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WHITEAWAY'S

LINER

WOMEN AND Britain Fears Wider Intervention in Spain

FEARED

CHILDREN

Only Five Survive

AMONG LOST

Machine - Gunning

By Japanese

Planes

PLANE SANK SWIFTLY UNDER HAIL OF LEAD

Twelve are now missing, and feared to have

ONE OF THIS FLEET of China National Aviation Corporation machines, photographed at Kai Tak, was shot down by Japanese pursuit planes soon after it left Hongkong yesterday, near Shekki, on the delta west of Macao. Twelve persons are They are be- missing, including two women and two children. lieved to have perished by drowning or to have died of wounds.

been killed by machine-gun bullets or to have CORRUPTION CHARGE

drowned, trapped, in the China

National

Aviation Corporation plane which was shot down ANGERS HINES

by Japanese pursuit machines yesterday a few minutes after it left Hongkong.

There are five survivors. The Pilot, H. L. Woods, an American from Kansas, reached

this Hongkong early

U.S.S. morning in Mindanao. One passenger, Mr. Li Chia-sung, is in hospital at Shekki, and is believed to be seriously wounded. A second passenger, Mr. C. N. Lou, of the Chinese Ministry of Finance, is in hospital in Macao, shot through the neck. The radio operator, named Lau, is unwounded, and the co-pilot, a Chinese, is in Shekki with a bullet through his arm.

Among the dead or missing are: Mrs. L Chia-sung, and hor two- year-old baby:

Mr. Y. Wu, managing director of the Bank of Communications, Mrs. Wu and their daughter:

Mr. Hsu Sing-loh, general man- ager of the National Commercial Bank and a member of the Shang- hai Municipal Council;

Hu Pih-kang, manager of the China brunch of the

Bank.

There are four other passengers missing, believed to be members of Dr. Sun Fo's entourage.

The twelfth missing person is the Chinese steward of the airliner.

Mr. Li, the wounded passenger at Shekici, was on his way froin Lon- don to Hankow with his wife and daughter, who are among the miss-

Luckiest ITAT on the C.N.A.C. plane was the pilot, Hugh L. Woods, who reached Hongkong at 1 am, to- -day aboard the US.S. Mindanao,

He was unhurt and save for lack of sleep showed no trace of the harrow- ing ordeal through which he had *passed.

"I have been asked to refrain from (Continued on Page 4.)-

24 KILLED AS PLANES COLLIDE

Stiff British Protest To Insurgents

London, Aug. 24.

The Brillah Government has handed a Note to the Insurgent authorities of Burzas, protesting against the allered execution of a number of political prisoners, According

the Evening Standard.

The newspaper asserts that the Note was couched in vigorous terms-Trans-Ocean,

to

BITTER YANGTSE BATTLES

Chinese Strike Back Near Juichang

IN

RACKETEERING TRIAL

New York, Aug. 24.

BRITISH OFFICER ATTACKED

Terrorist Wounds A.D.C. In Jenin

Haifa, Aug. 24. Walter Moffatt, Assistant Dis-' trict Commissioner, was shot and seriously wounded when a terrorist entered his office at Jenin and fired several revolver) shots at point blank range.

The District Commissioner, mort- ally wounded, has been removed to hospital, where six British constables are waiting to give blood transfusions

necessary,

Muffatt has six bullet wounds in his neck, leg and stomach, and his condition to-night was described as dangerous.

This is the Recond attempt on Moffatt's life in two months. Some weeks ago while he was motoring near Jenin his bodyguard was killed by two brigands who unsuccessfully attempted to shoot the Commissioner. Detachments of the Border Regi- ment and the Black Watch have been sent to Jenin to assist the Essex Regiment in a search for to-day's assailant.-Reuter.

ASSAILANT ARRESTED

Haifa, Aug. 24. It is authoritively reported here been that Moffatt's assallant has

George Weinberg, former "business manager" of arrested In Jenin-Reuter. the late "Dutch" Schultz, New York's "Beer Baron" who was killed by gangsters two years ago, continued his evidence to-day in the amazing trial of James J. Hines, former: "Tammany" -leader.

Hines is charged with bribery, and illegal gambling operations. If New York's famed anti-racketeering District Attorney, Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, proves his case to the jury, the ex-Tammany leader faces life imprison- ment in Sing-Sing.

Weinberg told the Court this morning that in October, 1933, "Dutch" Schultz ordered him to help Hines with money to elect Mr. W. C. Dodge as District Attorney in Manhattan.

Dodge was the predecessor in this office of Mr. Dowey, who named Dodge as

one of the

public officials "influenced" by Hines.

Weinberg stated that the gang gave Hines altogether about

POISON GAS USE CONFIRMED

Chinese Embassy Statement

has that tho

Washington, Aug. 24. The Chinese Embassy

press reports corroborated poison gus, believed to be of asphyxiating type, completely wiped out two Chinese battalions during the fighting along the Yangtse pre- ceding the fall of Juichang.

ANTICIPATES HEAVY BLOW FROM ABROAD AIMED AT LOYALISTS

May Ask Insurgent

Chief

To Reconsider Attitude On Volunteer Withdrawal

London, Aug. 24.

There are indications in political and diplomatic circles in London that the British Government fears a: new wave of foreign intervention in Spain, designed definitely to crush the Loyalists, as a result of the break- down in Anglo-Italian relations and General Francisco Franco's reply to the British Note on the withdrawal of

volunteers.

Acute anxiety is manifest in political circles, as indicated by the fact that Sir John Simon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, returned from Scotland to-day and immediately conferred with the Prime Minister and Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary.

At present it seems that Great Britain favours a new approach to General Franco in the hope that the Insurgents will re-consider their stand regarding the evacuation of volunteers..

France, apparently, is inclined to let Britain assume the responsibility for the time-being.-United Press.

Premier Reviews Position

APPEALING FOR UNITY IN FRANCE

Social Recession Not Intended

The Embassy said that the Chinese LOYALIST

DESTROYER

(U.S.$30,000 before Dodge's elec- MYSTERY

tion, and between $2,000 and $3,000 after the election.

"DON'T DO THAT!"

Gibraltar, Aug. 24. Mystery surrounds the where. Hines, who up to then had given abouts of the Spanish Govern-

to qulet attention

Weinberg's ment destroyer Jose Luis Diez, evidence, jumped up in a rage and which was reported last week to called the witness a llar.

elbow have left Le Havre for the When Counsel tugged his Hines roared: "Don't do that!" and Mediterranean after undergoing pounded the table.

the past eight

repairs for

The Judge stopped the proceedings months. and warned the defendant that such an outburst must not be repeated. Reuter.

COUNSEL APOLOGISES

was

It is believed that the destroyer is making for some Spanish Loyalist port but, according to the naval au- thorities here, it has not yet passed New York, Aug. 24. through the Straits of Gibraltar.

to able Before Weinberg

Several Insurgent armed vessels answer a question by Mr. J. Stryker, are seen constantly patrolling the Hines' Counsel, concerning his pre- Straits, apparently searching for the vious testimony that he had visited Jose Luis Dicz Reuter Special. Hines at his apartment in May and

HEADING FOR MOROCCOT June, 1932, there was a drontatio interruption.

Paris, Aug. 24.. "Look Hines in the face and tell

Spanish Insurgent cruiser ever saw him in that Canarias, has been seen cruising off apartment," said Counsel.

Casablanca, according to French press Hines rose to his

The

VAND CRASH siderable success, according to "You know you llet and shouted, reports,

Wreck Sets Fire To Factory

Omori, Aug. 25.

It is now learned that the death -roll resulting from the collision of two training aircraft over this city has reached 24,

Seven airmen were killed when the

RANCE

Mahweiling Klangsi, Aug.25.

Chinese forces on the south Yangtee River front are striking back on the Japanese with con- information from the front. Counsel apologised and resumed Insurgent circles here suggest that the cruiser is waiting to Interecept Launching a counter-offensive, the his cross-examination. Chinese have re-occupied Chuchwang

Earlier Weinberg had testifled that, the destroyer Jose Luiz Diez, As the Straits of Cibraltar.

Bro "Beer Baron," Schultz, had and Tawuho, northeast of Julchang, the on the north bank of Chihu Lake. ordered him to "use all the money doubtless closed to the passage of the The defeated

Japanese are fecing we could" to promote the election of Loyalist destroyer by the Insurgents, may make for the Moroccan coast.es eastward, leaving many dead and Dodge as District AttorneyUnited it is suggested that the Loyalist vasso!

Preas.

Reuter Special.

wounded behind. They are being hotly pursued by the Chinese.

Fighting of a severe nature is still

raging around Singize, on the west HORTHY WELCOMED the same platform so that Herr Hiller

Paris, Aug. 24. After a meeting presided commander in the Juichang sector

the reported that two Chinese over by the Prime Minister, M. battalions had successfully counter- Edouard Daladier, the Executive attacked the Japanese who had of the Radical Party issued a previously reached Tawuho, forcing statement which is expected to them back to Chuchwang.

Wa3

the

At 10 am. on August 22 the gas go far in clarifying the political

released by

Japanese, situation. destroying all except the battalion commander, one lieutenant and two privates.--United Press.

Trans-Persian Railway Completed

886-Mile Line Took 8 Years To Finish

Cairo, Aug. 24. The trans-Persian Railway, stretch- ing 888 miles from Shah to Shahpur, via Teheran, has been completed, after eight years' work.

Work on the construction of the railway, the longest in Iran, was cum menced at the two termini in 1930, and the north and south sections mat

The line will be opened to trame by Shah Pahlavi on Friday-Trans- Ocean.

at Sultonabad to-day.

AIR OFFICIAL'S NEAR EAST TOUR

The statement urges that a nationali effort alming at universal respect for social laws should be made by the Republican majority In Parliament,

* London, Aug.-24.

It is understood that before resum- ing his holiday the Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, reviewed the tie foreign political outlook with Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John

Simon. Their

conversation embraced not only the question of Non-Interven- tion in Spain in the light of General Franco's reply to the British Note,

in but also the situation

central Europe.

In the evening a member of Lord Runciman's

to Mission

Czecho-

(Continued on Page 4.)

Slovakin, who came to London en a

STOP PRESS

DRAMATIC

and declares that the adaptation of DETAILS OF

the 40-hour week to the necessitles of national life and international con- Iditions cannot be considered an act

nor

in an of social recession dication of a political change of tront

on the part of the Government.

The statement concludes by calling

for the collaboration and support at

DISASTER

PILOT WOODS' STORY

An official statement was issued by

full strength of all parties whose alm the C.N.A.C. this morning. It was

peace of the Fatherland.

•

Is to safeguard the liberties and based on information supplied by the pilot of the machine-gunned plane,

The statement

In

after

Political majority circles interpret Mr. H. L. Woods,

that said the statement as an indication that leaving Hongkong at: 8.04 a.m. tho M. Daladier and his party do not pilot sighted

Ave Japanese pursuit 65 miles west of the Colony. want to change the majority-Reuter. |

planes

order to

en attack he de- to avoid elded to descend through some low- lying clouds. This he did, but found the clouds did not offer sumo

suficient Но security.

was overtaken by the punt planes which immediate

opened fire with machine-guns.. Several bullets struck the plant.

Pilot Woods decided to land but 25 thu terrain in the neighbourhood consisted of rice fields and dykes, he, thought it best to land in small

· Lufthansa planes have now com- rivehis was accomplished safely and pleted three experimental two-way when he landed, no passengers had ·

Another been crossings of the Atlantic.

Injured. About 50 yards away from the

Swift Ocean Crossing By German Plane

Berlin, Aug. 24.

to

25 nights to and from New York will be made before the end of the year. shore he saw a sampan and decided The monopland Nordmeer" made to swim It However, he London, Aug. 24.

Under the fit crossing from the Azores to underestimated the current and was Mr. William Balfour, collided. The wreckage of bank of Payang Lake to the southeart

Secretary of State for Alr, is leaving New York in 17 hours, 40 minutes. swept a considerable distance down- cum of the machines crashed into a of Kuling. The bulk of the Japanese factory yard and set fire to the build advancing westward from Singize is

Hendon Airport by plane, on Septem- The second flight by Norwind" was stream. When he did reach shore he

(Further Stop Press News on Joe Seventeen, periona keware defiled kept in check at Yuchinshan and Ox

bar to visit Real Air Fores units made in 10 hours 2 minuter. The Heed Hill, Homediately!-west and Mharo and 200 injuredi ist/nited

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IN BERLIN

Berlin, Aug. 24. Special trains bringing Admiral the Hungarian Regent, and tia kirived in Berlin, this lino taimultaneously. The a rum on oppodis sides of

could jump from his train and greet Admiral Horthy.

General Goering also welcomed the Hungarian Regent who drove through the lavishly decorated streats to the Presidential Palace, where......: hè being entertained at a State banquet

to-night, Reuters met

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made from · New York to in Egypt, the Sudan, Kenya, Palestine, third and just completed night was Trans Jordan, Iraq and Malla.

He will raturn to England about Azores in 14 hours,

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