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FINAL EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tol. 20269. FOUNDED WETA +æ## FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933.

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BAĦĦ+ SINGLE COFF 19 CENTE

SILDO PER AJOFUM

DUNLOP

provides the

greatest possible

TYRE

ECONOMY

MACHINE-GUN ATTACK ON SIBERIAN EXPRESS

Seven Killed and Eight Wounded in Latest Bandit Outrage

NEW NAVALES

GAME

OF DODGE 'EM

AIRCRAFTSMAN SHAW'S SECRET

SPEED-BOATS AS TARGETS

London. Dec. 15. How unsinkable high-p speed boats have been dart- ing about the North Sea in the role of targets for the Fleet's bombing planes, is re- vealed for the first time in this morning's Daily Tele- graph.

are

The naval air bombers ‘reputed to be acquiring astound-

Ing skill In chasing the forty-fest;

M. Paul Bonhoure, the Franch hairdresser, of Tarascon, winner of

the first prize of five million france in the French National Loltary, He l soon with his family outalde his shop.

target-boats, travelling at thirty NO COMPROMISE

mile an hour and manoeuvring swiftly.

Each of those boats carries an adventurous crew of three. They wear ear-defonders, crash helmets and gas-masks and little else.

DIRECT HITS.

Thoy couch below the crash- Toof cover of their little boats and then travelling at high speed, while bombs are being dropped upon them from a height of fifteen hundred foot,

Direct hita on those craft have proved the officacy of the overhead covering, but there have been

MANIFESTO

LATEST FUKIEN

STATEMENT

MEDIATION REFUSED

Foochow, Dec. 15. The People's Revolutio

awkward moments, when the nary Government" has issu-

missiles have hit unprotected wooden parts of the boat

FOREIGNER DEAD UNIDENTIFIED

SECOND ATTACK WITHIN EIGHTEEN DAYS

GUARDS FIGHT IN VAIN

Tokyo, Dec. 15.

RECOVERY CHIEF LEAVING POST

A New Job for General Hugh Johnson

New York, Doc. 14, A sensation has been created by a report in the Chicago Daily News stat- ing that the Recovery

Administrator,

General Hugh Johnson, is relinquish- ing office within' a week.

It is stated that he will take up another Govern-. ment position.—Reuter,

TO GO ON

TARIFF REDUCTION

MR; WALLACE'S OUTLOOK

FREER MARKETS ESSENTIAL

Washington, Dec. 14. The United States must modify its tarif policy or accept a con.. siderable and permanent loss of its foreign markets, is the

con- elusion reached by Mr. Henry

num Wallace, Secretary of the Agricul-

ture Department, in his annual paried to be leaving the Recovery Gen. Hugh Johnson, who Ju re-

Administration, shown with President Roanevelt..

The report advocates Ad- ministrative working towards an expansion of purchasing power abroad through tariff adjustments and eventually through a resump-

foreign passenger on the International U.S. GOLD POLICY report to the President, Train from Europe, whose name is not yet known, was among seven persons killed shortly. after midnight when bandits were responsible for the second outrage bringing disaster to the Trans-Siberian Express within eighteen days.

Four other passengers on the train were killed, together with two Japanese soldiers.

Eight other persons were wounded, while several passengers were carried off presumably to be held for ransom,

At the moment only the briefast dotails of the outrage have come to haud from Harblu,

After the experience at the end! of last month, the trais wan carry- Ing Japanese soldiers as: guards, They ware, however, hopelessly outnumbered by the bandits; who overwhelmed them.

300 BANDITS.

The attack was made in the usual manner." „A number of rälls

were removed from the line. The pro-fire was opened as soon the train-

and ed. a. second declaration to have gone clean through, causing day reasserting its policies the crow to find themselves ankle deep in water in double-quick time, and its revolutionary In all cases, they have managed gramme.

to plug the hole and return to port for repairs.

AIRCRAFTSMAN SHAW,

It, states, inter alia, that the People's Government is the natural outcome of the present

circumstances of Chian, .

train was deralled 'and a "benvy

K.C.R. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS

CANTON CLAIM FOR BIGGER SHARE

NEGOTIATIONS TO START.

Canton, Dec. 15. It is stated that three hundred With the arrival of Mr. Liang bandita took part in the attack. Yu-fan, Councillor of the Nanking Fifteen people on the train, in- Ministry of Railways, from Nan-

wrockers saw their work accomp- Ished.

EVERYTHING LOOKS LOVELY

SAYS ACTING TREASURER

Washington, Dec. 14. Gold purchases by the Re- construction Finance Cor- poration are to be continued

on of foreign lending, by the United States, accompanied by a willingness to receive certain for- eign goods in exchange for the loans.

the

The report further urged Federal regulations of the grain exchanges and the adjustment of arm supplies to demand.Router.

MUTINY

indefinitely and the stabilisa-ON CONVICT

Ition of the dollar in relation. to the pound or the franc is not in prospect.

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These, it was officially stated, were the principal decisions taken aftar President Roosevelt had been in conference for a couple of hours with his financial Houtenants.

"Everything looks lovely. Wo are going on-just-a-we-are now," declared Mr. Morgenthau, Acting Secretary, of the Treasury.

SILVER NOT DISCUSSED.

A

SHIP

FRENCH OFFICIAL

VERSION:

Paris, Dec. 8.

DEFINITE TURN OF TIDE

FEWEST JOBLESS FOR 3 YEARS

SPRING HOPES

London. Dec. 15.

It is stated in Government circles that unemployment in Britain-i has reached the | lowest figure since 1930,--

It is confidently expected that the number will fall below the two million mark in the early Spring.

Encouraging news of activity is coming in from all over the country, and especially gratifying sensational report from is that from the North of England Algiers cabled by Router. Inst week and Scotland, where the depression stated that a mutiny had occurred has been most severely felt. on board a French convict ship

Since the beginning of Novem- which was bound for Gutána, and ber, no fewer than ten new that forty convicts had been kill-

The experiment, which is hailed economic,,political and external (cluding the soldiers, fell killed or king yesterday, the Chinese au stated that the silver question was Paris denied that any convicts on the giant Cunardor

as a great success, has been ́pro- ceeding accretly for over a year

The first crews were initiat- ed into the game by Aircrafts- Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia).

man

of the uomintang to participate It urges liberal-minded leaders In the new movement, which, It says, envisages the salvation of the Chinese people: from various

forms of internal and external op.rassion.

ed in a desperate fight with their vessels have been booked on the Others present at the conference gaolers, Semi-official quarters in Clyde and when work is resumed a great wounded within a few minutes thorities are preparing for nogôtin-not considered and that the Pre-were killed.

part of the idle labour should be tlons with the Hongkong Govern-sident is quite content for the pre- the train systematically looting, ing of the attack.

absorbed, The bandita then went through ment for the revision of the exist sent to go ahead with the methods furnished by the French news According to a report _now

At Middlesbrough, the Acklam contract concerning the now being adopted for the raising agency of Indo-pacifi, the incident steelworks of Dorman, Long and stripping the passengers of all Canton-Kowloon Railway:

of the price level.

occurred on the. "La Martiniere," Company la reopening after nearly their valuables and easily port The provision lã îthe existing It is officially stated that R.F.C. on which were many convicts. three years of idleness, engaging able belongings. A number contract that sixtyper cont of gold purchases to date total 446,000 One of the prisoners sought to solely in the production of semi-

the through traffic receipts of the ounces, for which $14,885,000 has incite his follows to mutiny passengers were killed.

Railway goes to the Chinese sec- been paid. Reuter,

vy agitating against the rations, and after having behaved insolently towards the doctor, was, put. in Irons. This led to the commence- ment of a mutiny, which W40 suppressed after three other mutineers had been put in irons.

No cnaualties occurred.

·PREVIOUS AFFAIR.

The incident occurred

of

tion and forty percent to the British section is regarded as un- near satisfactory. In seeking the re-

practice has bean the slow-steam-by, a group of C.E.C. of the Tsitsikar, not far from the scene ¿vision of the provision the Chinese

Until now, the only mobile The declaration also sternly marino target used by the navy for repudiates the offer of mediation ing obsolete warahip, H.M.S. Con- Kuomintang headed by General Ld Leh-chun....... It emphasises tho turion.-Reutor.:

People's Government's determin- ation not to accept any terms of compromise-Central Newa,

RUMOURED PRICE OF ÄID

WAR DEBT TOKEN PAYMENT

LESS THAN MILLION AND HALF

Nanking, Dec. 15. The statement that the Canton Government, has approached the National Government for a loan of $15,000,000 is made in semis official quarters in connexion with the negotiations for Nanking Canton alliance against Fukion.

of the November 26 episode, when authorities are likely to claim. the Siberian express coming on unbelted rails, leaped the metals seventy per cent. share. and somersaulted down the em bankment.

with the Canton authorities in Mr. Liang Yu-fan la consulting this matter and will make a tour of inspection of the railway to-day.

The desperadoes then attacked the train, but after a desperate Central Newe. L struggle they were driven off by the Japanese guards-Router.

· TERRIFIC FIRE.

Tokyo, Lator.

A terrific. Are from machine- guns as well as rifles was concon- trated upon the disabled train by the bandits immediately after the |deralimcht,

their

London, Doc. 14. In accordance with the terms of Nots from the British Ambasss dor at Washington to the United

It is believed that a formal re- States Borretary of State, dated

Whon aaawering fire had ceased, November 8th last, the payment of guest will be made to the Finance they swooped down on the train seven and a half million dollara in Ministry through Chan Chal-committing outrages on United States currency (less than tong's personal envoy at Nanking, luckless, victims. $1,500,000). In respect of the Mr. Yang.Teh-chao, who went to British War Debt will be made In [Nanchang to" interview Marshal Washington to-morrow. This pay- mont, as in case of that of June 15th last, is made pending a final settlement.-British Wireless.

KING'S RACING SUCCESSES

CUPS FOR TRAINER AND JOCKEY

London, Doc. 14.

In commemoration of his very aucoɑssful year on the turf, H.M.

`RELIEF TRAINS RUSHED.

MAN KILLED IN FIGHT

KOWLOON CITY FRACAS

TWO MEN UNDER ARREST

ITALIAN PLANE DISASTER

DENIAL MADE BY CONSUL

Regarding a Router's telegram of the 6th inst, from Rome report- ing a mishap to an Italian 'Aero-

U.S. BASEBALL STARS TO TOUR WORLDTM

plane belonging to the warship At End of the Coming

Season

Miraglia, which was said to have fallen in flames into the sea off Spezin, being a total loss, tho Italian Consul General, Comm. A. Bianconi, states that he has ro-

Now York, Doc. 14. colved official information that The Chicago major league bass |Italfan aviation suffered no auch ball club owners have voted to mishap and that the reported loss adopt the standardized liveller of an aeroplane in the Gulf of ball in 1934. Spezin is without foundation.

SAMUEL INSULL TO BE "ON THE RUN"

Chiang Kai-shek quite recently, On receipt of the nows of the,

The official spokesman interattack, an armoured car from preta the postponement of the Anganchi hastened to the scone, Less than an hour after Fourth Plenary Session as due while a relief train was rushed Wong Sang-ini had been beaten to inability of Mr. Chang Chi's from Harbin, arriving there at to death in Kowldon City this delegation to return in time for alx o'clock this morning. December 20.

afternoon, Chán Fing (22) and Tho Identity of the The Government has been a foreigner

Chan Bhun (25)ero in custody Refusal to Renew Police has not yet formed of Chan Chai-tong's un-established-Reuter

at the Kowloon City Police willingness to attend the confer

Station. Put NISU ence, but his discussions In Can- old to be progressing satisfac- ton with the peaco delegation are

torily.

FINE TO CLOUDY

dead heen

The three men were employed

as fokis in a Kowloon City : dys

Permit

They also voted in favour of co operation with Mr. J. D. Shibe, the owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, who is planning to take an all-star team from the *American Leaguo, on a world tour} at the end of the 1984 baseball | son800-Router.

Athens, Dec. 15. works. It is allpred that trouble Samuel Insull will shortly bef. The anticyclone has weakened arose between Wong, Hoklo and moved eastward, it is now native, and the other two, who are again "on the run," in consequence centred to the north of Korea. Cantonese over the carrying of of the Government decision not to Local forecast:-N. Ewinds, several rolls of clotazhig

renew the police`residence' pormalt frash; fine to cloudy.

"Bamboo poles were used in,

the fight which proved--fatal for after January 1-Router, Wong and from which the ather two did not emerge onscathed.:{

FATAL RAILWAY MISHAP

DEAF MUTÉ KILLED ON LINE

LONDON TRAFFIC

SPEED-UP

Increases in Wages For Busmen

London, Dec. 14 Forty thousand London drivers and conductors have rocolved an increase in their weekly wages and have been promised a bonus and fonger annual holidays with pay, in fulfilment of the under taking, by the London Pas-/ senger Transport Board that the men should share in the financial benefits of the recent speed-up in traffic

Further increases are pro mised when trade is restored to normal condi- tions-British Wireless,

sammaTRIORITIES AMESTE

finished steel. There are now avor twenty blast furnaces.in oparation, ne compared with four toon at the beginning of the year.. Bradford reports a sharp im provement in the woollen textile Industry, M

In

Birmingham, the Austin Motor Car Company are turning out between 1,000 and -1,800 cars

wook-Resler and Special

FUKIEN MOVE

Shanghai, Doc. 15.

A fatal accident occurred on the According to the Chinese press,

Kowloon-Canton Railway yester the King has presented to his the National Government"--"has

day, the victim being a villager, trainer, W. R. Järvis, and Jockey, transferred the provincial governs

Los Siu, of Tai Kwal Woo, Taipo, when, unaware of the approach of H.M.S. Wishart left port luat even J. Childs, silver cupe, on which are ment of Fuklen from Foochow to Inscribed the names of the various Puchenkin North Fukien, whereing for, Swatow, and will proceed on Assistante Superintendent - of vesterday, there was a heavy case it by a goods. train. knocked down from:beħladAKK

Following numerous hawkers' ratɗa who was killed by being run over the train', from Taipoa ke: was |December 19 to Shanghai: "The U.3.8. races won by his horses during, the all loyal officials of the old. Foo-indanao and U-8.8. Tulsa are exe Folice T „Murthy and Inspector before it. Balfour at the.... Contral Past, flat-racing season. Pritisk chow regime will be given their pected to arrive here on Decembar 20 ANI, W. Doring Ave in pliarge Polls Court this morning thero ing on the rails bear, the No: 23 The mangled corpse was later

vans-former Jobe-Reuter,

|and, remain until January 2

lof the basemRES

- beltg no fewer than 40 hawkers' cases, Bridge, between Taipo and Shatily I removed to the Howloon MortuKEY.

The man, a deaf-mute, was walk-

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