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No 14978

二拜禮 號八十月八英港香 TUESDAY, AUGUST

18, 1936.

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"SUNNING" A TOTAL WRECK

REBELS

Ethiopian

ATTACK Guerillas

COAST CITIES

MEN-O'- WAR OPEN FIRE

Loyalists Allegedly Executing Prisoners

TROOPS ENTRENCHED FOR

SIEGE OF IRUN

Hendaye, Aug. 17.

ITALY DELAYS ACCORD

Undismayed

CONTINUE TO WAR ON ITALIANS DR. HYLANDER'S ADVENTURES

Djibouti, Aug. 17.

Dr. Hylander, the heroic commsa- der of the Swedish' ambulance unk in Ethiopia, fins arrived here with his force after wandering through Ethiopla in an attempt to reach D- bouti en route to Sweden.

Interviewed, Dr. Hylander stated

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GERMANY SUPPORTS that the war in Ethiopia was not over.

NEUTRALITY PLAN

BUT ROME IS HESITANT

Berlin, Aug. 17.

Ras Desta and other Ethiopian len ers Intel sworn ceaseless guerilla warfare against the conqueror.

Many times the members of the Swedish ambulance staff nearly fast their lives owing to being mistaken by the Ethioplans for Italians. Reuter Bulletin Service.

Recognising Conquest

It is understood the German,

Adilia Ababa, Aug. 17. Government, with certain reser-left Addis Ababa and has asked the The Turkish Charge d'Affaires has vations, has associated itself with Italian Viceroy, Marshal Graziani, the British and French declara-Turkish subjects in Ethiopla..

to lock after the interests of the tions regarding non-intervention This indientes the first step in the in the civil war in Spain.

recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopin-Reuter Bulletin Service.

The German reply to the French

Minister at Berlin-Reuter.

Rebel warships, ignoring the loyalists' threats to summarily execute 2,000 prisoners, heavily shelled the forts guarding Irun, San Sebastian and Bilbao and the battleship Espana, sister ship to the Government plan has been handed to the French warship, Jaime I, shelled Guadalupe fort, overlooking San Sebastian. Three other warships bombarded other points, and at nightfall the cruiser Almirante Cervera recommenced her attack on San Sebastian, firing heavily at ten minute intervals, while the Espana cruised westward.

PRISONERS FREED

Berlin, Aug. 17.

It is semi-oficially announced that all Germans arrested in Spain have

now been released, including the crew of the aeroplane seized by the Madrid achieved after energetic diplomatk Government. The releases were

representations-Reuter, ..

ITALY'S POSITION

Picture shows the China Navigation Company's steamer Sunning lying u total wreek in Junk Bay, after she was driven ashore in the typhoon. The fore part of the ship lies sour free hundred yards further away, turned com pletely over, (Photo by Staf Photographer).

SUNNING

WRECK

Sail To Sign GUARDED

GUARDED BY ONE New Treaty

BRITISH OFFICER

EGYPT'S DELEGATES ON WAY TO LONDON

Cairo, Aug. 17.

The Egyptian. Krime Minister, Nahas Pasha, salled to-day with the | Egyptian delegation to London, from Alexandria, to sign the new Anglo- Egyptian treaty.

It is noteworthy that Fort Guadalupe is filled with dynamite and a direct hit might be catastrophic, as hundreds of political prisoners and other hostages are within the walls of the fortress, including Count Romanones, former adviser to King Alfonso of Spain, adherence to the non-intervention arrive in England on Sunday and will it is reported.

Three hundred Spaniards, mostly... women and children, have fled from the bombardment, either swimming or by row-boat, and have crossed into Franée.

Rome, Aug. 17. Difficulties in the way of ltalian

The delegation expected to pnet in Spain were denoted by anbe the guests of the British Govern-

leinl to-day following meetings with ment. Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister, by French and British diplomat, It is stated that Italy desires absolute, universal neutrality.

Authoritative circles, however, declare this spirit is not shown by

vention agreement,

Red leaders at Hendaye report that of 1,200 other nations that favour a non-inter- Monarchists and anti-Marxist hostages held at Guada- lupe, many were executed at the inception of the shelling.

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Rebel forces are converging on they beleaguered towns from land and One column is at present attack. ing Behodia, and second is in posses sion of the village of Hernadie, only three miles outside San Sebastian. However, the loyalists forces have prevented the, ndvange of think column through the mountain passes towards San Sebastian.

The French authorities are investi

MAJORCA ATTACK REPELLED

REBELS COUNTER FIRST THRUST

It is denied that Italy is pro- crastinating to gain thine for her own ends-Reuter

LATE SUMMER IN ENGLAND

TEMPERATURE UP OVER WEEK-END

(Special To "Telegraph")

London, Aug. 17. Eastern and southern England were London, Aug. 17.

basking in the season's first heat wave Reports reaching London states this week-end. and foreign intervention. He denied the reports that the landing of Government

gating the loyalist bombing of the frontier town of Birintou, to deter mine whether a protest can be lodged. The Mayor of San Sebastian adults the situation is critical and blamed the shortage of arnts

On Saturday morning. Londoners

of great casualties on the loyalist troops at Majoren yesterday proved awoke to the first cloudless, hazy side, and estimated their losses at the landing and then In a fierce day betokening summer's belated ad- unsuccessful, the Insurgents allowing

200 dead and 600 wounded.

General Advance

counter-attack, lew 500 of the loyalists and took 300 prisoners.

vent.

Over the week-end temperature Of the 600 British subjects remain-cilmbed slowly. Into the eighties, and Iran, Aug. 17.

Ing in Spain, about 200 are in Madrid the beaches and every resort were Covered by a heavy unval barrage, and 100 in Majorca. Union Jacks crowded with the rebels have commenced a general have been painted on the roofs of the glum after

city dwellers who, months of sullen and advance on the entire north-west British Embassy at Madrid as a pie cloudy weather, were brighteneing front, from Bilbao through the Blossos River Valley Bulletin Service.

and Hendaye, caution against air raids-Reuter visibly-Reuter Special. towards the sea. Infantry units have reached Irun and have entrenched themaelves to await the town's sur- Tender United Press.

Forts Talk Back

ANOTHER ATTEMPT

Gibraltar, Aug. 17. Reports from Majorca state the casualties suffered by the Government forces, which were repulsed by the: rebels in the storming of the Island, belleved. were not so heavy ns was at first

Hendaye, Aug. 17. The rebel cruiser Espana continued to bombard. San Sebastian to-tay until a late hour, but a vigorous reply

All British nationals are reported i from Guadalupe Fort indicated that ate and the cruiser Galaten is stand- the guns of the Government strong-ing by to protect British intoresta. hold were still undamaged.

It is reported that Spanish Govern-

It is reported that the insurgents ment will make a fresh attempt to advance towards Irun has been accapture, the Island as soon as possible, celerated.

-Reuter.

Hendaye has witnessed all day an exodus from Fuenterrabis, fram which the Inhabitants are

LOYALIST CLAIM

London, Aug. 18, crossing Late last night the battlo nt Pulmon the river in boats laden with all still continued fiercely. kinds of goods, Some even Bwam and waded across the river-Reuter,

TYPHOON PICTURES Piciures showing damage and destruction caused ashore and afloat. by the typhoon will be found on Page 11 of this issue.

Sir Miles Lampson, thẻ High Com- after negotiations in connection with missioner, is also on his way home the Anglo-Egyptin treaty--Reuter Speetaj.

London, Aug. 17.

The Egyption Premier Nuhus Pasha, and part of the Egyptian delegation to London for the signa ture of the Anglo-Egyptian wealy, sailed from Alexandria thle morning. The endre delegation Is 'expected to reach London on Sunday.

Arrangements have been made for the delegates to stay ht the Dorchester Hotel as guests of the British Government, and £1 pro- gramme of hospitality Js

being arranged.-Britial Wireless.

ALTITUDE RECORD

SETS

FRENCHMAN

WORLD MARK

Paris, Aug. 17. The French airman, Georges Detre has established a new world record for altitude light, 14,836 metres

The previous record, 14,433 metres, Donati in April, 1934.-Reuter. was ret by an Italian airman named

DENMARK'S THANKS,

London, Aug. 17.

STORY OF PASSENGERS'

AMAZING ESCAPE

"Telegraph" Staff Reporter

I have just returned_from_Junk Bay. Lu and around Hongkong and other parts of the world I have, seen many maritime disasters, many wrecks, but none that provided so fantastic a sight as the Sunning.

It is hard to imagine, without seeing, that this once fine vessel of the China Navigation Company's fleet is a mass of grotesquely twisted steel and iron.

Where once stood the foremast is a gaping wound. Two hundred yards away from the after part of the ship is the foredeck, twisted into an unimaginable tangle of iron. At the height of the typhoon it was torn away by mountainous seas as easily as were the limbs of Nathan Road's trees.

An enormous wave lifted the hundreds of tons of metal like a clutching hand and, in three giant somer- sault movements, carried it to where it lies still, strangely enough, topside up, with the mooring rope still neatly coiled in position.

RADIO CONTEST RESULT

KOWLOON RESIDENT WINS PHILCO SET

TYPHOON STAGGERS MACAO

DESOLATION ALONG WATERFRONT

EYE-WITNESS TELLS STORY

(By a Special Representative) Macho, Aug. 17. Macao has been literally staggered by the worst-typhoon-- which it has experienced within the last fourteen years, the dis- turbance passing close to the Colony in the early hours of this morning.

The first harbinger of the storm was the hasty return of the big Macao procession, as they sailed into hur fishing flect, forming a picturesque beur, tacking laboriously, with their

estic brown salls spread to the some late comers, unable to find quick anchorage, were blown adrift in the rising gale.

wind. This lasted two hours, and

The river steamer, Kin Shon, managed to get away at 5 p.n but all other craft were detained for the night.

The typhoon seemed to "arrive in

person" at midnight, and the wind velocity of 120 miles per hour at raged throughout the night, reaching

times, to the accompaniment of rough seas and heavy rain.

At 7 at the waterfront presented a scene of desolation such as not seen for fourteen years, being submerged by the high tide which rose to within three feet of first floor verandahs, ooding overs house and shop in its led thoutre had collapsed complete wake. Further along, a large mat-

in a mass of ruins,

Aboard what remains of the Sun- ning are scenes of the utmost con- fusion. I ventured down, into the water-filed engine-room and saw for myself the terrine havoc that had been wrought there, and marvelled the escape of the engine-rpom crew, who reached the deck fively seconds before the main steam pipe, | burst and completed the wreck below. When I went below,*7* discovered much more evidence of the mortal blow the Sunning had received. The engines and boilers are resting on huge rock. They are quite apart from the hull of the ship, and as the Sunning moves gently with the swirl post-typhoon waves, the funnel seems to bob up, and down. In reality it is the hull of the ship. The funnel, bollers and engine are

of.

The Telegraph" has pleasure to-day in announcing the result The Danish Government has ex- of the Popular Radio Programme pressed its thanks for the prompt asalalance recently rendered by the competition, for which a hand-separate entity. British authorities in connection with the evacuation of Danish and Ice- landic subjects from Spain-Britisk Wiselera.

24,000 SEE FIGHT FOR EMPIRE TITLE

-London, Aug. 17.-. Jack Peterson, to-night lost his British Empire heavy- robols, assessed the

The Saville radio, controlled by the weight boxing crown when he was technically knocked-out in the

some

Philco Console medium- wave set was generously donated as the prize.

No competitors sent in a coupon containing the whole ten items cor- rectly marked in the order of the popular vote; the highest number so marked being ava. This fgure was renched by

Mr. Charles Sylva,

319 Nathan Road. Kowloon, who therefore, wins the splendid prize offered, `· ·.·

Full detalls of the voting, together

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TESTIMONY TO TERROR

the

WHARVES DISAAPEAR Shipping wharves had disappeared, only the roofs of their numerous sheds being visible above

water. Wreckage and debris of all sorts were strewn high ashore and in the harbour, while a derelict sampan in flames was carried swiftly along by the current.

By 8 a.m. rain had ceased and the high tide receded a little, and I went aashore in a sampan which nailed across the waterfront and entered a side street, where other sampans were sheltering. A good way up the On the deck, in the dining saloon above, my knees went exploring in street I disembarked, and, with water and in other passengers' quarters, the town. everything is confusion.. Liebelts are indescribably mixed with food-a good part of the main thoroughfare, There was water everywhere, aver i stuffs and the hastily abandoned up to the Victoria Dance Hall, and

personal effects of the passengers.

many side, strests were completely

WIRELESS VALVES ALIGHT ·

I saw mute testimony to the terror Inundated. that had gripped the passengers. In Further scence of desolation ankl the abandoned clothing of a Chinese shops and houses, electric wires and destruction met the eye-flooded baby, the leather bound books, still Chinese shop signs banghig:: down, lying on a deck chair, of a well-to-do shop windows broken in, pinces of Chinese passenger, the tun shoes of wood and other flotsam and jetsam a European.

strewn all round.

As the tide finally, receded, there was great activity among the Chinese In the wireless cabin the valves in salvaging their belongings, and the receiver were still alight also numbers of sightseers in motor- The fight took place at Leicester the British champion round the ring three questions which were optional Twenty hours previously it had told repulsed. The Government at Bad before 25,000 propio. Foord started and sent him, so the boards for to entrants will be found on Page the anxious people aboard the ship rid, however, announces its infantry

Seven of this issue. Captain Baye, who has a heavy onslaught with two-handed counts of four and three,

ELECTRICITY DAMAGE that help was coming from the No. Eugenio de Savola on Thursday last steadily progressing and will boon and in the beginning of the scand after eight minutes and 45 seconds, provement of ZBW programmes, and S.O.S. calls from the stricken vessel, done by the typhoon everywhere. himself elsewhere, la attacks. He was obviously superior when the referee stopped the fightwarded by competitors for the Im-response from Hongkong to the first the day, I saw extensive daniage Peteran was in a hopeless plight Numerous suggestions were for- Police-launch, had received the While taking a long drive Inter in landed 100 ormed men at Maluga have subdued the whole island, round Peterson, ustained an injury Referee gave his decision after these will be classified and the most and escorted the Italian Consut and The Government claims to have to lie left eye,

PANDO examining Peterson's eye which was constructive proposals published in the base of a mountain of logged others were leaning across the roadý (Continted on Pago 5.)

captured Gijon.Renter Erkin the third round Foard punched streaming; with blood. Reuters

The remains of the Sunning ite at one great, hoary banyan.ires, while Many trees were uprooted, Including due course.A

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Italian Landing

Tangler, Aug. 17.

A diplomatic source. to-day re- ported that' the Italian

cruiser

tossus at Palma at 200 dead and 800

Government third round by Ben Foord. wounded, and doclares the attack was

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