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PARIS TO SAIGON.
INTERNATIONAL CREW SET OUT ON FLIGHT.
Paris, Apr. 9. A large party at 0.25 this morn- Prince ing bade godspood to George Bibesco, the president of International Aeronauticni Federation, who lo accompanied by two Rumanian pilots and
mechanic, when they British started on a flight to Saigon.
Their machine is named Comte De Lavaulx, after the ex-president of the Federation rho was killed In a crash in the United States Inst year-Router.
New Zeppelin Flight.
Friedrichshaven, Apr. 9.
a
THE KING OF SIAM,
DEPARTURE FROM JAPAN FOR VANCOUVER.
cheers.-Router.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
RUSSIAN SHOT AT SHANGHAI,
ATTEMPT MADE TO SEIZE-
tish military atlache at Berlin-Country Reuter.
Air Mall to Australia.
Alexandria, Apt. 9.
LORD LI
Shanghai, Apr. 9.
now
THE WATER SUPPLY.
LEVELS OF RESERVOINS CONTINUE TO FALL.
Tytam Tytam Byownsh
1080
1931 193.20
APRIL 10, 1931.
HAMAGUCHI MAY RESIGN.
CONTINUED WEAKNESS AND BECOND OPERATION. The total storage in the Colony's reservoirs on the first of the month
Tokyo, Apr. 9. Owing to Mr. Hamaguchi's was "1,114.57 million gallons. Or this amount 854.40 m.g. were in weakened condition, following his the laland reservoirs and 200.17 operation on the 5th inst., the be- lief is growing that his rosigna- in those of Kowloon, as compared tien of the premierships merely a with 761.10 in the Island reservoirs question of time. It is ilkely that and 421.45 In those of Kowloon on his successor will be either the ex- Promier Mr. Wakatsuki, who hend. March 1 last year.
ed the Japaneso delegation to the The following table gives the London Naval Conference last storage in millions and 'decimals year, or the octogenarian former of gallons in the various resor-member of the Cabinet, Baron
Yamamoto. voirs in the Island:
The possibility of a Seiyukal Ministry replacing Copposition) 272.30
the present Minselto Cabinet ja practically nil, although the pres tige of the Government has been shaken by the failure to obtain the passage of certain Bills at the and recent session of the Diet, also by the revelation that the re- 854.40 venues for the past fiscal year were over-estimated by 128,000,- The Island consumption for the 000 yen, leaving a deficit of 49,- month of March was 257.13 million 000,000 yen.
Other possibles for the Pre- gallows, the estimated population micrship are the Foreign Minister being 451.480, giving a consump-Baron Shidchara; the War Minister, tion per hend per day of 18.4 gal-General Ugaki; the Home Minia- lons. In March of last year the ter. Mr. Adachi; and the Railway Agures were: Consumption 216.01 Minister Mr. Exi. m.g. the estimated population 441,160 and the consumption per head per day 15.8 gallons.
1.67
Tokyo, Apr. 9. An enthusiastic send-of WAS accorded the King and Queen of Sizn
from when they aalled
S. Knusnetzoff, aged 20, a Rus- Yokohama this afternoon.
alan bodyguard, was shot at 10.45 gans this morning by armed kidnappers A salute of twenty-one
cruiser Isuzu who fired a fusillade of shots in a boomed from the as the vessel left. Its berth, while bold attempt to kidnap Lord L Boy Ching-mel, son of the late Lord Li crowds of school children,
of Scouts and others who had Hined Hung-chang, at the corner
at the pier broke Into rousing Avenue Halg and Tifeng Road, on the French Settlement side, near the Chinese Red Cross Hospital.
Kousnetzoff โป
in the with Hospital
bullet wounds in the shoulder and atomach and is not expected to live.
Returning to his home, Brookside
+68 The Imperial Airways linere, Avenue Haig, Lord Li was British experts are strongly re-
halted by a wheelbarrow pushed in
52.70 Tytam Intermediate 14.50 on April 4
front of the car by a coolic. Tytam Tuk presented aboard the Graf Zep-which left Croydon
582.50 437.60 pelin, which departed for Cairo with the first air mail for Aus-
Russian chauffeur, Wongnelcheong Pavloff, the
6.98
5.67 slowed down and attempted to Pokfulam..
20.00
19.65 nt 4 8.m. with twenty-five pas tralla, has arrived.
Avold the wheelbarrow, when more sengers, who include Lt. Comdr,
than four armed men suddenly aur rounded
Puvioff then the car. stepped on the accelerator and drove off at high speed, leaving be hind the baffled kidnappers.
Shots were fired, and they hit Kousnetzoff twice. He stood up in the moving car, in his pain, and fell ont on to the road, where he was picked up and sent to the Red Cross Hospital and later to the Country Hospital. The windshield of the ear was shattered, and the glass cut Favtoil's face, but the Russian delivered Lard Li unhurt to his home. The kidnappers fled in 1 waiting motor car.
.
The mail is being sent by Booth, the commander of the R100,Cairo instead of by. the and Colonel Gossage, who in Bri-train-Reuter.
air to
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This is the third attempt to kidnap Lord Li, who is leaving Shanghai to-morrow for a rest, his destination not being announced.
Kousnetzoff was engaged a week ago, and was unarmed, awaiting a permit to carry arms.--Our Own Carrespondent.
Renter's Version.
A Reuter cable from Shaughai, describing the affair, states that
Total
761.10
In Kowloon,
Approach to Full Recovery.
Later.
The latest medical examination of Mr. Hamaguchi continues to uphold the hope that he will be In Kowloon the storage figures able to leave hospital about Apriz 20, but it is intimated that it will were:
1931 probably be a further month or six weeks before he will have 104.90
walk recovered sufficiently to 93.00
about. 2.27
1980 Kowloon Reservoir 302.40 Shek Lai Pui
85.90 Roception reservoir 33.15
Total
421.45 260.17
The consumption for March was 139.54 m.g. by an estimated popu- lation of 179,560, giving a con-
Another Operation.
Tokyo, Inter. Owing to the Premier's condi tion becoming worsɛ.
a further operation was carried out late to- were removed. It is understood that the operation was not serious, and proveil antisfactory.
the residential district of the inter-sumption per head per day of 25 night, when five grammes of pus national Settlement was started gallons. In March last year the yesterday morning when it was consumption was 114.80 m., the learned that a gang of armed kid- estimated population being 174,520 nappers had inade a daring attempt and the consumption per head per had resigned to-night, but there is to abituet the multi-millionaire | day 21.2 gallons, landowner, Li Ching-mỗi, & brother of Li Ching-fong,
The cable states further that be fore he fell out of the car, ladly wounded, the bodyguard stood up and returned the fire of the gang: and that the gangsters Beized a | nearby car and drove off, Hitherto
there have been no arrests,
DAME MELBA'S BIG
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CANADIAN PACIFIC heads of Europe.
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|
It was reported that the Premier
no foundation for this rumour,
Cabinet to Resign?
It was later widely rumoured that the Minscito Government
on the lenders have decided
All the Colony's reservoirs are new far below overflow. Tylam is 26 ft. 11 in. below, Tytam Bye- wash 25 ft. 1 in., Tytam Inter- mediate 36 ft., Tstam Tuk 42 ft.signation of the Cabinet as soon 10 in., Wongneicheong 26 ft. 10 in.,
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