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No. 25,953
LORD HALDANE.
PASSES AWAY IN SCOTLAND.
FAMOUS LAWYER.
Reformer of British Army From 1905-12.
LORD CHANCELLOR AND EMINENT SCHOLAR.
ness, has died in Scotland. He was for many years one of the leading members of the Liberal Party, was Secretary of State for War from 1905 till 1912, when he went to the Woolsack. In 1924 he was again Lord Chancellor, during the Labour Party's administration.
ill
HIS MISSION TO BERLIN.
Later. Lord Haldane is dead.-Reuter,
BLISHED
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HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1928.
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BIGGER TYPE.
"TEMPORARILY ATTACHED."
H.M.S. "Castor". arrived here from Home at 4.30 p.m. yester- day.
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CRICKETER.
W. R. HAMMOND,
SECURES NINE WICKETS AT COST
OF 23 RUNS.
SEASON'S LOWEST SCORE.
London. Yesterday,
W. R. Hammond.
FRIENDSHIP.
ANOTHER GESTURE.
"SHAFORCE" DETACHMENT
LEAVE NANKING.
SEQUEL TO SETTLEMENT.
Nanking, Saturday.
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ACCIDENT TO LOCAL CAPTAIN.
CAPT. B. THOMSON.
SLIP IN A STAIRWAY ENDS IN HOSPITAL.
side..
Was
Capt.
PRISONERS SMILE AT SENTENCES.
A p
ERROR AT SESSIONS.
"I HAVE LOST MY HAND AND HAVE BEEN CAPTURED.”
BRAVADO OF EX-DEPORTEE.
Much that was unusual occur- red in the Chief Justice's Court this morning, when the August Criminal Sessions opened with a calendar of nine cases.
Two of four prisoners,
deportation order.
"What Can I Say."
.
who
OPERATION, TO-DAY.
Capt. B. McK. Thomson, master W. R. Hammond, the young
The British detachment, of of the 3.8. "Lungahan," was the about 150 strong, sent by the Bri-unfortunate victim of an accident Gloucestershire cricketer gave an tish North China Command (for-! She is a light cruiser, of 3;750
in Nathan-road, Kowloon, yesterday Shanghai Defence! tons, and has come to the China Illustration of his great all-round merly the Station, "temporarily attached," ability yesterday. Playing against Force), has been withdrawn from afternoon. Viscount Haldane, after what appears to have been a brief ill-taking the place of H.M.S. "Cur-Worcestershire at Cheltenham he Indo-China S. N. Co.'s "Tuckwo
here and sailed to-day on the At about 4 p.m. the, inmates of pleaded guilty to a charge of lew," which belongs to the Medi-
for Shanghai.-British Naval No. 2 Saifee-terrace were alarmed robbery, grimaced when they iterranean Fleet.
by the sound of an unusual noise heard the interpretation of the Shanghai, Yesterday, from the stairway leading to the lenient sentence imposed on them. One swaggered off with bravado, The "Tuckwo," with the Bri-first floor and, rushing out, Anw knowing that he had to come up tish detachment from Shanghai, Captain Thomson lying on
the again on
another indictment. arrived here to-day. British steps, evidently in much pain.
When answering the first count, Naval Wirelesa.
It appears that he was walking, he had quoted a common phrase This small body of Bri- down the atafra, when he unfortun: which begins with a quotation tish troops was detached ately missed his step, and fell in a from the gaming tables. To his from the Shanghai Defence Force awkward position, resulting in his surprise and pleasure, he was and sent to Nanking to guard fracturing a bone in the left leg. only given a "concurrent" sen- British property there, same London, Yesterday. quality. But he hardly became
The news of the accident spread fence for returning to the Colony having been occupied and over- i really wide circle Viscount Haldane is critically known to
run by Chinese troops after the quickly, and a crowd collected out-before the expiry of a ten years" until the outbreak of the Boer
BALKAN RIOTS.
Nanking Incident of March, 1927. Į War, when he ranged himself
secured nine wickets for 23 runs An Agreement having been
Dr. Durand happened to be pass- without fear or hesitation by the
Li Ching-kwong, Chan Chuer, side of those who, like Rosebery CROATIANS SHOW ILL FEELING and caught the tenth bateman with signed by China and Britain ing the terrace in his car. He at TOWARDS ITALIANS, the result that 'Worcestershire were, whereby the Nanking Incident once attended the patient, and and Asquith, believed the war to
Cheng Wa-fu and Tam Ping-yuen, DISTINGUISHED CAREER.
all out for 35 which is the lowast was settled, the withdrawal has summoned an ambulance, be just and necessary,
Those
all youths, were charged with score of the season in a County been made as further evidence of Thomson conveyed to the Richard Burdon, Haldane was who were not ashamed to vilify MOR GETS OUT OF HAND,
robbery of watches, a chain and · match.
{friendship between the two na-Kowloon Hospital. born in Edinburgh in 1856 and him in a later and greater war
The itions.
"Tuckwo," the In the match against Surrey on
This morning the "China MA" pendants, etc., and $106 from a Belgrade, Yesterday, Edinburgh and were of the same opinion, but educated at
shop in Chinatown on the morn- the same ground which ended the "China Mail" learns, was char- learns that an operation took place Ing of June 30. Gottingen Universities. He was they chose to ignore the fact that
Several arrests were made when previous day in an easy victory for tered for the purpose. M.P. for Haddingtonshire from Haldane had risked everything in 1885 till 1911, in which latter year a patriotic cause which command-police dispersed demonstrators at Gloucestershire Hammond scored Sebenico. Dalmatia, who were pro-two separate hundreds, made ten he was raised to the Peerage. ed his assent,
testing against the signature of the catches and secured one, wicket.—— He was Secretary of State for To the war succeeded the Nettuno Conventions.
British Wireless Service. War from 1905-12 and Lord High Khaki Election: to the Khaki A Vienna message says that the Election a distracted Liberal In former times Lord Haldane Party: and to that distraction death of Raditch, allege that the Croats, already embittered by the
belonged to the Imperialistic the Tariff Reform Campaign wing of the Liberal Party. His which was to end it. During the Belgrade Government is betraying devotion to German philosophy years which preceded 1906 Con-Croat economic interests to Italy has always been marked and he servatism grew ever weaker and In order to purchase security for has written several learned books its opponents stronger, and be the purely Serbian part of the king- showing strong traces of the in fore long it became evident that dom in regard to Albania. fluence of German thought. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman A mob of several thousands was probably this sympathy that was to lead the victorious locusts ignored the orders of the police led him to be chosen by Mr into the promised land. Imme-at. Sebenico and began throwing! Asquith early in 1912 to proced diately Sir Edward Grey and Mr. stones. Gendarmes then charged on a mission to Berlin to "sound" Asquith bent all their energies to with fixed bayonets, and were sup- the German Government with a obtain the Woolsack for their ally ported by police wielding trun- view to a mutual abatement, of and friend. But the new leader (cheons, urmiuments.
had other views and other loyal- The crowds left the main square Although this object was not ties, and after crises and debate and proceeded to bombard an attained, Lord Haldane's previous the blue riband of the Bench went Italian steamship with stones, and, work of reorganisation at the to a very courteous and attractive also the windows of Italian shop-CYCLONE IN ALGIERS demonstrators and the retaliators. when picked up by the police soon helped the Police and had pleaded War Office had put the British man, who was, however, less keepers. Many injuries were Army in a position to take the erudite and less philosophical as a caused and there were seventy ar- feld instantly when the German lawyer. unslaught came in 1914.
Chancellor from 1912-15.
SKETCH BY BIRKENHEAD.
GREAT WAR SECRETARY.
rests.
Most of the demonstrators were
Great War.
was con-
FAIR WEATHER.
S. W. or variable winds, light, fair, is the official weather fore- cast until zoon to-morrow. miles W.N.W. of Tokyo, moving The typhoon is how about 150
N.E.
Pressure gradients ajjeur to be shallow over China and the N.
China Sea.
EARTHQUAKES AND TIDAL WAVE AT SEAPORTS.
Algiers, Yesterday.
At Bougie several big sheds
were sunk.
GREEK POLITICS.
SHOTS FIRED FROM ELECTION ROOMS.
Athens. Yesterday.
On the eve of the elections, which; are being held to-day, a number of Venizelists gathered outside the
at 12 o'clock, but at the time of inquiry, it could not be ascertained if any bone had been broken.
YAUMATI TRAGEDY.
MEN FATALLY STABRED WHILE ASLEEP.
4
TWO ARRESTS.
When asked to plead, the first said: I have lost hand (meaning I have lost my hand) and have been captured; what words can I say now?" The other three mere- ly said: "I admit.”
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, Assistant Attorney-General, thereupon, in- formed the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, C.B.E., K.C.) how the men had admitted frankly from the outset and materially
A stabbing affair occurred in assisted the Police in recovering
Pangalist election rooms, jeering Woosung-street, Yaumati, at the stolen property.
suddenly aired on from a balcony. and throwing stones. They were
about 4.30 yesterday morning.
"Swag" in Hospital.
His Lordship said that he had and four were wounded, two rather the victims being two Chinese stated several times that he re-. seriously.
named Lo Shing and Leung Yu-garded gang robberies as very chu. The police state that the firing
serious indeed. No undue viol-. was caused by four officers, includ- The men were sleeping on the ence had been shown to the vic- ing General Pangalos himself. pavement when they were attack tims on this occasion, other- M. Venizelos has ordered an en-ed. Both were badly wounded, wise he would have ordered flog- Because prisoners had quiry, and the punishment of the and one was in a dying condition ging.
estimated at a million dollars Reuter's American Service.
move
The demonstrators were mostly afterwards. He died whilst pre guilty, he sentenced them to youths, who also raided the Cafan-parations were being made to re-three years' hard labour each.
The him to hospital.
In the next case lay a story of darist officea and caused some dam- age. The capital has been declared other man succumbed to his a night-long pursuit by the Police, It was in these circumstances Croat workmen employed in Italian COMMUNICATIONS DESTROYED "dry" by Government decree injuries in hospital several hours on both sides of the harbour,
after admission,
after the robbery referred to A few years ago, the versatile that Haldane went to the War owned factories, who fear dismissal
yesterday evening and to-day.- Earl of Birkenhiend, in the course Office. The position was one of as a result of the rights acquired
Two men have been 'arrested above had been committed. The Reuter.
by the police on suspicion of hav-"swag" was traced to a man em- of a series of biographical extreme difficulty. The Parlia- by Italy, under the Conventions to A cyclone has wrought terrible
Govt. Wins.
ing been concerned in the stab-ployed in the Government Civil sketches on eminent living British ment in 1906 was, of course, mad, import Italian labour into Yugo-havoc in the two Algerian sea-
Athens, Yesterday.
bing. The attack was made on Hospital, named Li Sam, who also statesmen, wrote the following and criminally neglected of and Slavia, Reuter.
ports, Jojelli and Bougie, and the The election returns at 12.80 this the unfortunte men with daggers kept two revolvers and eight with regard to Lord Haldane-indifferent to all matters of na-
surrounding districts covering an morning shewed that the Govern-under the verandah outside their rounds of ammunition for the Viscount Haldane of Cloan was tional defence. They believed
area of at least thirty miles. ment had large majorities through-shop, No. 111, Woosung-street. gang. born in the year 1856, of a Scot-with the late Sir John Brunner
Communications have been dea-out Greece. Pangalos has been de- They had gone out to sleep on the He pleaded guilty to counts of tish family which has produced that international law was a sur-
pavement on account of the heat possession of stolen property and many citizens of distinction ander safeguard of Great Britain Lord French and Lord Haig, diftroyed, but it is known that ten feated.-Reuter.
were killed and 150 Injured at
indoors,
illegal possession of firearms. He public service. His youth was than the Fleet; that sloppy in-fering it may be supposed, upon Jijelli, where a tidal wave and
Both men were stabbed in the was also sentenced to three years” greatly occupied with metaphys-ternational tea-parties were as
many other subjects, have united
stomach, and also had wounds in hard labour. cal studies-a
The infantry barracks, hospital, circumstance valuable as military prevision: in in their tribute to his admirable earthquakes added to the terror.
HEAVY CYCLONE.
Misunderstanding. other parts of their bodies. Al- which I shall presently show was a word, that everything, should exertions, and each has indepen-cinema, restaurant and warehouses
though the alarm was immediate- The first prisoner in the rob- the principal cause of the wanton be abolished except the Radical dently and with high authority abuse heaped upon him at a later majority. Haldane had no such Haldane alone, by his co-ordina-tenths of the houses were unroof- date by an ungrateful section of delusions. He did not, it is true,ve reforms, made it possible for ed
laid it down that Haldane and were reduced. to ruins, while nine- $1,000,000 DAMAGE DONE INly raised, the assailants mariaged bery case was brought back to SOUTHERN HAITI. to escape before the arrival of the face the returning from deporta- police. They left behind them tion charge. His Lordship, his countrymen. But at the time believe that Germany would run this countnry to play the military
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Yesterday. two blood stained daggers which thinking that he was dealing with everything seemed for the beet, the incalculable risk of disturb
were demolished and plantations | Scores of persons are reported the police immediately took the Hospital employee, repeated and the friends of a young man ing the peace of Europe, but he part with which she
"Three years' hard labour." who gained a First Class in Phil-never forgot that she might. He fronted. at the outbreak of the own down. Nine were drowned killed, while villages and crops have charge of.
Following certain clues, the sion that His Lordship was im- Mr. Fitzroy, under the impres- a dredger been destroyed as the result of a In the foundering of sophy at Edinburgh University soon realised that the whole
while a number of native boats cyclone in southern Haiti.
police arrested one suspect on and the Gray and Ferguson Army system needed reform TWICE LORD CHANCELLOR.
the Wing Lok wharf, whilst the posing an additional sentence on Scholarships in Philosohpy of four from top to bottom, that our
Experts say From 1912 to 1915 Lord A thousand, soldiers
are being
the storm is the other was taken into custody at a the robber, asked "Consecutively Scottish Universities, might well military strength, actual and Haldane was Lord Chancellor in sent from Algiers to carry out rea-worst experienced there for forty-shop in West Point.
or concurrently, my lord ?" His think, and did think, that a man potential, must be immensely Mr. Asquith's administration and cue work-Router.
two years, and damage done is The motive for the attack is not Lordship replied "No, just three had been born in Clonnden. increased; and that these mea-, in 1924 he occupied the Woolsack
japparent.
years' hard labour.” And so he brought his meta-isures must be taken in the teeth in the Labour Party's brief spell
: A PARTNERSHIP.
After matters had been ex- physics with him to the English of a Parliamentary majority of office.
plained, the first robber was aṛ- Later. Chancery Bar to humanise this which disparaged him as a Jingo
raigned for the second time. In It was learned this morning that reply to His Lordship, Mr. Fitz- somewhat arid field of humane re- and derided apprehension as a search. He ultimately, and in- chimera.
one of the murdered men, the one roy said that the balance of the deed, as these things go, rapidly,
cluded: Essays in Philosophi- DEMAND FOR FULL DOMINION
removed to the who succumbed before he could be deportation order would still be became successful.
He never,
cal Crriticism" (with Prof.
hospital, had enforced. His Lordship there- indeed, added to the conciseness Lord Haldane has all his life Seth); "Life of Adam Smith":
formerly been in partnership with upon imposed sentence of three one of the two suspects at present years' hard labour, but to run con- of the various subject matters to been the most industrious man translator (with Mr. Kemp) of
Quito, Ecuador, Yesterday. which he applied himself, but hein England. He now flung all Schopenhauer's "World as Will
in police custody. This was the currently with the other sentence, The non-official members of the The Government of the United man who was arrested in the West which means that prisoner will made it plain that an intellect his industry, all his address, all and Idea, 3 vols.; "Education
recently recognised the Point shop. which had enjoyed the Absolute his subtlety, and all his eloquence and Empire." 1902: "The Path Assembly, who are already here States
only serve three years in all. in the highest society was no un into this gigantic task. He way to Realty." 1903; "The Reign for the opening of the September Government of Ecuador de facto
The partnership between the dead When this was interpreted to pri- equal antagonist of those made speeches in the House of of Relativity" 1921: "The Philo- session, generally favour the Nehru on condition that constitutional man and the suspect had been in soner, he at once abandoned his struggled for briefs in Lincoln Commons of unimaginable sophy of Humanism," 1922 report, putting forward a new government was established. How-existence for about three years, and attitude and smiled as he went
a "revolutionary plot" has was dissolved. The prisoner then below to the cells. Inn. His reputation spread over length, and it must he admitted "Human Experience"; a "Study draft constitution, which is describ-ever,
od as a "monumental document." a circle always growing wider, that his speeches were sometimes of its Structure," 1920.
been unearthed, and many promin-opened another shop in partnership and soon there came, as there ed against the Science of Law, a Between his mother (who lived fojalist party, has tabled a motion opposition have been arrested.-
what certain critics have alleg- His Lordship never married. Laj Patral, leader of the Nation-ent members of the Parliamentary with his brother and occupied comes to the, elect of the Bar, auttle Incognoscible. He deluged [be a. centenarian) and himself urging the conveyance to His Reuter. opportunity alike of entering Fer- his critics with speeches which there was a deep attachment, and Majesty's Government liament and taking silk. He was lasted for three or four hours, it was said that Lord Haldane, opinion of the Assembly that the elected member for Haddington until they withdrew before him even when busy with affairs of time has arrived for conferring on shire in 1885, and continued to re- present that faithful constituency bewildered, over-whelmed, and State, never failed to write to the India full domínion status, Reuter. until his elevation to the Wool-numbed by words which fell from old lady every day. She died a sack in 1011.
him like snowstorms in Green- few years ago, pin
Malta, Saturday: The Third land. And soon it became evid. The British Wireless report Destroyer Flotilla has arrived. AN LIBERAL IMPERIALIST, ent that behind all these words states that during his tenure of Reuter. In the early days of his men there was a brain; a scheme, and office he perfected a scheme of an bership he made many wise and a system. Out of chaos came expeditionary force and convert- thoughtful speeches all of ace order, until it became generally ed the old volunteers into a ter- quate length and soon became recognised by everyone who ritorial army with a training or- generally known in the Liberal worked under him at the Warganisation and equipment which Party as a man of character, Office that here was the greatest enabled it to play so efficient a earnestness, and Intellectual Secretary of State since Cardwell part in the Great War.
who
"MOST INDUSTRIES MAN.”
HIS PUBLICATIONS.
Lord Haldane's publications in-
:
INDIA'S POLITICS.
STATUS.
Simla, Aug. 19.
of
the
IN ECUADOR.
REVOLUTIONARY PLOT NOW
UNEARTHED.
COMMUNIST
BULGAR'S TRUNKS FULL OF “RED? LITERATURE.
premises next door to the murdered man's shop.!
The
Point
new business did not the dead man owed him money, pay- prosper, however, in competitionment of which he had avoided.
The motive for the killing of the PLOT.with Its long established next-door
rival, and the brothers had to close other murdered man is still obscure, down with the loss of some money although it was probable that he and transfer their activities, to West was done to death because he was
in business with the other man...
Police investigations are proceed- Vienna, Yesterday.
A GRUDGE
Ing, and the two suspects will Six trunke stuffed with Com Since the break in the partner, probably be charged during the munistic, literature in three langu-ship between the murdered man and week ages, including plans for a Com the suspect, Iriends of the dead man The nature of the cloe leading to munist revolution in Bulgaria, were allege, the prisoner had nursed a the arrest of the second suspect on The closing rate of the dollar on discovered when a Balgar named grudge against his former partner, the Wing Lok wliart could not be demand, to-day was 2/03/18, Iskref was arrested here Reuter, and had been known to claim that ascertained this morning,
TO-DAYS DOLLAR,