THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1925,
SYRIAN TROUBLE.
DAMASCUS SITUATION
WORSENS.
MORE: TROOPS, NEEDED,
(Reuter's Service.)
According
to
PREMIER AGAIN.
NEW CABINET FOR PAINLEVE
BRTAND TO REMAIN,
(Reuter's Service.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
ONE MAN TANK
MODERN KNIGHT IN ARMOUR.
DEADLY INFANTRY WEAPON,
Staying in a certain country district, I came upon an astonish- |ing sight-a vision which, trans-
LOCAL SHARE MARKET,
Namos.
OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 29, 1928, 10.30 AM..
Paris, October 28.
Paris, Oct. 28.
ported me to the Middle Ages, TT. on London the Temps" M. Funkwe hus been summoned when armour-clad knights and TT on Shanghai Beirut's correspondent, the situa-to the Elyses. He told pressmen men-at-arms. rode "over the
Banks. tion has become worse during the utterwards that if he was offered the countryside, writes Captain B. H
the "Daily Hongkong Bank past ten days around Damascus Premiership he would need ie Liddell Hart in
do. Telegraph. No "White Com- where agitation is growing and to reply,
Chartered Bank brigandage is Increasing in the M. Painleve subsequently said he pany" of a Conan Doyle has ever Mercantile Bank, A. & B. Homshama arem.
must consult his friends before de-made the past so.vivid. ye: this finitely muswering A. Doumergo's sight was far more significant p. &0. Bank invitation to form a Cabinet. than any picture of the past-for
Repeated attempts are being made to cut the railway lines.
The message adds that the. French authorities admit avai able troops are insuficient and have therefore decided to appeal for reinforcements from France.
A message from Rabat states that wo cavalry regiments have been despatched from Morocco to Syria
SERIOUS CHARGE.
Paris. October 28. French uneasiness in regard to Damuscus is shown by "Le Journal" asking whether it is true, as the English newspapers declare that General Sarrail, prior to the bombardment.. omitted to follow the elementary rule of the law of nations whereby the Consular Body is informed and due warning is given for the evacuation of women and child ren. It says that it is stated that the omission led to a protest by the Consular Body transmitted by its doyen. the German Consul, whose recall General Sarrail then 1 demanded.
NAVY, CUTS.
REDUCING SUBMARINE
STRENGTH.
FEWER OFFICERS.
(Reuter's Service.)
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it was also a peep into the fature: Bank of East Asia Here, before my eyes, I saw pass Marine Insurances, swiftly a menacing, armour-clad Canton Insurance form. scarcely larger than the China Underwriters medieval knight on horseback, North China Insurance.. tearing down the road almost as Union Insurance ... (fast as the latter could have Yangtze. Insurance
galloped, "turning in as narrow, a
Fire Insurances.
space and with less check. But instead of a horse's unprotected China Fire Insurance.. legs it had steel tracks. and in H.K. Fire Insurance place of spear that infinitely more deadly weapon-a light machine-gun... True, a closer look ahowed that this was but. a
dummy, that the armoured cell in
which the rider was enclosed was
Shipping.
Douglases
Hongkong Steamboats.. Indo-Chinas (Pret.) HK Tugs & Lightera..
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only grey-painted wood-though. do.. with ample ballast carried to re Oriental Navigation present its armour load and Shell Transports trivial erudities of appearance re-Star Ferries vealed the home-made product. Water-boats But no superficial roughness could hide its formidable power, nor the fact that it could make a havoc among ordinary infantry such as could only be paralleled by the
horde of peasants..
M. Painlevie Jas acepted the medieval knight loose among a premiership.
M. Baian returns the postfeclió ol Forrige Mujster.
Paris1 Oct. 2011
Demoralising Effect.
Refineries. China Sugars
Malabon Sugars
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Surprise changed to awe when this twentieth century man-at-Shanghai Exploration arms. mounted on his mechanical Shanghai Loan charger, climbed out of the road Raube up an almost perpendicular, bank Tronoh Mines at least four feet high, raced Ural Caspians across a stretch of rough gorse a speed such as no country at
Following seguendo meetings this morning sig Felt surtel comprising Radical Socialists, Glaube Bud cals, Republican Socialists and So frimists, patched up their differences
Docks, Wharves und agreed in general terms to runner could have approached
Godowns, &c. joint policy ow the basis of the and no horseman would have HR & K Wharves: Candel's programs at the inat cared to attempt across such HK & W. Docks election, y: Herriot's policy, ground, turning abruptly in a Hongkews
In pursuance of its policy of retrenchment, the Admiralty an nounces that all K class sub-i
In is noteworthy Wat as regues narrow circle that would have New Engineerings marines will be scrapped except imme, the Cartel resolved to been the envy of a London taxi Shanghai Docks K26, which, with four L clase sub-favour a fax on acquired wealth. driver..
Next it headed for a Lands, Hotels & Bldga. marines, will form the recon. For the purpose of obtaining small but steep hill, climbed it
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their panacea of a capital levy.
could barely have traversed. To H.K. Territorials The second cruiser squadron
Berlin, Oct. 20. an observer with infantry, war Humphreys Estates will be reduced by the "Calliope," A communiqué issued by the experience little imagination was Princes Building placing in reserve one destroyer.governing party of the Socialist needed to grasp its demoralising Rural Lands The flotillas attached to the Party, states (ut the purly did not affect, and also to understand how. Cotton Mills. Atlantic Fleet will be reduced to vote on the Locarno Bill in the the foot-soldier of pre-rifle and Ewo Cottone
present. Reichstag at it was unable machine-gun daya must have felt Orientals
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Reductions will also be effected
in the number of tenders attached to the harbour training establish- ment at Home ports.
SERIOUS CHARGE. SEQUEL.
(Reuter's Service.)
London. October 28. Hayley Morriss has been mar- ried at Uckfield.
This seems to indicate there will The no Reichstag majority for the Pact and a general election is the jonly solution,
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to acquit the German nationalists when he was caught in the open Shanghai Cottons (old), of responsibility for voting for the by charging cavalry. To avoid it ratification of the Security Pact, even on such broken ground
The socialiste therefore demand seemed impossible. (the dissolution of the Reichstag. If the infantryman has aCanton Ices MORRISS MARRIES. long they consider the Locarno similar feeling when he sees the Cements (comb.)
do. (old) greements a pronounced success large Vickers tank with which the
Army is now being equipped he do. for their own policy.
(new) can find slight consolation in cer- China Buses tain counterbalancing factors,China Lights (comb.) They are expensive, costing about do... (old). £9,000 apiece, and so there are do. (деж) comparatively few at present; China Prov. (comb.) they appear a large and also an do.. (old)
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not, that, being small in compari-Hongkong Amusements. son, he can dodge them or, as an HK. Constructions individual, escape their notice. Hongkong Electrica But this reincarnation of the HK. Developments medieval knight, this one-man HLK Ropes (comb.).
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Lane, Crawforda representatives announced the un- one felt how slight and difficult a conditional acceptance of the target it would offer to artillery: Nanyang Tobaccos Council's decision and undertook But, assuming that it avoided the Peak Trams (old) FAREWELL DINNER. to facilitate the tasks of the Allied fire protecting the infantryman, do. (new)
Military Attaches..
Tuesday's exbles stated that Hayley Morries, a wealthy former China resident, who is being charged with having been en- for gaged in a conspiracy systematic seduction, had applied to the Superintendent Registrar of Uckfield for a licence to marry Roberts, aged 20 years,
-charged along with him."
WEMBLEY'S CLOSING
DAYS,
(Reuter Service.)
London, October 29.
A
GREEKS
LEAGUE'S DECISION FINAL..
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, Oct. 28.
EARLIER CABLES.
Athens, Oct. 28. The Creek reply to the Council of the League of nations states that the Greek evacuation of Bulgaris will commence te-marrow and the
parties.
Mackintosh
its very smallness imbued it with Sinceres that personal menace which is the Singapore Trame most demoralising factor in war, Taxie which in the past the close- United Asbestos quarter charge with the bayonet inspired. But further, and most notable of all, this one-man tank Watsone (old). was, I discovered, largely built up do; (new)
do
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The Duke of York presided at a incident is now regardable as of ordinary car components-an Wm. Powella farewell dinner given by the Empire Exhibition Commissioners closed. All that remains is for the engine taken out of an old car, a for the Dominions and Colonies to League to enquire into the respon Ford lorry, back-axle, and so on.. the Exhibition Board Administra-sibilities and claims of the two Thus a few hundred pounds would tive staff.
easily cover its cost, and it could Sofin, Oct. 28-be mass produced at short notice Mr. Justly Rawlings, Australia, proposing the toast of the Board of the Empire Exhibition, hoped the Imperial Government might be induced to maintain the owner ship of Wembley and again show the world what the Empire meant
The Duke of York on behalf of all sections of the Empire at Wembley, presented a silver bowl to Lord Stevenson and a silver tray to Sir Travers Clarke, the chief administrator.
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·Think of it!. For the cost of an adversary as the tank. The ins infantry battalion we could have, fantry cannot carry them, and It is officially announced that the In these daye of financial at a rough reckoning of capital pack-mules are an excessively Greeks this morning fired on a stringency the brake on mechani- and maintenance charges, not less vulnerable target. But mount calisation is expense, but this than 300 of such one-man them in these miniature tanks and Bulgarian frontier post.
obstacle disappears if one-man moble armoured machine-gun they become the menace to the Athens, Oct 28 An official anouncement states tanks can be so simply and nests, perhaps as many as 500 larger tank that the torpedo that the Bulgarians attacked the cheaply turned out
Imagine two opposing armies, one became to the battleship Greek forces near Ramna this The ordinary unprotected foot with ordinary infantry, the other Not the least remarkable of the morning,
slogging infantryman costs; with mechanical infantry, each machine thus happed upon is roughly, £200 a year for his infantry, battalion of the one at that it is a purely private experi upkeep. Seven of these and an tacked by 800 to 500 of these ment, not an official one, dea n.c.o go to form a light automa diminutive machines, what chance by an engineering enthu tic section at small war establish- would the artillery have of stop little workshop in his own house, ment, which means that the cost ping them, what chance the in and put together li of putting one light machine-gun fantry of avoiding stings of Some day, perhaps not into actionid aomething this dense awarii
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moving and
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AT LONG LAST.
(Reuter's Servies.)
Wellington, October, 28. The striking seamen have Foided to return to their ships.
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