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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.

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SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

THE NEW RIALTO.

STOCK EXCHANGE

TO BUILD.

are

that It has

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Now

JAPANESE VESSEL ON FIRE.

SPECTACULAR RESCUE BY U.S. SHIPS.

Explosion Explained.

The second officer of the burned

Baid.

vessel explained that the pressure of the coal in the bunkers, coupled with the friction occasioned by the tossing of the ship, caused gas to be form- ed in the bunker, which exploded. Some works ago there was a

Manila, Nov. 12.

Although the members of the crew rumour that the Hongkong Stock

After a two-lay battle with fire at

ma the danger of being blown up Exchange was to purchase pre- perly and build its own head-sea, and a spectacular rescue by due to other gas explosions from the America naval ships summoned by coal cargo they stuck to their ship. quarters. Inquiry then produced wireless the officers and crow of the keeping a two-day sloopless vigil to tho reply that the scheme was

It is Japaness cargo steamer Kaku Maru prevent the fire from spreading. To "very much in the air."

have arrived in Manila.

a man, the Japaneso denied that they understood

Word of the plight of the Kaku werd afraid, although they admitted RopHen first received in Manila they realized their danger, MarE WES crystallised.

According to reliable informa- while the ship was off the coast to SOS messages brought them sa- tion, the Stock Exchange has just Mindoro and the U. S. S. destroyer aurance that help would not be want purchased the block of property in Tracy was dispatched to her mising in case of urgent emergency, they ico House Street at present tance.

The fit information told of the While an estimate of the extent of occupied by old buildlugs whose

tire that had broken out and the the damage caused by the fire could tenants

Mesars. William Fowell and Company, the Clover ccend that the fire had spread to not be ascertained by the members of No. 2 hatch which was burning the crew, they declared that No. 1 Shop and the Sharebrokers' Asso- furlously. It further stated that the and No. 2 holds were destroyed and clation. The vendors

the ship was endangered by the possibi- the forward part of, the ship was Land Investment Company. The lity of a gasoline explosion, she being badly burned..

through a laden with that product. arranged WIS well-known local land agent.

The Tracy was followed by a second In its far-seeing plans the Stock destroyer, the MacLeish, the salvage

"We were getting anxious as the fire Exchange proposes to construct: ship Figeon and the air craft carrier was getting very hot last night until

wamhips followed

we saw the Navy destroyers coming a five storey building. The cost Avocet. Other

On arrival on the scene, the and then we were happy," the second of land and building will total later.

Tracey took off 39 of the 42 members cer of the Kaku Maru declared In The Stock about $700,000. Exchange itself will, it is under- of the crew of the burning ship describing the relief which the crew captain, flest engineer and first officer stood, occupy the ground floor, of the gutted ship were innded at of the burning ship felt when they while the floors above will pro-Pulunn Hay, Mindore where the saw the Navy rescue boats heave in

for freighter was benched, to supervise

The ship No. 214 (U. S. 8. Tracy) vide oilice accommodation

Kaivage operations control led by the members.

The ship Mix o'clock inst night. Plans for the new building area. Salvager of the Atlantic Gulf and took all the men off our ship at about stayed only 30 or 40 metres from our anid

to promise a linndrome and Pacifle Co serviceable structure, elevating

Dressed in odds and ends, the tea-side and she sent motor-boats to get Ice House Street to a new pos tion of dignity and retaining for cued Japanese sellors appeared in the," the second officer continued. "La- best of spirits, although their faces ter some of us were put on the ship it its Rallo atmosphere. Reports showed the effects of two hectic days Avocet and some on the Pigeon." are that the success of the venture and nights during which time they battle flames without a wink of are assured.

sleep.

Balo

THE GREAT IRISH GAMBLE.

A Haggard Lot.

night.

Navy to Rescue.

The Japanese spoke highly of the eclent manner in which the Navy ships conducted their rescue work and they expressed appreciation of the "The Avaret brought 20 of the roo-indness of the Navy chips to stand eued ramen, arriving in Manila ut 9:46. The Pigan brought 10 more by, to help us."

Scene Described.

Navy men from the Maelwish and

at 1 p.m. The Japanese were trans- SWEEP SUBSCRIPTIONS

ferred from the navy ships_by_the TOTAL £3,365,000.

customs harbour launch No. . They were first takin to Pier Seven where the Jason declared that when the des London, Mar. 14.

they remained until a representative troyers arrived on the scene the bridge Fortune Beekers hopes

of the Japanes consulate here took of the Kake Maru had been burned focussed on Dublin, where the then into curtory. The seamen are away and damen could be seen pouring gront three-day draw for the trishhaused In five different Japanese from the holls in the forward deck. sweep on the Grand National in hotels in Manila. begun.

A sum of £2.239,000 is available for distribution, divided into 22 units of £100,000 each, in which the first, second and third prizes will be £30,000, £15,000 and £10,000 respectively.

Forty-eight unplaced horses will get £729 ench; and there will also be 100 cash prizes of £100 ench, as well as ten realdual cash prizes of £4,000 each.

Only horses are being drawn day-Reuter

A Lucky Malay.

The Mael.cish arrived at Palauan

8:45 Thursday The Kaku Mart loft Caletta foray in Mindoro at Singapore on Fibrinry 17 with a car-night while the Jason arrived an hour go of 6,000 tons of coal. She arrived or so Inter. The navy ships stood by The Navy's part in the rescue of the in Singapore on March 1 and left the all night. following day, bound for Hongkong. Four days out from Singapore the crew of the Japanese freighter Kaku member of the crew observed smoke Maru was completed inst night with coming from one of the coal bunkers the arrival of the last of the crew, in hold No. 2, to the fore of the ehip. Further salvago work is in the hands Smoke continued to pour from the of the Salvager, operated by the At

lantic Galf and Paciße Company. hold for three or four days.

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Explosion Blows Hatch. "At one o'clock in the morning of

to the radio The Salvager in standing by, and TO CANADA & UNITED STATES. The total subscription was £3,- March 9" according 35,000, of which the Irish hoa-operator, "a small explosion aroused the fire has been brought under con- the entire crew, and we found that the trol but is still burning in the holds. water can be pumped in pitals receive £841.600.

gan in bunker No. 2 had been touched No more 1-off from the smouldering heat below. without sinking the ship. It le be

Another explosion at 4:00 a.m. blew lieved.

The captain, Brst officer, and chiaf the cover off No. 2 hatch, and flames Later.

alat out the forward part of the ship, engineer of the Taku Maru are stand- In the Trish sweep, Quite Calm while the entire vessel was enveloped in by during the continuing salvage

operations. has been drawn by ticket EQ in thick, suffocating smoke.

The pioneer salvage work was done "The mombers of the crew imme 50742, held by Tunku Pok. ofintely set to work to attempt to put by the Pigeon, which is equipped for After the Anak Bukit, Alor Star, Malaya.—the Bres out. We tried to throw out this type of operations.

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Home of the coal but the firo could not crew had been rescued by the Tracy be stopped, although it did not got the Pigeon, fighting the fire, put a beyond control until about noon at line aboard the freighter and towed Thursday. Once the fire was known her to Palauan Bay, on the northwest to be out of hand, I sent out an SOS. tip of Mindoro, where she was beach- which was relayed to Manila and ro-ed. ceived by BCP Thursday afternoon."

The Kaku Maru is a steel screw

this

The foregoing was told to the crowd steamer of 3,883 tons registry. Sho that gathered at the customs jetty operates out of Kobe, and on inst night, through interpreters, while run was en route with cargo from the weary crew of the Kaku Mara Calcutta. She was built in 1887 in Stockton and is rated A in Lloyds, waited-to be taken to bed...

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