IN
AN INCREASE
UNEMPLOYMENT
BRITISH FIGURES FOR JULY
LANCASHIRE STILL HIT
The
London, Aug. 7. monthly employment figures issued by the Ministry of Labour show that on July 23 there were approximately 10,- persons, aged 16
HINDENBURG
FUNERAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1934.
NEW YORK STOCK NULLAH OUTRAGE
EXCHANGE
IMPRESSIVE SCENES
YESTERDAY'S MARKET
IRREGULAR
WITNESSED
on
WILD TUNNEL FIGHT WITH ACCUSED
The dramatle rescues of five British children who were thrown into a nullah, beside the Lower Ponk Tram station were further detalled before Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy yesterday. at the continued hearing of the CABU against Ng Lol-yuen, allas Ng Yick-lam, alias 'Ng Yick-san, unemployed, who is charged with the wilful murder of Michael Pine, aged eight years.
New Tannenberg, Aug. 7.' The following reports On the lonely war-scarred,York stock market have been received Swan Culbertson plains of East Prussia, after through Messrs.
The Wall Street Journal impressive and elaborate core- and Fritz:
on yesterday's market The market was downward, especially monial, the late President von report Hindenburg was laid to rest in Tails, due to the drought the Field Marshal's Tower, the ilmated to have caused a loss of Five Prices atendied up huge brick memorial to his decl-Billion Dollars. alve victory over the Russians on later due to the strength of Grains, together with a rally in gold and ailver issues due to inflation talk plus
Mr. J. A. Fraser, the Assistant this site.
the buille Influence induced by General Motors declaring an extra Attorney General, instructed by while bonds ruled lower due to in-Assistant Crown Solicitor, is con- flation talk and drought damage ducting the prosecution, and Mr. The grain market soared seasonal high levels due to the fur-R. C. II. Lim, instructed by Mr. ther drought news, Corn prices reach-J. M. Hall, is appearing for the ing the highest level for the year defence."
hut after which they declified due to very retaining heavy prot-taking fractional gain due to Eastern and local support and the strength of foreign markets. Bar silver reached 47.38 per ounce which is the highest price in Bve years.
130ment in Great roll of drums and illuminated by divilom. Curb stocks were irregular, Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, the.
to 64, in Britain. was 27,000 less than the month before, but 394, 000
inore than the year before. In most of the principal ladus tries there were only slight changes in the general level of em- playment during July.
In
The hier arrived at dawn, after a night-long journey, amid the Aares from the four glant memorial towers. The coffin was a catafalque in the placed on courtyard facing a forty-foot cross.
Standa had been erected for distinguished mourners, where
ship ahipbuilding and litler,
Colonel von Hindenburg, ministers, members of the Diplomatie Corps and members of the Reichstag Inter took their places.
Colours Of Victory.
War veterana
to new
Lo Chung, a car cleaner employ- ed at the Lower Peak. Tram station, said that about 2.80 p.m., electrical apparatus
while he was at work, he heard a manufacture. shipping and hotel service, the improvements shown
child crying. He went forward in previous months continued, and
S. G&F. New York offler cable: to the iron rails, and saw an adult The market again drifted lawer, with Chinese with an European child there was a substantial increase in
Halls showing most of the weakness being washed down by the water the numbers at work in coal mines.
and further regularity is indienied. In the nullah. They were further On the other hand, there were in the cotton,
carried the We expect an Irregular opening and down the nullah from where he further reductions
When they disappeared, he wool and worsted, tailoring, boot Colours of the Tannenberg regi-little change in prices, with the ten-was. and shoe and motor vehlele indlus-ments, while von Hindenburg's deney downward. Damage to the resumed his work.
$6 bililans. General Motors live de-
Mr. Lim reserved his tries, while employment among Field Marshal's baton and war crops by the drought is estimated at builders also declined,
clared an extra dividend of 50 Cents examination. per share. The Bell System reports a decrease of 33,500 telephones in ser ports to Russia in June totalled vice during July. United States ex- $1,705,000, which seven times the ex- porte to Russia during dune of Inst
Tho
medals were placed in front of the collin.
Around the memorial was a vast throng of 200,000 perauns, from alt parts of Germany, who follow. ed the spoken ceremony by means of loud-speakers.
ceremony
year. Electrie Bond and Share have earned 32 cents per Common share
!
cross-
In
Fay Bromley Rescue. Arthur Albert Andrews, spector in the Peak Tramway Company, said he was a passenger on a down tram at about 3.18 p.m.
2,126,260 UNEMPLOYED.
numbers of unemployed were 1,563,747 wholly unemployed, 192,872 temporarily stopped and 79,641 normally in ensual employ- ment, making a total of 2,126,260.
The band in attendance opened for the half year, against 48 centa on June 22, and left it before it This won 83,674 more than the
the
with Th funeral during the corresponding period of month
before, and 315,010 less
march, Beethoven's "Thirtinst year. The Alaska Juneau Gold than the year before.
Mining Company's earnings for the Symphony." The not Increase, na compared
neven months ending July 31st total When the funeral march was with
led 31,396,250, against $723,000 for a month ago, is partly ne-
Bislang Dohrmann,
the correspunting period last year. counted for by workers, chlofty finished, textile operativos,
registering Chaplain-General of the Relchs-The Oll and Gas Journal reports that themselves as temporally stopped wehr, preached on the text, "Be crude oil production averaged 2,611, Faithful Unto Death" 781 barrels for the week ended August during lochi holidays. These Thou totalled about 20,000.
which, he revealed, Hindenburg against 2,029,834 barrels the
werk. Business done: had stipulated In his will. I previous $10,000,
There was also a considerable in-
creasc
COLONEL NOSWORTHY War. ·
TO LEAVE
in the number of unem-added that the dead President had ployed boys and girls who had just not desired any eulogies or glori- left school-British Wireless, Agation of himself during the funeral; but only remembrance of those who had fallen in the Great
Great Ambition, Bishop Dohrmann declared that von Hindenburg's sole care and Anxiety
the
of re-birth Germany.
After the brief sermon, followed by the Lord's prayer and Luther's famous hymn, "Ein Feste Burg."' in which the huge crowd mourners joined. Hitler gave his funeral aditress.
To Command Brigade
At Aldershot
News has just reached the Colony of the appointment of Col. F. P. Nosworthy, D.S... M.C., G.S.O. I attached to the Chinn Command, to the command of the 6th Infantry Brigade at Alder shot. He will all for the United Kingdom inte this year and will take up his new appointment in March next year. Col. Nosworthy came to Hongkong-in-November
да
of
Iftler declared that as a result of Tannenberg, Germany's millions were deeply grateful to Hinden
burg.
Never,
or more
a
wore and
got to the station, because he saw a little European girl in the nullah. Two chair coalies with her. He went down received the girl from thera. He took her to the tram station, and there received another little Euro. pean boy from a soldier. He had since learnt that they were Fay Bromley and Tony Flood.
were
Pan Tak, a foreman of the Army New York & Chiengo commodity
received through Mears. contractors, suid he was repairing reports
a pipe on the side of the nullah Swan, Culbertson & Fritz:
Wheat: New buying caused an just below the bridge where the early advance which, however, was sentry stood. With him met by extensive profit-taking and u
Much Beyen other workmon, four of natural reaction followed.
IR
the whom were in the nullah. One higher prices are in sight.
was Yung Sui. His was drawn by a British Corn belt senttered showers are ex- of them pected all over the country with
looking In that and moderate temperature,
Cotton: The average forecast of direction, he saw an European the Cotton crop by members of the boy being washed down the nullah, New Orleans Exchange gives 9,419,ile told Yung Su to rescue the 009 bales. It la a pre-Bureau report boy. Yung Sul after grabbing the early strength based on the Liverpool boy, lost his hold, and was swept. market. The concensus of brokerage off his feet witness then ran to He saw opinion is non-committal as to the Murray Barracks, and saw Yung Government report which will be an Sui bring back the boy. nounced at Noon Wednesday, others being washed down, but how many there weather is hot with little rain. We the bullish effect of the August 8th. In the cotton belt the could not Bay
cotton drought reflected in higher expect prices. The Cochrane Bureau, Dallas, estimates the total crop of cotton at 8,183,000 bales.
market aral featureless, after the
on
Rubber: The murket was firm on
declared, he
were per soldiers braver Hevering than the Germans during the Great War. Its tragic end Trade and Conniesion House fraging, was no reproach to Hindenbury; with consumershowing more in-
Sugar: but was a bitter condemnation of terest. The market looks higher.
The market was firnt. the politicians,
were.
Mr. Fraser added that this boy was Norman Stone.
Yung Sul, the coolie whe rescued Norman Stone, said he failed at first to get hold of the boy, and was washed off his feet himself Ife was swept down the nullah for Hitler added that it was the There is a continued good demand a long distance, before he caught
on the market at present him out. final triumph of the Old Army for Sports but substantial quantities hold of the boy again, and brought that, in 1920, Nationalistic Ger- many could find no better repre- sentative than Hindenburg.
appear
levels.
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1932.
Col. Nosworthy joined the Royal Engineers as a 2nd: Lieutenant in 1007, and was promoted to full Lieutenant in 1910, Soon after the outbreak of war he received the rank of Captain and three years later was made a temporary
As President, he became the 30 Industrinis Major, the appointment being substantiated in 1924, Ile was protector of the National-Socialist 120 Rails appointed Brovet Lient. Colonel revolution and thus protector of 20 Utilities In 1921, aubstantiation being the nation's resurrection.
Hitler's speech was followed by notified in 1932, two months after
"I ad which he
was appointed full the military song,
Comrade."--Reuter. Colonel.
During the Great War he held positions as G.S.O. 3, G.S.O. 2 and G.S.O. 1 with the troops in France, and from 1919 until 1922 was G.S.O. 1 at the Staff College at Quetta with the rank of temporary Lieutenant Colonel. He was then appointed to the War Office where From he held the post G.S.O. 2. 1926 until 1930 he was attached to the Sudan Defence Force, and two years inter eame to China.
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Mr. Hamilton: I take it that this Aug. 6. Aug. 7. man's action will be kept in mind
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Mr. Fraser: Undoubtedly. Jumped Into Nullah. Sidney Bowles, accountant em- Aug. 7.ployed by the Military Authorities, said he was walking alot Murray Path and was about 30 yards from the point where the nullah goes under the road, when his atten- tion was arrested by a crowd on the bridge where the sentry stood, He looked into the nullah and saw an European girl coming from under the bridge. She had just
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Montgomery Ward Nat. Distillers NY. Central Three further cuses of dog-Socony-Vacun lle aaw service during the War bites are reported by the police Union Pacille
United Aircraft in France and Belgium and was to-day.
Private G. Keetan, of the SouthU.S. Steel wounded twice. He was mention-
on Westinghouse F. & M. ed in despatches on six occasions, Wales Borderers, was bitten
the right hand by a dog in John- NEW A. A. Q. M. G.
kton Road, and was sent to the Col. H. G. Soth-Smith, D.9.0., Military Hospital for treatment.
Willst walking along Beach of the I.A.S.C. has been appointed Road, Repulse Bay, Cheng Ram successor to Brigadier G. B. piu, bus driver, of 201 Queen's
Paris.. Rowan Hamilton, D.S.O., M.C.Hout Gentral, was bitten by
an Geneva. who recently returned to the unmuzzled dog. He was later ad- Berlin.. United Kingdom on sick leave as mitted to the Government Civil Helsingfors. A.A.Q.M.G. in charge of Adminis-Hospital.
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The engagentent is announced be. Bucharest. tion with Hongkong to-day tween Lorna Margaret, daughter of Madrid. Allpore, Hamburg Maru, Groote Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Tollan of Hang- kerk, Kingyuan, Deli Mara, Baron kong, and Cyril Frederick, son of Brusecla Fairile, Talyuon, Limanca, Cremar, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wond of Bessacarr, Stockholm.. Copenhagen, Mikago Maru, Negato Mare, Doncaster, England.
Lisbon Ryuoh Maru.
The welding is announced to take Bombay, place shortly of Mr. Kenneth Frederic Yokohama.
Rio, .. Noble, Assistant Trade Commissioner,
Mentovideo. rolling at the Peninsula Hotel, and
Belgrade Miss Jonnie Elizabeth MacPhail of
Montreal,. Vancouver, Canada.
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rolled over the step.
Immediately jumped into the nullah", continued witness, "and by the time I was in the nullah the girl was on me.
were
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tho fourth body seemed to
scramble out of the water.
on
Saw Chinese With Boy. Pio. Eric Sollars, of the South
WAS sentry duty at the bridge, sall Wales Borderers, who
he heard shouts, and on rushing forward, saw Michael Pine shoot underneath the bridge. He ran
Queen' down Murray Path to Road, and looked over the edge of the tunnel. He say Chinese holding on to the boy, and they disappeared, in the tunnel. He shouted to ite. Linton, who was in Murray Quarters, and, accom panied by Pte. O'Kelly, took n rickeha to the V. R. C.
On July 9, witness said, he attended an identification parade, where he picked out the accused eut of nine men as being like the man he saw holding Michael Pine,
anid he did not notice a wound on In reply to Mr. Lim, witness
the man's head at the parade. Ifo recognised the accused by tho general resemblance to the man he had soon, and not by any necullar features..
Accused Arrested. "I tried to hold her, but a
Private Phillip Simmons, of the N. A. A. F. I, employee, who was
South Wales Borderera, Bald he grasping a European boy, swept down the nullah on top of and Pto. McCarthy went down in- us, We were all washed down to-to the tunnel to search for Michael Pine. They went down the left gether.
hand side, and went right to the "I tried to check their progress, exit, without accing the boy. 15.41 but realising we were all going Witness, leading the way, and 12.95 down, I then-ondenvoured to put McCarthy than returned through 220 myself across the nullah. I then the nullah, on the opposite side.
623 folt another bump, and Mary When they had gone about
The 58.21/32 Pine was washed over my feet to Jards he ran into a man, whom he
30% my loft and the European boy now know was defendant. 1/4 went over my body, I recognised man was standing tight against 5.06% the. N. A. A. F. I. "boy by his the wall, facing outwards. He 1.43 uniform,
also recognised asked the man what he was doing
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27 Mary Pine, but not the European there and how he had got there,
but received no reply. 121.3/10 boy.
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36.13/10 "I checked them momentarily, 1/6.1/10 but thon, possibly owing to the 21.43 third bump, the dam formed by my 22.30% body was broken.
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McCarthy and he then took the out. The man tried to man
escape, and they had to use force. Pte. Heywood and Pto. Linton came up and assisted them.
They turned the man over on
"After they had all passed, I got 1/0.1/10 out of the water and ran to the
1/2 mouth of the tunuel, There I saw his stomach, and carried him out, 4% Corporal Giles and Mary Pine, each holding a leg and an arm. 38% who wore standing up a few yards When they got as far as the open- mag went Imp. Pte. 221 inside the tunnel. I saw the boys. the 4.95
disappearing into the tunnel be- Burgess applied artificial respira- 20.13716 20.15/10 foro aaw Mary Pine, whom I tion.
The hearing was then closed, .104
104.7/16 pulled out". ----British Wireless.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs, Kerr will be interested to learn that they are leaving for Honu on the P. & D. liner Carthage on Saturday morning, Mr. Kerr has been AB. The wedding is announced to take Silver (forward),20.9/10 Rociated with the Royal Hongkong place shortly of Mr. Thomas Madison Golf Club at Fanling for a period Pile, realdent at the Officer's Meas of twenty-three years, Their daughter, Patsy, who is a member of the staff
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One care of diphtheria was report Scotland, now on route to the Colony ed to the local health authorities dur. on board the P. & O, liner Rawalpindi, ing the holidays.
In reply to Mr. Lim, witness and will be resumed this after said that whon the human dam noon. Mr. Hamilton intimated ho was broken, 3tary Pino and the would sit until 6 p.m. to-day, and European boy passed over him, would sit again at 11.15 am, and and the N, A. A. F. I. "boy" and 2.15 p.m. to-morrow,
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