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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1930.

APPALLING FLOOD DISASTER.

TWO TOWNS IN FRANCE LEFT IN RUINS.

REMARKABLE SCENES.

Toulouse, Mar. 6. Seventy coffina have been ordered by the Prefect of Tarnet Garonne, a grim circumstance of the terrible flood disaster.

The waters are now subsiding rapidly, revealing scenes of appal-

Hundreds hing desolation. houses which entirely submerged have been completely ruined, com- pelling the people to return to im- provised shelters.

of

The town of Villemur is one mass of heaped masonry, the devastation being more complete than was seen in many of the towns in the war zone during the Great War;

LORD GLADSTONE DEAD.

SON OF FAMOUS LIBERAL STATESMAN.

A LIBEL RECALLED.

London, Mar. 5. The death is announced. of Vis

Gladstone, Bon of the count famous Liberal leader and former Governor-General of South Africa,

-Reuter..

CHINESE AERIAL

DISASTER.

WRECKED PLANE FOUND BY PEASANTS.

TWO AIRMEN KILLED.

Canton, Mar. 5. After being missing for close upon two months, reports have reached Canton that the bombing plane which left here at the end of December for Hankow and which had not been heard of since, has been found in the Laining dis- Herbert John, Viscount Glad-trict of Hunan. stone, was the youngest son of W The plane had crashed in open E. Gladstone, the great Liberal country and when found the re- statesman of the Victorian era, mains of the two aviators were and was born in London; in lying in the wreckage. The dis January, 1854 Educated at Eton covery was made by peasants and reported to the military. and University College, Oxford, he was was history lecturer at Keble authorities. On the report reach- ing the Bureau of Aviation at College from 1877 to 1880.

Changsha, a party was seat out to bring back the remains of the two investigate the wreckage and to

T

Elected. M.F. for West Leeds in The town of Reynes is almost 1880, he remained its member totally destroyed, and fourteen until 1910 when he was made people lost their lives here. Peer. Meanwhile for a year ha The torrents loosed to the Caracted as his father's private secre cassonne area scooped out the tary,

cemeteries and carried the coffins down the river.

The Bloods have beer the worst experienced in a century,

Paris, Mar. 5.

The Council of Ministers has decided to ask Parliament to vote thirty million franes for the relief of sufferers from the floods.

A moratorium for debts will im- mediately be established in the devastated departments. Reuter Later,

It is now feared that at least three hundred perished in the floods. Scores of bodies are buried In the ruins in collapsed-buildings, which number well over a thousand.

Over 150 were killed in the village of Montauban alone..

Rescue parties, aided by aero- planes, are working heroically to save those who are still marooned. i --Reuter.

SNOWDEN BUDGET

SECRETS.

ATTITUDE ON SUGAR NOT YET DISCLOSED.

A GRAVE PROBLEM.

London, Mar, 5. 'Viscount Elibank (Conservative) in the House of Lords to-day, arged the publication of the report of the Commission which inquired into the condition of the West Indies sugar industry.

He was then successively a Lord of the Treasury (1881-5), Financial Secretary to the War Office (1886), Under-Secretary to Office (1892-4); First the Home Commissioner of Works (1894-6), Chief Whip to the Liberal party (1899-1906), and Home Secretary (1905-10).

He was then sent to South Africa as the first Governor-General and High Commissioner, which re- sponsible position he occupied until 1914. On his return to England in that year. he was made head of the War Refugees Organization.

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Defended Father's Name

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The two officers killed were Flying Officers Siu Cheong-kau and Shek Chung-hon. They had joined the Canton squadron from Hankow to assist in the campaign against General Chang Fat-kwei and the Kwangai rebols. At the conclusion of the campaign, in which they had rendered great assistance, they were ordered to return with their plane to Han-| kow. It was during this journey that they disapeared and nothing further was heard of them until the wreckage of their plane was discovered by the peasants in Hunan.

General Chang Wai-jung, Chief of the Aviation Department of the Central Government, has petition- ed the Government for grants to be made to the relatives of the dead airmen. Our Qunt. Correspondent.

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PRINCE OF WALES RECOVERING.

TO RESUME HUNTING TOUR ON SUNDAY.

KENYA'S GOOD NAME.

London, Mar. 5. Mesanges from Nairobi, Kenya, state that it is understood that no further bulletins regarding the Prince of Wales will be issued. It is anticipated that he will be completely fit again in a few daya. His rapid recovery indicates the inildness of the attack of malaria'

In recent years his name has and that he has revived sufficiently He complained that the Chan come prominently before the world to carry on with his plans. cellor of the Exchequer would not through the vigorous and cour-

The Prince himself and all East state his policy on this question.

ageous action he took to defend Africans are concerned for the Lord Passfield, Secretary for the the good name of his father. In reputation of Kenya, which may Colonies, said he was unable to 1926, à book was published in which have suffered through the reports The highlands of reveal the secrets of the Chancel- grave reflections were cast on the of his illness. lor's Budget. He could say no- great statesman's moral reputation. Kenya form one of the healthiest thing about the policy of the Go-Lord Gladstone instantly counter-and most promising parts of the vernment on this question, save to ed the accusations with a denial repeat his assurance that so long and wrote that their nuthor was, "a as the taxon sugar remained there liar, a coward, a fool and a foul would be no abolition of pre- féllow," ference.

Lord Pasfield said he yielded to none in his estimate of the gravity of the situation in all sugar-pro- ducing colonies. He pointed out that over-production of sugar throughout the world amounted to between one million and two million tons.

Empire in Africa.

The Prince expects to leave for Uganda on Sunday. He will travel and by special train to Tororo thence by motor car to Entebbe. The writer of the book challeng- After a day's stay at Government ed this description of himself by House there, he will, on Wednes bringing an action against Lord day, motor to Butiaba, on Lake Gladstone. The outcome after & Albert, where he will board a hearing which lasted five days was lake steamer. The steamer will a verdict for Lord Gladstone and be used as a base for hunting a complete vindication of his around the lake.

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father's character. In December, It is expected that the Prince 1928, he carried his defence of his will reach Khartum on his home- The difficulties of the West father against irresponsible writ-ward journey towards the middle Indian planters were therefore noters a step further by publishing an of April-British Wireless. only due to apprehension about authoritative biography.

brance of W. E. Gladstone as the great English champion of the Macedonian cause against Turkey secured him a most cordial welcome.

British preference being with- In 1927 he made a tour of parts drawn when the Chancellor made of the Near East where remem- his Budget statement on April 14th. The position was such that it might not be within the power of the Government to find a remedy.

There was

no hope, said Lord Passfield of persuading the Chan- cellor to bridge the enormous gap between the world price of sugar and the cost of production in the West Indies and Mauritiua,

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CHINESE HEALTH

PROBLEMS.

DISCUSSED BY LEAGUE COMMITTEE.

CUBAN SUGAR.

AMERICA INCREASES THE TARIFF:

Washington, Mar. 5. The Senate has increased the tariff on Cuban raw sugar to two cents per lb., and rejected a pro- posal for a direct bounty to domes- tle sugar-growers and manufc- turers-Reuter'a American Ser- vice.

The Government was not only ready but eager to give any as- sistance which might be practic- able

enable West Indian planters to reduce the costs of pro- duction, but there seemed to be little possibility of so reducing the costs as to enable them to produce the question of collaboration ba- ground, this being a decrease of

time.

Geneva, Mar, 5. The Health Committee of the League of Nations to day discussed

at world prices at the present tween the Chinese Government and the Health Organisation of the League.

Until the Government had come- to a decision as to what they were

going to do, they would not publish

Havana, Mar. 5. 1,751,000 tons of sugar have been It is officially stated that, so far,

corresponding period of last year. 784,000 tops compared with the

---Reuter.

A later Washington message. The Directorate of the Health states that the House of Represen-

Section submitted the results a tatives has already voted for an in- the report of the Commission-tw months mission in China at crease in the tariff on cuhan sugar British Wireless.

LONDON TERMINAL

AERODROME.

CROYDON NOT SUFFICIENTLY CENTRAL

London, Mar. 5,

the end of 1929, at the request of to 2.4 cents. The difference be the Chinese Government, to investi- tween that and the two cents yoted gate sanitation at the ports and by the Senate will be worked out maritime quarantipe,

by a committee.

Mr. Voo Kai-se returned thanks on behalf of the Chinese Minister of Health, who regretted his in- ability to participate in the session of the Committee.

The Committee.appointed a sub committee to examine the pro- Mr. Montague, Under-Secretary posals of the Chinese Government, for Air, was asked in the House of with a view to collaboration with of Commons to-day whether he had the Health Organisation of the considered any scheme for a cen- League-Reuter,

tral aerodrome for London nearer

the heart of the city than Croydon.

He replied that the matter had

PROHIBITION.

CANADA TO HELP AMERICA.

Ottawa, Mar. 6. Considerable. opposition is 'an- ticipated to the Bill, introduced by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Mackenzie King, at the Instance of the Government of the United Staten, which prohibits clearances of liquor-laden vessels

been considered by the Civil Avia aerodrome, and was enlarged and where it is evidently their inter- tion Board. On their recommends. Improved His Department was tion to land the liquor in a country tion, Croydon Aerodrome was re-giving careful consideration to this where its entry is forbidden. tained us the London terminal difficult problema-British Wireless. Router's American Service.

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