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STORM Much Damage Seventh Fatality In Yaumati Disaster

An unidentified boy, grave-

squall at Yaumati when a

SWEEPS

In Many Countries In Fierce Gale Sahara Dust In Switzerland

Casualties In Poland

Warsaw, To-day.

French Destroyer Wrecked

Paris, To-day, The French Admiralty an nounces that the 1,500-ton destroyer La Nievře ran aground

Brest on Friday night.

off B

The crew has been brought ashore and is feared the ves- sel may be a total losa.-Trans- Ocean

Thirty were drowned and heavy damage was ly injured in yesterday's wind→ done in a hurricane, which was accompanied by

tower collapsed and hail and lightning, over the Cracow area yesterday. FRENCH smashed through 2 wooden Cloudbursts caused a river to overflow over a

building, passed away in the Kow-

loon Hospital last night, bringing wide area and thousands of cattle were drowned AIRMEN the death-roll in the calamity to and many houses washed away.

foreman, Mr. C. Z. Mathias.

COMING TO seven, including the Portuguese Sappers from Cracow are now engaged in COLONY? are in a serious condition, one of recuing marooned inhabitants from roof tops.

Of the eight lying in hospital two,

them having suffered a fracture of the spine.

IN MIECHOW, CONVICTS. TORE IN THEIR TERROR AT THE BARS OF THE PRISON AS - THE FLOOD WATERS THREATENED TO TRAP THEM, BUT THE SITUATION IS NOW IN HAND.

The tower which collapsed was 80 feet high. It was swept over at

The hurricane in Poland was part of a sovere about 4 p.m., bestraddled Kansu Street, and tore through the pre- mises of the Man Sun Firewood Storm, believed to have originated in the Sahara, Company, where a score of persons which struck the whole of Eurone yesterday. were sheltering from the heavy All parts of Europe, including Scotland, were The equipment belonged to the affected by the gale which did much damage Vibro. Piling Company, which had everywhere. been working on the site for some time.

rain.

Four persons were killed instant- ly and two died, on their way to hospital.

BRITISH CASUALTIES ON N.W. FRONTIER

Simla, To-day.

Walls were blown down and roofs were being carried out, the same torn off houses by a wind which wind that carried the gliders to reached a force of 60 miles an hour. success was responsible for four in Silesia Reuter and Train service over a wide area was deaths almost completely interrupted... Trans-Ocean.

In some places near the Swiss frontier,. the wind. drove before it clouds of red Sahara dust, which was mixed with rain:

Housewives who had left wash- ing on the line were surprised to reddish to a find it all turned colour.

The storm is reported to have Three British soldiers were kill-been the cause of a new gliding re- ed and 17 wounded in fighting cord in Silesia, where two German against the Waziri tribesmen on the gliders, soaring in front of

• Frontier yesterday, strong winds, reached a height of

the

← PALMAS lost 37 dead and 6,000

metres. Three other gliders

Jn Lucknow yesterday, the num

ber of dead în the religious rioting which has been occurring there for

flew to a height of 4,000 metres.

While these aeronautical feats

the past few days has risen to 11. EUROPEAN'S CAR

In spite of the stringent measures taken by the authorities, order has not yet been completely restored.

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TAKES FIRE Outbreak In Garage

Mr. "Sky" Kerrison, of the Sani- tary Department, was the victim of a garage fire yesterday, when a short circuit in his car, which was Page the Urban Coune garage in Leighton Hill Road, s the fabric Talight.

Manchester City Beaten Again. 24 French Tennis Titles

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STEEL OFFICE FURNITURE COSTS LESS TO-DAY THAN

IT DID IN 1929.

Paris, To-day..

The French airmer, Marcel Doret

and Francois Micheletti, who are making an attempt to win the Air Ministry prize for the Paris-Tokyo shortly

flight, landed at Baghdad after midnight on Saturday.

They took off again in the early hours of Sunday morning for

Karachi. Trans-Ocean.

Nothing further has been heard of the airmen, but it is supposed that they would have reached Cal- intend- cutta last night, probably ing to make for Hanoi to-day.

At Kai Tack it is thought that they may arrive in Hong Kong to- after morrow and take off arrival, for Tokyo.

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