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GRAVE RIOT
IN EGYPT.
POLICE FIRE ON UNRULY MOB.
GOVERNOR'S CAR
WRECKED.
EIGHT KILLED.
Cairo, Muy 3. Serious bloodshed occurred to- day at Benisuef, near Cairo, in political riots which, it is sug gested, are being deliberately in- cited in order to persuade Grent Britain to in.ervene in Egypt.
Six demonstrators were killed and three injured ~ Wafdisk sources give the casualties 118 right killed and forty-six injured by police rifle fire in the riots at Benisuef, while seven polier. men were injured.
The riot followed the arrival in
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NO. 13,386
FAMOUS INDIAN
RULER.
MAHARAJA OF JIND DUE HERE TO-MORROW.
STAYING THREE DAYS.
Hongkong is to have a visit from one of India's best-known Princes in the person of His flighness the Maharaja of And, who is to arrive here with his suite to-morrow aboard the xs, Pracuvia,
During his {hr't*t༠ das [፡13- # thirr Colony.
Highness will be staying at the Penin-la Hotel, where a whole wine has ben tryed for
han
bis suite
The Maharaja belongs to the famous Phulkan family of Sindhu Jufs, and is descended from: Phul. The State over which he rules is 1268 square miles in extent and has a population of 308,180,
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CHIANG'S GESTURE LONE EAGLE OF JAPAN SETS OUT.
TO OPPONENTS.
CANTON CONSIDERS IT
A MANOEUVRE.
WANG CHING-WEI PLEADS FOR
UNITED ACTION.
WUCHOW
REACTIONS.
Canton, May 3. Realising the possibility of a further spread of the anti-Nan- king movement, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is understood to be willing to make concessions to his political opponents with a view of settling the South-West- ern China situation by diplomatic means, according to the latest Nanking wires to hand.
His Highness, who is entitled to salute of 16 guns, contributes an infantry battalion to the Imperiai Marshal Chiang, presiding at the Defence Contingent, which took Central Executive Canell yester part in frontier expeditions iday afternoon, sald he was willing!
East to answer 1897 and which served in
questions at CK.C. 1964-18 and on
the
session when the Government Africa in Afghan Frontier in 1919.
jeould examine all the charges made The Maharaja offered all the against him by a number of Kup-
State
mintang Supervisory Commission- fers, including Messrs. Ku Ying- fan, Teng Treh-ju and Lin Shen (President of the Legislative Council) who issued the anti- [Chiang Kai-shek declaration in
Canton last week.
resources DI HÈM
the town of Nahas Pasha, the ex-Crown during the fireat War. Premier, and six other prominent Wardiet leaders by motor-cnr, and
it is alleged that they, stirred up their supporters to violence.
Mob Attacks Police.
Later.
It now appears that eight of the rioters were killed and ten wound-" ed. while fifteen members of the
DETECTIVE BADLY BEATEN UP.
the
THREE SOLDIERS ARRESTED AFTER AFFAIR,
THEA
Seiji Yoshiharn, the_Lintbergh of Japan, (inset), net out from Tokyo this morning on the first stage of a solo Transpuelle flight scheduled to end at San Francisco. The jour ney from Japan to America has never yet been necomplished. He is using a light Junkers seaplane (shown above) equipped with an Armstrong-Siddeley engine.
LOST LEADER OF EXPEDITION.
ABSENCE OF NEWS NOT IMPORTANT.
PACIFIC FLIGHT COMMENCES.
AMBITIOUS SOLO ATTEMPT.
PLENTIFUL SUPPLIES. SCHEDULE OF DARING
Regarded as Manoeuvre. Marshal Chiang asserts that he in willing to submit to any punish. Bensuif Police Force were injured. Chan Kow, a detective attached
The huge crowd stoned
the to the Central Division, was recentment in which the C.E.C, may de- police, who at first fired warningly injured in an affair which hapsire to Impose upon him.
This declaration is regarded shots into the air in order to scarepened in Pedder Street. shortly the mot vainly and then, when after the closing up of thecine here as a political manoeuvre to the attack was continued, opened mas lust night. With another de- purify discontented groups within the Kuomintang. which have de fire into the crowd, which finally tective he was on patrol, it is 101- dispersed.
derstand, when he came into commanded the dismissal of the Na-authority to the absence of informa tact with a group of soldiers,
Ku
the
To
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not
ENTERPRISE.
BRITISH ENGINE.
Tokyo, May 4. Seiji Yoshihara, known as the Lone Eagle of Japan sincs his spectacular flight from Berlin to Tokyo which he flew in ten days, setting a re- cord for a light aeroplane, hopped off unaccompanied at 10.10 a.m. to-day for Numa- zaki, in the north-east of Japan, the first stage of his Transpacific flight pro- gramme, says Reuter.
Premier's Story.
The affair is under investiga- The Prime Minister, in an inter. tion, and just what occurred view with Reuter's representative, give cause for friction is not yet casuallies as four killed disclosed, but it is alleged that the so severely "heater and eleven wounded un the rioters deforlice was
that he lost consciousnYERS, 'side. unit mentioned that fifteen up policemen were injured, te of and was admitted, into hospital.
whom is lying in hospital in a
Subsequently, three men of the critical condition, while another South Wales Borderers were taken suffered a broken leg.
into custody and, tarned aver to a The poller, said the Premier, military escort, these being Pri-e downfall of Marshal Chiangle sheet in the interior of Green-cross the Pacific via the Aleutian fired on the crowd in self-defence, į vates H. James, P. Brian.And J.
London, Mar 3. Although same anxiety must be felt regarding the fate of Mr. H. C. Arctic Air Route Expedition, and Watkins, the leader of the British his two companions, who set out fortnight ago to search for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, tance is attached by a London tion regarding their whereabouts. tionalist Commander-in-Chief.
It is pointed out in London that Stressing the need of complete harmony among military factions Mr. Watkins's plane in South-Western China to bring equipped with wireless, at any the coup to success. Mr. Wang other means of communication, 'nnif Ching-wel, the Kuomintang Leftist it is therefore probable that they leader, has addressed a long tele are quite safe for the time being. grum from Shanghal to Generals The plane carried sufficient provi- Chung-yes. Pei Chung-hi and sions to last the party for five hang Fat-kwai, Commander of weeks or even longer at a pinch.
They are somewhere on the vast the Ironsides, in which he predicts.
The intrepid flier proposes to land, and two other members of Islands and Alaska, the flight be Kai-shek.
the Watkins Expedition are How
for them. Jing sponsored by the well-known engaged in à search
Japanese newspaper, the Hochi Reuter Mr. Wang Ching-wei states that
Later. Shimbun. all hina is eager for the early
Captain Ahrenberg, the woll- | adoption by the Kuomintang
known Polarlier, who is co- Government of a Provisional Co-operating in the search for Mr. He is using a Junkers Junior, an stitution. or People's Charter.
arrived at Ank; all-metal seaplane, equipped with which cannot be enforced under Courtauld, has n dictatorship.
magantik, the Greenland base, from an Armstrong-Siddeley Genet en- The Kuomintang leader goes on Reykjavik, but has found it inad
being as follows: Chiang Kai-shek with the despotic diately owing to the formation of nexion with the theft on April 27 regimes of the Manchus prior to ice on the wings of his machine. of two articles of clothing. He the big Republican rebellion in Reuter, was questioned and readily admitt- 1912.
The crowd was enormous and Booth. extremely threatening.
Refore
the actual firing. the rioters had seized the car belonging to the Governor of Benisuef and had umashed it up, the chauffeur being badly hurt in the melee. It was atau notable that three
members of the Ambulance Corps
who rushed to the scene to tend
CAT BURGLAR SENT TO PRISON.
HOUSEBOY'S SUSPICIONS
CONFIRMED..
Found on the roof of 30, Jordan in con-
Dictatorship Limits.
Light Plane.
BRITISH AVIATRIX
CRASHES.
PULLED OUT OF BURNING MACHINE.
MISHAP IN PERSIA.
London, May, 4.
The Hon. Mrs. Edward Montaga. who left Heston Aerodrome on a |6,000 miles aerial tour of Soviet Russia and Persia on March 27. has cabled from Meshed, in North East Persia, ainting that she crashed there yesterday.
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AMERICAN CROESUS PASSES.
SPHINX OF WALL STREET.
SUDDEN END OF 'MR. G. F. BAKER.
HUGE FORTUNE.
New York, May 3. The death occurred”, aud. denly to-day of Mr. George Fisher Baker, reputed to be the third wealthiest man in the' world. A famous banker, be was 91 years of age, and continued an active career right up to to the time of his death. He was born at Troy, New York Slate, in March 1840.
He was a nightwatchman and In clerk before he found his way into the banking business; and he had a remarkable career on Wall Street, where, owing to the quietness of his movements, he soon became known as "The Sphinx of Wall Street,"
£10,000,000 to Charity.
fle distributed over £10,000,000 in charity in his lifetime and it is reputed that he has left over £80,000,000, though at one time his
The plane caught fire and Mrs, enormous fortune is believed to Montagu was pulled out of the Have heen even greater. In 1929, burning plane, escaping injury.
Mr. Rupert Melville, the young amateur airman who" accompanied
at the height of the stock market boom, for instance, his fortune
and £200,000,000 is believed to
Mr. Montagu, also escaped hurt. Was variously estimated between
The machine was a Gipsy Moth £100,000,000 and the Miers had almost completed His wealth their schedule when the mishap exceeded only by the possessions joccurred.-Reuter,
of Rockefeller and Henry Ford.
Energy and Foresight. The late Mr. Baker went to a local primary school at Troy, but hia education was not very exten- sive for while still a lad he had to leave to earn his living at a grocery store.
THE STACK FLIGHT ABANDONED.
AFTER RECORD TRIP TO TURKEY.
He quickly showed a gift for business, however, and progressing Constantinople, May 3.
through various enterprises, ho Captain Neville Stack and Mr.eventually found an opening in thes
Chaplin have abandoned banking world. their flight from England to Aus By energy, courage and, foresight to accomplish in 21 days, after cial problems and gradually reach- accomplishing a remarkable per-ed some of the highest positions in formance in reaching Constan banks. tinople in a day, leaving England
themselves | Road yesterday, a Chinese was sus to compare the policy of Marshal visable to proceed further imme. Kine of 80 h.p.. its speelheations in and back, which they hoped the acquired a sound grasp of finan
uimialance pected by the houseboy
the injured, injured, and
were
their
Electricity Cut Off.
damaged.
A cale belonging to an Egyptianed having stolen the was sucked, while Bentsuet
When brought before Mr. Hamil
gartacus,
WIS
which he had pawned.
This
Ho Ying-chin's Attitude.
The
Canton Government
དེས
thrown into complete darkness when the rioters cat the electric at the Kowloon Polier Court understood to have received a morning, Inspector A. R. telegram from General Ho Ying- wires,
Special forces have been dis. Clark informed his Worship that chin, Nanking Minister of War. patched
Nahas the defendant was a cat burglar, (who is directing an anti-Com- intercept to Pusha's party on their return to who often climbed up drain pipes munist expedition with, headquar ters at Nanchang, the enpital of Cairo, and to bring them to Par to the top of bulldings.
His Worship passed sentence of Kinngst, pledging his support to two months' tard labour.
(Continued on Page 7.)
quet where the Attorney-General will interrogate them.
Troops Sent.
The Prime Minister added that Egyptian troops had been sent to Benisuel to assist the police in the town preserving order, but was now quiet.
Necessary nonaires were being taken to prevent an outbreak of a similar kind in the capital as the events had proved that the Opposition were bent on inciting mobs to disorder with the object bf inducing the British Govern nient to intervene.-Reuter,
WORLD SILVER
CONFERENCE.
PRES. HOOVER'S INACTION REGRETTED.
Salt Luke. City. Apr. 29.
Span 10.00 metres. Length overall 7.22 metres. Height overall 3.00 metres. Wing area 13.70 sq. m. Full light weight 650.0 kg. Weight empty 410.0 kg. Useful load 240.0 kg. Cruising speed 135.0 kms. Range 1,350.0 kms.
The Schedule.
at
dawn and landing here at
9 p.m.
Bank Chairman.
The flight has been abandoned By 1000, he was chairman of the lowing to the fact that the machine board of the First National Bank is not properly tuned up for such and of the First Security Co. He and to also became president of the New Ja hazardous project. damage to the accumulator, which York and Long Island Branch Ball has delayed them here.
rond Co, vice-president of the Jer- They will fly back to England soy City Water Supply "Co, a km. to-morrow.
director of a number of other Im- 478 *.m.
portant concerns and a member of the executivo of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
The schedule arranged is:
042 Tokyo to Nunnsaki
En route to China to conduct a Numasaki to Nemuro survey of the relation of depressed Nemuro to Tokotan (Urupp
Is.) silver values to declining. Sino-
(Urupp Is.) to American trade Senator Key Pitt- Tokotan man, Democent. of the Silver pro Kataoka Bay to Petropav
Katnoka Day
lovak
England's Most Serious Quake Shock Committo of the Senate which was
for Many Years.
Senator
with
740 k.nf. ....1. 241 k.m. 355 km.
The period of American proa- perity during and after the world- war brought him enormous profits,
Gifts to Staff.
proft of
The outward journey of 1660 miles was covered in fifteen hours, 438 km.including one
of stop
forty 722 k., minutes at Vienna-Reuter, Earth Tremors Cause Panic at during state of Nevada, passed
216 km.tion of Kamchatka Peninsula. His through Salt Lake City to-day. Petropavlovsk to Nikolski.. 602 k.m.first stop outside Japanese terri In an interview with newspaper Nikelaki to Chiebagof Bay 529 k.m. tory will be at Petropavloska, the Manchester and Bolton.
reporters, Senator Pittman, who is Chichagof Bay to Adak is.. 733 km. port on the eastern coast of Kum- In the summer of 1926 he present-
chatku. Thence going to China in his official capa Adak I. to Nazan Bay
the monoplane north-eastward (Atoka Is.) city as the chairman of the sub
....... 195 k.m.will Hy
to Cape ed to every employee of the Firet committee of the Foreign Relations Nazan Bay (Atoka In.) to
Kronotski, and from there it will National Bank of New York with Dutch labour
6 km. take an eastward course towards two years' service, a cheque for a salary, amounting to year's Dutch Harbour to Chignik
..620 km Commandorspy Island. empowered to study trade
£1,000 or so for junior oficials and y China, expressed regret that Presi-Chignik to Seward Seward to Cordova
To go to San Francisco. £300 or £100 for clerks. In one dent Hoover has thus far failed to
Cordova to Yaktat
day in July, 1920, an increase in convene an international allverYaktat to Juneau
375 k.. . At Attu Island on the western the selling price of the bank's Juneau to Prince Rupert... 670 km. extremity of the Aleutian Islands, shares brought him London, May 3, frumours passed from lip to lip of conference.
Diliman said he believes Prince Rupert to Alert Bay 400 km. where there is a fishing village, £2,000,000. The city of Manchester and amine disasters and explosions,
400 k.m. Yoshihara will rest the wings of 230 k.m. his considerable part of Lancashire, and for a long time thousands be-that President Hoover fears that Alert Bay to Vancouver.... including Eccles and Bolton, ex-leved that the quake was caused if au international silver confer-Vancouver to Seattle
once were convened other interna- Seattle to Medford (Oregon) perienced a violent earthquake by some such calamity. tremor this afternoon, though For some time panic prevailed, tional matters would come up for Medford (Oregon) to San
diecussion. The administration fortunately there were no casual-thousands rushing into the street, has no desire to give consideration PICKPOCKET CAUGHT ON
Many of them merely half-elnd. ties. SECOND ATTEMPT,
Prvelous Quakes. Buildings rocked and the #hak-
Earthquakes are extremely rare Whilst watching sport in King's ing of the earth was folt distinctly
over a large area in the county, in Oreat Britain. Such as are felt Park yesterday, Masaon Shah, of but the damage chiefly consisted from time to time are usually very the Indian Mule Corps, had his
The Royal Observatory reports pocket picked of $1.60. The thief on dialodged "chimney pots and slight, the occasionally more severe
fright.
ones being traced to the formation that the anticyclone is central near was arrested, and, when brought
Juf "Taults." Earth's Crust Slips.
Tokyo. The depression over Indo. before Mr. Hamilton at the Kow-
Later. The East Anglian quake of China is shallower. loon Magistracy this morning, was
The earthquake is stated by ex- April 1884 was the most disastrous sentenced to six months' hard lab our, the defendant having had pre-perts to be one of the most avere recorded for centuries, though
ever experienced in England, and much structural damage was cau vious convictions.
TRIED ONCE TOO OFTEN.
made, two
•
to matters which might become in- volved in efforts to increase and stabilize silver values.
L.
London, May 2. Ex-King Alfonso of Spain, ac- It was stated that the accused it is ascribed to a sudden slipping ed by the Hereford quake of 1896.
The first of the earth's crust, owing to a Since that time, no serious quake companied by the Duke of has been felt, though there were Miranda, left for Paris, to-day. He time, his had tähed away, "fault?!
mild tremors in the South of Enge was hot recognized by the crowd, and last year which caused a cers saying off "passengers on the beat Mia-smount of "am Router21_Victoria Station-Renter
but on the second- 'becusión the Scene In the complainant salxod him and hands chester and other towth ve ...ted him over to the police.
the shocks were rentabla
Francisco
Perilous Flight.
Although always strict in his 620 k.m. his pinne, and then will start off on attention to business, being at his
a 1,700 km, hop cross the Aleu-
office daily even after entering his 500 k.m. tion Islands. The next stop will be 90th year, Mr. Baker found time to made at Dutch Harbour, on the 18- cultivate an interest in art and land of Unalaska. When the plane cul
was made a member of the control: reaches this port, the most difficult ng board of the Metropolitan This perilous fight over a route part of the fight across the Aleu-Museum of Art, the American which has as yet never been flown an Islands will have been com- Fine Arts Society and other similar castwards, although a few poincers pleted. such as Lieut. Bromloy and Harold
From Dutch Harbour Yoshihara
presented Gatty have made the attempt in will continue his flight over to Ala-Regault's painting "Salome to vain, will be made in the same ska, down the coast of British Col. Museum of Art. His other gifts. type of machine as the "Hochi," the umbia, through Prince Rupert and public and private, ran to millions plane which Yorshihara used in his
along the Queen Charlotte Islands of dollars-Reuter and I. B. S. Berlin-Tokyo Journey. The mato Vancouver. A Vancouver be chine has convertiblo' under-car-will interchange the float undercar- riages for both land and water riage for a land undercarriage, and nights, Yoshihara calculates that then fly overland to Seattle, and the teel flying time for the four-later visit Tacoma and other elles Kowloon, on Balinday ney wil be about 17 hours on the Pacific Coast where there
After leaving Japan, Yoshihara, are many Japanese, residents. 2Hi will turn the nose of his machine north-eastward do the general direc-od-will-journey-will, and JA SAI
An aged Chinese was the, victing:
serious accident Nathan Howe
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