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TOURISTS

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EXPEDITION

Adelaide, Aug. 24.

In Killarney

London, Aug. 24, Five English tourists, of whom

An expedition of Australian three were women, were drowned at scientists, which recently left Adelaide Killarney to-day when a boat to examine the discovery of a ring carrying a party of 27 tourists and a of skeletons in Central Australia, crew of four capsized.

thought to be the remains of the UI- The boat was shooting the rapids fated Leichhardt. expedition which at the junction of the three lakes mysteriously disappeared last century when it struck the old weir bridge on an exploratory tour, has arrived and capsized. at its destination.

Most of the passengers were alderly people. There were many remark- All that the scientists discovered üble escapes view of the swiftness were the remains of some whilfe and of the current. A young 17-year-old undenüsable substance, broken into boatmen dived into the torrent fully fragments, lying on the red soil of clothed and succeeded in dragging

two of the tourists to the bank Reuter,

the Australian desert lands.

i beloved that since Itid akoletnos were discovered some time

dgo the desert. sands have again) shiftud and covered the remains.

́ ́ DUE IN SEPTEMBER

The expedition, has decided to The report that HMS. Cardiff is commence excavating in an attempt arriding in Hongkong to-morrow la to clear up

Incorrect. The cruiser is due, here on OCHEL

Beptember 25.

the mystery.--Trank-

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THE HONGKONG

Young Lovers Vanish

Loft Warning Of Suicide Pact

TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1938.

Belleved to have run away because of their parents' disapproval of their Intended marriage, a boy and a girl, both aged 17, have been reported missing.

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JAPANESE

JAPANESE Hasty Burglar QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

PLANES COLLIDE

Wreck Falls On

Factory, Kills

Nine Persons

Tokyo, Aug. 24.

A terrible air disaster occurred at

Leaves Loot

Two Peak Houses

Entered

Burginro re-commenced their operations in the Peak district last night, according to reports made to the police to-day.

Jewellery worth $320 was stolen

typhoon shutters and climbing through a window.

The father of the boy, Kwok Chan, 34, living at Bulkeley Street, Hung- Omori, in the southern suburbs of from the residence of Mr. T. C. Beck, hom, stated that his son, Kwok Li-Tokyo, at 8.55 nm. to-day when iwe at G18 The Peak, carly to-day, by ki, left home at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, clvilion training aeroplanes collided come person who entered the pre- together with his fiancee, Chan Sau mir-air, wing to wing, during a mises by drawing the bolts from the chun, who

reuides at Wuhu Street.

| dense fog and crashed. A letter was left beliind by the boy, stating that the couple intended of two

The crew of five in one plané and) In the other were killed' suicide by jumping intonatantly, ไป commit

The police were immediately nott- the harbour or over a

fed of the theft, and on their arrival, The father, it is understood, had!

One

of the planes fell in a factory discovered $1,100 worth of jewellery previously asked his son to cancel

lying on the verandah. The thief his forthcoming marriage to the girl immediately enveloped

The yard and the factory were hund ppparenity been disturbed and in The police have been informed.

In flames his haste to get away, left part of the but there is no further news' regard-on 200 seriously injured, the dead

persons being killed and closej haul behind. ing the two.

Professor K. H. Digby, of 551 The bodles being charred almost beyond Peak, reported that at 2.30 am. to recognition. The factory and two day, dwelling

Chinese attempted to enter completely his house. The man was apparently Loc.

anythirst. disturbed and escaped without steal-

Girl Fatally Hurt When Hit By Bus

A fatud trable accident occurred in Shanghai Street, Kowloon, yesterday, when a little girl, Lam You-choi, nine, was knocked down by a motor bus driven by Leung Sau. She died on the way to the Kowloon Hospital. While driving his taxi along Fen- wick Street yesterday, Pun Ching knocked down Cheung Ping, 35, who was taken to the Queen Mary Hos- pital with body injuries.

A girl, Kwalk Yuk, aged six, was taken to the Kowloon Hospital yes- terday, after she had been knocked down by a motor car Winslow

At Street near Chatham Road.

WOMAN LOST AS

JUNK SINKS

1

Woman

yard.

houses were

scend plane crashed on to the bathroom of a geisha house, the pilot and his passenger being instant- ty killed,

The landlady stated that she and her geisio girls were showered with fragments of the wreckage, but none of them suffered 'seriously.--Domel.

REPORTED JUICHANG. CAPTURED

Chinese Resistance Very Strong

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According to a police report, al Chinese has been arrested and le- |fined for enquiries,

Swift Ocean Crossing By German Plane

Berlin, Aug. 24. Lufthansa planes have now com- pleted three experimental two-way | crossings of the Atlantic. Another 25 fight to and from New York wit be made before the end of the year. The monoplane "Nordmver" made the first crossing from the Azores to Juichang, Aug. 24.

New York in 17 hours, 40 minutes. One of the allfest Chinese resis- The second flight by "Norwind" was Iances on the Yungise front was com- mude in 16 hours 20 minutes. The pletely crushed to-day when Japan-third and just completed flight wa ese troops, climaxing their emblt-made from New York to the tered attacks during the past weeks, Azores in 14 hours, captured the walled town of

Jul- chang at 5 stubborn Chinese re-

Trans-Occan.

in /ercoming

20

minutes.--

The sinking of a junk and the disappearance of a

the Japanese forces includ- Lyemun Pass yesterday, has been ing the Ishimoto, Nakajima, Matsuda reported to the police by Captain R. and Harada detachments, swept on RAIN POSSIBLE Holmes, inaster of the steamer the walls of Juichang this afternoon. Sygna, 3,881 tons. Norwegian the east gate at about 5 p.m. and

The Harada, squad broke through FOR WEEK-END vessel.

The Sygna was leaving harbour Immediately dashed into the Castle.

hours Although the last 24 about 10 am, and was

The Rising Sun flag was hoisted over proceeding through Lyemun Pass, when it ofter-|

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corded no rainfall in Hongkong, Cher units of the Japanese forces some rain later to-day is probable, ed course to avoid two junks in it allowed on the heels of the van- according to the Roval Observatory, i

which gave a local weather forecast A Class IV junk which was nearby guard, and participated in the mop-

this morning of:-East and north-east was capsized, either by the wash of ping-up operations against the rem-

pro- fine to cloudy, nents of Chinese forces inside the winds, tresh; the vessel, or the ship's propellers. Walls.Domet. The master, Kwok Yat, and a woman, Chol Yan, 17, were thrown into thef

path.

water.

Kwok was rescued by another junk, but Chol could not be found and is believed to have been drowned.

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The Royal Observatory weather report stated that pressure is highest ver the Pacific to the cast of Japan. Depressions are situated south of the Loochoos and west of Shantung; a typhoon of small arca developed to Another half a dozen cuses

of the south of Hongkong yesterday and cholera were reported in Hongkong is now situated in filte vicinity of A junk engaged in Port Develop- during the past 24 hours, bringing south-eastern Hainan, moving W.N.W. ment work off Holt's Wharf yester- the year's total to 367. There were day, was rammed by the Blue Funnel also four new cases of dysentery,

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Ho claimed that his vessel showed two white lights.

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Budapest, Aug, 24.

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The Hungarian Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of ħ Nuzi leader against a Benience Ave years' imprisonment passed on him for subversive activities. — Reuter Bulletin.

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