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FORT
DUNLOP
The Tyre of Ripped Strength
|"South China Morning Post Bida." Tol. 24564.
SHIPS OFFICER'S HEROISM: EPIC OF THE SEA
SHIP PILED
ON ROCKS
SWIM TO SHORE IN
RAGING SEAS
SAVES 37 LIVES
TWO DEAD IN NOVA SCOTIA WRECK
(Telegraph Special.)
ac-
London, Sept. 13. Another brilliant epic of the sea, the hero of which was a young London mer- chant marine officer, companied the loss of the British collier, Watford, which was wrecked off the Nova Scotia coast yesterday. The Watford became a total for brilliant loss and but feat of daring by the young officer it is probable that all aboard would have gone down with the doomed craft.
Mr. H. Mant, the second officer of the collier, battled through a raging sea to the shore and sues! ceeded in saving the lives of thirty-seven of his shipmates..
Wang Ching-woi.
NANKING'S PROBLEM
A DISAPPEARING PREMIER
WANG CHING-WEI ADAMANT
("Telegraph" Special).
Shanghai, Sept. 13. Shanghai is again becoming the venue of delegations seek- A graphic story of the affair!
ing to induce Mr. Wang Ching- comes to hand from Sydney, ini Cape Breton Island. Nova Scotia,wei, the President of the Execu off which the collier was wrecked.
PILED ON ROCKS.
tive Yuan, to return to Nanking; and resume his duties.
Hitherto, however, despite Piled upon the rocks near Cape avowals and denials, he remains Breton Point, it was quickly realis-judamunt.
ed aboard that the Watford was doomed to complete destruction.
Among the delegates seeking to
seas cleanersunde Mr. Wang to change his
GANDHI TO FAST
"UNTO DEATH"
COMMUNAL DECISIONS
PROTEST
CORRESPONDENCE WITH PREMIER
London, Sept. 12.
THE MAHATMA GANDHI HAS DECIDED TO "FAST, UNTO DEATH" as a protest against the British Government's solution of the problem of the Depressed Classes in the communal decision recently announced.
The fast will commence, Gandhi says, on September 20. The probabilities are that he will be released from prison on that date.
Gandhi has been engaged in correspondence with the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and the Secretary of State
LATE NEWS.
Irish Offer
for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, touching the problem of the Deto Britain
pressed Classes.Gandhi maintains that the Government's solution
is no remedy for their crushing degradation and his decision to
fast follows the inability of the British Government to alter their Another Note to be
decision.
In his final message, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald ex- presses regret at Gandhi's decision and says that the Government's decision must stand. He points, out that it was reached as a means of safeguarding the rights and interests of the Depressed Classes.
MAIN FEATURES OF THE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST
DISORDERS CORRESPONDENCE
Hey Bus were breaking mind is Mr. Chang Chun, the form Prime Minister Suggests All-Party Parley to Save
er Mayor of Greater Shanghai, and at the same time making it who is arriving to-day from fan-
the boats.. impossible to launch
behalf of Marshal Chiang Several attempts were made but how to see Wang Ching-wel on
the boats were smashed against shek. the ship's side.
Meanwhile, the vessel crunching and grinding on
WILA
the
TERRIFIC STRUGGLE. Te battled his way through enormous breakers, his progress being watched anxiously from the i ship, where everyone thought that the next powerful blow from the breakers would put an end to the heroic effort. 1e emerged safely through all, however, and succeed- ed in securing a line to the shore. Thirty-neven of his shipmates were then transferred to the shore by means of a breeches-buoy.
NO CRISIS FEARED.
Kai-
Mr.
Misunderstanding
decision
N.Y. SHARE housing in the Legislatures
JOLT
HEAVY SELLING WAVE BEGINS
New York, Sept. 12. The Stock Exchange market
to Sir Samuel Hoare..
did!
however,
Sent This Week
ARBITRATION ISSUE
Dublin, Sept. 13. The question of fixing a date whereby the offer to
that another
Noic
RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO
IMPERIAL SANCTION
FORTHCOMING
Tokyo, Sept. 13.
la the presence of the Emperor this morning, the Privy Council approved the recognition of Manchukuo Imperial sanction for the step will be received by the Foreign Office this after-
noon.
The Treaty of Recogni- tion will be signed at Chang- chun on Thursday, Septem- ber 15, three days before the anniversary of the cap- ture of Mukden-Reuter,
DISASTER
AVERTED
GERMANY'S POLITICAL
STRIFE
MANCHURIA CHAOS
MARTIAL LAW AT
KIRIN
RAPID DRIVES
WITHIN 25 MILES
OF HARBIN,
Peking, Sept. 13. Fresh and powerful groups of Chinese Volunteers who have been pouring into Manchuria through Johol are now menacing Harbin and Kirin, as well as Changchun and Mukden, accord- ing to Chinese reports.
The Japanese and Manchukuo forces are being harassed in all quarters and the disposition of troops to meet a series of con- certed attacks is becoming daily a more serious problem.
Volunteers who yesterday start- ed a drive against Harbin are now only twenty-five miles from the already occupied
city, having
| Shangchenpao and Ancheng, ensily overcoming the opposition.
KIRIN CRISIS.
VON PAPEN HOLDS in Kirin City where martial law
WHIP HAND
FEARS OF UGLY CLASH ALLAYED
་
consequences. Bu
A critical situation also exists has been declared by the Man- chukue garrison commander as another large force of Volunteers is rapidly approaching.
Changchun's
defences have proved successful againat, the Volunteers in that area so far.
GEN. MA REDIVIVUS. Berlin, Sept. 12.
Meanwhile. a telegram from submit the land annuities dispute to arbitration by an The dramatic development General Ma Chun-shan reports international tribunal must leading to the dissolution of the further victories over Japanese be accepted by Great Bri- Reichstag has created a furore troops and the Irish Free State Execution of whether the dissolution operating with the Hellungklang. was legally effected is being Volunteers and have occupied tain is being considered by in political circles and the questing thu Manchukuo forces. now ad- tive Council.
Chingehen. They are fiercely debated.
vancing on Suihua, according to No official announcement has
The question is fraught with Ma Chan-shan's message.
the been made, but it is understood
is being serious
Suihua is about 80 miles to the 201despatched to Britain this week Speaker of the Reichstag, Captain
It is also hinted that it will con- Goering, has summoned the House north of Harbin.-Reuter
while tain a statement to the effect that to meet again to-morrow, starting the Free State ready to place the Government is reported to be of an determined to prevent a meeting to the money in the custody
ahould by force of arms if necessary. Britain agree to settlement by
Pencenble citizens are praying negotiation or arbitration with- in international institution
pre-out restrictions regarding the com- that wise counsels will prevail to a serious clash and pin prevent their hopes on the German tradi- position of the Arbitration Court.
tion that rebellions do not occur as long as rebellions are verboten. MEETING CANCELLED.
PREVIOUS FAST SEQUEL.
-Renter
REASSEMBLY OF PARLIAMENT
DATE ADVANCED BY NINE DAYS
Later. Wiser counsels have prevailed and the political situation is much easter tonight. Captain Goering has decided to call off the sitting of the Reichstag which he onposed to convake to-morrow.
London, Sept. 12. It is officially announced that
will reassemble
pro-
This happier position is the
SLIGHT DROP IN DOLLAR
SILVER SOMEWHAT EASIER
With silver casler, the Hong- kong dollar declined 1/8th this- morning to 1s. 4d. America sold, as also did China, while India bought. There was small busl- After the official fixing, the market ruled quietly steady, with buyers satisfied.
ness.
New York reports silver down 1/8th, with the market easy. The cross-rate is 3.48.
There is very little doing local-
Gandhi Probable
Simla, Sept. 12. The feature of the Government's
Gandhi will probably be releas proposals which has led Gandhi to adopt this course is the speclui electoral treatment provided for ed from prison on September It is generally believed that the Depressed Classes who, al-Jaccording to Assembly lobby cir- Wang will finally return but even though within the Hindu system, eles, immediately after
are "untouchable." For all other rocks and was rapidly breaking up if he does not, a serious politica Hindus, they east pollution by his fast. He will be taken
In these terrible circumstances. crisis is not anticipated.
The Simon Report said:"Their the suburbs of Ahmedabad, undaunted by the raging waters, Wang Ching-wei appears to have touch, and defile food and water. Sahhamati Ashram, his retreat
lost considerable ground latter-
The Government is taking Mr. Mant planged into the sea. He left Nanking because of state is indeed pitiable, just v- the failure of his efforts to secure ing on the edge of starvation and carrying a line.
luntoward developments. substitutes for Mr. Hu Han-in unaware of any force of improving cautionary measures to meet any
The their lot."
Gandhi is expected to survive a and Chiang Kai-shek, on
Government's The Hought to place the Depressed fast for a month. Standing Committee of the Central | Political Council-Revter.
Classes in a position to speak for! Popular reaction to the situ themselves through a certain num-ition will be shown when the Na- ber of members of their ow tionalist opposition party in the Assembly is likely to move the ad- seven out of nine Pravinces, but, journment to discuss the situa- in order to preserve the unity of tion. Hindu society, the decision not deprive them of their vote in the general Hindu constituencies.
It is recalled that Gandhi's pre-1 The decision had not, been published on March 11th. Yious twenty-one-day fast, during Parliament the date of Gandhi's first letter Lord Reading's Viceroyalty, led October 18th, and not on October
to the convening of an All-Party 27th, the date originally fixed. Conference. It la expected that. The chief reason for advancing result of a letter from the Chan-ly, the undertone of the market similar movements on this oc-the date is that legislation has to cellor, Captain von Papen, stating being caster. casion will secure mutual agree- be introduced to implement the de-that Gouring's refusal to give the life.cialons, of the Ottawa Conference-Chancellor the floor and also his In it, Gandhi saya his statementment to save Gandhi's
conduct of the Communist non- Reuter.
confidence
motion were Two men lost their lives as
that he would resist with his life
constitutional. rosuit of the mishap. The Chief got its worst jolt to-day since at the Round Table Conference Peter
the grant of a separate electorate Ofcer and a seaman
Depressed Classes was drowned-Router.
that a "hold," he said, separate electorato is harmful for Hindulum, be from The reasons assigned for the for them and slump are lack of solid signa of whatever it may
standpoint. To DANGER OF RENEWED ARMS RACE IN business improvement, particular purely political
the harm that ly heaviness in wheat and cotton. appreciate
alectorates would Altogether, four million shares soparate
do
has to to them, one changed hands.
know how they are distributed,
Paris, Sept. 12, expenditure by one and Other markets also doclined-amongst the so-called Hindus, and
Refusal to agree with the Ger-milliard francs. on the
The French Government fur-commonding on Beuter.
how dopondont they are
that Appearing wharges of thaft from various Quotations of representative latter. So far as Hinduism is con-man contention that any Conven- houses in Hongkong and Kowloon, groups show that industrials de corned, a separate electorate would tion reached by the Disarmament ther emphasises
The Chancellor upheld the young Chinese student was clined 4.34 yesterday, compared simply vivisect and disrupt it. Conference could have the effect desires disarmament solutions to
dis-Government's viewpoint,idm- bound over by Mr. Schofield at with Saturday; rails dropped 3.72; For me, the question of these of superseding the provisions of be based upon Article Eight of the
a reduction in national armamente receipt of this letter. He the Central Police Court this and utilities fell 2.07. Detailed classes is predominantly moral the Treaty of Versailles is the League Covenant which requires notices for to-morrow's meeting on
main point of the French Reply to the lowest point consistent with agrees with von Papen's version phasising the paramount need for morning in two sureties of $100 to quotations will be found else and religious.
national safety.
of the procedure but helloves that national unity, particularly in "I therefore respectfully inform to the German afde memoire. come up for judgment when called where.
If, on the ground that the the Supreme Court at Leipzig vlow of the international ··· dis- Masers. E. A. Ploroe and Co. His Majesty's Government that, in
The general tonour is to resist
"It would be intolerable for us In connexion with the case, Mr report that there wore some signa the event of their decision creating
separate electorate for the the German claim to equality of Disarmament Conference gives a would hold the dissolution to be armament discussions
promise of Insufficiency, the Ger-
to be treated any longer Nobron, second-hand dealer, of of support in the market during
man Government declares itself Captain Depressed Classes, I must fast un- [armaments......
Captain Goering's decision. has second-class nation tim to death. So far as I can see now. The Note robute the German entitled to modify its own statute allayed the fours of an ugly clash amidst continuat bri Nathan Road, was yesterday sum the afternoon. ..... moned before his Worship on a
my discharge from Imprisonment |=
anticipation of insufficiency on of armaments, it will thereby not change of 1900lying stolen property
TWO DROWNED.
were the recent upward turn.
STUDENT BOUND
OVER
SEQUEL TO SERIES OF THEFTS
upon.
on
romand
GANDHI'S VIEW.
losses of from two to seven points meant to be a serious statement. FRANCE'S REPLY TO GERMANY
There was a wave of selling, and to the were recorded in a long list of isвu08.
.
a
EQUALITY DEMAND
un-
The Government states that it
will permit only the Committee for
dissolution.
HOME FOOTBALL
CLYDE BEATEN AT HOME BY ST. JOHNSTONE. Foreign Affairs and the Committee for Safeguarding the Rights of
London, Sept. 12. Parliament to function, after the In the First Division of the Scottish League to-day, Clyde suffered defeat on their own NEXT ELECTION.
ground, when St. Johnstone won Captain
von Papen further by three goals to two.-Router. a half statea that he is only awaiting to- morrow's developments before re-
to President von all wireless stations over the Hindenburg the date of the next country. France election.
Captain Goering withdrew the
ARMAMENT, DEMAND.
| Observatory reports that would not make the duty of fastest of the Diemmen Con- fail to faidi its oblations tomorrow and formed any anil, sime" he avereday #d
ide any less imperative L
as a