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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES,

(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOV.]

ETNA VOLCANO IN

ERUPTION.

THE

DUTCH OIL COMPANY'S

REPORT

PROPITS NOT UNSATISFACTORY. DESPITE DIFFICULTIES."

AMSTERDAY, June 15th. The export of the Royal Dutch Oil; TERRIFTING EXPERIENCES OF THE Company state that respits for 1929 re

FIGITIVES.

not unsatisfactory, despite the difficulties encountered. The profits amounted to 87.700.000 guilders.

BOCONY REQUEST CRITICISEN

The

report hope that the Dutch

will encourage us by

Joxiex, June 18th. Reports from Rone show that the crap- ton of Mount Etna was most disastroies, three villages and numerous small hamlet, beick buried in the burning "ava, The Government town of Linzunglows has been alrust; foreign firms of Dutch ladies poris, by reducing the tariffs similarly to Brose is Five tremendous warning, explosions force at many foreign parts. It declares sprond terror every shere, and a generì, that the Standard Oil Combine's request exodus began. Women and children wept for permission to re-operate with Dutch and fe on their knees, appealing to God! and the Virgin Mary,

surroundi!

A long procession of terrified fugitives hastened down the valley from Castiglione

and a neighboring village, turning ever and anon to look at the lava streams, that aemed to be rolling down on all sides. ETNA A MASS OF STEAM SMOKE

AND LAVA.

After the explosions hot einders were ejected in elouds, asphyxiating the atmos there and enveloping the district for over ten miles round. A hail of burning slones fell and spread fire through the vineyards and fields.

The fissures through which the lava is pouring are far below the summit of the volcano, which is one huge burning mass of steam. smoke and lava, Seen from Taormina. Mt. Etna looks like a huge flaming furnace. The region is covered with black dust. LINGUALOSSA ASD

CATIGLIONE

MAY BE SAVED.

The latest news say that the lava; stream which Chreatened Linguaglossa and Catiglione lus broken into serveral branches and deviated into side valley's, hence it is hoped, that these towns will cape destruction. They have bourn almost entirely evacuated by orders of the Authorities,

THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10TH,

LATEST CABLES.FAR EASTERN CABLE| AMUNDSEN'S POLAR FLIGHT

ABANDONED.

SUGGESTED REASON FOR THE ABANDONMENT.

LONDON, June 18th.

NEWS.

(IMRODON REUTER'E LOKNOT.]

| MISSIONARIES STILL IN DANGER FROM BANDITS.

PROTEST BY BRITISH LEGATIONS.

Paris, June 19th.

1993.

CONFUSION IN CHINA

INTERVIEW WITH SIR JOHN JORDAN.

It is thought in connection with tha cable message from Christinula that The members of the London Mission Amundsen's abandonment of his trans station at Tachih apparently are not Polar flight was due to engine trouble, of daayer, as the town is still The most elaborate measures had been reputed to be surrounded by brigands.

The British Legation is urging the taken to assist the explorer. Two ex. Government to instruck the legal Authus, and it does peditions had left, ng from Bergen and of British missionaries.

orities to take steps for the protection country to any appreciablo axtent,

Similar from Hamburg, to retablish foolarting bus been already taken by the

British Consul General at Hankow.

The missionaries are reported to be ill in tolephonie vanmunication with the outside world.

depôts and to far a trail on the snow

trail was to be laid by means of coloured fields in the north of Spitzbergen. The

gaun dropped frnai aeroplanes.

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LONDON'S HANDICAP AS A PORT.

per cent..

Leaving ms of the question the orogs. Channel and purely Continental, traffic, FOREIGNERS IN PERIL

the number of overes passengers out- ward and inward who arrived at or Thisturbed state of China and the sailed from British "porta was $68,096 Keneral- lawlessness prevailing in that during the year 199. Of this total country are the result, Sir John Jordan Southampton 31 per cent, and Loudon 20

Liverpool handled" about 33 pointed out in an interview with a repre per cent The actual figures were: sentative of The Observer, of there being ward, Southampton, 101,550 ontward and Liverpool, 120,601 outward and 63.018 in- hardly any Government there. "It is 1,867 inward; while the London figures run," he said. "there is still a Govern were: Outward, 60,568, and 11,500 in- ment in Peking, but it receives no reward.

1$ 175$29+ The question naturally Why should London, which, far as not control the actual tonnage is concerned, is the Arst port in the world, full behind Liverpool Tort of pseudo-militarism has and Southampton in the matter of rung up. The various military gever passenger business f nors have been recruiting troops and

The explanation is not very far to using them for their own purposes either the points of departure for passenger Rock. It is to be found in the fact that for personal aggrandisement or for con- trolling their own part of the country. Tilbury

vessels leaving the Port of London-- There are more than a million of these!

от Gravesend—are separated so-called troops, and the line of cleavage from the Metropolis sad the great rail- between than and bandits is hardly dis graphical distance. The ocean passenger way termini by more than mero geo- cernible, When they receive no pay for steamers using the Port of London take WAR DANGER SUBSIDING. their series from their military chiefs on their people either in the Tilbury CHRISTIANIA, Juno 18th.

they become bandits LONDON, June 18th.

Dock or by tender in the river at The Minister of Defence has a telegramı and from Amundsen's brother stating that indicate that the war clanger in the Balkans from the revolution onwards, until I left passengers and their baggage are very far A very serious position has now been Gravend. In either case the facilities Despatches from Vienna and Budapest create. During all the disturbances, for travel and thr embarking Anundan has telegraphed to him from Nor-is diminishing. The alarm expressed, parti- wick, Alaska: Trial fight on May 11th, cularly in the Jugo-Slavian Press, which Peking in 1920 Sir John was for fourteen behind the arrangements of either Låver Result very unsatisfactory. Sorry am forced called upon the Government to intervene by ears His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary paol or Southampton. At the Mersoy to abandon the proposed flight."

hase of arms in the Bulgarian revolution, and Minister Pinpointiary there], the mire on the morning their ch The Admiralty has ordered the "Amundsen has somewhat subsided, M. Pashitch

one saving feature of the situation, na three son livers landed their mails and Relief Expedition to return from Spitzhering to adhere to diplomatie methods in order matter what the troubles were, was that passengers with their baggage in less than gen as soon as possible

to prevent any infraction of the treaty of foreigners and foreign property were two and 11 half hours. Adjoining the is the riverside railway Neuilly. It was the intention of the Little always scrupulously respected, so much sa landing stage. Entente Powers to make a joint demarche to that-I will just mention it as an illus station. which is linked with the main Sofia on June 15th, but this was abandonedtration-canes occurred where the opposing lines of the country. At Southampton in consegnenet, according to Vienna, cf a forces stopped fighting in order to allow the passenger trains to or from London hint from the representatives of the Great Free pasange for missionaries coming go alongside the incoming or departing Powers against the danger of hasty action. down from the interior. All that time

ship. there was no interference with foreign life it all Within the last few months, however, there has been a marked and an ominioes change. Foreigners today are being held to ransom. not only in the north, but in this centre and the south as

companies it the Date Indies, on thei ground that Butch interests are allowed to exploit. American oilfields, erroneous" representation of facts,

merely political propaganda.

is an

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ARRANGEMENTS REGARDING RUSSIAN OILFIELDS. The repoort goes an du say that the time is not yet propitious for the resuraption of business with Tussin, but the first step in the direction of a reconstruction of the i asian oil indistry has been made by an arrangement with the prinsipal ex-owners of Russian oil enterprises, in order to reach an ultimate agerement which would remove the fear that the ex-on ner might acquire oilfields formerly holonging to others.

LIQUOR ON SHIPS

AN IMPORTANT HULING.

WASHINGTON, June 14th.

Mr. A. Mellos Secretary of the Treasury) has restructed the public health officials to comply fully with the laws of Foreign nations, which compel their shipw to carry adquate supplies of medicinal liquors. The order is be interpreted as meaning that dietary wine rations for crews will be considered medizinal.

"RED ACTIVITIES.

AFGHAN GOVERNMENT SERIOUSLY PERTURBEDR

LONDON, June 18th.

Thirty thousand people have been It is reported that the Mghan Govern. rendered homeless, but no casualties have meat is seriously perturbed at the move been reported up to, the present. Troops ment of troops at Bokhara and in the and officials are rushing to the help of Trans-Caspian territory, where the "Red" the inhabitants. It is believed that the army has been winforced by new battalions damage is already greater than that caused by the eruptions in 1910 and 1911.

LAVA STREAMS

STILL

ADVANCINGI

LATER

and technical units from central Russia,

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MUDANIA ARMISTICE. VIOLATED BY THE TURKS,

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 18th. The British authorities had received information that the Tarka wore endeavour ing to remove from Thrace guna and troops clandestinely sens there in riolation of the Mudania armistice when Turco- Greek hostilities were threatened. Hearing of a concentration at Silivria, British neroplanes photographed the ususual activity, and destroyers watched the port by night. They caught the transport early this morning. The seizure proves con clusively the failure of the Turkish military preparations in Thrace.

BALKANS

OUTLOOK.

TRANS-PACIFIC RECORD.

ESTABLISHED BY "EMPRESS OF CANADA."

VANCOUVER, June 18th, tablished a

The Baer Empress of Canada has es

new Trans-Pacific record of eight days, ten minutes, with an average speed of 90.6 hours and fifty-three knots between Yokohams and face flocks,

ment.

GENERAL BALAKHOVITCH STILL ALIVE.

Rica, June 18th,

despite unfavourable conditions. [A cable message published yesterday LENIN STILL AN INVALID. reported the British capture of a Turkish transport in the Ses of Marmora}

Moscow, June 18th. Lauin has been tranferred from the Krem INTERNATIONAL JUSTICElin to a villa in the suburbs. It is reported THIRD SESSION OF COURT OPENS.

that his condition indicates a slight improve

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THE HAGUE, June 18th.

of International Justice has opened at the The third session of the Permanent Court

The new Judge, Doctor Wang Chung Hui Doctor Loder presiding. Peace Palace,

of China, replacing the late Jurige Barbosa, was installed, also Professor Walter Schreck ing, Appointed by Germany to participate in the case

of the

Winkledust, Meunier which the German Government refused a WA

through the Riel Canal in 1921, Pich

the Allies are claiming damages against Germany

under the Versailles Treaty Germany alleges that the ship was Proceeding to Danzig with a cargo of four tons of war material for Poland, which was then at war with Russin

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT.

to

US. PROPOSALS UNDER

CONSIDERATION,

A number of "Red" military posts on the

LONDON, June 18th. In the House of Commons replying to | Afghan border have been increased in Mr. Soneville, Mr. Ronald MeNeill confirm- ed that the United States had proposed the strength and the fortress at Kushk is conclusion of a treaty for the enforcement being repaired.

of prohibition on the importation of liquor, whereby United States officers were a allowed

!

The officer previously killed near Bialan stok, was General Balakhovitch's brother, not the well-known General himself.

THE NEW BRITISH SUBMARINE.

wall.

r

31st

But there are no facilities of this nature in connexion with the Port of Landon. The London docks are not easily accessible by rail and in the case of em- barkation At Gravesend the average amenities of a travel and all that ocean passenger is so well educated to the

This last outrage on the Tientsin. a tender as taboo.

mopertains thereto that he regards a trip It must he re- between Peking. Nanking, and Shanghai, voyager may send his heavy baggage in Pukow Railway, which is the main route, wombered that although the coran.. is especially rious. There is neger aj advance, he is still encumbered with train on this line on which foreigners are sufficient impediments to enable him to not travelling, and it is a tot daring appreciate the advantage of train thing to attack it. The outrage will have | alongside.” The Port of Lender a very disturbing effe on travellers to Authorities have in hand a landing-stage Peking. The alternative to this railway for ocean passengers, but if this is to means three or four days' journey by sen. achieve the The railway was constructed partly by London as an ocean passenger part, the purpose of popularizing Great Britain and partly by Germany railway connexions with the Metropolis The German part has reverted to the will have to be vast improved. Chinese Government, and we are the only | foreign prople to have an interest in it;

Lad unblocked

tha

at the present moment. We have a very MR. ASQUITU AND LABOURE large financial stake in the railway, several million pounds sterling being held Mr. Asquith addressing a Liberal and by British inventor.

Radical neeting at Bournemouth on May The antrage was committed by ex- 4th raid:-On point upon which it seems soldiers belonging to the notorious Chang ure elucidation is necess ry is the attitude of reusted Liberal party tos Haun, who in 1917 attempted to restore what is vaguely caled Labour. Is La the Manchus and very unfortunately was bour to be the common enemy? It would afterwards given refuge in the Dutch be strange if it were 20. It was, in fact, Legation. It is an extremely repreben Liberalism which gave to Lubur R sible thing for Legations to offer a charter

aronges asylum to Chinese adventurers.

through which it obtained access to the What ought to be done as regards powers and opportunities which it w reparation? I see there is an idea, to get possesses, 1 for one am not the least the Chinese Government to pay a heavy alarmed at the red spectre which seems ransom for the release of the foreigners in. 80 Dany quarters to obs. As th LONDON, June 18th. That may, perhaps, be unavoidable in the imagination and shake the nerves, But Macks closed at 765,000 to the pound interest of the lives of the persons taken it is important to realise that the Labour sterling. The market is of opinion that it captive, but is is simply putting a pre-party is not, in any ten), sense, at any is now impossible for the Germany authori, mium on further outrages of the same rate for constructive purposes, a coherent ties to stabilisa their currency." French kind. francs sympathetically declined to 75 and

its, different wrtions men of Belgian to 8845.

LONDON, Jupe 18th. It is announced that the new British ja nowise coutravenes the submarine Washington naval agreement. MARKS FURTHER DECLINE

BOXING.

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strong measures

ing

"The Government at Peking, although it is in fact a Coalition compris it has hardly any control over the country, conspicuous intellectual and Parliament. ought to be able to deal with this partiary ability, and many with convictions cular case by adopting severe punitivo which have been burnt into their minds measures. After all, they have thirty and souls by first-hand observation nud THE BECKETT-CARPENTIER FIGHT thou and troops in Peking under the so- evon personal experience; of the cruel called Christian General Feng Yu Hsiang, justices of our existing industrial and Loxes, June 18th. Beckett has injured his left haud and who is a fine soldier of the Cromwell type, social system. In the long road which possibly this will involve the postponement is also Wu Pei Fu, who is not far off at there are many stages and halting places.

and often preaches to his troops. There separates Individualism from Communist of his Eght with Carpentier at Olympis on

Barker, the bone specialist, the hand was

able to deal with the situation. The whole of the signs of the times and the probable Krayed. Sir Herbert expects that after future safety of foreigners in China course of political developments, to brand And to exercise them all under a common be has acon the photograph ho will be able depends, in fact, on

anathert. I then, therefore, equally to decide whether Beckett will be able to against the bandite. box on July 4th.

some thousands of for opposed to a Tory-Liberal combination eignera in China, for besides the large and a declaration of war against Labour. "What then is it which leads me to numbers of missionaries, there are scatter- hope and believe that in a rounited ed all over the eantry the agents of such faberal party, standing on its own legs, firm and companies as the Standard Oil, we shall find & more

excellent way the Asiatic Petroleum, Brunner Mond, redrom the evils of our industrial system and the British-American Tobacco Co. A than either Toryism or Bocialism can punitive expedition against the bandita offer! We do not good a new compass; and an International Commission to deal we do not even need a new chari, with the whole queation on the spot are the first steps which suggest themselves to me. Shantung is a turbulent and over- populated province, in which the Boxer rebellion had its origin.

A Bolshevik report says that the reinto search British vessels within twelve niles from the coast, in return for which forcement is connected with a scheme of the United States wont allow liquor on Britial vessels if placed in bond within intensified colonisation by asian peas, that area. The matier was being considered June 4th. On the advice of Sir Herbert Loyang, in Honan, and he should be quite And it seems to me to be a misreading

The proposal did not involve altering the in-

·ternational law as regards territorial waters. HOW IT AFFECTS FRENCH SEAMEN,

New Youx, June 18th. It is stated that the French Ambas- sador has nenuged for sailors on French steamory to receive half a litre of wine daily on homeward voyages after the three

be locked up

Advices frem Mesin state that fragments of solidified lava from Mount Elan have fallen as far as Giardin and Taormina, lying thickly on the ground: i ants. The largest stream of lava is over thirty | fpet drop, and is advancing at the rate of. 2 yards an hour, destroying everything, in 's path. The villages of Picciolo, ! Pallumellati and Ferro nes completely buried and the town of Linguaglossa is how encircled by four strennis of lava, Cifte of which is encroaching upon it. Fissures have appeared as various places in the locality.

VESUVIUS ALSO ACTIVE. Advices from Naples state that Vesuvius baa eruitted much lava and steam during the last twenty-four hours.

SOUTH AFRICA'S

UNEMPLOYED.

'STRANGE' SCENE IN HOUSE OF

PARLIAMENT.

CAPETOWN, June 18th.

A strange scenè occurred in the House of Assembly. While, the Minister of Lands was replying, during the debate on the unemployment vote, three representa- tives of the Witwatersrand unemployed

BRITISH SUGAR DUTY:

MOTION FOR ABOLITION

DEFEATED.

LONDON, June 18th.

The House of Commons has rejected the Labour motion to abolish the Sugar Duty, by 7 votes to 153.

Rt. Hon. Sir W. Joynun Hicks said that in spite of the increased duty, the consumption of angar last year was 74 the par hend, compared with 51 lbs. 1920 and 93 lbs, in 1914.

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RUHR SENTENCES. DIRECTORS CONVICTED IN THEIR

ABSENCE..

Bratay, June 18th. The Eve directors mentioned in a cable massage dated June 16th, were sentenced

in Matumaciam,

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pile limit, within which wine aboard will

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WORLD FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION. SHIP.

NEW YORK, June 18th. In the contest for the world flyweight championship, Pancho Villa, the Filipine, knocked out the holder, Jimmy Wilde, in the seventh round.

LATEST CABLES. DETAILS OF A SPLENDID FIGHT.

There am

BOGUS BAG OF GOLD.

BUSINESS MAN TRICKED IN RUSSIA.

to

A British business man recently return- ed from Russia walked into the private olice of licensed dealer in gold in the West End of London and dumped a heavy bag on his table.

ACCIDENTALLY BOMBED. AFGHANS RECEIVE COMPENSATION.

SILLA, Juno 18th.

New York, June 18th. British airmen accidentally violated the

There were 18,000 people present at the Afghan border in the course of operations open air fight, which took place on the against tribesmen whose offences included Polo Ground. Gring on British troops and kidnapping Hindus, Bombs we dropped, and killed not withstand the onslaught of the Wilde was always game, but could

GERMANS A "PLAGUE.", two and wounded fire Afghans, also doing Filipino, who from the first bell to the damage to livestock. The British Govern knockout was almost always rushing in

FRENCE LEGAL DECISION. ment has made an unqualified apology and and punishing his opponent. The only The First Chamber of the Paris Law arranged to pay full compensation.

round in which the Welshman gave & Courte last month pronounced a judg

**Here it is," be said with an assured INDIAN AGITATOR ARRESTED. glimpse of his old-time form was in the ment according to which the presence of sir, "and I have 60lb. of it altogether."

sixth. when he met his opponent in the the Germans

"What is it" naked the dealer. comes within the legni Nacren, June 18th.

centre of the ring and exchanged punches definition of a pest or plague. This de- “Gold,” mid his visitor. I sent you Seth Jamanini Hajaj, prominent non-co- evenly

cision arose out of a probate claim bala sample for your assayers from Riga"

The dealer looked curious'y at the glit operator, and member of the working com- During the fight Wilde protested against on an article in the civil code, which mittee of the National Congress, also 21 Villa's hackhand blows, but the Referce de provides that "wila drawn up in a placetering contents of the bag. "Gold" he

I don't

wo way gold here, lender o prohibition of the and movementclared there fair. In the second round Villa which is shut off from communication by where is 1 against of the untional flag in | staggered. Wilde with a right to the jaw reuson of a pest, plague, or ether contar

Here," insisted the business man. processions, has been arrested:

and then hit the Welshman at will. Just gious malady, may be made in the as the bell sounded Villa florod Wilde, presence of a justice of the peace or and according to your assayers' report who was carried to bis corner in a dazed before an officer of municipality in the it is 05 per cent, pure" ccndition.

presence of two witnesses. In 1917 an The dealer shook his head, and picked inhabitant of

broken the Nord Department. up

fragment. Brazier's Wilde started the seventh round with his right eye closed. After taking terrible which was then overrun by the Germann, alloy," he said briefly.

But the sample I sent you was taken on the law and foll flat on his isoo is an able to call in a lawyer, made his will in by me myself" protested his visitar. punishment he received a straight right became dangerously ill, and, being un

"Did you sent it yourself!" he asked nonscious states. He recovered a for the presence of the Mayor of the Coro

"No, I handed it to the other maniko minutes later and smiled gamely when the mune, who wrote it at beetator's dicta

The send. crowd cheered him.

tion, in the presence of six witnesses,

*** Ah!?" said the dealer reflectify. “I testator died in Paris two years later The Master of Ceremonies made the without having made any other will, but am afraid the sample which repobedame statement that Wilde was the gamest lover his family contested the validity of the was not the sample you picked out of the pugilism ever saw.

DUTCH INDIES LOAN LISTS FLAMANDISATION OF GHENT

OPENED

Townox, June 18th.

chuined themselves to the railing of the The lists of the Dutch Indies Loan men public gallery, nuffragette fashion, and tioned in a cable message dated June 15th harangued the House, denouncing the Bavo been opened, Inilure of the Government and Farlia pont to relieve the prevailing distress and demanding work,

The proceilings were suspended for a quarter of an hour. The minister sub- sequently claimed that the Government was spending more than had ever been apent on providing employment.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS DEATH.

CARE OF SUICIDE WHILST OF

UNSOUND MIND.

LONDON, June 18th.

At the inquest on the late Rt. Hon. Bir Heary Prifaros, a verdict was recorded of suicide whilst of unsound mind.

UNIVERSITY.

Brunszis, June 18th. with the formation of a Cabinet. M. Theunis H.M. the King has entrusted M. Theunis has reserved acceptance mutil hy bas un ferred with his colleagues in regard to the possibility of settling the question of the Flamanduration of Ghent University.

IMPROVED AMERICAN

REVENUES.

WASHINGTON, Jane 18th. Addressing a meeting of the Govemmental national revenue and expenditure, showing bureaux, President Harding detailed the a surplus of two bandred million dollars, compared with a deficit of 823 millions Inst

year.

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DAVIS CUP CONTEST.

LONDON, June 18th.

At Manchester, playing in the Davis Cup contest, Gomar and Flaquer bent Lycott and Godfree, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

document drawn up in 1917. They based bowl."

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ather contagious

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their daim on the contention that the Nor was it. The hunibet man had German could not be described as a been taken in by a trick which is new to

peat plague,

Russia but as old as the gold-mining malady," but the civil tribunal decided dustry in the United States, where he that they could. The First Chamber of froud is known univmally as the "goldi the Paris Court has supported this ruling, brick swindle. He had bought for which, however, unflattering it may be £2,000 a worthless mum of fragmente to the Germans, must be considered aexrefully prepared from an alloy used by good French law-Daily Targraph.

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