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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 140ED

五拜禮 號九月八英港香 FRIDAY, AUGUST

9, 1935.

日一十月七

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REVOLUTION FEARED AS FRENCH RIOTS SPREAD

GRAVE SITUATION

AT TOULON

MANY SHOT DURING STREET FIGHTING

STRIKES PARALYSING GREAT SEAPORTS

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Menager Ordinance, 1894. Received, Aug. 9. 1.30 p.m.i

Toulon, August 9.

Three are dead and 100 wounded after a day and night of bloody rioting here. There is real fear of re- volution.

There is martial law here and at Brest, and steel- helmeted Mobile Guards and Colonial troops, and the picturesque, mounted Republican Guards, are in control of the situation.

Disorders, resulting from the Government's pay cuts among the dockyard workers, started the trouble,

and it has spread from Brest and Toulon to St. Nazaire,

Lorient, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Paris and Marseilles. Other ports also are affected.

Mounted men rode at the crowds here and in Brest when the striking workers were tramping the streets, waving red flags and singing the Internationale.

There is an ominous calm In Toulon now,, 'After midnight the naval authorities turned on giant electric lights to illuminate narrow streets from which

desperate arsenal workers

fusilades constantly

nt

the the fired any

soldier or policeman who came in sight. Marksmod were posted by the strikers in windows and roofs.

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Fifty-one persons have bren shot in Toulon alone and

Many have been injured by other means, Seventeen may die.

Lorient

has

The situation at worsened. There are 3,000 arsen- al workers on strike there. All available troops and gendarmes have been mustered to stem the rlaing tide of revolt which the French press la declaring may de- velop into a revolution-United Press,

NEW YORK

STRIKE THREAT

100,000 MAY BE INVOLVED

JOHNSON'S

APPEAL

New York, Aug. 8. A general strike of all workers on Administration building projects throughout this elty, possibly affect ing 100,000 workers, is scheduled to start to-day.

"

TROOPS IN ACTION

Torlon, August 9.

The strike is a protest against The worst trouble of the present the Government's wage scale of erlais occurred in the neigh-

$93.50 for a three-week month for bourhood of the Maritime Pre-

skilled workers. fecture Inst night when a mob tore head of the N.R.A., has broadcast General Hugh Johnson, former down scaffolding for barriers and

a battalion of Senegalese sharp-an impassioned appeal for com- shooters was ordered to clear the promise in a last-minute effort to narrow streets.

Searching-lights swept the roofs and windows from which rioters were sniping at police with miscellaneous

avert the walk-out.-Reuter.

of

WIDESPREAD THREAT

Atlantic City, Aug. 8. Mr. William Green. President projectiles. The of the American Federation rioters in the streets flung the Labour, disclosed to-day that he covers of manholer, or drain-piping had been informed that additional or anything else they could lay strikes were threatened in half a hands upon.

BUM-

dozen-mafor-cities,

Two hundred artillerymen fron

He said the killed workers' Dragulnan barracks were

strike in New York was likely to moned as a result of a conference spread to Hoston, Chicago, Kansas of high military and civilian City, Cleveland and San Francisco. authorities, held after midnight.

POLICE IN CONTROL At 1 o'clock a few rioters were still holding out.

It is now stated that two have been killed and one dangerously wounded, a police inspector, who has a bullet through the stomach. Eighteen have been severely in- jured and 44 arrested.

At 1:20 am. to-day the Minister. of the Interior lasued a statement from his office in Paris saying that the police were masters of the situation at Toulon-Reuter.

EARLIER REPORTS

Toulon, Aug. 8,

The situation was assuming a grave aspect and the threat had developed to serious proportions, he said. Dissatisfaction in work relief wages was increasing, he added. United Prees.

LEADER TO RESIGN?

WANG CHING-WEIS - INTENTION

Shanghai, Aug. 9.

It has been learned here this morning that Mr. Wang Ching-wel,

Three persons have been killed President of the Executive Yuan and 50 wounded in clashes here and

concurrently strikers,Foreign Affairs to

Minister

the Nank who 18 in convalescence

of

at at

following riots instigated by dock ing Government,

between police and

Jabourers, naval munition plant present

workers and others, In

(Continued on Page 12.)'

protest Tsingtao, to-day telegraphed to

Against the economy pay cuts his friends in Shanghai that he is

resigning-United Press.

Picture shows a typical scene of French Communists and Socialists creating disturbances in Paris. Serious rioting is to-day reported from various cities, causing feare of a revolution.

Black Off

On Race To

Cape Town

SEEKING RECORD FOR FLIGHT

FIRST STOP CAIRO

London Aug. 8.

Tom Campbell Black, who' with

Warning To

Evacuate

Abyssinia

BRITAIN TAKING

PRECAUTIONS

RALLYING POINTS

(Special to "Telegraph”)

C. W. A. Scott was the joint win- ner of the London to Melbourne marathon prize last year, hopped Ordinance, 3891, Recrited, Anguat

(By Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Mu

Addis Ababa, Aug. 8.

ELECTION

CANDIDATES IN FIELD

BRITAIN PREPARES

FOR CONTEST

505 LABOUR ENTRANTS

(Special to "Talegraph")

(ly Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Men engre Ordinance. 1204 revived, August

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London, Aug. 8. Preparations for the fortheon- ing General Election, which will most likely take place in the autumn or early next year, are. now sufficiently advanced to en-i able 490 Conservative candidates to take the field.

Of the total, 412 are at present Members of Parliament,

while seven Conservatives are changing their constituencies and 47 are not seeking re-election.

The present Conservative Parlia- mentary strength la 460.

The prospective Labour candi dates number 505, these including the 68 who are at present mem- bers of the House of Commons.- Reuter Special.

Squatters'

Dwellings

Destroyed

POLICE RAID LOCAL SETTLEMENT

500 RENDERED

HOMELESS :

Drastic action against "aqaut- tera" at Wongnaichung was taken this morning, when the Land Bafliff,

off from Intfield aerodrome in aa.m.) new De Haviland Comet mono- plane at 5.50 p.m. to-day on the The British Legation here has accompanied by a European Police first stage of an attempted record advised British missionaries and Inspector and a party of Chinese breaking flight from London to British protected aubjects, namely, police, swooped down on the settle Cape Town, via Eust Africa.

Danes and Sweden, to evacuate ment and carried out a systematic Black expects to make his first their women and children from demolition of hundreds of huts. stop at Cairo at dawn to-morrow. Ethiopia as soon as it is

con. In all, there must have been fully

PATRIOTIC CATHERING

.

GIANT ITALIAN

PLANE LOST

CABINET MINISTER AMONG VICTIMS

SABOTAGE SUSPECTED: INQUIRY STARTS

Cairo, Aug. 8.

A giant Italian military plane has crashed on a flight from Cairo to some point in Eritrea, and the Italian Minister for Public Works, two other passengers and a crew of four, have been killed.

The plane had earlier been reported missing since yesterday morning, when it left Cairo, and it was found to-day by British Air Force searchers twelve miles west of Heliopolis. The occupants all appeared to have been killed instantly.

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Signor Raimondo Franchetti, the well-known Italian explorer, was another of the victims.

The machine was a three-engined Savoia Marchetti monoplane, piloted by Major Raffaele Boetani, and was en route from Rome to Massawa-Reuter.

SERIOUS EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK

SCOUT JAMBOREE CANCELLED

ROOSEVELT ACTS

(Spacia! to "Telegraph")

(De Trigraph, Copyright. Telegraphic #na-

11.30 snea Ordinance. 14. Revelord. August

President

Washington, Aug. 8. Roosevelt, after

to

FASCIST PIONEER

Rome, August 8. Signor Luigi Razza, Minister of Public Works, was en route inspect the works proceeding there when he was killed in the Savola Marchelt! plane which crashed near Heliopolis yesterday. He was formerly editor of the newspaper Popolo d'Italia and a ploneer of Fascism.Ke-was-one- of the Italian delegates to the International Labour Ofice.

Signor Franchetti, the well- known explorer, is an authority on East African affairs, and he was going to Eritres in un ad- visory capacity to the Italian Army. In 1910-12 he was on an expedition in Indo-China

and Annam and in the Sudan in 1912- 14. He has made several ex- peditions Into Abyssinia.--Reuter. SABOTAGE SUSPECTED

Rome. August 8. General Peligrint, necond in T. H. G. McArthur accompanies ventent, him as relief pilot.-Router.

command to General Balbo on the one hundred hutments of various conference with health authori-famous mussed light by Italian The United Freas adds that Black comes serious, the British aub- and palm leaves, others of tin and Boy Scout Jamboree for the Scouts and now a high official in the Air If the Internal situation be-types, some constructed of bamboo ties, cancelled the Washington Army planes across the Atlantic, plans later to make a round trip jects resident there will be con-wood, scattered all over the higher of all the nation and all its terri- Ministry, accompanied by other from London to Hongkong and a centrated in ten selected round trip from London to Canada, These measures, it is announced, the old Blue Pool Road. All these the spread of an epidemic of in- inquire into the disaster which spots, reaches of the valley, up as far as torles, because of the danger of experts, left for Cairo to-day to with a view to establishing records are purely precautionary-Router were pulled down, with the result fantile paralysis. for these flights.

Special.

overtook the military plane whose that close upon five hundred people were turned out of their makeshift the Attorney-General, Mr. Homer

In conference with him were loss involved the loss of valuable

lives. homes. Addis Ababa, Aug. 8.

Cummings, Mr. George Allen, Dis-

Sabotage is suspected by the Men, women and children rushed trict of Columbla Scouts' Commis Italian authorities, since One hundred of Abyssinia's to collect odds and ends of their aioner, and Dr. James West, Chief plane is said to have left Cairo in the women aristocrats,.

Including belongings. Hundreds of pigs Scout executive. several princesses, attended

porfect order and under perfect ncattered in all directions. The patriotic demonstration hero

The President announced with flying conditions.-Reuter. to scene was one of utmost confusion. the deepest regret the cancella-: day at which orator after orator One

ANOTHER VICTIM report Blatch that these tion of the Jamboree, made impassioned speeches in the animals are to be Impounded and In a White House statement,

Rome, August 9. cause of Ethiopia's defence.

that the big heaps of debris result issued later, it was explained that Italian army plane, lost

The third passenger in the Tho women wore magnificent ing from the demolition of the huts the President had agreed to broad-way from Cairo to Massawa, was long, be-jewelled robes, coloured will be burned.

cast an address to the Boy Scouts Dr. G. Minati, secretary to Signor in every shade of the rainbow. This morning's raid was the and their leaders in their respec-Razza. Unitent Press. Forty little girls, dressed in white piggest ever carried out in a distive camps throughout the country. silk costumes and

trict which has given the authori currying

The statement added that the, Abyssinia's green and yellow finge, years ago, the area was cleared and ginia. the District of Columbia,

ties a great deal of trouble. Some Health Officers of Maryland, Vir- S'HAI EXCHANGE formed i circle around the speakers..

now village provided for the and North Carolina had recom Men were not allowed into the "quatters," but since that time, In mended cancellation due to the hall but were allowed to peep action, large numbers of other The two epidemic centres were in spite of repeated warnings and prevalence of infantile paralysis, through the windows.-Reuter Special.

poople have settled in the spot, Virginia and within 100 miles of erecting all manner of structures. Washington. There was increased

prevalence in other sections.

"I regret the disappointment

Shanghai, Auguet 9. which is in store for the Filipino change market to-day wore: U. S. Opening rates on the foreign ex boys who are coming half way dollars 37.1/8, Sterling 1/6.15/16. round the world for the rally, but Gold Barn $903.20.

CHINA TO JOIN STERLING BLOC?

Leith-Ross' Objects Reliably Learned

London, Aug. 9. It is learned from reliable sources that Sir Frederick Leith-Ross' objectives in the Far East are: 1. to propose that China join the Sterling Bloc: and 2. to pave the way for world-wide Anglo- Japanese co-operation.

It is understood that the first objective envisages a loan to China in which Britain hopes to engage the participation of the United States, France and Japan.

Japan is believed to be lukewarm to the proposal that China join the sterling bloc, preferring a link with the

yen.

However, observers believe the econo- mic proposals Britain ready to make will overcome Japanese objections.

Is

Sir Frederick is making

a strong bid for Japanese friendship and has recently been in close touch with the British exponents of a pro- Japanese policy. --- United. Pres..

NEW TRANSPORTS

Д

Rome, Aug. 8. The Government has bought five foreign liners to be used for trans- ports.

A

SHOWERY WEATHER .

A

weak anticyclone

I believe that cancellation le for covers

MARKET

on the

RUMOURS AFLOAT IN NORTH CITY

The transport fleet is now re- Central Japan and another extends anxious to meet the Filipino group clined to buy. There are uncon- ported to be capable of carrying from

the best.

The market was easing after s I have been

very higher opening with speculators I 20,000 men to Africa simultaneous Islands.

Borneo to the Caroline. ly.-United Press.

Tho depression

at present en route hore," said the firmed reports that Dr. H. H. Kung, is altuated about 100 miles to the

President's statement.

the Minister of Finance, has re- No official action on the part of turned to hold a meeting with Cen- of

Shanghai, moving the Filipino party has yet been tral Bank hends and that some rapidly N.N.E. or N.E. Local foremade known-United Press. Cost: S. W. winds, moderate to

fresh, gusty; cloudy, showery,

Filipino party

currency announcement la expected. passed This is resulting in many and through Hongkong about two varied rumours. weeks ago.

BOMBAY SILVER PRICE

U.S. PROTECTION

up

Washington, Aug. 8.

-The Senato”-to-day

passed the

Router despatches

from Bombay state that "ready"" allvor opened two annas to-day. The market was quiet and steady.

To-day's Price 69.14

Yesterday's

Close

69.12

The

GALLI CURCI ILL

The market was steady at 10.35 a.m. Usually well-informed opera- tors, however, appear to be inclined to buy, thereby adding to the sus- picions that a Central Bank an nouncement will be forthcoming The market was steady at the

New York, Aug. 8. Dill closing the courts to gold clause Curci, wll enter hospital im

The famous prima donna, Gallisoon. suits against the Government after mediately to be operated upon for close of the morning salon, U. S.. expiration of six months-Reuter, goltre, which was discovered during dollars 80.15/16, Starling 1/5.1/4...

-Reuter.

recent visit to Japan-Reuter. Gold Bars $909.00

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