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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 101

NO. 11.090

XĦD YEARLÆGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931. AZ#AŁ

GERMAN LINER HITS KOREA REEF. DRAMATIC SIEGE

ABANDONED AS A

TOTAL LOSS.

PASSENGERS RESCUED BY AN

O.S.K. VESSEL.

NO HOPE OF SALVAGE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).

Shanghai, Sept. 5. INFORMATION has been received here confirming the report that the steamer wrecked off the south- western coast of Korea is the Hamburg-Amerika motorship, Burgenland, which was bound from Taku to Nagoya.

She is on the rocks in Latitude 34.04, Longitude 126.10, and has been abandoned.

The twenty-five passengers, who are mostly residents of Shanghai, who were engaged on a round trip, were safely transferred last night to the O.S.K liner, Baikal Máru, which, it is understood, is taking them to Moji.

Wireless messages from the Burgenland received late last night stated that the vessel was crossing the Yellow Sea when struck the well-known Pokusa Reef, in the Korea Archipelago.

The

mlahap occurred round;

o'clock yesterday three About

quickly afternoon, and it was

Hopes of saving the vessel have already been abandoned of the extent owing to the damage.

Fears for the Nautilus, shown abov ● under way, have buan removed by a message from the submarine.

FISHING FLEET

WIPED OUT.

FEARED HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.

BIGGEST "BLOW"

T. DISASTER.

THE NAUTILUS SAFE.

Communication Established.

Oslo, Sept. 4. After days of anxiety re- So far the greatest calami. ty that has resulted from garding the whereabouts of

the Polar submarine Nau Wednesday's typhoon is the wrecking of an entire fishing tilus, which is engaged on fleet. which, caught by the a dash under the Arctic ice- pack to the North Pole, it sudden blow, was driven be

wax learned late to-night, be- fore the wind and piled up an Lema Island, in Chinese yond a shadow of a doubt,

that the submarine is safe. waters.

Wireless com- big death That there is a

was roll a certain, but high scas inmunication There were twenty Shangh the vicinity have so far prevent-established with aboard. They left ed any estimate of the damage the Nautilus nt slashed passengers

| eleven o'clock this abrond in all directions. They were Shanghai on August 23 on a sum and also hindered rescue work evening by the

half, the For a mile and Marujmer excursion trip to Japan via

Tsingtao, Dairen and Taku. It was island's beach is littered with a torm Taku that the Bargeniand mass of wreckage, and launches was headed for Nagoya when she which have attempted relief have of - Askermuu numbers struck the reef.

marnoned on the clits.

realised that the ship was in in

suking condition.

5.0.8. messages Were

picked up Arst by the Baikal and relayed to Shanghai.

Later messages from the Burgenland reveal that the serious motorsnip is in a plight.

The water has strendy led both No. and No. 2 holds.

A New Ship.

I

Heen

Meteorologic in 1 Wireless Station nt Tromsoe.

The submarine rent greeting and declared that all

Sir H. Wilkins. was well with

It A Su the ship and the crew.

failure to First intimation of the disaster posed that the

Neww. The First

fow

ex

AT BARCELONA.

POLICE DEFIED FOR 6 HOURS.-

936 FEB ANKUM

SINGLE OOTY 19, CENTA

RESISTANCE

FORT.

DUNLOP

The Truc

LOCAL BRANCH.

Pedder.Bldg.

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts.

The charge for local officials'

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With all these wage and

signatures is boing increased salary cuts, people at Home might from $2 to 5 apiece. MacWhirter be forgiven for thinking that A.D. says he's prepared to come into rtands for After Doduction. the market at a dollor a time.

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According to a magazine writer, "Golfer:"You want to know Indies used to carry themselves

FINAL TRAGEDY. how to make sure of a long drive? more gracefully than they do

Madrid, Sept. 4. Barcelona was to-day the scene of another serious in- cident, following a dramatic siege of the headquarters of the Building Trade Union, allied to the Syndicalists.

Have you tried a motor trip round nowadaya. the New Territories?

A reader says he's always in doubt as to when it in lighting-up time. With the Aberdonian, It is Just after he gets a cumshaw, cigar.

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Maybe the two million dollura The strikers took refuge in which Hongkong is paying the the building and defled the Admiralty for the Naval Arsenal police. They were armed with Yard and Kellet fuland will help rifles and unlimited ammunition the Old Country to balance its and they held out for over six Budget. hours, firing on the police every time an attempt was made to rush the building.

The police were instructed not to take undue risks, and it seem- ed that the strikers were in an;

'The 1111- impregnable position.

however, threatened thorities,

to bombard the building with ar- tillery as was done at Seville o few weeks ago-and the strikers capitulated.

As they were bring brought out of the building, however, some of their number are al leged to have fired on the poller. The fire was returned and three were killed and five seriously wounded.

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Where are the boys of the old

brigado.

With their stories of life and

its dramas?

Down on the bench with the

bathing host.

Admiring

pyjamas!

those

DD According to

a writer, sailors always love their ships. All the same, they saldum take to their boats:

With all these special

Sixteen out of the forty prison-sales, ers escaped amild the ensuing con- fusion. Reuter.

INTERPORT POLO

OFF.

THE RACECOURSE FLOODED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Sept. 5. The Interport polo montehes ar- The Burgenland was a compara-

The ranged for to-day are off. The Baikal rushed to the seene tively new ship, having been built

was received in Hongkong on fablish touch for the last

Racecourse is flooded and it is and arrived to take off the passen in Germany in 1928 for the Iam Thursday, when the master of a days was due to the fact that the gers at seven o'clock last night, theburg-Amerika Line.

She was of junk reported to the Tsimshatsui Nautilus was it a "blind spot." still raining after a week of down- transfer being effected

approximately 7.300 tons, was 462 Water Police Station that salling!Reuter. mishap.

The crew of sixty are reported feet long, had a beam of G12 feet in the vicinity early in the morn ing he had observed the plight of to have taken to the boats.

and a depth of 23. 3 feet.

the fleet, and by going as riese na he dared to the coast, picked up 41 people who were clinging!

without

TOBACCO TAX WARNING.

Britain's Extra Budget.

PREMIER'S FRESH LABOUR SUPPORT.

The Church Protests.

PEAK TRAMWAY "HOARDING."

to pieces of wreckage.

Ita

NOO11

we mus expect local barbers to be advertising shaving at cut prices.

It's good policy not

to

ernas your

bridge partner.

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Neostic

brigade!:

The poise of the old

"What price Cements? "You'll well he that? "Come on, don't fence, "Let's have it pat: "A thousand then- "Oh Lord, he's gone-- "All right constable-

I'll move on!":

"A friendly tip! "They're going to soar! "You've got some scrip? "Well get some more! "Here, use my pen- "Oh, damn-he's gone--

"All right constuble-

I'll move on

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Ir

-CYN,

Hongkong's Wailing Wall:-The

west side of Ice House Street

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An American movie actress

was applying for o passport, "Single?" asked the clerk. "Occasionally,” answered the

actrenn.

Another infamous saying: "No

Hollywood

It's onc

of

He's paradoxes

that

you

feel

Amuller aflor

the taipan has given you

Д

good blowing-

ap.

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The objection'

to the inferiori-

ty

complex is

that it docan't affect the right kind of people. 00 Several people who went fish- ing at Kowloon Reservoir оп Tuesilay, didn't.

Actresses

when

thanks. I'm just looking around." apeaking of the past refer to their

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X-husbands.. X. of course, re-

With the erection of a 15 storey presents the unknown quantity.

block of lats, we understand that Shanghai is now going in light-housekeeplay.

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Listening to whispers is said fo

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for

be good training, for the ears.

On the other hand, it's been known

A Singapore contemporary to thicken them.

states that in comparison, Hong

kong lives in the lap of luxury1t-is-not-anticipated that thore

Well all we have to say Is that the will be an alarming falling-off in just person owning that lap hasn't ant the consumption of beer

because the brokers are forbidden down lately.

to stund.

pours.

THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY.

Play will probably be arranged for the middle of next week.

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steal soap.

Telling him of their ordeal, they related how the wind hud sudden-

about noon ly sprung up

on FRANCE AND ITALY: Wednesday, and, caught in

WILL fury,

were they

help- after- Теня.

whole. For the

the noon they were subject to atom's battering, and were driven by the E..S.E. wind, right on to the island.

Thus a comment in the current? issue of the St. Andrew's Church Bleet comprising Magazine:

NOT COMPETE.

AUSTRIA WANTS

HELP.

APPEAL TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

London, Sept. 4. At this afternoon's meeting of

London, Sept: 4. France and Italy will not comi- pete in the Schneider Trophy Race, though why they telegraphed They declared that the whole the names of the pilots nominated the League of Nations Council at Geneva the Austrian Chancellor, more than 100 in their teams is difficult to un-

Dr. Schoeber, stated while Aus- junks and sampans had been de derstand.

tria was doing her best, she was The decision to leave Britain a We are sorry that the Peak stroyed.

clear field was officially communi- unable to carry out herself the should

Police & Navy Rescues. • be used

gigantic ak a

cated to the Royal Aero Club this necessary measures to restore her finances, and appealed to the hoarding. The advertisement

League for assistance. On Friday, No. 3 police launch afternoon.-Reuter, inscription constitutes an offence from Tsimshatsui, accompanied

The Council instructed In consequence of the very heavy against good laste and has not even by H.M.S. Stormcloud was sent out

question and report the excuse that it is likely to in-and confirmed the story, although main at about eight o'clock this League's Financial Committee to

place on Stubbe Road, close to the immediately. British Wireless. crease the Tram Company's re. owing to the High Hens which were morning a fall of rocks and earth took study the This is taken to indicate that venue. We hope that this ugly raging, the officers were un-Peak School. Large boulders fell on there is a distinct possibility thing will be removed before able to give much assistance. Four to the roadway, but no-one was paSR- that next week's emergency other mleguided firms follow auch more fishermen, who said they had ing at the time. Half the rand width been in the water for 24 hours, was blocked, but there was sumcient

room left for traffle to get by. budget will include an increase an objectionable precedent."

(Continued ont Page 7.)

London, Sept. 4. Every tobacco firm in Great Britain has received an official intimation restricting its clearances from bond.

in the tax on tobacco.

Tea merchants inre

heavy clearances

from store

anticipation

the Budget,

in

of

Four more appointments to

the

National Government announecd

were 4 Lord to-night. Feel (Conserva- tive) takes over the office of Lord Privy

Seal; Sir

making

Lord Peel.

Tudor Waltera (Liberal), becomes P.M.G.; Mr. G. M. Gulett (Labour) Minister for Overeana Trade In becomes Labour Governmont Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and-- Mr.-J. G. Watson, who served under the late government becomes Solici tor-General for Scotland.

Routine Business. There was no mosting of the cabinet to-day but the Ministers (Continued on Para:L) BRA

alwar

PENCENDERETA are the funttian of ka uping

the

FOREIGN VICTIM OF ROBBERS.

MR. J. C. IRVINE'S DEATH.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Sept. 5. Mr. James Galbraith Irvine, who was the victim of an attack by armed robbers in May, 1980. when a friend of his named Harder was killed and he was seriously-wounded, passed away at eight o'clock-last night at the Country Hospital...

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Newspaper headline:-Thieves

A clean getaway.”

A regular washout.

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(The local fresh-water angling sen

son opened on September 1st.).

A doughty local angler,

All eager for the fray;

A warm and minnow wangler, Looked forward to the day When he again should cast a fly At Kowloon reservoir;

No matter weather, wet or dry, Humid, hot or froid.

He schemed to be the early bird, And lured a pal as well;

Who listened to the suasive word, Of angling and its spe'. At 2 am. they reached the scene. Together with their bait: Then settled down, at first serene, Those weary hours to walt First insects robbed them of their

reat,

Then rain cama pouring down; In vain they looked from east

west

☐ ☐ Have you gazed across from the

harbour,

At the Peak with its myraid

lights;

And closed your eyes to solito-

quise,

On the magic of Hongkong's

night?

Or--

Have you glanced across from the

harbour,

At the Peak with its hideous

sight;

dismay,

And turned away in despair and

At those letters so staring and ̈ ́

white? white.-CYN.

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"Few people understand the inner workings of the Stock Exchange," Haya an expert. No, most of us to just fool around on the margins..

Too many parents these days seems to be using the remote- control method in raising children.

The loud blast on Wednesday night was merely the driving rala sounding its Claxton.

In search of morning's frown. From four to five the others came, Each thinking he was first; The doughty one and pal became, Two objects to be cursed. They held the bridge and cast a line, And day rose with a splash; A bru cruised by all fit and fine, A bice a tug-a crash, "Misscsi him said the doughly ind, And muttered 'neath his breath, They each thought fates were far in a name!

too bad,

To save that fish from death. Disgustedly they packed their line, They'd only caught a thirst, Got back and thought the muting

Ant

Bere they got there first!

☐ ☐ A youth named Chow has severely bitten a younger brother. What's

O D.

Shanghai used to boast of the longest bat in the world but now its army of dentists should prove & greater draw.

CYN.

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The trouble with most lockl wrestlers appears to be that they Did you note the enthusiasm merely hug the Iden.

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with which all those typhoon tiffners in Kowloon awaited the start of the forries?

Judging from reports from leo House Street, the shorn lambs are growing another cro

crop of wool.

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The typhoon passed the Colony-

at 3.90. but its heaviest blow way at 9 o'clock at night. What one night call a real back-hander.

Shanghat better look out. Not He had been on leave in Eng- The unfortunate thing about only ls Hongkong sending its float

belles. land, but was forced to return re- Wednesday's typhoon blow was ing boys but also several diving cantly in order to undergoan that the ferries stopped running other operation In connexion with when most people were in their It is understood that thu. Kenn

hie lajury. He failed to survive offices. the operation.

Mulawine was born at Renfrew In 1979 and came to China, in 19217 Horwis a' good bowler.

why Hongkong's raini al), jeg ik One thing about these tramcar below the average ) in bed. conductors, they put plenty of period of calentation Autorida

Xirent, Elopdā Bunch into their work.