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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.
NORTH CHINA & JAPAN
SNOW-BOUND
SINGAPORE DEFENCES
Toll Of Lives And Property Strengthening Plans
f.
Use
Formulated
The worst blizzard in 50 years to hit the castorn coast of Japan and poris in North China occurred on last Tuesday night, J which brought in its wake material losses as well as the death of over three scores of people. A full description of the blizzard and Its damages are reported below.
Tokyo, Feb. 6, Sixty-four persons were known to be dead, wolle 21 others were missing to-night, as reports from various districts told of heavy, ma- terial losses caused by the worse blizzard in 50 years to hit the east-Yatshing has returned to Chefoo of modernisation and mechanisa- alter reaching a point within tention of as many units as possible.
Singapore, Feb. 1. Singapore defences will be in- creased in strength by the equipment of the 1st Mid- | dieser Regiment with VICK- "Further attempts useless.
ers guns instead of rifles after it of main engines only waste of
arrives here on April 1 to supple- coal. Am shutting down steam
nient the Royal Inniskilling Fusill- except for four hours a day untilers in the infantry garrison. conditions improve."
Messrs.
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Matheson's
The reorganisation is in accord- ance with the British army pisn
It has not been definitely decided how long after the date ol its ar- rival the Middlesex. Regiment will be re-equipped to increase its re- power.
Avalanches in two widely se- The Sulkong, "belonging to the parated sectors of the
country Tientsin Navigation Co., is leaking, were blamed for the death of 44 and lacks provisions and coal. and the disappearance of eight.. The Yelko Maru was forced Rescue squads last night extri- | ashore by Ice two milles beyond cared the bodies of 44 miners from | Taku Bar, and the nine passengers snowcovered boarding houses in aboard had to walk to an ice- Kusatsu. Gumma Prefecture. breaker. The vessel was refloated Nineteen were killed or drowned, this morning, and is battling her while
thirteen are missing in way to Tangku, the ice between Hyogo Prefecture where seven fish-e Bar and Tangku being thinnersary equipment is already in exis-
than it is at sea.
Ing sampuns capsized in the storm. An avalanche buried tea houses in the Iwabune district in Niigata Prefecture, leaving eighty persons unaccounted for.
The Nanrei Maru to-day towed a rudderless Japanese ship to safe- ty...
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Conditions to-day showed no im- provement the iceflces still piling up many feet high.
Tientsin is at present mantled with snow, which fell all last
MINERS DIE IN BEDS Another man was killed on Tues- day night in Choshi, as a 31-metre- a-second. wind levelled fourteen houses and destroyed three parti-night. ally completed school buildings.
The 44 men died in their beds, at about three o'clock on Tuesday morning. They were all employed by the Tanidokorn Sulphur Mines. It took the firemen and volunteers
seventeen hours to dig through a sheet of snow more than ten feet thick. Then men, were brought out of the wreckage injured.
Meanwhile, Central Japan was slowly digging herself out of & thick blanket of show. Snow ploughs were employed to clear the tracks of city and suburban elec- tric car services in all major diles, while hundreds of workers rushed the repairs of electric, telephone and high-tension cables which were torn down by the blizzard.
HOPE ABANDONED FOR FREIGHTER
Chinwangtao Icebound
Tientsin, Feb..6.
The freezing of the sea at Chin-
wangisa and Taku has seriously hampered shipping in 'this aren.
from
It was recently reported from London that:
* Conversion of Infantry into machine-gun battalions i UTO- ceeding apace. Difficulties are not sq, great because most of the neces-
tence and it is only a matter of transfer from one unit to another.
"But the provision of trained men will take some time. It takes between six and twelve months (according to his intelligence) to train an efficient machine-gunner. For the training of instructors alone, the Machine-Gun School at Netheravon is already taxed to capacity."
DISEMBARKATION IN RECORD
TIME
The disembarkation of the Royar Inniskillings Fusiliers from the Dorsetshire, which arrived from
China on Saturday to replace the populär Wiltshire Regiment, was an event in Singapore defence his- tory. warrant officers and 805 N.CO.'s Twenty-four officers, nine
and men landed in the record time
of half an hour.
According to a message Chinwangtao, the big stretch of water off the harbour has frozen up and most vessels in the har- bour are ice-bound. Only through the help of an Ice-breaker
The Inniskillings are one of the was shipping maintained yester-most renowned regiments of the day,
British Army, and they nave ex- More than 76 miles of sea cffcellent athletic teams to take part Taku harbour are covered with
in Colony sport;
In a message to the Free Press
commands the Inniskillings, said:
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Silent Homage After Laying Laurel Wreath
London, Jan. 21 Wearing his war-time medals in an imposing row across his chest, Herr Deputy H. G. Stahmer, de- puty on the German Ex-Service men's United Organisation, yes. terday lald a wreath at the Lon- don Cenotaph on behalf of the German ex-servicemen who are visiting this country at the invita- tion of the British Legion.
Traffic was held up in Whitehall while the party of Germans, ac- companied by British "Legion of Acials, marched headed by standard-bearers carry ing the Union Jack and the Ger- man national Hag.
in procession,
procession halted, and the Ger- In front of the Cenotaph the
man party gave the Nazi salute, and stood for a moment in silence after Herr Stahmer had placed a large wreath of laurel at the foot of the memorial.
DEPARTURES
RALS. EMPRESS OF CANADA
The tolowing passengers left here yesterday by the Empress of Canada lor nanghsi. Japan ports and Vancouver, p.0:-
Mr.
Caption E ́Aigman, Miss EL S. Atkins, Mr. R. Baker, Mis. T. T Barnett,
and · Mrs. E E Beckwith, Mr. M. Beraha, Mrs. E. M. Bernard, Adias J. Bernard, Mr. and
Mrs. 1. L Berther and two children, Mr. . H. W. Churchill, Brig. General G. D. Close, Misa L Chan, Mr. H. Chan, Mr. Caen Pok Yin, Mr. Y. T. Cheung, Mr. Y. T. Chu, Mr. H. L. Chow, Mr. Chuck Luck Om. Mr. J. B. Creagh, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. R, Dayle, Miss L' J. Eardley, Miss Fal Tat Sang. Mr.
Fok Chuk Lam, Mr. Foo Hai King,
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Hyde, Mr. R. T. Iseri, Mr. J. Kay, Miss. J. Kay, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kennedy, Mr. Y. O. Kiang, Mr. and Mis. Claud Kimbali, Mr. and Mrs. Kan Ling, Mr. W. Klein, Mrs. The wreath bore a wide ribbon | Liang, Miss Liang, Mr. B. Lung, of red the German national col- Mr. Lo Ming Pak, Mias Grace B.
J. McKenzie, Mrs. F. E. Melrose, our-and on it were printed in Martin, Mr. H. W. Maxted, Mr. H.
ice. Twelve junks and Ave Ice- breakers are reported to have been Lieut.-Col. Hammond-Smith, who gold letters in German the words, jammed in by the ice and have sent out calls for assistance.
Efforts are being made by the
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The 2,201-ton freighter Yunnan $10.40 Maru, which early yesterday morn-local authorities and shipping cir-
ing radioed an appeal for assis- tance, has been given up for lost, as a thorough combing of the sea off Shionomisaki 'point, Wakayama Prefecture, failed to find the ship.
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Scores of fishing smacks were damaged on the Japanese Pacific coast, as ocean liners delayed their departure until the storm blows
over.
food to the vessels in distress.
Japanese Planes To Aid Ice-Bound Ships
The Regiment is delighted to be stationed in Singapore. Every- thing looks so green and fresh after Shanghal, and I am sure that all
omcers and troops will be very happy merr.
"We are looking forward keenly tu Singapore sporting contests, in which 'miskillings teams will take part. We will begin organising our teams immediately."
With shipping in Tientsin tied up by the" tremendous ice blockade,
Inniskilling teams will be ready only one ship arrived in Shanghal for the Singapore soccer season, The capital, where Innumerable yesterday from the northern port. which opens soon. They will be offices and industrial plants falled she was the Ruhr, of the Hamstrong opponents, as the Regiment to open yesterday because of the burg-Amerika Line. *All other took third place last year in the Inability of employees to reach unes have more or less suspended arst division in Shanghat and them, resumed · normalcy this service temporarily, because either second place in the second division. morning, with the restoration of the ships cannot get into the port Singapore Free Press,
due to the lee, or if they are al- traffic in the city.
Industrial wheels in Osaka still-ready in they cannot get out be- $26.10 ed by the damage to high-tension cause they are caught fast. It is cables again began to hum to-day,ory at great risk to the ships that while formalcy returned to other Lue blckade can be navigated at
all. Industrial centres.
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from the ice, although on the third occasion fear was felt that the ship would share the fate of other ves- Good navigation was called for sels in the northern port and re- to get the Ruhr near to the Taku main fast indefinitely. Light vessel to discharge and pick A one time, the Ruhr steamed ten and a half hours and up cargo and passengers.
The for
Tientsin Hard Hit
Tlentein, Feb. 6. Owing to the insoluble problem passengers had to come cut from navigated a total of 30 miles. From of replenishing the aupplies, Taku in a powerful tag which for time to time she would pass steam- shipping interests are very much seven hours fought its way througners stuck in the ice, but the ship, #22.10 concerned over the plight of ves-the ice foes. The tug was forced with her special construction for sels marooned in the ice in the to remain in the midst of the ice ice breaking, managed to pull Gulf of Chihil,' Several of them for half a day waiting for the Ruhr through safely. carry many passengers. The Taka to come in close enough ko, that Tug Co.. has been forced to engage the embarking pasengers could a small army of coolles to carry walk across the ice to the vessel coal to ice-bound vessels, each man The Ruhr had great difficulty, in conveying 40 lb.
reaching convenient distance of the harbour. The master, Captain Fick, in an interview with a "North-China Daily News" report- ed yesterday, stated that he began to meet with ice about 55 miles out
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distinctly dangerous to small ship It is reported, however, that the Nanrei Marü," which is "specially As the Ruhr came in closer to constructed for such work, has shore the going became harder. succeeded in forcing a passage to Three times, reports Captain Fick, Bhalulen, where three Chinese did the Ruhr become stuck in the and Japanese ships are in a very ice. Once it was for a few min- serious plight.
uten, once for ten, and a third Photograph of the ice-foes are time for three and a half hours. very impressive. They show Each time the Ruhr, large as she masses of ice, stretching to the 1s, was in danger of having her horizon, which are very difficult to plates buckled by the huge Ice
foes that pressed from each side; negotiate, even by foot.
COAL FROM TSINGTAO. The 8.8. Sherking, which left Shanghai yesterday, is expected to take on coal at Tsingtao sufficient to refuel three Butterfeld and Swire vessels ice-bound at Taku, provided the captain considers the project feaatele.
ICE-BREAKING BOW BUS. Fortunately the Ruhr 18,584 tone, and was built specially for navigating ice fields. She has a semi tes-breaking bow, curved, and designed to combat the ice which all German ships, may expect to encounter. in the Elba River ap The Hulchow is short of proviproaching Hamburg, where con- sions, while the Hupen and Nan aiderable dificulty is often ex- ning, though well stocked in this perienced in navigating in winter. respect, are short of coal. The Each time that she was stuck the Halchow sent the following wire Ruhr by vigorously going forward
PANORAMA BREVE it and fastern managed to less this mOTKIN
ent loose
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From the German United Ex- Servicemen," In white circle was the Nazi black swastika, Richmond, where they visited the Afterwards the party matored to
British Legion Poppy Factory.
two of them would converge on the vessel or when one would crack
up.
Mr. S. Minami, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Minary, Miss A. Minary, Mr. M. B. Moffatt, Mr. and Mrs. J. H
B. E. O'Brien, Mrs. L. H. Parham, Muller, Mr. A. Ng, Lieut. and Mrs.
--| Mr. H, C. Pim, 'Mrs. 6. W. Poon, Mr. P. X. Pun, Miss A. Ralphs, Mrs. J. A. Rivera, Mr. L. H. Rogers, Miss C. Somerville, Mr. M. Stern- berg, Miss H Taylor, MẸ. T. Toleram, Miss J. M. Turner, 'Mr. B. H. Watson, Mr. P. A. Wilkinson, Mrs. Wong, Mrs. Wong Sze,
After the vessel was loaded the coolles had trouble in returning to
land again: They were stranded on the ice and could, not get through, being left out there all night. The Ruhr, after getting away again, had to navigate her way out of the ice fleids, a job ex-', ecuted with a little more speed than on the Incoming trip. Speed at times was twelve knots in the outer reaches of the blockade.
SMALL CRAFT IN DISTRESS
On the way way out the Ruhr picked up
a string of stranded Junks tugs, launches, and small steamers and towed them out of the area.
Most of these vessels had been in the ice for some time, and were in a bad way as regards food. Captain Fick reported -no
casualties however,
According to the latest reports, the Japanese steamer which is Ice became thicker as the Buhr aground, fast in the ice, at Taku, got in closer to shore. Mostly it is still in danger. The ice is work- was about one foot thick, but at ing on her in great force, buckling times various bergs of ice, Boating her plates. Water is leaking into around, would smash into each the hold and the engine room, and other and pile up, resulting in huge it is not believed that she will be ice, heaps which would often tower towed off the beach before April, up above the main deck Captain Her name, which has just been. Fick said that he did not see any reported, is the Yekishin Maru She Is the property of the Dairen bergs that were 30 feet high as reported, but continued that he did Kisen Kaisha not doubt that there were some of
hat
size,
Drawing near the light
Vessel
and only eight hours late after a hazardous run into port, the Ruhr dropped anchor in the ice and drifted with the bergs on each side of her. It was impossible to drop anchor on the bottom and expect to hold the ship for the pressing of the ice would snap any anchor chain in a few minutes. The only Procedure was to anchor in the ice and drift with 18.
The Yekishin Mara calls occa- sionally at Shanghal, mostly to
ARRIVALS
9.S. CHANGTE
The fchowing passengers arrived here yesterday by the steam ship "Changte" ports:-
from Australia via
Mr. D. H. McCathie, Mr. J. E. Creagh," Rev. J. Cherry, Mrs. Cherry, Miss C. Cummins, Miss M. Cummins, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. R Doyle, Miss L. Fossey, Mr. F... K. Glover, Mr. L. G. Hyde, Misi' E. Holden, Mr. and Mrs H. E. Ken- nedy. Miss A. M. Kuter. Mr. M. B. Moffatt, Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. L. H
.. Rogerz, Mr. H Simms, Mrs. Thorp, Miss L H. Thorp, Mr. John Tainoff, Mr. H. M. Ward.
FIGURE SKATING CONTEST
Favourite Wins
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Press" (Copyright.)5||
Garmisch Parten-
kirchen, Feb. 11. The compulsory figure-skating.
out coal, it was on her inst, north part of the Olymple figure-skating
ern trip that she was caught incontest was finished here late on. the ice off Taku Bar. Unable to Monday night in spite of heavy navigate or tree herself, due to the snowfall fact that she is a small cargo boat The following provisional resulte of 1,000 tons and low powered, she have been ascertained: 1. Bchae- was pushed by the drifting ice fer, Austria; 2. Wilson, Canada does on the beach. She has been 3 England; 4. Ernst Baler, Ger- abandoned by her crew with the many exception of a few who take turns in keeping a watch
SNOW. IN INTERIOR PASSENGERS WALK ON BOARD
Nanking, Feb. 6. Getting the embarking passen-
Nanking is to-day blanketed gers four in number, on board the with snow which descended vessel was a comparatively easy throughout the night last night. matter. They came of the re- Snowful, fa also reported from ceiving tug, walked across the ice, Hankow, Loyang Kaifeng, and and boarded the ship. There was litle danger in the process. But loading and unloading cargo was a different matter About 200 coolles brought out a light car tn improvised steds, and loaded if on board the ship With bergs on each alde, it was not known when
The results conform to expecta tions, at least as far as the winner concerned as Schaefer started as favourite in the competition Tranaderan News Service
HALF AND HALF Said the chairman of a certaki several Central: China cities. Mean-actors at its annual meeting In while, reports from Kaigan state njost kindred associations, half the
cómo lons be committee does all the wor that overland
the various whilst the other half does nothin tween
been} I am, pleased to place on reco as a motor roads areS vered with shows two feet have the honour to presid
Just the reverse
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