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SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935.

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TEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION ON OIL CARRIER

TEXAS CO. PLANT

THREATENED

ONLY ONE SURVIVES BLAST AND FIRE

BLOWN INTO SEA, YOUTH SWIMS ASHORE

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Ten Chinese lost their lives, it is believed instantaneously, when 6,000 tins of oil, gasoline and asphalt aboard a junk of which they were in charge exploded at Tsun Wan at 6.30 am. to-day with a ter rific report heard for several miles around.

For a few terrifying moments it was feared that the plant of the Texas Company would be involved with the huge stores of combustible fuel stored there, but, thanks to a favourable wind and tide, the shat tered bulk of the junk drifted further into the bay away from the works.

Only one survivor of the crew of ten men and one

His Excellency the Governor spanking at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the new G.C.H. yesterday, when he announend that; with Thoir - Majusties' consent," the institution would be named the Queen Mary Hospital. (Photo: Ming Yụên).

woman remains to tell the story of the disaster. He Convicted

is Tam Chi, aged 24 years, and he was blown out of the vessel into the sea and swam ashore.

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Suffering from shock and fright, Tam Chi was able to give but an incoherent account of the early morning tragedy. He wna in borrowed singlet and trousers when Interviewed by a Telegraph representative au hour after swim- ming ashore.

" um the cook on board," he said. "We are all Kongmoon pro- ple. I was cooking the breakfast of the others were and some asloop. Some were attending to the salla. We were walling for a launch. Suddenly there was an

explosion. I do not know why.”

Tam_Chi_stated that the No. 1 on the launch was Tsci ling and others included Tsol Wah, Tsing Chan, Chan King, Tam Luk (coxswain) and Ah Muk.

20-FOOT FLAMES

PLAN TO

CARE FOR LEPERS

COLONY TAKING

ACTION

LORDINANCE. PREPARED

Duke Tells

Of Hardship

OWNS THREE CASTLES, LIVES

IN FLAT ་|

CHALLENGED EX- CROWN PRINCE

ILFE

GERMANY CHINA'S MODEL

REORGANISATION

OF ARMY

Berlin, May 10, "The Chinese Army will be re- organised upon a German model," declared General Tu Chi-chen,

Chief of the Military Academy of Canton, who has been here for two months and a half studying the military German

Housing

Commission Formed

TO ENQUIRE INTO OVERCROWDING

TUBERCULOSIS PROBLEM

With the advice and consent of the Executive Council, His Ex- (Special to "Telegraph”)

cellency. the Governor has ap

(By

pointed a Commission to enquire Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic rejuvonated Alessages Ordinance, 1875. Received, May machine,

into housing difficulties, in Vic He was especially struck, he said torin-and--Kowloon,-with-special. The Duke of Manchester, who was sentenced to nine months to-day, by the efficiency of the reference to overcrowding and its imprisonment for fraud,

Army and Air Force, which he effect on tuberculosis. Was

The Commission describes as the most modern in As an outcome of the recent refused an

is charged application for report of the Committee on Lepers, order binding him over pending

with the duty of suggesting steps the world. the Hongkong Government is an appeal against conviction to bright future for the Chinese is composed of the following He added, having predicted to remedy existing conditions, and Two fire floats from Hongkong,ance to deal with the subject, the

shortly introducing a new Ordin- day before the Recorder.

The Duke received the sentence would never recognise Manchukuo, under Superintendent Brookes, draft of which

that the Chinese people members: has now been without any visible emotion.

Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith (Chair- and fire appliances from Kowloon published.

man). and Shamshuipo. were

The defence was that the Duke the population of which was ninety Viewed generally, the new intended to return to the trustees per cent. Chinese scene in commendably rapid time Ordinance gets away from the Idea jewellery he had pawned. It was

"Manchukuo," he declared, “is and all stations on the mainland that a loper settlement or asylum his late mother's and his wife had China's Saar."—Reater,. were told to stand-by.

In to be regarded as 'a prison and been enjoying its use, by permis treatment and as a retreat for paid interest on the money arl- regards it instead as a centro for slon of the trustees. He had Revere deserted by their rokatives.

cases or those who are vanced to him and had insured

the jewellery before pawning it. Magisterial powers aro not More than that, he had pledged

the on

prison.

Army,

Insulls Face New Charges

MARTIN SOUGHT IN CANADA

Toronto, May 10.

Tho firefloats concentrated' several hoses on the junk which was drifting past the front of the Texaco plant under flames twenty feet high and a whirling column of smoke which was visible from given to the persons in charge of the jewellery after legal counsel Hongkong. For an hour the all the settlements as it is considered had told him he was entitled so and gasoline blazed furiously, safe for leper offenders to be to do. But Sir Henry Curtis only 160 yards away from the brought before ordinary tribunals, Bennett, K.C, defending, did not plunt,

The initial explosion must have Should it be found necessary, in contend that this advice was good. any particular case where isolation During the hearing it was die- blown the junk to pieces, for all is necessary, to impose a torm of closed that the Duke had received

A warrant for the arrest of Mr. that was left of it at 7.30 am Imprisonment arrangements can £5,000 from his mother's estate in Martin Insull has been issued on was a few planks in the middle

during 1932-33, the information sworn by the United of the bay upon which a fire float now be made for such isolation in America

period covering the transaction | States Vice-Consul here. The was still directing water.

A quarter of a mile away, an Ordinance of 1910. By section 2

The new Ordinance repeals the for the pledging of the jewellery. other fire flout steamed slowly the Governor-in-Council may ap-said he had been bankrupt twice In the witness box, the Duke round extinguishing floating masses of flames dotted in many point places to be leper sattle-and had had sixty-seven petitions ments. The former provision in against him. The number of places in the shallow bay. Wreck- age was strewed over an area of section 2 of Ordinance No. 24 of judgment summons might run into a quarter of a mile, but among It

1910 forbluding private asylums three figures, he admitted. has not been re-enacted as it is The Duke has had an aul not a vestige of the ten people intended to entrust the manage turous career in many parts of who had been sleeping peacefully

short time before, could boment of leper settlements to suit the world. He owns three castles able missionary or philanthropic but declares that he cannot afford discovered.

bodies.

any of them and lives, for the Section 3 enables the Governor-most part, in a London Hat. Once in-Council to make regulations for he said he had been so "broke" Americans who live in quarters the better carrying out of the at one time or another that ho at the Texaco works said they provisions of the Ordinance, and was just able to pay for his were awakened at 6.30 a.m. by the for the well-being of the leper valet's menis report which occurred only a few settlements and the

In inmates

a book, "Candid Recollec hundred yards from where they thereof,

tlons," the Duke has told a story,

AMERICANS AWAKENED.

"I don't think the works were

in danger actually," one of them

adven-

R.A.F. `PLANE SHOT DOWN

Officers Slain In Iraq

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Basra, May 10,

fraq rebel tribesmen shot down a Royal Air Force fighting plane to-day, killing the two officers aboard.

Troops

have been despatched to the scene.-- United Presn.

Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, Hon, Sir William Shenton, Hon. Mr. R. II. Kotewall, Mr. W. J. Carrie. Dr. G. W. Pope.

Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. G. G. Wood.

Silver Price Improves

ABYSSINIA ARMS FOR WAR

RECEIVES SUPPLIES FROM GERMANY

ITALIAN PRESS MAKES BLUNT CHARGES

1804.

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(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance.

Recrived. May 11, 10 a.m.j

London, May 10. Apparently a large-scale war is looming in Abyssinia.

The Abyssinian Government is threatening full mobilisation unless Italy ceases making preparations for war Italy has at the present moment 710,000 Fascist militia, and 75,000 carabineers under arins. But Italy has only 100,000 fighting men in Africa.--- United Press.

Italy charges that Abyssinia has already mobilised to a large extent and that she is receiving arms from Germany, in contravention of the Treaty of 1930, whereby nations agreed to control the supply of arms sent to Ethiopia. Italy has made representa- tions to France and Britain in this connection, it is reported by Reuter.

TWO NUNS made representations to Grent

DIE FROM SHOCK

MOTHER SUPERIOR

ARRESTED

NAZI POLICE ACTION

(Special to "Talograph") - thy Telegraph, Cepyright. Telegraphie Alreadgen Ordinancs, 1111. Revised. Ha

21. 5.)

Berlin, May 10,

Rome, May 10, While official circios are reticent, It is believed the Government ha

Britain and to France, as co-signa- tories with Italy of the Treaty of 1930

with respect to the question of the importation of arms into Abyssinia,

Giornal de Italia, in an inspired Article, has stated that a certain Government is concerned, and the attention of this Governmont has. been drawn to the fact that. Abyssinia is obtaining large quan- titles of armaments. Further, this Government has already given a' precise promise with regard to the question of control of arma- ments.

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PREPARING FOR BATTLE

This same journal gose on to report and describo Ethiopia's military preparations. It states

that troops are concentrated in two vast zones facing the Italian Two nuns of the Convent of St Somaliland and on the Eritrean Charles of Borromce, at Trebaltz, front the Abyssinian forces can Saxony, died of shock and grief be rapidly increased. Mr. W. H. Owen, of the to-day following the arrest of The Abyssinian plan of mobdll- Architects Office, P.W.D., is to be their Mother. Superior and other sation is ancient, but effective, and Secretary to the Commission. uuns by German police agents. la carried out through local chlof- The police acted on Informationtains or by beacons lighted on the that the nuns had sont money hilltops. Women and slover are

tho illegally across the frontler Int among

mobilised forces Czecho-Slovakia.

already in the fold. The Catholic Bishop of Rides and ammunition have

distributed Onenbrueck, who is also a Prussian been

already and Stato Councillor, has taken the routes to points of concentration matter up and will come to Berlin have been supplied to the sub- to plead for the arrested nans. chiefs and provincial loadors.

He declares that they have been Completion of a landing field for duped by unscrupulous business military uses is being rushed on men who have been living off the the Somaliland frontier and new proceeds of their recent activities.wireless stations and telegraphic-

Under a recently passed law, it is posts are being installed. A wor criminal offence to send German tax has been imposed on all in- money out of the country, for habitants. missionary work or anything cled. GREAT APPREHENSVENESS

Greatest apprehensiveness is' said to be felt by Italy regarding the massing of troops on the 8,000

SLIGHT ADVANCE IN NEW YORK

New York, May 10. Mesera Handy and Harmon quoted New York silver at 72, 1/8

cente por ounce to-day.

On the foreign exchange marketRouter Special. the U.S. dollar was steady.

to

►

INTERNATIONAL mile frontier, between British.

COURT

THORN IN CHINESE DIGNITY

Somaliland and Konya.

The Government buying of cot- ton futures against pool sales carried cotton futures pricos. new highs for the current move- ment. Old crop positions closed

Giornal do Italia charges that Germany has unchanged to three points higher

furnished the and new crop positions closed ten

Abyssinian Government with large points higher. Trading was active

numbers of rifles and machine- and guna the Government buying with

guns, anti-aircraft October and December deliveries.

armoured cars, fast, very modern slept. They inoked out of the The Ordinance doca not ex-involving the name of girl well-

Silk prices were unchanged to

|Junker aeroplanes and, possibly, window

Nanking, May 11. and

saw the flaming pressly make leprosy a notifiabis known in society, of an Incident

Commission one polat lower. smoking column ascending.

The Judiciary Rights Examina materials for the manufacture of that purpose is made by the of this incident he called the warrant is preliminary to an in forward deliveries. United Justice of the Chinese Government ing the number of cartridges and disease.as suficiant provision for in a Mayfair hotel. As a result

houses were moderately interestedtion Committer of the Ministry of Polson gas.

The journal quotes figures show. (Continued on Pago 7.) 1 former German Crown Prince application for extradition of Mr. Press.

ts forming & sub-committeo for very rude and offered to give Insull, wanted in Chicago for trial

imported Into him suitable satisfaction in Ger with his father, Mr. Samuel Insuli, way out, and, fortunately, the launch from Teun Wun to the many. But His Highness did not and others, on the one remaining The rise in the price of export Shanghal after the expiration, on been arranged, for over a perion

the study of appropriate steps for machine-guns New York, May 10. the resumption of jurisdiction in the year. Payment for these ha

Abyssinia since the beginning „of

tide and wind carried her away. Company's branch at Cauton.

take kindly to the suggestion, so federal indictment against them. copper to 8 cents was accompanied March 31, 1936, of tho The 1'sun Wan Police Station the mattor was dropped-RouterIn this it is alleged that the by expressions of the belief of a Agreement governing the ergourt Abyssinian products, especially There was nothing: we could do

existing

of nine years, and by exchange of but send for the fire float. We was a scene of early activity, as Special,

Insull group transferred stocks continuance of the upward trend, tion of the Shanghal Special have our own appliances on the the explosion was deafening at

and cash from the foundering Car based on the apparent effectiveness According to an official of the coffee,—Router, decks but we did not have to use that point. The officer in charge them as we could not get at the stated that everybody WAB

poration Securities Company whon of the curtailment agrement and Ministry of Justice, the Chinese junk."

How any reawakened and when "smoke" was

they knew it was in danger of indications of further excellent Government will not tolerate the FAMOUS IMPRESSARIO The head office of the Texas seen rising above the Texaco

Telnan May 11 bankruptcy, causing a loss of foreign demand, notably on be formation of another international half of certain foreign Govern court savouring of the retention

New York May 10: Company estimated that there plant they feared that the worke Wheat crops over a wide area $200,000 to investors.

Mr. Herbert Witherspoon, Gen were 6,000 units aboard the junk had been ignited. The No. 2 have been severely damaged by The dropping of the remaining monts. The French Government of the system of consular jurisdic and that the valus of the cargo Polico launch stood by and high temperatures. Yesterday, a charges againi: Mr. Insull, report is said to be accumulating ation in Shanghat after the expira-eral Manager of the New York was about $6,000. The junk was searched for victims of the disas temperature of 98 was registered, ed on March 17, referred, only to a reserve:aupply for emergency ton of the Agreement in question. Metropolitan Opera Complia

Lüse,"liéster. by iter

here to-day—Rei United Press,

Central News: (walling to bestowed

suid. The Junk was just in front of the docks but a goodish

CROPS DAMAGED

COPPER RISING