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#1 #E#AHÆ#P MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932.

SEVERE FLOODS ALL OVER BRITAIN Terrific Cloudburst Over Cricket Ground

HUGE LAKES

FORMED

DAMAGE AT DERBY

AND BANBURY

London, May 22.

Abnormally heavy rains, pelting down relentlessly for hours, have transformed large parts of England into enormous inland lakes, the. scale of the flood havoc being almost unprecedented.

In Warwickshire, for example, the waters have been unable to that away with the result

got

TYPICAL ENGLISH FLOOD SCENES, Left, a motor-vakicle pushing its way through waters on the main thoroughfare at Alvaaton, between Derby and Leicester. Right, houses under water in Lincolnshire.

huge areas are feet deep in water. BRITISH

Houses have been flooded out in

many districts, while many of the

main roads are impassable.

an

The floods in Warwickshire are described as the worst for thirty years and

almost similar state of affairs exists in Yorkshire, where thousands of acres of the county are under

water.

In Lincolnshire, too, great areas are submerged.

As the result of many hours of continuous heavy rain, Derby and Banbury have suffered severely from flooding.

CLOUD BURST,

The worst luotated experience. however, la recorded by” Ashby- de-In-Zouche where 14 terrific cloudburst occurred, resulting in floods Bo deep that boata are having to be used to convoy food to people imprisoned in their

homes.

The county cricket ground at Ashby is covered with fifteen feet of water!-Reuter.

"YESTERDAY'S FALL

OF RAIN

CONSUL

SHOT

NORTH ANHUI OUTRAGE

Shanghai, May 23.

日八十月四

UN PER; AKKUM .

SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

AS BRITISH AS THE FLAG .... Empire Day Fair-Stand Nos. 14 & 15

IS CIVILISATION DOOMED?

Grim Warnings

Warnings by Noted Authors

AMERICA'S

FALLEN

IDOLS

THE ECONOMIC MORASS

EUROPE'S FEARS

London, May 22.

CONTROL OF

FINANCE

SI IGLE BODY AS ONLY REMEDY

London, May 23...

Eminent literary and deep- thinking men like Mr. Rud- yard Kipling and Mr. H. G. Wells are swelling the chorus of warnings that things are likely to worsen before they get better.

Mr. Kipling. in a new poem, printed in the London Morning Post

untitled "Storm

to-day,

Cone." opens:

The spectacle of the long- worshipped Idol of American prosperity, with half the world's stock of gold as. the plinth, dissembling under the stress of economic tremors, is per- turbing financiers, statesmen and writers all over the world,

The unemployed in the United suggestions for Open Sesamestained by private charitable sources.low with

States are at prosent being main- Our photo shows a queue outside

free eating-house.

JAPAN'S INVITATION HUGE SCALE setting them anxiously seeking

TO THE POWERS

JOINT PROTECTIVE MEASURES IN CHINA.

Baltimore, May 22.

Japan has requested the United States to participate in a round table conference, to be held in Tokyo, to discuss joint measureR by the live interested Powers. Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Japan, to protect their Rationals and property in China, according to tho Washington

expondent of

the Baltimore

FINANCE

to the Cave of Recovery.

BIG BRITISH WAR of the reciprocative cog in

LOAN OFFER

£2,000,000,000.

0

Realising that the rehabilita- tion of Europe is largely pendent on America's restitution the world trade machine, they viewi the increasing gravity of the situation in the United Statex with considerable alarm.

de

UNEMPLOYMENT SPECTRE.

SHANGHAI STRIKE

This in spite of the fact that COUNCIL PLANNING they are assured that nothing can touch the foundation of the ecoso- mic strength of the United States,

stage which will eventually

London, May 23. The City is preparing for stupendous Government financial operation and is anticipating an Imminent Government decision to convert over two thousand million brillant recovery. embarrassment-

pounds worth of Five Per Cent War Loan stock,

A British consular official scat from Nanking to try and effect the release of Mr. H. 5. Ferguson, captured by Communists in Northern An- hui, was shot yesterday mor- ning by demobilised soldiers, according to a telegram re- ceived from Pengpu. The victim was

Mr. Graham, THE INTERPORT. Vice-Consul at Nanking, and he was on his way from Pengpa to HONGKONG

The Sun adds that the invita Lion is causing Mr. M. L. Stimson considerable Reuter.

Showchow when he was held up

the ex-soldiers and shot.

It is believed unlikely that the wound will prove fatal. He Is being sent to Nanking as rapidly as possible.

Mr.i

ROT SETS IN

BUT BURNETT AND MADAR STAGE RECOVERY

test.

Shanghai, May 23.

It is universally agreed that the present is the ideal moment for the operation when the Govern ment credit is at four per cent.

The probable terms of the gigantic conversion offer are not divulged but it is considered holders will be offered various options, repayment at par, or conversion into new stock with Interest varying according to the date of redemption.

that

*

enor-

Sonie observers of the situation, believing that America's mous budget deficit will be .re- medied and balanced somehow. regard the stupendous spread of unemployment In the United States as a far more important problem than Anance.

П

EMERGENCY

POSTAL SERVICES

(Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, May 23.

The Municipal Council has convened a meeting of foreign postal exports for 11 o'clock this morning, in the Council Chamber, in order to discuss the modus operandi of an Emergency Post Office, necessitated in consequence of the strike of Chinese postal workers,

During the week-end, part of the second floor of the Municipal Building has been converted into ૉ Poat Office. Hundreds of

There is grave reason to fear that when the sources of pri- vate charity dry up in n coun- It is also reported That Ferguson, who had

try where lawlessness is almost been held captive on a junk for some days,

ANOTHER BUDGET.

na well-armed at the law, has been released by the Reilst

situation will develop fraught on the appeal of the flood

The City would also not be sur- WATER SUPPLIES NOT sufferers in the region and has

with the gravest possibilities. been given a horse with which well in the Interport cricket con the result of Lausanne and the Hongkong is not faring at allPrised if the Chancellor produced

another Autumn Budget, based on; MUCH HELPED

FOREIGN BALANCES GOING, and a heavy defeat in in Mr. Ferguson has been a mark-project unless a remarkable stand believes that the last Budget was dices of the true conditions pre-

Ottawa Conference. The City Yesterday's rain, welcome as it ed, man in North Anhui since he is made by the tail.

Among the most eloquent was, had no appreciable effects on has been a distributor of large

Three wickets were lost in the ment of accounts. Reuter.

merely in the nature of a state- vailing In America to-day is the the water supplies of the Colony, sums of money in famine relief. first hour's play to-day. Mitchell,

fact that at the present rate of immediate occupation, has been The fall registered by the The impression got about that he Hamilton and Coward being the

disappearance, the withdrawal of arranged. Royal Observatory up to 8 o'clock was a wealthy minn instead of a victims.. Hongkong are only 23 inst night totalled 1.13 inches, Inland Mission and it had been

veteran member of the China runs on with four wickets to fall. DARTMOOR RIOT although in some of the reservoir thought that considerable areas the fall was not much more culty would be experienced than half an luch.

securing his release.

to return Pengpu.

Scores:

dif- Hongkong-1st Innings.

in Shanghaiist Innings

108

131

Hongkong, 2nd Innings.

4

11

0

On enquiry at the Waterworks A young American named W. Department of the P.W.D., we W. Moore, who was co-operating 1. E. Richardson, Elliott were informed that the rain had with Mr. Ferguson when the G. R. Sayer, e and b Elliott not materially added to the reser-bandit Communists attacked P. Madar, e Booths, b Elliott.... voir contents. In all, between Chengyangkuan, escaped the raid. E. F. Fincher, 6 Mansell-Smith 12 two and three million gallons were He was on a tour of out-stations A., C. Hamilton, Coward, received.

when the attnek Wan made.--

Elliott Rester.

Later. Mr. Graham is believed to have

River and to have been fired on from the bank.-Reuter.

HONGKONG DOLLAR¦beca travelling by bout on the Hwai

DECLINES

SLIGHT DROP THIS MORNING

Poona, May 22. For the first time for many years, a huge Union Jack fluttered at the head of a purely Indian pro- The Hongkong dollar has de-jeession here to-day. clined 1/8th to-day to Is. 24 d The procession comprised

The local market is inclined to be thousnud Untouchables, who wel easy, with little disposition to dolcomed the arrival of business.

In London, silver is down th the decline being due to Continen- tal selling and poor support.

New York roports a fall of a quarter, at 27.7/5th, with the markat easy.

RED MENACE TO KULANGSU

E. J. R. Mitchell, b Manseil-Sith

Extras

REWARDS

REMISSIONS FOR "LOYALISTS”

in-

the strictly foreign exchange re- serve balances from New York]

will be complete within a com-

paratively short time.

ernment

of

the

Equalisation Fund.

workmen have been engaged on the necessary structural: altera. tions.

Accommodation suitable

for

a

"This in minight.......dawn

is very far."

Mr. H. G. Well, in ari

inter-

Reulor at Madrid, where he is lecturing, predicts the inevitable collapse of world eivilisation unless the nations of the world are speedily able to de- vise a single world-wide financial controlling body.-Reuter.

NOTED MOTORIST KILLED

CAR OVERTURNS IN BERLIN

AMAZING ROAD SPEEDS

Berlin, May 22.

In the presence of hund- reds of thousands of specta--- tors, the well-known Czechó- Slovakian racing motorist, Prince Lobkowicz, was fatal- ly injured in the Berlin Grand Prix motor-race to-day. He was driving and was travelling at high speed Bugatti car when the car skidded and overturn- ed, crushing the driver. He was still alive whon picked up, but died shortly afterwards.

CAMPBELL RETIRES.

Sir Malcolm Campbell, who was

a strong favourite, was forced to retire from the race after he had completed four of the fifteen rounds of the course, owing to a choked ol! feed.

of 183 milles, won after an epic" struggle.

GENERAL MEETING The strikers are holding general meeting to-day to discuss The only offsetting factor is in the suggestions put forward by the British balances, estimatoll at the Mayor, Mr. Wu Tich-chon, at G$200,000,000 acquired in the resterday afternoon's meeting, at

The race was won by the Ger- process of selling sterling arminat which Mr. Hsin Ching-chien re- dollars as the result of the es- presented the Ministry of Com driving a Mercedes, who averaging man driver, von Braunschitsch, tablishment by the British Gov-munications, and Mr. Chang Chia-194.4 kilometres an hour (over. London, May 23.

Exchange fan and Mr. Wat Chun-hen, the 120 miles an hour) over the course "Meritorious behaviour" during

Central Kuomintang. 10 the Dartmoor riots has earned.

3 Ave years' remission on

Four postal delegates alao at- a mur- STOCK MARKET COLLAPSE.

tended yesterday's meeting. at Gidorer's life sentence (nominally The

which twenty years), while eleven other security values in

absolute collapse of

the Mayor urged the Total (for 6 wickets) 16 convicts are being released imme- States is illustrated by the listing with the omeinis, of

the United strikers to resume before negotint- -Reuter.

diatoly in consequence of

the re-of the stacks of some of the prin- Ministry of Communications with missions varying from two months Later. to three years.

elpal railways. The nominal regard to their demands. Ily lunch-time, Hongkong had A

about value of these stocks is begun to stage something of a missions varying from three months at the height of the boom in 1929,

further fifteen receive re G82,000,000,000 and they reached PATRIOTISM URGED: recovery. Minu

was bowled by to a year.

Special emphasis was laid on Booth after making seven, but the lunch score stood at 113 for affected is Donovan, who iTAR

The life-sentence

Just before the great Wall Street the point that in the

présent prisoner crash, a value of G$3,500,000,000. national crisis, all patriots should sentenced to death for the murder

work of national salvation, instead of embarrassing the Government by disrupting such an important

GOOD RECOVERY.

7 wickets-Reuter.

not out.

by A. H.

WAB due

TWENTY YARDS VICTORY, He defeated his fellow-country- an Alfa Romeo, by a mere twenty man, Carraciola, who was driving yarde!

Several world's records wore beaten in the course of the amaz- ing race, including the 200 kilo- metres distance, for which von Braunschitsch averaged 194.5

They are now worth, according/exert their energy towards the kilometres an hour.-Reuter.

HONGKONG-SHANGHAI BY AIR BARONY FOR GEN. corresponding week

SHIRAKAWA

Reuter,

22 mere

de-

of 1031.--

kong Cricket Club reveals that the only reprieved an hour before he a A message received by the Hong of a Brighton chemist in 1928 and to the market valuc, Ambedkar. stand is being made their Round Table Conference re-Madar and G.C. Burnett. At the During the Dartmoor rising, he there has been persistent

G$280,000,000. presentative.

to go to the scaffold. It has also to be recorded that utility as the postal service. British residents were greatly made 37 not out and Burnett 21 Governor, Col. Turner, at serious the principal American railways round that they had to consult lunch interval, A. H. Madar had saved the life of the Prison cline in freight car loadings on accept the Mayor's advico, on the The delegates, however, did not stirred by the sight.-Reuter,

risk to his own-Reuter.

During the week-ended May 14their fellow-workers before giving they were estimated at G$521, their answer. The meeting, as a 000 as against G$749,000 in the consequence, broke up without

any result being attained.

BACK TO BARTER.

NANKING OFFICIALS ARRIVE. Cairo, May 23.

Shanghai, May 23. DEATH EXPECTED AT Barter is coming back into the

Two officials of the Ministry of ANY MOMENT

world. This method of goods Communications have arrived from exchange is to assist in the dia Nanking and to-day, nira discutasing (Special to "Telegraph") posed route, from Shanghai to

Tokyo, May 23.

posal of Egypt's surplus cotton. the strike with representativos of. Learning that the death is

Germany is negotiating ex- the postal workers. Shanghal, May 23. Canton, some time next month, momentarily expected of General changes of artifletal manurée for Hongkong will be connected and, if this is successful, a mail Shirakawa, who was amongst those

Responsible Chinese newspapora, Owing to the Communist monnee with Shanghai by air in the com- commenced in October.

Egyptian cotton. and passenger service will be seriously wounded

while deploring the temporary crip A tentative agreemont has boas pling of the local postal nervious, at Amoy, the State Departmenting autumn if plans devised by

in the recent reached whereby, Egpyt will, sell expross sympathy with the strikers. has authorlood the landing of the

Shanghai bombing outrage, China National Aviation, According to the plans contem Emperor bas bestowed on him the against Hungarian bonds and

the ten thousand balanss of cotton * Kouter bluejackets at Kulangsu, from the Corporation materialise, as they plated, stops will be made at honour of a Barbay. patrol-boat Tulsa, provided the are expected to do.

Ningpo, Wenchow, Foochow,

Similarly pe gotiatio other Powers concerned act ́simi- The Company is planning to Amoy, Swatow, Hongkong and Shirakawa's services to his counter

This is in recognition of General, instones. larly-Reuter.

Imake a trial flight over the pro- Canton-Reuter,

-Relitor:

AMERICAN LANDING

AUTHORISED

Washington, May 22.

CHINA AVIATION CORPORATION'S PLANS

FOR THE AUTUMN

WATER SLOGANS

MORE THAN 1,300 IN COMPETITION

"The Telegraph's Save-Water Slogan

Competition, which closed on Saturday, has at any rate shown that there is no lack of ideas amongst our readers for conserving our water supplies.

In all, no fewer than 1,888 slogaus", were sent in. Those are” being forwarded to the Hon Mr.W.E.D. Shenton, who has kindly consented to act as Judge,and whode decision must be accepted as final.

A prize of $50 is being awarded to what, is adjudged. the best effort. The result

typhoid will be announced