MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931.
FAMINE STALKS IN ANOTHER TRANS-
ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
WUHAN SIGHING FÖR RELIEF.
HANKOW
10,000 Perish in the Floods.
Two Young Germans and a Portuguese.
The Ravages of Relentless Nature.
IMPOSSIBLE TO HELP.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
Hankow, Saturday. Reuter's special correspondent
yesterday toured the native city of Hankow, and found the water to be ten, twelve and fifteen feet deep in different parts. The present water mark is 53 feet four inches, with floods still ris- ing. All travelling is by sampan. junk, and motor boat,
Thousands of one-storeyed
LISBON TO NEW YORK.
They are flying a three hun-
plane.-Reuter.
THE CHINA
WILL BACKGAMMON COME BACK?
Gambling Element in America.
FORTUNES MADE.
HIGHWAY ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
Coolie Bound to A Tree.
CHEWED A ROPE I
'houses are submerged by the dred horsepower Junker's mono-equare miles (half of the province) spirit of the thing. Fortunes have accused him of having stolen the
floods, and collapses contince hourly.
The military authorities have forcibly removed thousands of
HONG KONG DOLLAR
refugees from roofs; but thou- High Rate of Premium the province are flooded and the ea- enormous reputations by writing by chewing the rope, for about an
sands still remain, stunned by the disaster, and apathetically awaiting their fate.
It is a serious fact that super- stition holds thousands in its grip. They are convinced that Hankow is doomed, and refuse to help themselves, or be helped, merely awaiting death.
in Canton.
SPECULATORS BUSY?
Canton, Yesterday.
KWONGSANG'S FATE.
No Further News to Hand To-day.
Shanghai, Yesterday,
The French are taking up shove Berlin, Saturday.
Whilst conveying two baskets of Two young German airmen, Reuter's Hankow correspondent, halfpenny. They think it is a beef and pork from Kowlod City Rody and Johnsen, accompanied telegraphing on the 22nd says that new game. Last year the Amert to Saikung, a coolie was wayinld by To- cans discovered backgammon. They three marauders near the Customs by a Portuguese mechanic, left Wuhan la sighing for relief.
Faus yesterday. clock this morning for Lisbon, while there is a limit even to these thing new in the way of Indoor Lee general stores, Hang Han Tempelhof Aerodrome at 7 day the water is still steady, but fancied they also had found some
Chun Hing, a foki of the Yuan from where they will attempt a ghas flood the misery is un-games. In order to give it the trans-Atlantic fight to
New limited. Officials of the Standard necessary amount of "pep" they that he was attacked by three men village, Salkung district related York.
Oil Company state that their sur- introduced a gambling element.
show that 36,000
at the top of Salking Road. veys in Hupeb
Blg business entered into the
The men emerged from bushes, and is. flooded, and they estimate at been made through the manufac 50,000,000 the number of homeless ture of unnecessarily elaborate bound him to a tree and made good meat. They then tied him up, tables coating several hundred their escape with the baskets. and destitute.
In Hunan, 20,000 square miles of dollars. Authors have achieved
Chan' managed to release himself timate of the destitute is 2,000,000.trite handbooks purporting to set
hour. It is physically impossible to estim-forth the rules of this most ancient ate the number of deaths in these game.
In Frante the big galleries are provinces, but they will unquestion- ably reach 2,000,000. In Wuhan advertising beautifully ingrained alone from starvation and disease, Į shove halfpenny boards. In a few Since the beginning of this there are now a thousand deaths a weeks alim brochures in the Pari- aian style will appear on the boule- month, premium for the Hong day. Kong dollars has been continually All the corpses are thrown into vard bookstalls giving the rules of advancing. At the close of yester-the river together with dead dogs, this old English game. Money will Chaos and Famine. 多 day's market, 100 Hong Kong dol- It is becoming widely recognised be made in large quantities. Then The native areas of Hankowars could be exchanged for 135 that no scheme of Immediate re- the craze will die out and money lief is possible owing to the lack of will be lost. It is always the same. and Wychang are places of local ones.
Merchants and even the banking facilities for the transportation of It is the price commerce pays for misery, desolation, and diftth. At
Relentless Nature an age of crazes. least 10,000 people have perished community here are unable to give food stuffs. since the floods overwhelmed the the reason for the present high which brought about the floods Crazes do not endure. We may cities, and 400,000 are homeless, rate of premium ruling for the must be left to complete her rav take up a paatime with avidity but
Hong Kong currency, DA the and destitute.
ages, and when he tell of millions presently we go looking for some. Dysentery and typhoid are amount of business in import and has been taken human endeavour thing else. I think we have caught claining many victims daily, and export passed between the British can step in to save what remains, this restless infection from the the doctors believe that when Colony and Canton for the past
Food relief officials and Standard United States where "everything is the floods subside probably in few weeks did not justify the sud Oil representatives yesterday flew exploited by turn from gold mines September, serious epidemics den advance of value of the Hong over the Han river and report the to human emotions.
ing that she was to have left Nam Kong dollar. must rage.
same monotonous story of a spread į
Kwan, harbour yesterday afternoon The present high mark of ex- of water as far as the eye can So far na apparent progress.
Just a few years before the War for Shanghal for docking. has been made in feeding the change has not been reached for reach. Innumerable refugees are a new game arrived played with a
It was not anticipated that, the multitude of starving destitutes, many months and must be the re-erowding the dyke-tops, which are spool shaped like two cones placed Waishing's departure from Nam There is chaos on every hand, and sult of heavy speculation
only a fost above water and they point to point, and a long piece of Kwan would be communicated to gamblers who suffering and disaster beyond speculatore and description.
Very little food is make their profits in the gamble of are without means of subsistence string slung between the ends of the office here, so that no news of
and must gradually succumb to two short, sticks.
It was
called her is expected in Hong Kong procurable, and there are no exchange and not in legitimate atarvation, disease and exposure, diabolo.
In the space of
a few until after her arrival in Shang- vegetables. The threat of famine business. Canton Sun.
Reuter,
weeks every man, woman and child hai was trying to send the spool sky
[Earlier news appears on page high by means of the rapidly mov-10.1 ing piece of string. National com-
becomes more serious daily. Im- mediate relief is required to save the thousands of lives... It is a stupendous task which cannot be organised locally-Reuter.
Chiang Thanks America.
Narking, Saturday.
President Chiang Kai-shek cabled to-day the following mesa
SOVIET ORDERS.
Make Good Increase in June.
ا.
by
Berlin, Aug. 22, In recent weeks there has been remarkable increase in the
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PRINCE HENRY.
The King Pays a Visit to His Son.
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WAISHING'S MOVEMENTS.
On inquiry at the local offices of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., just before. 1 p.m. to-day, a China Mail representative was in- formed that no further news' has come through with regard to the s.4. Kwongsang.
With regard to the a.s. Walshing,
of the same Company, which went ground and was badly holed, and which was refloated a couple of days ago, it was learned this morn-
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petitions were organized. Records COALITION MINISTRY were made and broken. The game threatened to put every
other FOR BRITAIN? national pastine in the shade. And then vory suddenly, the game Rugby, Yesterday. At the conclusion of visits to lost favour: In a week or two most sage to President Hoover: volume of Russian orders placed in Buckingham Palace of the poli- of the diabolo sets in the country
orders placed in tical leaders this afternoon, the had been burned. Now you might using his personal Influence to bring It is believed His Majesty is I have the honour to nc- Germany. While knowledge, receipt of your tele- May only reached the total of King visited his third son, the search a whole town and fall to about a three-Party agreement in
I am 72,000,000 Marks, they were more Duke of Gloucester, who yester- and a store which stocks a single order to meet the emergency, gram of August 18, deeply moved by the friendly than doubled in June, amounting day underwent an operation for diabolo spool.
Diabolo was followed by roller that the fate of the Labour Govern 'The opinion was held in London concern aroused in the United to 171.2 millions and establishing appendicitis at a nursing home at
Portland Place. His Majesty skating. All over the country low ment was to be decided on Sunday, States by the flood disasters in a new record.
The total amount of Soviet order spent some time at the bedside of roofed buildings were shot up to when a Cabinet meeting was to be China and in my name and the
accommodate young men and name of the Chinese nation with German firms for the first the Royal patient. thank you and the people of half of the current year was 455 The following bulletin signed women who wished to dash to and held. Only in times of grave America, sincerely for your millions against only 230 millions: by the Surgeon and Doctor in at fro on diminutive wheels. There held on a Sunday, so this is an index |
emergency, are Cabinet meetings exprcissions of sympathy for for the corresponding period of tendance, was issued this math- was a time when everyone knew the sufferings of our people.' the previous year.
ing: The Duke of Gloucester how to roller skate, and then quite is believed to be has passed as comfortable a night quickly the craze passed over. The Spanish Minister. Senor Garrido, telegraphed to Dr. C. T. in a large measure due to the new as can be expected and his condi- revived again recently and it is Wang
yesterday, expressing Russo-German commercial agree- tion continues to be satisfactory." true that up and down the country To-night's bulletin states that there are prosperous skating rinks, sympathy in the flood disasters ment concluded last April which on behalf of himself and the removed most of the difficulties the Duke's condition continues, but for the most part roller skating.signation, either of the whole | Diplomatic Body. Sinonews arising from former, arrangements satisfactory. British Wireless is confined to small boys who dash up and down the pavements with Earlier Newe.
Service.
The increase
As a result, it is hoped that Ger- many will regain first place in Rus- sian imports which she lost recent-
FIGHTING FORCES OF to the United States-Trans-
BRITAIN.
Details of Material and Personnel.
MEMO TO GENEVA.
occan Service:
LESSON SERMON.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.
"Mind" was the subject of the Leasun-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, August 23,
Service.
London, Saturday.!
The Duke of Gloucester was ac cessfully operated upon to-day. His condition is satisfactory.-Reuter.
WORLD FLYERS.
Unable to Pay Fines in Japan.
a skate fixed to one foot.
of the sexlousness of the position and the difficulties with which Mr. MacDonald's Government is faced.
Earlier Cables,""
London, Saturday. With the possibility of re-
Government or individual Mínia- ters, looming on the horizon, the deliberations at 9.30 o'clock this Cabinet continued ita economy morning, adjourning at mid-day until the afternoon.
This was the first Saturday on which a Cabinet Meeting has been held since the critical days of War time.
The next craze was something far less atrenuous but much more intellectual. This was the ancient Chinese game of Mah Jongg. It is a game which has been played, in the East since the beginning of civilized time. A Chinese boy knows how to play Mah Jongg just as an English boy knows how to play draughts. When Mah Jongga came to England it at once became Street.
Tense political excitement aur rounding the deliberations drew considerable crowd to Downing
Opposition
a fashionable game. It was the Immediately the Cabinet rose, tea time game for women and Conference with parties were organized for the pur Leaders was resumed. pose of playing it. “It provided an
Tokyo, Saturday. Mesars, Hugh Herndon and Clyde. Pangborn, the American aviators London, Saturday. The Golden Text was:Thou who ran afoul of the Japanese avia- disclosed of the British memor. whose mind is stayed on thes: be- Habarovsk to The Tachikawa were so complicated and its count intentions will be issued at the According to particulars now wilt keep him in perfect peace, tion laws while flying recently from excuse for gambling, but ite rulest is anticipated that a state. ment embodying Government's undum, recently forwarded to cause ho trusteth in ⠀⠀ "thee," | Airdromo, - near Tokyo, were ing so intricate that it soon lost close of this afternoon's Cabinet Geneva, detailing the material (Isaiah 26; 3).
highly puzzled as to how they are favour in spite of the fact that you meeting. and personnel of existing arma Among the citations which com going to pay fines of Yer 2,050 could win a few shillings or a few
Among the crop of rumours ments and the expenditure there prised the Lesson Sermon was the each-United Press.
pounds at a sitting. Now you rare and forecasts offered by politi on, the total outlay on the British following from the Bible: the - Get Money From Home, lysses Mah Jongg set in any cal observers, perhaps the most Navy, Army and Air Force le depth and the riches both of theTo the relief of the American air-house, and no one ever asks you Interesting is, that Conservatives £108.000.000, just under £60.000, wisdom and knowledge of God! men, Hugh Herndon and Clydo if you play the gama: There was have suggested to Liberals the 000 of which relates to naval How unsearchable are his judg-Pangborn, who were fined Y.2,060 an attempt soon afterwards to information of a joint Conserva expenditure. The amount does ments, and his ways past finding each for the violation of the troduce a game called Wal Chi, but tive-Liberal administration with not include pensions. Military out! For who hath known the Japanese aviation, regulations, a do not recall its ever having at Mr. Lloyd George as Chancellor returns do not include Colonial mind of the Lord? or who hath report was received here to-day tained any great success of the Exchequer Reuter. Government forces, of which re- been his counsellor? For of him, that the financial supporters of the
Y3,100 to Tokyo in postal notes to had used up every corner site in over miniature golf When they cover their fines-Shimbun Rengo,
turns will be made very soon and through him, and to him, are aviatora in New York have remitted The Americane first went crazy.
Though the number does not exail things to whom be glory for ceed a few thousands of pounds over." (Romans 11; 88, 34, 36), the Dominions and India make The Lesson Sermon also includ Their own returns to Geneva, ed the following passage from The return shows the import the Christian Selence textbook, ance Government attaches to the Science Health,
with Key to. principle of budgetary control as the
iment for disarmament Eddy emphasised that the fig reveale
ented are unrelated to ing, how cloni
rnments and that Mind
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