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JUNE FRIDAY,
17,
1938.
日十二月五
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GRAND CANAL FLOOD NOW THREATENS
SITUATION
INCREASES
Japanese Trapped By Flood And Powerful Foe
PEAK
IN GRAVITY MURDER
Japanese Silent As Additional Rains Add to Danger
Tsangchow, June 17.
Floods are now feared in the Grand Canal. Waters in the canal, which stretches a thousand miles from north to south and runs through four provinces, are continuing to rise, due to the penetration of flood waters from the Yellow River, and the situation is reported to be grave in the outlying areas from Tsangchow.
Failure to close a number of breaks in the banks of the Grand Canal is causing floods in low-lying areas in Shantung.-United Press.
JAPANESE SAY NOTHING
Shanghai, June 17.
For the first time in many days, the Japanese military, naval and embassy spokesmen had no news to report to this morning's press conferences.
Silence regarding the flood situation seems to indicate that the floods may have become worse since the last information was given out, stating that further intermittent rains were swelling the floods.-Reuter,
Snipers Attack Engineers
Peiping, June 17.
A Japanese officer who has just returned after a survey light over the flood areas in Honan reports that the breaches in the Yellow River are now over a hundred yards wide each.
Ten Japanese engineers who were the attempting to repair one of breaches were shot dead by Chinese snipers, he said,
The floods have now reached a point forty miles south of Kaifeng, the capital.
Chungmou la completely Isolated but no water is in the streets of the town.
Kaifeng is at present in no danger, and the plane was able to land in the elly area-United Press.
SHANGHAI BADLY FLOODED
Week Of Rain In Northern. Port
last
Shanghai, June 17. Shanghai splashed its way to office this morning in a heavy downpour which began Saturday and is still continuing. Many parts of the city have been Inundated by flood waters, which Cannot escape swiftly enough to the Whangpoo. In some places the water
almost inee-deep and rescue vans ave been kept busy attending to cars stalled in the streets.
Although has been pouring ruin almost a week, Shanghai's wettest Beriod in many years shows no signs
ending.
The city's central shopping district,
Britain Urged
To Take
Stiff Reprisal
London, Jane 16,
In the House of Commons to- day Sir Joseph Leech asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bir John Simon, whether, notwith-
standing the temporary loss to all concerned, he would impose prohibitive duiles on Importations of Brazilian products Into the United Kingdom pending the cessation of the default which had extinguished 280,000,000 of British savings,
Sir Joseph urged this action on the grounds that as diplomatle protests were disregarded, unless the Government made it clear to foreign borrowers that illtreat- ment of British capital would be met by tariff reprisals, no British subject would invest in future in foreign countries, and as remli international trade would con- tract and unemployment would Increase, [
Sir John Simon In reply said the British Government attached the greatest importance to the resumption of payments on the Brazilian external debi and was In close consulfailon ith tho Council of Foreign Bond-holders. He had considered Sir Josephi Leech's suggestion but did not think it would achieve the object the honourable member had in mind-British Wireless.
Bound For
rticularly that portion of Nanking H.K. To Marry
Woad near the great Chinese depart- Hental stores, has been hardest hit. Low-lying areas of the city and
San Francisco, June 16, burbs are completely submerged.--- Miss Marge Zimmerman, a news- Heuter Special.
paper reporter employed by the Alameda Times-Star is departing to- UND FOR BOXERS' DEPENDANTS | day by the Matson liner Matsonia for
Honolulu. Capetown, June 16.
She will connect with The people of South Africa have filed £4,000 for the dependants of Canadian Pacifle liner. Empress of 1 four boxers and two South Japan at the Hawaiian capital, and Arican members of the R.A.F, who will sail to Hongkong, where she is to to killed in a plane crash in the marry Llout. Earl K. Solenberger, of 2018 rior.Reuter.
U.S.S. Monacocy-United Press.
:
HEARING
STARTS
Crown Outlines Grim
Evidence
Preliminary
proceedings against Lam Chun, charged with¦ the murder of Mgs. Sybil Ruby | Challoner, were commenced be- fore Mr. H. R. Butter at the Central Magistracy this after-!
NUOR,
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Accused, who is not represented by counsel, was formerly employed as house-boy by Mrs. Challinor, and it
stabbed her Is alleged that he
to
death with a butcher's knife in her bedroom at 499 The Peak on the night
of May 8, and wounded her husband, Mr. R. H. Challoner I
furious Night.
Crown Counsel, Mr. J. Whyatt, Is appearing for the prosecution, and ecused, who was himself injured in an alleged attempt to escape by Jumping from the roof of the house, appeared In Court on crutches.
(Continued on Page 12.)
Picturesque Labour Leader Dies
Rose From Pit-Boy To
President Of Miners' Federation
London. June 16. Mr. Herbert Smith, the labour
RESCUE CREWS FACE DANGER of the same sort that men in the front 11he of fighting are called upon to bear, and they perform their gruesome tasks with every bit as much courage as the fighting men. This is a body of Canton rescue workers during one of the recent air raids, awaiting a fresh
summ ons,
HUSBAND DETAINED, YOUNG WIFE DROPS
THOUSANDS
FACE DEATH IN HONAN
Supplies and Heavy Equipment Already
Lost in Retreat
Hankow, June 17.
A large body of Japanese troops, estimated at several thousand strong, has been trapped between the rising floods in Honan province and an overwhelming force of Chinese.
The Japanese were retreating on the western
FROM HOTEL WINDOW fringe of the floods when they were suddenly
As Vladimir Ivanovitch Schultz, 21, faced Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the Central Magistracy this morning on a vagrancy charge, his pretty 22-year-old Russian wife was penning a letter to him in her room on the first
floor of the Kowloon Hotel.
A few minutes later Mrs. Schultz fell from the
Window of the room on to a table, 40 feet below in the
back yard of the hotel. The table saved her from certain death. Had she fallen on the concrete paving it is |probable she would have been killed instantly.
The faithfulness of a brown Chow dog drew atten-
leader who rose from the workhouse tion to the tragedy.
to became President of the Miners' Federation, died suddenly in Barns)
It is believed that the animal, which was in the room
ley to-day. The late Mr. Smith was with Mrs. Schultz, jumped after her. taking an active part in the by-elec- tion which was fought to-day at Although Injured by its jump the BRITISley.
dog stood over the unconscious body of its mistress, barking furiously until hotel servants came out to stop the commotion.
After recording his vote early this morning he proceeded to his office. Shortly afterwards he was found dead in his chair.British Wireless.
The Manager of the Hotel wus in- "Our 'Erb"--plain, blunt Herbert
formed by two boys who discovered Smith, was known to almost every the barking dog and the unconscious
An ambulance
was Im- of inediately called and she was con-
one of Britain's millions of under- ground workers.
Grim. imperle, gruẩ speech, and
woman.
in every utter-veyed to the Kowloon Hospital. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Schultz consciousness. was just regaining
ance, his 78-year-old leader was one
of the most forceful and picturesque She does not know yet that her Пgures in British labour,
His cloth cap and muffler, the husband has been committed to the deadly-looking pipe Invariably stick-House of Detention.
ing from his firmly-set jaws, his ALLOWED OUT DURING DAY sturdy frame with its loosely hang-
ing clothes were known throughout He will be allowed out only during the United Kingdom.
the daytime, and must return at
He was born in the humblest of night. circumstances In Yorkshire. His
BRUTAL ASSAULTS
ON JEWS
Non-Uniformed Army
Beats Defenceless Berlin Tradesmen
Berlin, June 16, Hundreds of non-uniformed mep entered the poor Jewish father, a miner, was killed in a dis- The two Russians arrived in Hong-qua.ter of North Berlin, smear- uster in a colliery just before his kong from Hankow on Wednesday ing shop windows with white) birth, and his mother had to go into morning, and registered at the Kow-paint slogans, dragging Jews the work-house at Preston, near Ioan Hospital.
into the street and manhandling Kippax, for his birth. He became
It
intercepted by the Chinese.
They are now between two enemies. The flood waters, commanding the low-lying levels creeping up to the doomed men, already bereft east of the Japanese, are slowly and inexorably
of their supplies and mechanised units by the waters of the river. To the west of the Japanese positions lie the firmly entrenched Chinese, safe themselves from the flood waters for the time being.
The Japanese cannot retreat from floods or Chinese. And they cannot remain in their present position, which will be inundated at any time.-Trans-Ocean.
Postman Held For Theft Of Air Mail
Accused of larceny of three air mail letters from the Isim Tsa Teul Post Office, Kowloon, a postman, Ma Kwong-sang, 23, was remanded for 24 hours when he was charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
It is understood that the Post- master General will take charge of the case when It comes again to-morrow.
up
pit-boy before he was ten years of the hotel yesterday morning, telling victims.
is understood that Schultz left und punching their unhappy "Blue Angel"
age, but force of character and men- one of the "boys" that he was not tul energy quickly blossomed out of feeling well, and thought of entering the hard knocks, and before the age hospital. He had not since returned of 21 he had become a member of and only this afternoon it was learned the local school board.
This stepping stone to public life that he was in police custody on a rupidly led to membership in thei parish council, the district council, the board of guardians and the
nty council.
county
vagrancy charge.
Mrs. Schultz took her dog for an airing at about 6 p.m. last night, and whilst out walking became ¡II, AĮ
published a decree, ordering a special The Official Gazette simultaneously register to be kept of all Jewish firms, and empowering the Minister for Economics to proscribe all Jewish shops identified as such,
Of War Years Dead
Firms owned and controlled by Lady Muriel Paget Won
Love Of Thousands
THE Years os president of the European escorted her back to the mission from
Miners' Association, ont hotel.
his efficiency the brought him the
plum of tho British mining world, It is believed that the two Russians the presidency of the National are in straightened circumstances. Ai Federation.
among
letter was discovered in their roarn
after the accident this morning, in- forming Mrs. Schultz that she could obtain free accommodation at a cer- tain benevolent institution in Hong-
foreign Jewa will require special per- the Minister for Economics before. they can register. -United Press.
London, June 16. Lady Muriel Paget, the "Blue Angel" of the Great War and Russian Revolution-so-called because she always wore a blue! uniform-is dead at the age of 62.
Shift to Yangtse
Hankow, June 10, Since the Japanese operations on the plains of Honan have been un- expectedly interrupted by the over- flowing of the Yellow River, it is generally assumed that the
centre
of
fighting will be transferred to the valley of the Yangtse River, where strong Japanese naval, military and nir forces are now concentrated..
According to reports received hero on Thursday the Japanese so far have only succeeded in goining a footing on the northern bank of the river.
It is added that the town of Nintu- shan, on the, southern bank of the Yangtse, is still in the hands of the Chinese.
Other reports, also from Chinese
sources,
assert that the Chinese (Continued on Page 4.)'
STOP PRESS
CANTON EXPECTS VENGEANCE ATTACKS
And there he stood until his retire
ALLEGEDLY TRIED ment in 1929, grimly fighting the miners battles, stubbornly resisting
TO FOOL BANK
Canton, June 17. long hours and short wages.
Canton has just had an air He loved dogs and hated tele- keng..
Described as an office boy, Tong phones Cabinet ministers,
Lady Muriel, who was given the raid alarm, At 2.80 p.m. the In Court this morning. Schultz told Ying-sang. 17, was charged with C.I.E. in the Birthday Honours sirens sounded all over the city. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. J. H. and money hád beon stolen from him and Shanghal Banking Corporation/carlier this month for her charliable them Earl Baldwin, the late Mr. the Magistrato that all his possessions attempting to defraud the Hongkong
It is not certain where the Thomas, were his friends.
work in Russia and elsewhere while he was on his way by train of $75 by means of
in attacking planes were sighted, bearer cheque Europe, died peacefully in her sleep. but Canton anticipates a heavy from Hankow to Hongkong.
issued by Marrine S. Wong, by Im She was one of England's grealest The twe Russians are described on sion of the cheque. He came before 12th Earl of Winchilsea, who owned destruction of the six Japanese plying that he was in lawful or welfare workers. Daughter of the bombardment in revenge for the their Chinese passports as "Russians Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the estates of 0,000 acres, she married planes on
Country." They cannot Central Magistracy this morning, and Sir Richard Pagel, tamed
a Hankow Canton was remanded for 72 hours for
scientist railway bombing expedition yes- further enquiries.
and composer, in 1807.
Though brought up in sheltered terday-Renter The complainant was Mr. E. L. circles, Lady Muriel felt in her girl Traverner,
and Detective Sub-hood a deep sympathy with the less) Inspector W. Ritchie is prosecuting.
(Continued on Pago 4.)
FAILED TO GET PERMIT For driving his car with a trailer | Without a attached without permission, Mr. Cobtain U.S.S.R. passports. the S. Brace, 34, Mody Road, pleaded
gully to a summons through a repre- Mrs. Schulte, was reported to be scatative who appeared before Mr, out of danger at 2.30 p.m. She will A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon be transferred from the Kowloon to Magistracy this morning. A fine of the Queen Mary Hospital as soon as $0 was imposed.
her condition permits.
(Further Stop Press News on Page 12J.
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