SANTA DOMINGO
DESTROYED.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT MILLIONS STERLING,
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Sept. „f
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1930.
INDIAN PEACE.
TALKS.
GREAT
FIRE IN LONDON.
BRITISH SOLDIER
CHARGED.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH GANDHI BREAK DOWN,
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(THRCÜOE REUTER'S AGENCY.).
BOMBAY, Sept. 4.
The hurricane was followed by The peace negotiations with scenes exceeding in horfor any-Gandhi have broken down, thing which has been witnessed in Santo Domingo for the past de- cude..
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Disorder and alarm were increas- ed by the destruction of the prin cipal lunatic, asylum from where the inmates who escaped death and injury careered wildly through the streets.
The entire army was paraded to President give assistance, and Trujillo has taken personal charge: of the relief measures.
He has appealed to the Ameri- can Red Cross to send food, cloth- "ing, shelter, and medical supplies
as soon as possible.
The damage at Santo Domingi is estimated at million, sterling, almost the entire city being de- stroyed and the main cable office obliterated.
The unfortunate inhabitants of the city are in urgent...
need of water, while many robberies have already been reported as a result of hunger.
.LATER.
It is now reported, that nine hun- dred people were killed and injured in the Santo Domingo hurricane,
Messages froin Santo Domingo state that twenty people were kill ed there in the hurricane which did immense damage to property. The wireless station, together with most of the buildings in the city, was destroyed.
Wireless Station Damaged,
It is now estimated that the casualties at Santo Domingo in the hurricane number 300 besides the people killed at Dominica, where the wireless station was demolish- ed and great damage wrought.
A recent announcement by Sir
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BIGGEST BLAZE FOR MANY SHANGHAI JUDGE GIVES
YEARS.
SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS.
„ĮTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. I
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, Sept. 3.
MANCHURIAN LEADERS.
CONFERENCE TO DECIDE ATTITUDE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOX.]
CABLE LANDING RIGHTS IN CHINA.
CONTRACTS WITH COM- PANIES CANCELLED.
{THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
INTERPORT LAWN BOWLS.
HONG KONG AND HANKOW
DEFEATED
PRACTICE MATCH RESULTS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)"
SHANGHAI, Sept. 5.
SHANGHAI, Sept. a
NANKING, Sept. 3. PEIP130, Sept. 5. Or, Wellington Koo and Lo Wen
The National Government has It is estimated that 100,000 people Private Bourne, of the RA.M.C.,
Kan left Peiping for Mukden this issued a Mandato declaring that it | watched a blaze at the New Crane was sentenced to six months immorsing in order to attend a con- has decided to cancel the contracts
The Hong Kong team for the Wharf at Wapping last evening, prisonment with hard labour agisference of the Manchurian leaders, with the Eastern Extension and Interport. lawn bowls matches which constituted the biggest freing from joint forgeries togather which is expected to decide the Great Northern Telegraph Com-arrived here yesterday morning, with Private Murie, who recently attitude of Manchuria towards the panies upon their expiry at the aud" received an enthusiastic wel- received a year's imprisonment.
in London 'for many years.
civil war.
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game from the committee in tharge.
Tej Bahadar Sapru was that he and Mr. Jayakar were going to Poona The Bre began in six-storey
end of a year. with a letter from the Nehrus to warehouse packed with coceanut
Bourse attributed his downfall to
HANKOW, Sept. 2.
It is also announced that here Gandhi and that the resuk of the beans and spices and 70 fire ex-
gambling. He thought that the negotiations would depend ongines and two river floats pumped only way to repay an Indian money that the Government troops auccess-poration or individual may, secure A message from Changsha states after no foreign Government, cor- Gandhi's reply.
an enormous mass.of water througa lender was to utter forged doctfully engaged the Communista ata monopoly for cable landing for the afternoon between teams
MEETING OF TRIBESMEN
BROKEN UP.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCÝ.).
ISLAMPUR, Sept. 5. Two villagers were killed and several injured and six police badly gashed by seythes and injured by stones in an affray in which 250 police broke up a meeting of 4,000 in a jungle of tribesmen in the village of Bilashi,'
The police, accompanied by the district magistrate, marched 12: miles into the jungle before dawn
and found the tribesmen assembled under the national flag.
The Magistrate and Police Super- intendent advanced to parley, and were greeted with
a shower of stones and boulders.
The police charged with cudgels"
KING OF NEW YORK
UNDERWORLD.
PRESENCE UNDESIRABLE
ANYWHERE.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S ́AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 4. The secret departure from New
several points."
ments. Although Bourne himself
rights. did not receive a single dollar, all
The Government entrenchments The Foreign Office has been in- the monies going to Murie, Bourne admitted he was indebted to the were protected by electrified barbed structed to notify the Japanese
Government of these decisions.
ten miles of fire hose.
Nevertheless, the fire spread, and 2,000 people were ordered to evacu- ate their homes while hundreds of fremen, wearing gas masks, co-latter. trolled the fire.
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Towards midnight the people were allowed to return to their homes.
Two warehouses were, gutted in the fire, the damage in which is estimated at about £300,000.
OLYMPIA MOTOR SHOW.
RECORD NUMBER OF CARS ON VIEW.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruaay, Sept. 4. The International Motor Show opens at Olympia next month, and manufaq urers, who are well a vanced with the preparations, are, unanimously optimistic, about trade
prospects.
There will be a record number
of cars on view at this year's Show, which promises to be exceptionally interesting, and the result of the latest research into the require ments of overseas markets will be apparent in many models produced by firms with world-famous names.
From a small but amazingly speedy and efficient baby car ob
limousine costing ter times ze much, almost every conceivable need of potential buyers seems to have been met by the manufactur ers and the trend of models will be to provide at reduced prices, great- er comfort, efficiency and safety.
The Judge felt that Bourne was to some extent influenced by Marie, therefore, the sentence would be only six months, remarking that it was a very painful sentence to give any man, but he could not be sent mental in criminal matters, lest it would encourage others to act like- wise.
"RED" PLOT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA..
FENCE ELECTRIFIED AGAINST POLICE, PATROL,
(THROUGH REUTERʼ8 AGENCY.].
ADELAIDE, Sept. 1:
-wire.
The Communists collected buf- faloes and tied burning torches to their tails and drove them towards the wire, anticipating a break- through.
The animals were dispersed by machine-guns
NEW THAMES TUNNEL SCHEME.
TO COST THREE MILLIONS STERLING.
(BRITISḤ"WIRELESS SERVICE) The discovery of a Communist pot in South Australia was reveal-
RUGBY, Sept. 4. Work on the new Thames tunnel ed by the State Premier, the Hon. Mr. Hill, when he introduced a between Dartford and Purfleet, Bill to the State Parliament em- which is to ecat £3,000,000, will Powering the Government to deal begin before Christmas.
with a strike of the Carters' and Drivers' Union as to protest against the employment of volunteer labour at the docks.
Mr. Hill said that a police raid had revealed interference with the electric cables, leading to an inter- ruption of the electric light supply. In addition, a fence had been electrified with the intention of
He declared that South Austra. causing fatalities to a police patrol.
which blew at the rate of 150 miles' York of Jack Diamond, described taimable for £120 to a luxurious la had been selected for the plot |
Haiti escaped the hurricane, an hour and razed the better class houses of Santa, Domingo to the ground.
The poorer dwellings in some enses simply disappeared, while bridges were wrecked, roads were wrecked, roads and were rendered impassable and telegraphs blown away:
Three districts were completely destroyed and the American Red Cross hng cabled funds to relieve the hunger which is already appar
ent.
"Eight Hundred Dead,
New York gangster, bootleg ger and "king of the New York underworld," reported to have
been made to escape from the ven- geance of of "Scarface" Al Capone, has caused a first-class. sensation in the British and Continental Pross.
The improvements are mostly in matters of detail, though of import- ant detail, coupled with the pro vision of fuller equipment and
Various liners on which he was reported to have taken a passage were besieged with wireless in-smartened appearance. quires while they were in mid- ocean. 4
Eventually, Diamond arrived at Queenstown or board the s.8. Bel- genland, but he was not allowed to land there. Diamond -con-
sequentis proceeded to Antwerp, where he stated that he was pro eceding to Germany to take a cure for "stomach trouble,"
"NEW YORK, Sept. 5. A message from San Juan (Porto Rico) states that a representative of the Governor of Porto Rico who flew over the stricken area of Santa Domingo wireleased that there are SCO dead, excluding the interior of. the land, of which no news is avail-Chapelle at the instance of the
able.
City Must Be Wrecked.
SANTA DOMINGO, Sept. 3. Spectres of hunger and disease are already appearing in the city of Santa Domingo.
There is not a single inhabitant who has not suffered either mater ally or physically.
Food shortage will become acute within a few days.
The city, which is isolated from the rest of the fepublic, must be wrecked, and there is similar dam. age or heavier damage in the interior.....
The estimates of the death froll and the damage throughout the country, therefore, is at present Dere guesswork.
ATTACK ON SIR C. TEGART.
NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEE
ARRESTED.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] A
Lanons, Sept. 5. A newspaper employee has been arrested in connection with the at- tack on Sir Charles Tegart,
It is alleged that he bas given to the police information resulting in the recovery of fourteen live bombs at Chotaravi.
GANDHI'S FOURTH MONTHS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÜT.] :
LONDON, Sept. 5. The fourth month of Gandhis's
MATWA NA celebrated. Tevival of the breaking laws on the Chowpatty sands.
Large crowds witnessed the pre- paration of the salt.
There was some excitement at the Wilson Missionary College, where the students, despite the Principals fefusal of permission, boisted the National flag
Ships Refuse Passage. Be was arrested at Aix-la-
American authorities, but the lat- ter subsequently. withdrew the case, The German authorities,, after having Diamond medically examid ed to ascertain whether a cure at a German apa was necessary, de- cided to deport him and he was then escorted by the police to Bre- men. All the liners, however, were found to be full up and a number of freighters refused to take Dia- mond."
Plea For Repatriation.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.. All the shipping lines have re fused to take Jack Diamond.
The Bremen police are now plead ing with the United State, Line, which is an American company, to repatriate him.
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HAMBURG, Sept. 5. The officials of the United States Line declare that it is out of the question to accept Jack Diamond as a passenger,
RIOTS IN BUENOS AIRES.
PRESIDENT REFUSES TO
RESIGN.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE).
NEW YORK, Sept. 5. A message from Buenos Aires states that two were killed and 30 injured in rioting before the Gov drament buildings between the students and the supporters of President Irigoyen. We
The police eventually dispersed the rioters.
The situation in the city in moat
the main streets are deserted.
R.A.F. ATTAIN REMARK-
ABLE SPEEDS. WORLD'S RECORD EXCEEDED.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Sept. 4. Remarkable speeds are being at-
tained by the high speed section of the Royal Air Force, which is practising in Felixstowe under the direction of Squadron Leader Orle bar on super-marine Rolls Royce
and Gloster Napier racing planes built for the Schneider Trophy. culties in regard to the Italian and
It is now expected that the diffi-
French entries for next year's Schreider contest will be overcome and the race held in British watere. Although the speeds now being attained by British pilots are pot being divulged, it is stated that the world's record of 357 miles per hour set up by Squadron Leader Orlebar has since been exceeded in these practice flights.
RADIO PROGRESS IN BRITAIN,
EUROPEAN CENTRES TO BE- HEARD.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rugay, Sept. 4.
owing to financial difficulties.
AVIATOR'S LUCKY
ESCAPE.
PARACHUTE DAMAGED WHILE DROPPING.
[UNITED PRESS.]
New York, August 31.-The well- known aviator M. Mermer who The Seamen's Union has given succeeded in crossing the South At- notice of an intention to strike in lantic last year has just been the sympathy with the carters. and
victim of a serious accident drivers.
"QUESTION MARK" AT.
DALLAS.
QUALIFIES FOR THE PRIZE
...OF. £5,000.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.),
DALLAS, Sept. 4.
Costes and Bellonte, who recently dex from Paris to New York in the Question Mark," have arrived here, thus qualifying for Colonel Easterwood's prize of £4,000,
BRAHMAPUTRA IN FLOOD. HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE
SUFFERING.
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--{THROCGH_NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHILLONG, Sept. 4. A hundred thousand people are affected by the floods, which are due to the sudden rise of the Brahmaputra in the, Newgong dis triet.
The water has reached the house- tops in some districts, while gran aries and cattle have been washed away and roads and railways are broken.
POLISH RAIDS ON UKRANIANS.
PLOT FOR SEVERANCE OF GALICIA.
cess.
"REDS" CLOSING IN
CHANGSHA
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of the arrangements, who are also looking after the Hankow team.
Practice matches were arranged
from the Shanghai Recreation Club
and both Hong Kong and Hankow
teams, but owing to rain the fixtures had to be cancelled.
The weather brightened up to-day and the afternoon's matches "were ONcompleted on slightly heavy greens.
INHABITANTS FLÉE FROM THE CITY
The Junior Golf Club were at home to the visitors from Hong Eong and Harkow at Hongkew "Park and won in each case.
Junior Golf Club beat Hong Kong by 19 shots to 11.
W. H. B. Muskett was tried as According to private telegraphic skip for Hong Kong with O. G. dispatches from Hankow, the Com. Silva (No. 3), G. McLeod (No. 9) munist troops are closing in on and F. C. Goodman (No. 1.). Changsha and are engaged in seri- Results of the matches were as ous fighting with Ho Chien's troops under At Yang Chia Shan. The latter assumed a general offensive on Wednesday when both sides sug- kained heavy casualties.
Co-operating with the Nanking
Much interest is centred on the troops are two gunboats and ser- Interport series which commence erat aeroplanes from Hankow. The headquarters of the Communists to-morrow, Shanghai teams are were bombarded by the aeroplanes meeting both Hong Kong and Han- on Wednesday morning and overkow at Hongkow Park.
two
hundred Communists were killed and many wounded.
Changsha is now in a state of complete chaos and contusion and nearly half of the inhabitants 'bave left the city.
By order of the Central Govern ment, a division under General Tan Tao Yuen has been rushed to Changsha from Kiangsi to assist Ho Chien.
Junior Golf Club boat. Hankow by 20 shots to 12
JAPANESE MEMORIAL
COMPLETED.
AUDITORIUM MARKING THE EARTHQUAKE IN 1993.
Tokyo, August 31-As the Great Earthquake Memorial Auditorium. CALIFORNIAN "DRYS" IN has been built on the ruins of the
QUANDRY.
CONFERENCE UNABLE TO
AGREE.
【UNITED PRESS. I
military clothing depot at Honfo While he was testing a new ma
Ward, Tokyo, the Tokyo Municipal chine for a large construction firm,
Authorities have sent out juvita- the two wings of his aeroplane, broke at a height of 1,000 metres.
tions to 16,000 persons directly in The large crowd who were watch-
terested in the disaster to join the ing were afraid that the pilot would
completion ceremony which will be be killed but bo succeeded in excap-
Los Angeles, August 30.-Mem-solemnized on September 1 on which ing by means of his parachute,
Unfortunately at the moment of bers of the Prohibition Farty and day, the seventh anniversary of the the accident, certain parts of the other "drys" met in conference to 1923 great quake and fire falls.
It is expected that all factory: broken machine damaged the paraday but were unable to agres upon chute which fell at an abnormal the entry of an independent "dry" sirens will be whistled and the speed. M. Mermoz, however with candidate against the somewhat street car service will be suspend. out losing his presence of mind damp Mayor James J. Rolph of ed for one minute at 1158 to mer-
row morning in order to commem succeeded in reaching the ground the decidedly wet city of San Fran-
orate the disastrous occasion which without serious injury. He sustain.cisco. ed some broken ribs and was taken lican nomination for the Governor. It is reported in this connection
Mayor Rolph received the Repub- took place seven years ago." to hospital but his condition gives ship last week over the opposition that Japan's earthquake record. no cause for anxiety.
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DISASTROUS FIRE AT
WASHINGTON.
VALUABLE DOCUMENTS..
DESTROYED..
[DNITED PRESS.] ·
of Mr. Buron Fitts, District At-September 1, 1923, up to the end of torney, and Governor C. C. Young. July" this year showed remarkable
Many wished to enter. Mr. Wil | figures of 4,550, 77 liam McAdoo, the war-time Direc- tor-General of Railway, and son- in-law of the late President Wilson, but others were opposed, and the meeting adjourned without result.
GERMAN GENERAL ON GERMAN AIMS. SEECKT ON COUNTRY'S
day destroyed the wartime Federal Washington, August 30.-Fire to Trade Commission building, burn- VON menta, ing a quantity, of valuable docu-
The papers destroyed included records of three years of investiga- tion of public utilities in the Unit
ed States.
For a time, the flames threaten- ed 5,000 gallons of gasoline stored in underground tanks, but desper- ate work by the fire-fighters averted this menace.
now
Warsaw, August 30-The Polish
UNEMPLOYMENT IN police to-day. Executed a sensation- al raid on the Ukranian agitators. UNITED STATES. which was carried out with start- By an extension of the relay eyeing suddenness and, from the point LABOUR DAY REVEALS TOTAL tem, British listeners to wireless
OF 2,000,000. broadcasts will, in a few months, of view of the police, complete suc be connected direct with three big
The plan had been carefully European music centres-Vienna, worked out down to the smallest
[UKITED PRESS. ] Budapest and Warsaw.
Washington, August 31.-The 1930 The success which recently at detail and had been entrusted to tended the relaying of the Salzburg special police detachments, the Labour Day message of Mr. Wil liam Green, President of the Ameri- Mozart Festival in part led to an whole petion being directed by the
can Federation of Labour, finds extension of arrangements made Under Secretary of State person-
International ally. In every town and village that there are possible. by the
more than Broadcast Union, which has its of Eastern Galicia large numbers 3,000,000 unemployed in the United headquarters in Geneva. Land of Ukranians including some well States, it was revealed this even lines of an improved type will known politicinus, intellectuals and ing. The message will be publish provide English, listeners
ed throughout the country to-mes with students were, arrested,, broadcast equal in clearness to a The police claim to have found
row, Labour Day. studio performance.
hage quantities of arms and am Mr Green says in the message The British Broadcasting Cor-munition as well as documenta in- that indications point to an poration is also developing comdicating the existence of a wide-celeration of business and industry querda piler-los de agham, uni word my Salve the abemployment interchanges of items will be more Eastern Galicia from Poland. Op- problem during the present autumn frequent in the future."
position circles however declare It is pointed out that the great America will shortly hear, among that the raid merely forms part of est achievement of the year from a Marshal Pilsudski's election cam labour standpoint, in Mr. Green's paign and will most likely be fol opinion, was the pledge on the part lowed by similar moves against all of leading American industrialists, those who are known to be against made at the Hoover labour stabiliza. hia dictatoria) regima.
tion conference, not to cut wages.
It is reported that the members of the Cabinet at a meeting held at President Irigoyen's private other items, a series of talks en residence, offered to resign, and titled "England Calling," to which they urged him to resign also, in Bir Oliver Lodge. HG Wells, the interests of the country, but John Masefield and other famous President Irigoyen refused,
Englishsen-will-contribute,
FOREIGN „POLICY..
GRAF ZEPPELIN TO VISIT RUSSIA. PREPARATIONS TO WELCOME GERMAN AIRSHIP..
Moscow, August 30-Extensive preparations are being made here to greet the airship Graf Zeppelin. which is to arrive here on Septem- Ler, 18 for a visit which, on account. Berlin, August 31.-General Voa of weather conditions, the airship Seeckt has just delivered a speech was unable to make on the occasion of the highest importance in the of last year's flight to Japan. 7 course of the electoral campaign A squadron of Soviet aeroplanes now proceeding. The general spoke will meet the airship at the frontier at Dortmund declaring:-
to act as an escort. At the Frunge "One of the most important aims aerodrome where the airship is to of the German foreign policy land preparations are being made should be for her to regain the to allow about 90,000 people to at- status of a country in full posses-tend the arrival and the ceremony sion of her powers, and to re of welcome by the Soviet author establish herself to that position in ities. the world to which she has a right by reason of her greatness.
BOMB IN GERMAN SUPREME COURT.
INFERNAL MACHINE AT
LEIPZIG.
The bitter struggle against the Treaty of Versailles and the realization of German aims are so important with regard to the gen eral pacification and strengthening of Europe, that if M. Briand's scheme. for United States of Europe is ever to be realized, it Leipzig, August 30.--An infernal should commence with the re-estab machine whe discovered to-day by lishment of Germany in full sover the ushers inside the portal of the building of the Reich Supreme eignty, upon which we insist.
The achievement of "Germany's | Court. The police were called and. aims abroad will depend upon the removed the bomb which proved to good understanding and pence in be composed of a hand grenade our common life with our neigh filled with picric acid and connect bours; but that common life reed with an alarm-clock E
Experte after careful examination quires, in the first placy the re ac-establishment of our power, in order declared that the explosion of the that Germany shall feel herself do. I bomb would not have created anY hired by Wo one and that B Beylong damageerUn the box cones German Eaining the bomb there were drawn will be able to protect our
others throughout the world." the Communist emblems but it is The general concluded by em not yet known whether this points phasizing the necessity for Ger to Communist origin or to a trick many to live in peace with Russia by other extremists intoned to cras and Italy, and to collaborate with a herring across the trail. The thom in the achievement of certain matter is now under investigation ends which they have in common. by the police.