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HONGKONG, PRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 192, 日二十月八酉辛大安年•

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Raster's Services to the China

LISBON D BASTER-

TORRENTIAL RAINS CAUSE ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFÈ.

PEOPLE DROWKED IN THEIR HOUSES UR SWEEZ-INTO -BZWERS,

Jasnos, September 22. Thunderstormus and torrential rains on Tuesday night and yesterday canséd enormous damage to the city and heavy loss of life. Numerous people were injured. The streets were transformed into merenta and namENDES buildings were flooded. Many persons were drowned in their houses while | some were swept into sewers. Á wall fall on a einwded teamcar, killing

seven people and injuring many.

EXPLOSION RE:CUE WORK.

GERMANS APPRECIATE PROMPT FRENCH AID.

SCENES OF CYTER DESOLATION:

MATEXOS, September 29.

THE DOLLAR.

Today's closing rate 2/10 1/8 Today's opening rate 2/10 1/8

BOY PICKPOCKET.

· MAGISTRATE ORDERS THE

RATTAN.

All Chinese boy was this moking charged with having picked the pocket of a returned emigrant yesterday afternoon and stolen a purse containing a large sum of money

The complainant, a Chinese recently returned from Pern, where he was shopkesper for several years said that about 6 P., yesterday, he and a friend were proceeding along the Praya to board a Kongmoon steamer, when the de- fendant passed in front of him, and inserting his hand in his pocket. extracted s purse containing four gold coins, 32 Peruvian bank notes of various denominations, and $5 in Chinese silver coins. Before he caught hold of the sccused, the latter had passed the purse to azother youth who made good his escape. The witness was sure the defendant was the person who picked his pocket, the defendant was the his pocket. When he felt the tag at oris person near him, apart from his friend. Furthermore as the witness made to grab the defendant, he actually saw him pass the parse to the other youth

The rescue parties including French soldiers are searching the ruins for bodies but it is still impossible to estimate the number dead owing to the change of shifts. There were some 3,000 men on the spot at the time of the explosion. Most of those inside the works were killed. Very few were in jured. Oppau, which contained 6.000 inhabitants, is now a scene of utter de solation. Most of the injured were at Oppan. Tres French soldiers engaged ia rescue work were seriously injured General Dagogito-anlared all the available medical personnel of the French Army of the Rhine to proceed to the secne of the disaster, and also arranged for soap to be distributed to the families of the victims. The French High Commissioner distributed 75,000 marka to local trade unions. A factory at Mannhet bas colispeed in con- sequence of the Oupan explosion. Three workmen were killed and 14 injured. DAMAGE ENORMOUS, -

MAVENCE, September 29, 2: Over 850-hodies have been zecovered froukhe Pins of Oppau. The The Magistrate, in ordering the des total af injured exceeds the first estimates and already 2,500 persons have been fendant to receive 12 strokes of the treated. The explosion appears to have been caused the conrse of testsitan, sald: We have no use for bqu like you here, on, had better or the compression of a new gry the properties of "hich were upsonly|intain to your home. Next time you known. The damage at Frankenthal and fudwigshafen is so great that at cours before me you will be liable to present it is inestimable. A Geman hospital train bas actival at Frankfort ¦ sir mouths' fail.”

and a French hospital train at Treves with injured. The German authorities have begged General Degoutte to transmit to the French Government their gratitude for the prompt and efficacious aid given by the French troops. French and German soldiers are closely collaborating in rescue work.

BERLIN, September 24: - The explosion killed French soldiers guarding the Oppan works and injured a number of French soldiers boiting on the Rhine. The Badische Aniline-Fabrik assess the damage to the warês at 150 milioa marks,

- UNEMPLOYMÄNT SCHEMES

PREMIER FORESHADOWS LEGISLATION.

LONDON, September 12.

The defendant denied that he was the guilty person. He said that he was a native of Kongmoon, and came here to visit his cle: He had just

come ashore from the boat when he was caught by the complainant and accused of theft.

K NEMA' NOTES.

HUMOUR IN PLENTY AT THE CORONET.

The Coronet management evidently believes in varying the nature of its programme. Now it conccat ates on ove long film and again it presenta short and brisk pictures. Last might It aimed at making the audience laugh most of the time and the audience did. The Premier met the mayors of the London barowghe:- The fakter, who The Deur Departed," for instance, made a journey to the Gairloch, complained of the inadequacy of previous was laugh from end to end. It proved measures dealing with unemployment and submitted kuportant schemes for the type of story, that, overdone in coping with the problem. The Fremier dælared tajt be had summoned | the leset, bores one to tests. Hera ministers from London to explore masses of alleviating distress and explained it was not over acted in the least.. the impossibility of the Government shouldering, the whole burden. He The firm in the stations was never foreshadowed legislation ensuring co-operation between the Government, local for moingut forced. Enab” authorities, manufacturers, traders, bankers, and organised labour,

OPIUM TRADE.

LEAGUE COMMITTEE'S DECISIONS.

Tornog September 23,

The fifth commission of the League of Nitions adapt Miss Datyh man and Swinderen's report ragorlia spiam, anh proposal of the Norwegian delegate, M. Bonnevie providing that Stat interested in the opium trade or cultivation of the pay particularly many he invited collaborate in the opium consultative pominitta».

ARIZONA COPPER COMPANY.

PROPOSED TRANSFER TO AMERICAN CORPORATION.

| Pollard as the "dead man” had a fat part and he made the most of it. The work of Gladys Walton in""AH· Dolled up?" was of a different type. Ham the humour was more delicate and was shot through with not a little paths. The author provided villains, too male and female made be them: of the right stamp too. The result was a film that was joyously bright places, pathetic in spots, and decidedly, stirring at times. A finely ent staining film this and well worth seeing,

THE WORLD THEATER.

The tie that bound Sonia Howardi LONDON 8ptember 22. to her husband was their little daugh The Arizona Copper Company which closed down owing to the aeriouster. Once he had been famous, but condition of the industry, submitted to the shareholder roeting in now he was a drug-fiend and she had Edinburgh a proposal to transfer the business to an Amiščan company, the grown to loathe him. She could Phelps Dodge Corporation.

GERMANY'S SURBIND. RED SHIP)

VALUE ASSESSED AT 45 MILLION GOLD MARKS,

FANIE September 22.

tolerate him no longer and told him' she would sue for, à divorce." This threat and the fire of her anger coused im to fury and, in self-defence, sho shot him. Marder shadowed her life! But that was not (all) for the

Ring of Death was hounding her for papers in her posses

The value of 2,153 407 gross tons of German shi bing handed over to stem that gave the plans of a-Eed

the Allies before May 1, is assessed by the Reparation Commission at 745 revdlution in America the country millian gold marks, which has been placed to Germany edit.

MOUNT MULLEHAN DIS ITU.

BODIES OF THE ENTOMBED, MINERS BECOVERED.

September 24 All the bodies in the Mount Malligan disaster have been recurated

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