PHILIPPINE QUAKE GERMAN REPARATIONS CHIANG KAI SHEK
DAMAGE:
HALF A TOWN IS SUBMERGED.
PEOPLE BUILD RAFTS TO ESCAPE DEATH,
MUCH DESTRUCTION.
M. POINCAKE CONFIDENT OF
| SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT.
Paris, May 28.
Mr. Parker Gilbert, Agent-Gon- eral for Reparations, has been
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1928.
PRIMITIVE MAN SEARCH.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"
“LEVIATHAN” MAIL THEFTS.
HOME POLICE MAKING ENQUIRIES.
FOR PEKING.
MILITARY CONFERENCE IS EXPECTED SHORTLY. ·
spending the Whitsun week-end in DEMOBILISATION PLEA
Shanghai, Jane 25. From Nanking it is reported
London, June 24.
Wm.
ANDREWS EXPEDITION IS-
ABANDONED.
Investigation
Scotland Yard and the Criminal CARS CAN'T PROCEED.
Department are
letters.
Paris discussing with the French nuthorities the present position of
engaged on enquiries regarding the Dawes plan. On Friday he
the discovery made yesterday that had a long conversation with M.
the malls landed at Southampton Poincare. I understand that they that the special train for Marshal from the liner Leviathan had been discussed the changes which had Chiang Kai-shek had steam Pother negotiable securities were tampered with and that notea and taken place in international affairs yesterday afternoon at the Pukow missing from certain registered since their January meeting, when station and that the military escort the question of fixing the total for the Marshal and his party re reparations payments and other cetved orders to be ready before 5 While the various reports recely-matters were discussed. M. Poin-p.m. The party is expected to ed here on the damage caused in care showed that he felt confident leave Nanking for the North at Mindoro by the series of earth that the whole problem would be any moment. Nam Chung Pao, quakes which occurred on Jung 15 anisfactorily settled within the are conflicting, people who arrived next two years. in Manila yesterday from that is- Innd reported that lie tremors
Manila, June 21.
Both were agreed, however, that nothing could be done Immediate-
Peking Meeting.
Shanghai, June 24, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek re-
mails having been tampered with All indications point to the before they reached Southampton, and probably before leaving the office of despatch-British Wire- Hess.
Chen Chien Dismissed.
wrought more havoc in many townsly. The German elections, by as- turned to Nanking from Shanghai opinion that 500,000 will be more on the island than was at first rouring a stable Republican Gov-on Saturday. It is reported that than adequate. *parted.
The topography of some sections ernment, had made the discussion, he sent a message to Marshal Yen of the debt questions and a re-sf-aban atating that he will leave of the island has been greatly vision of the Dawes plan a more for Peking as soon as Marshal! changed by the quakes, the reports say, owing to the settling of the profitable undertaking, but the Feng Yu-hsiang is ready.
Feng Yu-hsiung has been naked earth, causing several hectares of future Berlin Government, it was
agreet, would be too occupied to fix a date. land to go under water.
making its own position secure to start discussing an external pró- Ilem of such magnitude until some time had elapsed.
Over Pesus 500,000.
Mr. Parker Gilbert also had an interview with M. Gaston Leverve, Commissioner for the German Railways. The railway situation
recent two
owns a sugar central there is said to have suffered considerable duninge while surrounding pro- party owners have reported dama are believed to have agreed to the gos at more than Pesos10,000. principle of making up possible The telegram also said no re-deficit, by increasing the ratea. port has yet been received from An announcement on the subject neighbouring towns where damage will shortly be made.
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The Peking Council.
Shanghai, Juno 25. The appointment of the Com mittee of the Peking' Political Council is greatly interesting all the Nanking officials.
Péking, June 18. Roy Chapman Andrews, the American scientist and explorer, has abandoned his search for trace the 110th degree of East longitude of primitivo mian, after reaching and 41st degree of north latitude.
The abandonment of the exped↓ hostility on the part of Chinese, tion may possibly be due to following the Nationalist victory over the Northerners, since the territory has undergone a great change after its occupation by the force of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. and it also lies near his line of communicationg toward Siberia.
The reason assigned for giving up the expedition is that the party met Sven Hedin's returning camel train which reported that the sand Shanghai, June 24,
was too heavy for motor ears to The Nanking Government has travel, even camels suffering bad÷ | Issued an edict dismissing Generally in making their way. Chen Chien from membership of the Central Executive Committee, Mukden Intrigue,
The remainder of the summer will be employed at 116 degree of east longitude, 41.30 degrees of north latitude. In this region Shanghai, June 24,' numerous streams disappear' into Activity of the once famous an unexplored desert which, cen- Anfu Club in Mukden Is reported,turies ago, is believed to have been It is anticipated that the Com-it being suggested that a number an agricultural paradise.
drews party is dated May 24, before their return began. It stated that Andrews was virtually recovered from his leg wound, on which date the party was close to the Russian trail.
A telegram received from the municipal president of San Jose, Mindora, states estimates of the total destruction caused by the earthquakes has been placed at more than Pesos 500,000. The Philippine Trust Company which Germany is appearing not in somittee, will include Mr. Chang Ki, of the Anfu clique together with The latest letter from the An- satisfactory position as could General Chiang Tso-pin (Chair Mr. Le Wen-kan, former Minister be wished owing to the
man of the Committee of the ad of Foreign Affairs of the Peking in salarios. The increnses
Marshal Sun ministration of the war area in Government, and Peking), General Chau Chen-lin, Chuan-fang are seeking to gain Marshal Yen Hsi-sian, Messrs. control of the Fengtien Party. Chao Ta-fu, Nam Kwi-shing, Gen- eral Lu Chung-lin, General Ho
Is Yen Disappointed? ́ ́,
Peking, June 24, The vernacular papera state that Yen Hal-shan intends shortly to return to Taiyuanfu "for a rest." Many are of the opinion that he is disappointed because the Nanking Government has not recognised his appointments to various posts, but has put in its own nominees.- Router.
is also believed to have been done
to properly. · Previous reports estimated the damage in the pro-
vince at Pesos 1000,000.-
Wharf Badly Damaged.
The town of Caminawit, located
SWIMMER ATTACKED BY A SWAN.
on the shores of Mangarin Bay, is STRUGGLE IN KESTON LAKE.
said to have been hit the hardest by the quake.
who
|Shing-chun, General Kwok Chung-i tino, General Li Liel-chun and General Fang Ben-yen.
The appointments will be decid- ed upon at the next meeting of the Centrál Political Counell in Peking.—Nam Chau Pan
Demobilisation Suggestions.
Shanghal, June 24. Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is anxious
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NEW SHIPPING SERVICE.
PACIFIC COAST TO SAIGON.
It is announced by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company, A awan attacked a man For the present, it is impossible was swimming in Keston Lake, that the number of troops under
San Francisco, who have recently Sinkiang Goes Nationalist.
purchased the twenty-one vessels to estimate the damage suffered by four miles from Bromley, Kent, arms should be reduced consider-
Peking, June 24. the first place, recently. this town. In
in the America Australia Orient Vossels calling in that port are not
ably at the earliest possible The delegate of the Sinkiang Line of the United States Ship: able to dock to-day where they
a strong awimmer,moment and he has again cabled tupan, Yang Tseng-hain, after a ping Board, and for whom the Co- docked yesterday. Beside the was in the middle of the late when to Nanking urging that a disband-long stay in Nanking is leaving for lumbia Pacific Shipping Company wharf, where there was sufficient he was attacked. His shouts were ment plan should be put into Sinkiang. It is expected that theure acting as General Oriental water for big vessels, a launch will [ heard by people on the bank, who | operation." get stranded to-day.
From afar, the wharf resembles swan,
The man,
threw sileks and stones at the
Nationalist flag will shortly be hoisted at Sinklang. Reuter. Future of Domestic Loans Bureau.
Peking, June 23.
Agents, that a regular monthly direct service from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Saigon, Indo- China, will be inaugurated with formerly the West Prospect, from the sailing of the s.a. Golden Sun,
He points out that revolution la in shape a coiled snake, as a result The swimmer eventually reach of the people; the stage has been intended to work for the welfare of the shocks, reports say. ed the bank in a state of exhaus-reached when fighting has been The representatives sent by the Eyewitnesses of the catastropligion. He said that had he not completed, and those of the state that the first shocks pulled swum on his back and kicked out Nationalist leaders who refuse to Nanking Government Lo receive the Pacifle Cousi on June 30th.
at the bird he would have been have their armies reduced to rea-he Ministry of Finance archives dragged under.
sonable limits, should be regarded sent a delegate to-day to the 'as militarists to be overcome. Bureau of Domestic Loans to take Leaders of Nationalist armies over its affairs and documents with troops properly directed, will connected with it. The evening be able to do good and rule the vernacular papers state that the country, but, if misled will create Bureau will cease to function.--
Reuter.
the wharf completely over to one side, but the second shock placed on its feet" again, although cracked all over.
it
The swan was removed from the lake by the common ranger. Half of Town Destroyed, The Swans of Keston Lake have Camfnawit is said to present a made thoir nesting place on the weird night when seen from Man-back near the public diving board. garin Bay. Half of the town is submenged in water, while very
little harm was done to the other FORTY ICEBERGS SEEN
half.
A queer effect of the earth- quakes in that town is that half of it, that lying on one side of the The railway is relatively intact, town of Caminawit is shaped like aongue, with a railway connect- Ing the port with the San Jose sugar central cuttlag the town in
two.
IN ONE DAY.
ATLANTIC LINER 30 HOURS LATE THROUGH FOG,
disturbance.
·
The disbandment of a large num-
ber of troops is the first move to
be made, after which leaders can | devote their time in training their
troops to responsibility.
Marshal Chiang's Approval.
In a recent speech to the Wham Between 10 and 60 icebergs were pao Cadet College Students' Ass seen in one day by the Cunardciation in Shanghai, Marshal liner Ausonia, which arrived at Chiang Kai-shek declared that one Plymouth recently from Montreal of his principal purposes in wish- and Quebec.
She made the passage via the Strait of Belle Isle, being the first liner of the season to do so.
Many nipa houses in Caminawit are now under water as a result of the settling of a portion of the town. When the innudation took place, the people of the town im mediately constructed rafts and roofed their floating dwellings.. Several of these rafls were nearly For Caused the liner to be 30 washed away to the sea by the cur-hours late in reaching Plymouth, rent, it is said, but were saved by one day's run being under 100 the prompt intervention of the miles owing to the density of fog. officers of the 8.8. Fortuna, Del Rio and Olabarriein vessel, then anchored in the bay.
Women would Leave Town. Tragic as well as comic incidents were reported on the arrival of the 6.3. Forturn at the town. Most of the women in the town went up to
The following Notice to Mariners was issued by the Harbour Depuri- ment under date of yesterday:—
Motor Boat No. 2 Tanak Maru, Hongkong for Pratas, broken down in Lat. 20.49 N. Long: 116.2 E., Not requiring assistance. Author-
the vessel in rafts and with tearsity:-Master, sa. Ben Vorlick.
In their eyes begged the captain to take them away from the town. They were told that the danger was over and that they were as safe there as before.
New York, June: 23.
The Chase National Bank has agreed to grant Cuba a credit
of $60,000,000 to finance her programme of pubile works:- Reuter's American Service.
A group of Japanese lost no time in repairing, to a tiny boat owned by one of their countrymen, on June 15, with the result that the boat early capsized. A Japanese fisherman in down found his escape prevented by several gushera
London, (Ontario), June 24. shooting from the ground all
The directors of the local bre- around him so, resigned to his fate, he sat down to die lamenting wery company which sponsored the fact that the earthquake he the fatal attempt of Tally and had ran away from in Kobe in 1923 Medcalfe to fly to England last had found him at last in an isolat-year, have granted a trust fund ed corner in the Philippines in of G$10,000 for the benefit of the 1928,"
widows. Reuter's American Ser-
Other damaged property report- vice.
ed from Mindoro includes 60 kilo-
moters of rullway and several small-bridges. The railroad-line
from Caminawit to San Jose, where red in the central, as well as
the sugar central is located, has been twised.
Damage at San Jose.
breaks in various pipe lines. A 15-
ton crusher in the central was cracked, it is said. In several buildings pertaining to the central, The force of the shock was portions of brickwork were cracked much less in and about the central and displaced. All
the pro- of San Jose. In this town, sovorn!perty, however, is completely old wooden buildings settled and covered by insurance with the others collapsed. Some displace- Union, Insurance Company of Can- ment of movable machinery occur-ton.
ing to take part in a military con- ference in Peking is the question
Reports Denied..
Thereafter all vessels of the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company in the South Chinn ser- vice will make Saigon a regular port of call.
This morning's Harbour. Omen reports gave 11 arrivals and 17 de- partures, with British holding top: place. Tonnage was good for the Peking, June 23. The foreign authorities deny re. number of arrivals, but British ports in the vernacular papers total under both headings being freights were extremely poor, the that the Bureau of Domestic
less than 2,000 tons. There was Loans is likely to cease to fine-only one four figure Inward, this Government will not interfere with throughs were Japanese and Ameri- tion, and state that the Nanking being Japanese, while the highest the working of the Bureau at pre- can, all figures under this heading
sent.—Reuter,
Territory, Evacuated.
being above the average, The full figures for the weekend gave 28, ar- rivals and 40 departures, of which Peking, June 23. 10 and 18 were British leaving. 58 of troop disbandment. Marshal The Kuominchun have evacuat-vessels in harbour, of which 21 Chiang pointed out that there are, ed territory to the east of Peking were British. at present, something like 1,500, which Pei Chung-hsi has taken
000 troops in China. It was his over-Reuter,
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