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二拜禮·號八月九英港香 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931. 日六廿月七 SINGLE COPY 10 CESTÁ

-320 PER ANNUJ

SPEEDBOAT RACE DISASTER: MISS ENGLAND II SINKS.

Kaye Don and Mechanics Hurled Into Water and Safety.

VIOLENT "SKID" AT A BEND IN RIVER.

NO CHANCE OF TROPHY IN ANY EVENT: GAR WOOD LEAVES NOTHING TO FATE.

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A VERY "CLEVER" RUSE.

MIS

Detroit, Sept. 7. [ISS ENGLAND II, the world's fastest speedboat,, turned turtle and sank on the Detroit River this! afternoon in the second heat of the Harmsworth; International Motorboat Trophy Contest. Mr. Kaye Don, famous pilot of Lord Wakefield's wonderful craft, was thrown clear and rescued uninjured, together with his two mechanics.

Britain's hopes of winning back the Trophy which has been held by the United States since 1920 were | thus disastrously crushed. Yesterday Don's boat,

Our pictures show (left) Mies England II, which mat with disaster on the Detroit River yesterday and (right) Miss America IX, her chief rival before the mishap. Inset are Kaye Don, who had a miraculous es. cape and Gar Wood, who lured him on to disqualification in any event.

KING GIVES LEAD UNIVERSITY SENSATION

TO NATION.

SURRENDERS 10

PER CENT. OF HIS INCOME.

AN INSPIRING GESTURE.

PRINCE'S GIFT.

London, Sept. 7. Desiring to participate in the reduction of national ex- penditure, His Majesty the King has sent a message to the Prime Minister inform- ing him that he intends to reduce the Civil List ex- penditure by £50,000 while the emergency lasta.

MEDICAL STUDENT SÉRIOUSLY HURT IN HOSTEL “RAG.”

Brighter London.

FLOOD-LIGHTING A PERMANENCY.

London, Sept. 7. B. The terest

thel shown by general public in the flood light illumination of notable Londou balldings is unabated, and largel crowda throng the streets in the lighted area each evening.

The foreign delegates to the International Humination Con- gress, in honour of which the dis play bees orvanised, have expraku- ed their admiration at the won- The Prince of Wales has also derful effect which been achieved informed the Premier that he by the

electricity indus: gay an

and

Fellow-Boarders'

Denials.

LUGARD HALL

CLOSED.

tyre

constructios

built for those who prefer superlative quality.

Fort DUNLOP

The Tyre Incomparable

LOCAL BRANCH.

BLUEJACKET'S SUICIDE.

FOUND HANGING IN A KOWLOON FLAT.

GRIM DISCOVERY BY SHIPMATES.

Found hanging in the kitchen)

of a flat in Kowloon, à seaman

"Pudder Bldg.

Don Mayle, who goes to guol

if he flims the Pacific.

of H.M.S. Seraph is believed FLYING TO

have committed suicide yester day afternoo21. His body WHA

who! discovered by comrades visited the house in the after-

noon.

A brief report issued from Police Headquarters this morning, stated that the body of Able Seaman R. Hall, of H.M.S. Seraph, was re moved to the Royal Naval Mortuary at 7.45 pm yesterday,

It was

GAOL.

Pacific Flight Begun.

found hanging in the kitches of JAPAN-SEATTLE.

19, Haiphong Road, second floor, the deceased having apparently committed suicide.

It is underston that Hall had rented the Bat and had usually spent his time there when on shore leave. Early yesterday afternoon come comrades paid him a visit, and, finding the front part of the premises empty, they went to the kitchen where they found the body [of their comrade.

A post mortem is being helji to- day to investigate the cause death.

:

MISS SHANGHAI

AT

SWEET SEVENTEEN,

BRUNETTE WINS

MOTOR-CAR.

of

NONSTOP.

Tokyo, Sept. 8. Don Moyle and Charles

off Allen hopped

from Samushiro for Seattle at dawn to-day in an attempt to make a nonstop flight across the Pacific. Prizes totalling G$50,000 are st.stake.

The weather conditions are good and the prospects of suc- ccas could not be brighter, The fliers will follow the course of the Great Circle, skirting the Kurile Islands and the Aleutians.

They are using the Tacoma II, the machine which Lieut. · Haroid Bromley and Captain Thomas Ash failed to get off the ground when heavily loaded with fuel for the Along and hazardous flight, never

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Sept. 8. Miss Helene Sloutsky,.a Rus-

yet accomplished. The plane rose at 6.30 this morning with- out difficulty. The journey will take the flere over approximate- ly 6,000 miles and It is anticipated that it will be completed in about fifty hours.

Allen and Moyle will take turns at the controls.

Lugard Hall, with its tradi tions of fair play and esprit de torps, is in disgrace fol- lowing a sensational "rag", which took such a violent form as to cause not only serious injuries to the vic- tim, 4th year medical student, but almost his death.

stances of the assault, of equal Startling as are the circum.

which is equipped with two giant Rolls-Royce engines will contribute £10,000 from his trics, which are jointly responsible concern to the Council of the covered the thirty-mile triangular course at an average income for the same purpose. for the arrangements.

University which is making a speed of just under ninety miles an hour, finishing a

His Majesty, in his letter to Mr. The whole cost is borne by thorough investigation of the mile ahead of Miss Amèrica IX.

Ramsay MacDonald, points out that these and allied industries, but it incident, is the attitude dis-sian brunette, seventeen years of

it is not easy to is understood that the low figure played by the other boarders at age, was crowned Miss Shanghai Moyle's Queer Position. reduce the Civil at which the flood lighting instal the Hall, who not only deny last night when the final judg-

ist without ane-lations supplied by British firms knowledge of the affair, but ing of the Beauty Content took which has attracted considerable The flight has another side rificing

sonic surarised

can be run has sun risc is from strongly assert that there was place at Luna Park in the pre-attention. If it succeeds, Moyle State functions i

sence of over 2,000 spectators, will go to gnol in Los Angeles autable that in certain cases the Bo "rag." or throwing out

Miss Sloutsky wins a magni- | for thirty days. Just before leay- employment ugmented system of illumination

ficent Buick motor-car, numbers of His will be kept for permanent dis

ing America for Japan, his car The other finalists were lies struck another driven by a judge. play. Majesty's

is also possible that some vants, hul after

Imprison- closed for the Autumn Session and Kathleen Wilder and Misa Lucy He was sentenced to buildings will be flood

Cherakova, careful considera-public

ment, the police alleging that ho tion he had come lighted in future, not recularly,

The incident concerns an un-

The contestants paraded In had been drinking, but the son- to the conclusion on many occasions,British

Wireless.

dergraduate named Teo Ban-hin, evening gowns and later in bath- tence was postponed in order that

he could that by very rigid

attempt the Pacific.. flight. be

possible

Have

Execution of the sentence The King adds that others mem-

due to take place on October 1. -Renter..

After the mishap, however, it was learned that Kays Don and Miss England I could not have won the Trophy in any event. Commodore Ger Wood, well aware that his Miss America IX had no chance of beating the British boat in a normally run race, lured Miss England over the starting line too soon, well aware that both motorboats would be disqualified. The race is certain to be won by Miss America VIII by running over the course to-day with no opposition. HORROR-STRICKEN SPECTATORS.

Thousands of spectators lining the banks of the Detroit River witnessed the calamity which overtook Miss England II and a horror-stricken ery swept through their ranks.

Miss England was taking a bend half a mile from the starting-point. Something went wrong, she skidded violently, and then turned completely over and sank immediately, seeming to plunge to the bottom with her engines full out,

it would economy

of

the sum of £50,000.

bers of the Royal Family are all desirous of reductions of

gerants during the crisis.

their

The King's Civil List amounts to £170,000 annually. He also receives about £60,000 as income from the Duchy of Lancaster.

Prince's Gift.

ZEPPELIN HOME

RETURNS FROM

PERNAMBUCO.

Berlin, Sept. 7. The Graf Zeppelin arrived arrive od at Friondrichshafen to-day completing a round trip from Ger-

involving two

Kaye Don and his two mechanies were flung out of the speed- boat in clouds of spray, Craft rushed to the scene from all directions and the three occupants of the boat were quickly pick- ed up, having escaped miraculously without injury of any kind, personal gift as his income, totall many to Pernambuco and back,

GAR WOOD'S TRICK TO RETAIN TROPHY.

The Injury-to their feelings-came later when they were informed that they had been disqualified for crossing the start- ting line five seconds too soon and that a successful ruse by Com- modore Gar Wood would in any case have deprived them of the Trophy.

Gar Wood, piloting Miss America IX lured Kaye Don over the line prematurely, both boats being disqualified, while Gar Wood's brother, George piloting Miss America VIII, which had been hanging behind, had merely to complete the course and prepare to run over the course again to-morrow in the third heat to win the trophy.-Reuter and British Wireless,

The Prince of Wales is making a

оcenn

flights.-

The Council is satisfied that the students are attempting to hide the full facis,

conse and, as a

Itall quence, Lugard

has been!

until further notice,

who sintes that he was the vle- ing suite.. tim of a "rag" by a number of

students in his room in Lugard

SMUGGLERS.

Hall on the night of August 26. DIAMOND He alleges that he was awakened from sleep to feel himself being his feet were strangled, while also firmly held down. He was then bound and carried down to the coal hole, from which he later escaped.

Complete Denials.

CHILEAN NAVAL REVOLT OVER.

AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

X-RAYS REVEAL SECRETS.

Capetown, Sept. 7. Unparalleled Ingenuity in The following morning, he re-anuggling was displayed by two. ported the affair to the Vice- Europeana at the State diggings

New York, Sopt. 7. Chancellor (Sir William Hornell) it was revealed to-day,

The naval revolt in Chile has who, with Mr. W. B. Finnigan When charged with stealing been quelled according to an (the Registrar) and Prof. W over 120 uncut stones valued at official announcement issued by

Government at Santiago QUEEN OF SHEBA'S Faid, bogan immediate enquiries £12,000 it was stated the diamonds the Ramsay

at Lugard Hall, which proved were secreted in various parts of to-day, stating that the rebels MacDonald reply TREASURE HOUSE. fulticas

their bodies and were only dis- have unconditionally surrendered covered after the men had been after a threat of further bombard- x-rayed.

ment from the air-Router.

ing £70,000 per Reuter. annum is entire- derived from

the Duchy of Cornwall.

ing to the King's message says that:

all sections of the community will

be heartened by the Royal exam- ple.

The victim could give no de Anite information as to his alleg- SENSATIONAL FIND ed assaltants, as the room was In

CLAIMED.

complete, darkness when he was |uttacked, but a few suspecta word London, Sept. 7. interrogated, and they stoutly The Prime Minister to-night 18- The claim that ho hns located the asserted not only that they had sued an eve-of-Parliament message ancient treasure mines of the not, taken part in a "rag,'

"-but [to_the_Nation: anid, "Parla- Frank Hayter, the.big game hun- ever, and, so far as they know. Queen of Sheba, ia made by Mr.that they heard nothing what- To-morrow, T.U.C. AT BRISTOL views which the General Council

of the Congress had with repre- ment will meet and the Government achtatives of the late Labour will ask from it and is certain to ter, who has just returned to Eng thore was no rag

land from Central Africa. Cabinet.

obtain a vote of confidence.

Too was examined by Prof. W. In uncx-1. Gerrard, who states that the appeal to the Nation also to plored county. 320

From a cavernelles west of

.

BREACH WITH LATE GOVERNMENT.

London, Sept. 7. Five hundred and nighty oven delegates attended the sixty-third Trude Union Congress which open- ed at Bristol to-day

"I

The Council, he said, had want give us ita confidence and to banish Addisabab, Hayter has brought/student was clearly the victim ofi they felt the Government's policy crista which confronted us was not num and bios, diamonds, plata savage attack, which might cari-:

have proved fatal.

ed to assist the Government but from its mind any notion that the back uncut was economically · disastrous and impossibile for them to subscribe real and dangerous or that we could started In 1930, when an English Police Called In

have met it with mosaures

to.

The Congress passed a mation unanimously, approving the action Mr. Citrine, the General Scere-of the General Council as report tary, made a statement regarding ed by Mr. Citrino and adjourned "the financial crints and the inter for the day--British-Wireless:

gold. The expedition

less mining engineer obtained posses- Patllament to, sanction. vigorous than those we shall saksion of an old mas from an Arab. The undergraduate, seeking Hayter said "I am going to and receiving permission from Back to Even Keel. Abyssinia again in a few months the Council, called in the police hamaalt and all its to try and and the roof the alluvial to investigate, but they too came potential consequences. We had to gold was washed from which I up again zirkalinkkwah), 12k