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- REVADU MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932.

SEVERE FLOODS ALL OVER BRITAIN

Terrific Cloudburst

Cloudburst Over Cricket Ground

HUGE LAKES FORMED

DAMAGE AT DERBY

AND BANBURY

London, May 22.

Abnormally heavy rains, pelting down relentlessly for transformed hours, have

large parts of England into enormous inland lakes, the scale of the flood havoc being almost unprecedented.

In Warwickshire, for exaraple, the waters have been unable to]

get

away with the result that

TYPICAL ENGLISH FLOOD SCENES: Left, a motor vehicle pushing its way through waters on the main thoroughfare at Alvaston, between Derby and Leicester. Right, hauses under water in Lincolnshire.

huge areas are feel deep in water. BRITISH

Houses have been flooded out in many districts, while many of thei main roads are impassable.

The foods in. Warwickshire are described as the worst fori thirty years and almost

лn similar state of affairs exists in. Yorkshire, where thousands of acres of the county are under water.

In Lincolnshire, too, great areas are submergeil.

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

CLOUD BURST.

The worst isolated experience, however, is recorded. by Ashby- de-la-Zouche where

terrific

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· cloudburst occurred, resulting in floods so deep that outs are having to be used to convey food

CONSUL

SHOT

NORTH ANHUI OUTRAGE

Shanghai, May 23.

A British consular officini sent from Nanking to try and effect the release of Mr. H. S. 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. Grabau,

Vice-Consal at Nanking, and he!

JAPAN'S INVITATION 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 measures by the five Interested Powers, Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Japan, to protect their nationals are property in China, according to the Washington correspondent of the faltimore Sun.

ASSASSIN PLOT FAILS

日八十月四

$36 PER ANNUM

SIKOLE COPY 15 UMETO

"FORT" DUNLOP

Court

AS BRITISH AS THE FLAG

Emplro Day Fair-Stand Nos, 14 & 15

IS CIVILISATION DOOMED?

Grim Warnings by Noted Authors

AMERICA'S

FALLEN

IDOLS

THE ECONOMIC MORASS

EUROPE'S FEARS

London. May 22.

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, setting them anxiously seeking Huggestions for Open Sesames to the Cave of Recovery.

-

Realising that the rehabilita- tion of Europe is largely pendent on America's restitution the

STARTLING FIND of the reciprocative cog in

IN MADRID

SPANISH UNREST

Madrid. May 22.

world trade machine. they view the increasing gravity of the situation in the United States with considerable alarm.

UNEMPLOYMENT SPECTRE.

This in spite of the fact that

The unemployed in the United States are at present being main- tained by private charitable sources. Our photo shows a queue outside a free eating house.

SHANGHAI STRIKE

they are assured that nothing can COUNCIL PLANNING

Outrages by a group of anar-touch the foundation of the ccone- chists which were

tomie strength of the United States, planned take place on Sunday next on brilliant recovery.

which will eventually stage # terrible scale, art believed to have been frustrated by

the police, who have unearthed the plot and brought some of the ==;"; principal figures to book,

The S adds that the invita- tion is canaing Mr. H. L. Stimson considerable embarrassment.-- Reuter

The assassination of the Prime of

to people imprisoned in their was on his way from PetPeace Army in the Minister of the interior,

homes.

Showehow when he was held up!

The county cricket ground at by the ex-soldiers and shot. Ashby is covered with fifteen feet) of water!--Reuter,

YESTERDAY'S

OF RAIN

FALL

WATER SUPPLIES NOT

MUCH HELPED

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

!

Firing Line

Visit to London's

Dockland

the Minister of the Interior, Don Santingo Casares Quiroga, and rising in Andalusia, are said to have been among the designs of the conspirators,

5 CWT. OF DYNAMITE...

Some observers of the situation,

America's believing that

dnor- mous budget delicit will be ro- medied and balanced somehow, regard the stupendous spread of vicniployment in the United States as a far more important problem than finance.

There la grave reason to fear that when the sources of pri- vate charity dry up in a coun. try where lawlessness is almost as well-armed at the law, situation will develop fraught with the gravest possibilities.

FOREIGN BALANCES GOING.

A

EMERGENCY POSTAL SERVICES

(Our Own Correspondent).

Shanghai, May 23. The Municipal Council bas convened

21 meeting of foreign postal experts 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 [ a Post Office. Hundreds of workmen have been 'engaged on Among the most eloquent in- the necessary structural altera- dices of the true conditions pre- tions. vailing in America to-day is the

It is also reported that Mr. | Ferguson, who had been held

A quarter of a ton of dynamite captive on a junk for some days.

have been discovered during the has been released by the Reds!

investigations and raids in 011 the uppeal of the Blood

London. May 23. Madrid, while a hundred power. sufferers in the region and has

The Quaker's “Pence Army,"!ful bombs were found at Mon- been given a horse with which organised by Miss Maude Royden resa, and many others elsewhere to return Pangpu.

at the time of the Sino-Japanese in the provinces. Mr. Ferguson has been a mark-hostilities in Shanghai, wout intes Yesterday's rain, welcome as ited mas in North Anhui since he the "firing line" for the first time have arrested nearly all the lea- fact that at the present rate of

The police claim that they was, had no appreciable effects on has been a distributor of

dors.--Reuter, large yesterday, the water supplies of the Colony, sums of money in famine relief.

The fall registered by the The impression get about that he London's dockland- to prevent a The Peace Army assembled in Royal Observatory up to 8 o'clock was a wealthy man instead of last night totalled L13 inches, veteras member of

between contingents ot China although in some of the reservoir Inland Mission and it had been dockers and the police. areas the fall was not much more thought that considerable d than half an inch.

culty would be

the

clash

I

138 KILLED: 1,600 INJURED

TOLL OF BOMBAY RIOTING

The dockers were demonstrating experienced against the alleged loading of On enquiry at the Waterworks securing his release.

Vessels with munitions for Japan. Department of the P.W.D. wei A young American named W. The Peace Army nimed at support- were informed that the rain had W. Moore, who was co-operatingi ing the protest but to prevent not materially added to the reser-with Mr. Ferguson when the hostilities. voir contents. In all. between bandit Communists two and three million gallons were Chengyangkuan, escaped the raid, The terrible downpour of rain

He was on a tour of out-stations throughout the day, however, pro the casualties in the Ilindu-

made.-- vented heruics,--Henter,

received.

HONGKONG DOLLAR|

DECLINES

SLIGHT DROP THIS MORNING.

The Hongkong dollar han de- clined 1/8th to-day to is. 2. The foen market is inclined to be

-

when the attack Rruter.

attacked

was

Luiter.

Mr. Graham is believed to have for the Prussian Diet. the Prus- been travelling by bout on the waistan Cabinet headed by Dr. Oft River and to have been fired on Braun. has tendered its. resigna- from the bunk.--Reuter.

PRUSSIAN DIET STATEMATE

pasy, with little disposition to to COMMUNISTS HOLD

business.

In London, silver is down th the decline being due to Continen-

tal selling and poor support.

with the

New York roports a fall of a quarter, at 27.7/6ths, market easy.

RED MENACE TO KULANGSU

AMERICAN LANDING

AUTHORISED

BALANCE OF POWER

Berlin, May 22.

Bombay, May 22. It is now officially stated that

Moslem rioting up to midnight on; May 19, were as follows:

-Dead

138 Injured ....1,600

com-

i

Accommodation suitable for disappearance, the withdrawal of immediate occupation has been the strictly foreign exchange re-arranged. servo balances from New York

GENERAL MEETING will be complete within a paratively short time.

The strikers are holding The only offsetting factor is in general meeting to-day, to discuss the British balances, estimated at the suggestions put forward by G$200,000,000 acquired in the the Mayor, Mr. Wu Tich-chen, at process of selling sterling against yesterday afternoon's meeting, at dollars as the result of the es- which Mr. Hsin Ching-chien re- tablishment by the British Gov-prosented the Ministry of Com- ernment of the Exchange unleations, and Mr. Chang Chia- fan and Mr. Wu Chun-han, the Equalisation Fund.

Central Kuomintang.

STOCK MARKET COLLAPSE.

Four postal delegates also at tended yesterday's meeting, at The absolute collapse

which the

the Mayor, urged security values in

the Statos i llustrated by the list strikers to resume before negotiat-

with the officials of of the stocks of some of the prin-

of

United

ing

the

cipal railways. The nominal Ministry of Communications with

G$2,000,000,000 and they reached

The tension has lessened to-day, tion..

but one man was killed and value of these stocks is about regard to their demands. seven injured in sporadic assaulta. The Nazis, however, cannot -Reuter. form a government as they are still without a majority, their keenest rivals, the Communists,

with 67 sents, holding the balance UNTOUCHABLES IN

of power.

In view of the difficulties likely) to be experienced in forming a

new government, it is anticipated

PROCESSION

CONTROL OF

FINANCE

SINGLE 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.

new

poen,

Mr. Kipling, in à printed in the London Morning to-day. entitled "Storm Cone," opena:

Post

"This in midnight.......dawn

is very far." .

Mr. H. C. Wells, in an Inter view with Reuter at Madrid, where he is lecturing. predicts the inevitable collapse of world civilisation unless the nations. of the world are speedily able to de vise a single world-wide financini 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 Czecho- Slovakian racing motorist, Prince Lobkowicz, was fatal- ly injured in the Berlin Grand Prix motor-race to-day.

He was driving a Bugatti car and was travelling at high speed when the car skidded and overturn- ed, crushing the driver. He was still alive when 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 fifteen completed four of the rounds of the course, owing to u choked oil feed.

The race was won by, the Ger-

man driver, von Braunschitsch, driving a Mercedes, who averaging 104.4 kilometres an hour (over 120 miles an hour) over the course of 183 miles, won after an epic atruggle.

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

Several world's recorda were' beaten in the course of the amaz- ing race, including the 200 kilo- metres distance. for which von Braunachitach Averaged 194,5

PATRIOTISM URGED. at the height of the boom in 1929, just before the great Wall Street Special emphasis was laid on crash, a value of G$3,500,000,000, the point that in the

present They are now worth, according national crisis, all patriota should exert their energy towards the to the market value,

mere work of national salvation, Instead kilometres an hour-Router: G$280,000,000.

of embarrassing the Government

It has also to be recorded that by disrupting auch an important there has beon parelstent utility as the postal service

that the Braun Cabinet will carry HUGE UNION JACK AT eline in freight car loadings on As a sequel to the big Nazi on provisionally for some time- Buccesses in the recent elections Reuter.

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HEAD

Poonn, May 22. For the first time for many years, a huge Union Jack fluttered nt the head of a purely Indian pro- ccasion here to-day.

HONGKONG-SHANGHAI BY AIR at the head of a

CHINA AVIATION CORPORATION'S PLANS FOR THE AUTUMN

(Special to "Telegraph")

Shanghai, May 23.

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The procession comprised thousand Untouchables, who wel- comed the arrival of ́Ambedkar, their Round Table Conference re presentative,

British residents wore greatly stirred by the sight.-Reuter.

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the principal American railways. During the week-ended May 14 they were estimated at C1621 000 ns against G$748,000 in corresponding week Reuter.

of

of

the

1931--

Koods

The delegates, however, did not accept the Mayor's advice, on the ground that they had to consult their fellow-workers before giving their answer. The meeting, as a consequence, broke up without any result, being attained.

BACK TO BARTER.

NANKING OFFICIALS ARRIVE, Cairo, May 23.

Shanghal, May 23. Bartor is coming back into the

Two oficials of the Ministry of world. This method exchange in to assist in the die-Nanking and to-day are discussing Communications have arrived from pon) of Egypt's surplus cotton. the strike with representatives of

Germany is negotiating ex- the postal workers. changes of artificial manures for Egyptian cotton.

posed route, from Shanghai to Canton, some time next month,

Responsible Chinese newspapers, Washington, May 22. Hongkong will bo connected and, if this is successful, a mali

while deploring the temporary crip Owing to the Communist menace with Shanghai by air in the com-and passenger service will be

Following complaints by residenta

A tentative agreement has been pling of the local postal services, at Amoy, the State Department in autumn if plans devised by commenced in 'October.

in the neighbourhood of the Children's reached whereby Eggyt will all express sympathy with the strikers. hae authorised

China the landing of the

National Aviation According to the plans contom Chinose adults were charged before against Hungarian bonds,

Playground at Chatham Road, several ten thousand bales of cotton |—Reuters. bluejackota at Kulangsu, from the Corporation matorialise, as they plated, stops will be made af Bfr. Grantham at the Kowloon patrol-boat Tulsa, provided the are expected to do.

Ningpo, Wenchow, Foochow Magistracy, this morning with uning ing on with Crecho-Slovákia, and Similarly mogotiations aro} goś Mother Powers concerned act simi- The Company is planning to Amoy, Swatow, Hongkong and the see-BAWS, They were each finod Elarly, Reuter-

Įmako' a trial flight over the pró-| Canton.--Reuter,

Bwed amex The lattertwill: Saupp

The health return for the week-end PHO, E QUE CANNgadth of paratyphold

WATER SLOGANS -

MORE THAN 1,300 IN COMPETITION

Tho Telegraph's Save-Water Slogan

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

In all, no fewer than 1,388, alogans wore sont in. Those are being forwarded to the Hon. Mr. W.E.L, Shenton, who has kindly consented to act as Judge, and whose decision must be accepted as final

A prize of $50 is beingữ awarded to what is adjudged the best effort: The result will be announced--in--due courge:

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