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The ground floor of 129, Pai Ila Street, Shamihaipo, where the bodies of most of the victims of yesterday morning's fire disaster were found. Only the shell of this building remains, many people jumping from its roof into aberta before the final collapse.
ON BRINK OF THE SOCCER
WAR
BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY UPHEAVAL
BORDER FIGHTS
PARAGUAYAN FORTS CAPTURED
("Telegraph" Special).
Messages from Renter's eur-
the respondents in
DISPUTE
A SETTLEMENT
SIGHT
IN
The end of the local soever dispute is in sight if 2111 important discovery made during the week is correctly interpreted in an article appearing in Page Seven.
London Aug. I. A meeting of the H. R. P, A. War between Bolivia and Council ha.. len, or is being, ae- Paraguay seems to be an inevit-ranged for this week, according to made by Mr. able development of the next few an annancement
QIP days. Several dangerous frontier. K. Duncan at the S. C. A. Friday. when the issues will clashes have already occurred.
discussed
To-das, it is disclosed that the various Council
the B. K. F. A. for South American capitals indicate yours were specifically empowered that feeling is running so high in vote at annual general meetings in both Paraguay and Bolivia that by a sentence in the lule & which they are slowly but surely drift: hold good until July last lug into open conflict, despite all This all-important sentence was ciforts by friendly States at con-deleted from the rule on July 10: ciliation.
last year. Government communique A from La Paz announces that Boli- !
year.
It is submitted that the deletio
of the sentence automatically re-
vian troops have carried out moved the right to vote and it is rault
upon two Paraguayan expected that the Council will call forts and have captured them.
an extraordinary general meeting to put the election on a correct action of the Bolivian forces was basis according to the new ride.
for
It is atated officially that
in the nature of a reprisal
the
two carlier attacks by Paraguayan troops.
PARAGUAY'S WARNING. From Asuncion, the Paraguayau! capital, it is reported that Pre-) sident Guggiari has announced
Ma Chan-shan Again
that if Bolivia makes a further "Killed"
altack there will be way, Reuter
A
LOCAL
SHOOTING
MISHAP
CORPORAL INJURES WASH AMAH
A shooting mishap which sulted in a Chinese wash amah being wounded, is reported from Murray Barracks.
ANOTHER JAPANESE
REPORT
| FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES
"South China Morning Post Bldg." Tel, 24654.
HITLER'S BID FOR POWER FAILS
German Election Tension Over by Midnight
SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR
NAZIS OBTAIN 228 OF 600 SEATS
CENTRE PARTY HOLDING BALANCE OF POWER
Bellin, Aug, 1. THE tension in the election atmosphere had rellaxed by midnight. The feeling of drama was over It was then quite certain that a stalemate would result, no party holding a majority, and that the Centre Party will hold the balance of power.
The Fascists have gained tremendously everywhere and have obtained nearly a hundred seats more than the Socialists, their closest rivals.
HITLER'S BID FOR POWER HAS, HOWEVER, FAILED, AND THE MORE SOLID ELEMENTS HAVE HEAVED A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF.
Apart from a few unimportant casys of hooli- ganism, the day terminated as it started, praefully.
Excited minds exaggerated the report of rioting. For example, the report that a car believed to contain Herr Hitler had been riddled with bullets, was quite un- truc. It turned out that it was potatoes not bullets with which the car was bombarded.
BIG NAZI SUCCESS NOT SUFFICIENT
were
were
Barlin employed a water-cannon, illustrated above, to keep control | without causing, loss of life. 1ts powerful jets rapidly disperse mobai
tending to hooliganlem.
DAVIS CUP THRILLS
VINES DEFEATS COCHET
REPUTATION RESTORED IN FINAL MATCH
FRENCH TRIUMPH
Paris, July 31. Enthusiastic
uproar marked the conclusion of the most excit.. ing. Challenge Round in years with France still holders of the |Davis Cup. The Americans made a great effort after their dis- astrous first day, but Allison's heroic play against Borotra was fated not to succeed.
In the fifth and final match, Elsworth Vings defeated Henri Cochet in a manner which went fa long way to restore his reputa- tion. He started the third set
Infirmities are not allowed to interfere with valing in Germany. Our two sets down, but Cochel's do-
picture shows invalida being wheeled from a Berlin polling station.
RESERVOIR
CATCHWATER
DIVERTED
Aberdeen Houses Imperilled
ROAD UNDER WATER IN N. TERRITORIES
Several minor landslides
DC-
QUEST FOR
minance was now spiritedly challenged and after, furious third and fourth sets, he was swept off his feet by Vines's tornado attack. France thus retained the trophy by three matches to two, just as
KNOWLEDGE she did last year against Britain.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK. TURNS STUDENT
On that occasion Cochet was the here of the contest. This year, the honours went to lean, Boratrá and the crowd gave him 'no op- |portunity to forget it.
BORTRA LIONISED:
At the conclusion of the Afth (Special to "Telegraph"}" (hamdule the drowd, stood up and janng the Marseilläisk, Kindthen Hankow, Aug. 1.
shouted themselves hoarse tintil Borotra appeared in answer to Chiang Kai-shek is seri-their insistent demand, when he grooled with vociferous mobbed by the
In the first match of the day. Borotru had had an unhappy ex-
curred yesterday, the most serious ously educating himself for wat being at Aberdeen, where a large the task of leadership in happy excited crowd. The ten o'clock figures showed, heid in the old Reichstag, while quantity of earth became dislodged
Hongkong twenty-fourjal the rear of
Wai China. the trend of events, although in the Socialists
iewer..
Village. The slide blocked the eastern catchwater of the Aber- some districts the figures
deen dam. The water overflowed somewhat sensational. The first
and washed a large quantity of results to come in, for instance.
carth and rubble down the hill- German
side against houses No. 81 and from the highest was
82, both of which
were in the Zugspitze peak, the Bavarian Alps.
The place was crowded with holiday-makers and the polls gave the Nazis 343 votes. against 105 for the Socmlists, 112 for the German Nationals and nine for the Communists, a clear majority for the Nazis of over a hundred.
The figures at nine o'clock show- easily ed that the Nazis were maintaining thing-six per cent, of scars, representing an appreciable with their compared seatage in the old Reichstag, but there seemed to be no plastbility of their achieveing the forty-five per cent, which they bousted they were going to get.
Harbin. Aug. 1. The "death" of General Ma Chan-shan, who has been "AX- resassinate:1" more than once in
the curse of the last few gain months, is reported by Japanese military circles. It seems that Lance Corporal
There is no confirmation of the Lee, who possesses a revolver of
the death
anti-Manchukun fir- calibre. very small
leader. ing the weapon ill Murray
The Japanese declare that he tins
other Barracks, using small objects as targets, when he died when a budy of his troops were accidentally shot Li Sam, a wash trapped in the mountains amah. The woman was instantly Haliun and wiped out by superior removed to the Government Civit forces, Ma Chan-sfan being with Her the troops when they were 2)- treatment. Hospital for
nihilated. condition is not serious.
was
or
STOP PRESS.
Berlin, Aug. 1. Approximately 84 per cent, of the electorate voted according to the provisional figures of 36,845,-) 279 votes recorded. The votes) secured by the various parties'
Wore:
• Nazis
. Socialists
Communists
Centre Party
13,732.779 7,951,245
5,278,094 4,586,501
near
The report is not believed by
here.- the majority of people Reuter
ADMIRAL NOMURA
LEAVES HOSPITAL
GLASS EYE GIFT OF EMPRESS
("Telegraph" Special),
Tokyo, Aug. 1. Admiral Nomura, who lost
NAZIS' EARLY SUCCESS. The total votes counted up to! that stage gave the Nazis 60 seats, the Suctailsts 20, the Communist 20, the Centre 15, the German Na. tionals seven and other parties
ten.
MIDNIGHT POSITION.
At midnight, very few votes re- mained to come in, the Nazis hav-
MOAHUILAÐSIBILITAT UNTHAALLIKSMANNASTA EGITERIOR
FINAL POSITION
A PROVISIONAL RESULT.
Berlin, Aug. 1. All the votes in the election have been counted, and the final (pro- visitmal) figures show that the Na- zín, have obtained· thirty-eight peri cent of the seats in the Richstag, the state of the parties being:
NAZIS.. SOCIALISTS.
COMMUNISTS CENTRE PARTY GERMAN NATIONALS OTHER PARTIES
I
of
The famous military lender is perience,, which might have cost
France the trophy. though, now concentrated upon a study of
course, the conditions were equally international politics and inter- bad for both players. national law.
thus He has now been in
Hankow
BOROTRA FLOUNDERS. The court was amazingly wet.
llounder
rendered dangerous. The oc for a month and he has spent and it had been seriously over-water-
cupants had to vacate the pre-jis spending a considerable part mises.
of his time in
this quest ford, causing Borotra to
in the mud until he had changed The road leading off the main knowledge.
his shoes. In this period, when island
#ilik motor
at Tytam. Professors of the local univer- Borotra was unable to exercise known as the Tytamtuk Road, was sities are being engaged to dies
any control, he last the first set completely blocked by a
land-liver orations and lectures to
at 1-6 and the second at 3-6. theChina's Generalissimo, -Reuter,
slid yesterday, making thoroughfare impassable, The main motor road, however, not affected.
was
DUEL
The occupants of 99, Whitfield, GREAT PITCHING
AT CLEVELAND
first flour. report that the kitchen wall and part of the roof collapsed For- shortly before midnight.
The change of shnes altered the whole complex of the struggle. which was exceedingly thrilling and insted for two hours and twenty minutes.
Borotra gained ascendancy in the third set and never lost his grip. He took the set at 0-4 and
According to Mr. S. A. Rumjan. Athletics Cross Plate the fourth at 6-2.
224
182
tunately there was nobody in this part of the premises at the time.
87
76.
of 135, Wongneichung Road, there
$1
was a small landslide behind the 30..houses in Wongneichang Road.
The Centre Party holds the ba. lance of power with the command of 76 votes--Beuter,!
Of 4,835 votes counted, the Na- ing made further strides in the in-
opposite the Hongkong Football' Clab's pavilion.
Once for Victory
New York, July 33.
Allison played heroic tennis in the fifth gut. Behind at the start. he played brilliantly to draw level at 5-5, but Borotra hereabouts
Dean (Cardinals), Cucinello (Brook. use to great heights and scarcely A quantity of earth became dis-gn), Hartnett (Chiengu Cubs), En making a false stroke, took the lodged from the hillside below the fish and Lindstrom (Giants), Rice next two games for set, match and Ellis Kadoorie School behind 195, (Washington), Phillipe and Ruth contest, Queen's Road West, but caused no (Yankees), Campbell (Chicago White damage.
Sox) scored home runs to-day. Re-
A repart from the New Terri-sults:
zis had obtained 1,570, the Social-tervening hour, the state of partiesories states that the frontier ists, 984, Communists 709, the then being: Centre 525 and the German - Na- tionals, 263.
Nazin
Socialisty Conimunists
German Nationals Other parties
Centre
226
128
87
76
36
39
By eleven o'clock, over thirty. one million votes had been count ed, out of the expected total of 35,000,000, Polling was tremen- South Germany dously heavy.
The staremate was obvious. The polled as highly as 85 per cent. inexact manner in which the situn- valids being carried in stretchers tion will be met cannot be prediet. ind invalid chairs to the polling ed, though it is obvious that the Fascists must be strongly repre- sented in any government that is: dorted.-Router.
stations.
ELEVEN P.M. FIGURES.
At eleven o'clock on the propor- antional representation system, the ege in the Hongkow Park bombing state of the parties was as follows; outrage in Shanghai on April 29th,
treatment.
Few disturbances are reported. has now left hospital after lengthy The most serious incident appar- ently occurred at Breslau where hots were fired'in a clash between Nazis, Sociallate and Communists. Fifty-dve, mostly Nazis, were ar- "anted. Router.
He has been fitted with a specia). glass eye, at the expense of the On leaving Empress of Japan. hospital, the Admiral paid a apocin call on the Emperor and Empresa-Router.
Nazla
Socialists
Communists
Centre
German Nationals..
Other partles
180
.: 112
72
05
31
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WEATHER REPORT
road between Sheungshui and Takuling has been flooded and is impuseable about a quarter of a,
mile from Shengshui,
FLOOD HAVOC IN MANCHURIA
THE RAILWAYS UNDERMINED
Harbin, Aug. 1. The flood situation in North Manchuria la extremely serious,,
The ballant which has been pro- The Royal Observatory reports tecting the railway from damage that pressure is highest over the has become exhausted and it is Pacific to the east of Japan. A Edepression covers S.W.
China feared that the track will be
The typhoon is situated to the im- severoly affected. mediata east of Ishigakijma, mov- Ing alowly northward. Local foro- moderate; winds, The Nazli had already obtained cant:--S.W. saventy-nine more sonts than they cloudy: occasionni rain,
The River Amur in atill raing! together with the Sungari and the rain still continuen. It la cortain that all crops in the area wil be ruined.Router.
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COCHET'S EARLY LEAD. Cochet began, against Vines as though he would walk out an easy winner in straight sets. He seemed to be at the top of his form and in the first two sets made the American champion look
like a second-class player. In the first two sets, Vines was definitely playing far below his Wimbledon
form, although Cochet was not producing the dynamic. style of play which enabled Borotra to - ratile Vines into his first defeat for many moons.
Cochet
run out at 6-4 in the first set and in the second simply smothered his opponent, tuking it Jal 6-0.
VINES'S COME-BACK.
After the finish of the accond Bet. however, Vines pulled himself together and removed all doubts regarding his vital match tempera- mant. Ho regained all his speed and control and it soon became ovident that, finely as Cochat was playing, he needed even more to avert défent.
Ho fought keenly for every
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