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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.

BURMA 'QUAKE,

GREAT TORNADO.

Road, at the Kowloon Magistracy Parts of Famous Pagodas-Baby Snatched from

this morning, in connection with two aummonges concerning de fendant's dogs, which had no wuzzles and no licences.

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Destroyed.

RICE MILL ENGULFED.

Rangoon, Yesterday.

Mother's Arms.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

Dallas, Texas, Yesterday.

With three previous convictions registered against him, a Chinese, who could not give a satisfactory explanation of the possession of an Iron shackle, was at the Kowican dislocated. Magistracy this morning sentenced The golden tops and inket jewela It is probable that the death roll to three months' hard labour. of the two famous pagodas of is higher, but the storm has de

Shwedagon in Rangoon and stroyed the telegraphs.-Reuter's Shwemawdaw in Pegu have been American Service.

As a result of the earthquake, At least forty-four people have some of the railway bridges have been killed in tornadoes sweeping collapsed, and train services are over a wide area in the central district as far south as San Antonio.

An unemployed Chinese, of Ko destroyed. Iu, who atole somo vegetables, A rice mill at Pegu has been mellons and chillies from a garden completely engulfed; and a cinema

sentenced to twolve Jabour.

ed.

further awollen.

Later Detaila.

Dallas, later. Hitherto twenty-eight Identifled

at Ma Tau Wal, was at the Kow-collapsed during a performance, and two unidentified bodies are Joon Muglatracy this morning the bodies of the victims being reported from Frost (Navarro), weeks hard still in process of being extricat-also a negro baby snatched from its mother's arms by the wind. Fire is smouldering in the ruins Eight out of a family of nine Whilst working on the staircase of the devastated part of Pegu, and Mexicans

it is feared that when It has been in Kennedy.

were killed on a farm of 23, Peking Road, Kowloon, yes-) terday afternoon, two Chinese, extinguished the death roll will be

The tornado atarted at Waco, Leung Chau (45) and Lau Kam (23), were injured when the wooden

d swept northwards, cutting report states path three hundred yards wide door of the top floor suddenly came

dis-in parts of Mclennan Hill, and off its hinges and fell down on them.

Navarro counties, wrecking farms, Both men were taken to the Kow-

and also many buildings in the Goon Hospital.

business district of Navarro, Very exaggerated figures of the A mechanic was killed at earthquake casualties have now zerodrome. in San Antonic. been authoritatively corrected to farmer and his wife and three four hundred killed at Pegu and children wero killed on a neigh- over two hundred killed and injurouring farm.

CORRESPONDENCE

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES.

To the Editor of the "China Mail".] Sir, Re the statement by an lelal of the Telephone Company giving an explanation regarding the faulty working of the new automatic system, my experiences with the

telephones may be of interest to your

readers.

An unconfirmed that Thongwa island has appeared.

Corrected Death Roll.

Rangoon, Later.

the

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ed at Rangoon-Reuter.

The top floor of a school house [Thongwa is given in the maps was blown off but the pupils," who towns, one about 23 miles south- as the name of two South Burma were below stairs, were unhurt. west of Rangoon.]

ELECTION AHEAD.

Surprise for Canadian M.P.'s.

TARIFF CHANGES.

Fifty were injured in various parts, and a number hurt by flying glass, in Dallas.

It is now believed that seventy- three were killed and hundreds injured by the tornado, while

immense damage has been done property.--Reuter's American

to

Service.

BUSH FIRES. Hundreds Homeless in America,

On Monday last in the premises securing Russian protection and of the Chinese Club I made eight at- even of making a treaty with the tempts to get in touch with a sub- scriber. There are two telephone Soviet Government with a view to instruments in the Club, and I used

Ottawa, Yesterday. possible concessions. The Dalai them both. In the case of the first In the course of a Budget debate | Lamn, inspired by the Soviet, has instrument, the first thred attempts in the House of Commons, Mr. Mac- taken steps to bring on a crisis dialling tone continuing its merry eral election in Canada would be to get through resulted in the kenzle King announced that a gea- by provoking Britain. He feels trill after I had finished dialling in held in the autumn. sure not only of Russia support, the prescribed manner. The fourth

New York, Yesterday. but of the support of China and try resulted in dead silence. The House, and was contained in a brief The bush and forest fires which the revolutionaries of India.

second instrument also gave me the statement in reply to the Conserva- have already rendered hundreds It

dialling tone after I had finished tive opposition leader, Mr. Bennett, homeless still continue to cause

The announcement surprised the

F

is suspected. although it has been spinning the dial around; the third who moved an amendment involv-alarm on the eastern seaboard. denied, that a treaty is in draft try gave me the "Line Engaged" under which Russian shall assume tone, while at the fourth attempt the suzerainty of Tibet.

heard the "Ringing Tone," but It is before I could get known that arms have been im-from the subscriber called, some ported into Lhasa from Russia. employee of the Telephone Com-

an

answer

The res have been aggravated by a spell of dry weather, accom- panied by high winds. Some of the conflagrations are now under control, but at least two new fres have started.

Matters are so bad in Massa- chusetts that the trout season has been declared closed, and every able-bodied man has been called out to fight the flames.

the

Conditions are worst in vicinity of the Taconic mountains, but a number of fires are also damaging valuable forests in Maine. Reuter's American vice.

Ser-

The British and Russian Con-any chipped in and told me the vention of 1907 determined the,

line was "engaged."

I then made my way to the offices following conditions with respect a friend, a professional man, to Tibet-the recognition of the to use his 'phone, Here, again, the suzerain rights of China and the results were disappointing.

To forestall the charge that I territorial and administrative in-might not have used the telephone tegrity of the country; that no correctly, I will say that I use one official representative at Lhasa method only the correct one. And It is also fair to say that during should be appointed either by Bri-the last three days I have had calls tain or Russia, and that no con-rut through properly, but this, of Hong Kong, Thursday, May 8, 1930. cession for railways, mines, etc,, course, only shows that my dialling should be sought by either Power, was in order but that there must be something radically wrong with the It will thus be seen that any at-'phone system since I used the ing a vote of non-confidence in the tempt by the Soviet to obtain con- same method of dialling through- Government on the general ground Woman Aviator Wins the cessions in Tibet will be a flagrant out. As regards the statement that of its alleged insincerity regarding the 'phone muddle was caused by the the Budget tariff changes recently

Mr.. Mackenzie King.

AIR PAGEANT.

Chief Event.

Air Vice-Admiral Sir Sefton

Where Danger Lurks.

The attention of the British Foreign Office is at the moment breach of the convention. We Chinese element of the population announced. Mr. Bennett asserted principally directed toward India. may also rely on the integrity of "monkeying" with the new phones, that Mr. Dunning's proposals were Brancker, Director of Civil Avia It has been so occupied for the the present Marajah of Nepal, Mr. Sherry may be interested to completely at variance with the tion, arrived for lunch in an sir taxi last six months, or even, perhaps, whose loyalty toward the British phone system has been in operation learn that in Canton an automatic

Government's declared policies.

Mr. Mackenzie King replied that air pageant at Woodley, near Read- from Hanworth at Reading's Arst for the last year. It is conceiv-Crown cannot be doubted.

for the past year without giving the Government armed with the peeing, on the occasion of the opening able that a few apparently insign!- In regard to China's part in the least bit of trouble, and the instalfa-

ple's mandate should represent the club-house of the Herts, ficant incidents in other parts of Tibetan war with Nepal, it will be tion was completed and put into use Canada at the Imperial Economic Bucks, and Oxfordshire Aero Club. the world may escape its regard, recalled that in 1909 similar opera-jon the operation of the instruments be held late in August or early is shire, Hertfordshire, and Oxford- without any intimation to the public

Conference.

It is expected the election will petitors took part in the Berk-. Four Analists-out of thirty com- It is difficult, even for a Govern- tions occurred. Chinese troops apart from the usual instructions

September, Here in

- Reuter's American

do and

Service.

"NEW MONEY.” Detention of Customs Revenue.

DRASTIC ACTION.

shire private aeroplane race over a thirty-mile course, and Miss Wini- fred Spooner, the well-known woman aviator, was an easy winner.

Flight-Lieut. H. M. Schofield, who took part in the Schneider Cup and other well-known flyers, took Race, Flight-Eleut. F. W. Mackenzie,

part in demonstrations.

ment, to observe every event out were sent to operate on the See-contained in the directory. side its territory and to attach chuen frontier against certain Hong Kong for weeks past half page

and to st importance to it. That is one of insurgent" lamas, whom they daily newspapers telling the public displays have been appearing in the the disadvantages of having so handled severely. When the what to do and what not large-spread an Empire. Never- Dalai Lama attempted to give so on, and still the thing does not theless, concealed by the clouds of orders that they should cease, hind enough to explain why It Is work. Perhaps Mr. Sherry will be civil war in China, the doubtful the Chinese disputed his authority that in Canton the "monkeying" haze of Naval agreements in the and Chinese troops invaded the had no effect on the system there? West, and the noise of the dis city. The British Government, in in touch with our Chinese friends Or, if he does not know, will be get turbances in India, activities are view of the apparent intention there and learn from them how to going on which may in the course of China to establish effective operate an automatic telephone sys-

Peking, Yesterday. Chu. Ao-halang made e of time prove to be an even auzerainty in Tibet, drew the at- tem properly and efficiently?

state- ront this evening regarding the And lastly, perhaps the Telephone detention of the Customs revenue greater menace than affairs which tention of the Government at Company, through Mr. Sherry as at Tientsin. now seem so all-important.

Peking to the necessity of strictly the mouthpiece, will publicly make Politically, India is in an unfor observing ite treaty obligations, an apology to the Chinese for the latake, namely the extra amount 84.

He said it was "new money"-nt] tunate position on the map. On and especially pointing out that the statement that the telephone forcement of the National tariff, It is gratifying to find the

gratuitous inaalt offered them in coming in as a result of the en- the North West Frontier she is the integrity of the frontier States system was disorganised through the which Mr. T. V. Soong would have Hong Kong Chamber of Com- hemmed in by Afghanistan, with of Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim "monkeying" by Chinese subscribers found useful to pay troops and merch coming into line with the its lawless bands of tribesmen, must be respected.

and their employees?

News in Brief.

and on the North East it verges The present Government of on Nepal, an Independent State. China, it is clear, apparently is Nepal is one of the keys to India in need of a similar reminder. which is often overlooked by both military and political writers. Its peoples are of Mongolian descent and have much in common with the Tibetans, yet for the last aix The forthcoming wedding is en months war between the two nounced of Vivian Alfred Shaw, of countries has been progressing in way Bay, to Jenny Piry of the same No. 2 Third Lane, Tai Hong, Cause- spasms...

Agents of the Third address International in Moscow have been agitating the people of Tibet, They obtained a commanding influence over the Dalai Lama, im-

and

Yours, elc.,

Y. S. CHEN. Hong Kong, May 7.

MUI TSAI IN MALAYA. Reference to Sir Cecil Clementi's Report.

NOT PERMITTED.

London, Yesterday.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall," May 8, 1920.1

To-day's dollar-is worth

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buy explosivos. If he had secured business men of other Crown bla own loans thereon, it was his Colonies on the vexed question of lookout.

the Crown Agents and the mono- Yen, Hsi-shan, he said, was depoiy they enjoy of Government termined on drastic action, after a business to the detriment of "Bri- eat these sums going to the Hong Kong blocked the way to reasonable delay, in order to pre- tish firms. It was in 1907, that

ken to, convey the last warning Committee had issued a circular. Nanking faction. Stops had been co-operation. The West India to the Commissioner of Customs, There was talk of rapproche- and if the warning failed, thement between Ceylon and Singa matter would be settled by other pore to end the evil. But Hong mennem den Beway Bong merchants for some in-. Chu Ao-hsiang declared that the explicable resson, declared in

favour of the system."

In the House of Commons atacation of the Customs House on The Committee of the Hong

question time, Mr. Drummond the French Concession would not Shiels said that a report received a cause of difficulty, but he did Kong General Chamber of Com using threatening and abuslye from the High Commissioner in not think matters would come to merce are now in entire sympathy ward a Chinese Police Malaya (Sir Cecil Clementi) repass necessitating police action with the action by the Singapore uniform, while on duty, garding Mui Taal, Had satisfied He had received categorical as Chamber in the matter of indenti

at the Kowloon Lord Passfield that no feature of furances that none of the Lega- ing for supplies, with a view to morning fined 5 this social custom was permitted tions proposed to intervene in the Government allowing local firms ative of seven days in Malays to which exception Matter, which strictly concerned the opportunity to compete for

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