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THRILLING LINER-FIRE ESCAPE STORIES
Indo-China Chief Justice's Adventure
SURVIVORS TELL
GRIM TALE
RELATIVES SEPARATED IN CONFUSION
POIGNANT RE-UNIONS ON PIER AT ADEN
Aden, May 18.
A HOST OF THRILLING STORIES OF REMAR- KABLE ESCAPES FROM THE FIRE TER- ROR ABOARD THE ILL-FATED FRENCH LINER, "GEORGES PHILLIPAR," WHEN THE FLAMES SWEPT THROUGH THE VESSEL WITH INCREDIBLE RAPIDITY, TRAPPING MANY OF THE FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS IN THEIR CABINS, WERE RELATED THE ARRIVAL OF TWO BRITISH STEAMERS TO- DAY WITH OVER 260 SURVIVORS.
ON
Aden was also the scene of several joyful re-unions when people rescued by one boat found their relatives from whom they had been separated on the other.
M. Louis Alfred, the Chief Justice of Indo-China, and his wife, had one of the most sensational escapes. Both were trapped in their cabin by sheets of flame roaring along the corridor. M. Alfred fought his way through to the deck and lowered his overcoat to the porthole outside, pulling up his wife. His daughter and son in-law, however, are at present among those whose whereabouts are unknown.
NO WIRELESS SIGNALS SENT OUT
The loss of the Georges Phillipar in a honvy blow to the M.M. line.. Our photo shows a corner of her wanderfully decorated first-class
EPIDEMIC AT SEA
O.S.K. BOAT WITH 11 HONGKONG PASSENGERS
saloon.
TYPHOID, MEASLES,
PNEUMONIA
It is now disclosed that the hours after the Contractor. Georges Phillipar was unable ta Poignant scenes were witness- on the pier soon after the send out any wireless signals. The ed flames had obtained a firm hold vessel had arrived alongside as before the outbreak was discover-survivors from the Mahsud found ed and it spread so rapidly that that relatives they thought they the wireless-operator's room was had lost had reached safely beforeļdiseases, ranging from typhoid put of action before any S. 0. S. them. message could be sent out.
LUCKY CHANCE.
Those which were picked up by
to
of
Durban, May 17. An amazing outbreak
pneumonia. measles and chicken-pox. which nearly Once mother for instance, threatened was almost delicious with joy 1,200 Japanese emigrants and
involve to Bad her two daughters safe.
some European passengers, at UGA abourd the steamer, Rio de
liners In the vicinity were sent out! There were only two serious (occurred by the two British steamers and cases of injury as result of the Japanese the Russian oil-tanker which, for-disaster when the Mahsud arrived. Janeiro Maru. tunately for those aboard, were These
were Bent to hospital.
to
over
The vessel belongs to the Osaka
In a position to see the terrific Seven others received burns of Shosen Kaisha and is on the run blaze which was sweeping through the £1,000,000 liner and raced to the rescue, while warning other ships.
The confusion and panic aboard the Georges Phillipar was almost indescribable as the passengers
were roused from their sleep and told to make their way forward.
LIFEBOATS BURNT OUT.
The vessel's head was kept into the teeth of the wind and the smoke, sparks and flames invaded the afterpart of the vessel, a num- ber of life boats housed there quickly being consumed.
It was impossible for the pos- sengers to take up their boat-drill positions owing to the intense heat and consequently, husbande were separated from wives and children from their parents.
SHARK-INFESTED WATER.
WATER SUPPLY HOURS
In order to meet the wishes
of the Chinese community, a change is to be made in the hours during which Water supplies are available.
Instead of the water being turned on from G .m. to 10 4.m, and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., the supplies will be available, on and after to-morrow, from Ga.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The change does not affect the Penk district, where the hours will remain 6 a.m. to 10 m. and 5 p.ni to 8 p.m.
AIR MISHAP ALARM
WAR NEARS CRUEL HOAX ON COL.
HARBIN
SAND BAGS IN
THE CITY
SIGNS OF ANXIETY BY JAPANESE
GUNFIRE HEARD
Harbin, May 18.
War operations are approaching perilously near Harbin, where the sound of gunhre WAS clearly heard yesterday. The situation is regarded so seriously by the Japan- ese that they are now busy erecting sandbag barri- cades in the city.
All day long yesterday, the anti- Manchukuo 1orces were besieging Sungpu, launching a determined attack against the city.
The defonders of the city kept the attackers at bay and innily routed them, but the gunfire of the invaders proved so effective that by evening, many parts of Sungpu were going up in tames.
SECOND ATTACK.
Despite heavy losses, the anti- Manchukio forces, after-receiving | reinforcements, launched another httack, but this, too, proved un- successful.
Four bridges Aftoch miles cast of Imtenpo have been destroyed by the anti-Manchukuo troops," who
breakdown train poured a hall of machine-gun fire into their midst.
GERMAN FLIERS retreated when the guard on a
MISSING
LINE CUT AGAIN.
FRANTIC SEARCH IN by anti-Manchukuo troops a fow
TIMOR SEA'
Kupang, May 17. Fears of a tragic termina- tion to a long flight on the eve of success are now enter- tained in the absence of news of Flight-Captain Hans Ber- tram, the famous German airman, who took off from Kupang for Port Darwin early yesterday morning and has failed to arrive.
A frantle search is now in pro- from Japan to South Amerien, vingress for signs of the large Hongkong, Saigon, Durban, Cape Junkers all-metal seaplane which Town and Buenos Aires.
he was piloting, accompanied by THREE DEATHS.
another young German, Herr! Thom, as second pilot, Count Was on her way from Lagoria, the well-known flm
She
Singapore to Durban when the operater, and a mechanic, Herr
outbreak occurred and the doctor Klaussmano, was kept constantly at work as They arrived in Kupang on fresh cases, of a diseases, occurred.
The Rio
variety of Sunday on a trade and mapping
FOREIGNERS. FROM H.K.
DESTROYER SEARCHING.
The track has also been tora up
miles to the east of Hengtachotzo, and, as a result, communication between that point, and Pogranit- chnaya, which had 'only just been restored, is again interrupted.
Three Japanese troops trains, escorted by armoured trains, left for Hallan on Monday.. The Ja- panese have reoccupied Erho and Mutanklang.
Japanese troops in Harbin were! busily engaged yesterday in creet- | ing sandbag barricades in the new
town.Reuter.
MASSACRE OF
JAPANESE
INSURGENT RAID IN
LINDBERGH
AMAZING CONFESSION
BY "MILLIONAIRE"
Mr. John H. Curtis, the "wealthy” boat builder, surrounded by newspaperman, relating his now discredited story of negotiations with the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby.
NEGOTIATIONS STORY
SHEER IMAGINATION
New York, May 17.
An astounding story of a cruel hoax on Colonel Lindbergh in the course of his anxious search for his lost son, perpetrated by a reputed to be a millionaire, is the latest sensation provided by the Lindbergh kid- napping case.
The story was revealed as a result of the tremendous efforts now in progress to bring the inhuman criminals to justice. Those who claimed to have been in contact with the gang have been subjected to a close questioning, mainly with a view, of course, to getting on the track of the kidnappers. When Mr. John H. Curtis, the police only on Sunday as those of "millionaire" Boston shipbuilder, the gang with whom he had been who has been widely acclaimed as negotiating. one of Colonel Lindbergh's most
Curtis also described the bont efficient amateur detectives, was which he said the alleged kid- questioned on certain curious nappers were using, and the Const. points on his story of his alleged Guard was requested to search for negotiations, he was unable to sus- the vessel believed to be in the tain it, breaking down and confess vicinity of Chesapeake Bay. ing that the whole negotiations" Coast Guard was given descrip
tions of the five men who were last reported aboard the boat Curtis de- scribed,
were a hoax.
PLANNED COUP.
The
MANCHURIA
THE CONFESSION. Harbin, May 18. flight from Germany to the Far A terrible outrage is reported He told Colonel Norman Schwar- Seventy-five United States coast de Janeiro Maru East and to Australia, and took from Iran, where insurgents under tzkopf, the Chief of Police of New guard vessels have been patrolling arrived in Durban to-day with off for Port Darwin, apparently. General L1 Tu massacred thirty- Jersey State, who made a dramatic the Atlantic coast over since from the yellow flag flying and it was early yesterday morning, since five Japanese..
announcement of the confession at Virginia to Massachusetts In the disclosed that three persons had when nothing has been heard of The insurgents then set fire to Hopewell, New Jersey, to-day, that belief that they had the kidnap- been buried at sea and that forty the party.
the city, before retreating to Fu- the whole of the story of the negro-pers and slayers of Charles Augus- others aboard had been stricken
chin.-Router.
tiations was the creation of his tus Lindbergh, Jr., blockaded at down and needed to be placed in
Later. Imagination. hospital ashore.
A Dutch destroyer from Souru- The massacre occurred yester- Colonel Schwartzkopf added that baya is helping In the search and day morning, when General Li Mr. Curtis typed a full confession The vessel was carrying elevon all ships to the vicinity have of the advance
Tu's insurgents, under pressure of his cruel part in the Lindbergh Authorities have since been of Japanese drama at four o'clock this morn-checking the statements of every- passengers from Hongkong for one kind or another, but these Durban and Buenos Aires, one been warned by wireless to keep a columns down the Sungari, decld-ing, after hours of questioning. body who ever attempted to get were not regarded serious European and ten Americans.
look-out for, the missing airmen. ed to evacuate the city and re-
into contact with the kidnappers. Mr. S. Faberian, A British The object of the flight
treat in the direction of Fuchin, WOB
Meanwhile Captain Frank Lack- merchant, was aboard from Hong explained by Captain Bertram in near the Siberian border.
In the course of his confession mann of the yacht Marcon has the nurvivora to be ferried It is learned this morning that kong proceeding to Durban on an Interview in Singapore when he
The bodies of the victims were Curtis alleged that a prominent revealed what he believed was & to the rescuing ships, or Mr. Rodd Moffett, of Shanghal, did business. Others from the Colony said that he sought to discover discovered when General Naku newspaper made him a very lucra- plan of the kidnappers to capture to be picked up without dimculty not mail aboard the Georges Phil-ware Mr. McLaughlin, an Ameri- the best
mura's Brigade entered means of Hinking up
and tive offer for the exclusive story Lindbergh himself." from the calm but shark-infested lipar, as he changed his mind at the can, and Mr. and Mrs, Luis Perez, Australia, Asia and Europe by air occupied the city, which had pre- and that offers were also made to He said go-betweens were seek-
last minute and left a few days with their seven children, all ilnes, while ho also proposes to fly vlously been the insurgents" prin-him by a film company. The stories of all the survivors later in the Conte Roaso,
proceeding to Buenos Aires,
The Chief of Police commented, Marcon for a rendezvous at sea. ing to get Colonel Lindbergh on the of the liner disastor who have
The Rio de Janeiro Maru loft the same object in view. He is of sequently considers the capture Curtis's deception had resulted in as possessors of the baby sald
across America and Africa with cipal base.
The Japanese military con-in making the atory public, that reached Adon show thai the
Persona representing themselves Hongkong for Saigon on April 23. the opinion that the best method of Ilan as an important victory in many fruitless trips by road, sea John Curtis told him that flamos got a firm hoid long before
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would be to divide the routes up the campaign to suppress the and air, and had kept. Colonel would deliver the baby when con- they the discovery of the outbreak, the cause of which can only be the
so that land and sea planos can be anti-Manchukuo elements.-Reu-Lindbergh from his home during tact was made, without any advance subject of speculation.
(Continued on Pape 7.)
the most important phases of the
FIRM BANKRUPT.
Rafts and lifeboats were, cagea-Reuter. however, plentiful, enabling.
water.
All chemical oxtinguishers and hoses were quite inadequate to cope with the fury of the fire, and the paint, polished wood and ornamenta, and the superstructure burnod greedily,
The spread of the holocaust was amazingly swift,
DIDN'T SAIL.
BELGIAN
RESIGNING
LANGUAGE PROBLEM THE CAUSE (Reuter's Special Barrica).
Brussels, May 17.
AUSTRALIA'S
tor.
caso.
PREMIER
MADE MEMBER OF PRIVY COUNCIL
GERMAN THUNDERSTORM. HAVOC
H. M.
London, May 17. the King has boen
NEWSPAPER OFFER,
payment.
Curtis mindful of what happen- ed to the negotiations in New York In the course of his confession, of Professor John Condon, who Curtis declared that he had not put up 350,000 fruitlessly declared (Router's Special Service).
boen himself for the past soven no more ransom would be paid un. months owing to financial troubles til the baby was turned over. Tho Catholic- Liberal Coalition
Cologne, May 17. Five people were killed in the which he had been at great pains Authorities fully kelloved that Cabinet, undor M. Jutes Renkin
Vineyards and orchards in the village of Gual, near Coblenz, to hide,
they Curtis and his so- (Catholic), which has been in graciously pleased to approve the Rhineland have sufferedly as the owing to the collapse of flooded The boat-building firm of which
houses, while twenty-five people he was the "millionaire owner, alates,
Including the Ray. H The British steamer, Mahaud, office since last June, is resigning appointment of the Hon. Mr.result of a thunder-atorm which, who were praying in'n'church were went bankrupt:A"Juer: ago, he de- Dobson respecock dand Rear
126 Aurvivora, including to-morrow. children, thirty-nine passengers This step is being taken because Australia, to be a member of His was de violent that bodies from trapped by the flood and had to clared and fifty-one Chinese members of the Government is unable to settle Majesty's Privy Council.-British churchyards at Rubenock were be rescued by the police through
washed out of the graves.
the roof
with
SCENES AT PIER.
the crew, arrived in Aden three the language question.
Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of
Wireless.
wm of which dealt could and the persons who
dugapin kaganjata Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, ames and descriptions the rest of the mystery would be zword eurnished to the unfolded.-Router