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NO. EL34

三拜疆骏六廿月一十英港 WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER

26. 1930. 日七初月十

CHEAPER PETROL SHAMEEN DIVORCE

PRICES

GRANTED.

COME INTO FORCE. PETITIONER NOW LIVING IN

REDUCED TEN CENTS PER GALLON.

LOCAL COMPANIES' DENIAL OF PRICE WAR.

STATES' INFLUENCE.

In spite of the fact that the Hongkong dollar is at present has been for lower than it several months, the price of petrol is being reduced as from

was

to-day by ten cents per gallon The announcement

first made by the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and the Standard Oil Company has now followed suit. Rumours of a "price war" are denied by both Companies. although such a development in India, Malayan and the Far East was predicted in New York a fortnight ago.

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HONGKONG.

WIFE & FRENCHMAN.

Shanghai, Nov. 25. In H. M. Supreme Court to- day, before Judge G. W. King. Mr. Claud Hamilton Rolfe, of

Shamera. at present living in Hongkong, petitioned for the dia- solution of his marriage, alleging that his wife, Laure Nathlle Zelle Rolfe, committed misconduct with Jners Mareschal,

a Frenchman.

Mr. J. E. fladeles, of Hansons. who represented the petitioner, said that no defence had been en tered by the respondent or co-

spondent.

The parties, he went on, were

married in Canton in 1925 and there were two children.

They lived in Cantun and Paris

antil March, 1939, when she left Petitioner for the c-respondent, with whom she sailed for France aboard the M.M. a. Angers on. May 6.

on

She had admitted misconduct. Granting a decree nkai and the custody of the children, his Lord- ship said that the case had taken a rather unusual course, in that all Reduction Explained.

the evidence was submitted afidavit, but in the circumstances The unexpected announcement by it was immaterial whether the the Asintie Petroleum Company | necesanry evidence woh given in yesterday, that they intended to the witnesa box. reduce the local price of Shell

He was satisfied that the alle- petrol by 10 cents per gallon, the gations were true and with the new prices to come into operation question of domicile. Our Own from today, was explained to a Correspondeat. Telegraph

representative morning by Mr. II. K. Promer, of the A.P.C.. when he denied that it the start of a "price war." He said that the reduction purely the result of a very dis- turbed market and the influence of the American prices upon focal sales.

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Wenk in America, "The prices are very weak in America," he said. "and we

have to watch and be influenced by the States. in view of the danger of -outside-importers...

"Prices have been high, and is the market has been in a most

for disturbed state

sonte tim* past, we have decided in introduce this reduction."

The reduction of 10 cents per gallon would.

it was further ex plained, bring the

present price of Shell petrol ta within five rents of the price existing before the imposition of the Government tax on June 25 last, when, as result. the cost of Shell petrol was in- creused by 15 cents per gallon.

Canton Cut,

"A similar reduction has already come into operation in Canton". said Mr. Prosser, "and has, in fact, been in existence there for the past fortnight or so.

"I have not yet learnt whether changes have been effected in the Shanghai prices, but in view of the influence of the States prices, which is probably more in evidence there than in Hongkong, I should imagine that reductions are to be made in the North."

Price War Cüble.

ALLEGED PLOTS IN MOSCOW.

PROFESSORS STATED TO HAVE PLEADED GUILTY.

Moscow, Nov. 25. The trial has opened of the eight professors and engineers who are accused of organising destructive activities with a view to underntin-

EARTHQUAKE CALAMITY.

JAPAN HIT IN EARLY HOURS TO-DAY.

OUTBREAKS OF FIRE ADD

TO TERRORS.

DEATH-ROLL ALREADY KNOWN TO RUN INTO HUNDREDS.

VILLAGES WIPED OUT.

A

disastrous earthquake, taking a toll of hundreds of lives, and causing enormous damage, the full extent of which cannot yet be estimated, struck Japan in the early hours of this morning. The centre of the upheaval was some twenty miles south of Fujiyama, and forty miles to the west of Tokyo, but neither the capital nor Yokohama appear to have suffered.

Communications have been disrupted and reports of the catastrophe are coming in by driblets, but already it is estimated that nine hundred casualties have occurred in one district, and 163 have been killed in another.

The severity of the shock, of which warning has been given for days past, may be judged from the fact that it lasted for half an hour and was felt over a huge arca, embracing two-thirds of the largest island of Japan. Fire added to the terrors of the quake, and it is feared that many lives have been lost by incineration. Two villages. Nagako and Hakominami, have been completedly destroyed.

TOKYO CLOSE AT HAND, ESCAPES.

Tokyn, Nov. 26.

the Sewiet verement-and preparing or the restoration of bourgenisie. power,

M. Poincare and M. Briand are mentioned in the indictment which alleges plans for a French mili- tary attack on Russia and attempts

A severe earthquake shook Takyo by the aerused to cause industrial shortly after four o'clock this unrest.

The Tass Agency says that all morning, but it is believed that no accused pleaded guilty and adds damage was done in the expital. that a continual flood of workers The quake is possibly connected puruled outside the Court.

with the series of sharp shocks "Over a million carried posters which have recently been occuring inserited, inter alin. We demand

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ITALIAN BISHOP & PRIESTS

MURDERED.

for the safety of three hundred workers, who were employed in the construction of Tanna Tunnel, near Alami. The

"ATROCIOUS CRIME.” entrance of which has collapsed. The hot-spring resort of Ito in

Hankow, Nov. 26. reported to be still on fire as a It is reported that the Italian result of a conflagration following | priests, Father Noveli and Father the quake-Reuter,

BOMBSHELL

IN AMERICA.

WAR OFFICE SALE TO SOVIET.

by

Luciano, have been killed bandits at Hing An, in South Shenal.

It is feared that the Prefect Apostolic, Mgr. Sogglu, has also been killed.---Reuter,

Later.

The Apostoll Delegation in Pek- ins and the Italian Legation have both received confrmation of the murder of Bishop Sogglu,

Telephone 24554,

FRANCIS LORANG

PAYS

HEAVY PENALTY.

SEVEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.

HECTIC POST-WAR CAREER ENDS IN PRISON.

OLD BAILEY TRIAL.

London, Nov. 26. After a trial at the Old Bailey insting for more than a week, Francis Lorang, chairman of the Bluebird petrol

companies,

The Italian Legation has issued charged on thirty-four counts a statement saying that "the atroci. With fraudulent conversion of ous crime was perpetrated on the the company's funds, the prose- SECRET PAPERS. 12th, the telegram taking cutor alleging that he owed the thirteen days to reach Peking. The Companies over £500,000, was |Legation is addressing a Note to convicted on all charges, and

the Chinese Foreign Office."

sentenced to seven years' penál servitude.

tion of Communist activities in the United States, by M. Vasiler Del- BASS.

Washington, Nov, 26, Something of a sensation WIB. caused in the course of evidence

Mgr. Gerant, of the Apostolic given, to-day before the Committee Delegation, wired to the Chinese of the House of Representatives Foreign Minister this morning as which is engaged on an Investign-follows:-"Bishop Soggiu has been Repeated violent outrages, killed. cpntrary to all civil rights, against our Catholic missionaries occasion formerly the Vice-President of the Amtorg Trad-profound sorrow throughout the I strongly protest against ing Corporation, the official Soviet world. agency in America.

this horrible massacre, and beg the He told the Representatives Com-Government to assure protection to mittee that four hundred American other missionaries working entirely acro-engines had been shipped for the well-being of the Chinese illegally to Russia in the past three people.-Router. |years as "other machinery.".

M. Delgass was

The real sensation was слив when he testified that the engines

Mr. Justice Swift, passing sentence, said that Lorang hind been the cause of terrible disaa- ter to the companies with which he was connected and to the numerous people who were in- terested therein.

If men like him went unpunished commercial life in London or in any other community could, not continue.

Son of Baker.

Lorung, who was the son of a

were bought from the U. S. W NEW CURRENCY BASIS Luxembourg baker, came to Lon-

Department, which supplied with them certain secret official papers describing the changes and improve. ments in United States engines.-Renter's Americau Ser.

rice.

FOR IRAK.

dn in 1903 and was a small trader for 20 years,

He was penniless after the war,

nero-UNIT EQUIVALENT TO POUND as shown by the fact that he wrote

LIST OF WORKLESS GROWING.

Numazu, one 73201 was

A

The whole village of Nakago | HUGE GERMAN GROWTH: AND

BRITAIN LITTLE BETTER was destroyed, and ten persons were killed and many injured.

At Ito, fifty houses were destroyed, the qunke being followed by a fire, leading to a fear of heavy loss of life. in the idzu Peninsula, aurhe forty

At Alami, three are dead and many injured,

a Grm attitude from the Proletarian miles to the west of Tokyo. Court." Render.

GRANDI-LITVINOFF TALK EXPLAINED.

ARRANGING FOR BARTERING OF PRODUCTS.

Laler.

This morning's quake, as sup posed, wits apparently connected. with thoar occurring recently in northern districts and the Idzu

Peninsula.

300 Shocks a Day!

It is believed that Shuzenji in the Ohite district has sufferod heavily, but no details are avail

able as communications have been completely disrupted.

STERLING.

Baghdad, Nov. 25. A new currency law, which is coming into operation on April 1st establish- next, provides for the.

unit, monetary ment of a gold equivalent to the pound sterling, to be called a diuur,

The dinar will be divided into thousand file and the rupee will be called in at a rate of 76 Als -ench,

ton friend telling him. that he had been compelled to sell his mackintosh In order to raise money to reach the city.

A few years later, soon after the flotation of the Bluebird Petrol Company, Lorang purchased manor house in Surrey when, in his own words, he was "swim- ming in money."

After the crash of the companies of which he WAS London, Nov. 25.

the Managing. The new currency will be based Director, a failure which caused a A record number, 2,285,987, upon trustee securities, administer-great sensation In the City, Lorang wholly or temporarily unemployed, ed by a Currency Board sitting disappeared and eluded the police for months while he was wandering were on the British unemployment London.

The establishment of a new Na-about in Belgium and France, stay- registers on November 17, presenting an increase of 24,210 tional Bank is also foreshadowed.ing in no place very long.

re-

Es compared with the previous week.

that the unemployed in Germany A message from Berlin stated

on November 15, were estimated at 3,484,000, an increase of 250,000 since October 31.-Reuter.

The neighbourhood of Mishima,

The village of Hakominami which was the centre of this morn.

has been destroyed by fire. ing's disturbance, is reported to Rome, Nov. 26,

The railway between Atami and an average 11 is announced that the conver- have experienced ex

at Milun between Signor about three hundred minor shocks Hayakawa has been destroyed. U.S.

while a gusher of boiling water which every day since November 10, inshot upwards at Atami.

were cluding a severe shock yesterday mitch interest,

sation Grandi and M. aroused so

Litvinoff.

Shown the copy of a telegram mainly economic.

It is pointed out that it was hard. from a Singapore newspaper, dated London, November 11th, to they likely that the Fascists could con- effect that New York corresponert the Bolshevists or vice versa dents of the London papers pre-as the outcome of u talk. dicted a new oil war between

Russin, it is stated, has agreed to American companies and the Shell exchange raw materials for Italy's "Company, with India, Malaya and manufactured goods. Thus, Russia Far East particularly men- will supply Italy with wheat, oil and the baserried any timber in exchangea for machinery, knowledge of the suggestion, and motor-cars, aeroplanes and ships, added that it was the first intima- tion he had received of much development.

tion

enquiry from the

Standard Oil Co.. we were informed that Socony goline has also been re- duced ten centa a gallon locally, and that there was no knowledge by them of anything in the nature of a price war.

BIG RECEPTION IN SHANGHAI.

IN HONOUR OF CHINESE NOTABILITIES.

GERMAN MINORITIES IN POLAND.

afternoon.

The Central Observatory states that fifteen hundred shocks have been recorded since November 7 in the district around the popular hot-springs resort, Ito,-Realer,.

Nine Hundred Victims,

The Chief of the Police of Shizuoka Prefecture telegraphs to Metropolitan Polles Headquarters that the casualties in 'hia prefec- ture, inclusive of the Idzu Penin- sula are expected to reach nine hundred.

163 Killed In Numaza Arên.

Later.

Fire Dumage.

Later. Fifteen are known to be dend na) the result of the earthquake in There is no question of monetary Mishima and the ldzu Peninsula commitments. It will simply be a neighbourhood. It is also stated

A police report from Numazu matter of bartering-Reuter.

that a large number have been in-states that a total of one hundred jured and that serious dainage was and aixty-three have so far been done when a fire broke out.

reported killed in the district The shock in Tokyo, it in officially under jurladiction. This includes revealed, commenced at 4.03 m. Numuza, one, Mishima, even. and lastel for about ten minutes. Nirayama town, 37, and Nirayam

Owing to the damage to com-district; 120:-Rester.

The Central Observatory issues“ APPEAL TO BE MADE TO THE munications details are still lacking

but considerable damage appears to another statement to the effect LEAGUE.

have been done in the towns of that the vibrations Insted for thirty Mishima and Numazu and the minutos. They wore følt over a Berlin, Nov. 25, The German Covernment has de-neighbouring villages of Nirayamn wide area, extending as far to the west as Osaka, and as far to the cided to appeal to the League of and Makasato-Reuter,

north as Maebashit and Takata.- Reuter.

Nations in connexion_with_nileged

acts of terrorism against Germans

in Pollah Upper Silesia.

First Shocking Reports,”

Later.

IMMIGRATION ON DOWN - TREND.

WATCHED FOR EFFECT ON UNEMPLOYMENT.

Washington, Nov. 24.

Reuter.

IMPERIAL AIRWAY

EXPANSION.

MOST PASSENGER CAPACITY IN THE WORLD.

Arrested In Night Club.

He was arrested in January in a night club in Montmartre in the company of two women, being re- cognised by a police inspector who had only seen him once and that several months before.

"When approached, Lorang admit ied his identity and was arrested on a London warrant. London, Nov.. 25.

He had £17 in French money In The passenger capacity of the his possession, but he was very Imperial Airways Fleet will be smartly dressed. In answer to the more than doubled in the Spring by charge he declared: "Far from the addition of eight Handley Page minappropriating, anything. air liners and three Short Super-companies owe me money." Calcutta flying-bonts carrying forty passengera unch.

Millions Squandered,

the

The now units will be available

In August a sensational affair in The effect of Immigration upon for the anticipated extension of the Parts, Lady Esmee Owen's shooting unemployment is being closely India route to Australia and the of the wife of Dr. Gastaud, the watched.

opening next year of the service to famous French radiologist and President Hoover does not Cape Town. They will give the physician, revealed another phase favour total suspension, but he fleet total accommodation for 727 of Lorang's career, namely that he referred appreciatively to the passengers, which is much in excess had married Lady Owen and proba stricter enforcement of the regula. of any other passenger air fleet inbly assisted to squander the millions of money left her by her husband, tions, pointing out that in October the world-British Wireless,

who is said to have been a former the immigrants from all sources

Governor of Ceylon. as, compared |-- totalled only 6,000. with the monthly average of 24,000.--Reuters American Service.

JOINT ECONOMIC ACTION.

SANITARY BOARD VACANCY.

DR. BASTO ONLY CANDIDATE NOMINATED..

Some delay was occasioned in the oxtradition proceedings owing to further allegations of fraud against Jald by Madame Meurisse, Lorang the wife of a banker.

mining

on a charge of manipulating inim stock. She alleged that she handed Lorang a quantity of Jewellery to Thore is only one homination for sell in London, and that he gave It the vacancy on the Sanitary Board, to a woman friend in. Paris, ** and there will, in consequence, be

Extradited in June,

no election.

RESPONSE TO‘A BRITISH GESTURE.

London, Nov. 25. The nominee put forward is Dr. The extradition of Lorang waO Another Village Wiped Out.

Robarto Alexandre du Castro delayed until this matter was set- At the second League Confer-lasto, who received a double nomitled, but five months later he was Later. ence for concorted economic action According to a report received to-day, after Sir Sydney Chapman nation. His proposers and second taken to London, and formally ers wore Professor. K.H. Digby and charged at the Gulkinally Polle by the Communications Depart had announced the abolition, by Mr. A. F. B. Silva-Netto, and the Court where he was committed for ment, the whole of the village of January 15th, of the British Bye-Hon. Mr. J. P. Brags and Mr. C. trial Hakonemachi, a popular summer stuffs safeguarding, Germany Roza respectively. Dr. Basto In Mishima, four were killed, resort which was destroyed in the France and Poland declared them thus secures election to the Board. Jent conversion of the Krundlage

In addition to charred about a hundred seriously in 1028 earthquake, hasarain both solar to the 1925 Convan Mr. Ca D Melbourne (Chief Rs. Company, Jared, thirteen houses were wiped out only four house belge reservo

pro-gistrar) acted as Receiving Officer Lening affalen) jepen

Petrol All

A personal vialt paid by the Pre- Press messagos reaching Tokyo Shangkol, Nov. 26. sident and a Mixed Commission to give details of the results of the The Municipal Council has in-Hohenbirkon is stated to have re-quake so far sacertained which resulted in the dismissal of the reveal that it was much severer vited 660 guests to attend a ception at the Majestic Hotel this Polish Mayer, and the School than was at first thought. afternoon to General Chan Chun, directors, and the transference of Mayor of Shanghai, Madame the Chief of Police.

It is also stated that thirty pod- Chang Housh-liang wife of the Mukder lander, and other Chinese ple were arrested and are to be notabilities Our Own Correspon charged with anti-Germán excesser,

Reuter

solves prepared to review their

destrovil.(and a hundred others left standinTRASHIR MARITIME TO TIMAYA' or the nominations,

badly damaged