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TRADE ON THE YANGTSZE
HOW IT IS HAMPERED
QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Lospos, June 7.
RESTRICTIONS on foreign trade on the Yangtaze and elsewhere as a result of illugnt uxactions were the subject of n qarstion in the House of Commens to-day.
Mr. W. Nuron, the Conservative member for Whitehaven, requested information regarding the extent a the exactions per goods in traues on the Yangtze and other parts of the interior of Caina by, recognised
Chinese Government officials or by bandit chieftains.
Captain Anthony Eden, the En dor Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 'said he was unable to estimate the ext, but admitted that irregular exactions did occur from time to time and mentioned as an example, the imposition of scurt fees through bandit-ridden arena.
LONDON, June 5.
Capt. Eden announced in the Hous of Commons that Sir John Simon had received a reporters
regards the allegation that Japanese authorities at Dairen were preventing merchandise enter ing Manchuria.
Acting on his instructions the British ambassador to Tokyo had raised the matter with the Japanese Government and had received the assurance that the matter would be taken up immediately.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
We have been appointed Sole Agents for Hongkong & South China for the
British manufacturers -
following
RUSTON & HORNSBY, LTD., Engineers, Lincoln, England.
Manufacturers of
Horizontal and Vertical Airless Injection Cold Starting Oil Engines:
Horizontal and Vertical Gas Engines:
Suction Gas Producers;
Boilers:
Steam and Diesel Engine Road Rollers;
Portable Steam Engines:
Centrifugal Pumps:
etc., etc.
RUSTON LISTER MARINE CO., LTD., Imperial House,
Manufacturers of:-
Kingsway, London.
Marine Airless Injection Oil Engines up to 330 b.hogether with Auxiliary Equipment.
R. A. LISTER
CO., LTD.. Dursley, Gloucester, England.
Manufacturers of:
Vertical Petrol and Paraffin Engines:
Crude Oil Engines;
Electric Lighting Plants:
Petrol Driven Trucks.
BROOM & WADE, High Wycombe, England.
Manufacturers of:-
Air Compressors, etc., etc....
We have engaged the services of an expert engineer, trained by Messrs. Ruston & Hornsby, Ltd., who has also complete knowledge of the products of the manufacturers referred to above.
Enquiries will receive our careful and prompt attention.
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REISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD.
7, Queen's Road, Central,
Engineering Dept.
1st Floor, Mercantile Bank Building. Hong Kong.
Tel. 28009.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.
GAOL DESTROYED
BY CYCLONE..
220 CONVICTS ESCAPE.
TWENTY-SIX KILLED AND
100 INJURED.
LOCAL HOOKEY.
INDIAN OLYMPIA TEAM TO PLAY TO-DAY.
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The following have been chosen to rupresont Hong Kong against the the Indian Olympic Team Marian ground, Kowloon at a pim. to-day-
Twenty-six warders and, prison.
Corporal Grant (90rd Regt.), Pte. were killed, 220 convicts escap and at least 100 were injured Pole (24th Regt), L/NK Kishen when the greater part of the My-
W. Rood mensingh gaol collapsed in a tor- Singh (H.K.S.R.A.), nade on May 9. The disaster (Club), Sepoy Sirdar Khau (3/9th curred between 3-30 and puts), Corporal Hogarth (23rd when the velocity of the storm was
Regt.), L/NK. Bakhtawar Singh at its height.
(HK.S. R. A. ), W. E. Williams (Club), Lu, J. K. Macfarlano (H.K.S.R.A.) (Capt.). Sepoy Jalil (3/9th Juts). Pte. Johnson (9th Regt.):
More than 30 deaths, many in jarion and the wholesale killing of hundreds of cattle are reported from villages in the track of the tornado which, half a mile wide, awept through most of eastern Borgal.
The Mymensingh gaol buildings
Reserves:-L. Cresswell, Ist. Tyler (Sith Regt) Sunder Singh
ware almost completely demolished. (H.K.S.R.A.), ist (93rd Regt.); portions of the brick walls was ironCape. Macnab (ard Regt.).
girders being carried long dis Umpire-Lt. Miller.
tances by the force of the wind In Colours:-White.
the darkness and general confusion
whole crowds of convicts niid un
dor-trial prisoners made their
excape into the jungle. Many were NEW FRENCH
recaptured but it in understood that
220 are still at large.
Throughout a night of blinding
rain and wind, rescuers worked feverishly in the ruins and found many bodies, but several more are known to be still buried.
The tornado hit the prison at 115 miles an hour, and part of thei perimeter wall fall with a tremen dous erash, burying many convicts and warders.
The officers and warders' quar· ters followed, swaying and collaps ing like houses of cards before the appalling pressure of the wind which flung pieces of masonry and girders long distances.
The Death-Roll. Screams of the injured and dying officials and convicts pinned beneath the broken walls mingled with the roar of the wind, but the finishing touch was put to the inforno when hordes of convicts, some almost in- Bane with terror, poured from the ruined buildings like ants tearing their way out of a crushed ant hill, some to climb the debris of the wall, there to hesitate "and re turn, others to dive into the river, beneath and swim to unexpected Aberty
The alarm was sounded in the police lines and every available policeman was rushed to the gaol immediately, and under the diree tion of Mr. Graham, District Ma- gistrate. Major Thomas, Superin tendent of the gaol, and Mr. Tay lor, Superintendent of Police, the work of extricating the injured from the debris was taken in hand. A strong cordon of armed policy was thrown round the area,
After working all night through a horror of wind and rain -rescue parties discovered among the rulas the bodies of three wardera, 10 con- viota and undertrial prisoners, one constable and two persons who had come to interview prisoners,
on
Five wardera and 30 convicts and under-trial prisoners were found seriously injured and 13 warders and 50 convicts slightly injured. At a roll call held at 8 o'clock May 10 only 1,126 out of the 1,343 convicts and under-trial prisoners in the gaol were present. The in jured were removed to the Sur jakanta Hospital.
GARNER RELIEF
GOVERNMENT
HERRIOT'S
MAJORITY
SMALLER THAN EXPECTED
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"PARIS, June 7.
AFTER hearing the statement headed by M. Harriot, the Chamber passed a vote of confidence by 300 votes to 132.
Some surprise was created by the size of the minority as, a practically unanimous vote was expected in view of the special design of M Herriot's programme in order to please both the Right and the Left. There were over fifty abstentions.
Socialist Vote.
The Socialists voted with the majority, but M. Leon Blum, their leader, explained that thoir sap port of the statement of policy did not mean that the Socialists were prepared to give unquestioning sup--| port to the Ministry,
M. Herriot retorted that he, could, not let the Socialist. vote influence his independence.
The Radical Socialists, the Rodi- eals and the Left formed the re- mainder of the majority.
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1921
PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1926
1931
$200,402,545. $361.166,647. $542,449,546.
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The Garner Relief Bill," which sreks નવ provide a 81120 of C$2,300,000,000 for the relief of the unemployed passed the House of Representatives to-day.
Total Income
1921
1926
1931
$9,557,325, $18,667,904. $29,215,949.
The Bill, which was recently denounced by President Hoover, now goes to the Senate.
ALDERSHOT SEARCHLIGHT
TATTOO
50,000 CHILDREN SEE
REHEARSAL "
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RUGBY, June 7. Princess Elizabeth and 50,000 other children to-day watched the full dress rehearsal at Aldershot of the thrilling display to be given by the Army at the annual Search- light Tattoo.
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RUGBY, June 7. "The issue has now been announc ed of the Royal Warrant creating
new decoration, the India Police Medal, for acts of gallantry. und valuable services. This explain the absence from the recent Birth- day Honours list of recognition of the work of the rank and "file" "in" India
The annual distribution will be f limited to 200, and the first will shortly take place.
1921
1926
1931.
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$467,297. $1,327,788. $3,450,290.
(THE ABOVE FIGURES ARE IN GOLD DOLLARS)
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