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五拜禮 號七十月六英港香

JUNE FRIDAY,

17, 1938.

日十二月五

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the SECURITY and

DURABILITY

DUNLOP FORT 90

GRAND CANAL FLOOD NOW THREATENS

SITUATION

INCREASES

Japanese Trapped By Flood And Powerful Foe

PEAK

IN GRAVITY MURDER

Japanese Silent As Additional Rains Add to Danger

Tsangchow, June 17.

Floods are now feared in the Grand Canal. Waters in the canal, which stretches a thousand miles from north to south and runs through four provinces, are continuing to rise, due to the penetration of flood waters from the Yellow River, and the situation is reported to be grave in the outlying areas from Tsangchow.

Failure to close a number of breaks in the banks of the Grand Canal is causing floods in low-lying areas in Shantung.--United Press.

JAPANESE SAY NOTHING

Shanghai, June 17.

For the first time in many days, the Japanese military, naval and embassy spokesmen had no news to report to this morning's press conferences.

Silence regarding the flood situation seems to indicate that the floods may have become worse since the last information was given out, stating that further intermittent rains were swelling the floods.-Reuter.

Snipers Attack Engineers Pelping. June 17.

A Japanese officer who has just returned after a survey flight over the flood areas in Honan reports

the Yellow that the breaches in River are now over a hundred yards wide each.

one

Ten Japanese engineers who were attempting to repair

the of breaches were shot dead by Chinese snipers, he said.

The

floods have now reached a forty miles south of Kaifeng, the capital,

point

Chungmou is completely isolated but no water is in the sircets of the town.

Koifeng is at present in no danger, and the plane was able to land in the city area-United Press.

SHANGHAI BADLY FLOODED

Week Of Rain In Northern Port

Shanghai, June 17. Shanghai splashed its way to offico this morning, in a heavy downpour which bogan Inst Saturday and is still continuing. -Many parts of the city have been inundated by flood waters, which cannot escape swiftly enough to the Whangpoo. In some places the water Is almost knee-deep and rescue vans have been kept busy attending to ∙eara ́stalled in the streets. ›

Although it has been pouring rain for almost a week, Shanghal's wettest | period in many years shows no signa of ending.

The city's central shopping district, particularly that portion of Nanking Road near the great Chinese depart- mental stores, has been hardest hit. Low-lying areas of the city, and suburbs are completely submerged.- Reuter Special.

Britain Urged

To Take

Stiff Reprisal

London, June 16,

In the House of Commons to- day Sir Joseph Leech asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, whether, notwith- standing the temporary loss to all concerned, he would impose prohibitive duties on importations of Brazilian products into the United Kingdom pending tho ecasation of the defauti which had extinguished £80,000,000 of British savings.

Sir Joseph urged this action on diplomatic the grounds that na protests were disregarded, unless the Government made it clear to foreign borrowers that illtreat- ment of Britis capital would be met by tariff reprisals, no British subject would invest in fature in foreign countries, and as result International trade would con- tract and unemployment would Increase,

Sir John Simon in reply sald -the British Government attached the greatest importance to the -resumption of payments on the Brazlilan external debt and was in close consultation with the Council of Foreign Bond-holders. He had considered Sir Joseph Leech's stizzestion but did not think it would achieve the object the honourable member had in mind.—British Wireless.

Bound For

H.K. To Marry

HEARING

STARTS

Former House-Boy On

Capital Charge

Preliminary

procealings

against Lam Chun, charged with) the murder, of Mrs. Sybil Ruby Challoner, were commenced be-' fore Mr. H. R. Butters at the Central Magistracy this after- noon.

Accused, who is not represented by counsel, was formerly employed as a house-boy by Mrs. Challoner, and it is alleged that he stabbed her

to

death with a butcher's knife in he bedroom at 408 The Pealt on the night MR. Challoner

May 5, and wounded her husband, furious ja m fischt.

-Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, fuppenring for the prosecution, and- accused, who was himself injured in an alleged attempt to cscape by! jumping from the roof of the house, appeared in Court on crutches.

Picturesque Labour Leader Dies

Rose From Pit-Boy To President Of Miners' Federation

London, June 10. Mr. Herbert Smith, the labour

leader who rose from the workhouse

to become President of the Miners' Federation, died suddenly in Barns-

RESCUE CREWS FACE DANGER of the same sort that men in the front line of fighting are called upon to bear, and

as much they perform their gruesome tasks with every bit courage as the fighting men. This is a body of Canton rescue IL fresh workers during one of the recent air raids, awaiting

Hummons.

HUSBAND · DETAINED, YOUNG WIFE DROPS

THOUSANDS

FACE DEATH IN HONAN

Supplies and Heavy Equipment Already

Lost in Retreat

Hankow, June 17. A large body of Japanese troops, estimated at several thousand strong, has been trapped between the rising floods in Honan province and an overwhelming force of Chinese.

FROM HOTEL WINDOW fringe of the floods when they were suddenly

As Vladimir Ivanovitch Schultz, 21, faced Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the Central Magistracy this morning on a vagrancy charge, his pretty 22-year-old Russian wife was penning a letter to him in her room on the first floor of the Kowloon Hotel.

A few minutes later Mrs. Schultz fell from the

window of the room on to a table, 40 feet below in the back yard of the hotel. The table saved her from certain death. Had she fallen on the concrete paving it is probable she would have been killed instantly.

The faithfulness of a brown Chow dog drew atten- tion to the tragedy.

į

It is believed that the animal, which was in the room ley to-day. The late Mr. Smith was with Mrs. Schultz, jumped after her. taking

an active part in the by-elec- tion which was fought to-day at Although injured by its jump the Barnsley.

dog stood over the unconscious body After recording his vote carly this of its mistress, barking furiously morning he proceeded to his office. until hotel servants came out to stop Shortly. afterwords he was found the commotion. dead in his chair.British Wireless.

The Manager of the Hotel was in- Erb-plain, blunt Herbert Smith, was known to almost every formed by two boys who discovered one of Britain's millions of under the barking dog and the unconscious ground workers.

"Our

woman.

was Im- was con-

An ambulance Grim, Imperturbable, gruff of mediately called and she speech, and decisive in every utter veyed to the Kowloon Hospital. At ance, this 78-year-old leader was one 2 o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Schultz was just regaining consciousness. of the most forceful and pleturesque She does not know yet

that her figures in British labour.

His cloth cap

and muffler, the husband has been committed to the deadly-looking pipe invariably stick-House of Detention.

ing from his firmly set jaws, his sturdy frame with its loosely hang-

ALLOWED OUT DURING DAY

ing clothes were known throughout He will be allowed out only during the United Kingdom.

the daytime, and must return at He was born in the humblest of night. circumstances

Yorkshire. His In

BRUTAL ASSAULTS ON JEWS Non-Uniformed Army Beats Defenceless. Berlin Tradesmen

Berlin, June 16. Hundreds of non-uniformed 'men entered the poor Jewish The two Russians arrived in Hong-quarter of North Berlin, smear- aster in a

colllery just before his kong from Hankow on Wednesday ing shop windows with white and his mother had to go into morning, and registered at the Kow-paint slogans, dragging Jews work-house at Preston, near loon Hospital

into the street and manhandling

father, a mixier, was killed in a dis-

birth

Kippax, for his birth. He became a

The Japanese were retreating on the western

intercepted by the Chinese.

They are now between two enemies. The flood waters, commanding the low-lying levels east of the Japanese, are slowly and inexorably creeping up to the doomed men, already bereft of their supplies and mechanised units by the waters of the river. To the west of the Japanese positions lie the firmly entrenched Chinese, safe themselves from the flood waters for the time being.

The Japanese cannot retreat from floods or Chinese. And they cannot remain in their present position, which will be inundated at any time.-Trans-Ocean.

Shift to Yangtse

Hankow, June 18.

the plains of Honan have been un- expectedly interrupted by the over-

Postman Held Since the Japanese operations on

For Theft Of Air Mail

f

Accused of larceny of three air mail letters from the Tsim Tsa Taul Post Office, Kowloon, s postman, Ma Kwong-sang, 23, was remanded for 24 hours when ho was charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett al tho Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

It is understood that the Post- master Generał will take chargo of the case when it

coines again 10-morrow.

tp

of

of the Yellow River, it is assumed that the centro

will be trans

fighting

valley of the Yangtse

ta

the

where

strong Japanese naval, military and air forces aro now concentrated..

According to reports received here

Thursday the Japanese 50 have only succeeded in gaining a footing on the northern bank of the river.

On

far

It is added that the town of Nintu- on the southern bank of the

shan, is still in the hands of the

Chinese.

Other reports, also from Chinese sources, assert that the Chinese (Continued on Pago 4.)

pit-boy before he was ten years of the hotel yesterday morning, telling victims.

It is understood that. Schultz left and punching their unhappy "Blue Angel" STOP PRESS

nge, but force of character and men one of the "boys" that he was not

tal energy quickly blossomed out of feeling well, and thought of entering

The Official Gazette simultaneously

the hard knocks, and before the age hospital. He had not since returned published a decree, ordering a special of 21 he had become a member of and only this afternoon it was learned register to be kept of all Jewish firms,

the locul school board.

This stepping stone to public life that he was in police custody on and empowering the Minister for rupidly led to membership in the vagrancy charge.

parish council, the district council, Mrs. Schultz took her dog for an the board of guardians and the airing at about 6 pm. last night, and county council.

whilst out walking became ill. A Twenty years as president of the European escorted her back to the Yorkshire Miners' Association, and | hotel. his efficiency then brought him the

It is believed that the two Russians plum of the British mining world,

presidency of the National are in straightened circumstances. A letter was discovpred their room

the

Federation.

Economies to proscribe all Jewish shops, identified as quel

Of War Years Dead

Firms owned and controlled by Lady Muriel Paget Won

Love Of Thousands

foreign Jows will require special per- the

for Minister mission from | Economies before they can rogister.

-United Pren.

ALLEGEDLY TRIED

TO FOOL BANK

London, June 16. Lady Muriel Faget, tho "Blue Angel" of the Great War and Russian Revolution-so-called because she always wore a blue uniform~is dead at the age of 62.

CANTON EXPECTS VENGEANCE® ATTACKS

Canton, June 17.. Canton has just had an air. |rald alarm, At 2,30 p.m. the

And there he stood until his retire-after the accident this morning, in ment in 1020, grimly fighting the forming Mrs. Schultz that she could miners' battles, stubbornly resisting obtain free accommodation at a cer- long hours and chort wages.

tain benevolent Institution in Hong- He loved dogs and hated telo-kong.

Described as an office boy, Tang Lady Muriel, who was given the phones, Cabinot" ministers, among

In Court this morning, Schultz fold Ying-rang. 17, was charged with C.DE

in the Birthday Honours sirens sounded all over the city, them: Earl Baldwin, the late Mr.

the Magistrate that all his possessions attempting to defraud the Hongkong earlier this month for her charitable It is not certain where the Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. J. H. and money had been stolen from him and Shanghat Banking Corporation work in Russia and elsewhere in attacking planes were sighted, Thomas, were his friends.

while he was on his way by train of $10 by means of a bearer cheque Europe, died peacefully in her sleep. but Canton anticipatos a heavy trom Hankow to Hongkong,

issued by Marcine S. Wong, by im Sho was one of England's greatest plying that he was in lawful posses welfare workers. Daughter of the bombardment in revenge for the The two Russians are described on slon of the cheque. Ha came before 12th Earl of Winchises, who owned destruction of the six Japanede their Chinese passports as "Russians Mr. W, J. Lockhart Smith at the ttached without permisioner Without in Country They cannot Central Magistracy, this morning, and ethics of 6,000 acres, the married planes on a Hankow-Canton

Mr. Cobtain U.S.S.R. passports.

Sir Richard Puget, famed scientist railway bombing expedition yess, was remanded for 12 hours for and composer, in 1897, Sho will connect with the S. Brace, 34: Mody Hoad, pleaded The people of South Africa have

Mrs. Schultz was reported to be further enquiries.

in sheltered terday.-Beuter. traised £4,000 for the dependants of Canadian Pacifle liner Empress of guilty to a summons through a repre-out of danger at 2.30 p.m. She will

Though brought up in The four boxers and two South Japan at the Hawallan capital, and sentative who appeared before Mr. Qbe transferred from the Kowloon to The complainant was Mr. E. circles, Lady Muriel felt is her girl- African members of the R.A.F. who will sail tó Hongkong, where she is to |A A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon the Queen Mary Hospital as soon as Traverner.

Sub-hood a deep sympathy with the less and Delective

(Continued on Page 41 were killed in a plane crash in the arry Llout: Earl R. Solenberger, of Magistracy this morning: A fine of her condition permits.

Inspector W. Altefile is prosecuting. U.S.9. Monacacy --United Prein,2 168 was Imposed.

T'UND FOR BOXERS' DEPENDANTS

Capetown. June 10.

Laterfori-Reuzer,

San Francisco, June 10. Miss Marge Zimmerman, a news- paper reporter employed by the Alameda Times-Star is departing to- day by the Matson liner Matsonia for Honolulu.

FAILED TO GET PERMIT

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