GERMAN DISSOLUTIONISTS
DEFEATED
DASTARDLY OUTRAGES IN COLOGNE
AND BERLIN.
MINISTERS EXPRESS PLEASURE AT FAILURE OF REFERENDUM.
Berlin, August 10,
Dr. Bruening and Curtius were very cheerful on their arrival from Home and expressed pleasure at the failure of the referendum.
Dr. Bruening stressed that 3,000,000 fewer Prussians voted in the plebiscite than for the opposition parties last September, which, he said, seemed to indicate that the radical waye wal ebbing,
ONLY THIRTY-SEVEN PER CENT. OF ELECTORS SUPPORT AGITATORS.
(THROUGH AKUTBB'r ADEKOT.]
BERLIN, Aug. §. The plebiscite polling stations closed at five o'clock this afternoon
and an army of workers is now engaged in counting, the voten.
The final figures will not bo known until into to night, but the indications are that the National
W
ists and Communists have not se cured the 13,250,000 votes necessary to assure their success in securing the abolition of the Prussian Diet. The polling has passed off fair. ly quietly all over
Frusa. Hitherto venty arrests have been made for obstructing the police and distributing forbidden Jenfleta
The Communists caused the Ber- lin police sounds trouble. They set advertising pillars in the streets on fire, avanshed etreat lamps and hoisted the Red Flag on the top of Berlin's highest chimney.
The flag wha ramoved from chimney by the Fire Brigade.
Journalists Assaulted,
Bulow Square Battle,
BERLIN, LATER, Two police captains were shot dead. A police sergeant wis seri ously wounded.
The incident occurred in front of the Communist hendquarters in Bulow Square,
A large crowd had gathered in the square to watch the plebiscite results being.pcated up.
The
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST
PILOT SHOWS GREAT
SKILL.
EXPERTS EXAMINE" DAMAGED PLANE.
[SRITTEN WIRELESS SERVICE]
THE LAURENTIC TREASURE.
FURTHER ATTEMPT TO RECOVER £1,000,000.
[DRITIJK WIRELESS SERVIOR]
11, 1931.
LIVERPOOL COTTON FLOOD SITUATION NANKING-CANTON
MARKET.
''INCREASE IN COST OF
PRODUCTION.
[THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 16. The Liverpool cotton market was
IN HANKOW.
ELECTRIC WORKS UNDER WATER
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.)
HANKOW, Aug. 10.
The report of the collapse of the staggered by the great increase in Union Mission Hospital here, caus- cost of production, set out in aning the death of 400 inmates now official United States' estimate turns out to be incorrect. -
Investigations reveal that it was which was cabled on August 9..'..
Futures opened at about 100, but the grandstand of the Chinese not the hopeltal which collapsed,
the hospital.
At the time of the disaster, the grandstand was crowded with flood refugcos, and when it collaped it killed 400 of these poor people.
DISPUTE.
LIKELIHOOD OF PEACE:
ACONFERENCE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
- Nanking, Aug. 10. There is considerabla-speculation
here regarding the possibility of holding peace conferones int Shanghai for the sittlement of the Nanking Canton dispute. lenders have telegraphed to Chang
It is stated that, certain Canton
Trang Anh T » Ruary, Aug, 10. As the result of a very ranärk-
Another attempt to realvage ablo mishap on the Imperial Air £1,000,000 in gold is being made ways liner Hannibal, which is the by the Admiralty salvage ateamer world's largest passenger carryingEstos, which is working where the aeroplane, it made a forced, landing Laurentic was munk during the war which is one point lower, and is Racecourse, which is adjacent to Chi and Wu Teh Chồn urging them.
off the coast of Donegal,
When the Admiralty stopped. years ago operations seven
out of the £6,000,000 £5,000,000 about the Laurentic had been re- covered by the salvage, steamer Racer
near Kent.
The pilot showed great skill and calmness in manking, the descent and not one of eight passengers was hurt.
Experta mode a careful examina tion of the machine during the week-end and the result was an nonned last night that one of the four engines failed and a piece of metal from this motor flew into one
of the other propollers breaking a blade, this caused the engine with the broken binde to vibrate badly. and the pilot decided to alight.
The official announcement states that at landing one wing broke, and the tail was caught by some trees, the hull received no injury nor was there damage in the saloons. None of the occupants zuffered from
hack.
The Hannibal is one of the three machines of this type already in commission. A fourth is about to bo delivered on order by Imperial Airways. The plans weighs 13 tons and has four engines each of 500. H.P. It has accommodation for 33 passengers, besides a crow of two pilots, a mechanic and
Suddenly shots rang out.") police officers"fell; both captaine fatally wounded. Their comrades using their revolvers and swords (cleared the square rapidly and are now making a house to house search for the murderers. They are also searching all persons moving in the street, pedestrians, cyclists and steward.. motorists, for weapons.
Occasional shots can still be heard' in the region, but the palice' ap. pear to have the situation well in hand.
It later transpired that the dend police officers (who were the lead- theers of the police who yesterday die-
The first unpleasant scene occur. red
persed Communist demonstrators) were shot down in cold blood.
The police, infuriated by the murders, are taking very drastic
whon Communista attacked action. two British journalists who were
PARKER CRAMER
OVERDUE.
ANXIETY FELT FOR HIS SAFETY.
[TEROCOE REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
F
COPENHAGUE, Aug, 0.5 Anxiety is being felt here for the. safety of Mr. Parker Cramer who They have cut off the whole dis-Lerwick. He is said to have taken was dus here at noon to-day from off this morning from Lerwick but he has not yet arrived, and there is no news of his whereabouts.
trying to photograph people enter.trict, which is now being patrolled ing a polling station, There was by motor-lorries equipped with sear a brief scuffio, but the journalists chlights. were not seriously hurt.
One of the most amusing inet- dents of the plebiscite was an offer by the Communist organ Rotefoine to pay the Prussian Government twenty marks for the privilege of printing its manifesto (which it was compelled by emergency decree to publish on Friday) on the ground that the manifesto was a“ priceless asset to the "Red" caure.
Dissolution of Diet Unlikely.
All doors and windows in the district have been closed as the police have issued a warning that. open windows will immediately be
fired at.
It is believed that several civili and were also killed in the Bulow Square battle, but a rumour that there were fifteen deaths has not
been confirmed.
Civilian Casualties.
LATER
COUNT SIBOUR SAFE.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. Anxiety regarding Count Sibour, who should have arrived at Nan. king on Saturday to take Sir Miles Lampson back to Peiping, has been relieved by news to the effect that the airman ran into heavy storms and is still held up at Tainanfu, Shantung, owing to the bad weat
ther:
SEARCH FOR AMUNDSEN FAILS.
· EXPEDITION DISCOVERS
FOUR NEW ISLANDS,
(VHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LATER. The police report that one civi- It can now be stated that the lian was killed and fifteen wound plebiscite will not show the netened in the Bulow Square Bghting. sary majority of the electors, in Sporadic firing occurred in the favour of a dissolution of the Diet, streets of Berlin until the early The figures obtainable so far in.hours of this morning, but has now dicate that in only a few districts died down. The search for the in East Prussia, Pomerania and murderers of the police officers as Hcistein did over Afty per cent of continuing relentlessly. Civilians the electors favour the dissolution.entering the Bulow Square, area, The majority of the electors in which has been isolated, are fore- the towns appear to have abstained to raise their bands above their ed and thus to, have ensured the heads and to submit to a most.
breaker Malyguin for traces of failure of the extremist attack on searching, police scrutiny.
Amandsen and the missing mem- Meanwhile, reports of seriousbers of the crow of the ill-fated the Prussian Government."
Reports from some of the coun ecllisions between members of the airship Italia; have failed. try strongholds of Hitlerism have Republican Reichsbannor organies not yet arrived, but it is not ex-tion and the Nazis (in the course pected that these can make any of which ten persons were serious decisive difference to the generally wounded) come from Senfien
berg, A score
resalte.
Nazis were ar The figures available up to eight rested at Osnabrueck after a con. o'clock this evening show that inflict with the police. Minor clas districts in which 6,250,000 citimas hes between rival parties are re. were entitled, to voto, only 34.3 per parted from a number of cities and cant, voted for a dissolution,
Tho Nationalist Party, on the other hand, especially the women, turned up in strong force every
where
The only serious incident secur ring hitherto in reported from Co- logne.
REUTERS!!
provinces,
The police intervened in a scuffle between the Nazis, and Communists in the Schoeneberg district and ar.
rested fourteen Nakis and 64: Com munists.
Unofficial Tigaren."
BERLIN, Aug. 10, The final unofficial plebiscite.
Communist assassins attacked Herr Albert Feister, the leader in Cologne: of the Steel Helmet or figures show that 0,784,000 voted in
Moscow, Aug. 10. (The search of the Soviet ice-
A thick fog and compact ice baulked the plans of the Malyguin expedition to reach Karl Alexander Land, where the balloon part of the Italia, with members of the crew, is believed to have been wrecked when it drifted away after parting com pany with the gondola,
The ice-breaker managed however to keep its rendezvous with the Graf Zeppelin and discovered the remains of camps of early polar expeditions and four small inanda..
BOARDMAN AND POLANDO AT MARSEILLES.
· [THROUGH" REUTER'S" ADRNOT]
Russell Boardman, and John Polando, the Boston airmen who recently broke the world's record Nine Communists have since been-Prussian Dist. This is only thirty refuelling dight, by flying from
savon, per cent, of the entire eles. New York to Constantinople, ar arrested in connection with the tertorate. The Dissolutionists have, rived at Marseilles to-day from rible outrag
therefore, been sweepingly defeated. "Turkey.
The wreck, has been located and, buoyed, but requires undermining by divers.ONA
NEW MOTOR SPEED
RECORD.
FINE PERFORMANCE BY
BABY AUSTIN.
[BLITION WIRELERA BERVICE};
RUGBY, Aug. 10. A new speed record in the Baby Car Class was set up by Lech Cubhman driving a supercharged Austin Seven at Brookleads on Saturday..
It is announced to-day that the previous record holder, George Eyston, has decided to set up" a new record on a Midget to attempt. to recapture the record.
The four new records set up last Saturday included the flying kito metre which was accomplished at a speed of 102.2/8 miles per hour.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the, Royal Observatory at 6.25 p.m., stated.
The typhoon has entered the coast and how coufal about 100 miles to the N.W of Foo chow, moving W.
Local Forecast:-S.W. winds, moderate; fair at first; rain Tater..
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following typhoon warn ing has been received by the American Consulate - Generali from the Manila Observatory:
Manila, August 10, 10 nm- Typhoon in about 190deg. Long. E and deg. Lat, N., moving N.W.
GERMAN EXPRESS BOMB OUTRAGE.
WORK OF POLITICAL FANATICS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, Aug. 9. Coming as it did on the eve of the plebiscite in Prussia and in view of the fact that some of the carriages on the Busel-Berlin ex- press. were from Italy, the bumis outrage has created a tremendous sensation.
The bellef is growing that the train-wreckera thought that Dr. Bruening, the Chuncillor, and Dr. Curtius were passengers aboard the was planned to encompass their ill-fated train, and that the outräge deaths.
Seven Coaches Derailed.
Seven of the coaches were hurled
off the line by the explosion, and rolled for two hundred yards down the banking. It was remarkable. that the casualties were so light. Three were seriously injured and sixteen les severely.
equal to a pency per b, but it has now slightly rallied. *
DUTCH RUBBER POLICY.
·RESTRICTION MEASURES
STILL DOUBTFUL, S
HANKOW, Aug. 4.4 While the waters of the Yangtze have risen another three inches, the flood situation' in Hankow remains" practically unchanged. The only (THROUGH REUTEL'S AGENOT.) dry spot in the whole city is the Japanese Concession. Large con- LONDON, Aug. 1. tingents of flood victims, assisted the Financial Times understands military and municipal authorities, The Amsterdam correspondent of through the joint efforts of the that the Dutch Government has now are being sent to Wuchang--whicis, decided upon the policy it will fol. it on a higher level than either low in regard to rubber restriction; Hankow or Hanyang-for shalter: but an official announcement will The Hankow Electric Power only take place after the arrival | Works, is seven feet under water. cf the Governor-General of Batavia in_September), i!
to go to Canton for the discussion of peace terms. In reply they suggested the sending af Canton delegated to Shanghai..
The outcoms, of these overtures is now awaited.
SHANSI REBELLION AGAINST NANKING?
Wah. Tae Yet Puo.)
SHANGHAI, Aug, 20. Another war cloud is gathering in North Chino, following the recent agitation made by the Shaast generals, who are undoubtedly in Inundation of the engineering room spired by the rotired Marshal Yea is feared, in which eventuality the Hai Shan, against General Shang The correspondent says the odds city without light will be thrown Chen, Chairman of the Provincial are still against Government re into even greater confusion. Government of Shansi (Nanking striction measures, but possibly the Conditions at the Hankow Aerod-
appointment). now Governor-General, not being rome are even worse, as the water bound by the policy of his prede-is now over 10 feet deep. Eight cessor regarding the protection of military planes were submerged native interests, will be able to overnight. follow a more active policy.
The opinion is gaining ground in Government circles that things can- not be much longer left to take their own course.
MR. MACDONALD RETURN-
ING TO LONDON.
WISHES TO BE IN CLOSER TOUCH WITH EVENTS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
4 Ruger, Aug, 10.
Batang Military : Patrola.
..
Soldiers from the military head quarters are patrolling the varicus flouded streets on sampans. Heb hars caught plandering during the food, and profiteers found guilty of hoarding foodstuffs will be drastically dealt will according to martial law.
The woret sufferer from the flooda, is the arep lying behind the city which has been converted into a lake extending for about 20 square miles,
The Linhwa Hu (lake) near the. Wuchang Changaba Railway sta tion outside the Pao da Man of the walled city of Wuchang broke its The Prime Minister, who is banks early this morning and in spending a holiday at Lossiemouth, undated the entire area outside the is due to return to London on city. Protected by the high walls August 24, when he will preside Wuchang city, however, remains over meetings of the Cabinet, and unaffected.. Sub-Committees which have been Feverish efforts are being made appointed to advise the Cabinet on by the Provincial authorities, toge the attitude to be adopted to the ther with the inhabitants at Wu report of the Economy Committee, chaug, to stem the onrush of the The Daily Mail special correspon-waters. In the meantime sampana dent at Louiemouth states that the have been employed to rescue the Prime Minister has now, indicated victims in the flooded inburbs his intention of making an earlier return to London. Although there is no real urgency demanding bis return he wishes to keep in closer touch with London than is possible by telephonic communication.
CHINESE GENERAL
ASSASSINATED.
|
Lakes Overlow.
A NANKING, Aug. kiang reports that more than 10,000 An urgent message from Chin mow of rice-fields were inundated
The report that Yen Hai Shan, who has been living at Dairen inco his retirement, and Feng Yu Hsiang: have secretly returned to Shansi tö king, intensifies the situation. orgatise a rebellion against Nan
General Chang Hsueh Liang, Vice-Commander of the National" Army, Navy and the Air Forces, is taking precautionary measures in co-operation with the Nanking military authorities to guard General Shang Chen, the persons against the possible uprising.
on grata of the Shansi rank and te, it now at Peiping to confer with General Chang Hsuch ang who has promised him support.
Hubdan Forces Stand By. The Mukden forces, who recently. moved into, China Proper gj Manchuria to suppress the rebels led by Shih Yu San,, have been ordered to remain at their respec- tive garrisons for the time being. Meanwhile, the Mukden authorities mixed ex-Kuominchun group in are making efforts to isolate the Shantung, under the command of Geners! Han Fa Chu, who has en listed a great part of Shih Yu Sau's troops into his army, so as to pre- vent their possible alliance with the disgruntled Shansi troops.
Generals Liu Chi and Roo Chuť. Tung, Nanking military leaders, Honan Province and Southern who are taking up positions in Hope, arrived al Peiping leat
auch.
and an area covering shout, 350, Saturday. They are now in con- miles affected when threo lakes ference with, General Chang along the Kiangeu-Anhwei border-Liang on the northern-situation. the Shaopa Hu, Kaoru Huand Bangtse Hu-overflowed their
shores simultaneously yesterday morning. A heavy toll of lives of the inhabitants living in the bor der districts has been taken and large numbers of cattle and other. animals have been drowned.
MACAO SENSATION.
Genoral, Ng, Yes Woo, a retired Part of the embankment of the Chinese military leader, was as Grand Canal in Huangchipo.. sassinated outside his residence in hantung at Huai-an (near Tsing. Macno at a late hour on Saturday. iangpu) gave way yesterday, ro- The general had just left his resulting in the flooding of large sidence, near the old ruin of the tracks of fields and the collapse of Church of St. Paul, with two pany dwelling, houses, Refugens friends, when the assassin, who is are pouring into the walled city of believed to be connected with a Huaian and Asingkiangpu. certain political party, fired several. shots at him from close range.
The general collapsed admost im- mediately, but his friends were not injured at ava as The assassin managed to escape un-recognised, making his getaway through a dark lane and firing shots behind him as be fled the
POST FOR MR. SUN FO'S NEPHEW.
GRADUATE OF TOKYO MILITARY ACADEMY.
"
NANKING MINSTER'S
HOMILY.
· EASILY ADJUSTABLE.”
[KUO MIN NEWS AGENCY.]
Nanking, August 3,—At the week- y memorial service this momÎVE, Dr. T. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, paid a warm tri- bute to the French Government for its far-sighted statesmanship in agreeing to the rendition of the Mixed Court in' the French Conces tion at Shanghai, PEKARAN '!' The" Buttlement of this iRsum: constitutes another important - step towards Sino-French friendship and co-operation," said Dr. Wang. He hoped that the French Government would continue this spirit of amity in the settlement of all outstanding problems between the two countries within the shortest possible time, sted, and it is thought that his in the country, Dr. Wang pointed" Concerning the general situation.
knowledge of military law and army out that the early successful tor Lactics will be an asset to the mination of the anti-Communist Canton Government. It is not yet bandit campaign in Klangsi, accord,, definitely stated what position willing to Commander-in-Chief Chiang be assigned to Sun Chien, but in Kai Shek, would be accomplished Government circles it is thought within ten days. that it an
A position in the Proviccial General Ng. was rushed off to the Government is being, offered to Mr. General Hospital, but when it was tim Chien, a nephew of Mr. Sun revealed that his injuries would Fo. Mr. Sun Chien was until re- prove fatal, he was removed by his cently, a student at the Tokyo family to his own, home where he Military Academy where he gradu.. died on Sunday morning without recovering consciousness"
CANTON ELECTRIC
COMPANY.
GOVERNMENT GIVE UP - MANAGEMENT."
(From Our Own Correspondent.)]
21: CANTON, Aug. 10, 3. After controlling the Calton
ant post connected with the import Lone Game
با شوه
CHINESE IN KOREA.
RUMOURS OF FURTHER. TROUBLE
Continuing, he said that Shin Yu San, playing a lone game, was now at the end of his rope, thanks to the whole-hearted co-operation of the north eastern and other -- loyal forced
The bomb appears to have been Electric Light and Power Company
The Government is maintaining [KUO MIN NEWƏ 'AGENCY,] exploded by an electric, fuse. A for one year with a view to 'making
its traditional and confident atti wire was found attached to the fuse, the enterprise a paying proposi
tado concerning the Canton: situa leading to this inference,
bon, the Canton Government has Shenyang, August, H.--Persistent tion, which will be easily adjustabloy There is no doubt that the out- decided to hand it back to ita pri- rumours of a fresh outbreak of after the suppression of "Shih Tu rage was the work of political vate owners next Saturday, August anti-Chinese riots in Korea in the San'a rebellion, and the extermina fanatics, but it has not yet boen, 15
Add early part of the murrent month | tion of the Communist bandits, e established which party was respon. It will be remembered the Com- have again thrown the Chinese The entire nation should take sible. Man
pany was on the verge of bank, population there into a state of the lesson to hear how the Can Copies of a Nazi newspaper on ruptcy when the Government took panic, according to a message from ton situation led to Shin Yu San'et- which were pencilled. "Up, the Re-over, its control a year ago. The Pingyang pada kehon rebellion, Eugene Chen's departure „volution !?, were found ixed to a city was on many occasions thrown It is reported that the Chinese to Japan, the Woopaoshan affair telegraph pole near the wreck, but into darkness because of bad man- Consulate General urgently request and the anti-Chinese riots in Korea, this may have been intended to agemont Engine trouble at theed the Governor General of Kords the pract signißcunce", of which throw suspicion on the Nazis, who power house was frequent and often to take immediate and adequate should now he apparent to deny emphatically, any connection serious,
precautions. In view of the rum whole world.. Glasska ring, Lyuwasha handful of flirane nation. analind The State Railway has offered a pany will again be a private enter als still at Pinggang, are reported nation to intensify its efforts to w reward of £1,000 for information. prize. Its board of, qrustees is to have begun begging alme in achieve and couplidate gationsty leading to the apprehension of has preparing, to over from the order to secure the necessary means unity and stability
mias criminals.
Governmenti
to return to China;
tion of all obstacles and hindrances