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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1931.

TERRORS OF 'QUAKE COOLIES KILLED BY AMERICA WANTS TO

IN JUGO-SLAVIA.

Crash of Landslides and Spouting of Geysers.

VILLAGES DESTROYED

Belgrade, Yesterday,

LANDSLIDE.

Fatal Avalanche in Shing Mun Valley.

TWO MISSING

Resulting from a serious land-

AVOID WAR.

Peace Suggestion Made by Rear-Admiral.

TO FIGHT ONLY IF FORCED.

Washington, Yesterday.

-Th

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

·losing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11%.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

PRAYA SHOOTING SEVERE SNOWSTORM

AFFAIR.

Police Detain Several Chinese.

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IN BRITAIN..

Street Buried Several Inches Deep..

ROADS IMPASSABLE.

Rugby, Yesterday. London experienced the heavlest

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PLOT TO OVERTHROW MR. BALDWIN'S SNUB

SOVIET REGIME.

Seven Mensheviks Sent to Jail.

ACCUSED REPENTANT

Moscow, Yesterday. After deliberating for 25 hours

FOR GANDHI.

Tories Not to Attend Round Table Parley.

SENSATIONAL DECISION.

London, Yesterday.

An important decision reached

THE "WANTED MAN.”

More light a thro25 in the Underground rumblings, the slide which occurred yesterday An amendment of the Consti- Prayn shooting tragedy, in which awesome crush of landslides, and at the new by wash at Sheklai-pui, tution to prevent the United a Canton detective, You Tak-yan, snowfall of the present Winter the Court sentenced the seven by Mr. Stanley Baldwin that the spouting of great geywre of in the neighbourhood of the Shing|Sates from going to war except lost his life, by the fact that the to-day, which was the coldest March Mensheviks, Groman, Scher, Conservatives shall not be repre-. boiling water are among the ferri-Mun Valley, seven earth coolies of in the case of attack, until after Police yesterday made several for several years. Streets were Sukhanov, Ginsburg, Jakobovich, sented at the contemplated eit- fying features of the earthquake the Pun Yick firm of building a referendum has been taken, has raids in the city, as a result of under snow from an early hours in Petunin, and Finnyenaelovsky on tings of the Round Table Confer- in Jugo-Slavín.

contractors were killed, whilst one, been recommended to the War which some Chinese have been de- the morning and by noon were a charge of plotting the overthrow (ence in India was only revealed to- The first severe shock was felt (Chui Nam (18) is lying in the Kow- Policies Commission by Rear-tained.

buried to a depth of some inthes. of the Soviet State and establish night on the termination of F at 2,55 p.m., when many people in foon Hospital, in a serious condi- | Admiral McGowan, who was Pay-

Traffic was slowed down and traffic a capitalist regime with foreign meeting of the India Committee Strumnitza were inishing tion.

master-General during the War.

The official Police report of the noises silenced.

help, to 10 years' imprisonment of the Party in the House of Com- merry making at the cafes. The dead are Leung Hing (43), Rear-Admiral McGowan also crime states: "Sent to the Gov-

Many accidents were caused by each. Suddenly the lights failed and the Cheung Leung, (32), Cheung Keung suggests enlisting in the case of ernment Civil Hospital, a Chinese vehicles skidding and some roads

Seven others were sentenced to ceilings fell. The guests. who (31), Wong Lee (40), Au Ching

An official report at the close were immediately sobered, rush- (28), Mak Fo (17) and Leung Tam tween the ages of eighteen and about 24 years, suffering from cluding two main roads to the south to eight years. ed into the blackness of the rainy (28). The last named was alive thirty-five, and prohibiting the wounds inflicted by a Chinese male end,

ment had been considered in de- were impassable. Traffic night and huddled in the fields till when extricated from the earth, increasing of prices during the fat the junction of Connaught was held up owing to ice and snow vote the rest of their lives to the corded a welcome to Mr. Baldwin's The accused all promised to detail after which the committee re- dawn.

rushed to the Kowloon war. He thinks that such mea- Road Central and Jubilee Street,in the Midlands and North of Eng-faithful service of the Soviet if decision as aforesaid... Mineral springs in Strumnitza

sures would conduce to peace. at about 11.15 hours to-day. Yau land, where in some places there they were given which were dried up reappeared

Tak-yan died in the G.C.H. at were six feet drifts, and snow ter in great cracks at Valandov, 10

12.15 hours same date. The de- ploughs had to be used to clear the miles distant.

ceased resided in Yaumati, ad-strects in certain east coast towns. dress at presurinknown. Mur--British Wireless Service.

There is still no telephone con- munication at Skoplje (Uskub), consequently it is impossible to ascertain details of the entas- trophe there. It is officially an- nounced that the Government in- tends to meet all expenditure aris- ing from the earthquake, subse- quently subscriptions will not he raised nor contributions accepted

from abroad.

Budapest, Yesterday.

and was Hospital, but he died at 3.80 p.m. Two coolies are believed to be still missing.

DRIVING OFFENCE.

EUROPEAN FINED FOR NEGLIGENCE.

SERGEANTS EVIDENCE.

Mr. L. Pracht, of Messrs. Mel- chers and Co., was to-day sum-

moned before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy with having

Defendant plend-

mons.

war every able bodied man be- male, named Yau Tak-yan, aged on the outskirts of London, in-imprisonment ranging from five said that the Irwin-Gandhi settle-

He says: "Our best contribution to world peace ought to consist in making it very difficult for us to become involved in war."-Reu-

ter's American Service.

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REFUGEES POURING

INTO MANCHURIA.

Sad Plight of Siberian

Kulaks.

The cold and hunger are in-driven a motor cycle along Pokfu-

FORCED LABOUR GANGS. lam Road negligently at 6.30 p.r. creasing the sufferings of people in the stricken region. It is con-

on February 24.

Harbin, Feb. 29. ed guilty. firmed that a number of houses

Traffe-Sergeant Brown, prosecut- Hundreds of peasant refugees collapsed in Salonika, whilst many ing, said that defendant was driv- from Siberian territory continue villages in South-eastern Jugo- Slavia were destroyed.

ing toward Pokfulam, and rounded to enter Manchuria by way of the Those

a bend near the Socony filling sta- Three-Rivers Distict of Heilung- the worst sufferers. A number of.

ea, tie nes

which ares

close to the Greek frontier are tion on the wrong side of the road, kiang province, from railway stations has been destroy-I was coming in the opposite direc- they are making their way to the

damaged, and the tion, and fortunately was driving Chinese Eastern Railway zone.

Almost unanimously these re slowly, and I could pull op. Had traffic stopped.-Reuter.

I been going a little faster, therefugees report conditions as becom- would have been a very serious se- ing increasingly serious in Soviet cident." stated the police officer. Russia. Last nutumn a consider- Defendant's speed was about 20 able number of young Soviet re- Aldents in Harbin returned to m.p.h. and he was going uphill.

Answering the Magistrate, Ser-Siberia in order to join the Soviet military establishment in the geant Brown said that his view was obstructed by trees and abrubbery, Vladivostok district. and defendant came on him all at

опсе.

His Worship:~---Fined $30.

DEATH OF FAMOUS GENERAL.

Celebrated Militarist of Imperial Russia.

PROFESSOR IN HARBIN.

Harbin, Feb. 27. General Andogaky, the well known Russian militarist of the old regime, who took a prominent part in the Brest-Litovak negotiations with the Germans, but who at the Inst moment signed protest against the conditions of the treaty

HORN NUISANCE.

UNNECESSARY TOOTING BY CAR DRIVERS.

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CHINESE FINED $10.

that took Russia out of the Allied "We are doing our best to try ranks in the World War, died here to get it into the heads of these drivers not to toot their horns un- yesterday and was barled to-day. For a time following the Russian necessarilly, and it is very hard,"

declared Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse,

revolution, General Andogsky was chief of the Military Academy In CIE (Divisional Superintendent of Police, in the Central Police Petrograd.

Court to-day when he summoned

In recent years General Andogsky Ng Foo, the driver of private

has resided in Harbin where he served as Professor in the Com-

horn unnecessarily in Arbuthnot

car No. 878, before Mr. mercial institute of Oriental Langu. Schofield, for having sounded his ages, and also contributed articles on milltary affairs to the Kung Road at 6.50 a.m. on February 21. Paoone the leading newspaper

Defendant pleaded gulity. of Harbin,

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The families of these young men in Harbin, clalm that no word has been received from their sona since they returned to Soviet territory.

Accoding to reports received from Vladivostok these young men, Instead of being incorporated in the Soviet army, were forced to join the Soviet labour gangs and according to inquiries made in Vladivostok and Nikolsk Ussurisk, their pro- Bont whereabouts is unknown.- Canton News Agency.

CRISIS IN GERMAN STEEL INDUSTRY.

Owners Lock Out 40,000 Employees.

WAGES DISPUTE.

der apparently due to Communist activities."

Murderer Disappears.

After the crime the assailant was seen to run up Jubilee Street to Des Voeux Road Central, where he disappeared. The weapon used

FOG.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:-

The anticyclone, which has weakened further, is central near Shanghai.

A depression has formed to the east of the Loochoos.

* Läude] ↑ förast:-Northerly Winds; moderate; generally overcast; foggy;

possibly clearing temporarily.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours anded at 10 B.IT. to-day - all. Rainfall since January 1-0.97 inch against an average of 3.78 inches-deficit 279 Inches.

Temperature.

The temperature at certain) specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:-

Hong Kong

01

Macao

58

Pratas Island Manila

72

72

Foochow

52

40.

88

Chefoo Shanghai

HURRICANE HAVOC IN MAURITIUS.

Relief Measures for Feeding Homeless.

SUGAR CROPS RUINED.

Rugby, Yesterday.

2 chance.-

SLAVE TRAFFICE. SHIPMENTS IN AFRICA STILL

TAKING PLACE.

EFFECT OF NAVAL PATROL.

The subsequent explanation was that this sensational decision was taken last week before the termination of the Irwin-Gandhi conversations, and after a de- Submitted views to Mr. Baldwin, putation of the Commitee had

To-night's resolution is merely a formal acknowledgment, but the announcement has completely surprised Parliamentary circles. A debate on India is to be held on Friday.-Reuter.

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Rugby, Yesterday. In the House of Commons to-day the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Hugh Dalton, stated

Government Plans, that no specific instances of slave trading across the Red Sea. were

Rugby. Yesterday." The Secretary for India, Mr. brought to the notice of the Bri-Wedgwood-Benn, replying to A telegram from the Governor tish Government Jast year, though several questions as to the Gov- of Mauritius to the Secretary for he feared it was quite possible ernment plans for carrying on the the Colonica says that a preli- that shipments of slaves from the work of the Round Table Confer- minary inspection shows that the African to the Arabian coast took ence, sald that it was hoped to hurricane damage was

severe, place. The activities of His make a statement on the subject causing widespread distress. A Majesty's sloops and the measures

Service.

large number of small dwellings taken by the French and Italian very shortly. British Wireless were demolished and several thou-Governmenta had undoubtedly re- sands rendered homeless.

The duced the traffic to comparatively STRONGEST ARMY IN heaviest damage is reported in small proportions. * ·

Moka and 'the western suburbs of Port Louis. Moka-hospital wal

Forced Labour.

badly damaged and will probably Questioned on the resolutions of have to be evacuated. Temporary the League Committee which met

THE WORLD.

War Instrument. GERMANY'S COMPLAINT

relief measures are in progresa in London recently to advise on France Has Formidable for feeding and sheltering the the assistance to be given to homeless. The loss of life so far Liberia in dealing with slavary is reported as 12, but the reports and forced lebour, the Under are incomplete as the roads are Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. blocked with debris. 'The dumage Dalton, said that the Liberian to the cane crops, which were ex-Government were represented on ceptionally promising, is very the committee and the decisions severe. British Wireless Service. were unanimous,

Appalling Damage.

Port Louis, Yesterday. Eleven people

Berlin, Yesterday. That the French Army is the strongest and best-prepared war

He added that the British Gov-instrument in the world was con- ernment had every reason to hope tended by the Minister of De- are reported to that the expert on general ad fence, General Groener, in a have been killed by the cyclones, ministration who was proceeding speech in the Reichstag to-day on while appalling damage has been to Monrovia would be able to pro- the Army estimates, in which he done to property. For example, pose suitable action to end the opposed the French idea that the the lower part of the Moka dis-unsatisfactory state of affairs ro- nations that were formerly ag triet resembles the shelled villages vealed in the report of the Com- gressors should be subjected to of France during the late war. mission of Enquiry-British Wire severer armament limitations

The damage to the sugar crop less Service.

than others.

is very heavy, though at present It cannot be estimated.

The Government is taking effec- measures to restore Com-

is apparently an automatic pistol of large size. Two cartridges of tive large calibre were picked up on munications and to succour 10,000 people who had been rendered The description of the want.homeless.-Renter. ed man, as contained in the re-

the scend.

BLAZING.

port, is that he is about 20 years TEA FACTORY STILL of age, and of medium height and build. It farther states that the assailant was dressed in ̈, dark Chinese style clothing and was wearing a hut.

This murder calls to mind the

Berlin, Yesterday. Forty thousand employees of the Mr. Wodehouse, explaining the Bavarian tron and steel industry facts, sald that the car was at a have been locked out by their em On several occasions, Prince standstill on the morning in ques-ployers, who are dissatisfied at the Chichibu of Japan tried to induce tion, and the driver was contintious arbitration award allowing only General Andogeky to lecture in ly sounding the horn, with the a five to six per cent. cut la wages, brutal murder of Tse On, a Police Japan on Russian Military History, obvious intention of attracting his Instead of the requested 15 per cent. detective, who was shot dead in a but without success. When the master's Intention. Admiral Koltchak Government was a lttle above the Jail quarters, not in power in Omsk, General far from Caine Road. Andogsky served as quartermaster The Magistrate:"6.50 a.m. is General and Vice-chief-of-staff. He far too early to be tooting a horn tried to persuade Koltchak to ac- like that. People are still asleep. cept Japanese ald in exchange for Fined ten dollars." the Kamchatka Peninsula and also

is supposed to have urged Koltcbak

The car was Reuter.

'FRIENDS OF SOVIET.

GERMAN DELEGATION HELPS NATIONAL RELATIONS.

ECONOMIC AGREEMENT.

SPECTATORS HURT.

Great London Fire Lasts for 50 Hours.

TRADE DISPUTES.

NO REPEAL OF 1927 ACT PROPOSED.

Rugby, Yesterday.

He said that Germany, which had disarmed to an extent un exampled in history was entitled to demand that other Powers, should also disarm, as stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles- Reuter.

In the House of Commons to into the Metropolitan and the The French Army is divided day the Prime Minister said that Colonial Armies, both of which he did not at present propose to are under the War Minister, but Introduce any further proposals the estimates for Colonial troops relating to the repeal or amend other than those maintained in ment of the Trade Disputes Act Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco, are of 1927-Britlal Wireless Service, Included in the budget of the

SOVIET DEBTS.

COMMITTEE HOLDS ELEVEN MEETINGS.

Minister for the Colonies. The SNOW HAMPERS FIREMEN

Army, with the exception of the restaurant in Shanghai Street, on

Armies of Occupation, is localised the night of December 7, last

London, Yesterday.

and territorialised in the military year....

Over 50 hours after the out-

government of Paris, 20 Army Both murdered men were ac-break the great fire at the tea

Corps areas, and the territories of tively engaged on anti-Communist and rubber warehouse on Butler's

Alsace and Lorraine. The normal campaigns.

Wharf, Tower Bridge, was still

Rugby, Yesterday. composition of a French Army raging furiously to-day. Walls of Several questions were put as to Corps is two infantry divisions, sheeted ice and volumes of smoke the progress of the British and one regiment of cavalry, one artil TRINITY COLLEGE DINNER.

are pouring from the roof. The Soviet debts and claims committee.lery, brigade of three regiments, Moscow, Yesterday.

firemen have suffered severely Dr. Hugh Dalton said that the one battalion of engineers, one Soviet German relations

from exposure, and their work was main committee had met 11 times. group and one company of obser- The annual Trinity College further hampered to-day by the Two Sub-Committee had held meet-vation balloons, and administra likely to be strengthened as a Dublin University) dinner was heaviest snowstorm experienced in ings but had not yet reported, tive services. The peace estab- Bult of the conclusion

of the held in the Hong Kong Club, London for many years-Reuter, while four other Sub-Committees lishment of the Active Metropoli economic agreement between the Colonel C. D. Myles, O.BE, pre Several hundred people suffered Chairman of the Soviet Supreme siding Absence from the Colony FLIGHT TO TOKYO.

had not yet met-British Wireless tan Army, for 1929-30 is 317,076 painful burns yesterday while Economic Council and the delega- prevented Sir Joseph Kemp, C.B.E.,

Service

Inclusive of Colonial troops quar- EARTHQUAKE HOAX. watching an aerial pageant on, the tion of German Industrialista visit being present and both Surgu.

tered in France, but exclusive of the Air Force, which is a separ ate organisation.]

to agree to the independence of Finland in exchange for Manner- helm'a bolp in a drive or Moscow.

General Andogaky is survived by

a wife and several children, who are an: Impoverished condition.— Canton News Agency.

In

NOT MORE SERIOUS, THAN

WINTER: GALE,

CROCKERY SMASHED.

BURNED BY ACID FROM ARMY

:: 'PLANES,

Tokyo,.. Yesterday...

outskirts of Tokyo. Military ing here.-Reuter.

planes were demonstrating the

A methods of laying smokescreens by spraying some kind of chemical, some of which descended on the crowds below. burning their hands, faces and clothes. Reuter.

Tokyo, Yesterday.

yesterday's

The damage of quake does not appears to have been any morès serious than an ordinary Winter gale in Britain. this additionally mentioned that on March 9 – a number of houses

the

of Morfoka And

CURE FOR A COLD !

CAPTAIN FINED.

PIGS STOWED IN ILLEGAL MANNER.

are

- Captain T. W. Myler, O.E.E., R.N., and Major H.P. Hart, M.C., were unavoidably provented from at- tending,

FRENCH AIRMEN SEVERFLY BUFFETED.

Aleppo, Yesterday.

PRINCES TOUR.

GETTING READY FOR THE TRADE EXHIBITION.

SURVEYORS INSTITUTION.

At the annual meeting of the. Hong Kong and China, Branch of The airmen Burtin and Moensch, the Surveyors' Institution the fol Those present Included Surgn, who are dying, to Tokyo, were lowing officers were elected: Lieut, RR. Baker; the Rev. G. Kseverely buffeted while crossing Chairman: Mr. A. G, W. Tickle; Carpenter A. G. Clarke; Surga, the Gulf of Alexandretto, and were F.R.I.G.B.A., FBL In the Marine Court this morz Lieut. J. J. Cusack; Major FG. forced down and damaged their Vice-Chairman: ME, W. A. ing, Captain J. Jacobsen, master of Flood, IL.C., the Rev. H. F. Foley; propeller, which, however, they re- Cernell, P.A.SI. PTO VISIT BUENOS AIRES. the s.. Gustav Diederichsen, plead. Dr. G. V. A. Grifith; B. H. C. paired, and they have resumed Hon. Secretary; Mr. JA MA ad gulty before Comdr. B Hallowes; Major F. Harris, MO. their journey to Baar Reuter Richardson, P.AS. Howill to charge of arriving in Dr. R. B Vackson; G. 6. Kennedy [Moensch and Burtin took off Members of the Committee: Mr The Prince of Wales and Prince

Rugby, Yesterday. the Colony on March 9 with pigs in Skipton, GP.de Martin MBE from Le Bourget aerodrome for N. L. Sparke, 0.B.E., F.S.L. (Shang- George returned thia Thorning to * have taken some, crates on-board, the pigs, not

H.-C. Macnamara; Athers on March 2 They intend hal member), Mr. F.-J. Ling, Mar del Plata, the famous conside dre for a cold, Yeung, stowed in accordance with Bër

McEvett Colonel D. D. to fly day and night with the ab- F.SI, Mr. E. B. Reed, P.A.S.L resort, where they will remain stated beca don 2 of Ben

fect of breaking the record for The address of the Hon. Becreuntil Friday, when the Prince at arrow fight from Paris to Tokyo, which tary Valuation and Resumption Wales goes to Buenos Aires again is their ultimate destination. Office, Public Works Department in readings for the opening of the They are touching at Shanghai in Hong Kong, to whom all communi- British Trade Exbibation on Satur- the course of the fight)

cations should be addressed. day-British Wireless Service.

LOCAL BROKER TAKES OVERDOSE OF OPIUM.

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