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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932.

SUBMARINE M. 2. FEARED LOST

GREAT ANXIETY FELT FOR SAFETY OF THOSE ABOARD

NO COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM SUNKEN VESSEL

REPORT SHE HAS BEEN LOCATED DENIED

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, January 27. T

HE ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCE THAT NO COMMUNICA TION HAS SO FAR BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE SUB. MARINE M.2, CONSEQUENTLY GREAT ANXIETY IS NOW FELT FOR THE SAFETY OF THOSE ABOARD...

THE SUBMARINE HAS NOT YET BEEN LOCATED.

ABLE SEAMAN'S HARD LUCK

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Ablo Seaman Thomas Morris, who is missing on Submarino M.2 in one of the survivors of the Poseidon, he dived into the sea when the Poseidon was sinking and was picked up. His trip on Submarine M.2 was the Brat time for months he had been to sex. He would have completed his submarine service in s month.

ANOTHER NAVAL TRAGEDY

LONDON, Jan. 97, Another tragic naval disaster is feared to be implied in an a nouncement issued by the Admir alty late last night, stating that no- news has been received of the

M.2 since super-submarine

failed to respond to messages from the wireless operator aboard her, parent ship.

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Dramatic Scenes at Cinemas. Dramatic scenes were witnessed at Portland cinemas, when Admir- dived off Portland at half past penalty orders were flashed across the

o'clock yesterday morning.

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The whole of the minesweeper flotilla is engaged in

a frantic search for "signs of the craft, which is a sister-ship of the M. lost in 1995 with ea liye..

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LATER. A dramatic message has reached the Admiralty, reporting that on abject has been located on the sea bed about three mides to the west of Portland Bill, which is believed to be the missing submarine."

Submarine Located ?

In the glare of powerful search- lights, special salvage" crews and divers from a host of submarines

screens "summoning all oval men Lo return to their posts immediate in order to man the rescue ships. It is believed that some of the members of crow of the Ms were Burvivors of the Poseidoz disaster.

Although no really definite trace of the submarine had been found at 130 hon, bope is still entertained are alive; that the trapped men It is just possible for them to live for 80. hours if there is no extensive leakage.

Search Still Continuing, BRITISH WIRELESS SIRYICAL];

RUGBY, Jan. 97%. In the afternoon H.M.S. Titania, and minesweepees were feverishly the depot ship for submarines, re- working at two o'clock this morn-ported that she could no longer ing on the spot, west of Portland maintain communication with M.2, Bil where the object believed to land -hen at 4.16 pan.. M. did not bo the M., has been located

return with the other submarines The submarine, and there is little which had been exercising, 4 des- doubt that the helpless craft has troyers and 2 submarines were sent boen discovered, was found in to search for her. Meanwhile, all Reventeen fatroms of water after a available divings and salvage equip frantic all-night search.

nent was got ready in Portland Harbour and early this morning, under Rear-Admiral Little, the

AFRICA AND THE GOLD STANDARD

GEN. HERTZOG 'CAUSES SENSATION

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Cape Town, Jan. 27.

A BALANCED BUDGET

BRITISH' TAXPAYERS. PAY UP

(BRITISH WINKLESS SERVICE.)

Ruasr, Jan. 26. In view of the figures disclosed in the latest revenue returns, a balanced budget is regarded as de finitely in papert.

The returns furnish further evi dence of the remarkable responsa At the reopening of the, Assem-made to the appeal for prompt pay bly General Hertzog notifel, a motion for the appointaient of a select committee to enquire who- ther the welfare of the country demanded a maintenance of the gold standard.

ment of the instalments of Income Tax which fell due this mouth.

During the week endod January 23, the income tax collected amount ed to £17,100,000, an increase of £7.2 millions over the amount col lested in the corresponding week of last year.

MORE UNREST IN MANCHURIA

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

BRITISH DELEGATION

"ANNOUNCED

Poor Outlook Predicted

(THROUGH | REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Jan, 27.

It is officially announced that the British dolegation to the Disarma- ment Conference will consist of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir John Simon, Mr. J. H. Thomas, Lord Hailsham, Lord Londonderry and Mr. Eyres Monsell with Mrs. Cor. bett Ashby na amabatitute.

The Premier will attend the

departure for Geneva,

BANDITS ATTACK TRAIN. TWO

JAPANESE KILLED

OLD AND NEW GOVERNMENT FORCES CLASH NEAR KIRIN.

(THROUGH MEUTER'S AGENOY.]

MUKDEN, Jan. 27. Fueblation has been captured by.

A brief but axciting encounter troops advancing from Pinhalen nad between Japanese Arcops and a the city has been isolated, no com- party of bandits who had surround munication of any kind being per gd Talingho Station, on the Peking-mitted.

Mukden Railway is reported to day.

Router's Mukden correspondent learns from a reliable source, that

Important financial interests von-period from the first to the twenty: opening of Parliament before his the incident occurred on Monday!

CAPE TOWN, Jan. 27. General Hertzog's action same, in a complete surprise, sider it is a possible prelude to Idaving the gold standard, though in some quarters the opinion is ex- premed that he is endeavouring to escape from an awkward financial position by throwing the onus on the whole Parliament.

STOCK EXCHANGE

RESTRICTIONS -

NOW ALL RESCINDED

(Reuter's Special Service:)

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LONDON, Jan, 27. The last of the Stock Exchange restrictions has been removed by a official announcement that con- resumed forthwith..

ng business may be

The total amount collected in thể

third, is 200.0 millions, compared with £34.3 millions in the Arst twenty-four days of last year.

The amount collected sa surtax

during the saune week also show an incesan over" the corresponding period of last your and the total amount of surtax received in tho first twenty-three days of the quar. er is £161 millions being an "in- eronse of 28 millions over the total received in the first twenty-four days of 1937.

The dadcit now: . stands £131,000,000,

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(Reuter's Special: Service.)

LONDON, Jas, 97. When Parliament meets on Feb, 2. Government, Router learns, will be ready with a comprehensive. programme, including tariff pro- posals designed, to ensure the balancing of the Budget and resti- position. fication of the trade These proposals will be pressed through Parliament as early as possible, mainly in the form of Anancial measures.

LONDON, Jan," $7.

· Referring to the Sino-Japan». exo dispute, during an address on the prospects, of, disarma- ment, Mr. Wickham Steed, the ex-Editor of the Times, said: that Britain turned her back on America when America sont a protest to Зарап. Another serious situation has arisen in Shanghai, and if we did not stand by the side of the United States in this matter then good. bye for many a long year to any prospects of Anglo-Ameri- can co-operation for disarms. ment and a reduction of War Debts or anything sise. He added that the United States. Joined: Britain. În nə vain: search for peace without any respons siblity:

The opinion is expressed' that the prospects at the Geneva Conference are very poor.

ALL POWERS WATCHING SHANGHAI

JAPANESE ULTIMATUM DELIVERED

TO MAYOR WU

WILL AMERICA AND BRITAIN ACT

IN UNISON?

Admiral commanding Submarine BRITISH CABINET NOW CONSIDERING

on the spot at Portsmouth, was where the object which may be the M.2 had been located.

At noon to-day the search was continuing.

The fate of her six officers and the forty-eight men" underwood to be inside the hulk, is at present unknown, but it is pointed out by naval experts that the submarine could reinnin' safely under water in a emergency for forty-eight hours.

Her oral complement is nix

M. was laid dywa in 1916 and officers and 1 other ratings,

In 192) her The prospect of reseve depends completed in 1920.

twelve inch gun was taken out, paranoiatly upon whether or not the submarine was holed in diving and in the space formerly occupied to the bottom, or whether her in by the gun-mounting a hangar was ability to rise is due to a mechani-provided for a small Parnell Pixie cal defect which has left her huil seaplane, the wars of which are folded for storage in the submarino. intact.

M.2 is equipped with the latest life-saving devices, including the Davis Escape Apparatus which was responsible for the rescue of six men in the Poseidon disaster last June,

Every effort is being made to establish communication, but up to the present. these have been with out result.

The first inking that anything Was is occurred when the M.2

RECORD OF SUBMARINE "DISASTERS

The principal losses since 1904 have been:

1004.-A. sunk by liner Berwick

Castle off the Nab Light ship, March 18; 1 Hives lost,

1905. Potrol vapour explosion in

A. at Queenstown, Feb, 18; i

killed, injured. 1903.-A.R Bunk while exchanging crews in Plymouth Soundi June-2; 15 drowned. 1005.-A4 sunk off Portsmouth

after collision, October 16. 1909.-C.11 sunk off Cromer by akeamer Eddystone whilat proceeding to Thames Naval pageant, July 14; 13 | drowned. C.17 was badly damaged.

1910.-

ja collision with tender Effin off Harwich, Dec. 10; A drowned.

1912.3aunk "by

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grinboat

Hazard off lele of Wight, Feb. 2; 14 lives fort? 1012.-B.2 sunk by liner America of Dover, Oct., 4; 13 lives lost, one savou. 1913-Explosion in E.s, in Bristol

Channel, June 83 killed.. 1914.A.7 font in Whitesand Bay, Plymouth, Jan. 10 2 officers and 9 men lost.

The Great War, During the Great War Britain lout 30 submarines, as follows:- destroyed at Helsingfors to avoid capture, 20 from unknown causes probably mined on patrol), 5 sunk by enemy submarines | sunk at entrance at Dardanelles," 4 sunk by mines off British Isles,

3 wrecked on neutral coast, 7 sunk in collision, sunk by air bomba - 3 Aunk by guns or rammed in error, and one each from the fol lowing canecs; Gunfire in the see. of Marmorn, wrecked in Baltia, wrecked of English coast, sunk in Heligoland Bight after sinking German destroyer, and C.a blow herself up at Zeebrugge.

Post War. Disasters. 1991.-K.3 lost near Ushand, fan. 20; aix officers and 1 mes lost ww

1921.-K.15 sunk in Portsmouth Harbour; no life lost. 1922.-H.42 rammed of Europa,

Point by .M.. Versatile, March, 2; 3 officers and 21 ratings lost..

POSITION

[REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS.]

SHANGHAI, January- 27.

The Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Murai, at 8 p.m. tó-day da. livered an ultimatum to the Mayor, Mr. Wu Ta Ghen, demanding that a definite reply to the Japanese demanda be delivered at the Japanese Consulats by 6 p.m. to-morrow,

LONDON, January 27,

It is learned from the most reliable sources that the "American Government yesterday.communicated with the British Ambassador - its viswa concerning the Shanghai position which were immediately

forwarded to London.

The Cabinet are earnestly considering the position, but as the problem is still under review no information of the Government's views are available. Similarly details of the American Mote are unknown and it is impossible at the moment to speculate regard ing the nature of the British reply which will be governed by the most complex considerations of international policy as well as the interests of the British community in Shanghai,"

It is officially denied that the, Government has sent a note to Гарап.

A MANCHURIAN REPUBLIC?

BIG, January 2

It to reported from Moscow that a Manchurian Republic" will be proclaimed at an early date.

"Two thousand Russian smigres occupying more less permanent positions in Mukden have expressed their desire to adopt Man- churian citizenship.

1023-19 sunk in Hong Keng LONDON'S DECISION EAGERLY AWAITED

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Harbour by typhoon; all ..saved.

1924.-L.24 lost off Portland, Jan. 10; six officers and 37 meu lost.

· 1995.-A.I rammed by Norwegian steamer Fidar of Start point, Nov. 11; officers and 85, men lost."

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HE Washington Times says: It conferred with Mr. Stimson, whose

romains to be seen whether policy so far has been one of coa-,

MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON

LEAVING FOR GENEVA TO.DAY

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

Becay, Jan. 20,

Mr. Abur Henderson, who is to be President of the World Dis- Armament Conference, which opens on February 2, will leave London on Thursday route, for Geneva, accompanied by Mrs. Henderson nadMe. Philip Baker, his Par- liamentary Private Secretary in the last Parliament.

NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL

SIR THOMAS INSKIP PROMOTED

(THROUON REUTERʼ6, AGENOT. ]

LONDON, Jan. 26. Sir Thomas Inskip. K.C. has been appointed Attorney General in suci cession to Sir William Jowitty, K.C. who lost his sent at the last election and has failed to find an opening for Parliament in the last three months.

Sir Thomas Inskip was Attorney- General in the Baldwin. Administra- tion from March, 1028 until its fall, following on the heels of Sir Douglas Hogg on the latter's eleva tion to the peerage.

Sir Boyd Merriman

resumes his eld pest at the Office of the Solicitor-General.

TO MAKE INCOME TAX LAW INTELLIGIBLE

[URITISH WINELIKS BERVICE.]

Rüger, Jan. 27. At the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord MacMillan

the obvious Anglo-American iden-ciliation. but is now, described as tity of interest via a me the Inter" determined to uphold Americanbas agreed to act as chairman of national Settlement can now be rights."

translated into cooperative action. There are indications that the 1928.-H.29 sunk at Devenport Admittedly such co-operation was State Department is making over Dockyard; six lives lost. lacking in connection with the tures to Britain with a view, to 1931-Poseidon (British) rammed American Note to China and Japan eventual, joint action on a united by Chinese steamer Yuta 10 on Jan. 7, but the distinction befront, if necessary, according to the miles off Weihaiwei; 20: tween the issues "at- stake—Man. Herald Tribune, which also say ratings killed...

churia and Shanghal-is so sharp that instractions have been des that, Washington would "Bud"it dif, patched to the United States' Con- ficult to assign comfortable reasons sul-General at Shanghai, presum for Britain to deny co-operation of ably reflecting that the State which there is no secret it made Department's attitude is that arro- overtures to secure.

ed interference with the Interna- tions Bettlement by Japan ish- justified.

Foreign Lossis.

1923. Big Japanese submarine

lost on trial trip; 85 lost, 1923-03 (United States) sunk in Panama Canal Zone; 3

It is trustworthily indicated that drowned, 2 rescued after Washington desires Britain to 31 hours' confinement.

agree to simultaneous, diplomatic 1923-Explosion in 8.37 (United action, designed simultaneously to States); 3 killed and a in hold China to) sense the possible jured.

dangers which are impending and (IL- 1084.-Sebastiano Veneiro

lian) lost off Syracuse; 54 to withhold froes Japan any excuse

for blockade action,

"CONSEQUENCES IMPOS

SIBLE TO FORETELL " The Manchester Guardian, in a leading article says, that the pro ...icst.

tection of Japanese hives and pro- 1924.-43 (Japanese) sunk off There is no question of the imperty in Shanghai is a considerable, Sambo after collision with portance that Washington attaches undertaking, and it is difficult to battleship Tatsuta; all crew to London's decision.

bee how interference with the In

will be ternational Settlement avoided.

lost After signalling; U.S. WATCHING DEVELOP.

------ ́ ́ Quick „wear gasping.”

1925-8) (United other sunic.

off Narragansett in coll sion with steamer City of Rome; & lives lost. 1927-8.4 (Unite! States) rammed by Coastguardestroyer off Woodard, Mas, and sunk; 4 officers, 35. men lost.

"MENTS

NEW YORK, Jan 27

the committee to prepare the draft of a bill, or hill, to modify the Law relating to the Income Tax with the special aim of making the Law as intelligible to the taxpayer as the nature of legislation admits,

SEAMEN'S WAGES REDUCED

(Reuter's Special Service,).

LONDON, Jan, 28. Reductice of seamen's wages ware agreed upon to-day at a meet- ing of the Maritime Board in Lon- don. The reductions take effect from January 31, and include eighteen shillings monthly in the case of foreign-going vessels, six shillings weekly in the case of home trade vessels for sailors, firemen and the catering departmenta.

ALL QUIET AT DARTMOOR

{BRITISH WIRELESS" BREVICK"]

RIGBY, Jan.28.

The League Council in again having secret meetings by which it is hoped to permade Japan not United States" officials are to exacerbate the situation and

A Home Office statement says that anxiously watching developments | Chine not to press for further at Shanghai.

nction until the Commission of no further trouble has occurred at President Hoover discussed the Enquiry has reported, but probably Dartmoor Prinon since Sunday position with his; Cabinet and later (Continued on Page 5) morning.

morning.

It is rumoured that the troops are pursuing a campaign of loosing“ and are committing other terribie

AXCOases.

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The Japanese military mission as ́ Harbin is now in session. It is' than opinion that there will be fighting

A train from Chinchow, guard ed by Japanese troops, steamed into the station and stopped. The ban-to-morrow between the troops of“ dits immediately opened fire on the, the old and now Kirih Governments.

Colonel Doihara arrived this. more passengers, but none of them was hurt.

After the arrival of Japaness re- inforcements, including artillery: the bandits Bed. The train return- ed to Chinchow and proceeded to- day to Mukden...

...)

In the fighting which followed,ing having been appointed chief. two Japanese soldiers were killed of the Japanese Military Mission and two wounded.

FIGHTING NEAR KIRIN

Tokyo, Jan. Hostilities broke out at 0.40 am. between Ting "Chao's forces and Hsi Hsia's Kirin troops after al- tempts to reach a peaceful settle- mens had broken down, according to a Harbin's message to the Prest.

TROOPS MARCHING ON HARBIN

HARKIN, Jan. 20. Troops under General Hai Ha are marching on Harbin from the south-east, attacking from thres directions.

The hostile forces are now rr. ported to be within thirty kilome Eres of the Kirin capital and it is atated that their strength is appro: ximately 10,000 men, assisted by four bombing planes.

Tokyo, Jan. 27.

Chinese troops_shot_down^a Japanese seroplane which was. carrying out a reconnaissance figh near Harbin, The plane contained two omcials and while one was proceeding to Harbin to report the incident Chinese troops shot. down the' other.

Japanese Tolunteers from Harbin went to the scene, burn- Coditha ""plane: then, dat a land mins which, exploded when the Chinese went near resulting in: one being killed and thirty in- injured.

During the past twenty-four hours two Jabanasa, and... 15. Korgans have been killed · and four Japanese sad 10 Koreans, are missing as a result of the disturbances. ino Harbin.

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·JAPANESE 'PLANE

FIRED ON

TOKYO, Jan. 27. that a Japanese commercial plane, A message from Harbin states when about to land on the local. airport was fired on by Ting Chaos), troops.

Meanwhile, Aghting between Ting Chao and Esi Hsia is continuing and Japanese volunteers have been called out to afford protection to the Japanese colony,

SIR MILES LAMPSON GOES ON LEAVE

SEEN OFF BY LARGE CROWDS

(THROUGH REUTTE'S AGENCY.]

PEITING, Jan., 27. Sir Miles Lampson left for Eng and this morning. He was seen oft by large crowds.

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