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PODSVED 101 三拜禮 號五月八英港香
No 23.165
INDO-CHINA | SEVEN KILLED IN
SALARY DISPUTE.
MEN TO REFRAIN FROM ACTION.
Accept Cut Under
Protest.
The tension between the floating staff and the diree- tors of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, aroua- ed by the drastic reduction of salaries announced by the Company earlier in the year, has been temporarily cased by the decision of the Guild to refrain from action at the present time.
A CHAPEL.
ANOTHER OGPU OUTRAGE.
INDIGNATION IN WARSAW.
Wiersaw, Aug. A. Great indignation has berat roused by a repart from Vilna to the effect that a detachment of troops acting under the or Iders of the Dgpn, reeently raided a Catbolic chapel in a Russian village near the Polish frontier and shot
tlend. seven pers00% Arresting a hundred, and forty- five others.
was carrie! merely became the people were! attending the server.
t
It is further reported that the Joral hint 121. the gpu sobse- A combined meeting of the gatently stated that he went 15 Guikis held in Hongkong yester- | investigate a report that a susting
counter revolutionaries
day decided to confirm this deg bold in the chapel, gst that cision, which was reached at a similar meeting in Shanghai aerial bis Trenque pod out
voitral on being refused admis- few days age. It WILS also agreed
the Sveretary should prepare a statement for circulation to the Press, outlin
that
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931. 日二廿月六
BRITAIN'S LATEST LONG-DISTANCE MONOPLANE.
Our photo shows the Fairey-Napier monoplane specially built for long range completed. It is intended for a series of long nonstop flights.
flight and recently The first of these will be to Egypt, and if that is successful, a Right from England to Capetown will be undertaken,
f
BANK ANXIETY Mollison's
ing the history of the negotia SEVERE STORM IN IN GERMANY. Record
tions which have resulted in the
officers being "compelled to a
cept such a
drastic and
reasonable reduction."
. N., Reduction.
It further disclosed to-day
-
LONDON.
LATE MERRYMAKERS
GET WET.
Loudon Aug, I. The end of the Banh
that while the cut fanposed up! Jardine's officers is wonty cent, and his best operating for i Sekond coincided with a
Holiday
=^V» PU
torm. Thunder broke ever fem
tries last night and crowds return- ing late were drenched by heavy
several months, the China Navios and the South Eastern came vation Company has declared a reduction of ten per cent which ban Inken effect as from August
The Guild Secretary in Shang- hai states that the Indodhisa Company's terms have only been accepted after a great dead of Consideration, tud quly because of a wish to avoid adding hardships 1 merchants and trade generall
rais.
With was in the channel and the Thanes Estuary butlelted pires- ure steamers, delaying the return of some for tour of five hours,
Mary,
A TESTING TIME TO-DAY.
BRUENING APPEALS TO NATION,
Prospects.
'GREAT INTEREST IN FLIGHT.
FORT DUNLOP
$36 PER ANNUM
SINGLE OGPY ID CENTS
LOCAL BRANCH.
N. Z. AIRMAN'S
PROGRESS.
DUE TO-DAY AT WOOSUNG.
AN AMBITIOUS. PROJECT.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Aug. 5.
Mr. F. C. Chichester, the New Zealand airman, who has been field up at Manila for some time owing to protracted negotiations with the Japanese authorities. for suitable landing places in Japan, is due at Woosung day.
Puddar Bldg..
AIR-LINER'S MISHAP.
JUST ESCAPES DISASTER.
Boy Spectator Injured.
Amsterdam, Aug. 4. A huge Dutch air-mail and passenger liner, Carrying thirteen persons aboard, came to grief at the local aerodrome to-day, fortunate- ly without serious results.
The airliner was one of the 10-great machines used on the London Amsterdam route, and it set out for Croydon according to schedule, nwith thirteen persons abnard.
to
Mr. Chichester is flying a British seaplane and is engaged original flight from Australia England via the Orient.
According to a telegram received by the Anzac Society in Shanghai. Chichester left Manila on Monday and be intended to fly to China in three stages, from Manila to Aparri, from Aparri to Formosa, and from
A CHECK FOR Formosa to Shanghai.
YORKSHIRE.
Future Plans.
Engine trouble developed noon after the lake off and the pilot was endeavouring to bring the machine earth again at Amsterdam aerodrome when it cullided with a signal pole.
to
'The pilot managed, however, to land safely, and all aboard escap- ed serious injury. A boy watch- ing the aeroplane's manoeuvres was, however, suriously injured.--
He is likely to start tomorrow | Renter. if he arrives to-day as expected) for Nagasaki. will travel through dupin, across the Pacific vin the Aleutian Islands, wross Cattail and Atlantic, vha Greenlatul across the and leelund.
LANCASHIRE DRAW AT SHEFFIELD.
BRILLIANT NOTTS VICTORY.
London, Aug 4. Considerable interest has been
of aroused by the attempt to break Yorkshire's brilliant Mr. C. W. A. Scpt's record of success was checked at Sheffield is unlieved to be in excess of twenty
run
011.
on
His one of the most remarkable long distance flights ever project. ed and if it is successful may be regarded as a wonderful accom- plishment fur bath pilat machine.
AMY JOHNSON'S FLIGHT.
and
Splendid Making
Progress.
The total distance to be covered
thousand milea,
BOMB OUTRAGE ON TRAIN.
USUAL BUSINESS. ten days, 23 hours, for the Au-to-day when Lancashire.
stralia-England flight. upon played in all departments, man- to force n Berlin, Aug. 4.
Forced to follow which the Australian pilot, Mr. aged nevertheless
draw. establishments A. J. Mollison is engaged. Banking
Lancashire still needed 98 runs throughout Germany will he
He left Wyndham. Australia, on to avoid an innings defeat. The crossing Twin France was permitted to resume ordinary July 29, at one o'clock in the morn Sutcliffe hit his ninth century declared to be the worst this soar | banking business as from ting, dying a De Havilland Moth, of the season, while K. S. Duleep-
morrow, and there is just a with a Gipsy Mark 11 engine. sinhji obtained his tenth for THREE KILLED AND Clmes are bad enungh, and the The tome was followed today by Hittle apprehension that depression is lum real to be trented a think fog, over the sea,
in which lightly. Hence the reluctance of
an il tanker of 60 tons went may develop. the mea to take drastic step fo enforce their demands for modifieasure meur Dungeness. The ves
sel was rebloated this afternoon. All tion of the Company's decision,"
shippins has been slowed down on The resolution of the Guilds, a copy of which has been forwarfed count the blanket
British Wibra. la the Company, strongly on stemes the attitude adaptesi.
Arbitrary Mtitude.
slates, in part, that
Guilds are forced to th
te
casian, from the imperions and arbitrary attitude adopted by the i
RICKSHA COOLIE'S
SPITE.
THROWS VEHICLE INTO HARBOUR.
PUDS
by the raterso of a brusideast appeal on the eve of the resun- tion of iranking transactions, the
hancellor. Dr. Bruening argent the nation to keep its head and; ant to overwhelm the banks.
The Chahrellor reviewed the events of the past week and de clared that satisfactory Franco- German relations were extremely | important. The conversations between the statesmen f the canntries would be continued in the frankest manner.
General Managers of the company The story of what was alleged throughout the whole eur *by the police to be a spiteful theft the negotiations on the question was told to Ar. Williams at the at issue, that a genuine desire Magistracy this morning when two on their part exists to consid thiness were charged with the banks an amicable settlement."
larceny, and damuuring of a riek
IN
R
Government Control. Referring to the report that all are to be placed tinder Government control, he said that
had been
essential
Reports
of Sussex v. Middlesex). Five of the
his progress en-eight matches resulted in outright { courage the wins by nine wickets!
hope expressed The outstanding feat was the
pagiers
16 INJURED.
Belgrade, Aug, 1.
NEARING HARBIN.
Harbin, Aug. 5.
off Miss Amy Johnson took from Hailar at twenty minutes past five this morning and land- ed at Tsitsihor at eight o'clock.
After taking on another load.
took of fuel, the famous lier
off again for Harbin, where she
Miss Johnson is accompanied ou
in the London Notts victory at the Oval. Surrey Bombs exploding in an inter-is hourly expected.
Last led by 64 runs on the first innings, national express from Munich to' hight that he hut Larwood and Voce, howling Belgrade, killed three persona, her flight by Mr. J. Humphreys, an will succeed in unchanged. skittled thein out inwhile sixtern were seriously in-engineer of the London Flying
and thejured. The train keeping to his their second venture. schedule
Wax
passing Chub, but she is handling the and visitors won with ense.
through the station of Zemun-controls of the plane herself
throughout the entire fight, will complete! The five leaders in the county novigrad.
The airwoman is delighted with the light to championship, with the exception day, in a final of hop
Yorkshire.
from matches.
Won
To prevent a recurrence of such their ultrages, which lately have be the performance of her plane a cone frequent, the Ministry of Puss Moth, named Jason II, so far. bad very rough weather | Athens to Croy- Results at a glance, together Communirations has decided that They
don.
with the principal individual per-in future no foreign railway con-between Berlin and Moscow, and ches shall be admitted into Yugo the machine weathered it spien- It is. how. formances, follow;
Slavia, ali such to be held up at the idly. The only mishap. a very frontier and replaced by Yago-slight one, occurred near Mariinsk minor engine defect, where Slavia couries,
ever, a curious Xhing that both Reuter and Bri- tigh Wireless. Mollison's
upon
the announced 29 per cent, reduc-owninger Street during the and capital ayatem, but these did time by at least three days if he
H-
Notis beat Surrey by 9 wiekels, at
the Oval.
Sussex bent Biddlesex by 9 wickets,
nt Brighton. Worcester bent Estex by 9 wickets,
at Worcester.
Warwick heat Derby by
wickets,
at Derby. Chucester defeated Hants by 256
runs, at Southampton. Yorkshire beal Lancashire on the Brst innings, at Sheffield. Northants, beat Leicester un first
Innings, at Leicester.
New Zealand defeated Glamorgan
by nine wickets, at Swansea,
HONOURS LIST. Batting.
for the in commenting The attitude of the floating stars ha. Mr. M. H. da Silva represent-it
reflected
further by another one of the defendants, who was Government to come to the resete chances both take the view than
of the big banks.
Mollison cannot expect to beat passage wherein the Guilds "only discharged.
The Government could not re- Mr. Scott's record by more than aj accept by entering a most emphatic Det.-Set. Fitches told the Magi protest, as they are vanvinced that strate that the ricksha, which was nounce the measures in prepara- day and a half, whereas he bas
by
of bettering the farmer, was tied to ation to regulate the entire credit
every prospect tion of salaries of the Floating Staff is unreasonably drastle, having rest in
the not mean a blow at the freedom of but was missed in typhoon. garding to the fact that the General afternoon and later found in the the banks, but merely that theks to his schedule.
Where the day and a half come Managers have made no attempt whatever, particularly since 1921, to harbour at Shanklwad. The far-State had now, on the urgent re- from it is difficult to say. He left
those concerned. enforce in other directions the mer had dismissed the defendant quest
sumed an obligation to take pre- Wyndham at 1 a.m. on July 29, und at one a.m. to-day he had been policy of retrenchment as indicated five days before for gambling.
theventive measures for the future, t Defendant, who admitted by them."
weeks which
other antions had takenlying for exactly, seven days. I
he arrived at Croydon as late as Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) It is painted out, although the charges, was ordered five
midnight, the journey will have. E. Mills (N.Z.) majority of men are on the ship's imprisonment on each charge, the long ago,
Troubles Not Over.
been completed in 7 days, 23 hours, Holmes (Yorkshire)
Fiddian-Green (Worcester) articles in sterling, they actually sentences to be consecutive. receive their wages in dollars and
He concluded by stating that or three days better than Scott. K. S. Duleepsinhjl (Sussex) the company's rate of conversion.
while President Hoover'a moru- He is using a standard British Dacre (Gloucester) torium 1/6d, to the dollar, they claim, is
plan had been adopted machine with a British ungipe, reducing their actual salaries by
by all the countries concerned, it similar in type to hundreds which approximately 33 per cent.
The Secretary points out that FOUR BROTHERS AND did not mean that enay times were are in use all over the world. The Longridge (Sussex)
ahead.
this was the second effort of the Gullde to effect a favourable com- promise. "But as we do not wish to force the issue at this time we are reluctantly compelled to accept the company's refusal."
PRINCE TO WORK FOR FORD.
LOUIS FERDINAND'S FUTURE.
Berili, Aug. 4.
The former Crown Prince's
DROWNED IN THE TYPHOON.
SISTERS.
10% 137
120
108
103
It has been ascertained that the quickly remedied, caused a forced bombs used in the latest outrage descont,
left Miss Johnson
England were foreign. Another bomb was discovered to-day in a foreign (Lympne) at 1.30 am, on July 28, and has thus been flying for a rallway conch at the frontier.
trifle over eight days, a capital performance in view of the fact That her muchine carries no extra peiral tanks. being standard in every way--Reuter.
LLOYD GEORGE PROGRESSES.
CONDITION STEADILY
IMPROVING.
London, Aug. 4.
A bulleth issued to-night states that Mr. Lloyd George in making steady progress. He is free from
101 pain, sleeps well and his general condition is improving-British Wirelenn.
Bowling.
7 for 70
6 for 43
for #
5 for 47
4 for 33
(only difference is that an extra Voce (Notts) It is reported from Basle that petrol tank
is provided in the Astil! (Leicester)
Purtridge (Warwick) the Bank of International Settle-front cockpit, in lieu of a passen- Larwood (Nouts), A distressing discovery was
(Continued en Page &.) made by the crew of a jonk which meats has decided that the first ger.
Juring Saturday's meeting of the Committee set up at foundered typhoon, when they landed on the the request of the London Seven
EDISON VERY MUCH Power Conference to inquire into of licach at Taun Lu Kok.
BETTER. They foul the bodies of four the immediate credit needs children that had been washed Germany and to study the possi on to the beach, and were latex bilities of converting part of the Identified as being brothers and present short term credits into long hold next Misters.
torm credits, shall be
Their names have been given as Saturday. Choung Mai (19), Cheung Ngok (16), Cheung Knu (10) and Cheung Kam-tsal (6).
NATAL FIGHTING.
Credit Renewed.
"SHAMROCK" WINS
KING'S CUP.
SUCCESS IN FIRST ATTEMPT.
ABLE TO TAKE A MOTOR KLIDE.
West Orange, Aug. 4. Edison, the noted inventor, la progressing so satisfactorily that he was able to take a motor ride
Smiling like a boy let out to play, In he walked unassisted to his car
Reuters American Service
In the meantime, the Bourd of
London, Aug. 4. the Bank has authorised the re-
The race for the King's Cup at yesterday. of the newal for three months
Sir credit of twonty million pounds Cowes to-day was won by accorded to the Reichsbank and Thomas Lipton's Shamrock,"
Thomas Buch renewal to be affected in It was the first time Sir agreement with the Central Banks, had been able to enter for this Mr. Albert Wiggin; the Ameri- trophy. The King's cutter, "Bri
Recond seD, Prince Louis Fer-NATIVE "PRETENDER" due for repayment on Thursday, four hours, sixteen minutes. dinand who recently passed an oxamination for
of Doctor
Philosophy, has apparently decid.
THE TYPHOON:
ARRESTED.
Capetown, Aug. 4. The tribal fighting in Ploter- ed to embark on a business career,
The young Prince safied for maritzburg has ended with the arcan member of the Committee set tannia," was scratched from the The Royal Observatory reports America aboard the liner Europa rest of the Pratender to the He-up by the Bank is on his way to race by His Majesty following in that the typhoon is about 280 miles to take up a position with Ford gency and two hundred of his Europe abroad the liner Ile de accident yesterday, when the S. Bo Naha, moving N.E. A de France and will arrive on Fri- Second Mate was went overboard pression le central over, S.W. Hal Motor Company in Detroit. followers-Reuter.
Wireless and drowned, 77, ek kan de TREES day. Rester and British Péridad INST
LAND OF MIDNIGHT SUN.
LINDBERGHS OFF FOR
AKLAVIK.
Oltawa, Aug. 4.
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh took off from Baker Lake to Aklavik, eleveni hundred miles away, above the
Standard Time)-Réutor's Ameri can Service.
GOVERNOR NOT. Aretle circle, at 6.85 p.m. (Eastern
BLUFFING.
CARRIES OUT THREAT IN OKLAHOMA,
New York, Aug. 4.
in The Governor of Oklahoma, accordance with the threat issued last week, has issued an executive order, shutting down 3,106 oll wells, and establishing martial law for a distance of fifty foot round each well.
BRITAIN'S TENNIS STARS.
DAVIS CUP TEAM OFF FOR AMERICA.
London, Aug. 4, The British Davis Cup Tennis teatn have loft for America to compete in the U.S.A. Champion-
The action has been taken as a result of the fallure of the oll ships companies to comply with his order
'to increase
rease the price of petrol from Bfty c cents to a dollar a barrel.
The
demand was put forward be
SPANISH MONOPOLIER."
Madrid" Aug. 5,
cause the State is securing no re- The Government tha venue from the all Industr with to suppre prices at such level rulere American Serviós
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