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HUNGER MARCHERS CONVERGING UPON LONDON
TRAGEDY IN BIG UNEMPLOYED
KOWLOON
HILLS
STUDENT KILLED BY
BOULDER
PARTY OUT ALL NIGHT
SPLENDID WORK BY
TWO SOLDIERS
A terrifying experience be- fel A party of Chinese students who went hiking in the hills behind Kowloon Tong yesterday afternoon.
One of their number, a lnd of eleven, was killed by a boulderi which became dislodged on the hillside above them, Darkness fell upon before they, could geti clear of the hills and they were compelled to spend the night, in the open with the body of their dend companion.
Fortunately. before darkness cell two roldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders joined them, did their best to suecour the victim, who did not die until some time alter the accident, and kept the spirits of the boys up during s the ordeal of waiting for daylight.
STRUCK ON HEAD.
The party started out al one n'clock yesterday afternoon, and all went until about four o'clock when they had reached a path near Beacon Hill out a mile and n half from the Taipa Road.
Without warning, a boulder dis-j indged somewhere above came crashing down the hillside
CAMPAIGN
THOUSANDS IN MEANS
TEST PROTEST
PICKETS ON HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
LONDON OCT. 23.
JP IN ARMS AGAINST THE APPLICATION OF THE MEANS TEST, THOUSANDS OF UN- EMPLOYED. HUNGER MARCHERS IN MANY PARTIES ARE CONVERGING UPON LONDON FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
They are taking a leaf out of the book of the un- employed and the Bonus Marchers in the United States and they propose to picket the House of Commons until their demands are granted.
Mr. George Lansbury, during the discussion follow- ing the Westminster riots, gave warning that serious trouble was to be feared unless the hunger marchers were greeted with the announcement that the Means Test would be revoked.
Communist agents, who have already provoked serious disturbances in London, Liverpool and Birken- head, are expected to make full use of the opportunity now provided for further agitation.
SURPRISE RECEPTION AT OXFORD
The giant Fairey-Napier mondplane which has boon specially designed for the R.A.F. attack on the world's
long distance nonstop record.
LAICHIKOK ROBOT PLANE'S
TRAGEDY ON RECORD
R.A.F. TO START EARLY
EUROPEAN WARDER NONSTOP FLIGHT
FOUND SHOT
TO CAPETOWN OBVIOUS CASE OF SUICIDE Another shooting tragedy? at the Laichikok Prison was revealed this morning when the body of Warder M. Friend was found in the bath room at the rear of the Single Men's Quarters with a bullet wound in the right| temple.
The discovery was unde early
REVOLVER BY SIDE.
The officer's own service Pe
IN NOVEMBER
CRACK FAIREY MONOPLANE
(Our Own Correspondent),
London, Oct. 23.
ATTACK
BIG RANSOM DEMAND
FOREIGNER HELD BY BANDITS
Y200,000 FOR HARBIN VICTIM
BITTER FIGHT ON GUNBOAT
NONNI RIVER CRAFT ATTACKED
HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTER
SEVERE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
(Special to "Telegraph".)
Shanghai, Oct. 24. Graphic details of spectacular attempt to cap- ture a Manchukuo gunboat
and of fierce hand-to-hand
fighting aboard the craft have been received from
Changchun.
The gunboat concerned was the Lichi which was cruising in the upper retches of the Nonni River on patrol duty watching for any movement of anti-Manchukuo forces.
The last thing expected aboard. the gunboat was an attack from the water, but it suddenly found Itself surrounded by dozena of amali native craft, loaded with bund of anti-Manchukuo Volun
toers (whom Japanese reports describe as bandits) who succeed- ed in bourding the gunkont despite the heavy fire poured into small eraft from the larger craft...
the
Harbin, Oct. 24. The bandits who captured a European named Sherell,
RAIDERS SWARM ABOARD. de Florance on October 10
The raiders swarmed abörn. are reported to be demand-from à dozen different points,
encounter.
Two spectacular flightsing a ransom of two hundred clambering up the sides and en this morning when the offleer from London to Capetown thousand yen for his release. hand-to-hand board in a furious, failed to appear for his break fust prior to going on duty. A "boy" will take place early next According to Russian reports,
The raiders had suffered many went to the bath room to call his month.
many of the White Russians who flusses both in the initial onslaught Sounding through the party struck
master but received no responso
Have been kidnapped in the and during the actual boarding-of Chau Kwok-ming, red 11. on the
and when the door was opened The Royal Air Force will at-eastern section of the Chinese the Lichi, with the result that the head. He was renderetl oncon- Noste of the marching 11-
After the visitors had been to. Warder Friend was found lying.empt to wrest the long-distance Bastern Railway in recent weeks, sailors, gradually obtained the scious Immediately and it was ob-employed have yet arrived inreshed, a fresh surprise was pro-en the floor dressed in vious that he was in a grave con-London, hat the first contingents vided by a
white nonstop flight record from the art been conveyed to Mulin and upper hand and eventually com- University dition.
are expected in the course of the jentertainment.
concert shorts and singlet, wearing a pair United States, while Mrs. Amy Mishan, where they are being pelled the invaders to withdraw.
of slippers..
(Johnson) Mollison is reported of a road between the two cities, forced to work on the construction Two of the boys were told to go next day or two. They are pick-
Finally, the marchers were
to be preparing to eclipse her besides being unpaid and other for assistance and after they hailing up fresh adherents as they go
provided with blankets for
husband's record by flying the wise ill-treated. left, the attention of two soldiers, along and their numbers are cer-
protection against the in- Ples, Callaghan and Adams, whotain to be swelled when they ar
creasingly cold nights-the
volver was found lying by himame machine that he used over Their captors are alleged to be were also hiking in the district, frive in London by sympathisers in
marchers have
and a bullet wound in his right the same difficult route down bandits frequently the ranks of London's unemployed. was attracted.
temple, indicated that he bad the west coast of Africa. Committed suicide.
The greatest interest is, how-i Warder Friend was il young lover, centred upon the Royal Air been in the Prison Department project for nearly two man of 35 years of age and had Force flight. This has been in
for nearly six years.
First plans contemplated the at- It appears to be an obvious case tempt as far back as December of suicide, the second at Lalchi- last year, but for one reason or kok less than two months. Warder another, the start has been put off Michael Rooney was found dead and put off until now.
SOLDIER'S EFFORT. Callaghan and Adams climbed
OXFORD'S SURPRISE.
had to sleep out of doors- and two new red banners! The affair greatly impressed No untoward incident has che marchers and they continued and found Chau Kwok-ming with marches of the various parties,heir trek in high good spirits.
up the hill to the distressed youth curred in
fractured skuil in
the course of the
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On the contrary, they have met dying with a sympathette reception in Pondition. They rendered first-most towns through which aid, but there was little hope for have passed. his life.
CHAN MING-SHU
FOR EUROPE
PASSES THROUGH
they
An Oxford to-day, for instance, ! By this time, darkness was when a party of 240 men, who creeping down and it soon became had walked all the way
from impossible to move without The Lancashire, arrived thus were gravest danger of further tragedy, greeted by a commitles from the Callaghan carried the injured ind | University undergraduates and, for two miles in gomledarkness, somewhat to their surprise, were Vain efforts were made to get not only hospitably reecived, but ing through, and finally it was decid- were encouraged in their enter- Ming-shu, former Canton Military ed that they must make them-prise.
COLONY
in somewhat similar circum- stances on September 7 last.
LAICHOW FIGHTING
To avoid publicity, and travel, WITHDRAWAL OF GEN. HAN'S incognito. General Chan RESIGNATION SOUGHT
LONG DELAY.
years.
have
ur anti-Manchukuo groups.-Router. -
BIG FIGHTS IN SHANGHAI
BRITISH SUCCESSES OVER AMERICANS
Shanghai, Oct. 23. The results of three big fights in last night's Anglo-American boxing at the Auditorium were us
They did not, however, retire without inflicting heavy casualties among the crew of the Lichi. Two officers and three ratings were killed out- right and many others were wounded,
HASTY WITHDRAWAL.
When finally the signal for withdrawal was given, the anti- Manchukuo Volunteers jumped into their small boats and hastily paddled away from the scene.
The gunboat poured a destruc- tive hail of fire into their midst causing many casualties.-Reuter, “
MR. LOEW SAILS FOR JAPAN
NOT ALLOWED TO FLY BY AUTHORITIES
Shanghal Oct. 24.
A sensation has been created by
The long delay, of course, has merely meant that no tests or no follows:- experiments which would contribute
A. B. Warner, H.M.S. Hermes, to the certainty of success
drew with Bòugiorni, of U. S. S. been left unexplored.
Houston, holder of welterweight Britain has been seeking the long-championship of the U.S. Asiatic Governor and Minister of Com-
Peking, Oct. 21. distance record for several yeare Fleet. selves an comfortable as possible
MEAL AND CONCERT.
munication of the Nanking In spite of General Han Fu- past and a machine, a Fairey mono- A. B. Farrar, of H.M.S. Hermes. and resign themselves to a night
Government, arrived quietly last thu's resignation, which he as-plane, has been specially construct-won easily on points against Pape in the hilla. The boy died in
Undergraduates of both sexes night on the 4.8. Coblenz from cribes to the realities of the allua-fed with this sole end in view.
of U. S. S. Houston, the feather. Callaghan's arms in the early participated in the
reception. Shanghai and left this morning on tion, hostilities are still proceed- The determined attempt now weight champion of the U.S. morning.
The marchers were taken to the same boat for Manila and ing at Lalchow.
being made threatens the record of Asiatic Fleet.
| the nowa that the Japanese authoris Ispecially prepared hall, served Germany,
Marshal Chang Hauch-liang has John Polanda, who flew from New Jock Creighton, Inte RN., de-tiea rofused Mr. Arthur Loew SEARCHES IN VAIN.
with a
hot meal, the under The former Canton Governor urged General Han to withdraw York to within a few miles of Con-feated Babe
Russ on points who graduates themselves waiting at was prominent in his organisation
his resignation.-Rcutor. Meanwhile, the two boys
atantinoplo, 21 distance of over}Naval Wireless, had gone for help reached Sham-table upon the unemployeil.
of the Shanghai defence as hend
15,000 miles, of the Nineteenth Route Army' learly this year, ond for this
reason he travels incognito to avoid the numerous invitations |from Chlacee residents In the
coustal ports.
shuipo Police Station and went
PREFERENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA
GERMAN TREATY
ut later with police officers in search of their comrades in the bellef that they could guide them. The offort was kept ap until four o'clock this morning without
Associates of the General In success and an ambulance toured
Hongkong state that his visit to the vicinity until after one o'clock without seeing
Europe, is for the purposes of n of the it sign
Pretoria, Oct. 23. holiday and therefore has miasing party.
The search was resumed at day-
South Africa's commercial trea-political significance. break and again proved fruitless.ty with Germany, which caused
FIND THEIR OWN WAY BACK
AMENDED
much advarse comment when it
nu
was negotiated, is being amended "DOUG" & "MARY”
as, from to-morrow in order
to
Shortly after noon to-day, the permit.the Union to grant pre five boyn, with their dead com- ferences to goods from the British panion and the two soldiers them-Empire and mandated territories
COMING
selves appeared at Shamsḥuipo which Gormany will not enjoy. DUE ABOARD FRENCH
Police Station.
1
One of the boys was
Reuter.
sent to
hospital auffering the most
BOAT TO-MORROW
Douglas
accom.
The wedding in to take placo. at
Fairbanks, severely of the party from CX St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, panied by his wife, Mary Pickford, posure and exhaustion.
on Wednesday, of Mr. Stanley 1. Hill, aro arriving in Hongkong to- The elder members of the M.I.N.A., Royal Corps of Nava!: student party were warm in their Constructors, of the Hongkong Naval marrow by the M.M. liner, Andra
Lobon. Yard, and Mias Amy Byrno, of praise of the efforts of Ptes. Melbourne. The newly-wed couple
It is understood that they will Callaghan and Adams to assist intend to leave for Hongkong aboard pick up a J.C.J.L. bont here, their
the 8.8. Nankin on November 1st. [next port of call being Datavia.
them.
Mr. Arthur Loew, (left) of Metro. Goldwyn Mayar, balay grusted by Mr. Davias, local manager, on his arrival" aboard the Spirit of Fan ni Kai Tack on Saturday.
PREVIOUS DISASTER.
Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight Lieutenant Bett, who will have the handling of the Fairey monoplano, are hopeful of coni- pleting a flight ♣f 0,000 miles.
The machine is almost identical
with that used in 1929 in previous attempt to reach Cape town by nonstop fight. That machine crashed in North Africa, striking a hillside in bad weather, both occupants being killed.
The now machine has A tromendous petrol-carrying capacity-about a thousand gallons—and it is fitted with a robot pilot, a device which will automatically, fly the pline once the course has he set. This device will rieve the two nirmen of a Crasiderable amount of rout- fra during the long flight, which may occupy about fifty hours.
-
ARMED ROBBERY
RETIRED MERCHANT
and his companions flying the Spirit of Fun to fly to Japan. ---
In consequence, the party left for Japan by ship yesterday aftor
noon.
Before sailing, Mr. Loew reveal- ed that efforts were made to secure a permit prior to the de GAGGED
parture from New York. The Four men, armed with daggers, slows down his flying schedule
action of the Japanese authorities berod hut at Ngan Ching Wai Ruined admittance to an unnum- village, Kowloon City, at 1 o'clock this morning when they stolo money and Jewellery to the total value of nearly $600.
Young Kun-king, a retired mer- chant, together with other inmatos, bound and gagged. Three daggers were loft beliind by the robbars before they escaped.
Was
Router.
STOP PRESS
Perth, Oct. 24. D.R. Jardine declared the M.C.C. A rather unusual case in which innings closed at 384 for eight three women waro alleged to have
assaulted two mon was heard by Mr. wickets, the score reached at the Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy close of play on Friday. this morning. Inspector Eills, who
prosecuted, Bald they all belonged to a In the period before lunch, West gang of coolies engaged in construc- Australia compiled 58 runs for the tion work in Prince Edward Road.
After hearing the facts, his Worship loss of 2 wickats.~~Router. Britain did once hold the long-bound over all the defendants in the
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sum of $25 for a year.
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