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FOUNDED 1881

No. 14741

三拜禮號三十月一十英港香WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 13, 1935. BATAT

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TWO DEAD, TWO MISSING IN WRECK

HEROIC BATTLE THROUGH SURF

FLIMSY RAFTS RIDE TO SAFETY

ONLY CHANCE TO AVOID STARVATION

Manila, Nov. 13.

Two are dead and two are missing following the wreck of the freighter, Silverhazel, on the island of San Bernardino, off the southern tip-of-Luzon.

This was learned to-day when American destroyers picked up the survivors of the disaster, who won their way to safety aboard clumsy rafts which they built on the surf-battered edge of the rocky islet on which their ship was wrecked.

The survivors, who number forty-soven, are all aboard the U.S.S. Peary, which is due to arrive at Manila' to-morrow morning. Starvation drove the marooned passengers and crew of the Silver- hazel to attempt an escape from. the rock on which they had taken i refuge. They did not know, for U.S.S. Penry had no way of tell- ing them, that four big U.S. Army bombers were flying supplies and rescue apjiaratus to the Reene to- day.

They decided this morning to| risk leaving the rock on im provised rafts. They won Ubroughl the surf and were picked up by the Peary in open water.

The known dead nre Mrs. N. Williams, a

passenger, of Los Angeles; and Bernard McPherson, an apprentico member of the crew. It is not known how they were lost.

EARLY AT WORK

AGGRESSOR FINALLY DEFINED?

ROOSEVELT GIVES -PLAIN-VERSION-

ese

The young Australian airman, C. J. Melrose (left) is to-day re- ported to be missing whilst engaged on a search for Sir Charles Kinga- ford Smith

YOUTHFUL AIRMAN MISSING

LOST ON HUNT FOR KINGSFORD-SMITH

C. J. MELROSE VANISHES

(Special to "Telegraph") -

(Uy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphia Alem adges Ordinance, 1894. Resrived, November £9, 10.30 a.m.}

Sydney, Nov. 13.

CONSIDEREDtralian SIGNIFICANT

(Special to "Telograph:"}

C. J. Melrose, the young Aug- who abanduned hia England-to-Australin solo flight in order to join the search for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, is now reported missing.

way

SHANGHAI HITS UP 271 FOR 7

KERMANI SCORES 115 NOT OUT

MATCH WITH

K.C.C

The Shanghai interport cricket team made a good showing in their i match against the Kowloon Cricket Club to-day.

Winning the, toss, Leach put his side in to bat on a perfect wicket, and just before three o'clock this afternoon the innings was declar ed closed at 271 for the loss of seven wickets.

Kermani was the outstanding batsman, being not out for 116, He hit two sixes and fourteen foura, being-at the wickets for 2 hours and 20 minutes,

Leekle knocked up 40, Jenkins 27, Stokes 20, Williams 7, Baker 6, Lench 6 and H. Madar 4 not out. There were 42 extras.

ITALIAN TANKS TAKEN

INVADERS PUT TO FLIGHT

WITH HEAVY LOSSES

Addis Ababa, Nov. 12. Ethiopian Infantry, in heavy fighting near Dagabúr, claim to have won a signal success against the Italian mechanised army, having put four tanks and three armoured cars out of action.

The four tanks, according to re- ports, were captured after a fierce struggle,

Omeial despatches from Anale, near Dagabur, on the southern front, confirm the success. They add that the Ethiopians, armed only with rifles, rushed the tanka in desperate fashion and faced a from close range. porlect storm of machine-gun fire Three armoured cars were also

captured.

Mr. Clement Allee, Leader of the Labour Party, which it is anti- cipated, will have greatly increased representation in the new Parlia ment following to-morrow's election.

BRITAIN AWAITS POLLING

PROPHETS FORESEE GOVERNMENT WIN

LEADERS MAKE .FINAL APPEAL

London, Nov. 12.

JAPAN TO ACT IN SHANGHAI

DISSATISFIED WITH CHINESE POLICE

NAVAL FORCE TO HUNT MARINE'S SLAYER?.

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894, Received Nov. 13, 2.10 p.m.)

Tokyo, Nov. 13.

It is considered here that the efforts of the police of the International Settlement and of Greater Shanghai to apprehend the assassin who shot to death a young Japanese marine on Sunday, have been inadequate and desultory. Therefore it is stated that Japanese naval forces may conduct an independent investigation and search Chinese houses adjacent to the scene of the assassination!

Anti-Japanese activities have not been reported during the last twenty-four hours, but in the event of their resumption anywhere in China it is generally predicted that the Japanese Army and Navy will stiffen their attitude considerably.

The Foreign Office said to-day that the Minister at Nanking would probably warn the Chinese Government before presenting a formal protest, which will probably be withheld for a brief period while the Japanese observe

On the eve of the British gener- al election, final appeals to the electors-were-made by the leaders-and-study the situation.. of the two main parties.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, urged the voters to help

the Government to continue, its work of national restoration with peace and security in the forefront of its programme.

The Prime Minister pledged the Government to work faithfully for security at home and the peace oi the world; and he promised to spend not a penny more on Great Britain's defence forces than was

absolutely necessary.

"In a

The twenty-year-old avlator, fly Telegraph, Copyright. Teisprophis Man- sapea Ordinance, 1891. Received, November Who won the solo heat of the Lon- The missing are Captain Len- 71, 19.00 sm)

don to Melbourne race last year, nard, master of the Silverhazel,

Washington, Nov. 12.

was attempting to break the re- and one other member of the Diplomats are said to have cord for that flight when he crew. It is not known whether overlocked a vital portion of Pre-heard of Sir Charkes' and his they are still aboard the broken sident Roosevelt's Armistice Day companion's disappearance some- backed ship which is in momen-speech, which may provide the where over the Bay of Bengal. He tory peril of sliding into deep world with a new basis for the immediately abandoned his own water in two halves.

definition of an aggressor in war. venture and ect about searching

The phrase was in the declara-for the lost fliers. • tion that the United States Intend. Strangely enough he was prob-put out of action, two of them being The U.S. S. Peary and U.S..ed to consider war as occurring ably the last person to see the big Bulmer, which have been standing "when armed invasion and result-Lockheed plane which Kingsford- Six Italian officers and many security has been made a sure pro- by since the City of New Yorkant killing of human life takes Smith and Capt. John Pethybridge left the scene of the wreck yes-place."

aboard, as it fought its Under this definition the Japan- through a storm 150 miles from terday morning, commenced rescue operations early to-day when they occupation of Manchuria

the coast. Melrose was on his way saw several persons attempting would be constliuted as open war- to Singapore at the time and on to win free of the surf aboard a fare. Furthermore, the repetition his arrival there reported that the of hostilities in China, at Shangmachine he had sighted was flying hai and in North China, would be very low, probably 200 feet from regarded as war,

Under the existing neutrality the sea. He had watched its laws the United States would be struggle against the gale for some required to invoke immediately seconds and had seen the flames In the the protective features of that of its exhaust vanish

of storm's horizon. plan, including an embargo

With the R.A.F. bombers from urmaments, prohibition of travel aboard the ships of belligerents, the Singapore base with warships and commercial steamers, Melrose He directed Although the President did not joined in the hunt. mention the word "aggressor" his efforis to a search along the experts point out that the nationcoast of Siam. Since Saturday Instigating the Invasion would an he had kept reporting himself tomatically be regarded as aggressor-United Press.

small raft

The success of the first few who attempted this escape prompted the others to follow their example. The destroyers hoped to have ved all on the rock by noon or one o'clock,

Meanwhile four Army bombers were on their way, heavily laden with food and medical supplies. They took off at 7.45 am. and hended for the scene, of the tragedy.Reuter,

TWO MORE RAFTS

Manila, Nov. 19. U.S.S. Peary rescued seventeen persons from the wreck of the Silverhazel this.. morning when theso: aurvivors won through the shallows

San court of off-the Bernardino Island aboard a flimsy raft. This party included the third officer of the ship.

U.S.S. Bulmer rescued another, seven meu, all Hindus, and with the three picked up earlier the total now aboard the relief ships is twenty-seven.

FACED STARVATION

and so on.

Anti-Royalist Plotting?

n and then he was suddenly siten

There was no distress call from him. He simply vanished with- out a call of warning to the R.A.F. radio station with which- ho had been communicating&Like Kingsford-Smith his position was

unknown.

R.A.F. machines and steamers are now on the lookout for this

FAMOUS RUMANIANS gallant young flier's machine.

UNDER ARREST

Bucharest, Nov, 12. A sensation has been created

fearing that he has shared the fate of his more famous countryman," and is down somewhere in the Bay of Bengal-United Press.

NEW JUDGE

London, Nov. 12.

It was expected that Army bombers would drop a wire cable throughout the country by the ar near the scene of the wreck and rest of the famous surgeon Dr. make it possible to haul the Gereta, General Radescu and a pro-} survivors to a near-by lighthouse minout lawyer, who are charged -United Press....

with preparing to publish a bookieț: attacking the King. -

Dr. Gerota is one of the most The King has approved the ap The Silverhnzel went ashore on respected citizens of Bucharest and pointment of Mr. G. E. Nairac, November 11. and the survivors, is internationally known as a sur Procureur and Advocate General of Who reached the rocks, had little geen. He was performing a sori-Mauritius, to be Chief Judge of or no food and only the scantiest ous operation on a woman when that Colony in succession to Mr. of clothing. Driven to desperate the police arrived.

P. B. Petrides, recently appointed expedients by hunger, and with Othor arrests are expected. Chinf Justice of the Gold Const.-- no knowledge of the relief planes Router Special.

British Wireless.

STORMY TRIAL SCENES

STAVISKY FRAUD CASE OPENS

VERBAL WAR IN COURT

They would continue to strive. said Mr. Baldwin, for an inter-, national agreement for the reduc- tion of armaments.

world where collective

rank and file were killed. There tection against aggression" such wore many wounded on both sides, disarmament was possible, he said.

From the subsequent wording of

LABOUR'S PLATFORM the despatch it would seem that

(Special to "Telegraph”) the mechanized units mentioned. Mr. Clement R. Attlee, the

Paris, Nov. 12. the captured tanks and armoured Labour leader, also delivered a

The Stavisky trial, in which infantry, for the Ethiopian reports of the poll. cars, were moving in support of message to the public on the eve

twenty persons, including Madame state that the Italians have fled in He declares that the Labour Stavisky, are charged with cam disorder.-Renter,

Party stands for peace, democracy plicity in arch-swindling frauds, and social justice, and bases its pureued its stormy course to-day Pandemoniam ruled for a long foreign and home policies upon the practical application of the time when counsel for the ex- doctrine of the Brotherhood of Deputy, 31. Garat, one of the accused, came to loggerheads wilh "If we all give our best victory the Prosident of the Court, M.

Barnaud. will be ours," he concludes.

Amid an ear-splitting din, M. GOVERNMENT WILL WIN Barnaud, purple with anger, roar Election prophets mostly agree ed and waved his hands. that the Government will have a The defonding counsel replied working majority. Estimates of with equally wild gesticulations, that majority vary from 100 to 170, while his fellow-barristers tried to

The

of Sir John drag him down to his sent;

Tho whole Court joined in Simon's Liberal National group, in charge of organisation for that shouting when the President ex- section, forecasts, a Government claimed, "Sit down or you will force me into prejudice," an in- majority of 127.

discretion which was grected with general clamour-Reuter Special

CAPITAL FLYING TO JAPAN

STAMPEDE SEEN IN. TIENTSIN

SHANGHAI EXCHANGE

Man.

chairman

The Government, he says, will live 371 seats. Of these 326 will bo Conservative; Liberal Nationals (Special to "Telegraph"}

will have 39, National Labour 6 Tientsin,

1. Nov. 13. and one Independent will suecced. The flight of idle capital to the

Labour, on the other side of the Yen la assuming stampede pro- House, will have 230 seats and poitions, here and in North China. Liberais, also in opposition, will

The Chosen Hank, whose de have fourteen, he estimates.-Ren

posits in Tientsin havo increased ter.

by 600 per cent. during the past'

year, has reported very honey buy-

in

of its banknotes, during the

past week.-United Press. STILL STEADY.

ANNOUNCING RESULTS

London, Nov. 12. The General Election campaign]

DOLLAR AGAIN UNCHANGED

· MARKET" - QUIET ON OPENING

Thore was no change in the offl- is nearing its closo. The Prime cial rate of the Hongkong dollar Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. this morning.

An acting spokesman of thes Forelin Offco to-day anid that reports that Japan was presenting demands beyond a request for the

immediate Cessation of antle Japanese activities. true,"

"were

not

Asked again whether the Japane ese were certain that the Shang haf activities would not produce re sulta similar to those of January 1932, the spokesman said:

"That depends on future deve lopments."

This remark loads some to bo lleve that the Japanese Govern- ment is viewing with more concern than at the beginning of the week? the situation which has arisen in Shanghai-United Press.

ACTION FORECAST

Washington, Nov. 12. Well-informed quartors are of the opinion that the Japanese military fiction is likely to be in

activo. In China creasingly throughout the year's end, in order to excite popular support for heavy military appropriations from the Diet early in 1930. a

Meanwhile, the American press has suggested the possibility of a Shanghai episode, "reflected from competition between the Japanese Army and Navy for honours In advancing Japanese Interestá in China,

One source believes the Jagian- Che programme for consolidation of the military and political post tion in North China is set at

least a year ahead of schedule. Its sponsors have decided to capi talise, upon the world's distrac tion, caused by the Italo-Ethiopian dispute and the tension in Europe, and plan prompt action, it is zug Keated.

CONTINUING SILENCE

The continuing offlelal allence and inaction has impressed absor vers ns indicating that the Gove ernment feels that adjustment of the Far Eastern crisis must await the pacification of the African disturbance.

It is indicated that oflelally the Bergen: United States is to continue to

Shanghai, Nov. 13. made his final speech at Naw- Tho business rate on opening adhere to the Ninu Power Treaty The foreign exchange market is castle to-night and nearly every was la. 4%d. sellers and 1s. 4. principles and this beller tend to steady and quiet this morning. other Minister, including the buyers. Later, business was done support the view that the Govert U.S. dollars are 29%, Sterling, Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. at 18. 4.11/160. Speculators Bpment anticipates Far. - E

Noville Chamberlain, and the peared to be holding off, and tho readjustment in the fut 1/27/16, Gold Bars, $1,152.00.-

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