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MOSCOW TRAIN. DISASTER.
68 KILLED: 130
INJURED.
CLOSE OFFICIAL
SECRECY.
Moscow, Jan. 17.
The closest official secrecy having been observed for A fortnight,
more
than
details of a ghastly railway accident which occurred just outside Moscow on January 2, have just been divulged.
It is remarkable how the facts were kept from the public for so long. It was one of the worst calamities occurring
any
killed.
the
railway for many years,
Over sixty were
official figure i× 68, and 130
were injured.
The heavy castalties orcarved W crowded
in a train which
with workers, who were travelling
to Moscow.
Two Crowded Trains,
The train came to a
stop 20
Kossino, hear Moscow, ani ilirvet-
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police Arrested
student in Barcelona.
Lowest
is afterwards, a second picked Dollar in
Train crashed into its rear.
The tragedy was heightened Six Weeks.
when the locomotive of the second train, released from the carriages behind, dashed among the wreckage.
The accident occurred at night and the darkness increwed [136" difficulties of these engaged in res Acne work.
The cause of the disaster has
disclosed, not been
It j railway under
In-
understood that loven officials" have been placed arrest as the result of
irk-Beula
A WHALE OF A
TOURIST.
Rare Visitor off D'Aguilar.
un.
A well-known local resident and his wife witnessed an usual sight on Saturday even- ing when they saw a big whale fairly close to Cape D'Aguilar
SIGNS OF SILVER WEAKNESS.
pitser has developed weakness
wuth in London and New York, with the result that the Hongkong dolfur opened lower to-day than for any perind during the last sis week. The themand rate is 1. 1.13/180. a drop of farthing compared with, Saturday's quotic
:
Catalonia Unrest.
Grave Strike Threats.
(Router's Special Service).
Barcelona, Jan. 17.
The grave labour troubles which have been causing the Spanish Government so much
anxiety in the past two months are expected to roach their climax before the end of January, and the outlook
black.
Twenty-five thousand Barce- lona workers have declared their intention of "downing tools" to morrow, and that if their de- mands are not met, the strike will be spread throughout the whole of Catalonia.
Simultaneously the Syndicalists have announced a general strike as from January 25 throughout the country.
Girls Resist Arrest,
A number of girls were arrested! to-day in Barcelona for distribut- ing seditious pamphleta.
Many of these women agitators tried to resist arrest. and the police had to resort to the
hefore they could get them to the station.
| Ployment of force
TRAGEDY.
Moratorium CHINA'S BIG COOK STABBED TO
Extension. THREE.
Lausanne Then to Adjourn.
DEATH.
FUTURE STILL IN AMAH ARRESTED.
DOUBT.
Shanghai, Jan, 18.
11
The China Press publishes a apecial message from Hangehow London, Jan. 18.
declaring that it is now Definitive decisions are practical certainty that Chiang most unlikely at the
Lau- Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei sanne Reparations Con. will go to Nanking as soon
Mr. Hu Han-man ference, even if it meets on joins them. Monday next as arranged.
confirmation nu
While
JIM
(pictured)
the
Thu- Agreement betw i le scler
the Kuomintang Left is Wing and Chigg Kai-shek result
$11
Recent developments in Spain boar no resemblance to comic opera. Our forthcoming from official cirelesed from a series picture shows a rioter being carried
off by friends after a strikers' elash | regarding suggestions that
with police.
of enlarences at Hangehow, where
Jenrad,
postponement will be decided thing upon, the portents seem to leave staying. no doubt that the conference, if
CAS
| however, that Hu
DEATH PLUNGE mets, will merely murk time lantion
INTO MUD.
MANILA FLYING
TRAGEDY.
TWO OFFICERS SUFFOCATED.
and shelve the major issues several months.
H
Wang
froni
Ching-wei it la reported in a French news-ing that he sti
Hongkong sint. paper that arrangements are al- ready afoot for putting off the rest and Conference for five months as from leave for
Nanking. Rea January, 25, but in British Govern-ter, ment circles it is stated that, for the moment, they are procetding Top the assumption that existing
plans will be carried out.
The residence of Mr. C. A. L. Rickett at 112, The Peak (Mountain View) off Plun- ketts Road, was the scene of a tragedy this morning when a middle-aged cook in the employ of Mr. Rickett was stabbed to death with a breakfast knife.
The cock, Hau Fat, aged 46, was supposed to be preparing break- fast in the kitehen shortly after o'clock this morning when he was killed,
A young house amah, who is und r arrest. In connexion with the affair was the only eye- witness of the stabbing, athough the victim's wife; and Mr, Rickett, were on the scene Immediately after the fatal blow had boon struck.
HOW
Commotion in Kitchen. The deceased's wife, who does not work on the premises but was visiting her husband, was, at the time of the affair, in the servante
the
in the basement of the
A commotion in the kitchen on Honghong Statement.
ground floor took her upstairs, where she found her husband lying Following a long talk between on the floor in a pool of blood, The Mr. Yu Yu-jeu. the President of amah, it is stated, was then sup Alain Issues To Be Avoided. the Control Yuan, and Mr. Hu porting him with her arms.
Han-min, at the latter's Stanley re-
Mr. Rickett Presuming that
also went to the the various idence. Mr, liu Han-min authoris kitchen to discover the cause of Manila, Jun, 16. Ministers attend at Lausanne as ed the publication of the following the disturbance, but by the time The developments represent the Crashing into a treacherous contemplated in the British invita-statement:
he reached the kitchen, latest phase in
the cook'a the epidemic of shelf of mud on the bay front tion, there is reason to believe that strikes which has swept through north of Malabon in a big Ameri-the delegates will be disposed to ing tasks before the Nanking Gov-while the amah was standing by believe that the most press-wife was emporting her husband Spain since the end of November,
sidetrack all important issues till which has given rise to continual can bombing plane, two officers the results have been seen of the crament are "Red" bandit suppres. Mr. Rickett at first thought that eleting, during which eight have stationed at Nichols Field lost general election in France and the Japanese in ampaign against the the cook was ill and suffering from
killed sixty wounded, their lives yesterday by suffocat- Presidential election in Germany. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.
Invasion. The absence of Internal haemorrhage. Over a hundred arrests haveing in mud when trapped in the and till a rough idea has been ob- Wang Ching-wei and myself from Mr. The fall in London prices was been made, and the methods of the cockpit of the plane, and three ained of how the Disarmament Nanking will not in any way impede
Doctor Too Late. Beth both for spot and rendy, Leivils gnards in dealing with
He endeavoured to secure medi- and in chiefly due to poor support.strikers have caused considerade jury by crawling from the over-
the passengers escaper without in. Conference is progressing.
the work of the Central Govern cal aid and communicated with The market was quiet. on Satur- resentment and ran our.
The doubts will probably be ment, as there are still a
some of the hospitals, including day.
dissipated by M. Layal's declara-number of responsible leaders at the Govorament Civil Hospital, and tion of palley in the Chamber Nanking, I am now suffering from eventually managed to get Dr. J. W. to-morrow, when he will seek a physical illness and need further Anderson. vote of confidence in his
recuperation. Therefore I cannot go to the capital, at least for the Cabinet.
Time being."
.
1 11 .
In New Yors, silver has father
cent, with the market dull.;
baft
turned bomber,
The dead are Lieutenant Ray. mand Zettel and Lieut. Elmer L
inter bank rates in Bougkon ARMY VICTIM OF Mequire, of the 28th Immbing
at Shanghai are aloit 1s, ad, and ¦
11.944 respectively, the
}
the phe! being way in both contros,
The lack of strength in market is retortol in the
Fast
that in lodia, with a daily offlakej of only about ten bars, there is a
plus of 9,000 bars,
and watched it spouting for TEA AND SALT
fully ten minutes.
It was about Ave o'clock when the couple, who were out or a walk on the eastern extremity of the island, spotted the monster,
which was well up on the surface of the water. It was swimming between Cape Aguilar and a
PNEUMONIA.
DEATH OF C.Q.M.S. MULLENS OF THE ARGYLLS.
squadron.
3 believed that Zettel, who! was at the controls, landed on the beach rather than put the heavy machine down in the water, with more risk to the three men in the
For coelenit.
Anglo-Italian Accord,
new
a
The Financial Muddle.
large
It is very likely that the pro-i redure at Lausanne will be an agreement for an extension of the
Shanghai, Jan. 18. Hoover Moratorium till December Mr. Chang Chi, President of the 15 when the next payment by the Legislative Yazo, visited Hang- Allies is due to the United States chow during the week-end to cen- Salvage Doubtful,
and then an adjournment until anfer with Chiang Kai-shek concern 20 YEARS' SERVICE.
agreed date. The three men who escaped were
ning the financial muddle and the ¡Stall Sergeant Norch, and Cor-
threat of Shanghai Bancers to Through the death which occurrporals Lambert and
cut off credits. It is said that ed in the Military Hospital this radio operators.
The Italian experts, Signora Chiang Kai-shek will make an morning of GQ.M.S. Edward Mul- The bomber was buried so deep Beneduce and But, have left for effort to restore the confidence of lens, the 2nd Batt: Argyll and in the mad that officials are doubt Rome from London, after having the financiers regarding the stand Sutherland Highlanders has lustful of salvage possibilities for de-conferred with Mr. Neville Cham- ing of the Government as soon na one of its most valued and popular tatchable parts." The almost in-berlain, the British Chancellor of he returns to Nanking-Reuter. Warrant Officers.
accessable location in which it was the Exchequer, and will probably C. QM. S. Mullens became a found drew secres of spectators to proceed to Berlin later.
They victim of pneumonia only a week the scene, wading to their hips in have already, discussed matters pro- ago. After a hopeful rally le mud for
TAX RUMOURS
EMPHATIC DENIAL
TO-DAY.
AN alleged Government
Plockning,
small island in the vicinity, quite posal to impose an import duty on suffered a relapse from which he the wreckards to get a look at with financial experta in Paris.
close to the shore.
salt and tea was the insia of per-did not recover.
Zettel und Maguire took off sisten! rumours in the City this He was 39 years of age, and from Nichols Field at 5 am. bound morning, especially ir: Chinese joined the Argyll and Sutherland for the north end of the bay. One Highlanders in April 1912, thus of the motors went wrong, and e has having nearly twenty years ser-forced landing was inevitable.
vice to his credit.
circles.
the
the
en.
in
The Colonial Secretariat given them an emphatie denial.
The rumours suggested that it
During the war he served with, was the Government's Intention to his battalion in France, and was! introduce the necessary legisla-awarded the
on early this year.
1914 Star, British-
SIR M. LAMPSON'S HOLIDAY.
Beach Deceiving.
It is understood in political quarters that Italy and Britain are ready to grant Germany longer moratorium without coa- sulting the United States.
On the other hand, France adamantly declines to forego any A wide expanse of apparently of her "sacred rights" before the
States firm beach was deceiving in the United
War Medal, Victory Medal and darkness of early morning. Cir-equivalent renunciation of guarantees
gues.
dues. Reuter.
EMPRESS LINER INCIDENT.
EUROPEAN ENGINEER
ATTACKED.
Subsequently, the wife discover- wounded and informed Mr. Rickott xd that her husband had been accordingly,An examination re ealed an injury in the left chest near the heart. A message then seat to the Police and In- poetor Chester Woods, of Gough Hill Police Station, arrived at the houae soon afterwards.
туля
Ho found Dr. Anderson atten- ding to the injured man, who how ever succumbed to the wound.
and
Police Discoveries.
Mr. T. Murphy (Assistant Dir- actor of Criminal Investigation)
Chief Detective Inspector Reynakis Inter took charge of the Investigations.
When Inspector Chester Woods arrived he found the kitchen practi- cally undisturbed. On a table, on which were a number of plates and three pieces of toast, the officer found a breakfast knife bearing blood stains.
There were no signs of anything in the nature of a struggle.
The amah, Chou Sim, whose age
is given as 18 and who was still in the kitchen when Inspector Chester Woods arrived, was later
an TWO MEN CHARGED. taken into custody.
her
An incident in the stoke-held
of
the Empress of Asia when she was It was, he had to be under medical less than 48 hours out of Victoria, attention for eight days.
Detective Sub
to
20
be
complainant
During the time the whale was kept under observation, it must have spouted fully a dozen times. Eventually, it made off in direction of Pu Tai Island,
The precise species of monster is not known, but quires show that whate ሰ. casionally visit local waters the winter months, though they Mr. D. W. Tratman, Principal og service and good conduct deeling about into the wind and drop do not often come very close to Assistant Colonial Secretary, told corations. He had seen service in ping. Zettel took the craft fairly to shore. Last year' two wore Telegraph representative this Bermuda and China. sighted some way off the island morning, that there was absolute-
the centre. With the impact of hya yechting party.
y no foundation for the reports.
A keen supporter of all regi-the left landing wheel the landing THE FIRST HIKE. Nothing was known at the Colonial mental sports, Quartermaster-Ser-wear sunpped, the propellers caulit
B.C., on her last voyage, had a Dr. G. M. Foster, medical officer Secretariat regarding such a pro- teemed by his superiors and collen-Inndlag with its tail pointed in the geant Mullens was highly and the huge plane somersaulied,
sequel at the Kowloon Magistracy on the Empress of Asia, testified before Mr. Fraser this morning to poskl.
examining the direction of Maulin.
EIGHTEEN STARTERS trimmer, Cheung Wan, wore charg- December
whon stoker, Sung Ping, and a between He leaves a widow, who is ut
Q and 9.30 p.m. on The survivors found sufficient OF NEW CLUB. present in longkong, and eight space between the cockpit and the
od with assaulting, Mr. F. E. him
and finding children, and every sympathy will surface of the beach
Galloway, fourth engineer, on the various Injuries on the head, ear Buffering from to crawl bo extended to them in their great through to safety, badiy jarred and formed Hongkong Hiking Assocla,sault.
Eighteen members of the newly-high seas and with common asand shouldera. | bereavement.
shocked, but otherwise safe. The funeral, with full military
tion met to participate in a walk
Under Detention. Prosecuting. The two pilots were dragged out yesterday. The party gathered at Inspector Elston said the Empress tain on the Empress of Asia, said honours, will take place to-morrow, five hours later by
Mr. A. N. Robertson, staff-cap- the cortege passing the Monument crew, through a hole dug from the
frantic rescue the Kennedy Road Peak Tram of Asia loft Victoria at 11. the matter was reported to him at 4.30 pm. The flfes und drums forward end of the plane. The itation, where photographs were on December 19, and on the night | at 9.80 p.m. on December 20, No
and then a route from of December 20, the complainant action was taken, however, Bowen Road to Stubbs Road was went on watch, being in charge of night, but the next morning the do- taken. Here the first halt was No. 2 stoko-hold.
the fondants wore called before him and called, and three members of the time, the defendunts were on duty. ongepped out owing to other Complainant was not satisfied with the Captain, and after this inter- their work, and gave orders for view, they were placed under de- The remainder made their way there to do their work properly. It tention for 24 hours as a precau-
They wore later. to another point, from which four was alleged that the first defendant tionary measure..
the walkers descended by picked up a shovel, which con being told they would be handed of
released and resumed duty after short cut to Causeway Bay. The plainant snatched away. other members of the party con
Later,
dofondant
over to the polleo in Hongkong. picked up an
Mr. Robertson stated Worcester, became first Bishop of tinued the course to Taikoo Dook Iron bar and struck, the
that it London, Jan. 18.
Birminghatn in 1926, and was tran yard Club, where refreshments plainant on the head. The second was a very serious case, pointing The death has occurred of the slated to Oxford in 1911, resigning were enjoyed, and the concluding defendant also picked up a shovel out that the engineer was in the Right Bov. Charles Gore, at the eight yours later.
stage, home, was completed by and struck the complainant on the stoko-hold all by himself with the age of 78 years.
A leader of the High Church tram.
shoulders. Complainant was wear stokers and trimmers, and but for The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone is central over the Dr. Gore was raised to the worker against
A well-known divine, the late social reformers, he was an active The "hike" was most successful log a cap at the time and it was timely assistance, ba might have "sweating in and was fully enjoyed by the comparty due to this that he did not received serious. Infuries; batone Yellow Bos, moving east.
Episcopato in 1902 as Bishop of every form.—Reuter.
pany.
receive more serious injuries. An Europe assistance could reach him.
The CMS Tas, aljourncti
LAST OF FAMOUS MENAGERIE.
BOSTOCK "ZOO" SENT TO WHIPSNADE.
Landon, Jan. 17, Britain has lost one of its eldest and most popular entertain- ment institutions by the dis- bandment to-day of Bostock and Wombwell's Royal Menagerie.
SIX MONTHS' LEAVE IN ENGLAND.
Nanking, Jan. 18. Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister in China, is leaving for
days on six months' leave.
and regimental band will precedo cockpit was filled with mud. the cortege.
The Circus and Managerie has England, via Siberia, within a few DEATH OF BISHOP
been perambulating the since 1800.
country
The managenient arranged for the last professional appearance of the animals last might at Glasgow, after which the hundreds of wild animals and birds
were placed aboard a train and sent south.
They are to be placed in the Zoological Society's new and spacious animal park at Whips nare in Bedfordshire-Router.
|
Ir. E. M. B. Ingram, O.B.E., Counsellor of the Legation, will be Charge d'Affaires.
Milen
It is expected that Sir Lampson will return for a further two years' service in China.--Ren- fer.
.
GORE.
HIGH CHURCH SOCIAL REFORMER,
Hands Clasped.
Thone who assisted said that Zettel and Maguire had their right handa locked together when they wore pulled out-possibly a gesture of farewell when they realized there was no hope of rescue.
engagementa,
At
com
that