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HONG KONG. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928, \
ANTI-WAR TREATY.
How Australia Regards It.
A FOREIGN OFFICE NOTE.
Commonwealth Government "Happy to Co-operate.'
London, Yesterday.
MISSIONS LOOTED. A “RED” INCIDENT.
The Southerners in Shantung.
MARCH DEFILED.
of Taian; Catholic Mission Wholly Cleared Out.
Tainantu, May 24. The Foreign Office, in a Note to
The following is an extract from the United States' Charge d'Affaires in London intimating letter to the head office of the Australia's acceptance of Mr. American Church Mission In Kellogg's invitation to participate Shanghai from its representative in in the Anti-War Treaty, says the Shantung, on the damage to mis- Commonwealth Government be-
What Happened Near
Berlin.
POLICE OFFICER'S EXPERIENCE. Inquiry Into Police Baton Attack: High Official's Intervention.
Berlin, Yesterday. 'An official enquiry has been! ordered by the police into the in- cident in which Communists, re- turning from the funeral of a com- rade killed in the demonstration, cabled on May 27, collided with. the police who were using their batons when Weiss, Vice-President of the Berlin Police happened to descend from a car nearby and
lleve that such a Treaty will alons done by Southern troops. further materially and safeguard I think you may be interested to the peace of the world. They will hear what has happened, so far, to be happy to co-operate to the full-our Church in Shantung, since the ordered the police to cease as, in est extent in its successful con-advance of the Southerners began Wales' words, "They were using clusion, Reuter,
five weeks ago. ‚ ̈
their batons without any apparent Yenchow was taken on April 21, reason." the day General Synod began. We The police, not recognising had no foreigners there, Matthews Weiss, attacked him, severely having gone on furlough, and bruising his shoulder and left arm. Skues having just got away in time,-Reuter,
RUBBER SCHEME.
HAGUE BANKER'S VALORISA- TION SCHEME.
PRELIMINARY STEPS.
and thus being able to leave от furlough with his family from
THREE CHINESE NOW IN HOSPITAL.
Tsingtao. Our two Church com MOTOR ACCIDENT. pounds were occupied on April 23, The Hague, Yesterday. the larger one, St. Mary's, by a The well-known Hague, banker, front line hospital unit, under a Herr Kloppenburg, has drawn up a certain notorious Teng Jih-hao. The rubber valorisation scheme which result was that schoola had to be LORRY DRIVER ARRESTED. has been forwarded to the London dismissed, services were forbidden Rubber Growers' Association and in the temporary church, the new A Chinese woman, aged 70 the international Association of half-built church defiled, hospital years, and two men, aged 46 and Rubber Cultivation. In view of druge stolen, and all buildings 20, respectively, were removed the Kwong Wah Hos- the fact that the plan would re- taken, including empty foreigners' to quire the taking of Identical legis-houses which were broken into, and pital suffering from injuries re- fceived in a motor accident af lative measures by the British and to some extent looted.
Kowloon yesterday afternoon. Dutch Governments, Herr Klop- Taian was bidden by Chang
The woman and the elder man penburg first sent copies, to the Chung-chang to hold out, and the i British and Dutch Colonial Minis- Southerners bombarded the city were riding in motor lorry No. a youth suddenly ters for unofficial guidance. from April 28 to May 2 before the 1433, when
The Dutch Colonial Authorities Northernors gave up. Our mission dashed in front of the lorry. The
'driver swerved sharply in an at-)) advised him to submit the plan to compound is in the west suburb, tempt to avoid collision. The a committee appointed by the In- close to the city wall, in the line of youth was knocked down in spite ternational Association of Rubber fire from the station, and it suffer of this action, and the sudden Cultivation, while the British re-ed in consequence. Two foreigners, swerving of the lorry caused the commended the submission of the bachelors, Wellington and Sibley, woman and the man to be thrown plan officially through the Rubber wers there, and thanks to the late out of the lorry on to the road.
ter's experience In the Artillery in Growers Association.
The woman was, badly injured the Great War, basements were, about the head, and is at present The scheme has now been pre- sented to these bodies with the re- sandbagged and made pretty safe, in a serious condition. Both the quest that they consult together and everybody took refuge in them men suffered less serious injuries. with regard to measures likely to during the bombardment. Services, The driver of the lorry has lead to its practical realisation.school work, and indoor games were been arrested and is being detain-
kept going even during the worst ed by the police.
Reuter.
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except to the belfry windows of the THEFT FROM CABIN. cathedral; otherwise nothing worse than many broken windows, and a
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London, Yesterday,
SIX WEEKS' JAIL FOR A THIEF.
the
room in my house which does not normally leak in the summer rains. At the Kowloon Magistracy this But it was a time of imminent dan morning, a Chinese was brought Major-General Sir Frederick ger, and some narrow escapes. before Mr. W. Schofield and for- Sykes, M.P. succeeds to the Gov- During the firing the wife of, mally charged with the theft of a ernorship of Bombay in December. Dr. W. T. Hobart of the American quantity of clothing from
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Methodist Mission was killed by a wireless operator of the s.o. "St. [Sir F. Skyes has represented atray rifle bullet.
Albans, an Australlan liner, which the Hallam Division of Sheffield The Roman Mission inside the was moored alongside the Kowloon
The theft took place | since 1922. He has had a distin- city was completely looted by the Wharves. guished military career since he Southerners; who gave their early in the afternoon, accused joined the 15th Hussars in 1901, reason the fact that the Northern being found guilty, and sentenced Sir Frederick was born in 1877 and General had hidden his things to six months' imprisonment. in 1920, he married Isabel, dough there. ter of the then Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Bonar Law.]
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After the Southern entry, soldiers occupied about a third of our com- pound, which necessitated the doubl-
KING'S BIRTHDAY. ing up of our two boys schools:
MACAO GOVERNOR SENDS GREETINGS.
IT PAYS!
PROOFS OF ADVERTISING WORTH.
otherwise all Important buildings are untauched, and work and wor-
Hong Kong business firms) ship went on as usual. Our senior might do worse than take a leaf Chinese master and others have out of the American book, if only been the greatest help in all rela-because it is a volume which is The following telegrams were ex- tlong with the military, and the being published also in other changed upon the occasion of the foreigners have kept in the back-lands: King's birthday :-
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ground. Propagandists, have spoken "In the Federal bankruptcy From Governor, Macao, to Gov- In our schools, but are said to have courts in Los Angeles, California, ernor, Hong Kong:-Instructed been courteous and moderate, (and 92 per cent of business failures Portuguese Consul greet Your Ex- some of them "Christians).
for the past financial year were cellency in my name and this Church as Troops Dormitory.non-advertisers. From a survey Colony's. on occasion your King's At Pingyin, after a few days de- of records over 32 cities of the Birthday expressing best wishes, sultory fighting on the surrounding United States it is found that 88. His Majesty's health and that of hills, the Southerners were victori-per cent, of failures are among Royal Family as well as prosperity ous, and parties of soldiers have firms which did not advertise. British nation.-Tamagnini. used our church compound for a To turn to the constructive or
From Governor, Hong Kong, to sleeping place on seven separate positive side there is a signi- Governor, Macao:-I deeply appre occasions, occupying the church It-ficant hint in a report from Troy, ciate the kindness of Your Excel salt once. A Chinese priest was In New York, where there was not a lency's telegram of good wishes on charge, schools were not disturbed. single failure among firms that your own behalf and that of the No certain news has been recely advertise."
Colony of Macao for the health of ed from outlying stations, In the Of course, it pays to advertise; His Majesty the King and the charge of Chinese priests, except but it must be done with brains. Royal Family and for the prosper- that In one place soldiers treated a
ity of the British nation. I fully village church with great dis reciprocate Your Excellency's good respect. A Chinese was this morning. wishes and trust that under Your At Teinan, where we have only at the Kowloon Magistracy before Excellency's able guidance the our Anglican hostel and chapel In Mr. W. Schoßeld, charged with Colony of Macae may continue to the University, the main events are stealing clothing from No. 275, Lat prosper, and that the ties, of friend too well known to need repetition. Chi-kok-road, and from that No. 201, ship between Hong Kong and The students all fled, scared by in the same road, last night. Macao may bind these colonies ever rigorous search of the campus by He was sentenced to 8 monthe more firmly together, Southorn. the Japanese for frearms said to imprisonment on the first charge, greek have been used against them. The and 2 months on the second The last seven years in the cat hospital kept open, and most of its charge,
ton trade have been a history of staff stayed on, and the rest, (Le,
chaos and disaster and people the medical women), who had been! I have been through the mill, 4 watching things very closely have, temporarily evacuated to Teingtao, took part 1. the Egyptian War begun to wonder whether the trade have now returned The University when I was sixteen, and I had two will go the same day as coal Mr itself has ofi salty.closed. Wives medals when I was that age. Tom Shaw ME
and children
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