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TRAGEDY.
Collapse of a Derrick Takes Toll.
WHERE WAS THE AMBULANCE?
The Gloucester Building, under erection on the old Hong Kong Hotel site, took more toll of human lives this morning, when a'derrick collapsed.
The
As Court
China Mail
No. 27,526
PIRACY SEQUEL.
NINE KIDNAPPED VICTIMS RELEASED.
THREE STILL HELD.
With regard to the piracy of a Cheung Chau fishing boat of She
ESTABLISHED
1348
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The 'he closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3 .
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
TIENTSIN COMMAND. TEST MATCH BRIGHT FUTURE?
LT.-COL. BURNELL-NUGENT TO
ACT AS BRIGADIER.
BRIGOR. HEATH REPLACED.
AT LORDS
K. S. DULEEPSINHJI'S |
FINE RECORD.
ENGLAND'S "TAIL"
NINETY RUNS IN 70 MINUTES.
ex-
PROSPECTS OF THE RUBBER
INDUSTRY.
GOOD TIME AHEAD,
London, Yesterday.
CIVIL WAR.
NANKING MEETS MUCH REVERSE.
NORTHERN CLAIMS.
ого
Dainty Eyeglasses
I
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician
13, Queen's Road Central,
Peking, Yesterday.
WILLIAM POWELL
LIMITED.
Difficult Trading“ Year.
A NEW APPOINTMENT.
London, Yesterday. The War Office officially states
Mr. H. Fildes, proposing the Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, in a weekly that Lieutenant-Colonel Frank
toast of the rubber, industry at review, declared that Marshal Muk Chau, in Chinese waters last Burnell-Nugent, D.S.O., Com-
the annual dinner of the Malayan Chiang Kai-shek was defeated in At the annual general meeting Sunday night (reported in last manding the Second Battalion
Planters' Association, said that his offensive along the Lung-Hai of Messrs. William Powell, Monday's China'Mail, nine of the Rifle Brigade since 1927, has been
with the multifarious uses to Railway, as the North-western Limited, to-day the Chairman. 12 kidnapped persons have been re-selected to command the Tien-
which rubber was put and with troops knew his plans and so con- (Mr. M. Manuk), said, that he re- lensed by the pirates, and returned tsin aren in succession to
the spread of its uses in civilisa-coated seventy thousand men in gretted to report a slight ldas on. That area wis seething with 'ex-
London, Yesterday.tion, the prospects of the future ambush in villages and attacked the year. He was sure, however, Brigadier Colonel Ronald Macetes- citement when a China Mail re-
to Cheung Chay yesterday. The
A crowd of 20,000 were amazed must be bright, field Heath, C.M.G., D.S.O., to hear thut presentative arrived on the spot. party includes two men, two women Middlesex Regiment, Command- unfit and that he had been
him. The flank and rear of the that shareholders would realise Larwood was stul
Str Stanley Pois said that Nanking forces have now retreat that the period under review had- The first batch of casualties to and five children.
ing the Tientsin area since 1926. cluded from the England side, though rubber was now in the ed to their original defensive posi-been a very difficult one, owing to meet his eyes were the bodies of
The three who are still being-Reuter two Chinese Inborers lying out-
As regards Shantung, troubled local conditiong, -. Before the game the players were doldrums, he hoped that they tions.
The Chairman also announced side of the wooden fencing on the held by the pirates for ransom are [Lt. Col. Burnall-Nugent was presented to H.R.H. the Duke of. would all keep cheerful and not General Han Fu-chu, the Nation Dos Voeux Road side. They were Chan Chuen-shun, master
become pessimists. There was a alist Commander, hoped to estab- the appointment of Mr. Hubert born in 1880 and educated at York. attended by a body
Winchester and the Royal Mili-
The changes in of willing junk. Chan Sui-hee (4), his son.
the England good time ahead. They should alllish the Shantung Provincial Overy as Managing Director of workers: some of whom
tary College, Camberley. He side werc
J. C. White, G. O. sympathise with the men on the Government at Tsingtao, but the Company, and, in doing so, joined the Rifle Brigade in 1899,
spot who were carrying on amid found that Marshal Yen Hsi-shan paid a tribute to Mr. Overy's long great difficulty.
had long ago inade arrangements and faithful service with Messrs. and was promoted to be Lieut. Colonel in 1927, In 1901 he
Lord Colwyn said that there with General Chang Hauch-liang, William Powell.
head of the Manchurian Govern- Chairman's Speech. served with the Mounted In-
no reason for the present ment, that Tsingtao should be fantry in the Boer War, being
pessimism. People were selling dangerously wounded, and served throughout, the Euro- pean War, being wounded in the -retreat from Mons. Later in the Great War he commanded the 167th and 182nd Infantry Brigades with the temporary rank of Brigade Major.]
were
of the
members of the St. John Am-l and a fisherman named Leung Tai- bulance Brigade, who had hur- yau. riedly left their office desks.
At the time of the piracy the funk
Rough pieces of timbers were was out in the fishing grounds turned into splints and all sorts with a crew of 25. of garments were torn up to make
Thirteen had
into bandages, and before a few left the junk in four small boats minutes had elapsed, these two to stake fishing nets a little dis- men were properly bandaged up tance from their craft when a large and made as comfortable as the pirate junk slipped alongside the circumstances would permit.
A visit to the inside of the fenc-fishing boat, which was unable to ing revealed the body of a Chin-repulse the invaders
as she
Her
*4
ese just at the entrance of the did not carry any small arms. gateway. beyond
This poor man was only armament were two cannons, all medical aid.
A couple of feet away from him which, however, were useless be- was another man, very badly hitfcause they took too long to load and suffering from concussion. Dr. Coogan and other members of
*
Lad Killed.
After overpowering those on the
GLOOMY DEAN." APPOINTED K.C.V.O. BY THE
KING.
London, Yesterday.
the Ambulance Brigade were atjunk, the pirates fired a volley of
On the occasion of the re-open- tending to him, and every means rifle and revolver shots at the fouring of, St. Paul's Cathedral, the known to medical men were em- dinghies to prevent their crews King appointed Dean
K. S. DULEEPSINHJI.
was
In proposing the adoption of
good shares for no apparent rea-eastern Squadron of gunboats. Chairman' said:-
son.
There were difficulties all over the world. As a banker hel
INDO-CHINA DEBATE
GENEROSITY AND JUSTICE WITH NATIVES.
made a naval base of the North- the Report and Accounts, the
Gentlemen: The Report and*
General Han Fu-chu also hoped
was hopeful that prosperity would that General Liu Chen-nien, the Accounts having been in your soon be restored.-Reuter. Nationalist Officer commanding hands for the prescribed period, the troops at Chefoo, would as-I will, with your permission, follow sist him, but General Liu had the usual procedure and take them
as read. accepted an appointment as com- mander of the Nineteenth Army It is regretted that the Ac- Corps, under Marshal Yen Hsi-counts before you show a small shan, and hence, after withdraw-loss for the year, but I am sure ing from Tsinanfu to Chowtsun, you will realise, as it is generally General Han Fu-chu found that realised throughout the Colony, he could not proceed to Tsingtao, that conditions during the year 50 is now attempting to retreat under review have rendered trad At the end of the debate upon towards Hauchowfu, the Nation-ing difficult, more so in fact than Indo-China the Chamber rejected (alist Headquarters along the preceding years.
7.
TO FIGHT COMMUNISM.
Paris, Yesterday.
ployed to assist the man to breathe.going to the assistance of the K.C.V.O., and Canon Alexander, Sutcliffe, Larwood and R. Tyldes-¡committee of control, and voted on/The Shansi forces are advancing/cost, and depreciated, where ne->'
Story of Collapse.
The Australian side
Scores:
Inge. Allen and K. S. Duleepsinhji
"mother" craft. Three of the bul C.V.O., and knighted Mr. Mervyn ley. How these men came to this sad lets found marks in the bodies of Edmund Macartney, the architect unchanged fate was told to our representative three of the fishers, one of whom a responsible for the restoration of by many eye-witnesses, some whom were employed on the job. It Wal-tal (10), was killed, whilst the
son of the master, named Chan St. Paul's.-Reuter. appeared that a derrick was hoist other two were wounded. ad up with the end of the wooden beam resting on a steel beam al-
of
No Signs of Junk. The pirates then sailed the fah-
ready fastened into position on the ing junk away and no signs of second floor. This derrick was have since been seen. although s employed for hoisting other beams Police launch was sont out from to the fourth floor, Running length Hong Kong to look for it, in the wise from beam to beam was a anticipation that the pirates would wooden platform of massive build.
JAIL FOR LEADER.
GET SIX MONTHS.
Lucknow, Yesterday. Venkatesnarain Siwary,
England-First Innings. Hobbs, c Oldfield, b Fairfax Woolley, e Wall, b. Fairfax. Hammond, b Grimmett
b Grimmett
Your Directors
have been
by 325 votes to 260 a radical mo-Tientsin-Pukow Railway, to link. Stock as certified by the Manag- for tion asking for the creation of a up with the Nanking forces. ing Director has been valued at
was a motion giving confidence to the southward along the Tientsin-essary.
Government in order to fight Com-Pukow Railway, and Mr. Chu Ao- Mr. Overy's Appointment. munism in Indo-China and apply halang believed that they had the traditional French principles taken Taian though no official pleased to appoint Mr. H. Overy as 1 of generosity and justice with the information to that effect has yet Managing Director of the. Com-
natives-Havas.
come to hand-Reuter.
pany, and I have no doubt that this action will be endorsed by Military Conference.
you without hesitation, especially" Changsha, June 22. having regard to the long, faith- A military conference was sum-ful, and loyal service which Mr. moned by General Ho Ying-ching, Overy has rendered to the Com Minister of War, yesterday to set-pany.
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POLITICIAN AND LANDOWNERS. S. Duleepsinhji, e Bradman, PENURIOUS AIRMAN, Hendren, e McCabe, b Fairfax 48 ATLANTIC FLIER "FRIGHTFULLY | A. P. F. Chapman, c. Oldfleld,
HARD UP." b.Wall G. O. Allen, b Fairfax
COLONIAL PARLEY.
C. White, not out Duckworth, not out
Extraa
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TO AUCTION 'PLANE,
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tle measures to finish the санда paign against the Kwangsi troops and "Ironsides" in Hunan. General, Ho will remain here for the time
AMBULANCE IN SMASH.
New York, Yesterday,
A motor accident, in which a Captain Kingsford Smith, the being to direct tthe enveloping Government motor ambulance and Australian who flew the Atlantic movement against the insurgents. In P.W.D, lorry was involved, o
Owing to the troop movements curred on Stubbs Road at 4 p.m.. recently, says he is "frightfully hard up" and needs money to get yesterday, based upon the new yesterday, married. He has announced that plan, little fighting has taken According to a report made to he will personally auction the ball from Fairfax, was unfortun-plane Southern Cross at Oakland, ate in giving a catch to the (California) Aerodrome shortly.
-Reuter's American Service.
405
Total (for 9 whis.) Hobbs, in playing back to a
abandon the craft after looting it. Liberal politician, and six land-Tate, e McCabe, b Wall On this platform stood five men, It appears, however, that the pir-owners, have been sentenced to R. W. V. Robins, c Oldfield, whose duties Ateel beams that were being holsted an addition to their fleet.
were to guide the ntes intend to retain the craft as six months' rigorous imprison- b Hornibrook
ment each under the Indian Penal. up to their right position.
The first intimation of the niracy Code. Reuter. The wooden pole supporting the reached Hong Kong last Monday derrick, as stated above. was resting afternoon when two of the maroon- on a steel beam on the second floored fishermen arrived at Cheung . And somehow or other, the 'woollen Chau in another fishing boat.
pole slid out of position just as
Following their report a Police a steel beam being holated. launch was sent out to She Muk The result of this was that, as the Chau to bring back the others and end of the pole fell off its support, also tow in the four dinghies. On the head of the pole with its the return of the junk the body of burden fell to the ground. The Chan Wai-tal was taken to the weight of this was caught by the mortuary and the two wounded men platform on which stood five men, sent to the Kowloon Hospital.. resulting in the platform being broken in halves.
was
Fall from Fourth Floor, The five men came tumbling down
COUNSEL'S SUICIDE.
to earth from the fourth floor, DRAMATIC_ENDING TO CASE
One man was, however, fortunate because as he fell, he
came into
IN OHIO.
contact with the steel rope dangling from the head of the derrick.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.
He
Youngstown, Ohio, Yesterday.
seized hold of this rope and hauled
himself up to safety,
four men
SCHEMES SUBMITTED TO COST £6,560,000.
London, Yesterday. Addressing the Colonial Office Conference, Sir Basit Blackett, Chairman of the Colonial Develop ment Advisory Committee, atated that the schemes submitted to the committee so far would coat £6,500,000, of which it was expect- ed that £2,500,000 would be spent in the United Kingdom.
The committee recommended grante and loans of £1,774,000 in that connection. Further schemes had been forwarded to the Colonial Office and would cost £5,000,000
The ther The hearing of a case for an with an expenditure of £1,500,000 were less fortunate, in injunction to prevent the merger in the United Kingdom and $2,840,- that two of them fell right into the of the Youngstown Sheet and 000 with the assistance of the roadside, smashing the little wooden Tube Company with the Bethlehem fund-Router.
shed erected just above the gate- Steel Corporation was stopped way. These two men were serious ramatically to-day, when Mr. L. A.
ly injured, but to what extent it Manchester, the chief counsel for was impossible to ascertain.
the former Company, shot him-
SIR C. MADDEN.
One man fell just within a few self dead in Court, apparently BEST WISHES OF CHINA STATION
feet of the entrance and he was owing to A
killed instantaneously.
DT SO
nervous breakdown.. Two feet The case was adjourned.-Reuter's
fell the American Service,
away from him ether man, and he was suffering
from concussion when our 'repre-
-sentative anw him.
CHILD LABOUR:
* ON RETIREMENT.
The following message has been passed to the Admiralty from the Commander-in-Chief; · China ; Sta- tion CA
J
wicket-keeper. Hammond joined | Woolley and scored slowly, Woolley making 18 before Ham.
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
The Royal Observatory re- ports at 10.45 am:-
The depression is higher in the vicinity of the Bonins.
The typhoon or depression is to the East of the Luzona, and appears to be filling up.
The depression in the China Seas is situated about 260 miles E.S.E. of Tourane. It is becoming deeper, and is at present stationary.
Forecast: East
wind, moderate; fair to showery..
The following report was re-
ceived from the Manila Ob- servatory at the American Con- sulate General, Hong Kong, to-day.
Typhoon in about 126 deg. Long E. and 16 deg., Lat N. almost stationary.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY ·
DRAFT OF CONVENTION.
ADOPTED.
place latterly. The various Route the Police Traffic Department by Yeung, the ambulance Armies are reported to have got Chan into touch with one another, with drivers. his vehicle was proceed- the Hunan forces stationed in the up Stubbs Road. When near Sui Changsha-Chuchow sector, the Fai Terrace it passed the P.W.D. Kwangtung units in the Chochow-lorry which was going in the op-. Yuhsien region to prevent posite direction. the enemy from escaping south- When the two vehicles were ward towards the Kwangtung about to pass the lorry suddenly! Hunan border, and the Kiangai skidded. Its rear swung round, troops between Pingkiang and Lil- and struck the ambulance on the Genova, Yesterday. Ing to block the way to the Kiangal off side. The blow was a rather The Labour Conference has boarder.
heavy one and caused consider adopted by 78 votes to 31 the
The Hunan rebels under Tang able damage to the light body of draft of the convention providing Seng-ming are reported to have the ambulance. The lorry, which an eight-hour day and a 48-hour been hard hit by the Government was more strongly constructed, week for salaried employees.- troops. More than 1,000 prisoners, was not damaged. Reuter. t
with 20 machine-guns and $0 field-
The driver of the ambulance re pieces, were captured by the "dare-ceived cuts on his face and the devil" Corps under Commander right wrist from pieces, of broken Wei Su-chung, south of Changsha glass. His injury was attended to at the Government Civil Hospital.
MR. S. PORTER DEAD.
Washington, Yesterday, The death has occurred of Mr. Stephen Porter, the Chairman of; the House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Reuter's American-Service.
· HOME POLITICS.
LABOURITES RETAIN
SHETTLESTON..
..10,803
TENDERS ACCEPTED.
New
The current Issue of the Govern ment Gazette announces that the following tenders have been ac London, Yesterday. |cepted: little resistance and the score at The Shettleston (Glasgow) by- Messra, Li Song the ter interval
Fook. Kee WAS 231-6 election, due to the Rt. Hon. Mr $71,638, for the formation of site Duleep" being 107 not out and J. Wheatley's death, rosulted for the Tate 24 not, gut. The Sussex Mr. H. McGovern (Lab.)
....10,019 Schools.
Central British bowler reached his fifty, brt soon Mr. Templeton (Cons.) "Ambulance's Delay.
To. "Admiral of the Fleet. Sirmond opened his score, Fairfax left after giving a great display ir. McNicol (Scottish Nat.) The regulations in the schedule Although willing workers, to to the Industrial Employment of Charles Madden from the "C-in-C." claimed another wicket when Wall of free bitting, which produced Mr. Saklatvala (Communist) gather with Dr. Coogan, were early Women, Young Persons and Chil-The officers and men of the took a catch of Woolley's but. 98 runs In 70 minutes during a en the scene and did all they pos-dren Ordinance, 1922, amended as China Fleet and particularly those The Kent player had shown his breezy seventh wicket partnership. aibly could, it must be mentioned appears in Government Notifica who have had the honour to serve sterling worth in scoring 41. His powerful driving yielded that it took almost 45 minutes tions Nos. 627 of 1923 and 246 with you, send their very best
"Dulcép Joined Hammond at tight 4'.t before the motor ambulance came 1980, are further
wishes on your retirement from amended as on the scene. This is inexplicable. follows
the Royal Navy in which service The first ambulance to arrive was (1) Regulation 3 and 4 are re-you have played such a distinguish one from the Tung Wah Hospital. acinded and the following re- ed part..
and not one from the Central Fire Brigade, which is only a
short distance away
The Tung Wan Hospital ambul ance took away, the man who was suffering from concussion, sa his
the most serious
87-car. i.mbj
The
gulation is substituted there-
for
No person shall em- ploy any child under the
ára lo any in
KIDNAPPED MISSIONARY
RELEASED.
390
2,527
Messrs. Lai To Construction Co., 1,459 $6.851.50 for the erection of s public trough closet and urinal adjacent to the market at Aberdeen. Mesars. Ngai Foon, $1,098.02 for constructing a Waiting Hallat Yaumati Railway Station.
Labour majority
-Reuter, [The previous égares, At the General Election, were: the wicket and a bright period of Robins was soon snapped up at Rt Hos. J. Wheatley (Lab.) 19,594 batting was witnessed before the the wicket, and then came the H., J. Moss (Cons.), Gloucester "star" fell to one of downfall of the superb "Duleep.”" Grimmett's wrong uns for 38. Eradtaan brought off a splendid
"Labour majority "Duleep at the luncheon interval catch in the deep feld to and the was 98 and Headren out of a finest effort witnessed at Lord's
12.870
6,724]
TIN MINING.
LEGISLATION FOR HOURS
IN MALAYA
Singapore, Yesterday!
KOWLOON R.C. CEMETERY-
His Excellency the Governor. in Council has under section 90 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, authorised a place to be used as a Roman Catholic Cemetery, known as Kowloon Injami Lot No. 2148. The piece of lan contain about 14 acres and situated at Homuntia, Kowloob
total of 1298. Moderad for many va day, 80,000 aaw
A further 80 runs were added Duleepsinhji achieve the highest NO Nanking, Thursday.bofore. Hendren lost his wicket to distinction of a cricketer's career; The Loshan Catholla Church re- Fairfax for a splendid 48. The He compiled the highest - Indizi- by ports that the American Missionary Indian was playing delightful dual score in England-Australia and who was kidnapped by baudits be- cricket and claimed 74 of the 200 Test Matches at Lord's, and It is paletally announced that and Chuchi has been runs scored by England. A little emulated his famous angle, K. 9. the Government of Malaya is not set before the toas interval "Duleep" Ranjisinhf), in scoring a century prepared to introduce, legislation
•Provlicial Goysen, Teach
Century mark and in his first Test. He gave chances as erle a six-dey week in the M. A. EH Castro, The 25t
MENU Mosqus Junction, reported t tant die telegraph- Poll
between? of State rega
when "65 and 98" and batted for tin/
our hours and three quarters,
delightful exhibition of ing the