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ADMIRAL KELLY
WRECKED.
PETERSFIELD GOES ON ROCKS
NEAR FOOCHOW.
MANY SHIPS RUSHING TO
THE RESCUE.
WIRELESS
FAILURE.
ADMIRAL SIR HOWARD KELLY, com-
mander-in-chief of the China Squadron, was wrecked in the early hours of this
morning, when H.M.S. Petersfield, former
minesweeper, now employed as the Admiral's yacht, went ashore on the north side of Tung Yung Island, about sixty miles east-north-east of Foochow
The Petersfield was struggling against rough weather, on her way to Hongkong, and she struck at about three o'clock this morning.
Mr. Winston Churchill, who has promised to assist the Gov. with "Dlacriminating bonarolence".
artment
WINSTON
IN THE FOREFRONT.
LOCAL BRANCH.
Yadder Blg.
VIOLENT GALE IN PANIC REIGNS IN TIENTSIN.
CHANNEL.
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AMAZING SOUTH
COAST SCENE.
POMPEY ROADS FLOODED.
Londoit, Nov. 11.
A terrific gale raged in the Channel all day to-day, the whole of the South Coast experiencing the most violent weather for months past. The storm was accompanied by a torrential downpour.
The wind in some places a velocity of over seventy miles an hour. Shipping was dis- rupted.
Th raia was of such ексер. Linnal severity that it stopped the Armistice Day Service arranged on the Parade at Hastings. IL took place in White Rock Pavillon.
This vividly illustrates a Chinese barracks being -fired.
MAJOR'S WIFE
FALLS OVER A CLIFF.
TERRIBLE pre-
· Heavy seas invaded streets of several const towns and mises were flooded in Ports- mouth and Folkestone.
Const ronds are blocked by de-
EXPERIENCE.
bris and in the Isle of Wight, DISCOVERED
where concrete sa defences were broken down masses of masonry were washed for a distance of
TARIFF BATTLE thirty yards,
BEGINS.
London, Nov. 11. Conservative dissatisfac. tion with the omission of a tariff reference in the King's Speech moved a step further in the later stages of the debate on the Address
Reply.
in
Wireless messages despatched soon after the mishap by the distressed craft, gave her position as Lat. 26.23 North, Longitude, 120.30 East. The ship, it was stated, was surrounded by rocks, but there was no immediate danger of her breaking up, though she was leader of the Conservative full- bumping badly.
Most of the crew have been landed upon Tung Yung Island,
it in understood, and it is
presumed that Admiral Kelly is among those who are safely ashore. It is not known de finitely whether Lady Kelly was aboard H. M. S. Petersfield but it is considered probable by the focal naval authorities that Lady Kelly was accom panying the commander-in- chief to Hongkong.
1.8.
The German liner, Derflinger, which was nearby and was the first ship to pick up the Petersfield's distress signal, arrived near the scene of the wreck at seven o'clock this morning and is standing- by. There is, therefore, cause for anxiety for those aboard.
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The R.M.S. Empress of
Asia was close to Tung Yung
and has been diverted. She was expected to reach the scene at about 8.30 a.m.
TWO CRUISERS ORDERED TO SCENE.
HMS. Suffolk has been ordered to proceed with sil despatch and should arrive at Tung Yung at five o'clock this afternoon.
H.M.S. Cornwall, also on pussage from Shanghai to Hong- kong, should arrive at Tung Yung at about six o'clock to-morrow morning.
The latest Information from the local naval authorities regarding the wreck suggests that the Petersfeld's wireless has possibly failed. Attempts to get into communication have been unsuccessful.
LATER.
A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF VIA THE EMPRESS OF ASIA AND H.MS. SUFFOLK HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN HONGKONG, STATING: "SHIP TOTAL LOSS. ALL HANDS SAVED."
REVOLT IN SPAIN
SUSPECTED.
LATE DICTATOR'S SON ARRESTED.
Madrid, Nov. 12.
their coup has broken up an at- tempt to promote a Royalist volution.
C-
Members of the Government, howover, declare that à Monarchist revolution at the prosunt time is impossible, and the affair is like
Mr. Winston Churchill such- denly emerged as the virtual
blooded Protectionists,
Shop fronts sixty feel back from the sea have been smashed. The worst of the storm struck the
Eastbourne coast between
and Folkestone, where the action of the Chimanel current, through recent centuries has piled many square niles of wall between the old Cinque Ports of Nye and Winebel- zes and the senpei
HUSBAND.
BY
After having been missing
• since 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Harris, the wife of Major Harris, resid- ing at the Repulse Bay Ho- tel was found early this mor- ning in a grave condition from the effects of multiple injuries.
The distressing discovery, was To-day, the sen reached fere-made by Major Harris after an shore high and dashed against | all-night search for his wife. the bungalows at Winchelsen He found her at 6 o'clock, in a demolishing many,
A number of families are home
jent.
The Thames at high tide. to-day A professed Free Tender for was again exceptionalle high but ninety per cent. of his erratic poli-it passed without using damage, tien fifa, Ms. Churchill had an --British Wireless, uproarious reception, his, speech being interrupted by frequent Cons servative elivering.
Discriminating Benevolence!
tie defined his position us in. dependent of the triumvirate form- ed by Mr. Ramaay MacDonald, Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Sir Herberi Samuel, but promised to assist the government with his advice and with an attitude of discriminating benevolence!
The member for Epping hoped the Government would be sen-
sible about Protection as they had the fullest mandate for any measure of protection they chose to adopt.
FIRST DIVISION IN COMMONS.
NINE VOTE AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
secluded part of the bathing beach at Repulse Bay, lying at the foot of an embankment be- low the main road, incapacitated] by injuries the most serious of which appear have been to the left temple.
The unfortunate lady wns con- scious when she was found but we learn that she later relapsed into unconsciousness and that her condition was regarded as serious.
Japanese troops are here shown, moving up to the scene of operations:
CHINESE INVADING
CONCESSIONS.
JAPANESE FEVERISHLY ERECT DEFENCE LINES.
· BUZZING SPECULATION AT GENEVA.
Tientsin, Nov. 12.
NERVOUSNESS appears to be increasing among
the Japanese and Chinese in Tientsin, and both parties are taking the most elaborate precautionary measures in anticipation that something may happen, though nobody seems to know exactly what..
The Japanese are feverishly strengthening their defences along the borders adjoining the native city, and are employing Chinese labour to fill sandbags, and to repair and strengthen the barricides with barbed wire. In the native city, troops and police are similarly employed.
It is reliably reported that the villages near the native city are also putting up very crude barricades of wire entanglements, allegedly against a bandit attack which the villagers say may be expected in the neigh- bouring districts.
What did America suy to Japan?
What did Japan reply?
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Major Harris Interviewed.
Two hundred students of the In 117) Interview with the Nankai University left the city Telegraph this morning, Major for Peking this afternoon and Harris said that his wife was the rest are following found by himself.
as possible. They state that they The search was carried on late are uvincunting Tientsin for funr was into the night with the assistance of an outbreak in fighting, but he to-day after the ministers had of police from Stanley and Aber-could give no definite reason why attended the ceremony L
thedeen, and was resumed again at there should be any fighting ex- Canotaph.
daylight this morning.
pected.
London, Nov. 11.
A meeting of the Cabinet
tion.
.
NO
WON the American Note vigorous that M. Brinnd intervened to prevent publication?
Did it lag behind other Powers in strength?
What is the significance of General Dawes summons in relation to the Note?
This
When the House of Copimona Major Harris was searching
Chinese Flee to Concessions.
string of queries has assembled in the afternoon, Mabout among the rocks at the foot!
brought only conjectural replies, Stanley Baldwin, immediately after of a cliff to the west of Repulse" questions, introduced a motion giv wife lying there is a dazed condi- the villages to the Concessions is talk has been provided this even-
Bay and at six o'clock.he found his
The influx of refugees from but a more substantial fare for ing precedencu to Government
Increasing. It is the general ing by Dr. Sze's latest demarche. business for the rest of the session. She was badly bruised and had opinion that the feeling of appre, which in taken to imply that the The triumvirate, he said, were the Labour extremists, whe o-making it evident that she had is principally due to the nervous for Talleihar
The motion was challenged by cuts on her forehead and feet, henalon has no valid foundation, and Japanese are making a definite bid not the sole judges of the naturejected to the devotion of the whole fallen over the cliff when walking tension of the past few days, to- of the mandate conferred upon the of the time of Parliament until in the direction of Hongkong. government by the country.
Christmas to Government business,
Electorate's Wish.
He was sure, on the contrary, that the overwhelming wish and intention of the electorate was the abandonment of Free Trade and the Institution of general and acietife protection.
A very large majority of the members of the House of Commons were fully authorised by their con- atituenta to reach a decision on this point.
Excitement in House.
The speech, coupled with the attack of Sir Henry Page Croft, and the revelation of further Con servative Impatience with the government's polley, members de- munding more definite pro- gramme for douling with dumping, caused considerable excitement in the House.
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The division resulted in Government victory by 378 votes to 9, the official Labourities re- fraining from voting-Reuter and British Wireless,
Suffering From Exposure.
It is understood that the Chinese gether with the complete lack of delegation is making the strongest any definite information as to representations to the Counci What is actually transpiring, thus concerning the development. Mrs. Harris was suffering from allowing even the wildest mimours in a condition to explain how the the effects of exposure and was not to gain ground.
accident happened, but it appears
Salping Incidents.
that she must have fallon over the. A visit to the Japanese Con- clit during yesterday evening's cossion revealed high
Screena
UNCERTAINTY IN typhoonrin was at once removed being put up cross exposed opinion in all countries is opposed
SILVER.
SPÈCULATORS STILL ACTIVE.
Considerable uncertainty exists regarding the futura tendency of the silver market, so many factors having operated to force the price up to its present level,
In London yesterday, aftern big jump on Tuesday, the pric The tense situation ensed later, for spot silver feil three-farthings however, as the outcome of a largely to 20%d., and forward was quoted attended meeting of Conservative at 20. 6/8d. Chinn sold and M... under the auspices of the Speculators were buying on the fall. A steady tone provalla. Amérien
Beems disinclined the tarlal operate. The dollar remains un from chagod at 1s. 8.1/16d. on demand,
Empire Industries Association.
have
For the moment.
decided to refrain
.
ty to prove of the slightest impor-embarrassing the government. The market opened onay
tance.
but
In commoxion with the, affair, The mooting empowered the strongthened during the morning The Spanish Governmout refuses the Police to take with any seriousness. the custody. Major Francisco Rosales to request the government as soon at opening, offered at 1n. 6d.
have taken into chairman Sir Honry Page Croft and sellers who offered 18. 54 allegou Royalist plot which has re- and a leading Catholic ignitation of taklit action regarding
un possible to declare Re Inter-Internet sulted in the arrest of Joe Antonio while several prominent army ofl-
Shangha! niño easy, but firmed Prime Rivera, son of the late dicta-core are oxported to be arrested emergency, procnitions, and also to up. for, though the Polico believe that shortly-Retter.
Institute a parmationt tariff policy. In New York, allver "reached
Router.
85:11/16,
Mrs. to the Repulse Bay Hotel and given medien) attention. She in
As the League Council meeting approaches, some apprehension is manifesting itself äi. Geneva · re- garding the probable outcome. Some observers opinio that the Council will be inclined to mark time, for it in realised that public purpose of concealing the move to any course likely to load to com- ments of civilians, as it appears plications. still suffering from exposure, but that sniping has been continually It is hoped to be able to remove going on from the direction of the
An Awkward Situation. her to hospital this evening.
Inative city, though it is uncertain
An awkward situation, howover, who the snipers are,
might arise if Dr.Alfred Sze should raise the question of Art!-- At one time considerable appcles 16 and 10 of the League. hension was caused in the Japanese Covenant, which, it is felt in
the Concession by
persistent rumour that the Chinose would eat Genovu, may place the League in off the water supply, the Japanese difficult quandary, Concession Waterworks being sitasted in Chinese territory.
ARMISTICE DAY SCENES.
ROYAL FAMILY ATTEND FESTIVAL.
London Nov. 11.
"An urgent Chinese communica
The Japanese Secretariat to night published a Chinese state An assurance has been given, Japanese troops on Noun River ment detailing the massing of however, by the administration, bridge, together with another. Note, attended the Empire Festival of done since the valves controlling the Irregular attackers at Tientsin To-night the King and Queen that this could not possibly be declaring that the arms used by Remembrance at the Royal Albert the water supply for the Japanese, were of definitely Japanese mako Hall, oritzanised by the British Fronch, Italian and former was also present. Legion. The Prince of Wales Austrian Concessions and aleo
the native olty, are actually. Despite a cold wind and Intor-the Japanese concession--Router. mittent rain, there were large
Day of Buzzing Speculation. Abbey, and until a inte hour, a crowds all the afternoon in White hall and round Weatminater
Geneva, Nov. 11. A day buzzing speculation, in Cenotaph and the grave of the stantial thrills. The speculation file of mourners passed by the Genova, terminated with two sub Unknown
Warrior; tributes of flowers-British Wire States.
bringing has mostly centred round United
in:
· “tion-received at Geneva, states that “the Japanese troops at Nonni River bridge have resumed their: advapro. -and`are"now 20 kilometres; on the road to Taitsther. It in further. reported that they have bombed and shelled the Chinese trappa, who The new that General Day are now retiring
p has been i
Instructed