THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
FLAMES FROM FOUR Amahs FIRES SWEEP CITY Win
FROM END
TO END
Last Act By Chinese In Evacuation Tragedy
ITERALLY SWAMPING CANTON FROM END TO END WITH
$88,000 Sweep
SYNDICATE AGAIN WINS BIG PRIZE
OCTOBER 24, 1938.
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0,0 For The Children,
Allee In Wonderland": Twinkle, twinkle, little but; Jabberwocky; Fury sold to a mouse; Will you walk a little fuster (Lobster Quadcllle); "Tis the voice of the lobster; Beauti- ful Soup; Queen of hearts; They told Frank me you had been to her.... Luther with Instrumental Accom~ paniment: Studio-Serial Story... "Seeing the Empire" Songs of the Sandman; Intro: The Groen-Eyed Fortune Eyes La Armstrong (Traditional) Tally Ho (Praydon. Wilfrid Thomas (Bari- tone) with ano,
TO SAY THAT Dame Dragon (Wolseley Charles); Five PETROL AND KEROSENE, CHINESE REMNANTS AND CIVILIANS freakishune plays the most Bet, (De Marce-C. Ammont
ly true. STARTED ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON THE BIGGEST MAN-MADE may be trite, but is certain-Leon). FIRE SINCE MOSCOW WAS BURNED IN 1812 TO CHECK NAPOLEAN. A city which was once the home of nearly 2,000,000 people, and whose sons are scattered throughout the world, is rapidly being consumed by the flames, which have swept through all the most important blocks, leaving nothing but gutted ruins in their wake.
Fanned by a stiff north-easterly wind, the conflagration roared through Canton throughout Saturday night and all day yesterday and this morning was still burning fiercely in the Saichuen and Honam districts.
Wuhan Walls Placarded
HANKOW, Oct. 24. THE CHINESE Students' Anti-Japanese Association yesterday evening placarded and painted in Japanese slogans on many of Hankow's
walls, which read:
"Japanese soldiers! Hankow Is your grave-Japanese sal- diem! Revolt against your militarists!"-United Press.
DEATH THREAT TO
ARABS WHO REGISTER NAMES (Continued from Page 1.) before much damage was done.
have The First Royal Dragoons urrived on board the British steamer Teiresins, at Haifa-Reuter,
21
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The flames, spreading from building to building as bamboo bomb racks, placed atop the structures for protection against air raids, spared neither European nor Chinese premises in their ferocious and all-consuming advance through the heart of Canton,
The central and Bund areas are heaps of smouldering
ruins.
Where once stood the remains of the Wongsha district, which suffered so heavily from Japanese air raids, are now two gigantic craters.
a.m.
They were caused when two ammunition dumps exploded at 10.10
The explosions showered Shameen with debris for fully five minutes, wounding two Chinese on the island and severely damaging at least twenty buildings in the British Concession.
Kwan Hotel, which Is Canton's biggest skyscraper,
The French Doumer hospital caught aflre half-an-hour after the patients were evacuated to the Hackett Memorial Hospital,
Y.M.C.A. DYNAMITED The Y.M.C.A. was
evacuated
in
order to allow a Japanese dynamite squad to blow up the building in on effort to create a fire break,
The damage on the western end of
Foreign residents aided the Shameen island was so severe that most of the buildings had to be Japanese in an attempt to Isolate the
walls of famous blazes, but without success, evacuated. The
The Christ Church were cracked, the
amateur fire-fighters were handicapped by the JEWISH OPPOSITION
Italian Consulate collapsed. Among hopelessly London, Oct. 23.
which absence of water, the dynamiting of buildings the
on Shumeen At meeting in London in-day of have had to be evacuated are the the city's reservoirs by the Chinese
of Deputies, A.P.C. and Loxley Jewish Board the
& Co. premises. before they evacuated on Friday, the British
The Chartered Bank was also con- completely disrupting water supplies. representing Jews in
passed resolution was
Dynamite was the only weapon the Empire,
siderably Jewish of
damaged. opposing the restriction
At Wongsha
the havoc wrought | Japanese could use, and throughout Palestine, minigration to relegation of Jews in Palestine to by the explosions is terrife. The the day loud explosions testified to
entire
slation and yards the fact that it was being detonated rallway
create freely in attempts to
fire- the status of a minority.
The resolution also welcomed the have disappeared.
Locomotive, trucks, carrlages and breaks."
The flames. after destroying a huge pile of war materials awalt- dresion of the British authorities to
were Wongsha, travelled towards the SRI- employ effective measures to suppress
Ing shipment to Hankow the Palestine, "in terrorism in
Blown sky high, landing hundreds chuen area, vomiting up the dregs of Interests of Jews and Arubs alike".
of yards away in the most grotes civilinn refugees from the city's alum The resolution' expressed the con-
que and twisted shapes, vletion that the restoration ordered by the Government would pave the way for a more enduring co-operation Arabs in the between Jews and development of prosperity in the country.
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SATURATED AREAS
It is definitely known that the fires, four of which broke out simultane- that the ously in widely scattered arcus, were The resolution added
per-caused by the Chinese, who were wit- Board was convinced that manent settlement of the Palestine nessed by several Europeans as they problem must be based on the his- saturated wide areas with kerosene
petrol. turie connection of the Jewish people and with Palestine, and the right, Inter- nationally guaranteed to the Jewish people an embodied in the Palestine mandate which Britain accepted as a sacred trust,
The resolution concluded that the desperate need of the masses of, Jewish people who were the victims of hate and persecution, for a per- manent home makes such n selle ment imperative.--Reuter,
G.B.S. Wants
One Chinese who attempted to set Shameen afight
been arrested.
The fires commenced simultaneous- ly on Saturday afternoon in Wongsha, the southern, fonam Island, and northern and bund arens of the city proper.
areas.
Owing to fears that they would be incinerated the authorities were
0.30 Beethoven-Symphony No. 3 In E Flat Major, Op. 55 (Erolea), Remember the syndicate
Symphony Orchestra conducted by of Kowloon amahs who won Albert Coates.
7.13 Song by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano). the big Derby sweep at the
The Shepherd on the Rock (Schu- Plano accomp. by last annual race meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club7bert)....with
George Reeves. Clarinet: Reginald On that occasion, they split Kell. up a sum of $145,000 among
tlona. them.
When Salvage Master, which had been drawn by Ticket No. 175238, crossed the finishing line at the head of the field on Satur- day in the Kwangtung Handicap, the syndicate of amahs again
won.
7.23 Closing local Stock Quota-
1.25 London Relay Music Hall.
(Bari- Including Peter Dawson tone), Isay Bonn (The Hebrew Vocal Raconteur) Elsie Carlisle and Sam Browne (Radio's Pioneer Ducttists)! with The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. presented by John Sharman.
8.0 Time,
Weather and Announce-
ments.
8.03 Webster Booth (Tenor) and Their prize on this occasion is London Palladium Orchestra, $88,963.18.
Many members of the present syndicate also had a share in the last hand-out.
In this case, it is understood that 100 amals got together and bought a total of 55 tickets, one of which drew Salvage Master.
CAPTURED BY BANDITS The majority of the amphs who
made small fortunes on the 1938 Derby did not keep their money for long, however.
I Hear You Calling Me (Mingshall,
arr. Haydn Wood): Bird Of Love Divine (Haydn Wood)....The Lon- don Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Creon; A Song For You And Romance Me (Rizzi): Moon Of
Booth (Strachey) Webster
Tenor)
with Orel. Everybody's Songs (arr. Gechil); Intro: I passed by your window; Somewhere a volice is calling; Down Vauxhall Way, I know of two bright eyes; O lovely Niel Night, Passing by, Come to the Fair The London Palladium Orches- ira cond. by Richard Crean; A Year of Theatre Land; Intro: Play, Or chestra, play (Te-night at 8.80); They retired on their winnings and Music in May (Careless Rapture); went back to live in the country.breathe on windows (Over she gocs) was not long before bandits got wind in next
Lime you're passing of the affair, and one night they
Places) Anything Goes swooped
on down Shuntak-the Anything Goes); Love is a dancing village in which most of the fortunate thing (Follow the Sun): Unbellev- women lived-and took the whole lot able (Swing along); This'll make you into custody.
whistle (This'll make you whistle)) Janet Lind and Webster Booth with Chorus and Orchestra.
8.33 Two Songs by Gitta Alpar (Soprano).
Something In The Morning Sing
Cochran's (C.
'Home and B. Beauty'); No More (C., B. Cochran's Home and Beauty')....with Or- chestra cond. by G. Walter.
A major portion of the winnings passed into the hands of the bandits as ransom.
LOCAL HOCKEY
Club Teams For The Week
The following teams have been selected to represent the Hongkong and on Wednesday Hockey Club Friday next.
1st XI Versus the Y.M.C.A. on the forced to release all inmates of the Club ground at 5.15 p.m. Wednesday leper settlement and Insane asylum. October 26. Club Team wear white as well as prisoners from the civic shirts. gaol.
WATERFRONT BLAZE
Across the Pearl River at Honom, the Bellish wharves and foreign oil installations appear to have been completely gutted.
The fires were
raging this morning at Honam 'and
V. M. Benwell; L. F. Stokes, E. V. Reed; H. J. D. Lowe, W. A. Reed, N. B. Whitley; S. A. Fowler, T. D. Whitley, G. E. R. Divett (Capt). B. 1. Dickford and V. Dond.
Umpire-Mr. G. T. Palmer.
still flercely "A" XI Versus the H.K.S.RA, on In the western parts of Canton the Club ground at 5.15 p.m. Friday,
October 20:
proper, but Shameen is now con- sidered safe. Canton's famous kilk
Dro
8.40 B.B.C. Recording-A Talk on 'Speed' by Sir Malcolm Campbell,
Trio 8.50 Studio Beethoven
(Violin), Pruo Lewis played by Ettore Fellezatii ('Cello) and Lind.
A. Lotord (Piano), 9.20 Three Kipnis (Bass).
Songs by Alexander
Heidenroslein (Goethe-Schubert, Op. 3. No. 3); Imputlence (Muller- Schubert, Op. 25, No. 7): The Erl King (Goethe-Schubert, Op. 1).... with Gerald Moore at the Plano.
Dance
9.30 London Relay The News. 9.50 A Dance and Variety. Pro- sramme.
Orch:-Antigua-Rumba, Barbary Coast Blues....Joe Daniels "Drumnas- and His Hot Shots in ticks": Vocal and Plino
(Parker-Charles), Two Shadows (from the Film). Lealle Hutchinson; Instrumental--
Tell A Soul
Pianos-Littic
Won't
Fua Carnation (Traditional); Pali- kiko Bluck (Traditional)....The Tahiti Beachcombers; Vocal-Dinah H. F. Shields; W. Schnabel, J. E. (Lewis-Young-Altst); It Don't Mean Dos- A Thing (Ellingten)....The street, Potter: W. A. Reed, H. J. D. Lowe, They raged along the entire bund containing rich texules tind silks of L. F. Stokes; W. Brown, W. Spencer, well Sisters accompanied by the Silhouette-Fox- from east of the damaged Pearl fabulous value, was swept from end G. E., R. Divett (Capt), K. A. Bidmead Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: Three River Bridge, past the Shakee Canal to end.
and I. P. Tamworth.
Three Trot;
Jolly Fellows which divides Shaneen from the
Fox-Trot....The Three Virtuosos; city, to Wongsha.
Vocal: There's Something Spanish In My Eyes (Caesar and Friend); Stay Out Of The South (Dixon).... Sophie Tucker with Ted Shapiro and His Orchestra; Organ-ot Pinca; Intro: The Toy Trumpet; I'm Gel- lin' Sential Over You: The Greenwich Witch;
A computadon of the damage wrought by the flames places it at well over 250,000,000, What the Japanese attempted to do the heart of the business area from in twelve months' savage bombings the bund to the Goddess of Merey was accomplished by the Chinese in
Another conflagration almost com- pletely gutted nine blocks
Bigger Alphabet Temple
Georg
"the
sim- Declaring that pllication of spelling is hope. Bernard Iess," Mr. Shaw adds: "What we want is an enlarged alphabet, like the Ruslan, which can spell the English language. Our present Latin alphabet cannot."
Mr. Shaw made liese com- ments in reply to a suggestion from the Institute of Journalists' Conference at Keswick that he should serve on
sub-com. milice.
to hopes This commilice
draft produce
scheme to celablish a body advising nows- papers on the purity of the English languago and almplica tion of spelling.
#
"I am too old to undertake further activities," repiled Mr. Shaw.
TYPHOON VICTIM Tokyo, Oct. 12. According to information reaching the Metropolitan Police Board up to 2 o'clock lost evening, two fishing! bonts are missing. 10 houses were completely destroyed and 70 damag- ed as a result of a typhoon which hit Oshima Island near hera yesterday. Traffic was temporarily paralysed as the roads were badly washed away throughout the island.
The Shintalbal Maru, 3,100 tons, which was moored in Okada harbour, -has-been stranded-Domes.
through
The Honum Inland waterfront, on the other side of the Pearl River, was completely ablaze all day yester- day.
two days.
LOOTERS ACTIVE
Canton, Oct. 24.
wind, and the magnificent efforts of the Shameen Volunteers, who tolled ceasely all day yesterday.
Greatest tribute must be paid to the organisers of the fire fighters, who are a group of German residents.
Unless there is a fresh outbreak in
Snake
Torch.
Japanese patrols yesterday even the area between the British bridge Twilight in Turkey: Serenade for a The Berce flames in the vicinity ring stood on guard outside the shops and Wongsha, the prospect of Sha-Wealthy Widow. of Shameen, especially at the on the Shakee front where footers meen being involved is very alight. French end, sent showers
of were creating havoc. Three or four Nevertheless the authorities ure notlar 9.33 The Band of H. AL. Cold-
sparks over the Anglo-French Con- persistent looters who opposed the relaxing emergency
measure, and cessions, necessitating the utmost Japanese Boldiers' orders were naval units and volunteers were keep- vigilance on the part of all the bayonetted and they are now lying ing a watch all night on the roofs of residents, who turned fire-fighters on the Shakee Bund in pools of blood, buildings and from other vantage and manned bucket brigades and When the
Japanese patrol with.
points. every available garden hose. drew, however, the looters immedi- Roofs of buildings in the Conces ately returned. sions were constantly saturated with water to prevent them catching alight.
INTENSE HEAT
Guards,
1013 Overture (Tchaikovsky); Colonel Bogey-March (Alford).
10.45 London Relay--"Victoria and
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A play specially written for broad- casting by Hector Bolitho with Dame Old residents who went through Marie Tempest as Queen Victoria THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. the troops previous Communist up-rising and (By permission of H. M. Tennent, The behaviour of hitherto has been exemplary, accord- civil wars state that never before Ltd.) and Robert Farquharson as ing to the accounts of foreigners who in their experience was there a day Disrnell; Narrator, Laldman Browne:
Brown John like yesterday.
the Queen's Scottish I visited the city.
Montague servant, James Woodburn; Looting has been checked wher- Two terrific explosions occurred So intense was the heat from ever possible, but owing to the small the rity yesterday which shook Sha- Corry, Secretary to Disraeli, Mor- across the narrow, channel that number of Japanese in the city, meen, and blew in the window frames land Graham: Lady-In-Waiting to foreign residents munning the Sha- totalling approximately 1,500, the of the Royal Dutch Consulate, even Queen Victoria, Mary Hinton; Colonel Ponsonby, The Queen's Secretary, meen defences had to constantly entire city is not patrolled.
uprooting the floor boards. The steel retire from the waterfront-In order Japanese headquarters have been winde frames of the Hongkong and Gordon McLeod; Prinen Bismarck, Howard Marion-Crawford; Lord established in the old Chinese head-Shanghai Bank were also blown to Two small fires were started at the|quarters building.—Reuter
smithereens.
In the road Tennyson, Norman Shelley; Singer: flying French end of the Concession., bul
way after the concussion, while the Jan Van Der Gucht; Production by Swiss Consul and his family have John Cheatle
11.45 Close down. they were quickly subdued.
had to leave their home.
to cool off.
Pagoda, the
Provincial
STILL A RAGING INFERNO
*Uil a
debris
FIRING PRACTICE
IN
WIRELESS CALL
The following voisels were in com-
MAIL DESTROYED
An adjournment of three days was. munication with Hongkong up to 8pm.granted Detective-Bergeant J. Allen Along the band the flames
Canton, Oct. 24.
yesterday and communication with them by Mr. H. R. Butters at the Central extended for about two miles.
At nightfall yesterday the city was Following yesterday morning's ex-|
can reasonably be expected to-day! Buildings destroyed by the
Magistracy on Saturday, when he taging interno, with Aplosion, the keepers at the lunatle flames included the famous Templo
Falls Roussel, Tezelbers, Rawalpindi prosecuted a postman, Chau Yu, $7 Italian, Conte Diancamano, Bulywig of the Great Budds, the Flowery mammoth fire cast of the Bund area sylum at Paakhoktung, across the
Begres on two counts of destroying mail. being fanned towards the city, and Pearl River from Shameen, fed
It is notified by the Military au-Huseni, Kingyuan. Birdhana, Municipal Headquarters, the developing into a tremendous area, eaving 800 mental lomates uncared'
thorities that firing practies will be Anhut, Fooshing. Buisang, Mut Hock.
Chau was alleged to have destroyed Brechven, Walching, Ministry of Finance, the
between five and six for, measuring
Fort Wing Wo Apocy British navalmen camo to the carried out from Pakshawan Eastern Hotel, tho New
Nawing. Yunnan, Hum Bang Coburg, .Hotel, the, Hongkong FOTTY
The conflagration on the Shakee rescue and supplied 80 bags of rice between 6 pan, and midnight to-day, langu, Tawaing Bank, Kwanghing a letter on October 18, and; two.
Gneisetiau, Yolande. Dertin, wharves, the Post Office, New Waterfront has died down as a result in order to give them en evening and from the same fort during the President Chalidge, Talwunhong Ha letters and a semipaper on October
same hours to-morrow. China Ilotel and the 14-storey Of of a change in the direction of the meal-Reuter,
and
Great
Asia square miles,