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EXPLOSION AND FIRE ABOARD JARDINE SHIP

SOVIET INVASION.

WITHIN SIGHT OF MANCHULI

ON MANOEUVRES :

Vessel Badly Damaged in Blaze at Socony Installation Wharf

FOUR FATALITIES FEARED

SOVIET OFFICIALS COOLIES MISSING: AND

LEAVE HARBIN

Harbin, July 15.

Soviet troops are now manoeuvring within sight

THREE INJURED.

of Manchuli, within the GASOLENE CASES GO

Sino-Soviet froutier, ac. cording to information from railway sources.

The close approach of the Bu is fortent to Manchuria'. mogl northerly vily is mompa entirely unprecedented. The last ocasion,

n which Soviet troops operated, near Manchuti. WAS during thei Sino-Resaian condici Over The Chinese Eastern Railway in 1929,

General Honjo,' who h

been! studying the Japanese vanguard; positions for the last fortnight, Jeft for Mukden on Wednesday,

Several important Suviet nd}}.¦ einis, including M. Kouznetzol. the Vice-President of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and his family. have left Harbin for Moscow.-- Bruter.

ANOTHER SOCCER

PROBLEM

CHINESE CLUBS AND

THE COUNCIL

According to reliable re- ports, there is a possibility of the development of fresh dis- cord between the H.K.F.A. and the Chinese clubs.

UP IN HOLD

FOUR WORKMEN, POSSIBLY

MORE,

ARE MISSING AND THREE WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AS THE RESULT OF A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION AND FIRE ABOARD THE JARDINE S.S. CHIPSHING THIS MORNING.

The Chipshing was lying alongside the wharf at

The Chipshing, photographed at the Secony installation wharf this morning after the explosion and fire in her No. 2 hold. When the picture was taken by a staff photographer, the fire had been partially subdued, though wreathe of smoke were still twisting about the superstructura. The vessel appears to

have suffered considerable damage to her hull, plates having been bulged by the intense heat.

the Standard Oil Company's installation at Laichikok, IN THE NICK AMERICA & WAR

loading gasolene in cases for Amoy. Approximately one thousand cases had been stowed away in the No. 2 hold when, at 8.45 a.m. a terrific explosion occurred, followed by a sheet of flame and clouds of heavy black smoke.

Within half an hour, the combined resources of the Socony fire-fighting branch and the Fire Brigade had been brought to bear, but it was not until 10.30 a.m., an hour and three-quarters after the outbreak, that the major conflagration was subdued.

CHIPSHING FLOODED BY HOSES

The cause the explosion,

རྟེu; which occurred in the No. 2 hold and the extent of the damage to the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company's vessel are not known.

COVER BLOWN OFF.

taken

OF TIME

LAHACHAN FORCE HOLDS OUT

SAVED BY LARGE REINFORCEMENT

(Special to "Telegraph")

Harbin, July 15. The Japanese garrison and Japanese residents of Laha- chan

saved from annihilation by the timely arrival of a large force as reinforcements.

were

That serious blaze was raging in the bold was evident within a few seconds of the explosion and efforts to combat it were with commendable promptitude by

The dramatic story is told in the Standard Of Company, whose Japanese reports, relating how private fire-fighting squad brought the arrival of the reinforcements twenty hoses to bear on the seat who travelled seventy-five miles of the mitbreak within five min-from Talisibar to Lahachan, following the receipt of a wire-

The trouble, it is believed, arises from the Council election at the annual meeting last week, when both the candidates chosen by the Chinese clubs were rejected, White! nothing has been disclosed re-i The enver of the No. 2 hold-was garding the lines upon which ac-blown off by the force of the ex-ntes. tion may be tafeen, it is understood plosion and several members

city from the anti-Manchukuo

of i Thousands of gallons of water that the Chinese question whether the three gangs engaged in the were poured into the hold but for less alarm from Noho, saved the the election procedure was entirely loading of the gasoleae are belie-some considerable time it appear-forces. regular. Comment on the issues ed to have been inside at the time. fed that no impression was bring which arise in one form or anther The majority had miraculous es made on the fire, will be found on the Sports Page.cupes, most of them managing to nake their way to the deck unass Esisted.

JAPANESE DISARM MANCHUKUO TROOPS

Sequel to Mutiny of A Cavalry Unit

Harbia. July 15.

agencies

The Japanese news

TWO FIREFLOATS.

It appears that Labachan Was attacked by roughly ten thousand anti-Manchukuo troops. They were] stubbornly resisted by the One man was, however,

The Central Fire Brigade re- Japanese garrison and by Japanese taken fecived a warning call at 8.55 a.m.civilians who out suffering from a broken tex. and

were hurriedly Afr. while two others were found to the

J. C. Fitz Henry.mobilised. Superintendent, The suffering from severe burns. chemical foam and chenient fire JAPANESE O, C. KILLED.

Four of the workmen are de- destroying powders to be loaded After the battle had raged for finitely known to be missing upon the No. 2 firefloat, which set about ten hours and when the and it is possible that when the out for Laichikok within a few fate of the defenders seemed to foremen have been able to check minutes and arrived at the scene be souled, the reinforcements

ordered

up their gangs, the number of of the fire shortly after nine arrived and dispersed the at- the vietinis of the disaster will o'clock. he increased.

state that two hundred Mancha NOULENS HUNGER

cavalry, in the vicinity of Yushu, mintinied and attacked the Japanes. garrison at Yushu, They were dis-. persed after fifty or sixty of their! Humber had been killed or taken prisoner. The Japanese losses were

killed and 10 wounded.

As a sequel, all Manchukuo gar- risons in the vicinity have been Aisarmed by the Japanese--Router

STOP PRESS.

STRIKE

MAY BE FORCIBLY FED IN HOSPITAL

Nanking, July 15. Noulens and his wife are herg sent to hospital where they will be foreibly fed if they persist in their hunger strike.-Reuter.

tackers.

The No. 1 refloat appeared soon Captain Toyo, the Japanese com- : afterwards and the two firefloats manding officer at Lahachan, was and the Socony appliances con-killed during the fighting, thued to swamp the held

It is stated that the casualties with water until the cargo began to among the defonders were three float, a which stage the chemical civilians killed and two wounded; extinguishers were brought to two Japanese soldiers killed and bear finally getting the blaze sup- twelve wounded.-Reuter. pressed at about 10,30 a.m.

Four

hundred pounds of chemien! fire extinguisher was used to subdue the outbreak.

GODOWN IN DANGER. Chipshing, a godown containing Fifty yards from the blazing

SINO-TIBETAN WAR

BACK

a large mantity of spirit, was thres- INVADERS THRUST tened, it being feared that the. sparks from the vessel would

PRICE ON HEADS hnite this storehouse owing!

CHIANG AND THE COMMUNISTS

fnet

to - the

that the wind was blowing in its direc- tion. The danger Was averted without great difficulty, however.

DEBTS ISSUE

LAUSANNE AGREEMENT

FULL

REVELATIONS

FACTS DISCLOSED

There is no further doubt upon this point, although it is insisted in London that the Anglo-French coopera- tion arrangement, to which Belgium and Italy have already adhered, has no bearing on the war debts issue.

DRAMATIC TURN IN IRISH SITUATION

LABOUR LEADERS

INTERVENE

DE VALERA AGAIN LONDON-BOUND

London, July 15..

The Anglo-Irish situa- tion, threatening to revive the old bitternesses in an intensified form, particu- larly following the British imposition of a special tariff schedule, has taken a sudden dramatic turn which it is hoped will be for the better.

Mr. De Valera has accepted an invitation by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to visit London to- day, the question being there- fore, brought once again within the realm of negotiation.

The brighter outlook is largely. due to the intervention and efforts of Mr. Norton, the leader of the Labour Party in the Irish Free State, in collaboration with members of the Labour Party in the House of Commons,

MR. NORTON'S EFFORT. On his arrival in London yester- day. Mr. Norton told correspon- dents that he believed a basis of settlement still possible and he intended to try and secure it. His first steps were consultations with the leaders of the British Labour |Party, which finally resulted in a

conference at No. 10, Downing-

THE LAUSANNE SETTLEMENT IS CONTIN-Street,

GENT ENTIRELY UPON A SATISFACTORY hours of this morning that Mr. de It was announced in the early WAR DEBTS SOLUTION BETWEEN GERMANY'S Valere would be leaving Dublin. CREDITORS AND THE UNITED STATES.

early to-day in MacDonald's invitation to London. response to Mr.

DOWNING STREET TALKS. The movements which had been going on behind the scenes were there was a conference at No. 10, later disclosed.. It appears that President Hoover, in a letter to Senator Borah Downing Street, late last night, says he is not assured that the recent European agree-Lord Sankey, and Sir Thomas between Mr. Rameny MacDonald, ment was for the purpose of combined action by Inskip on the one side and the America's debtors, but if this is intended he "does not accompanied by Mr. George Lans- Irish Inbour leader, Mr. Norton, propose that the American people should be pressed in- Continued on Page 12.) to any line of action." President Hoover says that the United States was not consulted regarding the Lausanne agreement and is not in any way committed thereto. PREMIER BUSY WITH EUROPE'S POLICY OF

DENIALS

CO-OPERATION

BELGIUM AND ITALY JOIN BRITAIN & FRANCE,

QUIETENING ALARM IN UNITED STATES. DESERT'a', 1.

MA CHAN SHAN NEARLY CAUGHT

NARROWLY ESCAPES DURING ATTACK

London, July 14.

London, July 14.

Harbin, July, 16. The Italian and Belging Govern- Japanese reports state that Gen- A statement tasued by Prime Minister to-night denies the British Foreign Office of their ed with a thousand bodyguards in the ments have to-day rotifed the eral Ma Chan-shan, when eucamp- reparts published that yesterday's adhesion to yesterday's joint de- the vicinity of Mulan, on the Sun- Anglo-French declaration of co-claration of the British and French gari River, narrowly escaped cap operation applies to the question Governments as to the method of ture, with two hundred of his of British debts to the Uniter co-operation in regard to the treat-guards, when Japanese troops States.

ment of European problems. launched a surprise attack.

The British Government's satis- The statement says that the faction at this speedy extension eral Ma Chan-shan'e radio station, The Japanese forces seized Gen- use in the declaration of the of the principles enunciated In the with which he has been communi- words "European regime" ex- declaration was expressed to-nightcating with points outside Man- pressly excludes from its pur-by the Parliamentary Under Secre-churla.-Renter. view any questions affecting tary for Foreign Affairs, Captain non-European countries.

Eden, in a speech at Warwick.

Captain Eden anid that Britain

strict

TAKEN OVER

THREE JAPANESE IN

CONTROL

Harbin, July 15.

On the whole question, the and France merely sought to give HARBIN G.P.O. NOW Prime Minister explained the the lead in this policy of co-opera- position authoritatively in his tion and wished it to be speedily OVER 1,400 CHINESE speech in the Commons on Tues followed by other Governments.

CASUALTIES

day evening when he said: "In They belloved that in this way view of the grievous results like the nations of Europe would best Nanking, July 15. The task of pumping out the

Hankow, July 15.

Later, another small outbreak

ly to follow upon any representa- be able to meet together the shock One of the most service engage- water from the 4.8. Chipshing was offered the following rewards for

was observed aboard the Chipments in the Sine-Tibotan hosti-America, that at Lausanne Europe and to prepare for the world econo tions made, either here or in of the present economic depression Marshal Chiang Kal-ehek has

shing, and the decking had toties have just concluded with the has combined to present something mic conference. proceeding this afternoon in an the arrest of Communist leaders:

be pulled up to enable the fire cuplure by the Chinese forces of In the nature of an ultimatum to

The effort to recover the bodies of the Army

proposals were in Commanders,

fighters to reach the centre of Paili,

A Japanese accountant, "super- $30,000; victims,

the United States, I want to make accord with the spirit of the visor and ́ adviser have arrived the new fre. It is not certain how

divisional commanders, $20,000;

The officer commanding the it absolutely clear that all that Covenant and the League's ma- from Changchun and are expected many deaths were caused by the center.

b-isende commanders, $8,000.- At eleven o'clock when all fur of 370 killed and 1,000 wounded.

operations admits Chinese Josses Lausanne did was to straighten chinery would be needed in the to commence their duties in the explosion and fire.

thor danger of fire appeared to be

out the internal difficulties of work.-British Wireless.

Post Offee to-day. Thoir policy over, the Chipshing had a list to in a Chinese counter-attack which were many and difficult and agree the misunderstanding which has

Most of the casualties occurred Europe, which, in all conscience.

is stated to be conciliatory. The Royal Observatory reports port of twenty-five degrees, doubt broke the ranks of the Tibetans. to proposals which the

Owing to the good offices of the that pressure Is highest to the north-loss due to the east of Japan. Depressions are si- holda, No estimate of the damage nose hands and they are now nd cementist and possible."

water in her Chatuei has now fallen into Chi-there represented belleve are both forence

nations occurred abroad regarding the re Hanson, the Customs Commission- American Consul-Gonora) Mr. tunted to the north-west Shantung

made by tho Chan- and to the south of Hainan. Local Is yot possible, though it is

collor vancing on Tachin Monastery

of forecast:-9, E-winds, moderate; fair thought that it must be fairly which is going employed by the further statement issued at Chamberlain, in a Commons speech sent living quarters till July 81st. or and his staff will probably be Exchequer, Mr.

permitted to remain in their pre- considerable.

No. 10, Downing Street deal with (Continued on Paga 7.).”

to showery.

Tibetans as their bare-Reuter..

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