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FIT DUNLOP
AKRON DISASTER: SURVIVOR'S GRAPHIC STORY
OFFICIAL
PAPERS
ON MOSCOW
AFFAIR
DRAMATIC INTERVIEW
DETAILED
BRITISH PLAN OF REPRISALS
London, Apr. 4.
A dramatic interview be- tween Sir Esmond Ovey, the | British Ambassador, and M. Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, forms the prin- cipal point of interest of the White Paper issued to-night,
- detailing Anglo-Russian com- failing Anglo-Russian, com-
Great Airship in Lightning Storm-Violent Shudder Soon After Midnight--Rudder Carried Away
Our pictures shows the ill fated U. S. airship "Akron," which crashed into the off the New Jerrey const, flying over Manhattan.
munications in the last three ANOTHER BRITON
weeks.
"
Sir Esmond Oveya tedious efforts to get information of the charges upon which the six British subjects were arrested in. Moscow and to secure that the trial should not become a secret Inquisition are also detailed.
The White Paper contains the whole of the correspondence, be- tween the Foreign Office and the British Ambassador since the first arrests on March 12.
In
"THIRD DEGREE".
Sir his first despatch,
ARRESTED
NAZI ACTIONS IN
BERLIN
QUESTIONS IN
COMMONS
London, Apr. 4.
A second Englishman is
Esmond Over recorded how Mr. now under detention in Ber- Allan Monkhouse, one of the in as the result of the acti- principal representatives of Metropolitan Vickers, was inter-vities of the Nazi "auxiliary rogated for nineteen hours with-nolice.". "out interruption.
A question was asked in the
Mr. Monkhouse admitted that Commons to-day regarding the he had reported to Metropoliton arrest in Berlin of Mr. Gordon Vickers in England periodical-Catchpool, the head of the Berlin
BOSNARARE 2 SARATANAAMAAN JAG BENOAREN SANDRAULIN)
+
AMERICAN SILVER
LEGISLATION
4
MR. WOODIN CALLING A CONFERENCE
Silver made an advance on the market to-day as the result of a report that Mr. Woodin, Secretary to the Treasury, plans to call a con- ference of senators and repre- sentatives to discuss silver legislation.
This also rallied silver and other shares.Per Swan Cul- herson and Fritz..
ROOSEVELT INVITATION
CONFERENCE
ly, on the state of business, branch of the Society of Friends, WORLD ECONOMIC based on information received and Mr. Geoffrey Fraser, employ- Wireless from the Company's enginers,ed by the Transocean ·
News Agency.
The Foreign Under Secretary,
ESPIONAGE.
His interrogators declared that Captain Anthony Eden, said he it was criminal espionage to nc-was informed that both these men the Polizei- quire information except from are detained in officials of the U.S.S.R..
praesidium In Alexanderplatz. Mr. Monkhouse
In the case of Mr. Catchpool, also agreed, during the questioning, that the British Ambassador, was twenty-five of the company's tur- bines were faulty. He said that this was mainly through the Rus-: sian purchasers insisting on a departure from standard machines and pointed out that in every case- the Company had taken rapid steps to repair the defects.
In a despatch of March 14, Sir Esmond Ovey alluded to a visit to the prison, in which Thornton and Cushny were, con- fined. He stated that they had
PRELIMINARIES
IN WASHINGTON
agenda for the World
CRASHES. STERM DOWNWARDS
EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S TALE OF TRAGEDY
MIDNIGHT DRAMA
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")" (By_Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages" Ordinance, 1891. Received, April 5, 9.32 cm.)
NEW YORK, APR. 4. THE FIRST OFFICIAL SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRSHIP, THE U.S.S. AKRON, IS CONTAINED IN A WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM COMMANDER WILEY, THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AND SECOND-IN-COMMAND, THE ONLY OFFICER TO
ESCAPE.
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THE MOST PROMINENT VICTIM
Rear Admiral W. d. Moffett
RESCUE
NANCHANG OUTRAGE
PAWLEY RESCUERS TO BE SENT
PIRATE GANG
NOT KNOWN
:
Tokyo, Apr. 5. Efforts are now being made to get into touth with the captors of Messrs. Johnson, Hargrave and Blue, the officers of the ss. Nanchang,
A message from Newchwang stales that the Japanese autnori- ties, in co-operation with the Brit- ish Consular officers on the spot. are preparing to send as interme- davies to the pirates the same men who effected the release of Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Charles Corkran.
As the safely of the British
CRAFT LOST captives is of paramount import-
BLIMP CRASHES INTO SEA
TWO SAVED BY
SEAPLANE
1
London, Apr. 4. Disaster has overtaken
Commander Wiley declares that the dirigible found herself rounded by lightning at ten o'clock last night. one of the rescue craft en- She attempted to run through the storm, rising to an [gaged in connexion with the altitude of sixteen thousand feet, occasionally chang- Akron catastrophe. ing her course in an attempt to avoid the storm."
Finally, her rudder control was carried away and the ship struck the water and was almost immediately demolished by the rough sea."
She began an unexplained descent at midnight, Her ballast was dropped. She became enveloped in lighting. She shifted violently half an hour after mid- night and began to descend rapidly, stern downwards,
Lightning flashes revealed men swimming from the wreckage and rapidly disappearing. Discipline in the control car prior to the crash was perfect.
MAN WHO SURVIVED TWO AIRSHIP
A New Jersey message reports
that the American naval blimp, the JA, while searching for sur-|| vivors of the Akron, got out of
control and crashed into the sea.
Two of the crew were rescued :
by a seaplane, but it is feared that
the other five were drowned.
SURVIVOR'S DEATH.
ance, the authorities hesitate to send a punitive force against the
pirates, lest this should result in reprisals against the captives.
The pirates' letter makes no provision for the delivery of a ceply and the signatories are not
known Reuter,
AIR CRASH SEQUEL
INQUEST ON MR. VOSS
INNOCENT VICTIM OR SUICIDE?
London, Apr. 4 The jury will probably have"taj decide whether Mr, Voss was, an
innocent victim of the air crash or
whether he met his death as the result of malicious act of his own," said the Manchester coroner, The United State Navy Depart-opening the inquest to-day on Mr. ment annaunces that the officers Albert Voss. and crew aboard the ill-fated air- ship "Akron" numbered 77.
The apparent death liat is, there- fore, 74, since of the four survivors,
WRECKS LANDED IN STRETCHER one has since died.
Commander. Wiley!
Mr. Voss was a passenger in the *». Imperial Airways liner, City of Liverpool, which crashod at Dix- mude last week, all aboard being killed.
His body was found approximate. Those missing include Admiral: Moffett, who was an American dele-y two miles from the spot where gate to the London Naval Confer- the machine fell.
FUNERAL "STOPPED. The four men picked up were
Paris, Apr. 4. President Roosevelt's desire for al-an early conference in Washing-
together which will investigate the loss of ance. ton of the expert representatives
draft the with the two members of the crew, the Akron. of "Few Powers to
It is recalled that the United Commander Wiley, executive officer, The funeral was to have taken Econo- who survived, and Mr. Copeland, States has already spent 6320,- Mr. Copeland, Chief wireless officer, place on Sunday, but it was stop mic Conference who died after being picked up by 000,000 on such craft, of which and two members of crew,.named ped dramatically at the last was discussed the German tanker Phoebus, has the Shenandoah and the Akron, Erwin and Deal. Mr. Copeland has moment and the body removed for between Mr. Norman Davis been transferred to the coastguard costing rearly G$10,000,000, have since died. and M. Paul cutter, Tucker, which is making. Bencour, the her way to land.
JAPANESE DUMPING" IN INDIA
PROTECTIVE BILL TO BE INTRODUCED
New, Delli, April, 5: The Government has sanctioned the introduction in the current ❤ion of the Assembly of an anti- evidently "been through it and dumping bill having as its object
the protection of Indian textiles industries against other and Japaneee competition-Renter.
were too terrified to speak.
INTERVIEW STORY.
In the final communication of
March 10, Sir Esmond Ovey gives
French For-
eign Secretary,
to-day.
M. Paul Bon- Norman Davis. cour did. 'not' raise any objection to the Ameri-1 can proposat.
The body of, Lieutenant- Commander McLelland, one
of the Akron's officers, has been picked up.
Later.
for
Mr. Norman Davis is having an interview with M. Daladler theThis makes five accounted Premier, in the course of Wednes-
crashed.
EXCESSIVE WEIGHT?
in a
in
Presistent search by ships and aeroplanes has been hampered by fog and rain.
HOPE ALMOST GONE.
Hope of rescuing the other mem- Rear-Admiral W.A. Moffett, the bers of the crew is almost abandon. Jed. most eminent... victim, magazine article published January, declared that the Akron weighed 19,000 pounds in excess
The British people have been. of the estimates, but he expressed deeply shocked by the event and the telt for the opinion that this excess would utmost sympathy is
America in her national disaster.
British Wireless.
details of an interview which he ready in communication with the day morning and he will then while seventy-one or seventy-two not affect her general airworthi-Many messages have been sent.-1
had with M, Litvinoff.
to!
return to London for a further are consultation with British Cabinet
members-Reuter.
German authorities with a view The British Ambassador told M. to ascertaining the nature of the Litvinoff that the question was not charge against him.
COMMITTEE MEETING, one-of sovereign rights, but whe- Meanwhile permission has been
London, Apr. 5: ther Russia was a country in which asked for the British Consul·
It is learned that it has been it was possible for Englishmen to visit him.
Inquiries were being made in provisionally arranged that the ar- live and, trade..
M. Litvinoff said that strong Mr. Fruser's case.--British Wire-ganising committee of the World Economic Conference shall meet in Geneva on April 22.
terms would not have the slightest can. effect on the Soviet Government:
BITTER DISAPPONTMENT..
The British Ambassader then
expressed his bitter disappoint- ment at the "deliberate sabo
-
It is hoped that the first meeting BOXER INDEMNITY of the main Conferenca will be held
on June 1,--Router,
REMISSION
tage" of Anglo-Russian rela- DUTCH - GOVERNMENT
tions. He told M. Litvinoff That
he was the Ambassador who opened relations. He would apparently also be doomed to close them.
DECISION
The Hague, April 4.
It is understood that the re- mittance to China of the Dutch The Russian Goods Imporis partion of the Boxer Indmenity was introduced payments, retrospective as from January, 1926, is being made in into the Commons to-day and accordance with a BI pared some formally read a first time.
Prohibition Bil
PROHIBITION POWERS.
time ago authorising the Nether-i lands Government to spend thei money in agreement with the Government
thel
The text of the Bill gives power Chinese
0}}
ta prohibit by proclamation, the furtherance of common Sine-Dutch
(Continued on Page 7)
aim.-Reuter.
WONDERFUL FLIGHT OUER EVEREST
KING'S MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION
missing, feared drowned.
REFUSE TO TALK. ·
The cutter, Tucker, has landed the three survivors of the Akron disaster. They refused to talk.
Commander Wiley was clad in a very shrunken uniform.
In answer to enquiries, he murmured: "I'm all right?”
TWICE SURVIVED.. “ Deal, one of the members of the crew, was carried ashore in a stretcher.
He was also a survivor of the Shenandoah disaster in" 1925/
London, April 4. The King has sent a message There is a consensus of opinion to the members of the Houston that the catastrophe has dealt a Everest Expedition congratulal-death blow to bis airships, both ing Utem on their wonderful fight
commercial and military; over the summit. The Prime- Minister and the Secretary for Indie, Sir Samuel Hoare, are among many others who sent con- gratulations on the successful achievement-British Wireless,
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ness.
Rear-Admiral Moffett was the Chief of the Aviätion Bureau and as been for more than ten years. His place will be very difficult to all-Reuter's Special in Telegraph Copyright. ·
LATE LORD OXFORD
HOUSE OF COMMONS TRIBUTES
4
BRITISH TRADE
WITH
**CHINA
EFFORTS BY COTTON INDUSTRY
London, Apr. 4. Major Colville Informed Mr. Chorlton in the House of Commons
an autopsy.
Hugo Voss giving evidence, stated that his father WAS in financial difficulties and was Ex- ceedingly worried by his debta. Ke denied, however, that his father was in the habit of taking drugs.
The inquest was adjourned un- til April 27-Reuter.
BRITISH AIR CHIEF SERIOUSLY ILL
Brother Returning To Air Ministry
London, April 4.
It is officially announced that" Air Chief Marshal Sir Jo Salmond, who recently retired, is returning to the Air Ministry to replace his brother, Sir Geoffrey, who le seriously ¡11.—Reuter.
T
BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR
to-day that the Overseas Trade D2 partment in endeavouring to secure ja further expansion of British cot- London, Apr. 4. ton exports to China by co-operat Tributes to the late Lord Ox-fing with the cotton industry and by
·MR NORMAN AGAIN ford were paid in the House of other practical means. · Commons to-day, by the Prime
RE-ELECTED He added in reference to, & ques- Minister. Mr. George Lansbury
London, April 4. and Sir Herbert Samuel, on behalf tion whether any arrangement was
made with the The Bank of England has re of the three parties in the House, likely to be when Mr. MacDonald moved an Japanese, that that point has not elected Mr. Montagu Norman, an address to the King praying that escaped the notice of the Govern-Governor of the Bank of England
a memorial tablet be erected, onment-Reuter. behalf of the House of Commons,
in Westminster Abbey to the
for the current year. Thin 12 h[s] fourteenth successire, re-election.
SECOND HEAVY LOSS.
Mr. J. K. Bousfield was among the Sir Ernest Musgrave Harvey-con- "We have built three and fost two." declared Mr. Vinson, the memory of the late statesman. passengers who arrived by the Em.tinues as Deputy Governor.
press of Russia to-day,
British Wireless. chaliman of the Naval Committee. Britial Wireless.
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