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FINAL EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED · 1881

No. 1435

一拜疆 號三廿月七英浩香

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.

日二十月六

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JOHN DILLINGER SHOT DEAD IN CHICAGO

John Dillinger, who was what dead last night outside » Chicago theatre.

RAINBOW'S DEFEAT

YANKEE TO DEFEND AMERICA'S CUP

CONVINCING WINS IN TRIALS

1Special to "Telegrund")

(By Jelegraph, Copyright Telegraphia kies

Ordinance,· 1894. Received, Kay

Newport, R.1. July 22.

APPOINTED END

TO CAREER

TRAPPED OUTSIDE A

THEATRE

£400,000 MAN-HUNT

CHICAGO, JULY 23.

THE CAREER OF JOHN ("THE KILLER") DILLIN- ‚GER CAME TO ITS PRE-DESTINED END IN

CHICAGO LAST NIGHT, SAYS REUTER. HE WAS SHOT DEAD BY A POLICE AGENT OUT- SIDE A NORTH SIDE THEATRE, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

:

He was not challenged. He was just shot dead, as America's Public Enemy No. 1.° Dead or alive has been the instruction for the last three months. When he died he was alleged to have the blood of at least eighteen persons, including several police officers, on his head.

..

In consequence of the torrential rains of the wank-end, Tytam Tuk reservoir, the capacity of which is 1,419 million gallons, is overflowing for the first time since 1932. Picture shows the reservoir filled to the Övar-

flow level..

+

FOURTEEN INCHES OF RAIN DURING WEEK-END

During his career of crime lasting roughly thirteen TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS

months, he has cost the State over £400,000 in attempts to effect his capture, and while harried from pillar to post, has still found time to rob banks of over £100,000.

RUTHLESS KILLER'S DESPERATE EXPLOITS

their way.

Ly

RESERVOIRS

FILL ALL

DRIZZLE MAY GO ON

Counsel Withdraws

From Murder Trial

REASON

NOT

STATED

EXPLAINS TO JUDGE IN CHAMBERS

CASE ADJOURNED

An undisclosed, but apparently pertinent reason, led to the sur- prise withdrawal of Mr. R. C, H. Lim from a murder trial which

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TREATY STRENGTH

U.S. NAVY.

New York, July 23, The building of the United States Navy up to full treaty strength: within three or four years was pro- mised by President Roose- velt in a talk to the crew of the U.S.S. Houston to- day.---Reuter,

LONDON SURGICAL

called for hearing at the FEAT

Criminal Sessions this morning.

The case is one in which Lam

|Sang, 50, a gardener, and Wong Ying, 44, a married woman, are charged with the murder of Chu Kwai, allas Chu Loi, at Shap Pat Heung on May 18.

Mr. Lim asked that the accused; be tried separately, but preferred, nol to make his reason, public. After an explanation to Mr. Justice A: D. A. MacGregor, the Chief Justice, in Chambers, the case was adjourned for a week and it was 172, announced that the Registravi

| behalf of each of the accused.

would make fresh assignments o

PERSONAL ASSURANCE.

OPERATION THAT TOOK 6 YEARS

MISSING SOCKET SUPPLIED

(Special to "Telograph"> By Talegraph, Copyright. Telegraphia Mas-

sao um

Urdinusas. SARA Received July

angea

London, July 22.

The completion of a re- markable surgical operation

Over Fourteen inches of ing hour, 1.10 inches were record rain were recorded at the At the moment, there is no Royal Observatory during immediate prospect of the rain The state of terror which he, jail nt Lima, Ohio, by three con-

ceasing..

When the case was called Mr. that has taken nearly six excited in the areas over which he federates. Armed with machine the period between midnight

What the torrential rains haven. C. t. Lim, instructed-by Mr.

E. C. It is learned on reliable roamed is eloquently attested by guns taken from the jail, Dillinger on Friday and 10. a.m. to meant to the Colony's water sup- 0. Marton, of Messrs. years to perfect is reported

rumours of his apearance In town-and his ang lore through the Mid-

ply may be gathered from the fact Deacons, for the defence, applied to have proved brilliantly me authority that Mr. T.O.M.ships hundreds of miles apart. West, robbing banka day.

and

that since Saturday morning, no for an order for the separate trini Many extraordinary stories have shooting any

who fot

Kot in

successful. Details of the rainfall, supplied fewer than 294 million gallons of the accused, and suggested that Sopwith's Endeavour, chal

accompanied his exploits, which in at least one instance they were by Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of have been added to the reservoir the man be tried first.

The operation is regarded as a the lenging for the America's have been followed by the Ameri- accused of killing a policeman. the Observatory, are as follows: contents on the island and

Mr. Lim said he could not re- triumph of the new plastic and can people with the interest of a On January 25, 1994, Dillinger 24 hours ending midnight Satur-

mainland. Cup, will be asked to com- serial thriller.

was arrested again at Tucson,

3.97 day:

Up to Saturday, the only reveal the grounds for making the bone surgery that was developed

application.

as a result of the war. Arizona-with-Charles-Makley-und 24-hours ending midnight-Sun------ servoir-overlowing-was-Tytam pete against the Boston

"The operation was performed in Russell Clark, fugitives from

"I feel obliged," he said, “in the 2.30 Intermediate, but as a consequence sloop, Yankee.

Indiana State Penitentiary, who Midnight to 10 a.m. Sunday 442 of the heavy rains all the

re interest of justice to apply for ana well-known London hospital, on servoirs are now overflowing, in-order for the separate trial and a child who was born without a freed him from Lima, and with 25 hours ending 10 a.m. to-day women companions.

14.08 cluding Tytam Tuk. This is the that the first accused be tried first, socket in one hip.. Flown to Crown Point, Indiana,

first time since 1932 that Tytan At this early stage, your Lordship For two years both hips rómain- to awalt trial for killing a police- The heaviest fall registered in Tuk has reached the overflow level. Will appreciate that it is difficult cd in plaster of paris. Then a

BOWS AND ARROWS)

According to one story recently The cracked yacht will be sail-published, Red Indians with bows ed by the former U.S. Secretary of and arrows had been enlisted to the Navy, Mr. Adants.

aid the Federal forces in the hunt.

The decision was reached as the result of the completion of a series of trials with the Vanderbilt syndicate's Rainbow and Mr. Frederick Prince's Weetamoe.

the

inan,

day

Total

3.26

on

le has earned almost a satanic jail could hold me for long."

Dillinger boasted that "no He

Any one hour 'was 1.93 inches, be- reputation.

made rood his boast on March 3rd.tween 10.30 and 11.30 h.m. Dillinger's stormy Career

as Using a toy gun he had fashioned day, just after the really ISTANBUL CONSULATES Will be best met if the order is hip.

In the follow- heavy rains began.

America's most notorious outlaw out of wood in his cell, Dillinger Some surprise was ocensioned at lusted little more than a year. and a negro convict, Herbert failure of the Rainbow which It was in June, 1933, that John Youngblood, intimidated the guards was specifically built to meet the Dillinger began the series of and escaped. challenge of the British yacht, exploits that swiftly shot him to Endeavour. The Yankee proved the top rank among criminals. herself the better boat. In all types Paradoxically,

came of

ST. PAUL DATTLE,

The Federal authorities then of weather, however, and beat her Quaker stock; of an ancestry that rivals convincingly over the series. had been taught to abhor any type took a hand. Government agents

The first race between the Yan- fof: violence. He was

born 30 traced

YIN TUNG'S 1

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WUB

Д

him to an apartment in

machine

VISTULA FLOOD CATASTROPHE

OVER 500 PERISH: SURGING WATERS

BESIEGED

Foreigners Demand Free Passages Home

act

for me to state my grounds except plece of bone was removed from to give your Lordship my personal the sound hip; fashioned into a assurance that the ends of Justice socket and placed on the crippled,

made."

Both hips were then re-plastered. for two years.

you

The Chief Justice: Have nny authority at all for an applica

without

The socket now works quite tion of this sort being acceded to naturally and the child is perfectly

detailed reason normal-Reuter Special. being given 7. Counsel. quoted Archbold's. He added that the

the evidence.

embarrassed

prosecution would not in any way NULLAH. OUTRAGE be Istanbul, July 22. Numbere of consulatos "In against both accused was equally kee and the Endeavour is expect years ago in Morgan County, Paul Minnesota. Blazing away

admissible. It was for the con- ed to take place on September 15. Indiana. His mother died when with

Istanbul to-day have been besleged -United PresA,

of the defence that he COUNSEL TO DEFEND he was three years old and his escaped from the trap. A bloody

by hundreds of foreigners demand-venience

ACCUSED father, a grocer, married again trail indicated he was wounded.

ing free repatriation to their homemade the application. and moved his family to the tough Next he raided a police station

lands.

CROWN OBJECTS, Warsaw, July 22. in Warsaw, Indiana, to replenish

The situation is a development

"Ng Loi-yuen, the west side of Indianapolis.

alleged Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant murderer of Michael Pino, one of Dillinger was popular while at his aupply of Arearms and ammunt- The great national flood of the application of the law for tending high school nod

ation.

bidding foreignera" to ns Attorney General, appearing for the five British children thrown star on the school's baseball team!

disaster threatens to assume chauffeurs, guides, hairdressers, the Crown said he must strongly into a nullah near the Lower Peak Federal agents again caught up {He married childhood sweet with him at a resort near Eagle even more terrible propor-tailors, shoe-makers, musicians or oppose the application made by Mr. Tram station, appeared before Mr.

heart while he still waA

Lim. The scene of the crime was Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy his River, Wisconsin. An all night tions. In

variety artists, 'teens and soon after embarked on gun battle ensued. Dillinger again

Under the law, the first group in one of the most remote spots of this morning, and was again re- made his exenpe. A Federal agent The Vistula still rising of eight hundred persons, with the New Territories. It was ex-manded until Thursday at 10 a

to present the and a CC.C. youth were killed in steadily and thousands of people famillos totalling 6,000 people; tremely difficult to

CABC. Mr. J. M. Hall appeared for the the fight.

are lining the banke, half in were forced to abandoned work t was practically impossible to defence, and intimated he was curiosity and half in terror, this morning.

got flotailed glans and the best instructing Mr. R. C. H. Lim-to

offor of the defend the case at the Magistracy wondering whether the levees will Three other groups, totalling evidence he would

18,000, will be similarly affected sceno of the tragedy was by photo- hold and save Warsaw itself.

graphs. Witnesses had to be ob- The floods of the last few days shortly-Reuter.

(Continued on Page 4). have beon. truly catastrophic.

Importance Destroyed his crime career.

Before Beginning.

UNPARALLELED MANHUNT.

Then followed one of the greatest hunts since the United States (Continued on Page 49.

ONCE CONVICTED. Strangely, this man who 'came Dalren, July 23. to be one of the most dangerous Mr., Yin Tunst has arrived here criminals at large, had when shot from Shanghal to meet Colonel down, only one conviction against man Shibayama, who is hurrying here him. That lapse occurred in 1924 from Changchun, where he has when he was sentenced to been discussing the Tangku Agree- Indlaan State Reformatory to from ment with the Commander-in- 10 to 2 years for robbing a Chief.

grocery store.

He attempted to escape within a few months and was removed to

the

It is learned that the Kwan- tung Army Command le not pre- the State Prison at Michigan City pared to parley with Mr. Yin Tung as an incorrigible.. if his mission is to seek the can- Dallinger cellation of the Tangku

the Chinese

WAR

on

relented Agree parole In June, 1938, mont, which the Japanese claim

It was then that he began the are not carrying out sorios of escapades that carried almost overnight from

public enemy No. 1.

It is believed that the Japanese im

will probably refor him to Man-obscurity to the dubious ranking chukuo-Reuter.

BETTER WEATHER?

lor

{the

While in prison he had made of several nequaintance veteran crooka and as they were

TWENTY MEN IN 'AT THE DEATH

Dillinger Falls into A Trap

(Special to "Telegraph") (By Telagraph. Copyright, Tarachle angia Urdinantse

23, 981 2.M.)

1894. Received duly

Chicago, July 23.

The exnet death-roll cannot OVER 200 HEAT WAVE

yet be computed, but It is known that between five and six hundred persons have perished.

The damage is over £50,000,000 and the havoc continues,

TYPHUS PERIL.

There is un alarming possibility of an epidemic of typhus In- volving the whole of south Poland. Millions of small farmers kayo been ruined.

DEATHS

Enormous Crop Losses

In America

New York, July 22. The donth-roll of the heat wave in the United States has now Thousands on the banks of the climbed to 235. Vistula watch. tho floating Thore is no prospect of an im- rockage of homes. The river, mediate break in the weather con which is normally a mero bare |ditions,

couple of hundred yards wide has The loss of crops in the Middle become a turgid mass half a mile West and the South-West States is

DOUMER MEMORIAL

COLUMN

Unveiled In Town Of Aurillac

(Special to "Talugraph")"

(By, Telegraph, Gopyright. Telegraphia Maji

Ordinance, 25, 835 mal ☺

Aurillac, July 22.

...Pressure remains highest over released, Dillinger took them one

tho Pacific to the cast of the by one into his gang until they Twenty #gents of the Dopart-across hurling towards the sea estimated to run into hundreds of

A stone column thirty foot high Bonins. The typhoon is moving formed one of the most desperate ment of Justics trapped Dillinger small islande, sand and sheaves millions of dollars, the losses and boaring the simple inscription: north eastward across the Yellow groups in America's crime history. after suining more information of wheat.

and a shallow depression September 22, 1983, Dillinger of whereabouts.

growing by leaps and bounds daily "To Paul Doumor, who died covers Indo-China. Local fore-was arrested at Dayton, Ohio. He was surrounded and riddled a moment ago the ashen face of a

Router's correspondent glimpsed as the intense heat persists... nsansalnated," was unveiled to cast:-South winde, moderate: charged with being loader in a with bullets, collapsing without a dead child, appearing wraithlike the heart of the Middle West, little southern French town the The thermometer in St. Louis, in day by Prosidons Lebrun in this cloudy, with rain, probably im sorice of bank robberies.

chance of returning the proving.

A month later he was freed from

fire.above the murky swoll of the scared yesterday to 113 in the birthplace of the late President

waters-Reuter..

shado Reuter

[Doumor.--Router

United Press.

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