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No. 14034
日四初月五閏
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7.
DUNLOP
Fort
is unequalled by any other Tyre in the world
EXPLOSION IN PORTICO OF ST. PETER'S, ROME
Dean
Inge, whose retirement is foreshadowed.
THE GLOOMY DEAN RETIRING
FAMOUS PREACHER AND PUBLICIST ADVANCING AGE
(By
(Special to "Telegraph")
Telegraph, Copyright: Telegraphie Stepeived June Messages Ordinance, JEPS. 18. 1760)
London, June 26.
Dean Inge, one of England's most famous preachers and publicists, who celebrated his seventy-third birthday recently, is intending to resign next sum mer, the decision being due to his advancing years.
not
He has been Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral since 1911 and has made: a reputation as one of the fore- most preachers in England, merely
because of his classic. style and delivery, but also on account of his original, striking and outspoken views which have
both interest the excited sympathisers and opponenta.
MORDANT CRITIC.
Bomb in Suitcase Handed to Attendant
FOUR INJURED BY BLAST
LITTLE DAMAGE TO THE FAMOUS BUILDING
CLOSURE ORDERED
TEMPORARILY
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, June 26, 11.04 a.m.)
ROME, JUNE 26. -
ROOSEVELT AND THE
CONFERENCE:
SUMMONS MR. DAVIS TO AMBER JACK.
(Special to "Telegraph”)
(ly Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphis Messages Ordinanos. 1991.
4.1 Redsired June
·24, 1848 1.19.)
Now York, June 26.
Mr. Norman Davis has received a wirelss message from the "Amber Jack, President Roosevelt's yacht, asking him to discuss the World Economic Conference situation with the President. Mr. Norman Davis will spend two or three days aboard the Amber jack, in Roosevelt is which Mr. holiday-making.-Router.
MOLLISONS READY
• ́AN ALARMING EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE FAMOUS CHURCH OF ST. PETER-YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON, AS THE RESULT OF WHICH FOUR WORSHIPPERS WERE INJURED AND MINOR DAMAGE WAS DONE TO THE HISTORIC TWO-WAY CROSSING OF
BUILDING.
Immediately after the outrage, it was decided to
order the temporary closing of the church, while the
damage, belived to be minor, is examined by exports.
The explosion occurred in the portico of the church and came from a suitcase which had been deposited with an attendant by a visitor who ostensibly had come to St. Peter's to worship.
THE ATLANTIC
FIRST JOINT VENTURE
(Special to "Telegraph”)
Il Telegraph, Copyright. Police were hurriedly brought to the church and Messages Ordinance, IT no-one was allowed to leave until after they had arrived. The police, with the assistance of the attendant who was given the suitcase, scrutinised the worshipper's as they emerged without detecting the culprit.
The object of the outrage is mystifying. St. Peter's is the metropolitan cathedral of Rome and the largest church in the world. It was rebuilt in the 16th century from the designs of Bramante, Michael Angelo and Bernini-Router.
MAHATMA GANDHI ́
IMPROVING
Nearly An Inch of
ABLE TO WALK IN Rain
HIS ROOM
(Special to "Telegraph")
of
(B
Telegraph, Copyright. Messages Ordinance, 1888, 2. 17.4 p.)
Telegraphie
His mordant criticisms of the passing show of life about him, of the criticisms his caustic tendencies of modern life, his uncanny knack of putting Into sternly opposite words thoughts that other men grope vainly for, but never seem to find, brought Arst" him fame, although it was founded upon notoriety. The label "The Gloomy Dean" is applied to him.
Characteristic was his Christmas sermon of 1925 in which after
Racaived June
Poona, June 26. Gandhi is improving con- He is siderably in health. now permitted to walk in his room twice in the course of the day. He is also gain. His medical ing weight. advisers are, however, cau. tious and are insisting that. Gandhi has quiet for at least another month.-Reuter.
seeing a "gleam of light in the DOUBTFUL DEALINGS IN
Locarno Pact" he declared that the coming danger to the British nation was from within, the con- trol of its destinlos having passed to the class or organised Inbour which seemed to him to be "not the most fully educated in those moral qualities which make a nation great and united and happy."..
PADDY'S MARKET
SHARP CORRECTION
FOR DEALER Promiscuous dealing in Paddy's
Market was the subject of com- RETIRING TO OXFORD, Dean Inge has also called upon ment by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the the Church, in no uncertain terms, Central Police Court this morning. to give up "shuffling" and recast some of its most ancient and In Aining a second hand dealer! familiar doctrines in accordance $40 or one month for the unlawful with the facts disclosed by science. Possession of a silver cigarette
box, the Magistrate.
romarked
DURING LAST 24 HOURS
Telagrophia Received Jun
London, June 26. Mr. and Mrs. James Molli- son (Miss Amy Johnson) are again prepared for their spectacular two-way Atlan- tic flight.
ULM FLIGHT SETBACK
FORCED LANDING AT ALOR STAR
FINE FLIGHT TO SINGAPORE
Singapore, June 25.
It is learned that Mr. C.T.M. |Ulm, the Australiań airman, who took off from West Australia on
Kung.
Friday in an attempt to set a Trebitech Lincoln ze the monk, Chao new Australia-England record, has been forced down at Alor Star.
Engine trouble was responsible for the Interruption of Mr. Ulm's schedule and it is stated that he | Will probably be delayed for a day. Alor Star is in Kedah State, F.MS. on the route from Singa pore to Rangoon. The airmon (Mr. Ulm has two companions) made a capital flight from Derby,
SILVER PACT
POSSIBLE
STATEMENT BY SENATOR PITTMAN
London, Juno 22.
Such satisfactory progress has boon made by the Silver. Sub- Committee of the Monetary Com- mission that a Soven-Power effort to create price stability is "within | sight," possibly materialising oarly next week, Senator Koy Pittman told the United Press in an ex- clusive Interview,
Senator Pittman,declared that the effort would be directed to obtaining a general agreement to restrict the production and sale of silver, and indicated that an at- tempt might be made to", bring
TREBITSCH representatives of the United
LINCOLN
BACK AGAIN.
V. Australia, to Singapore and EUROPEAN CONVERTS
set off early this morning with every confidence.
Except that they were
forced
down by engine trouble no. fur-1 ther information is available.
TO BUDDHISM
Stato, · Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Poru, India and China together in. Informal conversations over the week-end.
MOST SATISFACTORY. The American representative described the Silver Sub-Com- mittee's meeting this morning as "most satisfactory.".
It is, understood that Senator Pittman, who is the chairman of the sub-committee, In speech at this salon suggested an early
Ulm's companions are Messrs. SIX MONKS AND agreement between the silver-pro-
P. B. Taylor and G. L. Allan.
The machine is an Australian- bullt eraft of the Fokker type.
The purpose of the flight is an attempt to reach England in from five to six days.-Reuter.
WORLD LAND
NINE NUNS
(Special to "Talagraph")
(Dy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphis Missper Ordinance., 1888. Received June 2, 10 m.)
Shanghai, June 26. ---
SPEED RECORD Trebitsch Lincoln, ex-M.P.
and ex-a good many other things, now known as the. monk Chao Kung, has turned to China.
re-
TWO ATTEMPTS PLANNED IN AUSTRALIA Trebitsch Lincoln is, for the mo-
ment, In Shanghai and it is re- not ported that he is accompanied by Sir Malcolm Campbell is It will be recalled that they were likely to be the first to attack his six European Buddhist monks and due-to-set-out a little over a fortland speed record on the new and nine European Buddhist nune, in- almost perfect natural speedway eluding French, Germans, Belgians. night ago. When they attempted on the dry bed of Lake George, and Italians. to take off in their black Dragon near Canberra,
Mr. Norman ("Wizard") Smith, Moth plane, the Seafarer, machine, heavily laden, refused the famous New Zealand racing motorist, is contemplating an at- to rise and was badly damaged.
tempt in the near future, while The under-wings and propellor Mr. W. E. Thompson, this year's were smashed, ¿,10
the
In a letter to the China Press, Chao Kung declares that he has been endeavouring to establish a Buddhist mona- stery in Europe, but he has been compelled to return to establish the projected mona. stery there.
He proposes, therefore,
to
winner of the Australian Grand Prix, a 200 miles' race, also in- The second attempt is now tentatively fixed for July 7 when tends to try out the course, accord- the fliers are likely to be favoured ing to a message from the Austrai by a full moonlight for their Atlan-News Agency.
The lake is 15 miles long, and found a new monastery in China tic crossing from East to West al- though they state that they will7 miles across at its widest part.and he expects more European dis- Nearly an inch of rain fell in start earlier if iveather conditions The Common-wealth government ciples to follow as soon as the
geologist reports that there is not building has been completed. the Colony during the past twenty prove particularly favourable, four hours according to a report Observatory this by the Royal morning.
a drop of one inch over the whole MOLLISON PLANS.
lovel of the surface which is of heavy blalk soll. It is sheltered The Mollisons' plans embrace a from wind. Up to 10.80 a.m. the rainfall was nonstop fight from London to
the heaviest recording New York and then .94 inch,
nonstop 0 being between 6.30 and 7.30 this night from New York to Bagdad, morning, when .40 inch fell.
throughout the Temperature week-end was high, the average being 84 degrees, with a maximum lof 90.1. It encouraged a general exodus to the bathing beaches, and
there picnics..
numerous were
launch
which would enable them to be STOP PRESS
the existing long-distance flight record held by the R.A.F. Their flight across the Atlantic will be their first Joint venture-Reuter,
BUILDING
Yesterday's shade temporature THE NEW H.K. BANK was the highest for the year. This morning, it had dropped to 80, due to the heavy rains during the night accompanied by a fairly strong wind.
MARTIAL LAW IN
SOFIA
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
TERRORISTS.
(Special to "Telègraph”)
He deplores the advance of the that second hand dealera in (My Telegraph, Copyright. Tairgraphis mechanical age because it detracts from the spiritual and intellectual. Paddy's Market must be
Dean Inge hopes to spend his couraged from buying things in #4, 1744 p retirement in the neighbourhood of peculiar ways. Oxford.-Reuter.
COL. M. H. LOGAN IN COLONY
Colonel M. H. Logan, the well- known Shanghal architect, who is and undertaking the direction organising of the construction of the new premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai. Banking Corpora tion in Hongkong, arrived in the Colony aboard the Empress of Asta this morning.
Alor Star, June 20.
4 a.m. Ulm took off at Rangaon.Reuter.
Now York, June 26.
Reuter
SWOLLEN RIVERS IN KWANGTUNG
SLIGHTLY BETTER
SITUATION Following the further rapld
rises on all rivers as the result of heavy rains on Wednesday and Thursday, the Kwangtung River Conservancy Board reports that the flood danger is again passing.
The West River at Shulhing was 26.7 feet against 27.4 feet on for Saturday and the Norah River at Tsingyuen was 16 feet as against 18.5 feet on Saturday... At Sam- shui, the level remained un- changed at 18.3 feet.
The East River which reached a high level for the year. 8.1 feot at Sheklung remains the same.
It is reliably reported that Lindbergh, accompanied by his SUDDEN DEATH OF wife, will shortly fly to Greenland |**
MR. W. C. CLARK for the Pan-American Airways, to Z.B.W. CHANGE-OVER search for landing places for the
proposed regular mall passenger | HONGKONG MANAGER
Northern Europe. OF MILLINGTON'S
air route to
dis Ordinanes, 111. Received · Jung
Sofia, June 20. Determined to stamp out the It was proved that the cigarette murder terrorism campaign be REDUCED POWER FOR He may continue the fight to box was recorded in the purchase (tween rival Macedonian groups, the
A PERIOD
Iceland and Denmark.-Reuter. book entry as a silver photo frame Government proclaimed a curfew SHANGHAI SHARES [locket.
lasting from last night until mid-l Dot-Insp. Elston stated the case [day to-day.
It is announced that com- Messrs. Carroll Bros. have received the following cabled quotations from was stolen from a bankrupt shop With everyone confined to their mencing on Sunday next, Z.B.W. in Queen's Road Contral. Shops houses, police and troops, un-will broadcast with reduced power Shanghai
... #14,20 In Lower Lascar Row are very hampered raided all houses aus- until the new ZD.W. Transmitter Ewo Cotton Mills, Ltd; Bhangbai Land Investment Co. 81.25 careless in buying these things, pected of harbouring evil-doers has been transferred to the now
Reuter. 16.50 added the officer. Langkat Single
atation at Hung Hom
The death occurred to Shanghai this morning of Mr. W. C. Clark, manager of the Hongkong branch of Millington, Limited,
ducing and silver-holding coun- trics to restrict the supply and sale of the metal. The American spokesman announced that the United States is willing to enter such a discussion immediately, adding "Let India be reasonable about the volume of silver it in- tends to throw on the market."
GOLD AS YARDSTICK, Senator Pittman told the sub-"
committee that the United States
resolution Introduced before the Monetary Commission aims at re-establishing the gold standard na a world-wide yardstick, except "where it is inappropriate," ferring to China,
Restoration of n gold measure, Senator Pittman insisted, must be supplemented by the use of silver
BOMBS 'SENT TO MR. ROOSEVELT
YOUTH ARRESTED NEAR NEW YORK.
Joseph Doldo, aged 20, has been arrested at Water- town, New York, and it is reported that he has con- fessed to sending bombs by mail to President Roosevelt.
He also sent a cheque-for :0$75,000,000 on account
of "war debt payment."
He is alleged to be men- tally deficient.
KIDE VARIEDI MANAKIRITILATERALS INSENTREREN KANNALEEN STEEKANINIZIANAG
so as to permit those nations with Insufficient gold to buy the pro- ducts of gold standard countries. He emphasised the urgent adyla- ability of eliminating "the natural supply due to demonetisa
tion,
RECONCILED
un-
EX-KING ALFONSO AND ELDEST SON
+
A message from Lausanne states that Don Alfonso, the Prince of the Asturias, who married the daughter of a Cuban planter last week, against his father's wishes, hna now recolved ox-King Al- fonso's benediction and good wishes...
COLONY'S EMPTY
POOR BOX.
NO FUNDS LEFT TO HELP HAWKERS
The Poor Box funds are drained. Another request for a hawker's Sconce was refused this morning. by Mr. Wynne-Jones who sald
We have no more money to pay for licences. If you can raise four- dollars we will give you a licence.
The announcement has come as a great shock to his friends in the Colony. He only recently left for Shanghai on a short business trip.