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ESTABLISHBD
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HONG KONG. FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928.
NO NATIONALITY.
Princess's Russian Husband.
EXPELLED FROM GERMANY. Ex-Bottlewasher Who Married Elderly Woman.
Berlin, Yesterday.
The ex-Kaiser's brother-in-law, I
CABLE & RADIO.
Details of the New Proposal.
CAPITAL OF £53,700,000.
U.S. AND WAR.
AND AT:-The Office of the Publishers,. SA, Wyndham Street.
THE WORLD'S SWEETHEART in a brand new riotous comedy of
Mr. Kellogg on National|||youth and love!—
Policy.
NO PLEDGE TO FIGHT.
Cables To Have 56.25 Per Cent. Of World Making Great Strides To
Voting Power.
London, Yesterday,
The proposals in regard to the
Abolish War.
New York, Yesterday. Speaking at a dinner of the
a Russian named Zubkoff, an ex-fusion of interests of the Eastern Council of Foreign Relations, Mr. bottlewasher, aged 28 who mur-Telegraph Co. and the Marconi Frank B. Kellogg, while vigor-
The ex-Kaiser of Germany, whose relative married à Rus sinn ex-bottle washer.
ried
Victoria! the Princess Schaumberglippe, aged 63 on November 19, has been expelled from the country as a man "with-i out nationality or occupation.".
Zubkoff repeatedly failed to re- The new his residence permit. Princess, who lost her nationality by marriage, is not included in the expulsion and remains at Bonn.
Zubkoff was recently fined for not renewing his permit. He is reported to have already left Ger- many, possibly for the Congo where he is said to have relatives.
-Reuter.
GRANT REJECTED.
INDIANS HOLD SWAY IN ASSEMBLY.
"TRUST BETRAYED."
New Delhi, Yesterday. The Assembly by 58 to 53 re
Council.
The Postal Service to Swabue & neighbouring places 'is entirelyjected a grant for the Executive suspemied until further notice.
INWARD MAILS.
From
Per
FRIDAY, MARCH 16. Australia and Manila Japan and Shanghai
.Aki Maru .Kashmir
SATURDAY,
MARCH
17.
Straits
.Nagpore
Calcutta and Straits Shanghai
.Kutanng.
Szechuen
SUNDAY, MARCH
18.
Amoy
U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai
Talma .President Lincoln .Fushimi Maru .Kanchow
Straits.
Shangha!
Straite
MONDAY, MARCH
TUESDAY, MARCH
19.
Santhia
27.
Japan and Shanghai
.Porthos
For
OUTWARD MAILS,
3.30 p.m. 3.30 p.m.
Per
FRIDAY, for Germany
MARCH 16,
Saarland Hwah Cheng
Tai Ming
4.30 p.m.
5 p.m.
5 p.m.
5 p.m.
Manila and parcels
via Hamburg
Saigon ... Sam Shut and Wuchow Japan....
Aki Maru Sin Kiang Bintang
Shanghai and Europe via Siberia Bangkok via Swatow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles-due. Marseilles. 14th Apr. K.P.O. Parcels 4.80 p.m. Registration (Mar. 17th) 9 a.m. Letters (Mar. 17th) 10 am. G.P.O. Parcals 5 p.m. Registra- tion (Mar. 17th) 9.45 a.m. Let-
Kashmir ters (Mar. 17th) 10.30 am, .***.
SATURDAY, MARCH
Song Bo Hai Hong Norviken Empress of Asla
18. MARCH
Kaljo Mara Chinhua
Haiphong Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Straita
Manila
SUNDAY,
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa- Bangkok
17.
8.30 u.m.
2 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
3 p.m.
MONDAY,
Shanghai and Japan
Swatow
MARCH
Fushimi Maru Hydrangea
19.
Szechuen
9 a.m. 9 a.m.
10.30 am
2.30 p.m.
4 p.m.
President Lincoln Chaksang
5 p.m.
20.
Amoy
Manila
Swatow
TUESDAY, Shanghai, Japan. Honolulu, U.S.A., *Canada, *C. & S. America and *Europe via San Francisco-due San Francisco, 18th Apr. Regia- tration 9.45 a.m. Letters 10.30
8.m..
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MARCH
Taiyo Maru
tion 145 p.m. Letters 2.80 p.m. Philoctetes
vessel's name only.
4.80 p.m.
Chaman Lat said the council had betrayed their trust and none of the Indian members had resigned as a protest against the Simon Commission. All the other Budget demands were carried.-Reuter.
Army Policy.
New Delhi, Yesterday. The Legislative Assembly agreed by 66 to 51 to a motion to reduce by Rs.57.000 the expenditure of the Army Department.
Various Indian speakers attack- ed Gen. Birdwood's policy, which they described as an "outrage to India" and declared the "British had outstayed their welcome; they would be wiped out within a de- cade."
The Army Secretary, defending Gen. Birdwood's policy, declared the Army was not maintained for Imperial purposes outside India and no great reductions in cost were possible. British troops were insurance often a. remarkable against riots.
Company contemplate the forma- tion of the holding company with a capital of £53,700,000 in three classes of £1 preference and ordin- ury shares of which the Com- panies will hold varying propor- tions but an aggregate £36,000,000 will be allocated to the Eastern. Telegraph Co, and £17,350,000 to Marconi's.
of
The Cable Companies have 56.25 per cent. of the voting
Mr. F. B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary for. War.
ously advocating an unqualified multilateral anti-war treaty, em- phasised that the American Gov- lernment would not become a
party to any agreement which | directly or indirectly, expressly or indirectly, is a military alli- ance, nor could the United States pledge itself to advance the use of armed forces against other fa- tions. He did not believe that the of the world or Europe peace could be assured by a military alliance or treaties and he hoped France, which admittedly per ceived no bar to the conclusion of an unqualified anti-war treaty with the United States alone would be able to satisfy herself per that an equivalent treaty among the principal world-Powers would ac-be equally consistent with mem-
bership of the League,
Signor Marconi, founder of the great wireless company. strength and Marconi 43.75
cent.
The new Company will quire:-
(a) From the Marconi Company the whole of its capital which would be satisfied from the foregoing consideration.
He pointed out that 21 Ameri- can States were represented at the ragent Havana conference and passed a resolution condemning war as an instrument of national (b) The whole of the Cable Com-policy and 17 of them were mem-
panies* ordinary shares, bens of the League of Nations.
He agreed with Sir A: Cham- leaving the preference shares and debentures undisturbed.berlain in opposing an attempt to The board of the new Com-define the aggressor. Mr. Kellogg pany will consist of 12 cable concluded by saying that the nominees and eight Marconi world was making great strides towards the abolition of war representatives.
as an institution. He would al- ways support and advocate the conclusion of appropriate treaties Excited dealings in cable and for arbitration and conciliation wireless shares took place on the land the renunciation of war. Stock Exchange following the an- Reuter's American Service...
Market Rises.
London, Yesterday.
"FINER LATER."
N.E. winds, moderate, overcast
at first; finer later, Is the official weather forecast until noon to-
morrow.
The anticyclone has weakened central over S.E. and is now Korea. Fresh to moderate mon- soon may be expected over the North China Sea.
STILL NO NEWS.
HINCHCLIFFE'S MYSTERY
JOURNEY.
Atlantic City, Yesterday.
A large seroplane is reported to have been heard in the vicinity fly- ling towards Philadelphia at 11.20
this evening.
A number of other places on the New England coast have similarly reported hearing an aeroplane. The airport officials at New York, however, are very sceptical." None of the reports, so far, have been The
authenticated.
St. Johns' Newfoundland,
March 15.
nouncement of the fusion. He accused the opposition of market was almost impenetrable thwarting every effort of the Gov- owing to the throng of brokers. ernment to help them to obtain
Easterns jumped from 12% self-government and instanced the points to 162, an increase of Reserve Bank Bill, Navy Bill and over £620,000 in market value in other measures.--Reuter.
a few minutes. £5,000,000 of their £7,000,000 capital is ordin- TROOPS IN CHINA.
SPIES ON TRIAL.
FRENCH AGENTS TO RUSSIA.
Paris. Yesterday.
An espionage trial has just been held in camera in which 18 persons
ary stock.
There were large transactions in Marconi shares. The 108. share was comparatively steady around 70 which was yesterday's
It is 6 a.m. and daylight, and still no sign of Hinchclife.
COST OVER FOUR MILLION IN TWO YEARS.
In the House of Commons in re- close, indicative of confidence ply to questions Mr. Worthington that the terms of the fusion are Evans said the estimated cost in acceptable to Marconi share-respect of the additional troops holders.Reuter.
sent to China was £1,026,500 for 1928 and £3,090,000 for 1927.-Reu- ter.
including a number of French sol- CAVALRY CHANGES.
ex-em-
TWO CONVERSIONS INTO ARMOURED CAR UNITS.
London, Yesterday.
HOME BUDGET.
TO BE CONSIDERED NEXT MONTH.
London, Yesterday.
dlers were charged with supplying Soviet agents with military infor- mation. Rou Jeyres, an ployee of the Revenue Department and Mile. Clarae, Secretary to a
In the House of Commons Mr. Communist Municipal Councillor,
Sir Laming Worthington Evans, Baldwin announced that the Bud- were each sentenced to 5 years' im- prisonment and 10 years interdic Secretary for War, stated in Parlia-
ment that the cavalry regiments get would be taken on April 24.- tion de sejour.
The woman has not yet been ar- which are Irested,
Other prisoners received armoured car sentences varying from 6 months 11th Hussars at Aldershot and the
to 4 years with fines.
The judgment states, that "the trial again reveals an audacious anti-French espionage plan, con- ceived by the Third Moscow Inter- national and confirms that the de- licate organisms of French na- tional defences are places of the greatest perli-Reuter.
to be converted into regiments are the
12th Royal Lancers In Egypt British Wireless Service.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
Reuter.
WORLD FLIGHT. FRENCH AIRMEN TO CARRY ON.
San Francisco, Yesterday, The French airmen Costes and Lebrix have Balled to Tokyo to
The clearing rate of the dollar.resuine their fight round the on demand, to-day was 2/0-3/16, world-Reuter's American Bervice.
MARY
PICKFORD
IN
MY BEST GIRL
With
CHARLES ROGERS.
A
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE.
A story enlivened with a thousand, hearty laughs and through it
all the vibrant joy of the delightful comedienne.
AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
Through the flames of a vast forest fire this romance of the Forest Rangers sweeps to a thrilling climax!--
JOAN CRAWFORD & CARMEL MYERS.
IN
THE UNDERSTANDING HEART
AT THE
FROM THE BOOK BY PETER B. KYNE.
WORLD
Orchestra 5.15 & 9,20.
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15.
The story of a man who captured twenty two war prisoners but feared to fight the town bully!---
AT THE
KENNETH HARLAN
IN
THE SAP
with
MARY MCALLISTER AND HEJNIE CONKLIN.
STAR
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