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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.

SIX KILLED IN LOCAL FIRE DISASTER

EASTERN STREET BLAZE

WATER SHORTAGE CONTRIBUTES TO TRAGEDY

MANY LEAP FOR LIFE INTO THE STREET

In a shocking fire tragedy this morning six persons, five of them women and children lost their lives. The outbreak occurred at No. 36 Eastern Street at 3.40 a.m., was of a very sudden' nature, and was characterized in the early stages, by the inability of the Fire Brigade to secure full control of the situation in view of the absence, or almost entire absence, of water.

DISARMAMENT SETBACK

Negotiations Near Deadlock

Geneva, Sept. 27. The disarmament - nego- tlations 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,

SHING MUN WATER

SHARKEY AGAIN BEATEN

IN 15 ROUNDS BY LOUGHRAN

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EUROPEAN PROGRAMME OF

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B-8p.m. European programme of Orchestral-Ol' Man River. Orchestral Why Do I Love You?

FLOORED IN THE records kindly loaned by a Listener.

TENTH

Philadelphia, Sept. 27. Jack Sharkey, former heavy weight boxing champion of the world, can now regard himself as completely out of the picture as aspirant for a "come-back" as a result of his fight to-night. Meeting Tommy Loughran in a fifteen rounds contest, he was beaten on points.

This, following on his smashing

defeat at the hands of King

Levinsky,' quashes his hopes of re- gaining lost Inurela in the fatic world.-Reutor.

FIGHT DESCRIBED. Ton thousand spectators watch-

"Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra. Song Soft Footed Snow. Song The Second Minuet..

Gards Hall (Soprano). Organ Solo In a Little Spanish Town Organ Solo-Just a Bird's-Eye View

of my Old Kentucky Homo. Sang-Father O'Flynn,

Jesso Crawford. Song-Joggin' Along the Highway,

Arten Cents A Dance.

Vivian Baritone). Plano Piano Solo-Baby's Birthday Party. Orchestral-La Canzone Dell's Amore.

Billy Mayerl

Orchestral-Quitarrits.

Orchestra. Italiana Armando di Piramo. Orchestral-A Japaneko Sunset, Orchestral-The Blystery of Night.

Victor Salon Orchestra.

Song--All Through the Night,

Richard Crooks (Tenor). Orchestral-Sinful and Sweet. Orchestral-Nocho en la Volga.

For this delay, in the main due to the water FACTS. AND FIGURES/ed the fight under sultry condi Song-Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.

restrictions, there have been forthcoming a number of conflicting statements from both officials and members. of the public who were eye-witnesses, but the fact seems fairly certain that a considerable delay ensued before the full volume of water desired became available. The building became a raging Brigade claim they were able to inferno within a few minutes of bring all available equipment in the outbreak in four-storey to operation and that their work had begun to have its effect by building, a comparatively recont] 4 a.m.

structure with tiled floors, but with a wooden staircase which wound round to the back from the street..

People on the upper floors were trapped by lames sweeping the staircaSO,

DEATH ROLL.

IN P.W.D. REPORT

MUCH RUNS TO WASTE

tions.

T.

Marek Weber and His Orchestra. Song-Jeannine Dream of Lilac

Time Song Was It a Dream.

Gladys Monerle (Soprano). Octet Praeludium.

Sharkey started strongly, but faded away towards the tenth round when he was floored with a right to the chin.

Nevertheless Loughran was showing signs of a fair amount The importance of Shing Mut from n cut over his right eye.

of punishment, blood streaming. to the Colony's water supply system is revealed in the D.P.W.'sed Sharkey, yet winced before Band-My Man.

Jabbing and dancing he attack-Octet--Melody in F.、 Report for 1932.

Ernest Leggett London Octet. Sharkey's body blowa. Although the amount available Loughran rallied

But Band-Second Hand Rose. quickly and from Shingman was over a thou-finished very strongly.--Reuter. sand million gallons less than It was about this time also that the previous year, it was still one of the fireflonts was brought greatly in excess of the Colony's round to the harbour end of East-total, storage empacity at the pre- ern Street, and across tho 80 sent time.

FIRE FLOAT ARRIVES..

the

up yards distance intervening, a wel The total yield of the Shing come supply of salt water Mun River as measured by the was laid down right to the burning Recorder and V. Gauge at building. For the most powerful Upper Intake was 4017.86 million of these jets a good hend was gullons as compared with 5098.45 secured from the top of a high million gallons in 1931, building across the way, and prov ed more effective than the others with very little pressure from the

The list of those who perished follows:-

Lan Yiu-ching, 22, a. married

woman.

Wong Shuet-lan, a 16-year-old servant girl.

maine.

Tons

-

COTTON PARLEY

AT SIMLA

EXTENSION OF THE

CONVENTION

London, Sept. 27.

·

Ray Starita and His Ambassa-

dors Band.

Song-Killarney.

Song-Mary of Argyle.

Sydney Coltham (Tenor), Orchestral-Nola.. Orchestral-Cradle of Love. Paul Whiteman and lis

Orchestra,

Piano Solo The Big Pond-Medley. Piano Solo-One Night Alone With

You.

Rale da Costa.

Gate.

Ted Fiorito and His Orchestra. Organ Solo Evensong, Organ Solo-Idylle.

Herbert Dawson.

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather

10.30 p.m. Close Down.

In addition 1338.44 million gal-

Representatives of the Govern-Orchestral Song of the Islands. were obtained from the ments of India and Japan at Simla Orchestral-Hangin' on the Garden Needle Hill stream intake. The are now engaged in negotiations for a new trade agreement. A Pass pumps below Pineapple Lam Chau, a 13-year-old boy.

A FAMILY TRAGEDY.

worked on 224 days during the delegation of the Lancashire Tex Wong Yung-kwal, a 2-year-old ̧

year and delivered 48.82 million tile Industries are in attendance. The new agreement is to replace The house involved was of small gallons equivalent 218,000

to boy.

Another girl, aged 13, who is area, measuring some 20 by 12 or gallons per working day. During the existing Simla Convention of Report.

8.3-10.30 p.m. Chinese Concert, from known is Lam.

I feet, with a cookhouse in the the year 1864.57 million gallons 1907, six months' notice of the

Shing

termination of which becomes the Studio. Tsim Ching, 25, a male tenant, er. On one side it was separat- were delivered from the

It la suffered

from serious injuries ed from the Queen's Road buildings Mun Valley through the Tunnels effective on October 10. when he leapt from a burning by a narrcy scavenging lane some into the Reception Reservoir, but understood that the Japanese Am- upper floor, and died later in five feet across, while on the other large percentage of this quantitybassador in London was informed Hospital.

side it is joined up to other build could not be stored and ran to by the Foreign Office a few days

waste. The ings on higher ground up the very yield was in May when the were willing, that the convention steep slope of Eastern Street,

quantity delivered was

62.63 should be prolonged and the The fire broke out with startl The ground floor was occupied (million gallons,

existing duties will be maintain- ing suddenness in the second floor by d goddwn or workshop, the first

ed at their present level for one of the building, and as is usually the by a family, the second by à firm case with these old Chinese teno- of tea merchants and the third by ments, one of the first parts the family of a tenhouse keeper attacked was the wooden stairense, surnamed Wong.", Cut from escape into the street,: the majority of the third floor

STAIRCASE ABLAZE.

1. 定

Police investigations indicate a tenants, comprising women and discarded cigarette end smoulder- children, rushed into the lowering for some time amongst bags of 'floor and were either suffocated dry tea-leaves as the origin of

or burnt to death.

the fire.

Upon flaring up the fire quickly Meanwhile, the Fire Brigade, which had rushed all available attacked the wooden casing of the

minimum monthly ago that the Government of India NEW TRADE

MELBOURNE CRIME

GANGSTER FASHION

MURDER

Melbourne, Sept. 22.

A murder in American gangster fashion was committed in Gore Strest, Fitzroy, to-lay, just after

month after October 10, 1935.

If a further extension should be

PACT

necessary the Government of India ARGENTINE TO. CUT

would ask for an extension for a reasonable period thereafter on terma to be decided.--British Wire- less.

SHANGHAI TRAGEDY DISCOVERED

appliances to the spot, were help-stairs but the intantes of this floor midnight, when a labourer on his Body of Mr. Pratt Found

lesa in the face of a water shortage escaped in time into the street. by reason of the closing down of

the mains. Their difficulties when The family of the teahouse water mas available at long last, keeper on the upper floor are said

way home was deliberately shot and mortally wounded by a gun- man who stepped from a motorcar

were added to hy a narrow and to have delayed departure through and fired six shots from a pistol.

LEAPS FOR LIFE.

TARIFFS

BRITAIN GAINS EXCONCESSIONS.

London, Sept. 27. Britain's trade negotia- tions with the Argentine

have concluded satisfac-

After Seven Months torily and a supplementary agreement has now been

Shanghai, Sept. 24.

Tutile attempts to put out the fire Detectives believe that the mur- Within 24 hours after the ac-signed.

WAB

sloping street, and by a dense mass with buckets, and the lower por der is closely connected with acidental discovery of the dead and of spectators.

tion of the staircase had been shooting affray which took place almost completely decomposed body burnt away before a

combined at North Carlton in the early part of a foreigner in the small attic of rush was made down the stairs. of this week, when a man a large deserted foreign style house In a helpless position, a number Their further progress blocked by shot in the back while walking at 880 Bubbling Well Road, the of the upper floor inmates, prefer-a sheet of flames, they turned into home.-Reuter,

police of Bubbling Well Station had red the consequences of a leap into the floor in which the fire first

established the Identity of the the street rather than endure a started, and there died anʼagoniz-, slow and agonizing death, and ang death. number were injured when they exercised this choice.

They included the wife of the teahouse keeper, his young soll, a By the time the fire was extin-nephew, a servant girl, and the guished the building was reduced 16-year-old wife of to a skeleton, while adjoining tenant, surnamed Tsim,

a follow structures received their share of destruction.

LITTLE CHICAGO

AUSTRALIA

TERRORISM IN TOWNSVILLE

The original Convention, drawn

recorded United Kingdom conces "p in London some months ago, sions in regard to Argentine heef and wheat which are her chief exports to Great Britain and Argentino concessions in the mat ter of exchange control. The body was that of Arthur The new supplementary agree- IN Joseph Pratt, 56 years of age, a ment is concerned almost entirely former official of the Public Works with concessions made by the Department of the S. M. C. who Argentine on tariffs. had been missing since February, 24.

Taim escaped on to the roof. Townsville, Queensland, Sept. 22. At 10 o'clock this morning fire-the roof of an adjoining roof, he

but in attempting to leap on to A campaign of terrorism and men and policemen were still turn-failed to span the five-feet width intimidation against its citizens ing over the debris for traces of of the alleyway, and dropped to is earning for Townsville the other unfortunates who may have his death below. also perished.

·

THE FULL STORY.

According to the official record- ed times of the Fire Brigade, the alarm

wag received by them through the Eastern Street Ore alarm box at 3.45, and it would! seem that very little time elapsed before, the first of the appliances was on the scone. Water held up

name of "Little . Chlongo." The crime wave is attributed to gangs The shopkeeper with a young of criminals being driven from girl who is his sister, was the sole other States, with the result that survivor from the top floor. He there has been a long series of clambered through a skylight hole bomb outrages, safe robberies and sat in the roof, carrying the giri desnults-Router.

man.

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to

Reductions of the present- Argen- tine Customs Duties are arranged Deceased was found lying on his for affecting on many classes of back with one hand behind his goods. which are of interest head and the other in his overcoat United Kingdom trade with the pocket. He was fully dressed and Argentine. In some cases, exemp- had evidently died in his sleep or tion from duty is granted. marks of violence were found either are in general subject to a duty at the result of taking poison. No Goods imported into Argentina

as there was no trace of poison in per cont. to fifty-seven per cent. on the remains or in the attic. but percentage rates ranging from five the attic the theory of auicide will assessed en Argentine official tariff not be cleared up until an autopsy valuations. In addition to the has been held.

customs duty, Imported goods of the kinda llable to customs duty, VAGRANTS SENT are subject to a surcharge of ten per cent. nd, valorem also cal- TO "HOUSE" culated on the official tariff valua- DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

tone, the surcharge being ap- proved as a temporary measure in SUCCESS OFTEN COSTS MORE THAN There was a clean bilt of health in! AUSTRIAN AND A

October 1931. by the official restrictions, had to IT IS WORTH.-E. Wigglesworth. the Colony on Tuesday.

FILIPINO

REDUCTION OF BURTAX. bo released through the mains,)

Under existing Argentine legisla and a street hydrant was conven-

Notice has been given of a wedding Under the Vagrancy Act, two tion, this surtax is to be gradual- No dinner dance will take place at to take place shortly between Mr. unemployed men, Wazula Franz,y reduced, starting in November lently near at hand at the inter- the Repulse Bay Hotel on Friday, James McAuley, marine engineer, a. Austrian, and Frank Whitney, alias of this year and to be finally Boction of Eastern Street and September 29.

Kiangau of the China Navigation Co., Francisco Cruz a Filipino, wore tinguished by 1934. Quoon's Road Weat.

and Miss Mary Hill Fleming, of Greenock, Renfrewshire, and now on charged before Mr. Balfour in the Tho now agreement contains Ono account has it that some- Knocked down and injured by a route to the Colony on the s., Contral Police Court this morning, proposals whereby the Argentine one-an Indian constable it is motor-car, Yau Tsol, 60, living at 8 Antenor.

and committed to the Hound of Government agree not to raise the alleged-blundered at this point, Mul Kwai Lane, was admitted yester.

Detention.

surcharge above ten per cent, dur- for the telephone message he sent day to the Government Civil Hospital, Serving four montlin' gael" for a

Det Sergeant Mottram said theying the three years currency of through confused the locality!

similar offence in 1932, Au Man-gul, had just been discharged from the agreement. with Tung Street in an entirely

allas Chan Pan, was sent to prison prison for stowing away on Classes of goods on, which con. A fatal accident occurred yesterday for four months' hard labour by Mr. Dollar liner. The second man was cessions are made under the sup different part of the City. on the 8.8. Semiramis while the Balfour in the Central Police Court being sont back to Manila this plementary agreement include all The consequence was that was steamer was undergolog overhaul in this morning for stealing a pare week, while arrangements with classes of textiles, all classes of not directed into the right chan- drydock at Kowloon A head lamp from Yau Hang, who arrived from the Austrian wore in the hands of metals and machinery, nol until after some delay. What bracket which was being dismounted Conton by train laat night. The the Austrian Consul at Singapore vehicles and cyclon, chemicals motor lose of valuable time that repre- from the foremast dropped on Ching cident occurred in Connaught Road sented is not clear, but the Fire Yau, a young paint-scraper, who was Central. There was no money in the There was no Consul for Austria painte, varnishes, pottery and cot

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