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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1927.
DIPHTHERIA DEATH. TO STOP TROUBLE.
ALSO CASE OF DOG RABIES.
WEEKLY HEALTH RETURN.
CANTON RAILWAYMEN'S UNIONS,
GOVERNMENT INTERVENES.
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Action has been taken in tho Three deaths from diphtheria are reported for the week ending Canton dispute between railway January 8 in the Medical Officer employees and, membors of the of Health's return Altogether Mechanic Workers' Union,
The following. measures were there were six cases reported (1 American, 6 Chinese and 3 Im-decided upon by the Canton Branch ported). Two of the victims for the Political Council at its 5th were resident in the Victoria dis- Conference:- trict and two in Old and New! Kowloon City. One case
of a dog suffering from Fabies is also reported. So far as cant be ascertained, the dog which was taken in Victoria, had not bitten any human being.
Also included in the returns is a case of puerperal fever from which a Chinese died.
During yesterday, 1 (Chinese) case of cerebrospinal fever was reported.
THE NEW SEAT.
CANTON'S 'NATIONALIST
GOVERNMENT.
NANCHANG, NOT WUCHANG,
Further fighting between these two groups is strictly forbidden, in order to avold further casual ties..
The workers" abducted by bath aides are to be handed over to the Government immediately, so be dealt with according to law.
"For the suke of avoiding future disputes, workers who have joined one union, should not be forced by another union to resign from the Arst union, and join the second.
As a means of keeping the workers in employment, theag workers who have recently been forced by the members of op: ponent unions, to leave their posi tiona ол the ralfway, should
resume their work.
GERMAN POLITICS,
NEW CABINET BEING FORMED.
BOURGEOIS INTERESTS.
Berlin, Jan. 10: After deliberating with the lead- ers of all parties, "President Hinden- burg has entrusted Dr. Curtius," Minister of Economics in the last Cabinet with the formation of a new government.
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Dr. Curtius, who belongs to the Right Wing of the People's Party, desires.to includer in his Cabinet all the Bourgeois Parties from the De- moerats, lito the Nationalists. Reuter.
[The German. Government re- signed on Dec. 17, owing to the So falist vote of non-confidence be- ing adopted by the Reichstag by 249 votes to 171.3
EMPIRE AIRWAYS..
SUCCESS OF FIRST LONG. FLIGHT.
Rugby, Jan. 10. Commenting on the "Air Minila
The names of the workers efter's flight to Delhl, in which for both parties who have been wound the first time a long-distance flight ed should be reported to the has been conducted to a time-table Government for investigation and calculated in minutes, the news- beth parties will be ordered to papers remark that the first official give compensation and pay the flight over the new Empire airway has established remarkable stand- expense of medical treatment..
The men responsible for the jards in reliability, punctuality and killing of werkers of either faction dispatch.
Throughout the fight the Air "should be handed over. Otherwise steps will be taken by the Govern-Ministry was informed by "wireless Executivement, quotes the "Canton Gazette of the position of the machine, and
The headquarters of the Nation- !alist Goverment and the Centrul Kuomintang will be temporarily established at Nanchang in langs province
This decision was made by the Kuomintang
Cruncit
Central
On arrival there from Canton of
arrangements are" proceeding for strengthening the wireless links on the route, until eleven stations are
the party of Kuomintang and Gov- CINEMA DISASTER. operating between Egypt and In-
ernment officials, headed By, Mr. Chang Ching-kiang and General Tan Yen-kai, a provisional conference
was
Held of the Kuomintang Bolegates. It was then decided that this step was advisable in order to facftate
the buy
"Canton Gayeffe") the transaction of mil tary operations in the south-east continue.
TERRIBLE SCENES IN MONTREAL.
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The west-bound commercial ser- vice started on Friday, and the Erst east-bound machine. leaves and: Egypt on Wednesday next
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY at 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.
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No. 6, Wyndham 'Street,
Montreal, Jan. 10. The latest reports are that 77 is due on the following afternoon Bookbinders. children are dead, whilst 30 per-at Basra, which is the terminus during the first three months.-- sons have been sent to hospital.
The building was of two British Wireless Service. storeys, with four exits, two of which led from the balcony,J When the alarm was given, the audience in the lower floor filed Jout in a most orderly manner, but Ipanic broke out among children "And then you joined in "ob- on the balcony, who, rushing to serve Mr. B. E. Lindsell at the the exits, became jammed and Central Magistracy this morning piled up in a shrieking, suffocat- to one of thres women charged ing 'mass.
TROUBLE IN STREET.
SURE INDEX.
FRANC AND THE SENATE ELECTIONS.
with creating a disturbance in Most of the deaths, occurred on the street last night. After hear-a thirty-foot spiral stairway lead which remains in the region of ing Police evidence, his Worshiping to the street, which was fined the women $1 each.
Dentist.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
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Electrical Supplies,
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Paris, Jan. 10. The stability of the franc, 122 to the pound sterling is the solid mass of children unable to best commentary on the results the Senatorial elections, move. The crush was so tight of that twenty men tugged vainly whereby the strength of the Engineers & for a long time on a rope tied Parties is not changed and the. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS around one body in a pile of dead position of the Government is not
and dying
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weakened-Beuter.
Barber News. The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empress or Holes had to be broken in a
The senatorial results show Asia" arrived at Nagasaki yester-street wall to enable the victims! day, at 5.30 p.m., left Nagasaki to- to be handed to doctors and res- that the Left Publicans have sus- day, at 8 am, and, is due at Kobe tuers waiting cutside. Help was tained eight het losses. the Radi- fon January 12, at 6 n.m.
too late for many, who were still cale and Radical Socialists six, Three while the Socialists have gained The C.F.S, R.M.S. "Empress of living when extricated. Russia" arrived at Shanghal to-day, young boys, gasping and crushed, eight. The Socialist communists Hair Dressers &
have each obtained two seats:- at 8.30 am, leaves Shanghai on were pulled out and gave their and the Republican Socialists January 12, at 4 a.m, and is due at names, and then died. Hong Kong on January 14.
Priests rushed to the scene and Reuter. The P and O. s.s. "Talamba" left administered the last rites to Singapore for this port on Jan. 9.those beyond help.
at noon, and is due here on Jan. 14, at about 7 h.m.
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KING'S MESSAGE.
TRIBUTE TO IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.
Booksellers.
LEE YEE,
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers
and Booksellers. " No. 12, D'Aguilar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre).
NOTICE.
An attendant, describing the scene, said a fat woman blocked The P.&O. 8.8. Tilawa" left the stairway. He smashed Singapore for this port on Jan. 7, window and threw out children
Rugby, Jan, 10. and le due here on Jan. 13, at about as fast as possible
The scenes were most distress- 74.th
Following the completion of the The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of ing, as parents sought out and
LIMITED. Russia" is due at Hong Kong on recognised the bodies of their flight of Sir Samuel Hoare from THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, children, who were, mostly aged London to Delhi, the King has seven to fifteen. One policeman addressed a message of congra-
man of the imperial airways, summoned to the fire found his tulation to Sir Eric Geddes, Chair- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN three children dead.
January 14.
The m.v. "Canton" (Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Antwerp on December 18, 1926, and is due here on or about January 21, 1927.
NICARAGUA.
ree children the coroner pek- His Majesty says that such a NOIT THE TWENTY-NINTH ed each bereaved, parent if his feat augurs well for the future of child had permission to go to the the service and reflects great ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING cinema unaccompanied by an credit on the organising staff of OF THIS COMPANY will be held The following have been re adult, and three-quarters answer- the Imperial Airways Company at the Office of Messrs. Jardine, as well as on the pilot and crew of Matheson & Co., Ltd., on FRIDAY, British Wireless the 28th January, 1927, at 11 a.m., elected as members of Leith Docked "No."
Ameen Lawand, the cinemathe machine. Commission: By the ship- owners, Sir James Wishart Thom-proprietor, Michael Aria, the Service. son, K.B.E.; by the Leith dock assistant manager, Camil Bazzy, ratepayers, Mr. Patrick J. Pringle the chief attendant, and Alex And Mr. Thomas Aitken Wright, Bazzy, ticket taker, all Syrians, have been taken to the detective Berlin, January 10-The death bureau as witnesses at the in is announced of Mr. Houston quest. Lawand was allowed bail, Chamberlain, son-in-law of Rich-the remainder being detained all ard Wagner, the celebrated com-night long-Reuter's American poser. Chamberlain, during the Service. war, was.notorious for his aggres-
WHOOPING COUGH.” sive attitude towards the British.
WHOOPING cough is hard on the He was a naturalised German
The accountant of the Aberdeenschild and hard on the parents. and, both before and during the war, was a perfervid admirer of Motor Bus Company has reported Control the dreadful whooping and everything Teutonic. As stated, to the Police that thieves broke coughing, with Chamberinin's Cough
"THIEVES $940 HAUL.
he married Wagner's daughter, into his quarters yesterday morn
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SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG- KONG FOR JAN., 1927.
(Standard. Time of the 120th. Meridian, East of Greenwich.).
Data
January
Sunrise Sunset
A.M.
p.m.
11
7.06 5,57
$8
12
7.06
5.58
18
7.06
5.58
14
7:00 6.59
» 16
7.06 6.00
16
7.06
6.00.
for the purpose of receiving the Repart of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts fer the. year ended 81st December, 1026.
+
17
7.06
6.01
"
18
7.05 6.02
19
7.05
6.02
20
7.06 6.08
21
7.05
06.04
23
7.05 6:05
24
7.05 6.08
26
7.05 6:00:1
26
7.04 6.07,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
27
6.08
#28
*7.04 $6.09
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, January 11th 1927.
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7.04
6.10
30
7.08.
8.10
31
7.08
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Managua, Jan. 10. Las Perlas has been declared a The Register of Shares of the neutral zone. Aparty of American Company will be CLOSED from sailors landed there yesterday with TUESDAY, the 18th January, 1927
both days inclusive. out incident.-Reuter's American to FRIDAY, the 28th January, 1927,
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