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Supreme Court

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tel.' 20269;

-FOUNDED 1581

No. 14090

- TALET MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD. China Bullding.

GUNMEN'S FIENDISH THREAT IN

CITY ROBBERY

Pour

Kerosene

Over Victims

LARGE HAUL IN WELL

PLANNED COUP

over

Gunmen, in the course of one of the most daring raids within City limits for some considerable time past, resorted to a terrible threat when, pouring kerosens oil

their victims, they threatened to set them alight.

The affair which took place ear- ly this morning in the Chuen Hing piece-goods shop at 175. Des Voeux Road Central, situated a short dis- tance beyond the World Theatre

Wiley Post, the American dis Lance Rior.

and the big Chinese emporiums WILEY POST

yielded a record haut in cash and jewellery, assessed at between $10,000 and $11,000,

A treacherous employee, who decamped with the gunmen, short- ly after 3 o'clock opened the door and admitted six men.

They

brought an armoury of seven guna' to bear on the shopkeeper, his numerous family, and three other fokis. Each man also held with his other hand a dagger.

FIENDISH THREAT. Collecting others in the shop from a cockloft, they herded the thirteen victims Into a tiny cubicle in the rear of the shop, measuring

HELD UP

BAD WEATHER IN EUROPE

FAST TIME TO KOENIGSBERG

Berlin, July 16. After a magnificent flight about six feet square, and after across the Atlantic from New binding their hands behind their York to Berlin nonstop. Wiley back, poured kerosene over their Post, holder with Harold Gatty

A significant pass was next of the round-the-work flight! made with a match and box, and record, took off at 2.11 p.m. for the victims were given impressive- ly to understand that they would Novosibirsk.

jrends.

be all set on fire en masse should

Post is engaged on an attempt to

they as much as allow a peep toes-beat the record. His Bight across the Atlantic must have set up a cape them.

new record.

LIESURELY CRIME.

He landed at 11.55 .m, and was off again at 2.11 p.m.-Reuter.

Moscow, July 16. The weather for the Post flight their job in a leisurely way. For is reported to be very unfavour- more than two hours before itable and it is, therefore, possible was usual for the shop to open that he will be compelled to land its doors for the day's business, in Moscow.--Reuter, they turned the whole place.a most inside out.

With the victims reduced to a state of mortal terror, the gun- men were able to proceed about)

Koenigsberg, July 16.

The shopkeeper, it appears,} Wiley Post was forced to land old-fashioned here at 6.40 pan, owing to bad

suffered from an

aversion to keeping his mouey in weather. He hopes to be able to a bank, and for the ten years in resume his flight at 3am.- which he had carried on business Router.

at the address, had always kept

it in the shop. Furthermore, hej

had not invested in a safe, and there was no other indiention of a small fortune in cash being on the premises.

SHOP RANSACKED. The secret believed to have hitherto been shared only amongst the members of the family, up- pears to have been also known to the treacherous foil. Unnervingly

BRIDE KILLED IN

PLANE CRASH

TRAGIC END TO FLIGHT

Dar-es-Salaam, July 10.

WORLD CONFERENCE.

A SINE DIE RECESS

U.S. TO OPPOSE DATE FIXING EFFORTS

NEW ROOSEVELT POLICY

(By

(Special to "Telegraph")

Telegraph, Copyright, alegraphia Mearagra Ordinance, 1901. Received, Juis

13. 149 b.m.)

London, July 15.

It is reliably learned that it is the intention of the American delegation to the, World Econo- mic Conference to oppose any at- tempt to fix a date for the re- sumption of the Conference.

They will oppose both the fixing of a specifle date and the fixing of

NAZI ECONOMIC PROGRAMME

Powerful Council of Advisers

Berlin, July 16,

A Ccheral Economic Council, consisting of pro- minent economists, bankers. and Industrialists, such as Herr Krupp, Herr Thysson, Professor Bosch and Dr. Otto Fischer, has.

been formed to advise the government on economic questions. Renter.

DEATH OF C.T. CRAMP

an approximato date for the re-canc assembly after the adjournment.

It is understood that the United States attitude is dictated by the belief that the fixation of any dato) could be interpreted as indirect pressure upon America to stabilise her currency before that time.

A

ROOSEVELT PLANS.

CD#

TRADE UNION LEADER

FRIEND OF THE RAILWAYMEN

mesengo from Washington Istates that Professor Moley had a (Our Own Correspondent)..

long talk with President Roosevelt, reporting on developments in Lon

Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphis dan. Afterwards, he said he be hiemages Drdinance, 1881. Received, July lieved that the Conference had en tirely abandoned its efforts secure temporary stabilisation.

.to

10, 145' avto. § ..

the

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BINGLE. COPY 1 GENTS $8100 PER ANNUM

DUNLO

GOLF BALLS

"The Choice of Champlons"

Played by

THE WINNER and RUNNER-UP

of the

BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP 1933.

MONARCHIST PLOTS IN MONARCHIST

GREECE

COUP BELIEVED IMMINENT

FEVERISH ATHENS

ACTIVITY

Paris, July 16.

An imminent monarchist coup" d'etat in Greece is predicted in a telegram from Athens, published accord- in the newspapers to-day, ing to which feverish activity pre vails in both Government and monarchist camps.

The report adds that monarchist emiagaries have been instructed to Paria reports suggest the

pro.

SOVIET BORDER

INCIDENT

WHITE RUSSIAN PETITIONS

TRADE BOYCOTT

URGED

Harbin, July 17.

A committee representing all. the White Rusalan organisations in Harbin have handed over petitions to the Manchukuo' and Japanese authorities soliciting protection and efforts for the

Ex-King George If of Greece.release of the ten emigres who were seized in the Tungsang Ruyalist coup to

incident. restorm him to the throne...

sound the principal foreign Gov-bability of ernments in regard to their atti- tude towards a restoration of the Monarchy.

in

Greece has been poiltient! ferment for some considerable Lime past, largely as a result of the failure of any political party:

The ten emigres were acting as guards aboard the vessel when it was detained by Soviet frontier the White Russinne arrested,

NEW CHINA guards, its cargo confiscated and

QUEST

The White organisations have lodged coples of their petition: with the Japanese Consulate, tho Japanese Military Mission, the Japanese Gendarmery: Office and

to secure a complate majority and CO-OPERATION OF the Manghukno Foreign Military.

with it widespread popular, aup-) port..

Recently, an attempt was made

LEAGUE

to assassinate M. Venizelos und T. V. SOONG BOUND

there was a suspicion that the Instigators were Royalist sup-! porters.Renter.

subsided..

FOR PARIS

Geneva, July 16. London, July 15.

POTENTIAL KING.

Mr. T. V. Soong arrived this The death in occurred of Mr.

There was previous talk of a morning from Rome and visited It is understood that President Concamore Thomas Cramp,

restoration in 1926 but it soon the new League Buldings, the International Labour Office and Roosevelt now plans to take steps the well known Trades Union

the Disarmament Buildnga. „ Presumably, If the coup d'etat) revent wide fluctuations in leader and former Industrial Gen- commodity prices, rather than to

He is leaving Geneva for Paris international curb

exchange eral Secretary of the Nationalis seriously planned, the aim is to to-night to attend a meeting on luctuations.

Union of Railwaymen.

restore ex-King George, who Paris on Tuesday of the League inreigned for about eighteen months; sub-committee which is to con Bern at Staplehurst, Kent the dollar with any foreign cur 1876, Mr. Cramp started work at following the second abdication of sider the Chinese request for the League's collaboration the rencies which is interpreted as the age of 12 as a gardener and Constantine."

work of reorganising certain Chinese provinces.

The Japanese "menace" alleged-to-have-stimulated the Interest of certain Powers in

There will be no attempt to peg |

America's answer to the London suggestions that Britain throw in her_lot_with_America and peg the dollar-pound exchange-United Press, Per Gold Bar Company.

FINNISH FOREST

FIRES

FLAMES SPREAD WITH TERRIBLE RAPIDITY

to

Helsingfors, July 12.

C. T. Cramp

rose to be lend-

Since his deposition, he has ing light in the General Strike of divided bis time between Rumania,

he and Britain.--Reuter. when 1926, was President of the International Transport wor- kers Federation.

He was educnt-

ed at the Board

Schools in his

in

developing China in a very liberal

manner and, by this method, to CANCER CASES. IN establish definite machinery for

maintaining the Open Door.

LONDON

native town, but TREATMENT WITH NEW

ANTI-SERUM.

left his studies at

of the age

12, becoming a` gar- dener, first in Sundhurst and

London, July 10. Twenty-four cancer patients, whose cases are hopeless under existing methods, are being treated voluntarily by means of experi ments with a new anti-corum treatment under the direction of Dr. Thomas Lumden at the Lon-

This was disclosed at the annual

It is contemplated that a per- manent liaison body will be set up to maintain contact between China and the League.

After the Paris meeting, Mr. T. V. Soong will go to Berlin to make his last Important call before sailing for China.—Reuter.

ANOTHER BEATING FOR SENATORS

Dropping Back in the Pennant Race

Now York, July 16.

COUNTER ARRESTS? --

The petition suggests that the Manchukuo Government should

arrest twenty Soviet citizens and declare them to be hostages for the release of the ten 'emigres.

The White Russian newspapers. also suggest the stopping of all Soviet merchandise with Maa- chukuo, on lines similar to the when the enginears of Metro action taken by Great Britain politan Vickers were arrested in Moscow-Reuter

FAMOUS CARTOONIST

DEATH OF MR. E. T. REED

· BRILLIANT PUNCH

STUDIES

(Our Own Correspondent).

(By

Telegraph, Copyright. Menedore Ordinayos,- 2191. 10. Jobs ..

Telegraphit Received, Julst.

London, July 15.

The world has lost one of its most famous cartoonists in the death of Mr. Edward Tennyson Reed, who passed away to-day ats the age of 78.

world

About one hundred people have! been killed in Helsingfors owing later in London and Hampshire.

the unprecedented drought,

He entered the railway service which is the worst of the whole at Shipley, Yorkshire in 1896 and century in Finland.

fifteen years later was elected to Forest blazes which started in the Executive Committee of the many parts of the country, Railwaymen's Union. In 1918 he sprouding with terrible rapidity. while a growing gate la driving was elected President of this don Hospital.

body, and was in additiona

Mr. Reed became # the mobilised troops and other member of the Consumer's Con- meeting of the Empire cancer

known figure when he joined the fire fighters in retreat before the eil (War Emergency), & member campaign hold in the House of

staff of Pinch in 1800. He was flames.

of the Workers National Com- Lords to-day. The large,

appointed by Sir F..C.. Burand, thickly-populated mittee and the Reconstruction

and three years later he began Dr. Lumden stated guardedly areas of the middle of the country

Another defeat for Washington | his brilliant Prohistoric

Peop are now in danger of being enciral Committee. (Education).

that the results of the treatment, For the best part of his life an which are a crucial test of ten Senators pulled them down in per-series. Later ho took to carica-

the A tragic Incident occurred in cled by the flames which are men-

acing them from various direc- ardent member of

Caricaturist to Punch from 1894 to ho led his confederates to the Kenya to-day, when a couple on ations. The number of homeless Party, the late Mr. Cramp served years of special research, he con-¡contage and affected their leador-ture, and was Parliamentary:

killed in an

Scores as cabled by Reuter 1912. He gave many lectures of honeymoon were

ls growing, na many farms have on the Party's Executive Com siders justify further intensive ship chances to-day. different places where money and

caricature and humorous art anul been destroyed with the crops and mittee and was Chairman in 1925. Investigation along the lines of jewellery were scereted; in boxes, aeroplane disaster.

Mr. Richard cattle.

drew weekly for the Bystander In the following year he held the research which have been begun. The couple were under a bed and other unlikely

the Inter--Reuter.

He had several publications, the It is feared that nearly the presidential office of

Transport Workers places. Furniture and piece goods Ussher, a well-known settler lug

best known of which were Mr. wore turned over indiscriminate-Kenya, and his bride. They were whole of the south of the Ostro-national

Punch's Prehistoric Peopa, 1806, ly, and the promises prosented a both killed while flying to Durban Bothnian province will be involved Federation.

Unrecorded History etc., Mr. most disordered appearance when from Nairobi for a wedding trip. unless the fires are soon checked.

Punch's Animal Land, 1808, Mr The 'plano crashed into a mountain- eventually the robbers loft,

Punch's Book of Arme, 1899, The The goods in the shop were left side near Mbeya.

Tablets of Azit-Tigleth-Mihpansi untouched, the robbers concentrat Mr. Unshor was formerly in the

the Scribe, 1900. Ing entirely on jewellery and Lifeguards and was noted as an money. Even a fow copper conts amatour rider.-Renter. left in a handbag were appropriat-

ed.

Many lives have been lost, it is reported, while telephone lines have been interrupted and the ver

munications.

have interfered with railway com

ARSON ATTEMPT AT EUROPEANS' TRAGIC DEATHS

TSITSIHAR

FIRE AT ELECTRIC

..

ARMADA FLIERS HONOURED

CONGRATULATIONS POURING IN

:

Chicago, July 16.

TRAGIC SHOOTING AFFAIR

DEAD OFFICER DUE TO GO HOME

were:

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Chicago Boston

Chiengo

R. HE. 1 .10 * 2 2 7 0

(Berger homered for Boston). 8 11 0 1 ་ ་ ། 0

1.11 1

Boston

***

·0 4 ·0

0 8 New York 16 1 (Hubbell pinched and blanked out Cincinnati), St. Louis Philadelphia St. Louis Philadelphia

8

·Cincinnat!. Now York (Lucas pirched and blanked out New York. Thore wore 16 innings).

Cincinnati Kobe, July 12.. The funeral of Llout. Albert Sopiol, the French officer who was shot on Monday night by his An The Italian airmen at noon to-namese cabin, boy, will be held to DOUBLE SHOCK FOR SHANGHAI

day attended a solemn Te Deum at .morrow, the Cathedral in " Chicago, after. Decensed, who was to sall for POLICE FORCE

which they visited the World Ex-home on July 13, was packing in whon Sergeant W. G. C. Smith was position and examined the Italian his cabin on the despatch vessel Shanghai, July 17.

Regulus when his boy entered, and A dual tragedy occurred drowned while on a houseboat exhibits.

trip.

In the evening they wore enter opened fire on him with a revolver, An attempt to set fro to the in the Shanghai Police Force Smith was holding on totalned at a banquet given by the inflicting serious wounds,

small skiff when the boat turned Italian-American Society, when Lieut. Soptel was immediately yesterday.

throwing him into the water congratulatory messages were rand taken to the International 1108- notoriously from all parts of the world, in pital, where he was operated on' which deen and

rancherana Atlete haur Ingflaluding Brotherly greatderox Dr. Theodore Schmidt, and Dr.Whalen nitahad sand b'asked: out

fla haluchad not tööðu fó2 from Gilmore, amüsebina and Camillo zdrn, but the Olleers ailede

stansive | an expression of admiration at to raily and died soon after.—

olice... their magnificent fight from Mr. Reuters

STATION

-Harbin, July-12

electric station of the Chinono Eastern Railway at Teitalhar was made yesterday by unknown per Innnector J. Sullivan was found PAKUNCELPHONSELLINE UMARİŞKURZamenhoférésház command i

2. The outbreak was discovered to hospital. Denth was appare hofore any serious damage was ly due to a stroke, owing to the in dode Reuter

tonuo heat

Wators

8 18

"AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Boston

ClateInnd

212 (Thern ware 14.inninga);

104.

711.0.

In 1880 Mr. Read vialted Egypt, China and Japan. He was educated at Harrow and was ta Justice of the Penca for Sugray.

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