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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931.

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DEATH OF GERMAN ICE FIELD CHARGED BY ROARING HEAT WAVE LAWBREAKERS IN WAR DEBTS SUMARINE POSEIDON

EX-AMBASSADOR.

First Minister to Take Office After the War.

BRITAIN'S REGRET,

CROSSED

AIRMEN'S LONELY

JOURNEY.

TOO COLD!

PLANE.

Coloured Lights for Schneider Cup.

FAMOUS TIME-KEEPER.

Years ago I was a racing cyclist, writes A. G. Reynolds in the Even- ing News. One day some youngs- ters who were speeding round the track aeked me to time' them.

NEARLY FROZE TO Something about the job tickled my

DEATH

Rugby, Yesterday.. The news of the denth of Dr. Sthamer from heart failure at the age of 75 at Hamburg to-day has been received with great re- gret in London, where he was demerly German Ambassador. He was the first. representative of the German Republic to come to London after the War and he remained for 10 years. On his

Fairbanks, Alaska, Fotirement many tributes were

Yesterday, paid to him and the Foreign The airmen Post and Gatty Secretary, Mr. Arthur Hender-left for Edmonton, to-day on son, spoke warmly of his work.

TOLL

CATTLE DYENG

LIKE FLIES.

CROPS RUINED)

BATTLE AGAINST GRASSHOPPERS,

BRITAIN.

Public Indignation a Official Policy.

SWEEPSTAKES LAW,

London, June 87

The fact that magistrates in some fsbances declined to convict in case connected, with the sale of Irish Sweep tickets prompted, Sir

Thomas Inskip, farmerly Attorney- General, to suggest in the, Housa of Commons a discontinuance of the prosecutions.

The Home Secretary, Mr. Clynes, New York, Yesterday.however, repudiated the suggestion Directly or indirectly the that he had any alternative but to heat wave so far has been re-administer the present lays so long sponsible for 500 deaths, of as it was unaltered and said he which 230 occurred yesterday. was sure that though cases had oc- The death roll in Chicago alone curred in which the magistrates is 126.

had shown reluctance to convict,

IMPASSE

SITUATI

DEBTS TO ITALY SUSPENDED.

Washington, Yesterd v

ARRIED TO 1 HOME

Lofidon, the

Wives of few of the

bands..

for s

Mrs. Lovock

year-old wife of

Lovock, lives

Clapham S.

of th

They were mar

ried only a year ago,

fancy have always been fond of figures and I began to make a serious study of the art of, time- keeping. To-day I think I can claim to have attended every im

Lovock was at the home of a portant race or record-breaking at-

High administration authori-ffiend: Batening to the wireless. tempt held in Britain in my official

ties this afternoon described when the announcer, gave the capacity as starter and timekeeper.

the state of the Franco-Ameri- news of the disaster. She imme- the last 4,000 miles of their It is most interesting to watch the

can negotiations in regard to diately left; but collapsed outside, The Evening Standard to-night flight.

faces of the competitors when they

War debts as serlons, but add her home. She was carried in speaks of the many friends whom "We saw miles and miles of ice-are lined up for a race. Ever the

ed that the United States Gov and a doctor called. Dr. Sthamer made in London and bergs when crossing the Behring most hardened of drivers will show In the State of Iowa cattle are magistrates generally should not be ernment was not discouraged Five Portsmouth homes are adds: "Germany owes a

great Sea and once when going to a traces of nervousness as he waits, dropping dead like flies; grain influence by personal views. and still hopeful of agreement.affected by the disaster. Stoker debt to this quiet, unobtrusive higher altitude we nearly froze for the starter's flag to drop. But turning brown and maize shrivel-fr. Clynes added that, the Gov-

The negotiations in Paris Albert Winter, one of the two man. He arrived in London at a to death," said the airman Gatty as soon as he is allowed to be off all ling, while in South Dakota thement was carefully considering were described as being in the men who died after being res time when minds were still in an Interview,

his agitation départs, and he, re-country folk are faced with an whether an amendment of the faw same position as last night ened, leaves – a widow in Sun affected by the psychology of "Sixteen hours in a blank turns to his normal self at once. additional pest and are fighting governing sweepstakes was neces

Debts Suspended.

Street, Portsea. They had -Bean war. He waited patiently until plane over water and no man's

Making 'Sure!

millions of grasshoppers on a 300 sary or desirable and foreshadow

married two years and there is the mists had cleared. Gradual-land was enough for us. It was Of course, the starter can help to mile front.

Zed, an early announcement on the Washington, Yesterday. a baby eight months old, b ly he was able by the quiet dig-colder than the son of dispel a great deal of this nervous- In contrast, snow fell for two subject.

The Italian Government has Mrs. Winter received a chee nity of his bearing to establish a gun up there, I thought ness if he himself remains cam and hours on the Wenatchee Moun Growing Indignation: informed the State Department letter: and two snapshots from relations of confidence and es- would rather croak over collected. Often I have seen the tains, Washington, and the most Faced by the steadily swelling that it is provisionaly auspend- her husband yesterday teem with the leaders of British the Behring Sea than crack local timekeeper, at minor events violet windstorm the history totals of the Irish Sweepstakes, to ing the international debt due to political life. By these virtues up the ship when almost home." raise his dag a considerable time of Louisville, Kentucky, smashed which the British are easily the Italy on July 1, and adds that the

A Letter to Him

Khabarovsk the plane was fitted the competitors the waiting seems roofed houses seriously injuring are beginning to ask how many Government on the same date in Winstanley Road, Portsmouth. with a new propeller; otherwise like hours, and when at last the flag several person hefty was millions sterling is Britain to lose will be deposited on a provisional "I have just posted a letter to the mechanics doubted whether does fall they are probably so keyed plunged into darkness. Reuter's annually, this way if things go on account with the Bank of Inter- him," he said the airmen would be able to reach up with excitement that they make American Services

as at present Indignation is grow national Settlements. Reuter's Mrs. Paine, wife of E. R. A New York. Owing to the weight a poor get-away.

he triumphed." British Wire- Prior to starting From before the man is due to start. To windows, uprooted tree and un- biggest subscribers, people here payments owed by the Italian Patty Officer Grille's wife lives

less Servie.'

•

Earlier News

Hamburg. Yesterday. The death has occurred, from heart failure. of Dr. Sthamer, formerly German Ambassador to London-Reuter.

of 350 gallons of petrol Winnie- I have found that the best way to... mae failed to rise on the first at-start a race, from the competitors' tempt, but on the second she just point of view, is to signal to them cleared a woodpile.

[Dr. Friedrich Sthamer, the Ger- man diplomat, a member of an old Edmonton, Alberta, Yesterday. Hamburg patrician family, was The airmen Gatty and post have father's estate of arrived here.--Reuter's American Gross-Weeden near Lauenburg in. Service.

barn

his on

November 1856. We studied law

Another Flight*,

at pre-arranged periods, and only to raise the flag a few seconds before the actual start.

The timekeeper's task is not with out its dangers, particularly when he has ta, start an aeroplane race. The view from a pilot's cockpit "la" restricted, and unless people on the ground are very careful they may

taking off. For this reason I al- H.M. the King has approved ways get into a position in which

at Heidelberg, Leipzig and Gottin-j Aleppo, Syria, Yesterday gen and then took up practice in The airmen Stack and Chaplin landed here at 4.80 p.m... They

Scott Honoured,

Hamburg,

In 1904 he was ap-

pointed to the Senate and became leave for Bagdad at 6.30 p.m. easily be run into by a machine

head of the section dealing with

industry, commerce and shipping.

sentative on the Bundesrat in Ber-t

n.]

GENERAL STRIKE

·ENDED

ing against the attitude of the American Service. British authorities, who insist that| the sweepstakes are legal and thus (as about a quarter of the population in Britain is involved in

Japan Worried.

Tokyo, Sunday. Welcoming President Hoover's

Martial Law

Pains, whose home is Wood- mancote Road, Southsea, told an Egering Standard representative to-day if zshe had a premont. tion of pending, disaster to

" felt extmely unhappy for no appens. Teason," she

almost burst

went for vis

es. Last night

the Dublin Derby: Sweep) brand one in every four persons in this proposal for a moratorium on des country as a "lawbreaker Irrita War debt payment, which they "On Si

tion is also freely expressed at the admit came as a complete u tear in church. .... Yesterday official methods to check intending prise, offieish cles consider that subscribere y means of the Japanese wok pag

Tyto agree to it in other coún," tions of the few they catch selling tries do, though it is emphasised received the news of the disas tickets, by tampering with letters in the post and rummaging in the that Japan's position is different luggage in the Customs for these from that of other former allies tickets, which nevertheless have as she owes nothing to America

para ively negligible

in Mal

PEACEFUL ENDING:

Malaga, Yesterday. Martial law has been with

like a shower of stage snow.

The Third

E. R. A. Paine was the third

He also acted as Hamburg's repre- the award of the Air Force Cross I can see the pilot's eyes-there I drawn and the general strike has reached all parts of the country and, moreover, receives a conf-brother to lose his life in the

Capt. C. Scott, in recogni- know that he can see me tool peacefully subsided.-Reuter. tion of his distinguished services in aviation by his recent Britain to Australia flights-Reuter.

BURMA SITUATION ·

IMPROVED.

Rebel Gangs Being Broken Up.

INDIANS PERSECUTED.

EXPEDITION. SCALE MOUNT KAMET.

By a Fraction of cam Inch.

Ferhaps my carefulness in this

respect is due to an incident before MURDER OF VIVIAN

GORDON,

the war which very nearly ended my career. 1 wa starting Gustav, Hamel, who was very well known Int those days for his daring air ex

mechanics, in the excitement of the........

one

· CUSTOMS DUTIES,

New Clause to Finance Bill Rejected.

The Scottish police are reported parations payments Navy One went down with the Not being a debtor to the loop Calerian off Bermuda in where tickets are believed to be in been approached through official jured in an accident in H to have actually ralded houses United States, Japan has not 1928 the other was fatally in

view to seizing and confiscating ble that Germany may request rocks lived in Twyford Avenue, possession of the occupiers with a channels, but it is thought possi- Fish d them and tracing the sellers, 500 offer consideration.

Acting Leading-stoker Sher-

whom are said to have been iden

He married, a

tied and down for secution.cores the present world de native of Manchester 18 months

Emphasising that the two main Portsmouth. The Ulster Post Office, three days pression are the heavy burden of 880

cloning $16 to a Dublin address in

the belief it was really for sweep prospects of the coming disarm-home saying that he had realis tickets, whereas it was genuinely will then be able to say she has

ament conference, as America ed his ambition. for a Dublin convent and the man helped to ease one of the main

is now contemplating taking action causes of depression and, there-

SUBMARINE LIFEBELT.

or unlawful seizure of his Fro fore, it is up to European and Allows Man to Breathe While perty. other nations to assist in remov- In spite of the official ban on the ing the other.Canton Daily Sun Sweep, however, nothing seems

able to damp the enthusiasm of the

Coming Up from Depths.

The new submarine escape ap paratus is the invention of

ploite. I failed to notice that the Accused Acquitted of Second Highest Peak in moment, had removed only

Capital Charge. chock from the wheels; the other

before the close of the Sweep, stop armaments and, the coricentration Stoker William Whitley's the Empire.

ped hundreds of lettere and return-of gold in America and France, a widowed mother lives in Church was still in place. To my horror,

New York, Yesterdayed the remittances to the senders. spokesman of the Government to- Land, Wolstanton Stoke-on- as soon as I dropped my flag, the OVER 25,000 FEET. plane swung round towards me, its berg have been acquitted of the lish postal authorities stopping 4 President Hoover's offer, if ac-18 years old; and when he was Harry Stein and Samuel Green- A bad shot was made by the Eng-day expressed the belief that Trent. He joined the Navy when engine going "full out." Luckily murder of Vivian Gordon-Reu- letter from a Plymouth man sacepted, will greatly improve the posted to, the Poseidon he wrote Rugby, Yesterday. for me, I kept calm and ran round ter's American Service. Members of a small British the machine, escaping the whirling Himalayan Expedition led by propeller by a fraction of an inch. Rugby, Yesterday..the young British mountaineer, Ever afterwards, I have made cer- Replying in the House of Com- Mr. F. S. Smythe, have succeed tain that both chocks have been re- mons to-day, the Secretary for ed in reaching the summit of moved before giving the signali India, Mr. Wedgwood Benn, read Mount Kamet, 25,447 feet high. There have been cases during an appreciation of the situation This is the highest altitude ever motor races at Brooklands and else- in Burma up to the week ending climbed. An announcement of where of cars skidding into the June 27 The situation general- their success was made in a World timekeeper's box, but so far I have ly is improving. In the Tharra-Copyright telegra from Smythe never experienced dangers of this waddy District four Dacoit gangaj to the Times, which is publish- kind. & Juhom have been broken up and in the ing his exclusive messages. My colleague Colonel Lindsay Insein District one gang was Smythe was a member of last Lloyd; however, had a narrow shave completely accounted for. In the year's. Dyhrenfarth Expedition a few years ago when he was timing a new clause to the Finance Bill In the House of Commons to night 'Henzada District an important to Kanchenjunga, when the Sir Malcolm Campbell (then, of extending preferential reductions cident. A number of his friends On Station Platform at a submarine to strap it on and, gang has been broken up and in neighbouring Jongsong Peak, course, plain Malcolm Campbell) in in the Customs Duties In respect of Prome District about 130 surren- 24,340 feet, was conquered. Sweden. As Campbell's car was sugar, molasses, glucose and to dive repeatedly in the deep ders have taken, place and others Kamet stands in the United Pro- speeding along at more than 150 sacchariu, moved by Mi Amery, was are expected shortly vinces and is the second highest miles an hour a' front tyre came off rejected by 284 votes to 226

The Dacoity is still, numerous peak in the Empire. Smythe has and shot straight towards the Lime Mr. Amery, on behalf of the bag containing their Irish Sweep In Thayetmyo and Henzade Dis five companions with him, Cap keepers box. Colonel Lindsay Lloyd amendment, urged the serious post tricts. Attacks on Indians are tain Birnie, Dr. Greene, Wing and the other officials had no time tion of the sugar growing Colonies decreasing and are now almost Commander Beaumann and to get clear. Their little wooden particularly the West Indies and confined to Pyapon and Myaung-Messrs. Holdsworth and Slipton: hat was smashed to atoms around, Mauritius, mya. Nine previous attempts have them but none of them was injured! Mr. Pethick Lawrence, The Government's proclama been made on Kamet without Meanwhile Campbell succeeded in Secretary to the Treas

mnesty. well re-success-British Wireless Ser keeping his car under control.... the clause, which, he

Only Our Seaplanes Left. $2,000,000 in a full year One of my moet Interesting ex- Wireless Service. periences happened in 1927, when I

tion

situat pulti

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vicem

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progres

fairly

Where INSURANCE FUND

AT HOME

went over

Schneid

keeping

„course,

Bill Passed to Allow

officials

the

GRA

ZAPPELIN

The timer

WOULD COST, £2,000,000........

Rugby, Yesterday..

British people, who are determined HOW MARY MET HER

DOUG.

to enjoy a flutter. There weaa range scene in the Thames Bear | Windsor the other day, where `a man was drowned in a boating ac

irned to the spot and were seen

r. “They were searching for a

tickets ERAM

EX-QUEEN OF SPAIN.

Deposed Royalties Now

STAYIN

don.

KENSINGTON,

Reading.

SURPRISE REUNION.:

London man, Mr R. HL Divisi

In effect it is third fung,” and resembles a lifebelt with gasmask attached. It was de-- signed to enable a man trapped in

breathe freely until a chance to escape happened. Mr. Gorman Davis, son of the inventore said to an Evening Standard repre sentative on June 10,

It is 12 months since the ap paratus was first served out ps.

come true on the humdrum fallway marine crews. Each man in the I have just seen a Hollywood-alm Part of the equipment of sub- service has been thoroughly and station of Reading, where Mary, fully trained in the use of it. Pickford by a romantic intr surprised and delighted Dou

This is the fat time that diss aster," has befallen a submarine.

Fairbanks hy meeting him at Read-equipped with this appar

ing when he thought she wa London, writes a Dally Express cor

throug

My father first

tus Corviata

the

ped on the chest, which

tached to

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rises