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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1932.

WAR GAS NOT SO BAD.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

Poste Restante Correspondence.

Adamson Gilfillan & Co., Miss. AMERICAN GENERAL.

B. I. Allen, H. A. F. B. Archer, DEFENDS CHEMICAL, ARMY.C. A. Benoist, L. M. Beall, Dr. Norton H. Hare, Micky Bray, A

NEW CONSULAR INVOICES.

OFFICIAL CLARIFICATION OF DOUBTFUL POINTS..

THE MURDERED FOREIGNERS.

DISCOVERIES AS RESULT ·

„OF INQUIRIES,

Sianfu, Aug. 13.--Searching en quiries are being made as to the Ternvall-Ekvall tragedy. Lieuten

day.

The well into which the

HOUSES COLLAPSE.

AS A RESULT OF HEAVY.

LRAINS.

YOUNG BOY BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN DEBRIS.

The rains that fell almost incoa- ant Soule, of the American Logantly since Saturday night were not without the calamities naually panied by Major Todd of the attendant on such persistent down tion, arrived on August 10, accom C.I.F.R.C., and Mr. Leahy, of the pours for shortly before 6 p.m. motor company, Mr. G. Findlay terday, three houses at Yat Fu Stree in the red light" district Audrey came by air the following. at West Point collapsed, following

thrown was searched, but nothing (40) wore sent to the Government bodies were said to have been To Shing (50) and Cheng 'Leung""

a landslide. As a result two me,

found, though, the presence of Civil Hospital while a boy aged 14 canteen bottle and signs of blood, is believed to he still buried in the together with the fact that the well debris. The police and fire brigade this date of enforcement.

to indicate that the bodies had been collapse but owing to the fact that But for the benefit of those for- removed elsewhere, as was likely darkness had almost act in by the eiga merchants who need some time to happen.

time they set to work, coupled with system, it has been decided to Hu Chen, received the visitors and likely collapses, the casualty list to adapt themacives to the new The Provincial Chairman, Yang the danger threatened by further modify, provisionally, the clause as ambodied in Article IX.mittee.

final algo the local Famine Relief Com was not available up till a late hour of the Regulations to the follow-

Ha expressad great con- last night.

ing extent:

The National Government does

The next war will blot out great Bandman, E. Bolton, Primitivo Nanking, Aug. 23-In view of cities, say the prophets of doom. E. Cruz (0/0 3.3. Susan II.), G. the many inquiries recently re- These Jeremials stand in the L. Chitman, Lydia Tyau Chong,ceived regarding the regulations Rangoon, Aug. 2-The political market-place (or its modern equi-Chang Tso Run, Mrs. W. H. governing the issuance of consular correspondent of the Rangoun valent, the Sunday newspaper) Cameron, Tho Chinese Produce Ex-invoices

promulgated Times, on reading in the Rangoon and foresee death on the wings of port Corporation, C Chambers, National Government on June 13, by the Gazeite that a Social Democratic aeroplanes, raining down poison Dunhill & Cie. F. J. Depathy, Miss the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Party, sponsored by Tharrawaddy gases that will kill off the civil Dunham (with Mrs. Cecil Chester decins it necessary to clarify cer- UP, D Tun Gynw and U Ni had population, says Frank Thone inton), John Fink, James Goon, G. been formed, in which the policy" Science News Letter."

W. Greene, Mr. Paul Halemann, rent of these regulations.

tain pointa involved in the enforce- of the Bolsheviks was outlined as

All this is very fine for providing G. Hoeger, H. Jpland, M. E. the Tolicy of their party, inmedi-a shuddory thrill, he goes on, and Joshaa, 1st Lieut. John P. Ken- tione in question will be enforced In the Arst place, the reguls ately saw Tharrawaddy U Pu who to give you a nickel's worth of nedy (jr.), Rev, M. Kolbe, Eng. Y. anado a statement denying that he Sunday-morning reading. But are Ring, Elena Ley, Miss Lily Lee, September 1, 1938.

on the prescribed date, that is, had any Bolshevik inclinations,

|these direful things really going to H.E. McGowan, Jack Montz, R. He also said that he intended happen? He answers:

C. Macleay, Mme Macary, J. getting into communication with the ether two leaders to thresh outjats, emphatically and indignantly. A. J. Martin, A. T. Miendy, Mr. Goueral H. L. Gilchrist, Chief of K. Nishiyama, Mr. Wm, M. Pus- the Chemical War-fare Service, and tan (Representing D. Land & Co., Dr. H. E. Howe, editor of Indus. N.Y.), J. A. Poole, Mr. Bill Page, trial and Engineering Chemistry, A. D. Parizek, Phillips, Ltd., C. have turned a little cold, scientific R. Bennie (of N. Rhodesia), attention on the great gas bogey-Reichardt & Co., Charles Reubner, and he has vanished!

J. E. Ricketts, A. M. Reiter, Miss M. Solis, F. York Sloan, Mlle. N. Soares, George Tsamtsam Kopoulos, J. Townsend, Tribouillet, K. W. Triete, Miss M. Templeton, A., C. Wardley. J. C. Winzong, Basillio Ybos, John Zito,

the whole matter.

His statement is as follows: "I must confess extreme surprise at the imputation made in the Ran- goon Gurelle that I am sponsoring, along with U Tun Aung Gyaw and U Ni a party which has as one of its most important aims a specics of communalism, with which I am

at total variance.

During my long experience as a politician I have fought to obtain as naus advantages as I could nossibly derive for Burma and her people but by no stretch of the imagination can it be said that I have advocated a pooling of the productive wealth of the country.

1 also see that there is a clause in the English manifesto advocat- ing commercial discrimination to which I am opposed. entiroly disassociate myself from such views. When the manifesto, which was written in Burmese by a mem ber of our party, was sent to me I glanced through it hurriedly and, being assured. that it followed the lines of the policy previously onun- ciated by me, I signed it.

"Not declare soldiers, and chem- Moyna, L Milbergs, N. G. Majerat contemplate postponement af has been recently filled in, seemed were on the scene shortly after the

"In the first place, it is pointed out, there is no war gas that will penetrate any gas-mask or find its way into any gas-tight room ar dug-out. There is no gas cheap enough to be used for wiping out whole eities. :

Registered Articles. The gases that figure in all chemical combat plans of the pre- Misa Bakewall (e/o Miss Atkins, sent day are phosgene, mustard St. Stephen's Girls College), Chan gas, and lewisite.

None of them Ah Kai, China Machinery Supply will

pass through the soda-lime and Co., A. L. Dodge, Mona. Phil. charcoal of gas-mask; indeed, Droun, P. de Flandor, Mr. H., G. none of them, will come in through Freeman (jr.), Measrs, K. Hassaram the cracks round a reasonably & Co., Hui Yu Wai, Robert Hawso tight window.

(efo American Consul), Mrs. Nell Hill, Burwun Khan (c/o Bahas

With the coming into general

12.

corn 'over the matter and said that til a few days ago, he know no thing whatever about it, a state-

A Two-Ton Boulder,

A Daily Press representative visited the scene but thoro was

(A). Consignees, of cargo ship ped during September and Octo ber and not covered by consularment which we believe to be true. nothing much to be seen with the invoice must pay to the Chinese It seems fairly certain now that exception of a huge pile of debris. Customs the certification fee of the crime was committed by soldi- Information was not very readily five gold units for the issue of a

ers acting under the orders of available but from scraps of stories set of consular invoices by the Customs irrespective of the date someone whose motive was robbery. vicinity, it was learned that the gathered from the people in the

of arrival,

Word must have come from the first sign that there was anything (B). Consignees of cargo ship-northwest that so much money was lowed by a still bigger noise not amiss was a rumbling noiso, fol- ped during November and De being brought down and it may unlike cember and not covered by con-

a thunder-clop. Feopla sular invoice must pay to the have come from some one who hay-rushing out of doors first saw ona Chinese Customs to gold units ing bought cars were irritated at great sheet of dust and by the time for the issue of a set of consular being expected to pay for them. huge pile of bricks and loose earth this had cleared, the spectacle of a invoices by the Customs irrespec- Mr. Ekvall's ear, of course, tive of the date of arrival.

was greeted their oyes. Closer examina- tion revealed a huge boulder weigh- ing something in the neighbour- hood of two tens buried in the debris. Housos No. 16 and 17 col lapsoit completely while a part of No. 12 had also fallen in.

(C). Consignees of cargo ship. ped on or after January 1, 1933 and not covered by consular in voice must pay to the Chinese Customs according to the pro visions of Article IX. Le., fifteen gold units for the issue of a set

taken and has not yet been found. The representative of the Ameri- can Minister is making the follow. ing demands

1

1-Production of the bodies; 2- Punishment of the offenders; 3 of consular invoica by the Cats-Reparations; 4-Promise of pro

toms.

Adequate Machinery.

Boy Still Under?

The alarm was promptly given and soon the police and fire brigade

Ac-

use of air-conditioning plants, we Saheb), Mons. Georges Lyun, K. From the English translation shall see an entirely new style in W. Law, Mee Fong Hong, Nan which was published to-day and architecture: buildings with win- which I never saw before, I find dows not built to open at all; or, Raymond and Dorothy, Miss M. Q. that, unwittingly, I have attested perhaps, even with no windows. Wong (c/o Mark Sui Ying), T. H.

tection for the lives of foreigners. my signature to the above aima And it will be a relatively simple Yin.

There are peculiar elements of which are contrary to my policy the air-conditioning apparatus."

Unpaid Correspondence.

aruelty, treachery and ingratitude were working hard to extricate In the second place, Chin main-possible to have taken the money hover women, believed to be inmates

in this affair. It would have been those buried in the debris. Miss Jane Baptiste, Roy, S. Camer-tains Consular offices in most of and let the men go. It is said that of the honges" were extricated cording to one of the workers, man, Diethelin & Co Mons, the principal commercial cities of there was hesitation both about almost uninjured while two men.

phate, Val. Mossep.

Chinese, but finally they decided to were sent to hospital.

and because I do not desire to be misunderstood I am compelled to inake this statement, not only in my own interests but also in the interest of members of our party and the paper Naw Ra Hta.

matter to add a detoxicator to

Man A Town's Chance, ·

population should be caught in the But suppose a large pan of the

Darkness hindered the rescue

The undermentioned undeliver the world. There is provided ade. shooting Mr. Tornvall and the My pressut aim is to obtain the open. Suppose an air fleet should able registered articles are lying inquate machinery to handle the cer- remove all witnesses. A foreign ladygang.from further operations whils separation of Burma from India. put down a blanket of phosgene or the Returned Letter Office, General tification of consular invoices. New in the West Suburb heard the four they were also endangered by the The Burmane desire it and I intend mustard gas, Would the rescue to do my level best in the forth-parties Gnd them all corpses? We coming election to light for its are told:

"For answer, General Gilchrist

causé I do not desire to be a party points to casualty records of the to manifestoes which, in the light A..F. in the World War. Of the of their language, must produce sensation and be regarded as a poli-453,338 wounded in battle, 34,240 tical stunt. Such aims, needless to say, can never be put into practice. I have stated at the Conference

died on the battle-field. Of this number, only 200 deaths were duo to gas. The percentage of deaths

Post Office, and will be returned to the senders on production of the certificate of posting.

to

to

10.2.32,

1311,31,

to

to

Shanghai.

Hong Kong 130, date 7.3.32,

Hong Kong 5854. 0.4.35, Shanghai.

Hong Kong 131c, Shanghai.

Shoungwan 20070, among the hospitalised gas casual- in London, as also in Burma, reties was 1.73; among the wounded Oakland, Call. peatedly, that the minority inter from other causes the death rate ents are quite safe in my hands-was slightly over 8 per cent.

Wantsai 500, 4,4.32, to Shanghai, my policy is to be fair to all."

Wantsai 103, 30.1.32, to Fecchow, "The fact is that a modern The above statement is signed by American city is & far better place

Hong Kong ĐƯỢC 4.4.32, Manila, P.L. Tharrawaddy U Pu..

Hong Kong 103A, We cannot pass the episode (says in which to face a gas raid from the Rangoon Times) without_com-

the air than a comparable area at

Trinidad. the front would be ment on the carelessness of Thar-

To be effec-

rawaddy U Pu in signing the manifesto originally referred to a all, and the further slipshod man- ADVICE TO SUICIDES ner of its publication in his news

BETTER AND BRIGHTER

SLOGANS ON SUMA BEACH.

slogan.

paper.

One would think that duty to country, to party and to self would prompt the most careful reading and revision of any such state ments broadensted to a mainly credulous and trusting public.

NEW STRAITS $1 NOTES

TO BE ISSUED......

PANEL WATERMARK OF.

TIGER'S HEAD;

tive, a military gas must hug the ground. If more than twenty Teet thick, the gas is too diffuse to have any effect. If a 'plane raid should begin showering a city with gas, the alarin ery might well be, To the sky scrapers 1

to

7.3.32, to

from

shots that ended these lives and fact that house No. 10 was in a very Consulates are being established in

wondered at the time why they threatening condition. When they Great Britain, the United States, wore shooting so near the city abandoned work it was thought France, Japan' and other coun. Then again the murder seems to that a boy aged 14 was still buried tries; and in future more Consular have been committed by some of in the debris, offices will be opened whenever upon whom foreigners roly for pro not available up till the time of those responsible for law and order The official list of casualties was and whether it is found necessary.tection in this unsettled land, in going to press but it is believed In the third place, in order to killing Mr. Tornvall also the that the total is in the vicinity of struck down an agent of the Fami- give further facilities to foreign ins Relief Commission which has

a dozen or soi

The work of cleaning up the merchants, it has been decided to brought great sums of money and give any and every Chinese Con. wrought, lasting benefits for the debris will be continued this morn-

people of Shensi. sulate abroad the authority to certify consular invoices instead of limiting it to the Consulate at the port of shipment as provided in the regulations. Besides, arrangements have already been made with the Chinese Consulates abroad to allow

Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. Gickie, from Amoy; 6513 7642 106670 2670 9651, etc., from from Nanuing: 1122, from Swatow; 4009,

Hankow; Chankwanchiu morchants to obtain beforehand Amusements, from Shanghai; blank invoicos in quantities enough

Wardley, Dunnett Care

to last for a ressonable period of time so that merchants may fill in the items in the invoices in their own offices and rend them to the nearest Chinese Consulate for cer tification from time to time

tall buildinge greatly reduce the Chicago.

Again, Mr. Thone believes that chances of gasbombs falling in the streets, Bombs scattering their contents on roofs would be largely wasted. Moreover, bombs dropped. from 'planes follow an oblique course. Many of them would dash against the aides of the buildings, and would have a much-diminished effect. He goes on:

BRAVERY OF FORMER S.S. SURVEYOR.

AWARD.

The cholera seems to have reach. ed the peak in the city and people fare dying at the rate of в hundred

day. Thousands have been in- occulated against it, the streets are well dusted with lime, and we hope the epidemic will soon begin to die down.

WHEN SAILORS WERE TOUGH.

EX-POWDER MONKEY ON THE

NAVY 80 YEARS AGO...

ing.

SCHOOL FEES.

MILL HILL'S HELP FOR PARENTS.

The first public school in Eng- land to inaugurate a system of fees by instalments is Mill Hill School, N.W.

The scheme was announced by Mr. Harbert Markham, vice-chairman uf, the governors of the school as Foundation Day,

The parents of some of the boys, he anid, wore feeling the national

Suma is almost as famous for suicides as for its fine scenery. For: many years notice boards with the words Wait a Moment "· have

In the fourth place, Chinese con- been planted along the seashore in

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S sular officers abroad have been in-grocer is the life of Mr. John had accordingly inaugurated the From "powder monkey" to crisis acutely, and the governors. an attempt to make intending sui-

"The purpose of a gas projectile

structed to perform their duties of Chapman, a 3-year-old veteran of instalment system without charg. cides reconsider their intentions

is to deliver the gas; so us a rule

certification with due efficiency and the Crimean War who now lives ing any interest, for overdue pay- Realising that few people bent on

only enough explosive is included

near Canterbury. Mr. Chapman menta: www to break the casing, and scatter the London, July 31.-The Royal care. Prompt service is strongly sailed the seas when flogging and Mr. M. L. Jacks, the headmaster, selfdestruction are restrained by this reminder, the local welfare Commissioners will issue a 81 note can strengthen their lower-story vellum certificate, awarded in conformation contained in the con

In the near future the Currency contents. And prospective victims Humane Society has presented it emphasized; secrecy of the in-cantion balls were in vogue, when said that it was impossible sub- a sailor had to be tough. He thinks stantially to cheapen the cost of committee has conceived the idea of of an entirely new design manu- windows in various ways,

squizon are pampered now.

public school education without factured by

nection with life saving from sular invoice is particularly enjoin- Mecars. Brudbury"But most effective of all the drowning to Mr. R. L. Rutherford,

"They coddle the chaps in the cheapening its quality. A radue electing more efficacious slogans. Wilkinson Co., Ltd., England. city's gas defenses in its irregular retired

It invited the public to suggest The now note is printed on white sky-line. Likes mountain-range returned from the Straits Settle tection in the interests of foreign yam, lived for over a year on lower level of education. That was surveyor who recently ed. As a further measure of pro- Navy nowadays," said Mr. Chuption of fees might lead to a cur

man in spinning an old sailor's tailment of staff, and possibly to a the paper and is similar in size to the bersected with narrow canyons it ments, and is now living at 65, merchants, it has been definitely the B.M.B., Furious during the the last fort to be surrendered. some good substitutes for

size to the "existing 81 note.

is the scene of constantly swirling Tregunter Rond, Kensington. threadbare. Wait a Moment !"

The colour scheme of the face of air-currents. If a cloud of gas Mr. Rutherford, who in 56, made decided not to appoint Honorary siege of Sebastopol on salt meat, The fees at Mill Hill are. £100 & Here are some of the the new note is bluish-grey with a slogans suggested by the public plate of variegated colours in the the wind would sweep it out in very year-old Chelsea schoolboy, bo certify consular invoices so that vegetables, and lime juice was of; other public schools on the plan

were, released into those canyons, a brave attempt to rescue à seven-Merchant Consula to issue and ship's biscuit, and duff "!' pud year. Mo

ding. We never saw any fruit or Among the, viswa of headmaster centre and the distinctive feature short order. Don't ary; dont worry, don't is a portrait of King George V.

when playing on some steps near Any way, why waste time and Battereen Bridge, fell into the secret information in ons The colour scheme of the back. is ammunition on civil population? Thames and was carried under the may not be divulged to competing 2-There's a paradise in this blus and an effigy of Britannia and In London there were 1,413 civilians bridge.

merchants of the same trade. World of worry..

jungle scene with a picture of a killed and 3,408 wounded, and the

Mr. Rutherford, who was on -Stop! Come to the welfare tiger in the foreground are shown. industrial morale possibly damaged Chelsea Embankment, hearing a

Instructions to Consuls, An important feature of the now somewhat. But it cost the wreck about, looked over the wall and saw committee for advice.

issue is a panel watermark ropre ing of 20 Zeppeline and 41 big the boy's face in the water. He

Finally, it should be emphasized 4-Abandon death, not life! senting a tiger's head on the left bombing, planes, the detonation of jumped into the river, fully clad, that the introduction of the system 5.-You were not born to kill hand side of the note.

230 tons of bombs, and the time of and attempted to reach the child of consular certification will in non month Mr. Chapman sailed on Canon W. R. Dawson, Brighton. yourself.

The new issue is numbered in two a lot of highly trained fighting but failed, There was a strong way Empedo foreign trade. The the Furious as a "powder monkey' College: We have had reposted in- places only, the top right hand men. 6.-Take advice, rather than in corner and the bottom left hand calated that each London civilian ford is only a moderate swimmers of America and other countries cannon balls. The ship carried payments In view of the present General Gilchrist har calebb tide running, and Mr. Ruther experiences of the United States-elping to feed the guns with quiries from parents for deferred dulge in melancholy medita corner, and bears only the facsimile killed by the German air raids cost and the nearest point at which he tend to show that the system of fifteen 32-pounder guns and one 60. Bnancial stress. So far, however, tion !

of the Treasurer's signature on be- the German Government 827,000 could have landed was about 80 certification will prove benabcial pounder. She was a wooden ship, no defuite scheme has been put for 7.-Be back! Human sympathy half of the Currency Commis-

"Furthermore, the psychologica! yards away.

to those engaged in foreign com equipped with paddles and a full ward, although where a parent has is deeper than the sea. 1: Bioners.

cffect was a boomerang. Instead of Mr. Hutherford became exhaust merce as well as to the Govern. rig of sail Her highest speed, asked for a postponed payment we 8-Life is better than fame and The first series of the now notse being thrown into a panic, theed and had himself to be rescued, ment enforcing the system. It is with full sail, and paddles work have met him.

money

are all dated January 1, 1931, Buglish were made fighting mad by means of a lifebuoy to which hoped that, all commercial estab-ing, was nine knots,

I think it will be found that all- Notes on the existing design will Soit is highly likely that unless he clung until picked up by a lishments and individuals concerned But in 1857 Mr. Chapman had schools are prepared – to assist. 9.-Live, and live strongly and continue in circulation side by side somebody does really discover one motor boat. He was afterwards will give full co-operation to the enough of the sea and decided to parents. At the same time, th

cheerfully!

with the new type, but will be of those highly improbable scoret detained in hospital for some Chinese Government in the enforce become a grocer instead. He sold schools cannot afford to go too far, 10.-Think better of it at the last gradually withdrawn as oppor gases, chemical warfare is likely hours, suffering from the effects of ment of the Regulation for Con groceries in the same shop at Rams otherwise they may get into di

moment!"

tunity offers.,

to stay at the front..

aular Invoices. --Kuo Min.

gate for 45 yEATE

eulty with their own finances

his

de

given us to prevent scurvy. Wo us- ad to call the meat mahogany. Mr. J. F. Roxburgh, Stowa:: The They were very fond of flogging scheme sounds as good a mova as I in those days and I often saw fel have yet heard for meeting these lows get as strokes of the cat from difficult times, but if the plan were the boatswain's mate and then be adopted by all parents it would put in irons for getting drunk.prove very costly to the school com.

For a salary of eighteen shillings corned,