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FORSIDEN 'KESİ' DAD BETALAMP THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1984:
INDIAN RAJAH'S COUSIN
DEVOURED BY ALSATIANS
VARSITY MATCH TORN TO PIECES IN
DRAWN
Three Centuries:. A Tight Duel
The
Oxford-Cambridge
match ended in a very even draw. Threo centuries were made, nearly elevent hundred runs wore scored, Oxford lod on the first innings by fifteen runs, Cambridge making 400. At the close, Cambridge needed 103 to win with
seven wickets in hand.
Details In Page Eight.
TERRORS
OF HYDROPHOBIA
༣.
MR. WYNNE-JONES' WARNING
NO SYMPATHY İN DOG OFFENCES
Speaking of a woman who died) from rabies at the Kowloon Hospi tal, Mr. Wynne-Jones said on his return to the Kowloon Magistracy this morning:
"Jami just out of Hospital. I saw a woman, there who died · ́of rabies, i never want to see any
GROUNDS
EIGHTY DOGS COMBINE IN ATTACK
ON SUPPOSED INTRUDER
STROLL IN THE DARK
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH"}
(By_ Telegraph. Copyright, Teiographic Messaġes Ordinance, 1894. Recolved, Judy 12, 8.33 a.m.)
Simla, July 12,
The cousin of the Rajah of Athgarh was devoured last night by a pack of Alsatian dogs belong- ing to the Rajah.
The terrible tragedy was discovered after a search for the missing man which seemed to be fruitless until searchers came across a few bones strewn about a small area in the grounds of the Rajah's residence, and the circumstances connected with the victim's gruesome end were pieced together.
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INJURED IN
FRACAS AT TO KWA WAN
A copyright United Press menge that from Washington annanness the American dirigible, Los Angeles, shown above of her berth, bas been
unft for fight.
LOGAN AND AMPS' STONEYARD BATTLE
AIR ALIVE WITH FLYING ROCKS
HAKKA-NINGPO
FEUD
Twenty men were admit- ted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday afternoon as the
THREATS TO P.M.R. BRIDGES
Martial Law Reported
Proclaimed:
Shanghai, July 12...
It is reported from, Nanking-in to-day's China Press that martial: law has been declared along the Shankalkwan Tongahan section of the Peking-Blukden Hallway, that the Japanese guards have been Increased and that an armoured train has been sent out on patrol. The action follows reports that Communista are planning to de stroy bridges to disrupt Bino- Japanese relations-Router.
result of the most serious TORNADO:
clan fracas witnessed in the
FEEDER BUS FOR PEAK TRAM
MR. D. E. CLARKE RETICENT
WHOLE QUESTION IN THE AIR
Interviewed this morning regarding the Telegraph, suggestion of a feeder ser- vice of motor buses, as a cheap alternative to extend- aring the Peak tramway down
Colony for some consider HAILSTORM:
able time.
Scores of others suffered lesser Injuries, being struck by flying stones, but did not require treat- ment.
CLOUDBURST
to the Queen's. Road level, Mr. D. E. Clarke, of Messrs. J. D. Humphreys and Co., general manager of the Peak Tramway Co., declined to express his views on the proposal.
"The whole question," he said,
Asked if the Company intended to approach the military authori tles regarding acquisition of land. which would be necessary for any extension of the tramway, Mr.«
been done in the mattor. The Company's Directors would no doubt consider the whole question in due course.
Apparently, the Rajah had a pack of eighty Alsatians, condemned by the Navy Department Shanghai masons on the other. GREAT HAVOC: SCORES Clarke stated that nothing had-yot
which he had bred himself, and which were allowed during the night to run loose about the grounds for the protection of the property. They appear to have made an attack in mass.
Aguest of the Rajah, not ne- customed to the habite, of the
thing like that again as long as household, the cousin appears to
I live. It is about the most awful have gone for a stroll in the
thing possible. There is rabica
Youthful
on the Castle Peak Road. I my grounds after dark, unaware that Blonde
self have seen dogs on the Castle the dogs were loose.
f'eak beaches led by Europeans.
think it is an awful crime, and
I am going to stop it.
The victim was attacked by tho dogs, which doubtless took him
I am not going to tell you how for an intruder, and they literally
that woman died. The detalla would be too horrible,
tore
him to pieces, afterwards savagely devouring the body.
Searchers found only a few
But when one thinks of sinull children running about who are bones as evidence of the young i likely to be bitten by a dog, peo-man's death.-Router Special. ple who infringe the regulations
deserve no sympathy at all"
A.E. Simmons of the Far East £26 PICTURE SOLD
of
Aviation Co., who was summoned for bringing a dog in from the New Territories, was fined $50,
Over a dozen other summonary were dealt within respect various breaches of the Regulat. jons. J.B. Hall, of No. 7 Norfolk Road, was fined $10 for allowing! his dog to be at large without a muzzle.
un-
FOR £3,700
Shot Dead
ATTEMPTING TO- ESCAPE FROM GAOL
(Special to "Telograph")
LUPE VELEZ DIVORCE SUIT
JOHNNY THROWS FURNITURE ABOUT
"TARZAN'S" FIT OF TEMPERAMENT
(Special to "Telegraph")
کیا تھا کہ
The To Kwa Wan stoneyard DAY'S WEATHER IN "Is still in the air." managed by Mesars. Logan and
ILLINOIS Amps was the scene of the out- break, the combatants being the akku workmen on one aide and
The yard is used for dressing stone in connection with the building of the New Hongkong and Shanghai Bank headquarters and carly yesterday afternoon a dispute arose between two workmen over the possession
a certain plece of granite.
FLYING ROCKS,
of
The dispute, became general
INJURED
(Special to Tolograph")
by Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie
idea
Ordinaner.
1191. Breeland
Mr. Clarke added, in reply to Nanother question, that no special. eating of the Board of Directors and been called to consider the Feubject.
New York, July 11.
when other werimen joined in A large area of Illinois was hit Asked for his opinions on the various proposals which had been and sides were taken by mombers to-day by a combination of weaput forward, Mr. Clarke said he of the different groups.
In a few minutes the alr was
ther scarcely equalled in ons day would prefer at this stage to ex-
stricken, enormous damage being done, and it is feared, costing several lives.
Typhoon
Reports from Jacksonville, re- Signal Up
veal that the tale of disaster
commenced with a tornado that
swept through the district leaving DISTURBANCE NEAR behind denth and 'desolation.
Soon afterwards a terrific hall-
COLONY
full of flying rocks and other in any part of the country before, press no views on the subject. missiles and in the general melee At least four counties were scores of the men were struck, several being badly
aly hurt.
the A message was sent to Police who arrived on the sceno without delay, and soon dsipersed the warring workmen, Those who suffered dangerous knocks were [De Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphia M taken to Hospital for treatment. (By Teleprosh, Copyright. Telegraphie Momiges Ordinance. ... Received ANDER Ordinamer, IRAL. Reculent Inty 73. 9.10 sm.)
TWO HUNDRED ENGAGED. 12 km J
Los Angeles, July 11. Over two hundred men were New York, July 11. Widespread comment through-
Miss Lupe Velez, the fiery actually engaged in the fight, with storm burst over the countryside,
For the first time this year, a cloudburst out the United States has follow- Mexican film star, has filed the rest looking on. The Hakka to be followed by ed the report of the death of a suit for divorce against ea the Ningpo. men by at least
group.are said to have outnumber- which flooded large areas. the No. 1 warning signal was woman prisoner, who was shot
Over a hundred are known to hoisted this morning, indicating down in attempting to escape Johnny Weismuller, cham-tws to one, but the hospital re- have been injured. The damage a typhoon which may possibly from a penitentiary,
pion swimmer and "hero" cords reveal that the Hakka men exceeds a million dollars in pro-
suffered moat severely. About perty alone, over the four counties, affect the Colony, The shooting occurred at Little of the Tarzan films.
seven Ningpo men are in hospital, At least five thousand people! The typhoon was notified at 10 Rock, Arkansas, and the victim was Miss Helon Eaton, youthful for the sult.
Crucity is given as the ground the rest being Hakka.
Stone-breaking implementa were have been rendered homeless o'clock this morning as being Ey graph, Cortright. Talagrashie Mblonde who is belleved to have
situate in Long. 117 Lat., - 22, wielded by the combatanta, In Ordinoner, 1891. Received
moving north-west. This places Miss Velez claims that she was addition to the stone-throwing. struck by furniture which her Tur-
the disturbance about 200 miles) zan man flung about the room in
due east of Hongkong. a fit of temperament,
edges
SURPRISING PRICE AT SOTHEBY'S
(Special to "Tològraph")
London, July 11.
July
got mixed up with gangsters.
VILLAGERS WARNED. Various villages New Kowloon were visited by the Pollee In the course of the week, and n number
It is alleged that Helen atole a of the inhabitants were summoned for having unlicensed and
Some excited bidding took place revolver and returned the fire muzzled dogs. Fines ranging at Sotheby's, the famous art auc-when pursuing officers entled upon from $10 to $16 were indicted.,
a small her to surrender. tioneers, to-day when
She was To a number of these villagers, Romney picture was offered for sale,
Presh. Mr. Wynne-Jones said: You peo The painting was a portmit of ple from Choungshawan. It is the children of the Earl of Warwick going to cost tremendous and it fetched only 25 guineas when lot to leave your dogs out. I am it was offered in 1868. going to put a stop to this.
TWO WOMEN DIE
OF
To-day, it was 'bid up to the surprising figure of £3,700,--Rou ter Special.
HYDROPHOBIA M. PIETRI MEETS
ONE BROUGHT IN FROM PINGSHAN
The latest roturn of notifiable diseases discloses two cason, of hydrophobla, ono in Kowloon and the other from the New Terri- tories,
MR. DAVIS
FRANCO-AMERICAN NAVAL TALKS.
(Special to "Telegraph”)
The Brat of these cases is that
(By Telegraph, Copyrighi, Telepreskio ben
Ordinanet. 2001. of the Chinese woman who wan
Received July 38, 9.09 0/M.) admitted to Kowloon Hospital on Monday and who succumbed to the
London, July 11. disease on the following day. She Naval conversations between had been bitten by a dog some six delegates of France and the United wecks previously whilst coming off States, preparatory to the 1935 Con- a junk at Hunghom.
ference, were formally opened at
The other case is also that of 6.20 p.m.
shot dead.-United
U.S. WANTS MORE BATTLESHIPS
•
ning
They have only been married months. Within four they separated, but the cleavage lasted for only one day, both deciding
THE GASWORKS DISASTER
that too much work had frayed INQUIRY VERDICT TO- their tempora
· HOLLYWOOD TO BLAME.
Like Weismuller's former wife, "Bobby" Arnst, the New York actress who divorced him in Sep tember, 1932, for "extreme mental cruelty" Lupe Velez declares that aho st!!! loves him, but they cannot get on together.
Migs · Armat's verdict is that
Hollywood is to blame.
THINKING OF TWO 35,000-TONNERS
Washington, July 13, The United States, is awaiting the result of the London Naval Conference in 1935 before deciding whether to build at least two more “To shove that boy into a com- 85,000-ton battleships.
munity of sharp-shooting women is Mr. Claud Swanson, the Navy like sending your cousin to a pick- Secretary, to-day admitted that the pockets' convention. With plans for the ships have already physique like Johnny'e it is like been propared.
throwing a fatted calf into a cage They would be built if it was of lens. They tell him how won- nocessary to build them
derful he is. He just rolls his eyes The United States, he said, and Hollywood has bim,United desired large battleships but Pros8, assumed that a limit of 35,000-tona!
3
would be provided for.Reuter. WHOLESALE PRICES RISE
SILVER MARKETS
17
3
►
MORROW
United Press.
SAN FRANCISCO CRISIS
SHIPPERS ACCEPT
ARBITRATION:
If the typhoon continues to. move on its present track, it jshould pass about 100 miles to the
north and east of Hongkong,
WIND TO FRESHEN.
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, who, as Coroner, has been conducting the Inquiry into the gasworks ex-agreed to accept arbitration by alon or typhoon is situated about plosion disaster, with the aid of the Labour Disputes Board in the 150 miles E.S.E. of Hongkong ap a jury, announced at the Central Magistracy this morning that the waterfront strike. verdict will be given at 12.15 p.m.
The Royal Observatory, repoft. states that pressure is highest in San Francisco, July 11.
the vicinity of the Bonins and relatively low over N. China and The shipping companies have the China Sea. A small depres
to-morrow.
STOP PRESS
parantly moving N.W.
Local forecast:-North to West.
Householders throughout the winds, moderate, freshening con city are now laying in stocks of siderably, cloudy, with rain later. provisions in casc the general strikto is declared, na haa boen
threatened,
Tension is still ; very great.-- Router.
"NEW DEAL" FOR
U.S. FLYING
A TIME-PROVEN.
PRODUCT
THE 1934
STUDY TO BE MADE WILLYS “77”
IN EUROPE
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shanghai, July 12. The heat wave continues' une London, July 11. abated, but in the vicinity of the An increase of 1.2 per cent. In South Station at Nantao there was a woman," Her name is Ng Shu-lin M. Pietri and the French naval
the average of wholesale prices In a brief shower of rain, at noon." and she hails from the Pingahan, attache, Commandant Lathan, visit Messrs Swan, Culbertson and June is ravented. In the Board which is regarded by the Chinemish Hearsed Hale district of the New Territories, ed Mr. Norman Davis and Admiral Fritz have received the following Trade Index number statisties. as a Divine response to the Pan-16 £21 and She was admitted to the Kowloon Richard Leigh at Mr. Davie's hotel. cabled advices on the London and Decranses were shown in each of chen Lama's invocations-Routeri Hospital yesterday, in a serious Talks of a preliminary nature New York silver markets:
the three proceding months.- condition.
lasted for an hour.
London, July 11th. The silvor British Wireless. Mr. Claud Swanson, Secretary of market cloned firm, with buyers the Navy Department, announced for forward at 20.13/10,
Washington to-day that the Now York, July 11th-Sliver U.S.S. Log Angoles, the dirigible, | quotations approximutod London Veteran arrived from Waihelwol this has been condemned as unfit for parity. The market was inactive, morning, H.M.8. Phoenix, alled for fight.-United Press.
"THE SHAH RETURNS -
- Télioran, July" 12"
The Shah of Porala has returned from bis visit to Turkey, Reuter,
in
Thedontroyers. Whitshed and
but closed steady.`.
Weihsiwol: to-day??
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