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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927.

WORST SINCE 1881.

Blizzard Sweeps Great Britain,

HEAVY SNOW FALLS.

Drifts Of Twelve To Sixteen Feet Recorded.

London, Yesterday Snow and aleet fell all night long up to mid-day.

MILLIONS STARVING.

Chinese Eating Chaff And Bark.

WORST YET TO COME.

Cattle Being Disposed Of For A Mere Song,

Peking, Yesterday. Foreigners in Shantung confirm the 'reports of the Famine Relief Societies that 4,000,000 persons are on the brink of starvation in that province.

The air service from Croydon to Paris was cancelled owing to the depth of snow at the Croydon Aerodrome. All stations were In 35 distrlets out of 107 in the warned that landing at the aero- province, less than 10 per cent. of drame was inadvisable.

Some suburban bus services found the snow too deep to start at the scheduled time.

INDIA'S FUTURE.

Country of Federated States.

A LIBERAL'S IDEAL.

Equal Member Of The British Commonwealth.

Bombay, Yesterday.

The Liberal's attitude to the Sta-i tutory Commission was voiced by Sir Tej Supru who is prestling over the National Liberal Congress. He declared that Indis had not had a fair deal. He urged all parties to join and draw up a scheme of self-

the crops have been harvested while government for presentation to in other 30 districts the percentage Parliament.. His ideal of a future. ranges from 10 to 40.

India was a' country of Federated

4 Great numbers are already sub-States in direct and well-defined re- lationship with the Indian States

Telephoning to Paris was consisting on bark and chaff. celled owing to the damage to the overhead wires in France.

.The

The peak of the famine has not under the aegis of the British There were further heavy fails to come.

yet been reached and worse has yet Crown and as an equal member of

the British Commonwealth of Na in the South of England. heavy drifting continued, depths are disposing of cattle for a mere

Farmers, formerly prosperous, tions-Reuter. of 12 to 16 feet being recorded in the West as in Devonshire and song and are emigrating. many places in the South-Eastern

Counties.

The blizzard, which lasted al- most without intermission for 36 hours, at dawn was unparalleled since 1881-Reuter.

"Snow Trains,"

The Goal!

Madras, Yesterday.

famine to drought and locusts, but Indian National Congress unanim- The local officials attribute the After three hours' discussion the foreigners declare that it is chiefly ously adopted a resolution in favour owing to the civil wars, banditry of a severe boycott of the Statutors. and exorbitant taxation.

Commission.

An amendment urging the mein- bers of the Legislatures to resign was defeated.

There is no hope of raising auffi- elent funds in China to save great London, Yesterday.

numbers from a lingering death. The snowstorm was much more

Outside help is earnestly needed, A further resolution, declaring disturbing in the country than in

Bandits and military are not only that the goal of Indians was com- the town. Relief engines with accentuating the famine conditions plete national independence, was snow-ploughs, in many centres but are making it impossible to adopted by acclamation.-Reuter. took hours to reach stranded carry out extensive relief measures trains, and then themselves were under foreign supervision, such aa snowed up,

the building of roads and canals.

Similar One train left at three o'clock

conditions prevail at yesterday afternoon and was dug Tamingfu (South Chihli) where out at six o'clock in the morning. only 20 per cent. of the crop has

The Southern Railways ran been harvested.-Reuter. "Snow trains' 'all night long to

keep the electric conductor rails

in working order.

Several branch lines closed.

were

Several villages were isolated by huge snowdrifts.

The

Cross-Channel services were suspended to-day owing to the gale-Reuter,

Lifeboat Rescues.

London, Yesterday, The snowstorm yesterday was the worst Christmas storm since 1886. There were drifts many feet deep in many districts, and

MOTOR FATALITY.

LAWYER AND HIS FAMILY DROWNED.

Amsterdam, Yesterday.

In Case of War.

Madras, Yesterday. The Congress passed a resolution declaring that India would not par- ticipate in any war for which ex- tensive preparations were being carried on in India and the East- ern Seas, and especially on the North-West Frontier.

Jewaharal Nahru, the mover of the resolution, contended that Bri-: tain was the greatest obstacle to disarmament. He remarked that she was perfecting the Singapore As a result of their motor-car Base, whence she could easily sum- falling into a canal, the well-known mon troops for any imperialistic Amsterdam lawyer, M. van Nierop, aggression, perhaps in Central Asia. his wife and daughter were drown-Reuter. ed. Reuter.

GIRL KILLED.

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There were several lifeboat res- cues on the coasts where snow storms, accompanied by heavy wenther seriously delayed the Cross-Channel services.-Reuter.

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CAR.

DRIVER DETAINED.

TRAFFIC CASES.

DRIVER OF A PRIVATE CAR OESTINATE.

A WARNING DISREGARDED.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell dealt with the at the Contral

A six-year-old Chinese girl liv ing on board a cargo boat was killed yesterday when she and her mother traffic summonses were knocked down on the Praya Magistracy this morning. East Reclamation by a public motor Most of the cases related to ob- car. The mother, who was serious-struction and driving on the wrong ly injured, was removed to the side of the road, in which the driv- NINETY-ONE MILLIONS PAID Government Civil Hospital.

ers of a number of trucks and *n TO CLAIMANTS,

The police are detaining the dix-few publie motor cars were mulct- ver of the car.

ed in the usual fines.

The drivers of private motor car Suffering from head injuries re- No. 987, however, was fined $10 for celved through being knocked down causing an obstruction outside No. The work of the clearing office in Nathan Road yesterday by a 40, Caine Road, he having admit dealing with claims against late motor cycle a nine-year old Chiness ted that he had been fined $8 b enemy states and subjects is near girl was removed to the Kwong Major Willson for å similar offence ing completion. The Report of the Wah Hospital in a serious condition. the previous week. Controller for the year ending Oc-

tober 1 last shows a total of £91,- CHINESE EMBEZZLER 000,000 sterling paid to claimants,

of which £84,000,000 are in respect SENT TO PRISON FOR THREE of claims against German nationals and the German Government.

MONTHS.

Sergeant Baker who brought the summons against the defendant, told the Magistrate that he had pre-j viously warned the defendant and had told him that he could park at the top of Elgin Street, but not Alogether 424,000 British and Sentence of three months hard in Caine Road, but when he return- enemy claims were submitted for a labour was this morning passed by ed later the defendant was still out- total of £244,000,000. 279,000 Major. C. Willson at the Central side No. 40, Caine Road, not hav claims were admitted and 138,000 Magistracey on a former employee ing taken any notice of the warn- withdrawn or rejected, while 6,000 of Ah Loong and Company, No. 19, Ing he had been given.. claims for a total of £8,865,000 Queen's Road Central who pleaded The Sergeant calculated that the sterling are outstanding-Reuter. "guilty" to a charge of embezzle- defendant must have caused an ob

ment of $864.40 the property of the struction for fully ten minutes, firm.

SON NOT KILLED.

THE S. AFRICAN FLYING.

FATALITY,

Johannesburg, Yesterday.

Cashier Jailed.

Siu Yin-sang, a former cashler STUDENT CHARGED.

of the Ho Hong Bank who admit.

ted the embezzlement on October 2,

1926, of $3,080.44 the property of ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER OF the bank, was this morning sentenc

It transpires that Mr. Davis's soned by Major C. Willson to six was injured and not killed.

[An earlier message stated; Mr. Oliver Davis, secretary of the Durham Turf Club, piloted by his son, attempted to fly from Dur- ham to Johannesburg to attend the big race meeting. The aeroplano crashed at Dundee and both were killed.]

months' hard labour. Mr. M. K. Lo prosecuted for the bank.

SUICIDE MANIA.

TWO POISONING CASES REPORTED..

COMPANION.

$1,000 BAIL GRANTED,

Following the death, as reported yesterday, of Ho Kwong-hol, the St. Faul's College student who died early on the morning of December 26 as the result of being struck on the left temple by a fellow student In the course of a “rag" in which

A Chinese woman named Wong several youths took part in the Pat (29), living at No. 27 Les Club Rooms of the South Chine Garden Road was yesterday removed Athletic Association, China Build MR. J. P. MORGAN. to the French Hospital suffering ing, on Christmas night, Lo Chi- from lysol poisoning stated to have hing, the lad who was alleged to NEW CHAIRMAN OF US. been self administered.

have atruck the fatal blow was this STEEL CORPORATION.

morning charged before Major C. AGRĀ 60-year-old Chinese living at Willson at the Central Magistracy New York, Yesterday. Mr. JP Morgan has been day admitted to the Kowloon Hosmanded for a week.

No. 67, Woosung Street was yester with manslaughter and formally re elected Chairman of the United Stater Steel Corporation in succes-pital suffering from oplum polsoning On the application of Mr. L. D. afon to the late Judge Gary Reu-, alleged to have been self adip¡nister- Turner, for the defence, hall waN ter's American. Service.

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