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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934.

GERMAN

CRUISE UNIVERSAL

MAJESTIC LINER WRECKED

BY SPECIAL REQUEST-TO-DAY ONLY'

“SAMARANG"

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BOTTOM ALMOST RIPPED OFF

NORWEGIAN COAST

DISASTER

SCORES JUMP OVERBOARD

(Special to "Telegraph”)

June

(Dy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphio Mise- 40pes

Ordinense.

Received 11, 10

Stavanger, June 20.

A score of steamers from all directions are rushing to the assistance of the German cruising steamer Dresden, which met with disaster to- night off the Norwegian coast.

states that a thousand passengers aboard the German liner Dresden, enjoying a pleasure cruise. In a fjord on the west coast of Norway

DROUGHT

RELIEVED IN MANY PLACES

near Haugesung, were terrified NEW HEAT WAVE this evening to hear the ship grinding upon a submerged rock,

The touching of the rock prac tically ripped the entire bottom out of the ship, flooding the stoke. hold in the few minutes, and causing a heavy list Immediately:

H.M.S. RODNEY ANSWERS CALL

Her urgent S.0.9. calls brought the great 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 Huer in the bay of an island.

1

IN AMERICA

London, June 20. The world's drought pro-| blem is still unsolved al- though it has been relieved by rain in many places, both at home and abroad..

The nerfousness of the altuation in London is indicated by a notice issued by the Metropolitan Water Boarl threatening compulsory A hundred of the panic-stricken restrictions within a week falling pasachgers jumped from the wreck

a further considerable voluntary and swam to shore.

reduction in use by consumers All the others were landed by during the interval.

boat.

FOUR MISSING.

Four persons are missing, be- lieved drowned.

One boat, containing twenty women, capsized.

The captain and the crew later abandoned the ship which is lying in shallow water with three holds full of water,

Urgent S.OS. signals were pick ed up from the Dresden at 7.40 p.m. G.M.T. and it was indicated · All the passengers were Gorman that the vessel was in extreme workmen and their friends from peril of sinking with all aboard. the Saar District, the cruise Fears were relieved later by a having been organised by the further wireless message announc-! German Workers Front-Beuter. ing:

Have put ship aahore."

A later message stated: "Kron-" prinzessin Martha coming along- side."-United Press.

TERRIFIED PASSENGERS.

Later.

A Reuter message from Oslo

A fine of $5 was imposed by Mr. Macfadyen, at the Central Magistracy this morning, on Wong Shing, a cook, who admitted a charge cruelty to chickens. It was stated that defen- dant carried the chickens in a crate'

to which there was no matting.

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 Semaine" open-air festivities.

EUROPE'S EXPERIENCES.

There have been moderate rains in Bavaria and in other parts of Germany, and slight rains in Czecho-Slovakia, but Yugo-Slavia and Austria are hot and rainless, though in the rest of Eastern Europe, useful showers are to- 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 Reuter.

States of

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