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五拜道 號九廿月正英港香

FRIDAY, JANUARY

29, 1937.

日七十月二十

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TEST SHOCK FOR AUSTRALIA RAVAGES OF

SHENSI WAR Fingleton Out DANGER NOW Early in Game

DISSIPATED

REBELS WITHDRAW FROM

ADVANCE POSITIONS

Shanghai, Jan. 29.

The withdrawal of the vanguard of the Shensi rebels from Chihsui, a railway town east of Sianfu, is considered an indication that an agreement was reached between Nanking's and the insurgents' delegates on January 27, which will be duly executed.

Moreover, the Lunghai Railway is reported to have sent men from Tungkwan to repair the line as far as Sianfu

Government officers, however, are watching the situation closely, in view of the doubt whether all sections of the rebel camp will sincerely subscribe to the agreement, especially Yang Hu-chen's army.

It is learned the Government has offered General Chang Hsuch-Hang's former troops two alternatives: gar rlson duly either in Kansu, or lerritory un the Honan-Anhwel border. In the event of the latter post being chosen, Yang's men would be transferred to Kansu, instead of northern Shensi. But it is under- stood the majority of Chang's former commanders favour the Kansu billet.

LANCHOW IS QUIET Conditions in Lanchow are quiet; declared Mr. R. Walter, technical manager- of the Eurasia... Aviation Corporation, on his return to Shang- hai to-day after the first air trip to Kansu province's capital since the service wis interrupted by the December 12 revolt.

23 CRAFT SUNK OFF PORTUGAL

FEARS FELT FOR PASSENGER SHIP

H.M.S. BEAGLE SAFE IN-PORT

London, Jan. 29. The Exchange Telegraph to- day reports one of the wildest Contrary to earlier reports, the gales in recent history off the foreign population at Lanchow docs Portugal coast, in which 23 not desire to evacuate, Mr. Walter

vessels, mostly of small tonnage, said.

This is the first direct information were sunk with considerable loss foreign of life. through

from Lanchow channels for many weeks, and has: grently reassured missionary and other circles in Shanghai-Beuter..

Britain's

Gratitude

Expressed

SURPRISING COLLAPSE

AFTER LUNCH INTERVAL Immediately after the luncheon interval in the fourth Test match at Adelaide to-day, Australia, who won the toss and batted first, encountered a nasty shock when two wickets fell for the loss of two runs. The score was then 73 for 3.

Earlier in the game, a bad blow was suffered by the home team when J. H. Fingleton was run out by Voce before 30 runs had been scored. Fingleton had only made

ten.

UGAKI UNABLE

TO FORM CABINET

Blocked by Army Opposition

(Special to "Telegraph")

Tokyo, Jan. 20. General Kazushige Ugaki, asked to form a Cabinet on the collapse of Mr. Koki Hirota's the administration, informed Emperor to-day that he was un-

able to carry out his instruc- tions.

He has failed because of the at-

views to rule a Cabinet The Army

Brown and Rigg, however, soon settled down and when the lunch interval was taken they were still un-titude of high Army officers who separated and seemed set for a big partnership. Brown consider him a person of too liberal was then 42 and Rigg 20, and the scare 71 for 1. Then came the loss of two valuable wickets with only two more runs added. The English fielding is described as being remarkably good.

;

refused to nominate a War Minister, as long as General Ugaki was in the position of Prime Minister, and since the constitution requires the Army's representation In the Government, General Ugaki was check-maled be- both he and W. A. Brown making i fore he started. runs fairly, freely. :~

Voce, it was noticeable, was not usual. Allen, bowling as fast no though fast, could get no "kick" out of the pitch, and batsmen looked good for harvest of 'runs. K. Rigg joined Brown-

BEAUTIFUL WEATHER

Adelaide, Jan. 29, Sunny and warm weather greeted the Australian and English cricketers who have Enthered bere to-day for An hour the fourth Test match.

start before the game was due to 25,000 enthusiasts had crowded into the ground, and they learnt with vaneed the score to 31, Brown being Intense satisfaction that Bradman10 and had beaten Allen in the toss and that Australin were batting on an easy- paced wicket.

No changes were announced in the composition of the Australian team made known on January 10. Bad cock is twelfth man and the side is D. G. Bradman, W. A. Brown, J. H. Fingleton, S. J. McCabe, E. L McCormick, W. J. O'Reilly, L. Fleet wond-Smith, K. Rigg, A. G. Chipper fald, W. A. Oldfield and Ross Gre- Bory.

NEW PLAYERS

two.

S DISPLAY

and actTM

Fifty runs were registered after 60 minutes' play, Reuter odds.' Brown, at the timin interval, was 42 not out, his display being marked by delight- fut leg strokes. Rigg was 20 not out, and was playing confidently when the adjournment came with the score 72 for 1.

A feature of this morning's play was the fielding of the English team, which was excellent..

The

tin interval proved dis astrous for Australia, as, shortly Allen revealed that he is introduc-after the resumption of play, two ing two players to the team this further wickets fell with only two

more runs added-Reuter. match who have not played in any of the three previous Tests, Ken- neth Farnes, the Essex fast bowler, and R. E. S. Wyatt, displace T. S. Worthington and J. Sims. from a sore back near the waist,

W. Voce is stated to be suffering

but he is fielding.

England's team is G. O. B. Allen, Reports from Lisbon, meanwhile, stated that an unidentified Brazilian L. Ames, Barnett, W. Voce, R. E. S. steamer, with 100 passengers aboard, Wyatt, K Farnes, W. R. Hammond, has sent out a wireless message that J. Hardstaff, M. Leyland, R. W.. V she is in imminent danger of ground-Robins and at. Verity.

ing on Belinga Island, her engines tame. With only 20 runs on the There was an unexpected start to having falled her.-United Press.

DAMAGED WARSHIP SAFE Gilbraltar, Jan. 28. H.M.S. Beagle, the destroyer which suffered a break-down in her conden- ser system 150 miles west of Gibraltar at the height of the worst hurricane known to these parts in years, has arrived safely. She was towed by H.M.S. Brazen, the same clas of

vessol.. London, Jan. 28. Two other destroyers stood by Britain has forwarded Notes to throughout the rescue operations, and France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the battleship Ramilles raced to her Portugal expressing pleasure at the help from Tangier. replies to the appeal for neutrality in the Spanish civil war.

The weather has improved to-day and the gule la moderating.

The liner Strathnaver, which sought I The Notes state that the replies the protection of East Rock yester- show that "a further measure of day, has sailed without discharging reached." the 450 tons of cargo destined for this been Agreement has United Preis.

port-Reuter Bulletin Service.

CHINESE ARE CONVINCED TIGER STILL AT LARGE

Terrified residents of Taiwalchuen village, in the New Terri- torice, aro barricading themselves in their homes at night.

According to the Teum Wan Evening News, of yesterday, -two residents of this village have already fallen victims to the King of the Mountains, the famous Kowloon Tiger which was recently thought dead, but whose existenco. is still believed, in, Villagers are emphatic that the dreaded killer is still prowling

around their huts,

✔

that two

board, Fingleton lost his wicket, W. Voce breaking the stumps with the batsman vainly trying to reach his crease. Fingleton had scored len,

STOP PRESS

The latest Test score is, Australia 103 for a loss of four wickets,

It now appears possible that the Army's nominee may attempt to form a Cabinet, with the support of the Navy, but no name has been put

forward-United Press.

American

Volunteers

In Spain

MEDICAL UNIT IN-

MADRID-AREA

MORE ARE ON THEIR WAY

U.S. FLOODS NOW CHECKED

Mississippi Mastered By Army Engineers

Washington, Jan. 28. Army officials have decided to open the $18,000,000 Bonnet Carre floodway above New Orleans next week,

Simultaneously, it is announced that engineers believe that the levees should hold.

So far, there have been 255 deaths as a result of the disastrous floods, whilst the homeless total over a million, and damage has passed $100,000,000.

However, workers in the Cairo and Gulf port areas believe they are gradually overcoming the Mississippi danger.

Refugees at Pittsburgh and Evansville are slowly returning to their homes.-United Press.

RELIEF WORKERS STRIKE

İSEIZE W. P. A. BLOCK

IN READING

PROGRESS AT 'FRISCO

Battle In The Mûd

Washington, Jan. 28. Over 100,000 workers, wading knee-deep in mud, tolled to raiso levees along the Mississippi River to- day, while Army experts announced: W are building lovees faster than the water is coming down. We aro holding back the flood."

Weather

Simultaneously, the Bureau at Washington predicted that barring heavy rains, the flood crest

at Memphis, Tennessee, would be only 48 feet between February 6 and 7.

Death Toll Rises

The total deaths in the flood at this hour number 273, in Kentucky 102. The other states have not suf- fered so severely, though Illinois has last 11, Arkansas 29, Missouri 14,

Reading, Pa.. Jan. 28. A body of 1,200 strikets, have sclaed | West Virginia 11, Indiana 12, Tennes- the Works Progress Administration see 9, Pennsylvania 3, Ohio 18 and building-here-and-are prepared to Mississippl-4-lives... seize officials it an effort is made to evict them.

The strike has halted Works Progress Administration projects throughout the city..

"Flying squadrons" have invaded the country-side to persuade other W.P.A. workers to join the walk-out. They are asking for "o security wage which is 20 per cent, more than the Government pays them at present

United Pres.

Paris, Jan. 20. The first American volunteer medical unit, headed by Dr. Edward Goland, of Cincinnati, and including Dr. Albert Byrne, of San Francisco, has proceeded to Madrid.

Meanwhile, thirty American volun-

TAKING FIGHT TO COURT have arrived at Cherbourg teers

Flint, Mich., Jan. 28. aboard the Berengaria and have

The General Motors Corporation entrained for Le Sourk, from which point they are scheduled shortly to has secured a court order that union embark for Spain.

strikers show cause before February Dr. Goland reports that three ad-2 why they should not ovacuate the ditional American volunteer units Flint plants. are en route to Europe.-United Press.

HONGKONG VISITED BY RARE

JANUARY LIGHTNING STORM

Last night Hongkong was visited by one of the rare phenomena in local meteorology-a thunderstorm in January.

In over 50 years--the period during which records have been kept in this Colony-only eight such visitations have been observed,

Last night's disturbance, which culminated in a particularly brilliant electrical display, actually occurred in two sections. A thunderstorm from a westerly direction shortly after 8 p.m. preceded the more violent disturbance at 3 am.

The disturbance and consequent rain was apparently general throughout the Colony, the Telegraph receiving reports from Fanling, Taipo, Shing Mun, Repulso Bay and other outlying districts of heavy thunderstorms and a sharp fall of rain.

The temperature, which was normal yesterday was 72 degrees, which is on Tuesday and Wednesday, rose 7.6 degrees higher than the mean abruptly yesterday, a temperature of maximum for January, but by no 70-degrees benig recorded at 10 a.m., means a record. as compared with 64 degrees at 10 am. on Wednesday: and 48 degrees

fat 10 a.m. Onunderstorm may be.

HIGH HUMIDITY. The relative humidity of the air

reached 98 per cont. at midnight."

During the night .01 of an inch of "Last night'a attributed to the t displacement of rain fell at the Royal Observatory, warm, damp air from the China Sen the heaviest fail belog .33 of an inch by cooler air from the continent," between 2.30 and 3.30 nm.

A total of 1.39 Inches of rain was owing to an lacrcase in intensity of Every night, they vow, the, although they are stated to have the anti-cyclone over North China," recorded at the Botanical Gardens Jeffries, Director ofan the island ditring the 24 hours marauder creeps to within a few conte across. the spoor.

aald Mr., C.-W.

ended 10 a.m. to-day. hundred yards of the village, n Police authorities at Talpo aro the Royal Observatory. tacking chicken, and terrifying the mystified at the reports

Thunderstorms of this type not Approximately the same amount of women and children with its roars. residents of Talwalchuen have been infrequently occur during the spring, rain was recorded at Shing Mun,

killed. No report of any such in after a temporary break in the north- where the capacity of Jubilee. Besor During the past three days parties cident, or of the recovery of human casterly monsoons, but are very rare voir, which will be officially opened of men from Talwalchuen and sur remains, has been made.so for. in the winter. In fout, since the com- by His Excellency the Governor to- rounding villages have armed them-

Nevertheless,

to according the mencement of observations in 1884, morrow, is now, 1,213,000,000 gallons. The oficial forecast, issued by the selves with all conceivable forms of Tsun Wen Evening News, a only eight thunderstorms have been

Royal Observatory at 10a.m. is: weapons, including pitchforks and vernacular newspaper, villagers recorded in January. sticks,

and have thoroughly searched are emphatic that the tigerlo The air previota to the arrival of "North-easterly winds, moderate, fair the district in an effort to capture in the vicinity of Talwalchuen, and the thunderstorm was unusually generally

It is possible that cooler

ler weather the Tiger. So far, however, their that

year. The maximum temperature may be experiened in the near future. efforts have been without success, at least one person, a woman, warm and humid for this time of the

New Government

Block Would Be

Fine Air Target

London, Jan. 28.

It is strongly, rumoured that the building of new Government .: offices In Whitehall, costing £325,000, to accommodate the Board of Trade, Air, Transport, and Labour Ministries, will be postponed.

The proposed building would. bo 128 feet high and 550 feet long, and would be faced with while stone. It would [ front upon the Thames River and would provide easy guidance for ale raiders and a too conspicuous. "target in the heart of the British **

administrative centre-Reuter,

The new action list 21 complaints, and charges that strikers ore in un- lawful possession of G.M.C. plants.

Prea

United

ARBITRATION

TREND Washington, Jan, 28. Following a conference with Presi- dent F. D. Roosevelt to-day, Senator William McAdoo declared: "The prospects of settling the western maritime strike ure better."

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, one of the largest meetings of striking (Continued on Page 4.)

The homeless are still estimated at 1,000,000.

the The Red Cross announces establishment of 200 refugee camps. and 50 hospitals. The United States Surgeon-General has shipped 275 anil-typhoid "shots" and 0,851,-

anti-Influcuza 870 units

and amicted pneumonia serum to the areas.

Meanwhile, the Conservation. Corps has established 168 refugee

camps.

Wheeling Damaged

In Wheeling widespread collapses business district, of the weakened covering four square blocks, are feared.

ΕΠ the downtown Brea of Cincinnati It is estimated damage amounts to $25,000,000,

Ohlo's Governor Davey, describes: the Portsmouth and Irontown situ ations as "tragle.” At Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Army engineers say. 75 per cent, of the homes are destroyed.

United Press.

250,000, EVACUATED

Madrid, Jan. 20.- It is officially stated that thus far 250,000 persons have been evacuated from Madrid, including 100,000 child- ren.--United Press.

"BEAR, BEAR, BLACK BEAR, CAN YOU SEE THE SHORE?”

Officers of the Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force are taking a course in "bear bucking," that fantastic sport of savage. frontiersmon. It consists, briefly, of capturing a swimming boar.

There is good reason for training There had been some slight shout- of this kind. The, officers possess a ing and confusion all this while, and amall, black bear aboard H.M.S. a small crowd of Chinese had collect- Cornflower, who has an evil pro-ed on the bund. A returning funeral pensity for midnight swimming if he party paused to watch. is able to slip his collar. The bear's real name is Baby; but he is called other things as well.

The bear..

swam steadily towards the praya, and when they, made him out and saw him, attempt to climb the stone sco- front, the crowd retreated.

It

He went overboard at 0.20 p.m. yesterday, according to the log. He was reported returned aboard" at But the officers of the H.K.N.V.F, ||| 10,10 of the same evening. Two were equal to this new emergency. young gentlemen, with a motorboat's Thoroughly wet and exasperated by crew, followed Baby towards the tile time, one of them leaped ashore prays, caught him up and drew with a stout length of chain. One alongside. Baby snarled and turned and he dropped down to Baby, and

De take to the sca Boathooks would Baby had the good sense to not stop

his mouth and allow himself to be One of the officers, with cool

dar

helped to safety,

the tried

frontiersman's trick, The story of his return aboard

Cornflower is long and full of highly technical language, only known to seamen and officers of the H.K.N.V.F.. It was during this adventure that?

Baby was renamed."

om

the

Ling, attempted to seize Baby by the shoulders. Daby was too quick. Ho rolled on

his back and bit, and growled viciously, But he headed back toward shore,