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Hongkong Telegraph

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四拜雞 辦三十月正英港香

No. 15414

THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938 日二十月二十

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HONGKONG CLIPPER BURNS: CREW DEAD

FOILY SEAS

SEAS AND Chinese

WRECKAGE TELL

TRAGIC STORY

Machine Destroyed

When In Sight Of

Land, States

Report

Seek World Boycott Of Japan

London Conference

In February

London, Jun. 12. The International Pencé Campaign announces a conference to organise a world boycott of Japan and aid for Chian, to be held in London 011 February 2.

Viscount Cheil will be one of the Presidents, and M. Edouard Herrlot. President of the French Chamber of

Earlier reports that the Samoan Clipper, formerly Deputies will be one of many foreign the Hongkong Clipper, had been located and that the crew

was safe, were quickly contradicted when distressing

leaders who will attend the confer ence. Beuter.

information reached Pan-American Airways officials, STOP PRESS

hrough the United States Navy Department, that the Clipper had gone up in flames after making a forced landing, and that the entire crew of seven was dead.

which suddenly Wreckage of the ill-fated Clipper, vanished yesterday after reporting that she was turning back to Pagopago which she had left but a few hours before in the course of the first "pay mail" flight from America to New Zealand, was discovered by the aircraft tender, Avocet, and Pan-American Airways officials feel no doubt concerning the fate which overtook the crew of the big plane, well-known in Hongkong.

Identification Satisfactory

San Francisco, Jan. 12.

The Honolulu Navy Radio Station reports that it has picked up messages Avocet, from the aircraft tender, which rushed to the seene of the Hongkong Clipper's disappearance, stating that the ship was salvaging wreckage of the missing Clipper 49 miles west of Pagopogo. No men-

was made of survivors, The United States Navy Deparl- ment Informed the Pan-American Airways that "oil slick" had been discovered 12 miles west of Pagopago and that a navy launch was recover, Ing parts of the wreckage which made "Identification satisfactory".

The report sald that an unsigned message had been received by the Navy Department, and this phrase is understood by Pan-Amerlena oficials to mean that the wreckage is that of the missing plane.

Death Is Proved

Mr. Juan Trippe, President of Pan-American Airways, states that it has been "definitely established" that the crew of the Hongkong Clipper is dead.

Mr. Trippe sald that on the basis of the radio reports from the United States naval station at

Samoa, it

had been determined that the crew was killed when the Clipper was "destroyed by fire", the origin

which was not known.-Reuter.

Similar To Amelia

Earheart Tragedy

of

PIONEER AVIATOR PERISHES

EDWIN MUSICK

Son of a hardware man,

BRUTAL GANG MURDER

Man And Girl Accosted; Money Demanded

12 Held For Questioning

General

Fears

JAPANESE BOMBER DOWNED

Thrust At

Canton

This Japanese bombing plane anded its career in the

River, shot down by Chinese gunners, its crew killed.

HONGKONG RADIO ARMY STEADILY WINS RECRUITS

Broadcast licences issued by the Hongkong Post Office reached the new record of 8,539 during 1937.-

It is probable that 12,000 listeners will be licensed by the end of the current year. Ten years ago there were only 545 listeners in the Colony..

The increase in listeners in the first decade of Government broadcasting in Hongkong hus astonished even the authorities.

Italy's Hand

in three years the number of Of Friendship

listeners have doubled. In six years they have quadrupled. The follow- ing figures, released yesterday by the Pastmaster-General, Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones, show the remarkable growth In the number of listeners licensed since 1920:

1929

1930

1931

1904

1932

1933

1034

1935

1936

2037

043

1,500

1,788

2,446

3278

4,201

5 104

с вся

G,868

A 539

Outside the well-known Club- house of the Hongkong Football Club, a young Chinese collapsed and died shortly before mid-

number of night, victim of a brutal gang

In addition, the record 1,059

new licences and renewals have who tried to force, money from been issued by the Post Office in the

To Japan

Tokyo, Jan. 13. The Italian Ambassador told Mr. Hirota. Japanese Foreign Minister yesterday that Signor Benito Mussolini was sending a mission to Japan to cement friendship and to, study indus- other Irlal, educational and

country. systems United Press.

in

the

Anti-Japan

him when they discovered him first 11 days of January, representing Discussion

with a girl friend in the grounds a very substantial increase over the

of the Club.

A dozen men are held this morn-

Agures for the same period last year. Recent opening of Chinese studio ZBW, permitting simultaneous

ing by the police for questioning but at

broadcasts of European and Chinese

no arrest has been made.

The dead man is Tam Ki-san, of studio programmes, will most likely SA High Street. The unhappy sur-be a factor in crenting new records vivor of the affair is Tong Pui-for the current year,

heung, 18 years old and living at No.

10, Heard Street.

She says that she met Tam by

appointment by the

Wanchal Fire

Station about 0.30 p.m. and

they

sirolled to the Football Club ground and sat in the stands for some time, Edwin When they were leaving the ground

Musick was born in St. Louis in about midnight, four men came up

1894. His parents moved to

Call to them in a menacing way and ono of them, says the girl, produced a

ROOSEVELT

DELIGHTS FILIPINOS

At Hankow

Nationalist And "Reds" Unite

In Common Cause

Hunkow, Jan. 13,

Hankow

PREDICTS CUTTING OF SINO-SOVIET COMMUNICATIONS

Unless Japanese Mechanised Forces are Halted in Honan

Hankow, Jan. 13.

General Yeh Chien-ying, Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army, and outstanding strategist in guerilla warfare, has published an article in the newly-born Communist organ, the Hsin Hwa Jih Pao, under the title "Protect The Wuhan Three Cities."

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General Yeh points out that Japanese troops in In North China are moving in a westward direction. other words the Japanese troops victorious in southern Shantung are attempting to occupy the eastern sections of the Lunghai railway by capturing Hsuchow, and then this main force is moving westward trying to capture Chengchow, where they are meeting the Japanese troops from northern Honan. The Japanese force will thence move further westward, isolating General Yen Shi-shan's army by occupying Tungkwan.

ANGLO-

IRISH PARLEY

De Valera Going To London With

Delogation

London, Jan. 12. 'An Anglo-Irish conference will be held in London on January 17, and will be attended by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, and Mr. Eamon De Valera, chief execu tive of the Irish Free State, it is officially announced.

The purpose of the conference is to discuss questions affecting the rela- tions of the two countries.

The Irish delegation will consist of Mr. De Valera, Mr. Scan Lemass, Minister for Industry, Mr. Scan In Hankow, leaders representing MeEnter. Minister of Finance, and

the

General Yen Chien-ying belleves it possible that the Japanese troops are trying to penetrate Shensi and Kiangsu from both Tungkwan and west of Wuyuan, the latter being Suiyuan.

The occupation of Shensi and Klangsu means the cutting off of Sino-Soviet. land communications. General Yen believea that such a Japanese plan to swallow up the en- -tire-Yellow-River-valloy is most for

miduble.

He expresses the opinion that the highly mechanised Japanese units are Anding

it

easy to operate in the Ho- easy nan province plains, so that It Is for the Japanese troops from Cheng- chow and Hotel to meet each other on the Peiping-Suiyuan and Peiping- in which case the Hankow

railways,

three cities of Wochang, Hankow and Hanyang ure certainly endangered.

General Yen balled the three Wu- han cities as the present centre of the spirit of the Chinese nation and sald the cities should be protected at all costs. Guerilla tactics for disturbing their rear lines of the Japanese forces and of cutting-of communication lines should be chiefly relied upon, he urged.-United Press.

HUNT FOR ROSELLI SLAYERS

the Communist Party and the Kuo- mintang are discussing basic plans Dr. Janies Ryan, Minister of Agricul- two Lure. Mr. Chamberlain will be ac- for co-operation between factions in the present anti-Japanese companied by Mr. Malcolm Mac. Murders Linked With

Secretary Donald,

of State for campaign and future national recon-

Dominions, and Sir Samuel Hoare, struction work.

So far the conversations are said who has special duties in connection

to

The aircraft tender, Avocet reports school when he went to watch the rive. The girl was held by one of Warmly Welcomed By absoluoceeding smoothly under the with the North of Ireland.

killed.

fornia when he was nine. Youns revolver. The others had knives and Edwin had progressed as far as the they seized Tum, demanding money Trade Adjustment Plan Pagopago, Jan. 12.

n Los Agneles high from him. second year in

This Tom refused to Enthralled, he that she has found pleces of He Dominguez air races.

Commonwealth Clipper's wreckage about 10 miles and

templed to break away. which got north-west of Pagopago in the midst and his friends attempted to build a the pen but both she and Tam at-

plane, a Almsy contraption

Manila, Jan. 13. of heavy oil slick.

nine feet off the ground, pancaked Suddenly Tam gave a shout of pain

in the

President F. D. Roosevelt's to and all members of the crew were retained his absorption in aviation. towards the Club House where the allow the Philippines well plan to

The machine was destroyed by fire quietly into a puridle. "Ed" Musick and staggered away. He had been

high

school, he took B Quilting

men did not attempt to follow him, adjust trade relations between the commercial fying

In und collapsed, at the same time United States and the Common- The Avocet le searching for bodies. 1013. During the war he served. as shouting for help. The girl went to wealth, has been warmly greeted The Clipper's direction finder civilian instructor in the Army Air

Busi- and when they arrived, Tam to their best gains for weeks. e dead at 8.27 a.m. on Tuesday Corps at San Diego, Wichita Falls police telephoned for the here, and stocks yesterday climbed piloted was lying dead by the Clubhouse ness leaders halled the plan as the ter the machine had wirelessed and Miami. Afterwards he

threw door.

for meet Intelligent approach so. that she was suffering from on oll for various uirlines until he

in 1927.

A. cordon was thrown round the offered, and a group of prominent From then until yesterday ellor brakes were set on this

ing a Commonwealth Association for motor, Indicating that the Clipper chief pilot in Pan-American's Carib-detained:

the purpose of secking perpetuation of the Commonwealth status,

President Manuel

course

rage in one of the motors. The in his lot with Pan-Am he was area and a number of men were Filipinos announced they are, form-

was flying on three motore.

bean

in

can Division, mac

homo made his Miami. In 22 years of flying, he has a total of a year and four 120

mado.

It is noteworthy that the Cilpper's spent in the air, hind adlo became dead suddenly as in tho case of lil fated Amelia Earheart trips to foreign countries, passed Customs Putnam, the American aviatrix who through the United States was lost in the Pacific last year.

more than 2,000 times. One of the

At Washington, Mr. Juan Trippe, few pilots in the world licensed to fly President of the Pan-American Air any kind of plane,, he' held

more

ways, announced that the facts in-world records (ten) than any flyer in dicated the fire on the Clipper the world, had never had an accident, developed incidental to, the routine discharge of fuel preparatory -- to landing-United Press,, Ma

NEVER KNOWN TO STUNT

In spite of this record, Capt. Musick remained virtually unknown to the public. He refused to show

Clipper Is Found Drifting or make, "wisecracka" for nows-

Apla, Jan. 12. men. Ho had never been known to! roraft tender, Avocat; found" stunt "10: a plane, never made a fight gkong Clipper Griting in the without the most meticulous pre-¦:

parations, even pofused to the up to

(Further Stop Prest News on Page 31.);

Quezon cald: gratification and

"It is cause for shows that President Roosevelt has

a deep regard for the wellore, and stability of the Philippines even after the United States relinquishes sovereignty."-United Pres.--

ita

SUCCESSFUL OPERATION ON. QUEEN ALEXANDRINE-

Copenhagen, Jan. 12. Queen Alexandrine of Denmark,

a underwent

Budcessful who abdominal operation -on Sundar night, is considerably better, record- ing to an official bulletin.

**ffer condition on the whole, is said

to be satisfactors Reuter Special,

Csar Organisation, Claim Police guiding principle of "Anti- All questions of common interest

Paris, Jan. 12. the Japanism, and anti-Japanese will be open to discussion, but there

revealed French police to-night task which is supreme over every will be no fixed agenda until the that evidence had been received con- other consideration."

A joint Nationalist and Com-first day's conversations show whether necting the Car ("Cagoulards)" con- munist manifesto is expected to be there is any prospect of the conver-spiracy with the hitherto unsolved issued at the end of the conversations sations being useful. Hence the first murder of the two Hostill brothers consultations are entirely preliminary, who were found dead in a wood near. and they are an outgrowth from in- Bagnolle. United Press.

formal talks between Mr. MacDonald and Mr. De Valera as occasion offered in London or Geneva.

Britain's

1937 Road

Fatalities

Death-Roll Lowered, But Still Large

London, Jan. 12. During 1937, no less than 282,930 people were killed and injured in road necidents in Great Britafa according to statistics issued by the Ministry of Transport.

of

the

were

Police announced that three ar rests had been made in connection with the crime, two at Marseilles and a third at Constantine in Algeria. The subjects contemplated, if early

M. Max Dormy, Minister for tho deliberations are promising, are de- fence, finance and agriculture, under Interior, stated that the police werd

convinced Roscill murders general headings. Then there may

by persona connected with the Cour organisation. The mur- be discussion of a comprehensive trade committed

coat and cattle pact. derers were four in number, three agreement and

it is possible the question of the of whom were already under delen- partition of Eire (which is the Free lon. The fourth was State) and northern Ireland may, be the appointment of rolged. But diplomatic representatives abroad will not be raised as this is a matter of Internal policy with Eire-Reuter,

sought.

k.

still being

In addition two accomplices had also been arrested.--Reuter.

FRANCE ENTERS ARMS RACE

PRIME MINISTER 4 OF EINE Be

Dublin, Jon. 12. Mr. Eamon de Valera took his seat The figure shows a decrease

as Prime Minister of Eire when the 1,444 compared with 1030.

The death-roll in 1937 was 0,591, first sitting of the Dalt opened, this an increase of 30 over the previous afternoon under the new constitution. Mr. Bean O'Kelly as Deputy Prime year.

Altogether 2,079, pedestrians were Ministry sat next to Mr. do Valera. killed, a decrease of 30 and 72,0577 There was a full attendance of injured a decrease of 3,719-members and the public gallery was 900,000 frange to speed up naval.con

Crowded exterrimilejin, was Reuters Special,

Paris. Jan. 12. Itz is - understood ・・ M. Camille. Chautemps, Premier of France, will be orted in the next day or two to approve of a grant of an extra 5007–