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六拜盛 兢一十月二英港香 SATURDAY.
FEBRUARY 11, 1933. 日七十月正
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FORT
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is unequalled by any other Tyre in the world
TERRIBLE GERMAN GASOMETER DISASTER
WILL JAPAN U.S. ATLANTIC FLEET
ATTACK HONGKONG?
RIPOSTE FOR VOTE
OF CENSURE
STRANGE FEAR
IN PACIFIC
TO STAY FOR REASONS" OF "ECONOMY"
Washington, Feb. 10. The United States Atlantic Fleet will probably remain in the Pacide until July 1, 1934 "in the interests of economy" neending fo an announcement by Admiral Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations. --Renter.
FUJISMLARINI TURKISHANANLAR DAVEZNÉZARINA JADRAL
LONDON JOURNAL POST FOR
NOT AFRAID
London, Feb. 10. Fear of a Japanese attack upon Hongkong in the event. of an adverse decision by the League apparently animates certain quarters, according to an article on the Far Eastern situation in to-day's -New Statesman,
Commenting upon the latest phase of the Sino-Japanese die-
AUGUST
NEUENKIRCHEN EXPLOSION
OVER THOUSAND KILLED AND INJURED
MANY BURIED IN RUINS
AT LEAST A HUNDRED PERSONS WERE
WILHELM KILLED AND A THOUSAND INJURED WHEN
LIKELY GOVERNOR OF HANOVER
FOURTH SON OF EX-KAISER
(Special to "Telographi")
pute, the New Staterman dcelares y Telegraph. Copyright, Jolographie
Berlin, Feb. 11.
Keenest interest has been arous-
that the Japanese so-called "con- . .59 M.)
Mesampar Ordinance, 1881. Received, Fibruary eillatory proposals" are that they shall be confirmed in the posses- Яion of what they have already Alched and be given a free hand to filch more!
If the Japanese decide to withdraw from the League of Nations, it will be their own deliberate chalce.
To concede the Japanese claims would obviously be to ring the death-knull of the League.
CENSURE CONSEQUENCES. Speculating upon what Japan would do "when she got a black, mark against her instead of the whitewash she has demanded," the journal declares that censure of Japan by the Lengue and re- fusal to recognise the exlatence of Manchukuo does not constitute a declaration of war.
"We refuse to believe that the madilest militarist in Japan wouk! contemplate blowing up Hongkong as A riposte for a vote of censure on his country."
"We do not believe in the danger of an attack upon Hongkong even
if the
vote of censure led economic Bunctions,"-Router.
LEAGUE'S.COURSE CLEAR
NON-RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO
(Special to "Tolagraph”)
to
(By Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis Memages Ordinames, 1998. Racilord, February 11, 830 mm)
London, Feb. 10.
THE LARGE GASOMETER IN THE SAAR DIS- TRICT EXPLODED TO-DAY,
Terrible scenes were witnessed. A whole street of houses was destroyed and hundreds of the occupants buried in the debris.
The flames from the subsequent conflagration could' be seen thirty miles away, The ghastly disaster oc- curred in the heart of the town of Neuenkirchen and all telegraphic and telephonic communication with the district has been destroyed.
Later.
The death-roll in the Neuen-
ed by a report that the Hitler Government intenda to appoint kirchen disaster is expected to the ex-Kaiser's fourth son, Prince rench two hundred. August Wilhelm, as Governor of Hanover, instead of the Socialist, Dr. Noske.
A petrol store attached to the gasworks blew up and fifty It is signifi- houses in the street running parallel to the works were de- molished.
cant, in this connexion, that Dr. Noske haa
.
been given off- It is feared that dozens are buri- cla! leave of ab-ed in the debris and that rescue sence until the will be long and diMcult.
Autumn.
The Prince la
an ardent Nazi,
while Dr. Noske
is known us the "German Bloud- hound"
WAR DEBTS TALKS
י
FIFTH MEETING-OF CABINET
The SIR R. LINDSAY.
town is in a state of chaos, people rushing to and fro hardly knowing what they are doing.
HEROIC RESCUE WORK.
RETURNING
London, Feb. 10. The Cabinet War Debts Com- Doctors and nurses are working mittee which has been working at among heroically to succour the injured, high pressure had its fifth sitting Prince August the Commun-many of whom were working in the of the week to-day, at which Sir munists for his suppression of the works at the time of the ex-tonald Lindsay was again present,
Wilhelm.
Kiel naval mutiny in 1918 when he was Defence Minister in the Scheidemann Cabinet.
Dr. Nouke has always been hat- ed by the parties of the Right and it was a matter for some surprise! that he was not diantissed when Herr von Papen took over the rule of Prussia in August last- Reuter
CHINA'S BID FOR AIR FORCE
THE FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN
Nanking, Feb. 11. It is now unmistakably clear,
A proposal to purchase 1,500 says the Spectator, that the League aeroplanen for the National Air Assembly, when it meets, is to be Force is being vigorously pushed called upon to declare definitely throughout the country. against the recognition de facto or
plosion.
Sa terrifie was the blast that hodies
were hurled across streets and dashed against the walls and dread- fully mangled.
in order to allow him to sail for the United States on Tuesday.
The meeting lasted for over two hours and it was decided that al special meeting of the full Cabinet | should be summoned to meet on; Monday to review the whole posi tion so that Sir Ronald Lindany will have the Cabinet's viaxa
Five hundred men were on the work at the time of the disaster before sailing. and the casualty toll among them! The form and personnel of the is shockingly heavy.
Britiah Mission will be tentatively Such was the force of the ex-decided bofore the Ambassador plosion that even houses in neigh-leaves. bouring villages were damaged.- Reuter.
Luter.
(Photar
Photo shows Mr. George Bennard Shaw, who arrived in Hongkong this morning, sightassing in the course of his world tour.
Planet Now.),
FRENCH ATTACK ON RECORD FAILS
COMPELLED TO LAND AT CASABLANCA
"Paris, Feb, 107
The French airmen, Boussoutret and Ross, who took off from Marseilles this morning in an attempl to heat the world's nunatóp long-distance record set up by the Fairey-Napier mono piane, falled in their effort, being compelled to land at Casablanca, in Morocco, about 800 miles from Marseilles-Renter.
KERAMISKRETARIJANA FENEZUELANTANAS
HITLER
After his arrival in Washington, HOLDS FORTH
he will probably sail aboard the Majestic, he will communicate the
BULGARIAN TENSION
BIG MACEDONIAN CONGRESS
PROCLAMATION OF AUTONOMY
Sofia, Feb. 10.
The autonomy of Mace- donia is to be proclaimed at the gathering.
G.B.S. AND ROTARY
FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT INTERVIEWED
SINO-JAPANESE
COMMENTS ·
Exhibit "A" of the Empress of Britain world tour, accompanied by Mrs. Shaw, arrived in the Colony this morning and was in an unusually talkative mood.
It was with some feeling of trepidation that a group of nowa- paper mda waited for the famous playwright. He came at last and greeted them in the friendliest possible manner.
Mr. Shaw's refusal to address the Hongkong Rotary Club and Mr. Cassidy's comment therson was among
the first topics touched open and Mr. Shaw remarked:-- "Rotary Clubs are merely luncheon clubs, which as a general rule know as much about the aims and objects of Rotary as a luncheon of Churchi of England members know about the 30 Articles of their church.
MAY BE UNIQUE.
"Of course," he added. "I know nothing about the Hongkong Rotary Club. I am quite propared to believe that it is unique and.is alone among Rotary Clubs in liv Ing up to its ideals.
"What Is your "opinion on the Sino-Japanese dispute," he was then asked.
can.
"I have not the slightest iden of what the Sino-Japanese ques- tion is," he said. "Japan is going to take Manchuria if she Japan has behaved very correctly. She promised the League she would not declare war without consulting the Longus, and sho has not done so. But she's fight ing quite energetically just the
same.
WHAT DOES CHINA EXPECT?
"What docs China expect - the
League to do? Boycott, I suppose. But the League has funked the Issues and for all practical pur- posoa hag ceased to exist. Let me An ominous situation appears put it this way, Japan has called to be developing in Bulgarian the League of Nations' bluff. Macedonia in view of the calling reminded that the League Secre- "I think the Chiness ought to be lof the Grand Congress of tariat is not really the most im- the Macedonian Brotherhoods, portant part of the League. The which is to be held at Gorna-International Labour Office is the jumaja on Sunday.
reality.
"This International Labour complete Omece, is however a anomaly. This is how it came into being. Before the end of the. War, President Wilson, who was orderet traops to be sent to the really the President of the World. district, though other
at the time, was-sketching out a actions seem to suggest that the purpose League of Nations idea. All the Trades Unionieta of America were of drafting-in troops is merely represented by the United States the_preservation of order when excitement runs high, as it is like Federation of Labour, whose chief Berlin, Feb. 10. ly to do.
was a veteran of Labour by the Liberty of action for a period Simultaneously with the des-ame of Gompers. He approached of four years was demanded by patch of troops, the Government Wilson in the matter of the League of Nations and asked that Labour Herr Adolf Hitler to-day, when in facilitating arrangements for should be represented on the be aroused an audience of teu the Congress, granting free leave
Well, Wilson, probably League of absence to any Government of In a foolish moment, gave Gampers thousand Nazis to frenzied en-ficial elected as a delegate to the his pledge that Labour would be thusiasm at the Sports Palace.
It is now estimated that the Cabinet's ideas to Mr. Franklin ASKS FOR FOUR YEARS death-roll is likely to be seventy. Roosevelt, after which the Presi- Many of the dead were terribly dent-Elect, who assumes office mutilated.
three weeks hence, will send a
FRANTIC DIGGING. Reacue-workers
digging frantically in the ruined building
are
Mr. Ho Chin-wu, a Director of in the immediate vicinity of the de jure of Manchukuo, and the the Peking-Hankow Railway, is gasworks as well as inside, still United States and the Union of one of the most prominent sup-finding dead and dying under the Soviet Sociallat Republics and porters of the idea, and he is other non-members are to be ask- proceeding to the Hunan-Honan debris.
ed to identify themselves with this border in order
The hospitals of Neuenkirchen decision.
to develop the are crammed with the injured. campaign there.
The explosion was heard as for AMERICAN ASSENT.
Public organisations in Tai-away as Banel. yuan, Shansi, Foochow and Fukien Certainty there will be Ro have organised bodies in these hesitation about American assent, centres to
Terrified women and child- raise funds, while Boeing that Mr. H. L. Stimson laid various schools and collogen in
ren were hurriedly turned out down the non-recognition doctrine. Hupch have begun to contribute!
of their homes in the danger As far as Manchukuo is can funds.
zone and are sheltering in schools and other buildings. cerned, a refusal of loans, ani
A committes of nine members ombargo
The whole of the Saar German upon the supply of munitions by the League members has been elected to supervise the police force is rushing to the acene ought to go without saying.
campaign.-Reuter
in motor-lorries--Kcuter.
POSSIBLE SANCTIONS.
Referring to the
question of
possible sanctions against Japan,
the Spectator points out that as
soon as the Committee of Nineteen
OIL FROM COAL PROCESS
took its decision, Japan came for LOW TEMPERATURE CARBONISATION
ward with what were professed to
be further concessions.
It save that this lends colour to
the contention that if the League)
had only displayed a little firm-
ACHIEVEMENT
formal invitation to the British FRENZIED NAZI
Government to send the Mission.- Reuter.
THE ARGENTINE MISSION
TOUR OF PORT OF LONDON
They were entertained
Jun-
ENTHUSIASM
| 1918” and of Marxist rule.
The Bulgarian Government has
Congress.
their
represented.
CREPT IN.
It was Hitler's first public ora- tion since he assumed office as CONTROL OF COUNTRY. London, Feb. 10. Members of the Argentine Mis-speech, which
Chancellor of the Reich and his, The Macedonians scattered all sion to-day made a tour of the throughout Germany, included Brotherhoods to preserve
"At last they came to set up the was. broadcast over Bulgaria aru organised in
League of Nations and found that Port of London, crulaing in a furious denunciation of the crime"national consciousness in exile" it consisted of a lot of representa- motor launch through some of the of the "November criminal of and so powerful politically are come in? Labour had no power. tives of nationa. Where did Labour main docks and up the Thames,
these brotherhoods that they have There was no more reason for cheon at the Mansion House by But the Chancellor, claiming long formed a government within Labour to be represented than the Lord Mayor. A reception at that he should be allowed four the government and dominated Dentistry. However, Wilson was the Argentine Embassy was held years before judgmont was passed the country through their Nation- not to be daunted. He said "I have this evening, and members of the upon him, refrained from laying al Committee. mission later dined at the Argen- down a programme.
Ivan Mihalloff, known as the tine Club-British Wireless.. "Wo won't lie or swindle. Wo"uncrowned King of Macedonia"
won't make cheap promises, but in the head of the Independant i we are going to rebuild and recon- | Macedonians revolutionary struct Germany and load the Gorganisation.-Reuter.
STOCK MARKET FEATURES
BRITISH FUNDS
man people to better, times,"
He challenged his countrymen
or
to "crucify me or do whatever else of bolshevism will be hoisted soon to me you want If at the end of or Germany will find horself four years we have not succeed again.
London, Feb. 10. nothing else for many weeks with ness in the first place, Japan .The contract for oil extracted satisfactory results. would have recepted the inevitable from British coal, which been
The temperaturo carbonisation Long ago.-Renter.
placed with the Low Temperature of coal about three-quarters of process produces from every ton
Rd." FIRM
"The results of a possible' fu-i The other aldo has had things ture war can only be conjectured) Carbonimation Company, Limited. An Interesting lecture
ton of semi-coko, about five tho by the Admiralty, is n sequel to thousand cuble feat un
London, Feb. 10. its own way for fourteen years and nobody wants peaco and tran- Hanger was delivered last night by exhaustivo tests conducted partly eightoon gallons of tar that in lar at the close, but British funds four years, which is the legal dorman people do. We must in of gas, and The stock markets were irrogu-and look at the result." "Give us quility more than I do than the last by Mr. H. Brage, B.Sc., before the in H. M. S. Westminster.
converted into oll. It is Hongkong University Engineering So
understood that
finished Arm, with war loan 8%% period for the full life of the sist, however, upon oquality with| this The chdapest kind. of con). ety. The lecture was illustrated destroyer was filled with British used in the process and there is was considerable, but most finish country sit in judgment, place in the world just as every
then let is at 99%. In Rand shares, business, Reichstag, and
the other nations and our adequate with numerous lantern slides prepared coal oil without undergoing any a hig demand for its by-products. of under the best British Ħira- team pictures taken by the speaker. special preparations and burned —British Wireless.
"There can be no middle course person will insist upon the name in Germany, Either the red fisg thing for his country."--Reuter.
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