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HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928.
THE HASSELL 'PLANE SHAREHOLDERS AND U. S. BUDGET SHOWS
STILL MISSING.
BOGUS MESSAGE.
APPREHENSION OF BROACASTER SOUGHT.
LIPTON'S.
WORST YEAR."
A SHORTAGE.
A BIG DEFICIT.
"CLOSING SHOPS, WHILE RIVALS WHAT THE BUDGET DIRECTOR
ARE PROSPERING.”
BITTER CRITICISM.
G$500 REWARD, Hartford, Conn., Yesterday, Bitter criticism of the adminis- ex-tration of Lipton's (Limited) was As neither airmen is an pert telegraphist, and in view of offered by shareholders at the the improbability of the position annual meeting of the company, given, the considered messages over which Sir John Ferguson supposed to be from Hassell are presided. regarded as unauthentic.
The American Radio Relay Lengue has now offered a reward of G$500 for the apprehension of the broadcaster of the message.— Reuter's American Service.
UNEMPLOYMENT.
PREDICTS.
FIRST DEFINITE FORECAST.
Washington, Yesterday.
The Director of the Budget predicts a deficit of $91,278,000 This is the first definite fore- for the current fiscal year. Shareholders described the cast of a shortage in the Govern-
ment revenues since the War,- past year, which had shown a loss of £88,000, as the worst the Reuter's American Service. company had ever had.
CONGRESS' DECISION.
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Following references from the platform during the submission DRUNKEN MOTORIST of the report to the closing of a number of the firm's shops in dif- PERMANENT SUSPENSION OF
Mr. ferent districts,
Barry
LICENCES. Cohen, from the body of the hall, said: "I move that the consider- ation of the report and balance
Antwerp, Saturday. sheet be adjourned until after the affairs of this company have The International Congress to been considered by a committee combat alcoholism has concluded. It was decided vigorouly to con- "The goodwill of this company tinue the fight against alcoholism, is very near to decimal point, and especially to press for aevarer The Government scheme, adminis- another shareholder, Mr. J. B. penalties for drunken motorists, as The comical adventures of a man whose creditors seized all his
"No dividend has for example, the permanent suspen- tered by the Ministry of Labour, to Clarke, said.
YOUTHS TRANSFERRED FROM COALFIELDS.
EMPLOYERS' SATISFACTION. of shareholders."
London, Saturday.
transfer boys of sixteen or seven-been paid for four years. Other teen years of age from the distress-shops are opening in these dis- sion of driving licences.-Reuter.
ed arcas and particularly from the tricts, and here we have the spec- coalfields has been in operation only tacle of Lipton's closing down when others are prospering
a few months, but already nearly wonderfully."
one thousand boys have been given -“No Good to the Company." work and have settled in their new
Mr. Clarke seconded the pro- Burroundings. Employers express posal for a committee of inquiry, much satisfaction with the excel- Several speakers defended the
SOUTH POLE.
BYRD'S FLAGSHIP SETS SAIL FOR N. Z.
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New York, Saturday. The 160-feeet barque, "City of
lent type of youth which they have board. One of them, Mr. Cork, New York," the flagship of Com engaged under this scheme. said: "You have had the ques-mander Byrd's Antarctic expedition, 2,500 boys are now in training for tion put to the Chairman bow with thirty-two men and 200 tons of transference, and the Ministry many shops of Liptons have been hopes soon to have placed 4,000 boys closed. That information is go where she will be joined later by supplies, has sailed for Dunedin, In work away from their homes. ing to do no good to the company.
They express the belief that the im- If you are going to insist upon a the two other vessels which are mediate problem of unemployed committee of investigation, you participating in the expedition. boys and youths in areas mainly might just as well ask for the Reuter's American Service.. suffering from industrial depression winding up of the company.”
will be on the way to solution when
Mr. Alexander Purves, who
5,000 have been transferred.-Bri- answered questions at the re- SIGNING THE PACT. tish Wireless Service,
'PLANE CRASH.
BOMBER TURNS OVER AFTER FORCED LANDING.
quest of the chairman, said the
difficulties under which the company was labouring were not
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of recent origin. The present Pact Mr. Kellogg declared that it board was completed six months was purely a matter for the Unit- ago, and had had only this short ed States Senate to decide. He time to put right the affairs of added that the position of the this gigantic business.
United States was unchanged, and Sir John Ferguson ruled that that the United States had not the amendment for the appoint-sufficiently important interests In- ment of a committee of investiga-volved in the questions discussed tion was out of order. A voice at Genova to become a member of Manila, Aug. 20.
cried: "I challenge you to ask the League. Our ideal is to nego- Sergeant E. Schmolka, of Camp your solicitor, who is present, to tinte directly with other nationa: Nichols, was seriously injured yes-say it is out of order. I dare him without passing through an inter- terday when the Martin bombing to get up and say it is out of national organism. plane of which he was a passenger, order."
ONE HURT,
made a forced landing in a rice Sir John Ferguson: “You can
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and posting propaganda placards. When the motion was put, They are charged with uttering ed by First Lietuenant Orville A. Anderson. Private Robert Baker hands were raised for and against documents calculated to incite the Sir John declared it carried military to disobedience and also B passenger. Lieut. It Anderaon and Private Baker were amidst cries of "We insist upon with billposting without authority.
a count." uninjured.
B.B.C.'S ARRANGEMENTS. The election as chairman of
The British Wireless message to the Sternberg Hospital yesterday Sir John Ferguson was carried
states - afternoon, having been brought
amidst protests.
London, Yesterday, over from Calumpit in an ambu- Mr. Barry Cohen jumped up to
The ceremony of signing of the lance. Although conscious, Ser-Bay, "I have never seen anything multilateral treaty for the renun- geant Schmolka could not talk more disgraceful than this proce-ciation of war as an instrument of coherently. He was bleeding from dure. The only course you can national policy will be broadcast the ears and nose and Army doctors take is that after the next meet-by wireless from the British Broad- ordered x-rays taken to determine ing you shall unitedly insist upon casting Corporation stations and it AT THE If the man suffered a fractured a proper poll":
is anticipated that listeners in many skull..
Another speaker made an ap-distant parts of the world will In a Rice Field.
peal for unanimity for another hear the speeches as they are de- The Martin bomber on landing, year.
Ilvered to-morrow afternoon. The When Sir John Ferguson rose signals will be carried to London turned over on its back, and caught fire. Sergeant Schmolks was thrown and thanked the meeting for re on ordinary telephone lines from clear of the wreck, it being thought laughter from a number of take place, and although the off-
was loud electing him there
Paris, where the ceremony that he previously had freed himself shareholders:
from his safety belt. The other two men, Lieut. Anderson and Private Baker, extricated themselves from
the wreck without injury,
t
ITALY'S PROTESTS.
SATISFIED WITH YUGO. BLAVIA'S REPLY.
Rome, Yesterday.
cials hope that these will be ade- quate, arrangements are being made for picking up the Paris sta
tions transmission in the event of failure and for re-transmitting · It.[ The Martin bomber left.' Camp
Broadcasting to the Dominions Nichola fold yesterday morning for
will be undertaken from the 5SW] Tarlac. While flying at an eleva-
short wave experimental station at tion of about 2,600 feet, the motora
The Government is satisfied Chelmsford. This station is used suddenly developed trouble and with the reply from the Govern- daily for world transmissions of
ment of Yugo-Slayla regarding varied programmes on a a landing fold. The only avaliable Italy's protests as to the incidents length of 26 metres. spot was a rice field, and so the at Spalato and Sebenico and con- plane was headed for that,
Lieut. Anderson was forced to pick
siders the matter is now closed. The rice field had been recently Reuter 2 p.m. flooded and when the plane hit the 2.80 p.m. earth, it swerved, hit a pike and 4.80 p.m turned over.
Immediately following the crash,
wave
VISIT TO DUBLIN. Arrangements are being made In] Dublin to extend a warm welcome| to the United States Secretary of State Mr. Kellogg, who is expected | to arrive at Kingstown in the American cruiserDetroit on Thursday next. A battery of ar- tillery on the pier will fire a sal and a Guard of Honour of the Rugby, Saturday, Free State army will be stationed
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wed the wreckage and annot
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