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SATURDAY'S

DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar on demand on Saturday was 11d

MORE ABOUT THE TYPHOON

HARBOUR THRILLS

A THRILLING RESCUE.

LAUNCHES SUNK

SOME LIVES REPORTED LOST.

The authorities describe Saturday's typhoon as "the greatest squall" on the records of the Observatory. The wind velocity re- gistered was 136 m.p.h.

The typhoon took toll of life -- mercifully small as reported so far-also of property, mostly in the harbour.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931.

·SUBVERSIVE RED PROPAGANDA.

Police Explain Raid in Buenos Aires.

ON SOVIET OFFICES.

New York, Saturday.

A message from Buenos Aires

DUNLOP Special

Extra

Construction

For

Overseas

Motoring Conditions.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES

LOCAL BRANCH

Pedder Bldg.

INDIA'S PUBLIC

DEBT.

LAKE GARDA.

Texan Airmen Make Secodd Attempt.

NEWSPAPER PRIZE,

Seattle, Yesterday,

Independent Tribunal to Adjust.

REPUDIATION DENOUNCED.

SEATTLE TO TOKYO FLIGHT.

The Texan airmen, Robins and

a non-stop refuelling flight to Tokyo to win the prize of $5,000 offered by the Japanese news paper (Asahi).

Bombay, To-day.

AIR TRAGEDY AT DEATH OF PROMINENT

Italian" Ace

Killed.

BODY NOT RECOVERED.

Rome, Yesterday.

CHINESE.

Interest in Education

and Charity,

MR. FUNG PING SHAN.

The death occurred yeserday at

The National Liberal Federa- The well-known airman, Cap-11a.m. from diabetic come at his has passed A resolu-tain Monti, who participated in residence No. 1, Park Road, of Mr. denouncing all ̈ ̈ suggesthe 1929 Schneider race, Was Fang Ping-ahan at the age of

states that following Friday's raid Jones, who early last month un- tion on the Soviet commercial head-successfully attempted. to fly tion, quarters, the police, to-day visited from Seattle to Tokyo, took off tions: relating to the re killed to-day in an accident which 73 years. Born at the district. nother building where the Soviet to-day on their second attempt at pudiation of India's public debt, befel a high-speed seaplane he of Sun Wul in the province of officials maintained a second office.

but urging that an independent was flying. The machine fell Kwong Tung, before coming to It is alleged that the Amtorg, be-

tribunal should decide the nature into Lake Garda. sides its dumping activities, has

and extent of the adjustment be- Monti's body has not been re- vince of Szechuen, dealing princi- Captain Hong Kong, he traded in the pro- been carrying on subversive propa-

tweon Great Britain and India.- covered.

pally in Chinese druga.. ganda.-Reuter's American Ser-

Reuter.

The cause of the accident is vice.

After he made a fortune, he re- 'unknown..

turned to Canton during the latter Gallant Captain, Captain Monti, hero of the 1929 was at once elected one of the part of the late Ching dynasty, and Schneider race, gallantly kept Directors of the well known Fong control of the plane when Pin Hospital, and many charitable broken waterpipe spirted scaldinstitutions. While in Canton he

New York, Yesterday,

Four hours after their re- start Robins. and? Jones passed over Quesnil in British Columbia.

It is reported from Buence The Texan airmen are expect- Aires that the police announced at Fairbanks, Alaska, between that the raids were undertaken 6 and 7 p.m. today. After re- owing to the Russians' commercial fuelling in mid-air they will fly A police official states across the Behring Sea down the Steamship, launches and junks in the harbour had thrilling methods.

that they imported goods on a Siberian coast to Japan. experiences. One steamer broke her chains and lost anchors. She great scale and furnished ruinous The weather is described as was obliged to steam out to. where she could manoeuvre in safety. competition by selling at half, favourable, though cloudy condi

the usual prices.

tions are expected on the latter Two launches sank in the shelter; two cargo junka are re-

The police ordered the cargoes part of the trip-Reuter, 'ported wrecked-one with the loss of six lives; and two hulks were of two Norwegian ships to be

Earlier News. asized because they sent adrift and beached by the storm.

wore 'alleged- ly bringing wood for the use of

American Service,

It is feared that one junk with over ten passengers aboard the Russian delegation-Reuter's foundered in the storm with all hands on board.

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A coolie salvaging timber was blown into the sea and all but drowned. He was rescued with the greatest difficulty.

HARBOUR THRILLS.

Chains Break and Anchor Lost.

1

CARGO BOAT WRECKED.

Six Lives Lost.

A cargo junk was wrecked At the height of the typhoon, while on the way from Hong the Java-China-Japan Lijn s.s. Kong to Macao with a cargo of Tjimanoek (Captain Krizt), coal. Six members of the crew which was moored to: the AS are reported to have lost their buoy, provided some thrills in the lives in this disaster.

The mas-

harbour. Her chains broke and ter is reported to have escaped

and is now in Hong Kong.

Driven Ashore.

she lost her anchor.

Her steam was up, however,

Calcutta, Saturday.

THOMAS A. EDISON. Famous Inventor TIL.

CRITICAL CONDITION,

+

New York, Saturday.. The inventor, Mr. Thomas Alva Edison, is critically fil

Recovery from Collapse."

Now, York, Yesterday. bulletin states that Mr.

Mr. J. A. Mollison arrived here. A

from Rangoon this morning. He Edison is suffering from chronic is now approximately a day nephritis and diabetes. The dia- ahead of Mr. C. W. A. Scott's re-

WORLD AFFAIRS

IN cord.

LIMELIGHT.

Resumption or Talks

This Week.

"SOMEWHERE IN HIGHLANDS."

London, To-day. · Conversations between Mr. Stim-

son and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald on international affairs which were

and she was able to hold her Another junk bound for Macaa begun at the Seven Power. Confer- Captain with sundry cargo was driven this week "Somewhere in the High- ence will probably be resuming own against the wind. Krizt held his charge on a course ashore on Ching Island. Innda of, Scotland."

Mr. MacDonald is holidaying at

Held Up.

|

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Mr. Moilison is an Australian who set out on July 29 from Australia. Wyndham, Western on an attempt to establish a re- cord for a flight from Australia to England. Me

He arrived in Singapore from Batavia also a day ahead of Scott-Reuter.

Other Fliers.

PANGBORN & HERNDON,

Eastward Bound..

Mr. Edison.

ing steam over his arms and face took great active interest in many His bravery saved the machine

and avoided a disaster to the famine relief works. A few years packed crowds of spectators at later, when he settled down in Hong | Ryde Pier. Reuter.

Kong, he served on several occa- slons as Director, Adviser, and Chairman of the Tung Wah Hos-

BANK OF ENGLAND. pital and Po Leung Kuk. He was

Fiduciary Note Issue

Increase.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE.

directly toward Lyemoon Pass and managed to get her out of the harbour without mishap. was delayed here for one day on Lossiemouth, and Mr. Stimson, who have arrived here. They later betes is now under control, and Bduciary issue.

The O.SK. 8.8. Himalaya Maru

an unofficial Justice of the Peace, a member of the District Watch Committee, life member of the Court of the Hong Kong University, par- manent adviser of the Po Leung Kuk, and a member of the Commit- tee of the Chinese, Chamber of Com- {merce.

London, Yesterday. The Treasury authorised the Bank of England yesterday to in

Free School Established. crease-its fiduciary note lasue by

As regards his interest £15,000,000 to £275,000,000 for education, he established free three weeks. This is a purely preschools and a Public Library. cautionary measure by the Bank in his native district. He which applied for the authority agave large donations to the Nor- few days ago when there was the mdl School in Canton. He was severest drain on the Bank's gold was instrumental in the formation stocks, coupled with the prospect of the Chinese School in the Uni of the usual public withdrawals of versity of Hong Kong, and he cash around August Bank Holiday founded three schools for the poor. While the present reserve of the in Hong Kong under the control of Bank of England should be ade Omsk, Saturday.

quate to meet all nominal require-

the Confucian Society. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh,

ments,; it was considered prudent In commerce, the late Mr. Fung Herndon, the American airmen,

to arrange for an increase of the Ping-thin was one of the founders and a permanent Director of the took off for Chita.

|thé nephritle`seems to be showing Meanwhile, it is pointed out, Bank of East Asia, Ltd, a director. Moscow, Yesterday.

an Improvement. He suddenly that the Franco-American credit of the Chinese Estates, Ltd., and Highlands, and has invited Mr over Irkutsk at 4.80 p.m.

Herndon and Pangborn flew collapsed yesterday afternoon, but arrangement with the Bank of many other public and private MacDoald to go there on Thursday

subsequently 'recovered, and was England is purely a temporary companies. He was the proprietor. measure to tide over the difficult of the Yick On Bank and Siu Fung and be his guest for a couple ofThe round-the-world airmen, resting quietly in the evening. Idays.

Pangborn and Herndon landed. at

period between now and the re- Hong of Hong Kong. Besides his Chita at 1 p.m. to-day. Habarovsk at 8.80 p.m. (Moscow

opening of Parliament at the end many commercial activities in of October, when responsible bank- Hong Kong, Mr. Fung had numer ng authorities hope Government ous commercial connections in the time). Reuter....

will prove conclusively that the principal trading ports in North Wiley Post-Harold Gatty record of

Budget will be balanced..by means and South China, in Biam,-and-in- of economy.

French Indo-China. a flight round the world. In six

Earlier NewK days. They took off at 5.18.a.m. had therefore lent me

He left three sons and alx one of on July 28 from Harbour, Grace on theirs..

Paris, Saturday. daughters. The two elder sons, All their machines being anon-stop flight to Moscow, but seaplanes, their reckoning was in finitely reached

An agreement has been de- Mr. Fung Ping-wah and Mr. Fung between the Ping-fan are at present under- were obliged to land in Wales. knots. I did not much like this Bank of France and the Federal graduates of the Chinese School of They then flew to Croydon, on to new idea, because it looked too Reserve Bank of New York for the Hong Kong University. Berlin, which they reached on July much like hard work translating the grant to the Bank of England The funeral will take place some 80, and then on to Moscow, arriv-knots into miles per hour, and vice of credits ing at 11.53 a.m. on July 81.

amounting me to time, this week, ". versa. However, I remembered of

is also holidaying in Scotland, has Once outside, there was no dif-account of the typhoon. She was ficulty with plenty of room to to have sailed for Calcutta on Sa-rented a lodge somewhere in the manoeuvre. The ship eventually turday afternoon, took shelter between two islands

A Clean Sheet.

outside. When the storm calmed The B. & S. came out with a clean

Bay.

down the Tjimanoek returned to sheet. None of their ships in har- harbour and went to Yaumati hour sustained any damage, and there was no delay in arrivals and President Boat Has Stiff Fight. sailings.

The s.s. President Jefferson,

Hulks Adrift. which was at the Kowloon wharf The old hulk Hwa Shun, with

WAS

when the typhoon started, imme-three Chinese on board, was torn diately left and had quite a stiff from her moorings off Yaumali, fight with the wind to get to carried in front of the wind for shelter in the typhoon anchorage: about half a mile, and cast up on Later she left for Manila.

a beach. Yesterday, she taken back to Yaumati: This rusty P. & 0. Sailings Postponed.

derelict belonged formerly to the The P. & O. s.s. Khyber had to Canton Navy and was being de- postpone her safling scheduled molished here. Small parts of her for noon on Saturday. She even-superstructure were badly twisted tually left at 8. p.m.

and her funnel bent: as the result

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The Karmala, which left the of her experiences on Saturday. Kowloon wharf on Friday even- Another, old Chinese hulk, name ing, rode the storm at Kowloon not ascertained, drifted from rear Bay and sailed at 9 p.m. for Kwong Yip Loong slipway at Shanghai

The E. & A. 8.8. Nellore was also due to sail, on Saturday, but

Green Island,

Mr. MacDonald declines to re- veal where Mr. Stimson is staying.

-Reuter.

an

BURMAN UNREST

SEQUEL.

Viceroy Promulgates Special Ordinance.

CONTROL NEWSPAPERS.

Simja, Saturday. The Viceroy has promulgated Ordinance which confers special powers for the mainten- ance of law and order in Burma.

out: warrant, agitators; and re-

They took off from Chita for

These flyera are out to better the

THE LINDBERGHS SAFE.

Radio Trouble.

New York, Yesterday.

Condition Satisfactory.

Orange, N.J., Yesterday, Mr. Edison's condition continues satisfactory,Reuter's American Service.

voy shut indicater, which is a rough 150,000,000 the TrearBank Oyster shell, great beds, of them,

and ready, but accurate, speedo Bank each are putting meter invented by Captain D. H. $25,000,000-Reater. (the direct pressure of the air as

the plane moves through it presses

up have been found on the, Oldman

river near Hillspring, Alta, and will be developed commercially,

According to a report of the In The oyster shell, according to teata back a pointer working on a spring dustrial Secretary of the Vancouver made at the University of Alberta Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh have against a piece of metal marked

lished at Vancouver within the next will be marketed by a syndicate as

Shamshulpo and stranded On The authorities may arrest, with-arrived at Moose Factory, Jameajin miles per hour), so I did not Board of Trade, there will be entablaboratory; is almost pure lime and did not leave until 7 o'clock yes. All river shipping services werequisition the assistance of any Bay. They had radio trouble. worry much over the knot problem three months a new milk-treating fertilizer, poultry feed and lime.

terday mornings

None the Worse.

Two N.Y.K. ships, the Toyo hashi Maru from Singapore, and the Atago Maru from Manila ar- rived as per schedule yesterday and appeared none the worse for encountering the gale outside,

Launches Sunk.

River Services Suspended.

suspended throughout Saturday,

THRILLING RESCUE. Z

Coolie Blown into

Four coolies organised them- AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS

seives Into: a timber rescue gang Land jy collected firewood along the Praya:*:One was blown into the

The ferry launches Bat On and sea opposite Sincere's and would

DECLINE

person for the restoration of or-

They have since restarted for in the cockpit. A der. They may seize property, Earlier News,

Churchill

I left. Singapore at dawn, and plant, at a cost of a little under The shells are deposits from pre- if necessary; also prohibit the New York, Yesterday.

hoped to reach Saurabaya, but had $800,000, which will be built by the historic times, vestiges of marine. possession of arms and ammuni- Mr. and Mrs. Lindberg, flying difficult immediately on leaving ducts Association.

no luck Rainstorms made going-operative Pure Bred Jersey Pro-life when this portion of the west tion, and control newspaper.

was the bed of a great sea. Reuter.

from Ottawa to Moose Factory, Singapore, and to make up for lost Ontario, have not been heard of time I decided on what was to be since 1.15 p.m. Flying conditions a short cut across the Java Sea are perfect and the route is fair- instead of following the coast Line ly safe, and it is therefore be of the Islands of the Dutch East lieved that their radio had failed. Indies. That short cut nearly

Reuter H

proved my undoing, as everybody. Amy Carrles. On.

knows. The terrific downpour of Moscow, Saturday: rain making visibility ail, forced Miss Amy Johnson has arrived me to seek the coast as quickly as at Irkutak Reuter.

possible, instead of keeping on my Flight to Australia.

compass course across the open Describing in The Woman En- 108.-..! was neither sufficient gineer great Alght to Austra petrol daylight # to 198ch Ha Miss Amy Johnson the fol- Samarang, never mind Sourabaya, Jowing

of the

and 1; forced-landed at, Tjomal, li Singa the Royal sugar factory, within five miles of took command of my an excellent emergency landing further inland of whose

CHANCE

Yat On of the Shaukiwan ser-have drowned but for the prompt Both Gold & Merchants vice, sank in the Yaumati Ty. Assistance of people in the vicinity phoon Shelter They drifted who, with difficulty, rescued him,

from their anchorage

the Yaumati ferry

Affected.

near wharf

using a bamboo pole and a length, 19th of rope for the purposs,

Train Services Interrupted.

ABNORMAL. EXCHANGE.

Ploon: ded; at:11.80

Ber

and came to grief at the eastern The train service from end of the shelter. to Canton was suspe

Dashed Against Sea Wall.""

The large fishing fleet at Shau-on Saturday..... Ar Jowan got off lightly, only one vice to as far as Shumchun only amall lank getting into difficul- was resumed at

The express

ties. She was torn from her ed just before noc

moorings and dashed against the terry, service her

sea wall

adel was

many of the passe uncomfortable

wha

Sydney Yesterday, Last year's exports, totalled' £102, 088,000 This Is A

088,000 on the

Gold export

declined

000 and merchandise

ports declined

allowing

soren

tain

had not the slightest had been unble to a

pys of the book; in wh elist of these,

given;

will

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