"THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 1926
CABLE AND WIRELESS
NEWS.
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HEROES OF THE SEA.
AMERICAN AND GERMÁN VTSSELS
TO RESCUE.
Reary, February 1st, When the liner President Roosevelt, bringing survivors of the British freigh- ter dutino, arrived at Plymouth yester-
[BBIT:NE WIRELESS" SERVICE. | KING GEORGE'S TRIBUTE.
Broar, January 31st, The gallantry dieplayed by Capt. Fried and the crew of the President Roosevelt in rescuing the crow of the British Antine has aroused the greatest ad-
miration here.
His Majesty King George, in a message
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PARLIAMENT.
TO BE OPENED BY KING. IN PERSON.
Ruosy, February ́lat: Parliament will be opened to-morro by the King in person. His Majesty, accompanied by the Queen, will drive, state to Westminster and will deliver the speech from the Throne, foreshadowing the legislation contemplated by Govern ment in the coming session. The scope of new legislation will be restricted, for it
Uny, further particulars obtained serve:l to President Coolidge, says the heroism is well-known that Government desire to
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MAHARAJAH OF INDORE.
VICEROY OF INDIA ORDERS AN INVESTIGATION.
MUMTAZ - BEQUM (ECHO.
Drut, February 1st. Lord Reading, the Viceroy of India, has decided to appoint a committee, con sisting of two High Court Judges, two Ruling Princes and one. Senior Officer of the Political Department, to investigate the alleged connection of the Mabarajah of Indore with the attempted abduction of the dancer Mumtaz Begum and the
'only to heighten the admiration felt for shown under such terrible conditions has reserve as much parliamentary time as murder of the merchant Bawla...
the mid-Atlantic resour.
The Angior's crew were unable to speak. too highly of the liner's behaviour, One of them said: We never supposed, for a moment, that a Arst class passer ger boat, like this would come to the rescue of a poor little froighter and give tour whole days to the job. Their great regret is that their safety cost the lives of two of the crew of the befriending American vessel. It is be- lieved that Mr. Keitan, who was one of the two men drowned, was a German and the first man to volunteer for rescue service. The other man, who lost his life, was the master-at-arms, Mr. Wirtas men, who was of Finnish birth. Captain Fried paid a high tribute to his out standing heroism.
The hurricane lasted four whole days with waves 40 to 70 feet high; aud, al
Roosevelt stopped close
snowstorme-ou
though the noses was possible, she continually lost sight of her in the ose occasion for the space of eighteen boves She was found by dead reckoning despite the drift which had carried the Roosevelt 110 miles dur- ing four days. Captain Fried remained Three boats, all commanded by the Chiet Offer Mr. Miller, were lost before the rescue was elected.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
CABLE
THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
`DISMISSAL,
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CHANG HUAN HSIANG IS REMOVED.
WATCHED BY · POLICE,
ALLEGED ROBBERS ARRESTED IN QUEEN'S ROAD HOUSE.
Four men, Lai Fo, Wan Chun, Yeung Kwai and Cheung Put Sang, who are stated to have been frustrated by the ́rolive in an alleged attempt to commit a' robbery at No. 213, Queen's Road East,
RE Lindsell at the Central Magistracy. on January 16th, appeared beforo "Mr..
yesterday afternoon. -
The first defendant was farther chargesl
PEXING, February" ist. A message from Changchun states, that Chang Huan Halang was dismissed from the Tupanship of the railway: zone" da January 20th. Defence Commissioner with having in his possession gags 'and Chang Chun has been appointed to succeed him. The dismisss! is attributed
to pressure from the Soviet
The procedure will be that of a case, wherein the question arises of depriving LARGEST WIRELESS CENTRE. the Ruler of his powers--either tempor arily or permanently.
greatly moved him, and adds "in ex-possible for consideration of may detion pressing my thanfulness and admiration that may be necessary when the report for this splendid example of skill and of the Coal Commission is presented gallantry. I know that I am only voicing The text of the King's speech has been the feelings of all British hearts. At the a approved by the Cabinet; and the news same time, we grieve at the loss of those papers anticipate that economy, elec-l men who nobly sacrified' their lives, and tricity and agriculture will probably prove]
would ask you to assure the bereaved | to be the chief matters upon which legisła, jak: families of my heartfelt sympathy."
tion is promised.
PRESIDENT'S REPLY. President Coolidge, in his reply, said: The event is but another lustration
of the heroism and gallantry which bavo characterised like the mariners of the United States and Great Britain, and, while regretting the occasion therefor, i rejoice that American sailors have been able to help those of Great Britain."
At Queenstown last night, the President Homarerit was greeted, on arrival, by a crowd of many thousands and the Lord Mayor of Cork expressed to Capt. Fried the admiration felt by the people of the Irish Free State.
When the President Roosevelt écached
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COLOGNE ZONE FREE.
LAST OF ALLIED TROOPS HAVE LEFT,
Rudby, January 31st.. The last Allied troops left the Cologne zone to-day, the evacuation being com. pleted well within the time promised. Many German tributes have been paid to the correct manner in which the British troops have conducted themselves daring the occupation and to the con sideration and courtesy shown by them
to the civilian population. The British fing was hauled down in Cologne rester day.
The Observer today "sage:-"We re"
the
3d Maharajah has been informed of
Viceroy's decision
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TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. COMMANDER FRANCO ARRIVES AT PERNAMBUCO.
STATION THAT WILL CLEAR
THE ETHER.
LONDON, January 2nd. The largest wireless telegraphy station in the world, built to the order of the Government at Hilmorton, near Rugby at a cost of some half million sterling. started working on January 1st.
wire; and a dagger without a permit. The second defendant had a further charge preferred against him of having in his passossion an iron bar with intent to use same for an unlawful purpose.
Detective Inspector T. Murphy stated that Chinese police officers lay in wait in a house in Queen's Road East and were later joined by two. European officers. They saw all the defendants walk across the road and go into No. 213, Queen's Road. The police officers followed and arrested two of the men on the stairs. When searched, Lai Fo was found to have gags and wire in his possession and a Occupying an area of more than nine dagger. There were people living on the PERNAMBUCO, January 31s
hundred acres, or twice the size of Hyde Hoor at the time. The second-defendant After the heavy seas had frustrated Park, the station, with its twelve had an iron bar concealed in his sleeve. the first attempt, the Spanish aviator,fect high marin masts, constitute an The other two men were found in a room Commander Franco, left on the Fernando imposing landmark from the main line
of the London, Midland and Scottish third defendant, was formerly employed on the second floor. Yeung Kwai, the Noronha at three in the afternoon and
Railway, which passes close by. arrived at Pernambuco at 1.45.
Unlike the transmitting and receiving by the complainant, who was a building stations which the Post Office have had contractor. erected in different parts of the country. for communicating with South Africa, Australia, India, and Canada, Rugby is not operating on the directional or **beam being sent out on a wave length of 18,000 pase of geting medicine. On January ayaton of wireless telegraphy, several times during the last six months but on the broadcast system, ita signals since he bud left his employ for the pur. metros. telegraphic communication between this money and about 2200 worth of jewellery
Rugby was intended to provide radio16th there was in one safe $30 or 840 in
country and all parts of the Empire and
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] BRITISH CONGRATULATIONS.
RUGBY, February 1st.
aifman, Commander
The Spanish
Complainant, giving evidence, said that Yeung Kwai had called at his house
the world, and in this connection it seems while in his daughter's safe there was
Plymouth to-day, a great crowd lined the
Franco, who yesterday completed a flight quays and sea-front. The Mayor of Plymouth, the Chairman of the Chamber
across the Atlantic and arrived at Per- pambuco, of Commerce and representatives of
warmly congratulated by the any organisations were prehent. The
British Press The seaplane left Falos, Admiralty and the British Navy were re
continuously, on the bridge for &4 hours, Dougins, and the Board of Trade by excellent testimony na far as it goes to total flying time being 35 hours, in charge of the station told a Press - resented by Capt. Goldsmith, of H.M.S. joice that the first zone is free. It is in. Southern Spain, on January 22nd, the
to have succeeded, for the Chief Engineer about 8300 worth of jewellery. There was Capt. King.
In reply to congratulatory speeches ex-the steady working of the Locarno policy.minutes The Atlantic has now been presentative that excellent reports bad which was kept closed when he was out, a shop at the entrance into the house, pressing deep admiration and apprecia tion, Capt. Fried, on behalf of the officers "Sir Austen Chamberlain's visit to crossed four times by aeroplane and thrice. been received of the test transmissions from Australia, New Zealand, North and
After bearing further evidence, Hia Worship adjourned the case.
After the Antinoe's wireless was wreck and crew, insisted medostly that any Paris has given further proof that Lo by airship. The United States airman carried out during the last two months and this was the only means of egress.
ed and the little freighter lay with list approaching forty degrees, communi cation was continual with a hand-lamp Although the antince might have cap sized at any moment her messages show the remarkable steadiness and courage of her skipper, Captain Tose."
Captain Tose sent the married members of his crow away in the first rescue boat and the remaining dozen with himself had to wait many hours in atmost peril until their rescue "was also effected.
other ship able to cope with such an emergency would have done the same as his vessel.
Capt. Goldsmith specially conveyed to Capt. Fried the Admiralty's warmest con- gratulations on his magnificent seaman- ship, which rendered possible the rescue of the crew of the dutinace, and of the great gallantry displayed by the officers and men, concerned in the rescue, Sym pathy in the loss of two of the crew of the President Roosevelt during this hazardous undertaking was also officially expressed.
carno is not forgotten and that its spirit is alive. In his apeech to the Amis de la France, he insisted that the Franco British entente is valuable' tɔ both peo- ples as an instrument for the recon struction of the Europeso family: 17- implies and requires a wider partnership into which Germany has now entered The Germans have naturally reason to
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Lieutenant Commander Read, was the South America, Java, China, and Japan Brat to accomplish the feat by aeroplane. He few vid Azores.
Two Portuguese airmen, stopping ex toute at Las Palmas St. Vincent, on St. Prilla Rock, where the original machine yas destroyed, reached their destination, Fernambuco, in another machine
The
only direct non-stop trans-Atlantic aero- plane fight was made by the late Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten who few from New Foundland. to Ireland in 19 hours. Each of the airship flights, two by the British 32 and one by American nirmen, flying a German machine, were made without stopping en route. The Spanish success celebrated to day was undertaken under the auspices of the
German design built in Italy and engined bell which has replaced the Kaiser Glocke wo British Napier Lion engines, which was sacrificed in war time, was the signal for an outburst of jubilation at the departure of the occupation troops
HIS FIRST REQUEST, When at last he was carried aboard the in one of many newspaper tribates, expect that a policy of co-operation, on Roosevelt, Captain, Tose asked to be the Observer says:In the worst which they have staked everything, shall. taken to the bridge; and after thanking storm known in the Atlantic for a gerenot be stultified by failures on the part Captain Fried, he immediately fainted ration, two British vessels in extremo dis- from utter exhaustion. Before Captain tress found gallant and unhesitating of other governments equally pledged Tone left the Roosevelt pesterday, be helpers-one a German and the other an
We do not think that it will be." handed the commander of the liner, a American liner. Six members of one message, expressing his heartfelt grati- crow owe their rescue to the fae work of • THROUGH REUTER'S AGHECY:) tude and stating: Your splendid the Bremen. The crew of the Antinoe us at all costs, were saved, thanks to the brilliant dise
GERMAN REJOICING. determination to save even at the cost of your brave men, play of courage and seamanship of the
COLOGNE, February 1st. filled us with the deepest thankfulness captain and crew of the President Booge- sacrifice and your devotion to the highest Fried and his men, who stood by for three ing on the Deutsche Glocke," a gigantic instincts of humanity. Your superb and a half exhausting days and left no handling of your ship in extreme lifthing unventured until every soul" had culty merits our lasting praise as sca- been taken off the Antinoe, is something to be recorded among the most famous epics of the sea and to be held, as it will be, in most grateful remembrance by the countrymen of the rescued crew.
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THE CALL SIGN. S The call sign of Rugby is GBR, and the power employed a thousand kite- wate, or some four hundred times that of the British Broadcasting Company a high powered broadcast atation at Daven, try. As yet only telegraphic.com munication has been arranged, but for conducted with a view to establishing some time past experiments have been
A WOULD-BE POLICEMAN.
SENTENCED FOR BURGLARY.
-A Chinese who kept a shop where crabe
ago to serve in the police force and his ap were pickled and sold, applied some time
plication was duly noted. His name has now been struck out and applied to the prison register, and his chances of be coming a policeman have vanished for ever.
an efficient telephonie, service with the U.8.A. A telephone transmitter design. ed and made to the specifications of the Post Office engineers has been built by the Standard Cables Company (former
the Western Electric) and trial with this are still in progress.
The great water-cooled transmitting tive ran into him in the street, and seeing During the week-end, a Chinese detec valves used have been obtained from him wearing a new, expensive overcoat, Standard Cables and Mullarde, and tests searched him. Several pawn tickets were are being made to see which of the two found in his possession, and he thereupon types is the better for the station's F admitted that he had broken into a and had stolen some clothing. He then took the detective to a pawnshop where he had bartered the goods.
We shall never forget your noble spirited selt. The indomitable spirit of Capt. The stroke of midnight on Sunday boom. Spanish Government in a machine of paratus. In regard to the latter valves, dentist's shop in Queen's Road Central,
men
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GERMAN HEROES,
LONDON, February 1st.
Another thrilling sca-story was told
A THRILLING NARRATIVE. by Captain Wurpts, of the North German
LONDON, January 31st. Lloyd liner Bremen, ou his arrival at Queenstown, where he received a civic A narrative rarely equalled outside the welcome for bisheroic attempts to pages of Joseph Conrad's novels is told value the crew of the British freighter by Capt. Tose, the Master of the Laristan, which founded in mid-Atlantic utiant, whose account of the long on January 27th in the same storm 'en- scries of almost superhuman efforts to countered by the datinge..
keep his disabled, engineless and rudder The Bremen stood by for 24 hours in less ship afloat during an apparently blinding hail and "snowstorms, Unable uneading hurricane of unprecedented to lower boats, the dermans threw lines, violence contain many poignant passages one of which the Laristan's crew succeed such as his signal to the President Roose velt:-"Wish to abandon but have not ed in fastening to a boat which was
the means."! dragged to the Bremen. One of the seven uccupants was drowned. The Bremen stood by all night,
The Laristan was not to be seen at dawn, but the sea was strewn with wreckage Twenty-five persone were drowned.
Rockets shrieked joyously skyward and torchlight processions were formed.
The whole city was relieved, after 7: Tears" occupation, and surrendered to a spirit of revelry....
The chief festure of the speech of the Burgomaster was begun punctually on the stroke of midnight, before a vast con- course in the illuminated Cathedral Square. :) //
ench of which develops 450 H.P.
.
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GERMANY AND ITALY. FASCIST DIRECTORY SHOWS ITS DISAPPROVAL OF STUDENTS.
Rose, January 31st. Official disapproval of the anti-German demonstrations by students is contained
made in Holland arrangements are be it is understood that although they were ing made by the manufacturing firm to have the same type built in. Great Britain by British workmen in future.
AMPLIFICATION.
At the Central Magistracy yesterday, before Major C. Willson, he was sentenced to four montha hard labour.
RICKSHA MAN COMPENSATED.
MOTOR DRIVER WHO DID NOT
STOP
Each stage of the intermediate and power amplifiers consists of a bank of valves, the anodes of which are supplied by main high-tension generators. The grid circuit is excited by loose coupling with the output circuit, of the previous stage, the latter being fed from the anodes of the valves. Two intermediate amplifying stages are provided. The fire of these consists of either one or in an order issued by the Fascist Directhree glass valves of 800 watt dissipation. tory, forbidding Fascias students to The second comprises three water cooled
valvos of either the ten or twenty kilo The tolling of bells, the speeches of the Participate on the ground that the Gov-
watt type used on the power amplifier. For power amplification five power Burgomaster and Prussian Premier and criment does not need such manifesta-
Uebertions to enable it to defend Italy's cate valve panels are provided, and these are crowds singing" Deutschland Alles" were clearly heard throughout with dignity and firmness.
equipped with valves of the water-cooled accident. Germany owing to the elaborate broad
metal glass type and with a high He was fined $100, with the alternative frequency output of 10 kilowatts. The of six weeks' imprisonment. He was also casting arrangements.
maximum anode voltage is. 10,000 volts, ordered to pay 840 compensation to the and the filament conmumption 22.0 volte ricksha coolie. and 41 ampères, *-
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COBHAM- IN, BULAWAYO.
DARING FEAT AT VICTORIA FALLS,
LOAN FOR LATVIA. AGREEMENT FOR FLOTATION IN U.S.A..
had virtually liquebed on the morning The Antinoe's cargo of wheat in bulk, of January 23rd, causing & heavy list. of standing on a sloping deck to replace The crew attempted the impossible taxk
the hatch tarpaulins which had been washed away. The crew were cheered on
RIGA, January 31st. TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN. the night of January 4th, by the arrival
A preliminary agreement has been of the President Roosevelt, which pump-
signed for the floating in America of LONDON, January 31st.
ed out oil and thus lessered the pound
REGey, February 1st a Latvian loan of ten million dollars at Remarkable" proof of the depth of ing seas, but despondency met in when The British airman, Captain Alan Cob-seven-and-a-half per cent for the con- Anglo-American friendship was furnish successive offerts by the President Boose ham, who has now reached Bulawayo on struction of new railways, harbour exton ed by the arrival of the ss. President velt to establish contact failed, boat after his journey from London to Capetown to sions and industrial grants. The loan Roosevels at Plymouth, to-day with the boat being launched and upset and their map out an air route, bad a remarkable is being sued through a group of rescued crew of the 2.8. dutinoe aboard. crews being marvellously rescued experience on proceeding there from American Banks, headed by the Guaranty She was greeted by long blasts from the A heavy fog obscured the view of the Livingstone. The Daily Mail says that Trust Company. The agreement provides syrens of neighbouring vessels and runs President Roosevelt, which disappeared desiring to photograph Victoria Falls he ing cheers from the shore, where the Ad for twenty hours and was again sighted on flow down the Zambesi George so close for two further similar loana subsequent.
thirty million dollars. miralty, the Board of Trade, and the the 29th. The gair was still too fierce to to the falls that his machine, was deniged ly, totalling Commander-in-Chief of Devonport were operate the ship, the whole interior being in spray and water entered the car- represented. The 21. Antinor's Captain, flooded. The crew, without food or water, buretter. After some critical moments, before disembarking, handed letters to clung to the inclined decks and the Pre the splattering engine began to pull again huvit Capt. Fried and the President Roose-rident Roosevelt blinked—Doing every- and freed itself of water and the stage velv's Chief Officer, who maaned the thing we can, but impossible to send boat was completed safely, the airmen having rescue boats, expressing heartfelt grati- in this sea. Capt. Toss replied: "Yes, obtained a unique film of the great water, tude on behalf of himself, officere and we know, ..... We are most grateful to you." fall Captain Cobham has now completed crew, saying: * You have indeed given Later Capt. Tose momed that his ship without mishap 6,670 miles of his 8,000"Borotre has recaptured the French us back our lives
Some public recognition of the Rooses listing more heavily and shipping miles journey.
more water, whereupon the President
velte gallantry was expressed at an in- Roosevelt manouvred but unsuccessfully formal gathering in the Roosevelt's A trailing boat line war occasionally fired saloon, speeches being made by the over the Atorn but broke. Finally on the Mayer of Plymouth, and the Chairman 27th, the Antinoe was in imminent of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce danger of sinking when the bout was The wife of the definee's Captain, secured with difficulty and took off a ardently thanked Capt. Fried, who re dozen married men. Thereafter the wea plied, It's nothing, it's just what we ther moderated and the remainder left a sailors do for one another.
few hours later.
RUBBER REGULATIONS. -
RUBY, February 1st. The Colonial Office. announces, that the percentage of the standard production of rubber which may be exported at the minimum rate of duty from Ceylon and Malaya, for the quarter beginning in February, will be 100 per cent.
S TENNIS IN FRANCE.
BOROTRA REGAINS COVERED COURT TITLE.
SR, PARIE, January 31st,
covered court championship, beating Tacoste by 0/6, 6/3, 6/3, 8/10, 8/6.
EEUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
GOLF IN FLORIDA.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fa, February 1st In a golf match to-day, Compsten and Massey defeated Macfarlane and Wilfred Reid by 6 and Ky
The idea of an Empire Wireless Chain has been in existence for some years, but time and again attempts to bring it into reality have been held up and delayed. Now, however, stations are being built in almost all the Dominiona and Colonies, and it will not be long before British people scattered throughout the world will be able actually to talk to one an other although separated by thousands of miles.
collided with a ricksha in Queen's Road Early yesterday morning, a motor car
Fast The ricksha coolle was injured, but the car did not stop. It was, however, traced by the Traffic Department, and before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday, the driver appear ed on a charge of failing to report an
ROBBERIES BY FOKIS.
A Chinese shopkeeper of 153, Reclama tieu Street, Yanmath reported to the police on Sunday, that one of his fokis had absconded, with $3,050 in banknotes, which he had removed from the sale by means of a duplicate key.
A Chinese travelling trader reported on Baturday that one of his men, who hail collected 8145 from a stallhalder at the Central Market, had absconded with the |·money."
WEATHER REFORT.
HUGE OPIUM SEIZURE.
$100,000 WORTH ON BRITISH SHIP
The officers of the Straite Settlemente -preventive service made a huge seizure The Royal-Observatory issued the foll of non-Government chandu on board the lowing report at 8.20 p.m. yesterday? Anhui, when that vessel arrived at Sin- The anti-cyclone over China has weaken- gapore from Amoy on January 21st, a od moderately. A strong to fresh mont quantity valued at over $100,000 being soon may be expected along the a discovered, den
coast of China and over the North China Captain Pennefather, the master, was Beaut charged in the District Court before Local forecast NE, winds fresh,
cloudy. Mr. P. A. F. David and pleaded guilty,
a fine of 8600 being imposed.ment The
Mr. J. Listorman, of the Government The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Bouth Monopolies, made the discovery, Accom China), Ltd., are circulating Chineas panied by the chief engineer he visited calendar for which there is certain to number 4 tank, and removing the man be a large demand. It is & reproduction Hole, found 55 bundles, containing 18,860 of one of the classics of Ming art, and
is lithographic triumph.
fahils of chanduayen