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HONGKONG THE

TELEGRAPH."

WEDNESDAY, JULY

1934

FORCIBLE ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP PORT AT

THE GLORIOUS

FOURTH"

MERICAN · CLUB

RECEPTION

MOROUS SPEECH BY

CONSUL

The anniversay of the Amer

Declaration of Independence! fittingly celebrated to-day the local American com- uity by a reception at the herican Club which was at ded by over 100 guests.

the absence of the Consul oral, Mr. Douglas Jenkins, who this morning to take up his appointment as Consul at Ber- the guests were received by Mr. II. Gourley, Acting Consul boral, Mr. J. A. Shaw, chairman the Fourth of July Committee, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Benson. The rooms of the Club were taste- y decorated for the occasion in American Stars and Stripes other national fings. The etion was a great success.

CONSUL'S SPEECH. Proposing the health of is jesty the King, Mr. Gourley The last time many of us

to

FREE STATE LOCAL ELECTIONS

Virtual Stalemate Confirmed

Dublin, July 3.

The final results of the local government elections, confirm earlier expectations, the state of the parties being:

Fianna Fail Labour

A

716 185

901

Fincgael (O'Duffy Independents

590

351

941

SILVER PRICES

GRADUAL RISE

EXPECTED

New York, July 3. There is general anticipation. (of a gradual rise in silver prices, of Treu- due to the continuance Fury purchases.

in

2

To-day, traders bought quietly steady market. Swan, ot in these Club rooms was y farewell to Consul-General Culbertson and Fritz.

kina. Perhaps no one here miss-

bim more than those of us who

d the pleasure of working with culous recovery. To-day through m in the same office. I especial-radio broadcasting, Britons and regret that he slipped out of Americans have come actually e harbour on the morning of tho within hearing of one another's burth of July. Speech-making voices. Voices of the English not fun, After Mr. Jenkins Royal Family are becoming as Iks I feel un a litle bell might familiar to the farmers of the el which must tinkle after Lon-Dakotas as the voices of their

n's Big Bea has sounded.nearest neighbours. With radio, aughtor).

thousands and even millions of

I shall say only a few words. | Americans can now have E21 robably the less I talk, the less audience with His Majesty the shall be found out. It does not King and yet not suffer the expense y to any too much. An Irish-of dlacomfort of knee breeches- merican found that out when (Laughter).

took his best girl for a motor; Ladies and Gentlemen-JI Is r ride. After they had gone some Majesty the King.. atance, he finally said "Bridget, you marry me?" "Sure, Pat,: Nothing will." They rode on.

The toast was cordially honoured.

PROSPERITY TO U. S.

NEA

SAN FRANCISCO

While the wrangle over settlement of the Pacific coast longaforemen's strike goes on, over fifty ships in San Francisco alone re- main tied up at piors or in midstream. Panorama of the silent, almost dead, San Francisco waterfront above gives graphic iden of the ....

paralysis of one of the Pacific conat's greatest industries. A like situation exists in Portland, San Pedro and Seattle, Wash.

VIOLENT RIOTS ON

WATERFRONT

-

NEW YORK SWELTERS

HEATWAVE DEATHS

IN U.S.A..

POPULATION "IN FLIGHT!!

New York, July 9, Thirty-two deaths as the direct result of the heat-wave have (occurred in the United States in ̧·

HUGE STADIUM AT† MORE MONEY FOR the last fortnight, during which

SHANGHAI

TO BE BUILT FROM LOAN FUNDS

the temperature has often exceeded {90° Fahrenheit.

The deaths include eight in New York Clly, and over a score in St.

POOR BOX

SEIZED IN GAMBLING|Louis.

RAIDS

Thousands have slept on the sands at Coney Island and many Shanghai, July 4. A gambling rald, conducted by on the house-tops and the fire The Municipal Government of Detective-Sergeant F. W. Fowlie jescapes in Now York, which is like SAN FRANCISCO WAR FLARES UP Greater Shanghai has decided to and a party of police, on the gevand a great furnace.

devote the whole proceeds of the floor of No. 41 Graham Street, There was a gigantic exodus $4,600,000 Municipal Government yielded $23.40 tablo money, which front the city to-night, in connec- loan, bonds to public construction has been added to the funds of the tion with the July 4 celebrations, purposes, including the Greater Poor Box, Shanghai Stadium, which will be built in the now Civic Centre and which will cost over $1,000,000 to complete.

IN FIERCE FIGHTING

San Francisco, July 3.

half the population, seemingly, fly- Ing from the town towards neigh bouring lakes and beaches for the holiday-Reuter.

TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM

New York, July 4. - The heat wave over the New

Chung Pui pleaded guilty to of a pai-kau being the keeper Bchool and was fined $50 or one month's hard labour in default, According to a spokesman of the

the gambling was fined three dollar. Municipal Government, work will while another man who admitted soon be commenced on stadium, which will be capable of Thirteen absentees had thair bail York area seems to have broken....

of $3 each entreated. News.

The bitter war that was threatened when San Francisco industrialists rejected the demands of the striking longshoremen last week and announced their in- tention of attempting forcibly to open the port, flared up to-day in scenes of unparalleled violence.

Forcible opening of the port was attempted tenta-holding 40,000 spectatora, Central tively by the loading up of two lorries by ""blackleg" workers, and a rush of the lorries at the pickets at high

COLOMB speed, in an effort to break through by imperilling the BRIG.-GEN.

PASSES AWAY lives of anyone who made to interfere.

A terrific thunderstorm burst

As the result of a complaint over the city last night, followed from the Bank, Det-Sergt. Fowlie by the springing up of a wonder- and party conducted a raid in the fully cool breeza-Reuter. yard in Queen's Building yester- day and arrested 11 Chinese on a charge of gambling at pai-kau. Three of them appeared before Mr. Macfadyen in the Central Magis-

$3 ench, while the absentees forfeited bail of $8 each.

Violent fighting between the police and the strikers occurred when the longshoremen braved the danger, SERVED IN THE BOXER tracy this morning, and were fined boarded the racing lorries and brought them to a standstill, the drivers being badly, beaten up.

REBELLION

POLICE AND STRIKERS IN DESPERATE CONFLICT age of 71 years, of Brigadier

the cloacd shop.--

SPECIAL TROOPS FOR FORTS

FRANCE COMMENCING

RECRUITMENT

London, July 3. The money wicked up, $2.40, was The death has occurred, at the placed in the Poor Box.

Paris, July 3. The recruitment of, thirty thou- General George Henry Cooper

sand specialised troops for the Colomb, C.M.G., who retired from!

in Burmah in 1885-87. the manning of France's frontier the Army in 1919.

Waziristan campaign in 1894-95, forifications will begin immediate- A son of the late Vice-Admiral in China in the Boxer Rebellion in ly in accordance with the approval

deceased H. Colomb,

was 1900, and in the Great War. He of Marshal Petain's suggestion

Chamber.--Router.

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to represent them. The Rioting on a big scale develop-ranks In proposing the toust of the ed soon after the attack on the Mediators' Board sent the now pro-

drivers of the .two lorries posals to the employers with their P. ore was sald for some five prosperity of the United States of inutes. Then ten minutes, America, H. E. Major General which had been driven furiously approval, but a flat rejection only educated at Harrow and entered was D.A.A. and Q.M.G. in China by the Army Commission of the ridget Bnid "Aren't you going o. C. Borrett said the British from the pier in a desperate effort was forthcoming, the employers the Army in 1884. He saw service from 1900 to 1901.-Reuter.

still refusing to recognise tho say anything more to me?" nd Pat replied "Perhaps, Bridget, the departure of Mr.

community In Hongkong regretted to re-open, the port.

and Mrs. Hundreds of armed police were principle have said too much already."-Doughs Jenking just as much as rushed to the scene to the rescue Renter

of the drivers and a brutal combat laughter).

|the American community. He On our national holiday we

followed. wished success to the Acting mericans do not celebrate any Consul-General, ictory over the British. We ommemorate to-day the sign honoured. ure of a declaration of human ights of the same general type or which the English barons truggled at Runneymetle,

SHORTS AND LONGS.

The tonat was enthusiastically

BOMB BARRAGE. The Police resorted to the use Amongst those invited to the of tear-gas bombs and fired shots function were H.E., the G.O.C.,over the heads of the rioters, who Major General O.C. Borrett and fought them with clubs and iron Mrs. Borrett, accompanied by Cap- bars,

tain F.R.L. Meara, A.D.C., the Rt. Some of the riolers caught the Rev. H. Valtorta, Viear Apostolic, bombs in the air and threw them In England, the American of Hongkong, the Rt. Rev. R.D. back into the ranks-of-the-police lonies, and France, the great all, Bishop of Victoria, His Hon- and also subjected the police to truggles against oppression have our Mr. Justice A.D.A. MacGregor a heavy bombardment from stones. 11 occurred is hot weather-and Mrs. MacGregor. Mons. G. laughter).

summer Dufaure de la Prado, Consul- the

1215, Lho English

of warmel

In

about D

SCORES UNCONSCIOUS,

STORM TROOPS CRY "REVOLT?" AGAINST

HITLER (Continued from Page 1)

refuse it, but proceeded by `nero- plane to Neudeck at 3 p.m. to President Hindenburg's secure permission to accept it.

The Cabinet mecting again to- morrow afternoon and it is stated In authoritative quarters that General Goering is most likely to be Captain von Papen's successor.

The Ministry of Propaganda in

VON PAPEN ALLY SHOT.

barons Generalfor France. Mr. M.It. The police then indulged in u

their Iglesias, Peruvian Consul-General xories of baton charges in which formed the United Press that ights; in the summer of 1776 the and Mrs. Iglesins. Mr. Ma. Quiat, secres of riotars were knocked out forty-six had been executed up to merican colonists became heated Netherlands Consul-General, Mr. and left on the ground uninte yesterday (Tuesday) after- bout their liberties; and in the A. Bianconi Italian Consul-Gener-conscious. In spite of heavy unmmer of 1934 the inhabitants of at and Mrs. Bianconi, Mr. 11. losses, the longshoremen strikers noon. Hongkong exchanged hot words Acinu, Acting Japanese Consul continued to fight furiously and it bout women's shorts and longs--| General, Mr. H.V: Straeten, Consul was not until the police had open- laughter). Back in

1215 at General for Belgium, Commodore ed tearing blasts of fire into the No official list of the names has kunneymede, the angry barona Frank Elliott, R.N., O.B.E. and ranks of the strikers with riot been issued but it is learned that vent into King John's very Mrs. Elliott, accompanied by Com- resence and extorted from him mander F.R. Porter, R.N., the Hott, that the rioters were finally Edgar Jung, close associate of

driven back.

Captain von Papen, was among he Magua Carta. He, knew they Sir Thomas Southorn and Ludy

those executed. heant busincas because he could Southorn, the Hon. Mr. R. E. Lind- The wild scenes conform to pre-: Edgar Jung was arrested by the ce them(laughter).

sell and Mrs. Lindsell, the Ion. dictions of probabilities as the re-secret the police last week, before

EMPLOYERS' STAND.

is also alleged that Jung mado derogatory remarks about Ilitler.

In 1776, in the days of the slow Mr. N. L. Smith and Mrs. Smith,ault of the exacerbation of feeling the Ilitler swoop. It appears that ho siling vessels that took many the Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor, Mrs. among the longshoremen, who have was responsible for the collection veeks and even months to cross Taylor, Mias Taylor and Miss new been out for two months, by of the material upon which the he seas, the protests of the Ainaworth, the Hon. Mr. R.M. Hen-the Industrial Assoclution's flat Vice-Chancellor based his Neudeck merican colonists Rounded toderson, and Mrs. Henderson, the rejection last week of the modified criticism of the Nazi regime. It

ny persons in England as un- Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. terms of the strikers. mportant as the buzzing of petty Sir William Shenton, and Miss Distance and slow com Shenton, the Han. Mr. C. Gordon nsects.

unleation led to misunderstand Mackie, Mrs. Mackie and Misa ng. Today rapid communication Mackie, His Honour Mr. P. Jacks, orings the great English speaking Mrs. Jacks and Miss Jacks, the that was tentatively approved by the ferences last week, von Papen was nations over closer and closer Hon. Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe, Mra. Wolfe, workers' union lenders and am unable to secure the release of ogether. The American talkies and Miss Wolfe, the Hon. Com and the English nowe reels are mannder G.F. Hole, R.N. (Retd)ployers and then repudiated by the Jung.

"COME UP AND SEE ME”

It is also significant that although

The employers insist on aceep-Captain von Papen and Hitler tance of the proposal for settlement ostensibly patched up their dif-

men.

a

eaching us to anderstand one and Mrs. Hole, the Hon. Dr. A. R.

The longshoremen have throwe another.

Wellington, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Katewall and Mrs. Kotowall, the over their leaders and appointed Committee of Ten from the Hon. Mr. JP. Braga, and Mrs. When I walk the streets of Braga, the Bon, Dr. S.W. Ta'o and Hongkong, I hear people say "Come Mrs. Te'o, the Hon. Mr. T N. up and see me sometime(loud Chau, the Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell, the

It can be English and Miss Owen-Hughes.

Hon. Mr. J. Owen-lughes, Mrs. aughter). English but It Mae be Western Sir William Hornell, Mr. M. J. American-(laughter),

Breen, Mr. R. G. Alves Guerra,

Host Englishmen know that no Mr. and Mrs. Karaten Larsaca, animals are being traded, when an Mr. and Mrs. H. Gipperich, Mr. American wife passes the buck to and Mrs. F. Bonachen, Mr. Wong her husband and gets his goat Kwong-tin, Lt. B.E.L. Hebert, R.A., (laughter). Few Americans to-

A.D.C. to H.E. The Governor, Mr.

NO WIRELESS LICENCES

FURTHER CASES IN COURT

CATHOLIC VICTIM.

Another victim was Gustav von Kahr, Catholic lender in Munich. It in reliably learned, too, that Colonel von Bredan, General von Schleicher's former chief lieuten- ant, was shot during the week- end.-United Press.

Berlin, July 3. The only interesting rovelation In the official communique which was issued at the conclusion of a prolonged Cabinet meeting, was that Herr Hitler informed the

Dr. Cheung Chiu-fan, of No. 49 Cabinet that lightning action had

FORTY-SIX EXECUTED,

day are like one American woman R.A.C. North, Mr. B.P.II. Lang, Bonham Road, second floor, was bean necessary. who reads in the papers that an Col. II.B.1 Dowbiggin. Dr. and fined $10 on a summon for If it had not been taken, there' Englishwoman had lost. three Mira, W.B.A. Moore, Mr. T. H. possession of a wireless receiving would have been danger to the, hundred pounde in one afternoon King, Mr. G. C. Pelham and Mrs. set without a licence, by Mr. Stato and many thousands of lives nt a place she pronounced Derby. Pelham, Major B.E. Duclon, Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magie- lost. "Sakes alive-1 don't believe any and Mrs. T.S. Whyte-Smith, Mr. tracy this morning. woman could be 80 fat". and Mrs. T.E. Pearce, Mr. and Defendant stated that owing to (Laughter).

Mra. E. Cock, Mr. G.G.N. Tinson, pressure of work in hospital he Through the newa reel we see Mr. H. Ching, Lt. Col. H.L. Murrow forgot to take out a licence. English Royal Family and hear and Mrs. Murrow, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cheong, of 29 Bonham and for saving the country from them speak. We feel that we know D.C. Wilson, Mr. N. Stockton, Mr. Rand, was also fined $10 on a civil war. He reaffirmed the com- tile and that they are friends. J.D. Lloyd, Mr. WR. Scott, Mr. similar summons.

plete loyalty of the Cabinet, Some time ago, throughout America H. Hong Sling, Mr. J. L. Macphor-| Cheong stated that the dealer We read with sympathotle interest son, Mr. and Mrs. F.P.. Franklin, from whom he had bought the set Is to be published shortly. It is reports about the King's illness Mr. K.F. Noble, Mr. Fong Kong- had undertaken to got everything learned that it will contain forty- und rejoiced at his almost miro-un, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Lewis. :

faix names-Router.

fixed up.

The Minister of Defence thanked Herr Hitler for his courageous act

An official list of those executed

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