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BRITAIN'S POLAR SUBMARINE
QUAKE THRILL.
2 A.M. BEACH CROWDS.
Steamer Near Disaster.
London, June 8.
Severe earthquake tremors were felt early yesterday morn
No Clear Cut Decisions.
GERMAN VISIT
· TO LONDON.
Co-operation With
Other Powers.
ing in places widely entered FRIENDLY TALKS.
over the nren of England, com- prising the Midlands. the East Const, the South Eastern and South Western coulies, and in-; eluding London.
London, June 7,
It is believed in diplomatie. circles in London that no clear-,
The tremors were experienced eut decisions have resulted frotn aver a large part of Scotland as the talks at Chequers between! well, and according to reportsMr. Ramsay MacDonald and thei from Belgium, alum was caused visiting German statesmen. and in many towns including Brus consequently there is some dis- appointment in unofficial Ger. Kew Observatory stales that
¡man quarters, the first impulse arrived at 0.26 a.m. (G.M.T.) and the maxi- It is assumed from the wording recorded if the communique issued froni mum movement was at about one minute Inter, the the Premier's summer residener amplitude being so great that this evening that Dr. Curious and the trace exceeded the limit of Dr. Bruening asked the British registration.
jrepresentatives to lend their as- The tremor tasted for about half sistaure in securing an easement hour.
of the present system of the pay-| The estimates by Kgw and Bras.ment of reparations.
nels (1-ervaturies plive the upl- centre of the earthquake under
Conference Unlikely.
the North Sea, between tea and But, the decision of both Gov- thirty miles off the English Court, juraments to endeavour to donl near Hull.
with the present industriel crisis. The shock is biggest near earth.in close collaboration with other quake which boga resor leak at Governments, concerned," cannot he interpreted to mean that an- Kew:
Only minor damine appenrs to other revisionary conference on have been caused must no personal|reparations is in early prospect. Injuries more series than shock
However, Dr. Bruening has ex care reported.
¦pressed himself as delighted with Lowestoff on the East Coast: the hospitality shown during bis was one of the places to feel the visit and
is understood shock most. Houses and beds that he has suggested that rocked, and some chimneys and he might be given an opportunity walls fell. People rushed into of returning the Premier's kind- streets in a felght and there was iness in Berlin.
an amazing spectacle of the sen-¡ front being crowded at 2 a.m.
The Only Casunity.
Trooping the Colours,
The conversations between the The only casualty in the most German statesmen and British!
severo
in
been a remarkable series of very
shocks earthquake widely separated parts of the world.
These incidents suggest that some abnormal perturbation of the earth's crust is in progress. Seismologists estimate that the epicentre of yesterday's distur bance was about 280 miles from West Bromwich, at some point under the North Sea.
Ministers began yesterday-to|
und concluded to-day.
the
Official Communique.
DOOMED
PERILS OF ARCTIC ICE CAP.
FEAR OF TWO STUDENTS OF CONDITIONS.
MR. TSE SAN-TAI ON GREAT ICE MUSHROOM.
COURTING A TRAGEDY.
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
ΠΟ THE LIST of those who condemn as foolhardy Sir Hubert Wilkins' daring plans to make a voyage to the North Pole under the Arctic ice-cap in a sub. marine, is to be added that of Mr. Tse. Tsan-tai, the well-known local geologist, who presents a highly interesting theory on the conditions obtaining under the ice-cap, and is convinced that the "Nautilus" never reach the Pole.
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Mr. Tse Tsan-tai's theory, which is particularly striking as being advanced for the first time, is that the ice in the region of the Pole is frozen right through to the sea bed, and that the formation of the tremendous Arctic ice-cap resembles a gigantic ice-mushroom. The
LOCAL BRANCH,
TO DISASTER?
PRESSURE RINCES
SOLID ICE TO A DEPTH EQUAL
| TO SEVEN TIMES "HEIGHT" OF BERG ĮABOVE WATER,
Our picture which shows Lady Wilkine and Judes Verne, grandson of the famous author, at the christening of the Nar- files, aino illustrates the grave perila faring the sulimarineîn Admiral Redman'a view. The nature of the bottom of the ice, be nazin, în unguessable. Mr. Tse Txan-tai goes further, de cluring that the ice is frozen to the seabed in The vicinity of the Polc.
extent of the trunk is, he admits, impossible to guage, SHANGHAI'S
depending as it does upon the warmth of the waters! round.
His expression of view has been inspired by the article; from the pen of Admiral Hugh Rodman, appearing last week. The Admiral has other theories on the perilous under-ice! conditions in the Arctic, which are also published below.
LOCAL GEOLOGIST'S THEORY.
Mr. The Tuan-tai writes:----
because the theories and beliefs,
South Poles.
from the frozen surface of the Polar Arctle to the bed of the
ocean.
The length, diameter and cir-
SILVER.
War Believed Imminent.
BUILT
FOR THE
JOBA
Padder Bldg.
KOWLOON FIRE TRAGEDY.
CHINESE WOMEN-
INCINERATED.
Sole Inmates of an Isolated Hut.
Trapped by a fire break- ing in the early hours this morning out with disastrous suddennoss, two women liv- ing in a hut in the Kowloon City district, were burnt to deathi Their charred ro mains were recovered from the blackened ruins after the outbreak had been ..ex- tinguished.
The hut, of the usual native vll- Inge type, built of mud and wood, was hidden away in the hillside in that part of the district known as "Little Kowloon." The fire broke out shortly after midnight, and be- enuse of the remoteness of the
locality, some delay ensued before it received attention.
When firemen reached the scene, the structure was a mass of flames, and it was evident that nothing could be done to save it. For an hour the conflagration blazed un- checked, and at the end nothing re- mained of the building but a heap of ashes..
Mother and Daughter.
It was then discovered that two women sleeping inside when the fire broke out had been burnt to death Trapped, it is presumed by the suddenness of the outbreak, jand overcome by smoke, they were unable to make their escape. One lof them
was an old woman, 61 years of age while the other aged 21, was her daughter.
They were peasant women, vara- ing a livelihood by cutting fodder
Too Little for Real Chiang Leaving for and procuring pig-wash,
Needs of China.
Kiangsi.
The police in an attempt to dis- cover the origin of the fire, have so far been unable to truce any per- son from whom a first-hand account may be obtained, and it would ap pear, that the woman and her
the hut when the fire occurred.
Their remains charred beyind re- cognition have been removed to the Mortuary.
FINANCIAL TIMES OFFICIAL STORY. daughter were the only persons in
ARTICLE.
London, June 8.
"It is a fundamental error to assume that China has too much silver. She has far
too little."
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, June 8.
KOWLOON MOTOR FATALITY.
EUROPEAN INVOLVED IN MISH AP.
and
severe "English earthquake" yet which the visitors motored after marine's Dramatie North Pole I have read the article "Sub-1 recorded, occurred at Northamp-witnessing the colourful ceremony Dash," appearing in your issue of ton, where a canary suffered a broken wing as a result of it of the Trooping of the Colours, June 4, with considerable interest cumference of the trunk of this
It is learned that the Nanking rage falling when the first 1 severe
gunboat. "Yung Sui" has been shock was felt.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was of Sir Habert Wilkins and Lieut.ee Mushroom" will depend upon
ordered to prepare for departure It is pointed out that no fewer accompanied by
Foreign Commander Danenhower regard its land base and the warmth of
This a prominent Shanghai at a moment's notice to convey than three "shakes" have been Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, ing the North Pole Ice Cap and the ocean currents which sweep
merchant in the course of an ar- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to recorded in England during the and the President of the Board of ice conditions at the Fole conflict around it.
The "Nautilus" may be able to ticle in the Financial Times present year before yesterday's, Trade, Mr. William Graham, with the ite conditions which travel around the solid trunk of dealing with the silver depres
Kiukiang.
It is understood that Marshal namely, Stoke-on-Trent in March,
believe to exist at the North and ice, provided she carries sufficient sion.
Whilst driving a private motor Port Madac in April, and the
Chiang Kai-shek will then proceed car along Nathan Road Kowloon,, fuel to steam the whole distance, Manchester district in May.
When the conversations were As Admiral Flagh Rodman but she will never be able to reach has had a
The writer estimates that China by train to Nanchang, where he last night, Mr. D. Forbes, of 72, During the same period, there has completed, the following communil-writes, "The world thrills to an the North Pole or to travel 1,600 amounting to 2,500 million ounces, prior to going to the frant to fatally injured an elderly Chinese net Inflow of silver will establish his headquarters Nathan Road, knocked down and que was issued from Chequers: adventure of this kind, but it
the who was crossing the road in front operations againat but, in his opinion, there is not direct should be just an willing to co-miles under the Ice pack. "The visit of Dr. Bruening demn foolhardiness, particularly
of the cur. And, being ignorant of the even in Shanghai to-day sufficient Kiangai "Reds." and Dr. Curtius was arranged when the results are unlikely to existence of this huge Ice Mush-silver to meet the legal require- There is a suspicion, however, Mr. Forbes was driving along several months ago as a means add one fota to the World's bene
the object voom, the Commander of the ment for half the banknotes that that
of Marshal Nathan Road at 8:15 p.m. of establishing personal canta, and little to scientific infor
Mongkong "Nautilus" is certain to lose his have been issued in the country. Chlang's military activity la not when opposite the tact and the opportunity has mation." And 1 quite, agree with bearings when he strikes the The writer attributes the pre-the Communist bandits operating Police Station he ran lato Wong been taken for friendly talka on i him.
wall of ice, and, failing to reach sence of large quantities of silver in Kiangul, but the suppression of Yik-ping, aged about 62 years, who the position in which the Ger
has the Canton revelt. The bellef is attempted to cross the street. man Reich and other industrin! |
the open sen, the submarine in Shanghai to the fact that
The man died almost instan- would be absolutely helpless, been sent there for safety. At that Marshal Chiang plans an States now And themselves.
and, unable to get free from the present time, internal attack down the North River from taneously and his body was later We admire courage and daring: "Special stress was. Faid by but this venture is simply courting
under the fee, would be hope-situation is such that banks fear Klangsi and along the East River taken to the Kowloon Mortuary. the German Ministers on the disaster. It is planned to cross
lessly lost,
to keep silver in the. interior. from Fukien.
The crack divisions of the Nan- difficulties of the existing posi-from Spitzbergen via the North
This means that the "Nautilus" The danger of seizure is too ob-
king leader are said to be on the The Royal Observatory reporta. tion- in Germany, and the seed Pole to Alaska, and under 1,500 will either be disabled and sunk, vous for alleviation.
miles of the Article ice-flelds!"
Undoubtedly, he adds, the mo- Kwangtung-Fukien border, while that a trough of low pressure ex- for trapped and frozen in the maze But it will be impossible "The British Ministers, for "Nautilus" to reach the North
mont it becomes safe to use silver other troops which have been tends from Tongking to the last fof loose Ice,
in engaged for some time past against of the Loochoos. The typhoon is their part, enlied attention to
After all, what good can come in the interior, the stocks
very quickly the Reds in Kiangsi will be about 200 miles gast of Oshima, Shanghai will be
A feeble the worldwide character of the Pale; for reasons which I will ex- of this venture? present depression and, to its plain. When the North and South And as Admiral Rodman saya-diminished to a degree which willustored for a drive from the moying E.N.E, or E
anticyclone lies over the Lower special induence', on Great Polar regions of the Earth begun "What benefit of any sort can be necessitate further heavy pur Mr. Yu Yu-jen and Mr. T. V. Yangtze Valtor.
to solidify and grow cold, after derived from it, what new data chases from outside-Reuter." undergoing all the changes from can be collected which can Be 4 "Both parties were agreed that its original molten stuto; the con benefcially utilized?" In addition to offorts and mea-ditions of cold at the Poles bégan sures of a national character, to intensify with time, and to the revival of confidence and gradually assume the frozen Arc- prosperity depended upon inter- tic conditions which prevail at the national co-operation. A dull rumbling' sound
In this
present day. followed the explosion-Renter spirit, both Governments will endeavour to dont with the and British Wireless.
present crisis in close collabora-
Stenmer's Experience. This calculation is borne out by the statement of the crew of the Bam- cargo-steamer Newcastle burgh
their arrival on Scarborough yesterday.
HOME
When the vessel was seventy miles, off Scarborough at 1:30 a.m. yesterday, they stated, "something like a sub- marine depth charge," seemed to
underneath explode Bamburgh.
the
The steamer half heeled over ini consequence of the upheaval of "the water, but quickly settled)
ngain,
GOODS TRAINS
COLLIDE.
SERIOUS MISHAP ON PEKING LINE.
Shanghai, June 8. A serious collision occurred
Britain.
Courting Disaster.
+
Dend Earth of Future.
for
the
tion with other Governments iternal heat, this cold is bounded by Mr. Tse Tsan-tal. he out- [1ork, expressed doubt regarding!.
North.
Soong will have charge of the Nanking Government's affairs during the absence of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek..
ANOTHER NANKING|
RESIGNATION,
ADMIRAL YANG SAID TO HAVE RETIRED.
Shanghai,, June 8.
BIG CHINA GOLD SHIPMENT.
SILVER REMEDY DOUBTS. Sir Arthur Salter's View of Admiral's Opinion.
Situation. Meanwhile, Admiral Hugh Rod Sir Arthur Saiter, Director of man also has something to say the Economic and Finance Section rogarding conditions under the
U.S.A. BELIEVED TO Arctic ice-pack. Though he does of the League of Nations, speaking anat a luncheon given in his honour not suspect the existence of
BE DESTINATION. As the Earth loses its in-ice-mushroom of the kind describ by the Academy of Science at Now
(Our Own Correspondent.) Lo gradually creep towards lines other perilous possibilities. the efficacy of any proposals ed the Equator from both Polos. It is difficult, writes Admiral for advanced for solution of the
Shanghal, June 8, when Rodman, to describe definitely the silver problem, or for permanently and the time will come
A largo shipment of gold bars. At a luncheon given to-day by our Earth will cease revolving and characteristics of the polar ice stabilising the price of silver,
was removed from the vaults of The China Press reports that Ad- the Central Bank of China yed the Prime Minister and Miss Ish-be as cold and dead ns the Moon. folds, but this very uncertainly Ile said that a conference could!
represents the chief danger which not propose any new technical miral Yang Shu-chwang hos Consequently, instead of there Imperils the Wilkins submarine scheme, unless auch scheme had signed his post as Miniator of the terday afternoon to the Customs being a soa under the Ice pack, expedition.
already been ascertained to bo Navy, as well as the Chairmanship Jetty, and placed on board a tup
It is believed that the destin which extends from Spitzber- Although reliable explorers like within the sphere of practical of the Fukien Government.
tion of the shipment is the United The Journal understands that States and that it is to be sent * gen to Alaska, I believe that. Poury, Nansu and Amundsen agréement. No plans proposed un
concerned."
Luncheon Party,
Shaw.
bel MacDonald, the following were aleo present: the German Ambas- jander, Mr. A. V. Alexander, the
Governor of the Bank of land.
Go Bernard
FIRTATION collided near. Hwang Tian Station.
Frederick Leith Both trains were seriously damaged storft and Sir and several casualties occurred, Ross, of the Treasury-Router
and British Wireless,
there exists a huge soild, Ice places, they all-resort that the lan Aftabroom-shaped --- like---an is always In a state of motion-dus umbrella, whose trunk extende Continued on Page 7).
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Any agreement, to restrict expenses are given as the reasons mALORIY National government sales of silver, or to of Admiral Yang's resignation into the Bank of Ohli
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