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ZAN WIAAKIF TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934.

日八月五

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NAVAL PURSUIT OF THE SHUNTIEN PIRATES

PARLIAMENTARY BADLY WOUNDED

ACTIVITY

No Time For Monetary

Discussion

London, June 18.

of

In reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, the Prime Minister said he regretted that irz view of the pressure Parliamentary business he could hold out no hope of special time being given for a discussion of monetary policy.-British Wireless,

ENGLAND'S TEST TROUBLES

WHOLE TEAM TO BE RECAST

LEADING PLAYERS

UNFIT

London, June 18. England's Test selectors are experiencing acute diffi- culties in nominating a satis- factory team for the Second Test which opens at Lord's on Friday.

THIRD OFFICER

IMPORTANT CLUE IN NAVAL HANDS

NUMBERS OF PIRATE

JUNKS TAKEN

Swift naval action following the daring piracy of the newest ship of the Butterfield and Swire fleet, the

THREE PETROL

TANKS EXPLODE

MANY KILLED AND INJURED

INSTALLATION DISASTER

New York, June 18. Heavy loss of life followed

a terrific explosion on the premises of the Richfield Oil Company at Jamestown,

HEAT WAVE IN LONDON-Binuing summer conditions are giving no relief to Londoners, but the pro- New York State, to-day.

prietors of bost houses are reaping a rich harvest.

5.8. Shuntien, has failed, up to the time of going to press, Irish to produce any results, although a valuable clue has been

provided by the Shuntien, whose officers were able to Free State

identify the numbers of the junks that co-operated with the pirate gang.

Mr. J. P. Ross, the third officer, who was wounded in the encounter, which occurred yesterday is in no im- mediate danger. It is not yet known under what circumstances he was shot.

Naval efforts are concentrated upon securing the release of the six foreigners kidnapped by the pirates, among them being two British naval officers attached to the submarines.

H.M.S. WITCH PICKS UP SHIP

R.M.S. Witch, which picked up the Shuntien on her way to Chefoo during the night, and boarded the

to

gineer. Mr. Watson, and a Japan, se passenger, were also ordered into the junks on pain of instant death,

VALUABLE CLUE.

It is stated that those on board

It Is confirmed that Larwood, The famous fast bowler of "Not tinghamshire, has declined to ship, sent a wireless message play, and other players on which Shanghai in the early hours of the Committee desired to call are this morning (says Reuter) ak- not avaliable for other reasons.

The English team for the nouncing that Mr. J. P. Ross, the were able to note the registration Second Test was expected to be third officer of the Shuntien, was numbers of the junks. announced to-night, but the Selee-severely wounded by the pirates. tors have not yet completed their

The Shuntien's master is Cap Flis condition, however, appears been in the employ of Messrs. Sir Stanley Jackson, the chair-to be satisfactory. He is in na Butterfield and Swire on the Chin man, stated that three men who immediate danger. the Committee hoped to

play. luformed the Commitlee to-night that they are not fit.

task.

Joke Again

WAR DEBT PAYMENT BY TERRITORY

London, June 18. in island territories was re- The payment of war debts vived as

a recommendation for official consideration in the House of Commons to- day.

The island of Bermuda was ingled out by the questioner as

for non-payment of cash, but it offering adequate compensation was officially emphasised that this i method is not likely to be employ

. .

There can be no question what- soever of our handing over either ritories adjacent to Bermuda or any other island ter- States in liquidation of our war the United

debt to America, declared Ramsay MacDonald, when the this afternoon.

NO REAL BREAK IN DROUGHT

THE INGRAM OUTRAGE

A tremendous conflagration is now raging over a wide area,

At least a dozen men were killed outright and between forty and fifty seriously injured in the original explosion, which involved three great petrol tanks.

The three tanka were each capable of storing twenty thou-

Growing Anxieties in NO TRACE OF ROBBER and gallons of petrol, and they

England

London, June 18. Hot dry weather con tinues throughout Britain and although there is possi- bility of a thunderstorm to-night, the general out: look indicates a continu- ance of drought which is causing anxiety to

water authorities and farmers.

Heath fires have occurred In some parts and several acres were burnt on Ascot Heath to-day. near the course where the fashionable race meeting of the season opens to-morrow. -British Wireless,

U.S. AIR

Mr.

mast

GANG DISCOVERED

VICTIM BURIED AT TUNGCHOW

went up one after the other with disastrous results.

The explosion is believed to have been due to an electric spark.

MANY UNDER BLAZING mass:

The whole aros was a blazing mass within a few minutes and In this immense outbreak rescue Peking, June 18, elforts were vain. Many vicblma After a service at the Union are reported to be still under the Church this afternoon the remains

debris.

of the late Dr. Ingram wore con- All ambulancen in the town and

veyed to Tangchow for burial nithe Are brigades from all the sur- been. the Permanent Cemetery, where rounding districts have are the graves of the foreigners Bummoned to help the local who perished during the Boxer: authorities-Reuter, Rebellion.

Up to present, no clue has been secured to aid in tracing tho ban- murder dits responsible for the of Dr. Ingranı.

General Yu Hsueh-chung. Gover- nor of Hopel Provincial Govern- ment, has despatched additional] [troops to assist in the search.

According to a Government

Pears tain C.-A--Christiansen, who has suggestion was put in the House SENSATION paman, the Chinese authori

1

Mr. Ross is an Englishman.) His Parents live in Shanghai,

USUAL MANNER.

IR

BALANCE UPSET.

Therefore, the Committee will

The Shuntien officers state that have to reconsider the composi- the pirates worked in their usual tion of the team to-morrow as the manner, boarding the vessel bulance of the side has been on passengers at Tungku and attack- tirely upset by these mishaps.

ing all the important points at ab Sir Stanley hinted that efforts given signal, had been made to persunde Lar- Within. Few minutes of the wood to change his mind when he attack, they had secured completo sold that Larwood still adhered to control of the bridge, the wire-1

his decision not to play in any less operator's eabin and the Text MatchReuter,

$1,000 OFFERED FOR ARREST

engine-room,

valuables.

re-

Coast for thirty years.

The questioner argued that these islands were no longer of any defensive value to the Brition Empire.

This was the second trip of the Shuntien from Tangkn to Chefoo. She was built in Hongkong at Another member light-heartedly Taikoo and was only put into com-asked if Mr. Ramsay MacDonald mission a few weeks malden

ago, her will try to persunde the United barked upon last month.-Renter

pon last month been emStates to take over the Irish Free

Stute. Reuter.

AMERICAN FLEET SAILS

TAKE REGRETFUL LEAVE OF NEW YORK

HIGHWAY ROBBERY CHARGES

Three S.W.B. Privates in Court

GENERAL FOULOIS.

ATTACKED

ACCUSED OF LYING

TRAGEDIES AT

FORD WORKS

Explosion Occurs

In Foundry

Detroit, Jane 18. ties are likely to take a census of Two men were killed to-day in the people in the districts sur accidents in the foundry of the rounding Shih Ching-shan, where Ford Motor Works, the crime was committed.

Ono death followed an explosion The Government is holding the in which twelve were injured, five magistrate of Yuon Ping District seriously. The other death was. responsible. He may be punished due to a man being caught in a if no trace of the bandita is found conveyor belt.-Reutor, in the near future.-Central News.

CONVICTED

Washington, June 18. Further serious charges STATE GOVERNOR were laid against Major- General Benjamin Foulois Chief of the Army Air Corps, during a discussion in the House of Representa- tives to-day.

OFFICIAL SCANDAL IN N. DAKOTA

New York, June 13.

SERIOUS PREPARATION FOR AIR RACE

Re-Fuelling Teams For Fitzmaurice Plane

Half the pirates then commenced on the process of ransacking the CHAN LIM-PAK

ship from stem to stern, concen-i

New York, June 18.

Speaking on the report of the trating chiefly upon easily

London, June 18.- With handkerchiefs fluttering;

Committee which asked for the re- DISAPPEARANCE movable loot such

Mr. Erie Watt Bonar, co-pilot As a sequel to the action of as money and from the hands of thousands of

moval of Major-General Fouloia a Federal Court jury, sitting to compete in the London-Melbourne with Colonel Fitzmaurice, who. Is Ples, Robert Booth, John from his post for "gross mis- Blamarck, North Dakota, in con-Air Race la October, has started spectators on the waterfront and Roberts and Roy Horley, all of the conduct and inelelency," Mr. W. victing the Governor of the State. a flight to Singapore to survey CREW TERRORISED.

suilors lining the decks waving South Wales

N. Rogers, chairman their enps, the United States Fleet

Borderers, were Military Affairs Committee, de-ciates, on a charge of defrauding to complete refuelling arrange of the House Mr. W. M. Langer, and four naso-the aerodromes on the route and The other section of the gang put out to sea after a stay of charged at the Central Magistracyclared that Major-General Foulols the United States Government, the meats, kept the officers covered with eighteen days,

this morning with highway Committee that the Army pilots Oilson, has taken the oath

fied when he testified before the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. O. H. The Telegraph is informed by revolvers and terrorised

Half a million persons visited bery on Island Road near Repulse who recently had to ay mail planes office as Governor. Mr. Johnson Wong, who is com-passengers and the crew.

the Flect during the stay in New Bay Hotel and stealing $2 from had undergone from thirty to plainant in number of forgery

York, the aeroplane carriers, and embezzlement charges against The pirates worked fast and it Lexington and Saratoga, being the Lo King, licenced motor driver.

sixty hours of night-flying.

Sentence on Governor. Langer Mr. Chan Lim-pak, that he has was evident from their tactics that chief centre of attraction.

They were further charged withi Mr. Rogers quoted figures

has been deferred unt) June 20 which, offered a reward of $1,000 for in- the affair was well-planned, with

The ships

assaulting Lo King,

he sald, showed that the pliots, inen arguments for a new trial are aniling for

will be heard.-Reuter. arrest. Mr. Wong

Det-Sergt. Fitches, in charge voived in the air mail crashes had saya that he from the lip well organised

a much lower average of night- handed that amount to his solicitor beforehand. yesterday morning with instruc- tions that it be turned over to the

the

formation leading to the latter's their rendezvous for departingarlous points on the Atlantic of the case, asked for early hearying experience. Some of them hid

JUNKS NOTED.

police in connection with the innu- Hurdly had they completed the ance of a public notification to that collection of the foot and arrived effect.

at the point to which they had Meanwhile there has been an im-ordered the master to direct the portant change in the administra-ship that five junks appeared tion of the Nanyang Brothers, Mr. alongside and the transfer of the Kan Yuk-kal from Shanghai, beingį

haul was undertaken. now appointed to succeed Mr. Chan When the bigger articles stolen Lim-pak in the position of local hind been stowed away, the Managing Director.

pirates picked out twenty of the Chinese passengers as victims to accompany them and ordered them Into the junks,

VICEROY IN ENGLAND

London, June 18.

const. They will carry out lae-

tical exercises and participate in the evidence will be given the Fourth of July celebrations. this afternoon. in September.--Rrütter, They are returning to the Palo

NEW AIR MAIL SERVICE

INAUGURAL FLIGHT TONINGHSIA

AAA CONTROL OF

: TOBACCO

MORE RESTRICTION MEASURES

Washington, June 18.

The Senate has passed the Kerr Bill, for the curtailment of pro-

Colonel Fitzmaurice, Irish At- oflantic flier, has designed reftel. ling unit which enn all the largest tank in a few minutes,

The use of this hill entail the training of expert refuellers, a team of which will be stationed nt each checking station en route and will be able to serve the machine while the pilota are attending to the details of thecking-in-Reiter,

only 8.2 hours of night-flying. DEATH OF THOMAS

L. MASSON

Renter.

HURRICANE TOLL IN AMERICA

MILLION STERLING

DAMAGE

New Orleans, June 18. At least seven persons were duction of tobacco in the season killed by the hurricane that swapt 1934/36.

|the Misalssipi and Louisiana coast,

NOTED AMERICAN

HUMOURIST

New York, June 18. The death has occurred of the well-known humourist, Mr. Thomas L. Masson, the former Associate Editor of the Saturday Evening Post-Reuter.

Shanghai, June 19, FATE DECIDED, The Viceroy of India, Lord

Inaugurating a through, air mail Villingdon, accompanied by Lady

Immediately afterwards, follow-

servler from Shanghai to the The Bill places a sales tax of The damage is enormous, the

SQUALLY WEATHER Willingdon, arrived at Croydon some palaver between the len-alan Aviation Corporation plane, all tobacco produced in excess of in excess of £1,000,000.—Router. Paille to the east of Japan, and Northwestern provinces, A Bura from 25 to 33 1/3rd per cent, on loss in crops and property helug Pressure is highest over the Lo-day by Imperial Altways. liner ders of the gang, the six foreigners, started at 8 o'clock this morning the from India, to spend a brief holf. Including Lieutenants Field and from Lunghua for Sianfu. Lan- Administration's allotments.

Agricultural Adjustment day in England. He was met on Laco. Mr. Nicholls, Shanghal chew and Ninghela. The Ning-

relatively low over China general- arrival by Sir Samuel Hoare, manager of Manufacturers Life hain-Lanchow

The Bill has now been sent to most successful senpan, there being an south-west of Shanghal, moving The Repulse Bay Hotel is enjoying a A depression is situated to the Secretary for India, and others. Insurance Company, the Second newly established portion.-feu action on

section is the the House of Representatives for almost unprecedented donand for ne eastward. Local forecast:-S.W. British Wireless,

Officer, Mr. Brand the Third En- tral News.

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