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THE BOOKSHELF

publiclats. The book given

11 de-

and of the measures taken

AUSTRALIA'S AIR DEFENCES

£20,000 FOR TRANSPORT

SERVICE

In accordance with Australia's policy of strengthening her de

THE HONGKONG

LESSON SERMON,

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG

"Life" was the subject of the Lesson-Sormon in all Churches of Chriat, Scientist, yesterday.

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.

HUNDRED DEAD

AMERICAN IN GRIP OF HEAT WAVE

Chicago, July 21.

The heat wave in the Middle West has lost none of its intensity. At least 100 have died from the heat up to the prosent, and

thousands have been prestrated.

In the majority of cities, the temporature is at least 105. All- time records have been smashed in

FIRST OF "CHINA TO-DAY" SERIES "Suppressing Communist- Banditry in China" is the first of the "China Today" series of volumes published by the China United Press, of Shanghai, and

The Golden Text was: "As the edited by Mr. Tang Lenngil, one fences, the Defence Ministry is Father hath life in himself; so of China's best-known and ableat proposing to set aside £20,000 for hath ho givon the Son to have taffed necount of the origin of skeleton serial transport service.ilfe in himself" (John 6: 20). the Communist movement 3n At present it is necessary to Among the citations which China of the breach between the send by road or rail spare parts comprised the Lesson-Sermon was Ohlo and Indiana, The tempera- Kuomintang and the Communist and repair equipment to damaged the following from the Bible:ture has touched 108 in these Party, by the Government to suppress Air Force machines that make "Thon answered, Jesus and said States and 112 has been recorded "Red" activities and make good forced landings, and delay often unto them, Verily, verily I any in St. Louis-United Press, the damage done by the Com-results, anys Austral News. "An- unto you, The Son can do nothing inunist-bandita.

other and still more important use of himself, but what he seeth the for transport machines would be Father do: for what things soever for moving troops rapidly.

he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth; and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. dead, and quickeneth them; even For us the Father raiseth up the

so the Son quickeneth whom he will" (John 5: 19-21).

The volume, which is attractive- ly bound in stiff linen covers, is freely illustrated and will be found most engrossing to those Interested in the steps being taken to rid the country of what is probably its biggest internal menace. The whole subject is ably limned by the editor, who are sents the facts in sober but Im-

pressive innguage.

*

Other volumes of the series to be issued shortly are "Chinn's Problems and Their Solution," by Wang Ching-wei; "Reconstruction In China"; and "The Puppet State: of Manchukun." issued at $400 (Chinese currency), these books are excellent value for money and should command

ready sale amongst those interested in cur rent problems in China.

Bon

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The Countryman.”

The development of the defence of Darwin would be made more effective if an efficient aerial trana. part service were available for conveying

advance partles troops to the north at shurt notice.

It is proposed that £20,000 be set for the establishment of a ide skeleton aerial transport service,

TANGKU TRUCE NEGOTIATIONS

PRELIMINARY

IN DAIREN

TALKS

Shanghai, July 23. Altration is focussed on the meeting at Dairen between Mr. Yin Tung, Manager of the Peining Railway, and Colonel Shibayana.

undertake a preliminary exchange It is believed that they will

of views regarding abolition of

It is dimeult to write of. "The Countryman," that splendid little} quarterly non-party review ant miscellany of English rural life and industry, of which J. W. Rubert-

Scott fo the editor, with out indulging in unrestrained praise both of its contents and its format. The latest inste, for the July-September quarter, the Tangku only maintains the high standard set by previous numbers, but im proven on it. Senrcely an aspect of rural life is left untouched, and the contributed articles, no less than the characteristically sound and balanced editorial comment.

Agreement, The

meeting will be informal, and If its results are satisfactory, a re- resentative conference will be

held-Central News.

are of consuming interest. There FATSHAN STABBING

are no fewer than 175 pages of rending matter in this issue, the most ever offered by the pub- the lishers, to say nothing of

INCIDENT

YEARS

Kitractively-sel-out advertise ACCUSED GETS THREE ments, all of decided interest. Altogether, a really remarkable numbor. Those who want to re- tain touch with the English coun- At the Criminal Sessions this tryside should make a point of morning, the Chief Justice passed subscribing to this little periodi-sentence on Sarwan Singh, who on cal, issued at 25. 6d, per quarter.

HONGKONG TRADE.

REPORTS BY HPORTERS FOR

FORTNIGHT PAST

The following reports have been supplied by importers to, the Hong- kong Generni Chamber of Commercs:

Cotton Piece Goods & Fancy Cotton; Goods. The following reports have been received: There is nothing fresh to report. Clearances havo fallen off and "pot" sales have been very limited.

Woullens.The market remains very quiet, with very little doing in

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Friday had been found guilty of wounding Thukat Sing, a fellow Sikh guard aboard the 4.3. Falshan. Accused was sentenced to three years hard labour,

NEW SOVIET CONSULATE

Kalgan, July 2}.-

The newly established Soviet Consulate here was duly opened yesterday, for the development of Sina-Russian relations in North China-Central Netes.

CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES.

ENGLAND.IST. INNINGS.

any direction. There is certain | C. F. Walters, e and b Chipper- amount of enquiry for Art: Silk field Yarn but actual sales are lacking.

St. Louis Swelter.

New York, July 21. Over one hundred deaths from heat are recorded, including 33 in Mississippi, 28 in Nebraska and 20 in nola, :

In St. Louis, the temperature was 113 degrees in the shade, and

100. In New York 90 dogrees in many other places it was over

was registered-Reuter.

Long Trail of Death

New York, July 21.

Sizzling midsummer heat has eft a trail of deatha and devasta- tivu from Texas to New York, and from Georgia to Nebraska.

The Lesson-Sermon also included. the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Selence End Ifcaith with Key to the Scrip- tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Life is rent, and death is the ilusion. A demonstration of the fucts of Sou!

in Jesus' way resolves the

At Kansas City, the temperature dark visions of material sense inté harmony and immortality. Man's yesterday was 100 degrees In the shade, and 10 deaths have privilege at this supreme moment occurred. At Nowata, Oklahoma,

the words Master: "If a man keep my saying,tered 115 degrees in the shade.

the thermometer yesterday regis. he shall never nee death." To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the this is the great attainment by spiritual facts of being may appear, means of

which we #holl sweep way the false and give place to

is to

prove

the true" (p. 428; 3-12).

of

THRILLING STORY

our

AMERICAN MISSIONARY IN BANDITS HANDS

Hankow, July 21,

The heat has claimed seven

lives at St. Louis, Ave at Oklahoma Houri. Many deaths are reported City and five at St. Joseph, Mis

from other cities and towns,

In the past few days, 10 deaths have occurred from sunstroke at Nebraska.

There appears to be still prospect of immediate relief. Reuter..

In The South-Enst.

RADIO BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S BROADCAST.

RELAY FROM DAVENTRY- TO-NIGHT

From ZBW on a wavelength of 365 motreat

6-8 p.m. European Programme. 6-7 p.m. A Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Grill Room.

7 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Lon- don and New York Stock and Com modlity Quotations Closing Local Stock Quotations.

7.08-7.33 p.m. Light Opera, Vocal Gems-Mian Hook of Holland

(Rubens),

Light Opora Co. Selection-H.M.S. Pinafore (Sul-

livan).

The Band of H. M. Coldstream

Guards. Vocal Grams-Lilac Time (Schubort). Columbia Light Opéra Co, 7.33-8 p.m. Variety.

Piano Sola-Life is just a Bowl of Cherries. Piano

South.

Solo Sleepytime

Down

Carroll Gibbons.

4

Vocal-Cuban Tango.

The Viennese Seven Singing Sisters. Song--You've got me crying again. Charles Carlisle (Tonor). Organ Solo-Take Chance- Selection.

Organ Solo-Broadway Thru'

Keyhole Selection.

Teranco Casey, Instrumentul-The Blue Danube. Instrumental-Liebestraum (Love's

Dream).

n

Ivory Keys Grand Pinco Orchestra,

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Ite- port.

8.03-10.30 p.nt. Chinese Studła Concert.

9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations,

10.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further London Stock and Commodity_Quota- nutians, followed by New York Opening

Quotations.

New York, July 21..

The Rev. Howard Smith, the of the terrific heat wave in the Over 70 have died as the result American missionary, who was

captured by bandita near Peng-South-Eastern States where the shui, Szechuan, on May 8, arrived inhabitants everywhere are pray. here this morning from Fechowing for ruin. on the steamer, ping. He was

From Lincoln, Nebraska, met by his wife, who was very porta have come in that

see him. I had not conditions are critical, and the happy to expected to see him again" sho

worst water famine for many Bald.

years is now being experienced.

Reuter.

In an interview with Reuter, Mr. Smith said that he was cap tured by the notorious bandit, Ho Lung, who, after two days, retreated in the face of the Szechuan troops, and while they were camped in the country near Yuenho, he escaped with a ser- vant in the early hours of June 28,

The next five days were brim- full with adventures and hard- ships. He fell into the hands of soldiers three times, and one night he took refuge in a farmhouse which was attacked.

he

Threatened with death,

second floor Jumped from the window, escaping on his hands and knees through a cornfield.

PANAMA SHAKEN

MANY LIVES LOST IN

· EARTHQUAKE

re-

стор

Puerto Armuelles, July 21. Intense recurring earth pudies have caused very heavy damage in Panama."

Many were killed when a train carrying bannnns was derailed by In particularly violent shock, and

plunged into the sen.

The wharf of the United Fruit Company and fifteen housen owned

44 reached Kwelchow very weak from by the same company were destroy-

proceed to Kungtan and from

The mining town of David Wis there to Pengshui and Fochow.badly damaged United Press.

After a day and n

half, he

some

W. W. Keeton, Oldfield, L

O'Reilly

ed. hunger, and was permitted to

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Metals-There has been enquiry for corrugated bars, etc. from Kwangsi, for building purposes, other wise the market remains about the same ns last reported:

Flour. Stock. totals 150,000 bags. Market steady,

KENT ARRIVES..

FORMER FLAGSHIP UNDER

NEW COMMAND

W. R. Hammond, b Wall E. P. Hendren, b Chipperfield R. E. S. Wyatt, stp. Oldfield,

Grimmett

M. Leyland, lb., b. O'Reilly L. G. Ames, e Oldfield,

Grimmett

J. Hopwood, 1.b.w., b. O'neilly T. B. Mitchell, stp. Oldfield,

Grimmett I. Verity, not out W. E. Rowes,

Grimmett

Extras

Total

C

Ponsford, Is

200

Fall of the wickets: 1 (Keeton) H.M.S. Kent, recommisalaned after for 43; 2 (Waitera) for 85; 3 (11am- a refit and overhaul at Home, arrived | mond) for 185; 4 (Hendren) for 135; yesterday morning from Singapore 6 (Leyland) for 108; 6 (Wyatt) for And will stay here until Wednesday, 170; 7 (Ames) for 189; 8 (Hopwood) July 26, when she goes to Welhaiwoi, for 180; (Mitchell) for 200; 10 by way of Woonung,

(Bowca) for 200.

The Kent is flagship of the China Fleet, and is under a new command, Captain I. B. B. Tower, 1.9.C., having Mucceeded Captain Will. The next Wall senior officer is Commander H.A. McCabe Packer.

ON WORLD TOUR.

WILL ROGERS LEAVES LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, July 23.. Will Rogers, actor and columnlat, has pulled from here on a world erulo via Japan, China and Russia. This Is Rogera second world cruise since he became famous. Io visited Hongkong in 1981. United Press.

O'Reilly

· Bowling Analysis.

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W.

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Grimmett Chipperfield

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AUSTRALIA-1ST, INNINGS.

W. A. Brown, b Bowes...

$6

Reuter..

Goes To Execution.

Peiping, July 22, One of the murderers of Dr. Ingram, Sun Lo-sze, was sent to Tientain from Polping for execu tion to-day.

He was found guilty after a pro- tracted trial at Peiping-Central News Agency.

RUSSIAN SHOT

-DASTARDLY CRIME IN

TIENTSIN

Tientsin, July 21.

Series of Quakes.

Panama, July 21, Many were killed and hundreds injured in the Puerto Armuelles | earthquake.

A concrete wharf, recently built at a cost of £60,000, was destroyed. The first shock was followed almost hourly by quakes in Chiriqui Province,

the

Sevilla Island has disappeared. No damage was reported from the Canal zone.

Later.

10.40 p.m. Clone Down.

ZEK PROGRAMME.

8.30.10 p.m. European Programme from "Z.E.K." on a frequency of 640 he's (484 metres).

8.30-8.40 p.m. A Reiny from Daven- satis- try. (should reception prove

factory).

"An Eyewitness Account of This Morning's play in the Fourth Test Match, by Howard Marshall." Relay- ed from Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds.

8,40-9.05 p.m. Band Music, Ruy Blas Overture (Mendelssohn). The Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards. Tancredi Overture (Rossini).

The Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guarde. Woodland Pictures Rural Suite

(Fletcher),

The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.

1. An Old World Garden. 2. (a) Intruduction and Dance-In

the Hayfields;

(b) llumoreske The Bean Feast:- Selection of Wilfred Sanderson's

Songs.

The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, 9.05-9.45 p.m. A Concert Violin Solo-La Capricieuse (Elgar, Op. 17).

Violin Solo-Waltz in C Sharp

Minor (Chopin).

Bronislaw Hoberman. Song A Summer Night (Thomas), Song My Dearest Heart (Sulli-

van).

Doris Vane (Soprano). Pianoforte Solo Scherzo No. 3 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 39 (Chopin). Mischa Lavitski. Song-Bright is the Ring of Words (Vaughn Williama).

Song The Roadside Fire (Vaughn.

Willams).

Stuart Robertson (Baritone). 'Cello Solo-Elegia (Faure-Op. 24). Maurice Marechal. 9.45-10 p.m. Light Orchestral Selec tinny.

London Sulte (Erle Costes):

Eric Contes and Symphony Orchestra. "Covent Gar

1. (n) Tarantelle

den".

(b) Meditation -"Westminster",

2. March-"Knightsbridge", Because (d'Hardelot).

A Little Love, A. Little Klan

(Silesu).

Albert Sandler and His Orches- tra.

women

-10 p.m. Close Down,

British and American and children have been evacustod from Puerto Armuelles where being frequent shocks are still Telt.

Panic-stricken inhabitants, who

A particularly dastardly crime have been driven from their homes, was commlited In broad daylight here yesterday, in full view of the are living in tenta in the streets. golf club in the former Russian To add to their terror, cracks have Concession. Two Russian youths, PPcured in the pavements and riding home on bicycles, were suddenly

confronted by two well- Tho port is under martial law, 15 dressed Chinese youths who The Mayor has urged the Govern

way with

pointed

W. 11. Ponsford, hit wk, b Verity 181 barred their

W. A. Oldfield, e Ames, b Bowes

Q

271

W. M. Woodfull, b Bowes

D. G. Bradman, not out

S. J. McCabe, not out

Extras

roadways.

0 pistols, ordered them to put thoirment of Panama to rush tents to hands up, and attempted to seize the scene of the disaster-Router. 18 the bicycles.

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Tolal (for 4 wkła.) Fall of the wickets, 1 (Brown) for 7: 2 (Oldfield) for 30; 0 (Woodfall) for 39; 4.(Ponsford) for $27. BEN NON-DIGNISKLJU

FRENCH POLITICS.

RADICALS URGE PREMIER TO RETURN

Paris, July 21. A political crisis in developing here.

At a meeting of the Radical members of the Government, the of the Executive Committee Radical Party agreed that M. Tardieu's attack against the CX- before Premier, M. Chautemps,

tho

The younger Russian did not PUBLIC WORKS PLAN. the Stavisky Commission, had a resist, but the older boy, 7ehu Chudin, aged 19, put up resistance of the bandits whereupon, ona fired twice, wounding Chudin in the arm and abdomen.

Chudin collapsed and the ban- dits made off with his bicycle,

Ling Po, a workman, fell from the Profcesor R. Robertson, M.A., will scaffolding on the site of the Hong- The wounded youth was rushed speak at to-morrow's Rotary Club kong and Shanghai Bank yesterday to hospital but succumbed after tiffin on "Local Economics: Some afternoon and received head injuries an unsuccessful operation. Aspects."

which may prove serious,

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R.F.C. WILLING TO ASSIST NEW YORK

Now York, July 31.

political character, and Radical ministers must accord- ingly draw political consequences from it.

It also agreed that only the Cabinet, presided over by the Pre

It is understood that the Recon-mior, was qualified to take the struction Finance Corporation is necessary decisions, and that ready to buy $100,000,000 worth of M. Doumergue should be invited Now York City bonds to enable to return to Paris for such a New York to execute its public Cabinet meeting next wock works project,--Reutor.

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FLOOD'S COST ···

HUNDREDS DROWNED;

IN KOREA

Fusan, July 22.

The earlier, estimato of 5,000 dead in believed now to bo exces- alve, though it is dimicult to establish any exact number of casualties owing to the completo break-down of communication.. Heavy loss of life is feared to Even the telephone lines to some, have been sustained in the south-densely populated areas are out east of Korea in consequence of and no telegraphic communication the overflow of the Rakuto River has been possible for hours and ita tributarios.

In the more severely affected, The overflow and subsoquent districts it is known that 6,000 floods were caused by a doluge homes wore, under water and that which has persisted without in several hundreds more had been termission for the past week. washed away.—Router.