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TERRORIST RAIDERS SURPRISED
British Troops Set Series Of Traps
Jerusalem, July 13. Considerable success is attend- Ing the British troops' system of "mouse-trap patrols" against terrorists in the Esdracion Hills,
in Galilee.
Assisted by volunteers, military patrols during the night-time fre- quent danger spots such as the oll pipe line. They are accompanied by small
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN CANTON:
(Continued from Page 1.) where, between the Tiger Balm Buliding, 100 were killed on July 8, and the Pearl River bridge. Five houses were totally destroyed and the about ten damaged, including New Life Movement headquarters, which
the Naval was formerly Administration building.
Walking along the bund twelve bodies including one woman and a small boy,
I
saw
About 20 mmpans had been blown to pieces in the river and Red Cross workers were retrieving shapeless masses of flesh which had once been parts
HONGKONG
THOUSANDS FLEE FROM CHOLERA
Indian Provinces Terribly Afflicted
of bodica of lusty, life-ing forests. loving river people.
Wooden gangways running from the Bund to the mooring platforms along the river were slippery with
partics of Jewish super-blood. numerica who net as decoys.
The marauders regard the handful of Jews as easy prey, but Immediate ly the attack opens the troops swuop down from the flanks.
While towns are slumbering under strict curfews, the northern country districts are at present scenes of in- creasing activity cach night.
Sentries are posted on the water towers of Jewish villages, and they continuously aweep the countryside with their searchlights, with which isolated colony 19 now every equipped.
The Jewish colonies are heartened In the knowledge that lorries man- ned by British troops, armed with machine guns, are standing by.-- -Reuter,
MORE BRITISH TROOPS
Jerusaleum, July 13.
British
have Additional
troops arrived, as terrorists, adopting new tactics, set Bre to the Jewish synago- gue and a flour mill here-United Presa.
DAMAGE CLAIM FAILS
Continued from Page 1)
fendants by showing that there
Was
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an unusual and violent stopping the train which enused him the injury complained of.
The raison decidendi here is not far to seek. A railway company in the main runs its trains over its own
property and is therefore prima facie responsible for anything untoward happening on that properly which has led to an accident
DIFFERENT MATTER
Bodles torn by shrapnel or pulped bridge, by concussion loy, near the Although the neures! bomb hand exploded 300 yards away.
One bomb fragment struck the Y.M.C.A. Building and penetrated the office of W. W. Lockwood, the secretary. The Kwangtung Provincial Bank was also dumaged by a bomb.
Directly across the river, on the Honem side, number of shops and ten-house and a temple were re- duced to a mass
debris. Four bomba had evidently fallen directly along the river front.
Here counted ID bodies, and while I was there Red Cross workers in small bouts retrieved 3 or 4 more
the shallow waters near the
In the bottom of one boat lay young man and woman. They were husband and wife, said the Red Cross workers.
Among the 10 bedles
women.
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WORLD FLIERS MOVING SWIFTLY
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ings. Therefore the topographical
features of the country were of little assistance to the flors.·
ERADIO BROADCAST
The Z.B.W. Orchestra From the Studio FRENCH PROGRAMMES
The clapsed time from tho de- parture of the Blers from America until their arrival at Yakutsk was 30 hours one minute, while their fly- Ing time was 42 hours 21 minutes, Lucknow, July 18.
They hoped to arrive at the Floyd
Radio Programme Broadcast by The cholera epidemic in the Ben net airfold on Thursday night, zo Profrequency of 845 R.c. B.
thus stashing Wiley Posts's
Posta's record by United Provinces, which so far three full days. The plane had aver and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. 9.52 m.c.'s per has claimed over 20,000 victims, aged 205.2 miles an hour from Omsis. and 8-11 p.m. on
second. Radiomen at San Francisco report-
0.0 Studio The Children's four. is driving the inhabitants of
7.0 Closing local Stock Quotations. North Gahrwal into neighboured that at 5 am. Pacific Standard Time Hughes had established direct
7.02 French Programme. contact with the west const com-
Musette Et Tambourin (Rameau) The terror-stricken people prefer munications,
had. and
reported
Orchestre Symphonique sous in the dangers from bears with which "Everything aboard the plane is direction do Francois Ruhlmann. the forests are infested to the un-perfectly O.K."
Nuit D'Espagne (From "Scenes From Fairbanks dangers of cholera in their vil-
comes the In-pittoresques-Massenet) ... Georges lages, and they are abandoning formation that u low stratus of Thill (Tenor) with Maurice Faure everything in their efforts to escape clouds and light fog hung over the at the Fiano, Scenes Pittoresques the scourge.
Bering Sea along the route Howard Angelus (Massenet); Scenes Pitto- Hughes in expect to take. However,
(Massenct) resques Fetes Boheme there were better conditions Inland,
London Palladium Tho
Orch. with a celling of 3,000 feet and conducted by Richard Crean. Le visibility of 20 miles.—United Press, Lieutenant Sourlant
(Film Sonore La Taratata"); Le Chant Less Than Three
Du Marin, (Film Sonore "Dans tous les ports du monde")..
Adrien Lamy avec Orchestre
la New York, July 13.
direction de Pierre Chagnon. Howard Hughes wirelessed his Bolero (Ravel)....The Lamoureux headquarters here at 6.35 p.m. British Orchestra
Parls Conductor: Standard Time that he was 903 miles Maurice Ravel; A Song Selection from Fairbanks, in Aleskin. The al-Intro-Ca sent la friture; J'aime tes men had then completed over two-grands yeux; Qui J alme: Le bistro thirds of the flight in two days, 19 hours,
23
min_
whereas Wiley moulin qui jase; A Paris de
du port; Le chaland qui
chaque Past took 7
18
Or- with hours, 40 faubourg....Lys Gauty minutes for the whole journey. chestral accomp;
An earlier message sald that "Voyage de Noce,"
was halfway Hughes
between pour Qul Tont De Folles (Du Yakutsk and Fairbanks, in Alaska at Voyage de Noce," Film Sonore).... about B p.m. British Standard Time,
Albert Prejean avec Orchestre sous according to a radio message picked in direction de Pierre Chagon; Morch up by Hughes headquarters in New Heroique
(Saint-Saens)..Orchestre York, Hughes then reported that Symphonique of Paris they
"going on nicely."--
by F. Ruhlmann. Router.
B.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.
In many cases the dead have been Jeft
uncremated in streets and homes of deserted villages, so great has been the haste to evacuaic infected places. An nrmy of voluntary workers has been mabilised under official diere- tion in an attempt to check the spread of the disease.—Reuter.
GERMANY WILL COMPETE FOR BLUE RIBAND
Hamburg, July 13.
It is belleved that Germany will shortly commence the construction of will
a gigantic ocean liner which were
attempt to wrest the Blue Riband for the Atlantle crossing from Britain and France.
Along the street I found a piece of skull-bone on the scene of the explosion. I picked up a note-book in which a peddler had been keeping his accounts. The first two pages were stuck together with congealed | blood.
These bombs fell about a quarter mile from the Pearl River bridge and 100 yards from the General Labour Union and the Machinists' Union which may have been the objectives. A clock still hung in one of the ruined houses.
stopped it bod 0.11 0.m.
nt
Back on the Canton side, on the Nu Tak Rond, a bomb wrecked the Stenho Middle School. Five bodios lay here.
The school is across the street from the European and American Re- turned Students Club. There is no military objective in this vicinity.
urge
or-
It Is Interesting to note that both the General Labour Union and the Returned Students Club had been most active during the past month in sending to affiliated Ranisations I conceive, however, that the post-
Inter-
tion of a tramway
Japan's oppose company which national action uns its trams along public thorough-bombing of civilians. fates, on which its normal functioning wing Hon Ronds.
Other bombs fell on Wa O and I do not know of any probable objective vicinity.
the
is obviously able to outside inter- Kerence, is entirely different and that the sudden and violent atopping of a tram would not therefore give itse to any presumption of negligence in the
company.
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to
to
Slippery With Blood
Canton, July 14.
On this view of the low the onus of The east Bund was so littered with establishing negligence hus been wreckage and the mute remains of throughout on the plaintiff and clear- human bodies that newspaper cor- ly has not been discharged. However, respondents investigating the effects that may be, if the onus here was on
of the raid were forced to step care- the defendant company to show that fully as they wended their way over no negligence of theirs contributed to
the area,
which was slippery with the accident, I am satisfied that
the blood that that
of the unfortunate victims, onus has been discharged. I
I have The courage and skill of the hos already indicated that I accept in pital doctors and nurses in the 18 main. the conductor's uncon- stupendous task of coping with the tradicted story and see no reason to
Tremendous odds in the merciful and doubt his version of the happenings herole work was a filting tribute to that led to his giving the emergency the finest traditions of the Red Cross, signal, and in particular his explana- apparently hopeless cases receiving tion of his failure to prevent the boy
prompt attention. passenger from alighting from the
In addition
to the people killed tram while it was in motion. I con-ashore, eye-witnesses state that 30 to sider that explanation reasonable 40 people were blasted into the Pearl and credible and am satisfied that in River, their bodies being carried the circumstances the conductor could away by the swift current." not have done more than he did.
In Angus case the plaintiff won and held his verdict because the jury disbelieved the evidence of the rull- way servant who sought to show that he was not to blame for the presence on the line of a passenger at the moment when the express which had to be pulled up, was op- proaching, and their disbelief seems to have been based largely on the failure of the defence to call the passenger 18 a witness. Here the non-appearance of the boy passenger is more than explicable and under- standable.
am satisfied also that the con- ductor made no error of judgment in giving the emergency signal to the driver but was fully justified in so doing. In this respect his position seems to me to be stronger than was that of the awners of the s.5. Highland Loch (1912 A.C. p.312) because he had no reason whatever to anticipate danger to anyone the result of his action, and can be held therefore, not so much to have chosen the lesser of two evils, as to
The authorities have cordoned off the area near the Pearl River bridge, and the grim work of sorting the corpses and remains is proceeding space.---Reuter,
Heavy Casualtics Feared
Canton, July 14. Heavy casualties are feared in the Pearl River bridge district, where the raiders are concentrating their attentions this morning.
Unlike Wongsha nad the other areas evacuated after last month's raids, the Honom and Pearl River populations have remained in their packed tenements.
materialisc
the
If present plans new German leviathan will be the
ever construeled, targest vessti Trans-Ocean.
URNS STOLEN FROM R. C. CEMETERY
were
Days
On Final Leg
Fairbanks, July 13. Howard Hughes and hia com- pansions hopped off from Fairbanks on the concluding stage of their round-the-world fight 1 9.76 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. They are heading for New York, and they are practically assured of beating Wiley Post's record by a full three days. United Press.
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Phew!!!
Call in
at
Mackintosh's
and get their 'advice
on the coolest things
(Du to wear- -they know.
conducted
0.03 B.E.C. Recording-Musle Hall Memories.
Chat by George Robey. 8.12 Studio A Concert of French Muslo by ZEW. Orchestra.
Suite L'Arlesienne (Georges Bizet); Part 1 (a) Prelude; (b) Minuetto; Carillon; Z.B.W. (c) Adog interval-S
Mcs Vers Orchestra; Cathulle
Ailes Avaleht Des
Hahn) (Hugo and Paysage (Theuriet and Hahn)...... Or- Ninon Vallin (Soprano) with
Andolf: chestra cond. by Godfroy Part 2.; (4) Pastorale; (b) Inter- (c) Menuetto; (d) Farandole;
The theft of eleven urns valued at
the from
Roman 511 Cemetery, Happy Valley, sometime between July 6 and July 13, was re- by purted to the police yesterday Lee Ching-wah, the sexton.
appear enveloped in a pall of smoite
and dust
haunt of news-reel camera-men.
Bombs Near Hospital Four bombs were dropped in the tightly packed north-west section of the city, seemingly near the 4th Group Army hospital,
In the distance could be heard the thud of big projectiles exploding near the loop line connecting the Canton-Hankow and Kowloon-Canton railways.
Arrives At Fairbanks
New York, July 14. Howard Hughes arrived at Fair-
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0.0 French Songs.
Orchestra;
9.10 Alfred Cortot at the Piano. "Prelude, Chorale And Fugue" Cesar Franck). (Cesar
9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 Latest Dance Musio.
banics at 4.18 a.m. British Standard mezzo: orchestra. Time. A description of his arrival was broadcast to New York where the crowd could be heard cheering
Why Do You Pass Me By? (Trenet, It has been asecrlained that neither
Hess & Misraki); La Chanson Des building has been hit, although the the flyers as they stepped from the plane. Howard Hughes landed coat-
Rues (Vaucaire & Goer)....Sung by bombs must have landed dangerously and looked tired, but he was th Sablem with Wal Berg & His close to the Ol Kwan Hotel, favourite smiling. Refuelling of the machine usique de G. Claret-Paroles de C'Est IA Guinguetic storted immediately.
Howard Hughes and his companions C. Francois)....Mme Damia accom
Choeurs Russca tools off from Fairbanks at 2.30 a.m.
pagnee раг
Wal- Afonsky sous la direction de B.S.T.
Broadcasting from Fairbanks, Stod-Berg dart, the radio operator, said: "The crew is a little tired, but we have been pretty comfortable during the entire trip. The people at Yakutsk were very friendly, but we had a little trouble in making them realise
Waltz Medley Intro:Whispering that we were in a hurry to get off," Waltz; You got the best of the bar-
Stoddart added that they probably
Am I the first one? Fox-Trot on the would not make New York in one
Moon; Somebody's thinking of you hop, but they might go to Edmonton
...Billy or Winnipeg, or more probably, St. to-night; Please be kind.
Thorburn (Piano solo with drums); Paul, as Fairbanks only had a 2,800- Fox-Trots-I've Got A Wonderful foot runway and they would be un- Feeling:
Swing.
Swing, Swing uble to take on a full load of petrol. Daughter Swing....Nat Gonells and A later message says that Hughes His Georglons with vocal refrain by decided to try and make St. Paul, Nat Gonella; Slow Fox-Trot-60 Minnesota, where he is expected to TONE
Quick-Step- Sweetheart; arrive within seven hours-Reuter. You're An Education....Henry Jae-
Long Crown Threatens Barriers ques and Ilis Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra; Fox-Troi-Cry, Baby, Fairbanks, July 13. Cry: In Santa Margherita....Jack Howard Hughes landed at Fair- Harris and His Orchestra' with vocal banks at 4.22 p.m. Pacific Standard refrain by Sam Browne, and Dinah Time, completing the 2,457 Siberia Miller, Fairbanks hop, while a crowd, in- cluding Mrs. "Wiley Post, roared an | press' ovation..
The first rald was over in 15 minutes, and Red Cross workers were an the scere immediately, feverishly succouring the wounded and the dying.
But the lull was only momentary, AL 8.30 a.m. the raiders were again over the city.
Tremendous crowds are milling on the band, outside the two gates leading into the British and French Concessions at Shameen.
They hope that, since they cannot cross the barricaded and guarded bridges, they will obtain sanctuary by remaining in close proximity to the Settlements-United Press.
Hankow Raided
Hankow, July 14. Last night, as a bright moon shone in the cloudless sky, Hankow lay in complete darkness, expecting the Japanese bombers to take advantage of the perfect conditions for an air raid. But, until dawn this morning,, the only machine
Hankow was above a lone Chinese reconnaissance plane, keeping guard over the city.
Just as the sun was coming over the horizon, Hankow's fears were justified. Nine Japanese bombers, unescorted by pursuit planca, roared above the city at 5.30 am.
A few minutes later they simul- taneously showered a tremendous are salvo of bombs on the airfield, which morning's is now covered in a pall of smoke and
dust.
A large number of raiders- participating in this activities, but owing to low lying clouds it is impossible to ascertain
their exact numbers.--Reuter.
27 Bombers Take Part
The ralders were greeted by severe anti-aircraft fire, but no Chinese pur-. suit planes have made their appear
ance.
As this message is being lied, raid still continues.--United Press.
Canton, July 14. For the third day in succession, 600 Casualties in Wuchang have done what was necessary to Japanese raiders are raining thunder- minimise the one evil of which he was cognisant.
There will therefore be judgment for the defendant company with costs.
Old Defender Going Too
ous death
Canton.
At least twenty-seven bombers are participating in this morning's raid, the most severe experienced in the present suries.
There may be more, for heavy banks of clouds are obscuring the talders, who become visible only when they power-dive through to release their deadly missiles on the heart of the city.
the city,
The first alarm was sounded at 7.40 a.m. and nt 8.5 a.m., five minutes after the second alarm, the raiders heralded their arrival by a tremend- Sentence of six months' hard labour and a fine of $375 or a further alxous salvo of thirty bomba that shook months was passed on Lal Tecung, 24, when be was convicted by Mr.
Missed Bridge 2.4. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning of running Ten bomba fell on Honam Island, a narcotic divan in Temple Street in the crowded built-up section near and being in possession of 220 heroin the Y.M.C.A. The objective, which pills and a tacl of prepared oplum.
Air Horror
Hankow, July 14. The total death roll in Wuchang as e result of the Japanese air raid on Tuesday has reached 131. The num- ber of wounded is put at 458, accord- ing to an investigation,
Thirteen more badly torn and
Tugay-Intro: Shadows
10.15 London Relay-Orient Ex-
A musical journey through Europe, over The Orchestra under the direction of Welford Hyden presented by Pascoe Thornton.
11.0 Close Down.
He
At 11.30 o.m. they passed Teller, Alaska, 530 miles west of Fairbanks, entering American soil three days after leaving New York.
Hughes was the first to descend from the plane, He seemed tired, but was in excellent humour. shook hands with Joe Crosson, who was supervising the landing arrange- ments.
The crowd threatened to break the barriers around the landing fleld, and the announcer repeatedly called them to "stay away until the plane has halted."
Following the Arctic circle, the from flyers crossed. Bering Strait
Cape Cape
Dezhenya, and sighted Prince of Wales at 1.30 am. Pacific Standard Time. They will remain at Fairbanks a few hours to refuel, after which they are expected attempt a non-stop hop to New York. Howard Hughes' headquarters said that the plane officially landed at 4.18 p.m. P.S.T., after averaging 204 miles
an hour from Yakutsk. United Press,
to
Geneva Red Cross Delegate
mangled bodies were extricated from For Flood Area
under the debris yesterday by excavators who' are zilli 'continuing their work. Ten critically wounded
A comprehensive survey of the succumbed in the hospital--Central Yellow River floods, which are re- News..
Lokchong Bombed
Canton, July 14.
re-
ported to have already claimed more
International Commission Not Feasible
London, July 13. The Prime Minister Informed the House of Commons to-day that it had been found impossible to arrange the formation of an International Commission to pro- coed to the scena of any aerial bombardment in Spain and to report the facts at the request of the spanish authorities concern- cd.
The British Government, there- despatch 4 fore, proposed - Lo Commission, consisting of two British nationals, for the purpose in view at the earliest possible: date. They would only proceed on the initiative of one or the other of the Bpanish parties—,
Reuter
YOUNG GIRL IN
than 100,000 lives is to be undertaken Up Dr. L. P. Calame, delegate for TRAFFIC MISHAP China of the International Red Cross
It is now ascertained that more than Committee of Geneva, 40 civilians were elhor killed or At the request of the Chinese wounded during, a Japanese zaid on Government, Dr. Calame, who is now Lokchong, on the Canton-Hankow In Hongkong, is being sent to Horan Railway north of here, yesterday Province to make a complete survey
Twenty-seven missiles were was apparently the Pearl River
of the situation arising from the A similar sentence was inflleled Dridge, was unhlt.
leased, demollahing 20 houses and floods.
proceed on Mak Ho, 68, in respect of another
burying the Inmates alive, Dr. Colamo will
from Seventy- divan in Temple Street.
Twelve bomby were dropped on
Namhung, in north Kwangtung, was Hongkong to Hankow by plane and three pills and three mace of opium the Canton side of the bridge.
From the roof-tops in Shameen, the also raided by the Japanese planes, from Hankow to the flood, area by had been seized.
Revenue Officer E. T. Warden sold 14-storey Of Kwan Hotel, Canton's which dropped 11 bombe. About 20 train. Much of the subsequent part the premises had been raided once biggest skyscraper, which houses 8,000 persons were killed or maimed and of his investigations will be made in before, In June;'.
people, and the New Asia Hotel, ten houses destroyed-Central News sampaus.
A young girl, Hei Ha-nul, living at the Refugee Shelter, was knocked down by a motor car driven by a Chinese named Yeung Fuk in Caine Road yesterday. Injuries to her leg and head were suffered.
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A 08-year-old Chinose, Lee. Kame kong, attempted to alight from moving motor bus in King's Road yesterday, and fell. He suffered cuts to the face, according to a report made by the bus driver, Tin Fat.
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BANK-NOTES THAT WERE FORGED
SUSPECTED AS KIDNAPPERS
Wong You, 43, carpenter, and Leung Yau, 52, widow, were remand- ed for 48 hours when they were For the possession of two forged charged before Mr. A. A. Mac- $1 Hongkong and Shanghal Bank fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy notes, Tsang Kwong, 30, unemployed, this morning with kidnapping, an was sentenced to six months hard night-year-old girl and a 10-year-old labour by Mr. H. R., Butters at the boy on July 10, Central Magistracy this morning,
when he was charged with the notes in an inside pocket "of hi offence.
Ineket, Delective-Sergeant R MacVey sald In addition to the prison the men was arrested on Tuesday in defendant was also recommended Centro Street, West Point, with the banishment.