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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928.
POLAND'S YOUNG COMMUNISTS.
POLICE RAID.
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY AND SWALLOW DOCUMENTS.
ORDERS FROM MOSCOW.
Warsaw, Yesterday.
THE PACIFIC IN WORLD AFFAIRS.
MR. COATES' VIEWS.
NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER ON PACIFIC RELATIONS.
CREATING GOOD-FEELING.
Wellington, Yesterday,
ACROSS AMERICAN CONTINENT.
FLYING FEAT.
:
7 1/2 HOURS LESS THEN PREVIOUS RECORD.
THE PACIFIC VICTOR.
New York, Yesterday. Police raided a meeting of the In a speech at Wanganul, Mr. Mr. Arthur Goebel, who won executive committee of the Young J. G. Coates, the Premier, refer- the prize flight to Kawall last Communists, who desperately at-red to the growing importance of year, landed at Curtissfield to-| tempted to destroy and swallow the Pacific in world affairs and day after flying, non-stop across documents.
the, increasingly large part that the American continent in 7 Several tons of literature were the British Dominions could prob-|hours, 58 minutes, less than the confiscated, including instruc-ably be called on to play in the previous record made by Lieut. tions from the Third Internation-relations affecting the Pacific. Macready in the opposite direc- al membership lists and a large While New Zealand, in common tion five years ago Reuter. sum of foreign currency. with other portions of the Bri-
There were many arrests. Reuter.
TREATY SIGNED.
CHINESE AND GERMAN EQUALITY,
FORMER PACT ANNULLED,
tish Empire heartily endorsed
the League of Nations, he regret---
ted that one of the great Pacific POPULAR DANCERS. Powers, the United States, was not a member of that organisa- tion.
TO-NIGHT'S ATTRACTIVE NEW PROGRAMME.
to-
New Zealand would welcome any method which would create: good-feeling and close collabora- Appearing to-night and tion between the Pacific countries.morrow night at the 9.20 perform- Mr. Coates also referred to the ances, in conjunction with Gilda value of such bodies as the In-Gray's latest production, "Cabaret," stitute of Pacific Relations, the the captivating juvenile dancers, The new Chinese-German Treaty Fan-Pacific Union, the Women's Miss Cherie Valentine and Miss was signed by Dr. C. T. Wang and conference at Honolulu and the Tomasita Birdwell will submit a Herr Von Borch at Nanking on Cook Celebrations-Reuter,
August 17.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Firstly, it is for the purpose of attaining absolute equality of treatment and supplementing the arrangements of May 20, 1921. It is agreed that all Customs and re- lated matters are not subject to any discrimination compared with any other country. The nationalsį of each contracting party shall not)
MR. F. DA SILVA.
PASSESS AWAY AT FRENCH HOSPITAL.
change of programme. The Items
A Glittering Story of the Night Clubs |
to be given are as follows:
1.
A Gala of Seville
Miss Valentine
Miss Birdwell
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Dance Characteristique
Miss Valentine
AT THE
9.
The Black Botton ...
Miss Birdwell
14.
March Militaire-
pay higher duties, internal charges
Miss Valentine
or taxes whatsoever upon imports. A well-known and respected mem- and exports than paid by their naber of the Portuguese community, tionala respectively, or by nationals!
5.
Ukelele Bita
Miss Birdwell
16.
A Jazz Holiday
on & parity of equality.
FUNERAL TO-DAY.
of any other country. The provi-Mr. F. F. Eca da Silva, died at the sion in the annexed agreement of French Hospital yesterday, aged 47
Miss Valentine Miss Birdwell May 20, 1921, governing the duties years. on German import goods, is an-
The deceased had been employed
The third item, the world famous with Mesars. David Sassoon and Co. "Black Bottom" at which Miss nulled.
Secondly, the two parties will Ltd.. for about 30 years. He had Birdwell is singularly adept is to be forthwith negotiate a Treaty of an attack of typhoid fever last year, included in the programme by Commerce and Navigation based which greatly undermined his popular request. There is no 'la- health, and he had never since re-crease in the prices of admission Thirdly, the present Treaty is gained his former robust constitus and seats may now be booked in drawn up in Chinese, German and Lion. Within the past few months advance at the Queen's Theatre. The Money Order Office has been removed to the Public Hall English and in case of difference Mr. Silva's health again became dis- on the ground floor of the G.P.O.
in interpretation the English text couraging, and it was generally felt prevails.
by his relatives and friends that he Fourthly, the Treaty will be was slowly sinking. ratified as BOON as possible and Mr. Silva had been a staunch will become valid the day ratifica- member of the Club Lueltano and tions are effected. Reuter. of the Portuguese Sporting Club at Fanling. He was also a keen shot, and in his younger days was a very ine sportsman, being one of the Two Portuguese youths, H. S. best oarsmen in the Colony. He Remedios and L. A. Carvalho, the competed with disinction in many former represented by Mr. Leo of the V. R. C. Regattas.
d'Almada, were yesterday dis- Much sympathy will be felt for charged by Mr. W. Schofield the deceased's widow and daughter Kowloon owing to conflicting evid- (Mrs. F. H. Mody), as well as two ence.
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FLOODS & PLAGUE.
AFFLICTED AREAS IN NORTH
CHINA.:
FAMINE RELIEF WORK.
CYCLE LIGHTS.
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE AT
KOWLOON.
at
brothers and two sisters in Hong The summons against the defen- Kong, and another sister in Maulla, dants charged them with failing to Peking, Yesterday. Eighteen hundred people have in their sad bereavement.
keep as close as possible to the left The funeral will take place at the hand side of the road, and falling been drowned and 32,000 are home- less and workless as the result of Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy to reduce. speed on rounding the floods caused by the Wen and Valey, to-day, passing the Monu- Mi Rivers in the Liuchi and An-ment at -5.80 p.m. chlu districts of Shantung pro- vince, according to the reports of the Chinese International Fomine Relief Committee.
The Chinese International Re-i lief Committee have dispatched an agent with $5,000 to afford imme- diate relief.
MRS. G. H. CARVALHO,
DIES IN THE PORTUGUESE CAPITAL.
corners.
Sergeant Scrim gave evidence to speaking to defendants on the Tsun Wan-road at 9.50 p.m., on July 29, when he drew their attention to the light on a motor cycle combination, which Was being driven by Remedios. The beam was directed towards the sky and according to Sergeant Scrim did not sufficiently illuminate the road immediately in front of the machine.
A plague of grasshoppers has
The death has occurred in Lisbon, totally destroyed the Kaoliang at the residence of her brother, Dr. millet crops.. Between Tawenkou Fernando Cabral, of Mrs. Guilher- and Lincheng on the Tientsin-Pu-
The Sergeant proceeded on his kow Railway the affected area is maina B. Cabral Carvalho, the
widow of Mr. Carlos · F. de way in the direction of Castle Peak 50 11 (18.2/8 miles) on either side Carvalho, who at the time of his but after travelling for about 200 of the railway. Reuter,
MR. BASIL RILEY.
12.80 p.m.
1.30 p.m. MEMORIAL AT NEW COLLEGE,
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Kashima Mari
death, about two years ago, was the yards, the two defendants overtook senfor member of the Portuguese him at a speed estimated at about 25 staff of the Hong Kong and Shang-miles per hour. On both drivers hal Banking Corporation. t accelerating, witness gave chase. Mrs. Carvalho went to Europe in The speedometer on the Police cycle the company of her husband and touched 40 miles per hour and their only son, Edward, and since after travelling along a straight her. husband's death; had lived in stretch for about two miles the By permission of the Warden London, where her son is studying. speed was reduced to 35 miles per and Fellows of New College, Ox-It was only recently that Mrs. hour. ford, a' tablet was dedicated on
OXFORD.
8.30 a.m. July 28 in the cloisters of the col- Carvalho went to Lisbon on a visit Continuing witness said that the
lege to the memory of Frank to her brother,
two defendants were rounding
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2.80 p.m.
3 pm.
8.80 a.m. 1.80 p.m.
Basil Riley. Mr. Riley was She was the sister of Mr. Cabral, corners on the wrong side of the Special Correspondent of "The Commissioner of Customs at Pakhol, road and approached each turning Times" in China and disappeared of Mrs. Carmona, wife of the harvery dangerously from Chengchow, Honan, on July bour master of Macno, and of Mrs. Sergeant Gibblin,
who WAS 28 last year. Inquiries left no M. Cabral da Silva of Tientsin. The travelling in Sergeant Scrim's side doubt that he was murdered on deceased also leaves a nephew car, said, in his evidence, that the morning of his disappearance. In the Colony, Mr. Rodrigues, of the cycles, when they passed the Various Chinese at Chengchow the Instone Banking Corporation, police officers, were going at a agreed in saying that he was kill
ed by Feng Yu-hsiang's soldiers.
high speed. The defendants were chased but were gaining ground.on
The memorial tablet is inscribed with his degrees and his war ser- Mr. James Backhouse Crosfeld, the two sergeants. When the civil- vice, and leaves it on record that of Reigate, late chairman of Messrs. lane rounded the first corner "his friends remember him as Harrisons and Grosfeld, Ltd., whose they were about 500 yards in front fearless in the cause of righteous-estate was valued at $41,817, left of Sergeant Scrim's cycle.c neas and unfailing in daily kind £2,500 to various charities associat His Waship dismissed the sum
ness
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