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No. 14388
1934. CAM WATBAR TUESDAY, JUNE 26,
HEAT WAVE HITS SHANGHAI
AND YANGTSZE VALLEY
MERCURY
SOARS TO 101.5
HOTTEST JUNE DAY ON RECORD
MANY CASES OF PROSTRATION
Shanghai, June 26. Yesterday was the hottest Junc day in Shanghai for over sixty years. Beyond that there is no record for comparison.
The mercury soared to 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, which is the highest registry in Shanghai since the foundation of the Siccawel Observatory in 1873.
The nearest high record in the known past was 100.4 h June 1893.
The intense
hent caused con-
siderable suffering. There
were
JAMIANSKANUKKUEERIMINERINESANSAR ANEESERVED QUITE
BRISTOL MID-AIR
COLLISION
Three Flying Officers Killed
London. June 25. Threc R.A.F. flying officers were killed to-day in a mid-air collision near Bristol.
A fourth man escaped by. leaping clear of the wreckage... He was slightly injured,
There have been ten fatal R.A.F. accidents in 1934 with seventeen deaths, but these figures are well below the average-Reuter,
NEAR SNUB FOR MR. SAITO
SMALL SATISFACTION FROM MR. PITTMAN
UNITED STATES. AND JAPAN
(Special to "Tilægraphy") (lig Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphio Mas-
Ordinanse.
Receivid June
Washington, June 25,
It is understood that in final conversations prior to This departure for Tokyo, CHICAGO ARSON OPERATIONS
SENSATIONAL ARRESTS
Mr. Saito received little en- couragement for his plans for a new approach to rap- prochement. between. the United States and Japan.
The Japanese Ambassador is arriving in Tokyo on July 17. He expects, after consultations with Mr. Hirata and Prince Safonjl, to leave for Manchuria, and to proceed afterwards to Shanghai
He hate to return
to W- shington the end of October- United Pro
sany cases of prostration, although ALLEGED GANG and possibly to Nanking.
na serious cases have come to
light.
Thousands of Chinese sought re- lief in the streets and along the Bund up to a very late hour.
The Observatory
Is unable to forecast any relief from the burn ing, hent to-day.-Renter.
WIDESPREAD SCORCHING.
CAUGHT
Chicago, June 25.
Britain's great arson trial of a few months ago is recalled by a
MRTMAN BLUNT.
Washington, June 25. series of dramatic arrests that for Japan, Mr. Saito discussed
On the eve of his departure! have been carried out by the Chicago police.
the question of a non-aggression The police are now intensively pact between the United States Senator Key investigating the ramifications of and Japan with The whole of Central China is the case, involving an alleged Pittman, the chairman of the experiencing n scorching heat-wave jarson gang with temperatures more that 100 biggest criminal ring over degrees in the shade at nearly almasked. recording stations. The tempera- ture in Shanghai
Shanghai, June 25,
described
the LA
un-
Senate mittee.
Twelve persons, including a was over 101 woman, are under arrest,
gang,
degrees, slightly higher than that. It is believed that this in Nanking. A number of cases with numerous assistants, have
of prostration-have-been-reported-been-responsible for the majority in both citica.
of Chicago's most serious fires in the coarse of the last three years. Messages from. Hunkow, Chin- klang and Hangchow report similar fires, in which the total damage Sixty per cent, of last year's conditions, and conditions are and fire losses exceeded $5,000,000. particularly severe at Hangchow. are attributed to them-Reuter, where, with other places, in Che- king a long spell of drought has nded to the sufferings.
Failure of crops in Cheklang and World's
a large part of Shensi is feared as
Pains
scarce
have been
exceptionally
In these particular arcas |
since early this year, →→ Central ¦ News.
FOUR DROWNED IN RIVER MISHAP
passengers
persons being drowned.
Oldest Man Gravely Ill
Foreign Relations Com-
It is understood that Mr. Pitt-
inclined man was
to be other than sympathetic and he is re- ported to have said that no new treaties could be considered while there was any question-in-regard to the carrying out of existing agreements.
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WIMBLEDON OPENS IN BLAZE
OF UMPIRE CRITICISM
Accompanied by Japanese officials, Mr. Elmel Karamoto, Japanesa vica-comaul, whose disappear. ance for five days in Nanking was responsible for one of the most extensive manhunts in the capital, shown, immediately behind the uniformed Japanese police officer, descending the gang-plank ai
Hongkow Wha rf in Shanghai,
BIG OFFENSIVE
COLLAPSES
THE WORST
EVER KNOWN
REASON FOR THE COMPLAINTS
NO SURPRISES IN RESULTS
London, June 26. Wimbledon opened to-day, in very unsettled weather, and a blaze of controversy.
The competitors were almost un- animous in complaint that the um piring was the worst they have ever known.
The fact that the Umpires' Asso- clation forced the Wimbledon au- thorities to use higher chairs than usual, making them 5 feet, 6 inches, in height, is generally attributed as the cause
of the trouble. This
belief la
PLANE DIVES INTO BOMB ATTACK ON request has been forwarded for the
CROWD
PARAGUAYAN ARMY • Five Killed: Fifteen
IN RETREAT
LA PAZ CLAIM
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Bu Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic Nes- Paper Ordinance.. 1492. Received June 29, trok jamu
New York, June 25.
Injured
Belgrade, June 25.
Two men and three women were killed to-day when an aeroplane crashed among spectators during a flying, display at Belischtche. Fifteen others were injured. -Reuter
It is believed here that the AUSTRALIA
great Paraguayan offensive
in the Gran Chaco, heralded
He is reported to have express a few days ago as the proba.
Foreign!
ed, on behalf of the
FAILS
Relations Committee, the view-ble decisive battle of the war, AT A PINCH point of The United States in has collapsed.
:
reference to the Japanese con- duct under existing treaties.
Claims have been made by Mr. Saito asserted that there Bolivian military headquarters was no intention by Japan of rethat Paraguayans have ceased their pudiating treaties.--Renter.
hammer blows at the Bolivian cen-
PORTUGUESE GIRL tre and have broken contact, hay
MOLESTED
CHINESE BOATMAN
SENTENCED
|ing retired all along the line.
EDWARDS MYSTERY
UNSOLVED
VERITY REVELS IN CONDITIONS HOT SUN ON WET WICKET
GANDHI
THROWN INTO WRONG CAR
SEVEN INJURED
Poona, June 25.
use of lower chairs for the remain- Įder of the tournament.
Some of the players said that they had been implied out of vle- tory, which is a very unusual ac cusation for Wimbledon, where the playere are usually very sports- manlike in such matters. It seems extremely unlikely that they would say these things without a reason.
NO SENSATIONS.
Otherwise, the day's play lacked sonsation. It was devoted exclu- sively to men's singles and although A dastardly attempt was De Stefan! was given a very hard to-day made by a gang of ght and a scare by Landau, he was political terrorists on the that experience.
the only seeded player to undergo
life of the Mahatma Gandhi. The grimness-of-the-Stefani- A bomb was thrown, exploding from the fact that it went to 58 Landau struggle may be estimated with great violence, but Gandhi
was not in the car he was thought games in only four sets!.. to be occupying and the attack misfired as far as be was con- cerned..
Soven of his closest supporters were, howover, injured by the bomb which was thrown glit into the
car.
SCOUT ERROR.
Perry gave away the third set of his match to Lt. C. E. R. Tuckey, the Army champion, but he took the next set to love and settled the matelt and any fears.
Hare went down to Christian Boussus, and young McGrath had a short life against Sydney Wood.
Gandhl owes his escape primari All the seeded players went into ly to a mistake by the leader of ย
the second round-Reuter and boy scouts' band, who believing Special Copyright. Service. that he was
on board the car, Exclusive detailed scores will be ordered the band to strike up the found on Page Eight. opening chords of air of wel- come. This was taken as the algan for the throwing of the
London, June 25. Typical English weather bomb.
Five arrests were made.--Ren- |
When the day opened, the score Poona. stood England: 440; Australia, 192; for two wicketa,
England's slow bowler, Verity,
found the conditions ideal for him Explosion
and he soon had the Australians In trouble.
Their first laning closed for In New
REBELS ACTIVE IN MANCHURIA
A severe engagement is In pro- gress at Peltaokow, in East Kirin, while Chutsekal, after an attack by the irregulars in overwhelming
robela.
The Japanese military are send- ing heavy reinforcoments to the area from Tanhua Central Najes..
No official statement on the war ZARO AGHA NOT
position appears to have teen issued from Asuncion, and the EXPECTED TO LIVE
silence is Interpreted in some quar played a leading part in the Gandhi arrived in another car MOTOR LAUNCH HITS
Istanbul, June 25.
Chan gau-ngui, a Lontman, wasters as confirming the Bolivian Second Test match to-day five minutes later. fined $50 or one month's burd claima. A ROCK
The oldest man in the world, inbour, by Mr. Hamilton, nt the
when England defeated tor.
Shanghai, Juno 26. the famous Turk of many wives, Central Magistracy this morning, The La Paz amelal communiquqe
Chinese reports from Manchuria Zaro Agha, is believed to be on Canton, June 20.
give brief details of the activities FIVE IN HOSPITAL. the point of death.
for having assaulted Miss. B. 3. states that 150,000 Paraguayans Australia by an innings and A motor launch, enrrying many
of a powerful force of anti-Man-- Soares in lee House Street yester have precipitately retreated, aban-[38 runs.
An exclusivo United Zaro Agha claims to be and sundry goods, than 160 years of age and he has
Press chukuo irregulars, who are worry- doning their more day.
and sup weapons
The Australians, after six weeks message says that the attack Ing the Japanese," attempt The original charge against de-plies. The six months" struck a rock on Sunday afternoon (been seriously in hospital at fendant was indocent assault, balto capture. Ballivan in the Chungshan District, four Istanbul for nearly two months. It was amended as the witnesses claimed,
of batting on hard wickets similar occurred outside the Town Hall Fort, it is has defnitely ended in
to their own had their first ex- when Gandhi was due to receive Very slender hopes The motor launch was the Shun
perience of a pitch made tricky an Address. are now could not remember the date of a failure-United Press.
by a heavy week-end rain and to- Five of the victims are in kl, plying between Kongmoon and held nul for his recovery, who is previous nssault. ⚫ which Was
day's hot sun.
serious condition in hospital at numbers, has been taken by the. the Shuntak District. A big hole gravely ill that his relatives alleged to have taken place about appeared at the bottom of the have been sent for.
a week ago. ship when the mishap occurred.
Miss Soares, in evidence, saści His eighty-eight-year-old daugh- that about a week ago, the defen- But for the efforts of har coxswainter, and his elevonth wife, much dant approached her in Ice House who rushed her aa far as possible younger han his daughter, are Street, and whispered something towards the shore, ouabling pas-remaining at his bedalde. sengers to get within swimming Only a few weeks ago, he re
she could, not understand. He also distance, a more serious disaster colved a letter from a 63-year-old comitted an indecent assault by Leave To Assume Death
occurred.--Coutref American woman proposing marri dant, again came up to her in Ice touching her. Yesterday, defen- #ge. She wus apparently not: aware that he had a wife still Ilouse Street, and again whispered falive-Reuter.
something in her ear, and brushed against her arm.
Shanghai, June 20. Miss Beatrice Barros
The kidnapping of a corto-
British borated Miss Soares, saying that lighthouse-keeper, Mr. Edwarda, FAIR TO SHOWERY defendant deliberately passed be- from Breaker Point Ighthouse, off their down-fall, took 7 wickets for SEVERELY INJURED :
G1 runs in their first innings and Pressure is highest
WILLYS “77” over the tween herself and the complainant. the Fusion sont in the British eight wickets for 43 In their second. An explosion of gunpowder at Pacific to the east of the Bontus brushed against complainant, but Court for China.
Defendant ndmitted
having has been brought up in the British innings. He captured fourteen Tai-0, in the Pingshan district, Study its sturdy and up-to-date and is relatively low in a trough said it was, not done intentionally.
wickets today for 80 runs and New Territories, yesterday, reconstruction, put it through its extending from Indo-China across Ile did not try to escape.
The mystery of his fate has after the tea Interval he took six anlted in two young children, paces in traffic. on hills, at the Philippines to the Pacific.. A
never bech,aulved, but it has long of these for 15. Vienna, June 26.
Mr. Hamilton told defendant it been presumed that he was killed depression is situated to the north
the son and daughter of a fisher-higher speeds and realise its According to the Reichspost, of Shantung.
was lucky the witnesses did not re- by the bandits who kidnapped him, never or very rarely been equalled They were playing with a light-many advantages.
Althogether his performance has;
man, being severely injured, Local forecast! Signor Mussolini has renewed an Moderate easterly or
the invitation to Dr. Dollfuss and his winde; fair. to showery.
Variable momber the date of the previous his wife and four children in in Test cricket.
occurrence, ng otherwise he would Fobruary, 1932. family to spend their summer
ed smoking water-pipe, which came savings you make by owning this England was undoubtedly Tor-Into contact with a store of gin-economical car. have sentenced him to six month's His wife and children, were suh.
tunato In the weather and in powder, evidently used, for fishing holiday at Riccione, where Signor
| bard Inbour.
scquently released. Mussolini and his family will also
having probably the beat bowler in purposes, and caused a violent ex Mr. Hamilton also warned defen- Of a motion by Mrs. Edwards, the world for such conditions. dant about doing this sort of the Court graated leave to doposo
plosion. The invitation is Interpreted by The P.W.D. notifies that the thing again, because If the com- that her husband's death occurred England had benten Australia at aged 6, and Fan Cheong, nged B
To-day was the first occasion The two children,
*Fan Fook-tai, the Reichsport as proof of the island road from Salwan Gop to plainant's friends caught him on or after July 31, 1982, for the Lord's since 1896. England and were taken to the Kowloon Horpl Repulse Bay which has been he might be half-killed before he purposes of settling the ostato-Autralian have now each won one tal, with injuries stated to be of and Mussolini-Reuter
blocked, is now clear.
was brought to Court.
a serious character..
would Nejüs
have
MUSSOLINI AND DOLLFUSS
TO SPEND HOLIDAY TOGETHER
be holiday-making.
corial relations between Dollfuss
ROAD CLEANED
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Granted
284, when they required only six runa to avoid the "Follow on."
Batting again, they were able to counter the new problem and the wholo, side was out for 118.
Verity, the prime instrument of
mateli.—Briffah-Wireless.
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