1938-05-02 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1938.

SHIP

LARGE BRITISH WRECKED NEAR H.K.

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Thurland Castle In Grave Plight: Heavy Seas

H.M.S. Defender Taking Off Passengers

Pounded by heavy seas since 3 o'clock this morn-

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS LEGATE

* Rome, To-day.

It. is announced that His Holi- ness the Pope has appointed the Vatican Secretary of State, Car-

latere" to the International Eu- charistic Congress in Budapest.— Trans-Ocean.

ing, the British vessel "Thurland Castle" (6,372dinal Pacelli, as Papal Legate "a tons) is lying hard aground on Yam Kan Is- land, only 20 miles from Repulse Bay.. Urgent S.O.S. messages from the distressed ship in the early hours of this morning gave first indi- cation of the gravity of her plight.

TEACHER BOUND

With No. 1 hold flooded, the Thurland Castle is lodg-OVER FOR

ed firmly on the rocks forward, and with heavy

seas shaking her from stem to stern, fears are CANING BOY entertained for the safety of officers and crew. The destroyer H.M.S.

De-

fender left Hong Kong, this

morning and is now standing by HERR HITLER

the

the distressed ship, while salvage tug, Henry Keswick, left| for Tam Kan Island at 8 o'clock. A twin-screw vessel, the Thur- land Castle is fitted for carrying fuel oil, and is owned by J. Chambers and Company, of Liverpool.

She was built by Cammell Laird in their Birken-

-head yards in 1929.

HEAVY FOG

DECLARES

AMNESTY

Berlin, To-day.

Herr Hitler has proclaimed an amnesty for minor

offences

GERMAN

CONSULAR

RECEPTION

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, H.E.. the Sir C. in C., Admiral- Percy Noble, H.E. the GO.C., Major General

W. and Commodore Mrs. Bartholomew E. B. C. and Mrs. Dicken, Sir Atholl and Lady MacGregor, the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, Members of the Le- gislative Councils, Government officials, and members of the Consular Body were among those who attended the reception given by Herr Gipperich, Consul- General for Germany at the Ger- man Club this. morning, in cele- bration of the Reich National Day.

Chung Ting-yee, a teacher, was this morning bound over in a sum of $50 by Mr. H. R. Butters at the

Proposing the toast of His Central Magistracy for assaulting Majesty the King, Herr Gipperich Wong Kwok, a student aged 7. referred briefly to the achieve-

ments of the new Germany, and Inspector" Baker said that the spoke of the close affinity of race. defendant was a teacher at the free between the British and German school for the children of employ-people, declaring that it was the

wish of ees of the Tramway Company.

every German that the happy relations existing between On Wednesday at 1 p.m. the boy the two peoples in places such as returned home because he had ar- Hong Kong. would soon be equally rived late at school and had been true in Europe.

H.E. the Governor, replying, and She is on the New York-Los throughout Greater Germany in scolded by the teacher. His father Angeles - Manila - Hong Kong-celebration of the reunion of Aus-tog him back to school the same toasting the Reichschancellor, Herr afternoon and told the teacher to Hitler, said he felt, sure that there Shanghai run, and was proceed-tria and the Reich.

punish him. The teacher caned was no British subject who did not which reciprocate heartily the thoughts ing from Manila to the Colony

All sentences for crimes commit-him with a feather duster

the legs which Herr Gipperich had put into when she ran aground in heavy.

ted in any part of Austria "owing [left several bruises on fog.

hope that the relations between S.O.S. messages from the vessel to excess of zeal for the National- and then placed him in a room till words or who was not at one in the

are wiped out, 17 p.m. when school finished.

Germany and England * would (says Reuter), requesting help Socialist cause,'

"VILE MOTIVES”- from-ships nearby, were inter-

The following day the mother of steadily, improve. Both countries, cepted in Manila at 3.37 this Political-offenders-all-over___Ger

their sen-the boy went to the school and de- he said, had-immense-difficulties-to- many are pardoned if

reason why the boy face. In both cases those difficul- morning.

Messrs. Dodwell and Company tences do not exceed six months and manded the are the local agents

for the if the sentences are not imposed on was caned and as she was not sa-ties would be greatly reduced by

with tisfied with the explanation, account of crime committed Thurland Castle.

plained to the “police.' - "vile motives," and

TAKING OFF PASSENGERS

Later.

It is

now, learned that the Thurland Castle is carrying several passengers, which are being taken off by H.M.S. Defender.

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All sentences ranging from months to a year are conditionally. suspended.

As far as at present can be ‘as- does not certained, the amnesty apply to those held in concentration addition to the Henry camps.-Reuter. Keswick, the Admiralty tug

+

Alliance is proceeding to the BRITISH

wreck.

The Thurland Castle, which-left. Manila for Hong Kong at 6 a.m. on Saturday, 'is commanded by Captain R. L. Hughes, First S.O.S. from the ship was received in the Colony at 3.45 this morning.

.**__TUG ARRIVES

The galvage tug Henry Kes-- wick, with Mr. T. G. Brayfield, Lloyd's Surveyor, on board, arrived at the scene of the Thurland, Castle wreck shortly before noon to-day,

INTERVENTION

RIGHT DENIED

Berlin, To-day.

British intervention in regard to the Sudeten German ... question is sharply rejected by the “National Zeitung."

The journal declares that in the

WEATHER FORECAST German opinion, the Czecho-Slova-

any -between

kian question does not need diplomatic discussions

The Royal Observatory,reports the western powers and the Reich. that pressure continues highest It will have to be solved in Czecho- over the Pacific to the south east Slovakia itself.

of Japan. The northern dépression der Konrad Henlein's demands remains over Manchuria and the it is for Phugue to take the initia-

Interven depression of the China Sea is tive where altii Briti situated less than 200 mileg E.8.E. tion would be usefu

of Tourane, stationary or "moving. It is not to be seen how

ter could be the subject slowly, northwestward.

Local forecast: E. and S.E. Anglo German negotiations.-

ter. winds, moderate; cloudy.

com-la better understanding of

other's efforts to solve them.

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