YELLOW RIVER OVER BOTH BANKS
Alarming Reports From Changyuan
Nanking, July 16.
Reports from Hsulhow state that the Yellow River is threatening to force a breach in the main dyke at Yangfeng, East Honan.
days. What might be termed the ordinary spring rise, caused by the melting of the snows in Tibet and Szechuan, is now practically over, and it is the rainfall, which Is seasorist just now. which will determine the food situation in the Yangtze.
If this should happen the flood- water will very likely sweep down the river's former course, and into North Kiangsu. Should this hap- The Yangtze River is the main pen it will inevitably entall en- ormous loss of Me and property."
arterial waterway of the country, being invaluable for irrigation as Precautions are being taken in well as for navigation. It la un- Northern Kiangsu where local off-like the Yellow River, which con- cials have been instructed
to strengthen and if necessary rebuild the dykes along the old river-bed. Only by this means can they hope to control the flood in any way. Reuler.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
Peiping. July 16.
A message from Paotingfu says that the Yellow River has over- flawed" both banks, near Chang- yuan. the southernmost tip of Hope flooding un area where there are 320 villages. Scores of houses have collapsed, and hun- dreds are believed to have been drowned. There are 120,000 home- less. Much livestock has perished. The flood water is about six feet deep.
The Changyuan magistrate des- cribes terrible suffering among the population. The Provincial Gov- ernment is providing funds for emergency relief.— Reuter
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HANKOW FEARS
Hankow, July 16. The water level receded slightly this morning, but optimism is premature in view of doubts of the ability of the Changkung dyke : to withstand the pressure of the
water,
A part of the bund opposite the Russian Concession is inundated as a result of the water penetrat- ing the sluice, but repairs soon effected.
were
Flood, prevention expenses Hankow so far amount to $370,000,
OFFICER SHOT
'An officer of the Garrison Head- quarters was shot this morning on account of negligence in connec tion with the measures against the floods.
The Public Safety Bureau reports that the death roll in Hankow is 23 only.
The reason for the shooting of the omcer this morning was for slackness in dyke protection.
Hupeh, Szechuer, this morning, his
bandits, bullets entering the wing. Government bombing planes are also dropping food in the affected
stantly carr'es large quantities of silt and is a constant danger to the nation. However, during the past few years the Yangtze has also been threatening the livelihood of the people and causing untold misery in the country.
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constructive conservancy work. The solution lies naturally in
With this in view, the National Government has organized Yangtze River Conservancy Com- mission. However, owing to the unrest in the country and to lack of funds, the Commission has not fullest extent. able to develop its work to the
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DROP IN LEVEL
The most welcome news at pre- sent is that on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, between Ichang and Chungking, there has been a drop in the level of the river since Monday, and that the rise at Honkow has been comparatively very slight, The situation in the past two days has undoubtedly. taken a turn for the better, and It is to be hoped that later news will record further improvement.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935.
KING REVIEWS WILL LAVAL'S CABINET
THE NAVY
Occasion Marred
By Accident
London, July 18. One hundred and sixty warships the King aboard the Royal yacht thundered a salute as His Majesty Victoria and
mouth to review the greatest naval Albert left Ports-
assemblage since the Coronation.
Immense crowds hours before the review thronged every vantage point from Southsea to Porta- mouth Many thousands, favoured
by a very warm night, slept on beaches, cliffs and esplanades.
The ships were polished to per-
extending ten miles. fection and were moored in lines
Two
the occasion as an aeroplane char- A regrettable incident marred
tered at Heston to take passengers to the review crashed while taking off and burst into flames. passengers were incinerated, while four others and the pilot were sent to hospital in an unconscious condition.- Reuter
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent;
London, July 16. London Silver prices.:0-day were unchanged on "Spot" and down 1/16 on Forward as follow:-
Spot 30-3/16
July 15 July 16 30-3/16 Forward.......30-3/8 30-5,16 London on New York cross rate at 2 p.m. to-day was 49575 com- pared with 4.9612 at closing yester- day,
But for the fact that the city of JEWS ATTACKED
Hankow is protected by a flood wall along the Band, all the streets
under
water. The populace has already would already have been
taken, the further precaution of
IN BERLIN
:
moving their valuables and goads Many Cafes Wrecked
During Riots
Berlin, July 18.
from ground-four level as only a further slight rise would be sud- clent to Hood the city. Not only the authorities of the three Wuhan cities but other official bodies, especially the National Economic Council, are working prodigiously, A number of cafes from which to strengthen the dykes and to it is supposed Jews were hauled ward off the danger as best they out were wrecked during the riots can, and it is reported that many last night arising from Nazi re- thousands of labourers are engag-prisals against Jewish resentment at different vulnerable. spats over a new anti-Semetic-film. along the river to keep the swirl-
Apart from several Jews taken "ng flood
waters confined to the into protective custody. main channel.
there have been no The problem of river conser- official report of the affair Vancy is so enormous that it is issued by a German agency in
trie less than staggering, and form of a communique beaded
ed
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arrests,
SURVIVE?
Rigorous Programme Of Retrenchment
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Paris, July 16. M. Läval's rigorous, retrenchment programme whose purpose is to restore the budget equilibrium; reinvigorate the economic depres- sion, prevent unjustifiable rises in price levels, and keep the currency
phases In the Cabinet session on stable was discussed in its
Monday.
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To determine the final wording. of the 23 emergency decrees em- bodying the whole of the financial reform, the three Cabinet meetings under the chairmanship of the President of the French Republic were convened for Tuesday, the text to be published in the Freach Government Gazette on Wednes- day or at the latest on Thursday. Although something definite is known of M. Laval's plans, it is clear from his various utterances that all the subventions now being paid for the encouragement of the aircraft building industry, shipping and various industries; also all pensions, grants annuities, salaries and wages will undergo reductions as well, probably by as much as ten per cent
whole- retrench-
the Cabinet will survive the crisis us no single party 1s heartedly behind the ment prograinme.
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M. Laval intends taking the bull by the horns by speaking to the immediately the new decrees" are whole nation over the wireless, published, explaining the absolute
interests of the whole of France necessity of these measures in the and pointing out that sacrifices have been apportioned as fairly as possible to all sections of the people
The Premier will ask for the support of the whole nation on this matter so that he may be able including that of the maintenance to face the foreign political tasks
ledge that he has the undivided of European peace with the know- confidence of the French nation behind him-
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NON-STOP MEETING
Paris, July 18. In preparation for publication to-night of the new decree laws to reduce the budgetary deficit, the Government is holding one of the longest non-stop Cabinet meetings within memory.
The Cabinet met at the Qual d'Orsay at 9.30 a.m. and sat until 1.05 p.m. when it adjourned for From the fierce opposition these lunch. With M. Laval business was proposed economics have provoked resumed at 2.45 p.m. till now from the Parliament and they will go to the Flysée 'to con- At 6 pm. the public. It is evident that the Cabined will
tinue the session technically as the have a desperate Council Ministers are under the battle to fight to carry out the chairmanship of President Le- reforms.
brun.-- France is now asking whether Heuter.
LORDS AND THE NAVY
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 29,
The debate on the naval and
military situation which Lord Lloyd far opened in the House of Lords turn An ed mainly upon the Anglo-German was Naval Agreement, on which there the was diversity of opinion.
Lord Lloyd was doubtful about
able resource is to see dykes are referring to the demonstration out- and critical of the methods of the
of
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TEN NEW SUBMARINES FOR ITALY,
Hastening Preparations For War?
the Council had also decided to
Rome, July 16. The ten new submarines which meet and examine the situation, early in 1936 are to be of 600 tons means of conciliation and arbitra- Italy will construct for launching and if on August 25 settlement by. with a length of 185 reet, design-tion should not have taken place, ed for use in confined areas such He added: "In. view of the above as the Mediterranean. The speed circumstances an early meeting of will be 15 knots and the vessels
the Council appears inevitable.”— will carry three 9-tch guns and
British Wireless. six torpedo tubes.
Italy already possesses fifty sub- marines of which nineteen are of this type.-. Reuter.
NO MORE CAMELS
NEW MILITARY MOVES
Rome, July 15... News of Italy's new military measures was published to-day in huge type on the front pages of all the newspapers, which ye to-day taken an even more determined Cairo. July 16. The Government has banned ex-
attitude tri the Abyssinian dispute.
While the ports of Egyptian camels to Eritrea Europe are ceaselessly discussing following reports of increased BC- tivity on the part of Italian agents probably the political adjustment the juridical interpretation and purchasing camels in the Upper of the so-called Abysïnjan ques- Egyptian market for despatch totion, Signor Mussolini acts, says Eritrea-Reuter,
QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE
"Lavoro Fascisti.”
chancelleries of
This paper adds that Mussolini, who is a master of political strategy, can point the road that must be followed to safeguard
tress of her future. Renter,
LORD BEATTY'S SUPPORT
London, July 15. naval forces were inadequate and mons to-day regarding the meeting Italy's rights and make her mis-
Lord Beatty declared that our Secretary in the House of Com- Members questioned the Foreign
deplored the fetters imposed by the of the Council of the League of London Naval Treaty. He urged Nations in connection with the the Government to avail then- Italo-Abyssinian dispute, and the selves of the "escalator clause" and to see that future efforts in
adjournment of the conciliation commission.
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EXPORT BANNED
London, July 15 No licences for export of arms:
ing the past three months, said to Abyssinia have been issued dur-
PLANE FIRED ON General Chang Hsueh Liang in an interview with Reuter stated that while dropping 1,400 pounds of rice on a starving village in the only thing to do with aval- "Against Jewish Arrogance." After some features of the Agreement naval agreement should be direct private plane' was fired upon by kept in good repair and raised as side a cinema, the communique Government in concluding it with and guns. But the welcomed the meet if in default of agreement be- Lieut.-Col. D. J. Colville, replying".
ed to limitation of the size of ships the Council had decided in May to Sir Samuel Hoare recalled that high as practicable. Now, the adds that a great crowd gave out consulting France and Italy. National Economic Council has expression of its distaste at the Such action, he held, was bound
Anglo-German agreement, for taken over the work of the old provocative behaviour
tween the arbitrators an under- the to be painful to our old Allies. Germany had accepted for herself reached by July 25 as to the selec- of Commons to-day. Only two ap which we owed & debt of gratitude. standing should not have been house, Conservative, in the House to questions from Capt. C. Water- Conservancy, Commissions. In the Jewish theatre girls.
While he did not say that we should 35 per cent of the naval strength ton of a fifth member of the complications had been received, be present emergency the Council is!
At neighbouring cafes where the make no agreement with Germany voting quite large sums of money guests were mostly Jews the public or that the Treaty of Versantes
of the British Commonwealth of to the immediate work of flood protested against the increasingly ought not to be revised, he charged
Nations; if she had claimed 50 per prevention and in demonstrating audacious behaviour of Jewa The the Government with inconsistency
cent. We could not have stopped that it fully realizes the serious-appearance of their indignant in their policy. They had not only comrades sufficed in most cases to recognized and condoned but had cause the Jewish visitors to leave given every appearance of abetting the cafes hurriedly.
the unflateral denunciation of a
areas.--
Reuter.
YANGTZE FLOODS [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
Nanking, July 10.
The Yangtze River registeredness or the situation.- bigh watermarks in the last few hine United Press (by mail):
WAR UPON THE GOVERNMENT
Lloyd George And "New Deal"
11.6. TAX COLLECTIONS NOT LEGAL.
Boston, July, 16.
the
Act
The United States Circuit Court of Appeal, has ruled that process- ing taxes collected under Agricultural Administration are unconstitutional. It is expect- ed that the case referred to will go to the Supreme Court in. the Autumn
stenter.
and pensions for workers at sixty years of age.
London, July 15. Mr. David Lloyd George, former Liberal Prime Minister, and author of a "New Deal" which, he affirms, would bring back to Great Britain the prosperity and happiness she knew before the post-war alump
DELAY IN ELECTIONS has declared war upon the Govern- ment. He will challenge the Gov-
Pensioning in this way would ernment at the next election, he
cost the country £100,000,000 am déclares, asking the nation to sup-nually, it is asserted. port his "New Dea".""
Mr. Lloyd George will be told the scheme won't cure unemployment and cannot be effected within two years, as he suggests, without the abolition of Parliamentary control, Mr. Lloyd George announces that he will challenge the Government with his new scheme at the next election. We we
Parliamentary opinion veered towards a generalisation of ac tivities for next spring thanks to the clarification of the atmosphere by the Government's refection of Mr. Lloyd George's £250,000,000 New Deal" proposals to-night. As a reply to Mr. Lloyd George's action in publishing the outline or his scheme to-day, the Govern- ment is preparing a reasoned statement which, it is understood, will flatly reject suggestions like than it the nationalisation of the coal, hitherto cotton, iron and steel Industries, | Reuter
Cautious Parliamentarians urge a delay in the election antu the spring to enable the newly-formed Government to place its case be fore the country more effectively has been able to do
her; and by that gesture the possi bity of Anglo-German rivalry at marines was not the same thing as aea was ended. Parity in sub-
parity in other categories. Sub-
Apart from miner incidents treaty. It was a new moral stand-marines could not counter sub- which occurred before the police arrived, the latter. prevented for- ther collisions.~.. Roaster.
THE NAVAL PACT
German Programme
point for Great Britain to condone the action of a treaty-breaking nation because we could not resist that nation by force,
NEW RATIO, DEPLORED As to the contents of the Agree ment, he did not share the alarm created in some quarters by the submarine clause, but he deplored the new ratio in cruisers and destroyers to which Great Britain was now being committed just when we were looking forward to release from the fetters imposed by the London Naval Treaty.
mission: unless four members said, and these were still under agreed to extend the period and consideration-Beuter:
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LONG TALKS
marines, and Germany's acceptance
London, July 15. of Part IV. of the London Treaty made ruthless submarine war in visiting Germany at the invitation Members of the British Legion the future unlikely.
of German Ex-Servicemen's Or-
The attitude of the Labour Opganisations, to-day placed a wreath position was defined by Lord Pon- sonby. They did not condemn the known Warrior, in Berlin and were. on the tomb of Germany's Un- agreement with Germany, but they received by Herr Hitler who, with did conderan the methods by which Herr Hesse, Deputy leader of the it was concinded. It was in essence Nazi party, talked with them for a rearmament agresinent. If other Powers increased their navies and
over two hours we and Germany did the same the
British Wireless.. consequence would be a new race in armaments.
The French Government (Lord Lord Straboizi, from the Labour
FRANCE CONSULTED London, July.' 15.-
Londonderry went on) were, in The
benches, supported the view that Lord Londonderry replied that common with the other signatories Foreign Becretary, Birthe Anglo-German Naval Agree- the Government adhered to the to the Washington Treaty, inform Samuel Hoare, stated in the House mens was bad business for Great declaration in the London com-ed on June 7 of the outline of the of Commons, at question-time. tha: Britain, What, he asked, should munique of February 3, that no Agreement and invited to send the text of the Anglo-German we have said if France had made Power whose armaments had been their observations at a very early Naval Agreement had been com a separate naval agreement with defined by the Peace Treaty was date. The French view was, in municated to the. League of Na-Germany or the United States of entitled by unilateral action to fact, received before the Agreement tions and would be registered America with Japan? The Agree- modify its obligations Bat Ger was made, but their criticism was forthwith would re
ment was bad also because it cut many was increasing her naval not of such a character as to justify Asked if the information recent across all-round limitation of strength beyond the limits imposed the Government in refusing con- ly published by the German Gov-naval armaments. ernment regarding the ships they
by the Treaty and the Govern- sent to an Agreement holding such bad laid down or intended to lay ment as the first concrete achieve of achieving "general settlement" He declared with emphasis that Lord Lothian defended the Agreement believed that the best method promise for the peace of the world down this year was accepted by the ment in limitation of arms. There was to endeavour to reach agree the German British Government as in accord was nothing in it, he declared, toment with Germany. To have Great Britain
with the Anglo-German prevent further reduction of ton missed the opportunity presented country that it Agreement, Bir Victor Warrender nage, and it improved the prospects by Germany's naval offer would naval consta replied for the Admiralty that, as would be seen by reference to the
rence. I have been to miss the chance of trie exchange of notes, the program
that the elimin formed no part of the agree
toman-com and the but it was in no way contra
betury any part of it:
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YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
(Special Air Mail Service)
London July 2.
The Duke of Connaught gave a personal message from the King to the Yeomen of his bodyguard when the Duke Inspected the Yeomen in the gardens, of St James's Palace, London, yesterday. It was the 450th anniversary of the forming of the corps, the oldest fighting force in the world.
I have a message from His Ma- Jesty the King" the Duke of Con-
who were drawn up in a pictures naught "said to the Yeamer, que double line on the green lawns of the Palace: "The King greatly regrets that he is non able to be able to be here in person, and has asked me to convey to you an er- pression of his gratitude and ap- proval of your service,****
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world with such a lendid record and history as the Yeomen. He he had asked him to represent took it as a great honour that the
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