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The South American Dispute.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932.
SPEEDING UP ATLAN-NEAR-TRAGEDY WHEN
TIC MAILS
Carried By Air From Empress Of Britain.
HALF DAY SAVED
In connection with the sailing| [of the Empress of Britain from Southampton on June 24, & special arrangement was put into effect under the direction of the Hon.) Arthur Sauve, Postmaster General, covering the forwarding of air- mall,
Nine hundred and ninety miles from Montreal the air-mail was transferred from the Empress of Britain to a mine, sweeper of the Royal Canadian Navy and then to Ja plane waiting in the sheltered
waters of Bradore Bay.
In the instance, The League of Nations can be expected to do little hit express pious hopes for aettle- Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 6, 1932. ment. When the clash commenced
the Teague cabled pleading with the! disputing nations to leave the mat- rets the League to arbitrate and when a full took place in the pre- parations for war jumped to con- lusions and congratulated itself on As though a sick weary world effecting a settlement. Its self were not troubled enough with satisfaction was short-lived for the economic ills, European disputes. next day fighting commenced in Far Eastern clashes, disarmament Granchaco Valley, Both sides are qocations and a host of other press=" now leaving the ing and important. problems, two small South American nations must negotiation, but are also continuing
preparations
for, aggression. start a squabble which threatens to
Bolivia, considering herself wronged assume alarming dimensions. Any spark, no matter how small would be attended by serious international complication and an armed clash must be prevented. Few know the causes of the dispute between
June 18.
TENEMENTS BURN
TWO LEAP CLEAR OF FIRE MENACE
MISS JUMPING SHEETS
THREE REPORTED MISSING NOW BELIEVED SAFE.
Leaping from the balcony of the first storey of a tenement house to escape the flames which swept through the place, a 12. year-old Chinese girl and a man, aged about 40, were seriously in jured last night. They are in hospital to-day, where it is expected the man will recover but hopes for the girl are slight.
This is the second serious fire in street below, sustaining a frac- the Sham Shui Po district within, tured right leg, and other injuries. a week. Last Sunday morningHe was removed to the Kowloon. eight persons died in a double-Hospital in an ambulance, in
serfous condition. tenement blaze.
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The sacks of mail were landed at St. Hubert Airport, near Mon-
Three persons, reported missing. Suffering the same fate, the girl, {treal, sorted at the post office there early in the"fight against the fire, Tsai Yuk-ying, aged 12 years, ter-
and reforwarded by Air Service to are now believed to have escaped rifled by the roar of the inferno,.. their destinations. - The
and to have gone to friends. No threw herself from the balcony. mail!
irace of any body was found in She fell on her head, and lay in Members reached St. Hubert at 3 p.m. on the ruins when firemen searched the street unconscious.
them early this morning.
of the Kowloon Y.M.C.A.. division The fire broke out shortly after of St. John's Ambulance Brigade. The Empress of Britain arrived 10 o'clock last night at 100 and 102 assisted in removing her in another at Quebee at.7.50 am on June 29, Yee Kuk Street. The cause of the ambulance to the Kwong Wah Hos- while the mail from her was de-blaze is a mystery.
pital. livered at New York almost halt a
Believed to have originated on
Three Missing? day earlier...w
the first floor of house No..100, Meanwhile, the firemen fought which was used as a dwelling and magnificently. Ladders were run workshop for the making of joss up the front of the buildings. sticks, and paper, the fire spread Word came that three of the oc- with amazing rapidity. When the cupants were missing; but despite Days Hrs. Mina. Kowloon Fire Brigade rived, a vigilant search, which had to be having received the first call at abandoned owing to the 'roaring 10.32 p.m., under Mr. G. Saunders, flames, no trace was found of them. Officer-in-Charge, the flames had It is presumed, however, that they taken a firm hold of the building also escaped along the narrow Two engines and a motor ambu-ledge, reaching the street with lance were despatched from the safety.
The time occupied for mail to various points was as follows:- From, London
To
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Only a verandah's length separ-
Mongkok Fire Sub-Station, and soon, every available hose was put ated 96 Yer Kuk Street, occupied into action.
by the Hephziboh Mission, from the fire. The absence of any wind The panic-stricken occupants, greatly helped the fire-fighters, who The present plan is that ten imilar flights will be made this desperate efforts to escape. Most
entrapped by the fames, made had the flames in hand by 11:30
Kummer,
and it is probable that of them succeeded in scrambling after the outbreak.
p.m.. three quarters-of-an-hour
the successful operation during over to adjacent buildings, and by the next two months will result in the escape steps at the rear of the 7th Kowloon Group rendered valu- Eight Chinese Boy Scouts of the permanent airline along the St. burning premises. One of the inable aid, assisting Sergeant Jessop, Lawrence route
habitants crawled hand over kand, of the Emergency Unit, to elear along the ledge to No. $8.
Shelter Near At Hand.
hundreds of bamboo brooms and way open for "THE HOUR OF PARTING" The occupants who escaped, an ground floors. They also helped paper that were stocked in the elderly Chinese women told a de-the firemen with the hoses. |tective, made their way to relatives
BY SANDY SAUNDERS,
sequently recovered from "a, Chinese who was nonchalantly| wearing them at the Majestic Cafe, and, a two months jail sentence was meted out to the miscreant.
in Pakhoi Street, a few hundred Yee Kuk Street were used as paper The ground floors of 100 and 102 yards away.
Personal Pars.
A
and rattan godowns, while the on the boundary question, is parti-News Item:-On July 20, Mr. Emile
Before the firemen had prepared second and third foors were 'tene- cularly defiant,, and has refused to
Gensburger climbed out of a swimming pool in Shanghai and the "jumping sheet," a middle-aged ments, and, with the exception of make any concession. The position: found that that his clothes had man. Li Lam, after hesitation on the top floor of 102, every floor was
been stolen. They were sub the verandah ledge, jumped into occupied. is acutely delicate, and requires skil
wooden staircase He landed heavily on the served both buildings. space. ful handling. It offers an oppor tunity for the League to justify its! Bolivia and Paraguay and it must existence and it is to be hoped that! be admitted that few care. Domestic Geneva can accomplish something and personal troubles are too'ntimer-i
of value. ous for any great interest to be aroused in minor outbreaks. The interest is confined almost solely to politicians, and to speculation on the repercussions should actual
News In Brief.
Yik Lam, a taxi driver. reports
| fighting,, take place. Both nations that yesterday afternoon while are now at the stage where they are driving along Queen's Road East, Proclaiming their desire for peace in front of him and was knocked a small, boy, Chan Hung, 14, ran
ful negotiation or arbitration, but down. He refused to go to the the talks are accompanied by the hospital. rous of guns, while both countries are rushing mobilisation. Fighting in Granchaco
It is announced in the Govern-
With
Mr. P. Jacks has resumed his post as Land Officer on the termina- tion of his appointment as an ad- Near the Yangtze's muddy ditional Judge of the Supreme
water,
Court." There's a certain little quarter,
+1
1.
fascinating swimming pool Mr. Carl Foss, of Messrs. Ap- hard by: And to this there came ..
burgher,
MILLIONAIRE'S MURDER.
Wife and Secretary Indicted.
Winston Salem, N. Carolina,
Yesterday, Mrs. Smith Reynolds, better.
dersen, Meyer & Co., Shanghai, was among the passengers arriv- ing here this morning on the Pre-known as Libby Helman, the former Who was known as E. Gens-sident Hayes.
burger
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of
the famous town that's labelled
'Old Shanghai."
has been fairly ment Gazette this week, that the He
Brewery Regulations and Licence
Broadway singer, together with
Mr. W. C Affold, Jr., on his way A. B. Walker, the deceased man's to Singapore to take up duties as the murder of her husband, who secretary, have been indicted for
American Vice-Consul, arrived
Now unconscious of the danger here this morning on the Dollar was a son of the American tobacco
Of the dog within the manger, divested his attire for the swim;
And he swam without a
Keeping cool for dread ME, Morrow,
to the brim.
liner s.s. President, Hayes,
multi-millionaire, and was found shot dead at his home on July 6
Mr. W. H Barcus, an engineer Walker has been arrested, but. loof the China Electric Company, ar- the whereabouts of Mrs. Reynolds
rived in the Colony this morning are unknown.
Smith Reynolds, the 20-year-old. And his cup of bliss was alled up on the s.5. President Hayes from
millionaire Shanghai. He is on a business son of a
tohac. Co manufacturer, was found trip.
shot at his home and died Mr. Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. later. Reynolds had spent the Cornellous Roosevelt, the two sons evening at home with his wife, of the Governor-General of the who was the former Broadway Philippine Islands, were among singer, Miss Libby Holman, and two And they whispered to a coolie the passengers passing through the others. When they were about to Who became at once unruly, Colony an their way to Manila, retire, Reynolds went into the For he stole the bather's clothes They are on school vacation. balcony.
„But, alas! the jealous Sisters
Of the Fate that scorns and
bllaters,
from out the room.
in Cavaco Valley has been fairly intensive and In view of the
set out in the Regulations of Hong heated condition of the participants Kong, have been rescinded by the the possibilities are numerous and Governor In Council, and new re-
gulations substituted. dangerous. Better. counsels may prevail, but it seems that consider-
It is announced in the Gazette able outside pressure may have to
this week, that the rate for lime- be exerted to prevent open warfare washing in Hong Kong and Kow- Stayed the thread of their mall It is in this connection that grava loon under by-law 4 of the Domestic | cious, spinning loom;
Cleanliness and Ventilation by-laws complications may arise, as apert
shall be $3.80 per floor for the year, from the possibilities of some nastarting October 1, 1932. Lions taking sides in the dispute, nothing but harm would result if
Mr. P. Ryan, a warder of the Vic; statesmen treated the issue w with the
toria Gaol, reports that at about same ineptitude that they have 10.05 a.m. yesterday, while driving shown at Geneva and Lausanne. his car, along Cainc Road, he That
atruck a Chinese woman, Kwang Washington, probably, is lost cap Szc, 64. The woman was removed able of providing a solution. The to the Government Civil Hospital United States is naturally intimate having received light injuries to
the back of her head. ly concerned with any event on the American continent and her inter vention has proved, valuable on many If persuasion previous occasion
Now from this there is no
moral,
For he had no mortal quirrel should end french an ig
nominious way;}
MANCHUKUO'S TWO SPOKESMEN,
Nanking, Yesterday.
It is learned that Manchukuo is But to ya who would go bath-sending Mr. Chao Hsin-po, Chair man of the Legislative Yuan, and Hear in mind the awful play Mr. G. B. Bea to Geneva In the A middle of August. via Japan and of E. Gensburger in America, to explain Manchukuos stand before the League Assembly
-Reuter,
Skan
Period of grace for the renewa of privato, publiek vehicles having,
ILD CERTIFICATES:
ONE YEAR WAS TOO LONG
Soon after the report of a pistol was heard. The fatal shot had entered the young man's head.
The circumstances appeared to point to suicide, but at the inquest it was intimated that murder was suspected-Reuter
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