HONG KONG DAILY. I
SAT
WHAT WAS WRONG ABOARD THE G. PHILIPPAR? RECTOR TRIAL Grave Allegations Contained in
in Passengers' Statements
RESUMED
DAVIDSON
DESCRIBED AS A "BUSYBODY
(Renter's Special Servico.)
LONDON, May 20
The hearing of charges of im
moral
BULKHEADS CLOSE
PASSENGERS BURNT
TO DEATH
conduct against Reoler OTHERS ESCAPE THROUGH
Davidson, of Stiffkey, was resumed
to-day.
Sineu te adjournmant on April
7. A public appeal for funds was
made by the rector and an old friend, Lady Whechter.
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It is expected that a number of witnesses will be called for the de- fence, including prominent eccle- siastics.
R. Levy, the Rector's leading counsel, opened the defence to-day with a remarkable speech in which be denounced the atmosphere of prejudice which, he said, had been orented by the prosecuting counsel, He said the rector wasn trouble some busybody " and possessed other unusual qualities, but he was hot an immoral person.
INDIAN SITUATION
EARL OF LOTHIAN'S STATEMENT
(BRTIN WIRELESS SERVICE}
C
Ruasy. May 10. Lord Lothian, the Chairman of the Indian Finance Committee; reached England today having travelled from India by air.
He referred in a statement to. the interest that the various com mittees appointed after the Round Table Conference had aroused in India and paid a tribute to the co operation and friendliness displayed towards the members;
He added: "Indian public opinion has certainly taken a most. lively interest in our proceedings "and will take a not less lively or controversial interest in our pro- poenls when they are published early next month.
"There is no doubt that the dominant feeling in India to-day fa the desire that the Government and Parliament should come to de- cisions about the new constitution with the least possible delay,
During the last four years, cum- mittees have been, touring India and eenforences bays been held in England on every aspect of the new constitution.
What India Wants. What the people in India want to-day, British business men and. Civil servants ao less than the Indians themselves, is to know where they are. The sooner de- cisions can be taken, if possible agreed decisions; and action taken upon these decisions, the better will Indian be pleased and the sooner will political conditions settle down,
BOMBAY RIOTS
OUTBREAKS NOW LESS SERIOUS
THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, May 19. Despite the serious recrudescence. of communal rioting this morning, there are signs that the trouble is ending and that fresh outbreaks. will be of less severity.
The police are almost exhausted after three days of continuous duty, but are decidedly on the alert to prevent further grave developments, as exemplified by the finding to day of an arsenal of weapons being transported in the guise of a "don- signment of loaves,
PORTHOLES
MISSING NOW GIVEN AT
EIGHTY-FOUR
BURNT OUT LINER
GRAVE
FOUNDERS
[TOROUGH RECTER'S AGEKOY.]
DJIBOUTI, May 20, IMPLICATIONS LIE BEHIND STATEMENTS MADE BY PASSENGERS, WHO LANDED HERE FROM THE S.5. ANDRE LEBON AFTER THEIR RESCUE. BY THE SOVIET TANKER.
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THE MOST TRAGIC ALLEGATION IS THAT THE BULKHEADS AT EACH END OF THE CORRIDOR, GIV. ING ACCESS TO THE FIRST CLASS STATEROOMS ON D. DECK, CLOSED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AND MANY PASSENGERS WERE TRAPPED INSIDE, SOME, ESCAPED
FROM PORTHOLES BUT MANY WERE BURNED TO “DEATH HOW THE FIRE STARTED AND THE SPEED WITH WHICH IT TRAVELLED ARE THE MAIN PROB.” LEMS TO BE SOLVED, IS THE GENERAL VIEW IN PRESS COMMENT ON THE GEORGES PHILIPPAR ASTER. THE IMPRESSION LEFT BY "EVIDENCE IS THAT THE ORGANISATION ABOARD WAS STRANGELY HAPPY-GO-LUCKY AND CARELESS,
EMERGENCY INSTRUCTIONS.
DIS.
THE NEWS CHRONICLE IN A LEADING ARTICLE SAYS: THE SAILORS THEMSELVES MAY HAVE BEEN TOO BUSY FIGHTING THE FIRE TO WAKE THE PAS SENGERS, BUT WAS NO ONE INSTRUCTED TO LOOK AFTER THE PASSENGERS IN EVENT OF SUCH AN EMERGENCY? ONE WOULD HAVE SUPPOSED. THERE WERE AUTOMATIC REGULATIONS. TO SEE THAT NONE WERE TRAPPED BEHIND THE WATERTIGHT DOORS IP IT BECAME NECESSARY TO CLOSE THEM. WHETHER
IN THE NEW BOAT THE FURNITURE AND FITTINGS WERE SPECIALLY INFLAMMABLE, OR WHETHER THE FIRE WAS DRAWN THROUGH THE CORRIDORS AS THOUGH BY A FORCED DRAUGHT IS THE QUESTION ON WHICH ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS WILL" HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, '
683 SURVIVORS
ADER, May 20,
THE FINAL FIGURES OF SURVIVORS FROM THE GEORGES PHILIPPAR, GIVEN BY THE MESSAGERIES MARITIMES TOTAL 683 WHICH LEAVES EIGHTY-FOUR UNACCOUNTED FOR.
THE BURNT OUT LINER FOUNDERED LAST EVEN ING AFTER DRIFTING 160 MILES FROM THE SPOT WHERE THE FIRE STARTED. SHE WAS GUTTED FORE AND AFTE
THE SALVAGE TUG PRESERVER, WHICH PROCEED. ED TO THE SCENE OF THE
DID NOT SUCCEED IN TAKING HOLD.
DISASTER
ADEN, May 20
The number from the. Philippar missing is now 49. Another survivor, Madams Dubot, has been found. Those missing include the fourantist, Albert, Londres, Lawyer : Joyeux from Hong Kong, and Madame Bertrand Vigne. The Hakone Maru and the Penlandlar boat Comorin are conveying some sur vivors from here to Marseilles.
بالا هستیم
TWELVE LUCKY SAIGON RESIDENTS
(Reuter's Special Service.).
received from Aden and Djibouti, PARIS, May 19, and it is possible that some res The weapons consisted of a rhe • The survivora of the French-linerouse wore offerted by consting markable assortment from bo
of clasp kaires, daggers and has Georges Philippar number: 717, as chets, and were being driven in a cording to information recaived, at baker's cart by a Mahonmadan the Messageries Maritimes office dressed as an Hindu."
Attention was attracted to the hare.
acene by a minor riot. Hindus Trustworthy Obstimates
teamers and African craft.
Mr. Georges Philippar, the Chairman of Messageries Mari- times, after whom the ill-fated ven-
have spl was named, was on holiday at
discovered that the driver of the placed the number aboard at 767, Quimper when the new of the cart was a Mehommedan disguised from and attacked him, nearly beating but it appears that I intending disaster was received. He imme him to death
IN HONG KONG TO-DAY. FAIR
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISAVED RY THE ROYAL CHSERVATORY AT 6.15. PM, STATED
PASURE CONTINUES HIGHEST OVER THE PACIFIC TO THE EAST- OF THE BONINE. DEPRESSIONS ARE BITUATED OVER 8. MAN- CHURIA AND S.W. CHINA
LOCAL FORECASTS. AND SE. WINDS, MODERATE; FAIR..
"WINDMILL
FLIGHT
J. N. YOUNG REACHES TUNIS
[BRITISH WIRELEAS. SKRVICE.]
RUGBY, May 20
FIGHTING NEAR NATIONAL
HARBIN
GENERAL MA WORRYING JAPANESE
(THROUGH AKUYER'S AGENCY.]
BARBIN, May 20.
After ropcated furious attempta
to capture the township of Sung- pu, near Harbin the anti-Manchu
CABINET
NECESSARY
ARMY TAKES
STRONG STAND
kuo forces are showing signs of [ranovok REUTER'S AGENCY.] exhaustion.. 69.
Sung has suffered severely in the battle, enormous damage hav ing been caused by shellfire while the casualties among non-combat ants have been extremely heavy.
A military report received this morning states that the antian chukuo forces are showing signs of abandoning the attempt and are gradually withdrawing.
TERRORIST
GANGS IN
JAPAN
POLICE PLANNING
ROUND-UP
(THROUGH REUTER'S AORNOY.
TOKYO, May 20
The police it is reported are planning a wholesale round-up as. the result of the discovery of fresh outragus planned by other mem- Torro, May 20, bors of three groups of terrorists. General Muto, Director-General Apparently they are separate or
of Military Education, and Lieut.ganisations but are closely cos General Mazaki, vice-Chief of the operating, namely, the Blood General Staff visited General Brotherhood, which murdered Arnki this morning and intimated Inouye and
Takumadan tho that the Army is not prepared to Junior Offers Group, which mur support a purely party Cabinet as dered Iruka and the Farmers it is convinced that only a Nation Death Band, which attacked the MORDEN, May 90.
al Cabinet is able to command cou- transformer stations. Troops of the Murai Brigadefidence, The support of the Nu- have entered Tangyuan, which is tion is necessary to bring the bar approximately 900, 122, and situate ten miles north of Ilan. country safely through the present 300, respectively.
crisia
The London airman, Mr. J. N}
HARBIN, May 20. Anti-Manchukkue troups are raid. Young, who is Aving in an Auto-ing near Harbin. Yesterday while Gyro from England to South Africa, a train was standing a Meitaizi the first long-distance flight in a Station, ten, kilometres wast of "Windmill """ acroplane reached Harbin, they raided the station, Tunis yesterday from Sicily, and is searched the train and carried off to-day proceeding to Tripoli.
two Japanese passengers, Later further forces arrived and last BODLEIAN LIBRARY
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDA- TION OFFERS $2,300,000
[BRITISH WIRELESS ŠERVICE.]
Roar, May 20,
The Rockfeller Foundation has offered to appropriate a sum not exceeding $2,300,000 to contribute up to three-fifths of the total cost of extending the famous Bodleian Library, Oxford, on condition that the University receives by 1936 at total of £377,720 in other contri bations.
PRESENT USE OF RADIUM
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
BUGBY, May 20
on
A representative conference of British medical authorities radium has expressed the view that the Radium Commission adopted a. Bound policy in discounting the use of the four gram bomb at the "pre- gent juncture. It urged the need fir a fully Equipped Radium In- atituta in London, and has appoint- ed a technical committed to report on mass radiation:.
anuma is likely to be summoned to Indications are that Baron Hir. forma Cabinet torniorrow.
SUZUKI OPENS CAMPAIGN
ه بار
The groups are reported to num
ANGLO-SOUTH AMERICAN
BANK
DANGER OF FAILURE PASSES
Strengthening TOKYO, Mayo.
tho national de might their aeroplanes dropped fence and the reform of diplomatic
LATION WIRELESS SERVICE] bombe just north of Harbing
methods were two of the poles To-day Japanese troops were sent strongly advocated by Mr. Suzuk
RUGBY, May 19. out. They encountered the Chi- when speaking at the Soiyukai announces that an arrangement The Anglo-South American Bank ness, outflanking them and forced convention this morning on the has, in principle, been concluded them to retreat, but Ma ChanOccasion of his installations with a group of banks headed by Shan's artillery are now shelling President of the party. the Japanese at Meitaizi.
Emphasising the necessity of a certain assetes of the Anglo-South- the Bank of England, under which national awakening, Mr. Suzuki American Bank, connected with LEAGUE MISSION GIVES IN
also stressed the importance of nitrate industry, amounting, to over taking steps for the rates of eoon-7 million pounds, which cannot at cand distress, especially in the present be roalised, will be taken!
·HABHIN, May 20. Owing to danger arising from farming districts, the purification rampancy of insurgent soldiery on of politics and the guidance of the westera branch of the C.E...people thoughts, the League Commission has celled its trip to Taitahar. They cave for Mukden tomorrow, though ten experts attached to the Commission will proceed to Testai- bar by air to investigate on behalf of the Commission.
CER. BANDIT OUTRAGES
TEN RUSSIANS KIDNAPPED
(OOH BEDTER'S AGENCY.]
SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISTS
CANTON PREPARING IMPORTANT DRIVE
(From Our Own Carrespondent.)
CANTON, May 20 The anti-Communist campaign in southern Fukien and Kiangai is to be resoned with vigour, it is learned from official sources. Plans are now underway to recover the more im- portant cities in Fukien, including HARBIN, May 201
Changchow, which have fallen into Ten Russian and thirteen Chi Divisional Commander Wong Yam the hands of the Communists. nese employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway were kidnapped Yungting and Waping, all import Wan after capturing Shanghang, IN POSSESSION OF Bengeohotse, on the eastern sec-
by handits who raided the town of ant commercial centres of Fulcien tion of the line yesterday.
•BOMB
RUSSIAN SEAMAN ARRESTED (Reuter's Special Service,)
now advancing towards Chang. ding with Changchow as his final objective. "
over subject to the guarantee of the Anglo-South-American Bank and the bank being simultaneously, ré- lieved of a demand liability for an equivalent amount,
The contingent liability in re spect of this guarantee will rank: after deposits and all other liabi lities to clients.
The substitution of a deferred contingent liability for
S cash liability as present payable on demand, will strengthen the posi tion of the bank and afford an in oreased security for ita clients
A sharp recovery in Anglo-Euthy American Bank shares occurred on the Stock Exchange to-day.
"..
SHARES DROP FROM 120/- TO
2/6 NOW RECOVERING
(THROUGH HEUTER'E AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 9. The recent Stock Exchange con- has now been completely allayed. earn for the position of the back
It is noteworthy that the bank's... A shares which at one time last Similar incursions are reported.
year touched over 120/- dropped to from several districts and it would
2/6. They recovered to 8/yester- sean, despite by the Japanese, that Chung Hsi, in a telegram to the England's assistance, which will General Li Taung Jen and Pei day in anticipation of the Bank of the situation is beyond their con- Canton Higher Command, received enormously strengthen the concern's trol
The story of the raid on Heng- definitely decided to send from
here today, stated that they have position. taohosze was conveyed in 8 mes-four to six regiments to Fukier by Bheet, the Anglo-South American According to the last balance sage from Russian engineer whe way of Canton to take an active bank has assets of £70,000,000 its evaded capture. mediate despatch of troops to the troops will arrive in Canton on
The message appeals for the im. part in the anti-Communist drive capital being £5,500,000,00
there. When these. Kwangui [BRITISH WIRELESS BAVICE:]
RUGBY, May 20, scene and unges the er cuntion of their way to Fukies, the message
A feature of the Stock Exchangs all women and children. It says did not state, but is generally his morning was a further sharp. that if the troops arrive too late believed that they will be here in recovery in Anglo-South American other railway employees will be the course of the next few days, Bank shares on yesterday's reasur either killed or carried off. Contrary to rumours, the militarying statement regarding the agree A body of about six hundred leaders of the two Kwang Provinces ment reached in principle with U.S. BANK RESERVES bandits are now occupying Lide-are mited in the present drive group of banks headed by the Bank
hotze, where they wounded the against the Reds in Fodies and of England. wide of the nssistant atation-Kiangs
AUCKLAND, May 20 When a Russian seaman, George Sagrif, was arrested near Govern mant House he possessed a power- ful gelignite bomb.. A similar bomb was found in his room at the Sailors' Home,
$300,000,000 MARK REACHED
IEKUTAR'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, May 20,
A committee of bankers and in- dustrialists bented by Mr. Owen D. Young has been formed to con sider means of making the funda released, by the Federal Reserve Bank useful afirmatively in busi- hers, announces the Federal Reserve Bank which points out that the excess of banking- reserves in the three hundred million United States has reached, the dollar merk and, mucha fomm, the ham for
credit of $3,000,000,000. OATH OF
ALLEGIANCE BILL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)-
DUBLIN May 16.
kometer
BRITISH MANDATE
IN IRAK
TO BE TERMINATED
HORTLY
[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUOB, May 19,
"A shares this morning rosa so 14 shillings while Bucharen – touched 9/8. The shares follo
GENERAL LIU SHIH Wednesday to 3/6 each but when
RESIGNS
IN ORDER TO
BANDITS
[THBOUGH REVIZE'S. NOENCY.].
NANEING, May 20.
the statement became known yester- day they quickly rallied to 8/2, preliminary to further advance tu day.
The Times saya that the terms of the statement should give reassure ance both to customers and share holders of the bank with whose name rumour lately has been rather busy
shares
Pof £ifully
The authorized and issued capital Reports, which are not confirm of the bank is £10,000,000 of which The League of Nations Council tion regarding the impending roof £10 each with Ly
ed in official circles, are in circula- £5,632,670 18 in. 872,486 at Geneva to-day approved & reorganization of Antive and Che1,5,840 in "B port providing that as soon as Irak kiang Provincial Governmenta paid. has sccepted the conversion. cover ing various guarantees recommend. | Liu Shill, the Ronan Chairman, The porta state that General ed by the Fermanent Mandates has repeatedly requested the Gov Comunssian, Britain can terminate ernment to relieve him from his her mandate and Izak become an post in order to enable him to con- independent member of the League, centrate his energy on baudit sap
Irak will thus be qualified for pression in Houan The Govern admission at the next Plenary 10 meat, it is said, has decided to PASSES FINAL STAGE IN September, as she is prepared to accept his resignation and will op accept the drafo declaration point, an Eina sooooo stvar THE DIAL
The this the undertakes to Cheng, the newly appoin guarantee protection for crank, President of the Judicial
Vice linguistic and religious minorities, It is further reported protecting of foreigner legal ineral La Ti Ping, of terests, guaranteeing of Anancial shortly, resigning the listio cirole as to the fate of Mmoval of the Oath of Allegiance to mandate ends, protection of re- Wang and Gener
The De Valera Bill for the re-obligations a contracted before the and the names of day passed ita final stage in the ligious miss)
ex-Foreign Minis het Mayor regge Ementio
Chek Bog port
The police at hope we passengers from Saigon did not † diately hurried to Marseilles.
suspected that
there was something strange, about his consignment of loaves and un- earthed the Krsenal, non
The city is, at present, quiet, and all attempts at footing are being promptly checked
join the ship, thereby reducing the complement to 755,
Deep anxiety in. felt in journa
It is still hoped that the list of, Albert Londres, a noted Journalist
the saved is not and, as there are who has been visiting China on, #few additions amas still being bekaif-of-he
Dail Birrann by votes to 80 nation
It will more simitted to the favo
rospeed of Inter entions, and mon
treatment to League,
GREEK DEBT ISSUE FURTHER PROTESTS MADE (EBITION WIRELESS SERVICK; } .
ROOB, May 19,
Similar representations to those pat forward by the British Minis for at Athens concerning the mer vies of Greece's foreign debts were to-day made by the French and Italian Ministers W Foreign Minister.
Fisunderst