"U.S. DISASTER.
EXPLOSION AT NAVAL"ARSENAL
MANY. MARINES KILLED AND
INJURED.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE
MORRIS TOWN (New Jersey),
July 10th. Many marices are reported to have been killed and-injured in an explosion at a magazine in the United States Naval Arsenal at Lake Denmark.
The inhabitants in neighbouring towns have been ordered to evacuate their homes.
WASHINGTON, July 10th." The Navy Department have been advis ed that the Naval Ammunition Depot at Lake Denmark, Dover (New Jersey) has been struck by lightning.
About two thirds of the personnel are missing.
Doven (New-Jersey), Later.
It is reported that out of 60 officers. and men stationed at the ammunition depot only a score were acepunted for after the explosion, which not only wrecked the Arsenal; but thirty houses at Mount Hope, two miles away.
POSITION IN PORTUGAL.
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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, JULY 12TH,
FRENCH FINANCES.
1926
VEGETABLE FIBRES.
FAR EASTERN
CABLE
NEWS.
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE, IN THE GOVERNMENT.
PRESIDENT' DA COSTA ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED.
"[YHKOJON" HEUTER'S "AUENCY:)
PARIS, July th
"DEBT TO BRITAIN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.] A message from Lisbon, says that the army is demanding the resignation of the
PARIS, July 10th.. President, General Da Costa. It is re-
The Chamber of Deputies has passed ported that a Committee of three Gen-
a vote of confidence in the French Gov- erals and two Admirals is being organisernment, by 282 votes to 247. ed charged with forming a Cabinet, including civilians.
NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTED.
L1a8ox, July 9th. General Da Costa's Government has been overthrown and General Da Costa is a prisoner in the Belem Falace.
A Havas cable received later gives the voting na 200 to 247, with a majority of 92, seven more than in the Renter message.]
The Chamber's vote of confidence in the Government was given at four o'clock in the morning, -.
A new Cabinet has been formed, with
According to the Tempi, the Bill General Carmona, Premier; Major Joan M. Caillaux proposes to introduce im- Bello, Minister for Colonies; and M.mediately after the vote of confidence, Bettencourt Rodrigous, Minister" for Foreign Affairs.
NEW GOVERNMENT AND PRESIDENT.
~LISBON, July-10th-
The new Government being unable to obtain from General Da Costa the transmission of his powers as President; have "resolved to imprison him in a fortress near Lisbon.
contains chly pas clause autetantially authorising the Government to take by decres all necessary measures to maintain the equilibrium of the Budget and the stabilisation of the franc
The annexe to the Bill contains a list. of measures it is proposed to enforce.
BRITISH DEST AGREMENT, 2-
THE COAL STRIKE.
MORE RUSSIAN WORKERS' CON-IMPORTANT DISCOVERY CLAIMED
TRIBUTIONS FOR MINERS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BY BRITISH DOCTORS..
MAY REVOLUTIONISE TEXTILE. INDUSTRY.
[TBROCUR RETTER'S · AGENCY.]
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. 1
OFTENSIVE BEGUN.
REPORTS OF SEVERE FIGHTING
NEAR PEKING.
PEKING, July 10th The Fengtien and Chihli-Shantung allied troops, under General Chu Yu Pu, launched a general attack at ten o'clock this morning.
Moscow, July 9th. The official Tass Agency declares that the report that the Soviet Government
Lonnox, July 10th has prohibited collection in Russia for British miners in without foundation and
Far reaching claims are made by an states that Rassian Trade Unionists have indian doctor named Nanji, of Birming- solved to make regular reductions from bazz University, and Docter Patron, of their ages ranging from one quarter to Bristol University, for the new process one half per cent, during the entire of making natural vegetable fibres moro
The gunfire was heard in Peking. period of the British coal stoppage.
useful to textile manufacturers. It is Severa fighting is reported, but the claimed to make fbre suitable for the result is not yet known. - existing spinning and weaving machinery from tropical growths hitherto considered rank weeds.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. Į
.NO, IMMEDIATE MOVE.
Ruosy, July 9th. Although arrangements are complete for taking back to work the miners who present themselves in response to the colliery owners' new wages offers, it is hot expected that the full effect of the passage of the Eight Hours Bill, which makes these offers possible, will be ap- parent immediately.
In Parliamentary circles the view is taken that any пет move towards negotiations in the dispute is unlikely It is anticipated that M. Caillaux will during the next few days, and that "a His Aide de Camps are in custody soon be going to London with the object week or a fortnight may elapse before aboard a warship.
of concluding a Franco-British debt any important development is recorded. NEW YORK, July 17th
agreement-which-itja declared, is The safety men have continued in the Lake Denmark was the Navy's largest
similar to M.. Caillaux's agreement of mines throughout the dispute and it is storage depot, the huge quantities of live shells giving it the status of a war TEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED last year, and that recently drawn up by reported that the pits "have in conse-
-reserve-plant.
A WAR RESERVE.
Five hours after the catastrophe the shrapnel was still bursting, and rescuers. were unable to approach nearer than half a mile owing to the intense heat and smoke.
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Continuous series of explosions of tons of powder and high éxplosive shells were audible för 25 miles.-
RAILWAY DISASTER.
AT WARSAW
WARSAW, July 10th. Ten were killed and many seriously injured in a railway collision which is believed to be due to faulty signalling."- Several railwaymen have been arrested.
DUTCH AIR SMASH.
KILLED.*
M.Peret. It will provide sixty-twoquence been kept in good order in readi- annuities of 12 millions sterling, with a nest for the men to restart.. moratorium and certain allowances in the first few years.
LATER.
AN EXPLANATION.
Before the Chamber voted on the motion of confidence in the Government (the voting for which should read 260 for and 247 against) M. Caillaur declared
It has been ascertained that Lieut.- DIRECTOR OF AMSTERDAM BANK that the Washington debt agreements and Commander Edward Brown, of the Medical Corps, was killed. Hitherto fifty have been sent to hospital.
It is believed that the wives and child ren of the marines are among the missing in the barracks in the centre ring. The magazines were destroyed.
TERRIBLE HEAT WAVE:
THE HAGUE, July 10th. The Fokker aeroplane which recently visited Batavia, and which was employ ed in the Amsterdam-Brussels-Paris ser- vice, was forced to land in a cornfield near Brussels and crashed to earth.
The pilot and a passenger, M. Hepner, who was a Director of the Amsterdam
MANY DEATHS IN NEW YORK AND Bank, were killed.
NEIGHBOURHOOD.
New Yors, July 11th.
COURTAULDS.
The sweltering heat-wave continues. SLUMP REFLECTED IN INTERIM
Thousands are sleeping in the open air. Hitherto, dozen of deaths have occurred and many prostrations. In the city. elaven deaths have taken place, the others being on the Eastern Seaboard..
"THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]. --
MOROCCAN WAR. VICTOR OF RIFFIANS TO LEAD FORCES INTO MOUNTAINS... RABAT, July 10th.
DIVIDEND.
also foreign loans were necessary. for. France's financial restoration.
He explained that the extraordinary powers that the Government required did not imply the imposition of taxes with- out the consent of Parliament, but mere ly simplified and accelerated the proce dure.
CAILLAUX TO VISIT LONDON
LATER Caillaux is flying to London on Monday to pursue the debt conversations with Mr. Winston Churchill.
MATTERN TO BE DISCUSSED.......
"Later.
The National Union of Railwaymen's delegate conference at Weymouth to-day decided to endorse the Executive's de cision to take no action on the miners request to impose an embargo on im- ported coal-
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] -U.Š. TUBE STRIKE- POWER HOUSE MEN NOW JOIN MOVEMENT
NEW YORK, July 10th The striking subway workers are now supported by one-third of the power hose men, who struck this morning.
The current service, however, is being maintained.
STRAIN JUMPS THE RAILS."
New Tonx, July 9th The first serious accident in the subway strike occurred when a train driven by a strike-breaker rounded A curve too quickly and jump the rails. No-one was injured, but the service was stopped for four hours.
TACNA-ARICA.
The provisional agreement reached last LONDON, July 9th. There was a big slump in the shares year was that. France pay twelve and a of Messrs. Courtaulds, artificial silk half million sterling annually, but the manufacturers, one of the most favourite question of graduated payments in early. counters on the Stock Exchange follow-years and the safeguarding clause in case. TO BE HANDED OVER TO BOLIVIA. ing an announcement of reduction in the the German reparations failed, was re-
NEW YORK, July 10th. interim dividend, from eighteen-pence to served for further consideration,
It is understood these are still theft is reported from Santiago that fifteen-pence. The shares dropped five- eighths, equivalent to a market deprecia-principal matters to be discussed The negotiations are proceeding with Bolivia question of graduated payments is affect providing for handing over both Tacna The reduction "I's possibly due to a ed by the recent provisional "settlement and Arica to Bolivia with compensation General Boichut, who vanquished the. Hiffians, has departed to lead immirent policy caution in view of the coal strike of the French debt to America, as the to Peru and Chile by Bolivia. operations against the To Taza area, the Courtauld's, however, are reducing sell-British always maintained they should last den of the mountain tribes who hreing prices and are believed to be engaged receive at least as much pari passu`as in intensive competition against their America, proportionately to the amount still resisting. "According to the Petit Parisien five rivals, which may temporarily affect of the two debts.
columns will participate, in the aperu
tions:
The Mutin announces that petroleum "bearing land has been detected in
Martinico.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE) COBHAM'S FLIGHT" ANOTHER MECHANIC TO TAKE
ELLIOTT'S PLACE
tion of £7,500,000.-
profits:
NEGLECTED THROUGH
POLITICS. WIFE OF GENERAL LUDENDORFF GRANTED DIVORCE.
Munich, July 9th.
The wife of General Ludendorff has been granted a divorce, her ples being
that Ludendorff's political activities has caused him to neglect her. The case was heard in camera. The Court declared that both parties were to blame. The General withdrew his original petition for divorce, when his wife brought the
BOGEY, July 9th. Mr. W. Moores has accepted the offer of the De Haviland Aircraft Company to take the place of Elliott, the mechanic of Alan Cobham's flight to Australia, who was killed by an Arab aniper's bullet.counter petition.
Moore is an expert on air-cooled en-
gines and is the chief tester at Coventry
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of the Armstrong Sideley Jaguar engine LORD, INCHCAPE ON INDIAN
with which Cobham's seaplane is fitted: He took part in the King's Cup Race three years ago, with Captain Courtney, who on that occasion wen,
D'OISY'S LAST FLIGHT.
PARIA, July 11th. The aviator, Pelletier D'Oisy, has re- Aured by train, and declares the fight to Peking wRRERAR LASTS
CURRENCY.
LONDON, July 9th: Speaking at the annual meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Banking Cor- peration, Lord Inchcape anticipated that the result of the deliberations of the Royal Commision on Indian currency would be to stabilise the rupee at eighteen pence. He was of opinion that with set tied conditions of labour, they might be optimistic with regard to the future.
[BEITER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
AMERICAN DENTALE,
WASHINGTON, July 10th American officials are not a ware of the negotiations which M. Caillaux, as re ported, informed the Chamber as to carrying on at Washington in regard to the funding of the French War Debt,
Mr. Mellon has denied he has written a letter assuring any French official that certain optional phases in the agreement
to have done.. would not be invoked, as he was reported
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) LOAN TO CANADA?
Bogors (Colombia), July 10th The arrival of an officiel of the New York National City Bank has given rise to a report that a substantial loan is being made to the Government after the inauguration of the new President. The money will probably be used to finance public works and railways.
AUSTRALIAN COTTON.
MELBOURNE, July 9th
DEAD HEROES. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND ILL- EATED SUBMARINE'S CREW.
"
If this dream is fulfilled the whole texU.S. tile industry might be revolutionised, and made more prosparous
(REUTER'S AMERICAN-SERVICE.
WAR DEBTS TO U.S."
PLEAS FOR CANCELLATION.
NEW YORK, July 9th. In a leading article on the march of dis- abled and other ex-servicemen planned to take place in Paris on Sunday as a pro test against the ratification of the French debt settlement with the United States, the World says that no intelligent per san in this country believes that the debt settlement can last for 89-years. There are devices for postponing the ultimate settlement for which the public is not yet ready.
SECRET TRIAL.
CLERK'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF
SASEBO BASE,. ·
Tokyo, July 10th, The American Consuing cleri, Fogel weid, who is charged with photographing the Sasebo fortifications, underwent a secret preliminary trial in Nagasaki on Wednesday
The case was adjourned till Monday, accused being remanded in custody of the Consul.
PEER'S SON-FINED.
FALSE DECLARATION IN MAR RIAGE LICENCE.
RECEIPT OF A DISCRETIONARY "ALLOWANCE."
LONDON, June 17th. The New York Times opines that even
Lord de Clifford, who recently married the most complacent American cannot the daughter of Mrs. Marrick, who is known as the Night Club Queen was without an inward twinge, consider the Aned £50 and £10 10s. costa at the Man. piteous, march of 15,000-war cripples who sion, House for making a false declara- undoubtedly speak the unuttered feelings-tion of his age for the purpose of ob
taining a licence. of the majority of the "French people. The paper warns Americans not to blind themselves to the significance of feeling abroad, which is not dissipated by every legitimate means, bids fair to cloud the international horizon for a time.
SHIPPING SALE.
U.S. SHIPPING BOARD'S FOUR VESSELS FOR DISPOSAL.
New York, July 9th: '- The Shipping Board is endeavouring to sell-Government passenger bosts, and cargo boats including the Leviathan, the George Washington, President Harding and President Roosevelt. The bids must be satisfactory and must be made by American citizens or Companies Under the existing law the ships must continue to fly the American flag and cannot be headed over to foreign registry."
It is rumoured in shipping circles that the International Mercantile Company: will probably bid for the ships named
and some others.
OTHER BIDDE«..
LATER
It is further rumoured that bidders for the vessels owned by the United States Shipping Board include the Harriman interests-who-last-week-leased from New York two of the largest north river piers
for ten years.
NEW YORK, July 10th. President Coolidge, in a statement, said that he was informed that when the ball of the $.51 was explored, it was found that every man had died at his post, doing what he could to save the ship. The President paid à tribute and TWO PEOPLE KILLED: DESTRUC said the men could not have been greater bereen if they had died in action.
18 BODIES REMOVED.
LATER Eighteen of the bodies, of which six have not been identified, have now been removed from submarine 8.51. They were placed in steel caskets and taken to the mortuary.
Three bereaved families were not al- loved to see the bodies, which were identified by means of rings, teeth, and tattoo-marks...
Mr. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, personally congratulated the per- sonnel of the salvage orews
TORNADO IN U.S.
TION IN INDIANA.
CHICAGO, July 9th
several Two people were Filled and
tornado which seriously injured in
Benton Harbour, causing destruc tion in parts of India and razing build- ings and orchards.
DEA
The Public Prosecutor said the defend."
ant had stated at the Registracy Office that his age was 22, and that his father's name. was Jack Russell, an engineer.".
-The-Public-Prosecutor added that Mrs. Merrick's consent was not given to the marriage, and it would never have been given.
DEFENCE. PLEA
Counsel for the defence appealed to the Lord Mayor to take a romantic view of the case. The young man was much in love with a charming young lady, and he having no idea of committing a criminal act, the couple were married in church
The fact was published in the Press and nobody was deceived...
Counsel for the defence asked that the young man be allowed 14 days to get the money for the fine, declaring that the defendant was not a man of means and had to earn his living as he was only in receipt of a discretionary allowance from trustees.
AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL
REGULATION.
REFERENDUM PROPOSALS PASSED.
MELEGUENE, June 9th.
Mr. Bruce, the Australian Prime Minis ter, to-day informed Parliament that he had reached an agreement with Mr. Charlton, the Labour leader, on the re- ferendum proposals for the regulation, of industry,
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The Government had not accepted. Mr. Charlton's proposal to take complete power over all trade and commerce, but include corporations within the powers accepted Mr. Charlton's suggestion to sought. These powers would cover the creation, regulation, control, and dissolu tion of corporations, including the regula tion and control of foreign corporations.. Mr. Charlton announced that the agree ment was approved by his party and the. second reading was carried by the House; only two supporters of the Government opposing.
"MYSTERY SYNDICATE IN TORONTO,
TORONTO, June 8tb. Extraordinary dealings in securities by Myatory Syndicate" have been re- vealed in Toronto. It is believed that the transactions totalled 18,000,000 dollars (23,600,000) yearly. It is alleged that BOYS IN A LOCKED BOX heavy losses will be sustained by various bond companies and persons who lent. money to the heads of the Syndicate in: the expectation of extravagant returns on their investments.
GENEVA, May 28th
Two brothers" named Harman, Sargans, near Buchs, who mysteriously disappeared ten days ago, were found dead in a box yesterday, ER
When they disappeared police searched the countryside, but no trace of them could be found. Their father, a wealthy factory owner, went into the at
Apparently the method was to obtain bonds from individuals and financial houses on the understanding that pay- nient would be made in four or five days. During these few days the bonds were sold to other houses, often at a loss, some- times at a profit The, operations, were extended til, it is believed, they reach-
(Earlier messages stated-The re- moval of the bodies of the men trapped in Sumbarine 8.61 began at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The bodies were carried to the Navy Hospital, where the identificatic to examine some old military effects ed 400,000 dollars (280,000) weekly.. The Tariff Board-considered the Gartion process is carried out by a finger kept in a large chest. He opened, the Money was also raised on forged notes," ernment scheme to encourage the cotton print expert. The body of Lieut. Foster industry in Australia by granting was first identified. Eight bodies have. bounty on cation yarn spinning, and been recovered, and four more are known recommenda a bounty of sixpence per to be in the wreckage, whilst the tor pound
pedo-room has not yet been entered.]
box and found the dead boys inside one of dollars 100,000 and one of dollars It is assumed that they entered the box 150,000. Investigation into these transan- while playing hide and seek and were tions is still proceeding One man con- then unable to raise the lid, which was cerned, who is alleged to have attempted
to commit suicide, is under arrest fitted with an automatic lock.