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DEATH.
BACK FROM CHINA:
Service Officer's Alleged Complaints.
HONG KONG TREATMENT.
"Looked Upon As a Necessary Nuisance."
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1927,
MCINTOSH SAFE?
LANDS IN SOUTHERN
· POLAND.
LOCAL ASSISTANCE.
Rugby, Yesterday.
KOWLOON REVUES.
THE NEW OUR CABARETS. SEASON,
"A LA CARTE" TO-NIGHT.
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Mr. Charles Chami's popular
The airmen Captain McIntosh and Hinkler, who were attempting London vaudeville company, the a non-stop flight to India, are re- New Our Cabaret, will present ported in Press telegrams from another attractive revue, "A La Warsaw to have landed at Bialokry- Carte, at 9.15 in the Star whonica in the district of Podhafce, in Theatre this evening.
Southern Poland.
"A La Carte" is entirely new
In view of the self-sacrificing work of ladies and othera devoted a large amount of their time to voluntary work in the can-
China.
teens and participation in enter- afforded asaistance by the local au- old favourite numbers that are It is stated that the airmen were to the Colony except for a few tainments for the Services during thorities and resumed their flight. being repeated by special request. the summer months, it is a truly
It would appear, however, from
Among the items in it is an in- amazing statement which is attri- these reports that the landing at genious sketch called "The Wed- buted to an Army officer on the Bialokrynica took place on Wednes-ding Ring," which combines the arrival in England of the first de day afternoon. tachments of army reservists from of McIntosh and Hinker has been and the procedure of the boxing No further new squabbles of the breakfast table ring to make an amusing burles- The statement appeared in the xiety, therefore, still prevails, en-
received from any quarter.
que, "Nottinghamshire Daily Express" and is reproduced in the North pecially as no authentic confirma China Daily News" as follows:-
tion is available that the airmen The first, detachment of Army who landed in Poland were actual Reservists from China arrived at
ly McIntosh and Hinkler-British Wireless Service. King George's Dock, London, but were not allowed to land until the next morning,
"In Hong Kong we were look- ed upon as necessary nuisances, but in Shanghai it was differ- ent," said an officer in describ ing the treatment accorded to the troops in China by the civil population."
The men travelled in the trans- port "Herminius," which left Shanghai on September 10, calling en route at Malta to embark de- tails from various regiments, in- eluding women and children. There wore 720 troops on board.
The Next Detachment.
SAFE FLYING.
SIR SAMUEL HOARE'S TEST.
An-
PREVENTION OF STALLING.
Rugby, Yesterday... Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for Air, made a test flight at Crickle- wood Aerodrome in a Bristol fight- er machine fitted with a new slot
Mason, the popular comedian, new
New songs by Mr. Charles · items by Miss Muriel Varna, the vivacious comedienne, and further operatic selections by Mile. Henkina are included in the rest of the programme, which will be found to be fully as enjoyable as any yet submitted.
The new Our Cabaret will pre- sent the revue, "Here and There" |to-morrow night, and will bring its season in the Star Theatre tó ă close on Monday night with "Pot Pourri,”'a revue comprising the cream of the company's most popular items,
HOUSE TAX.
STATIONS.
After an early breakfast the men device invented by Mr. Handley TO BE PAID AT PEKING POLICE ware disembarked, and sent to their Page to prevent stalling. various depots for demobilisation. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton "Conditions In Shanghai when Brancker, Chief of the Civil Avia- standards of life and have be- we left were practically normal, tion Department, has already flown
Peking, Nov, 6. come so indispensable an element exnept that no Chinese was allowed in a machine equipped with the de- A complete reversal of existing practice is seen in the announce-. in the adjustment of wage rates to pass inside if in possession of vice, and It is stated he was favourment of the police yamen on Friday
firearms, and that everybody was ably impressed. and labour disputes that were being examined by the patrols," It is claimed that the invention month the house tax must be paid that. from the beginning of this will render any machine perfectly at the various police stations by
they to pass away something like said an officer. them would have to be created in
order to make the complex system
on loot."
EX-PEER'S FLIGHT.
MR. CARBERRY GOING TO CAPETOWN,
HOPES OF RECORD TIME.
¡ities to send men to call
nt the
The police announcement makes no mention of the reasons which have induced the authorities to adopt the new plan, but an intima- tion is conveyed that if any one |should ignore the order, he will be
severely fined.-Kuo Wen.
He spoke highly of the qualities safe. When a plane loses speed the landlords or their representatives. of the Chinese as soldiers, if pro-nose drops alightly, the slots come Since the enforcement of the tax perly led and trained. Unlike most into action automatically, and the about three months ago it has been of modern industry workable at Orientals they had a high sense of machine is thus given sufficient the practice of the police author- all. But, in spite of the good ac- humour, but, at present they were wing resistance on the surface to houses at the beginning of each complished, there can be no "a miserable rabble living mainly keep it on a level keel in the air month and collect the tax. The doubt that the Trade Union move.
-British Wireless Service.
method has apparently not worked The Generals' Methods. ment has exceeded the purpose of
very satisfactory, although its con- Their generala did not pay them
venience has been admitted by its founders in regard to its poli-if they could possibly avoid it. The
many landlords. tical aspect and the influence of normal procedure of a Chinese gen- eral was to make his fortune as the extremists. In the course of quickly as possible, and then to "re-| the debate, it was claimed for the tire," or, in other words, to decamp. opposition that the Communists China was one of the most wen- had been definitely expelled from derful places for military service, but the climate. was decidedly un- the movement and that all re-healthy. There had never been a lations had been broken off with British garrison in Shanghai be- Russia and the Communists as the fore, and there were no barracks
Rugby, Yesterday, Mr. Carberry, by which name result of the Trade Union-Connor facilities for troops.
were hardly any suitable camping since he renounced his title to the Lard Carbery chooses to be known gress of September last. That places. Shanghai was composed to Peerage, left Croydon Aero- the movement is by no means a great extent of marshy ground, drome to-day in a Fokker mono- freed from the Communist similar to that seen at the mouth plane, accompanied by a mechanic, element is apparent from the of the Thames, and the town was on a flight to Capetown. He hopes
to accomplish the journey in re-i
Peking, Nov. 5. formation, within a month of that
Chinese Subscribers.
cord time, estimating that he will
According to cable advice from Conference, by eighteen promin- Asked for his opinion about the reach Cairo in four days and Cape- Washington, Dr. Alfred Sze, Chin- ent members of both the political British residents the officer said: town in a week. His frat halt will ese Minister in Washington, recent-
"In Hong Kong we and Trade Union wings of the
Were looked be at Lyons.
ly called on the American diploma- Socialist party, of a National Lugard, the wife of General Lugard only a few people saw him off.
His departure was made without the authorities and explained. to upon as necessary nuisances. Lady any preliminary announcement, and them the impracticability of Sena- tor. Hiram Bingham's proposal: for Committee to "assist in cementing (presumably the reference is to
From Capetown Mr. Carberry the regionalisation of China. Dr.
overcrowded.
There
REGIONAL-PLAN.
DR. SZE OPPOSES BINGHAM'S IDEAS.
KYLE-On November 12, 1927, at the Isolation-Hospital, Shang- hai, Nellie, aged nine years, the dearly beloved daughter of the bonds of friendship. and Mrs. Luard, the wife of Major-Gen-will fly to Kenya, where he has an Sze was assured that the Coolidge Captain
eral Luard), raised a subscription estate, and where he already has and Mrs. Thomas brotherhood between the working to entertain the troops, and the two other aeroplanes, which he Administration has not been influ Ashmore Kyle.
TRADE UNION DEBATE.
SIR A. COBHAM.
DEPARTURE POSTPONED BY
GALE
MAY TRY TO DAY.
Rugby, Yosterday...........
CURRENCY BILLS.
WASHINGTON SURTAX AS
SECURITY.
class of Great Britain and the Chinese actually subscribed three uses for transport and survey. enced by the Senator's suggestion Hong Kong. Saturday, Nov 19, 1927, workers of the Soviet Republic." times as much as the British. Pos- work. One of these is flown by his and does not consider a revision of its present policy toward China.— The Committee went so far as to sibly they thought themselves quite wife-British Wireless Service,"
safe outside the danger zone, and
"Kuo Wen." conduct ite operations from that our presence overcrowded Communist Party offices in Gray's them. We were billeted in hotels The Y.M.C.A. debate on Trade Inn Road, London, to appoint a and other places." Unions should serve a useful pur- well-known Communist official as quite different. The British, French "In Shanghai, however, it was
pose in stimulating the interest Secretary and to make an appeal and American residents there did of those who took part in the acti-to British workers to subscribe everything they could to make the vities of a movement, which how funds to meet the expenses of a Tommies' comfortable, and the Bri- tish Women's Association ran the ever great its blunders, is delegation of 50 which went to canteen."
The Peking Ministry of Finance"
undoubtedly one of the biggest Russia last week to participate in
la planning to issue currency bills Still Out There,
Sir Alan Cobham was to have to the amount of $70,000,000,, sc factors in industry to-day. The the celebration of the tenth an- The regiments which are remain left Southampton this morning in cording to information from Chin
Ing in Shanghai are the Coldstream his flyingboat for his African tour, ese circles. motion"That Trade Untons niversary of the Bolshevist re- Guard, the Welsh, the Suffolks, the but news that a gale was blowing The authorities intend to use the Have Exceeded Their Purpose"-volution. The prime movers are Borderere, the Bedfordshires and at the rate of 36 miles an hour Washington · surtax in Chilli and was defeated by a small majority, undoubtedly in a minority in the Hertfordshires, the Middlesex, the in the Channel caused him to Manchuria as security for the issue, a rather surprising verdict in Trade Union movement, but it is Yorkshires, the Royal Artillery and postpone his departure, Sir A but some points In this connection
tho Tank Corps,
Cobham explained that at a height remain to be settled. Negotiations. view of the General Strike fiasco the extremist minority which.un-
In Hong Kong there are the of 2,000 feet such a gale would be of last year and the increasing fortunately has to a great extent Queen's, the Northants and the increased to a rate of 50 miles: are now going on between the political tendency of the move forced the hands of the more there is another battalion of the able to reach Bordeaux in daylight. Customs.
Scots Guards: while in Tientsin This would reduce his speed so Ministry and the Chihli provincial also between the considerably that he would not be authorities, and ment, not to mention the mea- moderate element in past dis- Barder Regiment. The total numAn hour or two later it was re- In case the scheme materialisce, sures of intimidation taken in re putes and rendered necessary the ber of troops left. In China le about ported that the gale had subsided, $8,000,000 of the proceeds will go spect of workers who prefer to passing of State legislation to 8,000...
but Sir, A. Cobham decided that, to. Chilli, 2,000,000 to Fengtlen and
F CHAN
NEW SULTAN.
Fez, Yesterday, Sidi Amada, the third son of Mulay Youssaf, the late Sultan of Morocco, has been proclaimed the new Sultan-Reuter:
remain outside the movement or protect both the community in There is no doubt," said the off-in spite of the improvement, it was the balance will be used for admin- who disagree with any particular general and the loyal working mencer, "that the British Expeditionary then too late to make Bordeaux in Istrative expenses of the central
Forced saved Nanking."
daylight. British Wireless Service. Government, decision taken in regard to stop-in particular from encroachment page of work. It is easy to de-on their liberties. The Trade fend certain aspects of Trade Union movement will have to dis- CORRESPONDENCE. Unionism in regard to which they sociate itself completely from
MEXICAN BANDITS. have performed highly important these extremists, nor only by re- RE THE WING ON CASE. REX v.
“BATTLE" FOLLOWS ATTACK and valued work They solution but by practice, before it
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per can claim the loyalty and respect (To the Editor of the "China Mall”!
HEAVY CASUALTIES, formed highly important work not only of the working man but Dear Sir Having regard to the as benefit societies; they have of every element in the State publicity given in the Press to the
Mexico City,Yesterday.. been called on by the State as in-and before It can strive with hope terminated in the committal of the ed a passenger train between Magisterial proceedings which A large band of bandits attack dispensable and valued partners of success for the attainment of defendant for trial at the Sessions, Fatmira and Aguascalientes; and in the administration of the the true economic ideal of Trade we are instructed to inform you a battle ensued, in which the com- schemes of social insurance Unionism; viz., the creation of that we have been notified by the munding officer and 18 soldiers Crown Solicitor that the Hon the were killed three soldiers and six which are the greatest contribu- the maximum amount of wealth Attorney General proposes, to nie a passengers were wounded, including tion of our generation to the im- consistent with
nolle prosequl, which of course has one womun and two children. The provement of social conditions; the pro
the effect of
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