard race from the extreme north of White Star, Canadian Pacific, Chiang Kwang-nai, also of Can- Scotland to. Monte Carlo, she Anchor, Red Star and Atlantic ton, has been commissioned to covered the distance in three days Transport Lines have completed proceed to the Hankow and Wu- without sleep. In July of that rationalisation plans with a view chang regions, where some of the try-side were devastated by the ference to the Empire in the shape year she and her husband drove to cutting out wasteful Britian districts along the Peking Hankow continuous bandlt disturbances. of a further proportion allocated To civilians, pensions varying

through Sweden to the Arctic competition. Railway near Hankow have for The Communist lender, Chu Tak, and secured to the Empire farmer from £100 to £300, with special

Circle, going, 200 miles further children's allowances, except in

United sailing announcements several weeks been, disturbed by actually established a Soviet and it may be pointed out that the case of

The Royal Observatory reports north than any motorist had been have already begun and experts Communists The 61st Division. Government at Kianfu, in the this system, while directly serving those receiving that the anticyclone is central before.

believe that closer arrangements will be assisted-by-Hankow garri heart of Klangs). General Mine the Interests of wheat growers Workmen's Compensation, whose near Tokyo. Moderate: monsoon

will be made. awards, where necessary, would be along the S.E. coast of China' and

A-Fine

The Companies mentioned own morce raiding the villages early will direct the war in Kiangat and completely effective antidote which son troops and they will com- Bing-wan, of the 8th Division, both in the Empire and in our own country, would provide us with a made up to the scale paid to over the China Sea. The Jocal In December, they achieved a feat fifty-two liners valued at next weekend will make his first blow one zarina alone would not eapply to civilians not so qualified forecast is:-N.E. winds, moderate; which for pluck and superb drive 555,000,000. The lines will con Recently in Klangai Provines andis py attacking their strong the dumping of Russian or bounty Reuter and British Wireless

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