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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1989.

FIRE

Dr. Schacht Gives An LINER MORE ATTACKS Assurance

ON JUNKS NEAR JEWS SAFE UNLESS LOAN HING HONG

Two further junk "piracies" are contained in this morning's police

reports.

NEGOTIATIONS BREAK DOWN

Both were essentially similar in Dr.

the method of execution.

Cheng Kwan-shing, master of a junk trading in the vicinity of Swatow, states that whilst on a voyage from Swatow to Hong Kong, a small boat containing two men

armed with revolvers ap-

proached.

After sending a fusillade of shots screaming round the junk, one of which found a billet in the right hip of one of the crew, the pirates boarded the vessel and re- moved 30 sacks of sweet potatoes valued at $120 and 20 sacks of red rice valued at $50.

Berlin, To-day.

Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, was ex- pected to return from Basle last night and be-

PUT OUT

London, To-day,

A fire which broke out on the liner "Riamtaka” is now com- pletely under control, according to latest wireless messages.

The vessel is now proceeding to Auckland.----Reuter.

MISSIONARY

gin discussions to-day with the Evian Refugee FROM CHINA:

Committee delegation, headed by Mr. Rublee, which arrived yesterday.

It is learned that the discussions will be based on a

HIS MEMORY

plan which Dr. Schacht took to London but it is WAS SAVED

understood that Dr. Schacht hinted that the plan was not Germany's last word.

GUNMAN AMOK

The other "piracy" took place off IN CEYLON:

HUNT IN JUNGLE

Chek Wan. Kwok Chan, the mas- ter, tells the police that he left Man Kim Sha Village in the Tung Kan District on New Year's Day on a voyage

On to Hong Kong. nearing Chok Wan a small boat

Colombo, To-day. containing two men, opened fire

Police are combing the jungles with a rifle and revolver. The junk was boarded and the crew of Central Ceylon for a gunman put ashore near Chek Wan Temple who ran amok, shot dead four while the pirates sailed away in

people and wounded one. the junk in which was money amounting to $100.

The crew were later picked up by a passing junk and brought into Hong Kong.

SHIU YU-SHAN'S APPOINTMENT

Chungking, To-day. General Shih Yu-san, guerilla commander in Shantung, whose troops raided Tsinan sometime ago, was appointed Chairman of. the Chahar Provincial Government by the Executive Yuan at a regular meeting yesterday.

He is known to still have hun- dreds of cartridges.

Panic-stricken people 'in vil- lages are

their remaining in homes behind barricaded doors. The man ran amok after 2 quarrel with his partner in a gambling den. He shot his part- ner dead during a meal, rushed Jinto the street where he shot four others and escaped into the jun- gle.--Reuter.

FRENCH REMOVE RESTRICTIONS

Cairo, To-day.

The Arab leaders who at present are in Cairo are going by, air to Beirut to-day to meet the Mufti of Jerusalem.

The meeting also decided on the creation of a Water and Land Tran- sportation Commission with Mr. T. L. Soong as Chairman and Mr. Lu The French authorities in Syria Too-fu as Vice-Chairman.-Central have removed all restrictions on News.

their movements.-Reuter.

Germany apparently imagines that the world of Jewry is prepar- ed to call off the anti-German boy- cott in order to help their brethren in Germany, but there is good rea-

BY CAROLS

London, Dec. 24.

Four years ago he offered his liv-

son to believe that foreign Jewish ng body for experiments by medi- resources have already been drain-cal research workers. Yesterday he ed in assisting German Jews

lay with a blank mind in a ward at Dr. Schacht has given a definite Salisbury Infirmary. assurance that there are to be no

The mystery man's plight further anti-Jewish measures in reported in the "Daily Sketch" on Germany unless

negotiations for Thursday, after he had been admit- the emigration loan break downted to the infirmary suffering from Reuter,

PUPPET PLAYS EXPECTED TUNE

Shanghai, To-day. Asserting that their own fate, in addition to that of the twelve Chinese provinces now partially or completely under Japanese domination, depended on their action at this time, Wen Tsung- yao, president of the Legislative Council of the "reformed ġov- ernment of Nanking" yesterday issued a lengthy appeal to the people of the nine provinces still under the control, of the Kuomintang.

He urged conclusion of an agreement with Japan on the basis of the three points out- lined by Prince Konoye, the former Japanese Premier. Reuter.

loss of memory.

was

He did not know who he was or where he had come from.

Until yesterday a party of Salva- tion Army carol singers came to the hospital. As the carols filled the ward the mystery man's memory stirred slowly.

As the party passed his bed he cried: "I know.

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He was able to tell the police who had waited by his bed that he had been an "Army" adjutant and that his name was Harold Ernest Gibbin,

BROTHER TRACED

The police traced his brother, living at Park-crescent, Finchley, N.

"Harold has spoken to me by telephone and he seemed all right. He is being kept in hospital for observation for any possible effects. of a fall he told me he had a few days ago," the brother added.

"He came back from China, where he was a Salvation Army missionary.

"He is a travelling, `evangelist. and · goes all over the coun- try keeping preaching engage- ments for the Salvation Army and other institutions."

When Mr. K. E. Gibbin· offered his body for experiments the Medi- cal Research Council declined the offer.

ENTERING THEIR WINTER ARK-Now that winter Weather is here the flamingoes at the London Zoo are shut up at night time. This is to prevent frost-bitten legs to which the birds are subject. Photo shows the flamingoes trooping into their winter quarters für the first time.

INSURGENT LINES BROKEN

Barcelona, To-day.

NEW RADIOPHONE ESTABLISHED

London, To-day,

Resistance of the insurgents has been broken on the Cordova front and in spite of all efforts to rein- Radio-telephone service be- force the defenders, the Republican|tween the United Kingdom - and troops have broken through and Newfoundland was inaugurated are advancing in the direction of yesterday. The service is afford- Monterrubiode la Serena and del ed by the interconnexion of the new Newfoundland-Montreal link. Among important positions oc-and the existing London-Mon- cupied were the heights of Picuda treal` link. where a great number of prisoners were taken. ...

Sobo,

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Before the addition of this new oversea・ service, telephone® sub-

On the Catalan front, enemy at-scribers in Great Britain were al- tacks on Heights 488 and 429 were repulsed following heavy firing. Trans-Ocean.

ready able to speak to about 95 per cent, of telephone subscribers in the world-British Wireless.