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WEALTHY NEW YORKER'S AMBITION. SHOCK FOR THE THORBURN SCANDAL.

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

IN A WEEK.

JUST FOR THE FUN OF THE THING: TAKE-OFF FROM NEW YORK.

RECORDS THREATENED.

New York, July 28.

HUGH HERNDON, a wealthy New Yorker, and Clyde Pangbourne, took off from Roosevelt Field this morning for Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, pre- paratory to a dash round the world in their Bellanca monoplane. They aim to complete a journey of 18,000 miles in a week or less, their itinerary including nonstop flights across the Atlantic and Pacific.

The project is easily the most pretentious and difhrul aeroplane trip which has passed beyond the planning stage. According to the schedule that the Biers have set themselves, they will be frk in New York within six dads, seven at latest.

They will follow the steamship route to Europe and if their fuel hulda uut, will Continue

Moscow, The success of that re markable hop. of Bhut 5,000 mites, would establish a new long- distance record.

After Moscow, they propose to follow an entirely different route to that used by Past and tatty. a new route which means cover, ing considerably greater mileage.

They will follow the Trans- Siberina Rallway to Mukden, By From Mukden to Tokyo, and then they hope to follow the grent circle route direct from Tokyo to Seattle, another 3,000 miles direct flight, one which has been planned many times. trut never accomplished.

They declare that they are going

just for the fun at it. There is

no desire to reap profit from the!

Hugh Herndon (left) and Clyde "Pangborn, partners in an ambiti. ous flight round the world.

The wealthy New Yorker (left) and his companion standing under the wing of the Bellanca ma- chine in which they place their faith.

exploit. Bagh Herndon, who is BULGARIAN

26 years of ture. is a wealthy bachelor with ¦ Park Avenue aldress, and only a few years of of Princeton.

Skilled Pilot,

Clyde Pangborn is eight years older and in a different category. He will do most of the plloting. while Herndon takes care of the navigation. Pangborn is said to

ARRESTED.

Sequel to Alleged Ring Theft.

have more flying hours his cre- ESCAPE CUT OFF.

DS

ALLEGED NOTE FRAUD.

PORTUGUESE IN THE DOCK,

FREAKISH DECLARATIONS.

YORKS. STROKE OF GENIUS.

OIL NEW EYE-WITNESS

OF OUTRAGE.

INDUSTRY.

AN ASTONISHING

ULTIMATUM.

New York, July 28.

An extraordinary step by the f Governor of Oklahoma is report- ed from Oklahoma City, in con, nexion with the oil industry.

The Governor has issued an altimatum to the industry

SEEN ALIVE, BOUND, ON JUNE 10.

HIDDEN that POSSIBLY

If oil prices are not increased to In dollar gold a barrel by Satar- day night, he will sign an Execu tive Order shutting down all but the ripper wells in Oklahomu.

The Governor gays he will en- force the order. If necessary, by military authority.

We netion is dun to the fact that the State and the schools are not receiving any taxea fram oll at the present price of afty cents A barrel.-Renter's American Str- vice.

THE BIMETALLISM AGITATION.

M.P'S TAKING AN INTEREST.

London, July 20. The campaign in favour of bimetallsm în gaining strength. In the correspondence columns of the Times, a group of Conservative M.P's including Mr. Wardlaw Milne, Mr. Douglas Hacking and Mr. John Buchan, are signatories to n letter endorsing- Lord Hone- don's recent plea in favour of a bi-metallic currency.

ON ISLAND IN

THE TAIHU LAKE.

BLEEDING PROFUSELY.

NEW

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). ṬEW HOPE that John Thorburn, who has now been missing for eight weeks, may yet be found alive, has been aroused by an authentic report hinting that the young Briton may be confined on one of the numerous islands in Taihu Lake, near Soochow. Soldiers were seen taking him along a creek leading to the Lake on June 10, nine days after his arrest.

The eye-witness, who has given the facts to the British authorities in Shanghai, provides the first real evidence of Thorburn's existence after June 5, when he was taken by train to an unknown destination. In a graphic story, detailed below, he gives a account of Thorburn's shocking condition.

PASSERS-BY THREATENED.

to prevent the disclosure of in- formation regarding the where- abouts and movements of Thorburn.

Shanghai, July 29. The new evidence is to the effect that at .5.30 p.m. on June 10, the narrator niet five or six Chfuese

While wandering in the Soochow soldiers near Soochow, marching district, he found the people dis- along a creek which eventually inclined to talk, the reason being reaches Tulhu Lake.

notlegs in circulation, emanating

Mr. J. F. Darling, the well-known banker, also writes stating that the restoration of silver to its time honoured position is an instrument sufficiently powerful to raise the world out of the slough of despond into which it is rapidly sinking. They were escorting a foreign from military authorities, enjola

Beth letters allude to the un-prisoner, who from a subsequenting the inhabitants to silence und likelihood of further supplies of examination of I photograph threatening penalties for gold from the Rand or elsewhere shown to him by the British au- ing. in the next decade being theicut thorities, the eye-witness now re- to-All-the-requirements-of-gold-alises was John Thorburn - standard countries. Reuter.

BAMBOO PIERCES MAN'S FOOT.

SPLITS A WOODEN CLOG.

What

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London, July 28. Long interludes caused by wet weather, coupled with the BAIL GRANTED. ure of fifteen points for a win dit than any other living airman.

outright, produced some more The number is well in excess of

Following the report that an 12.500.

There was a Court sequel this extraordinary-cricket during the Never

connected junknown European had stolen morning to the week-end inci-week-end, though a decision was previously

may be described with nay spectacular air adven-ja diamond ring, valued at $2,250 dent at Caine Road in which reached in three matches only. somewhat freakish accident occur. ture, Pangborn is a famous air by a trick from a messenger of Wong To-po, a local Chinese Yorkshire won brilliantly at red yesterday, when a Chinese who veteran of the barnstorming tra- the Wai Kee Jewellery store.journalist, is alleged to have Bristol and now hold a clear lead was walking along Chee Loong ternity. He was proprietor of a man of Bulgarian nationality, been the victim of a banknute of 41 points. F. E. Greenwood Street, in the central district, was Flying Circus and has, taken hun who gave his name

Vasili fraud.

dectured while Yorkshire were struck by a bamboo pole drovolng reds of people up for their first Palecek, was arrested at a New

sli 71 runs in arrears on the from the second floor of a house. Leo Areuro d'A. Guimaraes,

fest innings. Gloucester col The sharp end of the pole drop isaged 22. appeared in the dock in

right foot with such force that it Mr. Willimas' Court, together with with nine wickets to spare.

At Cowbridge, Kong Sze-yick, aged 23. a Can-declared at 51 for

Northampton went right through and split the

I wicket. clog which the man was wearing.

The unfortunate man was taken arrangement, Apparently which was a ring, but the diamond The two were charged with Glamorgan declared at 51 fur 2. by the pollee to the Government

to have been mounted un (a). Conspiring, with other Sixty runs for five wickets was Civil Hospital. The machine they are using is it was missing.

not in custody, to defraud Wong sufficient to give Glamorgun a specially constructed Bellanca | The sequel was the appearance of Too of a sum of $7,000; and; victory after Northants had gone monoplane, with a single engine. the

before the Kowloon

Obtalning $7,000 (b). prisoner

again. in age The wing span is 49 feet, and

K. S. Duleepsinhji scored his veloped in them are tanks enable Magistrate (Mr. J. A. Fraser) this Wong To-po by menas, of false

morning, on a charge of stealing pretences at No. 6 Caine Road, eighth century of the season (101 of holding 700 gallons of fuel, the ring. He was formally remand. Mr. Leo D'Almada Castro, Jun..not out) against, Worcester, which i

in normal conditions shoulded for 24 hours.

instructed by Mr. E. S. C: Brooks, The results, together with

He states that Thorburn's hands were bound behind his back. His head was bowed and he presented a shocking- ly dishevelled appearance.

The intense pallor of his face was heightened by a stream of blood from a wound in the head.

-Thorburn was also bleed- ing profusely from a wound in the chest, apparently in- flicted by a bayonet. He was terribly cut.

speak..

There notices.... had.....gained__cur: rency, he says, by the time the British investigators arrived and It was remarkable that they obtained as much information as they did, Sir Miles Lampson arrived at Nanking at 5.30 pm. last night by acroplane, in which he flew direct from Poftulho, Count, do Stbour acting as his pilot.

Uncle's Protest.

It is also learned in Shanghal that Major D. H. Thorburn, uncle of Thorburn, and Chief Instructor at the Cairo Military School, now on leave in England, had a private The prisoner uttered no sound interview with Mr. Arthur Hender

the until

soldiers son last week just before the whatsoever

interview was, of who attempted to approach close tinent. The to the party to peer at their pri-course, connected with his nephew's

Thorburn then called out in Chinese: Save my life!

curred several years ago, when his torday while awaiting. it lights. Is only accident oc-Territory railway station yes-doneribed as of Portuguese origin, ned, and the Tyken tun out ping vertically and plerced his throatened the lives of passers-by Foreign Secretary left for the Con.. machine caught fire in the said, a train for Canton.

He made a successful parachute descent.

Special Machine.

In the possessión of the suspect, it is alleged, was a tiny box, in tonese,

supposed

from

by!

the

STARTLING MOVE BY LABOUR.

PRICE STABILISATION SCHEME.

be sumcient for nearly 6,500 miles. The allegation of the jewellery of Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and principal individual performances,

machine is not capable shop is that a European who gave Bowley, appeared for Guimaraes follow:

. of

The Lockheed which carried Gatty shop in the Hongkong Hotel Build- had no objection to bail being. แก Post to Irlumph. buting and asked to be shown some granted, though the amount was

xed at $5,000.

The matter of ball is entirely in your Worship's hands," sald

the high speed of the his name na D. Keller, called at the He said he understood the Police

without any ald from the wind rings.

of about 126 miles an hour.

.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP. Yorkshire beat Gloucester by 9

wickets, at Bristol Sussex boat Worcester by an innings

and 133, at Dudley. Glamorgan beat Northants by 5

wickets, at Cowbridge. 'Surrey lost on first innings to Kent,

at the Oral

London, July 29. To protect the farmers against dumping, the British Government intende immediately after the Recash to

Д introdues price- stabilising scheme for argricul- wheat, products, particularly according to the Daily Mail.

The same journal states that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has “in Berlin launched a campaign for of reduction reurope of a tariffe sliding scale, and fof the promo- tlon of International arrangements to ration the production and dis- tribution of basic commodities?— Router

Notts beat Lancashire on the Heat

Innlage, at Manchester. Middlesex won on first innings over the

Derby, at keston. Leicester besi Warwick. 'on innings, at Hinckley, Essex won on first frilugs against Somerset, at Leyton.

they expect to fly at least 6.000 Room at Perlasula Kotol. * miles nonstop at an average speed

* Selecting one with a valuable din Mr. D'Almada "I am instructed mond, he naked for its delivery to that the defendant (Guimaraes) " Herndon Intorrlewed,

his room at the Peninsula Hotel, is a very young man and has been In an interview, Herndon said: where payment would be made.

resident in the Colony for a coll "No, We're not [email protected] The messenger found him at tho rubber bonts

or anything. so Peninsula Hotel, and handed the siderable time. I don't know if your Worship will object to the superfluous. We are just not ring to the ellent who after again bail being half cash and the other expecting any trouble. The At-examining it, left tho

room with

with half in a bond. lantic hop has been made times it, on some pretext. He did not re Inspector Andrew, for the enough, but never with a machine turn. Discovering that the man police, said the queation of the so suitable as

The con-had left the Hotel, the messenger oure.

Worship, the police only suggest tinental flight will be just routine returned to the jewellery store and form of the ball was left to his work. The toughest part will be the affair was reported to the Ing that the ball be $5,000

jing: the jump from Tokyo, but wo Police.

Bail in the form suggested by shall be close to the Aloutinn It was thought that the man

nan Mfr. D'Almada was granted. In Islands if we run into trouble," would endeavour to escape to Can the case of the other pelsoner, it. S. Duleepsinhfl (Bussex)

ton and the Police kept a close ob was indicated by his Worship that Horrocks (Lancashire) Rester and N.E.A. .

servation on the railway route. They furnished descriptions of the the question of bail would be left Storer (Derby) hero London, July 28. man at various stations and idle open, although in his case, also, G.T. E. Stevens (diddlesex)

Bowling The Committee of the House graphed to the Canton Police and at least half would have to be also of Commons which is considering railway authorities warning them in cash

the Sunday Performances Bill of a possible attempt by the wanted

to-day passed Clause 1 of the man to escape in that direction.

Bill, which empowers authorities

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disappearance.

IRONIC COMMENT.

The eye-witness points out that

London, July 29. he was helpless to assist the unfor-

The Daily Telegraph this morn- tanate min. He believes that there is no doubt that the soldiers ing contains a leader in a most in- were taking Thorburn to Talhuburn outrage. The journal re- dignant voln regarding the Thor-

Lake.

marka ironically that it has taken two months for the British Govern- ment

to decide that Sir Miles

Elaborate Measures,

He also stresses the elaborate pre-Lampson should personally take cautions taken by the military up the case with the Chinese authorities in the Soochow region authorities.

NEA.

It adds that whatever reply to the British demands is forthcoming from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek there ought to be nothing doubtful about the fate of the preposterous. diplomatic extrality proceedings, which assumie Nanking's ability to carry out the ordinary obligations of a civilized Government."

Another Criticism.

The Times, which also comments, anys the Thorburn affair has be come a test case for both the Bri tish and Chinese Governments,

Indecisive as the British Govern- ment has been in handling Chinese affairs, they cannot admit, that British Kaubjects can be arrested by Chinese military authorities, and possibly done to death. That would be an abdies. tions of duty which would deeply! discredit "them sing then; eyes) publio opinione

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