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MEAI4I+ITATS HONGKONG," SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1925.
NATURE'S FURY.
TERRIFIC GALES AND SNOWSTORMS.
Exciting
GLEN BOAT'S PERIL.
Fire On Clyde
Liner.
NEW YEAR REVELS.
Japanese Over Hilarious.
TROUBLE AT WANCHAL
SEWING MACHINE THROWN OUT WINDOW."
The New Year festivities of the
Contrasted with man's peaceful pursuits during the past few Japanese community were marred hath days has been the fury of Nature.
Call For Help.
(Reuter's Service.)
"
Five' tugs went to assist the vessel. A cutter finally took off the passengers. ..!!
The
Later. has
been
"Mohawk " London, January 2, An event in the sale off the beached here.
Steamer Missing. British coast was a Hasting wire-
Mexico City, January 2. less amateur picking up an 8.0.S.
Attempts are being made to from the Clen liner "Glensanda," bound from Shanghai to Ham- locate the steamship "Tamsulipas" burg. stating she was drifting out with 200 passengers aboard also of control thirty miles south of five schooners which left Vera Benchy Head.
...Cruz on December 23 for Gulf The crew numbers sixty, includ-ports. ing many Chinese. A tug is pro- It is feared that all have been ceeding from Newhaven to assist lost in gales. the vessel which later wirelessed saying she does not require assistance at present.
..
[Earlier cables reported that a terrific intermittent, gale, accom- panied by torrential rain, hail and snow had swept Britain during the past week, interrupting road, rail und telephone communications, interfering with sport and causing serious floods in lowlying parts, especially in the valley of the Thames where villas, bungalows and farms are isolated. Shipping and the air services were seriously interrupted but no serious casual- tics were reported.]
New York's Plight.
+3
(Reuter's American Service.)
New York. January 2.0 Like England, New York is the victim of the wildest weather. Snow; driven by a sixty miles an hour gale 'is rapidly filling the streets, and rendering. walking virtually impossible.
Six thousand snow-plough workers have been mobilised, but it is expected the snow will be some six inches deep to-night, making home going for suburban dwellers a difficult task.
Clyde Liner Fire.
(Reuter's American Sornice.)
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Lewes, Delaware, Jan. 2. Fire, aboard, the Clyde liner "Mohawk" was extinguished after exciting scenes. The fire started in the after hold and spread' to the after saloon.
The 270 passengers donned their life-belts in readiness to take to the life-boats,
A high gale and a driving snow- storm forced the vessel to take refuge in Delaware Bay..
SOVIETS' FEARS. ANOTHER ELECTION
ORDERED.
(Reuter's Service.)
RIGA, January 3.
11
by some un sant incidents, which led to Rumber of persons. being brought up at the Central Magistracy the morning on väri- ous charges drunkenness and disorderly condet:
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RUTHLESS SCIENCE.
NOTHER VICTIM CLAIMED.
RÖNTGEN MARTYR.
French Professor's Heroic
hat her victories rio less renowned than war. Also she heroes.
Hopeless Cripple.
(Reuter'a Service,)
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He was recently awarded the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour.
Rontgen raya were discovered Bordeaux, January 2. by Konrad Rontgen, the great In the first se, tried before Mr. J. R. Wd two: seamen,
Science halaimed another German physicist, in 1895, and Fukuyama Hayoshi and Mura martyr in the son of Professor were first known as "X-rays." Kamikeitire,tered a tailor's Bergonic, who died after months They are believed to be due to shop at No. 28, Lee Tung Street, of suffering from the ravages of pulsations in the luminiferous Wanchai, yesterday afternoon, Rontgen rays, with which he exether, and to travel through that and it was alleged, caused damage perimented with brilliant success, medium with a speed approaching particularly against cancer. light. The chief property of and bodily inju
Fong Wing, the complainant. In spite of successive amputa- these rays ja that they can pass stated that the two accused, on' tions, Professor Bergonic only through matter which is opaque entering the shop. produced a abandoned his laboratory when to light, and as a rule the less clasp knife, whereupon the first he had become a hopeless cripple. dense such matter is, the greater
PALACE OF BLACKMAILED INDIAN PRINCE. ?
Although for "reasons of State, the name of the mysterious "Mr. A.," the Indian potentate who paid £150,000 to blackmailers when caught in Paris with Mrs. Maude Robinson, the beautiful wife of a middle-aged London bookmaker, was at first kept secret, it was later announced in London that he was Sir Hari (or Hurri) Singh, who lives in state in Sher Gahri, the imposing and magnificent home of his father, Maharajah of Kashmir and Jammu, one of the wealthiest of Indian Princes. In the foreground, is the royal barge. Other pictures relating to the cause celebre will be found on page six. of this issue.
DEBTS.
BRITAIN'S "INTERESTING
THOSE WAR
4
SILENCE.
(Reuter's American Service.)
WASHINGTON, January 2
accused cut up some jackets lying. on the counter and behaved in a boisterous manner. On remons trating with the accused, the com- plainant was stabbed in the arm. Further unpleasant scenes took place, whilst a sewing machine was lifted out from the stand and thrown out of the window. The accused then marched out, but were arrested a little later in a medicine shop.
PEKING AMNESTY.
TSAO KUN EXPRESSLY EXCEPTED.
(Reuter's Service.)
PERING, January 2,
screen
is the ease with which they are transmitted. The rays are also capable of affecting a photo- graphic plate and of producing. phosphorescence "on a coated with barium "plati- nocyanide., This, together with the absorption of the rays by denser substances, makes it pos sible to show on a photograph or screen the, structure of different parts of the human body, the bones being distinguished by their darker shade.
"Another important property of the rays is that they are capable of ionizing a gas. Rontgen rays: differ from light in several im- portant respects. They cannot be refracted or polarized; their reflection from any surface is a diffuse reflection which does not follow the laws of reflection in light; and phenomena of inter- ference and diffraction have not, so far, been observed in them.
Rontgen rays are employed by surgeons not only for diagnostic purposes as in the diagosis of fractures, dislocations, calcul foreign bodies but in the tren ment of various conditions. Canes and sarcomas treated by application of these riva d'opini în growth, and rodent® piceri which is a form of cancer, may be completely cured if it has not progressed too deeply. In many skin diseases, especially ring-j worm and chronic skin con- ditions, they generally affect a dure, and they have a valuable in- fluence on lupus, although a re lapse is common in that disease. The swollen condition of the spleen in leukaemia is reduced by application of Rontgen rays, and the enlargement of lymph glands in tuberculosis (serofula), and lumphadenoma can also be re duced by this method. The rays have a destructive effect upon the normal healthy tissues, and these must be protected both by care-
FRENCH PROPOSALS.
(Routers Service.)
A mandate grants amnesty to all ful regulation of the quantity of prisoners excepting Tsao Kun, rays emitted and by enclosing the A high official of the State De-
who must face a public trial, mem- Rontgen raya, tube in an imper partment has been authorised to
bers of Parliament concern the meable box with a suitable opera make a statement that no assurance The first accused admitted that Tsac Kun's election, who all hing in it for the passage of the has reached Washington from London that Britain will not oppose could not remember anything.
he had taken a lot of liquor and placed before the forthcoming rays."
national conference, and offatiders a Franco-American debt settle.
charged with robbery, murder; Detective-Sergeant O'Donovan, ment on terms more lenient than
The mandate says the distur the Anglo American settlement, who arrested the men, stated that rape, arson and breaking dykes. A message from Moscow states as alleged in a report published in a certain amount of trouble was bances of the last thirteen years that the Soviet Government, after London, but the absence of any caused by these men during the and the abuses for which the mili
tary have been responsible have re- investigation, has decided that denial by the British Foreign holidays and festivals: elections which began two months Office that such suggestions might
His Worship sentenced the first sulted in the destitution of the ago, introduced undesirable ele- be forthcoming was noted as a accused to one month's hard people and many persons have ments into the Soviets.
labour in, respect of the stabbing been led to offend against the laws. y interesting fact. The Government has cons
charge. He was further ordered The general amnesty Isoclaimed quently ordered fresh electics
to pay $10 compensation to the to mark an epochalent in the It has instructed the local
injured mar and $40 for damage lives of the people a the history Bolshevik authorities do their
to the sewing machine, or a fur- of the Chinese Republic.
Another mandate abolishes the utmost to combat the electors'
ther moth in default. apathy and counteract the in
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. The cond accused, against college marshals. creased influer of the Kulaks
The Cabinet informally con- whom there was no proof of mis- and otherm the well-to-do
sidered Intimations which reached behaviour, beyond being drunk, peasants by assembling a
American officials giving an was discharged. mazimur number of the peasant advance_summary of the forth- Ancther case was heard before
participate in the elec nd ensure the return coming French pole dealing with Mr. N. L. Smith, the accused being. Yano Shoji, merchant, No. unists and non-Com-war debts. pporters of the Soviet
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The nature of the contents was not divulged. Official circles are unwilling to make any math but gratification is shown that the discussions have at last produced a proposal from Paris.
CHINA'S BURDEN. (Reuter's Services)
SHANGHAI, January 3.
LONDON JA The nature of the posals reaching Washington garding the repayment of war debt is elucidated in a P semi-official” message
M. Clementel, the Finance Mini recently communicated suggestions to Mr. Heml United States ambassador, transmission to Washington, French offer binding the Government has been made The Journal des Debats,
13, Lee Tung Street, who was Reports from Sangkiang Indigate charged with damage to property that General Chen Lehen's the French proposals. and unlawful possession of a movement against Generally & moratorium for ton Chuan-fang has been practically payments to be spread dagger.
Detective Sergeant O'Donovan dissipated, and that there are years.
possibilities of the trouble ending stated that the accused paid e
within a day or two. visit to the residence of a Japan- General Suo Chuadfang gainer ese lady at No. 22, Prayn East the advantage by first atte yesterday afternoon. New Year and appears to have, retained, cheer was offered in the national the fighting, which has not way, but the accused refused to serious! (Router's American Service partake of any refreshments and
smart
UNITED STATES
C: GOULD DEAD.
BERAL PARTY'S EATEST ASSET..
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-LONDON, January-2.- Heath is announced of the Christ, Sir F: G÷Gould,"
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