THE THIRD TEST-
THE AMERICAN DISASTER.
THE HONGKONG DAILY "PRESS," TUESDAY JULY 13TH, 1926
"AUSTRALIANS-HIT UP BIG SCORE SEVERAL VILLAGES PRACTICALLY
CENTURY BY-RICHARDSON.
[THEODON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 12th.
The spectators at Leads to-day, for the Test second day's play in the Third I matob, numbered 20,000. The weather was sultry, and a storm was menacing.
After a fondent start Woodfall was hout with a poor stroke lonleg, the score then being 378 for 4 wickets. J. M. Taylor lasted for only four overs, and then was brilliantly caught, making the score 385 for 5. Gregory enlivened the proceedings somewhat, but after half an hour was taken in second slip, the Aus- tralians having then collected 123 for & wickets.
DESTROYED.
"AMERICAN—BERVICE)
New York, July 11th. A late message from Morris Town Bays that A -military cordon has bean estab lished round an area of sixteen square iniles.
The naval arsenal, valued at $50,000,000 has been destroyed and the army arsenal at Picatinny,, half a mile away, is under- going destruction by a series of mier explosions.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
CABLE
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KOREAN INDIGNATION.
COUNTRY INFLAMED AGAINST AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
SEQUEL TO APPLE STEALING.
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A WIFE'S DEATH.
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MURDER.
FREQUENT QUARRELS ALLEGED.
The belief that his wife had been in love with his brother-in-law is stated to have been the basis of frequent violent quarrels between an Aberdeen husband and his wife, and is alleged to have led up to the infliction of a fatal stab wound in the woman's throat with a chisel on the morning of June 21st.
THIS YEAR'S BISLEY,
FM.S. ADVERTISING."
EARL JELLICOE ON CHANGES IN RESULTS OF PUBLICITY THROUGH
THE PRESS. PROGRAMME-
-30,000 BOYS COMPETING. Earl Jellicoe referred to changes in the programme of the Bisley meeting, which is being held from July 5th to July 17th, in his speech at the spring meeting of the National Rifle Association at the Royal United Service Institution.
CHANGES IN THE KING'S. "
The report of the administration of the Malay States Information Agency in London, for 1955, states that the most important feature in the advertising campaign was the publication under a financial guarantee from the Agency and with its co-operation of a special Malay- Supplement to the Manchester Guar
As a condition of publication the Agency was called upon to guarantée a minimum revenue from advertisements.
-Owing to a variety of circumstances,- the advertisement revenue was consider ably less than was anticipated and the full amount guaranteed should have easily been obtained.
In the Service rifle programme, be said, considerable changes and innova-dian Commercial. tions had been made. In the premier TOKYO, July 19th.
competition, the King's Frize, the second. The American Consul-General, Mr.
stage had been changed to ten shots. Miller, at Seoul, has reported to U.S.
The woman died as a result of the 300, 500, and 800 yards, a total of thirty Embassy that the recent wave of in-wound and the sequal to her death is shore to count at short ranges This dignation sweeping throughout Korea that her husband appeared belore Mr. Would make the totals for short and long ranges the same, and would meet the Several villages are reported to be
was the result of the publication of a R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy views of many competitors that in the long-range, shooting. The first stage practically destroyed. The first terrific story to the effect that an American yesterday afternoon, charged with mur-past too much bad depended upon the (qualifying) and the third stage remain- explosions shook houses for miles around missionary. had branded the cheeks of a der. and blew motor cars off the roads The Korean boy "thief Mr. Miller has veri.
Crowned the same as last year. inhabitants are terror-stricken, assfied the following, which was published night long there were lurid flares, inces Richardson scored his century after sant rumbling, and ashes and burning
fragments descending on villages
Danger hampers the work of rescue, but the injured people coming in are being treated in improvised hospitals.
three hours' play, failing at a hot re- turo to Macaulay which was brilliantly
fielded.
The score then was 459 for 7 wickets Ryder, lasted es minutes, being middle- stamped, making the score 488 for 8 wię kets. Oldfield was the next out, the score then being 402 for 8.
The latest scores are as follows:-
Australians-lat innings."
Bardsley, e Sutcliffe, b Tate
Woodfull, b Tate
...141
Macartney, c Hendren, b Macau
...lay .......
151
Andrews, .b.w., 6 Kilner
Richardson, run out
.100
Taylor, e Strudwick, b Geary
4
Gregory, e Geary, b' Kilner
26
Ryder, b Tate...
42
Oldäeld, 1.b.w., b Tate
14
Grimmett, e Sutcliffe, b Geary
Mailey, not out ...
Extras
10
484
Total
Bowling-Tate took 4 wickets for 99, Macaulay 1 for 123; Kilner 2 for 106; Geary 2 for 130; and Woolley 0 for 26.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
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BRITISH AIR RACE.
THE FASTEST TIME IN KING'S CUP COMPETITION;
Rycay, July 11tb. In the Air race for the King's Cup, Squadron Leader Jones, who came in third, won the special prize for the fastest time in the race, with average speed of 151.52 miles.
A
THE CASUALTIES.
DOYER, July 17th.
by Korean newspapers, namely, that Dr. Haysmier, a Seventh Day Adventist Medical Missionary, connected with the mission at Pingyang, caught a young boy stealing apples from his orchard. He summoned the mother and threaten ed to band the youth over to the police. On the mother pleading with the doctor he thereupon called a nurse to bring
Mr. T. M. Hazlerig (Assistant Solicitor) prosecuted.
Outlining the case, Mr. Hazlerigg. said the defendant was charged with the murder of his wife on June 21st. At that. time the woman was living at 24, Wu Pak Street, Aberdeen. The defendant and his wife had been married for about twenty years, and there were six children of the marriage. The defendant had formerly been employed as a carpenter,
The order of firing the practices in her Majesty Queen Mary's Prize had been changed as follows: Deliberate, fire and mavement, rapid and snap shooting; and other competitions fired under standard-
ised Service conditions would conform
A new competition, The Brookwood, would be introduced on the Stickledown Range, ten shots at 1,100 yards.
SERVICE RIFLE TEAM · MATCHES..
Dealing with the principal changes in Service rife team matches Lord Jellicoe said that cover had been eliminated in the Roberts Cup on account of the discuity in even adjudication, and the
The experience of this, the first venture. of its kind on which the Agency has em barked, should make it possible, in the event of a similar, undertaking on a future occasion, to avoid many mistakes that were made..
There seems no reason to doubt that it should be possible to obtain the advan- tages of such a unique form of publicity at no greater cost than the charge for the Agency's own advertisement. which must, of course, occupy 'n prominent posi tion in such an issue.
-Small advertisements continued to ap-
pear in the London financial and in soure of the more important provincial papers, while space was usually reserved in
Hitherto three only are known amous acid, - with" which he painted the Korean but latterly had been employed as a match would be snap-shooting in the special numbers of leading journals such
the 50 said to have been killed, 300 are. injured and twenty missing in the Lake Denmark explosions..
The total of dead cannot be ascertained with certainty until the debris is cleared
up.
Towns 15 miles away show marks of the hail of debris. Two hundred buildings were destroyed within the Arsenal area.
Fires are still raging, but 18 naval
magazines are intact.
The American Red Cross rushed help to the scene.
[BRITISH WIRELERS BERVICE.}
THEIR MAJESTIES.
WARMLY WELCOMED IN LONDON'S EAST END.
RUCEY, July 11th Their Majesties the King and Queen were most warmly welcomed by the people of East London yesterday, when they paid a visit to the gas-works at East Ham, to inaugurate a new unload- ing plant, which is the largest in Europe. The King set in motion the now plant, and its method of handling the coal was explained to His Majesty. It is capable of unloading, by means of travelling cranes, 2,000 tons of coal per hour. In FRENCH SITUATION.
order to carry the weight of the cranes, EX-SERVICEMEN'S APPEAL TO each weighing 120 tons, caissons were
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THE U.S.
PARIS, July 11th....
The procession stopped at the statue of Washington and deposited a wreath com- posed of flowers of Franco-American colours and also, a plaque inscribed with an appeal to America to re-open the debt question and not consent to an agreement which will result in French ruin and loss of independence.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] ANGLO-FRENCH NEGOTIATIONS.
Rusar, July 11th. The French Ambassador in London yesterday completed arrangements for
sunk into the river bed. First unloading from the coal steamer, the cranes deliver the fuel into small hoppers and thence into two belt conveyors the coal being coal is then distributed to retort houses by aid of an elaborate, railway system which covers over sixty miles of track.
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MOROCCAN SULTAN.
·OFFICIALLY WELCOMED IN
FRANCE.
TOULON, July 11th..
The Sultan of Morocco has arrived aboard the cruiser Paris in order to attend the inauguration of a new Moslem mosque in Paris and other ceremonies celebrating the victory over Abd el-Krim
was received by a salute of The cruiser
words "thief" on each check. The in-bricklayer by his brother-in-law. tident occurred in September and was believed to have been forgotten, when the
boy was recently forced to quit school, because of the ridicule over his branded checks. Then the story became public, and widespread indignation was felt by Koreans. Whereupon the doctor reim bursed the boy's mother and also offered a public apology. Notwithstanding pay ment and the apology, it is expected that charges will be filed against the doctor in the Korean prefectural courta.
The Japanese vernacular newspapers, are now also expressing indignation and urging that Hayamier should be ex pelled from the country.
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PORTUGUESE POLITICS.
GENERAL DA COSTA RELEASED
FROM PRISON.
LISBON, July 11th. General Da Costa has been liberated and will be given & confidential mission abroad:"
LATER.
General Da Costa has embarked on a warship for the Azores.
Until two years ago defendant, bis wife and children were living with the defen- dant's brother-in-law, but then the wife, daughter and three youngest sons went to Aberdeen, where they occupied the
front room at the house mentioned From the time of that splitting up of the family the defendant did not appear to have supported his wife. He had paid occasional visits, however, and there had been frequent quarrels.
THE QUARRELS.
The basis of the quarrels seemed to be.
De
open." The United Hospital would as the Morning Post Empire Develop- be seven shots at 300, 500, and 200 yards. medt Number, the fining Journal Em- The Universities Snap-Shooting Match pire Number and the India-Rubber to all Officers Training Corps of the for teams of eight had been thrown open Journal Souvenir Number. senior division.
THE JUNIOR. KOLAPORE CUP.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PRESS.
The number of articles contributed to the Press during the last five years has been: 1921 72, 1922 74, 1923 101, 1924 116,
Articl
dealing with matters of ex ceptional public interest are invariably published by the papers to which they The "publication of are contributed articles of more restricted interest is more likely to be secured if advertising space is taken in the paper concerned.
A Junior Eolapore Match for teams of four from any of the Colo been institut dencies of the Empire had been ed. The Greater Dominions, Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State, would be incligible to compete. The intention of the match was to attract competitors to Bisley from the smaller countries of the Empire who were unable to send
The curtailment of the advertising pro- teams of eight to compete in the Kola-gramme necessitated by a regard for
pore proper.
There would be an inter-Services match for teams of twenty-from-the Royal Navy, Marines, Regular and Territorial Armies, and Royal Air Force, also fired under Kolapore condition.
economy and by the cost of the Manches ter Guardian Commercial Supplement was, therefore, made to synchronize with the period of the Exhibition, when pub- licity articles could not be contributed to
the Press
that the husband thought his wife had been in love with his brother-in-law. Then there had been the question of the
300,000. BOYS. TO COMPETE
At the close of the Exhibition, adver disposal of the two younger sons.
Lord Jellicoe also said that the comtisements were renewed and propaganda fendant wanted them to be sold, but the petitions for the King's Trophy, the articles were again distributed for pub wife did not agree with this. Another Imperial Challenge Shields, and the lication, bone of contention had been the be- King's shield, which they conducted on behalf of the War Office, were progress- trothal of the eldest daughter, the aring, and there had been a. satisfactory rangements for her marriage being made
by the wife.
increase in the entries received from home units this year of some 1,500 boys. It was boped that this year they would have at least 30,000 boys competing
There appeared, continued Mr. Hazle
In a reference to the appeal for funds rigg to have been frequent visits and he said that the response to the council's advantage of the generous offer of £2,000, discussed. On June 20th nothing of im and so to clear of their outstanding debt, family councils, when the matter was appeal for £3,000 to enable them to take portance appeared to have happened, but had not met and was not meeting with on the morning of June 21st occupants the response they all hoped would be forthcoming. The amount received to on the floor were aroused by cries of date was only £1,800. He hoped the re- "Save Life" On going to the front maining £1,200 would be raised quickly, room, these people saw the defendant so that the £2,000 offered could be secured. standing by the side of his wife's bed; and the woman was bleeding from & Mr. Alan Cobham will leave here on wound in the throat. The woman stag- Tuesday, accompanied by an Air Force gared to another room and the xian, ran Mechanic, Sergeant Ward, having de-into the street, where he was held until
COBHAM'S FLIGHT. TO PROCEED ON TUESDAY WITH AIR FORCE MECHANIC.
dut.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.} OBITUARY.
SENATOR J. W. WEEKS.
LANCASTER (New Hampshire),
July 19th.
The death is announced of the ex Secretary of War, Mr. Weeks.
[Mr. John Wingate Weeks, who was 66 years of age, was a well-known Ame rican Senator.]
In reply to the charge of murder, con cluded Mr. Hazlerigg, defendant had said I did not intend to kill her. I had quarrelled with her and fought with
CHRIST IN INDIA.
BOMBAY SCANDAL
The work of this department has, however, been put in the shade by the exceptional press publicity enjoyed by Malaya during the latter half of the year on account of the boom in the rubber market.
Profressional journalists commissioned to write articles on the country received most recent statistica being supplied, photographs, for illustration lent, and every assistance from the Agency, the
draft articles, when the contributor so desired, revised for publication.
DAWES PLAN DENOUNCED.
GERMAN NATIONALIST
OUTBUEST.
At the present critical juncture in A REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPT.
German home policy, when rumours of a Documentary evidence of a journey by more or less distant Monarchist bid for dictatorship are heard on all sides, A party of blind and disfigured ex servicemen, carrying fagi bended a automatically weighed in transit. The cided not to wait for the mechanic whom taken into custody. The woman died in Christ to India is reported to have bees Count Westarp, lender of the German- the artist and archeologist, who heads ed an important speech. Speaking at procession of disabled ex-servicemen, or-
the De Havilland Company is sending the Government Civil Hospital later discovered by Professor Nicholas Roerich, Nationalists in the Befchstag, has deliver
from hemorrhaga.
the American expedition through the Schwerin, he in all seriousness interpret ganised as an appeal to America to grant
Daring a search of the premises, conexplored East. According to an
fineco of the ex-Chancellor's Locarno a more lenient debt settlement. The
tinued Mr. Hazlerigg, the police found nouncement published here, Roerich red the fall of Dr. Luther as due to the a chisel, which had the shaft. tied with ports that he found manuscripts at least policy. He denounced the Dawes agrec streets wore lined by large crowds.
1,500 years old in Hemis Monastery in ment as the source of Germany's econo blue cloth. There was no wooden handle Tibet. The story of the journey are mic woce, urging that no Government to it, but this appeared to be the instru-lated in these manuscripts, is that Christ, could find a remedy for the disastrous called "Issa, the best of human sons,"
condition of the country's industries ment with which the fatal wound was secretly left his parents, and with mer without a forceful foreign policy," He in the Reich's finances Would could be caused There did not seem to be any chants of Jerusalem turned towards predicted an inevitable, defcit for autuma Indis to become perfected in the divine. motive for the infliction of the wound word and to study the laws of the great expected, he asked, when the Treasury beyond these quarrels, and there did not Buddha Isse wandered through India, had to spend, as at present, 180,000,000 preached to the lowest costes, and return marks a month for unemployment relief appear to have been any violent quarreled to Iszael in his 20th year. It is re alone. In lurid terins. he emphasised the corded that Iasa was tried by the ruler of menace of the Bolshevik revolutionary on the morning of June glat.
movement now knocking at Germany's Jerusalem, also referred to as Filate.
door, and warned his hearers that the plebiscite on the confiscation of Royal property to take place on Fane 20th was nothing short of a Bolshevik attack on property in general. He concluded by demanding that the Nationalists should be associated with the present Coalition and thus release, the Cabinet from ite present disastrous tecit, arrangement for future collaboration with the Socialista
Herr Stresemann, leader of the German Feople's party, speaking at Rostock, severely criticised Count Westary's fallar cious view that the present economic plight was a consequence of the Daves Pact. He insisted that it was rather an unforeseen concomitant than a result of the Pact. The rat two years under the Pact were intended to give Germany breathing space Un- fortunately a wave of unemployment-bad swept over Germany and upset all the calculations Germany would, however,
out eventually that the Dawen-system- have been infinitely worse off if there
failed to produce the result expected by said the Minister, a change in its methods Germany and the other signatory Powers, could be discussed, but before any change could be made a mutual agree the Powers concerned. ment would have to be come to between
the visit of the French Finance Minister twenty-ore guns. Representatives of Pre- M. Caillaux, who, it is stated, will 17sident Donmergue and M. Briand board-
MOTOR-CAR HIRE IN UNITED STATES. NEW GENERAL MOTORS SCHEME.
NEW YORE, June 8th. The General Motors Company have
from Paris to-morrow to resume negotia-ed the cruiser and welcomed the Sultan announced a novel plan for selling motor tions with the Chancellor of Exchequer, and M. Steeg. ** Mr. Winston Churchill, for a settlement
of the French Debt.
It is not anticipated that the visit will extend much beyond 24 hours. In view of the provisional Caillanz-Churchill agreement of last year under which France undertook to pay an average annuity of £14,500,000 over & period of
MORE INDIAN RIOTS.
ANOTHER OUTBREAK IN CALCUTTA
for
After hearing formal police evidence, his Worship adjourned the further hearing this afternoon.
OLD GOLD MINES SEARCH.
AND POTTERY
travel at retail. Through the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Cob pany, a subsidiary organization, it is or ganizing a corporation with a capital of 30,000,000 dollara [£6,000,000] of which 30,000,000 dollars (£3,000,000] is to be. made immediately available. The new ENDS IN FINDING ANCIENT BONES company is to be called the Horts Drivar elf Corporation. It will act as a hold Ting company controlling State and locat
Discovery of the bones of race of "drive yourself companies throughout the United Staten over giants more than 10 feet tall is reported When the scheme is in operation it will by Captain D. W. Page, an American, be possible for customers to engage a car add Captain-FW Davalda, in English at any of the companies numerous man, who returned from an unsuccessful be pleases, and wheen he returns it pay in Mexico. for its use at so muck per mile as shown
REE CORPORATION OFFICERS
GUILTY OF BRIBERY.
BOMBAY, June 17th. The Municipal Corporation, to-day, after nearly two hours' discussion, adopt ed the report of the Committee appoint ed to inquire into charges of bribery and corruption against certain Corporation officials.
The Committee, inter alia, unanimous ly found three officers, including one European, guilty, and recommended their forced resignation, failing which- dis. number of members of the Corpora tion criticised the recommendation as too lenient considering the alleged misappro-
The Amendment to the effect that the priation committed, according to the
officers be dismissed and denied pensions It was maintained that the Committee's was lost by the narrow majority of one recommendation was the result of the desire to secure unanimity and temper service of the officers justice with mercy in view of the long
CALCUTTA, July 11th There has been a serious Hindu-Moslem 62 years, and of recent exchanges between outbreak in one of the suburbs Targe the British Treasury and M. Pauvonne, numbers of Moslems rushed from a Mos Financial Attache at the French Embassy que and attacked a Hindu religious agencies, drive it as much or as little as search for legendary Spanish gold mines. Committen's findings, by the officer had been no Dawes Pact. Should it turn
in London, it is generally believed that the outstanding difficulties may be die posed of and an agreement signed in time to permit of M. Caillaux's return
to Paris on
procession escorting a car with idols Fifteen Hindus were injured and sent to hospital. The fear was damaged Police were quickly on the spot and con-
trolled the situation.
The two men said they found the bones oil, and insurance. The car need not be burial grounds in mountains, southwest by meter. The charge will include petrol, and pottery about 500 years old in great returned to the original agencies, and one of Teplo The reported discovery finds engaged in New York, for example, may some substantiation in tales handed down leit in New Orleans or Chicago or any among Indian tribes of the west coast of other station.
Mexico.