THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE
HAVANA MOBS
THE PRESIDENT
RESIGNS
BRITON MADE A PRISONER
Havana, Sept. 19. - ' Professor Grau San, Mar.. tin has terdered his resigna- tion to the Revolutionary Junta.
'A large crowd is now parading through the streets of Havana cheering Dr. San Martin, and it is learned that the Junta is not yet decided on whether to accept his resignation.
is con-
The general altuntion aldered to have definitely worsened, i While troops, accompanied by students are searching revolution- uries, one Havana mob which shows strong Communistic tenden- elen has acized several milla, and Krave fears are felt for the safety of people in scattered mills-os It is feared that the Government forces are not sufficient to protect them.
BRITON A PRISONER.
An Englishman named Hughes is reported to be a prisoner in a mill at Soledad, of which he is the manager.
More American warships have been sent to Antillo, Manzanillo, Cienfuegos and Puerto Padre,
The situation is felt in foreign circles to be ominous.-Reuter.
Woman Mayor "Cleans Up The Town"
ATTEMPT TO REMOVE HER FROM OFFICE
SEIZE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1933.
MILLS: SITUATION GROWS WORSE
An Avro-Avian, light training aircraft, another type of machine to
be used at the School.
ANOTHER
FLOOD?
PREDICTION OF DR. GRABAU
OCEANIC SIGNS
Washington. The earth in duc for another flood-or a whole series of them the If the past behaviour of oceans continues in the future, according to a theory advanced to the International Geological Con- gress here.
A TYPHOON SCARE
(Continued from Page 1)
signals were removed.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
TO RANGOON
Commencing at End
of the Week
on
London, Sept. 19. Beginning with the ser vice leaving. London September 23, the England. India air mail service will be extended from Calcutta to Rangoon. The mail will be due to reach Rangoon on Sunday evening, eight days after its despatch from Lon.
2. From October the homeward mail will arrive at Rangoon each Monday and will be due London on the following Monday- British Wireless,
don.
DALINGOMUTATOFRIENDBENGA
it was not a severe typhoon in A DISTINGUISHED
the first place and it changed
course rapidly from nine o'clock onwards.
SOLDIER
An Avro Cadet of the type to be employed in training pilots at the now Flying Training School to be established by the Far Eastern
Aviation Company.
OPIUM INSIDE PORTMANTEAUS
SMUGGLER CAUGHT ON PRES. LINCOLN
THE OLD AND NEW IN EDUCATION;
UNIVERSITY LECTURER SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS
Old Ideas and new in rogard
BEER KILLING NIGHT CLUBS
MIRACLE WORKED BY HONEST 3.2
“SPEAKEASIES” TOUGH TIME
"When prohibition goes out temperance will come into ita jown," said, Edward P. Mulrooney. chalemny of the State. Alcoholle Beverage Control Board.
"Temperance made progress in this country' before prohibition. Prohibition made us forget about temperance, but soon we'll forget about prohibition."
The speakeasy and night-club orn la crumbling under the on- slaught of 3.2 beer and will be less than dust with the legitimatization of liquor, as Mr. Mulrooney nees it.
"The fact that Harlem is giving - up its gin is an example of the miracle worked by honest `beor,” Mr. Mulrooney said, "My scouts tell me that the coloured people to education were dealt with by up there are drinking beer in pre-
G. W. Reeve, lecturer
ference to hard stuff. In this they in
Up to 9 a.m. it seemed likely to DEATH OF COL. W. B. year was imposed on Leung Logic and Ethics at the Universi- are following the example of the
enter the const to the east of Hongkong. It veered to North- West and seemed likely to hit Hongkong, as a result of which No. 9 algnal was hoisted shortly before ten o'clcok.
PASSES TO SOUTH.
expier-
DUNLOP
on
SALVAGED?
MERIDA'S FORTUNE
Rotarian T. B. Wilson présided,
and
The maximum fine of $5,000 or Mr. Hol, a coolte who was charged ty
of Hongkong, at yesterday's white folk., Less gin.. and more before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the meeting of the Rotary Club at beer to a victory for law and order. Kowloon Magistracy this morning Gloucestor Building.
BEER WANTED. (Our Own Correspondent).
with possessing 976 tnels of non-j (fly Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphie Mes. Government prepared opium.
"I hear the spenkensies around algre Ordinance, 1891. Received, September Chief Proventive Oficer, Ruiler) and guests welcomed were town are having a tough me. 20, 1-21 p.m.)
stated that defendant was arrest-Rotarian W. Yinson Lee, Shang- Their customers want beer, and London, Sept. 19.
ed on the gang-way of the Pre-hai, Dr. L. J. Davis, Dr. L. G. there's not as much profit in that The swerve, however, continu-
The death is announced ofsident Lincoln by 3177 Indian Saunders, ed, and shortly after ten it deve-
na there is in whiskey. In an address, Dr. A. W. Grabau loped a westerly direction. The Colonel William Bruce Dunlop, watchman who saw him carrying
(Saskatoon University, Cana- portmanteaus
board.
"The restaurants are getting a el Peking, China, said that since centre of the typhoon-such as it C.B.E, D.S.O., O.R.E., at the age three
s far back as the geological age was passed close to the south of 56.
Colone! Dunlop was late Direc-The watchman bocame suspicious da), Messrs Lee Fong (Canton), lot of the beer business. How- known na
ever, they'd rather soll coffee. the Cambrian, more of the Colony at 10.30 a.m.
when he felt the weight of the T E. Robson and E. Stevenson. tor of Contracts, Army Head-
The speaker after a few in than beef-there's more profit in" than 500,000,000 years ago, when Boisterous winds were
portmanteaus, and with the nu-
remarks stated that coffee." life was just getting its start on ienced at North Point where the quarters, Simla, prior to which he thority of the master of the ship, troductory
The patronage that formerly. earth, the level of the sen has tram service was temporarily su considerable overseas service. they were opened. The opiunt was under the old regime children
He served in Tibet from 1903
were rather a nuisance until they went to speakeasies and night periodically risen and aspended regular rhythm. He called it the sued and the harbour grew to 1906 and was mentioned in found concealed inside.
grew up. Even parents thought clubs is drifting back to the despatches, whilst he was also
thuy should be seen and not restaurants and hotels, and Mr. "pulsation theory."
justify the hoisting of the warning with the Abor Expeditionary
heard. The stress was laid on Mulrooney is well pleased. The The cause of these periodic red fing at the Star Ferry, Force (1911-12), being again men- CROWN JEWELS discipline and character forma-hotels inform him that since -3.2 floods is not known with certainly, The strongest winds in the citytioned in danspatches. Issaquah, Washington.
tion, both excellent aims if the per cent beer arrived there his but it may be linked up with the were felt after the real dünger During the Great War he served "Petticoat rule" was put to the activity of radio-active substances was considered to have passed.
methods were reasonable, but been a noticeable drop in the num in the East African Expeditionary test when a petition for removal like radium in the interior of the
The weather forecast issued Forec, during which he was men-
highly unsatisfactory and. injuri-ber of flasks carried into dining ous if not. There was an unfor-rooms
abandoned when from office was filed against Mrs. earth,
shortly after 10.30 WEB: Easttioned in despatches, awarded the
also. alo Stella Alexander, the town's first This
tunate habit of regarding a class emptied. The hotels radio-activity probably winds, strong, moderating: cloudy D.S.O., and raised to B. dent.- woman Mayor. Mrs. Alexander, generates heat, some scientists with rain, improving.
ins one collective whole capable or having less trouble with the type. Col. however, decided to sght her|bellere, and there is evidence that
He was in the Afghan War in
Incapable of learning the same of guests who drank liquor in his opponents.
the heat may escape at Intervals
Norfolk, Virginia. amount together, in the same time room and ruined the furnishings 1919 and decorated. with the "1 could save myself lot of by a "blowing off steam" process
O.B.E., retiring in 1930.
Capt. H.. L. Bowdoin's treasure and progressing at the same speed in playfulness or carelessness. trouble by resigning." she said.that may have something to do
hunting expedition of the Virginia together. The few clever boys
REPEAL IN DECEMBER?. "The office doesn't pay me any-with eausing the ocean floods.
Const has reported to headquarters progressed, but the majority: were thing and it means a lot of work. Geologists have long known that But I'm not going to quit, I have the occans have partially flooded hai yesterday developed on about and before eleven o'clock it was that the purser's office anfe of the left behind at various stages, and the welfare of the town at heart." the continents many times in the September 15 in a trough of re-obvious that a small disturbance long-submerged steamship Merida it was always known that this
centre which na sunk 20 years ago in a would be the result but it waspects the Eighteenth Amendment to be repealed by December, and At the last Council meeting she earth's past, but many had held latively low pressure extending was approaching. The
the thinks the New York State summarily dismissed a town mar- the theory that this was due to from Indo-China, across-Luzon to passed to the East of the Pratas, collision has been brought to the accepted as unalterable."
producing a strong gale veering decks of the salvage ship Salvor.
The severity which marked the Legislature should pass, liquor shal and appointed another in his sinking of the continents.
This
The crown jewels of the ill-fated attitude in those times made control legislation in January to trough had been in from N.N.W. to S.S.W. The low- stend, ejected a councillor from Dr. Grabau, however, said all
and est barometer reading was 29.35. Emperor Maxmillan of Mexico are learning an unpleasant business supplement the present beer cun- the town hall by threatening him evidence indicates that the rise existence for several days with a chuir, and blocked the and fall of sea level every few during the passage of the typhoon The disturbance at 6 o'clock this said to be on board the Merida..
"We know nothing of what the to all but the clever boy. Such frol-law,
an attitude must inevitably "When will the public get that efforts of a councillor-elect to take million years is the real cause of northward, it continued to exist morning was in a position less
than 120 miles to the cast of Gap safe contains," said
create inhibitions which pro-big nickle glass of beer that was. part in the meeting.
the boads. Some areas of the con- in the North Chiun Sea.
Yesterday afternoon, reports fock, moving N.N.W. leading to presentative here, "but the pur-duced just the opposite effect to promised before boor was legalis- These acts were described in the finents have risen and fallen but
a weak the inference that it would enter ser's office adjoining the strug what was intended.
ed? Mr. Mulrooney was askert. petition
fron ships indienter as constituting mal-this was only secondary to
movements, feasance or misfensance.
"I supposed the law of supply, and be anid.cyclonic disturbance
the the coast to the east of Hongkong, room is believed by the expeditiou leaders to contain more than
To-day the attitude towards and demand will take care of Pratas Station was accordingly
CHANGES COURSE.
Its N.N.W. $4,000,000 in gold bullion and 17 children had changed to a remark that,"
"When if the
he answered. asked to report hourly
It continued on barometer showed any tendency track until nine o'clock, when ob- tons of silver valued at approxi-able degree: so much so that there there's an oversupply of beer,
mately $200,000,
were some of the old school who prices may come down. As it is to fall
servations Indiented that it had
Captain Bowdoin, Master of the shook their heads and predicted now, brewers are not only unable changed direction, and appeared to Salvor, has spent more than two disaster. What thea were the new to catch up with the local demand be approaching the Colony, years preparing to bring the was stated to be about 60 miles Merida's treasure from the bottom ideas expressed in this changed at but are shipping carloads into the Southern States that sanction beer of the Atlantic.-Reuter. to the E.S.E..
but have no breweries."--Reuter.
ocean
"One of the other things at the Renter. root of the trouble," Mrs. Alexan- der explained, is that a lot of women are jealous of me. They don't like to see another woman in office.
"But the biggest complaint they! have against me is that I've been eleaning up the town."-Reuter. CANTON RICE TAX
STRONG PROTEST, BY MERCHANTS
A REVERSIBLE WAISTCOAT
MAN'S LATEST FAD
New York.
the
A reversible waistcoal, the intest fad in masculine attire, was ex- hibited here at the Arst interna- tional men's style show recently.
Canton, Sept. 20. Canton rico merchants are agitating against the Imposition of The garment, by its ability to be a special tax on imported rice. Be- turned at will, reminded one of the sides protestation to the authorf-old "dickey" reversible shirtfront. tics, they have announced their It was black and single breasted decision to suspend importation of jon one side, and on the other dou- foreign rice until satisfaction is ble-breasted and white in colour. obtained in the settlement of the The exhibits Included several case with the Government.
|from England, among them olive Although the Canton Financial whipcord" raincoats with raglan Department has promised to make sleeves and all-round balts, riding certain alterations in the regula- breeches of sheppord's groy plaid tion for the imposition of the tax and some white tennis shorts, including the assessment of tax One of the most interesting rates as ad valorem instead of $1.00 for each picul, the rice merchants are pressing for its complete aboll- tion-Central Nows Agency.
H.M.S. SUFFOLK ARRIVES FROM HOME Greetings From Other
Ships in Port
English exhibits was a collection
of abbreviated swimming trunks of mercerised cotton or wool.
They were blue in colour, had no legs and were in fact, little more than waistbands.--Rester,
SHANGHAI SHARES
LATEST QUOTATIONS
H.M.S. Suffolk arrived here at Messrs. Carroll Broe, have just 7.15 this morning after re-com-colved the following cabled, qunta- misefon and refit. Her new com-lans from Shanghal
mander in Capt. Errol Manners International Investmenis who was formerly attached to Cathay Lands H.M.S. Victory at the Portsmouth
Yanginco Finances Depot, and who was appointed International Assurances Captain in June 1928.
China Realties S'hal Lands
As soon as the Suffolk hnd tied up to No. 3 Buoy the following message was BoAmaphored from the officers and ships' companies in port: Welcome to Hongkong. Hope your stay on the Station will bo-n
most successful,
The Suffolk replied: "Very many thanks for your kind signal."
in
OFFICIAL REPORT. The Royal Observatory report this morning states:
The typhoon which passed Shang-
the Pacific.
SMALL DISTURBANCE.
The Pratus commenced to send observations at 9 p.m. last night
1918
ANY COUNTRY
1929
$.cts.
1933
13.00
10.60
11.00
0,60
15.50
30.50 Shai Docks and Engineerings 148,50 340.00 Shai and Hongkow Wharvon. S'hal Electricn
47.50 Ewo Cottons
14.60 Cottona
109.00 14.50
Sing Cottons S'ha Explorations Shai Loan and Investments.
-0.75
*
WHAT-NEVER?.
ANY
SPECULATOR
PRICE
NEVER AGAIN!
RECOVERED
WAR
NEVER AGAIN!
STOCK
HARDLY EVER
STOCKS
one re-
titude?
Discipline should no longer be imposed as a coercive measure, but should be exercised so as to fos- ter its growth from within the child. The child would learn to impose restraint upon himself. Games did this, but it has yet to
Mr. Muirooney confidently ox-
ROOSEVELT'S TEN
be done successfully in the class- COMMANDMENTS
room.
It was the individual child that would. grow up, so it was unfair and wise to treat a form or class! collectively, Interest was known to be one of the most vital factors of life, and it was of primary im-
FOR AMERICA'S '
BENEFIT
portance in all school-work and THOU SHALT NOT
school books. Children could not bo made to work by force of will but they would learn anything cagorly and happily if their in- terest were once aroused. (AP plause).
•
A vote of thanks was proposed; by Dr. S. F. Li, who in the course
of his remarks Bald that the dis
Washington, D.C.. Here are "the Ten Command- ments of Roosevelt's New Deni" " according to the U.S. Assistant. Secretary of State:
1-Thou shalt not live beyond thy means.
2Thou shalt not lose con
cipline exercised by the Chinoso Adence in thyself,
village school master was one of
3-Thou shalt not make Mam-
the greatest factors in the life of man thy God, but neither shalt the rural inhabitants of China, thou be unmindful of the monetary That soverity was largely respon-system lest it destroy thee, sible for the conduct of the majority of the adult Chinese.
CITY LOOTED
BANDITS CARRY OFF SEVERAL PRISONERS
4-Thou shalt not forget that.
when thy price.lovel is nehloved," the layer on the road to prosperity, is stabilization.
6-Thou shalt not make gold thy God but thy servant.
6-Thou shalt not permit the unemployment of thy people well belovod.
7-Thou shall not fail to man- ago well and rationalize thy. Industry and stimulate and on- courage It.Z
Nanking, 'Sept. 19. Luyi, in Eastern Honan, was captured by bandits on September 8-Thou shalt not suffer the 13. who looted the city and set on paradox of poverty anild plenty
Thou shalt not indulge the fire a number of buildings: S
The bandits took the District fallacy of neglecting thy own. Magistrato prisoner and carried domestic economy; but neither him off, along with a number of doos this signify that thou shalt atbar, residents: on the following isolate thyself like a hermite qu
were approaching
the city.