DRAMA IN ARCTIC
FOUR MEN ADRIFT IN OPEN BOAT
DANISH HYDROPLANE TO RESCUE
Copenhagen, To-day.
FRENCH FRONTIER
DEFENCES
CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935
Strengthened By New
Recruiting Law
“INVIOLABILITY OF FRENCH SOIL GUARANTEED”.
CHINA. MAIL-
ECIAL
Paris, To-day.
The new recruiting law has it
ously, below strength.
A dramatic wireless S.0.S. from the Arctic- "We shall die if help is not sent," received here yesterday, is believed to have come from four last enabled France to put enough troops into the eastern frontier men adrift in an open boat in the Far North defence system, the garrison of without food or fuel, namely a film photo-hich has previously been danger- grapher, a wireless operator and two seal-hun- ters who wintered-in-north-east Greenland and should have returned in the summer but were unable to do so, as the relief ship did not reach them owing to ice.
A few days ago the men left, their hunting station, now hem-
med in by ice, and are unable to EDUCATION BOARD
proceed
It is reported that the British
expedition ship. Quest, which is off Greenland, will try to reach] them. *The Danish Govern- ment has despatched a seaplane. while a Norwegian trawler is also trying to establish com- munication. -Reuter.
REPORT IN BRITAIN
REORGANISATION OF SYSTEM
London, To-day- According to the report of the
This was the essence of a speech made yesterday by the Deputy President of the Chamber of De- fence, M. Montmedy-
While the frontier population last year had good reason to com- plain over the insufficient protec- tion and defence of the French eastern frontiers, M. Montmedy.
∙WAS DOW
declared, the situation fortunately different, thanks to the
recruiting law. The French
Army will now be able to close the frontiers against any invasion, and guarantee the inviolability of French soil-Trans-ocean Service.
HYDROPLANE TO RESCUE Board of Education, just issued, TUNNEL TRAGEDY
Sound.
tast
+
IN BERLIN
Hitler Visits Scene Of Disaster
..
FREAK FACTS
HELEN LOWELL
"AE BACKED BY
SO YEARS OF STAGE SIPERIENCE. PRICO, TO HER SUCCESSFUL SCREEN CAREER ·
WARREN
WILLIAM
ABOUT FILM FAVORITES:-
X X X X X X X X X
MARGARET
LINDSAY
{WAS: CAPTAIN OF ATHLETICE AT NATIO
SEMINARY
DOROTHY
TREE
HAS NEVER
APPEARED ONTHE SCREEN WITHOUT. INDING HER SCAFTIFIK DARK BAJE
| HEYER READ A
DETECTIVE STORY.
UNTIL HE WAS CAST AS PRILO VANCE IN
"THE DRAGON MURDER CASE"
DRAGON MURDER CASE
A few interesting highlights about some of the players in "The Dragon Murder Case,” which is due at the Alhambra "Thea- tre next Sunday.
CHINESE DELEGATE
TO SIAM Education Difficulties Still Continue
MR. HSIAO REPORTED ILL
Canton, To-day.
BENCH'S WARNING
Alleged Interference With Witnesses
AT MURDER CHARGE
Allegations that attempts bad been made to interfere with wit-1 nesses were made at Willesden
Mr. Wong Lan Sue, Com-recently when three people were
A Trans-Ocean Service message the total number of children at- states that a daring attempt to tending public elementary schools rescue the four members of the last year was 5,576,752 and "Nanok." whose motor-boat was 448.421 in secondary schools. blocked in the ice off the
Steady progress has been made, coast of Greenland: 350 kilometres with the reorganisation of the from Scoresby Sound. will be elementary school system, which
**** CHINA, MAIL" SPECIAL. made in a Danish Navy hydroplane. (has been proceeding for some
Berlin. To-day. The plane, which will be pilot-years on the lines of the Hadow
Reichsfuehrer Hitler yester ed, by
two officers. will
leave Report on the Education of the day raid a visit to the scene of Copenhagen to-day for the Faroee Adolescent, which has been acthe tunnel disaster on the new Islands, from where it will con- cepted as the policy of the Board Berlin North and South under-missioner of Education of this charged with being concerned tinue. via Iceland, to Scoresby and considerable progress has ground railway. He was in province, who, together with together in killing Doris Marjorie also been made during the year formed of the progress of the some other officials, was sent to Hesford, 27, in Glengall-road. The situation of the four menjoy local authorities in the re salvage work as well as the Siam to study education condi- Kilburn. in the motor-boat is declared to placement of old and the pro- outcome of the enquiries into tions and to accompany Mr. Accused were Catherine Mar- be desperate since a ferce sea is vision of new premises- running and the radio telegraph During the last nine months of the measures taken for the re- has arrived back here.
the causes of the disaster and Hsiao Fu-chen back to Canton. garet Perdomo, 45, a Spanish sub- ject, Glengall-road, Kilburn: is out of order. All four men are 1934 the Board has approved lief of the victims' families- During his trip south, a great Charlotte Baseley. 44. of The seriously ill. The hydroplane's building proposals involving Earlier in the day three vic-deal of time was spent in Terrace, Kibum; and Walter capital and expenditure of tims were brought to the sur- observing the educational sys Stanley Moore, 31, musician, of
4.449.212. which is greater by face, while the body of a fourth tems of the different places he Park-road, Richmond, Surrey 4885.678 than the total approved has not yet been dug up from visited. According to his Perdomo and Baseley were fur- for the full financial year of the wreckage after having been verbal report. Siam, as com-ther charged with administering NOW WORKING OUT 1933-1934-British Wireless Ser-located Trans-Ocean Service. pared with other places, has a noxious thing and with unlaw-
Trice.
promulgated the most oppres-fully using an instrument, and COTTON FORMULA
A later message states that the sive regulations with regard to Moore was also accused of being total number of dead recovered the Chinese schools in Siam. an accessory before the fact in
oppression, respect of the second charge.. Serious Offence. have to continue the struggle to A number of witnesses were. give their children adequate called, and the accused, all of Chinese education."
whom pleaded not guilty, were As regards Mr. Hsiao, Com-committed for trial missioner Wong says he is still Mr. Clayton, prosecuting, said stricken with illness and will there had been an attempt to in- probably return in about a terfere with witnesses, but he did month's, time-Central Press. not know by whom.
offeers volunteered for service.
ROOSEVELT
(Continued from Page 6).
LAST-MINUTE DERATE A message received yesterday stated:-
An unprecedented last-minute
tussle between the Senate and the House of Representatives. post- poned the adjournment of Con- gress just as it seemed that the
AUTUMN SEASON AT REPULSE BAY
Dancing Till 1 a.m., Then Swimming!
Repulse Bay Hotel will be the
eleventh-hour efforts to pass all attraction for Hong Kong society
important legislation before
holiday would be successful
Early on Sunday morning
next Saturday night, and these the Saturday Dinner Dances which
FIGHT BODIES RECOVERED
from the wreckage is now eight
while a "ninth body has been found, although it has not yet
been dug up from the debris
Trans-Ocean Service.
A DEFENDER FOR “CROONERS”
the proved so successful last year will Melbourne Professor's
adjournment resolution was re-
|be continued throughout the Sea- son. Dancing will continue un-
turned to the Senate, only a few til 1 am, and for the younger
have adjourned automatically..
terday.
COTTON GROWERS' LOAN
cents, as amendments to the Def- ciency Bill
,71
The House refused to accept the aimendments and warned the Senate that the bill would die un- less they eliminated them.
BILLS PASSES
Ito call a halt
ceived.
SANITARY BOARD MEETING
Opinion
Melbourne.
Chinese overseas nationals still Yet in spite of
PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY
Important Resolutions
Passed
The Chairman of the Bench (Sir Charles Pinkham) said that was a very serious offence and must not occur again
WAR WAGED ON SOCIETY
Woman Admits 297 Offences
London.
minctes before Congress would generation, who are not prepared Crooning and jazz are defended The Senate rescinded the resolu-rangements can be made for late Musie at the Melbourne Univer at that time, aby Bernard Heinte, Professor of tion and went into recess till res-suppers and bathing parties atsity. The professor says it is The Provincial Assembly con-
Canton, To-day. the Lide until 3 am,
quite possible for a musician to vened formally at 9.30 am. The hitch arose over the Senate's mises to be a grand success and a music.
This re-opening function pro-appreciate dance music as much as yesterday to continue the dis- decision to allow cotton growers a
cussion on the bills presented intending diners are advised to 12-cent loan, contrary to the Ad-
“The cry that canned music has by its; members. As a result.
A woman for whom it wÉS ministration's wishes, and to in-
make early reservations because been the death of real music is many resolutions were passed stated the police had been stitute a new wheat loan of 90 of the heavy bookings already re- untrue," he said. "What it has among which three deserve searching for nearly five years
done has been to drive out music special mention.
vespa was sentenced at the Old Bai- that was formerly played badly. The first of these obliges thelley recently to three years
I have no
quarrel with Government to abolish gambl Penal servitude and five years' mechanised music, because I being and opium smoking in the preventive detention when she lieve that the gramophone and different villages
was found guilty of being an the radio. have been an
extra-The second urges the Govern habitual criminal ordinary educational medium in went to order the authorities of
Accused, Florence Page bringing musical enlightenment the counties to push forward pleaded guilty to four charges to the people."
the relief undertakings
of larceny, and admitted 293 The last of these resolutions other offences.
Previous Convictiong |calls for active steps from the CUSTODY OF THE
Government for the improve It was stated that she had CHILD
ment of the silk manufacture had many previous convicti and the reviving of the gik in She had defrauded people Ann Harding Wins
dustry-Central Press.
over England. The amount obtained by her A Point
GENERAL - HƯANG
1930 was just over £2,
Judge Dodson told Page IN CANTON she had waged war
for years Travels To Attend Funeral
Congress, however,
passed
zcveral important bills, ́including the amended Utilities Bill, provid-
Compulsory Inoculation Of Dogs
The following matters will be ing a modified death sentence on considered at Utility holding companies,
to-day's the
meet- "Soak the Rich" hill, increasing Letter from the Government re- ing of the Sanitary Board:- estate income taxes, levying an ex-lative to the compulsory inocula- cess profit tax and increasing the tion of dogs; minute, by the Pre- individual surtax, also ratifyingfsident relative to the conservancy the Dallas oil compact whereby the contract for Shaukiwan; applica- oil-producing States agree to limit tion for an eating house licence the production of crude oil, and the at No. 44, Wing Lok Street, Liquor Control Bill, establishing ground floor (the portion facing has won the latest round in her new Alcohol Commission under the Hillier Street); application for battle with her former husband, control of the Treasury Reuter an eating house licence at No. Mr. Harry Bannister, for the 224, Shanghai Street, ground custody of their six-year-old EXPRESS COLLIDES
floor
My daughter
WITH BUS
Killed: 26 Injured
In Austria
** CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL
Vienna To-day: Seven were killed and 426 hers seriously
ress train on
In addition the regular retums will be tabled.
H.K. TRAVEL ASSOCIATION
The Hong Kong Travel ciation, acknowledges with th the following subscriptions: The Hong Kong & Shanghai
Hotels, Ltd
essrs. Deacont
Los Angeles. Ann Harding, the film star,
She has obtained a court order restraining Mr. Ban Iter from remov
daughter from California
Same Words
A similar order wa
Miss Hardin ing her divo 1932
Canton, To-day. At 11 am yesterday General Hoang Shao-hung, Chairman of the Cheliang Provincial Gov- ved at Canton from
pany
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