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GEORGES PHILLIPAR MISSING FEARED DEAD

WATER

Over Ninety Passengers and Crew Not Accounted For

QUESTIONS STIFFKEY

RIDER MAIN PLAN

REJECTED

GOVT. · ATTITUDE

At this afternoon's meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Colonial Secretary, replying to a question by the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall suggesting the restoration of supplies to houses in the rider main districts, said the Government did not feel justified in taking this step.

He added that the Director of Public Works had a scheme under consideration by which a lonker period of supply could be given fram street fountains, while a shor- ter supply would be made avail- able for those an metered supplies, It was hoped that this scheme would be ready for operation in the course of the next few days. It was not considered safe to allow upme tered supplies in houses until the postion improved.

TRIAL

RECTOR TO OPEN DEFENCE TO-DAY

The trial is being resumed at Church House, Westmin- ster, to-day, of the Rov. Harold F. Davidson, Rector of Stiffkey (pronounced Stookey), on charges against his moral character.

The case for the Blahop of Nor- wich was conclued last month, hui the refusal of the Rev. Davidson to accept an offer of £250 by the pro- accntion to enable him to continue his defence by counsel, caused an ndjourment until to-day.

Mr. Davidson declared that while he was not ungrateful he did not desire to be under an oblign. tion to the Bishop and would be prepared to conduct his own de fence, If he was unable to obtain the money to retain Mr. H. F. Levy as his counsel.

Meanwhile, the Roy. Davidson has been continuing his work in the parish of Stiffkey, although he consented to the appointment of a substitute to take the services.

The defence In the trial, which has attracted enormous interest, la a complete denial of the charges.

NEA

It was almost a gain occasion when the Rev. Harald David. con,Rector of Stiffkey, returned to his parish during the recess of his trist in London on charges of Immorality. Here the mo cused Ractor is seen smilingly greeting some of the children who were part of the throngs that travelled from all parts of England to hear him preach.

UNIVERSAL METERAGE

Replying to another question, in which the Hon. Mr. Kotewali drew attention to an assurance by Sir Cecil Clementi, in 1929, that the LINDBERGH DRAMA Government would give the Council an opportunity to debate any pro posul for the abolition of the rider mains, the Colonial Secretary stat- ed that in February last it decided in Executive Council that universal meterage should be in- troduced as soon as possible, and that in the rider main districts the cost of transferring existing house services to the principal | mains should be met by public funds.

"MILLIONAIRE”

In the course of an outline of the new scheme of water dis tribution, the Hon. Mr. Creasy, D.P.W., admitted that streel

fountain consumers were not

to-day getling J37

share of the supply.

HOAXER ARRESTED

INQUIRY INTO MOVEMENTS ON NIGHT OF KIDNAPPING

equitable ANOTHER CONFESSION

SHING MUN SCHEME

The Council adopted the follow. ing motion by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock:

"That the Unotheial Members of the Council,-in view of the pre- sunt

water Berious recurrent

shortage, respectfully urge the Hongkong Government to press the Home Authorities immediate- ly to sanction the commencement of the second section of the Shing Muu Water Scheme."

STOP PRESS.

Trenton, May 19. "Millionaire" Curtis hus been lodged in gaol in default of the provision of bail which has been fixed at G$19,000.

MANCHURIA OUTRAGE ENGLISHMAN AND

AMERICAN

MURDERED

RE-SHUFFLING IN NANKING

HEROIC DEVOTION FOREIGN MINISTER

OF STEWARDESS

| MORE VIVID STORIES OF THE DISASTER

ADEN, MAY 18.

RESIGNING

|QUO TAI-CHI MAY ASSUME POST

(Special to "Telegraph")

и

Nanking, May 19. The possibility of some re- shuffing in the National Govern- ment at Nanking in the near [INETY PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE future is considered likely.

PHILLIPAR” DISASTER ARE It is indicated that Mr. Lo Wen- of STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR AND THERE IS kan, who took up the office GRAVE REASON TO FEAR THAT ALL LOST expresa understanding that it was Minister for Foreign Affairs on the

THEIR LIVES IN THE TRAGEDY. IT IS PRACTI-a temporary appointment, intonda CALLY CERTAIN THAT NONE WERE RESCUED to give up the Binistry in order to BY THE LARGER VESSELS WHICH ARRIVED Ministry of Justice.

resume his duties as head of the LATE ON THE SCENE.

The re-shuffling of the Govern- men will be necessary if the step

One faint hope remains that the death-roll willis prove to be lighter than is now feared, namely that some of the lifeboats and rafts may have reached the coast or may have been picked up by Arab dhows.-Reuter. WOMAN'S STORY OF OUTBREAK

(Reuters Special Service).

Aden, May 18. more survivors of the

Georges

approved.

LIKELY SUCCESSOR.

It seems likely that his successor at the Foreign Office will be Mr. Que Tai-chi, who has resigned the post of Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and who apparently is un- to Buc- willing to go to London ceed Dr. Alfred Sze.

Mr. Que Tal-chi, who la at pro- sent in Shanghai, intends to come to Nanking shortly to submit a re- port on the situation in Shanghai, and while in the Capital will ex- plain the reason why he does not desire to go to London.

A vivid story of how many of Phillipar disaster. the passengers were in the midst "God and the wind were with of a party dancing in the main us," declared a first-class passen saloon of the "Georges Phillipar" ger, describing how four hundred when a woman discovered that the people were cut off from the boats liner was afire, was outlined to-day forward, many of them dying from by Madame Valencin, who embark- burns and suffocation.

It is considered highly probable ed at Shanghai.

They were imprisoned, he said, that he will be requested to suc- for two hours while the flames coed Mr. Lo Wen-kan at the Foreign raced with the approaching ships, Office.--Router.

All the survivors pay tributes

Madame Valencin was one of the survivora who landed in Aden yes- terday aboard the Mahsud.

"I was on deck," she said, "look ing at the lighthouse on Cape

Guardafui.

SWITCH COLLAPSES.

to the behaviour of the crew, while the passengers also speak highly of the crew of the Soviet ship.- Renter.

"I decided to return to my HEART-RENDING PARIS cabin at about two o'clock in the

"I rushed out and called out for the steward and warned the capi tain and the officer of the watch that something WIN seriously wrong."

SCENES

ANXIOUS SCANNING OF RESCUED LISTS.

AMERICA TO GO BEERLESS

BIG DEMONSTRATION

pro.

Harbin, May 19. An Englishman and an Ameri- can who were out shooting along the Sungari River are reported to have fallen into the hands of morning and when I tried to switch |

IN VAIN insurgent soldiery and to have on the lights, the switch collapsed. been murdered in cold blood,

Washington, May 18. Despite the remarkable Two Japanese, who left by train New York, May 18. for Tsitelhar from Harbin yester

beer demonstrations held through- jout the United States on Sunday Fresh and startling developments have followed day morning, met with a similarly

Paris, May 18. last, the Senate to-day rojected a quickly upon the sensational confession of Mr. John terrible fate. The train was held

Heartrending scenes were ALARM NOT HEARD. up by Insurgent forces

wit-proposal to permit the manufac- nessed to-day at the offices in Paris ture and sale of beer of 2.76 Hughes Curtis, the "wealthy" Norfolk boatbuilder, that Miaotaitzu, the Japanese were "The alarm-bells were sounded at the Menstuceries Maritimen, alcoholic strength. he has been hoodwinking Colonel Lindbergh for the last then dragged out of the train and once, but were not heard by the which was crowded with anxious re-

later butchered.—Router.

One of the strongest argumenta passengers on deck owing to thelatives making enquiries regarding of the advocates of the step con- two months.

noise of the orchestra on the dance the fate of merabers of the crow cerned the financial difficulties of

and the passengers abroad.

the Government, expressing the The lists of the survivors have view that a large revenue could be now been cables to Paris and many obtained by a tax on light beers,

the office on reading them

Resistance by other than the

Curtis was to-day placed under arrest and the police have now turned their attention to an enquiry in- to his movements on the night of the kidnapping.

SWINDLED A BOOT LEGGER

near

floor.

111

JAPANESE VISITOR.

A Japanese, who was unable to DE VALERA GOING

TO OTTAWA

INTEREST ON

"My cabin was soon filled with smoke and the fire spread with in- OVERDRAFTS credible rapidity. The ship was stopped and ventilation supports were plugged in order to stem the through, left greatly distreaneci "Bone-Drys" was chiefly on the mea- BRITISH COMPLAINTS

acore that approval of the flames which crept along the cabins, and weeping.

Others were happy to find the of the wedge for the abolition of sure would provide the thin edge TO BE REMEDIED

and the companion way, trapping - Rome of the passengers before names of their relatives and friends in the lists of the rescued.

prohibition.-Router. Landon, May 19.

they had time to escape. His wife declares, it is under- Curtis was arrested at Trenton,

Complaints and grouses of Bri-

HEROIC STEWARDESS, stood. that her husband was at New Jersey, later in the day and

Other survivors arriving pay the home with her the whole night, formally charged with wilfullytish industralists against the mini-

reports regarding mum bank overdraft rate of five highest tributes to the courage of speak a word of French, brought but the police are neverthelessgiving false

per cent. have fallen upon sympa Mademoiselle Berth Helbout, persons guilty of crime.

one newspaper into the office and The police of Hopewell, Newthetic cars, according to the Daily of the stewardesses, who rushed pointed to a picture of the "Georges Jersey, then revealed that Curtis Herati.

all over the liner trying to find the Phillipar" and managed to

make sensational

attempted to

Colonel closure made to-day regarding Lindbergh to deposit n sum

persuade

The Labour, organ foreshadows parents of a twelve-year-old girl the staff understand that his wife

(Continued on Page 7.) the "millionaire-hoaxer" brought G$25,000 in a Norfolk bank

that many millions sterling will who had heen terribly burned. shortly be available for indus- In the confusion and panle she Curtis's name as "evidence of

trial and trade devolopments as was unsuccessful. The child died.

It is reported from Dublin that good faith" in his alleged den the result of private negotiations

The Royal Observatory reports Mr. Do Valora, President of the ings with the kidnappers and as occurring at the Bank of England

Later Mademoiselle Helbout rethat pressure is highest over the Executive Council of the Free State an advance ransom payment. to enable Arms to obtains accom-fused to leave two badly burned Preifle to the south east of Japan. Dail, intends, if Government bust- three per men, who were taken aboard the The depression is moving east-ness permits, to attend the Empire Lindbergh, however, refused cent. through the issue of three Mahaud, until she had reached wards across aputh Manchuria. Economic Conference at Ottawa. the request as he was not antis months, and six months billa, Aden. The strain, however, prov The typhoon still exists as a de- It is stated that the Irish Free ed too much for the gallant girl, pression in the Gulf of Tongking. State delegation will comprise three fied that the "kidnappory" with Reuter.

who is now in hospital.

checking all his movements.

Another

another confession.

I will need all the rigours of "third degree" to separate truth from the numerous "honxes" with

the He was confronted,

an unnamed:

which are being attempted in re- Scottish bootlegger, markable circumstances.

who accused Curtis

nap

in'

A

One man, for instance, a smug of swindling him of gler named Parzych, confessed a large sum of money that he assisted the gang to kid-by failing to Carry the baby and persisted out a prontiac to buy circumstantial narrative influence for the throughout fifteen hours of cross-bootlogger with the examination and then admitted |Norfolk police and that it was all fabricntion.

Some very startling disclosurea Curtia has admitted thut are expected to be made by Dr. Iman's accusations are true? Condon, the schoolmaster who

transmitted fifty thousand dollars

dix-

Curtia.

prohibition authorities.

REMORSE FEAR.

↑

LINDBERGH CAUTIOUS.

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whom Curtis said he was in con-

tact really had the child.

at around modation

Now that the Curtis confession THE SHANHAIKWAN|

has been made, the weaknesses

and

the

of his original story the mysteriousness of his movements |

are being carefully pointed out. It is disclosed that he came into the case on his own Initiative,

to the kidnappers "in Bronx This confession was made some after a carrier pigeon had been: Cemetery." Dr. Condon has ad- hours before the authorities de- pleked up in Connecticut, carry- mitted that his full story has not cided to arrest Curtis, but aling a note announcing that yet been told.-Reuter.

and intention Lindbergh baby was alive though there was no

the

TROUBLE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION

,

LOCAL NEWS.

Bro

Lebon.

Local Forecast: S.E.

moderate; fine generally.

EMPIRE ECONOMIC

CONFERENCE

London May 18.

winds, members of the Ministry.-British

Wirelesa.

HARBIN STILL THREATENED

-

FIVE MILES OF CITY

Mr. J. Ohl, the Hongkong gent of the M. M. Line has received a cable from Paris announcing that a total of 420 pasengers, officers and members of the crew were re-i

Russian tankor, scued by the Sovietskaya Neft, 104 by the Con INSURGENTS BROUGHT TO A HALT WITHIN tractor and 184 by the Mahsud.

othera Some Shanghai May 19.

nboard the Andre. According to Chinese reports,

Harbin, May 18. beon alightly damaged by artil the situation at Shanhalkwan has

The anti-Manchukuo forces en-lery fire, and many warehouses on ensed considerably, following a

ANOTHER RESCUE

Kaged in the attack on Harbin are the Hu-Hal Railway and numerous SHIP ARRIVES reported to have been defeated houses have been destroyed. Mr. Fernando Rein 'y Loring, the

It is also declared that the conference between the Japanese

and to be in retreat.

It is reported that the civilian Spanish airman, who set out at six that remorac might tempt him to New Jersey police were suspicious commander, Colonel Matsushita,

It is, however, anticipated that casualties at Bungpu were o'clock this morning for Hongkong, attempt to take his life.

from the beginning of the truth and General Ho Chuokuo.

FOUR HUNDRED CUT

they will resume the offensive if tremely heavy, had not arrived at 3.30 pm, al The enquiries into his move-of Curtis's stories of his negotia- It was decided by the two mili-

OFF BY FLAMES they are reinforced as the weather Before their attack was stayed, though, it had been expected that monts on the night of the kid- tione. He had Habit of slipping tary leaders to take all possible

is now most favourable to an it is now revealed, the anti- ho would rench Kni Tak by 2 napping on March 1 aro being away from Norfolk and remain-measures to restore pence

Adon, May 19. assault, high wind making Manchukuo forcan got within five D.m. at latest.

pursued by the police of Norfolk, ing away for three or four days, order and to clear up any misun- Joyful Boones of re-union of aeroplane fiights, and hence the miles Harbin, Haavy losses were Virginia, his home town, at the returning to give further elaborate derstanding, while It was also families were witnessed on the deadly Japanese norial attacks, suffered on both sides in the request of the New Jersoy State details of his afforts to gcouro agreed to discourage alarmist | arrival to-day of the M.M. liner, impesakhluqmana

fighting which" took place. Police.

the release of the child-Reuter, pross reports-Reuter.

Andre Lebon with thirty-four “The power station at Sungpu has Bester.

nt that time of detaining him safe on a yacht outside the 12. In custody it was intimated that mile limit on the Atlantic const.: the police were keeping him under close observation, fearing

POLICE SUSPICIOUS,

and

EX-