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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SHANGHAI: MARKS ITS BIRTHDAY
City Decorates For Week's Carnival
Shanghai, July 7.
The city was beflagged for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Municipality of Greater Shang- hal to-day, and celebrations which will last a week, started last night when elaborate Inntern processions at least 500,000 were watched by
murchers started people. The Klangwan, some miles but of the
at
WEDNESDAY, JULY
7
1987.
16 FEARED LOST ALHAMBRA
IN JUNK WRECK Dutch Steamer Picks
Up Four, But One Is Dead From Shock
Four Chinese, all on the verge of exhaustion, were city, and paraded through the Inter- picked out of a high-running sea 80 miles from Hongkong yesterday afternoon, and one has since died as a result of prolonged immersion and shock.
national Settlement to Nantao.
Shops, office buildings, motor cars and lorries are all decorated to-day.
Scores of archways have been erect- ed in various parts of the city. At
night the streets blaze with illumina-
tions.
The official programme commenced
at 9.45 a.m. to-day at the auditorium of the Civic Centre, where a com- the principal participants being
Teh-ehen, Wu Mayor, now Governor of Kwangtung After the meeling a big exhibition at the Civic Centre was opened.
memorative meeting was held, one of
General
fanner
Later celebrations include further lantern processions, stage shows and fireworks on a grand scale.-Reuter,
SHIPPING WARNED
London, July 6.
The rescue was carried out by the J.C.J.L steamer, The Tjisondari on its way from Hongkong to Amoy. ship sighted four figures struggling in the water close to Chilang Point, which is about 80 miles from Hongkong, and immediately a boat was lowered and the men taken aboard.
All four were in a state of collapse, but later some had sufficiently re- covered to reveal that their junk, which carried 10 other Chinese at the time, had been driven on to the rocks
ht Chilang Point during the The height of Sunday's storm. vessel had foundered and left its occupants clinging precariously to adjacent rocks, and to parts of the Junk
The four survivors could give no
ITALIANS' RESOURCES
DWINDLE
information as to the fate of their Clearing House Near
Inst evening
10 companions, and Hongkong broadcast a message to all shipping in the vicinity of Chilang for Point to keep a strict watch likely survivors.
ury
End Of Funds
London, July 6. Captain H. F. Crookshank, Secret- for Mines, in reply to a Parliamentary question asking if he' was aware that coal-owners Britain had been warned that re- sources of Italian clearing houses
in
In the meantime the Tlisondari, Java-Hongkong- The President of the Board of
which is on the TO-DAY • TO-MORROW Trade, Mr. G. F. G. Stanley, was ask- Amoy run, continued its course to ed in the House of Commons, Lo-day Amoy, taking the four storm victims how many British ships had entered with her. Subsequently last even
died. Santander harbour during the past ing one of the men tried out about were nearing exhaustion, and it he
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COUNT
THE
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fortnight, whether they had experi The rescue was carried enced any dieulty and whether all five o'clock, but the carried observers.
Mr. Stanley replied that according during the to his information fortnight ended June 30, eleven Bri- tish ships entered Santander, all of which enrried observing officers,
indiente what steps he
Was
it impossible to an isondari found to deal with the matter, said
the ill-MALL.
fated Junk to discover whether any further people were still on board. The sea was running high at the rocks. time and the area is dotted
with
that in the existing circumstances he had worned the coal trade that the ulmost caution should be exercised In accepting any further commitment
in the Italian market.
contracto
Very large Italian purchases of been made. So con had already far ne it was possible to estimate the future position of the clearing, It executed. was probable that the already made. It fully would leave no margin of payment for the rest of the present year.
The position in regard to 1038 was receiving consideration. The also position was about to be discussed informally with the Italian govern- ment.-British Wireless,
Liu Sze, 20. unemployed, was The Board had no Information that any of the vessels experienced di-sentenced to two months' imprison- culty,
ment by Mr. E. Himsworth at the Since Juste 30, however, Spanish Kowloon Magistracy this morning Insurgent war vessels had been en- when he pleaded guilty to larceny of deavouring to prevent the entry of a bicycle from outside No. 183 Sni- 1. Sub- merchant ships into Santander and yeungchol Street on July they had captured a French vessel on Inspector Hynes said the bicycle had July 4. Notification was sent to the been hired out and was left outside British shipping industry regarding the address when the defendant.came the risks which British merchant along and stole it. A few days later ships bound for Santander might en- another man was seen riding it in counter in territorial waters, in con- Prince Edward Road und was arrest from the defendant and the latter
ed. He said he had bought it for $21 was taken into custody. sequence.British Wireless.
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