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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.

DISASTROUS FLOODS WORK IN THE PORT

IN YUNNAN.

WORST IN 20 YEARS.

3 DAYS' RAIN & A HUGE PLAIN IS INUNDATED.

FOREIGNERS HELP RELIEF.

OF LONDON.

A RECORD.

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ENORMOUS DAMAGE

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COMMUNICATIONS WRECKED.

New York, Yesterday.

Yunnan, Sept 1.

London, Yesterday..

A wind velocity of 132 miles an This province has been visited The 19th annual report of the recently by the worst floods Port of London Authority states hour was registered by the Govern- San Juan, known for twenty years, Around that the total net register of the ment's anemometer at the city of Yunnanfu, which is tonnage of vessels that entered Puerto Rico, before the Instru Įsituated on a huge plain, the and left the port of London with ment blew away yesterday. The country has been under water on cargoes and in ballast from and hurricane is sweeping the West practically all sides. To the north to foreign countries, British pos- Indies, and cable and wireless com- and east, the country outside, the 'sessions and coastwise during the munications with Puerto Rico were city has appeared as an inland year ended December 31, 1927, interrupted after only the meagreat These sea, and the poor people have was 52,576,755 compared with details had been received. suffered terribly.

49,278,178 tons in 1926.

messages spoke of widespread Yunnanfu, the capital of the The figures for 1927 are the havoc with damage amounting to province, built on a hill, which largest recorded-British Wire-$2,000,000 in San Juan alone, where is highest on

the north, and less Service. slopes down to the south, so that the city itself escapes the worst of the floods, being well drained; but the surrounding districts

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suffer badly, whole villages being soVIET UNIONS AND RUSSIAN Burrounded with water (and of course flooded within) and in many instances single dwellings are marooned, until the water subsides.

Rain for Days,

SKILFUL TACTICS.

business is paralysed. The hurri cane showed no signs of abating.

The "Orcomo" In Danger.

New York, Yesterday.

It is believed that the liner "Orcoma" en route from Bermuda to Havana with the Chamberlain party is in the direct path of the tornado, which is sweeping over the Caribbean Sen.

The storm struck Porto Rico ́yes.

Riga, Sept. 18. People are up to their armpits The Council of Red Trade Unions terday with, it is feared, many trying to salvage some of their in conference at Moscow has ex-fatalities.

San Juan is desolated, the uni- crops, and, the irony of it, the pressed deep concern at the failure! price of rice goes up immediate of the Bolshevik campaign against versity of Porto Rico badly damag- ly, and as always, the poor people, the priests of Russia, and has con- ed and there has been much losa in suffer. (See pictures on page 7). demned the methods hitherto em- shipping,

The floods were the result of ployed in the campaign as "too three days' almost incessant rain vulgar and only harmful." and as soon as the water had re

It has been decided that the ceded, the rain started again, utmost shall be done to asalat in and continued for several hours, as if it had not rained for of religion, which has recently months.

a reorganised effort to stem the tide

A curious sidelight is thrown been reported as gathering force

throughout Russia. - on Chinese mentality in this con- nection. The north gate of the It is complained that despite all city is about thirty to forty feet efforts by opponents, religion is above the level of the plain out-winning all along the line as the side, and when the floods came, result of the more skilful tacties of the north gate was closed, in order the priests, who often are in a to keep the floods out !!

$300,000 Relief.

The stocks of rice in the city are running low, and as a mea- sure of relief, the Government A charitable have put up $100,000 to purchase rice from Tonkin.

position to attract the masses by the clever adoption of Communist slogans to their own use-Reuter.

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P.-M.R. TRAINS.

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Tientsin, Yesterday.

The first train from Tongshan

since the interruption of traffic

or-organisation in the city has put COAL FOR PEKING, TIENTSIN

up a similar amount, and the Committee of the International Famine Relief has also put the same amount, so that there is now available $300,000, for the

the purchase of rice, which will go far

on account of hostilities on to help the poor people.

Paking-Mukden Railway 'arrived at The great difficulty will be Tientsin this morning. A serious getting the rice here, even when coal shortage situation, owing to it has been purchased, because the former's inability to transport this year there have been more coal from the mines, has now been breaks in the railway than ever, averted. Beyond a few locomotives and although trains can come up no rolling stock was found in the so far, it will be necessary to sheds at Tongahan but it is expect- transport the rice by cart for ed that the service will gradually some considerable distance. Aimprove.-Reuter,

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The death roll in the north-east Nebraska and south-east Dakota is at least twelve, while scores have been injured.

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A little girl was killed and her' teacher seriously injured in the wiping out of a school-Reuter's Leeward Islands "Swept." American Service.

London, Yesterday.

The Colonial Office has received a cable from the Governor of the Leeward Islands stating that the hurrkane swept the islands and that! much damage was done to Govern- ment buildings, telephone system and private property at Antigua, but there were no fatalities. Communi- cation with other islands in Inter- rupted.

The administrator of Dominica reports

heavy damage there.- Reuter.

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DICTATOR'S VIEWS.

Madrid, Yesterday:

The Government regard the plet against the Directorate as aquash- ed. The celebrations of the fifth anniversary of the Directorate are proceeding most enthusiastically, and brilliant sunshine favoured the great procession of delegations from the patriotie unioné to the Royal Palace Square, where Gen. Primo de Rivera addressed them.

The Dictator, speaking at the to the fund opened last June for banquet in his honour, thanked the purpose of marking, on his re-General Bazan, the Director- tirement, the public appreciation of General of Police, for his, zeal and the Archbishop of Canterbury's ser- skill in handling the trouble. vices to the Church and nation. The Dictator subsequently at Los Angeles, Yesterday.

ac-tended a bull-fight; where he was All the competitors in the New Most of the contributions are

companied by letters testifying to received with prolonged cheers. York-Los Angeles flights, having the extraordinary hold the Primate

"On Revolutions." the landed at various points on

has established on the affection

The views of General Primo do route, were disqualified. The non-

. Rivera on revolutions are aired in stop air race therefore becomes "no of the people.

Among those joining' in the tri- an article he has written, to the Goobel declared that he did not bute are some of his contempor-"Correspondencia Militar." He says see how any plane could win arles at Harrow School and at that the fact that a Lleutenant through against the winds and, Trinity College, Oxford; friends of General and several Generals could storms with which he battled Dartford days; other friends whom break the bonds of discipline, and when were able to seize power in 1928, through the night Reuter's he attached to himself American Service,

chaplain to Archbishop Tait; old while officers and men remained choir boys at St. George's Chapel, stendy and did not lose their, dis- Windsor, when he was dean there; cipline or respect for rank, was clergy who have served under him not merely surprising, it was un- In the Rochester, Winchester, and paralleled in the world's history. ⠀ Canterbury, dioceses; brother "No Detective.” :'

[.!""I do not know if people are bishops at home and oversean; a large number of his colleagues in conspiring now" he continues, "be- Tokyo, Yesterday. the House of Lords; members of cause there is nothing of the detec Baron Tanaka (Premier and For- the Church Assembly; leading tive about me. I did not conspire; -- I made speeches, and wrote eign Minister) speaking in the Nonconformists and a host of

openly,Be The only way where Japanese Cabinet Counell, stated othe

by revolution can ba Justified by the certainty in the minds of the

nation that it cannot make things worse than before. Let us carry on in the hope of greater prosperity for Spain

JAPAN & CHINA.

ANOTHER STATEMENT BY BARON TANAKA.

that he hoped that negotiations with the Chinese Nationalists on

all outstanding questions would be

started in the near future, as both

Maxico City, Yesterday An Im Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Gen-portant decision in connection with eral Feng Yu-halang seemed to be the land-owning clauses of the con-

stitution has been given by the desirous to settle the issues, an Omce laying down that

Referring to anti-Japaniam in China, the Premier averred that companies with foreign share

may own landa ing the there was nothing to fear thou

be afirmed that Japan would take zones, provided that

resolute stepsal her rights and in- used for pricultur terests were endangered. Reuter. Reuter's American Bervice.

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