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FIRST EDITION

Supreme Coun

Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED 1981

No. 16091

一拜雞 號九十月十英港香

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936.

日五初月九

FLAMES SWEEPING CALIFORNIA

16 PERISH

IN 'QUAKE

Venice In Panic At Severe Shocks

OLD HOUSES COLLAPSE AND BURY SLEEPING INMATES

Venice, Oct. 18.

Fifteen persons are known to have been killed and a number injured in an earthquake which severely shook Venice.

Severe shocks were felt at 3 a.m. to-day, and a number of old houses collapsed in the province of Venice.

The panic-stricken populace found the electricity supply had failed and poured into the streets at the first tremor. In some places they were not quick enough to escape the tottering dwellings and were buried alive.

The province is taking stock of its losses.- Router.

Venice Escapes

Rome, Oct. 10.

At least 16 persons have been killed in an earthquake, which shook Venice and the surrounding country-

side this morning.

There were no fatalities or material

TO BUILD AUSTRALIA

WAR CRAFT

damage in Veniec itself, as far as is NEW COMPANY TO

known at present, but at Caneva di Sacile, in the province of Venice, where the shock was very severe, 15 were killed. A number were injured also, their “houser collapsing while they slept.

At Corneliano, where part of the famous castle of that name collapsed, one was killed and six injured.

Falling buildings elsewhere result- ed in the injury of several others. Reuter.

Defends His Spending

PUTTING MONEY IN CIRCULATION

*

Buffalo, Oel 18. Dedicaling the new Federal Court here to-day. President Franklin Roosevelt made a speech in which he defended the Administration's spend- ing policy.

"It is the major factor in restoring the spending power of the worker and the farmer," he declaredi,

BE FORMED

Melbourne, Oct. 19, Formed at the Invitation of the Commonwealth Government to es- tablish an aircraft factory for de- fence purposes, the Commonwealth Aircraft, Limited, has been registered here with Л limited capital of

£1,000,000.

The capital is being provided by the Broken Hill Proprietary Com- pany, Ltd., the Imperial Chemicala of Australia and New Zealand, Ltd., and other sources.-Reuter Special.

Soviet Skipper Fined

ALLEGED ENGINE

TROUBLE

Talhoku, Oct. 16. Captain Dmitri Danilov, of the 1,500 yen to-day by the loent court Soviet freighter Terek, was fined for an legal attempt to enter the Malco naval port, in the Pescadores, on August 16.

He said that he had returned to his native state after a tour of the of 35, was on its way from Vladivos- The 3,500-lon ship, carrying a crew nation, on which he had found "ni tok to Singapore with a cargo of Ing faces" everywhere.

wheat, when she attempted to enter Mako. The vessel was stopped by a Fifty thousand people jammed mine-layer and detained, while the Niagara Square to hear the President captain was subjected to an all-night while thousands lined the highway

examination. throughout the 22 mile drive from

Press.

Niagara Falls to Buffalo,-United engine trouble. forced him to seck The captain claimed that serious refuge in the nearest port, but this was denied by the Mako gendarmerie, Both the local and the Tokyo navol, nuthorities took "a very

serious view of the matter, the court was Informed.Damel.

Long Flight Planned

BY GIANT DUTCH SUPER-LINER

The Hague, Oct. 18.

HELP FOR CIVIL WAR VICTIMS

Geneva, Oct. 18..

The International Red Cross has decided to open a world-wide fund.to The Royal Dutch Air Lines are alleviate the sufferings of victims of planning a non-stop flight from New the war in Spain. York to Amstidem by one of the The Red Cross branches have Intest type, Hying hotel airliners, ahitherto supplied 100,000 Swiss giant multiple-engined craft, pur-francs, with the stipulation that the chored for the Amsterdain-Batavia money be equally distributed on "service Reular)

both sides. Reuter Special.

Thousands of five-fighters are struggling to check the forest fi res raging in

northern California. Gangs such as these, on the outskirts of the great timber reserves in the Yosemite Valley and cluc- inhere, are wearily beating out the spreading flames in the brush and are being forced to retreat #teadily. Already a number of towns have been engulfed and the timber loss will run into millions,

BRITISH SAILORS. CHEERED

RESCUE REFUGEE

CHILDREN

SPANIARDS' ENTHUSIASM-

St. Jean de Lux, Oct. 19.

BARRIERS TO TRADE

MUST BE SCRAPPED ·

OR WORLD MAY WITNESS

WORLD

NEW ECONOMIC WARS ·

Paris, Oct. 18.

The International Chamber of Commerce considers the monetary agreement into which the Governments of Great Bri- tain, the United States and France recently entered, offers a signal opportunity to start sweeping away all trade restrictions, Extraordinary enthusiasm for the whereas failure to seize this opportunity may threaten a serious British Navy's work in rescuing risk of a series of new currency depreciations and the intensifica- refugees from Spanish dánger-spots tion of economie warfare. was proved by the behaviour of the These reßections are embodied in people of Bilbao when the destroy- the report of the Counell of the In-

ternational Chamber, whilch outlines. er. II.M.S. Esk, brought 44.refucces-plan whose-inain recommendations; children from Navarre and San are: the immediate conclusion Sebastian to-day.

bi-lateral treaties designed to demo- lish

rce barriers and pave the The town was decorated with flags Way for multi-interal

agreements and people lined the streets shouting open to all comers,

By this means the Chamber believes, frantically, "Viva Escuadra Ingless!" international, trade

best be as the naval escort took the children

stimulated-Reuter.

to the British Consulate.

This enthusiasm is in striking con- trast to the execration voiced by the crowd a few days ago when the children, due to arrive overland by lorries, were left behind on the route. when the lorries found themselves in danger of sticking in the mud. The lorries arrived at Bilbao without thef

commerce

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TRACING CHINA'S PROGRESS

EKINS AT ALAMEDA

ON LAST LEG OF WORLD JAUNT

20

DAYS OF

TRAVEL

San Francisco, Oct. 18.

"Bud" Ekins. one of the three

American Journalists engaged in n

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FEARS OF DISORDER SPREADING

You need

the SECURITY and

DURABILITY

TROOPS CALLED TO

QUELL LOOTING.

BOMBAY STILL DISORDERED

Bombay, Oct. 18. Bombay's milling aren may be Infected with the Moslem-Hindu hate which has raged for three days past with a consequent loss of 42 lives and over 400. injured. The authorities are doing all in their power to keep the trouble from spreading to this densely populated district.

The morning began quietly to-day, but as the day wore on arson and looting was resumed, and a Hindu temple near the Bhend Bazaar was completely burned down. The pituu tlon continued to grow worse as the afternoon waned.

At 5 p.m. Inrge-scale looting eczan and British troops, walling in readi- ness for such a crisis all-day, were rushed to the scene of the disorders.

from Poona and visited the trouble

The Governor arrived yesterday

of

DUNLOP FORT '90

GOT NO CHEERS

Chancellor Kurt Schunckning.

AUSTRIANS COOL TO LEADER

area, conferring with Hindu and SCHUSCHNIGG TALKS Moslem leaders. De returned to Poom in the evening.

The mills in Bombay werised all day

TO 350,000

to keep their operatives out WHO LISTEN IN

of mischief.-Reuter.

Missionary Barred By Japanese

Tokyo, Oct. 16,

CHILL SILENCE

Vienna, Oct. 18.

Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, ind # chilly reception when he nd- dressed to-day at Schwelz the greatest political rally in Aus- tria's history..

The meeting was elaborately plan- The Rev. J. S. Spencer Kennard,ned and advertised, and the railways

carried 150,000

persons free from all American missionary, returning to parts of Lower Austria to the gather- Japan from leave, was refused entry ing-place. The authorities dispensed to Japan at Yokohama to-day when a substanUni breakfast and also tic- police officials alleged that he had kets to football matches, the theatre, Communist tendencies and had en- cinemas, pud other entertainments,

without cost to the visitors.

There were 350,000 persons, pre-

gaged in anti-war activities. Mr. Ken- hurd remained on board the Asamo Maru, in which he came from America, and Intends to seek admit-sent. tance to Japan at Kobe. His friends are-co-operating in efforts to obtain a reversal of the police order,

Mr. Kennard's wife and daughter were permitted to enter Japan for six months, during which time they were advised to dispose of their pro- perty and then leave the country,

Mr. Kennard, who bas served Iwith the Buptist For

Japan for sixteen Foreign Mission in years, declured that the charges of Communism against him were "absurd,'

astering that he was pachistic, but not Communis- tic-United Press.

NEW LAND

round-the-world air, rail and sen NEAR THE

raeg, arrived at Alameda on the

children and the crowd threatened RECENT ADVANCE IN China Clipper from Manila to-day. NORTH POLE

to lynch the drivers,

Esk

When the captain of the learned of the children's plight hoj arranged to pick them up and bring them to safety,-Reuter.

REFUGEES OF CIVIL WAR

TRANSPORTATION

on

Washington, Oct. 18.

53ys,

He is ready to embark Immediately on a trans-continental airliner and will be in New York within a day, barring accidents.

Theory Advanced To B.A.

ON MIRAGES From A Correspondent

The Department of Commerce His two rivals, Miss Dorothy KI-

·Survey' of World Business, com- gallen and Leo Kiernan, who were LIGHT menting

China,

The unable to make an air connection be- internal administrative condition, tween Hongkong and Manila and made favourable progress during the consequently missed the China Clip- month of September in the achieve per, though it was held up for several ment of national unity.

daya by typhoons, are still at Manila. They expect to take off Tuesday.

ARCTIC

Blackpool, Oct. 1. The theory that a new land mass still remains to be discovered in the Arctic, nearer to the North Pole than any land already known, was put of Michigah University, in America, in on address before tha British Association here to-day.

"However, the uncertainty regard- ing external relationships has continued to cloud the business out- The three adventurers started from look."

Lakehurst, N.J., on September 9, The favourable developments in aboard the zeppelin, von Hinden China, specified by the survey, in burg, in which they flew to Frank-forward by Professor W. H. Hobbs, cluded numerous railway and high-fort, Thereafter their roules differed,

but Ekins led all the way. way projects.

"Practically every province in China is developing a programme for journey in twenty days—Reuter. Ekins hopes to complete. highways, ang endeavouring to operale In co-ordinating highway construction into a national network,”

report states,

Co-

Further It reported a bumper crop in North China, But "the import traite In North China continues to bo seriously handicapped by tho activities of smugglers, it adds Unlied Press.

Formosans On Trial

his

This land, he suggested to me after the meeting, would probably prove

Dr. Schuschnigg stood on a 70-fool lower and defended his policy of guilds and state constitution without evoking enthusiasm. Even is pro- mises of social improvement, cheaper cpal, free milk for school children, did

not shake his audience's stiff silence.

-Reuter,

American - Wilkes in the Antarctie among others have been unjustly blamed for having reported land where no land was afterwards to be seen.

They saw land, he suggests, but the land they knw was well below the horizon. His forthest north pre-. diction is based on two such cases.

(1) In 1904, the fate Commander Peary reported land to the North. west of Axel Heiberg Land. He enlled it "Crocker Land."

(2) In 1914, Commander Donald Macmillan,

"Crocker Langan American, loud expedition, which sledged 125 miles in the specified direction. They found nothing. But

all four members of the party saw what

Professor Hobbs regards as au identical "mirage effect" nhend. They also saw "Croclter Land" from Com- mander Feary's original vantage point on Axel Helberg Land,

TRACKS OF BEARS In addition, points out that the tracks of both.

Professor Hobbs polar bears and foxes have been re- predicted position for Crocker Land, ported on the jee' to the cast of his and a full 200 miles from the nearest known land. "The fee drift," be explained to me, is here slow und In

on easterly direction. "In the light of all this evidence am, I therefore,

is there walt-

to be not less than a hundred miles opinion that this lay of the in extent, and might be placed some ing to be discovered, and that the 250 miles to the north-west of Axel time of its loved. It will pro- will not be

by aero

FALSE THEORY ON Tiborg Land.

WAR

PROFESSOR EXPLODES A FALLACY

straight ahead.

much longer The latter les just to the west of the northern limit of Greenland,

be discovered either bably be In that position, it would be within by a journey on the ice."

plane or by submarine rather than 300 miles of the Norths Pole, und would be 100 miles further north

The following arc some of the parallel cases for which he believed than land has so far been discovered. that antisfactory explanations can

Professor Hobbs' prediction t New York, Oct. 1.

based on his examination of ex-

now be put forward. The theory that there is a biological discoveries

plorers' records in the light of recent

In 1016, Sir John Ross, in search need for war in man's struggle for termed "superior mirage," a type of because his

concerning

of the North-West Fassage, turned. what ho existence was branded as a "des-optical illusion peculiar to the Polar blocked by the "Coker Mountains" back without putting out a boat" tructive anachronism" by Professor regions.

party appeared to be Bronislaw Malinowski, of London University, in an address at Harvard. "Instead of war being a selective agency," he said. "It is an unmit- gated waste of all that is best. It is such pitiful people as these,

"The threat of war lins become a widows and their fatherless children,

moral and economic corrosive, ¦- who wring the hearts of those who Three hundred and sixteen others "Peace is not a negative state, not can observe the effects of the Spanish are out on ball,-while 84 have been eluil war at close quarters. It is such released following close examination, a mere absence of fighting. It is a as there that British warships have been helping to safety since the out in widespread police raids in Septem-o tribal differences can be settler! by All those concerned were arrested dynamic condition in which national break of hostilities.

ber, 1934-Reuter.

Large-scale readjustments.”

Talchu, Oct. 10. Twenty-five

Formusan nalives were committed for trial to-day on a charge of planning an armed re- bellon, with the object of restoring Chian's,auzerainty.

UNJUST, BLAME

Three years later, Sir Edward Parry sailed directly over the alleged mountains, and for a time Sir John Ross

Was

how well altested, light la bent in In this type of mirage, which I the same direction a the earth's curvature-the opposite direction of

Professor Hompetely discredited. belleves that Sir bending to that in the more familiar

John Rose saw a mirage of Somerset desert mirage. As a result, land at Island, 200 miles ahead. a distance of 150-270 miles may who had previously discredited appear no more than 30 miles away cerfier claims of land rinde by Similarly, Sir Douglas Mawson, Distortion relatively alight. believes that many explores the tion of sailing over "land" which he For this reason. Professor Hobbs Wilkes, later achieved the distinc Freat Sir: Jolun Ross and the

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