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APRIL 六拜禮號四月四英港香 SATURDAY'

4, 1931.

日七十月二

058 PERLANRUM

SINGLE COFT IN CHATO

VIVID COLLISION STORY. KAYE DON SETS Shanghai Flier QUAKE-RUINED

NEW RECORD. - Delayed.

GLÓRIOUS RACING,

TO RESCUE

SPEEDING AT OVER 30 KNOTS.

TERRIFIC IMPACT ON FLORIDA'S PORT.

HITLER LOSING

GRIP ON GERMAN NAZIS.

DEFIED BY BERLIN CHIEF OF STORM TROOPS.

جدد

BREAK-UP PENDING.

Berlin. Apr, R. "Alf leathers tof_Arm troops must immediately sign their un

4 PLANES LOST. conditional obedience to Hilter."

Malaga, Apr. 2.

A vivid narrative of the disastrous collision off Gibralter between H. M. S. Glorious and the French liner Florida, has been enfolded as a result of the arrival of the aircraft-carrier and her sin- king victim.

The warship was speeding at thirty knots and the liner af seventeen when the crash occurred, the impact being tremendous.

MISS ENGLAND II

SUCCEEDS.

HUNDRED AND THREE MILES AN HOUR.

BRITISH TRIUMPH.

Burnos Aires, Apc. 2. America retained the world's water speed record for less than a This army order issued by the fortnight. Kaye Don recapturing Britain Sax Chief of Staff indicates the the honour for Great waning of the power of the Foto-day

the waters of the det fanatle, and represents his Parana River in Miss England 11. latest shot in the fierce wartore be-Thus Britain still holds the speed tween an influential section of the records for land, water-und air. Nazis in Berlin, and the High Com- mand at Munich.

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The new record established was first announced a 103.73 miles an hour, but this was later changed to an official time of 103,19 miles an hour.

MANAGUA.

Held up at Athens GHASTLY DETAILS

OF DISASTER. for Fortnight.

BORN IN CHINA.

Lindon, Apr. 5.

It is Indicated in messages from Athens that the damage to Mr. J. 1. Ford's Gipsy Moth plane, caused by a crush in a snowstorm, is not No meriers as was at first believed,

It is certain, however, that B Shanghai nirman will be held up at Athens for

5,000 DEATH-ROLL NOW FEARED,

FRESH SHOCKS. -

Managua, Apr. 2. The full picture of the death, horror and destruction

at at least a fortnight waiting for spare parts en

enabling repairs to be effected-Reuter,

to

Mr. Ford is an employee of the Anintle Petroleum Company North China) Ltd., being attached The Nazis in Berlin, wher

their Seochow office and inter at relating Hiter's supremacy,

Klukiang. He was born in Chine led by Captain Stennes, the "Chief

32 years are, the son of a leading of the Nazi Storm Troops in North

The best time achieved by Con-official of the China Inland Mission, Germany, who was superanted on

who is at present in Shanghai sup- account of his independent pro-modore Gar Wood, the famous pervising the construction of the American racing motorboat Mission's new bullding on Sinza pensities by Hiller,

Upon Captain Stennes refusing speedster, in the Miss America IX

Road.

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the earthquake-stricken capital of Nicaragua, cannot yet be completed. The disas ter is on a bigger scale than even the most pessimistic of the early estimates.

According to latest figures, the death-roll cannot fall fur short of 5,000!

·Every Inmate of the hospital and the penitentiary are reported to have been killed in the total to vacate his office, Witler ordered on March 20, after three attempts While in Shanghai, the airmus, collapse of this buildings at the flying frst tragie shock. It is stated the Berlin Chief. Dr. Goebbels towns 103.156 m.p.h.. the new re-who had no knowledge of In the confusion. seventeen carry out a ruthless springelean of eord exceeding that by 1.34 miles when he left China on Home teave that there were not less than aeroplanes from the Glorious, the party and to meet the "unser an hour.

Home months ago,

keen seven hundred persons housed in The Parana River was heavily member of the S.V.C. and an ac- these buildings at the time of the unable to land on their mother-pulous insubordinate elements."

The Party has exrommunicated swollen by recent rains rendering tive member of the Rowing Club, disaster. ship, headed for luni. Four of them failed to reach their de-Captain Stennes, who suborned the Kaye. Don's task more than nor competing in the international races

at Henii. an official newspaper.mally hazardous, and it in belleved stination, but their crews were stuff

which ceased publication.

that in calm conditions his won-

In the course of his fight, when rescued dramatically by warships.

The indications at present are derful craft would be capable of resumed, he will call at Honging crusing in the vicinity of the towards a completo breakup of the still better time than that record-It is expected that he will arrive mishap.

Party rather than towards a re-ed.

here in about five weeks.

of

The decident to the Florida and conciliation of the forces of active The course was set over a nau- the Glorious appears to have but revolution under Captain Stennestical mile and the amazing speed its origin in un aceltiont during and the farees on legal action under with which the craft tore through the waters rently Impressed the Hitler, Reuter,

thousands of spectators thronging the banks.

the matovuvres to a seaplane from ILMS. Glorious,

Racing to Rescue.

The machine crashed into the sea, and the captain of tho, air- craft-carrier ordered his vessel at full spood for the spot where the plane had fallen.

While the Glorius was travel- ling at thirty knots, the Florida. travelling at seventeen, suddenly emerged out of the fog across the bows of the Glorious.

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DEATH OF A NOTED NOVELIST.

MISS KATHERINE TYNAN

PASSES

AWAY.

BOMB OUTRAGE

CANTON,

TWO KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED.

U. S. Officer's Estimate. Two thousand dead is the esti- mate made by Colonel F. L. Brad- man, of the United States Medical Corps, who has taken charge of relief work In Managua.

The task is extremely dimeuit

IN and exceedingly dangerous, owing to the fact that most of the walls which are still standing are totter-

Jeaning at ing or angles.

precarious

Presidential Palner Doomed.

The Presidential Palace, which

DUNLOP

Reinforced Motor Cycle

*Tyres

LOCAL BRANCH.

Paddar Bldg.

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

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It's no good Hongkong husbands

lu most crines, you can depond upon a Scotsman to sit tight and going to the cinema nowadays to | give nothing away,

escape too muchee talkie-talkie.

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One more throat right after another gets to be a pʊin in the neck!

២ . "And how's my grub to-day ?" as the mosquito affectionately addressed his larvae.

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"Nanking has been consulting Hongkong regarding our · land Iowa.. Let's hope they'll follow suit when we stabilise our dollar.

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We prosume it was merely for tuitous that on the first night spent by the Currency Commis- In a speech in Kuala Lumpur, sioners in Hongkong the Govern one of the Currency Commnts- ment should broadcast "You're sioners said silver dollara were Lucky to Me," "We've Got to hardly ever seen In Hongkong Carry On." "The Same As We nowadays. By this time, he's no Ured To Do," and "You'll Never doubt encountered weighty

rea- Reallse." sons to the contrary,

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Butter is now being mentioned "The kilt still has its supporters as a cure for lumbago. Give

It yourself a pat on the back!

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in Scotland," says a writer. would be certainly most embar- rassing if it hadn't.

Shanghai correspondent recently wrote to the papers Just now the Ilongkong Govern- criticising the conduct of many ment is spring-cleaning, with the young men aboard ship when going currency experts as a brnom for on leave. Evidently homeward- Improvement.

bounders!

Scratchinge,"

hending.

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raiso cane.

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World's Ning Wonders: A

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dollar note.

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Green fee powder, a news Item says, is the rage in Paris.

Perfectly kill ing. thla Paris green!

A

.scientist thinks The will soon be possible

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A Dan Was fined this wook for advertising on 0 steam faunch. Serves him right. What dogs he think newspapers are for 7

An Army may travel

ita stomach, but some people We encounter travel on thoir Kall.

With summer

styles In the offing, hubbies are having their annual fit.

In August next, Miss England 13 and Miss America IX are to race against each other at Detroit.

Wifi: If I should die, sehat -Reuter's Americau Service,

would you do?

Hubby: I'd almust go crazy. · American Congratulations.

rubber is bullt on a high hill, and which get

Would yon marri potatoes. Wifter was first reported to have come from New York. Apr. 3. PIRATES' REVENGE.

egain? through the quake undamaged, is Then, no doubt, "Heartiest congratulations upon

leaning actually Canton, Apr. 3.

sideways they'll be calind Breaking my record. 1 muy give

Hubby: No, I worddn't go London, Ápr. 3. you another mark to shoot at Following abortive attempts to threateningly, and may crash into inner tubers!

a razy w that. The earth has occurred of

the event of a cabled soun,"

Commodore Gar exact tribute from Chinese ship the lagoon in

☐ ☐ Katherine Tynan, the noted novel-Wand, on hearing that Kaye Dun ping companies operating vessels further shock.

"Thrift Week" may mean a lot

We note from a contemporary The impart was so terrific that at and verse-writer.

It will take years to rebuild the in other places. but in Scotland that Scotsmen are always to be half the port side of the Florida Mrs. Katherine Tynan Hinkson had recaptured the world's water on the West River, alleged pirate

found in the four corners of the was slave in and it was remark in ordinary life, she began writing

speed record for England. agents placed a big bomb outside city of Managua; indeed, the it's not weak.

earth. As to that, we are not sure The American speedster is loay-the offices of one of these com- opinion is expressed by able that the vessel did not sink. at the age of seventeen, publishing for Miami Immediately with pantes located at No. 15 Chiu Yum people that the capital may have Al we enn say about

Mr. but that they are invariably to be The bows of the Glorious crashing her first volume of verse as the Miss America IX and will make Street

to be removed to Granada.

Champkin's address on the found also in the four corners of a ed through the liner's aide into

1885. Two years attempt to beat the mark set by The builday morning.

was occupied by While there is an abundance of humorous aspect of silver is that railway carriage. hold in which emigrants were long ago as lying. Severni are known to have later, she began to write

prose Kaye Don. In three attempts at the Tung Hing Shipping Company. fond and medical supplies arrivit takes a real hero to see any joke

ghoat-haunted principal Miam! recently, he did 100.6 mph., which employs vessels plying being, and while there is no lack of in the situation. been killed when the warship and this became her

house is for sale, but there is no 101.154 m.p.h. and 102.115 m.p.h.tween Canton and Shlubing. The doctors, an outbreak of disease is crushed in her side in this way. mode of expression.

bomb was wrapped up in news-feared as a result of the lack of Shanghai intends paying its mention made of the starting bat the exact number of casualties- A prolific author. Miss Tynan in successive runs.

pure water. papers and was not noticed.

civil servants on the basis of price. published well over 3 hundred

Scalp-Hunting.

An explosion occurred a few

Instead of water, beer is being half at one-and-six and the rest at merit. The Hongkong basis is novels, as well as numerous short

When Scot and Jew meet, the stories.

Kaye Don is going sealp-hunting minutes later, resulting in a widely dispensed.

Mosiac Law comes immediately official of the shipping company in a similar way.

into operation-an I for an I, He is taking Miss England II, being killed instantly and two

cannot yet be ascertained.

Seaman Killed on Spot.

The prow of the Glorious was

She was a collector of old chino

battered and bent and one of her and bred dogs as a hobby,—Reuter the record-brenker to Lake Garda fokin and one pedestrian being

crew was killed on the spot, while several were injured, one of the seamen suffering from crushed

legs,

PEARLERS LOST WITH ALL HANDS.

STORM DISASTER OFF THE

AUSTRALIAN COAST.

Lates H.M.S. Glorious, after landing the passengers of the Florida and bringing the liner close enough to the whare to permit her te be bruched, left for Gibraltar this!

Perth, Apr. 3. evening with two men dend and) seven injured, who could not bej

A message from Broome reach handed owing to the bad weathering Perth in West Australia) to-day announces that three pear Appeal for Succnur.

ling luggers have been sunk in The Civil Governor of Malagu storm and their Asitsic crews last. Two other luggers belonging to has appealed for three hundred) bects for the strainded passengers the Heet were enst nshore in the of the Florida, which will not be gate.-Router. senworthy for Kome months judging by her present condition.

London, Inter.

The Admiralty to-night issued: an official statement announcing that four aeroplanes from H.M.S. Glorious were lost in the sea after the collision, but all the crews were rescued.—Reuter. .

GANDHI THE SOLE DELEGATE.

CONGRESS AND ROUND TABLE PARLEY.

New Delhi, Apr. 3.- The heart-burnings that were likely to have been caused by the selection of the Congress delegates to the Round Table. Conference. have been averted-by-a-decision-of the Executive Committee of the Congress.

BALANCING BUDGETS IN D. E. INDIES.

CUTS IN CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES.

Batavia, Apr. 1. Five per cent. is being lopped off the salaries of civil and mill-

tary officials in the Dutch East

in Italy to compete for the An-wounded. nunzio Cup, founded in memory of

some

the current rate.

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New Shocks, and Bundit Thrent.

Here's hoping that some of our- Further shocks this morningNo. 2 hens will lay No. 1 Easter One of the wounded men dle on brought down a number of totter- eggs!

ing walls, which caused a serious the late Sir Henry Segrave, who his way to the hospital,

panic among the thousands of re- was killed in Miss England 11 last

fugees camped on the outskirts of year.

the city. EUROPEAN

GRAVE CHARGE.

excellent feat

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a new re-

Regarding his yesterday in getting card, Mr. Kaye Don told Reuter over the Transatlantic telephone that his craft was capable of much better time. He alluded to the difficulties experienced in the Parana River both in the way of the heat of the water and the heat of the atmosphere.

FACES

REMANDED IN CUSTODY

TILL MONDAY.

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Fires have broken out again, and fanned by a strong breeze are spreading among areas not already devoured by flames, while rumour that bandits, headed by General Sandino, are massing te attack the city, has increased the fears of the populace.

Reassuring Message.

Later,

A European, whose name was given as Harry Simon, appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning in 105 Degrees in Shade!

connexion with serious allegations

A New York message from The temperature

Was 105 de-of fraud.

Mexico City states that General grees in the shade when he mude

He was charged with stealing or Sandino has sent a message to his his successful attempt.

obtaining by false pretences or by representative there, saying that Such high temperatures upset other fraudulent means a letter he has ordered the cessation the calculations on cooling of his in the name of Mr. A. W. engine and the carburation, com- Summers, of Messrs. L. E. Gale Router's American Service. pelling the use of a bigger pro- und Company. Simon pleaded not Bellor, at a sacrifice of ten, miles | gulity. an hour.

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Presumably these ten miles will be available when Miss England IT comes out for racing in climes.-Renter.

He was further charged with possession of an automaile, an ammunition clip and seven rounds cooler of ammunition without a parmit. Detectiva Inspector Shannon, applying for a formal remand. said there were certain matters he go into with the wanted to MADMAN FIRES AT accused. He had no objection to bail provided this was substantial. CONGREGATION.

· expenditure.----

His Worship (to Simon): Can you put up 83,000?

Indies as from the first of July, and another five per cent. as from January 1 next, with a view to reducing public Reuter.

AMERICA'S NEW NAVY CHIEF.

ADMIRAL-SCHOFIELD- NOMINATED.

TWO KILLED AND FIVE WOUNDED.

Accused: haven't got that. His Worship:-One thousand dollars?

Simon auid he could get that Budapest, Apr. 4.. amount by Monday, and was During a service in the princi-nccordingly remanded in Police pal Synagogus in Budapest Inat custody until that date. evening, mam apparently"Bud- denly demented, whipped out a re- volver and fired repeatedly into the Washington, Apr. 3. midst of the congregation. Admiral Frank Schofield has

Two were killed and five wound- nominated

succeeded. Mahatma may take the Congress Admiral William Pratt

The man was arrested. He is Working Committee and otherim- mander-in-chief of the United said to be an engineer named Zat- portant loaders for consultation States Fleet-Houter's American loka, fifty-three years of ago, an behind the scénés.--Reuter.

Fanti-Semitic Catholic-Reki

The

Working Committee decided

the been

to appoint Gandhi to be the sole

representative, though

Service

to

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of all offensive movements.-

MOTOR CYCLE HITS TRAMCAR.

"BELGOL" OFFICER BREAKS AN ARM.

Mr. Cyril Collins, an officer of H. M. S. Belgol, fractured his right arm in a collision af Queen's Road East at 5 pm. yesterday..

Mr. Collins was a pillion passen-

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Shanghai

The only chance a motorist has nowadays of getting choup tyres is to wait until his own come down.

According to the report of the

What is this strange unheard-

of calm? The silence makes us puzzled. Where are the schemes that Registrar, there was a decrease

sought the palm?

of 38 marriages in Hongkong last

And why the sponsors muzzled? year. This may cause a reduction Not long ago, acarce day could in the number of dumped bodies,

pase,

Suggestions were inflleted, Concerning silver, gold or brass, Should paper be restricted? The pseudo experts reusoned

why

Our trade was deadly quiet; With wisdom each with each

would vic:

In hopes that we, would try it. Some Bald to China we should

atick,

No matter what it cost. While others swore they knew

the trick,

To replace all wo'd lost.

But since real experts now are

here,

"Vegetarian:"No! as far as we know, a Rotarian is not a per- son who lives on cavlare.

We notice that this year's bathing costume style for the fair sex, includes "panties." "Scanties" would probably be a more fitting

term.

The precocious youngster who let the whole Peak tram know that he had seven Easter eggs, certain- ly had something to crow about!

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In the old days, one of the popular evening occupations wag Roing out and studying the stars.

The local schemes obtuse Have faded out of sight, we With the advent of more talkies, this custom is in no danger of dying out.

fear.

Or else there is a truce 'Mong those who posed as being

wine,

Who swore they knew the

stuff;

Or is it the correct surmise, At Inst is called their blufti ᄆᄆ

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With this four days holiday at

Easter, it will be a fine chance for lots of people to study the cur roncy problem.

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We notice in Volunteer Orders in a day and night. This is

A London airman roached Cairo

Look how much

gor on a motor cyclo driven by Mr.that the Scottish Company will good nows..

trament.

Mr. Collina has been admitted to the Naval Hospital.

D. Kilby, of the Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, shortly appear in white spats and quicker we can leave the place now. and when opposite the R. E. Bar-putteca. Like the problem of the rackus, the vehicle collided with a hon and the egg, however, we Shanghal is contemplating an

wonder which comes first.

Entertainment Taxi This' masna, of course, that it will be collected There is also in feeling in Immediately you stop anlorestaur Scottish circles that its represent tatives in the Volunteers "should Soveral Battersea Italians ar kong yesterday owing to bad revert to the claymore and the squabbling over the Trinh Swans weather conditions outside, took the pernicious practice of getting, sum, a couple of Scotwhen infine battic-axd. This would eliminato prize of $340,000. For, ballATHAN off fram Kal Tack Aerodrome this up en a cold Sunday morning to do ly placed would have one "The French airmen, Moench and sterning at 10.40. But he were held up in Hongtahunga konalaska

LaTheyɛare heading, for. Hanölii.

FRENCH AIRMEN OFF THIS MORNING:

DIRECT HOP TO HANOI PROPOSED.

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