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NO. 15.308

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931.

日九十月三

136 PERANKER

SINGLE COPI 10 CENTS

LOCAL BRANCH,

GLEN KIDSTON'S LAST GAMBLE WITH DEATH

KILLED WHEN

DEFYING

A GALE.

Plane Charges À

Mountain.

NATAL DISASTER.

London, May 5.

Commander Glen Kidston, millionaire sportsman, hero of

a wonderful flight

A

month ago, when he flew

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Commander Glen Kidston (right) and the Lockheed Vega muchine which crashed in a Hurricane near Van Reenan, Natal, yesterday, the millionaire sportsman ant his companion be- ing killed instantly. Photos were taken when the airman was filing up for his record-breaking Night të Capetown.

COUNTY CRICKET Jamaica Better

OFF TO

A GOOD START.

ATTRACTIVE PLAY AT THE OVAL.

SURREY DECLARATION BRINGS DEFEAT.

FREEMAN'S “BAG.”

Lontion. May 5.

Off Than

Hongkong.

Paddar Bldg.

CANTON ARSENAL

EXPLOSION.

Relief in Military | FOREIGN HOMES

Contribution.

SHAKEN.

PRECEDENT SET. “EARTHQUAKE" AT

In view of the suggestion which has been put

forward that, by reason of the financiali

TUNGSHAN.

The advent of the county situation created by the fall in FIFTEEN KILLED. cricket season was spoilt by bad the sterling value of the dollar. wenther, in spite of which three Hongkong might be relieved of

the

7,595 miles from Netheravon, SCHNEIDER India Boycott RIVALRY ON THE the bowlers and rich person, the lony of Jamaica is to secure re: Tai Chu military arsenal

Wilts., to Capetown, in 56

near Van Reenen, Natal,

flying hours, and six and a half days all told, was killed

CUP WINNER

Protest.

CRASHES.

Scene at Exchange

ATLANTIC.

Bremen to Serve Far East.

to-day when his plane crash-

ed in a dust-storm.

Нія companion,

South:

African airman, Captain T. A. LIEUT. WAGHORN

Gladstone, also lost his life in:

the disaster.

The airmen had left Johannes, GRAVELY HURT.

burg in the morning on an aerial

Lour of the Union of South Africa.

The Parachute. Leap in

and were evidently making Durban their first point of entl machine hnd travelled Ap

miles--as 112

proximately 200

crow flies-Having just esser the Natal border when they wan into dust storm.

They apparently flew into the teeth of the hurricane through denre dust clouds, and were. unable to avoid the peaks of the Drakensburg Mountains which suddenly Toomed up abend of them.

A loen storekeeper at Rasha. amme aisteen mile

Reenen, had been watching the plane's battle with the elements. and saw the machine crash into the mountains in the abs

Frightfully Mutilated.

He cushed to the one of the mishap and found that both area. „pants of the plan were dead, their bodies most frightfully nautilated. and the machine an almost believable wreek,

He went through the pockets of Commander Glen Kidston and found Visiting card, with the millionaire's ne upon it. The identity of the deceased airm

afterwards satireneti Ly

אוניון

police.

Cuplain Gladstone, Kidstan's companion, was formerly, in the Royal Navy Air Service and had done much to develop flying in Central Africa.

!

Hampshire.

H. R. D. Waghora.

London, May 5. Flight Lieutenant H. R. D. Waghorn, famous winner of the Schneider Trophy Race of 1929, was seriously injured at Farnborough, Hants, to day, in a parachute crash landing.

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A civilian observer in Flight Waghorn's machine.

In Manchester.

BOMBAY RETORT. SPECIAL RATES FOR

London, May 5,

dramatic

A remarkable and

THROUGH TICKETS.

scene took place on the floor of CUNARD COUNTER.

the Manchester Royal Exchange to-day when 8,000 members as- sembled for the purpose of re- cording. lg special permission of the Directors, Lancashire's protest against the Indian boy- cott and the increased duties oni cotton-goods.

The resolution, which was pass-į ed unanimously, urged the Govern- ment to use its utmost endeavours) to procure a comedy.

is provided by a

London, May 5. The interisification of rivalry between the great steamship companies operat- ing on the Atlantic run is re- vealing itself in various ways. Reuter's Berlin correspondent to-day given details of a scheme whereby Germany's fastest steamers, the Norih German

Europa!

It was announced in the House

Fifteen were killed and ten * of the four championship games some part of its Military Con-seriously injured in were fought to a finish, Gloucestribution, more than usual_in-disastrous ter snatching a notable victory terest will be attached to a Bri-vided by a thousand cases of ›

explosion-pro- at the Oval.

tish Wireless message received Naturally conditions favoured

to-day to the effect that the Co-ammunition-st Cheung Lau Kent and England slow bowler,} took no fewer than Bfteen wickets lief.

yesterday morning. in his Arat match. Four centuries) Wern sbtained. Larwood being of Commons, yesterday that in First news of the mysterious numbered among the successful view of the existing crisis in the affair reached the Telegraph in hatamen.

sugar industry, His Majesty's time for publication yesterday, The principal fentures of the Government has agreed to the aus week-end cricket, at a gelince. are pension for 1931-32 of the annual but the further details reveal Military Contribution of £60,000 that the affair was of more seri- appended:

paid by Jarnalen.

ous proportions than first fear- Hongkong's Military Contribu-jed tion, based on 20 per cent, of the Colony's revenue, worked out at The terrifte explosion was heard $3,863,769 in 1930, this being an as far away as Fatahan, Whampoa increase of $604,431 over 1929.

and Shek Pal, while Tungahan adjacent districts, where numerous foreigners reside, ox-

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP. Gloucester beat Surrey by three

wickets

Kent defeated Essex by an innings

and 47 runs. Glamorgan beat Warwick. by 161; Derby won on the first innings,

Leicester

TUNK.

FRIENDLIES.

M.C.C. v. Yorkshire.--Drawn. Notta. Sussex,--Drawn.

HONOURS LIST. Balting.

Hardinge (Kent)

Hardstaff (Notts) Larwood (Notts D'Connor (Essex)

Not Ous.

Howling.

A estinterbust to this movement Lloyd liners, Bremen.

messture front and Columbus will henceforth be Merger (Glamorgan)

Freeman (Rent) Bonfbny stating that Mr. Mods available for third-class passen-Parker (Gloucester)

The Chairulen of the Milawas”) Association, who was a member ofs voyaging to the Far East Verity (Yorkshire) The Romal Table Conference, in an

via North America, and vice interview with Renter's repro versa, at reduced through-ticket

sentative declared that Lancashire Pates. strud in need of clear thinking.

The roncession hitherto has Mr. Mady emphasised the effect only been accorded to first au

India's reduced pared serond class passengers, power and

reminded Lancashire! That India would surrender her right to use her tariff as neces- sary; that the movement in favouri

Among

Ordinary Lines On Pacific,

The method of assessing the and Military Contribution has been criticised on innumerable

Occa-

sions, the main objection being perienced something resembling that the more money which the an earthquake after the catas- Colony needs to raise in order totrophe. balance its Budget, the more it has to pay Into the Imperial Ex- ehequer.

A strong point which has been made is that special taxation im. 128 104 posed to meet unusual conditiona 102 should at any rate be exempted 100 from Military Centrilmtion.

13 for 142) 12 for 86 11 for 15

for 42

ESSEN HOWLERS HIT.

Splendid Win by Kent At Gravesend.

nor 100).

Essex, faced with a deficit

of

BRITISH ARCTIC

FLIER OFF

ANOTHER COURTAULD RESCUE PARTY,

London. May

In many foreign residences, window-panes were shattered, showers of plaster were brought down from the ceilings, doors were blown open, and

open doors closed with a bang.

Conjecture was rife na to the cause of the detonation, many be- lieving that an aeroplane that had just passed overhead had dropped a bomb on Tai Sha Taù Station, the terminus of the Canton-Kow- loon Railway,

Felt Miles Away,

The story of the explosion soon sat-round, however, and hundreds

Kent opened the season with af One of the most experienced of Island Fort the foreign name

of people made a visit to Napier handsome victory over Essex at Arctic aviators, Major F. S. Cottonto see what damage had been Gravesend a good elfort by O'Con- left England to-day for Reykjavik, caused, though some idea nor being nullified by the weak lecland, to assist, if necessary, in magnitude of the explosion may of the The North German Lloyd Com-ness of the Essex attack, and the succouring Mr. Augustine Court-be gathered from of Indian-made cloth would be pany hopes by this, means to at extraordinarily fine

the fact that bowling of autd who remained alone on the windows were blown in at a dis- permanent.

tract numbers of tourists, especial-Tich Freeman, who took fifteen Mr. Mody added that Lany business men, whose time is wickets.

Greenland ice-cap and has been tance of nearly three miles from marooned.

the Fort. | cashire's | plea for goodwill and limited.

Essex took first knock, and would fair dealing would find

He is accompanied by Lieutenant | Japan, China and have given a sorry display, but for L. K. Barnes, lent by the arendy The run to

Air

Three stone buildings close to response

733 Indian Hongkong from the Pacific coast O'Connor whe reached three figures ministry as a relief pilot. business men, but political prea of America, and vice versa, will and immediately was sent to the LC.K. Bond as wireless operator, ed.

and the arsenal were completely wreck- The arsenal itself was blown sure was pawerless to effect the be made. by Arrangement, pavilion. Freeman took 8 for 10 and is taking a monoplane equip to smithereens, its site being mark- sale of Lancashire good, just as a United States, Canadian and Kent being all out for 224 (O'Conned for Arctic work.

ed by a crater, ten feet deep forty political boycott was powerless to Japanese liners.

Major Cotton will attempt to or fifty feet neross. circumvent economic Jawa.-

Kent replied with 397, to which reach Mr. Courtauld should the Reuter.

Cunard Plans,

Hardinge contributed 128.

Workers Killed. effort being made by Captain Meanwhile, the Cunard Company

Ahrenberg fall. Within the past According to information from endeavouring to re-establish 175, were dismissed for 126, Free week preparations which would officials, a gang of fifteen masona popularity among American travet man taking 7 for 35.

normally take 4 months have been and carpenters were actually en- iers by inaugurating a system of

completed to equip this supple-gaged in reconstruction work on chlap werk-end trips from New

mentary expedition.

the arsenal building when the ex- York, employing the Mauretania,

Major Cotton has done much plosion occurred, and not one of Aquitania and Berengaria for this

Defeat.

Hylug in Labrador and flew over them escaped alive. purpose, and commencing shortly.

15,000 miles backwards and for- New York business man and

system of scoring) wards over Newfoundland when new visitors, who want a quiet drink doubtless had a great deal with searching for missing French There are some places in the away from prohibition officers will

Atlantic airmen.--British Wireless, world where the strain upon mia; be able to embark on these four- Waghorn aparently delayed his sonarles is very great and very day cruises. The Innovation will

enable Americans to spond leap for life for some time while Saved from drowning with his wife he was seeking to bring the ma- examples, said the Archbishop of proximately $50 in suiles normal- China and India are particular week-ends at sea at a cost of ap in 1927, when his racing motor- bunt broke in two while travelling chize under control, but eventually at 60 miles an hour in the Sulent: both the famous speed ace and his Canterbury, presiding at a Church ly occupied by millionaries. In an aeroplane crasht the White companion jumped out with their Missionary Society gathering in the

Commander Kidston, who was Lieut. 31 years of age, leaves a wife and also suffered very servious in-

child. He was one of the ant- standing figures in the sporting Juries, world, tall and athletic. keen of ere, quiet spoken, but very de termined.

Twice Torpedoed.

The airmen had taken up a fast experimental bombing plane, which was being tested in special man- foeuvres at an attitude of about twa) Thousand feet.

Suddenly the great machine wash

He has had many escapes from seen to enter a' spin and began to death in the Navy during the war fall to earth cut of control. and since as a racing motorist and

airman. He was:

Torpedoed twice during the war:

Leap Delayed.

Nile while on a big-game expedi. parachutes when the ill-fated craft tion in 1928:

was closed to the ground.

The machine crashed at great

airman ilew over lion-infested jungles, dangerous swamps, rivers inhabited by erocodiles and moun- tains.

operate.

Waghorn was rushed off to hospital with a fractured thigh

MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA.

is

• ARCHBISHOP LANG ON THE DIFFICULTIES.

difficult.

Reuter

London, May 5,

of

Revolutionary Iden.

their

KEEN OVAL FIGHT

Surrey Declaration Costs

The

(Continued on Page 7)

Rates Injustice to Vanish.

Reductions for

the ex-

un

Property Lacking Proper Water Supply.

Ten members of the Peace Pre- servation Corps, drilling nearby, were seriously injured, and more than twenty others received slight injuries..

It is now believed that the disaster was caused by careless- - ness on the part of the building: workers, who were seen prepar- ing a meal inside the building, which was packed with arms and ammunition!

The atore WOA one of the blygest of the Cantor milit- ary. and it contained a

A reduction in rates for those made is a supply of unfiltered large consignment of amunition who do not enjoy the amenities of water, and shall be reduced to 16 which

arrived from recently

Albert Hall.

The Primale sald that the dith-1 The scheme marks a revolution In a crash into a hedge at 35 miles

culties of the work in China were in ocean travel, and if an hour, in the Ulster Tourist speed some distance away anti was partly due to the anti-God enthu-i periment Days, similar trips will Trophy race of 1929;

siasm imparted by Moscow, and be organised in Britain. The only survivor of a German air pletely wrecked.

Both Waghorn and his com- partly to internal wars. It was liner which fell and burst at panions, a man named

The first New York trip will leave flames on the Surrey hershed heavily

small wonder that missionaries Alexander, found difficulty in carrying on, but on Friday next, May 15, when, Caterinm the same year.

to the ground, there would be no shortage

Mauretania will embark holiday which they reached before the ri

a water supply is foreshadowed in per cent., in the ease of any tene-abroad. The loss is believed to In his journey to Capetown the parachutes had a fair chance to volunteers to take up the work. Passenger. She will return

the following Tuesday in time for a resolution which is to be intro- ment for which

no provision is exceed $1,000,000, the liner to take her place in the duced at to-morrow's meeting of made for any supply of water from Chan Chal-tong on Scene. ordinary crona-Atlantic service on the Legislative Council.

auch waterworks. For the par the Wednesday,

The resolution, which is to be noses of this resolution provision The Commander-in-Chief, Gen- moved by the Hon. Colonial Secre- to be made for a tenement, al- the first on the scene, making en- for water supply shall be deemed oral Chan Chal-tong was among tary, is in the following terms:

though it has not connexion with quiries and directing the gangs of "Resolved by the Legislative the Government watermains or gendarmen searching the ruins, Council that on and from the date waterworks, if such tenement is and the medical men. to be fixed by Hle Excellency the situated within 200 yards from a Governor for the coming into Government watermain."

The Fire Brigade was kept, at effect of this resolution the follow. The only other matters to come work

over half an hour is his first serious mishap, though wash. How the repairs were made that the anticyclone is central to as rates, namely, for any tenement readings of the Bills to amend the to other buildings in the vicinity.

The Royal Observatory reports ing porcentage shall be payable bafore the Council are the first Preventing flames from spreading The is one of the R. A.-F.'s fore by mechanics working all night is the S.W. of Tokyo. A depression assessed, 17 per cent. Provided law relating

moat nerobatic experts.

to Bankruptcy, to Schneider Cup, Escapt..

ancient history. Waghorn madb remains over Indo-China.

that the said percentage shall be, amend further the Merchant Ship a world's record on the following

reduced to 16 per cent., in the case ping Ordinance, 1899, to amend He nearly mat disaster in the day at an average speed for 200 The P. and O... Kalgan, from of any tenement for the water sup the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923, 1020 Schneider Race. On the day miles of 328 m.ph. with one lap at Singapore, la due bore at 7 a.m. on ply of which from the Government and to amend the Legal Practi- before the contest, he took up his 380..9 m.p.h-British Wireless,

Friday,

waterworks the only provision tioners Ordinance, 1871.

Several Records.

On his flight to the Cape Lieu- tenant-Commander Kidston creat-

and ankle, and severe head in machine for trials and mentioned The Berengaria and Aquitania juries. Hy was to have under on returning that his plane had will make similar cruises each time gone an operation to-night.

"popped" once.

An examination was made at they arrive in New York,

The famous airman is only 26|

nine years, or found one of the cylinders so

ed several new recorde, as the fol-years of age, and has been in the once and engineers to their hur-

lowing figures show:

England to Cairo 34 hrs.

Malta to Cairo...

England to Mala

7 hrs.

ка Soudan ... 2 days

England to Kisu.

mu. Victoria Nyanza ................ England to Bulu-

Wayo

3 days, 6 hrs.

4 days

Air Force for mission in 1924 badly scored that a sustained fight

qualifying for a after two years as a cadet. This next day would have been impossible and might easily have caused a

WEATHER REPORT.

.

for

Our Canton correspondent adds

that when enquiries were made of

the

cause of the explosion, Chinese official raively stated that quantity of obsolete ammunition had been destroyed by orders of the military.