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五拜禮 龇九月九英港香 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
9, 1932. 3 九初月八
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OXFORD STREET ROBBERY DRAMA
SHIPPING INVENTION
LARGE ECONOMY...
IN FUEL
TO BE PERMANENTLY AT CAN BE USED WITH ORDINARY ENGINE
ANCHOR
(Telegraph Special.)
Berlin, Sept. 9.
A permanent air-station in the middle of the Atlantic will shortly be an accomplish- ed fact.
Important interests have de cided to equip the liner "West- phalen" for this purpose. She will be anchored between West Africa and South America and will be provided with a landing platform, petrol, spare parts and wireless direction-finding equip ment.
This is a modification of the sehcines which have been out- lined on many occasions for the construction of special ufr stations to be anchored in the North Atlantic between the United States and Europe.
SPECIAL STATIONS.
SEMNERUNCHMALLORCEMENTS KNEES CARTASOLIČINAMA BEKANNTE,
RECOGNITION OF
·MANCHUKUO
ÓNLY A MATTER OF
TIME...
Tokyo, Sept. 9. Interviewed by newspapermen to-day, Count Uchida, the Foreign Minister,, confirmed the reports that Japan's recognition of Man- chukue as an “independent" State is now only a matter of time.
He said, however, that he in not yet in a position to announce whether she will first notify the Powers and the League.-Reuter.
(Special to "Telegraph".)
London, Sept. 8. Shipping circles are greatly interested in a coal-saving in- vention which is being subjectedONDE to experiments aboard the s.s. Harmatris in the course of voyage from the Clyde to the River Plate and back.
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The dally consumption of coul while at sen is said to have been reduced from: thirty tons to soventeen tons, a eut forty per cent. as the result of the employment of the new device.
CHAPEI "HERO"
ATTACKED
of over ALLEGED XIXTH ARMY
DESERTER
The arrangement is very simple,
number of
J
a
BIG LONDON
JEWEL
"HOLD-UP"
CHICAGO METHODS IN WEST END
GUNMAN'S JOB
STREET CROWDED WITH SHOPPERS
London, Sept. 8.. Á sensational daylight jewel robbery along lines bearing an uncomfortable similarity to Chi- cago gangster methods occurred in Oxford Street, London, this afternoon.
Scotland Yard called in at once!
One of the most amusing fakturan of the M. C. I carnival. A victim of the razor aquad.
has been supplied with a descrip- COTTON STRIKE tion of the robber, whose opera- tions although they occupied only !13 few minutes, were highly au-
dacious.
"PUT 'EM UP."
Notwithstanding the fact that gunman walked into a jeweller's hop, one of the most fashionable. in Oxford Street, slammed the door and drew the curtain over assistants to "put 'em up.".
and not very costly. The inven- PRAYA INCIDENT tion consists of a auxiliary adjustments to ordinary
a large ship's-engines and it is expected
The recent influx of to have far-reaching effects. number of soldiers alleged to be Numerous other experiments are deserters from the 19th Route also being made with a view to Army, appears to have become securing economy in ship trans-i These stations, however, would port. A new coal-oil fuel was re-matter of critical interest for the window and ordered the two be specially designed and wouldcently tested by the Cunard Line ocal Chinese. be built on the principle of an with successful resultstexter. enormous buoy and would have a small hostelry facilitica. Several would be con- structed and placed in the North Atlantic at distances from each other of between three and four hundred miles. None of those proposals have come to fruition, but if the German experiment with the Westphalen proves successful, no doubt they will be raised again with a greater possibility acceptance.--Reuter.
among
12,008-TON SHIP.
ather
of
BUSY CABINET
MEMBERS
PREMIER CONSULTS MR. THOMAS
London, Sept. 8.
The Foreign Secretary. Sir John
Simon, is returning from Scotland this evening and will devote his attention to-morrow to current nternational problems.
Ile-then-emptied the till und trays of jewellery into hią pockets and backed slowly out of the shop,
SPINNERS NEXT?
MAJORITY FAVOUR
"DOWN TOOLS"
BETTER OUTLOOK IN WEAVING SECTION
•
LAND SEIZURE IN SPAIN
EXPROPRIATION PLAN PASSED.
Madrid, Sept. 8. The clause In the Land Reform Bill providing for the expropria- tion of the property of Grandees and other nobles was passed by the Cortes to-day.
An unsuccessful effort Was made to dispossess commoners awning over thousand acres of land. The Prime Minister, Senor Azana, in an impassioned, speech, declared that the landed classes had done nothing to raise the peasants from their down- trodden condition-Reuter,
SUICIDE EPIDEMIC
FOUR ATTEMPTS MADE YESTERDAY
POIGNANT CASE:
A suicide wave appears to have, passed over the Colony yesterday. The attempts of a suicido of a leper were auccess- ful. Two youths of nineteen are in hospital as a result of self- poisoning.incidents.
The poignant case of the leper is reported from Shaukiwan, where conservancy coolies working in a dark lane giving off Tui Shek Street, wore horrified to find the body of the man swinging from a rope slung over the wall. Death hand oc- curred, it is thought, an hour 'be-
SHOCKS AT for
STRESA
FRANCE'S GRIP ON MONEY-BAGS
- LEAP OVER VERANDAH.
Known to have been mentally un- balanced for somo .considerable time, Lum Shing, aged 64, yeater- day fatally injured himself when he leaped over the second floor veran- dah of his home at Woosung street, Yaumati. He was gravely injured and admitted to Hospital at 11,30, dled forty minutes later,
Stresa, Sept. 8. Gloomy Inces were marked among the Danubian delegales to ment is advanced as the cause of
Depression through unemploy the Central and Eastern Europe Gobind Sigh, 16-year-old Sikti, Liv
Reconstruction Conference to-day. Ing at 80 Queen's Road Central,
Their air of pessimism was the attempting to take his life yester result of a speech by one of the day. The swallowed a large dose of [leading French delegates. M. camphor. He was taken to
the Coulonde, declaring that from Government Civil Hospital, where nów on, the Danubian countries his condition is not now thought to must fond for themselves. be. serious.. France does not propose to lend. Tang Hoi, and 10, was also ad- more money to Central mitted to the institution, yesterday, Europe.
suffering from nitric acid. polson- The lose was self-administer. submitted schemes ed, It was stated..·
strike in Lancashire, the de-designed to assist the Agrarinn States to market their surplus
London, Sept. 8. When one such landed on the
While strenuous efforts any waterfront
looking yesterday, somewhat woebegone, he was in keeping the assistants covered are being made to secure a Nevertheless, both France and ing. stantly picked out by a gang of with his revolver all the while, Settlement of the weavers' Italy have hooligans and "ragged." They and then vanished among the asked him if he still wanted to go crowds.
oldiering, and represented them-
ALMOST UNIQUE. selves as being in a position to secure his enlistment. He de-i
Armed robberles in the clined and pointed out that the End have been practically un- September 17 has now proposition was illogical, to say known in the past. Armed emerged.
Array.
West
finite threat of a stoppage grain-Reuter. in the spinning section from
The ballot taken by the opera-
THE MOTOR-CYCLE GRAND PRIX
the feast, in view of the fact that bandits have recently been reveal- he had only just resigned from the ing some activity, but the com-
monest method of victimising itives of the Spinners Amalgama- Jewellers has been the smash-und-tion, a trade union organisation, grab raid and a quick getawayo reduce wages by 2/9 in the WRETCHED
Fon the proposal of their employers| in на attendant motor-carpound, his resulted in 30,991
enter.
POLICE RESCUE. Lloyd's Register contains no ship with the namo Westphalen.
Further words led to blows, and It is probable that the vessel
The Prime Minister to-day con- it is said that the ex-Chapei hero referred. to is the Westphalia be- longing to the, Hamburg-Amerika tinued his examination of Ottawa found himself surrounded. Line, a 12,000-ton ship with a Conference matters. He had stone caught him over the eye, and length of over 450 feet.
Mollison Lionised
in England
GREAT WELCOME
ACCORDED
London, Sept. 8.
consultation with the Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, who is spending his holiday within easy reach of London-British Wireless. -
DE VALERA GOING
TO GENEVA
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
Dublin, Sept. 8. It has been finally decided that A tumultuous civic welcome Mr. de Valera will personally lead the Irish Free State delegation to
awaited Mr. J. A. Mollison on
A
he was in danger of being severely mauled, "when the police came to his regene.
One of the assailants was arrest. ed and charged before Mr. Wynne- | Jones at the Central · Magistracy
this morning. His Worship in quired if a "presi-gang was at
work, and was informed of a Police belief that the molesting of the ex-soldier was an attempt by scallywags to squeeze a couple of dollars out of him.
TEAKWOOD BOX MYSTERY
RATHER DISTRESSING DISCOVERY
members recording their votes in favour of a cessation of work, while 1,518 voted against a strike. The employers notices expire
on September 17 and unless na is reached in the agreement meantime, it is unlikely that the spinners will be found at work on Monday, the 19th...
INVITATION ACCEPTED.
་
WEATHER
CONDITIONS:
NORTON ADDS TO LAURELS
London, Sept. B. The Senior Grand Prix motor cycle race over 226 miles of road
OREGON FRUITS & VEGETABLES
DIRECT SUPPLIES TO HONGKONG
new fast
re:
Inaugurating a frigerated freight service between the United States and the Far East, the steamer Maunawili, which has been ghartered from the Matson Line by the States Steam- ship Company, was in Hongkong to-day, leaving at noon for Manila. The tentatively arranged ports of call on the outward voyage, from America will be Kobe,
in the Isle of Man took place fo- Shanghat, Hongkong and Manila, but on the return trip the vessel A slightly more encouraging day in heavy rain.
Low-lying clouds on the moun-will proceed direct from Hongkong position prevails in the weaving section of the industry. With the tains over which the road passes to San Francisco, omitting Shang Mystery surrounding a small decision of the operatives' Federa-reduced visibility in some parts to hai and Japan. The Maunawili Teakwood box, measuring sevention to-day. to accept, if the a few yards. Forty-four machincais capable of an average of 14% knots, and the estimated transit inches square, which was found Minister of Labour issues an in-jentered.
There were many minor The man charged, was found yesterday by Chinese fishermen vitation to a meeting, both sides
time between Hongkong and guilty of assault, and fined $5. He floating off Tami Kon Shun, some of the weaving section, employers cidents owing to skidding and San Francisco is seventeen days, was also ordered to sign a
per-20 miles from Aberdeen Village, and operatives, have now express-twelve riders were eliminated as which is an appréciable reduction sonal bond of $25 to keep the and brought to Hongkong, was ed willingness to attend such a result of water penetrating the
suon golved.
pence.
his arrival in Southampton to.the forthcoming session of the GERMAN - DANGER..
day aboard the R.M.S. Empress of Britain.
League of Nations,
This will mean that he will preside over the Council, buginning | Mro. Mollison (Amy Johnson) on September 23, and at the open- had earlier flown to Cherbourg in ing of the Assembly on September
an airliner to meet her husband |26.—Reuter. and accompanied him aboard the
Empress liner to Southampton.
Five machines from the London neroplane club encircled the ship again and again dipping in salute, as she passed up the Salent. South- ampton gave the Mollisons & won- derfully-enthusiastic welcome.
LONDON'S DELIGHT.
Ton thousand Londoners con- tinued the "conquering "hero" wel- come at Waterloo Station, shrick- ing their delight as the 'train on- tored..
/
The first person to greet Mollison was his mother."
"DUGGIE" COMES EAST AGAIN
ARRIVAL IN TOKYO REPORTED
(Special to “Telegraph.")
Tokyo, Sept. 9. One of the most popular visitors to Japan recently has been Douglas Fairbanks, the famous screen star, who arrived yesterday, and intende An official welcome was given by to stay for two months. Colonel Shelmerdine, the Director Afterwards he proposes to go to of Civil Aviation, besides a host of Mongolla for big-game hunting- flying men.
It is learned that Mr. and Mrs.
Router.
MR. HENDERSON'S PLEA TO
·TRADE UNION COUNCI
meeting.
1c-
magnetoes of their machines.
Record spoeds were out of the
of question, but the race was
The next stop lies with Sir When opened at the Aberdeen Police Station, the casket for Henry Betterten, the Minister such it proved to be was found Labour.-Reuter.
to contain the cremated remains of a European lady, resident of Hongkong, who died on August 28th. This was mado 'clear by an Inscription.
Londen, Sept. 8. The casket has been handed Pointed references to Germany's over to the Registrar of Birtha threat to leave the Disarmament and the relatives of the deceased Conferences, if they are not allowindy have been informed of the ed to re-arm, were made by Mr. rather distressing discovery. Arthur Henderson, addressing the Trade Unions Council, at Nowcas tle.
Mr. Henderson referred to the widespread disappointment at the mengre results of the conferences so far, but considered it too early to declare it a failure,
He urged the people not to shut. their eyes to the danger of the German claim, which would lead to
PRINCE GEORGE RETURNS
FLIES HOME FROM CONTINENT
London Sept. 8. Prince George, who has been on
won
at an average speed of 67.32 miles per hour by Glen Hill Norton.
on
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Dantell also on a Norton was second at a speed of 66,97 m.p.h. and Swavy on a Rudge was third with an average speed of 65,90 miles an hour.--British. Wirolcas.
MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION
(Continued on Page 7.).
SILVER AGAIN DECLINES
SLIGHT DROP IN THE -DOLLAR
The Hongkong dollar dropped 1/8th this morning to Is. d3⁄41⁄2d. There is very little doing on, the local market, the undertone of which is somewhat easy.
PRINCES TO MEET holiday in Biarritz with the Prince MR, HUGH RUTTLEDGE dua to general selling. India and
VICEROY
FEDERAL ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED
London, Sept. 8.
a renewal and Intensification of the. In order to continue the discus- old competitivo race in arma-aions of certain aspects of fedora- mante. He pointed out that the tion which have particular referenco conferoncon had not been unredson- to Indian State problems, 'a number able towards her position.-Router, of representative Princes have pen invited by the Viceroy of India to
falollisen pronose lá make a jour». The victim of an asanult: incident The police state that property to moet him at Simla on September
hey, to the Dalled. States in re on the western waterfront last even the value of $231, stolen in the recent 20th. MUNKA, WHERE clone moon. »It ing Oban Bu-phong, aged, 27, was armed robbers at Wing Wa Terrace,
Those ́ ́ invitél, - fnclude, In-othersnitHONE"
of Wales, returned to England to- day by air, travelling in his brother's private plane.
Ho stopped an route at Lo Bourget and landed this afternoon nt Hondon-British Wireless.
BRENTFORD JUST SUCCEED
· ODD GOAL AT HOME- AGAINST COVENTRY
AS LEADER
London, Sept. 8,
In London, silver declined 8/16this, the docline being chlefly speculators bought at the decline. dnd the market closed, steady. After the official fixing, the
eng. market ruled duli, with Amorien
New York reports a fall of a quarter in allver prices.
rotired member of the Indian Civil Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, recently Service, will be the leader of next year's British Expedition to Mount Evereat,
The Mount Everest Committee Personal affects to the valde of.$06 points out that Mr. Ruttledge's were stolen by a thief who obtained great experience in Himalayan admission into the residence of Miss climbing while Deputy Commis-Bewley, at No. 862, The Peak, by efonor at Almora, in the Hima-removing a pane of glass from layas, during the past ten years, verandal window. coupled with his knowledge of the Himalayan people and tho Passengers arriving from Australls Fyibetan ominently Mit him for