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SENSATIONAL MOVE IN THE POSTAL BLOCKADE

MYSTERY DELAY IN TARIFF WAR

IRELAND'S PLANS

Dublin, July 24.

ALLEGED

JAPANESE COUNTER

TO ESTABLISH OWN

POST OFFICE.

The schedule of the UNDER CONSUL

new tariffs against Great Britain was expected to be issued by Mr. de Valera to-night but was not forth- coming.

Considerable

speculation

has been aroused by the delay. Mr. de Valora was busy all day, dis- cussing his programme with one official and another, drawing up his list of dutiable articles, but he did not summion the Cabinet to give final sanction to the pro- posals,-

It is uncertain what signific-| ance attaches to the absence of the expected announcement to-j night, but there is talk of con- versations behind the

scenes

which might lead to a re-open- ing of the negotiations,

NOT FOR LONG.

It is difficult to see how this can be accomplished in view of the uncompromising attitude hither- to adoided and it is Dot an- ticipated that the tariff list will be held up for long. by any

means.

In fact, it is thought that one) list will be published tomorrow and that it is likely to prove merely the first of several, as the completion of the harrier against | Britain is dependent upon the re-i sult of negotiations with other countries. Efforts are being made! 10 secure a new outlet Irish produce-Reuter.

fori

HEAT WAVE

DEATHS

BRITISH OFFICER DIES

IN SHANGHAI

Our picture shows the Giffard dirigible balloon, constructed in 1852, It was 144 feet long and was inflated with conl-gas. Senor Santos Dumont, the airship” pioneer, schlayed his fame by, following up Gelf- fard's idea.

(Special to "Telegraph")

Shanghai, July 25. The Chinese Post Office has now taken allS

necessary steps to make WOMAN'S FIGHT

the postal blockade of Manchukuo effective. No mails are being transmitt-|

WITH

ed from China Proper to ARMED ROBBERS

Manchuria and all Chinese postal officials in Manchu- ria have received recall or. ders.

A sensation has, however, been created by reports of a Japanese attempt to break the blockade.

The report emanates from Chinese sources, but it is given) considerable prominence in the Chòm Press this morning.

The Chian

Press quotes a; Chinese news agency as alleging

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SIBERIAN MAIL SUSPENDED

NOTIFICATION BY H.K. POST OFFICE.

The Postmaster-General, long- kong, notifies that the despatch of mails from Hongkong to Eur- ope via Siberia in temporarily suspended, until further notice.

The suspension is the result of a cable from Shanghai announc- ing that owing to "extraordinary" circumstances" mails Jonger be transmitted by Siberia route,

can

IRI the

that the Japanese authorities are preparing to establish a temporary post office of their own in Shanghai, in the Jap-! anese Consulate-General.

News has been received of the death in Shanghai, from the effects of heat, on Friday last,! of Mujor Robert Linton Ritchie, This "Japanese Post Offee," it O.B.E., R.A.M.C.

is declared, will collect and des. Major Ritchie's decease was patch mail matter from Shanghai very sudden and unexpected; he destined for Manchuria on behalf wug admitted to hospital and was of the Japanese residents, almost at once prostiounced, dan- gerously ill.

WOULD NULLIFY EFFORT.

Major Ritchie, who was in his, It is obvious that such 43rd year, joined the

service

KOWLOON FLAT DRAMA

ONE ARRESTED

A desperate struggle oc- curred in n Kowloon flat carly this morning, when armed robbers entered the home of Miss Beppu, Japanese masseuse,

on the second floor of 308, Nathan Road, and met with unex pected resistance,

A

folloiging

AIRSHIP FLIGHT PIONEER DEAD

WINNER OF DEUTSCH PRIZE IN 1901

SANTOS DUMONT

WASHINGTON ORDER DEFIED

CHICAGO B.O.T. OFFERS CHALLENGE

Chicago, July 24.

A struggle between the Federal Government and the Chicago Board of Trade is foreshadowed as the result. of an order by the Government announcing the suspen- sion of the Chicago Board of Trade for sixty days for alleged violation of the law.

The specific breach of law al-, being impossible for Minneapolis leged is the refusal by the Board or Winnipeg or any other cities' of Trade to grant clearing house to handle the volume of business privileges to the Farmers' Na-passing, through Chiengo. tional Grain Corporation.

The Board of Trade has decided; to defy the suspension order and to remain open.

HOOVER JOB-HOLDERS. The Board intends to appeal to the highest

courty For relief from the suspension order The leading officials of the and declares that it will make no Chicago Board of Trade declare attempt to effect a compromise that their closing would throw with the Committee of "Hoover the wheat market into chaos, it Job-Holders."-Reuter.

Río de Janeiro, July 24. Senor Santos Dumont, the famous aeronautics? inventor, DAVIS CUP Lo whom South Americans! credit the development of the alrship, passed away at his Petropolis home, near Rio, tu. day. He was fifty.ne years of Page.

He was the recognised airship | The struggle, featured by an pioneer. Seeing his first ballon in attempt by one of the three men 1888, when fifteen, he began at to make use of a chisel with which once to take an interest in dying, The had come armed, was of some, paying much attention to, the ideas what long duration. the woman; of Henri Giffard, the French in- ¡putting up a desperate light. Inventor.

ended only when tenants of the In 1891 he visited Paris, expect floor below, their attention attract-ing to "see new things..steerable fed by the commotion and sound of balloons and automobiles." To

breaking glass, rushed to the his immense

rescue.

aatonishment, he

MANCHURIA WAR

AMERICA'S JAPANESE CHALLENGE

Mr. Henderson.

MR.

SETBACKS HENDERSON

VINES WINS VITAL LOSE CONTROL OF

MATCH

GREAT DISPLAY BY

VON CRAMM."

Paris, July 24. Ellsworth Vines, the Wim-j

The robbers abandoned found there were no steerable bal-bledon champion, to-day defeat- the attempt and fled.

loans. There were only spherical ed G. von Cramm by three sets

in Jordan Road, up which he balloons. In fact, no-one had con- was endeavouring to escape, one tinued the trials of the elongated to one in the Davis Cup Inter- of the gangsters was overtaken balloon driven by a motor begun Zone Final, the United States and seized by a Mr. Silva, a young by Henri Giffard. For years, no Portuguese who, occupying the cigar-shaped balloons have been

underneath Misa Beppu's, seen in the air. floor was among the first to come to her} assistance.

J

OTHERS ESCAPE.

C

FIVE FAILURES.

DAY OF TRIUMPII.

thereby qualifying to meet France in the Challenge Round.

GERMAN WINS FIRST SET.

C. E. R.

ANTI-MANCHUKUO OCCUPATION

Harbin,. July 25. The Japanese are rapidly losing their grip the castern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, 'The troops employed on garrison duty are seriously menaced and in danger of isolation.

decided the match. In the first set, seems to be becoming rather pre- Vines' better volleying probably ever before and the Japanese hold he attacked furiously, but von carious. Cramm's positioning und placing |were, briliant and he was steadi-

SHINTOHOTZE RETAKEN.

report

HOME AGAIN

NOT SATISFIED BUT STILL HOPEFUL

London, July 24.

With the conclusion of the first stage of the Disarmament Conference, with little of prac tical importance apparently ac- complished, the representatives of the various nations are leav- ing Geneva.

The British delegates to the Conference have already returned to London as has Mr. Arthur Henderson, the chairman of the Conference and the leader of the British Labour Party,

BOUND TO TRIUMPH.

con-

There was never any real doubl about Vines' all-round superiority |

The Chinese "Volunteers"--the In 1889, he decided to make an to the German player. but von patriotic anti-Manchukuo forces attempt to win the Deutsch prize Cramm's The other two who had taken af of 100,000 francs, offered for y magnificent steadiness enabled him

resourcefulness and are invading the C.E.R. at all comed at Victoria by Labour lea

Mr. Henderson was warmly wel- different direction of flight, made ing the first motor-driven airship to give the Americas one of his points, having received large addi-ders and others.

escape along Nanking Road. from the

Aero Club in Paris, hardest fights of this, his first, tions to their strength recently; Police investigators who have been around the Eiffel Tower and back visit to Europe. supplied with a description of the to the club grounds in less than

Guerilla warfare appears to be He stated that he will be re- men as they had appeared to Miss half an hour.

proceeding on a larger scale than turning to Geneva In September. |Beppu, are searching for them,

and all Stations have been warned. 90 feet long) but none answered his

he could not pretend to be satis He built five airships teach about.

He also stated, in an interview Just before eight o'clock this purpose though the Santos Dumon

with newspapermen, that while morning, an amah who lived on No. 5 completed the Deutse. the premiac"

ed with the results achieved dur- with Miss Beppu. R.A.M.C. measure, if it was made effective, was sent out by her mistress to Irize course in forty minutes.

ing the first stage of the in April, 1915, and was on active would go a long way towards make market purchases for the

ference, but it would be wrong to for niore than three nullifying the postal blockade day. This appears to have been

ness personified, retrieving every- Japanese sources years, serving in Gallipoll, Egypt, which the Nanking authorities known to the robbers, who, devis-

a say that the resolution adopted thing. For a while, Vines was 10 No. 6, however, he won the puzzled and von Crammi took the victory over the Chinese Italy, France and Belgium.

Volun-contained nothing of value. He have ordered to be established ing a ruse for securing entry, Deutsch prize, making the journey first set at G-3.. also obtained the medal and clasp against Manchukuo.

teers at Shihtohotze yesterday

He re-affirmed his conviction were near at hand but out of sight, | in 29 minutes 30 seconds on Octo- The American's whirl-wind ser- and to have recaptured the city bound to triumph.

that the cause of disarmament is If the mails are actually handled when she returned.

ber 19, 1901. He experienced en- vices and drives began to have which fell into the hands of the He joined the China Command will be sent to Dairen

As soon as she opened the door, gine trouble at a critical moment their influence in the second set anti-Manchukuo forces on Thurs-ther that triumph was to by the Japanese Consulate. they early in 1930, being posted to the Japanese steamers.

aboard they forced their way in after her. and gave the spectators a thrilling and von Cramm failed to withstand day.

The question was, he said, whe- In the hall they were met by Miss finish by ascending rapidly at the the battery...

coma British Military Hospital, Shang-

Beppu, who bravely resisted. She end of the course and passing the

now or after another long period received cut in the forehead, judges at full speed, at an altitude probably from the chisel with of 1000 feet. He had rounded the ..same report,

which her immediate assailant was Eiffel Tower from the Aero Club His is the second heat stroke the measure has received the suparmed, and also another injury in In nine minutes, but on the return death within a week among the port of Japanese residenta of the left wrist.

trip, in the teeth of a stiff wind, British troops in Shanghai, Quartermaster-Sergeant

Miss Beppu has been removed nearly failed because of engine of the urge Tokyo to protest to the Chinese B.A.S.C. also died from heat ex-Government against the imposition to Hospital, but although the in- trouble which almost found him

juries she received haustion.

were serious with his airship out of control. enough, it is not thought that her The prize-money he divided be condition occasions any great tween the charitable institutions concern.

of Parls and the workmen at tho Dument plant.

for the operations in Waziristan after the War.

hal, as Medical Specialist, and is

survived by his widow, at present

*in Shanghai.

FUNG MURDER TRIAL

JAPANESE DEMAND. According to the

Shanghai, who have deelded A

ALLEGED GUNMAN TO BE TRIED IN SHANGHAI The First Special District Court in Shanghai haa refused to ex- tradite Wang Nan-hsfang, wanted by the Hongkong police for the murder of George Fung, holding

of the blockade.--Reuter. :

OFFICIALS LEAVING.

Peking, July 24.

to

Important Post Office officials

have arrived from Manchuria TRAGIC DEATH OF

with archives and records, which have been placed in the custody of the Tientsin Post, Office.

MRS. PURDY

Over-two thousand minor offici- als are expected to leave Man- churia in the coming week. AMERICAN JUDGE ILL Rensha.

of Manchukuo.

WITH CHOLERA

TRANSPORT MUSEUM.

He never

lost his interest In aviation, though late in life he de- veloped another fad, travelling be tween Rio and Paris. Most of his

TERRIFIC DUEL.

It is, however, authoritatively of waiting-Reuter, · learned that the Volunteers have now re-occupied practical- ly the whole of the CER. to the cast of Imienpo, the only places beyond that still held by the Japanese being Hallin, and Hentaohotze.

In these

two

MONGKOK FIRE OUTBREAK

The third set provided a duel which was worth going a long way the form which had carried him to see. Vines showed no loss of through to success in the second aot, but von Cramm rose to great and refusing to stay on the defen- heights, challenging every point

sive. Five-all, six-all and seven-all were called, both players being all day yesterday, but finally the stretched to their limit, but at this Japanese were able to carry out aout on the premises occupied by At 8.45 Inst night, a firo broke arage von Cramm faltered for just flanking movement which rolled the Fai Wah Electric Battery

places, the Japanese, garrison is practically isolated.

The Shihtohotze fighting lasted

STOCK WORTH $1,000 DESTROYED

a moment and Vines broke through up the defence linea of the Volun- Company, at 2, Tung Choi Street, His service to capture the set, teers and compelled them to re- Mangkok.

trent, leaving eighty dead on the feld-Router.

TO CHALLENGE FRANCE.

time appeared to be spent on stenhead play carried him to a well- After this, Vines' brillant over- mers between Rlo and France. I deserved and hard-earned victory. EXCHANGE MARKET also collected EL remarkable museum of models of seroplanes, dirigibles, motor-curs, locomotives and ships.-Reuter,

f

VERY DULL

NO CHANGE IN THE

DOLLAR

A lighted cigaretto-end thrown carelessly into a heap of shavings used for packing purposes, the cause of the outbreak.

Tho

Fire Brigade, called early to the scone, put out the conflagration within a quarter of an hour. No- great damage was caused. to the building by the fre, although a valuable amount of stock, sald to bo over $1,000, was destroyed by water and 'Aro combined. The goods were not insured,

AUTHORITY GIVEN.

acables against Prenn and von The Americans having' won the Shanghai, July 24.

Cramm in straight sets, they won The Ministry of Commuications that as prisoner was arrested in has issued the

WIFE'S COLLAPSE

the Inter-Zono Final by three Shanghai, he must also be tried for the institution of the blockade necessary orders

matelies to ono. The match with Shanghai, July 25, 11,8 a.m. thore.

ANOTHER TYPHOON

France commences on Friday next. Efforts will be Judge Milton Purdy, of tho

The results of the first two The wife of Wang Nan-halang made to place omelain returning United States Court for

China, as boon released for lack of from Manchukuo in post offices was taken suddenly 111 last night that a typhoon has developed more The other scores were:

The Royal Observatory reports singles were given on Saturday. ovidence.

In China Proper.--Renaka.

and rushed off to hospital, where than 300 miles east of Luzon, and When prisonor appeared bofore

cholora was diagnosed. He was will probably move WV. or W.N.W. (America) bent H. Prean and G. W. Allison and J. Van Ryn Judge Chien, the trial was ad-

Clothing to the value of $23 was journed for a fortnight to enable police by Mr. O. M. Manners, cloven

According to a roport made to the removed to the Isolation Hospital.

Manila, reporting at 11 a.m., von Cramm (Germany), 6-3, 6-4 Silver is up:1/8th in London, stolen from Mrs. Mayer's realdenco Late in the evening, Mrs, Purdy places the typhoon in about Long 6-1. Mr. Paul, Ru, Assistant Municipal packages of chisels, worth $100, have visited the hospital and when in- 127, Lat, 15, moving west,

where China bought. There were the ground floor of 4, Jordan Road, ***/ drogato, to obtain documentary | been stolen from No. 51 Godown at the formed of the diagnosis, collapsed The local forecast is as follows: best von Cramm (Germany), 8-6,

Ellsworth- Vinos (America) small offerings on a firm market,

early yesterday morning by a thief who is supposed to havel, entered: zappan and died of hours félfuro —Ratio - Bayinda-modern thinks PKSRUT SQUEAKROO COSTA 712 3. Bd boats de Val

Now York reports" silver, up throurth the front door.

The Hongkong dollar remains logal market is lifeless. unchanged at 12 34d. to-day. The

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