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五拜雞號三十月四英港香
FRIDAY, APRIL 13,
1934.
日十三月二
BİNGLE COPY V CENTE 616,00 721 ANITHAL
DUNLOP
Fort
TYRE
Al feature of - distinction and a factor of safety
CORT
TORRENTIAL RAINS FLOOD NORTH YORKSHIRE
PRAVDA BANNED IN
GERMANY
Dimitroff Articles
Offend
Bertin, Apr. 12.
The Moscow journal
Pravda, leading organ of
While Commons Debates Water Shortage Emergency Bill CURRENCY
THREE-DAY DELUGE
IN SCOTLAND
the Russian Communist River Carron Overflows For
Party, has been banned in
Germany owing, it is be- lieved, to anti-German articles written by Dimi troff, of Leipzig. fire trial fame.-Renter.
GERMANY'S REPLY
TO BRITAIN
IN HANDS OF FOREIGN OFFICE
SECRETS WELL KEPT
EARLY STATEMENT EXPECTED
First Time in Memory
STORM STILL RAGING
London, April 12.
A VERITABLE DELUGE HAS DESCENDED ON THE NORTH OF ENGLAND AND PARTS OF SCOT. LAND, TURNING RIVERS WHICH HAD REACHED THEIR LOWEST LEVEL IN YEARS INTO RAGINC TORRENTS AND FLOODING LARGE TRACTS OF COUNTRY.
Several rivers, both in England and Scotland, have overflowed their banks, rendering roads impassable, stranding many cars, and causing considerable general damage.
In Aberdeenshire, it has been raining "cats and
FLOOD SCENES IN YORKSHIRE.
BRITISH
dogs" for three days without a sign of a break in the CONSUL'S
WIFE SHOT
storm.
Rushing waters caused much loss of live stock in Yorkshire and the conditions were almost identically duplicated in Northumberland.
RIVERS BECOME RAGING TORRENTS
London, April 12, Sir John Simon's appear- ance in the House of Com- will be
It was while the House of Com- awaited with very consider-mons was engaged in the debate on the Government's emergency bill! able interest.
The German Government's reply which is designed to remedy the
mons
to-morrow
making available for public use all supplies, including those pri- vately owned.
The legislation proposed was a temporary measure, terminating
at the end of one year, and was
BULLET THROUGH. LUNC
KASHGAR ATTACK
REVELATION
London, Apr. 12,
It has now transpired that
to the inquiry made through the shortage of water in Britain gen- concerned wholly with the PI Mrs. Thomson Glover, the
British Ambassador, seeking in- "formation regarding the meaningl of the big increases in Germany's naval, army and air estimates, has been received by the Foreign Office.
The Reply is now under, con- sideration by Sir John Simon and it is expected that he will make al statement in the House of Com mons at the earliest opportunity. --Reuter.
TARANTE. FOULS HARVEY
ALBERT HALL FIGHT
FIASCO.
erally that there floods, unex- [sent emergency.—British. Wirdiens. perienced for many months, were occurring on the North-East const.
The Minister of Health ex- pressed the view that the Bill was still neoded. the deluge affecting only a comparatively small arca and that not the most concerned by the dificul- ties occasioned by the drought
of last summer.
The floods followed heavy storms.i along the coast, accompanied by torrential rains.
NAVAL SLOOP IN COLLISION
On Trials Before Sailing For China
London, April 12.
wife of the British Consul- General in the old city of Kashgar, Chinese Eastern Turkestan, was shot in the lung during the attack on the Consulate on February 14.
It is dicloned that an attack was launched by tribesmen and repulsed by the Consulate guard
The new sloop for the China but during the night the building Station, H.M.S, Grimsby, which is was steadily sniped. It was dur- to replace. H.M.S., Cornflower, ring this period that most of the cently handed over to the Hongkong.
casualties decurred. ¿ Naval Volunteer Reserve, was in collision to-day off Plymouth.
The Grimsby was undergoing Consulate staff were wounded, in- trials and collided with a German cluding the assistant-aurgeon, and
a native servant was killed,
Four other members of the
YORKSHIRE DAMAGE. Large areas in the North Riding of Yorkshire are submerged and considerable damage has been done to property and among livestock in tag. parts of Northumberland.
All the five wounded are Examination immediately after- In the eastern half of Scotland it
that the damage recovering. has been raining incessantly forwards revealed
unimportant and after the Sir Alexander Cadogan, the extensive floods Was There Wog an unfortunate three days and
at the are occurring at scores of different survey, the trials were resumed.now British Minister in China, The collision occurred in Fly-lodged a protest and asked for
London, April 12.
termination to the bout
now
Albert Hall to-night between Lon points for the first time in eighteen mouth Sound during a squall and proper protection' at the end ofj
Harvey, the British heavyweight months. champion, and Jimmy Tarante, the coloured American cruiserweight, the American baing disqualified.
DEE OVERFLOWS.
The sudden rise of the River Dee
Harvey had revealed himself has flooded the lower-lying parts master of the fight. In the fifth of the city of Aberdeen, while the round, Tarante struck a foul blow, riverside districts in Stonehaven hitting low, and the contest was are at least two feet under water, awarded to Harvoy.-Reuter.
EUROPEAN GASSED ON PEAK
HOSPITAL TREATMENT
NECESSARY
a
Whilst testing a gas engine in house on The Poak yesterday, Mr S.. Gidley, of Messrs. Lolgh and Orange, was caught by an escape of gas from which he collapsed,
He was conveyed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital, for treatment, but was discharged this morning.
The Stonehaven floods were the result of the overflowing of the River Carron for the first time within living memory, giving a good idea of the torrential nature of the downpour.
STILL RAGING.
The rain blizzard is still raging in the Ballatex district and the rivers are rising rapidly.
Hundreds of
acres were also
flodded in Co. Antrim, Ireland, by deluge which lasted for six hours
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LORD TYRRELL
FAREWELL LUNCHEON
TEST SELECTION COMMITTEE
Sir Stanley Jackson as Chairman
London, Apr. 12. The Cricket Test Match Board of Controlizat. Its meeting to-day appointed Sir Stanley Jackson, Mr. P. A. Perrin and Mr. T. A. Higson as the selection com- mittee for the teams in the Test 'matches against Aus- tralia this summer;
It was announced that D. R. Jardine had written in February last, without any communication previous from M.C.C. on the subject.- saying he would not be available to play in Test matches this British Wireless."
season.
THE NORTH CHINA
SITUATION
NANKING NOT VERY ALARMED
REPORTS BELIEVED
EXAGGERATED
(Special to "Telegraph")"
Nanking, April 12, Questioned regarding the atti-;
BEAUTIFUL HELENA
WAR IN AMERICA
PRESIDENT'S FIGHT WITH CONGRESS
VOTE-CATCHING INFLUENCE
Washington, April 12. Currency inflationists are
SENTENCED threatening to put their oar
HARD LABOUR FOR
33 MONTHS
AN ALLEGED RED
CONSPIRATOR
[Spacial to "Telegraph")
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Ordinance, 2011. Eserived April
|13, 9.18 Nəm.)
Berlin, Apr. 12. "Beautiful Helena," otherwise
into the Roosevelt monetary strength is predicted on all programmes and a real trial
hands.
A bitter struggle between Con- gress and President Roosevelt Is considered to be imminent on three Mensures now ponding in Congress, Leach of which Is gaining wide.
spread support in both Houses.
The measures will seriously pre- judice the President's plan to avoid further cheapening of the dollar.
'SILVER BILL..
a pretty Berlin girl named Helen Kirsch, who has been detained The first, righly inflationary, is for some considerable time as an the Dies Silver Bll with its two amondments, the alleged Communist conspirator, important
was to-day, sent to prison with Thomas plan for nationalisation hard labour for 33 months.
of aliver and the Fletcher proposal
for huge Government silver pur
The sentence was passed by the chases. court at Cottbus where Fraulein
The Bill is in direct conflict and a score of other alleged Com-with the Administration's policy munists faced trail on a charge which is to refrain from further of "conspiracy to alter the con- stops in regard to silver until the stitution of the Reich by violence.'
results of the gold devaluation Water Wagner, who was alleged programme can be felly gauged. to be an active cooperator with Fraulein
Kirsch, received
similar sentence.
The remainder of the accused
ELECTION INFLUENCE,
The second fight is certain to escaped more lightly. Some of como over the McLeod Bill, which them received twenty months provides for the payment by the hard labour, one or two as little Government to depository--in- National banks closed since Jan. month's simple imprison-
uary 1, 1980 of all deposits up to |ment.—Reuter's Special Service.
082,600, which would involve un, outlay on hundreds of millions sterling.
38 one
ALTITUDE RECORD
CLAIMED
ITALIAN REACHES 14,433 METRES
(Special to "Telegraph")
In view of the Congressional elections in the Autumn, the thousands of requests from deposi tora for support of the Bill which Congressmen are receiving ars having a profound influence.
PAPER-MONEY SCHEME..
The third, and least likely of acceptance, in the Frazier-Leake Bill for the re-financing of farm (By Teleproph. Copyright, Telegraphic Mes mortgages. This would require
Ordinance.
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Received Aprü |
Rome, Apr. 12. A now altitude record is claimed for the Italian aeronaut, Dorail.
The Italian Air Ministry Issues an official report stating that Donati renched an altitude of 14,433 metres. United Press,
BRITISH ENGINE.
the issue of billions of dollars in papor money. The chances of this Bill passing are considered small. especially in view of the certainty of a Presidential veto-Reuter-
SILVER INQUIRY
INSTITUTED
Senate Taking An Interest
New York, Apr. 12.
the tug's bows were damaged. last month. The Nanking Govern-tude of the Nanking Government The new altitude record of
ment replied extremely regretting toward the "serious situation" about 47.560 feet set up by Com the occurrence but communica in North Chim, a high official mandator Donati was achloved tions with Sinklang having been Interrupted for some time, they said that the Nanking leaders with a machine powered by a had no
the reports eingle British Pegasus super- Information concerning considered that the incident-Router.
are rather cxaggerated.
charged acro-engine made by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and The Peking Administration will similar to the engine with which A new line of enquiry into take steps to deal with tho situs the English airman, Cyril Uwins, speculative operations in tion created by Japanese activities two years ago set up the earlier Inside the Great Wall, in the hope height record of 43,976 feet. silver has been started by the populace could be avoided. In 1929 when the German ar the Banking and 'Currency
Ho added that all troops In man, Newenhofer captured the Committee of the Senate. North China are loyally taking altitude record, he also, used an orders from the Peking Administra-earlier type of the same Bristol tion to ensure the, maintenance of engine. British Wireless, order and pence.
IN PARIS
London, April 12. The French Premier: M. Dou-| morgue, and members of the French Cabinet to-day gave luncheon at the Quai D'Orsay in honour of Lord Tyrrell, the re-
tiring British Ambassador.
All the Cabinet Ministers were
present and others ncludod M. Beranger, President of Senate
U.S. TRADE IN ARMS
SENATE COMMENCING
INQUIRY
(Special to "Telegraph")
that unneccessary alarm among
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Foreign Office has issued a state- ment denying the report appear- (De Telegraph. Depertotti Tiographie Mising in the Chinese and foreign Foreign Affairs Committee, and M.] asoss Ordineses. 3384 Trostred Apre press that Messrs. Wellington Koo, Bastide, President of the Chamber 5, 45 am); of Foreign Affairs' Committee.- British Wireless.
·
NEW AIR SERVICE
London, April 12.
Quo Tai-chi, W. W. Yen and Alfred Sze have jointly submitted a me- Washington, April 12.
morandum to the Government con- The Senate to-day adopted a ro- cerning China's foreign policies,→ solution submitted In the joint Central News. names of Senator Nye and Senator Vandenberg, for the appointment
SMALLPOX AT HANGCHOW:
SERIOUS EPIDEMIC BREAKS OUT
Firat intimation of the step was the receipt by silver brokerage arms of a letter from the Commit- toe's counsel, Mr. Pecora, request ing Information in regard to the spot positions and future long and (short commitments as they stood jon January 31, 1934
A similar questionnaire was sent out by the Treasury soveral weeks ago, seoking information of earlier. the commitments at an date.
(Special to "Telegraph")
In the meantime, It is learned from Madrid that the Cortes han. Hangchow, April 18. ratified Spain's signature of the
NEED STILL EXISTS. The Minister of Health, Sir Hilton Young, moving the second reading of the Water Supplies Bill in the House of Commons
sald
The weddings aro announced to that during the year ended in
of a special committee of seven March, the rainfall over. Britain
merchant, Heinainant,
of 188.
An outbreak of small pox here London Silver Agreement, conclud- had been 27 por cont. below the The Air Minister, Lord London-Senators to investigate the many take place shortly of Mr. Helmut
facture and Nowa was received this morning by average.
trade in arms and Nathan Road, Kowloon, to Miss is assuming alarming proportions. fed at the World Economic Confor- derry, to-day made a porsonal trial munitions-United Press.
Charito Campos-Valdivia, of 11, The Municipal authorities are enco Warner Bros, representative In Hong-
If normal rainfall were at once of the nowly-opened air passenger kong that Mr. Jos E. Brown,
Router states that the object Hankow Road, Kowloon; Mr. Arthur instituting emergency measures Spain is committed under the resumed and continued steadily, service between London, Liverpool
Clarence Lamb Gasper, of the Chi- including compulsory vaccination agreement not to throw on the well-known Alm star, with the
to Miss In order to check the acourge world market for sale more than argent mouth in the world," has it would not obviate the need for and Belfast. He was acompanied ultimately is the enactment of nese Maritime Customs,
of 400, Central News.
5,000,000 ounces annually.—Router. altered his itinerary and will not be the Bill which was designed to by his 13-year-old daughter, legislation to prevent profiteering Dorothy Wilson Westinni,
mitigate the effects of drought by British Wircices,
during wartime.
The Peak
A visiting Hongkong as anticipated.
the