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NAVY RESCUES ALL FIVE SHUNTIEN CAPTIVES

GERMAN CRUISE Set Free by Pirates in Sampans

LINER WRECKED

RUSH FOR NEW BOTTOM GOVERNMENT LOAN

ALMOST

Over-Subscribed Three RIPPED OFF

Times In Hour

The now Hongkong Government 32 per cent. loan issued at 99 was over- subscribed at ten o'clock immediately upon opening and before eleven a.m, had been three times over- subscribed, The loan will be closed to-day, possibly at tiffin-time.

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DROUGHT

RELIEVED IN MANY PLACES

NEW HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA

NORWEGIAN COAST

DISASTER

PASSENGERS IN PANIC

SCORES JUMP OVERBOARD

(Special to "Talagraph”)

H.M.S. Whitshed, which picked up four of the British captives who were ust free in a sxmpan.

Chamberlain Clearing House

BRITAIN'S VITAL STATISTICS

BILL INTRODUCED | HEALTH MINISTRY

IN COMMONS

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London, June 20.

REVIEW

WATER WASTE

ANGLO-DUTCH

ONE PICKED FAR EAST ALLIANCE

UP BY SEAPLANE

OTHERS SAFE ON

WHITSHED

PLANE PURSUIT OF GANG

FOLLOWED DURING

ENTIRE DAY

Japanese Report Denied

In London

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London, June 21. Router is authoritatively in. formed that there is foundation for the reports published in a Japanese news. paper that Great Britain and the Netherlands have con cluded a secret agreement for a united front on military and economic matters in the Far East and that the commander- In-chief of the British Troops in Malaya will shortly visit the Netherlands-Reuter,

KAMO MARU TO THE RESCUE

COL DI LANA. ON THE PRATAS

DISTRESS CALL:

LAST NIGHT

The dramatic sounds of 9.0.5. calls from a ship in distress wore, again heard in the China Sea last night when the Italian steamer Col di Lana went aground in the vicinity of the Pratas.

The signals were picked up by the N.Y.K. linor 8.8. Kamo Maru,

ARIAN LEVERANCE IN A STRING BEAR VI SZINTES CARNeom which was due in Hongkong this

FINANCING RECOVERY

LARGE-SCALE

PLANS

IN AMERICA

morning from Australia at day- light, but which swerved off her couréo and went to the rescue of the Col. di Laus.

The Kamo Maru is now stand- Ing-by the Italian steamer, and accordingly her arrival is delayed. She cannot arrive prior to to-mor

row morning, and may be later, de- pending upon the time of her departure from the Prates.

The Col. di Lana is the third ship to strand on the Pratos in less than three months.

The s.s. Col di Lana is a 6,000- tons vessel chartered by Dodwell & Co, and she went ashore at 10 fo'clock last night.

· ESL Shanghai, June 21. All the British captives in the Shuntien piracy affair have been released and are now safely in the hands of London, June 20.

the British naval authorities. Reviewing the services of the Ministry of Health in the House Lieutenant Luce, Lieutenant Stavanger, June 20. Mr. Neville Chamberlain is de- of Commons, the Minister, Sir Fick, Mr. G. L Brand, and Mr. A score of steamers from termined to go on with his scheme Hilton Young, said that between D. M. Watson, who were released all directions are rushing to for the collection of the interest 1919 and 1934 the vote of the in a sampan at 6.30 p.m. ast

enormous. figure of from £58,000,- Whitshed. the assistance of the German on the Dawes and Young Loans. Ministry had Increased by the night, were picked up by s The House of Commons to-day 000 to £70,000,000, but half of that Mr. G. D. Nicoll, of the Man- steamer Dresden, adopted the first reading of n Bilincrease was in respect of deufacturers Life Insurance Com cruising which met with disaster to- lntroduced by Mr. Neville Chamber rating granta in accordance with pany,

more dramatically lain, authorising the establishment the Act of 1929, and had nothing rescued. British sesplanes night off

the Norwegian of clearing-houses "for collecting to do with social services. connoftring from the aircraft-i coast.

and dealing with certain foreign Referring to health matters, he enrrier, II.M.S. Eagle, picked it financing of Recovery re-consisting of beans, which were London, June 20.

debts and 10 authorise the im said the general death-rate of the jup, together with a Chinese. Urgent S.O.S. signals were pick-

abowedni encouraging The world's drought pro-ed up from the Dresden at 7.40 Position of restriction of the im-nation blem is still unsolved al- p.m. G.M.T. and it was indicated posts from certain foreign coun- downward tendency and was ten that the vessel was in extreme This is the measure foreshadowed though it has been relieved perll of sinking with all aboard. in his recent statement on the by rain in many places, both Fears were relieved later by German declaration of a morator- at home and abroad.

further wireless message unnouncJum.-Unitcil Press. Ing:

The seriousness of the situation in London is indicated by a notice issued by the Metropolitan Water

"Have put ship ashore."

Board, threatening compulsory prinzessein Martha coming restrictions within a week falling alle."-United Press.

a further considerable voluntary reduction In use by consumers during the interval.

The drought has broken in Paris and in an ironical fashion, the first really heavy rains for over a month descending on the first day of the "Grande Somalne" open-air

festivities,

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EUROPE'S EXPERIENCES. There have been moderate rains In Bavaria and in other parts |

tries."

NOTE HANDED IN.. A låter message stated: "Kron- The reply of His Majesty's Gov- Govern- alang-ernment to the German

mont's note announcing the deci slon of the Reichsbank to suspend cash transfers on German medlum long term debts aurond was hand- ed to the German Ambasador in London this afternoon.

---- · -- TERRIFIED PASSENGERS.

Later.

per cent, lower than a few years

INFANT DEATH-rate.

was

re-

NO IMMEDIATE DANGER.

RELIEF AND LOANS: TO INDUSTRY

Washington, June 20.

As far as is known she is carry- Large-scale Government

ing no passengers, her cargo

being shipped from Singtao to ceived the final sanction of Singapore FOUND IN SAMPAN.

the Administration to-day. Capt. G. Gerolimich states that The last message received from

He, too, was found in a sampan.

President Roosevelt has signed the vessel is still stranded but is

no immediate danger. his Chinese companlos being one the Deficiency Bill, which produ

Ho of the twenty natives who were vides for the allotment of over hopes to get the Col di Lang afloat Another encouraging proof of the also made prisoner by the pirates. $2,000,000,000 for special Govern the Hougkoug & Whampoa Co.'s without outside assistance, but vulue of the health services was

Later. found in the reduction of the in- Luce, Field, Brand and Watsonment finance for the year be- tug, "Henry Koawick is ready to fant death-rate, which during the are aboard B.M.S. Whitshed and ginning July 1 and appropriations

to her help at a Chefoo, Inst ten years had represented an are now proceeding to

for general rellef, public works, annual saving of 40,000 more in- where they will arrive to-lay.

In releasing the British captives; and drought relief, fants under one year old than

the pirates hope to obtain the at the beginning of the century.

The President also signed the leas The improvement in the health assistance-of-the-British authorit-Rayburn Blli, providing for the of adults continued and was mostles in negotiating with the Chin- establishment of a Federal Com. romarkable in the case of typhoid ese Government. fever of which in 1932, only one died for every 22 at the beginning of the century.

SEEKING IMMUNITY.

mission to regulate the Com- munications industry.

The Communications Com- The pirates told Mr. Nicholl mission will be established DI In the last ten years, the donth that they are friendly to the July 1.

from tuberculosin had de British Government, but are op-

A Reuter message from Oslo states that a thousand passengers

The Chancellor of Exchequer on aboard the German liner Dresden, enjoying a pleasure cruise in a Friday announced that the Gov- fjord on the west coast of Norway ernment intended to take action in near Haugesung, were terrified reply to the Reichsbank decision rate this evening to hear the ship unless any negotiations undertaken creased by 22 per cent. urinding upon a submerged rock, shoult, before July 1st, result in ni The touching of the rock prac-sutlsfactory agreement.-British) tienily ripped the entire bottom Wireless.

out of the ship, flooding the stake,

of Germany, and slight rains in hold in the few minutes, and Czecho-Slovakia, but Yugo-Slavia causing a heavy list immediately.

and Austria are hot and rainless. though in the rest of Eastern Europe, useful showers are re- ported and in Russia the weather is favourable for the growing

crops.

A new heat wave appears to be replacing the rains which brought relief to the farmers of the "Western States of Americu-

Reuter,

FOUND. DEAD IN HIS BATH

HEEZ-MOORE

H.M.S. RODNEY ANSWERS

CALL.

the great

Her urgent S.O.S. culls brought British battleship, H.M.S. Rodney, racing to her assistance, but before the warship reached the scene, the captain of the Dresden had beached the Iner in the bay of an island.

A hundred of the panic-stricken Passengers jumped from the wreck and awam to shore.

All the others were landed by bant..

FOUR MISSING.

JAPAN'S CLAIMS TO PARITY

ANGLO-AMERICAN CONFLICT ?

SMALL RESULT FROM TALKS

London, Jund 20. Little progress appears to have be-been made in the preliminary Anglo-American naval talks and there is a distinct suggestion of

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FIVE-YEAR LOANS.

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notice.

moment's

The Col di Lana was built in: 1020 at Triesto and is a stool scrow vessel, equipped with wire-

SINGLE DEFENCE MINISTER

:

SOVIET ADOPTS

SYSTEM

Moscow, June 21. One-man control of the Red A sum of $270,000,000 will be Army and the Soviet Navy is pro- five-year Ioana, vided for in an order which has through Anancial institutions boen issued by the Central Execu-

extraordinary circum- stances, directly by the Govern- tive Committee of the Party. ment to industry.

In

Later, President Roosevelt posed to the Chinese Government signed the Loans to Industry Bill, because of the activity against will enable the provision WATER SUPPLIES.

smugglings. Turning to the question of water

of capital for industry through They appear to be content to three channels. supplies, he said the difficulties keep their loot and maintain their were not to prevent a dry summer, immunity. fearing the closing in) but to check water waste. Supplies of the Chinese troops.-Reuter were fairy good. Emergency men-

Peking, June 21. Aures had been in nctive progress

All five British captives are At wherever needed, but the voluntary co-operation of the public in econ- present Tree, having been pleked mising water was largely responat-up from sampons by H.M.S. Whit- for the satisfactory position shed and H.M.S. Eagle. One of regarding urban supplica.

the twenty Chinese captives has There were great difficulties in also been released. specified rural areas, and unless there was quite an unforeseeable rainfall within the next few weeks, Apparently the pirates morale those difficulties would increase has been broken by the manner in industry, with a limit set of half a in August and September.British which the Chinese troops have Wiralcos.

closed in and by the relentless, borrower.-Reuter. pursuit of the party by aeroplanea from the British aircraft-carrier Eagle.

Lle

MR. CROUCHER WINS CLAIM

ACTION

MORALE BROKEN.

·

A further surr

of-323"," is provided for five-year loans, to be made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation directly to

The order announces the ap- pointment of General Voroshiloff, Commissar for Naval and Military Affairs, as the supreme head. General Voroshlloff was respon. sible for the crushing of the

Kronstadt revolt in 1921. million dollars to any" single

the British prisoners of the Shun- The careful combing of the coast | tien pirates, by the planes disclosed a suspici- ously-looking party yesterday, among which Europeans were ob- served.

PLANES FOLLOW GANG.

NANKING ACTIVITY.

He is now appointed Commissar for War and Head of the Commis- sariat for the Defence of the Soviete.

Nanking, June 20. The Foreign Office Is paying close attention to the "Shuntien"

was A conference

The Revolutionary Military Council and the Cellegium of the Commissariat of War and the Navy are dissolved.

The order is intended to secure the central control of and. the greater mobility of the army and novy-Reuter.

The

HUMBER SNIPE 80"

Four persons are missing, DEATH OF MR. B. J. DE lleved drowned.

One bont, containing twenty women, capsized.

the possibility of a conflict in WOO HAY-TONG ESTATE The captain and the crow later views about Japan's claims. The death took place suddenly abandoned the ship which is lying. American nava) clrcles this morning, at the Airble Hotel, in shallow water with three holds London feel that the time has

Judgment was given for Mr.. The planes followed the party piracy case. full of water.

come for the British delegates to N. V. A. Croucher, with costs, by throughout the day until dusk fell, held with the contral military Kowloon, of Mr. B. J. de Heez-

All the passengers were German submit definite proposals.

the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. the pirates between 6 pm. an authorities this evening regarding Moore, head of the engineering | workmon and their friends from In the meantime, a Tokyo cable accounts department of the the Soar District, the crulee states that the Japanese claim that MacGregor, at the Supreme Court p.m. having pushed off the captives

this morning, in the case in which in gampans.

stops to rounding-up the pirates having been organised by the it is essential to revise the 5-5 ha sued the executors of the estate Asiatic Petroleum Company's German Workers Front-Reuter.

It is reported that the piratos on the Shantung coast.. The ration of the Washington Naval

of the late Mr. Woo Hay-tong for sent messages by Mr. Nicholl ad-Contral Government will Co- Hongkong office.

Treaty.

$81,188.03, money alleged to have dressed to the British Consul-Gen. This was emphasised by

operato with the Shantung pro- been due for shares transferred to eral at Tsinaniu. spokesman of the Japanese Ad- Mr. Woo a few days prior to the

authorities Meanwhile, it is learned from vinelal

in routing is chosen by drivers who demand miralty, who added that it would latter's tragic death in 1932. Tsinuntu that Hon Fu-chu's forces out the pirate haunta.

exceptional performance. This be a mistake to imaging that

The defendants named in the are closing in and, throwing a Japan was financially unable to claim were Mr. S. T. Butlin and cordon round the pirate lair, fromed to despatch a aquadron to assist than its predecessors, an in-built The Air Bureau has been instruct-new model reveals, even more stand the strain of naval competi-Mr. H. R. Forsyth, chartered ac- which it impossible that they can in the search, which is now being ability for speed, lightning

countants, executors of the lato escape.

tenacious road- conducted by Infantry froin the acceleration... Mr. Wao's ontate. DIFFERENT VIEWS.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon appeared for

Shantung Army.

holding, luxurious: smoothness—- The American naval leaders in Mr. Croucher, while Mr. Eldon

no wonder so many experienced motorista are found to-day, at London, in cond, declare that Polter, K.G., Mr. F.C. Jenkin, K.C., Sir Alexander Japanese demand, declare that and Mr. H. C. Maenamara, in Japan must support her claim by structed by Messrs. Woo and

the wheel of the Humber Snipe, far more cogent reasons than she Nash, were for the defondants. has advanced hitherto before the claim can be discussed.

The doceased gentleman was discovered dead in his bath at 8 o'clock this morning. and hin body was Intor, removed to the Public Mortuary.

Mr. Heez-Moore had been with the A.P.C. for a period of over 15 years, and was very well- known In the Colony. He leaves no rolatives in Hongkong, but he has a brother in Japan.

LITTLE ENTENTE ·

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Bages

The funeral will take placo at|ntu

4.46 pm. to-day.

CONFERENCE

OPPOSITION TO HAPSBURGS

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Mer-

e Loft. Rassive

Bucharest, Juno -20. The Little Entente Conference

tion.

A 10-year-old boy. Fook Kan, was las onded, an omelal communique knocked down and injured by a taxi being issued detailing nine- British officials seem to bo of that it is far too early to any in Walching Street, Shamshulpa, point rosolu.fon, including reasser opinion that Tokyo has raised an what the British attitudo montows yesterday. He was taken 10

Japana the tion of hostility to the restoration lasuo far more vital to the United should the Kowloon Hospital, ›

of the Inpaburgs-United Press. States than to Britain and gay parity.Por

CADOGAN TRIBUTE.

Sir Alexander · Cadogan to-day to the Chinese

CHINESE NAVAL AID. authorities, both central and local, states that the Third Fleet of the who undoubtedly had done their Chinese Navy has lucen Instructed A message from Welhaiwai

utmost to effect the reloase of the to despatch gunboats to partici- captives and the apprehension of pato in the search, Twa gun- the pirates-Reuter

boats Balled this morning. (20th) Mosare. Butterfield and Swire's from Weihaiwel, while another is ****office have received a steaming from Changshan leland.

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