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?Carrarsoilenen beerlig‹ THE
President Jackson
ABLIS 1845
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928.
WINDFALL FOR THE EXCHEQUER.
BIG ESTATE.
TOBACCO MAGNATE LEAVES £10,000,000.
£4,000,000 DEATH DUTY.
SIGNING OF THE PEACE PACT.
NEXT MONDAY.
MOVIES" AND
#1
#1 IN FORCE.
"TALKIES. "
MICROES
WORLD-WIDE SPECTATORS.
THE FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC.
MISSING 'PLANE.
REPORTED SIGHTED TO THE SOUTH OF GREENLAND.
MOTOR-BOAT SEARCH.
London, Yesterday.
Paris, Yesterday.
Copenhagen, Yesterday. "movies" ""Talkies,"
and The Government has received Estate valued at £10,000,000,
combine on a telegrain from Landsfoged, in "as far as at present can be as microphones will certained" has been left by Sir Monday for the first time in South Greenland stating that George Wills, President of the history to perpetuate for future!
Hassell's and Cramer's aeroplane! sounds and Imperial Tobacco Company. generations the
The Government will benefit on movements of the statesmen was alghted at 10:30 on the this valuation to the extent of signing the international state morning of the 19th near Fisken- £4,000,000 in death duty-Bri-document in the clock-hall at the asset on the south-east coast of Quai d'Orsay, half of which has Greenland, flying south-south- tish Wireless Service.
been converted into a cinema east then east. studio with eight huge archlights A local motor-boat started im- to film the scene.
mediately in search of the aero- plane.--Reuter.
INDO-CHINA.
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL APPOINTED.
CHANGE IN SYSTEM.
Paris, Yesterday. Mons. P. A. M. Pasquier has been appointed Gouverneur-General of
Indo-China.-Havas.
M. Pasquier's appointment marks
a change in the system. Hitherto, politicians and others from France
A series of microphones will render even the softest whisper- ed State secret audible to wireless listeners throughout Europe.
THE COMPROMISE.
ANGLO - FRENCH NAVAL AGREEMENT STIR.
Meantime the "talke" special- ist means to synchronise the camera and microphone and will record the speakers' facial expres- sion and words for the delectation U.S. & GERMANY TROUBLED. a few weeks' hence of millions of cinema-goera throughout the world.
London, Yesterday.
It is supposed that leakages of Welcomed to England... information to Germany indicating! The Deputy-Mayor and town the result of the compromise, has! were appointed in recognition of clerk of Plymouth welcomed Mr. led to such strong criticism of the service to the Government. M.F. B. Kellogg, US. Secretary of whole scheme in Berlin. Pasquier was Resident Superior of State Department, and the Cana- The position of America has Annam and has been head of the dian Premier, Mr. Mackenzie also to be borne in mind. In spite He is in what King, who are en route to Paris to of British and French assurances, there appears to be strong opposl- the pro- sign the Anti-War Pact.
Mr. Kellogg said the Treaty tion at Washington to was not the work of any one man posals, and the view is now held or any one nation, it was the work that as the result of United States' of many nations and men, and it opposition, the whole plan may was a great moral step over which come to nothing.. the nations must go before they Again, however, it is pointed can go to war again. ·
out, that there should be no cause
Annam Government. might be called the French Colonial Cadet service to which promotion to Governor-General of Indo-China was denied before. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour. His pre- decessor is M. Varenne, a Deputy M: Pasquier is at present in France.
GREEK ELECTION,
PANGALOS PARTY SHOOTING INCIDENT.
PROSECUTOR'S INQUIRY.
Reuter.
To a Reuter representative Mr. for alarm since the whole question Kellogg said, he was not going to of land armamenta must be sub- have any conversations regard- mitted to the Preparatory Disarma- naval ment Commission before anything ing the Franco-British understanding.
Spain Piqued.
Madrid, Yesterday. The impending signature of the Kellogg Pact is being practically ignored by the Spanish Press.
was Subse-
definite can be settled. All Powers must adhere to the agreement be-! fore it can become operative.-Reu- ter..
U.S. COTTON. NEW YORK EXCHANGE AND
TRADING.
Athens, Yesterday, Generul Pangalos will appear be- fore the Public Prosecutor to-day It appears that Spain has not! in connection with the election been invited to sign with the shooting incident. Two of the Great Powers. Consequently, she wounded are reported to have feels slighted. died. A colonel was examined General Primo de Rivera noti-
New York, Yesterday. yesterday in connection with the fied Washington that he
The Cotton Exchange has approv- same affair and was imprisoned.-going to Paris to sign.
quently, everybody was surprised ed of the principle of trading in to learn that he had changed his 50 bale units and also in trading. in raw wool futures.-Reuter's elections, mind.. [On the eve of the a number of Venizelists gathered It appears that the Government American Service. outside the Pangalist election of the United States told him that rooms, jeering and throwing stones, it was impossible to include Spain
Willesden Defendant. - I am They were suddenly fired on from a in the invitations to the great balcony, and four were wounded Powers, but hoped that Spain, known as the hardest-working man like the countries of the Little in Kilburn; but I was out of work two rather seriously.
The police state that the firing Entente, would adhere to the till Monday, and lost the job on
after the Wednesday. was chused by four officers, includ-Pact immediately ing General Pangalos himself.]
FINNISH ATTACHE.
Powers had formally signed.
Spain now claims sixth. place among the World's Naval Powers, as she has two battleships and seven smaller warships are being RECALLED FROM MOSCOW ON added to the Spanish Fleet. »
SOVIET REQUEST.
SOVIET ATTACHE IMPLICATED.{'
Helsingfors, Yesterday.
Dr. Streseman's Health.
Berlin, Yesterday. Dr. Stresemann's doctors atate that his health still demands the The Military Attache of the greatest care, and while they do not object to his visit to Paris to Finnish Legation at Moscow has been withdrawn because the Soviet sign the Kellogg Pact, they are opposed to his participation at Government has demanded his re the League meeting at Geneva call on the ground that he has
Ministers discussed at a Cabinet meeting for two and a half hours the preparations regarding the signing of the Anti-War Pact. Apparently there will be no offi- cial speeches, apart from M. Briand's speech of welcome.
Geneva Assembly.
Geneva, Yesterday, "It is doubtful whether M. Briand will be able to go to' Dr. Stresemann has not yet Geneva and with his absence and taken photographs of Russian mill: abandoned the intention of going that of Dr. Stresemann and Sir to Geneva, but it is learned that Austen Chamberlain the proceed- Soviet authorities recently ar after signing the Pact in Paris ings of the League Assembly will
he will go to a health resort for be shorn of much of their im
tary secrets,
rested him on this charge.
The Soviet Military Attache of a short rest before deciding whe-portance, particularly as it is ex- the Russian Legation at Helsingther he will go to Geneva. fors has also been recalled although Paris, Yesterday. the newspapers state that. the
JAPAN'S DROUGHT. ive wuntries in which they are
SERIOUS SHORTAGE IN NORTHERN DISTRICTS:
TROUBLE AMONG FARMERS.
pected that the usual private conversations between leading Foreign Ministers have a special
on this occasion.~~ Finnish Government did not de- The German Ambassadors at interest mand his withdrawal.-Reuter. Faris, London, Rome and Brus-Reuter.
sels have informally notified the League Wireless Station. Foreign Ministers of the respec-
Geneva, Yesterday. The Federal Political Depart that Dr. Stresemann intends to raise the question of the evacua-ment, after discussing with the tion of the Rhineland in Paris or League Secretariat the political and judicial aspects of the pro- Geneva or both.
Meanwhile, Dr. Stresemann,posed League Wireless Station through the German Ambassador for the League's use in times of Tokyo, Yesterday. in Paris has asked for an inter-crisis, suggests that the station Though central Japan has suf-view with M-Poincare, presum, should be contructed near here by fered in recent weeks from excess ably with regard to this subject of rain, the northern districts are Not Going to Geneva experiencing a serious shortage of
Berlin, Yesterday water owing to the long continu- In accordance with the advice ed drought
As a result of a dispute for the of his doctor, Dr. Stresemann Will
not attend the forthcoming meet possession of water, fighting broke ing of the League of Nations at traffic would still be considered, out this morning between the farm- Geneva, Consequently, the Under ers of two villages in the Aomori Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Prefecture. Twenty are reported
to have been injured before the von Schubert, will head the Ger-
man delegation at Geneva.
arrival of a strong detachment of police to disperse the combatants.
the Swiss Wireless Company, who would administer it and afford the League all the facilities necessary in priorities.
At times of crisis the station would be handed over to the League, but the needs of private
and the financial arrangements would provide for an equitable division of the charges and re- ceipts between the Swiss Admin- Istration and the League Ren
Paris, Yesterday, Pres. Domergue and all the ter
He Swept Her Off Her Feet!
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