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THE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931.

日八十月六

338 PER ANNUM.

SINGLE COPY 10 DENTA

AMY JOHNSON'S MISHAP.

PESISTANCE

COLONY ESCAPES

LIGHTLY.

JAPANESE VESSEL IN PERIL.

CITY STREETS FLOODED; PIERS ON

WATERFRONT DAMAGED.

DESOLATE SCENES.

AT two o'clock this afternoon, the No. 10 signal was still

GREAT

ECONOMY PLAN. CUTS IN EVERY

DIRECTION.

Forced Down

in Siberia.

Hundred Miles Off Omsk.

Moscow, July 31. Miss Amy Johnson has mid.

Not Likely to Be suffered mishap in

Popular.

London, July 31. The Report of the Com. mittee appointed in February by the House of Commons to make recommendations to the Exchequer for effecting forthwith all practicable and legitimate reductions in Na- tional Expenditure consistent with the efficiency of the services

day.

was published to-

up, though the worst of the typhoon "blow" appeared to be over. Hongkong seems, at this early stage, to have escaped fairly lightly, and it is obvious that the depression was not of great severity, though the har-chairmanship of Sir George May, bour was lashed into a fury, and violent winds were experienced at all exposed points.

The Committee, under the

comprised seven members, none of whom was a member of the House of Commons and the five Features of the "blow" were the flooding of streets main report is signed by close to the waterfront, damage to piers, the stranding members subject to a minor re- of a small vessel on Stonecutters Island, and theservation by one of them, while capture of a two pound dish outside Prince's Building

in Pedder Street.

The Japanese steamer Ryusei Maru reported in distress in our carlier editions, is now stated to be in a dangerous condition. The vessel ran right into the storm and received a terrific buffet ing, suffering considerable damage. The master's 5.0.5. demand- ed immediate, assistance, and the aid of the Henry Keswick has been sought.

GRAVE PERIL.

Caught in Typhoon÷In Dongerous State,

A representativ of Than

dis.

Siberia, making # forced landing at Tiajin, near Mari- insk.

Only the scant information that the famous British lady flier is down has been received, but it is taken for granted that the absence of information means that she escaped injury. Whether or not her Puss Moth plane has been damaged is not known.

Marlinsk

the Trans-

A new picture of Min Amy

Joharen.

Siberian Railway, about a hundred COUNTY CRICKET. miles from Omsk, two thousands ailes from Moscow and three thousand miles from Tokyo.

Miss Johnson had been endeavour- ing to speed up her flight. She few through the night yesterday and landed at Omik at 6.50 am. today, taking on petrol, and setting nut again for Krasnoyarsk at 8.20

.m.

Trans-Siberian

plays disagreement with the a minority report which majority on several aspects of public expenditure is signed by it the remaining two members,

must

ESSEX BEATEN BY NORTHANTS.

LANCASHIRE FAIL.

The Bier ebidently made for the

London, July 31. Railway after! Yorkshire obtained their fifth leaving Omsk, planning to follow consecutive outright victory in

to Krusnoyarsk. Shr

the railway about the county championship, play- have reached commendations, involving an im- got into difleuifies almost imme-now firmly placed in the leader- In submitting their mujor re- an hour after leaving Omek unding at Taunton, to-day, and are mediate saving, the majority diately. 10 14 supposed that ship, forty-five points ahead of report

thut Alates

.they had engine trouble developed, foreing Gloucester who occupy second

ver to land.-- Router.

place. reached the conclusion that the anticipated borrowing in 1932 on

Yorkshire huve, in fact, won nine of their last ten games, the

the wriggling fish, in his hands. | behalf of the unemployment, fund He had at any rate solved and the road fund should be FILM OF POSEIDON

regarded as

meal problem.

Impressive Scenes.

graph who called at the local The serie r -

one

a revenue Hability and, on th:- Lasis, it was catimat-

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eronomie -.

ed that to produce properly Infraced badget in 1932, incl waterfront the s tal vision for redent offices of the Dairen Kisen Kaisha ́ was mont impressivat Waves was informed that the vessel piplashed against the seawall, send-a debe irney of one hundred and twenty million pounds hud to distress, as reported earlier, is the jing columns of spray into the air natte good by new taxation or Ryusei Maru, and was chartered by some even polag over the top of Eg them for the conveyance of goal Queen's Pier, The per itself was between Honzay. A cododhina badly damaged at the eastern port and Shanghai.

end, bly blocks of granite 21301 Dr 3,669 tons 219ss, the Banael (concrete being thing into the har Mart left here at the end last hour and on to the Praya.

So serions had the tonding he month, proceeding to Bumera where she took on a full cargo of come in the central district that goal. She was on her way dirrel two fire engines were sent out to to Shanghai when her Captain pump out the undated areas. sent the wireless call for sistance.

Between noon and 2 p.bi

wind roached gab force, using The sea to be swept spetacularly The message. received here 25 E about 10 o'clock this morning, stat. Wer the harbour wall and along ed that the ship was then 50 miles, the Penyn.

Big Saving Suggested,

An Imntédjate saving of £96,178.

is anticipated from the commented economies whici, cover pay and pensions, defence, develop gent schemes, social services and miscellanestis expenditure,

DISASTER.

TO BE MADE IN ENGLAND IMMEDIATELY.

London, Aug. 1.

only interruption being the Notts fixture, in which they obtained first innings points.

FORT

DUNLOP

The Tyre of Rugged Strienerth

LOCAL BRANCH.

Poddar Bldg.

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts.

Under some of these bimetal- Competitors in the heach photo tian proposals, the Hongkong competition should be careful dollar would he worth about four that their subjects are nelthor shillings. A bob more, and our over-exposed nor under-developed. present ergas would becoine LL crown!

☐ ☐ A local journal asserts that in

Britain

According to a police report, a

man, on being arrested, attempted to swallow some pawn tickets.

shipped Next time, he will probably take

A fortnight 229,000,000,000 in gold to France, the pledge.

Tanks na if the Bonk of England must have had its secret reserves,

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Two airmen have flown from

We never realised the full mean. New York to Constantinople. The

ing of the term air-sickness until modern Turkey hop!

we got bored with the radio pro- grammes.

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According to 籍 recent Bewa paragraph, a Russian at Shanghai The Ban who said nothing ran amok because a young lady could be accomplished by sitting rojected his suit. Perhaps she still must have forgotten such would have accepted If he had things na broody hens.

We suppose! when this war debt question is finally fixed, up, ame of Europe's statesmen will indulge in post-moratoriuma,

Render: The best way to stop

the nose bleeding is to apply f tourniquet to the neck.

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Why do they put warts On walnute? So that your hand won't slip off.

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We pregume

it's instinctive for Scotsman to keep a secret. ច ច Some people are born with a silver spoon

in the mouth-- others get gold

in their teeth later.

D O

Lots of Hong- kong men who would like to their golf

down to par

would be very

pressed it.

☐ ☐ These Red commanders are not cluse season for Chinese peasurts, sportsmen. They recognise ND

and always have a rose,

There are many sunburut backs It's not the these week-ends. hent, but the nudidity.

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One thing they have not yo! abolished in Spain is the bull.

Angler: What do you think of these beauties?

Wife: You needn't try to de- refer me. Mra. Smith sow you in the fishmonger's,

All people

are born help- less--some help less than others. ᄆᄆ

Yes, it's hot; but cheer up.

Hongkong is to have a brewery nort your. CD

We mot a man the other day who

very concerned that

War

so many fools make money. Á much more lamentable fact

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Angler: 1 khan she did. 1 caught an many I simply had to sell some.

is that money enn make many fools.

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Other features of the cricket in anneyed if their ithe last three clays, were shares dropped

Northampton's second victory, at that much. the expense of Essex, for whom O'Connor obtained his fifth een- A now chewing gum introduced This launch ban controversy is Įtary of the season;

In Chicago has a gin flavour,

•

But not over.

More bathers are now

It is officially announced that

E. F. Longring. the ex-lue, most chewers, it is said, put on a at bay. film reconstruction of the drama playing for Somerset, hit up an rye face.

good

A contemporary_ century of the sinking of the Poseidon is extraordinarily.

Ex-Kaiser Wilheint, it is said. ported that the rate the Britishgainst Yorkshire: Lancashire's being produced by the

still signs himself Imperator Rex, illers, Herndon and Pangborn, jcontinued run of ill-success, Ltd., by International Pictures,

The county championship re- but for the rest of the world he arrived at Consantinople in the arrangement with the Admiralty suits, together, with

principal is just plain Imperator-Ex. Graf Zeppelin and took off en A similar type of submarine to individual performances, follow:

route to Frederichshafen. Except- the. Poseidon will be used, and

Then there was the ignorant in for the fact that the fliers came umber of suimarine ratings) Yorkshire beat Somerset hy ten Scotsman who called in the down in Wales, then flow to Ber- with partiipate.

wickets.

plumber to repair his bag pipes. to, and have not been withte Northants beat Essex by three

thousands of miles of Constan- wicket".

Of a certain film a critic' writes: tinople, and that they are flying -"This

spectacio renders in an aeroplane, the report, is sub- Unofficial Members to

We shouldn't stantially correct, one bee

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The most substantial contribu-a tion to this total is £66,500,000 which, it is recommended, should The film will, be shown to the be saved by a reduction by twenty pubtle at about the same time as per cent. of the unemployment in His Majesty the King makes a (surance benefits, an increase

presentation to Chief Petty Olleur the weekly

contributions for

AN | Willis, the hero of the disaster.---- workers. employers and the State, in the ease of men, the extension Reuter. of the schiene

to include certain

u

to the east of Hongkong. It added. The crashing waves and severe that the vessel had run into the winds began to have its effect centre of the typhoon and was in njupon the Star Ferry pier. dangerous enndition, with une of rating the

whart planks and Le the holt! Teaking, Immediate battering down the wooden fenc-classes now outside it, the appli- nssistance was requested.

ing on the windward side of thecation of a needs test to all appli

cants who have exhausted their

Consequent the message, the pier.

100

were

within insurance provisions.

local agents got inte romie Mountains of spray were car insurance rights, but are stilf tion with Kowloon Dockyard, skried along at iL terrifie rate, lug for a tag to be mediately drenching those who were sent to the afsistance on the vessel, bold to stay heneath the shelter "We do not know if the Dockyard of the verandahs,

and bringing people have succeeded in getting with them debris and refuse. into touch with the Henry Kos The half dozen borts minored wick which we are given to under-ļat buoys in the fairway, stand. is sheltering in Kowloon julling hard at their steel huw- Bay," stated the official in the sers. The P. and O. .. Kyber Jocal agency when seen by our re-jhad two steel chains attached to porter at 1230 this afternoon. the buoy, and ILM.S. Belgo! and An It involved a matter of life destroyer were both working and death for the officers and crew team In he teeth of the gale, of over 10 on board, the company would endeavour to approach the naval authorities if the Kowloon

Dock were unable to render the sistance asked for.

The Very Latest Fish Story,

Wharves Damaged.

SILVER FUTURES.

THE LATEST CABLED GUOTATIONS.

Notts beat Warwick on the first

innings. Derby heat Laneshire on the flest

innings.

РЦИЯ,

Hampshire beat Glamorgan by 153

runk,

HONOURS LIST. Balting.

Mitchell (Yorkshire)

134

O'Connor (Essex) Parsons (Warwick)

118

108

Messra. Pentreath and Co. have

E. F. Longrigg (Somerset)

• Not out.

100

Bowling.

7 for G4

& for

Wireless announcers are only human, says a technical writer. It is feared that he will have great difficulty in convincing Baleners of that.

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A local jewelier didn't believe that a recent caller had a machine for making cheap gold. All the

name, somebody evidently has one for turning out silver.

Reference the high cost of living, lots of folk could manage for the wolf very well if the stork G for 40 didn't keep on butting in.

A saying of thirteen million, six hundred thousand pounds la con- templated by a proposed reduction of teachers' salaries and education grants, an increase of Secondary been advised by eable of the fol hool fees, and a reduction of the lowing quotations for New York growth of educailon expenditure in silver futuras as at the close of Smith (Essex) the coming year.

the market yesterday:

Kennedy (ante) September 1931 28.00 down 34 Parker (Gloucester) December 1931 28.10 down 36

Townsend (Derby) May 1932 28.00 down

.00

and |Geary (Leicester)

Sez Hugh: A typical family Thomas (Northants)

5 for 33 nowadays is one that has a radio Davies, D. (Glamorgan) & for 47 net, a motor-car and a mortgage. Hopwood (Lancashire) 6 for 52 (Continued on Page 7.)

Various other measures of re- trenchment, including a reduction of doctors' capital fees in con- nexion with the National Health Insurance, are estimated to save one million pounds. Along the front, from the Star A Ferry to. West Polat, there were estimated from recommendations

saving of

£7,865,000

is scenes of desolation. Nearly all for the postponement and slowing the wharves suffered from the ter-down of rond schemes, and the riße battering of the sear

and

of the present high

grants

SUMMER RECESS.

THE ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT.

London, July 31. Parliament adjourned for the Summer Recess to-day and will

The typhoon blow has ni any wind. more than one having some standard of maintainance. rate produced a first-class fish of their supporta hurled bodily

A saving of contemplated by

of five hundred thou story which the sceptical may over the sen wall.

sand pounds hardly be prepared to

believe,

Chinese shops and dwelling reduction of the various but which is true nevertheless.

haumes along the Connaught Rond made through Ministry of Agricul. reassemble on October 20.--Reuter. During the morning, owing to were all boarded up, but even then ture and Fisheries, of £478,000 by the combined effects, of n high inrge number suffered from restricting items of the Forestry tide and the gule sweeping down fooding, the water, to the depth Commission.

of £400,000 by

obolishing the Empire Marketing

the harbour, the whole of the of several luchen, forcing its way Board and two hundred and fifty Praya became flooded, the waters through to Des Voeux Road. roathing well up into Des Voeux Sincere's and Wing On, together thousand by the limitation of the Road, Pedder Street and Ice House with a number of other large build-grant to the Colonial Development Street.

ings

in the vicinity, were all board-Fund. The water was knoc-deep at fed though business was con-

up, the junction of Chater Road and tinted at Sincero's. Ice House Street, and, in the Some matshed matorial WOR presence of a large crowd' taking lifted from a verandah in Jubilee shelter underneath the verandahs, Street and thrown to the ground

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coolte suddenly dashed into the below, while the matshed erected workmen employed on the streot, and, lustily exclaiming for the "Hal got hold of a good new vehicular ferry, opposite the

Ya!" alved fish, which had been washed Fire Station, was in constant dan- from the harbour. The catch ger, rocking to the intense force of must have weighed fully two the hurricane, and atraining the pounds, and seemed to be of the ropes which had been turbot species. Greatly delighted, round it to hold it down. the coolle soon disappeared with /Continued on Page 14.)

thrown

The largest item of economy under the heading “Pay, and Peris sions" are the abolition of the pre- ferential bonds issued to the Govern ment industrial employers' in 'the

LORD KYLSANT ON BAIL.

APPEAL.

RELEASED PENDING

London, July 31,

and

for Uit

4 for t G for 08

SOVIET OFFICES RAIDED.

160 BUENOS AIRES ARRESTS.

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The police attitude is that Chan Put is not a member of the Nudisti, but is morely,a trifle un- balanced. But what's the dif ference?

Although there is no voting, And wo silent have to be; There are certain ways denot

ing.

That we have demoer wey. There's the freedom of the

beaches,

Where matsheds are erected, And every one and each 18, Owned by people well connect-

ed.

ed,

There are spaces wide, botani-

cal,

And algns in threatening ver-

biage,

Of the penalties tyrannical, If we walk upon the herbage. There's the K.R.A. and other Bodies, full of resolutions, And the proper way to smother, Their intended revolutions. There are visions and mirages,

a future much more fair; or And up-to-date garages, With water free-and air.

GYN.

We hear there's a movement on foot for reducing local tailors' It is claimed that the latest wages. But the difficulty appears wireless sot can be taken to pieces to be to get the correct cut, In eight seconda. So would our next-door neighbour's if we could only get at it.

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"What," asks a reader, "would you call a man, who goes off to Shanghai for a holiday and leaves.

In America. convicta are con- his wife behind?" A magician,

veyed from one gaol to another by neroplane. The Flying Quod!

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Large crowds recently attended

a police wrestling tournament in Might we say that these hiking London. Throwing coppers' turn- enthusinsta aro suffering from ed out to be quite a good sport, roam-itism?

New York, July 31. A message from Buenos Aires statos that Argentinian, police to-day raided the officos of Amtorg

commercial head (tho Soviet quarters) and arrested the entire staff.

It is stated that the number was Mr. Justica Wright, sitting in at least one hundred and sixty, dockyards and ordinance factories, Chambers to-day, granted an ap- and that it included fifteen women, 4324,000: the introduction of the plication on behalf of Lord-Reuter. 1925 rates of pay for all the per- Kylsant for bail. A sonnel of the fighting servicm, Lord Kylsant will, as a revised cost of Kring, dedettion for be released, ponding the hearing the omcers of the fighting services of the appeal against the convic, the committee of the Hongkongit, snappy! *£400,000)** reduction of the pay of, tion, for which he was sentanced.

ming Association this morning rockND ON proved his ability to play the Police, £925,000, KTO

When is the best time to bathe saxophone under water; The un- to twelve months in the second divialonPeuter.

the sea?" Banksy, at reader, satisfactory Texture ALALÁS When you're at the seasidemas

£2,199,000; the- Introduction, of % 10

(Continued on Page 7.).

result,

A Peak gardener is puzzled when A contemporary in stating that it comes to distinguishing between £29,000,000,000 had been trans- weeds and the shoots of young forred to France, was much tog plants. It is easy enough. If it noughty!

comes up again when you out, it down It's a wood.

A report res

The Telegraph beach photo com-

• In view of the typhoon weather, petition starts on Monday Make

postpone, the

fal" which wIDH

report reaches us that a... y musical ball star in New York has