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DARTMOOR GAOL ESCAPE: THREE-DAY MAN HUNT

ADMIRAL'S OUTBURST

BRITAIN'S NAVAL STRENGTH

BERLIN BETTER PLEASED

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BRITISH POLICY

WELCOMED

(Our Own Corresponden!).

Telegraph. Copyright, Telegrasikie Ordinis m, 1991. Rerviced, Nos.

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London, Nov. 19. Complete satisfaction is ex- pressed in German political cir cles with the British policy German claim to equality, Italy's speedy endorsement of the British declaration.

Apropos the armaments

as

JOHN GIALDINI

GOES FREE

RECENT AMNESTY HELD ́

TO APPLY

Rome, Nov. 18.

The suitence of five years' imprisonment passed in 1931 upon John Galdini in connexion with the Hatry financial crash, was quashed by the Cour! of Appeal to-day by the automatie application of the recent amnesty.

The court did not discuss the merits of the Gialdini caNC. Renter.

CYPRUS HOTEI TRAGEDY

NAVAL OFFICER GIVEN LEAVE TO APPEAL

with PRIVY COUNCIL

Sir John Simon's speech is re-l garded in Berlin as complete re- cognition of Germany's claim.

London, Nov. 18. After listening to the sub- missions of Sir Willium Jowitt, K.C., former Attorney-General,

A German Foreign Office spokes behalf of Commander J. 6.

man said last night: "Now that

Sutton, R.; convicted at Lim Britain and Italy have sided with assol, Cyprus, on a charge of. to France to manslaughter, the Judicial Com-

Germany, it is up

take a decisive step to bring back !mittee of the Privy Couzi

the Disarmament granted him leave to appeal. Germany into Conference."

MADDEN MADDENED.

London, Nov. 18. A strong attack on Britain's elisarni & ment policy and the Disarm a neat

The sentence passed on the nuvai,

ofleer was als nionths imprison

nnt. He was charged following the death of 'a Limassol, hotel, keeper munted Apostolides.

met!

Picture shows the excellant progress which is being made towards the completion of the steel bridge across the Pearl River, linking Can- ton with Honmin. 1 la expected to be opened for traffic in February. The bridge is being constructed by Messrs. MacDonnell and Gorman, Inc. the materials being supplied by Messrs. Andersen, Moyer and Co., Ltd.

BENGALI TWO CONVICTS AT MANCHULI

TERRORIST OUTRAGE

SIR CHARLES LUKE WOUNDED

WIFE & DAUGHTER

ESCAPE

COMMANDER'S VERSION. His own version of the manner Conference gen-in which the hotel-kepper met with! erally was made fatal injuries is that, accompanied

Calcutta, Nov. 18. by Admiral Sir other officers, he visited a show

Sir Churtes Lake, the Chief Charles Muldenjat & dancing place and there in 'a speech at a Turkish dancer, who after the Superintendent of the Central Grol at Bajahani, WIL to-day the re-union of the show asked for a lift. While in

the latest antrage by Royal Naval the cab the girl on her own initas vietin of

[tive suggested that Commander! Bengali terrorists. Re- Volunteer

Sir Charles was ont driving Sutton should visit the hotel keptį servo to-night.

by Apostolides. On their arrival, with his wife and daughter when à Early in his he told the girl he had no money, awful motocrae drew level speech he refund she left almost immediately with their vehicle and a series of erred to "one of these infernal dis. When going out he was followed shots were fired at Sir Charle armament conferences," and add-i Apostolides, who asked to stay from close range..

He was wounded both in the! ed: "Everyone wants to reduce the The next thing Commander Sutton

know was that Apostolides was face and the neck and was rushed British Navy, A great Many

downstairs. He helped to hospital immediately after the filling countries would like to

him up, and Apostolides followed utrate in a serious condition. him for some distance, but again Neither his wife nor his dang- fell down. Commander Sutton hter were injured, says he turned back to render The assaltants of the Prison assistance, as he saw that Apos-Superintendent escaped,--"Reuter,] "Istolides had fainted and blood was

redneed,

CAUSE OF WAR.

"But the Cause of

11. sedeled ominously,

War,"

policy and there are two countries on his face.

ia Europe with aggressive policies.

"One of these aggressive

countries is Russin, and the

other is in North Europe."

DOCTOR'S OPINION. Unable to do anything himself. j Commander Sutton went in the apposite direction to get help. He met some people and asked them "The announced intention of re-to get a doctor. Afterwards he arming to disarm, is to invite conducted them to where the hotel- attack"-Reuter.

HUNTING FIELD TRAGEDY

ĠENERAL DIES OF HEART ATTACK

London, Nov. 18. Major General Cator, General Officer Commanding the London Territorial Troops, died to-day in the hunting field in Wiltshire. fie had heart attack while galloping across a bold and fell dead from his horie,

He served throughout the Great War and in 1916-17 directed the altack of Territorial Troops Passchendal Ridgo. He was 55 years old.-British Wireless,

on

COMMISSIONER OF ASHANTI

MAJOR JACKSON

1

PHEMIUS BADLY DAMAGED

MONTH TO EFFECT REPAIRS

cable just

keeper lay and they helped Apps. It is disclosed in a tolides back to his hotel. After received by Messrs, Butterfield and ascertaining that Apostolides was

Swire from Kingstown. Jamnica, better. Conimander Sutton asked one of the witnesses who gave his that heavy damage was suffered by name to wire him regarding the the Blue Funnel Line steamer,

Phemius as a result of the severe man's condition.

WAS

Dr. Gosden gave evidence that in buffeting she received when hit by This opinion the fracture of the a hurricane in the Carribean Sens

skull and other Injuries could be recently.

The cargo accounted for by the man rolling

also badly down steps head over heels. He damaged, areording to the mess- also expressed the view that the age.

Repairs to the steamer are ex- injuries could have been caused by

pected to take a further four succession of blows or falls. A native witness alleged that he weeks, after which the Phemius saw Commander Sulton beating will resume her voyage to long Apostolides in the street.

kong.

OCEAN WAVES AT TEDDINGTON

SHIPBUILDING RESEARCH TANK

OPENED BY MR. BALDWIN

LARGE

BLOODHOUNDS PICK UP AND LOSE TRAIL

FUGITIVES' QUEER ELUSIVENESS

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1804.

Received, November 19, 942 am)

London, November 19.

AMY TALKS WITH HUSBAND

STRAIN OF SLEEPNESS NIGHTS

MOLLISON VERY

PROUD.

London, Nov. 18. Mrs. Amy Mollison_completed her great flight from England to Capetown at 1.30 G.M.T., thus establishing a new record for the 6,200-miles journey. Her time was four days, six hours, fifty-two minutes, the provious record, held by her husband being

four days. seventeen hours, twenty-two minutes.

A vast crowd assembled t Capetown to witness her arrival, and the air-woman WON over- whelmed with congratulations on her magnificient achievement.

PROUD HUSBAND.

Within a few minutes of Innd-

HOSTAGESing, she was in telephonic

PERIL

MR. T. V. SOONG'S APPEAL

CHINA'S CAUSE

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munication with her husband In London, who assured her of the personal príde he felt in her per- formance, which, he said, would probably do more to advance British aviation than any single. night had yet done.

When Mr. Molllaon

suggested that she must be very tired after four days' fight, during which she has had only five hours' sleep, she sold she was not too tired to go on talking.

TERRIFIC STRAIN, -

In a brondenat talk at Capetown, however, Amy said the strain of sleeplessness had been terrifle, Shanghai, Nov. 19. Referring to her experience on the sha Anid the worat Much interest has been created journey,

to Ben- by a report from Tokyo to the stretch was from Duala effect that Mr. T. V. Soong has uella, flown by night. sent a message to General So Cloud," is a standard De Havilland Army's machine,, the "Desert Ping-wen, head of the Volunteer Puss Moth cabin acroplane, fitted

AFTER A RELENTLESS MANAUDERS AND forces at Manchli urging him to with a Gingy Major engine

HAS OCCUPIED POLICE, WARDERS AND ensure the safety of the lives of horse-power, equipped with special petrol tanks. Normally these VOLUNTEER PURSUERS FOR MORE THAN his Japanese hostages.

tanks of 35 SIXTY HOURS, TWO CONVICTS WHO ESCAPED FROM DARTMOOR PRISON ON WEDNESDAY ARE STILL AT LARGE.

The pursuers are mystified. They are quite certain that the escaped convicts have not succeeded in getting clear of the bleak Dartmoor countryside. Bloodhounds have been employed and actually got on to the trail of the fugitives, only to break down when the scent failed with remarkable abruptness in the middle of the moor.

Evidence that the prisoners are still in the vicinity of the prison has been forthcoming in a robbery at a local railway station, but although the prisoners must have been kept on the move by the pressure of the pur- suit neither of them has been seen since the moment of their escape.

ROB STATION. EIGHT MILES AWAY

Mr. T. V. Soong appents to Suschines carry Ping-won not to take drastic action gallons capacity, but by utilising even if the Japanese launch the the space occupied by back seats offensive which is threatened as for fuel tanks, the capacity was re-increased to 120 gallons, the range anything in the nature of prisals would be most damaging to being increased from 650 to 1,850

miles. the Chinese cause abroad."

Although no confirmation of the

Her route was the most direct

and

report has been obtained, it seems possible, halts being made at vory likely that it is correct ns, in Barcelona, Oran in Algeria, Gao, the absence of Mr. Wang Ching- Niame, Dunin, Benguella wei abroad and of Marshal Chiang Massamedes.-British Wireless. Kai-shek at Hankow, Mr. T. V. Soong Is virtually head of the

Chinese Government.

FOUR CONSTABLES CHARGED

BRIBERY OFFENCES

ALLEGED

SU PING WEN'S POSITION.

Gonerai Su Ping-wen is ap- parently determined not to yield an inch in his stand not to negotiate; with the Japanese, who, unless they secure an amicable agree- ment with him, are faced with the In consequence, of certain state- alternative of launching a costly ments by a Chinese charged the, and difleuit military expedition or other day with procuring bribes for leaving him in control of the whole members of the Cantonese sectio The man-hunt is continuing and trail for a few miles, but it stretch of the Chinese Eastern of the Hongkong Polles Force, fou

Railway between the Hingan Chinese constables named as wit-) the authorities are certain that suddenly petered out.

The searchers are, however, con- Mountain range and Manchulinesaen in that case, were taken into their net is now closing round the area where the runaways must be vinced that the prisoners could Renter.

not have made much further pro- sheltering.

It is, however, execedingly gress during the night and that strange that white the whole they must have hidden up. during countryside has been on the alert, the daytime, on the look-out for the convicts ever since Dartmoor's warning bell tolled frantically on the morning of November 16, nöbody has caught even a glimpse of the fugitives.

CHOCOLATE AND CLOTHES.. Evidence of their presence was, nevertheless, found at

Mr. Wynne-Jones' Court to-day and charged · with receiving bribes either directly or indirectly, from certain hawkers in Jubilee Stree

NEW MENACE TO They were also charged with mi

HARBIN

ADVANCE BY 33,000 VOLUNTEERS

JAPANESE MASS FORCES

conduct.

The defendants, To Fuk, To Tami. Kwong Wal and Fung F were all involved in the proscut against the hawker, who is on remand.

On the application of Chief Įtective Inspector A-N. Reynolds defendants were all remanded Jone week on $250 bail ench,

WIDE CORDON THROWN.

The whole area has been sur- avide cordon, covering rounded. several miles having been thrown out to prevent the convicts from breaking through during the early hours of this morning.

Dartmoor proudly claims that London, Nov. 18. the largest shipbuilding firms

Horrano convict has ever escaped from Mr. Stanley Baldwin to-day thereafter erected tanks. In 1911, opened a new experimental tank large tanks were bulit at Teilding Bridge Station, only eight miles Dartmoor and avoided subsequent at the National Physical Labora- ton for the use of British industry aacked during the night of Decem-

the Chinese Eastern Railw from the prison, which was ran- recapture.

ESCAPE IN MIST. tory at Teddington, built at a costas a whole.

Harbin, Nov. 19. semi-circular formation. The men were working with a

The Japanese and Manc of £45,000 to provide additional |

A propeller turner for the in- ber 17-18, the convicts getting

fairly large stock of field party on Wednesday when a away with

the most important forces have a decided advaja facilities for shipbuilding re-vestigation of propellor probic chocolate and the stan's clothing. mist, such as is frequent, on struggies in Manchuria is for Inasmuch as they are "aups. search.

was added'lator and with the now

Dartmoor, swept auddenly down Japanese and Manchukuo expedi- whereas the Volunteers inges shadowed in news stating that by Japanese bombing-8qti- Bloodhounds were Imme London, Nov, 18. It is 878 feet long and 20 feet tanks now installed the equip

diately taken to thene of

and gave them an opportunity for tions from various points have aircraft guns and fighting Major Jackson, Chief Com-wide and is equipped with apparament at Teddington is mero com-

a daring brenkawny. missioner of the Northern Terri-tus for wavemaking and

the robery and they d the for pleto than anywhere in the world:

started out to check the advance and are this powerless to Irall of the fugitive They

The alarm was sounded within of 33,000 Volunteers who have an attack from the air. tories of the Gold Const, has been simulating rough water so that the Experiments in the tanks are

had evidently visit the selected for appolutment as Chlef wentlier conditions of almost any carried out with wax models and

Immense savings, particularly in station early In the evening Commissioner of Ashanti, in aus-ocean can be reproduced,

and spent the dark hours cension to Mr. H. S. Nowlanda,

consumption, have been The possibility of solving practi fuol

travelling as rapidly us who

recently appointed cal problems of design, by export effected by the modifications in

possible away from the prison, Governor of Barbados,--British mants on models was first shown design suggested by these teate.

by William Froude in 1870 and British Wireless.

The bloodhounds" followed thel

APPOINTED

WAR

Wireless.

One of

a few minutes of their disappear: taken up a llue to the north

anco, extra police were drafted west of Harbin, in the vicinity of that a Japanese sucess was clean Japanese Headquarter eclara Into the area within an hour. Paichuan. Despite all the efforts at recaptura

up a large area in Hongkiasi. This huge force of Volunteers but the outcome la by ns ans co however, the fugitives have so far in preparing to advance towards tain-Reuter. aluded their pursuers.