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四拜禮 •WIA-ANT THURSDAY, JANUARY

TERRIBLE DOUBLE | PREHISTORIC CITY

TRAGEDY.

UNEARTHED.

MR. AND MRS: BURNETT

FOUND DEAD..

BOTH SHOT, THROUGH HEAD. AT PEAK RESIDENCE

SODOM, OF BIBLE FAME, IN PALESTINE.

INTERESTING FINDS.

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Jerusalem, Jan. 1. What are believed to be the ruins of the Biblical city of Sodom, re- corded as having been destroyed, with Gomorrah, have been unearth- DISTRESSING AFFAIR.ed in the centre of the Eastern Plain of the Jordan, as. the result of five weeks of excavation by the Pontifical Biblical Institute, direct

The New Year in Hongkong has been marked by a temble double tragedy in which. tivo well-known European residents, Mr. and Mrs. G. . C. Burnett, have lost their lives undervanced type of civilisation. peculiarly distressing circum- stances. Both were found dead from bullet wounds at their re Bidence, No. 4, Mountain View, The Peak, last night.

ed by Father Alexis Mallon.

Pottery and ther finds show that the city was built in the Early Bronze Age and possessed an ad-

HAICHING HEROES NEW YEAR APPEAL

HONOURED.

BY PREMIER.

MEMORABLE COMBAT WITH PIRATES.

O.B.E. FOR CAPTAIN AND CHIEF OFFICER.

OTHER DECORATIONS.

be felt not only in Hongkong out The utmost satisfaction will throughout the China Coast at the inclusion in the New Year's Honours List of the names of Captain O. H. Farrar and several officers of the 8.5. Haiching, he It is also evident from the tokening, as it does. destroyed by fire in the early dawnjesty's appreciation of the ma- ture of the ruins that the city was

His Ma- of history.-Reuter.

gnificent fight which they put up when pirates attempted to seize control of the vessel on De- cember 8th last.

Dinosaur in N. Afrien,

Casablanca, Jan. 1. The skeleton of a dinosaur,

At the moment, full details of the tragedy are not available, but

annears that at about 11 Fast night one of the servant at the luuse, on ering into the drax-thirty feet long and six feet broad, ing room, discovered the Log of has been discovered near Tetuan. Mr. Burnett reclining in a sating position in a chair, with a llet

wound in his head.

Automatic Found.

On a chesterfield sofa near be the servant found the body of Burnett, also dead from Jullet wound in the lead. Both Vere fully dressed, and Mr. Barnett was also wearing a cardigan.

In the room. the "boy" fout' a 1.32 Colt automatic pistol. Thre

were several live rounds in the magazine, but two had obviosiy heen fired, the empty shells hour found on the floor. There wer dfgns of disorder in the rpom

The police were later comm cated with, and Mr. T. -H. Ku,

The skeleton is apparently over 300,000 years old, which seems to dispose of the existing theories regarding the geological origin of

North Africa,

Tetuan to investigate.--Reuter

A scientific mission is going to

ART MASTERPIECE

DISAPPEARS.

MYSTERIOUS LOSS ON WAY TO LONDON,

Director of Criminal Intellige EMPTY FRAME FOUND.

Conducted enquiries into he

affair. This morning, police vie on duty at the residence.

Two Shots Heard.

According to servants adjoining houst, after;dinner! hight Mr. and Mrs. Bar: appear to have, adjourned to t drawing room, where they play ¿the gramophone for at tjrnyras luring this time two hot w deand. It is said that there w an interval of some nfinutes 1 tween the two shots,

The bodies were later remov

to the Public Mortuary, where

London, Jan. "1. A Van Dyk masterpiece Co- cert Der Anges." which is valued at about £30,000, ha mysteriously disappeared on its way from Brussel: to London.

It was consigned to a West End art dealer and was to have been į offered for sale. The dealer was. amazed on opening the packing- cuse discover merely an empty frame

CALL FOR UNITED EFFORT

FOR THE NATION.

GAIETY IN NEW YORK.

London, Dec. 31. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a New Year mer- sage to the nation, says:

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NEW PEERAGES IN HONOURS LIST. -

MR. ARTHUR PONSONBY GOES TO LORDS.

KNIGHTHOOD FOR PEKING LEGATION OFFICIAL.

"We are entering not only upon decade. The yers 1919-1929 have ALL PARTIES APPEAR, A New Year, but upon a new

new period now opening will be British people, and I hope that the been arduous and difficult for the

London, Jan.1. one of steady recovery and solid improvement.

Although it was generally ex- "We have

perted that several new Socialist spont a long and weary time coping with post-war Peurs would be treated in order finished the task. It is at least a difficulties, und, have not yet to strengthen the debating power work this year will be the Naval of Lords, the New Year's Hon- good omen that the first piece of

of the Government in the House Limitation Conference, with the ears List includes only two La- object of rendering the peace of hourites amongst the six the world

more accure for the Peers. future, but I wonder if we are Captain Osmonde Hedworth pulling well enough together? Farrar and Chief Officer Perry dificulties with hearts stout and "Are we facing our industrial get the O.B.E., and Chief En-adventurous? gineer Duxon and Second Officer Johnson receive the M. B. E., all service in setting our house in for personal bravery in frustra-

"The nation calls for union of

ting the attempted piracy, ac-UC cording to a message receiveri from Reuter.

BRITAIN'S DEFICIT ON BUDGET.

With the farts of the piratical attempt and its frustration still fresh in the minds of the public, there is no necessity to recall the.

details of the affair; suffice it to say that the gallant conduct of Captain Farrar and his officers. now officially recognised by the)

Capt. . H. Farror.

Nearly £170,000,000 Short Fer First 9 Months.

DECEMBER RETURNS.

Lor on, Dec. 31. It is diseled that the Exechequer Yeturns for the nine months ended to-night show a deficit of nearly £170,000,000. Large amounts, however, are due to conte in during the last quarter of the financial year.-Reuter,

BAR KATARAMADHA

order so that the place we have inherited may still be ours."

Reuter.

Loudon, Jan. 1.

In a telegram to the Lord Mayor of London, acknowledging New Year greetings, the King says ;~~"I deeply value the affectionate alla- sion to my restoration to health

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Amongst the other Honours are Mr. II. H. Fox-Commercial Count- twenty-six Knights, these including sellor at the British Legation in coration. From the list, Reuter China, who receive, the K.B.E. de-

cables the following names;

Peerages,

Peerages have been granted to the following:

Major Dudley Leigh Amalt, who was Labour candidate at Faver- sham at the last General Election when he was beaten by the Conser- vative candidate in a three-corner- ed fight. In 1924 he unsuccess- fully contested the Laie of Thanet Division. He is well-known in Hampshire, where he was a mem- her of the Committee set up to in vestigate the agricultural, problem.

Sir Willoughby Dickinson. K.B.E., P.C., a prominent Liberal. He was called to the Bar in 1884. and was Chairman of the L.C.C. in 1890. He sat as a Liberal for North St. Panerns from 1906 to: 1918. Has served on several Com- missions, and was one of the ori ginators of the League of Nations.. He is Hon. Secretary of the World Alliance for the promotion of in- ternational friendship through the) churches and is prominently asso- ciated with various philanthropic enterprises.

Shipping Magaste.

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·LOCAL BRANOHL Pedder Bevitema

TERRIBLE SCOTTISH FIRE DISASTER

OVER SIXTY CH KILLED IN I

MAD SCRAMBLE FOR

PAISLEY CIN

HEART-RENDING S

A shocking disaster at the Glen Cinema. Paisley, near Glasgow on New Year's Eve, as, a result of which seventy. children lost their lives and thirty-seven others were seriously injured, has shocked the whole of the British Isles.

The tragic occurrence was the most terrible that has occurred in Great Britain during the history of the cinemato graph industry, and the poignancy of the disaster is accentuated by the fact that it occurred on New Year's Eve-when-tho parents of the kiddies were preparing feasts for the New Year celebrations.

A special Hogmanay performance for children was being given at the Glen Cinema, as over seven hundred, ranging from two years to fourteen years were in the bulld. ing,

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Fire broke out and a frightful panic followed. Most of the victims merely rushed to their deaths and were suffocatet! in trying to reach the exits. The spreading of fumes from a smouldering film caused the alarm and no power on earthy could stop the rush.

Children fell down the steps and were trampled upon by those following. Others were so terrified that they could not move. Over a hundred and fifty were taken to hospital but most were released after attention.

Heart-rending scenes in the vicinity of the cinema and the infirmary ensued when half-demented parents learned of the disaster. A graphic story of the terrible affair is related in messages below.

TINY TOTS

AMONG THE VICTIMS.

London, Dec. 31.. Over sixty, probably nearer eighty, children, some of them tiny tots, were burned to death or

were

upon by those who cante rushing after.

Most of the casualties caused in this according to the

way and, indeed, Master of the

child perished by fire.

Cannon conducted a post-murto | Route's representative was heart- tions, was in full aerord with the hope that God's blessing, peace and ping of the United Kingdom. He out at the Glen Cinema, Paisley. Paisley Fire Brigade, not a single

examination this morning.

Mr. Burnett's Carger.

The late Mr. George' Wilier, 'Cade Burnett, who was 61 year!

A message from Brussels says that I. Bechbache, the owner of the pasterpiece, interviewed by broke on learning of the loss of the ture, which, it is under stood, was insured for only quarte of its value.

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Mechbuche declared he hand-

bestowal of well-deserved decora highest traditions of the British Mercantile Marinė.

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but

is lium.

· Sir Viliam Joseph Nobel, ex-died as the result of terrible in and to the Queen and members of President of the Chamber of Ship-juries received when a fire broke my family. I fervently join in the general well-being, may be vouch International Maritime Conference

is on. President of the Baltic and daring a matinee. safed to the nations of the world, and shipping representative on the ing when flames shot out from the The performance was proceed- Two O.R.E.'s Awarded.

May the New Year inspire the People of our Empire with a solemn Advisory Sub-Committee of the operator's box and filled the auditor-spread like wildfire to the cotton master of the Hatching, is award-measure of prosperity. There are Co., Ltd.

Captain 0. H. Farrar, the resolve to secure

Ministry of Transport. He the decoration of an Officer of difficulties to be overcome,

increasing Chairman of the Cairn Line S.S. There was a wild scramble British Empire. the Must Excellent Order of the these. I know, will be faced with the Sir Hugh Trenchard,

for the exits, which were quick courage and enterprise traditional

ly jammed with struggling boys By careful anti-piracy prepara to the citizens of London.-British

Wireless.

and girls. Courage in contend-

New York, Jan. 1. few daysing with difficulties after th The celebration of New Year pitacy, Captain Farrar, it is put really started when the tones of an record, was mainly responsible Big Ben from Westminster were for saving the ship.

heard throughout North America, this being the first time they had been broadcast successfully.

kf age. first cani tolonged thepacking-case containing the ong nearly thirty years ago with pier to despatching agents on Medics Corps. Deder 15th. he Royal Army te took his discharge from the ervice here and wheh, the outh China Morning Post was tarted 28 years ago he took a position on the commercial side of Loan docks for a the undertaking. Subsequently, RAN

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the first Editor of the Morij

Dg Post, Mr. Alfred Cunning- bam. went to Egypi. Mr. Burnuit uter joining him and they both started newspaper in Cairo. About the year 1911, Mr. Burnett returned to Hongkong, being a; - minted business manager of th The Hongkong Telegraple whic was then owned by Dr. Noble. He continued

W

cupy this position until the

to

the

i known that the case was desired for several days at Ant- wand that it was left lying in tian

thold of a steamship in the Skill and

beforehand and by his

HE NEW EGYPTIAN

GOVERNMENT.

HA PASHA BECOMES THE

PREMIER.

Cairo, Jan. 1.

later part of 1918, when he 52 | ́¿The {ationalist leader, Nahas jame the lessee of The Chn Molsha,is formed a Cabinet and luceceding

Managinseljakes the post of Premier Directorship of the Newspad Mister of the interior. Enterprise. Ltd., when that Ge/Wash Pasha Ghali is the new Aany was formed. He was also r. Foreign inster.

ard rea

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3,00000 WORKLESS LAMERICA.

prietor of the Sunday Herold in feller LO King Fund, the Dollar Directory, and decorahas ka says one of hi the offices of Managing Editorrincipalbjects will be to secure buth the China Meil and the Sthe real, ndependence of Egypt day Herald.

an honourable and As a Freemason. the later stable agement with Britain. Burnett had

Reuter occupied may nesitions of honour. He waa Past Master of his own Loke. Vjetoria Lodge, was an immediate Fast Preceptor, of the Vickrin Preceptory and the represent live Jof the Preceptory on the Masinie Benevolent Fund Corporation the Immediate Past Prior and end. Lieut. of the Victoria Priory, and Immediale Past Master of the Eethen. Mark Lodge. He waJal A Past District Grand Tresuret of the District Grand Lod Hongkong and South hir

(English Constitution.)

Former Volunteer.

of

LEADEŜAYS CORNER IS

URNED.

The O.R.E. decoration is also conferred on Mr. R. Perry, the Chief Officer, who is at present in

Mr. F. C. Duxon. hospital recovering from received during the fight with the pirates.

C.B.,

D.S.O., Marshal of the Royal Air Force, and Chief of the Air Staff. He entered the Army in 1893 at the age of 20, became Sir Marshal in

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Terrer-stricken Parents. The news of the tragle affair mills and half-demented parenta fought the firemen and the police in an attempt to enter the cinema. their smoke belmets but dashed The firemen did not wait for

into the building over a mound of Police and civilians, who hastily prone children and, seizing 1919, Air Chief Marshal in 1922, donned improvised gus-masks, many as they could, rushed them and Marshal of the Royal Air Force pulled in 1927. He served in South Afri- safety from the tangled mass while

as many as possible to out into the fresh air.

gerously wounded, and with the ca from 1809 to 1902, being dan-agonised mothers looked on.

Firemen erected ladders against West African Frontier Force from the windows at the top of the The revelry, however, reached 1904 to 1906. In

the European building and handed down chil its height when the theatres Wur, he was mentioned in des-dren they were able to rescue by : emptied. A hundred thousand patches eight times, promoted Ma- this means. young people paraded Upper jor General and given the K.C.B. Broadway, using every conceivable decoration. noise-maker.

There was a slight falling off in the hotel supper attendances, this being attributed to the recent market slump.-Reuter'a American Service.

NEW LANDS IN THE ANTARCTIC,

MESSAGE FROM SIR II. WILKINS.

Former Lord Mayor.

Inside the building they found some children quite unharmed, but absolutely still, unable to move through sheer terror." The injured were conveyed to the Infirmary in tramears, private In all over one hundred andars, lorries, indeed anything and fifty children were rushed off in mandeer.

feverything the Police could com- tramcars to the Infirmary.

Sir Charles Wakefield, Guvern- ing Director

Later, Wakefield and Co., Ltd., oll manu- that none of the victims of the of Messrs. C. C. It has since been ascertained facturers. After serving as Sheriff, he became Lord Mayor of death. Those who lost their lives disuster were actually burned to London in 1915-16, and was creat and the bulk of those injured were ed a Baronet in 1917. As Presi- either trampled upon or suffocated dent or Treasurer, he is associat-

ed with

numerous charitable institutions, and has been

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Ghastly Hogmanay,

There has never been a more

Little mites were lying in the Infirmary's corridors owing to the

doctors from all over the town. but fact that every bed was occupied, urgent messages brought

was converted into mortuary.

The basement of the Infirmary

Many women collapsed on: identifying the bodies of their little ones. Altogether, the bodles of sixty-nine children · have been recovered.

The cinema's capacity Was seven hundred and fifty and it was crowded with children of work- from sixteen months old to four- ng-class parents. They ranged"

teen years.

generous helper in civil aviation. His publications Include a book ghastly Hogmanay in Scotland Now York, Dec. 31.

on Future Trade in the Far Eastwhich was by far the most terrible than the Paisley cinema disaster, A message from Monte Video The Right Hon. Mr. Arthur of its kind ever experienced in the says that a wireless message hasį Ponsunby, Labour M.P. for British Isles.. been received by the Government Brightside since 1922. He is from Sir Ilubert Wilking, stating Under-Secretary for the Domin-a special Hogmanay show and had The youngsters had gathered for wounds that lands have been discovered, lons in the Government, and injust seen a film in which a child which were previously unknown, the first Labour Administration was run over in a street accident. on the last flight over the ice enps. was Under-Secretary for Foreign

Reuter,

One father lost three children Affairs. He was

Then, following splutterings and originally a

in the disaster. Liberal, having sat for Stirling box, there was sudden darkness, dense smoke from the operator's

Later. Private Secretary to the late Sir the operator tried to carry out been detained in hospital at Burghs from 1908 to 1918, and was A spec) of film had taken fire and severely injurod that they havas

Thirty-nine children were so Henry Campbell-Bannerman from the burning film, hat the children, Puigley. 1905 to 1908. At one time, he frightened by the sudden shutting was in the diplomotic service.

I was pathetic coincidence, Mr. Arthur Ponsonby causus awards the rear entrance...

aff of the light, had by this time that the flin being exhibited at the The elevation to the Peerage of taken panic and had rushed to-time of the disaster was entitled

necessitating

"The Crowd."". 2 by- election. At the last election, Mr. Mr. Johnson was on watch when Ponsonby had majority of over ten Not only did Mr. Dugon assist in the piracy occurred, and he acted thousand in a three-cornered con defence of the ship's bridge, but againat the pirates with the test. was mainly instrumental in greatest promptitude and resource.

It is recorded that although wounded by a pirate, Mr. Perry shot dead his assailant and ren- dered valuable assistance through- out in the defence of the ship.

M.B.E. Decorations.

subduing the fire which the pirates

started.

New York, Dec. 31. on the NeYork Stock Exchange Refer to the recent debacle in the cde of an address at

Mr. A. J. Johnson, the Second] Richmond Virginia, Mr. Davis,

Officer, who is at present in hos- the Secri of the Labour

Mr. F. C. Duxon, Chief En-pital suffering from a nervousd Departmen said that the Unitedgineer, receives the M.B.E. decora. breakdown as a result of his ex- For many

years, the late States harmed the corner- tion that of a Member of the periences, also receives the M.B.E. vacancy Burnett had been a member the with threlion men out of Most Excellent Order of the decoration. Reserve Company of the work "we all go on now and British Empire. Sorg Volunteer Defence 1rb4,1930, will as good or nearly as from which he resigned a four good is 1 and 1929.-Reuter's

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