BANK HOLIDAY IN
ENGLAND.
MARRED BY NUMEROUS TRAGEDIES.
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LONDON STOCK MARKETS FIRM
NEW YORK AND PARIS EXCHANGES STEADY.
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Rugby, Aug.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.
AMY NEARING JOURNEY'S END.
EXPECTS TO BE IN TOKYO ON AUGUST, 6.
[THROVON REUTER'S MOENCY/]
Toxyo, Aug. 4. Miss Amy Johnson arrived at Chita at 9 pm last night and has arranged to take off for Harbin this morning
Miss Jolinson has wired the Korean authorities that sho expects to land at Seoul on the evening of August. 5, from where she will take off for Tokyo on the morning of August 6 after refuelling.
LONDON, Aug. 4...
Developments in connection with Yesterday's Bank Holiday was marred by a number of tragedies the credit arrangements of the as well as the man who was drown Bank of England, which occurred "ed from the Royal yacht Britannia. daring, the wock-cad, were reflect
Nina bathers were drowned in ed in the condition of stock mar- kata to day. These developincats the sea and rivers including a
wero announced after busiucas young man nad two out of his hours on Saturday in Bank of three sisters who were carried England communique, which stated away by dangerous currents on the that the Bank of Frates and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sumex coast, near Chichester, bo-hnd each placed at the disposal of fore the eyes of their mother, who the Bank of England, a credit in stood helpless on the bench. The their respective currencies for the equivalent of £28,000,000, winking a third sister and a girl friend were total equivalent of £80,000,000, and, heroically rescued by a naval that on the application of the Bank
A message from Harbin states of England the Treasury had issued that Amy Johnson, who left Chita officer.
a minuté authorizing the increase of £15,000,000 in the fiduciary note carly this morning for Harbin, issue for a period of three weeks, passed over Hailar at 3 p.m., but thus raising the authorized fiduciary note issue to returned to Hailar owing to short 1976.000 dhe efect of these age of fuel. She landed at 4 p.m. developments was regarded as an and is planning to resume her
Holiday-makers on Penarth pier, near Cardiff, had a thrilling escape from death by burning or drown- ing when a fire broke out in the pier bailroom. "Most dancers entely burried to the shore but thirty ran in the wrong direction and were
total of the
Just Shortage.. (THROCOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Aug,
ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT.
MUTINY ON GERMAN LINER.
ATTEMPT TO BEAT RECORD POSTPONED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
TWENTY-FIVE CHINESE
ARRESTED.
THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
New York, Aug. 3.
BREMEN Aug. 4. The New York representative of
Police had to be called in to quell a mutiny by. 25 Chinese fire. the round-the-world fliers, Hugh men aboard the s.5. Pfalz, The Herndon and Clyde Pangbara, has first officer who drew a revolver stated that the airmen have cabledecked down with an iron him announcing that they have
Seventeen Chinose were arrested. abandoned the present attempt to bent the Post-Gatty record:
LINDBERGHS FAR EAST
TOUR...
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bar
COAL-OWNERS AND MINERS.
AGRÉEMENT REACHED.
(ORITISH. WIRELESS SERVICE}
Ruany, Aug. 4. CHURCHILL, Aug. 3, + The settlement between the Scot Colonel and Mrs. "Lindbergh totish coal-owners and miners was day set out from Churchill (on the ratified yesterday, when at a meet- great Hudson Bay) for Baker Lake, tion Board an agreement was sign ing of the Scottish Coal Concilin a lonely fur-trading station in the ed rospecting the new wage terms
North-West Territories, for 74-hour shifts.
extreme
cut off by flames. At the seaward entirely favourable factor in the flight to Harbin to-morrow morning and almost on the Arctic Circle..
general outlook on the London Stock Exchange and in the Foreign Exchange Market when business was resumed this morning after the
end of the pier heavy seas were swirling round and for them would have made swimming most hazar dous. In response to S.0.8. mes-holiday. sages numerous craft hurried to the rescue and took all safely ashore.
The pier was gutted.
Heavy Road Traffic. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Aug. 4.
Fine weather prevailed yesterday over a great part of England 'and very large August Bank Holiday crowds thronged to the beaches of seaside places. Riverside resorts proved popular and heaths, downs, and. public parks around London weto in possession of picnic parties.
Road traffic was exceptionally. heavy, but there was a rotarkable absence of serious accidents due, it is believed, to a desire shown by drivers of motor-cars and conches to observe the social and moral obligations suggested.in.the Minis- try of Transport's Highway Code.
The rate of exchange London on New York was 4.80% and 4,80), and London on Paris 123.90 and 124.
In the stock markets the marked strength of certain leading gilt- edged securities was the outstand- ing feature of business. when the Exchange opened.
AFRICAN TRIBAL WAR,
SEVERAL THOUSAND NATIVES ENGAGED IN FIGHTING.
.
[TKROUN NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
at four.
TATTOOS BETRAY OLD SLAYER.
BREAKING PAROLE. RETURNS TO PRISON.
FUGITIVE FOR TWENTY -
YEARS...
Thirty-four years ago Patrick W. Connors, a Brooklyn, boy, emerged from a tattoo establishment оп Sands Street (New York) in that horough whistling with pride at the sight of the fine figures that decor.. CareTows, Aug. 3... Another serious tribal war is ted his handa and arms. He was threatened in the Union, this time 29 years old and he had run away in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, where from home to join the navy, several thousand natives are al ready engaged in fierce tribal fight-
Railway traffic also was heavy. A large number of special trains being run to Sussex and Kent resorts from London, while Southend, where it is stated 6,000 slept on the beach on Sunday night, experi-ing, encod an "unoïund invasion,"
One hundred and ten holiday makers' trains arrived in Blackpoo during the day.
It is believed that many lives have been lost.
The outbreak is reported to be due to the development of strife batween the Pretender to the Regency of the Msinga Loention, and the followers of the lawful
Recently a broken-down man, whose white hair and bent shoul ders belied his 56 years, walked up
to the General Delivery window of the Past Office at Thirty-second Street and Eighth Avenue,
Is there any mail for Thomas Evans ?" he asked.
Several bathing fatalities are re ported, including the drowning of three members of one family at Wittering, near the Jale of Wight. Regent,
Yesterday was the 60th anniver-The body of the Pretender's uncle Before the clerk had an oppor sary of institution of the August, was found in the bush covered with tunity to pass a letter to his hand, Bank Holiday, which was first ob- assegai wounds, upon which the on which was emblazoned a sun- vorved in 1871 after the passing of supporters of the Pretender rallied burst and the single the Act in that year..
together an impi of about twa" Liberty," Agent E. J. Connelly of thousand warriors, who infaded the Bureau of Investigation of the the Regent's krpalk
Department of Justice touched Con- nors on the shoulder.
ENGLISH COLD SHIPPED TO AMERICA.
$1,000,000 PRIVATE DEAL
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
New Yonx, Aug. 3. A shipment of a million dollars' worth of bar gold arrived in New York from England to-day.
This is the first importation" of such size since 1929.
It is learned that the shipment was a private commercial transac tion and was not a banking deal. The United States banks have re
rained from embarrassing London by taking advantage of the recent low sterling price to obtain gold supplies from London.
·JUDGE'S KILLER
CONDEMNED.
STRONG PROTEST BY MOSLEMS.
The Regent was, however, well prepared for the assault, and the raiders were completely routed in some ferocious fighting, in which hundreds of lives must have been
Jost,
SERIOUS FLOODS IN THE NORTH.
REPORTS FROM HANKOW
AND NANKING. ́ ́ ́!
[EUO MIN NEWS AGENCY.]
"
word
The correct name," he said, is Connors."
be mistaken. My name is Evans." "No," said Connors, "you must
The agent looked at the other hand of the man who talked with him. He saw the work of the tattoo artist-a apread eagle. Ho asked Connors to roll up the fray- ed sleeves of his cont. On the arms were other emblema-anchors and flage.
You're.Connors," said, Connelly. "There's no doubt of it. Why bave you been hiding for the last | 18 yeaza 1" je
An hour later, after the aged man had admitted his identity at the office of the Department of Justice on Madison Avenue, he was Nanking, July 30.-No less than agen to the Federal Building and 200,000 more of ricoheld in the questioned by Arvin men. byives. butlying districts of the Capitaler, who inter took hun Dekore have been submerged and laid rrancis A. O'New, United States waste, according to careful to in Commissioner. vestigation conducted by the local This man," Mr. Sylvester ex- Food Central Bureau. The Autumn plained, 28 aviotasor of his crop this year will be reducel to parole. He enlisted in the navy in about 30 per cent. of the normal 1897 and before the year was out harvest. As the price of all food he killed a shipmate in a brawl. stuffs is soaring, the authorities le stabbed him with a bayonet. are taking steps to curb any für- ther rise.
Connors was convicted of murder
in the second degree in the State
The population of Baker Lake, a amall township on a lake of the Rame name, consists chiedy of Eskimos, with only about a dozen whites..
"I would rather be in a plane than anywhere. I feel ande with my big boy, Charlie, at the con- trols," said Mrs. Lindbergh, before leaving Churchill.
The next stage of their fight alter Baker Lake, is to Aklapik, near the mouth of the Mackenzie
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6,28- p.m., stated-
The typhoon is about 200 miles S.S.E. of Nahn, moving N.E.The depression E. of Tourane is nearly stationary.
Local Forecast:-E. winds, moderate fair generally:
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
The following typhoon warn *ings have been received by the
American Consulate General. from the Manila Observatory 1.
· Manila, August 4, 9,30 a.m.— Typhoon in about 197deg. Long. E. and 10deg. Lat. N., inclining. northward.
Manila, August 4. 3.30 p.m. Typhoon in about 127deg. Long. F. and 20deg. Lat. N., moving N.
River, well above the Arctic Circle, from the North Pole. and less than fifteen hundred miles
Uninhabited Regions. Their journey will take them over practical y uninhabitated desolate country for eleven hundred miles, in a non-stop flight,
The trip from Baker Lake to Aklavik is regarded as the most hazardous portion of the whole of the projected flight. The Lind borghs radio apparatus has been
tuned in to the Government Radio
Stations to enable the famous sier to give an hourly bulletin of his progress,
MOLLISON HOPES TO BEAT
SCOTT'S RECORD.
{THROUGH UTER'S AGENOT.3
BARRAT, Aug. 3.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
AN APPEAL TO
CANTON.
NEED FOR NATIONAL UNITY AT PRESENT.
THE SINO-RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS,
SUGGESTED PURCHASE OF SOVIET INTEREST IN CER.
[XUO MIN NEWS AGENCY.]
[KUO MIN NEWa AGENCY. }
Peiping, July 30.-Calling upon Harbin, July 27-Mr. Mo Te Hui, the Canton régime to weigh the head of the Chinese Delegation in comparative importance of the vital Moscow has sont a telegraphic ra- interests of the State at atake quest to both Mukden and Nanking and personal political differences, asking that various Chiness mem Messrs. Chang Chi and, Wu Tebers of the Delegation to the Sino Chang, members of the Central Russian Conference hasten their Committees, have despatched a departure for. Moscow. In responsa joint telegram to Messrs. Sun Foto Mr. Mc's request it is under. and Koo Ying Fun, strongly depre.stood that Chien Tai, Wang Tan cating the reported armed invasion Tau, Tu Wei Teong and Pai Liu- of Hunan and Kiangsi by the Cheng will depart for Russia short- Kwangtung forces and urging them ly. to sink personal differences and co-operate with the Central Govern ment for the removal of the vari ous grave menaces now confronting the country."
According Mr. Tu Wei Tseng, who is now in Harbin, some thir- teen sittings of the Sino-Russian Conference had been held up to July 9 and an additional meeting The dispute between the Canton of the Chinese and Soviet delega- essentially a Party problem and one tien was hold on July 14. In an leaders and the Government is which ought to be settled through interview which Mr. Tu gave to peaceful Party procedure: Any re local newspapermon, the Chinese course to the use of force for the offer to purchase the Soviet interest settlement of such Party problems
must be strongly deprecated," says in the C.E.Raccords strictly with the message.
the terms of the Sinc Soviet agres Continuing, the message pointements which were signed in Poi- out that with the revolt of Shih Yu-
STRENGTH WELL MAINTAINED San, coupled with the activities of ping and Makdon. The Soviet the Red bandits and the diplomatic Government, however, did not wish complications arising out of the to be limited by the terms of these Korean riots, the country is now agreements, which naturally has facing a grave erisis. This is a
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE].
Ruosy, Aug. 4.
A bulletin itmed last night stated
that Mr. Lloyd George's progress"
His continues to be satisfactory. strength is well maintained.
THE ECONOMIC IMPASSE.
time when all loyal, Party members made it difficult for the two groups must be together for the salva- to reach a common understanding for definite negotiations. It has Moreover, the telegram says, it
tion of the nation.
is futile as well as unjustifiable for been due to this situation that the the Canton leaders to heap re-two, delegations in order to econo. proaches upon one or two indivi.mite on time, decided to continue dual member of the Government their discussions on the matter of for whatever mistakes the Party the temporary administration of and the Government may have com the Chinese Eastern Railway, mitted in the past. If respon sibility must be fixed, it is the Party as a whole, and not single momber thereof who should
PARLIAMENT MAY MEET IN be held accountable.
EMERGENCY.
SEEKING SOLUTION OF
DIFFICULTIES.
London, July 29.--Jaded members of the House of Commons, looking forward to a three months' recens at the end of this week after a long and tiring session, received a re minder this afternoon that they might be required at Westminster before October 20 if the internation- Al financial situation should reader
Bummoning of Parliament neces
KATY.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Con- servative lealer, asked Mr. Snow den, the Chancellor of the Excle- quer, if he could make a statement on the situation. Mr. Snowden ro plied he did not think it desirable to make any statement at the pre- sent time, but said the Government would consider summoning Parlia mont if such action was necessary before the date on which it was due to reassemble.
any
Declaring that the possibility for reconciliation at the present junc. ture is still open, the message warns the Canton leaders against further acts of provocation and calls upon them not to let their personal feel: ings of animosity over-ride their duty to the nation.
EUGENE CHEN NOT WANTED
IN JAPAN.
ITHROUGH REUTER'S “AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Aug. 4.
There has, however, been ccnet. derable discussion on the funda mental matter of the redemption of the the Railway by China. Con- trary to various reports which have appeared in the newspapers, Mr. Tu claims that there has been no definite mention of the price of redemption, although both sides have mentioned at one time or an- other some general figure, the Chin- figure being in the neighbour- hood of G8100,000,000, while the Soviet has mentioned G8250,000,000 to G8300,000,000,000, 100
The Chinese aide has insisted alt along that in any redemption pro gramme, the Russians would have to take into consideration the losses suffered by Chinese merchants and citizens generally due to the de- preciation of the Russian rouble currency.
It is learned that in conformity Mr. Tu also stated at the quca- with Japan's policy of non-interfer tion of resuming tradetlationa ence in Chinese internal politics, botweon: China and Russia would the Japanese Government has given also have to be discussed Ister, Mr. Eugene Chen, the Foreign this problem also being seriously Minister of the Canton Govern complicated due to the difference in meat, ten days in which to leave trading methods which prevail on Japan.
the opposite sides of the boundary..
ri
The ten days are to be reckoned from July 25, and he has only three days in which to comply with the .order.
CHANG SUPPORTS CHIANG.
[KUO MIN NEWB AGENCY:]
Peiping, July 30-Vice-Comman- der-in-Chic Chang Heuch Lispy despatched last night a telegram to President Chiang Kai Shek en dorsing the latter's circular tele-
the 95th inst,
THE ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT.
MORE REGULATIONS FROM SHANGHAI.
[XUO MIN NEWS AGENCY.]
At the time that, Mr. Snowden bas, making members' flesh creep with the possibility of a shortenel holiday, the National Union of
Shanghai, July 30-A set of At a time when the nation. is mensures governing the disposal of Manufacturers published an inu beset with both internal disturb stocks of Japanese goods was adopt portant statement urging its mem- ances and foreign aggressions, it is en at a meeting of the Anti-Japan- bers not to hold back orders through with any sense of patriotism should they are as follows:
hardly conceivable that anyone es Association yesterday. Briefly, fear of a financial crisis in Britain.be so heartless as to plunge the 1. Goods purchased and paid for It says there is no reason to anti country into renewed fratricidal before July 14, which have been cipate failures or bank stoppages warfare, the telegram says. Do duly registered with the Associa
nouncing the Shih Yu Sap rebels tion before the specified time-limit, and there is no likelihood in the severely, the telegram says that the may be put on sale without any nenr. future of any spectacular fall entire nation, should unite ia sub restrictions whatsoever. Goods in prices. It advises manufactur jugating the revolt
which have not been duly register- ers not to be led astray by alarm declaring that he is completing all 11, will be subject to a financial General Chang concludes by ed, though purchased prior to July preparations for the campaign and contribution (to the Korean Chin-
awaiting President, Chiang's es Relief Fund) of an amount, orders,
equivalent to 10 per cent of the value of the goods, upon payment. of which the goods may be put ou
ists.
yesterday of Judgo Garlick han urgent telegram to the Centralan November 28, 1906, and taken to hopes to reach Loadon on Wednesetated it was the aim of the British
Government to take the widest pos sible measures for international co operation in the solution of the fin." ancial and economic difficulties of Europe.
Emergency relief for the people courts, the prosecutor explained, Mr. Mollison arrived from Kara-
Britain Beeks Solution, i af Hupch is sought by the Hupel and spatenced to life in prison. He chi at 6.20 p.m. this evening and London, July 29,-In a House of Calcutta, July 26. The murder Provincial Government in an
was removed from Clinton Prison left for Athens at midnight, He Comtuons answer to-day. Dr. Dalton Authorities. According to the stirred Caleuttaas never before message, some 30 districts are in paroled on March 5, 113. Instead
Atlanta Penitentiary, where he wae day a day and a kaif ahead of Mr.
Scott's record. Every Government and British dire need as a result of the floods, of reporting to a parole officer as business building is flying a flag which have driven 5,000 people- to. at half-mast and Europeans are take refuge in Hankow. For the he should have done. Connors, ac- plaaning a mass meeting as accommodation of the refugees and ped out of sight. Captured after a Lording to the Government, drop. mark of protest and condemnation other measures of sucedar, it is search of 18 yents, he had no ex- A vast crowd followed the funeral immediately required. Part of this Planation of why he had failed to cortege of the Judge in respectful sum will be secured in the form of report silence
a loan from Hankow banking cir Recent attacks on Government | elas, evoked a strongly worded protest from a number of leading Moham medana. Alg
of the outrage.
stated that one million dollars are
PRINCE'S TRAINING CRUISE.
haunting me all of my life.”
This thing," he said, "has been
Commissioner O'Neill, held him without bail for removal to Atlanta, where unless he is pardoned, he The protest, which is signed by
must ' '.
pass the remainder of his thic chief minister of the Indian
years, State of Kanurthala and ten other.
Department of Justice agents ex- Mosler" leaders, condena Tour Princo Juan, son of King Alplained that they had trailed him derous outrages on faithful servante fonso, is having, his first training to the Post Office through the "eus- of Britain and urges all sin crise at sen since he joined the tomary channels," They leamed, carcis patriotic citizens to do every Roval Naval College, Darmouth they said, that he had roved over. thing to purge the country of this He Was
was on bonra HKB. For the custry working or a mechanic stain on its name in order that it with a number of other naval part of the time, other times ship may proceed with honour to the cadets when she left Plymouth reping out on boats that required no fulfilment of its destiny."
cently for Brixham.
seaman's papers.
SEATTLE-TOKYO NON- STOP.
"FLIERS FORCED TO`LAND,
Replying to Mr. Stanley Baldwin the, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Snowden, said he did not think he could usefully make any state ment on the international financial situation
CONVALESCENCE OF CHANG HSUEH LIANG,
[XUO IN NEWS AGENCY.]
Goods purchased after July. 14 but before July 24 shall also be rekistered with the Association, for which a registration fee, equival ont to 10 per cent, of value of the Peiping, July 20-For the first goods, will be charged as a contri- time since, he was confined to the hution towards, the Relief Fund hospital nearly two and a half Goods which have not been regis months ago, Vice-Commander-in-tered with the Association, thouriz Chief Chang Hauch Liang, nocom purchased before July 24, will be panied by his doctor and nurse, left subject to a contribution of 20 per the Union Medical Hospital this cent. In both cases, the goods may afternoon for a short visit to his be put on sale upon the payment family at his private residence here. of the contributions
· [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
New Yorx, Aug, 2.
Mr. Snowden told another ques and his family was taken, the July 24 will be liable to confisca
A photograph of General Chang 3-All goods purchased after It is announced in e mekinge from Fairbanks, Alaska, that the tioner that be anticipated there young Manchurian leader being, intion on my escond attempt of Reginald Robbins port of the Economy Committee, high spirits General Chang end A monster mags meeting was and H. B. Jones, to win the $5,000 nppointed in March to review on his medical attendants returned to held this afternoon at the Publie prite offered by the denki for a
the hospital in the evening, Recreation Ground in Nantao to non-stop flight from the United tional expenditure, would be in
It is understood that although voice the public indignation over Blates to Japan, has failed-~~~
love the near y recovered, General Chang is the anti-Chinese riot in Korea sad The airmen were forced to land Houses rise for
planning to stay in the hospital for to express support for the Govern at Fairbanks owing to a difficulty,
another week in order to complete mont in the suppression of the Red Friday
his convalescapça,
banditry and the various revolta.
in refuelling in the air,