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HONGKONG-MACAO-CANTON RADIO TELEPHONE

Early Prospect If Local and Canton Governments will Co-operate

OPERA SUBSIDY SHORT CANCELLED WAVE

LORD SNOWDEN'S RESIGNATION

B.B.C. TO STEP INTO

BREACH

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Oct. 31.

In pursuance of the Govern-

STATION

DAILY BROADCASTS

FROM MACAO

DIRECT DIALLING

ON PHONE

Provided the necessary ment's policy of seeking further co-operation can be obtain- economies in public expenditure, ed from the Governments of it is announced that the Covent Hongkong and Canton, Ma- Garden Opera subsidy of £17,500 cao's dream of many years per annum for five years grant for the interlinking of the ed by the Government in 1930

three centres by radio-tele- is to be suspended.

phone may be fulfilled in the

It is understood that the British Kroadcasting Corporation has near future, agreed to step into the breach

Plans are already afoot in and have undertaken to give. Brl- tish opera all assistance practle-Macao for the construction of a

able.

tho

force,

powerful short-wave transmitter,{ operating on 50 metres, and 11 The B.B.C., under the arrange contract has been signed with the munis hitherto in

have Asia Electric Company, of Shang- Government hai, foremost suppliers of supplemented

eler- krant by £7,500 annually, and the trical equipment in, China and graniophone companies have add- constructors of nearly every ed £5,000 making a grand totni broadensting station in the North- yearly of $30,000.

Jern city.

Q .one

Captain F. W. Webb, RA,, A.D.C, to H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, leaving St. John's Cathedral yesterday after his marriage to Miss Enid Elliot-Heywood. (Photo: Ming Yusa).

TRAGEDY OF TRADE UPHEAVAL

kilowatt AMERICAN'S SUICIDE

IN HARBIN

The original Government grant The specifications call for the was made by Viscount Snowden finstallation of

ole hundred when Chancellor of the Exche-transmitter, with quor and it is supposed that the per cent, modulation, and the de- was sign of the station will be so in- advice of Lady. Snowdon largely instrumental in persuad-corporated so as to permit "with- ing the Iron Chancellor" to make out too many changes in the In- herent circuit, of an increase to the grant.

Lady Snowden is on the board double the specified power. of the B.B.C.

re-

just has Lord Snowden signed his position in the Cabinet.

ANOTHER PEAK ROBBERY

JEWELLERY WORTH

READY IN FEBRUARY. The transmilting unit will be installed upon a hill at Macao, but the studio and offices will be constructed in the city. remote leontrol being utilised.

FIRM CLOSING BRANCH

Harbin, Nov. 1. Another grim tragedy of the disturbance and breakdown of The station will be handed over trade as a result of the events of to the Macno Government by the past year in Manchuria has Asia Electric Ltd., on January occurred in Harbin—on this occA- 15, and will be inaugurated onion, a suicide. February 15. Its primary use

'PHONE PROPOSALS.

service

will be for broadcasting purposes,) Employees of Messrs Andersen, and regular programmes will be Meyer and Company were alarmed $1,540 STOLEN transmitted daily on fifty metres. yesterday afternoon to hear a shot from the office of the manager, Mr. Another Peak robbery is engag-

In connexion with the proposed S. J. Kolpachnikoff. Rushing into ing the attention of the police, inter-city telephono

an the room, they found Mr. Kol- been pachnikoff, a Russian-naturalised jewellery to the value of $1,540 unique arrangement has

provided for in the contract. American, aged fifty, sprawling at having been stolen from No. 185. Utilising several banks

his desk.

Investigation showed he had shot dinary landline, the ordinary situate on Mount Kellett Road.

telophone subscriber in Mucao himself with a Browning automatic, The loss occurred between mid-will be able to dial directly to which was still tightly grasped in night and 8.45 this morning, the the transmitting operator, and, his hand, the bullet having entered out articles stolen comprising a gold if arrangements go through with the left temples and phased

be from the right side of the chin. ring set with oval stone, valued Hongkong and Canton, will

been instan~ $50; gold ring set with five small able to get either of these centres. Death must have

Mr. Ben Stone, of the Asia taneous.

of

or.

dark emoralds, $250; gold ring set Electric Company, bas already with large ruby and two diamonds. completed a preliminary survey $750; gold ring set with corneilan. of the site of the proposed station, $50; gold ring set with rubies and and installation work will be diamonds, $160; gold signet ring, commenced in the near future. $10; gold bar brooch set with oval with white Jadestone, $30: gold, topaz, $150; circular gold branch bar brooch set with three opals. $10; carved Jadestone pendant, $140; and man's gold wedding ring, $100.

K.C.R. SERVICE NOW SPEEDED UP

TRIP DONE IN JUST

·OVER 3 HOURS.

As from to-day, the express trala service between Kowloon and Can- ton is being speeded up, the jour- ney from Canton being covered in three hours and eight minutes. The frat train under

the schedule arrived at Kowloon 11.08 this morning. The spooding- up represents a cutting down of

new at

the time by about a quarter of an hour.

Under the new

arrangements,

PRINCESS INGRID IN LONDON

“JAKIMIKE, MENUNTIIVSUS CRANEANATETIMEONYERTAAN MAIN

SIG. MUSSOLINI'S LIEUTENANTS

NEW MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Oct. 31.

By a decree, issuli in Rosie to-day, the Italianané zdrugu fat London; Signor “Grandi, vand two other ex-Ministers,' Signor Bostal and Signor Rocco, are appointed members of the Grand Fascist Council.

All three resigned slice al the time of the Cabinet re-organi sation in July last.

MOSCOW'S AMBITIONS

IN CHINA

TYPHOON RESCUE

DRAMA

GLENSHIEL SAVES 31

JAPANESE

VOLUNTEERS

C.ER. LINE

CUT

TRAFFIC STOPPED FROM SHIHTAO.

(Special to "Telegraph".)

Harbin, Nov. 1. Another coup has been elected by the anti-Manchukuo forces to the discomfiture, temporarily at feast of the puppet authorities.

The Chinese Eastern Railway management state that a large concentration of the Volunteers in the vicinity of Hengtauhotze han severed all communication to the cast of Shintaoholze-Rater.

$13023 KAKATUESKENNEN FLUAZDYNIA CORONELIMINE JA AEON RANA ZA KISASALI BIOS CHAND

VESSEL ADRIFT FOR STRANGE EVENTS

TWO DAYS

ANOTHER DRAMA OF THE SEAS WAS EN- ACTED NEAR HONGKONG YESTERDAY MOR- NING WHEN THE GLEN LINER, GLENSHIEL, WAS STRUGGLING THROUGH A N.E. GALE TO HONGKONG.

AT HOTEL

LADY'S BEDROOM INCIDENT

BLUEJACKET IN COURT.

A charge of common

assault

Soon after dawn, distress signals were observed some distance away. The vessel made all possible speed to the spot and found a Japanese motor-driven fishing vessel on the verge of sinking. Despite angry seas, the was brought against A. D. Bugler, rescue of her crew of 31 men was affected in twenty-of H.M.S. Keppel, by Mrs. Watts, five minutes.

an employee of the Peninsula Hotel. at the Kowloon Magistracy

The ill-fated vessel was the Shen-Shan Maru. When the typhoon was imminent, the master took shel- ter at the Pratas, but the full fury of the storm burst over the island, the ship was torn from her moorings, her engines wrecked, and she drifted helplessly two days.

When the Glershiel arrived on the scene to end the terrifying experience of the crew, who had practically given up hope of rescue, the Shen-Shan had drifted over 150 miles from the Pratas, and was almost water-logged after a very severe buffeting.

CAPTAIN'S MODEST VERSION

before Mr. Butters this morning. by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, plended not guilty.

Defendant, who was represented

that at 12.15 on the morning of

It was alleged by Mrs. Watts

October 27, she was awakened by a blow on the head, and on switch- ing the light near her bed, she found the defendant lying down bontde her, She pushed him away.... of telephoning to the hotel office. and jumped up with the intention Defendant ran out of the roon through the window and escaped by the back-way. She reported the matter to the Manager of the Hotel, and the police were later informed of the incident.

The next evening she was called by telephone to the office and there.

The story of the rescue was told reported missing, the Niltaka she found the Manager, the to a representative of the Telegraph | Maru.

Assistant Manager, an Indian

by Captain P. L. Sanders, master No advices have been received sergeant and the defendant. She of the Glenshiel, this morning in in Hongkong about the Niitaka was asked if the defendant was the office of Jardine Matheson and Maru, and it is not known whether the man who was in her bedroom Company.

she anchored somewhere to escape the night before, and she im Captain Sanders Was very the typhoon, or has been lost,

TYPHOON

CURIOUS SPEECH AT modest about the actual rescue itself, which was, however, accom- MUKDEN

plished under very hazardous con- JUNK WRECKED - IN ditions. A heavy north-east gale was blowing at the time the fish- ing vessel was sighted about 6,15 a.m. yesterday. Eventually, how- ever, the Glenshiel was manoeuvr Jed alongside the doomed craft and

the crew rescued,

SUPPORTING THE COMMUNISTS

1

RESCUE DESCRIBED.

CREW BROUGHT TO HONGKONG

treatment.

mediately identified him.

NO DOUBT OF IDENTITY,

Cross-examined by Mr. d'Alma- da, witness said she recognised the defendant well enough. She was not dazed at all by the blow on her head, and saw defendant'a face clearly when she switched on the light. "I had an impression of this man's face which I will (Continued on Paga 7.)

PRINCESS HELEN ACCEPTS

LEAVING RUMANIA

IMMEDIATELY -

(Special to "Telegraph".)

Mukden, Nov. 1.

The crew of a junk, rescued by A curious specch was made by

Describing the rescue, Captain another craft on Saturday morn

Raid: About 6.15 am, ing, have been brought into Hong- LAST LETTER,

M. Znamensky, the Soviet Consul Sanders

yesterday

vessel kong and taken to hospital for we sighted a in Mukden, just before his do-

buraing distress

in signals le loft a letter conveying nia

Latitude 20.15 N.-Longitude 114 E. A report was made to the police last wishes and apologies to the parture for Moscow. American Consul-General, Mr. G. A number of farewell banquets Wo proceeded at full speed to the by Cheung Yau, aged 30, master of C. Hanson, and on his desk was were given in his honour by scone and found her in peril of a fishing junk 3149HW, who stated he stated that he did not accuse found a note in Russian in which Japanese and Manchukuo lenders, sinking. We manoeuvred along- at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, whilati At one of them, M. Znamensky side and managed to get off the near To Ning Wan, during a heavy anybody of being responsible for declared that the U.S.S.R, was not crew. There were thirty one men gale, he picked up four men who his death. He also left a letter, intarested in Manchukuo He on board, and they were in a very were supporting themselves with his insurance receipts, for said that Moscow does not., con-exhausted condition when rescued junk which had sunk during the floating wreckage of their own

Bucharest, Oct. 31. Princess Helen is leaving the sider the situation in Manchukuo

The engines of the fishing vessel typhoon blow.

country almost immediately, Her It is considered that his suicide to be of the first importance.

were all smashed in, and it looked

The four mon were Cheungroply to the Government's terms- had been premediated for several At the present time, the atten as if they would not have lasted Shi-ng, aged 30; Yiu Kwal-chun, in answer to her ultimatum-has London, Oct. 31. days, the reason for his tragic act tion of the U.S.S.R. is focussed much longer if we had not sighted aged 30; Cheung Ah-tak, aged 20: not yet been announced, but it is

and Li Ahtong, aged 45, Princess Ingrid of Sweden, who being that his future was uncertain, upon the activities of Chinese Com-them.

understood that she has accepted. has been visiting her grand- as Mesurs. Andersen, Meyer are munists in China Proper and the father, the Duke of Connaught, at liquidating their offices in Harbin. extension of their successes against The chances wore that the on- Sidmouth, Devon, returned LoRewer.

the reactionary Kuomintang-tire crew would have all been lost. | London to-day and is staying with

Reuter,

The rescue was effected by Princess Alice at Kensington

6.40 am, and the Glenshiol then Palace.

resumed ita voyage to Hongkong, arriving about 9 p.m. and landing the men here.

RETURNS TO TOWN FROM DEVON

his wife.

Prince Olaf of Norway reached BRITAIN AND THE Croydon this afternoon by alr.

British Wirelces.

RUSSIAN TRADE

CREDITS

NO EXTENSION AT

PRESENT

ARGENTINE

TRADE VIEWS BEING EXCHANGED

London, Oct. 31.

NANKING

WAY

GIVES

LIU CHEN-NIEN TO

· LEAVE SHANTUNG

TORN FROM MOORINGS

WORLD ECONOMIC

CONFERENCE

PREPARING FOR THE

MEETING

The terms include a substantial increase in her allowance and per-

mission to spend one month a

year with her son, Crown Prinės Michael, in Switzerland.

Princess Helon will also receive a lump sum of $25,000, the balance: due for her castle on the Black Sea which was sold by the War Department some time ago

The rescued men, who were all

Reuter, London; Oct. 31. Japanese, were interrogated when

When the Preparatory Commig- taken on board. It appears, that alon for the World Economic thoy had anchored their vessel at Conference met at Genova to-day, Pratas Island to

CABINETS LONG escape the Dr. Leonardus Trip, President of Nanking, Nov. 1. typhoon. The force of the wind, the Netherlands Bank and one of In the House of Commons to day,

SESSION Eden,

Vessel Captain

It is learned that the Govora- however, wrenched the Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ment intends to sead General Liu from its moorings, and it drifted the experts of the Bank for In ternational Settlements, was ap- Landon, Oct. 31. Baked whether there had beon Chun-nion's troops to Southern about 150 miles before they were pointed President, and # start the morning express leaves Kow-

EUROPEAN .... ISSUES In the House of Commons, to- or would be any trade reciprocity Honan to replace Ma. Hung-kwei's nighted by the Glonahiel. After was made with the compilation loon at 8.15 and arrives in Canton

representa forces in the present anti-bandit the rescue, the Shan-shart Maru of the list of questions to be sub-

CONSIDERED at 11.25, while the train from Can- day. Major Colvillo said the discussion between

was abandoned.

mitted for consideration of tho ton doparta at 8 am, and arrives Department of the Overseas Trade tives of the Argentine Govern- campaign.

London, Oct. 31. and the Export Credits Advisory mont and of Great Britain, re- Ma Hung-kwef's army will be

Conference. horo at 11.08.

JAPANESE SHIP MISSING,

It is understood that at meat- Committee were not at present garding such of the Ottawa Con- sent to garrison castorn Shantung.

The Governments concerned will|logs of the Cabinet hold this, The afternoon train leaves Kow-prepared to recommend the grant ference proposals as referred to The removal of Liu Chen-alon

Captain Imamura, manter of the be consulted regarding the sub-morning and this afternoon, pro loon at 4.85 and reaches Canton at ing of guarantees covered by British imports of wheat and meat, from Shantung is expected to com- Kitmal Maru, reported at the Jorte proposed for discussion [tonged · consideration was given. 7.45, while the express from Canton credits for more than eighteen replied that an exchange of views ploto the asttlement of the diapate Harbour Offico, that he had been before the Commission ro-to disarmament questions, and to loaves at 4.20 and reaches Kowloon months in respect of axports to was already taking place. between' Lẫu and: Han Fu-chu-[engnged for three days in search-assembles in December--British the general European situation, e

Russia,—British Wireless.

British Wireless..

Ing for another vessel, - which is I Wireless.

British Wireland, an

at-7.28.

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