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ANNALISANJE KA

Fireplaces

of

HongKong: Telegra

for The South China Morning Post, Ltd, 13. Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

Local Weather Forecast:-N.W. to W. winds, moderate; cloudy.

Beauty

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Latest

Colour

Schemes

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The

Court

Ibrary, Supremaer on Demand--111⁄2d.

"Lighting-up /Time:~~7.07 `p.m.

High Water:--17.06. Low Water:--28.45. '

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED @ $-+8x #4 THURSDAY.- JUNE 11. 1931.

The .. Yuta (formerly Yuen Sang) which rammed and sank the Poseidon off Wei-hai-wei.

STAUNTON

STREET FIRE.

Some Startling Disclosures.

ure

CRACKER PERIL.

Important disclosures made this morning regarding! the disastrous fire at No. 35. | Staunton Street on Tuesday night, more particularly in re- gard to the storage of a huge quantity of fire-crackers on the premises and the inability of the Fire Department, though atten tion had been culled to the dan-; ger in similar enses, to impose i restrictions.

After the entustrophe, involving a long list of fatalities, has come the necessity for an official in- vestigation, of details, particularly) thase bearing in the origin' of the) fire and the circumstances by

THE SURVIVORS.

The survivors of the Poseidon disaster are officially announced Ins follows:

OFFICERS.

Lieut. Com. i. W. Galpin.

Lient. C. W. Greening. Lient, H. T. Shaw. Lieut. T. X. W. Fisher.

Cammd. Eng. W. C. Richards.

RATINGS.

F. J. S. Smith, E.R.AA.

F. J. Rock, Act. C.P.0.

W. Jeffery, P.9. Tel.

I'. Johnsoa, 1.0,

1. H. Willis, P.0.

E. Sinclair, E.R.A.2.

G. Cole, E.R.A.2.

C. Sandereork, C.P.O.

G. Charlton, Chief Stoker.

W. S. A. Flood, E.R.A.3.

E. P. Taylor, Ldg. Sea.

F. F. J. Grabham, Sig. S. McInnes, Tel.

E. W. Carter, Lag. Sea, S. Smith, Tel.

W..P. Cook, Ldg. Sigualman.

T. Morris, A.B.

J. F. Halsall, A.D.

R. T. Clarke, Ldg. Sea,

V. Nagle, AB.

D. Carter, Lalg, Tel.

C. 1. Yetman, A.B

A. Higginbottom, Sig.

A. W. Pepperell, Idg. Cook.

V. J. S. Rawlings, Stoker.

H. J. Nonh. Stoker.

A. J. Dunford, Ldg. Stoker. E. G. Hult, A. J.

. T. Farley, Stoker.

CHINESE.

A He Hal, 0.5.2.

which its effects were aggravated. After firemen had withdrawn frog the scene, leaving the contents of the two upper floors intact with the view to facilitating the police inver tigation, certain statements were made to a Telegraph 'reporter by the tenant of a house immediately adjoining No. 35, who assisted in JAPANESE ROYAL currying the crippled proprietor of the joss-paper shop out of danger. Consequently, an interview Was i sought with the Hon. Mr. E. D. C.] Wolfe, the Inspector-General of of Police and the Chief Officer of! the Fire Brigade.

Point for Enquiry,

WELCOME.

PRINCE TAKAMATSU'S RETURN.

Tokyo, June 11.

YUTA

日六廿月四

OM FRI ANIKK

SINGEN CUPY IS CENTE

TO CAR OWNERS.

Use RUBBER Matting for Floor and Running Boards your Car;

Washable.---- Durable...

More sobnomical than

Carpet or Linoleum,

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Quotations from:

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OFFICER'S TRAGIC MISTAKE.

NAVAL VERSION

OF SINKING

OF "POSEIDON."

DISASTER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

SIGNALS FROM TRAPPED

MEN DOUBTED.

DRAMATIC RESCUES

UNLIKELY.

Hopes of dramatic rescues of men trapped in the wreck of H. M. Submarine Poseidon, en- gendered by a sensational report of communi-

Reports that .M.S. Medway, shown above, has established communication with eight men trapped in

the wreck of the Poseidon are scouted by the loen naval authorities,

A MONARCHIST MOVEMENT.

EX-EMPRESS ZITA'S

ACTIVITY.

Budapest, June 10.

INDIAN AIR MAIL PROGRESS.

FIRST PARCEL. DESPATCH TO-DAY.

London, June 10.

The first parcel air-mail from India to Britain will leave Karachi

Although the Indian air-mail

Much speculation has been caus- on the Imperial Airways Service ed by a report that the former to-morrow and is due in London Empress Zita has invited a number on June 16th. of leading Hungarian legitimista to a conference which will pre- has been in operation for three sumably take place in July. years, the service has hitherto The newspaper Magyar Uracag been for passengers, letters and records that according to persis freight only. By the new service, rumours decisive develop- parcels will occupy five days in. ments are to be expected regard-transit as against nineteen days in the question of the restoration by the fastest surface transport.

British Wireless. of the monarchy in Hungary.

tent

cation by signal taps from one of the Royal Triangle Drama

compartments, are regrettably dispelled by the naval authorities. There is no official sanction for the report that divers of H.M.S. Medway have met with success in their quest.

Meanwhile, there comes to hand the official version)

of the tragic collision, containing a startling sugges- tion of a mistake by the officers of the s.s. Yuta.

The submarine, just before the crash, was turning | to port with the' Yuta on her starboard bow. Suddenly, the Yuta was seen to swing to starboard. She struck the submarine heavily at right angles, just forward of the conning tower, the Poseidon sinking by the bows within ten minutes. The U.S.S. Beaver has left Tsingtao to aid in salvage operations.

YUTA CAPTAIN'S STORY.

were

Buch of the mystery of the Twenty-four ratings disastor has been cleared up by earried down with the craft, but the disclosures made by the Ad-two hours later, two men came to miralty and the local naval au-the surface having escaped from A truly royal welcome is being Both the Poseidon and the 3.8. hour later by four others.

thorities. There WS по fog. the fire compartment, followed an In reply to a query. Mr. Wolte prepared for Prince and Princess Yuta appear to have had a good these men, who escaped so drama- said he had been informed while Takamatsu, who are arriving at view of one another for sometically, two, A, B. Lovock and at the fire that a cracker, or pack-Yokohama aboard the Chichibu age of crackers, was being fired by Maru this afternoon.

minutes, at least, before the coll-Stoker Winter, died later.

ion. someone on the first

Aloor, and

They will be escorted into the

2 squadron of des-

It is quite impossible to state at that sparks were communicated to Harbour by a naval dirigible, and be reconstructed from official ro-b

The tragic circumstances may present whether any real hope can a stock of fire-crackers which ex large number of aeroplanes, to-parts as follows:

entertained of Baving the plodiert and started The firegether with

eighteen men who are below. How far that suggestion -was

would, waid

Hopes Faini.

there

true

but

Was

Mr.

Wolfe,

រ doubt

The submarine and the mier. troyers.

proceeding in require further investigation The Prince and Princess, who chant-ship were

There is just a faint hope that have been away on their honey-pposite directions, the Poseidon that a large quantity of fireworks moon since April 21 last year, will making for Wei-hui-wei, while the they may be in an air-tight com travel te Tokyo by special train and was headed in that direction the collision does not encourage Yuta was bound for Newchwang partment, but the suddenness of Later. Regarding the storage of the

after turning the Enthusiastic cheers from in- Peninsula some hour or two pre- that the divers, who have located Shantung hope, and it is grimly significant crackers, it is disclosed that the floor, measuring some 16 feet by mense crowds greeted the Royal viously. 30 feet, conformed to the usual ar-pair on their arrival at 11,45 a.m.

was stored on the floor.

rangements of a native tenement, being subdivided into cubicles, Thé largest of these was the feng or sitting room giving out on to the verandah.

Inflammable Material.

'Fireman after extinguishing the outbreak found this teng almost wholly occupied by a mass material, consisting of Joss-papers, bamboo chips, and 'sodden blankets —all highly inflammable material—

-of

eight feet. This heap presented

-Beuter.

EXPRESS ESCAPES

LANDSLIDE.

PARIS-ROME LINE BLOCKED NEAR MODANE.

Paris, June 5, Passengers in the Paris-to-Rome

Poseidon Turns to Part. The Possiden was on the sur- face in full buoyancy, and the vessels drew together in a manner which would have permitted them to pass on the starboard.

the subratine on the bottom, and have been trying to establish communication by tapping signnis, with anyone still alive, have been unable to get a sign of response.

Oficial Surprise.

in Rumania.

The chief actors in the Rumanian Court drama. King Carol, Queen Helene, who is to leave the country for good. and Madame Lupescu, bottom right, whose association with the King is the cause of the domestic tangle,

Medway THE QUEEN TO VISIT SON

Router stated in cable last À minuto before the collision..

that. H.M.S. night the Poseidon was on the starboard wa

. Irr communication with bow of the Yuta and was turning eight men, but it le officially

to port, with the object, it would stated by the local naval authorities THREE TIMES YEARLY.

scom. of increasing her clearance that the report must be seriously Yuta's Strange Action. * doubted. It would be almost in- comprehensible that such com-

right

More Doubta.

NOW ENTERTAINED.

LONDON POLITICAL CRISIS.

Liberals and Land Tax.

GOVERNMENT'S ULTIMATUM.

London, June 11.

A grave political crisis has cropped up following the sudden development of a deadlock between the Liberal and Labour Parties on the major issue of the Govern- ment's Land Tax proposals. There is serious threat of an early dissolution of Par liament as a consequence.

It is reported that the Govern- ment leaders yesterday issued an ultimatum to the Liberal leaders, that the official Liberal . amendment to the Bill, if per- sisted in; will be treated as a question of confidence.

The amendment in dùe to be. moved in the House of Commons jon Tuesday, next, and, if adopted, would practically wreek tho scheme by limiting the land tax to undeveloped land on the ground that otherwise the scheme would ¡violate traditional Liberal objec-

tions to double taxation."

It is

Already Taxed.

the Liberal objection that developed land is already sub- ject, indirectly, to income tax.

An offer by the Liberal Chief Whip to modify the wording of the amendment, provided the sub- įstance is retained, has not in any

way eased the situation.

Grave Responsibility.

the

The Labour Party organ, the Daily Herald, seeks to exlort a Liberal surrender by asserting that the Liberals, by causing the downfull of

Government, would assume responsibility for the destruction of the Land Tax Bill, the Indian Round Table Con- ference, the Disarmament Confor- ence and Electoral Reform.

Liberal Belief.

The Liberal journal, the News Chronicle, however, believes that Mr. Snowden is the principal stumbling block to an agresment, and says that if the amendment is carried, a general election will be averted by the withdrawal of the land tax proposals and the resignation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.--Router.

the King showed reluctance to broak off completely kis nasociai stacked to a height of not less than express train to-day had a very that moment, to the couster.munication should be established NO HOPE OF A RECONCILIATION on with Madame Lupescu, the

nation of Poseidon's watch and that the Modway not

Titian-haired Jowoss, for whom an obstacle over which the fireman narrow escape near the frontier the conning tower, the Yuta port report, the glad news to the

Carol once renounced his throne and to climb before they could get station of Modane, close to the ed her helm and swung to star- Admiralty and to Hongkong,

and went into exile.. af another mass of material which Mont Cenis tunnol.

board, and crashed heavily into Bubbles were still coming from lay right underneath the wooden Near Modano a landslide occur-pubmarino at a speed of about ten the wreck when it was located,

King Aluxander of Jugo-Slavio,

the staircase leading to the upper red, an enormous amount of rock knots.

Queen, who divorced her hus-who le brother-in-law of Aleor.

and earth sliding down to the

band some years ago, to Buchar. Queon Holene, recently interview- The impact was terrife, The This second mass was found to railway just as the train was

est, on the anniversary of ed Carol, making a short motor- been

Poseidon was struck at composed of wooden passing. have

Doubt is also expressed regard.

Rumania's indepondence.

boat trip down the Danube in or boxes in which the remains of what j

angles and was 'badly holed on ing another Reuter report, to, the The locomotive Wad carried

the starboard side, sinking by offact that a Japanese salvage

It was confidently asserted that der to discuss the delicate family must have been thousands of fire-across the roila and, came to al

the bown in about two minutes. vessel is on the scene," .

her arrival was the prelude to a situation. crackers.

standstill hanging over the edge. Consequently,

Arising out of that conversa» whan

Directly the inevitability of the

reconciliation, but she precipitate- tho

fire of the embankment, suspended by collision was shown, rapid orders

Admiral McVay, the Com-

ly departed, after a long convertion, and the efforts of M. Jorga, broke out, flames immediately shot its couplings.

mander-in-Chief of the U.S. were given on the submarine, and Asiatic Fleet, has directed the up the staircase, thus cutting off The driver and firemen were five officers and twenty-six ratings U.S.S. Pigeon, a submarine aal- conciliation

All attempts to secure a re-sation with Carol; no explanations the Rumanian Premier, it has now

being given. between the only means of escape, for the injured, but these were the only were able to escape by the conning vage vessel, to proceed immediate- Helene and King Carol have

been agreed that Queen Helene Queen Carol was strongly advised by shall resido permanently abroad, people on the upper floor.

King Alexander to frengthen his but will be entitled to Vin Butikataranthe..

Ting complete a month ago when ing his best to mend his broken der to see her, son, i the "Cra (Continued on Page 51);

the unexpected return of the domestle ties, but it is alleged that Prince Michael Restaj and

fumes engendered by the explosion Rome Je likely to romain blocked plugged to the bottom

Continued on Page 4.). for four or five days.

in dramado turn, was given

Vienna, June, 10, King Alexander of Jago Slavin, and the Rumanian Prime Miniator, M. Jorge, are jointly credited with ef- fecting a friendly settlement of the unfortunate tangle.in the Rumanian Court.