HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931.
GERMAN MINISTERS FAMOUS ADMIRAL STAUNTON STREET FIRE TRAGEDY.
IN BRITAIN.
BRITISH PREMIER TO VISIT BERLIN,
[THEOUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, June 9.
The memorable visit, of Dr. Bruening and Dr. Curtius to Eng- land terminated by their departure from Southampton in the destroyer Winchester, which conveyed them to their liner which was lying off Cowes Ronds,
Before Isaving they said that they hoped that their conversations hero with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and other British Miniators would do much to help international co- operation.
STRIKES FLAG.
SIR ROGER KEYES BREAKS ASSOCIATION WITH NAVY.
AUSTRALIA S CONVERSION LOAN.
[THEOCOU RESTER'S'AGINOY,}
LONDON, June 0. Admiral of the Ficet Sir Roger Keyes strikes his flag at sunset in Nelson's Victory," now the flag. ship of the Portsmouth Station..
OPPOSITION SUPPORT, PROPOSED SCHEME.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
•MELBOURNE, June: 0.
Admiral Sir Roger Keyes is the last of the great war-time naval
The voluntary conversion of Aus- loaders to relinquish his active association with the Navy tralia's internal debt in order to
""" ["nvert the risk of default, contem-
em-
It also outlines that this purpose
EIGHT DEATHS: MANY INJURED.
GIRLS DESPERATE LEAP FROM VERANDAH.
Accompanied by a blaze of fre-crackers lasting nearly an hour, a fire, which in its toll of human life approached the King Edward Hotel disaster in. March, 1999, Docürred last a ing in congested part of the city within a few hundred yards of Police Headquarters.
Sir Roger Keyes was Comman-plated by the Premiers Confer- der-in-Chief of the Mediterransan Fleet at the time of the incidenta cuce, a report of which is support-
Bchool girls leaping from the Arst floor verandah into the on the Royal Oak which led to the ed by the Opposition Parties,
street to be severely mutilated, retirement of Rear-Admiral Collard phasises that a substantial reduc and the court-martialling, el Capt. Dewar and Commander Daniel. tion of expenditure is essential newhile a number of others occupy- by the times to be suffocstad As Rear Admiral he was in com a preliminary to the restoration ofing the upper floor were trapped mand of the operations against prosperity.
to death were harrowing scenes Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Zeebrugge and Ostend on April 23,
in the latest disaster. A wOKIAN A. Henderson accepted an invita 1918, and was knighted. From 1918,
was pathetically weeping in the street over the fate of her two tion to pay a return visit to Ger.when a baronetcy was conferred on
him, until 1991, Sir Roger a
children who were believed: to many, but no date, has yet been commanding the battle 'cruiser.
be in that portion of the block squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, and
adjoining the fire. There were, until his appointment to the Medi-
besides, angåber of panis torfanean commgad four years
striken pocupants of houses in later he was Deputy Chief of Naval
the vicinity who had perforas to Staff.
'be kept back while the fireman tackled the outbreak with grimi determination, nes
· fixed.
Mutual Co-operation of All Nationa
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RUGBY, June 8.
The visiting German statesmen.' Dr. Bruening and Dr.Curtius,
IMPERIAL ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE.
of the
Conversion plan, involving a saving of 221 per cent, in debt services, appeals as all will share in the sacrifics in the interests of the country.
The Conference proposes the ap pointment of a National Appeal Executive, consisting of the Pre mier, Mr. Scullin, the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Lyons, the Chain man of the Commonwealth Bank,
who, during the week-end, had STATEMENT IN COMMONS AT Sir Robert Gibson, to direct, the
conversations
with the. Prime
Minister and other members of the British Government at Chequers, had another full day to-day.
This morning they were received in audience by the King. It was the first time since before the war that a member of a German Cabinet had been received at Buckingham
Palace.
Later they were the guests at a luncheon of the Anglo-German Society, at which Lord Reading.
presided.
This afternoon, they attended va reception given in their honour at
AN EARLY DATE:
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Ruary, June 8. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons to-day the Dominions Secretary that would make A statement to-mor
row concerning the forthcoming Imperial Economie Conference at Ottawa, It is anticipated that a postponement until the Spring will. be announced.
SUBSIDY FOR 'OPERA.
the Royal Institute of International | AGREEMENT BETWEEN B.B.C. Affairs.
a%
AND OG, SYNDICATES, D
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In welcoming them, Sir Neill Malcolm accepted their presence an indication of appioval of the work of the Institute in stimulating a scientific study of
RuGuy, June 8. ̈ international affairs in the hopo Provisions for subsidising opera that it might contribute towards the are contained in an agreement be removal of international misundertween the British Broadcastink standings and so promote the wel Corporation and Covent Garden fare of the world.
Syndicates, the terms of which have now been completed.
Dr. Bruening, replying, express ed warm appreciation of the work of the Institute.
Referring to the friendly talks at Chequers, he said that mutual co-operation between all countries concerned, to try and improve the existing economic situation was agreed upon, and he WAL sure that that spirit of understanding would find a favourable echo in the public opinion of the world. He added he was glad of the opportu
warm reception given him and Dr. Curtius.
To-night, the visitors will attend
a dinner at the German Embassy.
at which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will be the chief guest.
AUSTRO-GERMAN CUSTOMS
The Postmaster General stated in' the House of Commons that the terms of the agreement would" Le laid before Parliament as noon as executed.
FEDERAL STRUCTURE
COMMITTEE.
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conversion campaign.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF PRINCE HIROKUNI ITO.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S ́AGENCY.
Tragic Fate of G
BANDIT MENACE IN YENPING AREA.
MISSIONARIES EVACUATE ›METHODIST "MISSION,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
SHANGHAI, June 9. Ten missionaries stationed at a mission at Yenping, which is hundred miles north west of Foo
DEFENCE OF CANTON.
ALL STRATEGIC POINTS FORTIFIED.
(From Our Own Correspondent;}
NANKING TROOPS
NEAR YICHANG.
ONLY 20 MILES SEPARATE
RIVAL FORCES.
(THROUGH-REITER'S AGENCY.]
BANKENANKING, June 8.
[DELAYED BY CISYBOR, ]. Private advices from Hunan pro-
CANTON June D. Elaborate defence work is being set up in all the strategic points invince state that eight divisions of the upper parts of the North and Government tropps are now, near Yichang on the Hunan-Hwangtung East River districts against an border and only twenty miles are invasion of Nanking troops from separating them from Cantoneso
forces the North.
The North River along the Can chow, belonging to the American ton-Hankow Railway, especially the Methodist Episcopal Mission,-eva-stretch between Kwantin and Shiu- custed for Foochow as the result kwan, is being turned into an arm- of bandit and Communist menace ed camp, and Southern troops ar ja the Yeaping aros
pouring in Trenches are being dug at Namhung and Lokchang: along the main gateway to Hunan in an attempt to check any possible advance of Chiang Kai Bhek's forces from this direction. This forms the first and outer line of defence of Canton.
SWEEPSTAKE LAW' IN
BRITAIN.
NOW RECEIVING CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
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Rucer, June 8.
Seven Bodies Found.
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· Reporta state that so far thero have been no clashes.
FENG YU HSIANG IN COMMAND.
MARCHING SOUTH ON
NANKING
According to a Union News Ser vice message from Tientsin appears. ing in the Canton Gazette import ant decisions were reached at a“ military conference summoned by the Northern Generals at Tientsin. Delegates of Generals Sun Tien Ying, Shih Yu San, Han Fu Chu, and Ma Haung Kusi, took part in the mesting,
Detailed plans in connection with the anti-Chiang campaign were brought up for discussion. The resolutions are
That all instructions given by Marshals Yen Hai Shan, and Feng Yu Huang he obeyed
That Marshal Feng Yu, Hsiang is to lead the troops under Generale Sung Chih Yuan, Pang Ping Hsu, Sun Tien Xing and Shih Yu San for the complete elimination of Chiang Kai Shek's forces in Honan
Similar precautionary measures are being carried out in Shiukwan and Yiugtak, forming the second
the seco and third lines of defence, respec- tively. And in case of necessity, The fire had its origin, so far as
General Cher Tani Tong, Com could be ascertained, in the first floor of house No. 35, Staunton Street, which is in the centre of a
An early statement in Parliamander-in-Chief of the First Army block of buildings in a densely ment on the subject of whether Corps, will shorten his battle line, populated and narrow street of any amendment of the law relat- abandoning the territory above 'shope on the ground floor and dwellings above. The floor in quering to sweepstakes was necessary Shinkwan. Shinkwan will then tion was the dwelling of Wong or desirable, which is receiving form the Arst line of defence, with Chow Kee, who had his joss.
the careful consideration of the Yingtak second and Yuantam third.. paver shop below. Simultaneously with the outbreak of fire, a blaze Government, was. promised by the
At present the protection of the of crackers commenced in the Home Secretary, Mr. R. Clynes, Shiukwan, Nambung, Lokchang and first floor, which it is believed was in replying, to a question in the other upper parts of the North also used by the owner for storing a
River is entrusted to General L part of his goods. The alarm was House of Commons.
Allies Move South given at about 9p.ma
Yang King, Commander of the 3rd That after the above step is pos Army of the lat Army Corps undercomplished, the Kuominchun are to Wong Chow Kee with his wife
General Chen Trai Tong, and the descend along the Peiping-Hankow Railroad, in order to launch with were in the ground floor of his
defence work along the lower parts the Southern forces a joint attack premises at the time of the out as soon as the fire had subsided of the North River between Canton on Wachang and Hankow TOKYO, Juno §. The death has occurred of Frincefls from Sai Nam School, Bonham volumen of smoke which belched: General Yu Han Mow, Commander break. Early in the evening two and there was an end of the and Tingtak. is in the hands of Hirokuni Ito, former Grand Master Rand, where Wong's two daughters forth from the building during the of the lat Army, while the proter of Ceremonies; a post which he are also pupils, came on visit operations, it was seen that the tion of the East River districts is and the four girls were on the first staircase leading to the upper Boor entrusted to General Heung Hon floor, when the
fusiinde on was quite intact. In fact the
greater part of the damage to the Ping, Commander of the and Army.jective and building was the burnino e Electrified barbed wire entangle-
Wanking the Objective," the verandahs on the two floorsments and other forms of modern, ahore, while the cubicles, and the defence work are being set up, AÏÏ' That the allied forces are to cou-" inside of the floors suffered little important points of the East River, verge at Nanking which is regard damage. The ground floor stock of the entrance to Swatow Harboured as the final objective.ANG, paper and joss material was not and other spots vulnerable to at Immediately after the conclusion involved in the fire, and even the tack from sea are heavily mined. of the above conference, the Shansi boards of the upper floors were Reports are current here that General Eu Tra loft Tientsin on only partially barnt with a gaping Chiang Kai Shok is sending no hole on the top floor which received less than teu divisions south to where he will make only a brief an important mission to Peiping, the full force of the blaze from below...
cope with the situation Most of stay and return to Shansi to direct these troops are marching down by the anti-Chiang expedition, an way of Hunan with Shiukwan as Several years ago, he was able their first objective: Othere are to guard the isolated city Tuchow coming by East River from Fukien, for a period of three months in the a province whose loyalty to Nan-Shansi-Mukden war, during which king can not be questioned at the time he commanded a brigade to present time,
resist the attack of several Fengtion divisions,
held from 1920 to 1929.
Born in 1870, the fourth son of Gorosaburo Inouye, of the former Choshu Clan, the deceased was. adopted as son and heir by the late Prince Ito In 1910.ho was. appointed Deputy Grand Master of Ceremonies, while from 1021 to 1990 he Director of the Bureau of the Imperial Mews.
WAS
THE VISION.
WHITE FIGURE ON THE FILM.
CINEMATOGRAPHERS STORY:
GOOD NEWS FOR DOGS.
GOVERNOR-IN COUNCIL SUS
·PENDS MUZZLING ORDER.”
The Hon, the Colonial Secretary has issued the following communi- qué to the Press:—_
The Governor-in-Council has ap- proved of the suspension of the Regulations made under the Dogs Ordinance, 1027, by which the. muzzling of dogs. was enforced and their movements restricted,
A
THECRACK" DIVISIONS.
2ND IN COMMAND COMING TO CANTON,
ander Han Fu Chu and Me Heung That: in the meantime the troops Kusi, are to push from Shantung along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway with Hauchow as their initial ob
NANKING ALLIES
(Wah Tie Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Jure o
Shin Yu San and Sun Teh Yang the ox-Kuominchun, generals, who have been always regarded a
When officers of the Fire Brigade and the Police went up to investi- gale, they counted seven dead bodies, including children, who were seen huddled up bere and there on the second floor. The work of extricating these bodies was not proceeded with at once owing to the difficulty of approaching thơm and the fact that some more spray. Rome, May 19-Visions believed stricken, jumped into the street one
the floor began. The girls, panic ing of water had to be carried out nity, for publicly expressing thanks NO CHANGE IN PERSONNEL. to have been seen by groups of by one to the horror of the on-
on the dying embers. to the British statesmen for the
peasants while praying at certain lookers.
The estimate of lives lost would therefore appear to be" eight, but shrines, are commonly reported phenomena in Catholic Italy from
Kan Li-Mui, ono of Wong's daugh- it is possible that there may be
The Canton Gazette of June 8 time-to-time, but a new experience ters, in addition to other injuries, others who perished in the disaster, Roday, June 8. of this sort is announced from broke her left leg, the shin bone hose bodies were not discernible states that General Chiang Kwang Mr. Wedgwood Bean, Secretary Trieste, where two cinematograph protruding through the flesh. Wong in the earlier and casual inspeo Nai, Commander-in-Chief of the of State for India, replying to operators not only beheld a vision Chow Nin, the second daughter, tion. Needless to say, the occupants 19th Route Army (the two crack doubtful militarists," have wired number of questions in the House of the Redeemer but recorded the
was even more seriously injured, of the upper floor were trapped divisions), has commissioned Gen- of Commons to-day said it was in-apparition on their films.
as she had been caught by the by the fire and suffocated by thr eral Tsai Ting Kai, Commander of to Peiping pledging their allegiance tended that the personnel, of the
flames which burnt the upper part vast volumes of smoke issuing from the 60th Division, from Kinngs to to the Nanking Government, and proposed Federal Structure Com- The vision appears as a ciearly of her body, including her hair, the first flour with its gunpowder go to Canton, with the object of suggesting that the mixed troops,
which are stationed in Honan be mittee meeting in September should defined white Sgure of Christ on before she leaped over the rail cargo.
obtaining instructions from the be as before; with certain additions, some thirty exposures of the film These two girls were in a pitiful
despatched to Kings to particl Good Ambulance Work,
National Government. which he was not yet in a position and then disappears. The eccle state with St. John Ambulance menu
pate in the anti-Red campaign,, to announce. No formal invita siastical authorities have opened an doing all they could in the way of Special praise must be given to General Taai accompanied by a while the bandit-suppression work tions had yet been issued. They inquiry into all the circumstances rendering first aid while waiting for the St. John Ambulance Brigade regiment. left Kanchow on June 6 in that province will be taken up would be issued through the Viceroy of the case, and have taken away an ambulance. The other two girls for their prompt work immediately and was to arrive at Taiyuling by their own forces. and dealt with as before,
the film for scientifs examination, were taken away to hospital carlier on the outbreak of fire, and Mr. yesterday. Colonel Kwok Tun Hwa pending which it is announced that and it was gathered that they were A Morris, one of the officers who of the 63rd Division has been no precise judgments of the plicnonot so seriously injured. Informa- and been summoned by telephone, instructed by the local authorities mens may be given.
tion reached the scene & little later would have had just cause to be to lead a battalion to Taiyuling in that Wong Chowdin passed away proud of his men. No fewer than order to afford proper protection to soon after admittance to hospital. | eight members from the Mongkok | General Taai en route to Shiukwan,
Division, and two from Bhaukiwan where the distinguished general vis. Fire Engine Disabled.
rendered invaluable help to the un- The work of tackling the fire was fortunate daughters of the shop expected to reach on June 11 and made difficult, owing to the narrow keeper, and if one of them passed will arrive at Canton on the follow- streets which prevented fire engines away, the Brigade men at least, had ng day. from approaching the vicinity, An the satisfaction of proving that they appliance which attempted to get were always endy and prepared through from Hollywood Read into to do their best under any circum- the Provincial Governments, Mr. Developing the film in a dark Staunton Street through Shelley stances. Further, while there was Wedgwood Benn said he was un-room later the operators were pre Street negotiated only half of the an unusual delay in the arrival of aware of any fundamental outpared to find the negatives spoiled steep indine when it kidded into an ambulance from its proper standing question affecting all the by what they believed to have been the aide channel and was lying vehicle was the first on the spot aphers, the St John Ambulance Provinces requiring discussion, ex- cept problems sich na the communal a sudden excess of sun. To their there useless
UNION.
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Depressed Classes.
RUGBY, June 8. Questioned regarding the deci
The depressed classes were repre- sion of the League of Nations sented on the Conference and their Council to refer to the Permanent representation on the Federal Court of International Justice the Structure Committed was beink question of the proposed Austro- considered. Adaka German Customs Union, Mr. Hen derson stated that the advisory opinion of the Court would be available about the end of August, in time for the next meeting of the League Council.
BY ELECTION AT GATESHEAD:
The story is that while two opera of the Trieste cinema com- pany, Mercurius," were taking a movie scene at a villa near Trieste, Asked whether the delay in ro assembling the Round Table Confer the operators and actors were and enes in London was to be utilised denly disturbed by a blinding light in an attempt to make further pro- which left them all in a state of gross in India with the outstanding nervous prostration and religious questions concerning the future of ecstasy.
having got through Shelley Street dieulties and the relations be stupefaction, however, they found Meantime the firemen ascending before the fire engine came to grief | tween the Centro and the Provinces, that, the print, showed series of ladders placed against the adjoining partly closing the roadway
fuminous transparent white figures verandahs, directed a number of Mr. H, T. Brooks directed the LABOUR RETAIN SEAT BY the Federal as well as in the Proof Christ: with hands outspread, jete from different angles" and in tre operations and to his mon and
showing the stigmata, and moving little over an hour they had the
OVER 1,000 VOTES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY,1
which were essentially involved in
vincial constitutions,
EXTRALITY IN
CHINA.
£30,000 RANSOM TO
MONTH'S PERSECUTION.
Chicago. A story of four weeks personation by gangsters, which eulminated in kidnapping and der mands for tanson, was told by Mr John Hackett, a slot-machno renter at Blue Island, a suburban resort some twenty miles outside Chicago, when he was halonged s
“yesterday, He said:
I was captured on Friday SATISFACTORY STAGE morning and so that I would not best seo, where they were, taking me, my NOW REACHED. - Udyes were fastend with "udkenive":
dape They then telephoned my MANOSTRA wife and told her that she would slightly in a gesture of benediction, fire under control, in fact the blaze the police officers who controlled
DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] never see me alive again unless Boycotted Goods for England,
285,000 was paid up Fearing to go on with the deve seemed to subalds with the destruc the vast crowd must the given tho
Robey, June 8 Actually they got 230,000. The Questioned regarding the con.lopment, and also afraid that they tion of the cracker cargo. The feat wredit of controlling the fire to n
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. gangstera arranged a password, so stitution and operations of the would not be believed, they sent of the Fire Brigade staff, in con-small area, although the loss of life
Arthur Henderson, stated in reply that the money should Agency Company, registered in for the parish priest, who cross fining the fire, to such a small area was sadly great, in the arcum-
question in the House of right parties and the cash was thent India for the purpose of buying examined the youth, confirmed the and working under extreme dif
Commous, the egotiations in carried in motor-cars to the places Ality in named they had been persecuting and Exporting stocks of boycotted presence of the vision of Christ, Sculties was indeed a creditable one It is understand that the stock
relation to "extr The by-election Gateshead, cloth, Mr. Benn said the Company took their most solemn oath that and it was amazing to see how they of Wong, Chow Kee's shop in caver owing to the death of the Labour was a public company No shares they had done vo faking scaled phases in the block from com- 810,000 in Chins had reached a stage which me for the past four weeks and
of ALS GEN had been, offered for public sub- up the film, had reported the cas
unabled them to be reported to doce they placed a bomb in the basement of one of the houses in, both Governments.. MP Sir James Melville, resulted
scription: The Company and not to his eceleminatical uperiors, who plate destruction. Full pressure
PALMERA Dy road. An diployee discovered yet acquired any stocks for re- have now insituted an inquiry, into was given by the street. hydrants strict control by the police pending, He hoped shortly to be in s. it just in time, but he was shot 4s follows-
which auisted in the success of the investigations into the cause of the
statement to down and killed thear Maton Evans, Labour 22,833 y exportation The list of dire the authenticity or not of this operation
outbreak and other aspecte connect position to make tors was circulated to members of cinema miratie. London Horn-
the House. Colonel Headlam, Con-
who were hiding in ambush, ed with it Parliamenta
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