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FIRST EDITION.

Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 1440

JULY 三拜腹號五廿月七英沿香 WEDNESDAY,

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1934.

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HEAT WAVE SPREADS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

Scores Die Daily in United States; Serious Fires

HUNDREDS PERCH ON ROOF-TOPS

VISTULA OVERFLOWS AT FRESH POINT

WARSAW OUT OF DANGER

Warsaw, July 24. The Vistula has broken`its: banks to the south of War- BAW and has flooded an

enormous area.

A torribly heavy death roll in feared to be inevitable throughout the newly-stricken region of Sandomierz, as the waters swept over a great stretch of country in n raging rush.

Fifteen hundred square miles of country have been flooded to an average depth of twenty feet!

of the eleven thousand habitants few got clear.

in-

Thousands are sitting on the roof-tops of houses, in imminent danger of collapse, and further! threatened by starvation, though every resource is being mobilised to evacuate them.-Reuter.

FORTY-EIGHT HOURS OF RAIN

видел

Great Lake Formed

(Special to "Talegraph"

Ordinance,

182.

A davastating forest fire in the United States approaching the edge of a road.

IN DUBLIN NOW

REPUBLICANS

DRILL IN STREETS

MANY PRISONERS RELEASED

Dublin, July 24,

political pri-

Thirty-seven soners were released to-day as a

sequel to the recent court case declaring their imprisonment to have been illegally imposed.

Thirty-one of them were Re- publicans and HIX were Blue Shirto.

The Republicans formed up out- side the prison and marched in! military fashion to the offices of the Republican Press, where they proceeded to drill obstructing all trafic.

¿Dy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphia M

Received Zi, .33 .m.)

Warsaw, July 24. Renewed rains for forty-eight

A-police-sergeant remonstrated, hours have caused the Vistula to break its banks-between-Warsaw but the angry shouts of the

Crowd:

"Don't dare interfere and Cracow.

with Republicans," caused him and other police officers to allow the drilling to proceed,

It is reported that a great lake over seven kilometres wide has been formed.

CHICAGO STRIKE TRAGEDY

UNTENDED CATTLE DIE IN SCORES

PICKETS GUARDING

ENTRANCES

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphio Mésanger Ordinance, 1894. Received July 25, 0.20 aim,),

NEW YORK, JULY 24.

The great paril now facing farmers of the Middle West whos crops escaped the drought of six weeks ago, is their destruction by fire in the new heat wave now rattled over the seas. Largo districts have bean devastated. Our photo was taken in Kansas showing a great tract

ablaze.

Nazi Aid

THE TALE OF TRIBULATION IN THE UNITED For

STATES SEEMS ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED,

WITH A HEAT WAVE EMBRACING THE Terrorists

GREATER PART OF THE COUNTRY, BURNING UP CROPS, SETTING GREAT WHEATFIELDS AND FORESTS ON FIRE-ADDED TO STRIKES AND OTHER TROUBLES

ment

SWISS SEIZURE REVEALS A SOURCE

EXPLOSIVE LOSSES

$

GREEN ISLAND AFFAIR RECALLED

GOVERNMENT TO

PAY OWNERS

DELUGE IN LONDON

CITY STREETS UNDER WATER

HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE FIRE

London, July 24.' Violent thunderstormins with torrents of rain occur- red in many parts of the British Isles to-day.

London suffered from a veritable deluge and so also did Leods where the Test match had to be abandon- od as drawn.

In London and the southern suburbs, dozens of houses were atruck by lightning and a fro started on Hammersmith Bridge.

The cables undernoath the bridge were fused and the fire brigado was required to put out the flames.de

Many roads, including some streets in Central London, were for some time inchos deop in water, and several local train services were held up.

The storms caused no direct casualties although two youths were killed in traffic accidents attributable to the weather.

At Leeds, a violent rainstorm A strike and the heat wave have combined to produce

shortly before one o'clock stopped. terrible conditions in Chicago-stockyards. Four

* Beme, July 24.

the Test match and further storms. hundred pickets are guarding the entrances to end It was revealed to-day that

Imade it impossible to régume force the strike, which has been called on the plea explosives obviously intended for Arising out of the loss, in hand still required 166 to avoid play. England with four wickets that the employers are not living up to the settle-terrorist outrages in Austria through defalcation, of a large an innings defeat, so that Aus

reached in November following a strike of have been conveyed from Ger- quantity of dynamite, detona of, an almost certain victory,

tralia was rubbed by, the weather. 8,000 workers.

many through Swiss lake waters.

tors and fuse at the Gunpowder British Wireless Depot at Green Island, in The Swiss Government is lodg- November last, Government has Meanwhile, over 75,000 cattle are jamming the pens and

dying rapidly owing to the absence of water and ment of the Reich following the 931,563 rio "CRAZY" FLYING IN ing a protest with the Govorn- paid

totalling fodder and the intense heat. Executives and office seizure by Swiss ofcinis of a workers quit their desks and helped to feed and German motorboat in Swiss terri- whom the explosives belonged,

torial waters in Lake Constance. water the moaning animals, but they were unable

This is revealed in the votes The motorbent was carrying which are to come before the. -to-get-round-to-but a small percentage. United explosives for the Nazi terrorist Finance Committee of the Legis

Press.

activities in Austria.

lative Council at its next meeting. when a supplementary vote for the sum named will be requested.

CHICAGO CATTLE

HORROR

The Republicans Fifteen hundred houses have

explained been submerged, and

that they demanded in prison to over five thousand fresh victime are home- be separated from the Blue Shirts whom they regarded na British agents. The authorities

agreed to the request, they said.

The case which permitted their Scores Dying For Lack

• Веня..

Hundreds are perched on house- tops and tree-tops awaiting rescue, The crop damage is estimated at four million zloty.

CARPATHIAN DISASTER. The rivers in the Carpathians have been freshly swollen by неусте cloudbursts und seven villages aro under water an have been evacuated.

the

In the vicinity of Warsaw it- self, the waters appear to be re- eeding and the danger to capital is considered United Press.

past.

WARSAW SAVED

Waters Beginning

To Recede

Later.

The cessation of the torrential rains to the south of Warsaw has

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release was a habeas corpus plication following sentence on a Blue Shirt by a military tribunal. The Supreme Court ruled that the Tribunal had no jurisdicion. Reuter.

BISHOP HAMILTON PASSES AWAY

Of Food

New York, July 24. The merciless, exhausting heat wave shows no sign of ending.

In the Middle West conditions) are terrible. Hundreds of deaths are occurring.

Fatalities in different parts of the country all due to the terrific heat are being reported at the rate of fifteen an hour,"

The total number of dead now

Noted Methodist Leader exceeds even hundred.

in Boston

(Special to "Telegraph") (By Teleprash, Copyright. Tatenraphie 15 Pon.)

Ordinance.

Iteceived Jus

Boston, July 24.

FOREST FIRES.

To add to the perlis, devastating forest fres have broken out, hundreds of men fighting in the blazing sun in vain to curb them. Huge whontfolds, which seemed kely to escape the drought, have been swept from end to end by

anved Sandomierz und the Dulawny The death has occurred at the districts from further disaster. age of eighty-nine of Bishop_John. fire.

The water is now draining back Hamilton, the Dean of the Board to the Vistula with the result that of Bishops of the Methodist ten thousand inhabitants have Eplacopal Church,

been able to clambor from the He had been ill for only a few roofs of their houses where they days. had been marooned for twenty-four hours.

over

Thousands of cattle are threaten-

ed with death in the torrid hent.

STOCKYARD STRIKE.

Ife was first licenced to prench in the Methodist Episcopal Church The violence of the storms in 69 years ago, was founder of the shown by reports that five men People's Church, Boston, in. 1875, were killed by lightning at Jaslo and was elected Bishop in 1900. of cattle, many of which were al and Reyoral more died from the United Press. Bame enuse near Luck-Reuter,

USELESS TO GO ON

DAIREN CONFERENCE

SOON OVER

A

Dairen, July 24,

WEST PACIFIC

QUAKE

MUCH DAMAGE TO PROPERTY

London, July 24,

The Chicago stockyards whore fifteen hundred men are on strike to-day present a terrible sight.

The yards contain 75,000 head

ready semi-starved before reaching Chicago from the drought-areas. FRANTIC, BELLOWING. They are bellowing frantically for food and scores are dropping dead overcome by the heat, the thermometer being at 104.8 F., the hottest day in the city's history, Yard officials, office workers, are deing their beat to feed the beasts, but the strikers are adamant and refuse to return to the yards.

The Sino-Japanese discussions The High Commissioner for Reutor. ended this evening with nothing the Western Pacific reports to of value accomplished. After the the Colonial Office that a sovere

TWO HUNDRED DEAD IN KANSAS

Fourteenth Day Of Drought

(Special to "Telegraph")

(Dy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphia Mam

Ordinance, siges

ses. Reorived July

Kansas City, July 24. Two hundred aro estimated to have died in Kansas City and the! surrounding district in the last fourteen days as a direct result of the heat wave.

This is the fourteenth day of the drought in the Middle West and the temperatures are ranging from 100° to 115 over the entire area-United Proax.

MINNEAPOLIS STRIKE

Unionists Coming Out In Sympathy

(Special to "Telegraph") (Du Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphia Mem agra | Ordinases,

Received July 2868. #5, p.10 and

Minneapolis; July 24, Thin lorry-drivers' strike which has been dragging on for weeks has suddenly, taken a more serious turn.

The city is now threatened with A general strike.

Threats of action by the Goyer- nor of the State seem to have pre- cipitated the trouble.

Three members of the socalled Nazl Austrian Legation" from Lindau, Bavaria, were arrested. Reuter.

A

MIRACULOUS RECOVERY

MARSHAL LYAUTEY

More

REVIEWS

Ordinance.

· compensation

OTHER VOTES.

Amongst further votes to, come before the Committee are the Foi lowing:

$1,450 for the Armoured

Car

SHANGHAI

HONGKONG PILOTS" EXHIBITION

Shanghai, July 26. A demonstration by Mr. A. D. Bennett and Lord Douglas-Hamil- ton at Hungjao Aerodrome yester day afternoon impressed a large crowd of Chinese and foreign re- sidents.

The airmen, who came up from

Hongkong, flew in the latest Avro Fairey-Fox machines and they gave

and Motor Machine Gun Section of the Volunteer Defence Corps. It is explained that the No. 1 Armoured Car-Dennis, 27-3 A. P. a remarkable exhibition.

Those present included Sir John (1923 Model) is, of no further use Brenan, Brigadier Thackeray, Mr. In its present employment as the Wu Teh-chen and other Chinese car is of an obsoleto pattern, and officials,

its reconditioning as a fighting capecially by "crazy" flying by who were thrilled vehicle, would be uneconomical, both pilots-Reuter...

It is desired to fit the chassis as

'FLU EPIDEMIC

TIGHTENS GRIP ON SHANSI

Taiyunnfu, July 25..

(Spacial to "Telegraph") ·

Ty Telegraph, Couricht: Telegraphie a truck and to utilise the armour- Revived Jod plating in improving machine

gun emplacements. Paris, July 24. -.

$1,650 for alterations to tho An improvement which his en Kowloon Mortuary so that thero tourage describe as miraculous may be two sections with separate. has occurred in the condition of entrances, one for those wishing Marshal Lyautey, who earlier in to register deaths at the office and the day was reported to be sink- the other for the reception of ing

A panic has been caused here by a bodies. So marked 'was his recovery that

report from South Shansi stating $4,400 for cost of Reuter's daily that the influenza opidemic is he was able to dictate two letters nows bulletin for broadcasting spreading. OVET. and sign them with his own hand. from July 16 to December 31, 1934. afflicting

a wider area, Marshal Lyautey is the veteran

daily.--Central $2,000 for additional electric News. soldier and colonial administra-lights at the Fenwick Street plor, tor whose name will always be on certain trafle islands now being linked with the French Morocco erected, and for streets where new Protectorate where he served as development has rendored light Governor and High Commissionering necessary. for many years-Router.

SCOTSMAN FOUND DROWNED

DEPRESSED BY LACK OF WORK · "All cleaners, dyers and laun-

Shanghai, July 25. derers have already walked out in

An open vordict that death was sympathy with the lorry-drivers despite the warning of Mr. W. H, due to drowning was returned yes. Green, the President of the A.F.Lterday afternoon in the British outlawing sympathy strikes..

An extension of the movement Police Court by Coroner Morris at

KING GEORGE'S, ACCESSION

25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

(Special to "Telegraphy

ange Ordinamon, SERS. Serdivad Lady

Londo London, July 24

Is feared and the unioniste claim the conclusion of an inquest on

In the House of Commons, In that over 8,400 are Involved Duncan Campbell, an unemployed the course of a written reply to already.—United Prose.

Scotch engineer whose body was a question, Mr. Baldwin expressed GOVERNOR'S. THREAT. found in the river on Friday morn the hope that it might be possible Japanese delegato had indicated earthquake occurred at Vanikore inflicted by. robbers in Chinese ter With Injuries niated to have been

Router says that the Governor 0g,

to make an announcement before Japan's wishes, in Your Tung Island, in the British Solomontory, a man named Lau, Mul, aged of the State has ordered the lorry. The evidence, showed that the the House rises with regard to decided it was useless to proceed. Islands Protectorate, on July 10, 27, of Taips Old Marks, was taken drivers and their employers to deceased appeared to be very de- the arrangements for the celebra An understanding was reached doing considerable damage to to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday to end the strike within twenty-four pressed by his Inability to obtain tion of His Majesty the King's on a few minor points.-Central | property. No lives were lost-have a gunshot wound in his right hours, otherwise the military will employment, but was otherwise Acession to the Throne,

British Wireless.

| take control of the city loufari, quité normal-Router.

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Mr. Black, of 22 Conduit Road, has notified the police that his "boy" WAS yesterday bitten by n dog, The "boy" was taken to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment and the dog removed to Kennedy Town for observation..

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