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HANKOW FACES DISASTER

DYKES CRUMBLE · UNDER STRAIN

Hankow, July 13. -

The water mark at Hankow has reached the 51.4 mark. A flood is anticipated at any time... Reuter.

Fight for Life

Hankow, July 14. A sorious slip occurred in the Changkung dyke this morning, the bank dropping tour to five feet over a atretch of 100 yards.

It is believed, howover, that the army of coolies employed by the Conservancy authorities can cone

·THE

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TYPHOON THREAT

FIRST SIGNAL OF THE SUMMER

The No. 1 typhoon signal was holsted at 9.50 a.m. yesterday, this

this year.

HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

DREYFUS DEAD

FRENCH SCANDAL

RECALLED

Col.

NAVAL REVIEW

GREATEST ASSEMBLY

IN PEACE TIME

Paris, July 14. boing the first warning of the kind victim of the biggest French Hundreds of thousands of sight-

Alfred Dreyfus, the innocent

Portsmouth, July 18.

The typhoon was reported east political scandal of the last ceh seors and holiday-makers are at- of the Philippines, moving west- tury, le dead.

riving in Portsmouth for the big- north-west, on Friday: and It Maitre Labori, the lawyer who gest naval review since the assem- crossed northern Luzon on Saturacted as his counsel at the peril bly of the Grand and Mediter day afternoon, entering the China of his own life; Emile Zola, the ranoan fleete just before the Great Son the same night. At 10 am. novellat who went to prison for wa yesterday, Manila reported the his part in the defence;

Picquart, who risked his career During the week-end thousands typhoon in Long, 116 E., Lat 18 N. for taking the part of the accused of these visitors lined the const moving West.

Jaurer, the great from Southsea to Lea, watching At 3.40 p.m. Manila. reported the officer and typhoon south-south-east of Hong socialist orator who stirred the through the terrific heat haze that the was a feature of to-day's summer kong, In Long. 116 E. and Lat. 18 Chamber of Deputies and N., still moving West. This in-country by Impassioned appeals, weather, the warships mustering

In preparation for the event, dicated that it would pass well to are long since dead. the south of the Colony, threaten-

Dreyfus for 12 years stirred Warships of every shape and ofing Hainan.

French passions to depths such size have assembled for Tuesday's as the country had not known great review. They total 160.

Early on Tuesday morning Ha since the revolution. The "affaire of public life. It caused governacht Victoria and Albert, will Dreyfus" dominated every aspect

Majesty the King. in the Royal ments to topple and made France Almost

nullity in the political steam from end to end along the history of Europe. Political par-line of war Vessels. tee were split, families were The main streets of Portsmouth divided. Several persona lost

are a mass of buntings, and the their lives in the hlmost daily crowds have been swelled by thou- clashes between the factions into sands of British Jack tark which the nation was divided.

have been allowed ankore.

with the situation.

General Chang Hscuh-liang, interviewed by Reuter, was opinion that if the dykes can hold out for the next forty-eight hours. Hankow should be safe from the flood, but if an inundation occurred he believed that the city would be finished commercially, n попе would have the heart to begin again.

The water mark at 4.30 p.m. to. day was 51.35 feet, and practically unchanged since yesterday after-

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It was agreed. by representa- tives of the various national interesis in the city to raise the .Bund wall of all the Concessions

to the 54 foot level.

Emergency Mensures

An arrangement has been made whereby, in the event of a collapse of the main dyke, gongs and police whistles will be sounded,

A rescue corps has en formed composed of students, scouts and other volunteers.

Han River Tragedy

At 9.30 p.m. No. 1 typhoon signal was lowered, all possibility of the storm striking the Colony boing at

an end.

GERMANY'S

DAVIS

CUP VICTORY

(Continued from Page 1) Challenge" Round against the Davis Cup holders, Great Britain's powerful combination,

Geneva, July 14.

Previous to his arrest as an alleged traitor, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was merely an obscure staff oflleer, disliked in the army on account of the fact that he was a Jew.

Son of Alsation. Jew

ninth in

1871.

KH

who

Many motorists, supplied with rugs and provisions, have already arrived, preparing to spend the long week-end in their ears.

Aldershot Review

Aldershot, July 13.

JULY 15, 1985.

TERADIO

BROADCAST

Relay of Test Match Scores From Daventry

RECORDED MUSIC

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles).

6-7 p.m. Hongkong Ilotel. Dance Orchestra.

7 pm. Stock Quotations. 7.03-7.25 p.m. Excerpta from "Iolanthe (Gilbert & Sullivan) sung 7.20-7.42 p.m. Jazz Plano Rocital by by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Itale da Corta.

1..Say it with music Medley.

2. The Queen was in the Parlour. 3. Sunshine Susle Medley, 4. Goodnight Vienna Medley, 7.42.7.50

p.m. "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (Strauss).

Studlo "Cinema Review" 7,50.8 by Silhouette.

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p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-11 pm. Relay from Poiling Theatre (Chinese).

10.30 p.m. Close Down.

8.50-10 p.m. European recorded music from Z.F.K, on o frequency of

40 kilocycles.

8.30-8.40 p.m. A Relay from Daven- try.

England v South Africa. A run- nlng commentary on the third Test Match.

8.40-9 p.m. Excerpts from Grand Opera

Arin-One Fine Day "Madame Butterfly" (Puccini).

Ave Marin (Jail Mary) ("Othello")

(Verli).

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Margaret Sheridan (Soprana). Orchestral Dance of the hours "In Gioconda" (Ponchlelii).

Aria-Sira! Your toast (Torendar

Sonx)"Carmen" (Bizet).

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone), 0-9.15 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.15-9.48 p.m. Musical Comedy. Selection--The Merry Widow

(Leisar),

Songs-If I am Dreaming "The

The Shepherd's Song-Helen". Dubarry".

Heddle Nash (Tenor). Vocal Gem-Music in the Air. Selection-Conversation Picce, 9.48-10 p.m. J. H. Squire Celoste Octet.

Auxillary merchant floel vessels If a meeting of the League of

will also take part in the Review. Nations Council is called on July

These will include the coaster 25, It is learned here that the

passenger ship Italian Government will in all..pro-victim of the

Alfred Dreyfus, the innocent Augularity, the

the Thames plen- bigzest French Ulster Prinec. bability send representatives.

Royal Eagle and political scandal of last century, sure steamers The authorities in Rome are was born at Mulhouse, Alsace, in Created Eagle, and the 52,000 toh adopting a less hostile attitude 10-1859, His father was a wealthy liner Berengaria, Drifters and At Wuchang, where the level is wards the League of Nations feel-Jewish industrialist, who, after trawlers will also be réprosented. higher than at Hankow, they haveing that Great Britain is unlikely Alsace became German in now started the pre-arranged to insist that League action be left it for Paris. Alfred instead of emergency measures.

taken against Italy in the event of going into his father's lucrative a war with Abyssinia.

business joined the army and

At Rushmoor arena, where His after passing through the military Italy considers ahe has a very colleges was

the Anat Majesty the King held his Jubilee Mr. Ho Chen-chun, the Paci-strong ease to put before theexamination. He bueame an Review of 9,000 troops of the fication Commissioner has made League and will probably move artillery officer in 1882 and

Aldershot Command, representing an aerial inspection of the cities that Abyssinia should be asked to promoted captain in

branch of the .urmy". 1889. in every

accompani- of the Han Valley and reports relinquish League membership. 1893 he became a member of the Their Majesties were serious flooding at

Thousands Tlenmen, Reuter Special,

general statr under General ed by their four sons.

Salut D'Amour (Edward Elgar). which is situated, on a tributary

Boiseftre. It was

at that time of people filled the tiers of seats

Barenrolle "Tales of Hoffmann" of the Han River. From his

grent semi-circle strongly Catholic and anti-re-stretched in a

(Offenbach) plane he saw only the housetops

around the arena,

My Sweetheart when a Boy (arr. publican. of the town, with the people cling-

Willoughby). received by a The King was ing to the roofs and the treen.

In September 1894, the Secret

the gold Service secured evidence that royal salute of guns, the massed documents had been handed by a bands playing the national spy to the German military them. He took the salate from a attnehe Schwarzkoppen. General dais in front of the royal pavi- Mereler, the War Minister, order-lion, around which ed an inquiry, but without result. members of The Hongkong dollar declined a

The staff then declared that the Dominion Offices, with the King's This Evening's Broadcast From farthing this morning, the offein! One of his colleagues De Paty du

Jew, Dreyfus, must be the traitor. four Indian orderlles, rate being 2. 1d. The business Clam, a relative of Mercier, said

The Han River police have picked up 200 bodies from the wator,

On receipt of this report General Chang Hauch-lang also mado a survey_ of the situation from the air.--Reuter.

Changkung Dyke Saved

Nanking, July 14. The Changkung Dyke, in Hupel, on the Yangtze River almost gave way yesterday, but thanks to the strenuous efforts of the

reapon-

DOLLAR AGAIN

DECLINES

MARKET UNDERTONE

STEADY

an-

were grouped

the Colonial and

Silver Threnda `among (arr. Willoughby).'

10 p.m. Press Bulletins.

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES

The German Short-Wavers

for programmer The King, wearing the khakiteners will be broadest from Zoesen, as

of a Field-Mar- folkewa?

rates were 28. 1d. sellers and the documents were in Dreyfus's service uniform 2s, 1.9/16d. buyers. Sellera came into the market quite freely, und hand and, though experta denied shal, stood motionless on the dais the undertone is steady.

this, Dreyfus was subjected to a except when raising his hand in after salute, while miles of tropps swept cross-examination severe sible officials and the local inha- In London, silver prices declined which Paty du Clam had him are past him and the crowd was cheer- quickly 13/16ths on Saturday, the full be- rested because he had trembled, ing the magniflernt spectacle.- ropaired according to at report ing due to India and China and the secret Investigation went from Kiukiung.

speculative selling and buyers on. Dreyfus was rant allowed to of the dykes holding off. Offerings, however, see anyone or to have an advocate. along the river is being carried were not large, and the market An attempt was also made to get

his wife to incriminste him. on by the local authorities. The closed stendy.

bitants the breach was

Strengthening

Yangtee River Conservancy Com- In New York, silver was down mission it is learned will shortly one cent. despatch several river conser-

vancy exports to Klangs to help In the dyke repair flood preven- tion work

The Commission has bocn bually engaged during the past few days coping with the situa tion in the Yangtze River and dovising emergency means to Improve immediate conditions. Central Newa· Agency.

EXAGGERATED

REPORTS

ONLY SIX DEAD IN SHIPWRECK

Public Sensation

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"Rain

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reading so Mid Reak... 1.30 p.m. Hhort Musical Programme. 1.4 p.m. News In German.

7 p.m. Cancer of Light Munic.

p.. News in Engli

8.15 p.m. Close down DJD. DIN (Germ.,

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EAST ASIA. ZONE Fast Asla Zone broadcast through DJQ on 18.03 metres (15.260 k..) 180-8 p.m. Concert, news st. 2 p.m...

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mm Farwesas (Germ.. Engl.) 9.15 p.m. Hitler, Youth Programma: "Rain

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5.43 p.m. News in Engliak on DJQ and

In Dutch an DJB.

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10 p.m. Hante by the Adolf Hitler Blady.

goard Hand Conducted by Imann Muller-John. In the 10-

.* tervala? · l'oema. Topical Event,

and Home Feulistone,

11.15 p.m. Nowa In German en DJQ and

DJB. 11.30 p.m. Current Eventa. 11.4 p.m. Short Concert.

Figaro reproduced a letter by Esterhazy in which he abused France. Matthieu charged the The case first became publie in Austrian with being the real spy November that year and the "re- and public opinion which had veer- Ault was a

frantic anti-Semiticed round forced the War Minister him. The trial and Royalist agitation. Mercier to court-martial was declared to be trying to shield was secret and he was acquitted. Dreyfus and, although he was told The enemies of the truth then as- that the evidence would not. hold serted that the facts were such water, and was assured by the that reopening of the case would

the mean war with Germany. German Ambassador that embassy had had nothing to do Zola, the novelist, now Interven- with Dreyfus, the latter was ared decisively. On January 18, raigned before a secret court mar 1898, he published his famous Hunan's Leaking Dykes

Shanghai, July 15. Survivors of the Chinese stential. The case was on the point of

"J'Accuse" in which ho branded Changsha, July 14. mer Ting Hai, which capsized on collapse when a document was put the general staff as forgers and The water level of the Tungting July 12 off the Chekiang -const, in stating that a certain "D" had plotters, and dared the Government Lake at Nahaien and Yuanklang state that only six persons were

sold scoret papers to n foreign to prosecute him, declaring that Power. Dreyfus удя promptly Esterhazy had been acquitted by la over that of 1931, by about 2 ft. | drowned to their knowledge,

found to be "D" and therefore order. The Government did so, According to report which Early reports said that 100 of reached here from General Ho the 500 on

guilty. On January 5, 1895, he but could not keep Dreyfus out of board the vessel

was publicly degraded and to an the case. Chien, Chairman of the Hunan perished.-Router,

Picquart gave evidence Provincial Government..

angry mob which tried to lynch that the incriminating letters had him he said: "I am innocent.

been forged by Lehmann at the re- Vivo la France.” and the districla of Lonan,

quest of Henry a statement con- He was sont to Devil's Island.rmed by the German and Italian Shangnan, Shanyang, and Chen- French Guiana, and his wife re-ambassadors. Soon afterwards nan are the most affected in the colved only garbled copies of his Lehmann was found hanged and it Province.

letters. Leanwhile his brother was suggested that he had been got Rain has ceased since Fri-Matthieu was organising an agita- rid of. Cavaignac, the anti-Semitic day morning but owing to the melt- tion to have the case reconsidered War Minister then in power, was ing glaciers at its source the Yellow and Picquart, who knew Dreyfus, forced to arreat Henry, who con River and other rivera in the Pro: had become head of the Secret ser- fossed that he had had a hand in to the Yangtse River vince cannot be expected to fall vice. There fell into his hands a the forgeries and next day he too

at once.

GBF note from Schwarzkoppen to Major, was found to have died a violent Communication on the whole Esterhazy, line of the Lungkai Railway is French army, appointing a meeting. had to resign, but the anti-Semites an Austrian In the death. Cavaignać and Boisdoffre still interrupted. Tolograms from Picquart looked into the Austrian's had Picquart charged with forging hero must first go to Chongchow dossier and found that he had a the Esterhazy papers. and then to places outside the bad record. He also noticed &

Over 600 breaches have occurred in the dykes round the lake and along the Yangtee River. continues the report; while no detailed statistics are available of the damages done by the flood it is generally believed that these have amounted to over millions of

dollara.

General Ho has already sent a telegram

Commission asking

for emergency relief funda.

Conservancy

Gentral News Agency.

$10,000 Donation

Shanghai, July 13. provincial border owing to the strong resemblance between hla He was acquitted. Zoln's cam- Mr. Aw Boon-haw, the million-breaking down of telegraphic writing and that in the fucriminat-paign continued and on Beptember

alre philanthropist.

brother have contributed a joint

and his wires. Wah Kiu Yat Pp.

donation of $10,000 to the flood relief in China.

The money has been sent to the Mayor, Mr. Wu Te-chen.,

Shensl's Appeal

Slap, July 14.

12 am. Te-day

Book

was reading

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17.14. New in Engllat on DJQ and

in Dutch on 133, .11.30 am. Close down DJQ, DJB (Germ..

Engil.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

To-day's Broadcasting From Four Transmissions

The following wave-lengihe and frequencies are observed by Duvantry,

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Frutacy Wavelength 0.050 k... 9,514 X. 9,885 **4.

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Transmission 5

(0.8.D. and G.8.0.)

1a.m. Big Ben. Empire Bookshelf-Ne,

12. 7.15

m. A Studio Concert. Cwmdolana

Embley (Soprano), Roland Rob

per (Baritone), and Harold_Fair Berat (Volin),

Greenwich Time Signal at 12 Midalabi Ba.m. An Empire Service, relayed tran

Ht. Pani's Cathedral. London.

8.45 am. Weekly Newsletter and Sports

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ing documents. Picquart told his 28 the Supreme Court held that chiof Boladeffre, who was a rabid Esterhazy was "D."` Dreyfus was Protecting the Grand Canal

anti-Semite, with, the result that court-martialled at Rennes in Picquart was sent to Tunis and September 1899, found" guilty but Tainan, July 14. In order to prevent the over- Henry, one of Dreyfus's, enemies, with extenuating circumstances" flowing of the Yellow River into put in his place. This episode and pardoned. It was not till July the Grand Canal the authorities came out and caused a great sonsa- 12, 1900, that he was finally de have ordered three

district tion, Billot, who had succeeded clarod innocent by the Court of governments, Hochin, Chianhiang Morcier as War Minister, decided Cassation. To secure this re-trial A circular telegram signed by and Wanchen in Western Shan on a fresh inquiry, but when Henry he had a long struggle during Mr. Shiu Lloh-chi, Chairman of tung and Yutal district along the produced letters obtained from a which he published his defence, the Shenshi Government and Gen-canal to build embankments. Jew named Lehmann said to be "Five Years of My Life," a book. oral Yang Fu-chen, Commander- The projected dykes are to be 10 definitely incriminating Dreyfus, which made a profound impression, in-Chief of the Provincial Defence metros high and 30 metres wide. the Premier Meline told the Cham-He was taken back into the army, Force has been sent to Mr. Wang Able-bodied men in the surround-ber that it was a "chose jugen."

made promoted major and Ching-wel, Mr. He Shi-ying, ing districts are required to help

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Chairman of the Yangtae Commis- to construct the embankments,

But in June, 1908, while Accor- efon and various bodies of Nan- Since the rain has ceased the Then the "Matin" came out panying Zoln's, remaine · tq -the king and Shanghai for funds for water level of the Lo River, in with a facsimile of the original Pantheon he was fired at and relief in the flooded districts in Honan, has fallen considerably document and Scheurer-Kestner wounded by an anti-Semite.. according to information from the began to look into the case, His Dreyfus served during the war and In the telegram it is stated Affairs Bureau. -Central News view was the same as Plequart's, since then has lived quietly-in that the valley of the Wal River Agency. A

but he could get nothing done untii Paris.

the Province (Shens),

· Zola Intervenes

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Transmission 6

g Ben. Talk by Cherry Hearton,

11.10 mm An- Organ, Recital by G. W.

Harris Bellick

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Transmission 2

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Orchestra.

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