ARTIFICIAL
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GHASTLY C.E.R. ACCIDENT MACHAN-SHAN FIFTEEN MILES FROM
Fourteen Carriages Telescoped
REFUGEE
- TRAIN
SMASH
NO HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION
(Telegraph Special)
Harbin, May 25. A ghastly accident, involv ing a train bringing railway employees who had been forced to abandon their homes at various stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway, to Harbin, occurred yesterday,
Fourteen carriages were com- pletely telescoped and there were indescribable scenes of confusion as the terror-stricken refugees were rescued from the piles of wreckage.
The cause of the accident will be the subject of an investiga tion, there being some very re-| markable features,
The refugee train WILM 13- parently proceeding to Hurbin sandwiched between a Japanesej armoured train, which was lend- ing the way to afford protection against bandit raida aut a goods. train, which was harl ""convoy."
CRASH IN REAR.
ده
the
A British autogiro (windm!!!) plane, of the type to be used for direct- ing the traffic at Epsom on Derby Day.
PHILLIPAR DISASTER
FINAL LIST OF MISSING
FIFTY-THREE
(Reuter's Special Service).
The Paris office of
TRAFFIC ON
KEYSTONE
OF SUCCESS
PRIME MINISTER BROADCASTS
London, May 24.
No greater calamity could befall the word, than that the British Empire should lose the grip which has kept it together, declared the Prime Minister, in an Em- pire Day message broadcast from Lossiemouth to-day.
Mr. Hansar MacDonald spoke of the world economic crisis, ap- parently growing wofte instead of better, and declared that the great obstacle to world prosperity was Nationalism removed from Its proper sphere of cultural and political liberty and made the Justification for restrictions on international' trade.
In the course of some pointedi comments, the Prime Minister
DERBY DAY indicted
WINDMILL PLANE TO BE USED FOR CONTROL
London, May 24.
"thoughtless
the
politics,"
liberality in
"abby misinterpretations
democracy," and
"methods which regard
of
treti-
ties as scrops of paper to be altered or ended Да suits either party".
The Prime Minister broadcasting.
AMELIA SEES THE
PRINCE
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
HONOURS
CANADA'S.
MESSAGE
EPOCH-MAKING CONFERENCE
London, May 24.`
In an Empire Day message read at the Canadian Chamber of Com- merce luncheon in London to-day. the Premier of Canada, Mr. R. H. Bennett said:
"In a few months the Imperiul Economic Conference at Ditawa will form part of our history and I am convinced a memorable part. "The determination evident throughout the Empire to utilise this opportunity to place our economic relations on a mutually advantageous and enduring basis is an assurance that before an- other Empire Day arrives definite action will be taken which will
contribute materially to the revival of trade and Industry in
every part of the Empire and I trust aid in the establishment of the con- fidence and the concerted action necessary for the restoration of pro- sperity to the world in general.”
BRITISH DELEGATION. The acting Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the British delegation to the Ottawa Con- ference would include the Minister
SENATE AWARD of Agriculture, Sir John Gilmour.
(Router's Spacial Service).
London, May 24.
Miss Amelia Earheart, whose by wonderful feat in flying the
An Autogyro seroplane is to be used for controlling road trafße to
OTTAWA HOPES. and from Epsom Downs on Derby
Expressing buoyant hopes for Paris, May 24,
Day. From their point of vantage Economic Conference at Ottawa,
of auccess
the Empire the Mes- engeries Maritimes has Issued a two-thousand feet up, observers the Premier, expressed, the y view suddenly, for no reason which list of fifty-three persons, who will transmit to police wireless that it would be of little Atlantic solo is still wuded hae been made clear up to
the are missing, feared dead, fellow-vans, instructions for the direc-sistance to utter empty slogans present, the goods train appensing the fire disaster aboard the tion of traffic together with in- of resounding resonance. to have put on speed and crushed luxury liner, Georges Phillipar. formation concerning the general On the other hand, the key-vate rooms to-day.
The list is considered to he into the refugee train
include speed, completely wrecking four final. The teen carriages, which contained Albert Londres, the noted French
British scores of people, most of whom journalist, but no were trapped in the splinteredsengers,
full Elt
wagons.
The cries of the injured
401
names
M.
Pan-
trapped were terrible to hear and HOME RUN HITTERS ON
chaos reigned for some time,
Fourteen persons aboard the
wrecked train
killed were
in-i
stantly and thirty-two were seriously injured, including many
RAMPAGE
women and children. Dozens Fifteen in Seven Games more escaped with lighter hurts.
The
PLIGHT OF VICTIMS.
crush accurred near
Yesterday
Until it was passible to esti mate the length of the present Parliamentary session and the Lausanne Conference, it was im- possible to say whether two or three of the Ministers given in the earlier list would be available. J. H. Thomas, assured members The Dominions Secretary, Mr.
pri- an essential element of Imperia! economic co-operation would not be overlooked by the United King dom Delegation at Ottawa.
the newspapers, was received by that the question of migration as the Prince of Wales in his position of traft on the roads stone of success lay in knowing The Prince leading to
industrial. the course.-British | the
conditions and warmly con Wireless.
policies of the various Dominions gratulated her in order to devise a scheme to upon her erente freer trade conditions over hievement and the vast area of the world re-talked with her presented by the Empire coun- for half
GERMAN SHIPPING
FINANCE
N.D.L. & H.A.L. TO WRITE DOWN
Berlin. May 24.
North
tries.
ac-
תון
hour.
The.
Royal, Aeronautical.
have
NEW ENTHUSIASM. He stated that the British de-Society legation, or rather the delegation invited Mrs.
of the United Kingdom, would go Putnam to at-
to
Mr. Thomas stated that he had now received the agenda of the con- ference from the Candian Govern- ment.-British Wireless,
HARBIN
HONJO HASTENS
TO FRONT
NOW DIRECTING OPERATIONS
SEVERE BATTLE
Harbin, May 24. The war operations in North Manchuria have now assumed a tremendous scale, the full force of the insurgent organisation now haring been launched against the Japanese and Manchukuo troopa.
Such is the situation, with a decision likely to come shortly- and the nature of the outcome not at all certain, that General Honjo, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces in Man- churia, has arrived from Muk- den personally to direct opera- tions.
General Honjo now has columna rapidly approaching the Russian frontiers, while Insurgent troops are still worrying tenaciously at his Harbin garrison.
HEAVY SHELL-FIRE' AUDIBLE.
Heavy shell-fire was audible in Harbin all through the night and it is learned that the Japanese are now engaged with a large force of General Ma Chan-shan's mon, about twenty-five kilometres to the west of Harbin, where the insur gents have torn up-the railway trucka.
Japanese aeroplanes have been very active in the last day two despite the fact that heavy rain has
beon falling visibility is extremely poor. practically the whole time and that
CRITICAL SITUATION.
or
The situation in the west in ex- tremely critical. Communications
AFTER EIGHTEEN between Harbin and Teitsihar have
MONTHS
Near Berlin
A message from Washington
Berlin, May 24. announces that the United States
After an absence of, eighteen Senate has passed, without de
months in North and South bate, a resolution awarding Miss America, the giant German flying Earheart (Mrs. Putnam) the bont, the Dornier D-OX landed at Distinguished Flying
Cross in
Lake Mueggel, near Berlin, at recognition of her splendid At- lantic flight performance.
8.30 p.m. to-day.
to Ottawa well prepared after tend the annual dinner which is studying with a painstaking care to be held in London on Thursday. D-OX Lands on Lake The Directors of the
and thoroughness never before She has accepted the invitation devoted to every aspect of Im and will be the first woman New York, May 24.
German Lloyd and the Hamburg-perial Preference as a means of attend the dinner. Imienpo a long way from Harbin, Fifteen home runs were hit in Amerika Lines have decided to promoting Imperial unity, in- but the tragedy of the accident,
in the recommend, to the forthcoming erensing the volume of Imperial was accentuated by the fact that seven matches played
meetings of only first aid was available there major baseball leagues to-day.
shareholders, that trade and employing Imperial The Bambino and as the hospital
Collins the Companies' capital be written labour.-Reuter, already over-
(Cardinals) began to chase after down in the proportion of three flowing with war casualties. -
Foxx (Athletics), Ruth getting his to one. the victims eleventh, against the Athletics, The North German Lloyd will could only be given a summary while Collins clouted out homers write off 110,000,000 marks and dressing of their injuries and twice, bringing his total to the Hamburg-Amerika Line 154.- then had to be placed aboard eleven. Foxx has scored thirteen. 000,000 narka. another train. They are now Ott hit two home runs, And being brought to Harbin.-Reuter. Allen and Klein (his eighth
the season) took courage from his to a new Reserve Fund. example at Philadephin, where the Glanta had proved
There is no doubt killers, dospite the fact that three of the shareholders will accept the re-
commendations.-Renter,
Itt
consequence,
BOMBAY TENSION
EASES
ALL MILLS NOW BEING WORKED
home runs fell to the Giants.
Sums of 24,000,000 marks
for
CHINA FLOOD RELIEF
his unch Company will be transferred QUESTION OF GRANTS
FROM ABROAD
Hack Wilson showed his met- tle for Brooklyn, hitting a homer) to contribute to their defeat of Boston.
Herman, Chicago, replied once
lost to
F.
al
that the
OLYMPIA ROYAL
TOURNAMENT
DRESS REHEARSAL
YESTERDAY.
to Collins's two homers for 3t. London, May 24. Louis. Lombardi (Cincinnati) Bombay messages state that homered, but his team although feeling is running high |Pittsburgh. Johnson after the recent communal riots, Schulte found the bleachers the general position in the city Detroit, while Ferrell and Cissell continues to improve.
(Indians) and Seeds (Chiengo)
London, May 24. All mills now are working, al-punched out with equal effect. though some with reduced num-Again the home run
The dress rehearsal to-day of advantage the annual Royal Tournament at bere. Retail shops are open, but did not win the game, Chicago Olympia was, as usual, attended wholesale shops and markets are wlaning 11-7. still closed, owing to a dispute Results:
by a huge and appreciative audi- -over an idol.-British Wireless.
ence of school cllldren, many from various charitable institutions Gwhich the Tournament assists financially. Penelonera and dla- šjabled ex-service
£180 present.
SIR R. HO TUNG ACCEPTS
National League, 1 Doston
Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Loufs Cincinnati
New York
ADVISER TO NANKING Detroit
GOVERNMENT
A
London, May 24.
Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is at
Chiengo
11 Now York
8 Chicago
a Pittsburgh
American League,
3 Philadelphia é St. Louis Cleveland
--Router.
tt
prosent on a visit to England, has DOLLAR SLIGHTLY
telegraphed his acceptance of the official offor of the Nanking Gov- ornment that ho should become a first-class advisor to the Chiness Government.
A luncheon is being given in honour of Sir Robert by the Chinese Legation on Friday- Router.
RISES
MARKET'S FIRMER
UNDERTONE
+
The Hongkong dollar is up 1/8th to-day, the rate being 18.
men wero
This year's performance justl- Aoa the reputation of the Tourna-- ment as one the most attractive spectacular tiems in the London season.-British Wireless.
27/8d. Inter-bank business has
London, May 24.
wns
BOAT CAPSIZES IN SQUALL
POLICE RESCUE FIVE OCCUPANTS
During a aquall yesterday, a cargo hoat which was on its way to the s.a. Mausang turned turtle and precipitated all its occupants
cargo into
ав well as the
the
In the House of Commons to day, Captain Anthony Eden, Undor Secretary for Foreign Affairs, informed Mr. Rhys Davice that the Government
unable to undertake to urge other Govern ments to make a grant for flood rellof in China.
Mr. Rhys Davies had asked harbour. Fortunately there was: whether, in view of the need ex-no casualty. preased in the report of the Flood The incident was later reported Relief Commission for a sum of to the police by the master, Chan £220,000, the Government would Tong, who stated that at about urge, at the nex mooting of the 10.15 am, ho was conveying cargo League of Nations Council, that from. Beafront. near the
Market to tho cach member State should make a Western grant-Reuter.
Mausans which was anchored opposite Blake Pler. When, the cargo boat was about 150 yards. away from Blake Pier, a Buddan squall caused it to capsize, the oc- cupante, consisting of the master and four fokls, being thrown into
BRITISH TREATY
POLICY
IMPORT QUOTAS BEING NOTICED
London, May 24. Replying to a Parliamentary question, the President, of the
Board of Trade, Mr. Runciman,
the
The graceful landing was made in the presence of a huge crowd
been severed.
To-day very considerable re- inforcements have been sent up to the battle area to the weat Jarbin to relieve the pressure on
the hard-pressed Japanesa tingent there, and Japanese sources report that the Chinese are now in retrent after a heavy ongagement.
COR-
It is hoped, says the Japanese report, that communication with Teltelhar will soon be resumed.
However, other sources are not se optimistic.
EASTERN COLUMNS.
No news has been available to- day from the Japanese columns last reported to be advancing along the eastern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway towards the Rus- sian frontier, nor from those ad- vancing along the Sungari. Last reports indicated that they were meeting with a spirited resistance at all points.-Reuter.
MAN INSISTS WAS ARRESTED
POLICE DENY HIS STORY
"What am I to do?" remarked. Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Police Court this morning when the police denied that a man who answered a charge of driving a ricksha without a licence was the culprit who had been arrested.
In answering the name of Wong Ngan, a man insisted that he was Dornier Works, the Do. K, ls shown and it was he who had been __The_Istast giant, plans from the the person named in the charge the water.
above at Tempelhof Aerodrome, with arrosted by a police constable, Fortunately, Sergeant Hill, in Dr. Doraiar in the foreground giving whom he was unable to identity. charge of No. 14 police launch, j- - lectura on the structure." was in the immediate vicinity and of most enthusiatic spectators.
Both Inspector R. Shannon and Sub-Inspector McWalter, who rescued the five men from the
The officors and crow were
were in the charge room when the water.
officially welcomed by the Mayor case was taken in, were adamant of Berlin and a representative of
that the man in Court was not tho the Government of the Reich.
person arrested.gg Reuter.
Az. It was, only a trivial, canc, | his Worship Imposed a fins of 98,
the amount of the ball.
A message was received by the been done at about 1s. 9.7/10d, sald there was not at present any Wator l'olica at 0.80 ani. to-day from and the undertone la quite firm intention of terminating the com- Helhow reporting that as the as, Kit
In London, silver rose 8/16ths. morcial treaties with France and chow was nearing Hothow at 7 p.m. India and China bought, and Germany, but the existence of im- on Friday last, a patsonger, Chat offerings were small. After the port quotna in other countries Cheuk-yam, aged 22 years, dressed in oficial fixing, the market ruled would have to be taken into ac- European style clothing, felting p firm, with America inclined to buy.count in determining the future ion as to when the Pet me
board and was drowned anyo in qu There no change in New York, treaty policy of Britain.-British where silver is quoted at 28 cents. Wireless.
BRITISH GLIDER ABOARD
London, May at STAMMBREL PASSODTATA aboard the PAR Dom when, she left his daughter, and Mr. Gordon:
tage of, her England, the Chairman of the from America to British Gliding Association,
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