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四拜二號八廿月五英港香
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931.
日二十月四
0140 PER ANNUM
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The Turn of But
LOCAL BRANCH.
EMPRESS LINER'S MAIDEN TRIP. Civil Guards Charge Spanish Rioters. BALLOON
Fodder Bldg.
DISASTER.
Above, the ginnt liner Empress of Britala, which left yesterday afternoon on her maid-
un voyage to Quebec. The vessel is 758 feet long, with a gross tonnage of 42,500 tour.
Members of the Civil
The picture was taken when she set out on her recent trial run.
Photo on right---Typical serné during recent riots in Spain,
guard launching an attack upon a crowd of unruly demonstrators.
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BON VOYAGE FOUR YEARS IN
Prince Flies to Southampton.
"I SHOULD LIKE TO GO WITH YOU.”
THE ARCTIC.
TASK ASSIGNED TO
"CHALLENGER.” -
FASCIST ANTI-CATHOLIC OUTRAGES.
GRAVE INCIDENTS IN ROME.
THRILLING JOB. VATICAN GUARDED
London, May 27. The Prince of Wales flow from London to Southampton in his own aeroplane this morning to bid bon voyage to the "Empress of Britain," which left on her muiden trip to Quebee and Monday.
Montreal.
London. May 27.
Italian
Rome, May 28. On the recommendation of the
have froops
been Committee of Civil Research, an oil-driven vessel of 1,400 tons to be posted on guard at all ap named the the "Challenger," which proaches to the Vatican in con- will have a cruising range of 10,000 sequence of serious outbreaks miles, is being built at Chatham in Rome, inspired by anti- Dockyard and will be launched next
Catholic Fascists. Early next year she will be pati
The police have been made
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eity. He made a thorough inspection in commission for a period of four sponsible for guarding the principal of the magnificent liner, which he years to carry out important sur-Catholic Institutions in the
subjected to attacks, many win-! launched in June last in Glasgow. vey and research work in the Are some of which have already been! Before taking leave of her Comic.
dove having been broken by sticks! mander, Captain Latta. the Prince
aud stones, said:
“1 wish i was coming with you." After the vessel had sailed, the
and
AUTO
For the purpose of the survey, the Admiralty and th Ministry of
Hundreds of students yesterday Feries
raided the Catholic Club Si Agriculture
"Down With: working in collaboratio
Construction of the vessel was doarhim. shouting 'rince inspected and made a brief undertaken after an examination by the Pope! tlight in a giant Short Kent Flying
ejected from the Boat, which, after being hunched the Committee of evidence tender They wer
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DASTARDLY TERRIFIC STORM
IN BRITAIN. ACT BY RIOTERS.
WOMEN IN FRONT AS SCREEN.
SAN SEBASTIAN CHAOS.
NU-
Professor Picard in the. Sealed Gondola.
DELUGE IN EXETER GRIM FATE FEARED.
AND PLYMOUTH.
CARDIFF MAN STRUCK DRIFT TO DEATH IN THE
BY LIGHTNING.
London, May 28.
A two days' heat wave was ended inst night by a terrific
UPPER AIRS.
storm which broke over South PICARD CRAFT BELIEVED UNABLE
Wales and the West of England.
Business in Cardiff was held up, the dog racing track was flooded after four races had been held, The meeting had to be abandoned. An official at the course, who was telephoning the numbers of the winning dogs, was struck by lightning and seriously injured.
al
Thunder, ligatning and hail were exceptionally severe Tiverton, in Devonshire, where the County Agricultural Show was washed out, the cattle being i removed to safety through tropica)] Jain and flooded streets.
MOBS CHARGED-
Madrid, May, 27. The grim nature of the dockers challenge to thority at San Sebastian, where grave rioting has been followed by the declaration of martial law, is revealed by a dastardly attempt by them- the rioters to screen selves from police fire by ob- liging
In Exeter, streets and houses' women to precede alter much
them.
were flooted, and the manholes ! at Rochester, of Short's denuncharted authern waters. Dar-vandalism.
half an Vati The proclamation of martial burst. Plymouth had nautical Yards to-day, dew ing the next four years it will be Osservatore Rammann, the Southampton.
the work of the staff of 70 to be ean's newspaper organ, accuses the law followed serious rioting in inch of rain in twenty minutes. The Prince took the pilot's sent enrried by "Challenger." to ex-police of almost condoning the out-the at dual control with Major Brlack-plore the great belt of the Arctic rages, -Rester, ley and passing over the outgoing Sea from the east of Greenland to liner dipped in salute.
New Flying Bent.
to
d regarding fishing grounds in tab by the Police
the stand of Novaya Zemlya.
She will be under the command of an Oteer in the Hydrographic The new Flying Boat which is a: Branch of the Royal Navy-British biplane is one of three built or Wireless. building for the Imperial Airways: for operation on their Mediter
tanern
Cause of Quvre),
course of which three and suffered heavily from the floods. The storm lasted for strikers were killed and over three hours, Beater. thirty were wounded.
The casualties occurred when The
the the Civil Guard opened fire upon quarret between Fascists and Roman Catholics, has a huge crowd of dock strikers, een simmering since the Lateran incited by Communists, who at
to ndvaned Treaty of 1929 e-printdislæd ten-tempted
from the port of oral power. for the Vatican na Sebastian
its view that Pasajes. never conecaled
route, da picture of the AMUSEMENTS' NEW ascism is but a temporary syg Cordon Across Street.
machine was publish
Telegraph on Monday).
it
the
They are the largest passenger carrying flying boats yet placed in service (1)1 any route.
Each is
ISSUE.
OVER-SUBSCRIBED
BY 11.57 A.M.
equipped with four engines with The new share issue by
Hongkong Amusementa.
subscribed this morning.
Son
Yesterday's outbreaks followed! The Civil Guard threw a cordon
com
jeharges and
counter-cltarges
by
across the rond and warned the
CHILD'S BODY DUMPED.
ACT
WOMAN CAUGHT IN AT KOWLOON.
His suspicions aroused of see-
behind a intrine in Reclamation Street at about 10.45 p.m. on May 25, a Chinese constable shouted
the newspaper Lam Face and dockers of their determination ing an old woman dump a bundle
the Azione Cattolica, a frociety,
Catholic
the
to prevent them from passing.
The strikers soon afterwards the The former ueruses the Azione a total of 2,500 horse-power and
tres-mude a move against the guards Ltd. eabbling in politics and has accommodation for 16 passen-totalling over half million passing on the ground p gers and special luggage holds for dollars. was very quickly over-Fascist
syndicates. while the a ton and a half of mail.
society roundly accuses The Prince, after fulfilling his The Company is issuing 26.000 Lacora of deliberate falsification. engagements in Southampton, flew new shares of $10 eneh, at a
Pope's Comment. back to London, and to-night was premium of $10, so that the total
Catholic students present at a dinner of the Wireless amount being raised is $620,000.
A group of subscription lists
the President. Since it was started opened this morning and were to recently had an audience of
Pope and complained of maltreat- ment. The Pope replied that ir they were expelled from Fascist
for the Blind Fund, of which he is
The
The
were
TO DESCEND.
SICNALS OF DISTRESS.
Innsbruck, May 27. CRAVE FEARS are entertained that Professor
scientist, met with
in his attempt to soar to the greatest height ever reached by man. Anxiety was first felt when the great. balloon failed to descend according to schedule, and fears for the safety of the aeronauts were strengthened later by a report that distress signals were being sent out.
The balloon had hovered all day over the Austrian Tyrol, and should have come down. A report that it was descending in the district of Venn caused a rush of police, in motor-cars to the scene to give any as- sistance heeded.
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The balloon did not, however, come down and no report has been received from anywhere announcing the landing of the balloon... Since the gondola is hermetically sealed with mere ten hours of oxygen, it is greatly feared that the en thusiasts have drifted to death-Reuter.
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The hermetically sealed gon- There can be no exact know-
The by advancing behind a protective out to the woman to come back, el, in which Professor Picard is ledge regarding the height later and then took her to the place seen seated in the picture above, reached, after the balloon had sereen of frightened women.
of the Civil where the bundle had been dump besides protecting the scientist phased the limits of the cirrus The commander
ed. On examination he found the from the intense cold (the tem-clouds, though observers below Guards was resourceful however: body of a child.
perature outside at a height of stated, that the frall craft bad The cordon Was temporarily The woman, Lam Mo, appeared broken to allow the women lo rush through, and then re-formed, before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kow-52,800 feet would be approximate-roached a tremendous height and
loon, Magistracy this morning,ly 60 degrees below zero) was also had ceased to go higher. orders immediately being given charged with having dumped the designed to
It hovered all day over the, to the Guards to open fre.
Austrian Tyrol, being shifted Over thirty of the strikers body of a female child, about two scientifle inboratory.
Contained therein were sensi- about, She pleaded not guilty, saying tive instruments to measure and sometimes slowly by the winds, were shot down before the mob
sometimes rapidly and was dispersed, but a few Com she had just come out of a house munista aucceeded in entering and got into the street when she record meteorological phenomena and it was not until lato in the
of the rarefled upper atmosphere the city by another route, and saw the constable beckoning, to (the stratosphere) and the thick day that a suspicion arose that erented temporary chaos.
her. She went up to him, and he
16 months ago, the fund has be closed on Saturday. supplied 12,000 wireless sets to.
new issue, however, was blind persons at a cost of £31,000. quickly taken up, being over
The Prince's speech in which an subscribed by 11.57 a.m. The listsroups because they belonged to appeal was made for further funds are accordingly now closed.
to supply an additional 7,000 sets, was broadenstand arrangements were made for relays from some stations in the United States and elsewhere. British Wireless.
NORFOLK TRAIN SMASH.
EXPRESS HITS REAR OF STATIONARY COACHES.
London, May 27,
MOTOR-CAR FOUND
AFIRE.
the Azione Cattolica, they should regard it as an honour.
years
of age.
observation.
serve him
AS
Count Dei la Torre, editor of The Guards had occasion took her to the place where the plate glass windows, one of which all was not well with the enter- the Osserenture Romano, hinted several times to charge riotous bundle lay. She did not dump the shown, were so constructed as prise,
lanuguration of mobs. All tradic, was stopped, bundle there.
to allow Professor Picard normal Later, it was reported that dis recently at the four powerful daily
papers to the strikers compelling the with-
Mr. Hamilton-Prom
tress signula had been sent out by what entinteract the injurious Press in drawal of all public vehicles.
house did you come? ·
Both Professor Picard, and his the balloon and that it was Italy.
A factory was also attacked.
Defendant:-I did not come out assistant, M. Krappe, had
Later, however, the descending. t
new turn. The but the workers fired on their of a house.
I was walking in the parachute for
uae in case of fears took a
fallure of the balloon to come street. mssailants, wounding several.
necessity, though the aluminium down gave rise to greater alarm. Troops have now been posted' at
Mr. Hamilton: Convicted:mll was constructed in such than earlier reports of trouble all strategic points and order, has $100, or two months Imprison-way us to make it dimcult to get causing it, to fail. earthwards. been restored.--Reuter,
ment.
out of while the balloon was in The anxioly was based on a
Kidnapping Attempt,
PROBABLY CAUSED BY, A CIGARETTE-END..
It is reported, without confirma- Returning to his car in Greason tion, that an attempt was made to Street from the Seamen's Institute kidnap him "To-day. last night, where he had attended The Azione Cattolica is speel-
a whist drive. Mr. R. Deb, of 2 feally mentioned in the Concordat Fly Dragon Terrace, found the reached in 1929, and Fasciats back seat of the vehicle alight.
decrees have frequently denied that Damage to the extent of $25 was there was any incompatibility be caused before the smouldering tween membership of Fasciat ind Ilames were extinguished.
A lighted cigarette-end which The London, North-Cantera line may have been thrown by a pas
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Catholle societies.—Reuter.
London, May 23.
Dr. Christopher Addison, Minis-
ter for Agriculture and Flaberies,
COLONEL AND WIFE FOUND SHOT.
DISTRESSING TRAGEDY IN
A BLAZING CARGO.
the air.
It may be recalled that when supposition, confirmed to some extent by events, that Frofessor ak
Brussele the
University,
he Picard found himself unable to made Picard
Professor
'record
for
London, May 27, first attempt to break the al control the outlet valves and was Wireless messages intercepted titudo
thus incapable of coming down. scientific this morning from vessels in the purposes, his giant balloon was As the daring adventurors had ALBERTA.
Bay of Biscay state that the Eri-incking sumelent lifting power only sufficient oxygen to last them tish steamer Dunkwa la standing and the gondola rofused to move for about ten hours, there is grave Edmonton, Alberta, May 25..
reason to fear that they have been ser-hy, is thought to be the cause
by a Portuguese ship, the Corree from the ground. Fakenham, in Norfolk, was of the trouble.
Colonel Hillard Lyle. D.S.O., ora Primeiro, carrying a cargo of al
A larger balloon was then con- asphyxiated. blocked for some considerable
has empluatically, denied rumours who had a distinguished War re-gasoline, which is on fire from end structed, enabling the attempt to time to-day, as
ex-be made yesterday, with appar- the result of a
alongside the platform, and caused tion from the Cabinet's policy on Lodge, Alberta, to-day.
of the possibility of his resigna-cord, and his wife were found shot to end, following a series of
dead at their home at Beaver plosions. serious
between
rontly tragle consequences collision
The Royal Observatory rope through train and a stationary terrible havoc.
He says the
The Donkwa has launched. First reports of the adventure that the Korean degrasafon One passenger WAB killed the whont quola question has not Colonel Lyle, a veteran of the The express from Dereham instantly and cloven were injured, yet been decided, but he in dis-Great War and the South African boat and taken off the captain and revealed that the balloon had moved eastward the squthern crashed into the rear of the Assistance was quickly forth finetly hopeful about the pros war, also fought in Mexico and crew of the burning ship ascended beyond the 16,000 fost depression appears to be central
mark, and was still riding, to the north-west of Hanol, stationary coaches, which were cooning-British Wirsics.
other Latin-American republics.
train.
pocta,
British Wirelesé.