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一拜福 號四月六英港香

MONDAY,

JUNE

4,

1934.

日三廿月四

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TYRE

ECONOMY

KING'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: HONOURS LIST

WANCHAI ROOFTOP

OVER FRANCE

CHASE

VIOLENT STORM

BANDIT

COUP

FOILED

ONE MAN CAUGHT: OTHER

ESCAPES WITH $300

RAIDERS ARRIVE

IN CAR

Up-to-date methods were em- ployed by armed gangsters in a coup at No. 8 Wood Road, on the Wanchai Reclamation, on Satur- day afternoon.

HUGE HAILSTONES AT TARBES

MAYOR KILLED

Paris, June 4. Glorious summer weather over the whole of France, which like England, has be- gun to have anxieties regard. ing water supplics, violently broken during the week-end.

was

Immense damage was done in many parts of France in the course of Saturday and Sunday in

Two men, including the Mayor of Lam-el-Ouze, near Nimes, were killed and a woman was seriously injured.

which was accompanied by a storm of exceptional severity.

spectacular lightning display, hail They drove up to the house in and torrential rain." hire car, and had also planned to get away in it, while telling the driver to wait. The man, whom they had intended to bring in as an unwilling necessary, however. proved to be nimble-witted. communicated his suspicions to the Police, and the robbers were disturbed in the midst of putting over their deal.

He

FOUR OUNCE HAILSTONE. The district of Tarbes was viated by a terrific hailstorm. reported to have Hallstones, weighed as much na four ounces,

violently #

that they fell penetrated the roofs of houses and ance by the Police, one man was rebounded to a height of thirty caught red-handed, while the other feet when they struck the ronds,

Following a dramatic appear.

the concerned in

the

WHEN A SHOWER BECOMES NEWS

Drought Broken Over The Rockies

His Majesty King George V., who celebrated his 69th birthday yesterday, shaking hands with some of his sub-

jects whilst riding in Hyde Park..

ICELAND QUAKE

SERIOUS DAMAGE

REPORTED

NO CASUALTIES

CHURCH SCHISM IN GERMAN

"FREE SYNOD" MANIFESTO

BISHOP MUELLER DEFIED

(Special to "Telegraph") By Teteorapat Copyright. Telegraphis

Grdinaner.

1. 834 %}

over

Received

FOUR NEW PEERS

CREATED

MR. ANTHONY EDEN MADE PRIVY COUNCILLOR

INSULIN DISCOVERER AWARDED K.B.E.

London, June 4. Four new peers and five new baronets are among the outstanding features in the King's Birthday Honours List, while Baron Wakefield is elevated to a viscountcy.

His Majesty celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday yesterday quietly, with a small family gathering at Buckingham Palace, where many messages of con- gratulations were received from foreign rulers and from all parts of the Empire.

The King's birthday will be celebrated officially in London to-day with the Trooping of the Colour on the Horse Guards Parade, at which His Majesty will take the Salute.

ANTHROPOLOGIST KNIGHTED

VISCOUNTCY.

Commissioner David Lamb, second: in-command of the Salvation Army, awarded the C.M.G.

LOCAL HONOURS

REV. WALDEGRAVE

· AND MR. BAKER

VOLUNTEER C.S.M. AWARDED M.B.E.

5th Cameron the Among the most prominent commanded distinctions in the Honours List Highlanders In August, 1914. are the following:`

The Earl of Loven and Melville, of Glenferness, Nairn, one of the

The list of Hongkong residents Representative Peers for Sect-included in the King's Birthday land.

List is not a lengthy one, being practically confined to awards for Reith, Director- lengthy service. On this occa

G.B.E.

Sir

John

5

MR. R. BAKER, O.D.E.

Reykjavik, June 3. The greater part of Ice-gr

Jus

of the two

Thousands of acres of crops and land was violently shaken,

Berlin, June 3. attempt, succeeded in eluding the jorchards were devastated.--Router,

by an earthquake yesterday. An important development in

Lord Wakefield, head of the oficers. He got through a trapi

Considerable damage was done the internal war in the German door and streaked across

in all parts of the

Church strikes a heavy blow at noted firm of oil manufacturera, country, house-tops, finally jumping to the

although the inhabitants were ex-Nazi attempts to claim spiritual furmer Lord Mayor of London,

the German noted philanthropist and backer General of the B.B.C. since 1927. sion, there are no distinctions tremely fortunate and as far as domination

of long-distance lights. He also the first general manager of the conferred on Chinese residents. ground and escaping.

and managing). is at present known, there were no people.

Following meetings at Bremen, built the motor speed-boats, Miss Company, 1922, easualties,

The quake was the most violent the Free Reich Synod, consisting England I, II and III, with which director in 1923. experienced in the region within of representatives of all opposition successive and successful attacks clements in the Evangelical were mute upon the world's water living memory,

Church, has issued a manifesto speed record, New York, June 8. "Roads were torn"up" and "tele-rejecting in advance the Constitu- Knight in 1908. a. Baronet in 1917 disastrous drought has phone poles thrown down, the tin which Reichsbishop Muller and a Baron in 1930. At 2.10 p.m. he was in the office broken in the Rocky Mountains stoves in some of the houses burst is understood to be preparing.

While recognising the authority on the first fluor, when two men where light rains have fallen, and set the buildings on fire.

of, the

State. the Synod Sir Hugo .first, managing diree- entered, one of whom was knownMore is expected.

In the meantime, churches in the

stressed that there is no desire in tor of the General Electric Com-recently to him as Lo Hoi Tung. He was

to found F the country

newpany and chairman of the Empire Shanghai Volunteer Corps. surprised when Lo asked him to drought aren were today eramm-

Federation of

Henry Pitzmaurice, give them $10,000, and realised thee with people praying for rain.

church and characterises as false Committee of the the doctrine that the Church can British Industries.

Consul-General in Batavia. situation when both men drew re-

usurp State functions and become:

K.B.E. volvers which they had stuck

the organ of the State. under their girdles.

DEMAND FOR $10,000.

The house was scrupled by the, Tung Wah Land Investment Com- pany, Limited, whose manager. Lai Kin-man. also lived with his family on one of the fluors.

Such a big sum was not to be he told available in an instant. them, and so half-an-hour was spent in discussing the pros and cons of the

Sensing that something more than an ordinary

case.

The

Minnesota. North Dakota and Wisconsin are calling out the National Guard to enforce the Jembargo on shipments of livestock

to these States for grazing.

Very heavy rain and hail is re- from Nebraska, while ported showers have occurred in Indiana, Missouri and Illinois.

A sweltering heat wave persists.

Timber houses in the village of Galvik were completely wrocked.

The terrified. villagers rushed into the open and are now living in tents, - fenter,

WIRELESS FOR AEROPLANES

business transaction was taking over all the Eastern States, COMPULSORY ON THE

place, the wife and kis of the manager came down from their quarters, and the gangsters then! showed themselves really "terri- ble."

$1,000 HANDED OVER,

They threatened to shoot, and shoot without hesitation if the money was, not produced. His persuasive powers exhausted, the manager was compelled to open a safe, and from this, the gangsters i took a wallet, containing nearly a thousand dollars in cash.

Reuter.

SNOW FALLS IN NORTH CHINA

STRANGE CHARHAR

WEATHER

4

BIG MACHINES

(Special to "Telegraph"}

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June SAAL. Received angra Ordinontra

Lisbon, Jung, 3. Every aeroplane carrying more

Kalgan, June 4. than 2,000 kilogrammes will be Clarbar districts, especially required to be fitted with wireless

He

BARONS.

Was

made

C.M.G.

Mr. Robert Baker, M. Inst. C.EL, Commissioner David C. Lamb, who receives the O.B.E.. recently ager and Chief Engineer of the partment of the Salvation Army British section of the Kowloon in charge of the Intelligence De-retired from his position as Man- who has been closely connected i

Canton Railway! His connection with Empire migration work.

with the railway extended from Culonel N. W. B. B. Thoms, until the time in 1906 when he was ap- commandant of the pointed to the construction staff ha assistant engineer. Two years

he British

was appointed district engineer, and in 1910 he was act- ing Chief Resident Engineer. In the following year, he was made Dr. F: G. Banting, the discoverer Engineer of Way and Works on

the permanent establishment. of insulin.

O.B.E.

On several ocensions Intor, he

and for a

time in 1925 he was Port Engineer in

Lord Alness, Lord Justice Clerk since 1922, his, title being a Judicial one.

Liberal He was a Member of Parliament front 1910 definite to 1922, and-was

Secretary for

Captain John Mervyn Cox, of acted as Manager, 1916 until his Scotland Trom

the R.A.S.C., atationed in Shang-the Port Development Department. Reichsbishop, Mueller and the elevation to the bench. German Christians on

DEFINITE SCHISM. The existence of u

the Charch sehism In

the

with

one

hal.

In 1927, he was appointed Manager M.B.E.

and Chief Engineer, a post which Rose Bonney, for he held until his recent retire-

REV. G. T. WALDEGRAVE, MBE.

Mr. Gerald Walter Erskine side and the body of all shades of

Mrs. Maud Protestant belief claiming to re- Loder, chairman of the Southern present the true Church, on the Railway.

flight by an Aus-ment. the first salu other, sean no scarcely. be Earl of Lucan. an Irish

retralian woman from Australia to ignored.-Reuter Special.

presentative peer since 1914 England.--Reuter. Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, former A.D.C. to It is Lord-in-Waiting Majesty the King.

ANTI-GERMAN BLOC REPORT

and

PRIVY COUNCILLOR.

Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy|

Changnei and Kayuen have ex as the result of a preposal adopted Soviet Recognition Denial Sent, in recognition of his work

perienced severe cold weather in by the International Air Naviga They were disappointed, ap-the past two days, Changpel and tion Committee at its annual meet- parently having expected more. Karen were submerged under ing here, which dealt with forty- and while engaged in further nrgument with the manager, the foot of snow on Saturday. two questious concerning avlation,

-Renter Spreial,

Poller warned by the ear-driver | over the telephone, came in,

The gangster known as Lo Hoi- tung was fairly trapped, but. bis companion was able to slip up the staircase, whence he got on to the housetops and escaped.

At the back of the house, the Police pleked up a landed revolver and some spare rounds of ammuni- tion. It was rusty and unservice-

Central Neies,

SOVIET DENIES FIRING

REPLY TO MANCHUKUO PROTEST -

ON AMUR INCIDENT Moscow, June 4, fired

by Little Entente

Little

at Geneva, notably in connection with the Disarmament Confer enve

BARONETS.

U. S. TREASURY OFFER

BIG RE-FINANCING PROPOSALS Washington, June 3.

Two security issues are being offered at the outset,

The first is an offer of $300,000,- 000 of 1946/1948 three per cent. The second is an issue of $800,-

Noten.

The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, of the Missions to Seimen, wins the M.B.E. decoration for lifa lengthy association with the Boy Scout, movement. He has been Commis- sioner in Hongkong since 1921, and in addition is Deputy Camp Chief. He is leaving the Colony in August, and will be succeeded by the Rev. N. V. Halward..

Mr. Waldegrave has been con- nected with the Boy Scout move-

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YOU'LL THANK

GILMAN'S

Big re-financing plans are ment since 1908. During the war. SOME ISSUES STILL

Sir Julian Cahn, the prominent now under study by thee was co-founder with Baron F. van Pallandt of the Scout Ofllcers" cricket organiser and supporter Treasury Department. OUTSTANDING

Training Corps in the internment Lord of the Manor of Stanford-on- The Guvernment is now asking camp at Groningen, Helland, and Soar, chairman of the Nailonal home investors for eight hundred in 1917-18 he ran the Sea Scout Geneva, June 4.

irthday Trust Fund,

a Treasury million dollars in The song that has been

Herbert Brent Grotrian, K.Cfinancing operation which may made about the consolida-the Recorder of Scarborough and finally reach a total of $1,320,000,-

of Provincial News-000. tion of the anti-German bloc chairman in Europe is not quite justi-papers, Ltd. -

KNIGHTS BACHELOR. |fied...

The report thut the

Captain W.-J. I. Fraser (Ian Manchurian Entente Powers and Soviet Russia Fraser of St. Dunstan's). chair bonds. by upon

Instruments of

man of the Executive Committee A complete denial of the alleged bandits and the statement of the will exchange able, and was apparently dropped shooting by Russian frontier Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Batual recognition to-morrows of St. Dunstan's since 1921 and 000,000 of five-year 24th. per said, attributed the pre-denied by a spokesman of the Member of the National lastitutece Treasury has reserved the by the escaped man. Ifia name guards on a Manchukuo steamer who, it

He told Router that although and description have since been is given by the Commissariat for schee of the steamer off the So-Little Eatente

viet bank of the river to its enden-

Professor Grafton Elliot Smith, right to increase the bond issue by supplied to the Police. He got Foreign Affairs.

Replying to tho

Manchukuo yours to escape the attentions of the negotiations for the recogni-

tion of Russia by the Little Entente the famous scientist, Professor of a maximum of $620,108,100, which protest regarding the alleged fr-bandita.

were well advanced, there, were Anatomy in the University of will be enough to exchango new ing on the steamor Dichen on the STEPS RECOMMENDED.

atill some points outstanding be-London, noted for his researches bonds for $175,000,000 of quarter- Amur River on May 12, when one

tween Russia and Rumania on the into the comparative anatomy of per-cent, certificates maturing on

notes maturing cent. Yugo-Slavic on the other. only in cases of extrome

The now bond issue with mature in possession of pistols, but not the casualties were not caused by shoot

The questions at issue will bo

KNIGHTS OF THE THISTLE.

in 1948 but may be redeemed at actually concerned in the robbery, the Soviet. guards, who fired into necessity, and calls on the Man-

churian Authorities to take ener-discussed at the next moeting of

Colonel D nald Walter Cameron the Treasury's option on or after

Lochiel, formerly of the June 16, 1946. The Notes will Grenadier Guarde. He raised and mature in 1939-Reuter.

clear away with about $300.

TWO MORE ARRESTS.

The

for the Blind.

The

Two men, belloved to be other sailor was killed and another members of the ante gang, found wounded, the Soviet insists that patrol Soviet adds that the border one hand and between Russia and the brain and the evolution of June 15, and $345,000,000 of 2%

the air.

have been arrested at Mongkok. The Soviet reply eltes a report gotic steps to see that Manchurian the foreign ministers of the Little Mr. Lai Hin-man In the pro-in a Manchurian newspaper to the beats do not violate the Soviet Entente which has been arranged prietor of the Kowloon Hotel.

offect that the steamer won lawe-Reuter.

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