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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1988.
Cloudbursts Add to Yellow River's
HOPE OF STEMMING ADVANCING WATERS FADES WITH STORM
3,000,000 People Menaced By Approaching Flood
Hankow, June 17.
Cloudbursts and further torrential rain along the Yellow River have ended faint hopes that Japanese and Chinese sappers, aided by Chinese peasants, would be able to effect a last-minute closure of the breaks in the dykes.
ANOTHER BRITISH SEAMAN KILLED
Unofficial Denial Of Attack On Castellon By German Fleet
France Over
AIR MAIL AGAIN DELAYED
Daedalus Leaves For Bangkok
The air mail from England has again been delayed and is not expect- ed to arrive here before to-morrow afternoon.
Restless Intervention from Europe.
Barcelona, June 16. A seaman of British nation- ality, born at Mauritius, was fatally wounded in to-day's air rald on Barcelona,
He was running to his ship, The floods have assumed even greater proportions the Seabank Spray, from an air raid shelter when he was blown as a result of yesterday's torrential rains, and the red-up by a bomb.-Reuter Special, brown waters of the rivers are now pouring relentlessly across the surrounding country from at least 20 breaks in the embankments.
SEMI-OFFICIAL DENIAL
Berlin, June 18, The report that German destroyers shelled Castellon prior to its occupa- officially denied.--Reuter Special.
It is estimated that over 3,000,000 people are now tlon by the Insurgents is semi- endangered by the flood waters.
The Chinese and Japanese troops who were fighting desperately in the Lunghal Railway aren Inst week are now separated by a lake 33 lies the Yellow wide, extending from River to Chowkiakow and covering over a thousand square country.
miles !
The city walls of Kaifeng, capital of Honan province, are still holding the waters in check, but Kaifeng is surrounded by a sea that is rapidly rising, and is slowly eating at the foundations of the ancient walls.
Flood waters are moving rapidly
Labour Holds Barnsley
With Substantially Bigger Majority
London, June 17.
with Labour holds Barnsley and
in a solid wall in the direction of an increased majority'. Anhwet province.-Trans-Ocean.
Had Slim Hope
Due to the death of Mr. J. Polts. whose fight at the last general elec- tion wrested the seat from the Na- tional Liberal, Mr. R. J. L. Soper, Shanghal, June 17.
n by-election was fixed for yesterday.
Mr.
Collindridge Frank The floods are spreading relent- lessly over the Oat plains of northern Labour's nominee, and he polled Honan, and have inundated an area 23,666 against Mr. Seymour Howard, now estimated to cover approximately National Liberal, with 13,052. a thousand square miles
However, Japanese engineers and
was
Mr. Potts majority was something
officers directing the fight against the over 7,000-Reuter.
floods are confident that the water
can be stopped if the Yellow River does not show a further rise within the next 48 hours.
Rain in the immediate vicinity of the breached embankments, or fur- ther up the river, will make human efforts to stem the floods hopeless, leaving the way open for a major catastrophe.
In such an event the Yellow River would seek a new course, and would probably flow southward along its ancient bed, pact Hsuchow, to the sea in the vicinity of Haichow.-Reuter.
Opium Divans Discovered
A wholesale rald on opium divans in the Central district yesterday by officers of the Revenue Department, resulted in the arrest of four traffickers who were severely dealt with by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith this Magistracy at the Central morning.
Insurgents Sweep On To Villareal
Capture Of Castellon Brings Rejoicing
Saragossa, June 18. Insurgent troops have captured Villareal, a town of 20,000 inhabitants Elx miles south of Castellon.
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MeanwhUc, Insurgent Spain wildly rejoicing over the capture of Castellon, and General Franco is re- ceiving many telegrams of congra- tulation-Reuter Special.
RAINFALL FAR FROM NORMAL
The temperature in Hongkong at The charges preferred against the 10 o'clock
this morning was 85 men were possession of opium and degrees, with humidity registering keeping flats
opium divans. 70 per cent. The maximum tempera- A fine of $40 with the alternative ture during the last 24 hours wa 68, with the minimum last night at
of a month's hard labour, and
further. three months' hord Inbour 100.
were inflicted on Tse Sap-yee.
As practically no rain fell, the total rainfull for the year is now 23.04
Lee Yue was fined $110 or, in inches against an average of 31.51 default, two months' hard labour, inches. and on the second count, was The Royal Observatory weather sentenced to a month's hard labour. report, published at 10 o'clock to-day,
stated that an anti-cyclone of mod
Manchurla,
With a larger amount of oplum in crate intensity covers
his possession, Lau Fook, was fined Holdkaldo and the neighbouring seas.
DEMAND FOR DEBATE
Paris, June 14.
have The Communist deputies forced the Foreign Affairs Committee to reconsider resolutions proposing the re-opening of the southern fron- Lier for arms shipments to Loyalists in Spain.
the
The Premier, M, Edouard Dandier, has threatened to adjourn the Char- ber to-morrow until June 24 should the Communists insist on an im-
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Originally due here at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, the Imperial Airways plane Daedalus delayed its departure from Bangkok awaiting the plane Eventually, however, 42 hours behind schedule, the Dacda- 7.08 Mozart-Sonata I lus arrived here yesterday afternoon Major, K. 570.
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COL TIDBURY FLYING HOME Lt. Colonel O. 11. Tldbury, Com-
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SHARE PRICES
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Two Killed In Traffic Accidents
Another fatal accident occurred in Kowloon yesterday when a lorry No. 4128 driven by Suen long-kwan down a married woman knocked named Cheung Kwel who died while on the way to the Kowloon Hospital. The driver Suen was, sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital with injuries to the hands when the lorry skidded and overturned in Saigon Road near the Kowloon Dalry.
LORRY HITS MAN
A P.W.D. lorry, No. 689, was in- volved in an accident yesterday, when, in Queen's Road East near the R.A.O.C., it knocked down Lum Pak- sum, 44, who was later sent to the Queen Mary Hospital with hend in- juries.
HEAD INJURIES
An 11-year-old boy was sent to the Queen Mary Hospital yesterday with been head injuries after he had knocked down by a car driven by Mr. F. Neil in Lockhart Road.
CYCLIST KILLED
While driving car No. 177 along Queen's Road yesterday, Lau Kwel- shing collided with a cyclist named Wong Sap, who died shortly after. being admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital.
STOCK MARKET QUIET, STEADY
London, June 16, The Stock Exchange this morning was quietly steady.
The popularity of the £80,000,000 | defence loan, Issued at 3 p.m., was
$180 or three months' hard labour, Pressure is relatively low over Tong-illustrated by a premium which at and an additional month's
labour for keeping a divan.
burding.
Local forecast is:-East and south- Chan Leung was fined $110 or two cast winds, moderate; fair generally, months hard labour, and a further with local showers.
four months' hard labour on the second charge,
Revenue Omeer J. L. Stephens prosecuted.
CANTON ROAD RAID
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Continuing their relentless search Sent by a furniture shop to the for drug possessors, Revenue Officers Luk Kwok Hotel yesterday to ralded a house in Canton Road on arrange some furniture in the rooms, June 19 and there arrested a man Kwan Cheuk, 38, helped himself to named Tong Sau, 28, unemployed, $60 in banknotes from the wardrobe for unlawful possession of prepared of one of the residents. This morn- oplum.
ing, at the Central Magistracy, Kwan was sent to prison for six weeks by
Tang was charged with the offence Mr. H. R. Bullers.
one time touched a half per cent.
Kaffir attracted keen interest at the outset, but later met with profit- taking. Austrian loans weakened on the German statement repudiating responsiblity.
The gold market was again active, and the day's total dealings amounted to £1,500,000. Speculative re-selling| on the Continent, however, is inter- preted in some quarters as a sign that fears of dollar devaluation abating-Reuter Special.
BUILDING FUND SWELLED
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before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett The complainant, Yip Wal, dis- The Building Committee of Christ
at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day covered that $60 was missing shortly
Church,
Kowloon Tong, expresses and was remanded for 72 hours for after the defendant had left his room: gratitude for the following donations: further enquiries.
Ho ran after him immediately, and Thanksgiving Offering .... Revenue Officer Warden said that on having him searched in the street, Mr. R. Ashton Hill
the money was found.
Mr. T. C. Ellacott Defendant's record on being pro- "Cents," St. Andrew's that occnalon a duced in Court, showed that he had Miss Ludwell..
been bound over for a minor larceny Mr. A. E. P. Guest
the same house month, and on juvenile was arrested.
was raided last
THIEF SENTENCED
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offence last year.
DOCTOR'S SATCHEL STOLEN
Far breaking into a premises in
Dr. S. S. Strahan of Alexandra Bonham Strand East, and stealing umbrellas on the morning of June 2, Buliding, has reported to the police Kwan Yuk, 43, unemployed, was the loss of a bag containing medical sentenced to two months hard labour Instrumenta and medicine to by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the value of $95 from his car No. 13861, Central Moglairacy to-day,
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