RIOTS IN CAIRO
NEW TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION
Further Demonstration By Students
SEVERAL POLICE INJURED
⚫ BY STONES
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Cairo, To-day.
Serious rioting broke out here again yesterday morning- when a large crowd, comprised! principally of students, assem- bled near the medical faculty of the university and pelted the police with stones when the latter attempted to disperse them
Although the authorities denied i "that trouble was brewing and: mounted police as well as armour- ed cars patrolled the streets, they! were not able to prevent the mobi halting several trams and bases. turning out the occupants and setting the vehicles on, fre. well as knocking down lampposts i and igniting the gas which stream- ed out, so that flames several feet high shot up from the pavement.
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The police. who were hard pressed by the rioters. a number being injured by stones. Ared several salvoes over their heads "and - arrested hundreds-Trans-
Ocean Service.
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DRASTIC MEASURES PENDING . Cairo: The rioting has left trail of destruction in the shape "of felledtrees, smashed--street- lamps, disabled buses and burat-: out tramcars.
THE CHINA" MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1935
Vienna reports that Prince Ernst van Starbemberg (shown with his wife) may become Regent and eventually King of Aus tria and occupy the throne shown at the right. He is now Vice Chancellor and virtual Dictator of the country.. Stathemberg was first reported to favour the return of the exiled Archduke Otto.
The authorities are prepari RAPHAEL TUCK
drastic measures to deal with ang further rioting.
The Minister of
Interior announces that all for
hidden demonstrations will i future be suppressed by firearms, if necessary, to safeguard life and: property.-Reuter.
CAVALRY CALLED OUT
An earlier message stated that
Egyptian infantry and cavalry
had been called out as 3 cautionary. weisure renewed ricting.
PRODUCTS
Artistic Display For Christmas
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
Local Society's Good Work
ANNUAL REPORT ISSUED
Jefferson Alone To
Blame
(Continued from Pogs 7.)
to
It was therefore the duty of those jin charge of the navigation of the |Afrika – to" ise all · possible mids ascertain the President [Jefferson's intentions. -- One of those side was this signal, and if should have been observed.
This alteration was insufficient tô Jenable her to pass south of buoy No. A and the Everett, and it creased speed from 11.37 am to *(2) In proceeding at an in-
is not now in dispute that from 11.45 am. before she had definite-
the
STAL
A.6
time ~ when.
of
the
buay
Africa No
abreast she could have dona
ly ascertained the President Jef- ferson's intentions. The Afrika,
nothing more than she did to avoid as the overtaking vessel, proceed- the collision which occurred four
ed at an excessive speed after! Įminutes later.
passing Kowloon Point and follow- ***About two minutes after the ed too closely on the President! She should have heldi Afriks had sounded two short Jefferson
blasts, she repeated this signal back until the overtaken vessel with her helm still hard sport was at a safe distance, and her The President Jefferson replied failure to do so was a breach of with three short blasts, ind Articles 23, 24 and 29 of the Re- 11.46 am-her stern by that timegulations. having just swung clear of the
***(3). Prior to reaching buoy
pile dolphin-put her engines No. A.6, in altering her course to one which was more northerly be- fall aster buth
fore she had definitely ascertain-
"At 11.47 game,
somewhere to fed the President Jefferson's inter- the northward of buoy No. A.7. tions
The Collision --
the two vessels came into collision, "(4) In failing to observe the President Jefferson's porting the stem of the President Jefferson making with the starboard side of manoeuvre earlier than in fact I concur in the view the Africa abreast of the latter's she did. No. 2 hatch, and at an angle of expressed on this matter by the learned Chief Justice in the penu- abort 75 degrees.
"The learned Chief Justice, who Itimate paragraph of his judg had the assistance of a nautical ment.
held that the primary assessor, responsibility for the collision rest-
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President Jefferson's Guilt
"I am also of opinion that the
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The 46. Behar left Singapore. Mrs. Bond, of No. 291 Prince
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ed with the President Jefferson for President Jefferson was guilty, of her breaches of Articles 28 and 29 zegligent navigation in each of of the Begulations for Preventing the following respects: Collisions at Sea, in that she (a) "(1) In failing to sound failed when at point 3* to give signal of two short blasts when suy indication of her alteration of she changed direction to port at fcourse to port, and (b) failed point "T" The President Jefferyesterday at 5 pm and is due Edward Road, reports that while when she sounded her first signal son thereby deprived the Afrika here next Friday at about 7 pa driving car No. 2148 Noah Boad at-1. pan. yesterday, she of three short blasts to put her of the washing that ressel other-
The ss. Carthage left Singapore knocked down a cyclist, Tem Ling, wise would have had. The signal,] engines astern
"He held, however, that the bad it been sounded, might have at noon on Saturday and is due who was admitted to the Kowloon Afrika was also to blame for hav-induced the Afrika to correct her here at about 8 am on Thursday Hospital.
manoeuvre at that next. She is carrying the outward ing failed continuously to keep a own wrong
botad English mails.
Chan Kwong aged 34, unem→ proper watch on the President time.
(2) In letting go her port an-
ployed was brought before Mr. Jefferson as required by the Be-
The next meeting for Worship Wynne-Jones at Kowloon Magia. gulations, and for having failed to chor in the manner and at the
conducted by Dr. tracy this morning on a charge of observe, as she well might have point she did, having regard to the and meditation SOME IDEAL GIFTS
done, the President Jefferson's al-nature of her intended anchoring Reichelt at the Tao Fong Shan stealing a cotton shirt, the proper
Hong ty of Mr. W. Lampgill, from the teration of course to port in suffi-manoeuvre and to the then posi-Chapel, Bishop's House,
and speed of the Kong, will be held at 6 pm on 1st floor of No. 192, Prince Ed- Raphael Tuck and Sons, world The annual report of the Hong cient time to have enabled her to tion, course,
He pleaded guilty pre-renowned for their artistic dis Kong Society for the Protection of pass asfely to the south of buoy Afrika. In coming to an anchor Wednesday. Dr. Reichert will give ward Road. following play, of Christmas Cards and Ca- Children shows that the ordinary No. A.7 and the Everett, and thus cantion must be used not to in-a short address on The sending and was given six weeks' impai
somrrent. lendars, have again placed them-income for the year is some $7,000 to avoid the collision. In the re-jure or embarrass other vessels: of prophets into the worldTM Bands of students who were on selves in the front rank of art below expenditure. In spite of salt the learned Chief Justice ap-The Cerez (1857) Swab. 250. Had
Hui Ming, aged 19, was admit- "At Kowloon Magistracy this strikke set on fire a number of publishers with the quality and this, the Committee decided that portioned 70 per cent of the blame the President Jefferson paid pro- tramcars, and stoned and turned!
excellence of their productions there could be no change in the to the President Jefferson sad 30 per attention to the Afrika im-ted to the Government Civil Hos-morning, Inspector Ellis siced for hoses on the police from the bal-for Christmas 1935.
mediately before letting go her pital yesterday suffering from an order for the confiscation of policy of reducing expenditure so per cent. to the Afrika conies of the Kas Relaini Hos-
port anchor, she must have realis- chopper wound, received during 850 taels of opium. He stated The Greeting Cards are more long as any part of their reserves · Points Not Considered.
SOME coolies in that Indian Warder Bahadur Khɛa. pital.
|attractive than ever,this year and remain,
On this appeal the appellants ed that by so doing she would be a fight with
bath Graham Street. endangering The police, as a warning, fired the Calendars
was returning to the Laichikok make charmingly Apart from its activities on be claim that the Afrika alone should seriously
Prison last night when he saw two shot guns, but the aggressors wereį
eldecorative presents. There are half of a large body of children be, held to blame, whilst the res-vessels
(3) In sounding a signal of The opening ceremony of the men carrying a parcel each. The out of range.
the daintiest boxes of lacette and its influence. on behalf of pondents claim that the President Earlier instructions the d'oyleys imaginable, just the children generally, the Society has wefferson alone should be held to three short blasts in response to Parochial Hall and Public Landing men ran away on seeing the police to deal leniently with the thing for an unusual Bridge and saved the lives of hundreds of blame. During the heating the Afrika's first signal of two Library of St. Teresa's Church, Warder and when Khan Bahadur the spot, he found two students were cancelled by the Mahjongg prize.
children, and even more from a number of points were submitted short blasts and failing thereupon Kowloon Tong, will take place on got to Minister of the interior, who an-i
of violence if hold some
The Children's Annuals also life of sickness and ill-health due to us. by counsel for the parties, to put her engines. full speed Thursday at 6.30 pm in the tins, containing the drug, on the thorised the use
I desire to add, however, vestry of the church, when the roadside. The order was accurd wonderful surprises, to lack of adequate food and at- but in view of the conclusion at astern necessary.
All faculties of the Egyptian catered for in the selection of il- of their lives.
and every age and every taste is tention during the early months which I have arrived after giving that although this was a mis- Bev. Fr. G. Byrne, S.J., will speakingly made
full consideration to the advice of leading signal in the sense of hav-on "One of our Greatest Needs" University, which was to have lustrated literature. Books are
More than ever the Society our nautical assessors, it will not ing a tendency to mislead, it was been reopened on December 1, had certainly the ideal gifts for chil-needs the help and encouragement be necessary for me to deal with not in my view a signal which did
Mrs. A. B. Wellington will pre- RAW RUBBER PRICES dren and their interest fingers of all sections of the public of the all of these in detail. “--
in fact mislead the Afrika in the sent the medals and diplomes to
Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co. long after all the toys are broken. Colony, which have been given 30
"To my mind it is beyond all situation in which that vessel was the successful candidates at the
the following The Zag Zaw Picture Puzzles freely in the past.
doubt that each of the two vessels, then placed. Accordingly I con- 1935 Catechism Contest to be held have received should appeal to many, and a var
was navigated on the morning in sider that this misleading signal at the Wah Yan College, Robinson Straits Currency quotations from iety of charming subjects taste
question with a deplorable diere given by the President Jefferson Road next, Wednesday at 4 pm. Singapore for Raw Eubber.
Spot 214 5., Unchanged 21 fully reproduced add to the xa-
gard of the movements of the could not in any degree have been
The collection taken at the prize- premacy of Tuck's entertaining
other of them. On the one hand a cause of the collision, and that
at the Peak January/March 22 Down s and fascinating out-outs.
the President Jefferson, in carry-it may therefore be disregarded giving ceremony Local Philatelicing out her anchoring manoeuvre when considering the question of School on Friday last, in aid of
Society
in the waters and in the manner causes contributing to the damage the Society for the Protection of April/June 22 Down b
22 7/22 she did, would have been proceed (See The Gulf of Suez, 1921 P. Children, amounted to $100,” and
the Head Mistress and Staff, wish July/September 23 4 Down % to thank parents and friends whob, 23.3% 3 The Hong Kong Philatelic Soing normally and property had it 318).
Summarised Account
Market:--Quiet. ciety will hold its First Annual not been for the presence of the
been closed indefinitely.
POLICE RESERVE
Orders For The Current
Week
Orders by the. Hon Mr. T. H King, Inspector General of Police Arrival of HE. Sir Andrew Caldecott Kt, CMG, CRE
The following Police Reservists will parade for duty in connection
REDUCTION IN CAPITAL
with the arrival of EE Sir An Application Granted.
C.M.G... drew Caldecott Kt., CBE, on Thursday, December 12, 1935:-
Chinese ComPARTY
EXHIBITION OF STAMPS
•
Exhibition of postage stamps at Afrika which she, up to the mo
ジ the
he position, therefore, may South China Morning Post ment of letting go her port an- be summarised quite shortly as An application for the redne- Building in Wyndham Street on chor, wrongfully assumed to be follows: On the one hand, if the tion of the capital of the firm of Wednesday and Thursday of this making a course down the Central Afrika, as the overtaking vessel, Nichel and Lyons Ltd, based on week between the hours of 3 and Fairway to the south of boy No. had kept a proper look-out, reduc- 30 members of the Chinese Com-2 special resolution of the com-8 pm. The exhibition has been 4-7 and the Everett. On the other ed her speed, and held back for hand the Afrika in directing her the President Jefferson, as she pany to parade at Central Police pany, was this morning made be-very well supported by the mem Station at 0.8.40 hours to draw fore His Honour the Chief Jus bers, with some noteworthy selec-course north of boty No. 47 and should have done, there would arms. Dress Blue Uniform, Captice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, in the tions entered. Prizes have been the Everett with a view ultimate have been a collision. On the ly to swinging to port and fetch other hand, if the President Jeffer- with White Cover, Belt with Supreme Court, by Mr. H. C. donated for the best exhibits. Brace, and Truncheons.
Macramara, acting on the in- Among the entries are stampa ing up to the tide at buoy No. A son had not let go her port zachor Indian Company
structions to Mr. M. M. Watson, from the British Empire, China, would have been proceeding nor in the manner and at the point 28 members of the Indian Com-of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Hong Kong, Portugal and the wally and properly had it not been she did, there would have been no
Master.
United States. In addition there for the presence of the President collision. pany to parade at Central Police
-“Finding, as I do, that each Station at 08.40 hours to draw Mr. Macnamars stated in mak-are interesting exhibits of air. Jefferson which she, up to the mo
was guilty of negligent arms Dress-Blue Uniform, Caping the application that certain mails and specialities showing ment of arriving nearly abreast of vessel with White Cover, Belt with assets, amounting to 800,000 yen, Philatelic Zoos, Native Races, et buoy No A6, wrongfully assumed navigation in these respects, the Brace, and Tranches..
had been lost. There was no The exhibition is open to the to be proceeding to a berth at the question that then remains is whe ther it was the negligence of one suggestion of opposition.
public as well as stamp entkn= Flying Squad.
10 members of the Flying Squad His Lordship made the necessiasts and will repay a visit to parade at Central Police Stationary order. -at 08.40 hours to draw auzas. Dress
Blue Uniform, Cap with White in Club Street" Cover, Belt with Brace, and Trun- cheon
Dress-Blue Uniform, Cap with White Cover, Belt with Brace, and Trancheons,
Emergency Unit Heserve 12 members of the Emergency
Indian Company aft Beserve to parade at Central 1st Aid Classes--All members Police Station at 08 do hours taking this course will report Dress Bine Uniform Cap with the Indian Company Headquar White Cover, Belt with Brace, on Tuesday, and Thursday, 10
ncheon, Holster and Revolvers.12 December, 1995, at 18.30 Konze
for instruction.
"Practice Parade will be held
at 07.15 hours on Tuesday, Decems-
ber 10, 1935. All members tako
D. SPEN
hony Kong, Mond
Ing part in this parade will £alli 9, 1985
There is no charge for admission.
WEATHER REPORT
lone has increased
in intensity and
* Afrika's Gulit ----- or both of the vessels which caus-
"I am of opinion that the Afrika ad or contributed to the collision
was guilty of negligent navigation and to the resulting damage. For
in each of the following respects: the maxim causa pros
* (1) *Ing failing to observe the remote spectater. danym dejtiningni horme, Aagabois tinguish negligence
able
Foot of Next Col)
so generously contributed.
In all casES.
of damage bygone, for it seems clear that if the
three ways in which the question of to let go her anchor then, she collision on land or sea, there are President Jefferson had not chosen contributory negligece may arise.
A is sing for denge thereby rewould have had ample time within eived Ee was negligent, but his which to put her engines full negligence has brought about ahead both and proceed on her state of things in which there would have been no damage course down the channel between had not been subsequently and the pile dolphin and the Everetár severably negligent A
1 rive at the conclusion. therefore, that the Afrika was At the other end of the chain, negligent, but that her negligence A's - negligence roaker collision” so- threatening that though by the up had brought about a state of propriate mesure B could avoid things which there would have it, B has not really time to think been no damage if the President. sad by mistake takes the wrong TEXTBO
is not "beld to be any negligence and Aegi
had not been sub- and severably negligent. being so, I must find the negligence of the Jefferson alone which the damage.
zeasons, I think that should be dismissed
"appeal allowed.
the President