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No. 165. 三拜禮 號九月四年四十二百九千一英
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924.
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ELECTIONS DELAY VISIT.
INVITATION TO BE RENEWED LATTE
(Reuter's General Service,)
CAPETOWN, Api Th ....Speaking in the Assembly the Nationalist leader Mr. Hertzog said he hoped the announce- ment of the postponement of the Prince of Wales' visit was not equivalent to saying that the Prince would not come at all (cheers),
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日六初月三子甲次童年三十國興華中
CALM AFTER THE STORM.
COMMONS QUIET AGAIN,
EVICTIONS BILL COMPROMISE.
GOVERNMENT FATHEUNG LIBERAL MEASURE.
(Reuter's General Service.)
LONDON, April 8.
The House of Commons opened dully benches being sparsely occupied. There was no sign of yesterday's dramatic events until, replying to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Mr. MacDonald stated that He hoped he was volcing the feeling of all the Government's Eviction Bill could not be re- sections when be said that if the Prince visited introduced this session, but that the Government South Africa in the future he would be greeted thought it possible satisfactorily to amend the with respect and warmth worthy of bis high Liberal member Mr. E. D. Simons' Bill which position and the South African people (cheers).
General Smuts, (the Premier), replying said the Prince was assured of a very royal welcome from every shade of opinion. It was only the proprieties of the case that induced the Govern ment to advise him to postpone his trip during the election turmoil. He hoped the invitation would be renewed when the elections were over.
SHIPYARD TROUBLE.
RECALCITRANT UNIONS SUSPENDED.
LOCK-OUT BALLOT PROCEEDING.
LONDON, April 8.
reached its second reading last night and the passage of which the Government would' facilitate after it had been satisfactorily amended.
The Government had not abandoned the pro. posal to make the assistance of unemployed a public charge but the "public funda" would be local funds.
LATER."
Mr. Simons' bill is almost identical with the Government's Eviction Bill except the clause on which the Government was defeated.
PROTECTING INDUSTRIES.
LONDON, April 8.
The shipbuilding unions have suspended the whole of the 1,200 members of the three recalcitrant branches at Southampton. Balloting by the re-introduce lexislation extending the duration of the mainder is proceeding.
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[The Shipbuilding employers have decided upon a national lock-out in shipyards affecting over 100,000 men as the striking engineers at Southampton have refused to resume work pending discussion with a view to settlement.. The engi- neers at Southampton are demanding an increase of 178 6d. a week to bring them into line with London dock workers.]
ATHLETIC BURGLAR.
EXCITING SHANGHAI
"CHASE.
HONGKONG BANK INCIDENT.
*
In the House of Commons in reply to questions, Mr.Sydney Webb, President of the Board of Trade stated that the Government had decided not to. provisions of part two of the Safeguarding of industries Act providing duties to meet the case of depreciated currencies, which would accordingly lapse on August 10 (Liberal and Labour cheers.)"
The Goverment had carefully considered the report of the committee recommending a duty of 33% per cent on lace, embroidery and silk but did not propose to ask Parliament to impose the duties (Ministerial cheers).
FRESH REVOLT.
MORE TROUBLE FOR SOVIETS
(Reuters General Service,); Riga, April 8.
It is reported from Moscow that
LEAGUE'S CHOICE.
Chinese Consortium Expert.
(Reuter's General Service.)
London, April 9.
The League of Nations has appointed the Boston financial expert, Mr. J. Smith, to be Com- missioner General for the financial well-reconstruction of Hungary.
A highly sensational drama was a fresh revolt has broken out in enacted in the vicinity of the Bund Turkestan. The old reolutionaries reinforced by well-armed at an early hour, says the N. C. Dare News just to band, amplifying lust forces, including 25,000 -week's brief cuble-reports. A Chin-organised cavalry, also by artil. ese burglar quined entrance to the lery. promises of the Hongkong & Shang- The insurgents are everywhere Hai Banking Corporation, and being supported by the population. The seon by the watchmen on duty, made Soviet Government is despatching a very hurried exit. He followed considerable forces. this up with a wild attempt at es cape but before going very far was" intercepted in his flight by the police.
Lue barglur selected his point of outry at a spot where he considered he would best escape observation. This was window on the north
SINGAPORE QUERY.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Ottawa,. April 8.
The former Premier, Mr. Meig- han has given notice of a motion demanding all the correspondence between the British and Canadian concerning the Governments Singapore base,
THE STAR. RUBLIAN BALLET DANCERS.
side of the building where the wall of the Customs compound would as sist him in eluding the notice of police and watchmon Apparently he did his work rapidly, for before anybody was aware of what was happening he had cut a piece out of a plane of glass, inserted his ar and opened the window. The md- ment that he set foot in the banking hall, however, Nemesis awaited The Royal Russian Ballet, engag- him. His information as to the ed by the enterprising management possibilities of successfully robbing of the Star Thontre took Kowloon a bank seerns to have been badly by storm at their opening perform- at fault, for be quite overlooked the ance last night, Though the com- fart think the bank in ques any took up only half of the pro- tion is not only patrolled outside game, squeezing their effort in a but watchmen und detectives are Thirty Minute Ballet Revue, it was stationed in the interior
Mr. Smith participated in the organisation of the Chinese Cón- sortium.
ITALIAN POLITICS,
GOVERNMENT'S BIG
MAJORITY."
(Reuter's General Service.)
Rome, April 9:
The new Charmber consists of the Government Party with 376 seats against 160 representing the eleven other parties.
The populars now numbering forty, have lost sixty-six seats and the Democratic Socialists, now twenty-five, have lost fifty- seven.
APPEAL FOR LIFE.
PROFESSORS' RÉPRIEVE
SOUGHT.
(Reuter's General Service.)
Paris, April 9.
M. Poincare has telegraphed M.
a crowded half hour and attractive Chicherin, Soviet Foreign Minis- INTO THE FOWLER'S. NET. fran start to final. Madam Linovater, declaring Franch public No time elapsed between the bur- in sulo dances, the Misses Lantzoff opinion gravely fears that the glar entry into the bank and his in Cossack, dances, Miss Lina professors implicated in the trial presence being spotted by the guard. Imernor graceful waltzer and Mrat Kleff will suffer the death The latter were immediately on his Sergiy Binoll, typical Russian per penalty. Their loss will cause track, and then sued on the part former make up a combination
of the intrider a desperate attenpl which together with the Ballet Mas great sorrow and will be regarded
to flee and an equally hot chase after tor are very well balanced and fully as a diminution In the world's
him.
the
world seeing,Bendes the ter psichoreau performance, the man- agement offer Hoot Gibson's pictor Comedy "Blinky, and consum mats enjoyable and diversified awning's uitertainment.
The burglar apparently knew the bank premises woll, and instead of doubling back he ronde straight for the compradore's departanent which lies to the rear of the booking hall. A door with gines panels barred his noces to it, but the man either dived through one of the panes or the outside patrol of the bank to linda haminer which enabled him contend against.. He bolted into to magh the glasa.and then pass Foochow and end at top speed through. He seems to have been a made his way westward along the vary athletic individual. for coun- street. A Sikh policeman, how tere and deaks were taken almost in ever, had caught sight of him and his stride, and he reached the north set off hard in pursuit, meanwhile wall of the bank. This is close to blowing his whistle as loudly as pos Messrs Caldbeck, Margregor &sible,
intellectual patrimony.
The French Government has asked the British and Italian Governments to make further appeals..
-UNBURIED · DEAD.
BESIEGED CITY'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Washington, April 8. Advices received by the State Department depict a serious state of affairs in the capital of Hon
Co.'s premises and liore a passage The end now camo A Chinese way gives on to Toochow Road, constable on duty, nt the omer of duras.
The fugitive repented his previous Foodhow and Szécimen Roads To The ground at the outskirts of performance with me of the win-sponded to the Sith's whistle, inter the city is strewn with dead. dows here, dived through and was sopted the man's passage and be Typhold and dysentery are rac at Jenghin out in the open. Want is tween the two he was firmly collaring. No attempt is being made to more he had passed through theed. In his possession, it is under inter or cremate the dead. broken pleas amecatho
OFLARE-AND-PURS
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be is said to have concealed In his on his Reeve Ha una duly taken to the naditión.
Police state
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