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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA.

GERMANY WARNED.

ECONOMY ESSENTIAL.

MUCH DAMAGE IN EASTERN STATES.

Reservoir Collapses.

New York, Nov. 5. Northern and western New England are devastated by floods due to the swollen rivers burat ing their banks.

THE LEAGUE,

1927.

MR. RONALD MCNEILL ON HIS

NEW OFFICE...

London, Nov. 5.

SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.

135 WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED.

Shanghal, Nov. 5.

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Berlin, Nov. 6n A Bovere warning to Germany is contained in a memorandum by Mr. Ronald McNéill · (Lord Mr. Parker Gilbert, the

A meeting of 500 Chinese Agent Cushenden) made, at Canterbury female filature workers, who had General for Reparations, the text last night, his first speech since congregated in a cinema of which is now published. The his promotion to the Cabinet He Chapel this afternoon for the pur- memorandum declares that if pre- anid the most important duties of pose of inaugurating a sent tendencies are unchecked the his new office would be in conLabour Union, had a disastrous. consequences are almost certain to nexion with the League of Na-tormination when the building be serious economic reaction and tions. That would involve a very collapsed as the audience stood depression and severe shock to heavy responsibility, but on the up to applaud the election of German credit at home and abroad. other hand if it should enable him officers.

The remedy It explains, consists to contribute even in a fractional of primarily in reversing the ten-degree to banishing the menace dencies toward over-spending and of future war and making peace

The fatalities number 135 women and children, whilst about

The most serious disaster is reported from, Montpeller, the capital of the State of Vermont, in consequence of the collapse of a large reservoir. The death roll town is isolated and communica- principles of strict economy and Is estimated to exceed 100, but the over-borrowing and; applying the more durable and secure, that 200 are seriously injured. tions with outside are impossible. ordered public finance. It stresses Two telephone girls from Mont- the point that the Finance Minis- pelier who arrived at the White ter's actions contravene the policy River Junction state that the laid down in his speeches and water was running ten feet day in that if the German Government the principal street when they acts promptly has the departed.

Other places are also flooded, and millions of dollars worth of damage, has occurred. Several persons have been drowned. Hundreds fled to high ground,

Power plants are crippled and train communication with Canada is interrupted.

·

The village of Becket; in Masan chusetts, was washed away by a dum break, but owing to a, fore- warning only one person was drowned..

Death Roll Mounting.

Later. There is a steadily mounting death roll.

Damage amounting to many millions sterling is reported from the flood areas in New Englund. The towns of Montpelier and Barre are believed to be the severest sufferers..

An unconfirmed report places the death roll in Montpelier "at 137 to 212.

Almost every town in the flood district has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as the result of factories and bridges being swept away.

A district in one of the main manufacturing areas in the Unit- ed States and a number of centres have been plunged in total dark- ness owing to the lighting plants being put out of action.

I is feared that there may be a food shortage in some districts. Lieut.-Governor Drowned. Binghampton, N.Y., Nov. 5. Lieutenant-Governor Jackson,

of Vermont, has, it is reported, perished in the Montpelier floods, -Renter's American Service.

Scene of Desolation,

Albany, Nov. 6.

would be a work more useful, hon- ourable and blessed than any other he could imagine,

the meeting was being held, col- The entire third floor, on which

lapsed and dropped to the second floor, which gave way, followed by the walls, burying the entire crowd in the debris of bricks plaster, tiles, and splintered tim-

That was the purpose of the League of Nations. The League had already done great deal to provide for maintenance of peace,bers. It had, he believed, averted at Chinese military surrounded the least one conflict which but for the area and assisted the Police in League would almost certainly extricating the bodies of these have broken out, and it had made killed and the people injured.. it more difficult and dangerous for any state to pursue

a deli- First aid was brought to the berately provocative of aggressive scene, the injured being rushed policy against its neighbours.ed on the

to hospitals where doctors operat- more aerious cases they will encourage the impression

Much more remained to be done immediately. that Germany is not acting in due in the same direction, but he regard to her Reparations obligations of the League were conduct

firmly believed that if the opera- iong.

power to prevent a crisis.

The Agent General is of the opinion that the Reich by failing to restrain its expenditure is "endan gering the stability of the budget which is the cornerstone of the experts' plan for the reconstruct ion of Germany, Should these tendencies continue

unchecked

the only man killed was Yen Hain, a local Labour leader, who was the ceremonies.--

As far as is at present known

The Finance Minister replying, ed with patience and prudence agrees to the necessity of strict and in a practical spirit, it would assisting in economy and points out the ex-succeed as nothing else in the his-Router. treme difficulty when vital matters tory of the world had yet succeed- of national life are viewed only ed-he would not gay in making. declares that the payment of peace on a surer foundation than from a financial standpoint. He war impossible, but in placing U.S. GOLD FOR BRAZIL.

Reparations obligations are cover-ever before. What an unspeak

STANDARD.

ed by the yield of pledged able relief that would be to man-RESTORATION OF THE GOLD securities and that the German kind! Another war on a large Government desires to do its senle would wipe out civilization, utmost to help to solve her and it was therefore literal truth Reparations problems.—Reuter," to say that it was on the League of Nations that the faith and hope of the future must be fixed for reducing to a minimum the dangering transferred from the Treasury of such a' catastrophe.

BOOTLEG LIQUOR.

-DIVERSION OF INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL.

vice.

Britain's Auxiety.

New York, Nov. 6. Sixty-seven tons of gold in twenty dollar pieces are shortly be

to Brazil to assist in the restora-: tion of the gold standard.— Reuter's American Servicc.

He was conscious of the difficulty of following Lord Cecil, of whom there was no more sincere ad- MEXICAN EXECUTIONS. mirer than himself. He believed, however, that English people of

GENERAL GOMEZ AND FOUR OTHERS PUT TO DEATH.

Washington, Nov. 5. Approximately ten million gal- one of industrial alcohol found parties will be quite as con its way into bootleg channels last vinced as Lord Cecil himself of year, according to declarations the necessity of limitation of made by the Alcohol Advisory armaments by international agree.... Council, which was appointed,to ment." Phere was no nation to

Mexico City, Nov. 6. co-operate with the Prohibition whom peace was of more real con- Officials Reuters American Ser-cern than to us, and there was four other revolutionary officers. General Arnulfo Gomez, and the

no nation more anxious than we

who were captured with him after were not to waste unnecessary a short battle at Teocelo, were all shillings in unproductive expendi-oxecuted within a few hours. ture. We should not, however, Reuter's American Service. lose sight of the fact that. we had already, both by international agreement and of our own accord. made a very large reduction in our. Ighting equipment, and were ready to go as far along the same rouil as might be found compatible with the safety of our country and commerce.

INDIAN FLOODS.

THREE HUNDRED REPORTED TO HAVE PERISHED.

CAPTAIN FINED.

CHINESE STOWAWAYS FROM PORT SAID.

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Madras, Nov, G. Mantpelier is still cut off and no Three hundred people are re- assistance is possible until the ported to have perished in flocd floods aubside. A journalist who following a severe cyclone at We should delude ourselves if

Perth, WA, Nov; 5. flew there reports that three lives Nellore. Communications have we assumed that war would be im-

The captain of the steamer were lost when the reservoir burst, been cut off. No details of the dispossible, even if armaments in Almskerk has been fined £5,000 for

An indescribable scene of deater are available up to the pre-every country were reduced to the having prohibited immigrants solation everywhere meets the

board his vessel.-Reuter.

[Fifty-four Chinese stowaway's boarded the ship at Port Said.]

eye.

Seven thousand people are homeless. Some are encamped on!

gent.--Reuter

vanishing point. If there were no weapons in existence there would still remain the skill and materials

reat on moral as well as a ma- terial basis. What was needed was not merely a reduction of armaments but removal of dis- trust between nations.

the hillsides, othera sheltered in KOENNECKE'S FLIGHT. for making them. Peace must such public buildings as are still standing.

Wireless reports from Burling- ton, Vermont, state that twenty- five persons were drowned seven- teen of whom were state employees, who were entrapped in a boarding- house in the path of the waters.

Residents of Montpes are suf- fering from cold as the authorities have commandeered all coal.

The water is thirty feet deep in some streets. The City Hall is a ruin and a number of hotels and shops have been destroyed. Houses were ripped apart, trees torn down; seven railway bridges were wrecked and the rail tracks to the city were twisted.

Barre, six miles distant, where Licut-Governor Jackson drowned, is still submerged.

was Reuter's American Service.

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MACHINE DAMAGED AT ALLAHABAD.

Allahabad, Nov. 5. The German airman Keenneeke came to grief again to-day, his machine being damaged in a forced landing.-Reuter.

KING FEISAL'S VISIT.

RECEIVED IN AUDIENCE BY KING GEORGE.

ル

The King to-day received in au-

London, Nov. 5.

dience King Feisal of Iraq, who is visiting this country, British Wireleas.

MIGOSH, SAM, I FEEL Sprin FOR THAT WOMAN- SHE JUST MARRIED JOHNNY DOOLITTLE AN' HE'S BEEN OUTA WORK EVER SINCE SHE THOUGHT HE HAD

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Sense of Security, ..

on

national disputes. In this Britala had always led the way. We had signed many. more arbitration treaties than any other country, and we had submitted to arbitra- tion numbers of questions even where important national inter- ests were involved.

The cause of distrust was the sense of insecurity. No single in- dividual had done so much to re-

In conclusion, Mr. McNeill said muvè that sense of Insecurity as he would make it his aim to Sir Austin Chamberlain.. The the best of his ability to enhance Treaty of Locarno had given a the prestige of the League of Na- new feeling of security to two tions and promote its usefulness. great military nations and had At the same time he could not therefore given a firmer founda-forget that for a British Minister tion to peace in one of the chief the first duty of all was to main- danger zones of Europe. Similar tain British interests: but he did compacts covering other areas not believe that essential British might spread the boundaries of the interests, one of the first of which treaty.

was peace, ought ever to be at Another valuable' provision variance with the League of Na- against the danger of war was to tions, whose interests we support | increase the reliance on arbitra-ed in a reasonable and concilia- tion as a means of settling inter-tory spirit.--British Wireless.

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