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THE ARCTIC WAVE.

EUROPE IN ICY GRIP

APPALLING HARDSHIPS

England Still Suffering Severely

MANY DEATHS, EXPLOSIONS, ETC.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

GOOD REPORTS STILL COMING

TO HAND.

READING THE NEWSPAPERS

London, Yesterday. It is officially announced Cralgwell House, Bognor, that the King has had a good day and that His Majesty's condition continues

satisfactory.

ment.

HOLDER OF CHEFOO

TO FIGHT

MORE DESERTIONS

STRONG LINE OF TRENCHES FIVE

MILES AWAYA:

DANGER TO FOREIGNERS?

VATICAN STATE

QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

MEMBERSHIP OF LEAGUE

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London, Yesterday. Replying to questions in the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamber- In spite of more of his troopa lain, Secretary of State for Foreign going over to the rebels, General Affairs said he had no official in- Liu Chen-aten is dinging in to deformation that the new Vatican

portends state intended to apply for

fend Chefoc, His"

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NEW SALVATION SUED FOR A BONUS

ARMY GENERAL

COM. HIGGINS HIGH COUNCIL ADJUDICATE BOOTH UNFIT

THIRD ENGINEER AND THE CAPTAIN

CHARTER OF "SEISTAN"

His Honour the Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) reserved judg ment in the Summary Court this morning after hearing a claim for A MINORITY VOTE

$75 by Mr. A. Demee against Cap tain A. C. Inglis of the 8.8. London, Yesterday. The Salvation Army High Coun-"Seistan," master mariner, c/o building. Mr. Demee alleged that cil, by 52 to 15, adjudicated General Messre. H. M. H. Nemazee, Prince's- Booth unfit to command the Army, the sum, was due to him as bonus New General from Aug. 4 to Oct 17, 1928, at $90

Later

Dr. Howitt and Dr. Woods, who hostilities in close proximity to a bership of the League of Nations Awa applied the ray therapy treatment Treaty port where there is a large and it would be quite premature to

state the attitude of the British Commissioner Higgins has been per month, during which period ha served as 3rd engineer on the ship.. Government to an event which was elected as

General successor to

Mr. H. C. Macnamara appeared The Arctic wave, affecting England and Europe generally, seems to His Majesty at Buckingham number of foreign residents.

Chefoo, Yesterday.

Booth.

for plaintiff and Mr. G. S. Hugh- The 3rd division has hoisted the so absolutely hypothetical. He did

'The Vote to be Intensifying and many deaths and much hardship have been Palace, visited Craigweil this after-

white flag and joined up with the not think he could pledge the caused in consequence.

In London housewives are obtaining water noon and again administered treat-

The vote deposing General Booth Jones for defendant, whose avid- It is learned that the Queen hopes rebellious 4th division. The rebels government not to take such action

It was admitted that Captain from street mains. "Thousands of frozen pipes are bursting and

of the League. Ice is forming on the upper reaches of the to go to London next week to visit are now at Pehma, about 10 miles as it thought proper as a member was taken by secret ballot. The ence had been taken de bene ease.

Sir A. Chamberlain, asked if it result showed that four Commis-Inglis received $300 from the char- causing damage."

the British Industries Fair-Bri-south-west of Hwanghsien (the

American residents of which have had not been made clear that the loners; who had previously up terers and that he had paid out a Thames, and 38 degrees of frost have been registered in Hertford-tish Wireless Service.

been told to withdraw).

Pope was not seeking any associa-ported General Booth, abstained part of same to the chief engineer shire. Skating is being indulged in all over the country, mining|

London, Yesterday. The loyal portion of the 2nd divi-tion with the League, replied that he from voting.

Mrs. Booth and her daughter ant. It is officially stated at Crafgweil aion, at Tengchow, has moved to understood this was so. Sir A. Cham- valleys are snowed-up, motor-cars are embedded in snow drifts and

Commissioner Higgins was elect two trains are marooned. The beach at Brighton is covered with House that the King passed a good Fushan. General Liu Chen-alen is berlain added that he was unable apparently unmoved.

night. Reuter understands that preparing an outpost line some 10 to say whether the treaty between ice-an unprecedented sight.

His Majesty's progress is such that miles east of Tengchow, also a

ed by 42 vote to 17, the minority he is now able occasionally to read sirong line of trenches, barbed wire

being votes for Evangeline Booth.

the newspapers. His Majesty is on an ordinary diet and takes plenty of nourishment.-Reuter,

ICE ON BRIGHTON COAST ·

Landon. Yesterday. Severe frost continued to-day in the British Isles, the thermometer readings being evn lower than yes- terday. The coldest place appears

Acute Distress

Reports of the acute distress caused by the Arctic wave come from everywhere in Europe. Thore have been fifty deaths from cold in

to be Ross-on-Wye, in Hertford-the Balkans and 37 from Germany shire, where the thermometer show. while France is now freat hound. ed a ground temperature of G The inner harbour at Dieppe is degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) or 38 degrees of frost.

Ice has begun to form on the Thames in the higher reaches.

Other rivers are also becoming frozen, while canals, lakes and ponds are generally icebound.

Householders are finding their chief discomfort is in the freezing

frozen and there are seven inches

of snow in the Riviera. Even the Hapid Rhone and the Lagoons at Venice have been freezing.

The mortuaries in Prague are crowded with bodba, and graves have been made by using dynamite..

The hospitals in Poland and the Bultle States are over-crowded with

of water pipes. This was the sub-frostbite cases. ject of general, complaint to-day.

The Finnish Government has

All over London the Metropolitan agreed to request the Danish and Water Board ure xing standpipes 'Swedish Governments to send an in the streets and housewives come ice breaker to open the channel to with buckets and kettles and obtain the North Sea, though the absence Thousands of one icebreaker may mean the water from the main, of frozen pipes are bursting and temporary sealing up of Helsing- causing damage.--British Wireless fors. Service.

Calls for help hüve been received

Snow. Ice and Boiler, Explosions from Leningrad and from a han Skating is general throughout dred ships jee bound in the Baltic. Britain to-day-the only compensa- Soviet ice breakers are departing tion for the severe frost which in-upon a relief expedition. tensified this afternoon.

up.

many were

Ireland Warmer

London, Later.

"A Good Night"

MR. MATSUDAIRA

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO LONDON

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PRINCE'S FATHER-IN-LAW

London. Yesterday.

MISHAP TO THE “MOTH”.

Strikes The Webster Rocks

A Naval wireless message ré- ceived this afternoon reports that His Majesty's gunboat "Moth" is reported to have struck the Webster Racks, about 18 miles below Wuchow, on Tuesday.

His Majesty's "Tarantula". and "Moorhen" have been sent to stand by the "Moth."-

No further news of the mishap was available at the time of going to press. "

and field guns from the beach about five miles west of Chefop to the surrounding hills. British Naval Wireless.

Looting Feared

Chefoo, Yesterday.

the Pope and the King of Italy would necessitate any changes in the diplomatic relations between this country and the Vatican British Wireless Service.

TROTSKY DETAINED

IN RUSSIAN CONSULATE AT

CONSTANTINOPLE

USING AN ASSUMED NAME

Constantinople, Yesterday. Leon Trotsky, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, using the pseudonym of Selbroft, arrived here on a specially chartered steamor. He has been taken under the escort if three Russian agents to the So- viet Consulate where he is prac- tically a prisoner and unable to communicate with anyone outside.- Reuter.

An earlier cable stated that the are silent, Constantinople officials but it was credibly believed that Trotsky, under an asumed name, had arrived from Odessn the night be- fore and that he would remain on the ship until arrangements were

Gonoral Liu Chen-nien has decid-made for him to go to Angora, the

ed to put up a fight against the in-capital of Turkey."

surgents of eastern Shantung, who are led by Shih Shu-chun, a former brigade commander under Chang Tsung-chang.

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If plans mature, fighting is pected in the vicinity of Chefoo during the next few days.

Looting is feared and local

merchants are panic-stricken.

FROM KABUL

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN EVACUATED

OFFICIAL STATEMENT

London, Yesterday.

Liu Chen-nien is reported to Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the

have requested Chang Tsung-chang House of Commons, gave the fol

The lowest temperature was at Ross-on-Wye, G degrees below zero. | A curious fact is that Ireland More deaths, due to the cold are and Spitsbergen are at present, reported to-day while

warmer than London. Many rivers injured in domestic boiler explo-in England are frozen, even the sions.

The roads in South Wales are in-upper Thames. Ice-breakers are

the river at The new Japanese Ambassador to to mediate, but the latter has re-lowing details of the men, women passable and mining valleys snowed being employed on

Oxford. Many sporting fixtures London, Mr. Tauneo Matsudaira,fused, and it is believed he is behind and children evacuated from Kabul of Prince the present movement against Liu by Royal Air Force between Dreem- who is father-in-law Chichibu (younger brother of Cher-nien.-Reuter. Frozen To Death

H.I.M. the Emperor of Japan) has arrived in London-Reuter. Belgrade, Yesterday.

Mr. Matsudaira

formerly His The beach at Brighton is covered Many deaths from cold have oc-

A gipay Ambassador at Washington. with ice, which is unprecedented. carred in Yugo-Slavia.

was married to Prince family of five were frozen to death daughter Throughout Europe

amridst much Stories of winter hardships con- in the woods. Zagreb is isolated, Chichibu recently tinue to arrive from throughout all the railways being blocked by pomp. Europe.

A hundred motor cars are embed-have been abandoned owing to the ed in snow drifts round Stranrear, frost. where two marooned trains had to be dug out.

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the snow. The Belgrade express

A message from Vienna states is embedded in a snow-drift, and that the bitter cold is causing in- food supplies are becoming short- tense suffering among the poor, es- er-Renter.

ид-

was

AIRMAN RESCUED

SAFELY BROUGHT TO PESHAWAR

HOPES FOR COMRADE

REV. DR. BURROWS

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER

London, Yesterday. The death is announced of the

ber 23 and February 11:-The Bri- tish aubjects numbered 216; Afghans 32; French 11; Germans 34; Italians 4; Persians 19; Rou- manians 1; Swiss 1; Syrians 5: Turka 42; United States citizena 1. The total was 366 of whom some 280 were women and children.-British Wireless Service.

Rt. Reverend Winfrid Oldfield KAISER'S Burrows, D.D. Bishop of Chiches- ter since 1919. Educated at Eton, Corpus Christi and Christ Church, Oxford, he had a fire scholastic record. Soon after taking his de- gree he was appointed a tutor of Christ Church, a post which he held until 1891, when he was made

Earlier News pecially among the 200,000

London, Yesterday. employed. The Government is tak ing active relief measures and mill- There is an Arctic bleakness tary held kitchens are dispensing everywhere in Britain to-day, and free meals twice daily. Bakera still colder weather is predicted. have opened free bread kitchens in Railway and road traffic in Britain. the city and the authorities have as on the Continent, has been seri- increased the distribution of free ously delayed, and a number of members of the Royal Air Force School.

New Delhi, Yesterday.

Wildly Cheered

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Mrs. Bramwell Booth and Mrs. Booth Hellberg were not present at

(Above) Bramwell Booth, to whem a successor as General of the Salvation Army has been appointed by the High Council. (Below), Commander Evange- line Booth, who received a "minority" vote. She is head of the Salvation Army in America, an ofleial of which pledged full support for the new regime.

and other officers.

His Lordship observed that Capt. Inglis made two statements, the final one being that the distribution of the money was in his discretion

and that if he had been satisfied with the plaintiff, he would have paid him.

Mr. Macnamara declared: "I say it is a most improper thing to ac- cept the report of a sub-officer (the 2nd engineer) against the plaintiff and then to go and pay over that to that same sub-officer, money coupled with an obligation to pay little."

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Not on Speaking Terms Cross-examined by Mr. Hugh- Jones, plaintiff said it was the eus- tom on the China Const for charter- ers to give a bonus to the master to be distributed among deck and engine room officers. He under- stood that the captain received $180;; chief officer, $60, second officer $30, chief engineer $80, the remainder getting smaller sums.

Mr. Hugh Jones put it to witness. that the chief engineer got $35, the second $20, the third $15 and the fourth $10, making $80 altogether. Plaintiff replied that he was entitled. to $30.

Mr. Demee stated that the Cap- tain and chief engineer were not on speaking terms all the while he was on the ship. All orders between them were given in writing. Not- withstanding, the chief engineer re- ceived his bonus.

FARM RAIDED

ROBBERS INTIMIDATE

INMATES

A TRIFLING HAUL

A robbery at a. farm in Shatin the Police by tele- was reported phone from the 9-mile gate last night.

According to the story of Tung Kai, the farmer, the deed occurred at.11.30, and was committed by five robbers who all spoke Hakka. They stole clothing and bedding worth $16, and then ran away in the direction of Taipo.

Sleeping in the hut at the time the election of Commissioner Hig-of the robbery were Tang Kal, his BROTHERgins, the announcement of which wife, a son, and two daughters.

PRINCE HENRY SUFFERING FROM CANCER

NOT PRESENT AT DOORN

Berlin, Yesterday.

was wildly cheered by the Council. Tang Kal was awakened by a noise Commissioner Higgins with and found that the door had been tremor in his voice, humbly thanked forced open. As he sat up in bed the Council for electing him to a

a voice called out "Don't run", and "position of high trust."

To Reuter Commissioner Higgins simultaneously an electric torch

was flashed in his face.

the would follow said the Army.

Disregarding It is learned that Prince Henry, banner unfarled by its founder with

the

Intruder's

men ware:

Flight-Lieut. Davis, one of the Principal of the Leeds Clers the ex-Kaiser's brother, is suffer increased life and spirit. He hoped order, Tung Kai jumped out of bed coal and wood and are establishing deaths from cold have occurred. stranded in Afghanistan, has been From 1904 until 1910 he was ing seriously from cancer in the there would not be any further and attempted to rush past the. more shelters for the homeless.

The Trocadero Restaurant in the brought to Peshawar by air by Archdeacon of Birmingham, after larynx, similarly to his father. legal difficulties, but if the deed of robber to the door. He was inter Doorn on the 1904 were attacked, he arust defend cepted by four other men, who then rushed in. Two of the latter held, Many country schools have been West End of London was damaged Flight-Lieut. Hancock, whose aero-which he became Bishop of Truro, His absence from

He occasion of his brother's birthday. It

Tung Kat and tied his hands to- closed. Burst pipes have seriously by fire early this morning.

on his The plane accommodates only two per- moving in, 1915 to Chichester.

Support For The New General

Whilst the affected the water and gas supplies. Intense frost froze the water from sone. Flight-Lieut. Chapman will was 71 at the time of his death-focussed public attention

The American delegation official gether. condition. He is 66 years old and Reuter. A Rome telegram says that heavy the hoses and icicles hung from the be fetched shortly-Reuter.

lives in a castle at Hemmelmark, declared that the Salvation Army in struggling to overpower him, Tung snowstorms are holding up the burning bullding, while pavements

near Eckenforde.--Reuter.

Americs would rally loyally to the Kai called out "Help" and "Rob bers." whereupon they struck him train and motor bus service. and roadways were converted into

side of the new General,

with their fists. Three avalanches near Farbiano in a skating rink.

AMERICA'S NAVY

CONSTRUCTION BILL ¦

SIGNED

the Province of Ancona, buried the railway to a depth of 21 feet.

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Coldest For 20 Years Tuesday was the coldest day since

A telegram from Wiesbaden says 1908 in London and it is over forty

that a French inspecting officer at Landau, found a sentry frozen to death.

A score of deaths have occurred in West Germany from cold.

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Snow In Scotland'

REPARATIONS

UNLUCKY CHINESE

INVESTIGATOR BEATEN BY

COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS HOLD

TWO HOURS' SESSION '

London, Yesterday.

ROBBERS

Philadelphia, Yesterday. Mr. Yal Lo, who is at present,

two.

K.C.'s Impassioned Speech

The alarm was taken up by the Mr. W. A. Jowitt, K.C, made an impassioned speech, in addressing other inmates, but, in spite of their the High Council on behalf of Gen-ishouts, the robbers remained. After the farmer's wife and son. years since such cold has been ex-

eral Booth. perienced in February. Last night!

The witnesses, including eminent had also been trussed up, three of the minimum temperature In Lon-

Washington, Yesterday. don was 21 deg. Fahrenheit, but The Committee of Experts on re-studying stock exchange methods

President Coolidge has signed the physicians, testified that General the robbers kept guard over their much lower readings were register-parations sat for two hours this here on behalf of the Chinese

Government,.

has been severely Bill providing for the construction Booth would be physically fit fully to victims.

The other two robbera pro- The sentries in the British army ud in the suburbs and in the pro-morning In Paris.

beaten by robbers, and has been of fifteen 10,000-ton cruisers and command the army in a month or who were not molested in any way, to ransack the hut, on the Rhine have been issued pull vinces, while in Scotland and Wales An official communique issued at taken to hospital. Fifty-five stitches one aircraft carrier within three It is learned that General Booth ceeded overs and sheepskin coats. the cold was again intense. The the conclusion of the session stated had to be put in his head-Reuter's years. Reuter's American Service offered to leave the choice of his and, falling to find any money

News from Budapest says that a bitter enat. wind has however that in response to the committee's American Service.

successor to the Council provided he they went to Tung Kal and heavy snowfall is dislocating moderated.

request Dr. Schacht and his collen-

ADMIRAL IN ČANTON

retained the command in slightly asked him where he kept the traffic and that coal and food sup-

guas of the German delegation London, Yesterday. The death is

modified form, .. ****

cash. Tung Kal replied that her plies are short..

Heavy snowfalls in Scotland and submitted observations upon certain announced of Captain CT Fox HE the

was a working man and did not have. Commander-in-Chief, Letter, From Genera! Booth Wales have greatly hampered com- points regarding Germany's econo creft, the, Conservative member for

China Station, Vico-Admiral A, K. Mr. Jowitt read a letter from any money. Then the rubbers munications. The London to Glas-mic situation, as set forth in recent Bath. This creates another by Wastell, C.B., in H.M.S. "Peters- General Booth to the High Council threatened to kill the farmer and

election, but it is noteworthy that, Hath is a strong Conservative seat, seld, arrived at Canton yesterday, declaring that the Army was faced his wife, one of them picking up a

British Wireless Service

from Hong Kong, on his first visit with the gravest dangers, and urg- chopper from the floor.

they found that this had no A telegram from Antwerp says

to that port

in that all abould work together. that the Scheldt is thick with float

He asked for an opportunity to reflect on either the farmer or: His the robbers decided that they Ing ice and that numerous buoys coaches had to be broken through The trial began at Bombay re-

Three Newcastle palicemen were shape the deed of 1904, pleading for wit

speaking the truth; Bo tõey. have been carried away. The Dutch before they could be separated.cently of Sunderrso, Govindrao

each fined £2 at Gateshead for con- time to recover his health and pro

best of" back Job by Help- shipping authorities have removed Two traina which were caught in Ranjit, a former official of the

ie~ Liquor during prohibited mising to retire if the Improvement

mselves to the Illuminated buoys in their ter- & snowdrift near Stranraer were Bank of Bombay (now Imperial

itory and navigation is suspended

Bank of India), for alleged frauds The closing rate of the dollar on hours at a club at Ryton, near in his health did not meet with the

demands of the work Rent stomating to more than 257,500 demand, to-day was 1/11 15/16. Newcastle

Wolves have entered the outskirts of the towns of Transylvania and devoured cattle.

The River Scheldt

at night-time,

gow express was delayed owing to reports, of the Agent General for the freezing of the water in the reparations. British Wireless Ser- railway troughs, and on exrival Ice vice. which had collected between the

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