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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928.
"WORLD'S" WOMEN.
Paris Newspaper's "Illustrious."
LIVING AND DEAD.
Mme. Curie, Sarah Bernhardt, Edith Cavell Take Lead.
Paris, a
contest conducted
INDIAN LABOUR.
Ugly Development Occurs.
RAILWAY STRIKERS.
Hold-Up Tram And Motor-Cars; Several Casualties.
Calcutta, Yesterday. There has been an ugly develop-
TUAN HELP BRITISH.
Chungking Men Keep Out Boycotters.
B. & S. SHIP DISCHARGED.
Community Establishes Guard For Protection.
Chungking, Yesterday. by a Parla newspaper to. find out
Great assistance is being render- the sixty most illustrious women,ment in the labour situation, the ed to British shipping by focal Mme. Curie, co-discoverer with her strikers at the Lillooah work-tuan" (1.a. organisations of the husband of redium, wins first place and motor cars on the Howrah, large guard on the foreshore and
shops having hold up tramcars people) who have established with 24,007 votes out of the first
compelling passengers to descend. are keeping the boycott agitators
The police, in attempting to dis-off the steamboats' pontoon. perse the crowds, encountered a fusillade of brickbats and several officers of the police, the Eastern
26,000 composite ballots counted.
Sarah Bernhardt is second with
21, 678. Third is Edith Cavell, the English nurse who was executed by the Germans in Belgium, with 19,616.
FINE WEATHER.
Light variable winds, fine, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
Five American names are in the first thirty-four. Ruth Elder, who won favour here by her visit after her attempt to fly the Atlantic, gets tenth place with 6,611 votes Mary Pickford is eighteenth with 4,893; Mrs. Harriet Beecher-Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," gets twenty-third place with 2,320; Isadora Duncan, dancer, who died tragically on the Riviers recently, is placed twenty-fourth with 2,872; and Loie Fuller, whom the French called the "Goddess of Light," is in the thirty-fourth place with 1,833.
There are some strange contra-ma dictions in the votes. Evangeline
The antleyclone has passed into the Pacific. A depression is still shown over N.E. China. The typhoon is about 150 miles E.S.E. of Naha, travelling N.E. A trough of low pressure @X- the tends from the typhoon to China Sea.
Booth, of the Salvation Army, Frontier Rifles and the East wins fourth place
Indian Railway Auxiliary Force votes and is just followed in fifth were slightly injured.
with 116,366
Nineteen strikers were sent to
and sixth places by George Sand, the hospital and there were a the novelist, apposite of free love, dozen arrests.--Reuter. who got 16,086, and Louise Michel,
the anarchist "vitriol slinger" of
"Kintang" has arrived here, with- out incident, from further down Yangtaze. Her cargo, is being un- loaded by coolies in spite of efforts by the Boycott Society to disgusde: them.-British Naval Wireless.
Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's 5.8.
[Note: Chungking is 1,427 miles up the Yangtsze. Local vested in- terests instituted a boycott of Jap
General Yang anese shipping. Sen, who is in authority A little further down, facilitated passage by promising an understanding. A Jardiné steamer, the "Kingwo," had its cargo worked by the crew; threats hy boycottera came to naught.]:
PARTY PAMPHLETS. WHAT AUSTRIAN MONARCH-
ISTS WOULD LIKE.
LEADER'S ARREST..
Vienna, Yesterday.
A retired colonel, Gustav Wolf,
the French Commune, who got THE "STRONG HAND." leader of the Austrian Monarchist
15,198. Suzanne Lenglen, the
tennis star, is ninth with 6,683.
While Mme. Breshkowakain, "the VETERAN J. D. ROCKEFELLER
grandmother of the Russian revo- lution," obtained 5,044 votes, her
AND COL. STEWART.
Party, has been arrested following the publication of certain party pamphlets.
These pamphlets stated that the Party had requested the Hungarian
countrywoman Marie Bashkirtseff, "PURGING THE OIL WORLD. Legation to urge the breaking off
whose precocious genius made her one of the most famous figures in Paris and Europe half a century ago, is remembered by only' 112 readers.
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Actresses celebrated In their) day cut comparatively poor figure. After Bernhardt and Mary Pickford, come Mme. Rejane, who was long regarded as Bernhardt's nearest rival, with 3,412 for twenty-first place; Bachel, the famous predecessor of Bernhardt who got 2,049 and was classed thirtieth; La Duse, thirty-secondl with 1,838; and the golden voice Patti thirty-seventh with only 980 votee.
Florence Nightingale is placed fourteenth with 6,196 votes, fol- lowed in twenty-eighth place by Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffrage leader, who oftained 2,218; George Eliot, the English novelist, in thirty-ninth place with 878, and Charlotte Bronte with 489.-United Press.
DOUBLE DISASTER.
AVALANCHE RUSHES ON RAILWAY LINE.
New York, Yesterday.
of diplomatic relations with Austria, should Hungary fail to secure the extradition of the Com- Further, if
A first class sensation has occur-imunist Bela Kun.
red in financial circles in conse-theae representations were ineffec-
John D. Rockefeller.
forty-seventh quence of John Rockefeller calling on Colonel Robert Stewart, Chair- man of the Board of the Standard; Oll Company of Indiana, to resign.:
Col. Stewart recently gave evid- ence before the Senate Committee which was conducting the Teapot Dome Inquiry. He is one of the leading figures in the oil industry. It is declared that Mr. Rockefel- ler's nation is due to a desire to Rome, Yesterday, purge the oil world of harmful and There has been a terrible double undesirable elements. Reuter's disaster in a railway cutting near American Service. Grottamare. Thousands of tons of
TRAIN DASHES INTO DEBRIS.
earth rushed in an avalanche upon; the line, sweeping
houses.
down
two
A moment later a passenger train dashed into the debris, and coaches were flung over and shattered.
Sir corpses have been extricated from the remains of the bosses, and three from the coaches. At least: eighteen have been injured. Traffic is at a standstill.-Reuter,
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RUBBER EXPORT.
MALAYA PLANTERS AND FURTHER RELEASES.
THE QUOTA.
LUNATIC PRINCE,
DRAMATIC ESCAPE IN 1925 RECALLED.
ATTENDANT'S ARREST,
London, Yesterday. The dramatic escape of the Egyp- tion Prince Selfeddin from the asylum at Tichehurst; Sussex, in 1925, accompanied by two asylum attendants, ie recalled by the arrest
tuál, Hungarian troops should be sent into Austria.-Reuter.
HANKOW LEADERS.
GENERALS ARRIVE FOR A CONFERENCE.
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'Hankow, Yesterday. The local Nationalist leaders, Generals Pei Chung-hsi and Cheng Chien, have arrived here and are in conference with General Li Tsung- jen, whose appointment as comman- der-in-chief of the 4th Nationalist Army Group was approved by Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek.-Bri- tish Naval Wireless.
(Note: Generale Pei Chung-hol; and Li Tsung-jen are close col- leagues of Marshal Li Chai-sum in Canton),
富贵
SECRET FLIGHT."
PREPARATIONS END IN TRAGEDY.
TWO FLIERS KILLED.
New York, May 9. With reference to the message from Peterboro, New Jersey, stat- ing that Lieut. Royal Thomas crashed and was killed. It tran-) apires that Lieute. Thomas and Westervelt (who accompanied Thomas) were engaged in a test dri preparation for an early secret flight to Rome. Lieut. Thomas was similarly engaged last week with regard to the endurance fight.- Reuter's American Service.
RECORD. HAUL.
AN ARSENAL OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
The big seizure of contraband of John Bastone, one of the prince's arms, and ammunition, reported yes- attendants at Ticehurst.
terday, is without doubt a record Bastone arrived yesterday at haul made by the local police in Dover from Calais. The charge is recent times. Singapore, Yesterday. that of aiding and abotting the Despite the recent official decl- other attendant, named Pilbeam, sion not to alter the rubber export to assist Prince Selfeddin in his quota, the Planters' Association of cacapel Malaya is seeking the views of the The warrant for the arrest of District Association regarding the Bastone and Pilbeam has been out advisibility of requesting permis since the escape. Reuter
sion to release an additional, ten
per cent, and ask for further re- lease before November
The Perak Associations are strongly in favour of the appeal Reuter
TODAY'S DOLLAR:
The contents of the eight large baskets which a Chinese detective found in the hold of a sampan In Aberdeen harbour early yesterday morning, comprised 891 automatic pistols, 879 spare, automatic maga- zines, and 49,000 rounds of auto- matic ammunition.* *-*
In addition to the woman who had charge of the sampan at the time the detective boarded it, the police have detained two other boat- The clearing rate of the dollar women with reference to the rud on demand, to-day was 2/0 9716, nifir of the contraband.
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