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FEARFUL HAVOC AS TYPHOON HITS MANILA
SEVEN STEAMERS DRIVEN ASHORE IN MIDNIGHT HURRICANE
VIENNA FEARS NEW CRISIS
GUARDS AGAINST
REVOLT
MACHINE-GUNS
IN STREETS
HEIMWEHR UNDER ARMS
(Special to "Talegraphs")
(B Telegraph, Copyright. Teleprojkin Men..
Ordinance.
18. 1.17 am)
1291. Received,
October
Vienna, Oct 15.
Police and Heimwehr were ordered fully mobilised and under arms in Vienna to-day prepared to meet the of another Communist putsch.
menace
For the second time within a month police intercepted messages of plottern which indicated that! plans for revolt were afoot, The latest Information is that дл uprising was scheduled to take place to-night.
Dr. Kurt Schuscanigg, the Austrian
Chancellor, who is facing another
crbis.
BELGRADE MOURNS HER KING
ALEXANDER'S HOME-GOING
MIDNIGHT SCENES OF SORROW
Belgrade, Oct. 15. the presence
In
LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
IN ISLANDS
STORM STRIKES WITHOUT SUFFICIENT WARNING
CITY WAKES IN MIDDLE OF NIGHT TO SCOURGE OF GALE
SHIP'S
STORY
WIRELESS TELLS OF DISASTER
SWEEPING DOWN WITH Terrifying force and SUDDEN- NESS, THE WORST TYPHOON SINCE 1921 STRUCK MANILA IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING, DROVE SEVEN LARGE SHIPS ASHORE, CAUSED UNTOLD PROPERTY DAMAGE AND, IT IS FEARED, CLAIMED A NUMBER OF LIVES.
IT CHANGED ITS THE TYPHOON WAS UNEXPECTED. COURSE DURING THE NIGHT AND ADVANCED UPON MANILA FROM DUE EAST, LASHING THE HARBOUR AND SPREADING DISASTER AMONG THE SURROUNDING FARMS IN THE CAPITAL'S VICINITY.
All
attack of
normal communications It seems that it suddenly chang. were temporarily interruptedd its course due west, accounting
fts unexpected. for and the only contact with Manila Manila, which took a good deal of was through radio with the Pre-shipping unawares, sident Johnson, the Dollar Steam. ship Company's boat, which re- of ports itself safe in Manila Har-
bour.
EARLY ALARM. According to United Preak der- patches, the storm started at 1.30
Machine-guns have been mounted at strategic points on public buildings and in the railway stations and hundreds of thousands of Acearting to information resam. and reached its maximum strong forces of armed men men, women and children,ceived in Hongkong, the typhoon velocity shortly before 6 amn.
There are soveral feet of water are on guard and patról in who stood silently waiting struck Manila about one o'clock
this morning. the eity and its in the streets in various parts of the key-points of the capital. for hour after hour in the environs receiving the full fores the elty, hundreds of trees have
semi-lighted streeta, the of the gale coffin of King Alexander
WAS the
HEAVY DAMAGE.
Four-liners and three island
bcon blown down and Nipa houses have been unroofed,
Because of the danger of fire and electrocution from dangling ovorhend wires, the police ordered the power of the city shut off at
4.20 a.m.
NO TRAFFIC.
FURTHER SILVER ACTION?
·CHINESE BANKER LOOKS AHEAD
NO WISH TO HURT TRADE
Shanghai, Oct. 16. A
prominent Chinese banker foreshadows further silver action by the Chinese! Government.
'Gov-
1,000 MINERS ON DEATH STRIKE
REFUSE TO COME UP FROM SHAFT
FOOD EXHAUSTED FOUR DAYS AGO; AIR CUT OFF
1894.
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH”)
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Toleghaphic Messages Ordinance,
Received, Oct. 16, 8.49 am),
Budapest, Oct. 15.
A thousand miners have been on hunger strike near here for the past four days, a thousand feet below the surface of the earth. They are enduring the agonies of starvation, being without food or water, rather than accept the defeat of their demand for an 18 per cent. wage increase.
WIVES AT PITHEAD
The late M. Raymond Poincare, moted French statesman, whose death has just occurred.
DEATH OF M. POINCARE
BRITISH SYMPATHY
The
EXPRESSED
British
No hope of settlement had presented itself this. evening. though the Government repre- sentatives the scene were doing their utmost to bring the strikers' spokesmen and the mine ownora together:
The operators are the Danube Steam Navigation. Company.
TERRIBLE SCENES
There have been terrible scones at the pit-head. A clamouring crowd of women was only proven. ted from descending into the mino In a body to die with their husbands"-by-soldiers with~ma- chine-guns and fixed bayoneta threatening them. There are 1- 200 of these women, wives of the Christian Socialist minera and they continue to demand-access to the shaft-head.
"te have a right to be with our. husbands," they declare, "and to die with them if we wish it."
AIR SHUT OFF:
To bring matters to a crisis, the self-imprisoned minors shut off the air pumps and as a result they are now suffering seriously in terrific heat and vitlated air,
There are a number of boys, merp children, among them.
"HAVE COFFINS READY",
Emissarica who desconded to the pit counselling the miners to come back to the surface and negotiate, were arrested,
THIRD CIVIL WAR?
Authorities are concerned with the situation, for it has been free-arrived at midnight.
The city was rocked by the ly predicted that the country
The widowed Queen Marie and terrific force of the hurricane, would be ravaged by a third civil Queen Marie of Rumania, in the and it is estimated that the ex- war before the end of the year. deepest mourning, together with tent of the damage already as- In February last it Socialists who rebelled and 2,000 rinse Paul and other members of certained amounts to several mil- were killed and wounded before Government, mot the train.
the regency and of the Belgrade lions of Pesos.
No street cars are running, fow taxis have dared the weather yet the revolt was suppressed. In July. It was the Nazis who rose, The Queen lenned heavily on the ships have been driven aground, and only a few private cars are
He pointed out that the killing the little Chancellor, arm of Prince Paul and after the the bigger boats being the Gert moving. Most of the streets are ernment only desired to stop the rude Kellogg, Atlantic Gulf, Engelbert Dollfuns, and losing | train's arrival and the ceremohles
impassible, blocked by fallen trees export of silver and did not wish Home five hundred lives themselves connected with it, she entered the Ulysses and Glenegle.
and debris,
to impose a burden on legitimate Dewey Along the woll known before they were suppressed. The royal earringe with her mother,
In Manila Bay there are five big business. Nazi rebellion caused a European Marie of Rumania, and drove to Boulevard have been found fifteen ships ashore,
It in possible that Chinese mer-
London, Oct. 15. The message the miners sent to crisis.
the old palare in advance of the life preservers of the s.s. Mundaca,
This, says United Press, is the chants desiring to purchase goods to the terror of worst storm since 1921.
Ambassador in the outside world by mine tele- coffa.
grim testimony
from foreign countries will bej The coffin was laid in a catafal- the gale.
assisted in the matter of exchange Paris, Sir George Clerk, to-day phone was: TYPHOON'S COURSE.
on Monsieur Laval, the que in the palace ball-room where
rates, he added. THE STRANded ship9. short religious ceremony was
The Royal Observatory report-
are prepared to die here from gas The majority opinion in Chinese new French Foreign Minister.
The Ambassador requested him polsoning and hunger rather than The Gertrude Kellogg is an oiled at 10.23 this morning that, the banking circles is one of satisfac-
outside. carrying ship owned by the typhoon was situate within 120 tion over the Government's action, to convey messages of sympathy by the slow starvation
the Prime Minister, Mr. because we have not sufficient Kellogg S.S. Corporation of New miles of Lat. 15, Long. 115, moving but it is felt that further action from
And the wages to buy bread."-Reuter York; the Atlantic Gulf belongs W.N.W.
will have to be taken to prevont Ramsay MacDonald, of the Heimwehr, has predicted
to the Atlantic Gulf and Pacifie If it continues on its present the smuggling of silver for sale Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon Special. thut, the Nazis will try again"
Priesta will stay in the death i Co., of Manila; the Glenogle in course, it should pass some 800 profit.—Reuter.' ' before Christmas. If they are: ready to fight and should throw chamber throughout the night, the well-known Glen Line steamer; miles south of Hongkong.
In the absence of advices from but there is nothing in the news their weight against the Govern- praving. mant together with the Com- The coffin was placed on a gun-so far received which enables the outside, the position given by the munists, they might come near to carriage and was drawn to the Ulysses to be identified, there Royal Observatory must be re-
garded as approximate, success than they did on July 25. palace by officers of the Yugp-being several ships of this name. It is this against which the Slay army. It passed slowly REPORTS INDEFINITE.
taking Buch through the streets, densely lined elaborate precautions to-day.-- by slent crowds. The houses
NAZIS FRETFUL
It has been reported lately that the Nazis are becoming restless again and there are signs of held in the presence of relatives of browing trouble in that quarter..the dend King and members of his
Prince Ernst von Starhembers, entourage. Vice-Chancellor, and commander
authorities
are
CENSORS' RULE
ENDED
NIGHT-LONG PRAYERS.
were hung in black.
Four ouncers with drawn swords guard the body.
Crowda waited outside, prepared to file was the coffin in the mern Ing.-Reuter.
As yet there has been no definite reports of lives lost, although the suddenness of the typhoon left the
·
DOLLAR AGAIN
RISES
ASTUTE PIECE OF
STRATEGY.
Now York, Oct. 15.
called
to Madame Polneare on the death of her husband, which occurred] this morning.-British Wireless.
WINTER GRIPS NORTH CHINA
SUDDEN TUMBLE IN TEMPERATURES
hay
"Havo 950 coffins ready. We
STRIKE ENDED.
Budapest, Oct. 15. The suicide strike at Pecs has ended. The 1,000 miners will get additional pay and there will be no punitive measures-Router MILITARY ATTACHE AT PEKING
MAJOR LOVAT FRASER
· ́ ́ ́APPOINTED
London, Oct. 18... Major W. A. Lovni. Fraser of the Indian Army has boon op- pointed British Military Attache at Peking-Reuters
The imposition by China of a tox of 10 per cent, on silver exports is praised here generally as an astute In sympathy with the rise in piece of strategy by silver experts, The nation, which curtails the eity unprepared, and it is feared alvor piricos, i the Hongkong chief source that the toil of human life will dollar rose 3/8ths this morning to United States under its allyor buy
of supply for the be considerable.
Ja 8d. Inter-bank business
Shanghai, Oct. 16. Buildings have been extensively was done early at 15, 3.9/16d, The Ing programme as laid down by Congress, resulted in a sharp ad-
According to a report from London, Oct. 15. damaged, and the power lines market locally is steady.
vance in the price of bar silver as out of order. The At the funeral of King Aloxan- rendered
Sliver prices rose a half-ponný Canton, Oct. 16.
purchases In China hurriedly already se in in North China, her at Belgrade on Thursday, the Escolta is submerged three feet in London yesterday mainly bo- arbitrators who had sold against Poking, wintry weather
cause of speculativo
edpecially in Shensi, Shansi, Ho- buying. covered. The Canton, Government has an- British fighting services will be under water:
Ching sold, and the market was
pel and Sutyuen, where some of nounced that censorship of press represented as follows:- Navy, In the native villages around steady..
ADVANCE EXPECTED,
the smaller rivers have frozen. nows le ended from to-day.
Admiral Sir Willam Fisher the city, crops have been com Inter-bank business opened in
With the certainty that the The Inhabitants of Peking are Meanwhile, the Presa Censorship Army, General Sir Walter Braith-pletely destroyed and property Hongkong this morning at 1s. Government will not abandon its enjoying briak messages. Office has been instructed by the waite; Air Force, Vice-Marshal avaged by the storm." Southwestern Executive Council to Joubort de La Ferte.
8.7/16d, and later was done at purchases, informed circles here The Yangtse valley and the 18, 8.5/8d. sollers. There are ex-assert that the law of steady de northern part of Chekiang ex- wind up its affairs-Central News.
pectations that the local dollar will mand and curtailed supply will perienced a phenomenal change In the British Broadcasting" Indications are that the typhoon go to allver parity eventually, further enhance, the price of of weather yesterday when the Corporation Empire"tranamis- all Government buildings in Bri-.
mercury fell to as low as: 65sions, a composite recording of The Chairman and Board of tain on the day of the funeral made a sudden change in its track. Gold dollars were 1424, the marivar, Directors of the Hongkong & Shang British Wireless..
Yesterday afternoon the Manila ket being firm,
Magnwhile, Banks and bullion degrees in some places. It was the ceremony of the installation of hai Banking Corporation request that!
Observatory reported the cyclone The Shanghai exchange rate bas dealers, agree that unless the price 81 degrees at Hangchew the pre- General Smuts as Rector of the guests attending the ceremony of the
B.S.E. of Manila moving north-dropped from 18. 6.1/16d. to 18. of silver here moves substantially vious day. A further fall in the University of St. Andrew's will be laying of the foundation - skang to- H.M.S. Adventure, the British mine- west. If it, had continued on this | 6,11/168. ----
higher, exports from China would mercury -expected.--Contral | broadcast on October 17, at 7 pm. morrow arrive by 12 noon as illa layer arrived here from the north track it would have passed well Shanghai dollars opened at 118 be effectively checked. Moreover, News.
--British Wireless. will Excellency the Governor be this morning from
· Bummer: north of Manila.
and later dropped to 115.
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