EGYPT SALVAGE SHIP BLOWN UP.
FOURTEEN OF THE CREW
KILLED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LAENT, Dre, s.
The famous Italinës salvage ship Artiglio, which has been salvaging the wreck of the Peninsular and Oriental ner Egypt, was blown up.
Fourteen of the crew are believ ed to have been killed,
The dienster occurred at four o'clock in the afternoon near the inland of Houst.
Seven of the crew were saved and conveyed to hospital
Fishermen who picked up the survivors found two victims in full diving kit.
WAB
Wrecked Vopsel 'Explodes.
LATER. The Artiglio engaged in blowing up two vessels which wero sunk during the war and were ob structing the. Quiberon Channel, one of which, tho Florence, was laden with several hundred tons of high explosives.
The divers, who were possibly un- were of the nature of the cargo, ignited a depth charge, when the Florence's cargo
exploded and shattered and Bank the Artiglio, which was meored. 200 yards away..
All the crow were Italions,
NAZIS-COMMUNISTS CLASH IN GERMANY.
PERIOUS RIOTING IN BERLIN STREETS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, De 7. Numerous cullisions between politien] opponents, In which numerous numbers of policemen and civilians were wounded, occur.
ASSASSINATION AT
CALCUTTA.
· INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF PRISONS SHOT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.?
CALCUTTA, Dec. 8. Liout-Colonel N. S. Simpson, of Prisons, Inspector General Bengal, was shot dead in his office.
The assassin escaped.
LATER.
Three Bengalis forced their way into the Inspector-General's office
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930.
U.S. SHORT-TERM LOANS.
LOWEST RATE OF INTEREST SINCE THE WAR."
[DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]、
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The Government of the United States proposes to meet the Decom- ber financial requirements with short-term loans at the lowest rate of interest for much loans since the
war,
The issues will be £30,000,000 for and shot Mr. Simpson, and then a period of six months at 3 per they fushed out firing continually cent., and £60,000,000 for a period to cover their retreat and disap-of one year at 2 per cent. pared.
Mr. J. W. Nolaon, judicial secre-) tary', was seriously wounded in attempting to stop the murderers., Two Assassins Dommit Bulelda.
MOSCOW CONSPIRACY
TRIAL..
LATER FIVE ACCUSED SENTENCED
TO DEATH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
Two of Inspector-General Simp son's asensuing shot themselves,
Both assassins have died, but an accomplice, who was wounded, is now in custody.
Accomplice Identified.
LATER.
It appears that Mr. Nelson is not seriously wounded.
The man in custody is believed to be Benoy Bon,a Dacen medical student and the alleged murderer of Mr. F. J. Lowman, Acting Inspector-General of Police, who
ني
Moscow, Dec. 7. The following prisoners at the conspiracy trial were sentenced to death:--Ramein, Larichey, Char- nowsky, Kalinnikov, and Fedotov.
The remainder were sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.
All will to deprived of their properly.
The sentences are final, and there ent be no appeal.
SHANGHAI MURDER
MYSTERY.
CHINESE WATCHMAN FOUND SHOT DEAD.
(From Our Own Correspondeat.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 8, The Savoy Apartments, a big modern building situated in the heart the French Concession, was the scene of a mystery early this morning,
of
A Chinese watchman employed by the Swiss Consulate was dis covered lying dead with a bullet wound in his head.
The French police theory is that the miscreant was an armed rob. ber whom the watchman strprised in the act of stealing important Consular documents which proved, ́abortive.
Tell-tale finger-prints were left which the police are following up in the hope of obtaining a clue to the murderer.
BRITISH GUIANA
EXPEDITION.
OXFORD HUNTERS SECURE A MISCELLANEOUS HAUL.
was shot as he was leaving the Loud and Prolonged Cheer Great Bity's Exploration Club's expedition Mitford Hospital at August 29.
Dacca
on
CROYDON-CAPETOWN FLIERS.
ENJOY
Sentences.
LATER, The greatest excitement marked the closing scenes of the conspiracy trial and the announcement of the sentence was greeted by loud" and CORDIAL HOSPITAL-prolonged cheera by the crowd
thronging the Court."
ITY AT BELMONTE.
(BRITISH WHELESS SERVICE]
Ruday, Dec. 7. The Italian Air Minister, in a
ed in Berlin and other towns to-telegram to Lord Amulree, Boere- day.
tary for Air, giving details of the
neident near Belmonte to the air: chift in which Miss. Spooner. and Flying Officer Edwards were flying to the Cape, says that the two sui-
The prisoners were found guilty on all counts.
The Court, in giving judgment, declared that all the attempts of the accused to create a crisis within the country had failed.
Hence the prisoners plotted to
States.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruany, Dec. 7. The report of the Oxford Univer-
for the investigation of the flora and fauna of the tropical forests of British Guiana states that, the party was in the bush for four months-and scoured more nea speci. mens than any previous expedition.
Bird-catchers had posts in tree topa 120 feet high and entomologists 136 feet high.
The collections brought back in clude more than 10,000 insects, 300 miscellaneous invertebrates, 4,000 sots of relarts, 67 mammals and over 200 reptiles and birds.
obtain the intervention of foreign PACIFIC FLIGHT FEASIBLE.
LT BROMLEY'S COMPANION CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS.
Twelve civilians were injured and 20 arrested when the police made a truncheon charge and dispersed several hundred demonstrators in front of a cinema in which the irrors are enjoying the cordial hos well-known war. film "All Quiet anpitality of the Mayor of Belmonte. A message from Moscow states
the Western Front" was showing.
A serious collision between Com- munists and Nazis occurred at Ber; nau, 20 policemen and Nazis be ing sent to hospital..
(and are surrounded by every aire- The aircraft is on the beach waiting dismantling.
Officers of the Royal Italian Air Force have been placed at the dis-
Communists and Nazín also came pisal of the pilots. into collision at Dortmund,
Serious trouble broke out at
Lord Amulros replied, expressing cordial thanks and adding: Your
་
@losing Stages of the Trial.
RIGA, Dec. 7.
that during the closing stages of the conspiracy trial at the week- end special arators harangued the crowds in the chief Soviet centres, declaring that the Soviet authorities would inflict merited penalties and would teach foreign Governments that it was "futile to plat with
[UNITED PRESS.]
Seattle, Nov. 29.Mr. Harold Gatty, companion of Lieut. Harold Bromley in his unsuccessful effort to fly from Japan to Seattle, ar rived here from the Far East to day..
He declared that he believes the
CONCESSION IN DARKNESS.
SUGAR MISSION AT AMSTERDAM.,
MOUSE ENTANGLED WITH LIMITATION OF EXPORT OF
A SWITCH.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SIGNAL, Dec. 8. The whole of the French Conces- sion was plunged into darkness for hall-an-hour owing to a mauso be coming entangled with a switch, causing a short-circuit between two high tension bars.
MOSLEY'S WORLD-SHAKING
MANIFESTO.
GENERAL DISAGREEMENT AMONG LL.P.
(THROUGH REUTER'D AGENCY.]
SUGAR.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 7. The negotiations between ropro sentatives of the United Java Sugar Producers and the Chadbourne Gulliverafimiontemporarily broko down this fternoon, when, aftor an exchange of written statements, it was announced that there had been complete breakdown, and the Mission leaves for Brussels an December 8, but a further letter was received at p.m. from the sugar producers, re-opening the negotiations.
It is learned that the letter has brought the prospects of agreement much nearer. :
On
ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE.
HINDU-MOSLEM INFORMAL
DISCUSSION.
(DRITION WIRELESS, BERVICE]
Roony, Dec, 6. There were both yesterday and. on Saturday an informal and perfectly friendly discussion be tween the Hindu and Moolon do- legates to the Round Table, Con- ference with the object of reaching adjustments on the minority ques
tion.
Meanwhile, Government have taken sider in reporta that the the so-called deadlock of this difficult issue are authoritatively described as absolutely untrue.
The Government have not yet approched the subject themselves at all, and while naterally they are taking a keen interest in it they continue to regard its solution Indian communities.
s primarily a matter for the
gnged attention for yours, and The problem is one that has en-
Utmost Confidence Fall.
LATER The utmost confidence is now felt LONDON, Dec. 7.
that agreement will be reached be- General disagreement with the fore the departure of the Mission Mosley Manifesto was expressed at
to Brussels.
the fact that “. Meetings
conversations" in are being held the conference of
London which have taken place be the National December 8 to considor the details tween the Indian delegates during Administrative Council of the In- of the proposals, which, it is unthe last few weeks have not as yet dependent Labour Party, held inderstood, include a system of guar-provided a solution is no justifica-
tion for excessive pessimism. London this evening. Mr. James Maxton, M.P., presiding, "because Everything Arranged Satisfactorily. there is no immediate prospect of
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 8. After an hour's meeting of the its proposals practically benefiting Cuban-American Mission and the the workers."
United Java Sugar Producers this morning, Mr. Chadbourne smilingly announced that everything had heen arranged antisfactorily.
[BRITISH WIRELESA BERVICE.] Needs National Support for Success.
RUGBY, Dec. 7. Sir Oswald Mosley, whose Mani- festo, signed by 17 other Labour members of Parliament, was pub- lished last night, says that he and Iris colleagues have no intention of taking action in Parliament that would result in the replacing of the present Administration by a
Conservative Government,
The Manifesto was a statement of policy designed to meet the present emergency, but could only be car ried through if it secured autional support.
Essential features of the Mani- feste are the appointment of an Emergency Bureau of Ave Ministers with wide powers; a national or gahisation for industrial develop mant; an import Control Beard for foodstuffs, with a guaranteed price for agricultural products and pro- teolion for the consumers against unfair prices & Commodity Board for the control through licences or tariffs of imported manufactured goods; a trade agreement with the Dominions; capital expenditure on constructive works; the creation of a public organisation for the mass production of houses and building ment of the payment of war debts.
anters.
The details of the settlement are not yet known.
The Cuban-American Mission has gone to Brussels.
Limitation of Sugar Export for
that un
Five Years.
The United Java Producers, in the course of a communiqué, states reached on the basis of a contract understanding has been providing for both countries a limitation of the export of sugar. for a period of five years and simultaneously segregating the old stocks to be gradually dispersed.
The discussions between the Indian delegates were entirely free from friction, but have been marked by mutual desire to reach an ao- commodation on long-standing and unquestionably intricate pro- |blem.
Sub-Committees at Work.
Three Sub-Committees of the Con- ference were at work this morn- ing on the subject of ideal relations, provincial constitutions and India- Burma separation.
Method of Achieving a United India
The Federal Relations Sub-Com mitter is meeting twice daily in ready for presentation to the full the hope that its report will he
conference carly next week.
It is understood that the Stater. delegatre, who take the view that federation is the only practicable method of achieving a united India, So far as Java is concerned, the have expressed freely their views arrangement is subject to the op- on the conditions on which they are. proval of the owners of the sugar willing to participate. They feel fretories, while it will also be sub-that the States should enter e mitted to the Government.
BRITISH INDUSTRY IMPROVING..
PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRADE OPTIMISTIQ [BRIZISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
scheme individually by sparate con- ventions, and that all the Staten should retain their sovereignty and full internal -independence, save insofar as sovereignty may be sacrificed for federal purposes.
Before any final decision is reach. ed, however, the Princes desire a precise elucidation of the position in regard to the centre and pro- vinoes in British India, and it bas been made clear in the discussions that they would not be prepared to to-day. federate with British India as it is
RUGBY, Dec 7, - The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. William Graham), ex- pressed the opinion laat night that Year would see a steady, if slow, raped with 7,000 or 8,000 in the the opening months of the New 750,000 to 1,000,000 workera, zoom- reduction of unemployment.
dye industry, and had represented. Replying to criticism regarding to the Government that the restrict the Dyestuffs Act to lapec, thus them. the Government's decision to allowing effects of the Act handicapped removing import duties on import Ile was convinced that a policy industries were employing from better and safer for a great ex-
(Continued on next Column.) porting industry.
Hameln, in Hanover, when Nazis action is yet another example of the internal wreckers to ruin the five-fight over the Pacific is an entirely materials; and temporary postpone- | ed dyestuffs, he said that the textile | o* fiscal freedom was on the balance
endeavoured violently to break up
Republican meeting.
Forty-three persons were injured,
10 of whom seriously.
happy relation, subsisting between Italian and British aviation."
Rioting continued late into the NEW BRITISH WARSHIPS
night.
Twelve Nazis were sent to hos- pital, suffering from bullet wounds as the result of a conflict with political opponents.
NEW ZEALAND PREMIER. LEAVES LONDON FOR HOME.
NAMED.
DESTROYERS OF THE "'DEFENDER”” CLASS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Rudny, Dec. 7.
The following names have been Rien to the cruisers and destroyers of the 1830 new construction pro- Cruisers (Leader class)-Nep. tube, Reunion, Archilles.
gramine:-
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Dec. 7, Destroyer Leader.—Duncan,
Destroyers, to be known as De- The Now Zealand Prime Minister, fender class-Defender, Daring, accompanied by Mrs. Forhes and Diamond, Delight, Dainty, Diana, parly, left London yesterday for a Duchess, Decoy. short visit to the battlefeld, and Paria before joining the liner Or mands at Toulon for New Zealand. The Dominions Socidary WALS prosons to bid them good-bye,
CHANG HSUEH LIANG |
AT TIENTSIN.
LIKELY TO REMAIN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
{TUKOVGR REUTER'S AGENOT.),
TreNTAIN, "Dec. 8. It is learned that Chang Hauch Lining is likely to remain here for a couple of days further before nyongadina ta Mukdanı
So far no mecting of Chang Hauch Liang and Yon Hai Shan has taken pince, though the representatives of both have exchanged calls:
FRENCH CABINET
FORMATION.
M. BARTHOU RENOUNCES
·HIS DECISION,
ITGG Buterʼs agomor.)-
PARIS, Dec. 7. M. Bartliou his given up the task of forming a Cabinet and he has informed President Doumergua to this offoot.
Hitherto, there is no indication miggesting who next may be asked.
[AGERCE HAVAS.]
M. Barthon Flads Task Hopela, PARIS, Dec. 7.
It is now stated that M. Barthou to form a Cabinet
year plan and to disrupt the pro- letarian, republic.”
GEORGIAN MINISTER
ASSASSINATED.
SHOT BY RUSSIAN WORKMAN OUT OF REVENGE
(THROUGH WUTER'S AGENCY.3
PARIS, Dec. 7.
feasible idon, and eaid that he in- tends to accompany Lieutenant Bromley on his next attempt if re quested to do so.
Mr. Gatty neted as navigator and co-pilot on. the adventurous “hop from Tachikawa which resulted in a compulsory return after severn) hours of flying when the exhaust collector ring at the rear of the engine and just in front of the pilot and so-pilot cracked, allowing gases
OBITUARY.
SIR OTTO JOHN BEIT.
(THROUGH MAUTEN'S ADEKOT, }
LONDON, Dec. 7.
his residence in Welwyn, Hertford- The death took place to-day at
to fill the cockpit and, half- ahire, of Sir Otto John Beit, the.
M. Louis Ramick Dini, ex-Minis-naphyainting the two men before ter of Georgia, was shot dead in they could get back to land. the street this afternoon by a Rus- sinn workman named Tehanouk
Vaḍte, who was arrested,
Winter weather compelled Mr. Gatty and Lieutenant Bromley to abandon their efforts until next spring.
Tchanouk, Vadze, who is a Gear gian, said that he shot Bamick
Mr. Gatty as ill for some time Dini out of revenge, because the because of the quantity of carbon Intter was responsible for his dis-monoxide gas he inhaled, but be misal from a factory where he was said to day that, the effects of the employed, also owing to his polipoisoning have now worn off. tical mindeods.
MEUSE VALLEY DEATH "WREATH.”
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION COMMISSION APPOINTED."
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENDI.]
| JAPAN'S INCREASED
POPULATION.
FOUR MILLION INCREASE IN FIVE YEARS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGOCY.]
TORTÓ, Dia 8. The official figures of the census In response to the desire of the which was takon lawb October show Queen of the Belgians on her re- that the total population of Japan turn from a tour of the fog-stricken proper in 64,447,000, showing in area, an exhaustive enquiry is to be opened to ascertain the clients, cross of 4,017,000 during the past
BRUSSELS, Dec. 7...
composed, and a apecial Commis- The density of the population is PARIS, Doc. 8. sion of six Professors has been † 160 people per square ikilometre, Laval has accopted a request established to investigate the mat-- and the rate of annual increase is to form a Cabinet,
1.8 per cent
ter
famous Boer financer, at the age. of 08.
Bir Otto Beil, who was created town in 1800. Sir Otto took a great a Baronet in 1924, was born in Cape-
interest in the development of scientiflo- and medical research and
Body of the Imperial College of was a member of the Governing Science and Technology, and found- ed the Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research. He was also a trustee of the Rhodes Trust, --- He isauceseded in the title' by his heir, Mr. Alfred Lane, who is 97;
Sir Otto was the nephew of the famous British South African fan- aior, Sir Alfred Beit, who died in 1900 at the age of 13.]
AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S
DEATH.
DROWNED WHILE DÜCK- HUNTING.
(REUTER'S' AMERICAN SERVICE.).
NEW YORK, Dec. 7. The tragic death of a popular in a message from Marblehead, American sportiman is announced
Manachusette, to-day, the victim being William Dana, who very known in the sporting, world.
ing from ñ dory, qua
The docanned was the grandson, of Charles Dani, the proprietor of the New York Sun.
YES!
THIS SMOKE
NUISANCE CAN BE ABATED
COKE CAN
BE SUPPLIED SUITABLE FOR
HOUSEHOLD USES.
HOT WATER INSTALLATIONS
STEAM BOILERS
AND ALL OTHER PURPOSES WHERE SOLID FUEL IS REQUIRED.
ABOLISH SMOKE, AND SAFE HONEY
BY USING -VOKE.
TO-DAY'S PRICE $15 to $17 Per Ton (ACCORDING TO QUITITY)
EX HONG KONG OF KOWLOON WORKS,
· HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.
200100