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STARTLINGLY DARING PIRACY ABOARD POO AN

CARDINAL BOURNE CAPTURED

GRAVELY ILL

Prayers Said At Cathedral

London, Jan. 15.

Prayers for the recovery of Cardinal Bourno, who has been seriously ill for some weeks, were said at West- minstor Cathedral to-day- British Wireless.

ROOSEVELT PUZZLE REMAINS

BRITISH_COMMENT ON

PROGRAMME

NEAR SHANGHAI

BROUGHT DOWN TO SWATOW

SIX-HUNDRED

MILE TRIP

Shanghai, Jan. 16. One of the most remark- able piracies for some con- siderable time past-re- markable for the length of time the ship was in pirate hands and the length of the journey travelled before the vessel was released-was carried out aboard the s.s.

THE SIXTY CENT Poo An travelling between

DOLLAR

Shanghai and Tsingtao.

The Poo An is a steamer of

A Cabinet meeting in some six thousand tons, and la one of the biggest and fastest venacis London to discuss the in the China Morchants' fleet, for effects of President Roose- that matter, on the China const, velt's announced monetary policy on British trade is foreshadowed.

London, Jan. 16.

dollar The sixty-cent feature of Président Roose- velt's monetary proposals is given special attention in

The striking feature of the out- rage is that pirates from Bias Bay appear to have been responsible. The Poo An was taken down the coast to a bay near Swatow before sho

abandoned by the

Was

desperadocs.

TRADITIONAL STYLE. The piracy was carried out in gang fashion, traditional

the

The vessel left Shanghai for

Governor-General of Indo-China Killed in

AMMY

Picture showa now giant Franch aeroplane, ca pable of flying 180 mp.h., similar to the Emeraude which crashed in France yesterday, causing the death of M. Pasquier, Governor-General of Indo China,

and nine other occupants.

ADMIRAL KILLED

MOTOR SMASH AT SAVANNAH

Savannah, Jan, 15. Rear-Admiral James

Joseph Raby, U.S.N., was killed here to-day as the re- sult of a motor-car.smash,

Born in 1874, Rear-Admiral Raby

had a distinguished naval carest. During the World War, he succes Bively commanded the Albany, the Missouri and the Georgia. He took from the States the first merchant convoy under American escort, and had the record of escorting. the largest number of ships to Europe during the war. He also took! back to America the first returning Roldiers to bo transported by battleship.

⚫ the comments of the London j travelling as passengers.

It is worthy of note also that ho newspapers on the Message Tsingtao on January 18, with a

took the deepest known sounding. hundred Chinese pasaengers' or to Congress.

namely, 5,296 fathoms, at Guam. board, including a number of well-He became a naval aviator at the to-do personalities.

Details are lacking for the age of 51, being the only Admiral present, but. It is learned that the qualified as an aviator up to 1928.

hundred Poo An was scarcely miles out of Woosung when fifteen of the pirates, overpowered the

The Financial Times describing the proposal as "a promise of greater stability," remarks that the decision will have the grent advantage-of-fixing the minimum margin of risk involved in enter ing on transactions

States currency.

Reuter.

in United ofcers and secured complate con- CRISIS THREATENING

Bankers and industrialists will be more inclined to deal free.

It remains to be seen, however, says the journal, whether Presi dent Roosevelt can reconcile. the often conflicting Influences currency, prices and wages,

STABILISATION ISSUE.

of

The Morning Post says that the Message clarifies President Roose velt's monetary policy, though it will disappoint those who pected immediate stabilisation of the dollar,

Ex-

trol of the ship.

PISTOL POINT.

They compelled her Austrian master, Captain Raks, to steer hor south and she travelled down the const at practically full speed.

Throughout the voyage, the Captain kept on the bridge under cloap guard, a pistol being kept at his head to persuade him to carry out the pirates' bidding.

NINE KIDNAPPED.

The Poo An finally came to a Discussing the probable effect, halt, under instructions, at a small on Britain's export trade, the bay near Swatow, where the gang Morning Post points out that the disembarked with their booty last sixty-cent dollar will be disadvan-evening. tageous owing to the accentuat.on of the existing under-valuation of the dollar in terms of world com- modity prices.

They carried off nine of the wealthier passengers for ransom

The Poo An is now headed for Shanghai and is due to-morrow.

If, however, President tooac-Reuter. velt's expectations are fulfilled, the disadvantage should only be temporary.

The Daily Telegraph considers that the value of the message lies in the removal of all uncertainty

in regard to American policy, but

adds that President Roosevelt is

GENERAL HISHIKARI IN HARBIN

still faced with the problem of STREETS LINED WITH

keeping the dollar, down to the

level he regards as vital.

According to the Daily's Tele-

graph's politicnt correspondent, a special meeting of the Cabinet will

SOLDIERS

Harbli, Jan. 16. Paying he first official visit to moot to lay to consider the possi-Harbin, General Hishikari arrived ble harmful effects of Roosevelt's from Changchun yesterday by air. polley on British trade.

FRANCE IMPERILLED.

IN CUBA

Situation Aggravated by Resignation

Havana, Jan. 15. The political situation in Cuba has been much aggravated by the resignation of President Grau San Martin..

LONE LIGHTHOUSE DRAMA

Marooned a Fortnight With Sick Man

*London, Jan. 16. Severe gales during the past fortnight have prevent- ed the relief of three, keepers, one of whom was injured, from the lonely Dhu Hearteach Lighthouse, fifty miles off the Western coast of Scotland.

To-day, the Northern lighthouse. relief ship "Hesperus" succeeded In reaching the lighthouse and took off the marooned_men,

The injured "keeper was conveyed to Oban Hospital. His colleagues had been tending him on medical instructions wirelessed to the lighthouse. - Britiah

· Wireless.

THE F.A.

LOCAL FIRE TRAGEDY

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL MISSING

KOSHING STREET OUTBREAK

An eight-year-old Chinese girl is missing after a dis- astrous fire which destroyed a four-storeyed Chinese shop and tenement building at No.

Crash of

Record-Breaking Plane

LAST LAP OF HIS FLIGHT HOME

MACHINE IN SNOWSTORM: GOES DOWN IN FLAMES

LEADING AIR OFFICIALS AMONG VICTIMS

Paris, Jan. 15.

M. Pierre Pasquier, the Governor-General of Indo- China, one of France's premier colonial administrators, was among ten persons burned to death when disaster overtook the new crack airmail plane, Emeraude, on her return flight from Indo-China.

The machine crashed at Corbigny and six, in- cinerated bodies were recovered from the wreck before. it was definitely established that the machine involved was the Emeraude from Indo-China.

90, Koshing St. early this ICE ON WINGS OR A COLLISION?

morning.

The fire broke out in the kitchen

Enquiries proved early rumours

of the ground floor, occupied by to be only too true. All aboard. | including M. Pasquier, were in- a second-hand furniture stors, and

cinerated. the wooden staircase running straight up from the street was involved at an early stage, but all the inmates, with the exception of the little girl, are believed to have escaped.'

Flames were already shooting

On its way out from France, the Emeraude had broken' all, air mallia records for a flight from Paris! to Saigon..

CUP DRAW danger of a major dicaster,

motor-pumps. drawing Miniatry:

LONDON'S LUCK IN THE FOURTH ROUND

London, Jan. 15.

Two

HEAVY LOSS,

Paris, Jan. 16.

It is now reported that the crash of the Emeraude. was due to a collision with

Samo surprisa was occa high tension cable, sioned that the Governor- General of Indo-China was aboard the machino, in view of the fact that it left Saigon for Paris on January

5.

of

A number of prominent air! up the height of the building as officials lost their lives as well as the. Fire Brigade rushed to the the Governor-General. The vic- Epot. In the narrow and congest-tims of the tragedy included: ed street there was imminent M. Bolnzio, the Director

Technical Services at the Air water from the harbour, supple- M. Chaumier, the Director of mented by a third drawing on the Commercial Aviation. water main supplies, were put into operation, and the building was within a short space of time encircled by. lines of hoses, one of which was brought up to the roof of a godown entored from Wilmer Street.

The draw for the fourth round of the F. A. Cup, to be played on When the fire was extinguished January 27, was made to-day, and at 6 o'clock, only the shell of the

80 many incompleted building remained. includes

Firemen are still turning up the games that analysis is difficult. General Carlos Mendieta has London has been luck, although debris in an effort to reach the beon named as his successor in two matches London clevens body of the girl who, it is feared,

clash. Tottenham are at home to has been killed, Reuter.

West Ham, and the Arsenal to Sonor Carlos Hovia, the Secret-Crystal Palace. ary of Agriculture, has now accept- ed the Presidency.

Lator.

The shooting which broke out round the Presidential Palace in the afternoon has ceased.~Reuter.

The full draw, as cabled by Reuter, follows:

Millwall v. Leicester, Tattenham v. West Ham, Tranmere v. Liverpool or Fulham. Workington. Preston. Hull v. Manchester C, BETTER WEATHER?

Manchester U. or Portsmouth v

Grimsby. of the The eastern portion

the Arsenal v. Palace, anticyclone has moved into Pacific to the cast of the Bonins, Birmingham v. Charlton.

Bristol City or Derby V. Wolres. leaving a moderate anticyclone over Burnley or Bary v Swansea. China, where pressure is. Increas-Chesterfield or Villa varia ing. A V-depression is indicated between the Loochoos and the Bonins. Local forecast:-N. and N.E. winds, fresh, cloudy, with drizzle or mist; probably Improv Ing.

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The Commander-in-Chief, against STOP PRESS

whom an assassination attempt is rumoured to have been plotted.. The Financial Nowa thinks that drove to the Japanese military the depreciation of the contemplat-headquarters through streets lined ed dollar may result in sterling do with Japanese and Manchukuo preciation against the franc and troops and thronged with sight- that if this depreciation occurs on seers-Reuter.

a large scale, it is conceivable that President Roosevelt's action will bring the franc's departure from the gold standard more within the bounds of possibility.

is

The Times says that by making a move in the direction of stabilisa tion, President Roosevelt doing something to lesson the un- certainty, which provalled rogard- ing the uncertainty of the dollar and which checked the revival of confidenco-Reuter.

COAL STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA

DISPUTE BETWEEN TRADE UNIONS

New York, Jan. 16. Over fifteen thousand anthracite The text of President Roosevelt's Message to Congress, the Bill sub miners at Wilkesbarre, in Pennsyl- mitted to Congress, and a new order vanla, have struck work after Issued by Mr. Morgenthau will be dispute with rival trade unions. found in Pare Kleven.

"Reûtor."

A

Washington, Jan. 16. Mr. Morgenthau aays the Gov- ernment still plans to borrow $10,000,000,000 but explained that the profits from devaluation of the dollar can to employed to meet

Government expensos..

Banderland or Biddlesbro. Plymouth or Huddersfield v.

· Southampton or Northampton. Chelaca or West Brom. v. Notis F. Stoke v. Blackpool. Brighton v. Bollon. Oldham . Wednesday.

FOURTH PLENARY SESSION

TO BE HELD ON YESTERDAY

(Telegraph Special)

Shanghai, Jan. 16. According to Mr. Wu Tlch-chon,

SAAR SENSATION

FOREIGN TROOPS MAY BE SENT

Geneva, Jan. 15.

The Saar question is assuming a much graver aspect than was anticipated. The President of the Govern Ing Commission in shortly expect- ed to lay fresh evidence before the Council regarding the violence of Nazi propaganda in the Saar,

There is even a strong bellof

that the occupation of the Saar territory by international military forces will be envisaged when the Council decusses the subject at the end of the week-Router.

AIR MAIL TO HANKOW

Madame Chaumier, who was accompanying him;

M. Nocques, a high official of the air company;

M. Pasquler's orderly officer, M. Buisseaux.

It is disclosed that the. Emeraude departed with the intention of attempting a now record to Paris, but was forced, down at Gwadar, Baluchistan owing to a defect in the oil systom.— Reuter.

colonial administrators, M. Plorre Four members of the crew.

Pasquier was born at Marseilles The Emeraude left Lyon at 6.15 in February, 1877, and entered the p.m. on her last hop to Paris. Hor civil service as a young man. On

B fireless operator sent out

the completing his training at message at 8.10 p.m. stating that Ecole Coloniale he was appointed the machine was flying at a height to a post at Tonkin In Indo-Chinn of 4,800 feet endeavouring to fight her way through a snowstorm.

CRASHED IN FLAMES.

No further message were re- ceived from the plane, but at 8.45 p.m., Le Bourget officials 'received A telephone message from the Corbigny gendarmerie, announcing that a machine, believed to be the Emeraude, had fallen aflame in the village of Guerigny, near Clamecy.

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FRENCH MASSED FLIGHT

GREAT WELCOME IN PARIS

EMERAUDE ENDS FESTIVITIES

Paris, Jan. 15. President Lebrun, the Premier, M. Chautemps, the Air Minister, M.. Plerro Cot, and other members of the Government, together with representatives of foreign coun- trlos and a huge cheering crowd, welcomed the French squadron of twenty-eight planes on its ar- rival at Le Bourget to-day after the completion of a successful 16,- 000-mile flight to French West Africa and back.

Genoral Vuillemin, who was in command of the flight, was award of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour by the President.

Other awards were made to the General's subordinator, after

M. Pasquier, Governor General of which the airmen drove in triumph? Indo Chine, who has lost his life into the Hotel de Villo. Reuter

Lator, The Treasury intends to take Mayor of Greater Bhanghal, the NEW SERVICE FROM

Ian morial dianster in France..

The reception planned last night over the gold owned by the R.F.C. Fourth Plenary Session of the Kuo-

CANTON

Every effort was made to rescue in honour of the mon of the at the old price of $20.67, the mintang will be held on the pre-

Hankow, Jan. 16, the passengers; but they wore squadron of machines under R.F.C. bearing the loss..

scribed date, and' the report from He also and that an agreement some quarters alleging the likell The Eurasian Aviation Compora-frustrated by the Intensity of the General Vuillemin, was cancelled on receipt of the news of the between the United States, Britain nosa of further postponement is tion has announced that the air blaze, and France would be sufficient to not true.”...

mall line from Canton to Shenal It is believed that the accident Emeraude disaster, p

The Air Minister, M. Pierre Cot He said that Marshal Chang via Hankow will be inaugurated on was due to the formation of tee bring about International stabilien-

left for the scone of the tragedy Isuoh-lang and Marshal Chiang Murch lat. After its inauguration, on the wings-Rauter.

Immediately, and also appointed NOTED ADMINISTRATOR. tion-Reuter.

Kal-ahck will both attend the a regular weekly mail service will

members of a Commission of In Fourth Plenary Session Central be maintained on this line

Central News.

One of the most brilliant French|quiry."-Router." News.