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FOUNDED.. 1881 PAO WATALABT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933. BINGLE COPY 10 CENTS

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CORDON HAS RECOVERY DRIVE FAILED? FIRE

HOLDS

FIERCE ATTACK

BY FANG

STREET FIGHTING IN KAOLIYING

JAPANESE BOMB GOVT. TROOPS

(Our Own Correspondent).

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Zelegraphie Kes- : vages Ordinance, 1311. · Received. Beptember £5, 040 0.70)

Peking, Sept. 28.

Graphic stories of fierce fighting in the streets of the walled town of Kaoliying disposed this morning of the belief that General Fang Cheng-wu's forces were re- firing into Charhar un- molested.

Official reports show that Fang. Chen-wu actually made a deter- mined attempt to smash through the cordon of Government troops dining the Tangku Armistice Line,' and that, although the desperate bid failed, with heavy loss of life, he has not yet abandoned the effort.

The main attack was centred on the town of Kaollying, which is only eighteen miles to the north of Peking.

FORMER RESIDENT.

Strong attacks on the Roosevelt recovery programme arẻ - being mado by Mr. Clarence Darrow (left), the famous. American eri... minal lawyer. Above he is shown addressing farmers in Ohio.

FLYING VISIT TO FAR EAST

CAPT. WALLACE'S PLANS

U.S. THOROUGHLY ALARMED

SERIOUS GROWTH OF STRIKES

RISING COSTS OF LIVING

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 27. REALISATION IS GROWING THROUGHOUT

DISARMAMENT SETBACK

Negotiations Near Deadlock

Geneva, Sept. 27. The disarmament nego- tiations appear to have reached a stage remarkably akin to a deadlock.

It is persistently reported that an attempt will be 'made to adjourn the meet- ing of the General Commis sion for at least a fortnight. -Reuter.

sing Loan

TRAGEDY

SIX KILLED IN EASTERN ST.

WATER SHORTAGE DISASTER

SEVERAL HURT

LEAPS FROM UPPER FLOORS

Six people were killeḍ, and two others seriously injured,

O CHECKERT EINST THE INDEED IN A RACE in a disastrous fire at an early

THE COUNTRY THAT THE NATIONAL RESHING MUN

COVERY ADMINISTRATION HAS APPARENTLY REACHED THE END OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND A WIDESPREAD FEELING IS SPRINGING UP THAT THE NATURAL FORCES OF RECOVERY MUST NOW BE LEFT TO EMERGE.

WATER

hour this morning at No. 36

Eastern Street, which ad-

joins the Government Civil Hospital.

It seems to have been a tragedy. of the water shortage, for an off-

FACTS AND FIGURES [cial report vouches for the fact

IN P.W.D. REPORT

MUCH RUNS TO

WASTE

that a delay of 25 minutes inter- vened before water, held up by the restrictions, could be released through the mains. By that time the fire was raging like an inferno, jeopardising all efforts at rescue and sealing the fate of the many people trapped, in the building

..

Death Roll

The list of those who perished

Lam Yiu-ching, 22, a married

woman.

No blame is attached to President Roosevelt by those who declare the recovery programme to have failed It is thought that the measures taken will be immensely valuable in their long-range effect, bull no attempt it now made to hide the belief that the prosperity drive has lost its forward impetus.' There is, indeed, a fear that things may grow

The importance of Shing Man to the Colony's water supply worse instead of better. The gravity of the situation is revealed and emphasised by the statistics of the Na-system is revealed in the D.P.W.'s follows

Report for 1932. LEAVING ON tional Industrial Conference Board showing that real

Although the amount available. SATURDAY

earnings during August declined by 1.8 per cent..

from Shingmun was over a thou- The figure ferived by offset-

sand million gallons less than in servant girl. London, Sept. 27.ting wage incrvasca against price Captain Euan Wallace, Civil increases.

the previous year, it was still Lord of the Admiralty, who is

greatly in excess of the Colony's Real wages are lower than in four hours, according to official Mr. Walter Morley, resident paying an official visit to British July despite the fact that employ-

total storage capacity at the pre- advices, after which the Intruders of Hongkong for more than a Middle East, means to travel by 8.6 per cent, and 9.2 per cent, naval stations in the Far and ment and money wages increased finally beat a hasty retreat, leav-quarter of a century, passed fast. ing over a hundred dead

and away at Winklespruit, South several hundred - wotmded.– During the height of Engagement, a squadron of Japan ese bombing planes, swooping low, dropped bombs killing several Government soldiers.

STREET FIGHTING. Fang's, forces were launched gupon a sweeping assault and succeeded in getting a foothold in the city, where heavy fighting occurred in the streets.

The battle rnged for twenty-

AN ERRORT

the

DEATH OF MR. W. MORLEY

YEARS IN THE

COLONY

26 Y

respectively.

These increases were, however; Africa, yesterday, at the age-of-He-is-leaving-London-on-Satur- seventy years.

day next and he reckons to cover decline in actual working hours more than offset by an 8.9 per cent, A man of charming personality, 20,000 miles in fifty-one days. and by the rise in the cost of liv- although very reserved, his death He_will_travel_from_England_to ing. will be deeply regretted by all who Rangoon by Imperial Airways The failure of the banks to per- knew him. He leaves a widow machine, taking advantage of the mit the expected flow of credit to and a daughter, the wife of Mr. service newly established. From industry is being seized upon in It is supposed that the bombing A, E, Farrell, of Messrs. Butter- Rangoon he will travel by flying some quarters to support allega- of Government troops was in error.

fleld and Swire,

boat to Singapore, after which heftions that the bankers are op- Fang's forces are now moving

The late Mr. Morley was widely will proceed to Hongkong by P.posed to the Roosevelt programme. Westward along the armistice travelled. Born at Sheffield, he and O. liner. line, feeling their way and seeking spent a number of years with John,

Captain Wallace will be in STRIKE CRISIS out a paralble, woak link in the Brown's, the famous armaments

firm at Sheffield, before commenc- Hongkong, it is hoped, in time to

Meanwhile, tho strike situation steadily worse.

The position may be summed up, roughly, as follows:

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rapidly spreading and the number of miners out all over the country runs into six figures.

Eight thousand steel workers are in voluntary idleness at Weir- ton, Pennsylvania..

a

sont time.

Wong Shuet-lan, a 16-year-old

Lam Chau, a 18-year-old boy, Wong Yunp-kwat, a 2-year-old- boy.

Another girl, aged 13, who is known is Lam.

STAIRCASE ABLAZE.

The total yield of the Shing Mun River as measured by the Recorder-and-V Gauge-at the NEW YORK COMMENT.

Tsim Ching, 26, a male tenant, Upper intake was 4017.86 million Discouragement over the Na-gallons as compared with 5098.45 suffered from serious injuries tional Recovery Administration million gallous in 1931. ...

when he leapt from a burning In addition 188.44-million-gal-have since died in Hospital

upper floor, and is reported to experimentis leading the Roosevelt Administration deeper lons were obtained from the into

The declares the Republican "New pumps below Pineapple grave internal crisis, Needle Hill stream intake, York Herald Tribune.

Pass

Tho fire broke out with starti- worked on 224 days during the ing suddenness in the second floor Whether the country knows it year and delivered 48.82 million of the building, and ns is usually the or not," declares this paper, gallons equivalent to 218,000 "official circles in Washington are gallons, per working day. During ments, one of the first parts tending to become discouraged the your 1864.57 million gallons attacked was the wooden staircase. over the experiment of the N.I.A." were delivered from the Shing Cut from escape, into the street, The paper declares that the Mun Valley through the Tunnels dificulties derive from the fact into the Reception Reservoir, but the majority of the third floor an inflationist movement.--Reiter, could not be stored and ran to children, rushed into the lower waste. The minimum monthly

door and were either suffcated DARROW SPEECH.

yield was in May when the or burnt to death. quantity delivered Was 62.63 million gallons;

caso with these old. Chinese tene-

cordon thrown out by General Hoing a career which carried him to participate in the Trafalgar and throughout the country is growing that the N.R.A. has given rise to a large percentage of this quantity tenants, comprising of women and

Ying-ching.

A number of tentative attacks have been made st different points, but all have been repulsed and it is not thought that they will find a place to break through. Further skirmishes have since been reported near Tangshan, the hot springs resort, within motoring distance of Peking.

easy

many countries before he settled Naval Day celebrations. down in Hongkong.

He was in British Honduras for

After his visit to Hongkong he some time, later going to South will proceed to Colombo and America, where he spent many

Trincomali by steamer, joining the years in Chile and Peru.

WITH J. D. HUMPHREYS. Ho was in Manila for some time and then arrived in Hongkong. joining the firm of J. D. Hum-

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL phreys and Son, with whom he

FUND

The Latest List of Contributions

The following 'donations to the St. John's Cathedral Restoration Fund have been received aince the publication of our last list!

II. E. Stone,....

M. W. Newsholme

Mra, S. R. Jones

Mr. & Mrs. P. J. Taylor

$25.

..20.

10,

20.

Previously acknowledged $2,91894

$2,993.94

remained.

19 accountant

twenty-six years.

for

He left Hongkong on retirement about two years ago taking up residence in South Africa in the Durban district.

COTTON PARLEY AT SIMLA

EXTENSION OF THE

CONVENTION

London, Sept. 27.

Representatives of the Govern-Captain Even Wallace, with his wife, ments of India and Japan at Simla fagship of the East Indies Squa are now engaged in negotiations for a new trade agreement. Adron, H.M.S. Hawkins, at Trin- delegation of the Lancashire Tex-comali. He will proceed in her to tile Industries are in attendance: Bombay and will then return home

The new agreement is to replace by Imperial Airways-Reutor,

LITTLE CHICAGO IN the exlating Simin Convention of

AUSTRALIA

TERRORISM IN TOWNSVILLE

1907, six months' notice of the

termination of which becomes NEW SUBSCRIPTION

effective on October 10. It Is understood that the Japanese Ani- bassador in London was informed by the Foreign Offco a few days ago that the Government of India Townsville, Queensland, Sept. 22. were willing that the convention A campaign of terrorism and should be prolonged and the intimidation against its citizens: existing duties will be maintain-

GRIFFINS

RIDING TESTS AT

VALLEY the

In Now York, there are between In a speech at Kinsman, Ohio,

75,000 and 100,000 workers Mr. Clarence Darrow said who have downed todis in "The president is brave, honest, various trade.

and pretty intelligent, I am hope- At Derolt, a strike of motor-earful, but there is much I do not workers and tool workers in-understand. How can it help to volves at least eight thousand destroy food, and cotton, and

clothing? Several thousand are out at not to farm. They're going to "They're going to pay farmers Chester, Pennsylvanin, being bring back prosperity to the coun- mostly employees of the Ford try if they have to kill every hog Company's works, which has been

men.

closed down Indefinitely.

At Paterson, New Jersey, it is the silk factory workers who are on strike. The number runs into many thousands. BREAD DELIVERY STOPPED.

SHANGHAI TRAGEDY DISCOVERED

I

Body of Mr. Pratt Found in it. (I mean the kind of hogs After Seven Months

that are good for something-that; you can cat."

Shanghai, Sept. 24.)

Meanwhile, the Fire Brigade, which had rushed all available appliances to the spot, were help- less in the face of a water shortage by reason of the closing down of the maina. Their difficulties when water was available at long last, were added to by a narrow and aloping street, and by a denée mara of spectators.

LEAPS FOR LIFE.

In a helpless position, a number of the upper floor inmates, prefer. red the consequences of a leap into. the street rather than endure a

"But unless the wealth of the world is put back in the hands of cidental discovery of the dead and number were injured when they Within 24 hours after the ac-slow and agonizing death, and a those who produced it, tinkering almost completely decomposed body exercised this choice.

la useless. Producing wealth 18 of a foreigner in the small attic of By the time the fire was extin- tho ansiest thing we do. But the a large deserted foreign style house guished the building was reduced Brendcart drivers are on strike captains of industry have euchred at 830 Bubbling Well Road, the to a skeleton, while adjoining

In Philadelphia, causing a re-putrid bonds and worthless stocka, established the identity of the destruction...

you out of your heritage by police of Bubbling Well Station had structures received their share of striction of bread deliveries There is not too much of anything, man. - This affects few, resulting only. The trouble with this country, and in a little inconvenience...

At 10 o'clock this morning fire-

The body was that of Arthur men and policemen were still turn-; At Pittsburg, the coal strike, is learned to distribute wealth."

with the world. is that we have not Joseph Pratt, 66 years of age, aing over the debris for traces of former official of the Public Works other unfortunates who may have Department of the 9. M. C. who also perished. had been missing since February,

TOKYO MURDER PLOT

| 24. 1

Docensed was found lying on his ADMIRAL DREYER back with one hand behind hid head and the other in his overcoat pocket. He was fully dressed and

SIX LABOUR LEADERS ACCUSED: had evidently died in his steep or

ASTOUNDING PLANS

de the result of taking poison. No. marks of violence were found eltfior on the romains or in the attic. but Charged with tempted mur-While the Cabinet was in session, not be cleared up until an autopsy Tokyo, Sept. 23. ...¡mior's official residence on July 11th as there was no trace of polson in the attic the theory of suicide will der and incendiarias, six mems and murder all present. They were has been held. 1scarning for, Townsville the ed at their present level for one acription griffins which arrived in Party who were arrested

The riding tests for the sub-bers of the

to sinfultaneously attack and set KURSS Are to Count Makino's residence name of "Little Chiengo. The month after October 10, 1985, the Colony aboard the Taming, nexion with crkno wave is attributed to ganga If a further extension should be will take place at the racecourse members of the of criminals being driven from necessary the Government of India to-morrow at 12.46.p.m. other Statee, with the result that would ask for an extension for a The draw for the ponies accept The

formally there has been a long series of reasonable period thereafter oned by the Stowards will be held others, were Lamb outrages, safe robberies and terms to be decided-British Wire at the stables at fiye "o'clock mentall assaults

Reuter."

Further, arrests are continuing in Noties has been given of a wedding connexion with the financing of the to take place shortly between Mr. plot, which is ailored to be of an Klangan of the China Navigation

James McAuley, marine engineer, .. even wider scope than last year's conspiracy ofer Mayed 5th when Greenock, Renfrewshire, und now en

and Misa Mary Hill Fleming, Premier Injukatewas akiamulanted route to the Alongs one th

IN JAPAN

"ROYAL" RECEPTION

PROMISED

Tokyo, Sept. Admiral Dreyer, with HM.S. Kontand. HMS Falmouth, arrived at 0.10 am to-day

fter an

change of omo

les with the Japanesečn ander Admira B3Dravi