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NO. 21,36
-#O WADAUE MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1931.
EUROPEAN CAPITAL SHIPS OF
COUPLE IN MOTOR SMASH.
TOPPLE OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
LADY DRIVER SUFFERS BOKEN ARM.
THE FUTURE.
U.S.A. SEEMINGLY FAVOUR EXISTING SIZES.
BRITAIN'S PROMISE.
Washington, Apr. 5 Admirul Pratt. who kn just hoon replaced as Commander-in- Chief of the United States
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SIX DAYS ADRIFT Rupert Brooke INJURED BY STRAY MOSLEM LEADER
IN CHINA SEA.
CHANGKIANG SURVIVOR PICKED UP.
and is now Chief of Naval Up GRIM STORY OF EXPERIENCE WITH
tions, Indicated today that
the
HUSBAND UNHURT. | Navy Department is carefully conse
res
Mr. and Mra. 5. D. Igglesden, well-known Eur- opean residents, had markable escape from serious injury in motor mishap which occurred yesterday morning at Jubilee Road, the rond round-the-island
T
from West Point to Aber deen.
Mrs. Iggiesten was in control of the car, an Austin, at the time of the mishap, fourning to drive. In making a turn, the
the
road car overshot
and
crashed over an embankment,
sidering the question of warship tonnages and gun enlibres.
rom-
Reuter gathers unofficially that the Navy Department still (siders that battleships of thirty-
tatia five thousand tons are for American strategy, owing to the combination provided of heavy striking power and great venish ing raillas.
The issue has been revivent dy
naval ment, Arranged by the good offers of Mr. Arthur Henderson and Mr. A. Y. Alexander,
the Pranen-italian
to
The Prench Government were persunded by Mr. Henderson equip their new 23,000-ton ships with 12-inch guns instead of 13.5- Throwing both Mr. and Mrs. inch guns, on the understanding igglesden on to patch off that Great Britain would, at the next international conference. scrubby ground.
favou substantial reduction in] the SE of capital ships and reduction of the maximum Kan- calibres.--Renter's American Ser-
Broken Arm.
The softness othe ground saved the occupants from serious.
Mrs. Igglesden suffered injury.
minor fractured
2014! braises, while her husband, who
A
is a member of the architects firm, Messrs. Leigh and Orange, escaped with minor bruises and slight shock.
It appears that Mrs. Friesilen wa being roneied in driving by
husband, who WIN
ber
hside her at the wheel.
Sudden Aereleration.
1 *AT and Thu. Bec Road. length of Jubilee
the
The
Mrs. 1 ulen we too put
vice.
41
ATTEMPT TO BURN MONASTERY.
SEQUEL TO A MONK'S DISMISSAL.
to the
car round to proceed back: the way they had come a quiet rod with
the fir was dis very litio heat Sham, it woofdenvered in good time, and thanks
of the energy appear, her feus acidentally be
monks. Ched the accrtender instead of the awakened by the ringing of the brake and the car shot forward.hig bell, it was put out; not before over tine estre of the embaukinent. } considerable damage had been: drepping into waste around tendone, however. feet below.
Mrs. and
Fortunately, Mr. Igglenden were thrown elrar the ear, and the only serinus in- jury suffered was in Mr, den to her arm.
BANDITS SEIZE BIG AREA.
CITY GARRISON FLEES FROM INVADERS.
URGENT APPEAL.
tertainment of goesis, and the man
ax
STRANGE COMPANION.
FIVE OTHERS PERISH.
Memorial.
Impressive Scene at Skyros.
PELLET.
CHINESE HURT WHILE AT TOMB WORSHIPPING.
ON BRITISH POLICY IN INDIA:
| APPEAL FOR UNITED DEMAND.
POET HONOURED. we at a tomb at Pokfulam HINDU-MOSLEM AGREEMENT
London, Apr. 5.
the most briliant of modern poets,
SHOOTING MISHAP,
Shot by a stray pellet whilst
over the week-end, a Chinese malo received alight Injuries to his head and was taken to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
URGED AT DELHI.
i
New Delhi, Apr. 5. "The British are willing to
A remarkable tribule to one of
It appears from a report issued by TALK WITH VICEROY. who died during the war on the Police Headquarters this morning. island of Skyros, was paid to-day that the man Wang Fong, aged 52 when the entire population of the years, of 3, Pokfulam Village was island. picturesquely dressed, worshipping at a tomb on the hill- turned out at dawn to meet the side at Kai Ling Wai yesterday (accept eighty per cent. of India's steamer bringing M. Venizelos, the when he was suddenly struck on demands forthwith," declared Foreign Minister of Greece, and the head by a missile which was Shaukat Ali, presiding to-day at the British Minister at Athens, subsequently found to have been the opening session of the All- together with a number of writers pellet fired by a sportsman who was India Moslem Conference, the
shonting in the vicinity.
result of which is just as im The visit was paid for the pur-jury was subsequently found to be Table Conference as the Con- The man responsible for the in-portant to the future Round pose of taking part in an impresKong Ling, of the Tung Lee Ship
PICKED up unconscious by fishermen after spending of international distinction.
six days adrift in the China Sea without food or water, part of the time upon a raft and part
upon sive ceremony, the unveiling of Bullding Company of $32, Canton (gress gathering at Karachi,
memorial to Rupert Brooke,
a ship's boat, which drifted alongside the raft, an Annamite caterer of the s.s. Chang Kiang, which was wrecked in the middle of last month, has "come back from the dead,” arriving in Hongkong this week-end.
An extraordinary story is told by the man, who had a miraculous escape from death, particularly in connexion with a strange shipmate who eventually provided him with the means of averting death by starvation.
A MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL.
A solitary directionless journey for several hundred miles uver an expanse of windswept ocean, ia
frail sailless and inarless ส
bont that threatened to overturn að
the over
China
have inken his dismissal the crew. Some went down with the whip; others got on to a rift philosophically as the quiet beauty and were swept out to sea on a of Kushan would have led one to nerve-racking, dangerous drift of wish, and the tre is supposed to several hundred miles. be connected with him.
- At all events, he and another former occupant of the post have been arrested on suspicion by the pralice.-One Own Correspondent.
A Lone Survivor.
sea.
One by on the occupants, numbed by the cold, alipped and were swept overboard with a' last despairing ers.
Companions in Adversity.
The memorial took the form of
Rond, Yaumati, who holds
#same
inscribed in Greek and English: a nude figure of the youthful poet,TESANAISTESANAKANANE ZAN
"To a noble friend of Greece and immortal poetry."
The statuette is the work of the
Greek sculptor, Michel Tombros, and it was erected through the efforts of an international commit- tee comprising some two hundred European and American literary men.-Renter
FOUR BANISHEES SENTENCED.
LIFE-TERM MAN AMONG NUMBER.
months
WAN
more of his
CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE.
into
KING SUFFERING WITH A COLD.
Keeping to Room at Windsor
Castle, "
NOTHING SERIOUS.
London, Apr. 5. His Majesty the King is suffering from a slight cold. His Majesty has not been confined to bed, but as a pre- cautionary measure he is keep ing to his room at Windsor Castle, and was unable to-day to attend Divine Service.
His Majesty, however, car- ried out a certain amount of official business.--Reuter.
154849019973ACIONAL MOUNT NUMUZDEVUMIESTAINERI
licence and who was shooting on the hillside when the mishap oe curred.
Fortunately, the victim was only slightly injured.
CHINA PROVINCE
REFORM.
PROPOSALS FOR PEOPLE'S CONVENTION,
Shaukat All expressed the hope that the Hindus would now accopt the demands of the Moslem,
"Let the Indian States and the Hindus and Moslems put their heads together and present a united demand to the Britiab people," he urged.
The Begum Mohamed All, the chairwoman of the Reception Committee, appealed to Moslem women to discard the veil and to enter into public life. -
Viceroy's Invitation. The retiring
Viceroy, Lord Irwin, afterwards called an in- formal conference of prominent Maslom leaders who are now in Delhi in connexion with the All India Conference. The conversa-. tions between the Viceroy and the Moslem leaders were held in private and lasted for ninety minutes.-Router.
Civil War Danger.
Later:
The Moslem Conference has. passait a resolution with regard to recent communal riots, deploring the "wanton aggressivences" of the Hindus, declaring that a con- tinuance thereof will lead to civil war,
and warning the Govern- ments of England and India that the spineless handling of the situ ation by "continued pandering" to Congress will lead to the complete ruin of India.
Supporters of the resolution, in the course of their speeches ex- pressed themselves very strongly.
Shaukat Alf deprecated a spirit of revenge and said that wherever the Mosiems felt forced to Oght they must not lay hands on women, children, old men or temples.
On the third day there remaindhefore Mr. Hamilton, at the Kow- Four banishees were charged each mountainous wave crest was only Van Namb, still retaining loon Magistracy this morning, tapped, faced with the grim pro desperate held to life. the last with having returned before the Ponchow, Apr. 1. peet of starvation and death-~-
the six human beings who first set expiry of their respective terms. The who have visited Kushan Such WAN 14 unenviable UK-
uut on the frail draft.
Three of them, Chan Hhip's
Kuen, Monastery, near Fonchow, will be perience of Van Namb,
Pin Tso and Kwan Nam. had ad worry to know that an attempt to caterer. before his providential
burn it down for at least part of
rescue by fishermen. six days
been bunished for a perind of ten after he was it was made recently,
shipwrecked with 11 would not quite truthful to years each, while Li Kuk other members of the crew of the say he was then the only survivor, | under a life sentence. Fortunately
Prench coaster, Chang Klang. for perched at the other end Sentences of twelve months' The ship, Just in the dense fog of the raft, was one that humble as hard labour cach wore imposed on then hanging
It was and placed at the other end three, while Pun Tsoi received slx Coast, struck a reef off Kigahan of the scale of creation, clung to months, he had only about 1sland on March 16, and broke life as tenaciously as the ship-seventeen up within Afteen minutes
wrecked man, It was a rat-one term in go. which desorted the sinking ship The cause of the fire help to Captah Cruchot and most of
in tinie, and, with uncanny in- remind us that human
the passengers Bature.
and crew were
telligence, had got on to the raft, even in a Buddhist monastery, is able to put off in boats, afterwards knowing that thereon lay his anly nol perferi.
change w landing on the islet un which
ehanee of survival. relatoly made in regard to the en-stands the Pei U Shan Lighthouse,
where they remained in compara
And so they continued to drift,
Shanghai, Apri, 5. * formerly in charge of this side of five safely until their rescue three for many more wearisome miles-
CASUALTY ON SHEK O Important recommendatious con- sloop the man almost gind of this strange French the monastery
| days later by the allowed to WILS
Marne..
chance companionship and not
ROAD.
cerning the reorganisation of the retire, a new man being appointest.
Provinces in China Proper have Nut
were three seeking to destroy at a time when so fortunate gentleman The
Indian States Attacked. thus comput-
According to a report made to been plated, on the agenda for the a common enemy-Death-threat- sorily retired does not seem to
passengers and ten members of
the police by Mr. C. T. Simpson coming National People's Conven- |
The mover of u resolution, ened both.
tlon on May 5th.
which WAA passud, demanding Then a more remarkable thing driver of molor car No. 1,526, his happened. About cast adrift vehicle was destroyed by fire ontlan for the restoration
The proposals Include a sugges separate electorates and thirty- uf the three and a third per cent, repre- from the lost ship cume their way the Shik O Road on Saturday nischt rank of Civil Governor thesentation on the Federal Legisla-. three days after the disaster. It whilst he was returning to town.supreme Provincial head, thus do-ture, declared that the Indian swept towards the raft, was made fast, and in a moment the man had that he had stopped his car lo re
Mr. Simpson informed the police ing away with the Provincial Ex-States delegation to the Round ecutive Committee or Council sys-Table Conference conspired to left his precarious perch for the pair his head lights, which
The suggestion has so far. join the Federation in order had tem.
to The fate of these unfortunates comparative safety of the vessel. gone out, and, when he opened the met with the unanimous approval "down" Moslem India, whose only would probably have remained a After him, strangely human-like in bounet of the ear, it burat
of the majority of Nationalist off-safeguard was to have some Pro- mystery, but for the unexpected re-its actions, scrambled the rat, and Bames.
cials.
vinces where they could live in turn of Van Namb, the only survivor the two were again inseparable
A second proposal aiming at the peace and safety. splitting up of the Provinces, mak- ing 70 Provinces out of the exist could not altogether avoid a feel- 18, all to be directly controlled by Nanking will also be debated at stranger were it conceived within suffering followed, during which such unwhilesome food. Famiah- Days and nights of anxiety and ing of revision at the contact of
the Cenvention. the boat drifted on, the directioned as he was, he paused, abandon- Partly, it
concerns strange mattering very little to the m ing his frat arge to made a association with a rat which also when viewed beside the dober meal in toto of the carcass auch escaped from the shipwrecked then becoming Increasingly ap- possessed a pen knife, ha fumbled As it was, Recollecting that he vessel and was Van Namb's soli-parent, that he was weakening as in his pocket, found it, and skin- When the bandits were within Kal-shek arrived at Feng Hwa, tary companion for the last few much from lack of food as from ex-ned and cleaned the remains of 30 ft of the city, the marines who Chiang's home, yesterday and par- hundred miles of his long drift. posure. Eventually, he began to his late companion before formed the garrison decided that ticipated in the Tsing Ming Fes- The association had an unhappy look towards his diminutive com-ceeding on a most unappetizing
tival observance with his clansmen, ending, but superstitious ns are panion with a now interest. they were too few to sistence, and retired, leaving the visiting the tombs of his father many of his countrymen of Ton-
rupast. As if it had divined a sinister elty at the mercy of the invaders, and mother.
The next morning,--it was
The endorsement really amounts, quin, Van Namb recalls the clr- How the magistrate escaped is Marshal Chiang will stay
and at eumstances to which he won his possibility, the beast had seram- March 22nd-six days
After conferences with Mr. C. lo a personal triumph for Gandhi Avo not clear, but he says the city and Feng Hwa for about five days be-survival, as
bled as far out of reach na it nights after the shipwreck T. Wang, Minister of Foreign who hurled a challenge at Con special manifesta possibly could. That is to say, it fishermen sailing in those waters, Affairs, on the extrality question, gross to face the issue, declared surrounding villages are being fore returning to Nanking.
tion of the goodwill of the Jos had backed towards the prow, found a boat floating aimlessly. Sir Miles Lampaon, the British he would withdraw from polities ruthlessly pillaged by the in-
who is supposed to look after all where it stood poised, expectantly. They
It, picked from vaders, and asks that a
un-Minister, returned here yesterday. If the agreement was rejected, and doserving seafaring men.
the The frall craft bobbed like a conscious,
loug survi-He expects to visit Nanking again thus obtained the dofcat of the and cork on the aca. Seated at oppo- vor,
revived him with some time next week to continue more extremist element. Raft Drifts,
Nevertheless, PandieARTME site ends of it, see-sawing atop hot congee to a point when he could discussions with Nanking Govern-
criticised the settlement as a suru When the raft parted company mountainous billows, the man and make himself understood. They ment representatives.
The Nanking Government is render to Britain, and declared with the sinking ship, it had the beast looked intently, at each took Van Namb to the nearest port.
other, With a' muttered
saw desirous of reaching an agreement that there would be no peace untiļi coming ever more and more bare- REPORTED RETURN TO RIO aboard six people---threo passenfor forgivendes for his solishness, kim safely in the custody of some on the extrality issue before the India obtained her Independence
prayer stated to be Achau, and gors and three members of the the man ronched out; his hand compassionate French
Ho specifled that the goal Sisters. opening of the People's Conven-
Congress was still complete self Rio de Janeiro, Apt. 5. was with a cargo of coal, it did not closed over the tiny. misarabic They accepted, with
the money the
rule for India from within, The Prince of Wales and Prince take long for the vessel to founder and shivering morsal. The beast of 60 Fiastres, will the the, a sumtion on May 5th.
obtain national control of defenc it in generally believed that it George have arrived at the Brazi-end Van Namb, escaping from the and bit hard as the hand which he offered to them, together with squeaked, struggled Frantically rescued man had on him and which
and external affairs, control In an attempt to commit suicide, a Is made worth while for the Han capital on their return from ship's galley, and thrown into the held it. In a few momente iffe a gold finger ring,in gratitude for Chinoso named Yau Mo, 11 years of fiscal finance and econom soldiers to give in and let the a trip to the States of San Paulo sea, retains an imperfect impres had sped from its body, and the their timely assistance.
policies." bandits have their way. Indeed and Minasgorses, the scene of the son of having instinctively clutch- man's teeth had closed over it.
od to the raft on it swept his way, there is often little to choose be recent revolutionary campaign..
Secession, Right tween the open cruelty of the one They were received by PresiThroughout the night and for
He also demanded th
Fouchow, Apr. 1. The Foochow Government has received an urgent telegram from the magistrate of Futing City, in the extreme north-east of Fukien
Province, saying that force of bandite (several hundred,
13
large
CHIANG VISITS HIS HOME.
FESTIVAL.
of a raftload of six peraona, whose companions. experiences, as related to a Tein-. graph representative, make a story of the sea which could not hel
he estimates) from the border of OBSERVES THE TSING MING the pages of fiction. Chekiang Province attacked and captured several places near Fut ing City on the 21st and 22nd inst.
force be sent to deal
xituation.
This is only an
offer re-
Shanghai, Apr. 5. Marshal and Madame Chiang
strong
with the
instance
of
PRINCES TOUR OF BRAZIL.
what appears to be liable to hap
pen anywhere. Banditry is bo-
faced, and the soldiers (the "de
fenders of the people") soom
to
have as their chief motto "Safety first."
DE JANEIRO, ·
crow. Heavily laden as the ship
The Man Destroys.
The Rescue.
at this
and the unreliability of the other dent Cargas and other Miniators. the greater part of the following Van Namb
Our Own Correiondentibujar - América, Servich, day, the raft drifted in stumpituen, PHRENIA
pro-
BRITISH MINISTER IN PEKING.
RETURNING TO NANKING SHORTLY.
Poking, Apr. 5.
age, and residing at 42, Kowloon City Van Namb guided by his Sama- Road, ground floor, jumped into the ritans, a few days later rejoined harbour from the Wing Lok Wharf Captain Cruchot and
on Saturday but was rescued by some other unknown people on the wharf and survivors. He had of course, wen to the Government Civil - Hone been given up/for lost
They could not tolerate the Army being in the charge of a Hindu Central Government. If Congress won power by fighting the British, the Moslems would fight 'Congress. -Bouter.
• Further details of the conclud- ing aeaalon of the All-India Con- gress show that while there is a promise of ponca in the endorse ment of the. Irwin-Gandhi agrees ment, there is more than one fly in, the ointment.
Gandhi's Triumph.