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TUESDAY, JJULY 24, 1934,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

STORMS RAGE

MR. A. J. CASTILHO

HURRICANE HAVOCˇON'

CONTINENT

London, July 23,

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DEATH OF YOUNG *** PORTUGUESE RESIDENT

DASH FROM GAOL

FIVE DESI'ERADOES GET;

OUT OF CELLS

Tho focal Portuguena com-

Hunteville, Texas, July 28... Storms, floods, forest fire and munity was robbed of one of its

Three criminals under sentence droughts are causing untold losses most popular members on Sunday or death here have sensationally throughout Europe and America. when Alberto Joao Castilho died escaped from the condemned cells. London yesterday was struck by at his residence, No. 76A Wong- They were Raymond Hamilton, athunderstorm which loft the

nelchong Road, after an illness Joe Palmer and Blackle Thompson.

lasted close

Two companions falled to got which

01 alght city flooded in many places and

One, Whitey Walker, was tied up traffic on a score of roads, months. Deceased was only 26 away. killed,

and Charlie Frazier WILS Southern London areas wore turn-years of age.

wounded by the guards and recap- ed into lakon by nightfall, Becken- Educated at St. Joseph's College, turod. ham having a rainfall of one and he was for a long time with The ringleader W4.5 Charlie three-quarter inches and

West Noronha & Co., the Government Frazier, who suddenly produced Wickham over four.

and General Printers. He left gun and overpowered a guard. eight months ago on account of Taking the guard's keys, he liber- At Ilayea a landslide blocked a 1}]ness, but during the time heated the other four from the death rallway cutting and between was with the firm, he had earned cells. The five then used ladder Twickenham and Richmond for himself the respect and esteem and had got over the wall before vohicles ploughed axle-deep in mud of all who came into contact with the guards could get into action. and water, hundreds of cars were him. His death is a distinct loss Fire was opened upon them and stalled and the electric railway die to the Colony,

two were hit The other three abled.

Deceased was a son of Mr. safely reached motor cars which Unfortunately all the rain fell A. F. Castilho, of the Post Office, were waiting for them, and fled.

Hamilton, and the others where it was least needed and the and is survived by a number of under sentence of death for kill- London authorities are imploring sisters, and brothers among whoming Major Crowson when the the public to economize, predicting are Messrs. T. Castilho, also of notorious Clyde Barrow whe freed a water, famine In September. the Post Once, and L. J. Castilho, from Eastham Prleon. United

of the American Express.

Press. The, funeral took place at the Barrow was alot to death by There have been widespread Roman Catholic Cemetery and Polico last May. lossos on the Continent due to was attended by a number of re- freaks of the weather. In Plot-latives and friends. The Rev. mont the worst cloudburst and hur. Father Page officiated at the ricano in memory of the in- graveside.

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Continent Ravaged.

habitants swept the countryside.

In Switzerland many vineyarda

were devastated by gaols. At and Minnesota, will be converted Geneva a thunderstorm broke with into desert as scorching winds torrific force and # crowded tear off the dust-dry topsoil. tramear, was enveloped in ·"blue; The Federal Agriculture De- flames. The passengers aculously escaped uninjured.

Far to the south, Vesuvius is belching flame and thick smoke.

In Pomerania, 7.000 acres of forest are affre, and the flames are advancing at the rate of 100 yards) a minute,

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Colombo. July 23. mir-partment Announces plane to A complete boycott of British plant a forest bolt 100 miles deep goods is the only effective weapon from Canada's border south to if the proposed quota against Japan Texas, at a cost, of £14,000,000, is imposed upon Ceylon, and Mr. President Roosevelt has already Goonesinghe, leader of the Labour. signed a preliminary appropriation Party In the State Council. for £3,000,000 for this purpose. addressing a meeting of the

The barrens, running from the Ceylon Mercantile Union. Canadian frontier south- tho "At this time of depression Serious Drought.

Mexican border, including the cheap Japanese goods are a boon southern "bad lands," and "much to the poor people in Ceylon, and From New York come reports desert, may alt ultimately be turn- no local industries are endangered that large tracts of land in the ed into producing, arable land-by the influx," he declared.— Dakotas and Nebraska, Montana] Our Own Correspondent.

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