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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.

日六初月四

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EUROPEAN VICTIMS OF GAS REVIVAL OF MONETARY SIDE

EXPLOSION

BRITAIN MAKES A

DEBT OFFER

Ambassador's Call On President Washington, May 17. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, visited the White House to-day and had an hour's conversation with President Roosevelt.

It was afterwards report- ed that Britain has made an offer regarding the debt in- stalment due on June 15.-. Reuter,

STORY TOLD FOR FIRST TIME

MRS. R. WENT ON GRIM EXPERIENCE

STILL A BUNDLE

OF NERVES

News has only just come to light that among the re-

WEY ALLAMENTING COMPANZLER ZUSTANDS &sidents of Clarence Terrace

PASSION PLAY ORDEAL

ALOIS LANG PLAYS IN HEAVY RAIN

1

NEARLY NAKED IN INTENSE COLD

(Special to "Telegraph"} -

from

who suffered most Monday's gasometer axplo- sion were a European family, Mr. and Mrs. R. Went and their young daughter.

They occupied a room in the terrace and were all inside At about 11 am, when the exploaton occurred.

Mira. Went said: "I am still a bundle of serves and too frighten-1

These people, and many others, were rendered homeless by the gasworks explosion disaster. They were temporarily housed by the Tung Wab Hospital authorities, who also provided them with food. Numbers of them have, received grants from the "Telegraph" · Fund. (Photo: Kwong Ngal

ed to speak of it. We were to THE NEWSPAPER

gether cubiele and were thrown off our feet by the explos

Ion.

Thon we dashed for safety. I was in pylamaa and a kimono at the time and I picked up our

Chy Tetroraph, Copymont. Telegraphie Madonghter who had scarcely any-

AGGEN

Ordinance,

Neveived

Oberammergau, May 17.

A terrific ordeal was un- Alois dergone to-day by Lang, who is taking the part

thing on and ran outside. My husband had his army burat and we were lucky to escape with our lives.

at

"The Benevolent Society Wanchai have helped us a little but it will be a long time before we can start a home again.”

OFFICIAL FIGURES OF CASUALTIES

"SPY"

GIVEN COMPLETE FREEDOM.

POSSIBILITY

OF A CHARGE

(Special to "Telegraph")

Studio).

FREE STATE GESTURE TO BRITAIN

DISTRIBUTING RELIEF

MANY POIGNANT

OF THE W.E.C.

POSSIBLE

MOVE BY AMERICA

OUTCOME OF SILVER

PROPOSALS

SENATOR KING'S PREDICTION

Washington, May 17. Important international deve- lopments are possible as a result i of President Roosevelt's approval of the proposals for including silver among metallic. reserves for currency purposes.

It is believed that an approach may be made by the State Depart munt in conformity with the President's view that silver only properly be dealt with upon an international basis.

ean

The polley of "bimetallism" Is mandatory in the proposed legisla tion, but the appilention of the principle is believed to be permis Rive. It is considered likely in some quarters that the President will wait until foreign opinion has been tested,

GRAN CHACO ARMS EMBARGO

United States Now Likely To Join

Washington, May 17. An arms embargo against Bolivia and Paraguay is now -expected.

President Roosevelt is expected to send a Message to Congress within a few days,

urging immediate legislation to enable the United States to join an international arms embargo against the warring coun- tries-Router.

RUGGER

BREACH

WIDENS

BRITISH REPLY TO FRANCE

AND M. DANTOU’S RETORT

(Special to "Taiograph")

tils. Telegraph. Cosyright. Telegraphia Alam engin Ordinance.

Received 2013.

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Paris, May 17. Relations between France and Britain in the rugger field are likely to be further embittered as the result of recent correspondence.

The British Rugby Unions have replied to a letter from the Frenc Rugby Federation stating that the time is not yet considered ripe for the resumption of International.

The British rugby unions con-

has not yet dong enough to clean

W. E. RESUSCITATION.

The resuscitation of the mone CASES

tary side of the World Economic STATEMENT BY

Is contemplated in Contributions to the Tele-Conference MR. MCENTEE

graph's Fund for the relief some quarters as a result of the proposed enactment of silver legis- "We haven't got a thing now ex-

of sufferers in the Gasworks lation.

Senator King declared cept what we are wearing and we'

his! are being looked after by a friend

POSITIONS IN THE

Disaster continue to come in

opinion that exports would be of Christ in the Jubilee Pas-at Cheungchau.

EVENT OF WAR, steadily, a further $598 hav-meeting at an international con- sion Plays, the first to be

ference within a year-Beuter. held under Nazi auspices.

Dublin, May 18. ing been received to-day. (By Telepraph. Copyright, Telegraphic des

PRESIDENTS DISCRETION. Ordinance, 1891. Regelved May 1 At the dress rehearsal which was

An important statement This brings the total to $2,- 18 #25 mm)

Washington, May 17, held this afternoon in intensely

Berlin, May 18. made in the Dail: Eireann 445.35.

The President has apparently cold-weather-and-steady rain. upon

-It is not yet certain whether by Mr. Sean McEntee,-the-This morning, there were busy an open-air stage in the presence

or not the last has been heard of

Free State Minister of five thousand specially invited

of scenes at the St. John Ambulance succeeded in making any allver the incident at Aken, near visitors from Britain and other

Dessau, in connection with which Finance, last night, is re- Brigade distributing centre, over legislation, enacted for the purpose

Afty applicants for relief attend- countries, Alole Lang on the Cross

of purchasing silver, permissive the Berlin correspondent of the garded in competent quar-ins for twenty minutes clnd only in a

mandatory fonture of strip of linen. with his arms bear-

Indian Watchman in Daily Express was arrested. ters as a peace gesture to Amongst the typical cases to only," the ing the full weight of his body.

Mr. Pembroke Stevens has been Britain,

which ensh grants were made to the Bill being a declaration of polley-matches with France. He was so weak at the end of the

Critical Condition

day was n young, widow of 81 by Congress that silver and gold given complete freedom, but it is

whose There is a disposition to believe years,

husband, scene that the other members of

two the east had to support him.

The latest official casualty Hat not yet certain whether he will be

that the prospects of a trace to the daughters, son and mother-in-law shall constitute metallic reserves sider that the French Federation The production this year is the to-day gives the number of dead charged.

There seems to be à suggestion economic war of the last two years all lost their lives in the disaster, in a ratio of 25 to 75. Any action up the game. As long as Rugby most ambitious in the history ofas 37, including that of a small the Passion Plays of Oberam-girl who died at the Government by the police that Mr. Pembroke are greater now than ever before. ng also did three fokis employed that may be taken will apparently is not played in the right spirit and

Mr. McEntee said that the Free by the husband, who was a uhoa- with remarkable colour Civil Hospital yesterday morning Stevens was taking photograph State had many good things to maker. The widow and three be at the Preshient's discretion and mergau pageantry.

Her death has brought the number but this he emphatically denies.

relations other fokis who escapod injury he may be expected to act so as nok of those who succumbed to their According to early reports of offer Britain, if good

existed. NAZI ATMOSPHERE.

but lost all they possessed were to cause undue disturbance of the

FRENCH ANNOYED. injures after admission to the in- the afTair, it occurred in the even-

He expressed the hope that given grants. The district bours

world price, ing when photography would have

Another case receiving assist-

Commenting on the British rep- atmosphere. The famous village stitution to 22.

Twenty-eight eases are still been impossible. The journalist's good sense would prevail among

$1.29 PER OUNCE.

ly, M. Dautou, the President of the is bung with Swastika bannera und being cared for at the Hospital.Į attention was attracted by are their friends in Britain and that

Federation, declared: "We have Members of the Senute silver mang Nazis were in the audience. One of them is Santha Singh, n lights in a wood and it was when they would realize the position of ance was a blind man, who was

ings and is being temporarily bloc agree Even Lang's interpretation of

that the issuance of no lessons to learn from the British Unions. Wo have done the part conformed to Nazi ideas, Sikh watchman of the Gas Works, his curiosity led him to invest the two countries i the event of rescued from the burning build-

looked after by neighbours. WAS arrested. whose condition is critical. Over gate that he

A widow who had earned her silver certificates on the basis of without them for three years and under the shall continue to do so in future. living by hawking congee and any silver purchased whose son, aged five years, was plan to be proposed by the Ad- Itegarding the suppressing of the burnt to death, was another typi-niaistration, would be mandatory, championship, that is our business.

regardless of price paid for theReuter Special. metal.

It Nazi

His Christ is a masterful man of 60 years of age, he is stated at the Reuter Special, setion, contrasting sharply with the Hospital this morning to be rapidly genth post of his predecesser, Anton Lang-Reuter Special

sinking from shock and burns.

EXPLOSION ON CANTON

CRUISER

Five Men Injured And

Sent to Hospital

Canton, May 18.

An explosion in the ammunition) magazine on the cruiser, Hai Chi,

Santha Singh was one of twaj

watchmen sent to Hospital from LONG DRAWN OUT CASE

the Gas Works, the other being

Tala Ram, who succumbed to his

Injuries on the day of his ad- mission, and nominally In [con- nection with whose death, tho forthcoming Coroner's inquiry is Six

being held.

CONCLUDED

Months' Sentence on

Sergeant Pratt

спке

The

concluded at the

in which Sergeant, F. B. W. E.

AIR-MAIL LINE TO Kowloon Magistracy this afternoon

SINKIANG

War

If Britain strangled the Irish eattle trade, he pointed out, it would be a very serious thing for Britain in the time of a national emergents-Reuter

·BOMB EXPLOSION ON TOWBOAT

cal case assisted.

ners

We are pleased to announce that

The certificates would be issued the management and dancing part-

Jon the basis of $1.20 an ounce.j of the Yellow Dragon Dancing Academy have generously This move is admittedly inflation- decided to donato half of their ary. So far as the Senators are proceeds on the 19th and 20th inst, concerned it is to be Inflationary. to the Telegraph Fund.. |Already acknowledged. John Dwyer (8.6. Sui On) Mrs. Casey

"Our Topsy"

on

Rudolf Wolf & Kew,

Ltd. H. M. Dockyard Recrea-

tion Club

Par

BELIEVED PLANTED BY BANDITS

Canton, May 18, Pratt, of the Hongkong and Singa- A message from Lunkiang, pore Brigade Royal Artillery, was West River, stated that the tow- charged on five counts relating to boat Yuen Fat, which plien be-

by obtaining of lettera falso tween Canton and Lungkiang, was pretences and delaying the delivery holed as the result of the explosion of postal packets.

of a bomb last evening. Five men were wounded and

The bomb is believed to have The Magistrate (Mr. Wynne- were sent to hospital for medical! treatment. The cause of the ex It is learned from the local Jones) found the accused guilty been laid by bandits as the owners plosion is not offelally disclosed.offices of the Eurasian Aviation on all counts, and sentenced him to of the towboat had previously Corporation that the air-mail ger-terma totalling six months' im- received a threatening letter from

the biggest Cantonene warship: THROUGH-ROUTE TO

occurred on Wednesday night at Уһатрон.

EUROPE NEARER

Peking, May 18,

CHIHSIEN AFFAIR

vice to Sinklang Province will be prisonment. commenced shortly as the obstruc tions, mainly caused by political

SETTLED

Instability in Sinklang, have been removed.

CLOUDY WEATHER

WITHDRAW

aro to

a bandit group. The towboat is partly aubmerged, but no casualty has been reported-Central News.

St. John Ambulance Brigade (Mrs. Pang Wal-fong.

$50; Mrs. Fany Konkun. 360; Mrs. Lo Lai-yung, $10; Collected, $7; 'Au Man- 69, King's Collego Old Boys' Division, $5) Messrs. Fogden, Brisbane

& Co., Ltd. BRITAIN'S FLYING Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Parkinson Mr. and Mrs. A. G.

Howlitt... London, May 17, The Prime Minister, who is 1st. Battn. The South sponding the Whitsun Recess in Wales Borderers ...... Scotland, arrived at Lossiemouth Management and staff

· MON & STEEL DUTIES

this afternoon by aeroplane from Poninsula Hotol Hendon, London, May 17.

Star and pupila Bel! An order for removing tho The journey occupied four Public School an the result of Mr. Yon Yu-kang's South Wales Benlerers, will hold their efforts. The Japanese troops with-fortnightly whist drive and tombala in present time-limit on the Iron and hours' Actual flying time in a sympathisor. drow to Malanyu early this morn-Murray Barracks on Saturday, 20th steel duties was made to-day-stormy north-west wind-British

Inat..commencing at 8 pm.

British Wireless,

Wiralens. Ing.-Central News.

JAPANESE TROOPS

-Pressure continues to be highest The branch offices of the E.A.C in the Pacific to the east of in several towns

bo Japan; and relatively low over amalgamated with those of the South China and the Chiun Sea.

foracast:-Enst China National Aviation Corpora- Local

winds;

tion in order to cut down over moderate; cloudy.. Tientsin, May 17.- A Government communique head expenses of both concerns. states that the incident at Chi--Central News.

halen, where 200 Japanese troops|

entored the elty has been closed

The Ladles Club, 1st Battalion the

PREMIER

system of competition exista, it is impossible to consider the re- sumption of the matches,

.

NEW GOVERNOR

London, May 17, 11.M. tho King bus been

A tax of flity per cent, on specu- pleased to appoint Mr. Alan Cuth- lative proats in silver will be bert Maxwell Burns, Deputy Chief $1,847.36 carried in the Treasury Silver Bill Secretary of Nigeria, as Governor

to be proposed to Congress.-Per and Commander-In-Chlef of British 10.00

5.00 American Oriental Finance Cor- Honduras, In succession to Sir Harold Kittermaster, recently ap- 6.00 Poration,

pointed Governor of Nyasaland British Wireless, 5.00

25.00

PRINCE CALLS ON 10.00 CENTENARIAN

TO SAVE OLD LADY'S DISAPPOINTMENT

London, May 17. 122.00 Continuing his tour of the un- employment welfare contros in 100.00 North Wales to-day, the Prince of

Wales, hoard over the wireless in 10,00 Holyhead of an old lady of 101 who was very disappointed becaudo 25:00 she was unable to see him.

The Prince thereupon drove 50.00 several miles off his route to call at her home and stayed talking 85.00 with her for some time.

The Prince also visited the 180.00 Welsh slato quarries and inspect 10.00ed the ruins of Carnarvon Castle, where he wán, roodlvod by Mr. :$2,445,36 | Lloyd George British Wireless.

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