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"DAY OF MOURNING.”|
Chinese Suggestion at Singapore.
CONSUL'S REPLY,
Journal's Advice to Nationals in Malaya.
Singapore, May 26.
$40,000.
Echo of Bank Larceny,
CHINESE REMANDED.
Local Police Fetch-Suspect From Canton.
HONG KONG WINS.
Chinese Soccer Players in P.I.
BEAT "INTERNATIONALS." Press Comment on University Team
Manila, May 28.
Before Major C. Willson at the The Chinese Consul-General at Central Magistracy this morning, A representative cleven, nick- Singapore has received a communi, Detective Sergeant M. Murphy, named "International," fell in de- cation from the Chinese Chamber Chung-lim, allas Fong Fau-sang, Wallace Field before the Univer charged a Chinese named Fong feat yesterday afternoon at the of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, ask-stated to have been formerly em alty of Hong Kong football team, ing him to assist in the arrange-ployed in the Compradore Depart in the latter's ment of a universal
second appearance commemorament of the Hong Kong and Shang. before Manila soccer enthusiasts. tion of the Tainantu affair on June hat Bank, with obtaining the sum The final reckoning gave the visit 2. He has replied that he has had of $40,000 by false pretences on no official notification from China January 31, 1924, and alternately, match was played before a gather- ing footballers the lead, 4-3. The with larceny of the money as a ser-Ing of interested spectators, the vant of the bank,
majority of them hailing from Ro- aarlo and nearby streets, Manila's Chinatown.
of any such commemoration, but he had heard that the central éxecutive of the Kuomintang had A week's formal remand was instructed Its mourning for given in police custody for further Tainanfu should be observed at all investigation of the case. branch meetings held during the Fong, who was arrested by the week following receipt of the in-Canton authorities last week, was struction. He told a "Straits brought down to Hong Kong by Times" representative that it was
the night boat inst Friday, local very unlikely that there would police making the trip to Canton
any general commemoration specially to receive the prisoner. among the Chinese in Singapore on June 2.
be
to
At a meeting held in Kuala Lum- pur a week ago it was stated that, by order of the Nanking National- Ist Government, June 2, was be observed as "a day of general mourning for the Japanese shoot- ing at Tainanfu on May 3," and that the Chinese
Consul-General
THE SPEAKER.
In their two
games played in this city, the first of which ended in a 1-1 the against San Beda, the Chinese players have not defrauded the expectations of the sporting community. Nobody expected them to be world-beaters. Needless to state they are not As a matter of fact, they cannot compare with any of the Chinese teams that years gone. by in this city. The have displayed their ability In Hong Kong University eleven is simply à mediocre aggregation, good enough to face the badly. battered aggregations Manila counts with at present. Should the Henry Chinese team bave paid us this
EARLY RETIREMENT FROM THE COMMONS ANNOUNCED.
IMPENDING REQUEST.
London, Yesterday. The Rt. Hon. John had been consulted in order to en-i Whitley has announced that he will visit in the years 1925 and 1926,
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ask the House of Commons on June their showing would have 18 to permit him to retire from the disastrous. Speakership on June 19,
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and
In the course of a leading article Mr. Whitley has held the position match, 4-3, is In yesterday's "Malay Mail" the in-of Speaker of the House of Com- tion of the course of the game, cident was commented on as fol-mons since 1921, and has been in- The Hong Kong team, as a whole, lows:-
variably praised for his unfailing played much better football "We think the Chinese in Malaya tact and profound knowledge of should have won by a bigger mar- would be well-advised not to ob- Parliamentary procedure. He held gin. The Chinese did not play `n serve any day of mourning at all the position of Deputy Speaker team yesterday. They simply con- on June 2, but to go about their from 1911 to 1921. lawful occasions in the ordinary
THE JUGO-SLAV REPLY TO ITALY.
way. In the firet place, this coun- BALKANS' FERMENT, [try forms part of the British Em- pire, which is properly maintaining an attitude of absolute neutrality in the present differences between China and Japan, and thera Reems RIOTING DEPLORED. just as little justification for the Chinese resident here to indulge in
Belgrade, June 2. what would actually be a public The Jugo-Slav note-to-Italy de- 8.30 p.m. political demonstration against the plores the recent rioting at 6 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
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on Sunday, and who were as com plete strangers to each other as they were from the Hong Kong. players. Credit must be given them for playing as they did. They could have done much worse.
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