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THE END OF A GREAT DELUSION: NO MORE AIRSHIPS.

BRITISH POLICY

DECLARED.

R.100 TO BE USED FOR EXPERIMENTS.

SPECTACULAR FLYING TO

TH

BE ABANDONED.

¡ПHE TRAGIC LOSS of the 2.101 has pronounced the doom of British airship enterprise. No further airships are to be built, though the great works at Cardington are to be retained as a nucleus for scientific investigation, and the R.100 is to bej retained as an experimental airship."

This dramatic announcement was made in the House of Commons yesterday evening by the Prime

Minister, who indicated that the decision would be final,

unless research produced revolutionary ideas in the matter of construction, establishing safety of lighter- than-air vessels. In any event, British airship policy will be subject to review in three or four years' time.

Mr.

THE VIEWS OF THE EXPERTS.

Britain's Laat Airship: To be Retained for Experiments Only

ONE MAN-ONE Death of David W HAMPO A Grim Stains in

WIFE.

Belasco.

LATEST NANKING Noted Dramatist and

PROPOSAL.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, May 16. Concubinage in China is doom- | jed to topple if a resolution to be introduced by the Judicial In-

Producer.

LIFE DEVOTED TO THEATRES.

He

REBELLION.

A Sampan.

CANTON CLAIMS Cheungchau Murder

SUPPRESSION. Revelations.

HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES,

been

London, May 14. jconstruction and set out hidepen-vestigation Committee at to

where Ramsay MacDonald, the dently on one of the most difficult morrow's general session of the His patience People's Convention at Nanking Prime Minister, made an impor- tasks conceivable. tant statement regarding Britain's and genuity were astonishing. is adopted.

new feature he decided to The proposal provides for the airship policy in the House of Comicscopate in the R101 he tested punishment of any person keep-for some time.

mona this evening, announcing that!

on

Canton, May 15. A large number of wound- ed soldiers from Whampoa, stern fighting kas going

between Cantonese troops and 3,000 members of Chan Ming- shu's Peace Preservation Corps, arrived in Canton this morning.

COLONEL CHRISTIE ON TRIAL.

ALLEGED FRAUD IN ARMS DEAL.

Thirty Years in the Far East.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai May 15. Colonel James Christie, ex- professional fighter, ex-hotel- proprietor, ex-mining mana- ger and a commission agent, well known throughout the East, where he has resided for over thirty years, in China, Japan, Siam and the Straits Settlements, is to, be tried at the British Court. this afternoon before Judge Haines on a charge of obtain- ing $28,000 by false pretences and with intent to defraud. The case was opened in the British Court yesterday, when

DUMPED ON BEACH.it

Further details supplied by the Police concerning the mysterious murder of an aged boatman at Cheungchau Island, give no clue as to the commission of the crime. The son of the victim, who was a septuagenarian, named Wong Chik-yau, declares that he had n meal with his father on the even- ing before the murder, at about 6 o'clock. This was the last occasion on which he saw, the old

alive. man

was revealed that the charge involves a deal in arms and. ammunition, the complainant being a Chinese drill instructor attached to the Merchants' Volunteer Corps at Tashing- hsien.

The complainant, Lee Ching-ku! alleges that he paid certain sums of money, amounting in all to $28,000 to Col. Christle in return for promises to provide arms and am- not sup- manillon, which were

plled.

New York, May 14. David Belasco, the famous American dramatist and then- trical manager, passed away to- day at the age of 71 years. had been in indifferent health

Born at San Francisco in July, in consequence of the R. 191 disus-and altered and tosted again until ing a concubine, according to the ter, no new airships will be built. it satisfied the must regerous stan- terms of punishment applicable to 1849, and educated at Lincolu College, California, he became a polygamist. He said it was perfectly obvious (dards.

at the Metropolitan

The boat was missed from the after the deplorable accident to the R 101 grew und even now, after i Any woman allowing herself to cafi-boy

It is officially claimed by mili- harbour the following morning is liable to Theatre, San Francisco, in 1875,

Arrested in Chinese Premises. R.101 that the whole policy and the tragedy of Beauvais, it is still become a concubine

and took a keen interest in the tary headquarters that a com- yesterday). After a search at should be reviewed. possible to say that she was a mas-punishment as a home breaker, in craft behind the scenes from the bined assault in the early hours 8 o'clock, it was found at a dis- programme

He was arrested in the French The Government had turned, there terpiece. As a sheer feat of design laceordance with law,

beginning, with the result that of this morning resulted in a tant spot on the foreshore at Tai Concession, in the Klang Yoong fore, with a good deal of expects there was ather structure In the

within three years he had become complete defeat of the. rebels, missing, and alarm was aroused handelt over to the Police of the Shok Hau. The occupant was house at 27 Quai de la Pagode and tion to the report compiled afterworld in which 80 exquisite

stage manager at the Baldwin who surrendered. and laid down Nanking. May 15. extraordinary patience, and a most balance between extreme lightness powerful examination of the case, and extreme strength had been Panchen Lama will confer with

Very little later, he held a their arms. The insurrection by the discovery of a blood-stain-International Settlement on a Bri-

led chopper on the deckboards.tish court warrant. by the Committee over which Sir struck.

habilitation in Tibet on the con- similar post at the Grand Opera may be taken as definitely at another grim stains, were found

Colonel Christie was remand- John Simon presided.

bespattered in the interior of the fed until to-day, when, it is under- It is understood that both sides awning.

stood, the case against hilm "will"be" suffered considerable Josses be- | About a mile from Tai Shok proceeded with. fore Chan Chai-tong's forces Iau, on the beach at Saiwan, the achieved success.

body of the missing man found, with a wound, consistent with the discovery of the chopper,

Government's Position.

Convention Closing.

the National Government on re-

"It is probably no exaggeralien clusion of the National Convention. to say," remarks Sir John Simon.

The Provisional Constitution sane- thad never before in the histortioned by the Convention has been The position in which the Govern- of structural engineering has NO signed by all delegates attending. ment found themselves

been taken to explore. It will be enforced as soon as the moment was this: The airship the strength of a structure before approval of the State Council 1s up-to-date, had neither proved a it was used, and to check the stress obtained.

at the much care

failure nor had it achieved an as- calculations by actua? measure-- To mark the conclusion, the sured sitcc483. The position today ment."

was that Britain had one airship.

the R.100 which was very much

out of condition by lack of use.

Safety Paramount.

Assuming Chat the EL L Not only was structural failure would; guarded against by every means! also other risks, be no idea of long and spec- available, but

WILM

there retained.

Heavy tacular flights. It would be a sort such as the risk of fire.

oil

engines were used in place of of experimental ship. There was a whole Geld of unsolved problema i petrol engines so as to reduce fir that ought to be investigated.

To

riska as much as possible. provide for the possibility of the airship meeting vertical air eur..

The R100, reconditioned, airs would be most useful for test rents of exceptional violence gas ing und investigating.

valves were specially designed by

would provide for the keeping Colonel Richmond to allow for : of a nucleus sinff at the great airship works at Cardington. This would cost £120,000 in the Becand year and the peak figure

vertical rate of ascent of more; than 45.5 at.p.h.

of cost would be £140,000.

¡Government is arranging a mili-3 tary display, in which many Na-

·tionalist Regiments will take part, i to-morrow Renaka,

BIG LANCASHIRE DEMONSTRATION.

MORE-LOOMS-PER-MAN DISPUTE AGAIN.

London, May 15. Peeling is runding high at Nel- Hon in Lancashire in connexion

At every stage when there was with the resolve of the weaving

a conflict of interests, the interest employers to increase the number

of safely was placed first. The of noms per man to eight.

The view of the Government was structure weight went up from thu The Wenvers Association last that this scheme should be adopt-190 tons originally allowed for tonigbi organised a demonstration ed. The scheme must be revised 113.6 tons with a corresponding de-

in which over twenty thousand and reviewed thoroughly at the end crease of useful lift from 60 tons!

of three, or at the outside, four to 35 tone. But this reduction men and women took part, and in years-Reuter and British Wire-useful lift was regarded as of which the Mayor of Nelson and little importance provided that several of the Town Councillors

purticipated.

Another industrial dispute may

less.

Theatre:

M

end.

Gunboat Bombardell,

WAS

Evidence of Arrest.

of

Mr. M. Blamfeld Brown, Actual hostilities between the in the right side of the neck-Messra. Platt-White, Cooper & Co., for the complainant; forces of General Chan Chai-tong Death had occurred

Bome time appeared and the Pence Preservation Coras previously according to the medi- Inspr. Jack Mason was present on

behalf of the police. commenced at midnight when the cal report.

In view of the absence of firing of shots was heard distinct.

ton.

ly in the eastern suburbs of Can-motive-robbery having been dis- posed of by the fact that the boat Aided by the gunboats, Kong contined ne valuables the affair Koo, Kin Yu, Chungshan, Hai Fu, remains as much, a mystery as and Ping Nam, the Canton forces ever.

made an attack from Shek Pal.

The Pence Preservation Corps!

commanded strategic positions at FINANCE BILL TO Yu Chu Fort and Cheung Chow Fort and resisted the assault.

The gunboat Lee Sum happened to pass on its way to Canton not knowing that the revolt was tak ing place. The mutineers opened! fire on the gunboat and her funnel and part of her superstructure, were badly damaged.

Two Attacks Reputzed.

BE ATTACKED.

TORIES OPPOSE LAND TAX PLANS.

Evidence of arrest was given at the first appearance of defendant in Court by Inspr. Mason, who said that, on the authority of a warrant from H. M. Supreme Court for China, he had taken Mr. Christio into custody at the Klang Toong. Hotel at 29 Quai de la Pagoda on May 8. He had administered the ustial

caution, after reading out the warrant, but Mr. Christie made on statement.

Mr. Brown: What was the state of Mr. Christie's personal effects, luggage and so forth, when you arrested him?

Inspr. Mason: All packed up

Accused's Movements. :

Mr. Brown: Did you know nay- thing of his movements when you. arrested him?-

London, May 14. A Conservative amendment has been

tabled calling for the re- Jection of the Finance Bill when The first attack on Whampao by it comes up for its second reading {land, proceeding from Shek Pai, in the House of Commons on May

n station on the Chinese section 19. of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, The attack on the Bill is prinel-stilt in the possession of the police? was organised at midnight and an pally based on opposition to Mr. exchange of shots continued for Snowden's land over an hour according to real-Reuter dents in the vicinity.

The Peace Preservation Corps) number were in possession of a

uttack.

Inspr. Mason: Not definitely Mr. Brown: Are his effects

Inspr. Mason: Yes, three packe

a tax proposals.-ages-a suitcase, Gladstone

TOBACCO SLUMP SEQUEL.

The views of the experts are ex-the airship was safe. pressed by Major Oliver Stewart. The public remembered the develop, it will be recalled. that who, in a London paper recently, tosses of the Dixmude, the R 38.a big lock-out occurved recently declared that Sir John Simon's re-and the Shenandoah. During the in Lanenshire on the decision 17 port on the R101 disaster, although war it had seen nothing of alpintroduce the eight-looms system, il made no direct expression of ships to increase its confidence in the General Council of the Trade opinion

as to the value of airships, them. Considering the small total Union refusing to consider the House and the Metropolitan of machine guns and repulsed the

Theatre. In 1882 he went to New constituted in fact the most crush-number of flying hours done by proposal.

A second assault was organised indictment of airships that has airships relative to aeroplanes. Eventually the employers with York whore ho was put in charge shortly after dawn which also was yet appeared.

the public regarded their record drew their notices and work has of Madison Square Theatre. re-

disastrous...

beon resumed on the old basis-maining there till 1884.. In 1886 unsuccessful. News of the fight- he moved to the Lyceum, Newing was received at Shameen early

IN JAVA. In the morning and the British York, under Dániel Frohman.

¡Consul advised. the morning

Batavia, May 15. steamers to Hongkong to postpone

The British Tobacco Company not leave until late in the after its Java, factories, their trip. The s.8. Fatahan did he decided drastically to economise

ing

The report shows some of the a beat enginearing brains in England directed upon the single problem

Burney's Enthusiasm.

It was only Sir Dennistoun

of building a safe airship. The re- sources of the research establish- ments and the services of the finest Burney's unbounded enthusiasm mathematicians, metallurgists, and which had succeeded in obtaining men of science in the country were public money concentrated upon this slugle pro- with them. blem.

A suficiency of money

for further trialy

Reuter.

BRITAIN'S DAVIS CUP OPPONENTS.

Roon.

Oficial Reticence.

FACTORIES STOPPED

نه

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bag, and a tin box. All were locked. and the keys were in the possession of. Mr. Christle.

Mr. Christie asked Inspr.

whother, when ho

Hotel

langed

he

went

Mason

to the

was aware that it be

complainant.

to

the

Inspr. Mason: Yes,

Christie: Dld, ha tell you

he had invited me there and that we were to wait until the after noon at 2 p.m. to proceed to Foo chow on the steamer Hunan with another Chinese?

Inspr. Mason: No.

Important Documents,

Own Productions... In 1890 he began producing on his own account, his first effort

The Sourabaya factory will be being "The Ugly Duckling" with Mrs, Leslie Carter in the leading

closed, resulting in the dismissal of

Mr. Brown then requested leave Generally speaking, when the SOUTH AFRICA LEVELS role. In 1902 he opened the Official circles were reticent two thousand

from the Registrar to rains'; adā and a construction of R100 and R101

UP AT DUBLIN. Belasco Theatre in Now York and over the developments at Wham, while the construction of thores, sufficiency of time were at their was begun, the public still viewed

he also controlled many theatron pno, where the officer commanding factory at Semarang has been stopp. other point which was of the u

most importance>. ("Wa...have rea- disposal and many of the meat airships with distrust. It was the

London, May 14, in other U.S. cities. Later he the mutineers announced The Batavia distribution branch son to believe," he said, "that the fascinating passages in the Reportavowed teak of the officers who as

The second match between Ire-built the Stuyvesant Theatre, New yesterday morning that they would

boxes of Mr. Christie's contain are those describing the ingenious sembled at Cardington to remove land and South Africa in the Davis York, which he opened in 1007 hold out awaiting reinforcements remains unchanged.--Reuter

most material and important doen structional devices evolved by the that distrust. Everything possible Cup contest at Dublin, rosulted in with "A Grand Army Man.” from Nanking. The casualties in late Colonel Richmond and his staff had been done to make the struc-in levelling of the score, Kirby:

ments relating to this case, auc tho most popular the conflict are not disclosed but The Royal Observatory reports

as bank books, telegrams, and, and embodied in the R 101,

ture of 101 enfe. Everything (South Africa) bent McGuire (Ire-dramatists in America, be wrote it is understood that many sam that the Northern depression has

respondence, and...”, naturally was to be done to make the dylag land) by thres sets to one, 4-6, 6-3, alone or in collaboration a large pan people were killed or wounded deepened and is moving east want to have access to thems Birth of R101. ·

of R101 safe. No risks were to be 7-5, 7-5.

number of playa, mostly melo- by stray bullets,

wards towards Korea. The taken. The first thing was to The winners of the contest most dramatic and adapted many, moro, Wounded soldiers were seen be Southern depression now extends opportunity to go throud

(Continued on Page 7.)

Great Britain in the third round some of them for the stock coming conveyed to-Tungshan-for-me from Yunnan-to-north-east-of. A large sum of money invo

and. It is of the utmontlas

1. (Continued on Page 18).

Colonel Richmond discarded all proconceived Ideas about airship

Rentar.

One.

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