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FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 163BA
# #=#ALA MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.
日二十月六
BINGLE COPY 19 CENTS -$34,00 FED' ANNUM.
DUNLOP
Fort
s unequalled by any other Tyre ? in the world!
ITALY LOSING LONG PATIENCE WITH GERMANY
TERRORIST ACTS SALACIOUS
IN AUSTRIA
REICH GOVERNMENT NOW HELD RESPONSIBLE
RUMOURS OF BREACH IN RELATIONS
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")
(By Telegraph Copyright, Telegraphic Messance Ordinance, 1894. Received. July 23, 9.28 m.)
Rome, July 22.
CINEMA POSTERS
LOCAL COMPLAINTS TAKEN UP
ACTION BY CHURCH LEADERS
Following recent critic- isms of cinema film posters and advertisements, efforts are being made locally to induce the Government to tighten up the censorship.
It is known that prominent leaders
a group of representing. religious and social bodies recent- the matter, representations being ly met informally and discussed later made in official quarters..
It is learned that the understanding reached between Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini at their famous Venice meeting is considered in Rome to have been broken by the continued acts of terrorism in Aus-Alms, but the representations tria, and it is stated in authoritative quarters that Italy may shortly definitely abandon Germany to its fate unless the Reich Government is prepared to guarantee the immediate cessation of such acts of terrorism throughout Austria, over which Italy re- gards herself to be virtual protector.
Reliable Italian Government quarters informed the United Press that Italy has definitely lost patience with Nazi interference in Austria.
HITLER-MUSSOLINI UNDERSTANDING UPSET
Some objection appears to be taken to certain border line": have.. it is understood, centred chiefly on posters and advertise- ments which actually often give a films themselves, In this connec totally wrong impression of the tion, it is pointed out illustrations are at sive to good taste.
that the times often- |
taken to sensational crime-story
At the same time, objection is!
films and certain ethers which are regarded M "overstepping the bounds of decency.
VICAR'S COMMENTS. The Rev. J. R. Higgs, Viear of St. Andrew's
In conisquer of the torrential rains of the week-end, Tytan Tuk reservoir, the capcity of which is 1,419 million gallons, is overflowing for the first time als 1932, Picture shows the reservoir filled to the over
flow level.
FOURTEEN INCHES OF RAIN DURING WEEK-END
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS FILL ALL RESERVOIRS
DRIZZLE MAY GO ON
It is pointed out that the future has grown steadily worse. Hard-course of some recent comments the period between midnight of Austria was the most importantly a day goes by without reports direct losue between Hitler Mussolini when they met last month.
and of bombings and shootings,
It was semi-othicially stated, later that although no clear-cut
BERLIN HELD RESPONSIBLE.
no
1
World's Greatest Air Armada
AMERICA'S NEW AMBITION
MILITARY FLEET OF 2,320 PLANES INQUIRY BOARD'S PROPOSALS
(Special to "Telegraph") ily Telegraph, Covurisht, Telegraphie Moo gra Ordinance, EXPL Received July AS. 8.$ 0,
Washington, July 22..
TREATY STRENGTH
U.S. NAVY
Promised Within Next Four Years
New York, July 23. The building of the -United States Navy up to full treaty strength within three or four years was pro. mised by Presiden. Roose- velt in a talk to the crew of the U.S.S. Houston to- day, Reuters)
The creation of the world's NEW YORK BUS
greatest air armada is the
ambition of the United!
States.
machines is
A minimum peace-time mili- tary air force of 2,320 first-line the recommendu- tion of the special aviation com- mittee which has been studying | air development needs.
This vast nie force would be exclusive of the air fleet attached to the United States, Navy, which Iself will be equipped with over a thousand Bghting planes.
An all-round tightening up of Air Force regulations, with a view to greater efficiency. is also pro- posed:
REORGANISATION. Mr. Newton D. Baker, who was
DISASTER
BURNING VICTIMS JUMP INTO RIVER
TEN KILLED
New York, July 22. Ten were killed and twenty in- jured as the result of a terrible omnibus crash and fire at Ossin- ing, just outside New York.
The bus was Alled by forty
Over fourteen inches of ing hour, 1-10 inches were record- Led. rain were recorded at the At the moment, there is Church, la the Royal Observatory during immediate prospect of the rain on the cinema, sald-It is a
ceasing.
What the torrential rains have matter for thankfulness that the on Friday and 10. a.m. to meant. to the Colony's water sup the chairman of the special Army day of extreme puritanism is now day.
ply inay be gathered from the fact Aviation Inquiry Board, appointed New Yorkers who were returning a thing of the past and that there
that since Saturday morning. Italian official quarters told the believe that the theatre,
no by the War Department, handed from a baseball match at Sing are few Christina
Details of the rainfall, supplied fewer than 204 million gallons the report of the Board to Mr. Peuple who plan had been framed, it was more will hold the Reich Government themselves-evil--Influences. Most 24 hours ending midnight Satur
the by Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of have been added to the reservoir George 11. Dern, Secretary of War, United Press that in future Italy cinema and the dance hall are the Observatory, are as follows: or less agreed that Germany and directly responsible
contents on the island and the to-day...
Sing Prison. for
mainlandu be the of
us believe that good and clean 24 hours ending midnight Sun.
The bus overturned for some day
Up to Saturday, the only re-Air Corps must be completely re-toppled into a timber yard where The Report urges that the Army reason not yet explained and Hacial, and decolate Fostertion of terrorism, instead of Munich Austria on the basis of Austrian that the harder Herr Hitler pushes are God-given and have the bless- 24 hours ending 10 a.m. to-day
It is generally felt in Rome and the proper kind of amusement Midnight to 10a.m. Sunday entertainment, wholesome
servoir overflowing was Tytam organised and brought to the it caught fire. fun day
2.36 Intermediate, but as a consequence highest efficiency in the world; independence in the sense that Anschluss would cease to be Ger- the campaign in Austria, the ing of Christ Himself.
449 of the heavy rains all the re- more will Mussolini be driven to
3.26 servoirs are now overflowing, in- branches, says the
The nation's civil aviation man policy.
"The strain of modern life staunch cooperation with
14.08 cluding Tytum Tuk.. This is the second to none, but the Army has report, are Dollfuss, the Austrian Chancellor, makes it imperative for the people
first time since 1932 that Tytam been woefully laggard and be their clothes ablaze, ran to the with whom he is on the closest it is a good thing that in the any one hour was 1.93 inches, be-
The heaviest fall registered in Tuk has reached the overflow level. hind modern developments as a nearby Hudson River and plunged to have their entertainment and terms N friendship United; Press.
cinema's people's minds
result, mainly, of Congresalonal In. tween 10.30 and 11.30 am, can be
sluggishness which requires Im- The fire spread to the timber
HITLER'S POLICY. Hier is believed to have assur- ed Mussolini that propaganda and action kely to provoke terrorist
froubles would not be permitted BREAKING OFF OF
from the German side of border.
Lately, however, the situation
A.P. C. Official's Escape
CAR GOES THROUGH BROKEN BRIDGE
RELATIONS?
Startling Rumours Ridiculed
Dr.
Itome, July 23. Starting reports are in circul- ation suggesting that Italy is on the verge of breaking off re- Intions with Germany owing to the continuance of terrorlam Austria.
In
have developed from the public- ution of Signor Gayda's sen- sational article, attacking Ger- -many.
Total.
3.97
on
BESIEGED
taken into a world (even though it Saturday, just after the really ISTANBUL CONSULATES mediate attention. be one of make-believe) of romance, heavy rains began. In the follow- fun and happiness. It is a mistake to boljeve (and personally I never do so even though there is much evidence to
will
the contrary) VISTULA FLOOD
that the cinema and theatre are of the Devil and that Christian people must shun them as they would the plague."
U.S. TREASURY
BOND OFFER
cent.
CATASTROPHE
SINGLE CONTROL OPPOSED. It is recommended- (1) that the expansion of the Army Air Corps to 2,329 planes
Foreigners, Demand Free be undertaken immediately:
Passages Home
Istanbul, July 22.
(2) that a permanent national aviation policy bo determined;
(3) that the Present air es- tablishment controla, army, navy
Most of the victims were in- cinerated.
Some of the passengers, with
yard and completely gutted the area. The total loss is estimated to exceed $160,000,--Router.
FAMOUS HOSTESS PASSES AWAY
FRANCISCO
Numbers of consulates In and elvilian, be retained with MRS: CROCKER OF SAN Istanbul to-day have been besieged closer co-ordination of ground by hundreds of foreigners demand-and air troops. ing free repatriation to their home lands.
Suggestions for the morging of all military and naval aviation. under a single unit-ás with the. extravagant and impracticable. British Royal Air Force--is called
San Francisco, July 22. The death has occurred of Mrs. William Crocker, wife of the
millionaire banker, Mr. William Ifenry Crocker,
OVER 500 PERISH: SURGING WATERS Warsaw, July 22.
The situation is a development It in bellased that the rumours TO REPAY ADVANCES disaster threatens to assume bidding foreigners to act as The great national flopd of the application of the law for TO R.F.C.
even more terrible propor-tailors, shoe-makers, musicians or chauffeurs, guides, hairdressers,
EXPANSION OF FACTORIES.
She was noted throughout the. tions. Washington, July 23.
The Board also urges that en- variety artists. The
The Treasury is to-day offering
[couragement by all possible means United States for the lavish scale reports
Under the law, the first group of the development of the aviation of her entertainments in her are, however, $100,000,000 of these per
Tho Vistula ja ridiculed i political quarters:
still rising of eight hundred persons, with Industry, permitting it to expand palatial mansion on the outskirts and thousands of people families Federal Farm Mortgage Corpora- are lining the banks, hair in were forced to abandoned ple quickly and effectually to wartime of San Francisco Router CONSULTATIONT
tion bonde, maturing in 1944/49, curiosity and half in torror, this morning.
to work productive capacity demanda. of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., had Signor Mussolini might conceivab
fully guaranteed by the Govern wondering whether the levees will Three, other groups, totalling upon the need for a revision of due here from Singapore with the It ia pulated out that all that ment. a narrow escape from drowningly do is to consult other Powers to repay the Treasury advances have been truly catastrophic.
The proceeds will be used largely
hold and save Warsaw itself. 18,000, will be similarly affected As it was, his chauffeur lost his with a view to making joint repre-
The floods of the Inst few days Lhortly.—Router, life.
the Reconstruction; Mr. Green left Nanning onsentations to Berlin.
Finance Corporation.
The exact death-roll cannot Saturday for Wuchow, in a new
Il Duce is not likely to take anyTreasury has acted as
yet be computed, but it is known OVER 200 HEAT WAVE This is the first time that the that Letween Ave and six hundred Ford V-8 sedan, accompanied by action until he has
scen Dr.
a fiscal an Interpreter, and a chauffer week-end.-Reuter.
Dollfuss at Riccione during the agency for another goverament
persons have perished. Some here later, when crossing
ugency-Reuter.
The damage in over £50,000,000; and the havoc continues.
(Our Own Correspondent).,
Wuchow, July 20. Word has been received here. of a serious motor accident near Nanning, in which Mr. Green
a bridge in a flooded region, the car crashed through a broken sec-Į tion the structure.
Luckily, Mr. Green and the interpreter were thrown clear of the car into the river; and they were able to swim to safety. The chauffeur, however, was unable to free himself and was drowned. Later, Mr. Green and the Inter- prater returned to Nanning.
LOCAL DOLLAR
DROPS
SILVER WEAKER IN NEW YORK
"FLU · EPIDEMIC IN SHANSI
THOUSANDS SUFFER FROM MALADY.
TYPHUS PERIL
In
DEATHS
Enormous Crop Losses
In America
New York, July. 22.
Very strong emphasis le placed The P and O. liner. Itanpura is
the internal organisation of the English mails at 8 am. on Wednesday, Army Air Corpe. It is recom- mended, for instance that the plete three hundred hours of pllota should be required to com flying every year, thus increasing the present flying requirements by a hundred per cent,
- HAZARDOUS TESTS. It is also recommended that Afr Corps plots should be given gronter training in flying under hazardous conditions with hstru- ments as are
The death-roll of the heat wavo plaños,sed in commercial
UNIVERSAL PRAISE for the HILLMAN MINX
Few cars have ever reapad such: universal, praise with valle classesˆof amoforists, as has the HILLMAN MINX, From its inception. It has gora from strength-to
success, until. to-day in its latest guise it represents a standard of modern light cer efficiency used generally, as the Criterion of satisfaction.
There is an alarming possibility jof an epidemic of typhus ing volving the whole of south Poland. Millions, of amall farmers have beon ruined.
Thousands on the banks of the
the United States has now Vistula
A liberal policy of watch
climbed to 236.
oncouraging the fonting
the perfecting of experimental There is no prospect of an Im developments fa urgodi Many bridges in Kwangsi aro
The Hongkong dolinr, declined
which is normally a mero Taiyuaniu, July 22. in an unanfo sinte, and several th this morning to 18, 5d. Shans states that influenza incross hurling towards the 800 estimated to run into hundreds of praise
baro couple of hundred yards wide has
ditions. tragedies have occurred this year following declines in sliver prices spreading over a wide ares, in the small islands, sand and shoaves antifont of dollare the losses noss of this service andor
message from
Southern become a turgid mass half a mile West and the South-West States is they found
The loss of crops in the Middle air mall carrying venture, but were sovoral lessons in the Army's on bridges which have been con- both in London and New York.
themselves able to demned. Unfortunately, tho Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Yunchong and Yunchi, whoro
border districts, especially at of whoat,
morale and effective Burcan of Highways has had its Fritz have received a Now York thousands of inhabitants have a moment ago the ashen face of The thermometer in St. Louis, in tion that Congress appropriate for budget so reduced that it is un-cable reading-With speculators fallon victims to the epidemic, dead: child, appearing wraithlike the heart of the Middle West, the Army Air Core the funda hoces
Reubora correspondent glimpsed as the intense fent poralsts Router says t
growing by leaps and bounds dally conditions. United Proas,
adverso able to keep some of the bridges apparently the only buyera, silver creating a serious situation, above the murky well of the soared yesterday to 118. F in the sary to purchtle a thousand new that, a recommande- In adequate repair.
sagged further to-day.
Central News.
waters-Restor
wrockage of homes. The rivermediate break in the weather con: The Board found that the strength, from success to
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