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Pedder Bids:

CLAIMS TO THRONE NEW ACTIVITY GREAT MOTOR SPEEDWAY PROJECT.

RENOUNCED.

EGYPTIAN POLITICAL

SENSATION.

EX-KHEDIVE ENEMY OF BRITAIN RECOGNISES FUAD.

FAILURE OF 1930 PLOT.

THE EXCITEMENT in

July last year when grave riots occurred and two British warships were hastily rushed to Alexan- dria, had an interesting sequel yesterday when the ex-Khedive of Egypt, who was deposed by the British Government at the out- break of war with Turkey, renounced all claims to the throne of Egypt.

which

The riots, in many Europeans were kill- ed and wounded, were

to

part and parcel of a plot by the ex-Khedive to re- gain his throne, but the speedy action taken by Britain, and the despatch of a warning by the British Government Sidky Pasha, caused the ex-Khedive's project to collapse. Formal abdica- tion was secured by Sidky Pasha in Switzerland yes- terday.

THE EX-KHEDIVE.

THE ALEXANDRIA RIOTS.

up

10

ON CHINA

POLITICAL STAGE.

CHAN MING-SHU IN SHANGHAI,

WANG CHUNG-HUP'S RESIGNATION.

|CANTON WARNED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, May 13, General Chan Ming-shu, who fled from Canton on the insur- rection of General Chan Chai- tah, arrived in Shanghai yes. terday afternoon. accompanied by his secretary, abourd the P. and (). s.s. Kashmir.

High

ALFONSO LANCASHIRE LOSE

TO BE PUT ON TRIAL.

SEQUEL TO MOB OUTRAGES.

03

*

IN FIRST MATCH OF SEASON.

BRILLIANT WIN BY!

SUSSEX.

TWO SEPARATE 100'S BY HEARNE.

THREE GOLFERS

EQUAL

COURSE RECORD.

THE 1500 GUINEAS TOURNAMENT.

U.S. CHALLENGE.

London, May 12. Although two of the American invaders, Joe Turness and W. Harton Smith equalled the course. BRIGHTER CRICKET. record of 69, an Englishman, len Holland, equalled their Teat and

and seven professional golfers al

London, May' 12.

the

BRITISH CHALLENGE.

15-MILE TRACK ON - THE WASH.

Speed Record Trials For England.

finally led the field of one hundred FOUR-MILE STAND. Bright weather has produced Southport to-day, when some bright cricket this week-qualifying round of the Fifteen end, only three of the nine Hundred Guneas Tournament was A shifting of the scene of mutches failing to reach a de-played.

be decided by

Len Hollan J. Turness W. Alliss

the

72 69 141

73 60 142

71 73 144

London, May 12.

Association, as revealed in an fannouncement made to-day, outlining an ambitious

MANY ARRESTS.

Madrid, May 13, King Alfonso of Spain in to be prosecuted sequel to the sudden out- break of violence throughout Spain, resulting in the des- truction by fire of dozens of convents and churches.

[future attacks on the world's Announcing the intention of finite result. Nine centuries were The competition proper com-

to-lay, The liner dorked at the Posting prosecuting the exile King, who recorded, and half a dozen other mences

result to land speed record from the Wharf, and the Cantonese leader is at present residing at Fon-players got into the nineties.

a seventy-United States to Great was met at the Customs Jetty by taineblenu with Queen Ena and The outstanding achievement is two holes stroke play competition. Britain is the plan of the Sun Hat-wen, Chief Secretary of his children, the Public Prosera-credited to Sussex who went to The three leading acores in the British Automobile Racing the Kwangtong Provincial Governor says that the intimate rela-wickets defeat on the Champions,

Manchester and Imposed a four qualifying round were: meal, flou Kakching,

tionship between the ex-King Lancashire. who went through the Adviser.

and a number of aristocrats whole of last season without ex- Shanghai home of Mr. Aayang Chu, must be immediately investigat-periencing defent in the county who was formerly the Comatised.

championship. Brilliant bowling)

Outstanding scores included 146 scheme for the construction |sioner of the Public Safety Bureau Dr. Albinana, the "Spanish Hit-by Tate contributed largely to

by the British Ryder Cup captain. of the finest speedway in the of the Canton Munielpality

ter." whose death was demanded their downfall. by a riotous mob at Cordova

the Middlesex Charles Whitcombe, who returned world on the shores of the J. W. Hearne.

opened the season card of 74 on his first round and Wash. arrested veteran, has Monday morning.

afternoon. yesterday

At the well. Against Glamorgan he ob-72 on his second; 147 by Horton

Smith, who had 78 on his first The scheme has already pass- same thine every member of the talued a century in each innings round and 69, on his seconded beyond the discussion stage. Union was placed under arrest. Committee of. the Monarchist his second.effort being a not out

Henry Cotton, 149; Archie Comp-It is definitely stated that the the hundred. In Further mob outrages have oc- 1.A.R. Peebles, the England bow-ton. 149 (73 and 76); Abe Mit-Automobile Racing Association chell, Britain's finest match player. have decided to proceed with the curred at Malaga, Saragossa, Ali-ler, took dieven wickets for 130.

152 (a 74 and a 78). cante, and Seville, Martial Inw The principal features, at a

venture, which will give British George Duncan only just scrap-people their first opportunity of has been declared in all the dis-glance, are appended: tarbed centres. Incendiarism Is

ed inside the limit, taking 80 en aceing the world's finest cars rife everywhere except the

travelling at speeds in excess of capital, where the populace has:

two hundred miles an hour. quietoned down after giving the Impetus to the orgy.—Reuter.

Madrid, later.

The party then motored to the

CX-

The Cantonese tenders, or leaders, engaged in a lengthy can |ference last evening at Mr. Anyang

Chu's esidence, and it is understood that the situation in the South was discussed.

A number of other teaders were present.

Kwangtunne

Was

911

General Chan Ming-shu is pro- ceeding to Nanking to-morrow to submit a report of the recent events in Canton and to endeu vour to bring about a settlement.

Shanghai, May 13, The North Chinn Daily News declares this morning that Dr. The Minister of Interior states, Wang Chung-bai resigned that the situation is quieter in the' from his position af President of towns in which trouble occurred the Judicial Yuan of the National yesterday.--Renter. Government.

$

Dr. Wang Chung-hui, according

to the journal, giving the grounds. of his decision to resign. stated. That he found it impossible ford him to work in harmony with the Nanking officials,

He says there was always too) much disagreement over every little point with the result that nothing was ever achieved,

It was, therefore, better for himi

LONDON TRAFFIC

SCHEME.

CHIEF' RAILWAYS TO POOL RECEIPTS.

Loudun, May 12.

SAME

game

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP. Yorkshire beat Essex by an inhings

and ruTEK, Sussex heat Lancashire by four

* wickets.

Middlesex beat Glamorgan by 135

Funk

Somerset defeated Warwickshire liy

40 ratus. Derby won on the first innings v.

Surrey

Warrester gained

first

banings

points v. Northants.

Friendly Games.

Kent defented Oxford University

by ten wickets.

the

first round and 76 on |second. Reuter,

NAVAL OIL FROM

HOME COAL.

IMPORTANT STEP BY

ADMIRALITY.

his

The plans provide for the con- struction of a motor speedway, fifteen miles, in length, along the north shores of the Wash, from, Boston to Skegness.

Dead Straight and Flat.

The site is an ideal one, and it will be possible to provide, with- out great diffeulty, a truck' over two hundred yards wide, filteon London, May 13.

miles long, dead straight for the An important step in British full length, and perfectly flat. Admiralty policy is Indicated by an When completed, and It is hoped invitation Issued for tenders for to commance construction during 104 and 181 a supply of thousands of tons of the summer in the early autumn,

Leicester v. New Zealand-Drawn.

HATTING HONOURS. Hearne (Middlenox) Lee (Middlesex) Parsons (Warwick) Bowley (Sussex)

All four of the main line Bri-Hond (Oxford U.)

all aims to the Throw. and has Italy. He remained, however, is to resign and to resume his placetish railways have reached

by the British Government and de- clared, British Protectorate,

and his

Was

uncle,

an Page (N.Z.) ........

Alderman (Derby)

to flussein Kemal, was placed on the the well-known Hongkong medienger transport within the London Tate (Sussex)

Bowling.

Cairo May 12. of the Central Powers, A political sensation

has bee In consequence, his return caused by an official announcement Egypt was forbidden by the Bri that Abbas Hilmi. the ex-Khedive tish Government, and he was OF of Egypt, has formally renounced dered to take his abode in recognised King Fuad as the legiti-Constrentinople, upon which Bri- mate sovereign of Egypt.

as Permanent Judge of the In- agreement with the Ministry of Fender (Surrey) tein proviaimed his deposition, international Court of Justice at the Transport to pool the gross re- Greenwood (Yorks) Abbas Hilmi was deposed in view of his adhesion to Britain's Ingue. 1914 when Egypt was Laken over enemies,

is believed that Dr.ceipts of their suburban passen- Wang Chung-hui will be leaving ger trade and bring them. His property in

Into Freeman (Kent) Egypt confiscated.

Shanghai for Europe shortly. The document, tantamount

A brother of Dr. C. C. Wang, the scheme to merge all passen- Peebles (Middelsex) formal abdication, was signed at throne as Sultan. In 1917, when Dr. Wang Chung-huf, has been traffe area.

Verity (Yorkshire). Lausanne, following negotiations Hussein died, Ahmed Fund. the president of the Judicial Yuan

Wellard (Samerael) between the ex-Khedive and the brother of Abbas film became since 1928. He was. Minister for day, when the Select Committee of Snary (Leicester

This decision was announced to- White (Worcester) Prime Minister, Sidky Pasta, Reu-Sultan, and in 1922, King,

After his banishment. Abbas Foreign Affairs, Nanking, in 1912, both Houses of Parliament consi Hilmi lived in Vienen, Zurich, 1817.27.1. 1925, he was nominal-sport Bill, under which a London and Muister of Justice, Peking. dered the London Passenger Tran- Hacerse and Constantinople. The ex-Khedive's decision is re-

bic - ed as Minister to England, but Transport Board would Matrimonial Ventures,

the did not proceed.

tablished controlling garded as a consequence of the

under tubes Railways, failure of a bill, he made for the

He was elected Deputy Judge ground

and Throne in July of last

ex-Khedive, who

Agreement has was at the Permanent Court of Inter-rums.

already Duzena of people, including Euro:seventeen years of age when he Judge in September last.

year.educated in Vienna, 5748 our national Justice in

1922,

under- reached with the and been peans, were killed and wounded in succeeded his father as Khedive barrister-at-law of

He is a ground group. the streets of Alexandria. One Three.

Mittle

The Board's receipts are esti- uted at £37,009,000 annually,---- Fears later, in 1895, he Temple, London-Renter. and eight married a slave girl, ikbal Innan,

British Wireless wounded.

who

was given royal rauk, and Chan Chi-tong Warned,

fer announces.

Bid For Thrane.

Italian was

*murdered,

other foreigners were

The

British secret service agents bore him two

sons and four

discovered that the antbreak was dughters, the hereditary prince part of a plot to restore the ex-Mohammed Abd-el-Monem, being Khedive to the throne. A grave born in 1899.

warning was despatched by

the

British Government to the Egyp

all disorders,

the

Nanking, May B. General Chan such Hang, head of the Manchurian Government,

A sensation was enused by the has telegraphed General Chai-

the war.

MURDER OF A DUTCH SUGAR OFFICIAL.

4

LOWER TARIFF

MOVE.

the Hote

107 oil manufactured from Home coal the new track will undoubtedly be

The acceptance of any tender the finest speedway in the world. will depend upon the price asked.

Reuter,

306

105

106

103

103

100

07

11 for 184

11 for 130

WEATHER REPORT.

New Records Possible.

The danger to drivers caused by bumps in the sands as disclosed on many occasions at Daytona-cara have been known to leap twenty feet into the air on striking an ap

The Royal Observatory reports parently slight mound will be anti-cyclone is practically eliminated, and the new

7 for 1 that a moderate

7 for

Ú for

central to the N.E. of Japan. A tracks will make posalble speeds in

12 feeble depression lies over Indo-excess of the present world land

6 for 34 China. The depression between speed record of 245.7 milles an hour,

(Continued on Page 7)

5 for 30 the Loochoos and the Bonins is set up by Sir Malcolm Campbell.

shallower.

The announcement has attracted the wideat interest and the ture is warmly supported.

The Golden Stool of Kumasi.

Ashanti War Recalled by Death of

Ex-King Prempeh..

Other Features.

ven-

In addition, the Racing Associa- tion propose to provide a twelve- mile road racing track, and a six- mile waterway for racing motor houts, so that there is a possibility of attacks on the world's water. speed record at the same place.

Other features of the project are AR nerodromo, golf course, and the inevitable grand-stand, which will be four miles long-British

Wireless.

HISTORIC. RELIC FOR NATION.“

HOWARD CUP BOUGHT BY LORD WAKEFIELD.

Kumasi, May 13, Coast who was accompanied by hit One of Britain's "little wars." wife, was besieged for the weeks in the third Ashanti

Campaign of Kumasi 1895/6, is recalled by the death of Having come to an end of its tian Government, and two battle. Mubsequent marriage of Abbas ton, Commander-in-Chief of the shipa, H.M.S. Queen Elizabethilmi- to Countess Torok, who Kwangtung armies, advising him

Nana Prempeh, the former King food supplies, the garrison broke

through the Ashantis surround-† and II.M.S. Ramilles, were sent to entered his harem, and as Zed to pledge allegiance to the Central SEVEN COUNTRIES WILLING of Ashanti.

fort the ink Government.

and marched Alexandria.

belda Hanum was recognised as

TO CONSIDER.

The ex-King's persistence โท Sidky Pusha was informed that his legal wife. She was divorcoil Chang Isuch-liang fears that

human sacrifices caused the launch down to meet the expedition of he would be held responsible for from her husband shortly before another civil war, particularly one

London, May 12.

ing of an expedition against him. West African troops which was on Since between

Canton.

its way to relieve Kumasi. Nanking and

The President of the Board of Prempeh Was dethroned And. would wreck plans for unification of China and delay all reconstruc-

Trade, Mr. Warn Graham, stated banished to the Seychelles Islands, then the Ashanti tribes have lived

Commons of

whence he was permitted to return peacefully under British control, their chiefs being allowed to uct- tion work..

to Ashanti in 1924. General Chan Chai-tong is urged to-day thai

countries Seven.

His son is a Christian mission ance with their own laws and cus- minister their territory in accord-

London, May 1231. not to become a victim of plottere Austria Belgium France, Ger- jary,

toms. They have become orderly day, the historie relle-known, as the At Christie's Auction Rooms-to- working for their own ends in many, Italy Poland and Swit- King Prempeh was at height of

satisfied and industrious, and are stirring up strife in the country. zerland — had indicated their his power in the 90's. In those with British rule..

Howard Cup was purchased for The Nanking Military Com-

nome, 500,000, In 1924 Prempeh had become a £11,000 by Lord Wakefield, for pre- mand has telegraphed to the willingness to consider proposals daya his subjects, Hankow and Szechuan military nu-to the possible opening of negotia- who did not always obey the behests European clothes.

Ware

fierce and warlike people mild-looking individual wearing sentation to the nation.

.When the The relle consists of a small ivory thorities requesting them to tions.

of the "Paramount Chief of the Prince of Wales vialted Kumaal cup, believed to have been the drinks Proposals on behalf of the British Golden Stool of Kunst." Al- in 1924, Prempeh was a notable ink cup of Thomas". A'. Becket Government had been put forward though there had been civil war figure at the durbar. In Sept. Archbishop of Canterbury, whi accordingly, but detailed negotia-among his chiefs, the tribes folded 1926, it was announced by the was murdered in the 12th Cente tions had not yet started.-British forces against Britain in the Gold Colonial Office that permission had The cup, to which a superbe Wireleas.

Const Protectorate and closed the been given to Prempeh to resume silt stand and superstructure Lord Kitchener being in charge Hear Eahnutter had been missing Concerning the National Gov.

the roads to traders. In 1898-6 all the dignity of "Paramount Chief added afterwards, war be of affaire.

Kince Saturday, and to-diny a body ernment's wish to restore freedom

expedition was sont up country un- of the Kumasi Stool," but his rule to Catherine of Aragon, On the outbreak of the war, found "In $ Abbas, Hilmi went to Constantino was Identi packing cheo warehouse to Mr. Hu Han-rain, Masers Wu best means of releasing the ex-der Sir Francis Septe which de under the control of a British din of King Henry Vill

that of the miss- Tze-hul, Li Shih-taong and Chang Chairman of the Legislative Coun-feated and dethroned Prempeh, trict commissioner oxtended only For many generation ple, from which he entered a proing man,

Ching-klang; membara of the cft, In a way which will satisfy all This led, in 1900 to rebellion of to the district. Immediately Howarda, Dukek = test against the expulsion from Apparently-Hour-Eshausior had Kuomintang Supervisory Com- disgrunted parties Inside the three Ashanti tribes and Sirrounding his capital Reuler and Erypt by Britain of the diplomata been murdered. Reuter,

Imitted, are conferring about the Kuomintang -Rensha

BODY DISCOVERED IN A WAREHOUSE.

- Ex-Khedivejs Admission, The ex-Khedive later admitted that he had been holding himself in readiness in ense of "a call from his people for his return." Abbas Hilmi ndded that he had worked for 23 years against British interests but that he had altéredi his policy and would now be among Britain's greatest friends.

The Hague, May 12. Abbas Hilm, in fact, made a A mystery caused by the disap-ronder protection to Marshal Wo score of attempts during his reign pearance of Hoor Eshauzier, Direc Pei-fu who is un his way to throw off the British "yoke" in tor of the Dutch, Indles Sugar Nanking. Egypt, but these were always a Union and other sugar enterprises, failure, men like Lord Cromer and was cleared up to-day.

Hu Han-min's Helense.

to

Hodrion, Governor of the Gold . B. S

has been in the posse

Ve British Wireless