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FIRST EDITION

Supreme

Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 14274-

-70 METAARE MONDAY, AUGUST 13, · 1934.

FAST BOWLERS IN

ENGLAND'S TEST TEAM

FOUR

INVITED TO OVAL

PEEBLES IN FOR FINAL MATCH

THE RETURN OF SUTCLIFFE

London, Aug, 12. England's team for the Final Test will be an- nounced on the morning of the match. Fourteen players have been invited to attend at the Oval on Saturday next..

The Hat reveals that the Sulee tore are under no delusion about England's weakness in previous xames all the usual batsmen are in again, Suteliffe returning at the expenso of Kenton-but the choice of bowlers will on this occasion include no fewer than Four speed merchants.

It seems highly probable that three of them will secure inclu- slon, G. 0. Allen, Bowes and Gover,

A surprise choice is 1. A. R. Peebles, the Middlesex amateur; who has been consistent without brilliance all the season and did well in the fourth and fifth tests of the 1930 tour.

The team will be chosen from: R, E, S. Wyatt, captain.

Sutcliffe,

C. F. Walters,

Hammond,

Hendren,

Leyland,

"Ames”

G. D. Allen,

Verity,

Bowes,

Gover, (Surrey) Clark,

Captain M. J. Ayling (left) and Captain Leonard G. Reid, the British era, who were forced by engine trouble to descend at Heston on their attempted non-stop flight from Wasaga Beach. Canada, to Bardad, in the plane "The Trail of the Caribou”

BUTTERFIELD STEAMER IN COLLISION

TRIPLE MISHAP ON BEND IN

WHANGPOO RIVER

CURRENT IN CONTROL

KIAN DAMAGED.

Shanghai, Aug. 13. was inevitable the skipper order- Three

Jed the engines hard astern. Yangtsze river steamers were involved in collision yesterday afternoon, in the Whangpoo.-

The mishaps occurred near the Garden Bridge bead shortly after five o'clock in the evening.

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Admiral SEVERAL REBEL GERMAN

Byrd Rescued

LONE VIGIL IN THE

ANTARCTIC

Washington, Aug. 12. ̈ Admiral Richard Byrd, the famous polar explorer, has at last been rescued from the observation hut in which he' passed the winter alone.

Admiral Byrd fios been separated from his Antarctic Ex- pedition's,main, base on the Bay of Whales by a succesalon of violent blizzarde which have made attempte te traverse the 120 miles from the main camp impossible until the last few days.

The good news is contained in a message received by the National Geographien! Association from Little America,

The message added that Admiral Byrd was thin and weak after his ordeal, but retained his good spirits.

The rescue party, under Dr. Thomas Poulter,

left Little America on August 8. They had twice previously been turned back by storms and other mishaps. Reuter.

AVIGNON RAIL SMASH

EXCESSIVE SPEED ALLEGED

FIRE OUTBREAK

PASTORS ARRESTED

NEARLY 300 DOGS DESTROYED

At Kowloon Dogs' Home In July

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According to police in- formation, during July 297 dogs were sent to the Dogs' Home, of which number 272 were destroyed. There were still 25 dogs in the Home at the end of the month.

Of the dogs admitted to the Home. 61 wore from Kowloon Tong, 119 from the New Territories, and

117 from Kowloon.

TAXI-MAN STRIPPED

HOLD-UP BY TWO PASSENGERS

SAIKUNG ROAD INCIDENT

How two robbers engaged a

CHURCH WAR GOES

ON

REICHSBISHOP DENOUNCED

SO-CALLED SYNOD ATTACKED

(Special to "Tatograph”)

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie Mas ange Ordinemos JARI. Roosier Anguki 15. 9.0 8.m.)

Berlin, Aug. 12..

'A number of members of

Pastors' Emergency Federa

The design for the giant. Soviet

erected at Moscow.

tion, still defying the Reich-Palace and statue of Lazio in be bishop, Dr. Mueller, were

arrested in Berlin and the Provinces to-day.

The arrests were ordered im- mediately it became known that they had read from their pulpits to-day, a message violently de nouncing the Reichbishop and the Synod.

The Message was based upon taxi in Kowloon last night and, 2 Timothy, Chapter Two, 19:- after being driven out to a quiet

"Nevertheless the foundation of spot on the Saikung Road, at-God standeth sure, having this tacked and robbed the driver in seal, The Lord knoweth them that told in a report made to the are his. And, Let every one that police this morning,

nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

Tong Ka-tim, the driver of taxi No. 736, states that at about 11 o'clock last night, whilst he was

:

"REBEL" APPEAL..

Avignon, Aug. 12. A tremendous crash at at the Star Ferry stand in Kow- four o'clock in the morning, loon, two men came up and en- followed by the sudden ex-gaged his vehicle, instructing him declared that the so-called National

to drive them to Kowloon City.

Ex-

The Kian was hard hit on the tinction of all station lights, starboard side and her bridge marked the derailment out- house and superstructure were side Avignon station of the considerably damaged,

After colliding with the Kian, Geneva - Ventimiglia the Tungshus, swung by the The China Navigation Comcrashed in, struck the port side of

current with idle engines and bows Press. pany's 8. Kian, which was inward the

Immediately, Japanese bound and keeping well upon the Maru, which was anchored at the ing down the line where the giant every available ship, Fongyang man on the station staff went rush- starboard side of the fairway. M.K.K. noticed a Chinese steamer, the the Japanese Consulate-General of escaping steam and the shrieks wharf in front of locomotive was wrecked, the biss Tungshun, belonging to the Tatung where they lay wedged together and groans of the injured in- Steamship Company proceeding by the current until the Chinese dicating that the smash was a down river for Wuhu and Yang ship was towed off hy two tugs serious one, Six were killed and taze ports and bearing down an and proceeded down river. the same sido.

The Tungahun was only slightly They sighted one another almost damaged by her adventures, and James Langrdige and Nichols on the bend, the Klan's engines the Japanese vesuel suffered little (Essex) have not been given in-were immediately stopped and more vitations for the Oval.

when it was seen that a collleian Reuter,

I. A. R. Peebles..

Gregory (Surrey).

THE DROPPED.

Hopwood and Mitchell of the bowlers in the Fourth Teat have been dropped with Keeton, and,

Weather conditions will t- doubtedly influence the final selec- tion. On a fast wicket, the first eleven players in the list would almost certainly constitute the team. A chance of the wicket playing_trickily would probably enable L A. R. Peebles to gain his place to the exclusion of Gover. The chances of Gregory and Clark scem small in the absence of any accident, although Gregory will probably be nominated twolfth men.

YELLOW RIVER IN FLOOD

Political Outlook

In America

TREND TOWARDS THE LEFT?

than

scratched Paint,

POSSIBLE RIVAL TO ROOSEVELT

SENATOR McNARY OF OREGON

(Special to "Telegraph" (by Telegraph deppright. The

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35 soriously injured.

The "rebel" Pastors' message

Road, near the Home for the Aged justice and fixed discussions and Synod had adopted day by which On arriving at the Saikung they hoped to turn injustice into Poor, the men asked him to stop,

which he did. They then got out, resolutions which were invalid and the driver asked them for according to clerical worldly right. their fares.

Immediately one

of the mon

Whoever

tho

oboys them, the other man' struck him across stitution and the laws of the throw pepper in his eyes, while message declared, violates the con-

him of his jacket, his trousers and kind. They then proceed to strip Church. the free with a weapon of some

pockets $21.60 in money. his shoes, and stole from his

"We decline and we appeal to the congregations of the Churches

have been due to excessive speed, far, no arrests have been made,

The robbers then made off in not to be gulity of breaches of the The derailment is believed to the direction of Kowloon City. So constitutional law."

Router Special. All eight carriages on the train left the rails and the postal van,

next to the engine, crashed into a "BACK TO THE LAND"

goods train on a 'parallel Jine,

FOUR MAIN LINES BLOCKED. The zan WOR smaaled to amithoreens and the goods train was also derailed.

All four main lines were block- 0d by the wreckage.

Roacue workers wore considor ably hampered by the darkness in which they were required to work. Their first task was to subdue the fire which broke out in the engine of the express.

New York, Aug. 12. No British or American passen New York, Aug. 12.

The possibility of a surprise gers were involved in the disaster.. Political observers close to Ad-tial election emerged at Salem.

candidate for the next Presiden-Router. mínistration circles in Washing-Oregon, to-day, when Senator ton believe that the nationalisa contemplating running for The NO MORE WASTAGE/OF

indicated that he was tion of silver, while technically Fresidency in 1996. inflationary, is not to be con- strued as a

He agreed, however, that the major inflationary matter was too distant to be given move because of the relatively small amount of money involved. serious thought at the present. The Inhabitants of Tsinanfu arú Many believe that psychological-who was born near Salem, was

Senator Charles Linza McNary, Americans To Bid For alarmed by the sudden rise of the ly it may cause inflation and that chairman of the State Republican Yellow River. The water level at its political effect will be to Committee 1916-17, and was electe Lokow, to the north of Tsinanfu, satisfy the silver bloc until after ed

Seized Stocks to the Sonato in 1917-

TSINANFU FEARING

FLOOD HAVOC ·

Tainanf. Aug. 18.

GOOD LIQUOR

((Special to "Telegraph”)

Fly Telegraph, Čepuricki. Telegraphie Mas Ordinance, 1886 Received · Aranet

IN AMERICA

SMALLER CHICAGÓ

POPULATION

(Special to "Talograph" Teleprash, Copyright. Talspraykie Kni

1986.

Bucelené Amoned

Chicago, Aug.. 12.

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JAPANESE AERODROME NEAR HSIFENGKOW .

Reports Attract Interest in Peking

Peking, Aug. 12. Attention has Suen aroused by

a raport that the Japanese military authorities are planning to build The population of Chicago to a big aerodrome outside Haifeng- to-day 8.268,518 as compared with kow, to be capable of holding over 3,376,438 in the census of April, 1930....

200 planes, The decrease is

Is attributed. to a Survey of a alto is, alleged to "Back to the Land" migration, have been

commenced.---Central to the depression. Many other cities are experiencing simí. | News. "Iar décranse-United Press.

due

MORE DOG-BITES

TWO FURTHER CASES REPORTED

re-

ARMY EXERCISES

is only a little below that recorded the November elections. It is United Press. last year, which caused a flood dia-thought that the booming of stock

JAPANESE WAR GAMES nater.

and commodity prices is not war-

IN NORTH CHINA` As a further rise in feared, the ranted by the sliver polity.

triction is highly probable. local conservancy

authorities are . Dug to the resentment in some

Two further cases of dog-bite

Chinwangtao, Aug. 18: ~| It will take a few weeks yet for | 33, 624 «M taking emergency mosaures Brd quarters againet Washington the Securities Commission to

are reported this morning. In pre Japanese garrison troops, strengthening the dykes. Thou- policies, business confidence is at formulate à definite policy.

Now York, Aug. 12/ instance, a man named Lau Mo-inforced by about 400 from Tien- sands of workers have been recruit a low ebb. The continuation of It is not considerad likely that liquor by Revenue man is likely to loo Road. He has been admitted the south of Chinwangtab early An end to the waste of good ting was bitten by, a dog in Water-tein, commenced manoeuvres to ed.Central News,

drought losses is a major in there will be a special session of be called. fluence on business policy and Congress this autumn.

to the Kowlook Hospital, while the this morning. Last night, trenches Passengers who left by the Em-higher prices for farm products

It la learned that instead of order dog has boon sent to Mataukok. Indications are that the general ing its destruction, the Treasury press of Asia on Friday included Mr. are indicated for the next six course of the President continues is working out a plan to give in- Lok King Lane, was bitten by a

wero dug for this purposo.--- and Mrs. D. Drummond, Mra, . H months. This will probably cause towards the Left. The refinanc-dividual retail buyers a chance to brown show dog on both legs in

In the other case, Leo Iu, of oral News Garred, Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Mr. a considerable Increase in food ing operations which will take bid for 150,000 gallons of high Kennedy Town The v P. 1. Newman, Mr. and Mira, H., 15.pricos next winter. Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter

place next month are making out grade imported liquor which was been seat to the GCilt, while the victim his and the Mases" Potter, and Mr. and It to falt that the abandonward focal conservation noces seized during Prohibition-United dog undergoing Men. A. B. Purves.

mont of the Bankhead cotton res-sury-Scan, Culbertson and Fritz. Press

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GUN BATTLE IN SHANGHAI

SIX PEDESTRIAN VICTIMS

15-YEAR-OLD LAD KILLED

Shanghai, Aug. 13,

A furious burst of pistol fire between gunmen and police caused

a panic in Avenue Edward VII last night.-

Six pedestrians were victims of

ing a woman, were wounded and the shooting, none of the gang- sters or police officers being hit

Five Chinese passers-by, includ-

age, was shot dead." a Chinese boy, fifteen years, of

The gun

battle developed be- tween seven gunmen from French- town and police from the Interna- tional Settlement.

A quarrel between two Chinese In a Settlement teashop atarted a row in which a shot was fired. the police bying attracted thereby. CUNMEN ESCAPE.

They found themselves involved at once with a gang of seven armed men, who fled from the Settlement Into Frenchtown, firing on the run, and escaped..

More than forty shots were fired by both sides in the course of the gun-battle and residents of Avenue Edward VII were janic-stricken. until it was all over. Reuter,

STOP PRESS

London, Aug. 19.*; Worldwide dumping by Ger- man manufacturers is threa toned by the Hitler Govern- ment, according to the Daily Horaida city editor, who says the goods will be sold at or be- low cost in a desperate

at- tempt to obtain funds to pur-, chase raw materials. German manufacturers have been in formed that it is a nationaƐ duty to sell abroad, foss. Thom boycotted

refusawise st