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M XALXEF. TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932.
日三廿月六
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KOWLOON D'K TUG RAMMED & SUNK IN HARBOUR
DE VALERA'S RUN DOWN BY LOCAL
NEW MOVE
SPECIAL MISSION FOR MINISTER
LONDON VISIT
TARIFF WAR DUTIES ANNOUNCED
Dublin, July 25.
Ar de Valera has taken another dramatic step in- comDezion with the Anglo- Irish situation, the exact significance of which is, at the moment, merely the sub- ject of conjecture.
Mr. Ungo Flynn, the Parlia mentary Secretary to the Ministry.
Finance, has left for London na preinl Government mission.' Nothing has been disclosed re- warding the purpose of the visit beyond a statement that "Very Important.”
NEW DUTIES,
iN
Meanwhile, a schedule of duties
under the Emergency, Duties Bill has been annonno coming
DA
from
to-morrow,
effective July 26.
The Irish Free State, under the! schedule, impuse inter alia, duty of
Pive shilling a ton on emi; Twenty-five per cont
valorem, on cement; Twenty per cent, on electrical
aparatus:
Twenty per cent. an iron and)
steel;
Twenty-eight shillings per ewt.) on sugar and molasses;
A farthing a pound, or three
pence a gallon on sweetened foods and drinks." CONFUSING ORDERS.
confusion was
STEAMER
THREE MISSING: MR. F. J.
JENNER'S ESCAPE
HIRUNDO TOW TRAGEDY
Three Kowloon Dock employees lost their lives last night, it is feared, when the tug-tender Edith, assisting the Henry Keswick to tow the disabled s. s. Hirundo into harbour, was rammed and sunk by the Canton steamer Tin Yat.
UGLY SCENE
AT
BURNLEY
STRIKES AND STRIKE THREATS
WAGE REDUCTIONS RESISTED
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, July 26.
Uwly speljes errurred went on strike and demonstra- Burnley to-day where thousands tors attacked some women who were leaving a mill.. The police) were compelled to charge the mob.
Hurley is a city of idle mills:
Fifteen million forms and letters had to be sent out in connexion with the war loan conversion scheme. They were printed and despatched in 24 hours. a wonderful achievement. Photo shows printers cutting and packing the forms.-(Times copyright).
mill-hands as a protest against HONGKONG LADY WAR LOAN
The tow had progressed to a point between Green Island and Stonecutters Island when the tragic mis-to-day as the result of the strike, adventure befel the Edith. She was badly holed and sunk rapidly. Three members of her crew were later found to be missing. Mr. F. J. Jenner, the master of the Edith, was, with the others rescued, in the water for some time.
It was some time after the cullis sion that assistance was forthcom Jay. The Tin Yat was the first easel to reach the men struggling in the water, but some difficulty in mseun them was experienced ow. ing to the darkness and the far! that they had drifted pant.
Mr. F. J. Jenner was in the water for half, an hour before he was picked up and found that nine other members of his crew were also safe.
Three Chinese are missing, loved to have been drowner!.
OFFICIAL ENQUIRY,
MORE FOOD
are per tan.
TAXES
which has been embarked upon by
wages reductions amounting to] twelve and a half per cent., 2/6 in the £1.
FIFTY MILLS AFFECTED.
Out of the town's sixty mills, on-
ly about ten, which have separate
agreements, started work with a Full complement of weavers In-day. while a number of mills were come pletely idle.
Wan
A dangers situation created when a member of women i weavers, who had gone to work, were attacked ma trying to leave one of the affected mills. Demon- strators rushed them and one wo- man was knocked down, and badly injured.
Others were roughly handled,; but the police were soon on the scene and cleared the demon-¡ strators..
OTHER TROUBLE IMMINENT,
centres,
IN
BATHING DRAMA
RESCUED FROM DROWNING
NARROW ESCAPE
The story of how a Hong- kong lady, Mrs. G. Lane, was saved from drowning by the prompt and courageous ac- tion of Mr. W. H. Heytman, of the acting manager. Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., in Singapore, is told in Straits papers just to hand.
"
!
BREAKING 'POSTAL BLOCKADE
D.K.K. TO ACCEPT LETTERS
WAY OPEN TO THE SIBERIA ROUTE
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shanghai, July 26. Japanese control of the one regular fast steamer service between Shanghai and Dairen is a factor which will prevent the Nanking Government's postal block- ade of Manchukuo from be- ing made effective.
CONVERSION A
Japanese Consular officials have again affirmed that they do not intend to establish a SCHEME ALREADY. special mail service between Shanghai and Manchukuo, it is A SUCCESS
difficult to see how the blockade London,. July 25. of the puppet State can excuse Over One thousand million being nullified. pounds worth of the Five l'er Cent. War Loan has already been and less doubtful method of inter The Japanese have a far casier converted to three and half perforing in the Nanking programme, vent. under the Government's conversion scheme.
A statement to this effect was muule to-day by the Financial Secretary 11)
•EHolt.
D.K.K. LINE'S OFFER.
An official of the Dairen Kisen Treasury, Major Kaisha, which runs three Fast He also mentioned that steamers weekly between Shanghai of the 2,600,000 holders of this and Dairen, touching at Tsingtan stock 1,587,000 had, up to the pre-on the way, has informed the sent, assented to conversion. The North China Daily News that mail dissenters numbered only 115,000, will be accepted on their ships representing only two per cent. for tranmission to Europe, Via
This means that £98
of this Dairen.
pust
transfer the mail to
will the South
POTATOES TO COST BRITAIN MORE
Lopoon, July 25. Loder 2013 abiitional import bedatiess order, which the Treasury
Ested te-night on the recommemia- | tion of the timparts. Puties Advisory Committee, foreign polatier ir:1. The Pireumstances
the parted into Great Britain will In
It appears that Mrs. Lane, who i tragedy will be the subject of elargiable res from midnight official investigation. Details of Wednesday next with a duty of £1
was on a visit to Singapore from stock is being converted for every At Dairen, the D.K.K. the enllision at the present
Hongkong, was bathing off the Seatwo pounds that is not. Trouble is expected in other View Hotel on Tuesday last when This is the last week for bonus Manchurian Railway and it will be Isranty.
In the case of new potatoes, in-West Houghton and Leigh, em- first noticed by a Chinese toy, Linues to bring in scores of thou-method.
Nine weaving Erms at she got into difficulties. She was conversion and every
con carried across Siberia by the usual The mishap occurred when the parted between the first of Novemploying about five thousand hands Boating face downwards. He rais-sands of assents. erated Hirundo, which was disabled her and the thirtieth of June, the
The letters must be posted aboard Major Elliott said that the re- the D.K.K. steamers at least half by the fact that to-night's emer was being brought into harbour, eightpence per hundredweight,
eat the alarm, and Mr. Heytman, during the recent typhoon blow,iudy will be four shillings and
ufter taking off only his coat and sponse so far
been very an hour before sailing time. gency duties were issued in twoje the tug Henry Keswick, with
hors, sprang into the water, and satisfactory and the operation was instalments, me of them making the assistance of the steam tender existing general ad valorem duty 1 These rate are inclusive of the
brought the bather ashore, She already assured of success. in ± veference to Imperial Preferences Baith. The Keswick was towing of ten per cent.
was unconscious when taken out of letter to General Seely regarding This reference created run-i
From a business point of view conversion scheme, † the pagar unit revived slightly after
the only inconvenience will con artificial respiration had been tried. Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simonist in the fact that the D.K.K.
said: "thing has
more wharves
are situated striking in recent weeks than the Yangtsepoo District, several miles Mr. Heytman was sitting on the impression the whole conception from the Bund, but it is very pro- lawn in front of the hotel with ais the scheme has made on the bable that some arrangements will wite and two other people, when I minds uf other countries."-- the Chinese boy gave the alarm, He British Wireless, |was painting to something in the
Kome
fusion regarding the countries to
in
front, with the Edith B
which the new duties were intend-starboard side of the steamer.
ed to apply, but it was later ex-
plained that the duties on iron
and steel, coal, cement, etc., as
RAPIDLY SINKS.
the
Just as the disabled ship and above, would apply only to treat the ts were entering the ba Britain, but that the other duties ananneed, forting articles
ar
nt such as baruts and potatoes. would have a general application.
Restor.
するい
Advisory
Committee will
dealin
shortly subimit A report with horticultural products generad- ly.
They have made you emendations our from the western entrance, regarding potatoes, in advance of the ss. Tin Yat, which was on her, this report owing to the recent Way to Canton, under fapt, W. abnormal inportations of potatoes,
ale ting The erremit,, collided with the Edith, seriously
British The Edith layan to take. i:1 growers whose supplies are avail- įr
able and suflicient to meet require į mouts, Back Wireless,
water rapidly and son sak.
Those rescued were transferred to the fleury Keswick and
יוויזיון
CANTON GUNBOAT taken ashore, while the Tin Vat
· DISASTER.
continued on her voyage.
EXPLOSION IN THE scene
MAGAZINE
POLICE SEARCH. Polire launches arrived on the
some little Lime after! the mishap and instantly in- stituted a search for the missing men, but although the vicinity of the sunken tender was thoroughly searched, no trace of them could be found.”
Following an explosion which or- curred in the manmunition maga zine, a disastrous fire destroyed the
At present the Edith lies about Chinese gunboat Ying Chit oppo- site the Eastern Bund in Canton, quarter of a mile West North City on Sunday evening.
West of the Central Fairway, and
noon to find the bodies of the miss Seven members of the crew suing who may have been trapped. stained serious injuries and had to
be admitted to hospital for trent-
ment while many others received
BRITISH STOCKS
BUOYANT
a
to £100.2.6, which compares with EX-KING'S LAST 73% earlier this year, and 67 at
RESTING-PLACE
minor injuries anti bruises, The ALLEGED DIAMOND one time last year.British Wire
fire spread rapidly after the exple- sion and within thirty minutes the whole vénnel was burning fiercely. It sank shortly after midnight.
THEFT
less.
water,
ALARM RAISED.
Mr. Heyman togethei- with neveral other people, jumped up tu see what was the matter, and the i figure of a batherthe only one in the pagar--could be seen" "duat ing face downwards. Mr. Heyt man immediately rushed along the side of the pagar, taking off his Coat as he went. On reaching the first flight of steps he kicked off his shoes and dive into the water.
»HIGH SEA RUNNING.
There was a fairly high sen
the water.
the
ha
been
ABOLITION OF THE TAEL
the
THREE FOREIGNERS ON COMMITTEE
Shanghai, July 26.
LITTLE INCONVENIENCE..
in
the
be made to collect the mails at some central point and deliver them to the ships in a batch.-Reuter,
GLOUCESTER BLDG.
INCIDENT
WINDOW SMASHED 'WITH LADDER
"The police are asking for a
Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance, who has been busily en- gaged since his arrival in Shang-weck's remand, for special reasons, hal in eanferring with the cus-lin order to endeavour to go into toms authorities and local bankers the man's antecedents", said Detec
Lancashire is facing serious labour troubles. Photo shows a workman ! addressing his "matos" on the pro-
posed wagon reductions. DEMAND FOR 3% have decided to give a
week's CONVERSIONS
notice of a wages reduction equal to 1/7 in the pound.
ning at the time and it took some on the seizure of the Manchurian 'tive Sergeant Macdonald when Simultaneously. London, July 25.
five manufac-time for Mr. Ileyinian to reach the Customs revenues and the propose charging a Northern Chinese be- Gilt-edged stocks showed
turers, employing two thousand bather. Ile appeared to try to turned abolition of the tacl, is expect- fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cen- Stock Exchange to-day. further all-round advance on the which has hitherto been immune body before him-it seemed that Nanking.
hands in the fine cotton trade, her over but failed, so, pushing the ed to leave in a day or two for tral Magistracy to-day with the from labour. troubles, have given the rescuer had arrived too late-
theft of a pair of step-ladders and The outstanding feature was notice of a 12% per cent. reduehe managed, after another
It is believed that he will re- with maliciously damaging a plate The fire lasted for over an hour an effort is to be made this after the buying of three and half fertion in wages.
hard main in the capital for a few days glass window and a marble statue lifted the price for first time to cent. Conversion Loan, which
struggle against the waves to get only, later leaving for Peking. worth $800 at the corner shop of her to the side, where ready hands The Committee appointed by Mr. Mr. Raoul Bugazzi sculptor and over £100. It rose ten shillings
pulled her ashore. Mr. Heytron T. V. Soong to study the problem decerator, in Gloucester Building. was very exhausted, when he left of the abolition of the tact must Sergeant Macdonald stated that decide upon a fixed price for the at 2. 80 p.m. on Sunday, it was Blankets were obtained, and the dollar after the tael has been abo- alleged, the defendant took the unconscious womnun was wrappedlished, its weight and the mensures stop-ladders from an empty shop up in them, while a guest at the to be taken for enlisting public two doors away from Mr. Bugazzi's hotel,
a trained nurse, applied support for the change.
took them to the complainant's shop artificial respiration. After a - The Committee includes three and banged them through the the time this had effect, and Mrs. foreigners, including Mr. E. Kann, plate glass. As his Worship could Lane recovered slightly. London, July 25.
who is a noted Far Eastern econ-ace, the glass was tremendously The ambulance then arrived and omistRenter. The boily of ex-King Manoel isale was taken to the General Hos David Dietrich Dohse, wanted
to be carried from England topital, where she was detained until | by the Dutch East Indian authori-
Portugal in the British cruiser ties for alleged larceny of a pack-
next morning, when she was dis- CHIEF SECRETARY Concord. age of diamonds worth $3,800,
The British Governmont recent-charged, suffering from slight
OF CEYLON shock. made another appearance before
ly offored place a British war- Mr. Schofield at the Central Magi.
The difficulty of Mr. Heyman's ship at the disposal of the Por-task in saving Mrs. Lane was en- MR. F. G. TYRELL GETS stracy to-day.
The Government has ordered an tuguese Government for carrying huneet by the fact that Peking, July 26,
Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., told the immediate Tariff Board inquiry the body of the ox-King to his wearing heavy grey flannel trou- Lord Lytton's fover has abated Court that an further information into the question of Imposing ad-native land, and the Portuguese sers, and when these were soaked
ditional duties upon non-British Government have gratefully RC- mad the infection is decreasing. It has yet been received from the cotton piece-goods, with a view to copted the offer.
Sergeant Macdonald, in making with water they proved A great is reported that his general condi-Dutch Government, and the police protecting the Indina textile in-
The Colonial Office announces for a week's formal remand, raised H.M.S. Concord, will stil
handleap. from
that Mr. F. G. Tyrell, Deputy Chief the question of bail, which ho con- tion is satisfactory..
desired another week's remand.
Portsmouth on a date to be an-
Soerotary at Ceylon, has boon tinued, should not be lesa
than General Crozier and von Kotze If in the meantime the documentsdustry.
In a report to the police, Mrs.jelected for appointment as Chiof $1,000, considering that the statue passed a good night, and their con- arrived, the case would be brought Heavy shipments of Japanesenounced, whon arrangements are!
Ex-King completed.
Manool's
Sinclair, of 6, Jordan Road, atates Secretary to the Ceylon Govern-was valued at $800 and that the dition has improved.
ploce-goods have, for instanco, Von Kotze up eneller.
week. Dohae was again remanded for been sent to India since the loss body has rested since the funeral that some time between midnight and ment, in succession to Sir Bernard damage done
to the window In a of trade with Chinn-Reuter.
private mausoleum near bathing costume which was hanging,ed Governer of Uganda-British |
2.45 p.m. yesterday some-one stela a Bourdillon, who has been appoint-amounted to $85. Woybrlüge-British Wireless.
on the clothes line on the roof.
Dofendant was remanded for a AWireless.
LORD LYTTON
BETTER
GENERAL CONDITION
SATISFACTORY
in believed to be out of danger
ACCUSED AGAIN
REMANDED
INDIA PLANS TO
STEM FLOOD
SPECIAL TARIFF ON PIECE-GOODS
Simla, July 25.
BODY TO BE SENT TO PORTUGAL
he was
POSITION
London, July 25.
thick, and it would require great force to have shattered it. At one corner near the glass was a marble
status which was knocked over and broken. It fell on a marble bench near-by and chipped it.
Defendant,
that he broke the glass, declared while #dmitting that he did not know how the statua came to be broken.