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YOUNDED J NO. 34,159

=AQ AQA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 1931.

CITY WIPED OUT IN EARTHQUAKE.

DEVASTATING FIRE ADDS TO HAVOC:

NICARAGUAN CAPITAL LAID IN RUINS.

THOUSAND PERISH.

H.K. Currency .Mission.

Brief Interview on Arrival

NO PLANS YET.

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For the purpose of investigating the Hongkong currency problem, the Commission appointed by the tho Home Government reached Colony this morning on the N.Y.K. steamer Wakasa Maru. It prises Mr. W. 1. Clergy Firat Governor of the South African, Ro- serve Bank chairman); Mr. P. i. Ezechiel, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies; and Mr.-C. L. M. Clauson of the Colonial Office (secretary).

Seen Soon after arrival, Mr. Clegg informed a Telegraph repre

ONE DEVASTATING earthquake stock, lasting sentative that the Commission had

only a few seconds, followed by a disastrous the capital of blaze, laid waste the city of Managua, "Nicaragua, in Central America, yesterday morning, taking a toll of life and property exceeding in extent the catastrophe in New Zealand in February.

Over a thousand have been killed, according to the latest estimates and the number of injured runs into several thousands. The total population of the city does not exceed 35,000, and the proportion of casualties is, therefore, enormous.

the

na yet formed no plans as methods they would ulopt to gather their information. That would be fully explained, and plans made the Hongkong after consulting Government, when: also the terms

referener might be announced. The Commission, said Mr. Clegg hil netually had little time to dis

the, matter, as he joined. cost it in more only as days ago.

our

Mr. Clegg added that he had no idea how long the investigations would take, but it was almost cer- tain that they would begin im- The majority of the buildings in the city were shattered andmediately. The length of wrecked by the shock. Immediately there came a burst of flame stay here will depend on in the centre of the business area, and within a short time, the angements to be made." fire was sweeping the town. Among the casualties are American cluled. women and children. The British Legation has been destroyed by fire, but there is no information regarding the fate of the British Minister.

MANAGUA CATASTROPHE,

Panama City. Mar. 31.

A terrific earthquake has des troyed the city of Managua, thề capital of the Republic of Nicara- gua, which has a population of approximately 34,000. The quake has wrecked the entire city, and the few houses left standing are, reported to be on fire.

New York, Mar. 31. Managua, the capital of Nicara- xun, was shaken by a violent car- quake at ten o'clock this morning. and it appears to have rendered practically every building untenable and to have taken a heavy toll of Hie.

City in Rprns.

"Matagal

Metapa

quina Chinandega NN I CARAGUA

Alora Lona

LAKE

MANAGUA

Manag

Gran

of business and Army Nicaragua,

The British and American

the ground.

the T- he con-

The Commission was met on mr- rival by Mr. N: L. Smith, of the Colonial Secretarint, and is efay- ing at the Peninsula Hotel. Mr. Smith will act as general liaison which officer to the Commission. spent this morning meeting Govern-}· ment officials,

BRITISH BUDGET

DEFICIT.

A new pictra of Gandhi,.

96-tb Congress leader.

PURNA SWARAJ DEFINED;

GANDHI'S FAMOUS

I PO

白四十二

EM PRÓ ANNUM

MIKOLM COFT 10 OKNYA

FORT DUNLOP

LOCAL

Fodder Bldg.

Nine Perish In CAUSE OF DISASTER

Air Crash.

Noted Coach Among

the Victims.

TERRIBLE END

از همه راه

TO THE R.101.

EXHAUSTIVE STUDY BY

COURT OF ENQUIRY.

New York, Mar. 31.FUTURE OF AIRSHIP TRAVEL NOT

anute Rookne, the world famous football coach of Notre Dame University, was killed to day, in terrible circumstancest in. an aeroplane crash, which oc curred near Emporia, Kansas.

News of the tragedy has come as a great shock to Americus sporting circles where Knutes Rockne was esteemed and hon- toured for his wonderful successes with the Notre Dame football squad, which he coached to further triumphs this seasom; going through their campaign without losing a match and again captur ing the Albert Russell Erskine Cup emblematic. of the American Football championship.

The aeroplane in which Knute Rockne was killed was one of, Ave Transatlantic passenger planes which were flying together from

Em- The plane crashed near. porla, and immediately burst into lames. Rockne and eight others aboard the ill-fated craft, were burned to death.-Reuter's Ameri- con Service.

Kansan City to Los Angeles.

NO PUBLIC FAITH IN LANCASHIRE.

ONLY PER CENT. OF NEW DEBENTURES TAKEN,

TOUCHED UPON.

TEAR IN THE ENVELOPE.

EXPRESSING no opinion as to the future of the aihip in aerial transport-development, the Court of Enquiry into the R.101 disaster, which took the lives of Britain's foremost airship experts, have issued an ex- haustive Report into the cause of the accident, finding that it was mainly due to a tear in the envelope, which spread catastrophically and resulted in sudden loss of gas.

The theory that the airship broke in mid-air ́is rejected, and it is found that no fire occurred until the doomed craft. struck the ground.

THE ESTABLISHED FACTS

to

London, Mar. 31. Iman who was asleep in his bunk The Report of the Court of fund to cause things to slide to the. Enquiry into the disaster to the lower end of the amoke-room. R.101, which was destroybd at The height coxswain by putting Beauvals, all but eight of the 54 his elevator up succeeded at length persons abroad perishing instant in bringing the ship again ly in the fumes, has been released about an even keel, but she remain for publication.

ed in this position only for a few London, Mürs B1. Sir John Simon was the Prosi-secunda.

At about the time when it ap The City is extremely, digagzint-dent of the Court, his assistants ed with the result of the "Lahwa baisg Lt. Col. Moore-Brabazon pesired that she was not further shire Cotton Corporation's issue and Professor C. E. Ingils. Thele responding to the up-elevator so as for conclusions are unanimous. to recover height, the Officer of the CONGRESS OVER. of first mortgage debentures

through the The Report, which is a moat Watch gave orders £2,000,000.

to reduce no engine-ronm telegraph that the exhaustive document, offers in spite of the fact Karachi, Mar. 31.

A moment or two later; the ves- A storm of noisy enthusiasm interest rate was fixed at 5% per opinion on the future of airships, speed. resounded throughout Karachi cent. for six years, the underwriters recognising that it is for others to

bu which lusted for only a few seconda to-night at about midnight.vere left with 96 per cent. of the determine whether experiments insol got into a second stoop drive

issue, so that debentures to the this type of craft should

severe. denoting the termination of the value of only £80,000 were taken further pursued, and it is devoted before she struck the earth. The

entirely to the cause and ease of impact was not All-India Congress. London Mar. 31.

up by the public......

Action Aboard,” “ The financial year 1930-31 has

The final act pt Congress, sit-

The proceeds are to be used for the specific event.

For this purpose, important ended with a deficit of £23,275,000, ting in plenary session, was to reconditioning and modernising the

The slowing down of the engines, instead of a surplus of £2,238,000 adopt unanimously resolution mills in accordance with the ration-fentures in the construction and

first the subsequent modifications, and combined with the warning given for which Mr. Philip Snowden bad-consisting of an elaboration of Lalisation programme. The geted in April of last year.

Gandhi's famous Eleven Points, balance sheet of the Corporation, reconstruction of the vessel, to by the craw, is only consistent with Revenue for the year

flights stals forming the official Congress de-published recently, showed a net gether with the history of its the view having been taken that

carefully the vessel could recover. £776.894,000. and expenditure finition of "Parna Swaraj" (inde- loss of £102,368, of which £86,300 formen £799,170,000,

was accounted for by the writing pentlence). THIN 1 the biggest adverse

down of stocks from cost to mar- the national accounts

ket price. Renter.

BIGGEST RECORDED FOR FOUR YEARS.

balance in

It

Swaraj Programme. men in since the financial year 1926-27. The resolution demanda ap when the deficit was $36,693,000. Indian native government endowed The present deficit has already with various fundamental rights. Legations have been burned to been met by borrowings, and part and lays down a catalogue of de- KOWLOON MURDER

of the deficit is artificial, inasmuch tailed provisions, including The collapse of the majority of

A19 it is offset by an excess pay- the buildings in the city is report. ed by a local wireless operator, who All the Government offices have meat of £11,430,000 to the Sinking recently transferred his quarters been wrecked, and the banks and Fund.

The real deficiency therefore is five miles outside the city, which shops and offices which were not he says now lies in ruina,

destroyed by the quake have since £11,845,000.-Reyter, been burned down.

U.S. Navy's Relief Effort,

Later, The Navy Department has order- ed four naval vessels to proceed at once to Nicaraguan waters, includ- ing an aircraft-carrier.

Fire is causing added horrors. The conflagration, which spreading rapidly, first broke out in the market square, and it is travelling rapidly westeward. "It will probably finish the job." adds the wireless operator.

President Hoover, on receiving news of the catastrophe, immediate-Balbos to-night for Nicaragua, ly gave orders to the American aboard his flagship, the U. S. S. Red Cross to organise relief mea-Rochester. The warship will head nt full speed for Corinto, the port of Managua, where it is expect Jed to arrive on Friday.

Planes With Doctors.

:sures,

Flaming Bulldings.

Later,

been

Rear-Admiral Smith is leaving

Over four hundred have killed in the earthquake disaster Two naval transport planes have

QUICK DASH TO CAPETOWN.

MILLIONAIRE SPORTSMAN NOW AT ATHENS.

(a) the abolition of the salt

duty:

(b) control of exchange und currency policy:

(e) control of military expandi. ture;

MYSTERY.

MAN FOUND STRANGLED WITH CORD.

are

Apart from reducing speed, the examined.

only other action that could Established Facts.

be instantly taken to lighten the Discussing the cause of disaster impact would be to drop such ballast. the Court started with a series of as could be released from the con definitely ascertained facts, which tral car. Releasing the ballast in When the watch was changed not be automatically controlled, the inquiry established as follows: the nose of the ship which could at 2 a.m. there was no cause for was a further and slower operation, immediate alarm known to those in and yet orders were given to do charge of the navigation of the ship.this.

at The fire did not break out till The vessel must have been least 1,000 feet above the ground. after the ship atruck the ground. The ground itself at this point is two to three hundred feet above

A murder has been disclosed by ex-the discovery, shortly before sea level..

o'clock thia morning, of the body of a Chinese at the rear of No. 15, Austin Road, Kowloon.

(d) a reduction of national penditure by at ionat a half;

(e) the fixation of a minimum wage for industrial workers;

(f) the profection of Indiat:) cloth by the exclusion of foreign

and

annum.

Congress Party, at the resumed Round Table Conference.

FRENCH AIRMEN

ARRIVE.

Explanations Rejected.

First among the explanations de

At 2 m, the elevator wheel Anitely discarded by the Court is would be handed over to another any idea that the vessel from in-

air.

to

The man, whose age appears to height coxswain who would not atternal weakness broke up in the

was once get the feel of the ship. have been about 40 years,

The weather was exceedingly Secondly, the explanation is set strangled by means of a cordi, yarn:

on his hands and face bad. The ship in her trials had aside that there was any failure of

gas at an abnormal rate the control gear. (g) total prohibition of liquor; Marks London, Mar. 31.

testified to a desperate struggle lost

Thirdly, the Court reaches the certainly, by the wearing of holes The millionaire sportsman, Lieu- (h) the limitation of the salaries having been put up by the victim in the gasbags and perhaps through conclusion that the accident could

He

not be explained solely by reference tenant. Commander Glen Kidéton, of Civil Servants to £450 per before he was overpowered.

wore a Jersey and a pair of dark her valves when she rolled.

On the Indian journey she had to the abnormal weather conditions, with Lieutenant Catheart Jones as

cotton trousers, and appeara tu Viceroy Salary. Assistant Pilot, and Wireless Opera-

the labourer rolled more than over before, and although the weather was a pre- Netheravon,

have belonged te tor Johnson, left

"Unde Swaral," said, Mahatma clas..

had failed to keep height as the diaposing cause. Wiltshire, this morning for Capa-

Fourthly, there is no reason to town, which he hopes to reach in Gandhi, in un pddress on the re- The man's identity is being in- Officer of Watch Intended at an

attribute the accident to any fal- nix stays.

Bolution, even the Viceroy will vostigated by the police, who are earlier period..

lure in the competence of the Off The prescut record, estabilahed by not be-paid more than five of the opinion that more than ne

Course and Speelt..."

cers of the crow, but in view of at Managua according to an esti- been ordered to take off immediate the South African airman, Cas hundred rupeos à month!"

person is impll:ited in the crime.

....... If she was becoming increasing the recent change of watch, and of mate by the Tropical Radio Station ly from Balbes for Managua, carry-paruthus, is 811⁄2 days.

Gandhi added that the indepon-

iy heavy this could be counter-the prevailing weather, it may well at Miami, while at least thirty-jing doctors and medical stores. Commander Kidston is proceed-dance programme outlined in the

acted by a apilable lift of the have been impossible to bring five were Incinerated in the collapse

Cairo, the Ing vin Athens, The glant aircraft-carrier,

Nairobi. resolution would represent the

ship elevator but in very bumpy weather the

rapidly back of flaming buildings in the contre U. 3. S. Lexington, is already go Broken Hill, and thence to Cape demands of delegates from the

It would be more difficult to detect a horizontal position if her nose. of the town.

ing at full speed from Guantanamo town.-British Wireless.

rate and the extent of the was forced down in the wayang. Later. Members of the National Guard, in Cuba, to Bluefields, on the enst

change. All her engines had been gested:" who wore hastily organised and ral coast of Nicaragun, from which Lieutenant Commander Kidston

running satisfactorily at cruising tled wonderfuly to check the panic, further planes will be despatched has arrived at Naples.-Reuter.

speed for a considerable time falled in their efforts to chock the to Managua with medical дван

right down to 2 a.m. This ought Fifthly, a longitudinal gasbag The French airmen, Moonch to give a speed through the air of movement is so limited in artan p that, by itself, it is quite insam and Bartin, who are on their home a little over 50 knots. ward flight from Tokyo to Paris, The course of the vessel was clent to account for a serious loss Later,

arrived at the Kal Tack Aero not directly in the teeth of the of control even in tempestuous cone London, Mar. 31. of the Injured,

No newspapers are being publính-

Cawnpore Disturbance. drome from Shanghal at one wind and her spood over the ditions. pinned under the dobria, filled the ed in England on Good Friday-

o'clock this afternoon.

ground might be expected to bo Experta who gave evidence be New York, Later. air as United States marine patrols

Cawnpore, Mar. 31.

love the explanation of the disas According to the latest. ad-scrambled over the smouldering

The situation is steadily improv Router's message from Shang 16 to 20 miles per hour.

In these circumstances, at about ter must be associated with a sub- vices from quake-stricken Mana-Irains of Managua to succour them.

ing. The military pickota have at-hal had previously notined their

report gun,"the_death-roll is in excess

dropped and she continued in this discusses whether the lose thousand, while it is contral business district, volun- seriously injured.

While fire raged through the nurses treated hundreds who were ready been withdrawn in certain departure from that port at 5.80 ave minutes past two, her nose stantial loss of as, and the

areas but owing to the fear of out-L. breaks of disease and further trou-

position for about thirty-seconds, general throughout the length tho ship, or chlady concentrated timated that several thousands teors raced ahead of the flames, Above the tragic scene, the ble, the inhabitants of the affected p ve been injured...

First Bad Pitch,

a fore part, was the loss as removing the Injured, headless of new Presidential Palace, built on areas are taking refuge elsewhere, have been killed and their houses descending raplay pi

due to a sudden i en hill overlooking the city stands The principal bazaar

bazaars remain

burned down in villages near Cawn-.

"downwards Tinjured and dead are report- the risks from falling walls.

hich would

· od to,”ude a number of American

pore, to which a strong force of Hor pitch. In the only hospital standing, unharmed.-Router's. "American closed. women, d children, the relatives United States marine doctors and Service.

Several Moselets are reported to polloe has been, ordered Resiter l'aumciently savere to wake up

path of the flames, all attempts.be-tance.

ing frustrated by the exhaustion of stocks of dynamite, which were be-

Ing employed to blow up buildings in the path and to eliminate natural

bridges for the flames."

Succouring the Victims.

The monna

NEWSPAPER HOLIDAY.

Router.

*

The final session of Congress was protracted by the President's ruling that no decisions could be renched until the roturn of Hindus and Moslems who were tom- porarily absent from the session, praying. Reuter.

"TRIP FROM SHANGHAI IN

GOOD TIME.

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