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MONDAY, JULY 15, 1929.
1九月六
SINGLE DOFT IE OBUTS
RELIEF OF WATER|MURDER OF INDIAN FRENCH AVIATORS BRITAIN BEATEN IN THE SINO-SOVIET
SHORTAGE.
ISLAND" SUPPLY MORE THAN DOUBLED!
KOWLOON GAINS AT LEAST 99,000,000 GALLONS.
CONSTABLE.
CHINESE INDICTED ON THE
CAPITAL CHARGE.
WIFE ALSO DETAINED.
With the arrest, over the week- end, of a man and th woman, stated to be husband and wife, the police have reached a tep
DRIVEN BACK...
HEAVY STORMS FORCE RETURN TO CANTON,
FAILURE OF ATTEMPT TO SIGHT KAI TACK.
RESTRICTIONS STAND, {towards" polving the mystery FLY OVER HONGKONG.
The persistent and heavy raina of the week-end, resulting in an
average rainfall since Thursday closely approaching ten inches, has materially reduced Hongkong's im-
surrounding the murder of
indian Constable
the
|BI)
an
hillside near the Run Chung Mar kel, Yaumanti, on Wednesday last.
The couple now
apprehended
The French armen., Commander Rignot and Captain Arrachart, who on Saturday morning wet out from Canton on a flight to Shang-
DAYIS
CUP.
AUSTIN COLLAPSES AFTER HEROIC EFFORT.
2
ODD MATCH OF FIVE.
..Berlin, July 14. Germany defeated Great Britain by three matches to two in the Anal of the European Zone of the Davie | Cup Competition. The last match
provided real thrills and eventu ally tragedy.
DISPUTE.
MOSCOW SENDING A NEGOTIATOR.
SIX ARMOURED TRAINS NOW PATROLLING RAILWAY.
CHINESE ATTITUDE.
The
Shanghal, July 15. Kuomin News Agency learns from Is Harbin correspon- dent that Moscow is preparing to
to effect an amicable settlement the management of the Chinese Eastern Railways.
mediate water anxieties, though we formerly occupied a hut near the hat, had to return later in the acts, after winning the frat. Two send a plenipotentlary to Harbin
understand there, is little
pr
The teams stood two matches all, and the result depended on the duef between Dr. Prenn and II.W. "Bunny" Austin.
Austin lost the second and third
sets all were called. Austin show- encountered heavy weather. Or set, and when Prenn pressed his attack, and led 6-1, Austin collapsed, their return they passed over the and could not continue. It is to be Kai Tack Aerodrome at Kowloon, feared that Austin is suffering from for which they were searching for recurrence of the heart trouble landing purposes, but failed to matches for a long period, some which kept him out of singles
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ATTACK ON WATER ATLANTIC FLIGHT
· TANK GUARD.
STONES THROWN & INDIAN'S UNIFORM TORN.
OFFENDERS' FINED,
Trouble occurred on Saturday night at Centre Street, when crowd of water-carriera, égged on by two men, assaulted the Indian guard on duty at the water tank and' damaged his uniform.
Stones were flying all over the place when timely assistance was rendered by a Sikh constable, who took the two principal offenders to the No. Police Station.
this
DISASTER.
POLISH FLIERS CRASH IN THE AZORES.
MAJOR IDZIDOWSKI KILLED: COLLEAGUE RESCUED.
QUEER DELAY STORY,
It seems certain that disaster- has befallen the Polish attempt to. fly the Atlantic from Le Bourget. Paris, to New York.
Conflicting reports of the fate of the airmon has been received from various sources, but a Reuter cable reaching the Colony at
spect for the time being of a rockcene of the crime, and were found morning, owing to their having cd signs of the terrific strain in the of the Sino-Soviet controversy ovor. W. Hamilton that the two men 16.05 n.m. this morning leaves little
faxation in the present restrictions. Since yesterday morning, the is- Innd reservoirs have shown a stemuly rise, and we were informed by the Water Authority to-day that there hng been a further Increase in storage of 44,000,000 gallons.
More than Doubled.
the murder. to have disappeared shortly after
The man was arrested on Satu- day in Mangkok, on information recelyed, and this morning was produced before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, ai,the Kowloon Magistracy, on the capital charge.
On the application of Detective The total increase since Thurs-Sergeant Fitches, the defendant
few thousand was remanded for one week.
day. fulls
fons. The total in storage this
locate it.
time back.
Britain became all square as the Their machine, a Breguet 19 result of an easy victory by Dr. J. with a single 600 h.p. Rennult en C. Gregory and 1.G. Collins over gine, in the one in which the air-Kleinschroth and Landmann win- gallons short of 200,000,000 gol- The woman was not brought be men have flown from Paris en
fore the Court, but is being detain-route to Tokyo, and it is their-4, 6-2, 6-0, and the success Dr. J. C. Gregory against morning was 341,000,000 gallons, ed pending further enquiries.
Moldenhauer, whom he defeated irrespective of the service reser-
with the greatest case, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3, voirs which contain' approximately
The astonishing part about it is 10,000,000 gallons. It will be seen
that Moldenhauer, beat Austin in that the Island's supplies have
straight sets on Friday when he was been much more than doubled,
conceded only, half a chance.
Tytam Tuk has risen no less than 17 feet, while Wongnolchong, which was about 40 feet below overflow last week, has risen over 20 feet and is now only 19 feet be- low.
seven
Daily Figures,
o'clock
TWO TYPHOONS ON
THE WAY.
ONE HEADING, TOWARDS
HONGKONG.
intention to fly back to France via Siberia, possibly in an attempt to brenk the record for that route. She was sighted over Kai Tack on Saturday morning, and was, strangely enough, referred to by a contemporary RA A "mystery plane" possibly on a test flight from Indo-China.
Return to Cunton,
Reporting the airmen's return to Canton, our correspondent here The states that it was at 10 o'click on
Saturday morning that, thavia tors got back to. Canton again, but they did not appear at Shameen antfl after noon.
Two typhoons are referred to in Manila warnings in to-day's report The remarkable increase in of the Royal Observatory. storage can be gathered from the rat is said to have crossed following measurements, taken at Northern Luzon in the form of
shallow depression. ench morning:
It may in Thursday, 141,400,000 gallons;rease in intensity in the China Friday, 153,440,000; Saturday, Sen,
The other is referred to as being Although the aviatora left Can- more than 300 miles east of Luzon, ton on Saturday morning in per- moving west. A later advice feet weather, says our correspon- The rafufall figures for the past gives its position as 127 Long. 17 dent, they had not got very far be
Lat., moving west-north-west, ifyond Hongkong when
238,440,000; Sunday, 297,000,000; Monday, 341,000,000.
24 hours are as follows:
Tylam
Tyłam Tuk
Wongnelchong
Pokfulam
inches.
1.75 1.94 1.93
44
The totala from Friday are:
Tylam
Tytam Tuk
Wongnelchong
Pokfulum.
7.81
.10.83
..11.0 6.93
On the Mainland, On the mainland, the benefit in Agures has not been so great as on the island, though its relative effect on the problem of water shortage in Kowloon is believed to he greater.
The Kewlom Reservoir this morning contained no less than 204,000,000 gallons, which repre- sents an increase, of 48,000,000 gallons since Saturday, 34,000,000 of which accrued up to yester day morning and 14,000,000 gallons in the past 24 hours,
Kowloon has gained in ons approximately 99,000,000 gallons since the prosunt rains began, as compared with over 199,000,000 on the island.
The deciding game saw, Austin and Dr. Frenn in opposition. Dr. Prenn went down in the first set 6-4, hut won the next at 6-2, and the third at 6-4. Austin made a tremendous effort in the fourth set, winning by 6-4 but the effort was too much for him. He was falling an easy victim to Prean in the final he carried off. Dr. Prenn won 4-6, eet when he collapsed and had to 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 5-1.—Router.
THE SUBMARINE.
tion is being taken to ensure the In the meantime every precau- maintenance of normal traffic.
Practically all the Soviet om- clals, including the General Man- ager and the Assistant General Manager have been dismissed and many have already been sent back to Russia.
4
At the Folico Court, morning, it was stated to Mr.
rosented an order against their
brick tank. depositing their tins against the room for doubt that their machine crashed in seeking a safe landing ground in the Azores and that Major Idzidowaki was killed.
While one threw a brickbat at the Indian guard, his companion sought to restrain the latter from using his whistle by tugging at his arm.
$25, or one month's Imprisonment Defendants wore each fined
BATHER STEALS PALM BEACH SUIT,
Settlement Likely.
that if the Soviet negotiators un- Well-informed circles believe
dertake
to carry out the Sino- Soviet Agreement of September. 1924, as regards the management MAGISTRATE ORDERS CANING of the railway, the present situa tion will be satisfactorily settled.
TO BE GIVEN.
Chan Po-see, described as schoolboy, and a member of the South China Bathing Club at North
'Some few hours proviously. fears had been allayed by news from Horta to the affect that the "Marshal Pilsudskľ”, had landed · ently, the full circumstances of during the afternoon, but appar
the landing were not known at that time.
Mysterious Cruise.
Mystery surrounds the move. ments of the machine eince 6.45. p.m. on Saturday evening, when the, airmen sent wireless messages to Horta asking for a landing-stage to be prepared.
A football ground was immediate- ly lit up by alx great beacons, and, says Reuter, its approximate post-
About eighty White Russians, who were formerly employed on the railway, are being re-appointed to positions by the Chinese au-Point, was charged before Mr. Etion was notified to Major Idzidow. thorities Router.
W. Hamilton, this morning, with ski and his companion by wireless. the theft of a palm beach auft and
were
From that time onwards nothing Armed Guards;
a bolt, belonging to another bather at the Club.
more was heard from the machino though, repealed attempts Harbin, July 14.
The prosecuting police officer made to get into communication by After the Chinese seizure of full said defendant was seen walking wireless, control traffic on tho Chinese East away from the pavilion with the The astonishing part of the story ern Railway is running as usual, suit of clothes. He asked that anlies in the fact that when the "Mar- though the Harbin authorities as a example be made of the defendantahal Pilsudski" wirelessed for her precaution, have ordered armed in view of frequent complaints, by landing-ground, aho reported that guards to protect the lino against members, of thefts at the pavilion, they were "urgently trying to reach any possible disturbances,
A foster-brother of the defen: Horta, from which they
were 80 was summoned Into miles distant!" A tense altuation oxista, and six dant, who armoured trains are kept in re- Court, expressed reluctance at
Wireless Failure? The Observatory's daily report
gular service, patrolling the Rail-signing a personal bond without London, July 14.
the defendant being dealt with in says pressure remains highest in
The given distance of 30 miles Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lorc
some way by the Court. the vicinity of the Bonins, and E
Mr. Lu Yung-kuan, the new Chi-
ahould have been covered in less Eventually, the Magistrate or than half an hour at the outside, relatively low in a trough extend- The weather was sul very bad of the Admiralty, in a speech at nese. President of the Chinesodered ten strokes of the cane to but nothing was heard or seen of ing from Tongking neross Luzon however, and they then turned of the H.47 and hoped it would his intention to employ a number being released from the necessity"Iskra" is in the vicinity of Horta, Sheffield, referred to the sinking Eastern Railway, has announced be administered, the foster-brother them. The Polish training-ship South towards the coast, making for The local forecast til noon to- Hongkong, but owing to rain and be possible to secure the abolition of White Russians to fill the of standing as surely.
they en- They it continues on its present course countered heavy storms. it should come fairly near to tried to get through; but as condi- Hongkong.
tions were becoming worse instend
to the Pazilke.
morrow
moderate; cloudy, showery,
LANCASHIRE COTTON
TRADE PERIL.
OPERATIVES VOTE TO RESIST WAGE CUT.
London, July 15.
of better, they made out to sea,
Pour Visibility.
pick up Kai Tack and so returned to Canton, landing at Tai Sha Tau just before 10 a.m., having been three hours in the alr.
Had they been able to locate Kai Tack, they would have preferred landing there rather than to have! returned to Canton."
Apology Tendered. Immediately on reaching Sha- meen, the airmen called on the British Consul-General, Mr. Moga, It is feared that a tremendous and expressed regrets for having upheaval In the Lancashire cotton flown over British territory without effort is made to bring the emers be transmitted to H. B. Industry is imminent, unless ab permission. They asked that these players and employees to terms,
The employers åre endeavour- ing to reduce wages by 12.8 per cent, as from the end of the The Operative Cotton Spinners Amalgamation which has been ballotting on the subject of the employers' proposals, and the re- turns have hitherto yielded 972 per cent. In faveur of resistance of the wage cut
The steady growth in Kowloon is Flown by the following daily present month. measurements: Thursday. 195,- 000,000 gallons; Friday, 116,000,- 400 gallons; Saturday, 160,000,000; Sunday, 190,000,000; Monday, 204, 000,000 gallons,
The rainfall in the last 24 hours has averaged only a little over one inch.
Lowest Ebb.
1
It is worthy of record that Kow- loon reached its lowest ebp on June 17, when the reservoirs con- toned only 80.51 million gallons, while the Hongkong reservoirs were at their lowest in the course of last week.
The present storages are the greatest for months, Hongkong's | figures being equivalent to those re- corded in the beginning of April,
Observatory Figures.
}
The rainfall registered at the Royal Observatory in the past few days is na follows.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
inches. .63 3.10.
1.15
2.20 2.10.
9.30
A strike or lock-out would be must disastrous. It would involve at least half a million operatives. -Reuter.
"BLOOD AND IRON” SOCIETY.
CANTON POLICE KEEP A STRICT WATCHL
A cable received this afternoon from our correspondent states that the airmen resumed their flight to Shanghai this morning, taking off at 7 o'clock in rainy and bad wen- ther.
NEW FIRST LORD URGES ABOLITION,
way...
of not only on the grounds of humanity but because numerous destroyers used for do- of the Soviet officials and ch fence against submarines could gineers, also be abolished.-Reuter.
BANK SUSPENSIONS.
A large number of White Rus slan experts left Peking and Tientsin during the week-end for Hurbin in responge to the notif- cation. It appears that Chinese ¡experts with knowledge of Rail- way organisation are exceedingly
SÉVEN CLOSE THEIR DOORS scarce.
IN FLORIDA,
• d +
THE SINO-BELGIAN NEGOTIATIONS.
A Russian Suicide.
CHIANG RETURNS
NANKING.
||
TO
"IRONSIDE" LEADER ÁLSO ARRIVES.
and she made continuous efforts to get, Into touch with the "Marshal Pilsudaki" without success
More than twenty hourà passed without news of any description and gravo fears were being enter- tained when news came through from Graciosa, the most northerly island of the main group, to the effect that the machine had landed there during the afternoon (Sun- day).
Anxious Enquiries.
Pilot Killed.
Nanking, July 14. The leader of the "Ironsides" Jacksonville, July 14.
General Chang 'Fat-kwel, arrived It is reported that following at Nanking last night to interview It was at first thought that all Seven Florida banka have closed his arrest and deportation from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. The was well, but unconfirmed reports. including two at Daytona Beach, official of the Russian staff of the Fourth Nationalist Division and had been killed, with the result their doors during the past week, China, an influential and high "Ironsides were formerly the got abroad that one of the pilota
the Governor of Hongkong.
yesterday.
Chinese Eastern Railway commit-were responsible for the coup that anxious enquiries were made After their return to Canton, the The First National Bank atted suicide at the Chinese-Soviet in Canton in 1927.
of Graciosa, aviators expressed the hope that, Sanford closed its doors to-day, borders, killing himself, with a Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and The news then reached Horta weather permitting, they would be Approximately G80,000,000 of revolver..
his party of about twenty arrived that the airmen fell into the water able resume the flight to Shang-depositors'
up. money Is tied hat on Sunday morning, but owing Router's American Service.
at Pukow at 7.30 p.m. this evening | near Graciosa and that before Sun Fo Interviewed.
and were met by a large number of ships,could go to the rescue, one magneto trouble they were un
Interviewed at Shanghai yester-Nanking officials. The party con-of the pilots was dead. able to do so.
day, Mr. Sun Fo, head of the tinued their journey by train and Nanking Railway Department, arrived at Nanking at 8.30. whose jurisdiction reaches the Marshal Chiang intends to call Chinese controlled railways all a meeting with Messrs. Wu Han over the country Including those min, Tal Tin-chau, and other Nan- in Manchuria, anys that the king officials this evening to dia- taking over of the Chinese Eastera cuss his recent visit to Peking and The Original Start,
Railway has been contemplated for his conferences with Chang some time by his Department. Hsueh-liang and Yen Hsi-ahan. Reporting their original start
Shanghai, July 15,
The recent conference betweek out from Canton for Shanghai,
'The Sino-Belgium Committee is Marshal Chiang Kai-shek · and our correspondent says they took still' continuing its negotiations re- General Chang Hauch-liang only off at 6.55 a. m., making a perfect ascent over the Taf Sha Taugarding tho rendition of the Bel- precipitated the Harbin Govern-
gian Concession In Tientsin, ment's drastic action, aerodrome. They cleared the
It is understood that the Nan- ground in less than 200 yards, and, cireling over the aerodrome twice, king Government has agreed, to they swooped down and saluted make a reasonable payment in ro those present and then made offspect of the public buildings within
the Concession-Nam Chung Po, on a north-easterly direction.
They had on board one bag of mail for Shanghai and Nanking,
TIENTSIN CONCESSION ISSUE UNDER, DISCUSSION.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
Primary Cause,
non-
VICE.CONSUL TO CANTON.
MR. A. L. TUSON RETURNING TO HB POST.
od by a Reuter message from New The story of tragedy is confirm- York, stating that according to r ports received In Lisbon, tho Polish aeroplane crashed at Graciosa Island, Major Idaldowski was killed, Major Kubala was res cued and the machine wrecked.
The Lisbon message does not make it clear whether the "Mar- shai Pilsudokl" fell into the son or crashed on the island.
The Polish afrien, Major Idzi- dowski and Major Kubala, who falled in a af illar attempt last- year when they came down in the sumu machine on the Portuguese coast, set out from Le Bourget, París, on Saturday morning.
Upset by, Winds?
"The primary cause of the Chinese action is due to the Sovici Government's complete
Canton, July 13. adherence to the Chinese-Russian
It is announced that Mr. A, A. L. agreement for the joint control of
Eastern Railway Tuson has again been appoint the. Chinese established between the two coup-ed to Canton as H.B.M. Vice-Con-
sul. tries before, the inauguration of
. It will be remembered that Mr. the Soviet Government," declared
Tuson was Vice-Consul in Canton The following warships are now the Nanking Minister of Railways. for just over a year, and only left have reached, their destination at In port:
The Manchurian Government here on the 10th May to net as Conabout the time they crashed at Basin.-H.M.S. Tamar and Subha the full support of the nur in Foochow to replace Mr. G. Graciosa, but apparently ther ex- marines L15 and 19,
North Arm,-HL.M.S. Sirdar. West Wall Dock-II.M.8.
Canton, July 14. The Canton police, nuthorities are keeping a close look-out on the activities of a secret society named Those present to witness the the "Blood and Iron" society." departure included His Excellency This Bacioty in alleged to have General Chan Ming-shu, chair. neveral hundred members who man of the Kwangtung Provincial moko their living by robbery, and Government; General Au King other unlawful means. The police Yan, Chief of Police; the Chief of have received reports concerning | the Avlation Bureau, and ‘a large. their activities and it is under number of aviation and military stood that many of the members officers; Monsieur Eynard, Consul pesacas pistols and other weapons, for Franco; Monsieur L. D, Henry, It will be observed that 4.42 In-
All Police Stations and sub the Postal Commissioner; Montor. ches of rain have been recorded at stations have been ordered to keep sleur. Durand, agent for the the Royal Observatory in the forty-a close watch an suspected mem- Breguet and Renualt firms: eight houre, ended at 10 a.m. to bers of this organisation- and Mr. J. W. Platt of the Asiatie
(Vontinued on Page 1). Nam Chung Pe.
Petroleum Company.
Monday
Total
Cast:
In Dock-ILM'S. Olcala, No. 7 Buoy-HMS. Somme. No. 8 Buoy H.Ms. Stormcloud, No. 12 Buoy →HMS. Sterling,
If all had gone well then should
National Government In the S, Moss, C.B.E., who came to Can perlenced the furlous headwinds seizure of the Railway, and inton-as-Acting Consul-General, which caused the French airmen consequence General Chang The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. in the "Question Mark" to turn Houch-liang has made all possible, Tuson will be very pleased to see back, and the heavy expenditure preparations to cope with any un-them back again, though it la doubt. of petrol decided them to make toward developments in the forn ful if they themselves will appre-for the Azores. They were carry. of Russian reprisals in North-ciate then rapid transfers. During about 1,600 gallons of petrol eastern China, added Mr. Sun Fo. Own Correspondent.
when they set out.