DOCTOR'S 18. A MONTH.
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD PACT KEPT.
don, and are arranging a little rounion dinner at the same place.
ta
TWO AIRMEN
KILLED.
G.W.R. DIRECTOR'S SON, Verncull-Sur-Avre (Franco),
dames.
June 14.
blown olent of were
tho
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931.
SERIOUS, FLOODS IN SOUTH.
POPE'S ENCYCLICAL.
SHARP REJOINDER FROM
REPORTED LOSS OF 4,000 LIVES.
ASAHI BEER
Bole Agent
MITSUT
BUSSAN
KAISHA
LTD.
Canton, July 6.
have
can agency.
MUSSOLINI EXPECTED.
Rome, July 6. While indifferench is professed in London, June 13.
Two British airmen were killed Raliwny services along the Fasciat circles toward the subject A ship's captain and an Aus here this afternoon when a tour Canton-Shiukwan and Canton-matter of Saturday's Encyclical tralian doctor who medo à solemn
Ing aeroplane in which they were Samshul Railways
been there can be no doubt that the pact over the dinner-table at a flying to Le Mans was caught in a suspended because of the serious-breach between the Vatican and the Regent-street restaurant Hoven
Chigi Palace has widened as a re- years ago have returned to Lon-hle und, crashing near a farm-ness of the rising foods. house, burst into flumes.
ault of the Vatican's method of The Government Arsenal at They were Mr. John Robertson. Shekchang, near Canton, has been publication.
It appears that an American The two men, Captalo Jon of Sir Henry Robertson, a fooded and the guards had a busy
director of the
Great Western time during the week-end remov-prelate was entrusted with the tan, skipper of the White Star
of Encyclical the day before its Ferndale, which reached London all Company, and Mr. Harolding the ammunition, some
Haley Brock, of Oban, Argyllshire. which has beon damaged. The publication and he hastened to from Melbourne yesterday. and Their identity was learned from magazine is now one foot under Paris and entrusted it to an Ameri. Dr. H. Gengoult Smith, a City two motor drivers licences which water. Councilor of Melbourne, who fell from the machine as it crashed
sarit signed on as the ship's doctor, met for the first time in London seven years ago.
The machine felt within ten yards of the farmhouse owner, M. Delaunay.
to be trying to Beemed said. M. Delannoy. "when land,' there came a feree gast and the was a blazing moss. It was Impos. down towards my farm.
the wreckage, towards but there was a burst of fame, and in a second or two the machine
a blazing mass.
It was impos- sible to help."
The machines left Heston air Melbourne, "Before we left Captain Haighton wired me that he port this morning, pilated by Mr. wanted a ship's doctor almost im-Brock, who was the owner. He mediately. He reminded me of and Mr. Robertson
friends. the promise, and I kept it. I sign- ed on na doctor at a nominal in, a month.'
When the reunion dinner takes during the war. place, the caplain and the doctor date for the Lord Mayoralty
sit at the will prombly
table Melbourne the Nationalist
and he will return tollef work. where the pact was originally made. Dr. Gengoult Smith is Australia in good time bachelor, and served in France ober elections.
"When a friend Introduced me the captain at the restaurant, we naturally felt, that, as we came from the same part of the world, Dr. we had much in common." Gengoult Smith told the New Chronicle
yesterday
"I WIR then on holiday, and we agreed that if ever the captain was in need of a abip's doctor he would serd for me and I would sail with him.
"He
Was A
ciune,
ran
In
season.
30 Fect of Water.
Coples of the Ericyclical were dis- Inhabitants of northern Kwang-tributed in the Churchen on Sunday, tung are in serious plight, the It is expected that a rejoinder from Mussolint will bring number of homeless farmers be- Signor ing estimated lu tens of thou-matters to a head.--Reuter. sands. Some of the districts along the Canton-Shiukwan Rail- way are covered with from twenty West and North River overflow to thirty feet of water, while in their banks at one and the same the Tsing Yuen district alone time, as they have thit over 10,000 houses and farmsteads Not since the third year of the 30 much country have been destroyed. The Tsing Republle has
.covered by the rising Yuen Magistrate reports that been damage done to property and rice streams. The damage done then felds in estimated at about $3,000,-
have been 000.
not the aurpassed this timalled if not Realizing the possibility of the Conservancy Board in the mean- many engineering northern forcer taking advantage while built were close of the floods to invade Kwang-works that have helped to counter.
tung, General Chan Chal-tong has act the action of the torrents. instructed his troops to reinforce Least damage has been done in the fortifications, despite the in-the East River areu owing to the fact that along so much of the course there are highlands closa to the river. It is in the section watered by the North River par- ticularly that destruction hag been wrought.
11 is a candi-undation. Gunboats have been
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of
for the
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8 Kobe.
sent out to patrol the North and West Rivers against a revival of bandit netivilles, and to provide
Heavy Casualties,
The management of the Canton Shivkwan Railway reports
rescute.
that
would
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THE "ROYAL SCOT" DISASTER.
ENGINEMEN FAILED TO OBEY SIGNALS.
40,000 Starving.
Summarizing statistics hurried- near Yuan Tam Station 2,000 per-ly gathered, the Min Kuo Yat Po, sons, including many women and official organ of the Kuomintang, children. have been killed and estimates that 40,000 persons thousands of farmers have been ing north of Canton City are suf- rendered homeless. The majority fering from lack of food through of rice fields are badly flooded, the damage done to the almost and it is believed that the spring crop has been rained.
ripened crops and the sweeping away of their homes, 4,000 people Relief workers, sent by the Gov-have lost their lives in various erament, found 5,000 refugees assembled
of the floods. awaiting the hills at Fu An parts of the province as a result
Immediately
Benevolent societies, the Nan- they sighted the rellef workers,
London, July 6. Company
and hundreds of rofugees raide the Jang Tobacco
The official enquiry into the sampans and launches and looted others have met the emergency by
buying foodstuffs
and shipping Royal Scot" train accident last for food-staff. The relief workers them to the districte where they March has found that it was dus were unable to check the
rush.
Fare most urgently needed. thet unleas
And to failure of the "Royal Scot" They report
relatives and friends of those in enginemen to obey signal indica- of food are
sent
evidence with re- the flooded it will be
regions have been tions. Direct exceeding- ly hard for them to carry on.
clrcumstances in which the cl sending
to gard to packages of entables
this occurred must remain a eur- the
both enginemen were The Canton-Shiukwan Railway mise, ns northern of
killed.Router. through over the has been
crit pied
The crack express "Royal Scot" nway of bridges and fields. Wuchow
how and Shiuhing, on and if it be a jumped the metals near Leighton the West River, are also flooded,
month before there can be a re- Buzzard on March 22. The engine although the latest messages to hand show that the situation bussumption of the through service and three coaches were completely
Canton-Shiukwan. To
put the wrecked, and twelve of the follow- fortunately been not so serious. In rondbed in proper shape will ening couches also jumped the rails. certain arens on the West River the water has subsided two feet tail an expenditure of around An official statement announced
cons
from
any dead bodies can be seen unfortunate.
ANDRE LEDON..... ANGERS...
7th July. 21st July,
In
Many
the districts Kwanglung, scattered
G. METZINGER.
SPHINX.....
PORTHOS
4th Aug. 18th Aug. 1st Sept, CHENONCEAUX... 15th Sopt. ATHOS II.
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|53,000,000.—A Correspondent,
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