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HAIL STORMS SWEEP OVER EUROPE
Attended By Terrific Cloudbursts
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Berlin, July 33.
and hail
Terrific cloud bursts storms swept over Europe and England causing heavy damage everywhere,
Following the record breaking neat wave. the vine-growing" dis- tricts of the Rhineland were in- undated by sudden downpours while half storms devasted a large part of the Vineyards,
Warsaw is seriously threatened by the rapidly rising river: Vistula, while reports from Cracow and other parts of Galicia state that vast areas are completely devasted. Cloudbursts and hall storms are also reported from Northern Italy especially Milan,
Numerous highways in the South and South West of Loiden have been transformed into veritable Ilvers by sudden rainstorms.— Transocean Kou Min.
DAMAGE IN FRANCE
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Press" (Copyright.)]
Paris, July 23.
The thunderstorm that wrought hävoč in the capital and other parts of France is said to have caused damage estimated at, twelve "million francs.
The famous." vineyards around Bordeaux are especially affected where the cyclone damaged the entire crop. Fire, was set to several houses by the thunderclap in the Toulouse region-Transocean Kuo Min,
POLAND'S CATASTROPHE
Warsaw, July 23.
The floods" of the past few days have been truly catastrophic, be- tween 500 to 600 persons having perished, while the damage totals £50,000,000.
There is an alarming possibility of an epidemic of typhus in the
whole of South. Poland. Millions of small farmers have been ruined.
The Vistula River is still rising and thousands are lining the banks watching" the ficating wreckage of homes and wonder- ing whether the levees will hold and save Warsaw itself.
FLOODS IN KOREA
Ten Small Towns Inundated
Tokyo, July 23, Fears of heavy loss of We in south-east Kores on account of the overflow of the Rakuto River tributaries, caused by a persistent deluge in the past week, are en- hanced by ten small towns which. have suffered inundations.
A hundred thousand persons are affected. Many have taken refuge on the hillsides, while others are marooned on embankments cut off by the floods.
Two hundred rescue boats have been sent by the authorities with a supply of food
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Twenty-five thousand people are destitute. Reuter,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934.
AMERICAN NAVY
Building to Full Strength
QUOTAS IN CEYLON
GOLD STANDARD
RETENTION
Mr. Goonesinghe's Challenge
Colomico, July 23.
A complete boycott of British
Disastrous Effect · In France
New York, July 22. The building of the" United States Navy up to full treaty
Landon, July 23. strength within three or four
The general economic pressure years, was promised by President goods, is the only effective weapon on gold bloc remains intense as is Roosevelt in a talk with the crew | If a quota is imposed on Ceylon, evidenced by the large loss of the cruiser Rouston, to-day said Mr. Goonesinghe, leader of sustained by the Hotel Continen- Reuter.
the Labour" Party in the State tal which is well-known to visitors Council, in addressing a meeting to Parts, the chairman stating that the world monetary situation of the Ceylon Mercantle Union.
was disastrous to the French hotel He said that in this time of de-
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NEW PLANES
Washington, July 32,
A recommendation to Congress to
Army Air Corps funds necessary
JOHN DILLINGER MEETS HIS DOOM
Shot Dead As He Whips
Out An Automatic
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Berlin, July 23. unconfirmed despatch re-
An
TURKEY
Lose Means Of Livelihood
American bandil, John Dillager, "America's Public Enemy No. 1", has been shot dead by the police in front of the Blogra Theatre in the northern quarter of Chicago. į (Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
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Press" (flanuraght.)] "MANHATTAN MELODRAMA"
appropriate for the United States pression cheap Japanese goods are industry as the retention of the ceived here says that the notorious" a great boon to the poor people gold standard led France into to purchase. 1,000 new "planes in in Ceylon and no local industries becoming the dearest country to order to give the Army a minimum are endangered by the innur live L
Furthermore, twelve textile rellis peace time air force of 2.330-Reuter. planes, is made in the report of “CHIN CHIN CEYLON MAN" In Roubaix and Tourcoing are the War Department's Special The office boy got hold of the closing down owing to an insuffi- Aviation Committee.-Reuter telegram and was doing his best ciency of orders mainly due to the to make it "read_sense." We re- German exchange restrictions and produce his version of it:--
1,000 operators are thereby unem- ployed.
HEAT WAVE IN
AMERICA
"Makee chop-chop Biftish goods no wanchee blong good. fightee In view of these and other dim. quota Ceylon side, smart man culties, opinion is growing
that Goonsinghe he talkee. Also he the gold standard 153 untenable blong No. 1 man Labour Partee. and despite repeated denials by but not alla same tea party.
the Governments concerned, City
Chicago. July 23.
London, Jaly. 23.
• More слад five thousand foreigners residing in Turkey are said to have lost their means of livelihood as a result of the new: anti-foreign legislation, according to a "Daily Telegraph" message. from Instanbul.
The Department of Justice has announced that John Dillinger America's Public Enemy No. 1 was shot dead outside a north side theatre.
Dillinger was killed after watch ing a film entitled "Manhattan .an abandonment.- Melodrama," portraying the deeds
of gangsters of the underworld.
Government agents were inform-- that Dillinger was la the theatre and lay in wait for 2ed are two thousand Greeks and Among the, Ave' thimsand affect--
Death Roll Mounts He talkee Ship man club just circles are not ruling out the pos-
to 235
New York, July 23. The death roll in the heat-wave in the United States is now 235. There is no prospect of an im- mediate break in the weather.
The loss of crops in the middle-·| west and south-west 'States is
TRAGIC END TO estimated at hundreds of dollars,
"HOLIDAY
Bus Passengers Incinerated
New York, July 23. Ten people were killed and 20 injured when a bus, filled with 40 New York trippers. overturned yesterday at Ossining.
ball match at Sing Sing Prison, The bus, returning from a base - toppled into a timber yard and caught fire. Most of the victims. were incinerated, while some pas- sengers, with their clothes ablaze, plunged into the nearby Hudson Rivet.
The flames spread through the timber yard, which was completely gutted. Thie estimated lass is *150.000.-Reuter.
BUS COMPANY CRITICISED
New York, July 23. The death, roll in the bus "disas- ter is now sixteen
Normally, the Vistula is a mere bare 200 yards wide but, follow-criticised the Bus Company and The District Attorney severely Ing torrential rains, has become a declared the buses were a bunch turgid mass half a mille across, of junk that add to death con- hurling down to the sea Small
traptions." He ordered four buses islands of sand and sheaves of
to be seized by police pending wheat are being swept along In
investigation.-Reuter. the raging waters.
A Reuter correspondent yester- day caught a glimpse of a dead child with an ashen face appear- ing wraith-like above the murky swell of the waters.-Reuter.
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BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE
Keen Interest
Debate
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London, July 23.
while the losses are expected to increase daily.
The thermometer
at St. Louis
on Saturday soared to 113 degrees in the shade. Reuter.
дот Do
of money: Japanese goods albliity blong velly cheap, all man likee. [Renter. Poor man Ceylon side no money, he "no can buy high things, also Ceylon goods no can suffer. My thinkee he dam foolo.”
OBJECTION TO QUOTAS
Reasons Adduced In Ceylon
The Hony, Secretary of the In-
CANTON NEWS diar. Mercantile Chamber of Cey-
AND NOTES
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Judge Wang's Visit
From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, July 23. There is a mistaken belief in certain quarters that Judge Wang Chung Hui of the Permanent Court of International Justice. is here to bring about co-operation between Canton and Nanking. be eause it is thought that he is re presenting the Nanking Govern- ment at The Hague.
of
This belief is unfounded. Dr. Wang has no connection with the
appointed judge present regime in Nanking. He is Court entirely on his legal merits, the World
being the translator Into English of the German Civil Code. His works drew international recogni tion
lon, in the course of a letter ad- dressed to the Chairman of the Board of Ministers, regarding the proposed quota system for textile imports, writes:-
SILVER MARKET
ed
hours. As he emerged, wearing a From Our Own Correspondent.i white shirt and grey trousers, ac
companied by two women, they London, July 23, London, silver prices to-day were immediately opened are. Dilling down one-eighth, as follow:-
er fell mortally wounded,, "one July 21 July 23 bullet having entered his head just Spot
20.5/16 20.3/16 below the eye, and another his Forward ... 20.7/16
20.5/18 heart, The London of New York cross- One woman was slightly wound- rate at 2.00 p.m. to-day was ed, but both jumped into a taxi 5.04-3/18, compared with 5:04-7/16 | and escaped. at closing, on Saturday,
DAVIS CUP MATCH
Crawford Beaten in Doubles
London, July 23,
APPOINTMENTS IN CANTON
Two Officers Installed
When the news was flashed to Washington the Attorney-General, Mr. Homer S Cummings smiled elatedly and described the-des- perado's end as gratifying and reassuring. He paid a waim` tri- bute to the Chicago police.-Reu- ter
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
Tailors, barbers, guides, taxi drivers, hatters, shoe - makers, musicians and variety artists are-- henceforth barred to" practice their professions in Turkey.
one thousand Italians." Handreds " of men daily besiege thetr free passages home. respective consulates,' demanding
Those who have savings enanot take them away since export of - "capital" is prohibited under the new law.
The Daily Telegraph" further reports that the new anti-alien, bull in future will be applied to several other professions whereby, approximately 18,000 foreigners will be affected-Transocean Kuo Min
"CONSULATES BESIEGED
Istanbul, July 23.
Under the law, the first group
waree
TANGKU AGREEMENT
Sino-Japanese Meeting
"I found on examination at the mortuary that Dillinger was much
Dairen, July 23. stouter. He had grown a moust- Mr. Yin Tang has arrived here
and kád che
plucked eye- from Shanghai and will meet Mr. brows. In the centre of his chest Bhibayama who is now hurrying was the mark of a bullet wound here from Changchun, where he recently healed. When the agents discussed the Tangku Agreement.
A number of Consulate iza Turkey are besieged by foreigners demanding free repatriation fal- "My committee feels that the
Chicago. July 23. lowing the application of the law proposed quota-system which is
An eyewitness states: "Fiteen forbidding foreigners to act evidently intended to restrict the
Federal agents were stationed chauffeurs, guides, hairdressers. imports of cotton and rayon tex-
round the cinema Dillinger was tailors, shoemakers, musicians and tiles from Japan, is likely to prove
apparently one of a small party. variety artista beneficial neither to the consumers Australia received a surprise in | A couple of men were immediately, of the Island nor to a large num- the Davis Cup matches at Wim- behind him. He emerged from 800 persons, with families tots bers of members of my Chamber, bledon to-day when their favourite the theatre with a hunted looking 5,000, were forced to abandhu who are engaged in the import Jack Crawford and Quist were When
he sensed danger he work yesterday' marning. trade. My Chamber is, no doubt, beaten in the doubles by the savagely 'whipped out an automa- fully conscious of the fact that American pair, George Lott and tic from his pocket and had half be similarly affected shortly.-
other groups, totalling 18,000 win
the textile industry of Japan has Lester Stoeffen. made serious inroads into the
raised it when the agents of the Reuter. The Americans won 6-4, 6-4, 2-6. Department of Justice opened fire: markets of the Empire, and manu- 6-4-Reuter,
“Dillinger fell on his face in the facturers and industrial concerns
alley. Then I saw a woman with all over the Empire have been
her dress pulled up" and blood practically paralysed by the keen competition of Japan.
streaming from the knee." She fell | Despite
in front of a shoe shop. this fact, my Committee respect- the steady decline in the purchas fully wishes to point out that with
ing power of the. average сод- sumer in the Island, who has been hit hard by the ever-accelerating. trade depression, the low-priced Japan textiles have given him (From Our Special Correspondent) | tried to get finger, prints they It is learned that the Kwantung considerable relief. My Committee
Canton, July 23. found them eaten away probably | Army will not parley with" „Mr. without going into the details of Messrs. Huang Lun Shu and Ho | by acid-Reuter. the various economic aspects of Kai Lal this morning assumed this subject desires to submit that their respective posts of provincia: it does not, favour the proposed commissioner of education and re- quota system now under contem-construction. The instalment cere- Mr. Purvis, Chief Federal Agent plation of the Government and mony took place at the auditorium in Chicago, learned on Saturday of the Hwangtung Provincial Gov-night from a secret source that Hong Kong-Swatow Telephone
To Mitigate Hardships
ernment, immediately after the Dillinger was attending a movie It is reported that the telephone
"Assuming, however, that the weekly memorial service.
the following evening. He ar- administration in Swatow wishes quota system which has found an Mr. Huang, Lun Shu.. an execu- ranged to surround the cinema Hankow, July 23, to build a trunk line linking with overwhelming sympathy of the tire member of the Provincial and was actually watching in aed. Mr. Purvis had hoped to take The Yangtze Rapid steamer Hong Kong on the same arrange- Secretary of State, would be placed Kuomintang, has been an adher- motor car nearby when Dillinger him alive, but was afraid he would Chichuen yesterday ran aground on
ment as the Canton-Hong Kong on the Statute Book, my Commit-ent of General Chan Tsat Tong bought a ticket. He waited till resist to the last rocks 132 miles above Ithang with long distance telephone. The Hong tee earnestly desires your Board to for many years. A graduate of Dillinger came out and passed the He added that a scar on six feet of water in the hold." Kong Telephone Company will be give due consideration to the fol- the defunct High Normal School car, and then signalled to the men Dillinger's face, which was one of The vessel fan is hurrying to upproached to take up this matter, lowing suggestions, which, if given here, Mr. Huang has been a keen who closed in from all aldes the identifying marka, had” beeni her rescue from Chungking. The The authorities here once sug-
effect to will to a certain extent student of education and has form-
Dillinger gave a hunted look removed by plastic surgery, U.S.S. Panay is standing "br-gested the use of radio-telephone, go to mitigate the hardships that ed many plans for the improve, and tried to run up the alley where Mr. Purvis denied that Dillinger Reuter.
but this is not satisfactory. The the importers and consumers are ment or provincial schools. For a several of Mr. Purvis men were was accompanied by any women. Canton-Swatow wireless telephone likely to be put to by the adoption time, Mr. Huang was publisher of waiting. As he ran he drew his Thousands immediately gathered the Man Kwok Yat Po. official automatic, but as the hand was in the street, while some morbid is often subject to interference by of the proposed scheme. station. static and wave lengths of other
“(1) That all bona fide orders daily of the Provincial Kuomin-about to come up. several shots persons dipped handkerchiefy and that may be proved to the entire tang and the First Group Army, were fired before he could pull the newspapers in the blood on tie, satisfaction of the Principal Col- The former holder of this office. trigger. He fell mortally wound-pavement.Renter, lector of Customs as having been Mr. Hsieh Ying Chow, is promoted the 8th May, 1934, should be tung High Count. A close friend booked or accepted on or before to be 'Chief Justice of the Kwanz- exempt from the quota for the of Mr. Hu Han Min, Mr. Hsieh is
S.S. CHICHUEN AGROUND
Vessel Hurrying to Scene
To-day's debate in the House of GERMANY AND
Lords on strengthening Britain's
air force, details of which were outlined by Mr. Stanley Baldwin' last Thursday, is awaited with the keenest.. Interest and
ts looked
ITALY
upon as a very important prelude Break In Relations
to the Commons debate which ia
to take place a week later.
.
Ridiculed
It is also groundless" as regards the offer of a foreign affairs post to Dr. Wang in Canton following the death of Dr. C. C. Wu and Mr. Chu Shao Hain. The South-west is not an independent" state and all foreign issues concerning Can- ton are handled by the Canton Municipal Government.
Tax For Aerial Defence The Aerial Defence Committee is given permission by the provincial authorities to levy a tax on rolled obacco in order to provide
$1.5000,000 for the purchase of
weapons for air defence. This tax ill be effective on August 1, ai though the rate is not yet an- nounced."
your Board of Ministera
year 1934.
pro-
a lawyer by profession. (2) That the quota to be Mr. Ho Kai Laf the new allotted to Japan should adequate to the needs of the is retining his post as secretary bevinciel spinmissioner of education. poorer population of the Island general of the Kwangtung Provia- and it should be so fixed as to cal Government. He succeeds Mr. cause the least dislocation of Lin Yàn Kal, who is also Chairman. trade and business of the Island of the provincial government and
(3) The no restriction be a relative of Mr. Ho, placed on the importation of cot- Both Messrs. Huang and Hoare ton crepe-and cotton striped drills ex-officio committee members of from Japan because (a) Japan is the Provincial Government. As the only supplier of this class of there are too many committee goods, which United Kingdom members Mr. Hau Hsung Ching s cannot supply then, (b). Of the mopped out as one of the members. cotton goods imported from Japan za was informed of the change too these are most, in demand by the life and did not send his resigna poorer sections and are necesary war early enough, hence he is re- for their needs; and (c) The leved of his duties NWOR being smuggled outside of Kwang supply of this class of goods by There is no political significance túng, and this hurts the provin Japan dates back to well. cial notes. Smugglers are severely fifteen years, and therefore,
in the shuffling of posts. TEL new education commissioner, it is punished for exporting these coins importation cannot be taken sa said, "will" devote more time in while informers will be rewarded due to the dumping competition planning courses in Confucian 80 per cent. of the amount seised. I decently commenced by Japan,” classics for the provinc.ai shools.
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Lord Ponsonby will open the de- bate at the House of Lords to-day. He tabled a vote of censure
¿Rome, July 23. against the Government on the The reports that Italy is on the f
The Ten-Men League is also grounds that their policy was not
verge of breaking with Germany engaged in raising funds for the calculated to afford the country owing to the continuance of ter- same purpose. Money realised greater security, but rather it is rorism in Austria which have from taxes and contributions will calculated to jeopardise world arisen the result of Signor be used to buy pursuit planes, Virgnio Gardas' slashing article in anti-aircraft guns, sound detectors peace.
The Press anticipates that the the Fascist organ, "Giornale search lights, fire fighting and dug Government will also be criticised † d'Itall” are ridiculed in political | outs, equipment, etc. in the Tory quarters - where the quarters.
Embargo On Silver view is said to prevail that the "It is pointed out that all Signor | Export of allver coins is limited increase of the force should be Mussolint might conceivably do is to $20 for each person for one executed quicker than scheduled. to consult other Powers with a time. and silver bars cannot be It is said that the attitude of view to a joint représentation to exported at all. Silver coins are the Conservatives largely depends | Berlin.
the statement which Lord Duce is unlikely to act before Londonderry will make to-day. he has seen Chancellor Dollfuss They will fix their standpoint to of Austria, a Riccione during the morrow as a special meeting-week-end. it was stated on Satur- Transocean Kno Min.
day-Reuter.
SECRET INFORMATION
Chicago, July-23:
Yin Tung If his mission is to seek the cancellation of the Tangku Agreement which the Japanese claim the Chinese are not carry- ing out
The Japanese, will probably reter him to Manchukuo-Reuter.
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