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SAILED.
SOVIET EXPEDITION.
الطيب
MOWN DOWN WITH MACHINE GUNS.
New York, July 20.-Gangsters last evening shot down with machine guns and shot-guns five
1 p.m.-Local time and weather From FRIENDRICH SIEDUBQ, "Daily young children in the Italian quar.
Telegraph" Special Representater of Now York five Aboard the Malygin,] Archeagal, July 18—This Russian ice-breaker leaves Archangel night to visit Franz Joseph Land and the region between that ar chipelago and Nova Zemlys.
p.m.-Clone down.
to 8 p-in-European programme of Victor records supplied by Messrs. Tsang Fook Piano Co. 6 to 0:42 pm.
The expedition is led by the well. known Russian Polar explorer, Prof. Wiese, and includes a magno A Concert. Orchestral Invitation to thetologist, a meteorologist, and sound-
film operators Waltz" (Weber).-Philadelphin Symphony Orchestra,-6043. Song- Lof Here the Gentle
La (Shakespeare-Bishop). Song- Solveig's Song" (from "Peer Gynt" Grieg).-Amelita Galli-Curei (Soprano).-00244 Dust for Two Pianos Impromp tu-Recocro"! (Eduard Schutt) Duct for Two Pianos "Valse" (Aronaky)-Harold Bauer, and
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PUBLIC AUCTION, DARTICULAKS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Pabilu Auction to be held on MONDAY, the lar DAT of AUGUST. 1931, at 8. r., at the Offices of the Public Works Depart- ment, by Order of HI EXCELLENCY THR GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshaipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1808, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be axed by the Surreyor of H MAJESTY 181 KING for one further term of 24 years less the last three days
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According to the plans, the ship will not content itself with a voyage through ice-free Arctic watera. It will push up into regions where no vessel has ever before penetrated.
A boy 5 years of age is dead; a child of 7 and another of 3 are ro- ported to be dying; while a girl of 12 and a boy of 0 ate seriously wounded.
"
The gangsters had intended to shat a man who was lounging in front of a
"speakeлsy.!!
The street was filled with child renat play when an open touring car with overal men in it droys up. The man in front of the apenk easy eyed it suspiciously; and, when he saw shot gun and machine gun barrola pointed towards him, drop ped to the ground, thus escaping injury.
The ship has on board the first tourists ever to take part in a Polar, There was instantly a blaze of expedition after engaging their firing, and at least sixty bullets splattered against the walls of the places through a tourist agency.
speakeasy and the adjacent tene. The tourists include three Ameri-ments. The children screamed, and most of them senttered in all direc cans (two of them women) an
tions, but our who had been hit
·Italian, and a German, Frora que'
were left lying on the ground and in its perambulator. standpoint these passengers, who
The mothers of some of the hooked their bertha through the
children, who had witnessed the Soviet Tourist Agency, are the most
attacked from their windows, rush important element of the expedied shrieking into the street to
up the wounded little ones. tion.
[-
Foreign Currency's Atd. The Malygin is playing its part
Dread of Revenge.
MORNING AFTER DANCE.
A.
KENT MOTORIST IN COURT.
STORY OF SCRAP WITH PAL."
London, July 03-John Ludovie Ford, whose address was given as Goodtrees, Cowden, Kent, again appeared at Mainstone Police Court yesterday, charged with being drunk in charge of a motor-lorry in the early hours of Sunday, July 8.
At the previous hearing the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Pelly, daughter of Lord Ponsonby, was present in Court. She has been a passenger in Mr. Ford's car when it crashed on Boxley Hill, pear Maidstone, on July 6. Mr. Ford was not in bis car at the time. It was being Cowden, who was killed, but, Mrs. driven by Mr. Gordon Russell, of Felly, who was returning with him. from a dance, escaped injury. Mr. Ford returned from the dance in
another ear.
Ford, who now pleaded not guilty and roserved his defence, was com mitted for trini at the Quarter Sessions, which begin on Saturday. He was allowed bail in his rerog nisance of 250,
Visit to Hospital.
George Wright an errand boy, of Maidstone, said that at 8,33 a m. on July 5 he was at the bottom of. Maidstone High Street when ho saw Ford driving a lorry, which stopped" suddenly. Ford said, pickExcuse me, can you tell me whero
the hospital is 7 ......
In the meantime the gunmen and their intended victim had disappear
Wright added, "I was going to reply, but I did not think it was safe, because he was dizzy. So I jumped in the lorry next to the driver and showed him the way up High Street, He seemed to drive across the road.",
in the campaign of the Moscowed, and the street had become filled Government for the acquisition of with a furious crowd denouncing foreign currency, and foreigners in all gangsters and the failure of the
police to mippress them. the Soviet Union can even have an
In reply to the Chief Constable All night Afty detectives hunted icebreaker. for the purpose. The for the occupants of the touring Wright stated that the lorry zig- berths which the foreign tourists ear The Police Commissioner to zagged up High Street. Ford's lore
he smelt of alcohol. He asked Ford. have required on the Malygin havaday gave orders that the men should head and hands were bleeding, and
be captured, dead or alive. been paid for in dollars, pounds,
The police are hampered, how-if he had had an accident, and told and marks
ever, by the fact that those who him to stop the lorry because he anw the gangsters maintain stolid did not think it was safe to go en silence in regard to them, fearing death at the hands of the miscreants if they give any information to the authorities.
The Wiese expedition, however, is the most striking effort which has ever been made in the way of tourist traffic in this country, or, indeed,
"In a Little Spanish Town"
Jesse Crawford.-20458. p.m.-Stock quotations, mail anywhere else. notices, etc.
7.05 10. 7.30 p.m.--
Hawaiian Music.
y Honchilu Dream Girl.??" "In the Heart of Hawaii."-Hilo
Hawaiian Orell.-10386. Beautiful Howali."-Frank Ferera and Anthony Franchini (Hawaï ian Guitar). Hawaiian
Trio.-18089.
Twilight."Hawaiian Honolulu Sweetheart of Mine." "Along.
Miami Shore." Hawaiian Orch,-21558,
7.30 to 8 p.m.--
Hilo
Planoforte Solce. "Chant D'Amour" (Song of Love)
(Stojowski). "Reflections on the Water" (De. bussy),-Ignace Jan Paderew.
Bki.-6633.
"La Campanella" (Paganini-Liszt). "Nocturne in F Sharp Major" (Chopin)-Ignace Jan Paderew .aki,--3995.
"Valse Caprice" (Rubinstein). ‹ Valse
Brillante" (Chopin).- Ignace Jan Paderewski.-6877.
8 p.m.-Local time and weather
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8.03 to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese studio
concert.
......news.
10.33 p.m.-Close down.
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The outrage is one of the most ruthless in the annals of New York or Chicago. It is classed as a rocket arime" in the war for "territory by rival- "beer barons."
should provide the opportunity to exchange mail, and also possibly passengers as well.
Cross-examined by Mr. Barry O'Brien (for defendant), Wright said it was the small of liquor that made him think Ford was under the influence of alcohol.
Police-constable Heard said that Franz Joseph Land, a group of
ho found the defendant, who wa islands, for the most part covered
leaning against the side of the lorry, holding his head, which was with glaciers, is only accessible to
bleeding. He asked him what was genuine expeditions. The eastern:
the matter, and he could give no clear account of how he came by part of the territory is still coin-
his injuries. His breath amielt pletely unexplored in many places;
strongly of intoxicating liquor, his especially the area between Wiese
speech was thick, and his gait un- steady. He was drunk. Island, which was discovered by the
"His general condition," said the leader of our epxedition in 1929, There is a special franking a constable, was that of a man who been drinking intoxicating and the Island of Solitude. Weparatus on board which is con- bad shall träverso this area with the Aided to a rather remarkable post-liquor heavily, and who was unfit to
be in charge of a lorry." help of a vessel with powerful en-
master. He is a corps commandor
Sergeant Jolliffe said that he in- gines, specially constructed for the of the Red Army who desires toterviewed Ford at the hospital. purpose. in a British shipyard.
make agreeable voyages within his When asked how he received the The journey, so far no can be said means.
injuries ho replied in a rambling manner that he had had a scrap at present, will be made through
with his pal... the White Sea and then northwards. through the Barents Sea to the southern islands of Franz Joseph whole" journey is, that which has General Hospital, said he found i
Search for Amundsen,
The Icast important object of the
een spoken about this most--the search for "Amundsen. The idea that the Malygin might seek the lost Norwegian explorer originates from
Land, from which many other islands are string out. On one of these, Hooker Island, there is a llussian meteorological station, which includes among its staff the American Fiala, who thirty woman, who is a biologist. We years ago visited Crown Prince shall thence force our way through Rudolf, Land and placed a depot. the British Channel, skirt the most northern island, Crown Prince
Rudolf Land, and, following the "Austrian Fasinge," take a course eastwards towards Solitude Island
Through Thick Ice;
of foodstuffa there. He now thinks that if Amundsen landed there, with the Frenchmen who accom- panied him, he would have been able to keep himself alive for years upon
these provisions
"
Swayed When Walking." Dr. F. S. Cooksey, of West Kent
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that defendant, who was suffering from minor grazes on the forehend and right knuckle, was intoxicated. He was unable to stand still," but could remain upright with difficulty. When he walked he swayed from side to side. His speech was slow. He said he had had a quarry) and THE
was knocked down by a friend.
Mr.. O'Brien: Did you know he had had a light and a fall and that
another great shock that. morning? he had been up all night and had I did not know that at the time. he knew his friend had been killed and that he had got up to come to. Maidstone.
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Here we shall probably strike. It would be doing an injustice to thick ice, especially in the Kara General Nobile, who belongs to our 10.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press Sea, and by the east coast of Novn party, if the intention, were at Zemlya. Some stations and setcie-tributed to him of going to look for ments of Samoyedes will be visited the great Norwegian who gave his on this island. The ship will afterlife for him, while taking part in wards follow the narrow Matosoh pleasure trip, for the Witse ex- Ford Were you out drinking last kin" Strait, which cuts the island pedition is really a pleasure cruise.night?" and Ford replied "Yes.. inte two. We shall then begin the This is definitely not:so. General homeward journey by way of the Nobile, who is a kindly and modest Island of Kolgaeff.
mat, is on board the Malygin as a Whether a meeting with the Ger-tourist, like the rest of us. But he man airship Graf Zoppalin will take has, of course, various reasons place before or after its flight to the which are bound up with his life's New Siberian Islands is not yet work-for coming upon this un certain. In the former case it will usual journey.'
In the first place" he appears to occur near Franz Joseph Cand; in the latter case it the Kara Sea. have the intention of inspecting the The prospects of a meeting are Franz-Joseph Land region with an very favourable. Everything de eye to plans for future expeditions ponds on the weather. Should the In the second place there is the weather prove and the Graf Zep possibility, if not the probability, pelin may not see us at all. To of finding traces or remains of thp provide against the risk of a so-called Balloon Section of the failure, through fog, to locate one Nobile Expedition and of the air- another, the Malygin is carrying on ship Italia on the western edge of board a small balloon. The balloon the archipelago. The hull of the is equipped with a mirror to reflect the archipelago. The hull of the air. light rays. It will be sent up above ship, with a crew of six men,
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