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SCENES OF HORROR WHEN
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£300,000 FIRE IN LONDON.
BIGGEST BLAZE SEEN FOR MANY YEARS.
HOUSES EVACUATED.
London, Sept. 6. It is estimated that a hundred thousand people watched a blaze at the New Crane Wharf at Wap-
ping last evening which constituted the biggest fire in London for many years.
mass
water
The fire began in a six storey The city of Santo Domingo was practically wiped out by a warehouse packed with cocoanut hurricane which travelled at beans and spices and seventy fire the rate of 150 miles an hour, engines and to river floats pure leaving death and widespread ed an enormous destruction in its train. Twenty through ten miles of fire hose.
Nevertheless, the fire spread and people were killed, the total two thousand people were ordered casualty list being about 900. to evacuate their homes while hun-
Scenes of horror followed the hurricane when lunatics escaped following the destruction of the principal asylum. The inhabi- tants are now in a terrible plight, being short of food and water.
Shortage of Water,
New York, Sept. 4. The hurricane was followed by scenes exceeding in horror any thing which has been witnessed in Santo Domingo for the past decade. Disorder and alarm were increas- ed by the destruction of the principal lunatic asylum from where the inmates who escaped death and injury careered wildly through the streets.
The entire army was paraded to give assistance and President Trujillo has taken personal charge
of the relief measures.
BEALANT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1930.
BETAL
י-ייו,
FILIPINOS RESENT SILVER SALES BY GANGSTER AVOIDS
"APPOINTMENT.
AN ANTI-ROOSEVELT OUTCRY.
|BOOK CONDEMNED AND THEN PUBLICLY BURNED.
PERFERVIDORATORY.
Manila, Sept. 1.
In the presence of at least 1,500 of the 20,000 persons who were expected at the Balintawak monument yesterday, what was earnestly alleged to be a copy of Nicholas Roosevelt's book. The Philippines, a Treasure and a
dreds of firemen, wearing gas Problem" was consigned to a masks, controlled the fire.
fiery grave. Oratory and kero- Towards midnight the people sen, equally inflammable, assist were allowed to return to their ed in the ultimate destruction of ted in the fire, the damage in which homes. Two warehouses were gut-the offensive volume.
The kerosene
even more is estimated at about £300,000-essential to the climax of the picturesque ceremony than the fervid poetry and purple rhetoric which accompanied its use.
Reuter,
REMARKABLE R.A.F. SPEEDS.
WORLD'S RECORD BELIEVED EXCEEDED.
Was
was
A
Three Hours of Oratory.
For three solid hours, the impressive procession continued. For three hours the cruvd stood
what spell-bound In genuinely blazing Bun, while peroration piled on perora- London, Sept. 4.
tion. Verbal and Remarkable speeds are being at-
physical tained by the high speed section Ppyrotechnics marked the occasion, of the Royal Air Force, which is and the crowd of patriots, gather practising in Felixstowe andered on the spot where the cry of the direction of Squadron Leader freedom first was raised, swelter-
ed and cheered. Orlebar on super-marine Rolls
Trophy.
It is now
expected that the difculties in regard to the Italian
reached. Representative Varona,
He has appealed to the Ameri- Royce and gloster Napier racing But eventually the climax was can Red Cross to send food, cloth-planes built for the Schneider ing, shelters and medical supplies na soon as possible.
The damage at Santo Domingi is estimated at millions of ster. and French entries for. naxt year's newspapers, held it aloft and ask- ling, almost the entire city being destroyed and the main cable, office obliterated.
Schneider contest will be overcome and the race held in British
waters.
Although the speeds now being The unfortunate inhabitants of attained by British pilots are not the city are in urgent need of being divulged, it is stated that water while many robberies have the world's record of 357 miles already been reported as a result per hour set up by Squadron of hunger--Reuter's American Ser-Leader Orlebar has since been vice.
exceeded in these practice flights. New York, Sept. 4. -British Wireless,
It is now reported that nine hun- dred people were killed and injured in the Santo Domingo hurricane.→→ Reuter's American Service.
New York, later. Messages from Santo Domingo state that twenty people were kill- ed there in the hurricane which did Immense damage to property. The wireless station, together with most of the buildings in the city, was destroyed. Reuter's American Ser- vice.
Wireless Station Damaged.
New York, Inter.
SERIOUS FLOODS IN INDIA.
veritable modern Savonarola, wrapped the provocative volume, or something which looked not unlike it, from its swathing of ed the opinion of those present regarding its disposition.
Blames Administration. Representative Varona was the spokesman for all his fellows as he said:
INDIA.
BRITAIN'S REPLY TO CHINA'S MEMORANDUM.
LONDON DISCUSSION.
London, Sept., 4. With reference to Mr. T. V. Soong's statement on the question of silver sales by India, Reuter is Informed that the memorandum
mer.
is
AL. CAPONE.
DEPARTS TO ESCAPE VENGEANCE.
JACK DIAMOND REFUSED ENTRY IN EUROPE.
OUTLAWED BY SHIPS.
office to India, from where what
It was referred by the Foreign reported to have been made to described as a sympathetic reply escape from the vengeance of was despatched.
"Scarface" Al Capone, has caused a first class sensation in the British and
Continental Press.
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OVERSEAS MARKET.
London, Sept. 4. The International Motor Show opens at Olympia next month, and manufacturers, who are well ad- vanced with the preparations, are unanimously optimistic about trade prospects.
CHINESE TROOPS ON SHIPS.
INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY CONSUL.
ARMED MEN NOT ALLOWED ON BRITISH STEAMERS.
| RECENT INCIDENT."
pointing out China's difficulties in consequence of the fall in silver and
London, Sept. 4. asking for British co-operation,
There will be a record number
The trouble caused to shipping particularily with reference to the
The secret departure from of cars on view at this year's companies operating on the sale of silver by the Govenment of New York of Jack Diamond, Show, which promises to be ex- West River by Chinese military tah Government earlier in the sum-gangster, bootlegger and "king result of the latest research into officers demanding passages and India, was addressed to the Bri- described **B 籍 New York ceptionally interesting, and the
of the New York underworld," the requirements of overseas mar.the right to carry arms has re- kets will be apparent in many mocently been emphasised by an in- a produced by firms with world-cident aboard the s.a. Tai Ming, famous names.
From a small but amazingly of the Kwong Wing Company. speedy and efficient baby car ob- Several cases of this kind have tainable for £120 to a luxuri-occurred recently, with the re ous limousine costing ten times as Various liners on which he was much, almost every conceivable sult that the British Consular reported to have taken a passage need of potential buyers seems to authorities have been compelled were besieged with wireless in- have been met by the manufacto direct the attention of owners quiries while they were in mid-turers and the trend of models will of vessels flying the British flag be to provide at reduced prices, Eventually, Diamond arrived at greater comfort, efficiency and to previous warnings on the sub- Queenstown on board the 8.8. safety.
ject. Belgenland, but he was not allow
The improvements are mostly in ed to land there.
In the case of the Tai Ming it Diamond con-matters of detail, though of it-transpires that whilst at Samabut Bequently proceeded to Antwerp portant detall, coupled with the where he stated that he was pro- provision of fuller equipment and ceeding to Germany to take a cure smartened appearance British for "stomach trouble."
The Chinese Minister in London, discussing other business with Mr. Arthur Henderson this week, refer- red to the subject. It is pointed out in Chinese quarters in London that the Government of India's
RAIN INTERFERES WITH INTERPORT BOWLS.
Teams Unable Play
Yesterda
HOPES FOR TO-DAY.
'Shanghai, Sept. 5. Owing to heavy rain yester-. day, the Interpart howls teazaa from Hongkong and Haukow were unable to play their matches with the Shanghai Recreation Clüb. Weather there will be permitting, practice matches to-day with the Junior Golf Club. at Hongkew Park at 3.30 p.m.
The Junior Golf Club team against Hongkong will be D. McAlister (skip), J. Alcorn, A. Hayward and C. Clements.
Our Own Correspondent,
ocean.
Ships Refuse Passage. He was arrested at Aix-la- Chapelle at the instance of the American authorities, but the lat ter subsequently withdrew the
case.
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Wireless.
YOUNG LADY: LOSES OVER $500.
three Chinese military officers at- tempted to board the vessel to take passago to Wuchow, but were re- fused passage by the master (Capt. Spinks) on the ground that they were armed. The officers protested that they were carrying important. despatches to Wuchow, and refused to leave the vessel. Later the Cap-
Haulick and the three officera were put ashore.
The German authorities, after THIEF RUNS OFF WITH HER |täin informed a British gunboat at
having Diamond medically ex amined to ascertain whether a cure
Notorious Leader.
HANDBAG,
Forced Boycott.
at a German spa, was necessary, de- The theft of a big sum of money cided to deport him and he was by two men obviously working to then escorted by the police to Bregether, has been revealed with the men. All the liners, however, were arrest of a Chinese in Glenenly When they reached Wushow, the, found to be full up and a number
yesterday.
officers reported the matter to the of freighters refused to take Dia- About noon, Miss Lee Chl, living military authorities, with the re- mond. Reuter.
at No. 5, Condult Road, wassult that an armed guard was post- coming down to town. As she led at the wharf of the Tai Ming, passed through Glenealy, coming and, under the pretext that they Al Capone is the most notorious down the slope, she felt herself had come to search for "reaction-- leader of a criminal gang in the pushed from behind. In saving aries," prevented all Chinese pas- "We are assembled here to-day snow as 'Scarface" or "king of the Lee involuntarily dropped a bag All the approaches to the vessel
United States and is commonly herself from falling forward, Miss sengers from boarding the vessel. for the purpose of protesting most
When
a which. she carried in one hand. were guarded and even members Chicago underworld." energetically against the book of denial of the reported sale of 40 Crime Commission was established A Chinese then came within of the crew experienced difficulty Nicholas Roosevelt, the newly 000,000 ounces of silver to a Chin-in Chicago this year it compiled a view and, picking up the bag, he in reaching the vessel. As. « re- appointed Vice-Governor of the ese banking corporation evidently list of 28 "public enemies," being ran up the hill into Robinson ault, the Tal Ming left Wuchow Philippines. This book
con-refers to a reported later sale, as it headed by Capone who was accused Road, where he was seen to hand later without Chinese passengers or stitutes a veritable libel on an is known that a further sale of sil- of conducting for years past a great over the bag to an accomplice. cargo. entire people and to keep silent ver actually occurred last week organisation and of being guilty This latter escaped with the bag. on it would be tantamount to a Reuter. justification of the libel of Roose-
of every crime in the calendar from It contained $561.70 in notes and Consul's Instructions. The Finance Minister at Nanking murder downwards.
coins, a pair of spectacles worth velt on the people of this country””.
earlier this week that
Great precautions have to be stated
Born of humble origin, Capone $15, a silver powder box, valued After recalling the significance China is continuing
the informal lived an exemplary life until he was at $10, and various other articles. taken.
West River of the spot on which the gathering discussions with Britain regarding 17.
When the hue-and-cry When engaged in horse-play
was owing to the presence of bandits, Shillong, Sept. 4.
was held, the speaker continued: silver sales by India, and is cabling in the street he knocked a man down raised, a European police officer's and in this connexion it is recall- A hundred thousand people "If Mr. Hoover's administration further instructions to the Chinese and, fearing that he had killed him, attention was
to the ed that as long ago as 1928 are affected by the floods which disregards us in our protest, then Minister in London on the subject. went into hiding. His fear was un-original thief, who was seized, but the British Consul at Shameen in- are due to the sudden rise of the we should aim at the administra- Brahmaputra in the Newgong dis- tion itself, for thrusting upon us out to the British Government that with criminals and when the pro- property over to his confederate.
The Chinese Minister had pointed founded but he became associated not until after he had handed the formed the shipping companies plying vessels on the West River trict.
run that the carriage of Chnese a man like Nicholas Roosevelt, who China's purchasing power had been hibition law came reached the
into force, is reduced and her commerce disrupt- alleged to have set up a big or-
troops was prohibited owing to is persona non grata among us.".
As Mr. Varona reached his ed by the silver depreciation, with ganisation to distribute liquor
the necessity for maintaining a neutral attitude in the Chinese climax he became even more em detriment to the trade and industry secretly
civil wars phatic.
of countries trading with China. It is stated that Capone has made Reference was made to the difficulty $200,000 a year from this source, of China meeting her gold obliga-but fierce enmity has arisen be- tions, introducing monetary re-tween him and rival "bootleggers." forms, and settling her arrears of In recent years there have been debts. The hope was expressed grim conflicts between the rival that the Indian Government would ganga in Chicago, the gang war- withhold silver sales at low level fare being such as to give Chicago an unenviable reputation for vio- lent crime.
HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE AFFECTED.
The water has
It is now estimated that the housetops in some districts, while Casualties at Santo Domingo in the granaries and cattle have been hurricane number 300 besides the washed away and roads and rail- twenty people killed at Dominica ways broken.-Reuter,
where the wireless station was de- molished and great damage wrought.
Haiti escaped the hurricane which blew at the rate of 150 miles an hour and razed the better class houses of Santon Domingo to the ground. The poorer dwellings in Bome cases simply disappeared, while bridges were wrecked, roads were rendered impassable and tele. graphs blown away.
BRITISH ADMIRALTY
CHIEF.
PAYS VISIT TO ITALIAN CAPITAL.
3fonster of Publicity." "These who say that the Filipi nos are devoid of national unity," he asserted, "are talking through their hats. For the step which we
CENTURY- AGAINST AUSTRALIA.
drawn
DISCOVERY OF HUGE CRYSTAL.
IN CHUNG SHAN MODEL DISTRICT.
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The Consul then stated that, in consequence of an enquiry on the subject, he had telegraphed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking to Canton, Sept. 4.
ask whether, in view of the cessa- A huge crystal said to weigh 20 tion of hostilities, objection to the cattles has been found in the carriage of troops was withdrawn. Phoenix Mountains in the Chung After consultation with the Bri- Shan Model District and is at tish Naval Commander-in-Chief, present being exhibited by the His Majesty's Minister instructed 'Arrested Once.
Chung, Shan Arts Society together the British Consul that the trans- with a number of other crystals and port of troops was authorized, pro- Capone moves around Chicago in a bullet proof car and is accom stones discovered recently in those vided that no arms were carried.:
mountains. NAA panied by members of his gàng,
It was added that arms belonging A foreigner is reported to have to troops might not be taken, even. become one of the chief industries of the men of been the first to discover semi-in the custody of the ship's officers. precious stones in that region some
as it was considered that this the underworld who also run gaten years ago. Since then, the mat would be an Invitation to piracy. London, Sept. 4. bling houses and disreputable night ter has been having the attention "I hold in my hands his in- famous book. I want now to ask Australians at Felkestone conness men on the pretext of pro- first occasion on which a stone of The English eleven playing the clubs and levy blackmail on busi of the local officials, but this is the you what should be done with it.tinued their innings to-day and tecting them from other gange. Shall we burn it? Shall we
Our Own Correspondent, trample it under-foot? Shall we declared at 403 for eight wickets. No crime has ever been brought such size has been found there. strike it with the blows of the The innings was characterised by home to Capone, although he went hammer?"
a fine batting display by Ames to prison last year for the first and. who scored 121. Maurice Tate only time. He was arrested In RUBBER PRICE SLUMPS. the letter from the Consul
Philadelphia for carrying a re- contributed 50 to the score.
volver. Even this. is believed to:
are about to take is the best demon- stration of national unity in the history of our struggles for free- London, Sept, 4. dom. What more sublime demon- The First Lord of the Ad- stration of disinterested patrio- miralty. Mr. A. V. Alexander, tism, than this one, where demo- Three districts were completely visited Rome to-day. He was ac cratas and nationalistes, conten- destroyed and the American Red companied by Rear-Admiral Chet-ders in the local political arena, FINE BATTING BY AMES AT Bootlegging has Cross has cabled funds to relieve wode and was met by the Minister are now fighting side by side the hunger which is already ap of Marine, Admiral Sirianni, and against a monster of publicity parent. — Heuter's American Ser-other high Italian Naval and known as Nicholas Roosevelt.?
Foreign Office officials, and mem- vice.
bers of the British Embassy Staff. --British Wireless,
ACTION BY SHANGHAI EDITOR.
CLAIM MADE AGANIST
THE "MERCURY” „
Shanghai, Sept. 5.
COSTES AT DALLAS.
QUALIFIES FOR THE PRIZE OF £5,000.
Crushed with Hammer.
FOLKESTONE.
Since a fire, was already laid, At the close of play to-day the have been arranged by him as a Dallas, Sept. 4. and a bottle of kerosene set up in Australians had made 169 for the means of escaping death at the Costes and Bellonte, who a conspicuous place on the statue, loss of three wickets, Ponsford hands of a gang leader who was on
his track In the British Court yesterday recently flew from Paris to New the answer which he received was being out for 76-Reuter Judge King made an order for York, have arrived here, thus not entirely unexpected by the pleadings in the action for alleged qualifying for Colonel Easter-crowd. He was vociferously in- wrongful dismissal against the wood's prize of £5,000 Shanghai Mercury, which is In | Reuter's American Service, · voluntary liquidation, by the form.
THAMES TUNNEL
NEW LOW RECORD: NOW ESTABLISHED.”
London, Sept. 4.. Rubber touched a fresh low record to-day, when the price was 4.7/16d. per pound.
British Wireless.
Further Reminder,
WAS
Mr. Acting Consul-General
On April 12th, 1980, the Kwong Wing Shipping Company again warned by the British con- sular authorities at Shameen,
reading I have to remind you of the instructions contained in
Brenan's letter of August 25th, 1928, to the effect that armed Chinese troops should not be carried in ships flying the British Recent Gang Outrage.
flag Cases have come to my When released in March this
notice in which a disregard of year, Capone hid for three days to
these instructions has led to mis- avoid under-world enemies and then
understandings, and I should be called on the Chicago Police Com-
glad if you would see that if missioner and announced that he treaty with his chief rival by which Chinese troops are carried on your intended to resume residence in Chicago was to be divided into vessels in future, they are not the city. He was told that even if "spheres of influence." The pact, allowed to take any arms on board seen in the streets he would be ar however, was soon broken. More with them It was intimated that Mr. Lloyd At a meeting of colliery owners destined for the fire.
London, Sept. 4reated. He disappeared again and recently the Chicago gangs came It is in consequence of these claimed a minimum of 33,000, the held in London to-day, the prepara-But even as the match was
Work on the new Thames tunnel was found at his magnificent man- farther into prominence by the instructions that the shipping. equivalent of six months salary in tion of the central marketing struck, the allegedly malign in between Dartford and Purfleet,sion in Florida which is more like brutal murder of a journalist who, companies concerned are now re- leu of notice, and that he was scheme under the Coal Mines Act fuence of the appointed Vice- which is to cost £3,000,000, a fortress than a home...
It was suggested, was killed on ac fusing to allow armed Chinese. given only a month's notice of dls of 1980 was approved--British Governor became obvious will begin before Christmas. He later returned to Chicago and count of the knowledge of gang ac- military officers to take, passaga Raumalosal Our Own Correspondent.
Wireless.
(Continued on Page 7) British Wireless,
was report to have arranged a peace tivities which he had unearthed. Jon their vesseldy 21
er editor, Mr. George T. Lloyd.
stracted by his audience to strike the book with a sledge which had been, with much difficulty, laid on an anvil at the very feet of the beautiful figure atop the Balin- tawak monument. Thereafter, the book having been correctly crush- London, Sept. 4ed by the blows of patriots, it was
His Lordship refused a stay of COAL MARKETING SCHEME. action after listening to an applica-
tion by counsel on behalf of the
newspaper.
SCHEME.
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