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ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE STORY OF AKRON DRAMA

NAVY AND PIRACY

COMMONS QUESTION ON NANCHANG AFFAIR

ARMED GUARDS WANTED

London, April 5.

The question is being put to the First Lord of the Admiralty "to-day whether, in view of the kidnapping of the officers of the 3.5. Nanchang, he intends to af. ford armed protection to British vessels trading on the Chinese coast.

The Daily Mail, in a lending- article, emphasises that the Nan-

THE MOST ・・ PROMINENT VICTIM

Rear Admirat. W. i. Moffett

chang affair is only one of many NEAR MUTINY IN

similar incidents and expresses the hope that Sir Bolton Eyres- Monsell will be able to promise better and more effective protec-

on in the future.

NAVY CUTS Blamed.

If the pirates cannot be hunted down and executed, the only re- maining course is to revert to the

SHANGHAI

BRITISH SEAMEN

GAOLED

system of placing armed guards DISCONTENT ON

aboard British ships, but for this men must be available...

The reappearance of piracy in the Far East is one of the unwel- come consequences of the recent! heavy reductions in the Navy.-- Reuter.

RESCUE EFFORTS SET

AFOOT

JAPANESE TAKING

ACTION

Tokyo, Apr. 5. Efforts are now being made to

SITHONIA

(Special to "Telegraph")

#deprank, Lopyright. Tragraphic Men |anges Ordinexor, 14BA. Breeseed, April

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Shanghai, Apr. 5.. Six British seamen from the 7,000-ton London steamer Sith- onia were charged in the British. Court yesterday with wilfully neglecting their duty and dis-! obeying the lawful communds of the master.

The case was heard before Ré-l get into touth with the captorsgistrar Haines who imposed fines of Messrs. Johnson, Hargrave and sentences ranging from one and Blue, the officers of the s.a.weeks' imprisonment to a month. Nanchang.

It was stated in evidence that;

"A message from Newchwang states that the Japanese authori-it was ease of the large majority] tics, in co-operation with the Brit- of the seamen combining against

ish Consular officers on the spot, the orders of the master and not are preparing to send as interme- diaries to the pirates the same merely the discontent of a few. men who effected the release of Four of the men will be allowed? Mra. Pawley and Mr. Charles from prison in time to sail with

the ship, while the two ringleaders) Corkran.

Commander Wiley Gives Graphic Details of

Airship's Last Moments from Hospital Bed

NO FIRE AND NO

EXPLOSION

SHIP DAMAGED ́

BY STORM BUT

NOT STRUCK

BY LIGHTNING

As the safety of the British will remain in prison until they] · captives is of paramount import have served their, sentences. ance, the authorities hesitate to Reuterr... 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 reply and the signatories are sol known.-Reuter.

BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA

!!

EFFORTS BY COTTON INDUSTRY

LATE LORD OXFORD

HOUSE OF COMMONS TRIBUTES

London, Apr. 4.

Tributes to the late Lord Ox-1

SWEPT OUT OF CONTROL CAR BY RUSH OF WATER

MEN CALM TO THE END

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages: Ordinance, 1894. Received. Apríl 5, 2.22 p.m.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 4.

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

Our pictures shows the ill fated U. S. airship "Akron, which crashed into White Paper issued to-night,

the aga off the New Jersey coast, flying over Manhattan.

RESCUE

STEADILY POUNDED IN A ROUGH SEA, THE CRAFT LOST

BROKEN FRAME OF THE GIANT AMERICAN DIRIGIBLE, AKRON, IS STILL AFLOAT, ACCORD-

ING TO A WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM THE BLIMP CRASHES COASTWISE STEAMER “GEORGE WASHINGTON" INTO SEA WHICH REPORTS PASSING AN INFLATED

FABRIC LIKE THE COVER OF THE AIRE TWO SAVED BY SURROUNDED BY WRECKAGE, SEVENTEEN MILES SOUTH-WEST OF THE BARNEGAT LIGHTSHIP.

Commander Wiley, the only officer to survive the disaster, graphically described the disaster to news-. papermen to whom he granted an interview in hospital to-day.

Clad in hospital pyjamas, Commander Wiley look- ed little the worse for his grim experience. He made several points clear in the course of the interview.

THERE WAS NO INDICATION, HE SAID, THAT THE AKRON WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. THERE WAS NO EXPLOSION ABOARD HER. SHE DID NOT CATCH FIRE.

The Akron ran into the storm at ten o'clock and the first warning of peril came at midnight.

cause.

KNEW CRASH WAS INEVITABLE

SEAPLANE

London, Apr. 4. Disaster has overtaken one of the rescue craft en- gaged in connexion with the Akron catastrophe.

A New Jersey message reports!

detailing Anglo-Russian com- GILINANZANIANUNINNUNUZITmunications in the last three

AMERICAN "SILVER LEGISLATION

MR. WOODIN CALLING

A CONFERENCE

Silver made an advance on the market to-day as the result of a report that Mr.

the Woodin, Secretary to Treasury, plans to call a con- ference of senators and repre- sentatives to discuss sliver legislation...

This uiso rallied silver and other shares--Per Swan Cul berson and Fritz.

ROOSEVELT

that the American naval blimp, INVITATION

the J4, while searching for sur vivors of the Akron, got out of control and erashed into the sea.

Two of the crew were rescued WORLD ECONOMIC by a seaplane, but it is feared that the other five were drowned.

SURVIVOR'S DEATH,

The United State Navy Depart-! ment annaunces that the officers! and crew aboard the ill-fated air- ship "Akron" numbyred 77.

CONFERENCE

PRELIMINARIES

weeks.

Sir Esmorid Ovey's" 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 Britiah Ambasandőr since the first arrests on March 12.

"THIRD DEGREE",

in his first despatch, Bir Esmond Ovoy recorded how Mr.. Allan Monkhouse, onc of the principal representatives Metropolitan Vickers, was {nter- rogated for nineteen hours with- out interruption.

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Mr. Monkhouse admitted that he had reported to Metropolitan Vickers in England periodical- ly, on the slate of business, based on information received from the Company's enginers,

ESPIONAGE.

His interrogators declared that it was criminal espionage to ac-

IN WASHINGTONquire information except from

officials of the USSR.

Paris, Apr. 4. Mr. Monkhouse also agreed, President Roosevelt's desire for during the questioning, that an early conference in Washing twenty-five of the company's tur- ton of the expert representatives bines were faulty. He said that:

agenda for the fsian purchasers insisting on a World Econo- departure from standard machines mic Conference and pointed out that in every case was discussed the Company had taken rapid between Mr. steps to repair the defects. Norman Davis

The apparent death list is, there She was flying at a considerable He ordered all hands to stand fore, 74, since of the four survivors, height. At midnight she began to by in preparation for the shock.fone has since died.

Those missing include Admiral of a few Powers to draft the this was mainly through the Rus- descend rapidly without apparent There was no confusion aboard in

spite of the fact that all aboard Moffett, who was an American dele- The engines, in the meantime, was aware that they were in dead-gate to the London Naval Confer- were being kept running ut fully peril. All orders were carried ence. speed.

out quietly and efficiently.

They hit the water almost He ordered all the ballast for-mediately after the Stand ward to be dropped and the pre-order had ben given. cipitous fall of the airship end- ed she had reached a level of about 800 feet from the water.

Then they seemed to get better: ford were paid in the House of control and she rose rapidly and Commons to-day by the Prime levelled off at about 1,500 feet. Minister, Mr. George Lansbury

and Sir Herbert Sanruel, on behalf

of the three parties in the House, when Mr. MacDonald moved ani

CONTROL WIRES CARRIED

AWAY..

The sea rushed into the window of the control car and swept him out,

The four men picked up were im-Commander Wiley, executive officer,

By

Mr. Copeland, Chief wireless officer. and two members of crew, named Erwin and Deal. Mr. Copeland has since died....

HOPE ALMOST GONE.

He tried to swim away as fastbers of the crew is almost abandon- Hope of rescuing the other mem- as possible and finally came to the jed. [surface clear of the wreckare.

AKRON A WRECK,

and M. Paul- Boncour, the French For- eign Secretary, to-day.

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 evidently "been through it" and were too terrified to speak.

INTERVIEW STORY.

M. Paul Bon-

· Norman Davis.

cour did not raise any objection to the Ameri- Persistent search by ships and can proposal. aeroplanes has been hampered by Mr. Norman Davis is having an

In the final communication of interview with M. Daladier the March 16, Sir Esmond Ovey given fog and rain.

people have been Premier in the course of Wednes details of an interview which he He saw the massive length of The British Three minutes later, the air be-l Major Colville informed Mr. address to the King praying that came turbulent. The airship toss-the Akron drifting slowly awar, deeply shocked by the event and the day morning and he will then had with M. Litvinoff.

utmost sympathy is felt for return to London for a further Chorlton in the House of Commons memorial tablet be erected, on el violently and he knew that they lit up by flashes of lighting.

The bow was pointing into the America in her national disaster computation with British Cabinet to-day that the Overseas Trade D2 behelf of the House of Commons,were in the centre of the

Many messages have been sent.-members-Reuter. partment is endeavouring to secure

The whole structure Was aBritish Wireless.

London, Apr. 4.

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a further expansion of British cot ton exports to China by co-operat- ing with the cotton industry and-by other practical means.

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storm

in Weetminster Abbey to the and that they were facing a grave air. memory of the late, statesman-emergency.

to He called all inds their wreck. British Wireless.

I stations.

Then the ship lurched sharply,

rudder were carried away,

He added in reference to a ques- WOMAN'S FLIGHT TO and her control wires and upper

tion whether any arrangement was likely to be made with the Japanese, that that point has not escaped the notice of the Govern- ment-Reuler.

BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR

MR NORMAN AGAIN RE-ELECTED

London, April 4.

FAR EAST

MDLLE. HILZ LEAVES FOR CALCUTTA“

Karachi, April 5. The French airwoman, Malle. Maryse Hilz, arrived here last) night and left lit 6.45 am. to-day. -Reuter.

CLOUDY WEATHER The anticyclone has dispersed. The Bank of England has re- elected Mr. Montagu Norman as Pressure is now highest over Governor of the Bank of England South Manchuria, and relatively

Efforts were then made to steer. the craft through the storm by use

of the lower rudder. Commander Wiley himself took up a position on the right side of the control car, supervising the rudder.

DRAMATIC MOMENTS. In these dramatle monents: the elevator man reported that the airship was falling rapidly with her nose inclined upwardl at an angle of about twenty degrees.

Nothing was visible outside owing to the fog.

Commander Wiley asked what for the current year. This is his low over Indo-China, The depres altitude the great dirigible had and

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COMMITTEE MEETING.

London, Apr. 5. It is learned that it has been He then saw the lights of the German tanker. Phoebus and world's largest airship, the U.S.S. provisionally arranged that the or swam towards her. He bumped Akron, is contained in a wireless ganising committee of the World into a board to which he clung. message from Commander Wiley, Economic Conference shall meet in He could hear men in the water the Executive Officer, and Second Geneva on April 22, around him, shouting. He did in-Command, the only officer to

It is hoped that the first meeting of the main Conference will be held not see any in the vicinity of the escape..

Commander Wiley declares that on June 1--Reuter, Phoebus, which had stopped and

the dirigible found herself sur- was drifting, towards him.

rounded by Bghtning at ten o'clock The crew of the tanker threw last night. She attempted to rus him a line and hauled him aboard. through the storm, rising to

Reuter's Special te Telegraph altitude of sixteen thousand feet, pecasionally changing her course Copyright.

in an attempt to avoid the storm.

RUDDER CONTROL WRECKED

Finally, her rudder control was carried away and the ship struck the water and was almost im- mediately demolished by the rough se

EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S TALE OF TRAGEDY

(Special to "Telegraph") (Teroraph Copyright. Telegraphis Mes ZEPL Received. April are Ordinance.

fourteenth successive re-election.gion is situated between South was told that she was only three a.m.) New York, Apr. 4.

Sir Ernest Musgrave Harvey con- Japan and the Bonins,

Local

tinues 28 Deputy

British Wireless.

Governor forecast-East winds, moderate;

cloudy.

hundred feet above sea-level.

He knew at this stage that aj Terash was inevitable.

She began an unexplained des- cent at midnight. Her ballast was The first official survivor's, ac-dropped." She became enveloped in count of the disaster to the (Continued on Page 6.)

WONDERFUL FLIGHT OVER EVEREST

KING'S MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION

London, April 4.

The King has sent a message to the members of the Houston Everest Expedition congratulat- ing them on their wonderful fight over the summit. The Prime. Minister and the Becretary for Indle, Bir Samuel Hoare, are among many others who sent con- gratulations on the successful achievement-British Wireless.

The British Ambassador told M. Litvinoff that the question was not one of sovereign rights, but whe. ther Russia was a country in which it was possible for Englishmen to live and trade.

M: Litvinoff said that strong terms would not have the slightest effect on the Soviet Government.

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BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.

The British Ambassador then expressed his bitter disappoint- ment at the "deliberate sabo- tage of Anglo-Russian refa- tions: He told M. Litvinoff that he was the Ambassador who opened relations. He would apparently, also be doomed to close them,

The Russian Goods Imports Prohibition Bill was introduced into the Commons to-day and formally read a Brst time.

PROHIBITION POWERS.' The text of the Bill gives power to prohibit by proclamation, the import of all Ruszian goods except by Board of Trade Licence,

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