THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 14, 1939
SINKING OF SIRDHANA Eleven Passengers Drowned: Nine Missing
HIGH BID FOR AIR MAIL STAMP
London, To-day.
An unused Newfoundland 60 cent air mail stamp was sold at a London stamp auction yester- day for £300.
The stamp was onc of 3000 issued for Commander de Pinedo's flight from Newfound- land to Rome in May, 1927.
Air mail stamp collecting is experiencing a tremendous wave of popularity-In particular among Aemerican and Canadian collectors. British Wireless.
CHINESE ATTACK IN SHANSI
Hingisi, Shensi; To-day. Chinese forces in west Shansi have started a co-ordinated counter-offen- sive at Siangning. Intense fighting is raging in the outskirts.
A number of strategic points around the town, including Shihlipu, Yochiayuan, Liuchiayuan and Nan- yuan have been recaptured.
Dislodged from their outer defences, the Japanese have withdrawn into the walled city. A detachment which attempted to break through the Chin- ese cordon was surrounded.
Japanese. reinforcements rushing up from Fencheng were intercepted. Meanwhile, other Chinese units have commenced counter-attacks on New- wangmiao and Yitaitow, between Siangning and Puhsien.-Central News.
TEN POINTS OF CHINESE CONDUCT
Chungking, To-day.
Ten points to be followed by the Chinese nation
were laid down by General Chiang Kai-shek when he addressed the weekly memorial meet- ing here yesterday.
The Generalissimo urged that Chin- ese ethics should be followed; indus- tries should be developed; education promoted; economy practised; the civil service system carried out; the
MAGICIAN'S PROPS DO DISAPPEARING TRICK
Singapore, To-day.
THE B.I. STEAMSHIP "Sirdhana” sank in 15 min- utes in Singapore Roads yesterday morning, after, it is believed, having struck a mine. Eleven Asiatic passengers were drowned and nine
are missing.
The passengers included 137 Chinese deportees, most of whom were imprisoned behind a steel grille in the forward hold.
They were saved by the prompt action of a British police inspector, who blew the lock open with his gun.
The American magician, Nicola, with his wife and troupe were saved but lost all their equipment. Nicola, interviewed by Reuter in S.ngapore, said he and his wife managed to board the last lifeboat, holding 70, just as the boat sank.
After rowing for half an hour the lifeboat was taken in tow by a rescue launch.
LOST A FORTUNE
"Two men of my company
CAME FROM UN LONG FOR ROBBERY
HOW PROMPT WORK BY THE POLICE, UNDER CHIEF DETEC- TIVE INSPECTOR A. E. CAREY, PREVENTED A 'ROBBERY BY ARMED GANGSTERS IN KOWLOON CITY LAST WEEK, WAS DISCLOS- were
TUBE STATIONS TO REOPEN
London, To-day.
One of the worst, but neces- sary, inconveniences of wartime conditions in London has been the closing of certain tube stations to allow of flood preven. tion operations, and news that work is proceding day and night and rapidly approaches comple. tion is welcomed by Londoners.
Two important stations re- open on Wednesday and it is hoped that all will be finished before Christmas shopping be. gins-British Wirelesa.
NAZIS MUST PERISH FOR REICH TO LIVE
The
London, To-day. German Freedom
unable to get into a lifeboat and ED THIS MORNING BEFORE MR. Station declared yesterday: E. HIMSWORTH WHEN FIVE "The Nazi regime must per- and clung to some wreckage,” said CHINESE WERE CHARGED WITH ish so that Germany can live
dived off as the vessel heeled
Nicola.
over,
"After being picked. .up by the launch they helped in the rescue work.
.
"All my property was uninsured and I lost a fortune."--Reuter.
50 DROWN IN WHANGPOO
Shanghai, To-day. Between 50 and 60 are reported to have been - drowned in the Whangpoo yesterday as the re- sult of a collision. between a speeding Japanese military launch and а Chinese ferryboat which was carrying about 100 women workers from Pootung to Shang- hai.
The impact threw many of the ferryboat's passengers into the water where they perished de- spite desperate rescue efforts. Reuter.
dignity of the law upheld; a super- PRESIDIUM
visory system observed; border affairs should be examined; constitutional government established and Sun Yat- sen's teachings followed.
These represent the main points in the manifesto of the fifth Kuomintang Congress. Reuter,
S.M.C.
WARNING
Shanghai, To-day. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she''s opening speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in Chungking was given prominence in the Ave Teading Chinese papers here. Yesterday afternoon, the manage- ments of these papers received a warning from the Shanghai Municipal Council to refrain from publishing reports of the meeting.
OF C.E.C.
Chungking, To-day. The preparatory meeting of the sixth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomin- tang was held yesterday.
CONSPIRACY.
Accused, Au Kam-tim, 35, Chan
were ar-
Hing, 44, Chan Mun, 23, Chan Kuen, 29, and Leung Yung, 24, rested in an opium divan.
Det.-Sgt. J. Fraser said that the police went to the divan and arrested
them with two revolvers and 11 rounds of ammunition. They had come from Un Long with the inten- tion of picking on a house in Kow- loon City for robbery.
All were sentenced to six months' hard labour with the exception of the last accused, who was discharged. First and second accused, further charged with possession of arms, were remanded for one week.
GAVE BABY AWAY
How a Chinese woman, about 26, was sent to his office by the Water Police after she had jumped into the Harbour because she could And no means of livelihood, although she had given away her 2-month-old child, was the story told by Inspec- tor H. W. Fraser, of the S.C.A., Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen this morn- ing when Pun Ho, 45, widow, was charged with falling to report pos- session of a ward--the child.
to
It was stated that the child's fa-
again.
"A system which murdered General von Fritsch and daily is murdering thousands of Germany's finest men, a which sends hundreds of system thousands to be slaughtered on the battlefield, has no right to live."
Reuter.
MANCHURIA
BORDER PARLEYS
-
Berlin, To-day, The names of the Japanese and Manchukuo
the representatives for mixed frontier commission have been submitted to M. Molotov, the Soviet Premier and Foreign Commissar, by Mr. Togo, the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, according to a message from the Soviet capital to the Ger- man news agency.
The commission will meet in Chita and will later transfer to Harbin, Reuter.
GERMANS
ther was a walter earning insufficient OF ESTONIA
money to support a family. The mo ther presented the child to. Pun for 20 cents, lucky money.
On Sunday, she jumped from
Dr. H. H. Kung, Wang Fa-chin, Ting Wei-feng, Chu Cheng, Yu Yu- jen, General Feng Yu-hsiang, Tai ferry. Chi-tao, Chou Lu, Yeh Chu-tsang, Chen Ku-fu and Li Wen-fang elected to the Presidium.
а
she
EVACUATE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"). This morning, she said she gave were the child away because she wanted
Amsterdam To-day, to work, while Pun stated that
It is reported from Bernt that the The Presidium will appoint a sub-was ignorant of the law.
evacuation of 13,000 Germany from committee for examination of pro The Magistrate adjourned the case Estonia is nearly completed and that posals submitted by delegates.-Reu- for 24 hours.
tér.
PASSING OF MADAME
TUAN CHI-JUI
Chungking, To-day.
THEFT OF CAR
Motor-car tools, valued at $176, Madame Tuan) Chi-jui, wife of the and two blank” cheques of the Wing It is learned that the proprietors one-time Chief Executive of the de-On Bank (Nos. 1863 and 1864) were have agreed to ignore the warning-funct Peking Government, has pass- found missing from his car when Mr. Our Own Correspondent.
led away in Shanghal-Central News. (W. T. Suen, of No. 5, Prospect Place,
the last batch of 1,000 is leaving in January.
German property in Estonia is es- timated at over 100,000,000 Marks the transfer of which will be made in "ind ̧ and will take several years.-- Havas.
recovered the vehicle yesterday. The car was taken from outside No. 85, Bonham Road in the morning.