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8 FOR 21 All-India Dismissed

For 66.

NOTTS BEAT MIDDLESEX:

Sandham And Bates Head Batting.

HAMPSHIRE AND WARWICK

WIN.

London, Yesterday. Harold Larwood, the Notts and All-England fast bowler, distinguished himself at Trent Bridge to-day when he went through the Middlesex side to fake 7 wickets for 57 runs to give Notts their ninth victory of the season. Ian Peebles bowled well for the Southerners, but Nolts had the game well in hand throughout.

Lancashire received a check at the Oval whare Surrey piled up

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-EIGHTY- EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

No. 28,164 HONG KONG,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932.-

KING OPENS SOARING CHAOYANG

LAMBETH BRIDGE

GREAT CHANGES COMING TO ANCIENT LONDON

NEW TRAFFIC SYSTEM

COLOURFUL SPECTACLE AT NOVEL OPENING CEREMONIES.

London, Yesterday.

BOMBED

Japanese Planes

Make Raid.

NEW WAR THREATENS.

China Will Resist If Jehol Invaded. Peiping Condemns Excuse For Offensive..

Peiping, To-day. Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang re- ceived a telegram this afternoon from General Tang Yu-lin, re- porting that six Japanese aero- planes bombed Chaoyang yester-

A new five span bridge across the Thames at Lambeth, erected at a cost of £550,000, was opened by the King this afternoon. The bridge is an extremely graceful structure, built of steel and cover-day. ed with a skin of granite. It has impressive pylons, topped by

Official circles deny any know- ledge of the Ishimoto incident. "lights at its approaches, and forms a very important part in the re-and consider it another pretext planning of London's traffic arrangements by opening up a new for action, which the Japanese East to West route across the capital, and thereby easing conges-military allegedly have long been contemplating. They point out tion. elsewhere.

that, according to Japanese re- |rorts, Captain Ishimoto, a liaf-|

563 runs for the loss of only 8 The bridge was designed by City Council's records, His Mason officer, was carried away by wickets. Andy Sandham was in Sir Reginald Blomfield and erect- jesty used the pen to make an irregular troops within Manchu magnificent form, scoring 154 ined by Messrs. Derman Long, electric contact which caused the kuo territory, and that therefore the face of steady bowling. Lan- well-known engineers.

barriers across the bridge to rise the Japanese, and not the, Chin- cashire at the close of play were. The actual opening ceremony perpendicularly into the air, ese, should be responsible. It

After the Union Jacks breaking from their is further stated that no Goy 162 runs in arrears with nine took a novel form. wickets in hand,

King and Queen had signed the (Continued on Page 8). ·· ernment troops were involved in recent fighting, which was only between Japanese troops and ir-

Leicester registered their sixth first innings victory when they

led Essex by 28 runs at Leices- OPTIMISM ON EVE OF

ter. Somerset surprised Derby on their own ground when they snatched a lead of 98 runs on the first innings, F. Lee (5 for 45) (Continued on Page 13.)

10 KILLED IN AIR DISASTER.

Great Craft Caught In Snow Storm.

FLYING FROM CHILE,

Crashes Soon After Start Of Flight.

Valparaiso, To-day.

CONFERENCE.

Empire's Delegates At Ottawa.

MR. BALDWIN'S HOPES...

Parley Can Set World Excellent Example.

Ottawa, Yesterday. "

POLITICAL MENACE IN GERMANY.

Lausanne Agreement At Stake.

ANSWER IN ELECTIONS.

Party Fever Grows To Dangerous Pitch.

(Router's Special Service.) ́ ̧ Berlin, To-day.

•

The British Delegation to the Im- perial Economile Conference, reach- Nation-wide party fever is work- ed Ottawa to-day and received, an ing to a dangerous point with the enthusiastic reception from a huge nearer approach of the national crowd. They were officially welcom- elections, fixed for July 31.

Europe, and the world, watches

regulars, but that if the Japanese

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MANY KILLED IN BLAST ON

DYNAMITE SHIP.

Heavy Loss Of Life Feared lo Tragedy In Canada.

Brockville, Ont., To-day.

A shallow-draught vessel technically known as * "drill boat," engaged in dynamiting shoals in the St. Lawrence River near here, was blown to pieces when its large store of explosive, was accidentally bet off. It is feared that the entire crew, save three who are grave- ly injured, have been lost.

Two are known to have died and 11 are missing."

Less than two years ago a disaster similar in almost every way occurred at almost the same spot in the river. There were 14 fatalities. Almost all of the dead on that and this occasion are rivermen of Brock- villes.-Reuter,

500 RED SPEARS LOOT TRAIN.

C.E.R. Passengers Kidnapped.

: TWO GUARDS KILLED.

:

Harbin, To-day.

Hall Mark

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MISSIONARIES SAFE IF NOULENS FREED

PRISONERS' EXCHANGE OFFERED BY KIANGSI

DRAMATIC TURN TO CASE

SHANGHAI FEARS CRIME IF GAOLS ARE OPENED.

(From Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, To-day. It is learned here to-day that a manifesto has been sent b ̈ wireless from the Communist capital, Julchin, in Kiangxi Provi giving the undertaking of the Provisional Government of the So- viet Republic of China that all foreign mlæsłonary captives will be released if Mr. and Mrs. Paul Noulens are given their freedom. The message was sent to Nanking, but as yet there has been no state- ment as to the reaction of the authorities there,

The offer of the Juichin ad- cerns about other prisoners. ministration, however, will arouse Officials, and European and Chin- ese residents generally, are deep- enthusiasm among European ly concerned over announcement official circles and considerable of the pending release of more Indignation if Noulens · and his than 2,000 convicts from the wife are not given more con- Settlement gaols. alderation than they have been Such amnesty has been ex- shown in the past.

tended to prisoners serving sen-

The Noulens are held on tences under three years. The charges of spreading Communis-wholesale release was deemed tic doctrines in China and were necessary owing to the state of troops att mpted to penetrate to Yesterday 500 "Red Spears" at- arrested in Shanghai. They were over-crowding in which the pri- Jehol, General Tang Yulin is tacked and looted a train, and the taken to Nanking fx trial and son authorities found themselves. prepared to resist the fasion station at Wokhimohe, on the have been on a hunger strike for They had no more rooms for with all the troops at his dis- Calnese Eastern Railway, 14 miles more than two weeks in protest felons posal.

(Continued on Page 6.)

ROTTING PONTOON COLLAPSES. Shanghai Yacht Club

Beach.

100 TRIPPERS THROWN

INTO WATER.

Sportsmen Dive For Victims.

Harbin, To-day.

A rotting pontoon

on the Yacht

west of Imienbo,

against their case being heard But, though it appears to be Nine military guards and two anywhere but in the Shanghai the only remedy, many believe passengers were killed. The crew courts. At present both are in that the experiment will lead to dire consequences and the rising of a crime wave which fit will be Meanwhile, Shanghai has con-difficult to combat.

of the train, the surviving mill-hospital.

Concern In Shanghai.

tary guards, and several passer- were kidnapped. Reuter'a Pacific Service.

gers

CER. FREIGHT TRAIN JUMPS TRACK.

Driver, Assistant And 5 Hoboes Killed.

16 WAGGONS SMASHED.

Trans-Siberian Train's

Escape.

Harbin, To-day.

CANADA'S RAILWAY CHIEF RESIGNS.

Sir Henry Thornton Resents Criticism.

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BUILT NATIONAL SYSTEM.

Two Great Services Fought For Trade.

Ottawa, To-day,

Sir Henry Thornton, Ameri-

PRACTICAL UTILITY OF HIGH SPEED.

Kaye Don's Record Run Raises Discussion.

PRESS OPINIONS.

Triumph For British Engineering.

„London, Yesterday,

Kaye. Don's achievement in re-

Ten persons were killed to-day ed by Canadian Premier Rt. Hon. In one of the most appalling ac-R. B. Bennett, and many other with an alarmed anticipation the cidents in the history of avia- Canadian Ministers, and were later constantly recurring acts tion in South America.

received by the Governor-General, violence, of strife and murder, which characterise the increasing- The San Jose giant passenger Lord Bessborough. carrier of the Pan-American Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Chiefly heated political campaign. Com- Grace Line, flying from Santiago British Delegate, in the course of a munists and Nazis are bitterly op- de Chile to Buenos Aires, was statement at the conclusion of his posed to one another, The Socialista Club beach, overcrowded with a hun- wrecked in a egowstorm 40 miles journey, referred to the useful con- and Democrats, also, are frequent-dred trippers of all ages, awaiting

On the morning of July 16 the can-born prealdent of the Cana- capturing the water speed record north-east of its starting point. ferences which took place during ly embroiled in serious clashes with the ferry yesterday evening. col River Yalu washed out the Chinese dian National Railways and one for Britain, which now again holds All ten of its occupants, includ- Passage from England, with in one or other of the more revolu- lapsed and threw the whole crowd Eastern Railway line sixteen mites of the highest paid executives in air land and sea world records, has

into the river.

east of Pekotu. A freight train, the world, has resigned from his revived the discussion as to the (Continued on Page 8.) Sportsmen and

life-savers westward-bound, jumped the track post owing to criticisms of his practical utility of these high heroically dived for bours and The driver and his

assistant and policies. dragged from the river women clas-five hoboes were killed.

Sir Henry was appointed chief ping their children. Several victims waggons were smashed.

(Continued on Page: 18.) were revived by artificial respira-

How a worse. tragedy was averi- [tion. Reuter.

ed is shown by the fact that the trans-Siberian train passed this section of the line only thirty

ing its chief and assistant pilot, gates from other parts of the Em-

dustrial advisera and fellow de- tionary parties.

were lost.

Although the route over which Pire who also travelled by the Em-

Sixteen He said the pro- the aeroplanes of this service press of Britain. pass is acknowledgedly hazard-jgress made was a good augury of ous, there have been no accidents

(Continued on Page 8.) of such consequence during the

CONFERENCE.

several years the operating com- NATIONS PLAN FOR pany has maintained its ache- dule. The course lies through s desolate country of hills and into the forbidding mountain region of the interior. The machines fly at extremely high altitudes.

Presumably, blinded by the storm, and possibly forced down from its ordinarily maintained altitude, the big ship crashed into broken ground and was com- pletely wrecked. —— Renter.

SINCERE'S PLAN TO EXPAND BUSINESS IN NORTH:

Mr. Ma Man-fil Leaves to Survey Possibilities of Nanking and Tants

on the

Sincere Com

Economic Discussions

Need Preparation.

U.S. HELP INVITED.

MORATORIUM ORDER IN BRAZIL

Payments Suspended Until August 20.

Rio de Janeiro, To-day. A decree has been issued by the Cabinet Council authorising sUBINE- sion of all payments due in Brazilian currency until August 20 next..

The effect of the decree in that

TWO WOMEN INJURED

IN COLLISION.

Mrs. L. M. Remedios Is Hospital Case,

· MISS HL: BRAGA HURT.

(Reuter's Special Service.) of a complete moratorium. IG Geneva, To-day. apparently designed to tide the The Committee of the League of nation over a period of financial Mrs L M Remedios was seri- Nations appointed, to make pre-stress and until the Government ously injured and Miss M. Braga, a parations for the World Monetary has taken steps to secure the psl daughter of the Hon. Mr. J.-P. and Economic Conference to be tion of the country at home and held at some time In the Autumn, abroad, Rauter, to when with a tremendous tack ju not yet definitely fixed, is faced

The committee, because of the breadth of the probléma it must die- cuss, their international character. and vital nature, has invited the United States and Belgium for lend It assistance of

This Committee, will

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BRITISH SOLDIERS CATCH THIEF.

Bag-Snatcher Says, "I'm Sorry.”

over

MISS M. SMITH MOLESTED.

Twelve strokes of the cane ware slightly hurt, in a motor mishap ordered on Ng Ngan (18) by Mr. in: Kowloon 'yesterday,ARABİL Wynnewones in the Central "Wong Fing, the driver of a Kow, Police Court this morning, for t Joon Motor, Bus Company vehicle, ättempted, theft of a han

to the Police that)

Misi M. Smith, of 3, D Block Ken: Hedy Road

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