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Tel. 20209. JOHN 1 WE+ALXWF THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.

23,577

AMERICAN SPANISH NAVY

OFFICER MISSING.

DISAPPEARANCE FROM SHIP.

NAVAL TUG SENT TO SEARCH.

MUTINY.

THREE SHIPS JOIN IN REVOLT.

REPORT DENIED.

Madrid, Apr. 22.

Rumours of impending trouble in the Spanish Fleet, stationed at Cartagena, the fortified port on the Mediterranean, and the site of the naval arsenal, cul- minated with a mutiny of the

MYSTERY OF SEA.jerows of the warship "Cer-

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A British naval tug to- gether with

junks and sampans are searching the

and benches

The vicinity of Lintin Jaland, in the hope of discovering Mr. George J. Lavin, Chief Officer of the American steamer Golden Mountain, who is reported to have fal. len overboard last night.

vantes" and of two destroyers, but not at Cartagenu, at Cadiz Harbour.

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PUBLIC LETTER TO

CLEGG MISSION.

STABILISATION OF DOLLAR AT TWO SHILLINGS.

LOAN METHOD URGED.

STABILISATION of the dollar at Two Shillings by

means of a Loan, is the plea of local merchants who have drafted a Community Letter to the Currency Mission, and are requesting believers in a stabilised currency to append their signatures. The authors state that all legitimate trade in the Colony has been brought to a standstill, and describe the suggestion that trade would go to Canton as fallacious.

The

The full text of the letter is given below. argument that we must wait for China for business reasons is attributed to "certain institutions, interests and persons, who have more concern in exchange fluc- The letter is tations than in the distributing trade." mutiny

being kept open for signatures until Thursday next.

Detalla at the attain are lacking. It is believed that wante port o all ray of a serious kind took place, understand that the at il mutineers were overpowered and taken, in vastudy, ashore,

It is believes that the way inspired by Communists.

naval Reports of the The local agents for the ves from Cadiz are apparently exa sel are hopeful that Mr. Lavingorated. It is now stated that on will be found alive. He was a arrival of the squadron at Cadiz

swimmer.

Sailors went ashores and and it strong thought he may have been wash-duced in noisy Republican demon-

Evaring strations.

down Royal

Later

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ed to one of the islands in the Emblems from a number of build-| locality.

The States Shipping Compway, agents for the Golden Mountain. which in of the Ceranic rund Orientad Navigation Company, re exfved intimation of the accident This morning at 5 o'clock, in a wireless message from Cupt. H. B. Hansen, the master of the vessel.

Missed This Morning.. The message reported that the Gritten Mountain lest Stonecutter's

Island for Manila, via Haiphong and Saigon. at 10 pm, and passed through Sulphur Channel.

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Meanwhile, It is reported tha

of the United The Governistamal States has recognised the Spanish Beagblie, Reuter.

Altonen Goes Shopping,

London, Apr. 22. King Alfonso, whe spent the lay paying in Lomton shoppin" and

sonal vally, is expected to pay

The Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce, stated at the annual meeting yesterday that The Chamber's committee was still of the opinion that a change to a gold standard was inadvisable while China remains on a silver standard. He could, however, hold out no hope that the dollar would recover to its former levels.

FULL TEXT OF COMMUNICATION,

The text of the jetter follows:| To the Currency Commissjon. Gentlemen. We, the Attached

which, first and last, is the renkon-to-be of This Colony,

That

日六初月三

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SINGLE COFT 10 CKNTB

FORT

DUNLOP

Refførend Motor Cycle. Tyres

LOCAL BRANCH,

Pedder Bldg.

Racing Airman FLOOD TRAGEDIES DRAMATIC

Forced Down.

NEA

Capt. Hawks Gets Off Lightly.

REVEALED.

ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD

DROWNED.

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PINGSHAN MISHAP.

Further tragic consequences

of the "cloudburst" in the New: Territories are gradually being:

AFFAIR IN SHANGHAI.

CHINESE SHOT BY U.S. SAILOR.

unfolded. Ten lives were lost in GANG MASSED FOR

n disastrous flood at Mun Hang. where every member of a far- mer's household was drowned, while another tragedy occurred near Ping Shan.

AN ATTACK.

When the torrential down BEDROOM SCENE.

was at its worst in the afternoon. round about three o'clock, an im- mense torrent of water, which hud apparently been held up by an ob-| stacle for some time, swept down the hillside above Mun Hang, fo the Shatin District, and carried | away three matsheds.

The occupunta consisted of farmer, his wife, two children and six labourers, and all were drown- ed in the flood, their bodies car- ried almost to the sea before fel- low vllagers were able to recover them.

Village Floods.

At about the same time, another Chinese was drowned in attempt-

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Apr. 23.

A burly American sailor, named J. Garefa, who shot and killed a Chinese intruder shortly after midnight, re- lated an extraordinary story to the Shanghai police in the carly hours of this morning, when he was detained pend ing investigation of the affair.

The man's story that he shot

ing to swim to a sampan which hut in self-defence is believed, A broken away from Its moorings. gang of fifteen Chinese hooligans A report of the incident has forced their way into his resi- been made by Cheung Shin, aged dence, and smashed down the 29, murried woman of Ma Tin door of his bedroom, bent on at- Village, Ping Shan. She stated

ted tacking him. He shouted a that during the height of the

air and daughter Signaturies, Merchants. Proper exists chiefly a Como FLIGHT TO ROME. for man at about 4.30 p.m. ping Rond at about ten

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storm, she and her husband, Chan warning, and, when it was ignor Muk-hi pged 24. were sheltering ined, put a bullet through the head thefr house. The water was of the first man to cross the rising rapidly, and her husband threshold. suggested that the furniture According to the sailor's story, should be collected and removed to he retired to bed with his wife at safety. He accordingly went out their residence at No. 16, Kung- This Colony, which!

but failed to return. mother-in-law, of

last night. Both of them and Fuctory-Owners, (2nern Vitoria. #!

this Colon; ributing manufactured goods to

was subsequently learned went off to sleep, Resident-Investors o Torquay this work. British Wire-

South Ching, possessed a Stable

London, Apr. 22.

that he was drowned in attempt- -hereby notify You that we ar

Wife's Screams. convinced that the Stabilisation of his buying Erice to a certainty,noted American

Captain Frank Hawks, the ing to swim to the sampan which Currency the Merchant. knowing Nanking. Apr. 29.

speed flier. had drifted from its mooring Our Curreary is matter of

Shortly before midnight, he was The Nathing Foreign Ministry urgent necessity that the follar would he encouraged to roll holder of the record for a Trans-durinr

onrush

seen to swim awakened by Mrs. Garefa's wild Jens telegerandort Mr. Wang Linke, should be stabilised, preferably attocks here, the advantage America flight, which he com-Chan Muk-hi

Chinese | Getar Chinese Minister in Spain. Two Shillings; and that such himself. of the bone manufacpleted at an

avernge speed of ou He appears to have got into sereamit and founda formally instructing

His body was standing in the bedroom, holding ELFITI

Stabilisation should be atole post Spasible by means of a Stabilisation fomers in the Coast Ports, who about 200 miles an hour, made

hundred covered after the flood had subsida torchlight in his hand, which ho

flashed upon the bed. Republican Governinent,

would be mentiraged to buy, as a forged landing one they then could des, in manageable and fifty kilometres south of jepantities. ay

Wine 11 hey Puris to-day, in the course of a

light to Rome, Leequired the groots.

3r.is.

Mr Lavin, called for the morning watch at abrupt ♫ welck, wont frandl la he missing.

The missing matt was last seen on the forecastle head at alemat TR0 p.m. and the explains mess

Alates age

in bedied fis Chief Ollieer fell overheard about tour miles north of Lartin Island, at about 1136 pum.

Commodore Takes Aution. Mr. 1. J. Prass, Manizer of thi State Shipping 'saman, discis ed the matter with the Commotore, who immediately ordered a naval buy in steam of the spot, and, with

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In support of our convictions and beliefs we subunit the follow

FEETHAM REPORT mg remiana!

ON SHANGHAI NOW COMPLETED.

That Dar Dollar being only as Piece of Silver, and Silver bringgi merely a Commodity and so rule!

Turers, and of his Chinese

China Going Golet. - That knowing as we do that the

by the Law of Supply and Demand, Chinese are finding it impossibio a silver edinage is not a suitable

or safe isiken for trade or barter beamonstersen@DIF};36542962(Para@88622419menstruacan

hed from the fishing erat in thFIRST VOLUME BEING ISSUED & world ruled by gold.

Arinity. Maeva the sam

The Naval suthorities consider. nd that in Mr. Lavin had acciden tally fallen overboard. Ühere was a good chance of him living washed Upon Lastatina or some of the other islands in the vicinity, as he was

a strong swimmer.

Mr. Lavin was 31 years of are, and was regarded to a promising from the East olice. He rame

Post of the United States, and had been visiting Hongkong on the Golden Mountain for nearly a year.

MONEY RATES IN AUSTRALIA.

RESTRICTION ON BANKS FREEDOM.

Mr. Scullin declared that con- trol of the money rates could not be left to private institutions,

The B was intended to pre-

from acting inde vent banks pendently of the government. In lerest nt present

burden.--Renter.

SATURDAY.

POLITICAL FUTURE.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai. Apr. 25

Trade at Standstill.

That the Fluctuntipas in the Gold Value of Our Dollar durin the last year have been so extreme that at this date all legitimate) trading is praetionily at a stand- Estill, and that such trading as is. curried on is merely a gamble in exchange.

That the ever-increasing aut Mr. Justice Feet ham has turn of silver as a fly-Product by informed the Municipal Council, the Base Metal Industries, and that he proposes to present Ure the huge amount' of Stocks heldĮ Fest volume of his Report onby various governments for dis Saturday, April 25.

рона. forbids the hope that

The volume includes a survey Silver ran over regain. its old thistorien and descriptives of the value; in fact makes the prospect] general position with regard to of its fall, and that to here-to-fure the government of

Inter-uninugined levels, a certainty, the nutional Selflement and also a That Stabilisation at Two study of various aspects of Shang- Shillings would place the Govern;} bai's position as a business centre, ment of The Colony on a sound and of the factors in which that financial basis in the matter of position is due.

Salaries and Sterling! Sterling Commitments in London.

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SHANGHAI DUMPING

SITUATION.

OFFICIAL REFUSE TO DISCUSS.

Garein says he jumped to his foot. The intruder fleil from the room and then, for the first time, the sator discovered that the In- truder was accompanied by others, who were crouching in the hali outside.

There was a hurried departure on the part of the whole gàng.-

Gang Return to Attack,

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Apr, 23.

A few minutes later,. Garofa I is learned that over 10,000

having shut and locked the door dead bodies, of children and adults, in the meantime, was discussing have been found in the streets in whether he should go inmediately Chinese territory in Shanghai Into the Police Station to report the the past year.

Captain Hawks set out from Mes- ton Aededrome in the early hours of the morning, with the object of Blying from England to Rome and back in a clev

powerful Machine capable of 200 miles an Jonr.

He was going strongly when en- ISSUE OF GOLD NOTESgine trouble developed and he was

IN CHINA.

forced down. Fortunately. airman marie a god faning and esenped without injury and with ot damging his machine.

When he had made the necessary adjustments, he took off again and Interviewed, Chinese officials re-affair, when he heard the

He realised at once that their reached Rome at noon, having traits to produce gures or to disceping up the stairs again.

cuss the subject. velled at an average speed of 174

return meant that they contem Be will complete |

piated an attack upon him, and he to-marrow.--British-

procured a 45 automatic pistol, which he kept under his pillow, and prepared for a fight..

FIRST STEP TOWARDS A GOLD STANDARD.

his

(Our Own Correspondent).miles an hour,

fight Wireless.

has

Shanghai, Apr. 23. Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nan- king Minister of Finance, announced that com- mencing on May 1, the Cen- tral Bank of China will issue banknotes expressed in term of Customs' gold units (valued at 40' cents Gold ́to the dollar),

This is described as a mea- sure of convenience to im- porters for the payment of duties in Shanghai and the outports though apparently the notes will be legal tender for commercial transactions, thus representing, in a way, China's first step towards the introduction of a gold stand- ard.

THE JACK DIAMOND TORTURE CASE.

NOTORIOUS GANGSTER RELEASED ON BAIL.

Catskill, Apr. 22.

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RUMOURED SINKING OF SUBMARINE.

MERELY ROUTINE TESTING WORK.

gang

Assault on Door.

Following some seconda of muffled conversations outside the current in the door, the gang, began an assault Colony yesterday that a submarine on it with heavy blows.

Rumours were

had sunk in the harbour, one of these vessels being observed in an

The door began to give way un-

Jack Diamond, the New York apparently sinking condition downder their attack and Garefa gangster, charged with second de-by the stern, with a sampan and took up a position at the foot of Kree assault on a lorry driver tug in attendance flying red flags, the bed, cocked his automatic and

shouted: The incident was merely a cer- named Parks, following torture tain test in progress, carried out by

allegations, has been released on bail which was fixed at C$25,000. — Routers American Serrier.

THE GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT..

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officials following routine recon ditioning work.

HONDURAS REVOLT.

TWENTY-NINE REBELS DIE IN SKIRMISH.

OVER HALF MILLION

New York, Apr. 22.- MEMBERS AT HOME.

message from Tegucigalpa, Londen, Apr. 22. the capital of Honduras, slates that Princess Mary, Countess of twenty-nine rebels have been killed

Canberra, Apr. 22. Mr. Justice Feetham further The House of Representatives his states that he hopes to be in a

Stabilisation Figure. passed the second reading of the position to present the second Government's Bil regulating Bank | volume, three weeks later,

That the gure of Two Shillings rates of interest, though the actual This will deni directly with the #gure has not been fixed.

main political questions affecting years previous to the present the Settlement and will contain debacle in Silver) came to be proposals and suggestions as to regarded as an average rate; that

factories,

and shipyards, the future,

Fach volume, as presented in industries generally paid for their with the up plant and were built priut, will be published by the

dollar at an average value of Two Counell, Immediately on presenta-Shillings or over; and that to

atubiline at any lower &gure would to buy European manufactured twenty-five per cent. of the natiount The Report is being translated be equivalent to writing down goods at tire present rate of Income. It ን** 1121 intolerable into Chinese but owing to Ita their capital

like ratio; and Exchange, and that the Chinese Harewood, at the annual meeting in a skirmish between rebels and length, the translation will take that the same applies to House Government finds it impossible

of the Girl Guides' Association at Government fores on the North

Imterial the

Headquarters, Const. considerable time to complete.

and Other Property, and to the pay the Interest on Its gold loans

The Government casualties were Share Capital of All Companies for the same reason, and learning announced that there are now registered in This Colony: that Chlum expects to be able 560,000 Guides in the British Isles, light-Reuters American Service.

to raise a gold loan to an increase in a year of 40,000,-- That the contention that her currency, and that British Wireless. Stabilisation, trade would be supposing China successful in transferred from the Colony to placing her currency on a Gold annual income, the present low Canton and the near-by Chlna Basis while Hongkong remained rate of taxation, and the incon- Coast Ports is more guess with a Curreny on a Silver Basin, siderable amount of loans out is indeed fallacious; is not held, and has never been held. we are assured that the resulting standing, it would be possible to

the by merchanting and trading fall in Silver would leave. Hong-rand Fection of the Community, but kong with a Currency practically terms, partly in London, and la only propagated by certain without value, and make trade partly here, because of the present Institutions, Interests, and per-impossible and ruin the Colony.

LORDS V. LABOUR,

AGRICULTURE BILL

RENDED.

London, Apr. 22.

In the meantime, a summary of the Brat volume has been prepared and a Chinese translation of this summary will be published Monday, April 27.

on

of

A limited number of copies the translation will be available for the use of the Chinose and

The House of Lords to-night re- [Japaneño Press. jected, by large majorities, the two first clauses in the Govern- ment's Agricultural Land Utilisa-

As a result of injuries received by tion Bill, which provided for the falling down the stairs of her house, establishment of a Corporation to Chinese woman, Liu Ki-hi, aged 60, experiment in large scale farming of 313, Latchlok Road, first floor, and demonstration farms-British | was takon to the Kwong Wah Wireless.

Hospital yesterday:

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Stabilisation Loan on fair,

EARL OF ATHLONE.

ARRIVING IN LONDON SHORTLY.

London, Apr. 22.

"I'll shoot the first man who steps across the door!" Unheeding the warning, if they could understand it, the raiders continued their smashing of the door, which finally burst open.

The first man stepped across the threshold. Garefn fired in- sluntly,

the man shooting through the head and killing him outright,

The Wayside Police were im mediately summoned and there followed some speedy work in which nearly every member of the gang was rounded `up.

Gareth was detained for an vestigation.

FLIGHT TO EGYPT

AND BACK...

London, Apr, 225 The Earl of Athlone, former One of the Iris flying boat Governor General of South Africa, which left England on March 242. conditions in the Local and Princess Alice will arrive in on a fight to Egypt, and b

London on May 9th and will stay returned to Plymouth to-day

Palace. British- The second boat is still S We append our signaturos and, at Kensington

Nazaire.British Wireless, designations, and remain, etc.

okay

sons who have more concern la That in viow of the Credit Money Market. the fluctuations of exchange Status of the Colony, taking into than in the Distributing Trade consideration the amount of its

Wireless.