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No.- 14000
一拜禮 號七月八英港香
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1933. 日六十月六
DUNLOP
is the
SAFEST TYRE
TYPHOON FORMS IN THE POLICE
NIGHT
CLOSE TO COLONY
RENTLY MOVING
OF RANGE
LACK OF DATA
According to official information
from the Royal Observatory A typhoon of unknown intensity is situated about 200 miles to
Houth of Hongkong.
the
There was only the slightest in- dication of any disturbance last evening and the typhoon has ap parently formed during the night. Its direction has not yet been as certained, but it is believed to be moving W.N.W.
The barometer is stendy at 29.62 and this is taken as an indication that the disturbance is not appron- ching the Colony at present and will probably not affect Hongkong to any great degree.
No. 1 local signal, was this morning.
U.S. LAWYER'S.
SUICIDE
DESPONDENT AFTER
DIVORCE
The Japanese dreadnought, Kongo, flagship of the" attacking flest in the Japanese naval manoeuvres.
CUSTOMS INCIDENT
ARMY OFFICER'S THREATS
FORCE MAJEURE
IN CANTON
JAPANESE NAVAL WAR GAMES
RESISTING "ATTACK BY U.S. NAVY"
The following incident, which BIG PROGRAMME|
officers.
Main Examination building that the The man was escorted to the matter might be fully in estigator
Emperor Hirohito has been
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AMERICA'S GOLD
PLAN FOR EVADING EMBARGO
GOVERNMENT AND HOARDERS
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(Special to "Telegrapli")
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Copyright, Telegraphic
ew York, Aug. 6.-
concerns in the
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“ANTI-PIRACY” COUP AT
SHAUKIWAN
THIRTEEN SUSPECTS
REVOLVERS FOUND BUCKET-BOTTOM
MIDNIGHT RAID DISCOVERIES
One of the biggest coups of the Hongkong Police for some time |past, was carried out during the
week-end, when as the result of į a series of lightning midnight!
raids in the district of Saiwanho
(Shaukiwan) thirteen suspected pirates, believed to be members of
Bina Bay gang arrived here for
the express purpose of another piracy, were taken into custody.
ed.
Three revolvers were also seiz-
The important operation was! the Criminal Investigation Depart- carried out by fifteen members ofį
ment on friday night, the details| being kept a close secret until the time appointed.
The Police party first visited al house in Main Street, this being quickly followed by raids on two other on the hillside above Sal- wanlio.
under arrest.
bucket of curious construction.
COAL-MINERS DEFY PRESIDENT
Decide to Go. On With Strike
is
New York, Aug. 6. President Roosevelt being defied by twenty thousand of the Pennsyl- vania coal-miners, who has refused to accept the President's strike settle- ment terms.
A miners' meeting at Brownsville to-day over- whelmingly voted that the strike should continue at least until Friday.-Reuter.
GERATZETANECZNACHTMAN:(2)
SPLENDID
FLIGHT
FRENCH AIRMEN GOING WELL
VIOLENT GALES "OVER ATLANTIC
London, Aug. 7. The well-known Frenc airmen, Codos, and Rose, are well on their way to.. wards the breaking of the world long-distance flight record, having emerged suc cessfully through very stormy weather in thei
THE BANFF Atlantic crossing.
AGENDA
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES
FOUR TICKLISH PROBLEMS
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Beingrosh. Copyright Telegraphie Hennap Ordinance, 1884. Reecivcil, AND,
7, 4,57 n.m
At one o'clock this, morning. they were in the vicinity C Munich, Bavaria,' and were stil!: going strong.
A wireless message from their plane, the "Joseph Le Brix" was. pleked up at the Munich aero- drome at 12.20 am, to-day,.stating that the airmen expected to pas over the city within a few minute and to continue towards Vienna..
NOT SIGHTED.
A watch was kept for them, be they had not been sighted by on: o'clock and It is presumed tha the fliers missed Munich or were dying too high to be observed,
they had passed very close to
Some four houra previously.....
Paris, flying over at. about 10.2
They wirelessed to officials
occurred at the main Examination Station of the Chinese Maritime Customs Canton on
nt
Friday holsted morning serves to illustrate very spending hours every day in
clearly the difficulties of customs wireless reports from Japan's Mesure Ordingen. 2894. Jirceived, huts within close distance of ench
greatest battleships since, on 5 has wind Incoming passengers to Canton Wednesday last week, over al are required to declare datialde hundred ships of the fleet roared]
Gold mining
COMPLETE SURPRISE. arlicles which they desire to im-into the war manoeuvres which port and the usual verification by are to culminate in a grand United States are now studying
New York, Aug. 6. In all cases the Police visit camel search is made at the landing pointe review on August 25.
the possibility of exporting ore as a complete surprise, no fewer],
The agenda for the Banff by Customs Officers
a world-
His Majesty the Emperor is before smelting with the prospect than thirty Chinese being placed Conference is expected to wide custom.
include discussions upon the On the morning in question, a represented as in no way concerned passenger by one of the River American relations, int his naval from the world price of $28.9 per the hillside the Follee discovered a ab. the question of Japanese-of being able to realise something
Buried in vegetable plot on following subjects: Steamers from Hongkong Was found to have thirteen
(1) the world economic conflict, a.m. "Watches; oneral staff, also studying reports, ounce. concealed upon his person. The made no secret of the fact that the
Within a false compartment so the alleged dumping of Japanuse The quantity of ore which could games are designed to defeat discovery took place at 7.0 a.m.
theoretical attack by the United be exported under any scheme ingeniously fitted lato the bottom MILITARY OFFICERS APPEAR. Stats navy, the recent American which might be drawn up is proof the utensil as to escape ordinary electrical equipment in the United Le Bourget announcing that thes
designed to defeat
car in ti Fadlic were blematicul ending study of attention, they found three loud-States and the subsequent retalia-still had 2,800 litres of petrol lei tion by American-manufacturers, despite the fact that they ha A1 theoretical | Freight rates, which form a high-ed revolvers.
(2) the Textile war between Jab.encountered violent storms ove lack by this a strearth of Japan.y important factor in view of the
bulk and weight of ore.
janese and Indian cotton mille. the Atlantic and they were c. HUGE AREA.
Meanwhile, a message from Wa- The Police are extremely secre- (3) the struggle for the Far opinion that they could comfor. tad subsided. · Thirty, minutes |- A spokesman for the Navy min-shington states that the Attorney. later, two men in the uniform of istry, in explaining the games to General, Mr. Cummings, has fixed tive regarding the further in- Eastern petroleum markets, be ably break the record.
vestigations ensuing from the ar-tween the 'Standard Of Company the the week from August. 10 to
TILL PETROL IS EXHAUSTED. Army Officers, accompanied by two the United Press, said that others in private's kit, appeared on | manoeuvres will spread over the August 17 as the dead-line for rests, but it is leained that after of New York, the Shell interests close questioning, they have re-(Asiatic Petroleum Company) and the scenes and demanded from the waters, sinth of Japan proper and hoarders of gold, a great deal of tensed 17 of the original number of the Soviet oil concerns.
The airmen took off from Ne Chines: Tidewaiters the release of between Formosa on the west and which is still in private hands.
York at 4.41 a.m. on Saturday a f and? suspecta taken into custody,
(4) the partial closing of the they intend to fly on until the the watches and their carrier on the Bonin Islands on the cast. A
have detained the remainder..
¡Open Duorin Manchuria.---Router, į the plea that the watches were principal units of the imperial sen military property.
forces are participating..
One of the thirteen thus held, After August 17, the Govern-as been identified as an ex-guman notes.
The Chinese Tilowniter at once! The combined fleet is under comment intends either to prosecute who was some time ago deported result of sent word to his immediate sup-mind of Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, or to publish the names of people from the Colony. plained his act as the despondency over the granting of crior officer, a foreigner, who in who also commands the first found in possession of gold. a divorce last June in Reno to his turn referred the mutter to the squadron. Jis chief of staff is former wife, Martha,
It is estimuu that hoardersj 0 the Deputy Commissioner #pon anding Rear-Admiral Zengo Yoshide. I grounds of mental cruelty. that the Military Officer's attitude The second squadron is command-hold at least G00,00,000 in gold His former wife was. at the was solely one of force majeure. ed by Vice-Admiral Nobumasa certificates and a like amount in time of the shooting, away on her.
Suetsugu. The fourth squadron, actual coin. specially second honeymoon with her band, Commander
SON OF SENATOR JOHNSON
at
Mr. Archibald Johnson, torney, som of Senator Hiram Johnson, committed suleide last work with a pistol in the Johnson home at HIllsborough, fashionable residential district of Burlinghame, California.
Iq left three
One ex-
-סגיר
Howard A
by higher-up officials as soon the rush of incoming, passengers
government ACTION,
COMIC RELIEF.
created for these The Government is maintaining. The Deputy Commissioner sent innenvres, is under command of the monopoly in the purchase of jdown a message asking the name Vice-Admiral Osumi Nagano. gold from mines and smelters, but The howling of a faithful dog and rank of the Military Officer at
These three aquadrons have, for tellows the exportation
Flanigan, U.S.N.
caused a butler in the household the same time inviting him to come the past iwo months, been raw orca.
of some
to investigate and find the at- to his office and discuss the matter, engaged in target practice and Production in greatly declining torney's body, clad in pyjamas The military reply was in keeping individual manoeuvring in the RA a result of the Government's
with the rest: Tell the Deputy crumpled in the library.
Name walers, but starting lagt polley. Only 4,000,000 ounces Johnson had used a 45 automa- Commissioner that my name and tic pistol which he carried as a rank are my own business and that, week they came together for con-wore produced in April and May, -United Preas. Per Gold Bar Co. major in the American Expedition-I do not call on anybody". The curted mimic warfare.
Coordinated with the warahips Deputy Commissioner at this stage ary Force.
Senator Johnson was in San--it was now 0.46-telephoned for "games" will bo the naval airl forces, as well as the land forces Francisco when he heard the news Police assistance. of his son's act. Grief-strickon, Comic relief was afforded at this of the navy, from the bases nt CHINA
and Sarabe. ho hastened home. Hillsborough juncture by the arrival outside the Yokosuka, Kure
brigades. is about 10 miles from Sun Fran-enclosure of the Tidewalter'e wife: including cinco.
the good woman feared for her man Admiral Kiehlsaburo Nomura, Yokosuke and proceeded to harangue all and commandant of the
CHINESE BATHING CLUB PETITION
Over Three Thousand··
Names Signed Yesterday
naval
BEGINS BUYING WHEAT
SEVENTEEN RELEASED.
THE PENNSYLVANIA
COAL: STRIKE
Decision to Continue the Fight
ANGLO-FRENCH DEMARCHE
GERMANY LIKELY TO SEE REASON
NO OFFICIAL
Now York, Aug. 6. |STATEMENT YET
Berlin, Aug. 6.
It is understood that the Ger-
Codos
and Rossi
petrol supply of 1,770 gallon's exhausted.
The record they are attacking L that of the R.A.F. fllers in their
trip from England to Walvis Bay in the Fairey-Napier monoplanį.. The distance they covered w
Following the announcement that! 20,000 miners at Brownsville are continuing the strike, it is learned that fifty thousand other minora man Government is prepared to 5,340 miles-Reuter, bave decided to extend their "try" and prevent German aeros pickets to the Frick Mind, which planes from dropping pamphlets the ownors announced would be re-jover Austria and is also prepar- opened to-morrow..
ed to atiTen the censorship of] The reason for the continuance wireless speeches."
This Intimation follows the news men's displeasure at the failure of of the intended Franco-British their lenders to be recognised by demarche on the subject of Naz! the local committees in the
In-propaganda in Austria, although it dustrial truce.--Rentor.
sundry in no measured terms, her naval station, Vlee-Admiral Selzo) PURCHASING OFFICES of the fight is attributed to the
flow of cloquence fully audible to Sakonji, Sascho commandant, and the group on the other side of the Vice-Admiral Ryozo Nakamura, partition whilst the crowd, which chief of the Kure naval station, increased rapidly, made occasional will therefore take part in the applause.
"REVOLVER DRAWN.
manoouvres.
·EMPEROR TO JOIN IN.
With one eye presumably on the
SET UP
W. P. Wel.: Chinese purchasing agent for wheat and cotton under the $50,000,000 loan to China by the Reconstruction Fluance Corpor
ntion, announce that the Chinese
feeling no doubt that he find par- American battle fleet, concentrat operations out of offices establish
his revolver and announced hin in the Pacific Coast, Japan's most Oro.
Ar-
AMNESTY
SEQUEL
RIOTS FOLLOW RETURN
OF PRISONERS
8 learned that the Notes have not set been delivered owing to the absence of officials during the week-end.
Offcially, the German Foreign Offico is completely, silent.
THE NOTES.
DEATH OF SIR JAMES CRAIG
YA!
SPONSOR OF IRISH SWEEPSTAKE
Sir James Craig, M.D., who was a member of Dall Eireann (tho Free State Parliament) from its At 10:30 am, the Military Oficer
establishment, died on the 11th July. As an Independent member eyed quite long enough, drewed for more than a year pant oned in Houston, Tex.. and Portland,
he introduced the Bill which gava" legni mandtion to the setting up sti The seven Chinese bathing clubs tention of arresting the Tidowniter brilliant naval attrategists will At lonst half of the wheat and
The Franco-British Notes, which the Irish Sweepstakes, by which t in Taat-tze-mul started their cam-who had discovered the watches thus put their fighting machine cotton purchased under the
Jaro in identic terms, draw the at-sum exceeding five and n quartsý palan to secure sympathisers for and gave the order to march, where containing some of the world's
Havana, Cuba, Aug. 1, tention of the German Government million pounds sterling has already their petition to the Hongkong, upon the Deputy Commissioner largest, most, modern and most rangement will be sent to China In
Riots were reported to-day in to their obligations towards Aus- boen raised for the Irish hospita Government asking for postpone-dispatched his foreign subordinate efficient ships of war, into opern-American ships,
tion to make sure that it will work `The remainder will be sont ne- the to rescue the Tidewalter. ment of the resumption of
The price of peace was a fore with clocklike exactness in time cording to circumstances and rates Santiago de Cuba and Camaguey tria, citing the Covenant of the The late SirJnies: Craig
na anti-govorament factions wol-League, the Versailles Treaty and born in County Antrim In. 1861. North Polut benches yesterday
From 1895 to 1905 he was Secros Kone conclusion; the military, pas of emergency.
comed political prisoners and the Four-Power Pact, morning.
The Notes are couched in very tary of the Leinster Branch of the songer and watches left the Cus- Among those vessels are the The R. F. C. funds involved will exiles who returned homo after the Over three thousand names wore toms Compound and some, twenty battle cruiser Kongo, flagship of not leave the Federal Reserva recent general amnesty.
friendly terms and are very brief. British Medical Association.lt
Italy declined to join Britain recolved u, Khighthood In 1921 signed in the course of the day. minutes after they were safely off Admiral Kobayashi: the treaty banks, but will merely be transfer. Senorita Maria Lavadi, 17, and France in making representa was a member of the Hous
the premises, the Police arrived by cruiser Takan, flagship of Admiral red from one account to another. former political prisoner, was tions, but it is understood that the Commiliton is set, kishi u
Sueteagu,, and the great battleship). Tho P. and 0. 2.8. "Carthago”, left motorcar.
The episode is worthy of serious Nagato, Admiral Nagano's flag-
killed in Santiago when Com Italian Ambassador two or thras Sweepstakes made findi Singapore for this Port-on-the 6th
days ago spoke to high-German to last look "2 instant atinous with the outward consideration by all who are if ship. The mancouvre will wind-There will be one edition only of munists rioted, t Englan Mails, and a due here, on forested in the ultimate welfare of up with a grand review, off Yoko the Telegraph to-day, owing to the At Camaguey 2,500 participated micials unofficially on dis subject; dimlari
L'August Bank Holiday,
In a riot. CNC (Continued on Page 7-)A China, Wednesday at about 8 s.TV
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