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186-190 NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
BRITISH WOMAN ASSAULTED BY PIRATE ON BOARD SHUNTIEN
FULL WATER SUPPLY TOMORROW
Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor of Austria, inveterate for of So. cialists and Communists, whose severe rule during the absence of Dolfuss Is maid · La Chancellor have driven Socialists to the open revalt that swept Austria and threatened to Mert a European
war.
POLITICAL PARLEYS
IN CANTON
Noted Leaders Gather
HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN
+
EIGHT YEARS
MANY LANDSLIDES REPORTED ON ISLAND
CEMETERY WALL DOWN
Following the rainfall of 8.99 inches during the last 24 hours, which is the heaviest since July, 1926, a constant supply of water will be available in all districts on the Island from to-morrow.
LANDSLIDES FOLLOWED IN THE TRAIL OF THE HEAVY RAINS, A PORTION OF THE WALL OF THE GOVERNMENT CE- METERY AT HAPPY VALLEY BEING WASHED AWAY, AND A ROAD SERIOUS TRAFFIC BLOCK BEING CAUSED IN STUBES WHERE A LARGE PORTION OF THE HILLSIDE FELL ON TO THE MOTOR ROAD.
According to a report from Mr. Gifford Hull, Resident En- gineer at the Shing Mun Valley Gorge Dam, no more damage has been sustained since yesterday, although the river is still run- ning very high. The flow of water in the river, however, has dropped since 6 o'clock this morning.
No more news is available regarding the men who were drown- ed yesterday.
The Kowloon, Canton Railway report that all lines are clear. The almost phenominal rain has increased the water storage by 613.000.000 gallons, bringing the total amount in storage an the Island to 1,535,000,000 gallons.
Heavy increases are expected on the mainland, but, to date, the Waterworks Department have received no reports of the amount.
MORE RAIN 18 PREDICTED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY IN THEM FORECAST TO-DAY.
For Discussion.
ISOLATION OR CO-OPERATION
(From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton is a bes-hive of activity to-day, following the arrival of hours ended
The heaviest rainfall for nearly wan Road, near the Quarry Bay
Canton, To-day. eight years fell during the 24 School, but trams were soon
in
on
motion following quick work 10.30 3.M. this the part of a Chinese emergency General Pai Hsung-hel, Second-in-morning, 8.99 inches being re-unit.
The Repulse
Bay Road
also Nei Chong
DR. YEN AND AMBASSADORSHIP AT MOSCOW
Final Decision On Whether. He Will Resign Net Made
Shanghai, To-day. Efforts are being made to per suade Dr. W. W. Yen to withdraw his resignation from the Am- bassadership at Moscow, but al though it is believed that he will de eo, his final decision has not yet been given.--Reater.
GRAN CHACO WAR
50,000 IN DECISIVE BATTLE.
BOLIVIAN LINE HÖLDS
Santiago de Chile, To-day.
Fifty Thousand troops are engaged in fierce fighting in the Gran Chaco region in a battle which both the Boli- vians and Paraguayans, admit may prove the decisive en- gagement of the war.
Bolivian, reports show that fighting is fiercest along the 20-mile front against which the Paraguayans have been hammering for the past week, with the Bouri actoring the principal objective.
The Chileans predict, a Bo- livian military collapse if a break-through is effected, but La Paz maintains that the Bo- livian line still holds.--Reuter.
Command of the Kwangsi Fourth corded for that period, bringing Group Army, and General Ho the total rainfall since January 1stered near Wang Chien, Chairman of the Hunani Provincial Government, who are here Mo discuss important political age of 34.10 inches. and military problems.
to 33.37, against a normal aver-Gap, but the debris was soon clear- PURITY PURSUED
ed up to alloy a clear road for motor traffic.
↑ narrow
The heaviest fall during one hour; "The Cottage," a house on Bar- Whether Kwangtung, Kwangsi
escapa was from 4.30 to 5.30 a.m. lo-day,ker Road, had and Hunan are to join together to
when a giant boulder, dislodged repel the encroaching influence of when 2.15 inches fell during a very
by the raina, barely missed the General Chlang Kai-shek, head of heavy thunderstorm.
house as it bounded past et
Rain has
2
by the side of some trees very close to the building.
the Nanking Milltary Affairs Com-fallen in Hong Kong during every terrific pace to crash to a standstill mission, or to submit to his orders' depends largely on the attitude of hour since 4 a.m. yesterday.
The rainfall recorded in July General Chen Chi-tang, the mill-1 tury chief of Kwangtung. So far 1920 was 21.03 inches, the heaviest he does not commit himself to any ever known in the Colony, definite side and maintains friend-
ly contact with all factions.
A showdown is due in the next The Kwangat generals. few days.
local Kuomintang veterans, and; Mr. Hu Han-min of Hong Kong, have remained Arm against the
No fewer than 11.10 inches were registered at the Worg Nel Chong Reservoir, and 9.75
at the Botanical Gardens.
ISLAND LANDSLIDES,
KOWLOON MISHAPS
Several. large landstides have occurred on the roads of the mainland as a result of the Heavy rain. The largest reported is near 5 milestone on the Taipo Road and at 12 milestone on the Castle Peak Road. Traffic at both
Was
IN CANTON
"Feminine Curves Are Unsightly."
MIXED BATHING BANNED
[From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, To-day. The bathing beaches here have lost their attraction in consequence of the police ban on mixed bathing, sponsored by Rear-Admiral Chang Chi- ying, war veteran and mora- Hist.
"Men and women swimming to- gether. is not conductive to good
AMERICAN'S "HAVE SOME CANDY"
MAN'S SIX GLASS EYES AMONG LOOT
-MR. HANDLEY DERRY'S TRYING ORDEAL AS INTERPRETER PUSER'S POLITE REQUEST
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SHANGHAL TO-DAY. FURTHER-DETAILS OF THE SHUNTIEN PIRACY WERE REVEALED LAST NIGHT WHEN THE SHIP ARRIVED AT SHANGHAI. AN EXTRAORDINARY FEATURE OF THE AFFAIR WAS THAT THE PURSER, MR. CARNEIRO. WAS ALLOWED TO SLEEP THROUGHOUT SUNDAY NIGHT, WHEN THE PIRATES MADE THEIR ATTACK.
He first learned of the outrage on Monday morning, when he left his cabin and went up on deck to see Chefoo harbour.
He noticed on the saloon deck a man wearing a Chinese Army. uniform, with a pistol tucked in his belt. He asked him pleasantly to hand over the gun for which he would give him a receipt.
Suddenly, he found two pistols thrust in his back by two other men, and only then realised that a piracy was afoot. He was then taken to the smoking room and locked in with the rest of the afficers. Mrs. H. L. Warren related how, with her two-year-old son, she refused to unlock the cabin door until she heard the voices of two foreign women pleading in the corridor, "Please open the door or we will be shot down."
As soon as she did so, the pirates rushed in and took every- thing of value, including her wedding ring.'.
WYATT FIT
TEST
FOR
114 Not Out In Friendly Match.
RAIN FORECASTED FOR TEST MATCH
London, To-day.
Other passengers recounted how Mrs. Handley Derry was
Mr. Tugundo · Maki, who has been called The Japanese Chali- spine," la 30 years of age, and has performed in Grand Opera in Ile Japan, Rosals and France. made his first appearance in Eng- land, in cabaret at the Trocodero, London, recently.
HEALTHY RISE
IN SILVER NOW
ADVOCATED
struck on the head with the butt NO DISCLOSURE OF of a revolver when she refused to part with some of her valuables.
Bare feet running, the sound. of a scuffle, and two shots min- gled with wild yelling in Chinese brought Mrs. Bee Bryan Lear- mouth, an American passenger, to the realisation that a piracy was occurring.
everything of value.
PURCHASE.
"WE WILL BUT IF OFFERED - REASONABLE PRICES”
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL (By Telegraph, Copyrighi, Talapras phio Marsagen: Ordinance, 1804, Re- {ceived June 22, 825 AM)
Washington, To-day.
When ugly-looking ruffians, R. E. S. Wyatt, England's brandishing guns, entered her
In carrying out the Silver Act, cabin and tried to take her selected captain for to-day's -
some the United States Treasury Secre purse, she said, "Have Test Match at Lords, said
candy." The offer went unheed-tary, Mr. Herry Morgenthau, said yesterday that he was quite satisfied with his thumb, anded, and the desperadoes looted that the Government had already that he would report fit for
purchased a substantial amount of She said that Mr. Handley-ver in London and New York to-day's match. This statement followed a Derry, despite the pain caused friendly match in which Wyatt, by the removal of his eye at with the account of the "stabilisa- playing at Coventry for the Peking, four days earlier, was tion fund and she with the general Coventry and North Warwick- forced to act as interpreter for fund of the Treasury. He declar- shire Club against Northern the pirates who made use of himed that they intended enthusiasti Liverpool, scored 114 not out in all through the night..
cally to carry out the Act's provi- 110 minutes. His innings includ-
SIX GLASS EYES,
Reuter.
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sions.
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of
ed a six and eleven boundaries. "The pirates were, the wierd "Cloudy with some rain" is the est things alive,” she said. official weather forecast issued "Mr. Handley-Derry had six 5,066,448 OUNCES WITHDRAWN in London for to-day's match. -- glass eyes in his possession given y Telegraph, Copyright, Telogyni him to discover which best suit-phic Messages Ordinance, 1894, Re SHOCK, ATTACK REQUIRED
ed him, but the pirates walked¦ceived June 22, #:35 am) • Following the failure of their The Roads Department have re-points of the road, however, is
off with all six,”
New York, To-day. Mrs. Learmouth saw a pirate A total of 5,066,443" ounces National Government in general, coived reports of landslides from not disturbed. and General Chiang Kai-shek Injall parts of the laland, as well as
in his petition to provide for Trent Bridge, when they lost to dressed in a white mess jacket silver was withdrawn on Wednes A part of the site for Kow. morala," declared Admiral Chang slow bowlers in the first Test at particular. They have stuck to several on the Kowloon side. The loon's New Garden City
separate bathing beaches, The the Australians by 288 runa, Eng- the opposition against Nanking's full extent of the slides is not yet washed into the back garden of feminite curves are unsightly and land will, without doubt, adopt and black trousers standing on day from the Commodity Exchange
No. 81, Waterloo Road. causing should not be seen by the opposite shock attack, which on the present guard, with a gun and a fierce depositories. cularly the resumption of railway A large fall has occurred in damage to the servants' quar- sex. Old traditional puritan tour has met with the best mes-glare in his eyes. Reuter. BRAND AND WATSON IN
· WEI-HAI-WEL and postal communications be-Stubbe Road, between Tsing Falters. Another mishap in Kow-
(Continued on Page 12). tween China and Manchoukuo,
Terrace and Wong-Nel-Chongloon was the almost complete de- standards should be maintained."sure of success.
As a result of this ban, there are
Wel-hai-Wei, To-day. The fourteen selected England; (Continued on Page 9)
Road, partially blocking the road, molition of the Kowloon Hospi- fewer swimmers at the beaches,
Messrs. Brand and Watson, of players are: and making the passage of trafic tal's new pathway.
Another slide was reported The heavy rain may keep away the
ILE. S. Wyatt (Warwick), (Cap. ficer's of the pirated steamer Shun dangerous early this morning.
A heavy fall of earth occurred from Grampian Road, but the bathers, but some of them do not tain), C. F. Waiters (Worcester), K. tien, have arrived here.
want to go to the river now with- Farnes (Essex), Sutcliffe (Yorkshire), They and Mr. Nicholl are return- at Magazine Gap, some 200 yards damage is yet unknown.
policy towards Japan, and parti-known.
DRESDEN PILOT AT FAULT
Waters Not Included In Certificate.
CAPTAIN DENIES KNOWLEDGE
OF THIS FACT
trafic.
TWO MINOR SLIDES
(Gloucester), Hendrening to Shanghai, direct": (Middlesex), Leyland Yorkshire), H.MS. Eagle arrived here early Ames (Kent), Verity (Yorkshire), Bowes (Yorkshire), Geary (Leicester), to-day-Reuter." Nicholls (Essex), Barnett (Gloucester)
and Cover (Surrey).
A later report states that an out their boy friends, or girl, Hammond below May Road, also endangering arth slide caused a broken win-
(Continued On Page 12.) dow at the Kowloon Mortuary.
LETHARGY RULES INCREASE IN SUPPLIES Minor slides have occurred in An increase of 613,000,000 WALL STREET. both Stubbs Road and Barker gallons has been recorded in the Road..
Island Reservoirs for the 24 hours;
Inflation Sentiment Increases.
At Pokfulam, near Sassoon ended 10.30a.m. this morning, Oslo, To-day. Road, motor vehicles were held up bringing the total storage to The disaster which overtook by debris in the roadway, but a 1,536,000,000, representing a total the German liner, "Dresden," on gang of coolies, have now cleared increase for the 24 hours of $9.8] Wednesday afternoon, while on as pinangani per cant pleasure cruise on the west coast
A serious fall has occurred at
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
Kam New York, To
| Street: Izadera late Weirch"
Aberdeen in the only reservoir reported to be overflowing, but ing for news which will lift-the of Norway, near Haugesund," is
from fém lefhär "Intarmediate-and- attributed to the pilot's lack of Happy Valley where some 15 feet both tam
knowledge of the walers in which of the Government Cemetery wall Wong Nel Chong are expe the ship was sailing when she have fallen, near the Hong Kong reach full capacity this afternoon. Jockey Club. The road was littered.
struck the rock
“WEATHER
Cloudy with
At the inquest on the four with bricks and earth, and care victims, it was stated that a slight had to be used in negotiating a change was made in the cruising passage by molercar. The road- plan with the result that the way has, however, now been clear- pilot entered waters not included ed
the pilots certificates.
At North Point, an earth fall (Continued on page 12.) 1 partially blocked" the Bhauki vatory this
in
arable factors are the ins
motor sales
STOCK EXCHANGE CONTROL.
Commission Of Five
un buon
Reported Chosen. SPECIAL TO CHINA GAIL
New York, To-day, The Scripps-Howard newspapers Understand that the Stock Exchange Control Commission consists of the broker, Mr. Dean Witter, the banker, Me James Auchin close the Trade Commissioner, Mr. George Ma thews and Mr. James Landis, and the attorney, Mr. Ferdinand Pacora.
United Prose per 80. Gold Barl
(Continued on page: 1.).
STOP PRESS
PREMIER'S EYE STRAIN
London, To-day. Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald's
advisers him to
oficial
added la- res Com
It is believed to have been trane ferred to Federal vaults as, the re- [suit of Government purchase,
A total of 97,840,982 ounces re mains in the depositòries--United Press, per SC. Gold Bar Co.
SILVER PURCHASE PROPOSAL
Certificates Based On
Cost Price.
New York, To-day. The United States Treasury has announced that, at least for the present silver certificates against purchases of silver wi bo based on the cost price, fór example, if $650,000, is paid for 1,000,000 ounces, $650,000 worth of certificates will be issued.
Whether the Treasury will take advantage of the flexible provision of the Silver Act to indue certificates up to a maxi- mum valuation of $1.28 per ounce is stated to be a matter of policy to be detarmband Inter, --
Reuter