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The
FINAL EDITION
Supreme
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881
No. 18001
KH WE+EXF FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.
日八十月二十
BINULB COPY 19 CENTS KINO PER ANNUM
All that is known about tyre making is embodied in
DUNLOP
TYRES
SENSATIONAL ENGLAND COLLAPSE IN TEST
R. A. F. DISASTER
BRIEF
FIGHTING
HUGE FLYINGBOAT CHINESE · BRINGING UP
CRASHES
HITS LAUNCH
PLYMOUTH SOUND
MISHAP
(Our Own Correspondent).
Telegraph, Copyright, Telegranti
[By Hanger Ordinanes, 1781) Itretired, January 38, 941 AM
FRESH TROOPS
PASSING THROUGH
TIENTSIN
Tokyo, Jan. 13. Fresh hostilities, of brief duration, took place in the vicinity of Shanhaikwan yes- terday afternoon, the Japan- A huge Royal Air Force flying-ese launching a successful boat, one of the biggest in active attack upon the city of Yan- service, was wrecked to-day in an accident off Plymouth Sound.
London, Jan. 12.
The great maching was taking off for a practice flight with a crow of ton officers and mén aboard,
A giant R.A.F. flyingbäst. when the tip of the wing struck
a passing Dockyard launch,
The flyingboat hoclad over with the contact and crashed into the *CA.
ganpao.
According to advices from Chin- chow, the attack was carried out by a Japanese cavalry detachment, assisted by aircraft, which subject. ad the town to aorial bombardment, Yungarono is a few miles to the north of Shanhaikyan,
the Manchurian-Hopch border, and its occupation presented no great dif- ficulties, the defenders being few in number.
on
The operations were carried out on the pretext that Yunganpao concealed the headquarters of the Chinese Volunteer leaders operating In Jehol.-Reuter.
CHINESE FORTIFICATIONS
BRITAIN AND JAPAN
AMBASSADOR CALLS
ON UCHIDA.
Tokyo, Jan. 13..
It is authoritatively learn- ed that Sir Francis Lindley. acting upon instructions, called upon Count Uchida yesterday and, in a friendly manner, it is understood, called attention
the threat to British interests in North China due to the tense situation following the Sino-Japanese clash at Shanhaikwan.-Reuter,
TREASURY STEPS IN
SALE OF BOOTS DRUG CO.
DAMAGING EFFECT ON EXCHANGE
(Our Own Correspondent),
(By Teigraph, Copyright, Telegraphis Missages Ordinance, 1785. Keceived. Jonway
19, $$ ..
FOUR DOWN FOR FORTY-TWO
APPALLING START AT ADELAIDE
BLACK FRIDAY
SMART FIELDING BY AUSTRALIANS
Adelaide, Jan. 13. FRIDAY THE THIR- TEENTH Well might Eng- land's supporters be super- stitious after to-day's per- formance in the Third Test.
Jardine's men collapsed sensationally. Three wickets went down for sixteen runs] and the fourth fell at 30. At lunch 37 runs were on the board.
There was nothing in the wicket
to account for it. It was in per- fect condition and apparently Jull of rúns. Jardine was out to a thoroughly bad stroke. Hammond and Sutcliffe were the victims of some brilliant fielding.
Thirty thousand spectators wit- nessed the commencement of the|
Latest score:
at the spot where the huge ma-inspected by a Reutor's special Company is to return to Britain | Leyland not cut
Chinwangtuo, Jan, 11. Elaborato fortifications with
London, Jan. 12. How delicate is the balance of many bomb-proof shelters have
theaterling-dollar exchange is
ENGLAND,--Čți Innings. The mishap was seen by hun. during the last seven days been dreds of people ashore and im- erected along the bank of a small shown by the request of the Trea- mediately a swarm of speedboats river running about three miles to sury for the suspension of an agree-Sutcliffe, e Wall, a O'Reilly from the air-station and fishing the west of Shailulkwan and form- mot reached last night whereby Jardine, b Wall
the financial control of Boots the Hammond, e Oldfield, 5 Wall boats in the vicinity had gathered ing a natural defence position.
The Chinese fortifications were Chemists and the Boots Pure Drug. Ames, b Ironmonger chine whs ninking.
Wyatt not out visited the from American hands. Nine members of the crew were correspondent who
Extraa The Chancellor's intervention picked up, but one of those aboard Chinese front line to the east of
Chinwangtao. The bed of the arises from the fear that exchanges.
Total (for supriver was found to be quite dry and might be considerably adversely
was never found, and it is noscd that he was drowned.
NINE INJURED.
wickets)
37
seemed easily passable anywhere. affected by the transfer to the Fall of wicketa: 1 for 4 (Jardine);} The Chinese troops holding the United States of the equivalent of 2 for 18 (Hammand) 3 for 16 (Sut- One of the crew was severely in-defences were found to be in G$23,000,000 involved in the tran-cliffe) 4 for 30 (Ames). jured by the crash and six of the excellent spirita despite the low section. others were less badly hurt, only temperature and the biting wind.
To bat: Paynter. Allen. Lar-
two escaping unscathed.
wood, Voce and Verity.
The shock of the calliaton of the
con-1 wing, with the launch was siderable and two of the passen- gera on board the craft wore in- jured.
London, Jan. 13.
The R.A.F. flying-boat sank almost Immediately after the * collision, The member of the crew who escaped, climbed out of the closed cockpit by opening its aliding roof.--Reuter,
ESTATE OF LATE MR. COOLIDGE
ESTIMATED AT HALF A MILLION
JAPANESE ASSAULTED.
Bradman,
The Company passed into Ameri- can hands in 1920 and they were keen to sell it back, the transaction Australia: Woodfull, Fingleton, being the latest of several simbar Ponsford, number of Chinese casualties in the
General Ho attributed the large deals since the slump on Wan Richardson, Oldfield,, Grimmett,
(Continued on Paga 7.)
Street.
Wall,
O'Reilly,
McCabe,
Ironmonger.
The Prince of Walos is taking a keen interest in welfare work.on behalf of the unemployed, as Patron of the National Council of Social Service. Photos show him during his recent tour of Industrial Lan- cashire. In main picture, he is leaving Eatwhistle House, in Wigan, where unemployed women and girls are taught domestic servicas; inset shows the Prince visiting a carpentry shop.
SHOULD CHENG
DIE?
AN INDICATION OF PUBLIC FEELING
Sir.- hasten, as one of this Colony's public, to urge those in authority to give further consideration to their decision not to inter. fere with the sentence of death on Cherig Kwok-yau.
There is a reasonablo doubt and no definite evidence to connect the accused with the actual murder. If he did the crime he is accused of, It was done..under great pro- vocation, and, for this rea- son alone, where there is a life at stake, mercy should be shown.Yours, etc.
FREDK. G. JONES,
wo
KEEPING
'EM AMUSED
SOCIAL SCHEMES FOR JOBLESS
PRINCE OF WALES' APPEAL
DESPERATE FIGHT IN KOWLOON FLAT
EUROPEAN ATTACKED `BY INTRUDERS
STABBED. IN THE
· THROAT
A Briton's desperate struggle in pitch darkness with unkown armed intruders, who did not hesitate to use their weapons, occurred in the small hours of this |morning in a European fat.
The European, Mr. William Beatty, Was rather scriously stabbed, and another occupant of the fat, a Chinese woman named Miss Lucy Lou, was similarly Injured when she rushed to his assistance.
The sensational affair occurred on the ground floor of No. 370, Temple Street, Yaumati, where Mr. Beatty lives. Shortly before 3.30 am. Mr. Beatty was aroused by a noise, and in the darkness anw the dim outline of mnt standing over the bed.
STRUCK OVER HEAD,
He moved to close with the. Intruder and immediately received a blow on the back of the head with a blunt Instrument, which almost stunned him.
London, Jan. 12, Schemes for helping the uni- employed to spend their enforced It was evident then to Mr. Beatty leisure in congenial and helpful that he had more than one as- ways of voluntary service, which sailant to reckon with. He had the Prince of Wales is doing so as much as he could manage, to much to foster, have been faun- save himself from the rain of ched in nearly 200 towns.
blows showered on him, and in the course of a desperate struggle,
In the larger towna, several
WOMAN ALSO STABBED.
schemes are operating in Liver-was stabbed in a number of places. pool and the Merseyside, for in- stance, there are thirty social cen- tres for unemployed man-and the Mas Lucy Loo, a Chinese Avo- activities take many forms. man, the other occupant of the
Occupation centres are popular. floor, went to Mr. Beatty's Disused buildings have; in several sistance, and the man who had
If the Chancellor of the Ex-Twelfth man: O'Brien-Reuter: FREE STATE.
chequer withholds permission for the transfor, the agreement will probably fall through as the shares
STOP PRESS could not be dealt in on the Stock
Rumours
wore in circulation this afternoon that the motor bus] service franchises for Hongkong| and Kowloon have now been de- finitely awarded, and that the New York, Jan. 12. According to a message from tender of the China Motorbus) Northampton, Mass., by the will Company has been accepted for of the late Ex-President Coolidge Hongkong and that of the Kow nil his estate, personal and real, Ivon Bus Company for Kowloon. It is stated unofficially that the Enquiries made from the
xoes to his widow.
Exchange.
SOVIET MINISTER TO CHINA
EXPECTED SHORTLY IN NANKING
(Special to "Telegraph":} sees Ordinance, 18
10 Tekovaph. Copyright, Telegraph
12, 18.15 am.)
Shanghai, Jan. 13. The Saviot Government has ap- Go-pointed M. Bogmoloff as Russlan Minister to China and he is ex- pected to arrive In Nanking short-
Any
estate is estimated at G8500,000.-|vernment filled to secure Router.
confirmation. It being stated that The anticyclone remains contred nothing could be disclosed until to the north of the Yangtse Valley the official announcement had been and has reached abnormal in-made. tensity.
Strong
prevail over the China coast and the China Sea. Local forecast:-
monsoon will
North winds, fresh; cloudy, some
drizzle.
y.
TEA SCORE
Later
Wyatt and Leyland made a won-
derful stand and batted until tea
ELECTION DRAMA
without being separated. At this SHAKING DE VALERA'S
stage Leyland had scored 68 not out and Wyatt 61 not out.
Score:--154 for 4.
game in sunny weather with a cool breezo blowing. Conditions were ideal when Jarding won the toss."
CHANGED ORDER.
CONFIDENCE
| COSGRAVE OFFER TO FARMERS
Dublin, Jan. 12.
to
cases, been taken over at little or been Mr. Beatty's immediate ad- no rent and equipped for wood- vorsary, turned his attention work, boot repairing and almilar her, with the result that she also was stabbed in a number of places, Recreation and physical train- The man then disengaged himself Ing and library and other educa- and with his companions, escaped tional facilities are warmly wel- from the floor. through the back comed.
door. An allotment movement, pione Soon after the Pollec had been ored by the Society of Friends, enlled, the victims were taken to is spreading into additional areas. the Kowloon Hospital. Mr. Beatty
WOS
was found to have received SELF-MANAGED.
wound in the throat, in addition {to superficial cuta to`his forehead Management of these schemes is and left hand. Miss Loo frequently in the hands of the unatabbed in the left arm and left employed themscives, outside aid being confined to financial help, the side, but the nature of those are provision of the facilities and, in not such as to occasion any grave
| some casca, expert advice.
The National Council of Social}
feara.
EX-POLICE OFFICER.
Service, on behalf of which the Mr. Beatty was able to give Prince of Wales broadcast an ap-Police investigators a clear iden peal, has received evidence from) of what occurred, although, on ac- A dramatic counter-bid by Mr. all over the country of the gen- count of the darkness in which Cosgrave, chief opponent of de oral desire to help with this im- the struggle took place, he was Valera, to capture the decisive portant
work-British unable to describe his assailants. farmers' vote in the coming elec- Wireless. tion was made to-day.
nocíal
IMPOSTOR
FANTASTIC STORY,
Ife thought that of the three mer concerned, only two were armed, with a dagger and the
strument.
The England skipper decided to change his usual batting order. His arrival is expected to enable Having experimented with Ley-point in the campaign. Mr. de
it may easily prove the turning JAIL FOR GERMAN that some kind blunt in- further progress to be made with land and Wyatt as Sutcliffe's first Valera promised in his slection ad- the scheme for an air-mail service wicket partner, and apparently be dress to reduce the amount of the
Mr. Bantty was at one time a mombar of the Shanghal Police to Europe.
ing unsatisfied, he decided to put and annuities by one-half.. The Chinese authorities predict himself in first to-day. It was de
Force, which he joined after bav- In a speech at Kildare to-day, the early Inauguration of finitely his unlucky day. He was
ing served in a similar capacty in India. Robbery at the moment Europe-Asia mall and passenger first out after four runs had been. Cosgrave said that if he was returned to power, he would re-
appears to have been the motivo scored
mit the land annuities due in
for the intrusion into his home, (Our Own Correspondent)..
but another theory-a grudge or November and December 1932, in 1983, and Juno 1984, making his ori, 11. Mr. Beatty--is being considered by June, November and Decomber,
grievance possibly held against (By Trovaph, Copyright, Telegraphie frat collection of the annuities at a, 25.41 59.)
the police Investigators. the end of 1934,
· No arrests have yet baon effect-
service and it is stated that since the resumption of Sino-Soviet re-
Wall and O'Reilly were the open- Iations, steps have been taken to ing bowlers and they pegged the push the project, especially in con- batamen down only four runs on
BRITISH PAPER SUSPENDED nexion with the negotiations by ing in the first 23 minutes.
IRAQ AND BAGHDAD COMMENT ON OIL DISPUTE WITH PERSIA
Baghdad, Jan. 18. The Iraqi Foreign Minister in-1 The British-controlled Baghdad formed the mannging director of Timas has been suspended from the Company that owing to com- publication for a period of fifteen Council of Ministers had received monta in the Baghdad Times, the aya by order of the Iraqi Cova an official protest from the Persian ell of Miniaturs (the Cabinet), Ministar, concerning references The suspension was ordered considered offensive to Persian on the grounds that referances susceptibilites. made in the journal to the Anglo- The Baghdad Times was founded Persian oll dispute were liable to when British troops entered Bagh- karast the friendly relations be- dad in 1917 and the shareholders ezonan, Iraq and "friendly State. Are mainly British Renter
the German and Chinese author-came the sensational collapse. tles with Russia for permission for air transportation vin Russlan territory-Reuter.
་་ INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES.
BILL TO BE VETOED BY MR. HOOVER.
Washington, Jan, 12. The Philippine Independenco Bill wiil an forecast, be vetoed by President Hoover.
An announcement regarding the vato "will be made to: Con gress to-morrow, 'decording to Mr. Snell, the Republican leader
THO
BELIEVED
London, Jan. 13. Carl Hummel, the greatest Gered, MORATORIUM AND REDUCTION. man-imposter of post-War days,
.
RUMANIA
JARDINE GOES. Jardine attempted to pull Wall to leg. It was a poor length ball, but He added that when the time was sentenced at Freiburg yester- Jardine misjudged it natonshingly for further collections camo round, day to two and a half years' im- POLITICAL CRISIS IN and it look his leg etump. He had two years hente, he would only prisonment. scored three of the four runs when collect half of what the farmors Hummel professed to be the had hitherto boon paying as he be- last Germanwar prisoner. He jannt back.
Hammond and Sutcliffe played loved they were unable to pay turned up at Freiburg some little cautious cricket, the Gloucester man more.
time ago and claimed that ho hnd KING QUARRELS WITH being extremely subdued. At six- The announcement is likely to just returned after fifteen years
CABINET toon he attempted to cut Wall and away the votes of the farmors, In captivity. A was brilliantly taken by Oldfield on whose deputies, instead of the La- Hummel related a wonderful
Bucharest, the offsido. "Wall was kicking up | hourites, will probably hold the tale of martyrdom and escape from | The Manlu Govern) shoulder high and at this stage had balance of power. In the future prison.
itendered its resignati takon two welkats for ton runa.-
Government...If this forecast pro. Nobody was more astonished súlt of candlappte. vos accurate,- Mr. Cosgrave will than lilmself when he found his Carol and the Cabinet met, the thesis text guvernators blindly believed. Every atmfaml 6% Giro pollas ment,) with armistance of the where he was retad ang hare by 775 walchithi Kiti ga
SUTCLIFFE CAUGHT. > of the Hipers of Remporain the Before any further cans has been