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"TREMENDOUS CATASTROPHE" IN HURRICANE
FIVE THOUSAND REPORTED
TO HAVE BEEN KILLED.
MEXICAN
TOWN
BOTAN KRUTT KOMTANZBLURAY CORNSSA FERREREAU PLANS CADERNOM VOULOIRINAM ALENCIEU
ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
WIPED OUT Trade Negotiations To
· APPALLING ACCOUNTS OF DISASTER
AREA A SCENE
OF DESOLATION
New York, Sept. 25. A violent hurricane, has caused enormous damage along the coast of Mexico,
Be Resumed
London, Sept.. 25. The two sub-committees which are ¦ examining respectively the possible. form which the new Anglo- Soviet commercial agree. ment shall take and the questions of the balance of trado and credits, expected to resume their negotiations this week. British Wireless.
are
JEREMIANTI PERSUADEDAN 20 JA DAN KASEKELILI
LEAGUE PRESIDENT APPEALS
FOR PEACE
TORN AND DIVIDED EUROPE
MENACE OF WAR
|NO IMPROVEMENT IN UNDERSTANDING
London, Sept. 25.
and there is grave reason to COCHET'S DEBUT League Assembly, at Geneva to
fear that a terrible disaster
has occurred at Tampico.
Earliest reports available from
AS A "PRO"
the region give appalling accounts EASILY BEATEN BY
of the hurricane's toll.
The estimate of deaths is five thousand.
Three-quarters of the town is said to have been wiped out.
The damage runs into millions of dollars.
TILDEN
AMERICA WINS IN PARIS
Paris, Sept. 25. Henri Cochet, the world- The only direct official informa- famous French tennis player, tion reaching Mexico City from was badly beaten to-day by Wil. Tampico comes from the military liam Tilden, in his first contest commander of the town, announe as a professional, ing a "tremendous, catastrophe."
In the opening session of the
day, the rotiring President, Mr. Ludwig Mowinckel, the Premier of Norway, reviewed the world outlook and expressed his keen regret that since the Great War little progress has been made to wards accuring a better under- atanding between peoples.
On the contrary, he said,, the. fear of the possibility of war, which It had been hoped the League would render inconceivable was ever hang- ing as a constant menace over the future of nations..
Mr. De Valera, President of the Irish Fred Stato, inspecting a cavalry detachment of the Army.
BORDER INCIDENT
C.E.R. ARRESTS
HOPE FOR HIRUNDO
NOT THOUGHT TO BE A TOTAL LOSS
WRECK BEING EXAMINED
The Telegraph learns that while the Norwegian s.s. Hirundo, wrecked at Koh- shichang, near Bangkok, is badly damaged, the vessel is not likely to become a total loss.
Her engine-room and foréholds were flooded when she was abandon- ed by her officers and crow, and bne report state that her back has been broken since the Hirundo struck the TEGÏ‚ ‚'
An investigation of the damage is now being made by Bangkok ex-. perts and it is hoped that an at- tempt at salvage will be possible.
CAR BANDIT KWANGCHOW TO RESCUE.
ROBBERY
NAZI VERSION OF STRONG SOVIET AUSTIN DRIVEN BY
EPISODE
INSULTS TO
CUSTOMS
Berlin, Sept. 25. An entirely different ver- sion of the Swiss frontier
PROTEST
MANCHUKUO'S REPLY
ACCOMPLICE
NO ARRESTS
The ship was on her way from Bangkok to Swntow with rico and general cargo.
An SOS mesange soon after the
crash, was picked up by the China Navigation Company's steamer Kwangchow, also en route from Bangkok to Swetowe
When it was seen on Saturday that
of there was no hope
It transpires that a second saving the Hirundo, tho man was associated with the car passengers, comprising approxi- bandit robbery last night at a mately 140 Chinese, together with the Captain and officers of the The Soviet Consul-General, M. native goldsmith's shop at No. wrecked ship, were transferred to Slayutsky, to-day verbally pro- 206, Queen's Road Central. tested to the Foreign Minister,
the Kwangchow, which is under the It was the second man who command of Captain C. P. Miller, against the arrest of four Soviet drove the Austin Seven previously and will arrive in Hongkong with atolen from Mr. Boardman when the officers and remainder of the
employees of the C.E.R.
Shin Liu-ben, of the Manchukuo left on the car stand at Statuo
Referring to the World Economíc | incident near. Basle yester Foreign Office, replied that Man-Square. He remained in the car passengers on Sunday. As far as Martial law has been proclaim./of Davis Cup contests and amateur Conference, ho said that if the day is given by Nazi quar- chukuo's action was not taken while his companion got out and can be ascertained there were no
ed..
A steamer anchored off-Tampico has wirelessed declaring that the whole region presents a terrible scene of desolation. Reiter, y
TARIFF CONCESSIONS IN ARGENTINE
British Government Negotiations
|
The clash of these former giants champlonships occurred to-day dur- ing a Franco-American professional tennis tournament organised on Davis Cup lines.
•
It was natural, but wholly unfair, to blame the League and it was the primary duty of the League meni- bers to strengthen the credit of the League in the eyes of the world.
Conference and the Disarmament great nations came to such a con-
European passengers aboard the ference with views that were ters here
against the Chinese Eastern Rail-walked into the shop.
Both were of about the same
Hirundo. dificult to reconcile, it might be
akiy-employees-as-Soviet-citizens, age, between 28 and 30 years, but The Germans allege that a but as employees of the Railway, the man who carried out the
ADVENTUROUS, CAREER. said in advance that a favourable motor-car with Communist in- who were criminally responsible actual robbery was described as The American team won the result could not be reached, even scriptions upon it, one of them for all illegal actions.
Since she contest by four matches to
dressed in anything but. In the
arrived in Eastern one. If all the other powers were agreed. being "Hall Moscow!" and the Cochet
waters five years ago, the Hirurido Worl France's solitary
Business in now at a standstill. height of fashion. other "Hail! The Red Front!" It is learned that since the original lower class," said the shopkeeper FOUR-POWER PACT.
"He struck me as being of the has had an adventurous career, victory, defeating Barnes in five
nrrived on the German-Swiss arrests, five more persone con-
In February, 1930, she was strenuous sets.
He expressed hope in the Four frontlor, accompanied by a motor- nected with the Chinese Eastern when seen by a Telegraphe reporter boarded by six pirates when 100 Earlier in the afternoon, how- Power Pact as an Instrument of cyclist.
Railway have been detained by cause for suspicion, especially fired a few shots, and seizing the to-day, "but I had no particular miles south of Hongkong. They ever, he had been easily beaten by appensing Franco-German differ- Tilden in straight sets, "Bigences and possibly bringing an insulted, the German
The four occupants of the car Manchukuo for examination.
customs A Rongo report says that in when he said that he came from vessel, looted it, taking over Bill" proving himself still one of understanding, even friendship, in officials, upon which the Nazi order to effect a curtailment of commissioned by a relative to buy $1,000 and the second and third
Jupcountry, and that he had been the finest, if not the finest, of the torn and divided Europe and he storm-troopers on duty arrested expenditure, the Chinese Eastern a pair of gold bangles. world's players.
compradorés. also referred with satisfaction to them while the motor-cyclist fled. Railway shortly will close its com the successful League efforts in
"He was shown 5 pair, to which At practically the arme spot on The score was 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in securing peace in the South Ameri" guard who witnessed the incident. Mukden, Kirin, Shuangchenpo fancy, and spent some ten minutes was caught in a typhoon, and her According to the Swiss frontiermercial agencies at Tientsin, he appeared to take, particular July 24 last year, the Hirundo the men arrested by the Nazis and Imienpo.
Tikien's favour, Cochet being kept on the run by the American's wonderful placements. London, Sept. 25. Cochat was given a keen battle Negotiations now being conduct by Barnes, and lost the fourth set
at 6-love, the scores being: ed. in Buenos Aires between the British Government and the 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3.--Reuter, Argentine Government dealing with a supplementary agreement to the trade pact and relating to tariff concessions and quantitative: regulations, are approaching a conclusion, and it is hoped that the agreement will very soon be sign- cd-British Wireless,
ANGLO-FINNISH TRADE
BRITISH CLERGY AND THE ASSYRIANS
Archbishop of York's Strong Plea
can disputes.
NEW PRESIDENT.
were four Germans who had fled The Hsinking branch office of into Switzerland from Germany, the railway also is to be closed Mr. Tewater, who la the South with twelve armed Nazis in pur- on October 1.-Reuter. African High Commissioner in suit, London, was elected President of the League of Nations for the conted men arrested before carrying He alleged that they maltreat- ing year at the fourteenth Assem-them off into German territory. bly of the League.
In a brit speech, he said that] South Africa hind known war and had experienced all its bitterness,
Reuter.
+
RUSSIAN FORCES.
Harbin, Sept. 26.
examining and bargaining. Final ly. I agreed to reduce the price from $116 to $114, at which, ho seemed to be satisfied, and re- quested me to make out the sales Invoice.
rudder bar carried dway. -
She drifted helplessly for two days before she was located by the tugs Henry Keswick, and Edith, which were sent from
"Preoccupied with the task, I was not immediately aware that he Hongkong in response to wireless-
Hirundo had The Japanese are more concern-had walked out of the shop with messages. The ed over the increasing activity of the bangles. He rejoined the drifted thirty miles from her Russian troops along the Man-other man in the car, the engine of original position when she was
which had been left running, and located by the tugs. churian border. but in later daya peace had ob GOODYEAR PLANS estimate, Russian troops massing think of raising a hue-and-ery."
According to a Japanese official it had driven off before we could
Despite the heavy seas, the tow in eastern Siberia are at least two hours after the robbery,
The car was found by the Police was successfully accomplished. but no sooner had the ships 140,000 strong in addition to 800 abandoned in a dark street at arrived in Hongkong when disas-
literated the past and ho offered
her example to some of the great-
er nations.
"I shall bring to my task the AIRSHIP SERVICE TO military plans. The Soviet Gov- West Point, but of the bandits ter again overcame them,
valuable oxperience of the young nations that comprise the British Commonwealth of Nations. There are no nations more determined
London, Sept. 20.. The question of the Assyrian to keep the peace than that group."
already a-British Wireless. minority in Iraq, favourite subject on several occa- sions with the British clergy, is taken up again in an article by the Archbishop of York published in the Diocesan Gazette,
:
AGREEMENT SHORTLY TO BE SIGNED
London, Sept. 25. The trade agreement between Britain and Finland which aims; In his letter, the Archbishop re- at stimulating trade between the calls the fact that the original two countrics and adjusting the cause of the difleult situation of balance of trade, initialled in the minority arose out of the sup Loulon Inst month, will shortly be port it extended to the Allies from sigued. British. Wireless."
WARDERS SHOT
FRISON MUTINY WITH EIGHT WOUNDED,
!, ·
EMPIRE PARLEYS AT TORONTO
TRIBUNAL WITH STRONG, POWERS
ernment's explanation is that their there was no trace. object is merely to carry out a No arrests have been made. programme of military manoeuvros
in the Far East.
Tug Meets Mishap.
The tug Edith was nosisting the
rundo to the Stonecutters An- chorage, and as the three ships were proceeding down the har bour the Edith was rammed by the Canton ferry Tin Yat.
MANILA
Tokyo, Sept. 20. here to-day from San Francisco, accepted its explanation with
According to word, reaching; The Japanese appear to have CREATOR OF “TRILBY" Honry Keswick to tow the Hi- Mr. Allan Hugh, Advisor to the scepticism. However, it is be- Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, atlieved in certain quarters that the Akron, Ohio, la reported to have Russian garraion army in the Far declared yesterday that the Cor-East might be reduced to the poration is making preparations normal strength within a short for the inauguration of a regular period.Central News Agency. trans-Pacific airship line <botween San Francisco and the Philippine | Islands, via Hawall-Rengo. -
WAR DEBT TALKS
SIR. F. LEITH-ROSS. SAILING
FAN TAN SCHOOL IN SQUARE ST.
GETTING DOWN TO BRASS TACKS
A shoemaker, who ran a fan tan school on the second floor of 23, Square Street, was fined $50 or one
FAMOUS STAGE FIGURE SINCE - BEFORE 1895
London, Sept. 25. The death has occurred of Mrs.
The Edith sank within three minutes, three members of the
| II. B. Irving, nco Miss Dorothea
Baird, famous actress, known for Crow losing their lives when they part in the play "Trilby Reuter. The Hirundo is a compara her characterisation of the name were trapped In the cabin,
Mrs. H. B. Irving was the tively new vessel; being launched daughter of John. Forster Baird, in 1926 at the Mok Shipyards at barrister, of Bowment Hill, Nor-Fredrikated, Norway. She wan thumberland. She married the late owned by the Bruusgaard Henry Bodrib Irving in 1896 and Klosteruds D/SA/S, Mesars.. has one son and one daughter, Thoresen and Company being tho
For 18 years Mrs. Irving fal- local agonts, lowed the stage as a career, creat ing the role of Trilby at the Hay
Of 1,943 tons grops, the
Hirundo is 280 foot In length
London, Sept. 20 month in default, when he appeared market in 1805. She left the stage and had a draught of 18 feet.
the beginning of the War, England has a very definite responsibility
Toronto, Sept. 20. in the mater, lo continues, since
The Inter-Imperial Relations it was upon. British assurances Conference, npw in 808sion in that the Assyrians would be pro- Toronto, has approved a motion tected that the League finally do tending for tho ostablishment of cided to take away the Crown an Empire Tribunal charged with Mandate over Iraq.
the settlement of differences "sus- "If it is the duty of all English coptible of being settled by legal mon to insist that this Assyrian ways.". The proposed tribunal
in: 1012: It is learned that Sir Frederick bofoco Mr. Balfour in the Central question be investigated," he con- will function on the same basis as Leith-Ross, Controller of the Bril Police Court this morning A Warsaw, Sept. 20.cluded, "the obligation falls all the Permanent Court of Intorna Ish Treasury, who will conduct the number of gamblers were fined $0 the game First defendant was Sixty convicts, serving life sent the more particularly upon the tonal Justice at the Hague, but it preliminary war debt hegotiations each while five absentees had their the principal tenant and when the ally Arts Association, a lecture en- ences in the Koronovo prison, near Church, who taught the Assyrian will be however, competent only in Washington, will leave for the balls of $8 each estreated: $2.20 Polico entered the floor, he throw titled "Expanding that Unterroll Bydgosyss, mutinied, according to to turn to it in times of trouble to express Its opinion and will not United States at the end of the picked up from the table was placed a handful of the tacke out of the mall, S.Ja on Thursday n
'ba given by the Rev. Father: D'Con- reports received here, Order was over aineo Archbishop Besson be authorized to render its de month in company with Sir Ron in the Foor Box Window and pulled a mah Jongg set pm. In Room the Universit restored with great difficulty, organized the Canterbury Mission cisions compulsory without, tha ald Lindany, British Ambassador to Det-Sergi Meltobble, said that towards the gamblers. Police main building. The lecturo" will, bo Eight warders were wounded; . to the Assyrian Christians.". comment of the interested parties. Washington.
brass tacks were being used for seized a table top and two stools, illustrated with lantern pildes,
Under the nuspices of the Univer