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EIGHT DAYS AND NIGHTS ON DERELICT PLANE
FLIER'S ATLANTIC ADVENTURE
LIVED ON SANDWICHES AND RADIATOR WATER
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE
HAUSNER RESCUE
THE
New York, June 12. HE MIRACULOUS RESCUE FROM ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH OF MR. STANLEY HAUSNER, THE NEWARK AIRMAN, PROVIDES | A VIVIÐ STORY.
Our photo shows the Shanghai yacht Chelidon (loft) and friends of the crew speeding them on their do. arture for Nagasaki inst week. Mr. H. Aust, the skipper, is second from the right. They were expected to reach, Nagasaki on Saturday, but although a yacht was reported yesterday to be within twenty miles of Nagasaki, they have not yel put in an appearance and some anxiety is felt for the safety of the craft.
CUNARD LINER'S EXPERIMENT
Tossed about aimlessly at the mercy of the waves and currents of the Atlantic for eight days and nights, eking out his scanty provisions and refusing to give up hope in spite of the steady passage of time without the sight of a ship, Hausner owes his life to superb courage TESTING A NEW and the fact that a British oil-tanker does not neces- sarily follow the usual steamer routes.
Hausner's monoplane stood up to the battering of
FUEL
SOLUTION FOR SILVER
EX-INDIA BANKER'S
PROPOSALS
London, June 1:1.
several rough days thanks to a safety-measure which MIXTURE OF OIL dertaking by the Government
he insisted upon before taking off on the hazardous At- lantic crossing which had Warsaw as its projected destination, but which terminated about five hundred · miles to the west of Oporto.
The derelict machine had a petrol-tank device en- abling them to be employed, for a brief while, as pon- toons. On these the machine had drifted miles from the point of the forced descent upon the sea.
The accident occurred on June 3, the day on which he set out from Harbour Grace on his adventurous flight, and he was picked up yesterday, eight days and nights afterwards. He had long been given up for dead by all except his wife.
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A graphic story of how Re extract from the cooling system?, Lossed about the Atlantic of his engine, was related or
WIN
AND COAL
London, June 13.
An experiment which may mean a revival of the pro- sperity of the British coal in- dustry is being made by the Cunard liner Scythia, which is leaving for New York from Liverpool..
An international agreement to control output and an un-
of India not to sell its surplus silver below certal prices or not exceeding cermix quanti ties at various price levels and the gradual remonetisation of silver, are among suggestions for the solution of the silver question made by Mr. E. J. Bunbury, ex-President of the Bombay Board of the Imperial Bank of India, in a article in the Financial Times.-Renter,
timer will use 150 tons of "Colloi dat." a special fuel mixture, made of i 60 per cent, oil and 16 per cont. powdered coal.
In the course of the voyage, the IRRESTATIE RUBENSSTOLIK PRINTED BAKEJ FAZILET
The mixture has been prepared by servet process for which it is
in his derelict monoplane manage the wireless to Mr. Stanley claimed ability to probier a fuel ing to live on a few sandwiches Hausner's
wife, by Captain¦ which is cheaper and more efficitant, and the water he managed to Wilson, the skipper of the Bri-Chr oil.
B. & S. STEAMER
ASHORE
Itish tanker, Circle Shell to-day.
Reuter,
RIFT IN LUTE
CHILEAN SOCIALIST
RESIGNS
New York, June 12.
THIRD DEGREE TRAGEDY
VIOLET SHARP'S
SUICIDE
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH
New York, June 12. A deep revulsion of feeling has followed the admission that the case against Miss Violet Sharp, who took her life on Friday, has collapsed and that there is no evidence of any connexion between the unfortunate girl and the Lindbergh kidnapping.
U.S. BUDGET The Press
CRISIS
LARGE CUTS IN EXPENDITURE
Washington, June 12. Even the monumental pro- posals now under considera... · tion by House of Representa- tives and Senate will not balance the United States budget.
to
BRIGHT LAUSANNE OUTLOOK
CANCELLATION OF
DEBTS
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
AGREE ON
MAIN
OBJECTIVE
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GERMANY CANNOT
PAY
INEVITABLE STAND AT LAUSANNE.
Berlin, June 12. "No More Reparations!"
This is the slogan of all political parties in Germany today. Any Government pled- ging itself to pay tribute" would certainly be swept out of existence and consequently Herr von Papen, the Chancellor will make fectly clear at Lausanne that Germany "e#naot" parations any longer.
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per-
раз re-
Dr. Bruening's Inst state- ment before his downfall was to the effect that he could not imagine the conditions which would make the resumption of teparations payment pos sible.-Reuter,
TRUST IN ·· CHANGE IN U.S. ATTITUDE UNIVERSAL WIPING CLEAN OF THE WAR
DEBTS AND REPARATIONS SLATE is the ultimate objective of both the British and French Governments, according to well-informed quarters, following yesterday's important discussions in Paris be- tween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir John Simon, M. Herriot and the French Finance Minister,
Hopes for an agreement at Lausanne which will mark the end of the economic warfare in Europe are. now running high.
NO CUT AND DRIED AGREEMENT
con-
WORLD ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE
AMERICA'S IDEAS OUTLINED.
PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT.
and the general)
Paris, June 12. public believe that Miss Sharp's A successful prelude to Lau- suicide was provoked by the sunné. and 11 tonic for the pitiless third degree methods em- anaemic disarmament ployed by the police in their ference is how Mr. Ramsay questionings.
opinion MacDonald's early visit to Paris Mrs Morrow, the maid's
conversations ployer and the mother-in-law of Herriot has been hailed.
with M. Colonel Lindbergh, declared: The poor girl was siniply frigh tened to death."
emfor
Mrs. Morrow vigorously protested her belief in the in- nocence of her maid und Edith Sharp from, the outset.
It is pointed
nut that Mias Violet Sharp, the dead girl, was
It is thought that the statesmen of the two countries were not seek ing a cut and dried two-Power agreement ready for presentation at Lausanne, but rather a conver- gouce of attitudes after a search ing survey.
MORATORIUM EXTENSION.
The Cinde Shell Was the craft which picked up Hausner. nut the Ciree as earlier reported. EXHAUSTED BUT UNHURT. The airmo said Captain Wil- son, was on the verge of exhaus tim but was quite unhurt.
Last night. Mrs. Hausner was
This admission is attributed
highly atrung and sensitive. She Reparations were, of course, the declaring that her Disagreements have soon de- that he made this clear at a meet-after each police examination and is believed that hoth goverments President Hoover, report having it became more and more nervous keynote of the discussions and it prayers had not been in vain, veloped in the ranks of the! although she had never lost faith Socialist
ing with several tenders of Confinally the doctor was summoned group who effected in her husband's safety.
"gress at the White House. successful anti-Government coup
It is Captain Wilson learned
estimated that further from a Santiago de Chile last week.
Federal economies amounting to be- According Lo
tween G$150,000,000 and G$200,- 000,000 will be necessary before the Budget, is balanced-Beuter,
350 PASSENGERS overjoyed,
TAKEN OFF
DESTROYERS ON mer that he was forced down
SCENE
Carrying
three hundred
and fifty passengers, the China Navigation Company's s.s. Shengking, on the North China run, came to grief last night when rounding the trencherous Shantung Pro montory.
into the Atlantic on the evening latest information of June 3, the day he hopped off from
Santiago, for Warsaw,
Don Carlos the ¡la vila, " former Chilean in
FORTNIGHT AT SEA.
The Circle Shell is due at New Ambassador Orleans on June 27 and in the Washington, meantime an appeal has been prime mover broadcast to any vessel passing the derelict monoplane to pick it
the revolution, Land up. The drifting machine is re- three members of one of the ported to be still in a good con- the Republican dition.
Socialist Hausner's life was saved by which assumed Junta At about 8:30 pm, the Shengdump-valve device fitted king went aground on Chiming petrol tanks of the aeroplane, toernment
to the the reins of gov
the Island, about fifteen miles to the enable the pilot, in the case of night of President enst of Weihniwei.
his being compelled to land
Cordova, has re- the water, to make pontoons. Two, destroyers and an Ad- On
signed his position alighting on the water, Don Davila was acting President miralty tug were immediately des-the two dump-valves are closed, of Chile, having formed ppiched to her assistance by the preventing an inilux of water
on
Dayika
200 TIMES ROUND TEMPLE!
POLICE IDEA OF "LOITERING"
The apparently eccentric be- haviour of a Japanese, who, at an early hour yesterday morning, was walking at a brisk pace up down Taibang Temple Road arous.
and
ed the interest and curiosity of plainclothes Chinese police officer. un After watching the man for some
British naval authorities at Wetand forming air pockets, which administration immediately after time and perceiving no slackening}
halwei and it was decided to take buoyed up the aeroplane.-Reuter.
off the passengers, an
operation
which is reported to be proceeding the passengers off.**
the salvage tug Brock are taking
in good weather conditions.
The warships will stand-by the Shengking until she is re-floated,
it is understood,
FOREIGNERS ABOARD.
Weihaiwel, Jung 13. There were thirty-two foreigners un board the Shengking, all of whom have Been rescued and, to-
paskongers,
the uprising-Reuter,
to prevent her collapse.
an
POLICE "JUSTIFICATION."
The Chief Inspector of the New Jersey State Police, who is avowed exponent of the third de- gree. is anything but apologetic in a statement which he issued
to-day seeking to justify the police
actions.
"The girl," he declared, "war freah and impertinent from the start until the baby WAH found dead. Then she became a bundle: of shivering nerves on the verge of
collapse. Then We went to werk."-Reuter's American Service..
JAPANESE TROOP TRAIN BOMB
FOUR CHINESE UNDER ARREST
Harbin, June 13.
The Japanese police have arrest-
The Premier Points, the Way. agreed that an extension of the moratorium to Germany was in evitable.
It was felt by both Britain and France, however, that the moratorium should be effected In conditions avoiding unfla- teral denunciation of her ob ligations by Germany, thus giving America's European debtors time to concert in a common attitude towards their creditors in the ultimate hope that after the Presidential elections in the United States, America will cancel the debt and make a universal clean slate,
New York, June 12. The world economic con- ference proposed by Great Britain will not be convened until the late autuma in the of authoritative American quarters. According to the Washington cor- respondent of the Baltimore Sun, the present plan meeting with the approval of the United States is to get the conference started before the American presidential elections in November and to continue after the election.
The idea is that effective deci- alons can only be reached after the elections when the United States to give their views on tariffs and delegates may then be able freely the reduction of war debta without embarrasing President Hoover's political chances.
CHANGE INEVITABLE.
It is well known that Mr. H. L.
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WATER RATIONS
HOURS INCREASED: RESERVOIR. MARK ACHIEVED
The week-end ralus have proved Ao satisfactory in adding to the Colony's water in storage
that, commencing to-morrow afternoon, there will be a further Increase in the hours of supply.
Instead of four hours as present, tho supply will creased to seven hours.
at be In-
The supply in the area between Robinson Road and Caino Road, and in Macdonnell Road, will be 4 a.m. to 7 a.m., and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. For Bowen Rond, Condult Road, May Road and Peak Road, the hours will be 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
of this mysterious activity, the officer decided to make an arrest.
Taken to the Bay View Station on a charge of loitoring, the LABOUR RIOTS IN
Japanese told the Inspector. In ARGENTINE charge that he was merely obeying n religious impulse which required. him to walk 200 times round the ed, at Chengknotan Station, thirteen Temple, and declared that he was miles.to the East of Harbin, four STRIKE ON SUGAR
almost within sight of his goal, Chinese who are alleged to have PLANTATIONS
he had already made 196 circles- when frustrated by the detective. been implicated in dynamiting the Buenos Aires, June 12. Ho requested that he be released Japanese troop train on April 13th. French appear to have voored to hours' supply will be given in the tug. Lighters are being sent to Thousands of labourora on the and allowed to complete his pilgri salve the vessel's enrgo, "while de- Laugar plantatious in Santa Fo
General Ma Tsung-Taun, who is wards the British Idea of a mill-new group street fountains, atroyers are standing by to provent and Tucuman Provinces in Argon-
alleged to be connected with tor-tary holiday. piracy-Reuter
tina-havo declared. *—generalevices-to-go-komo—–—
Ho was released but was ad- rorist organisations was arrested on kupili kustaaviated today that Ma Taung-tsun is said to have
It is stated that the vessel is gether with Chines holed in the bottom. through through striking a 'rack...
The Shengking la a new boat, having come out from Home this year. She was built by Scott and Co., of Greenock,
conveyed here safely by the two British destroyers and Admiralty
H. M. S. Kopper reports tmit theatre
mare.
A Router message states that Shengking is firmly fixed on the Three were killed and oight in-, 'the mishap oceurred in a fog east side of Chiming Island, badly jured in a clash between tho While lowering à dinghy from a been an agent of Chang Heutek- While the Shongking wan on her holed in the two foremost holds paties phd pucati factory workers Junk off Shamshulpo yesterday
L Tueutnant DisULISTITEM" drowned.
.
As regards disarmament, the
PREMIER'S STATEMENT.
"We are determined to do avery:
on Hang, Inoriminating evidence is Hax we can to reach decisions at
The hours for the remainder of the Colony will be G a.m. to Da.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Commencing on Wednesday, a li
On enquiry at the Watorworks Ofice of the P.W.D., we wore in- formed by the Maintenance En- the reservoir position was gineer (Mr. E. Newhouse) that
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