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Tango Maru Van Heutaz Tilsondari Phemius Klungchow Sanuki, Maru Yuznan SEPTEMBER Dell Maru
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.
CREW OF THE “SOVIET NORTH,”
NOW SAFE.
OPIUM-SMOKING IN DEATH OF A WELL-
FAR EAST.
THE COMMISSION.
TRAMP OVER 200 MILES OF THE COMMITTEE HESITATES ON
ARCTIC
ICEBOUND COAST.
Moscow, Yesterday,
It is confirmed that the six
ACCOUNT OF EXPENSE.
'OTHER SUBJECTS.
Geneva, Yesterday.
The fifth committee held a long
KNOWN ILLUSIONIST.
CLIVE MASKELYNE.
WAS EN ROUTE TO THIBET TO MAKE A FILM.
DIES AT SEA.
London, Yesterday." The illusionist and magician,
men, forming the crew of the discussion on the British proposal Clive Maskelyne, died of pneu missing "Soviet North" are safe, to appoint a commission of three monia aboard the P. and O. 8:9. The crew walked over 200 miles to investigate opium smoking in "Rawalpindi" before reaching to the icebound coast where they the Far East with a view to an Marseilles.. embarked on a steamer.-Reuter, Opium Conference in 1929. The
mittee are reluctant to approve owing to the expense.
was to penetrate Thibet to make
He was making a voyage to South African and New Zealand India as a member of a cinemato- [A telegram from Moscow, delegate,supported but the com- graph expedition, whose object dated Sept. 15, stated-The steamer "Stavropol," which is now near the Polar regions of Siberia, has sent out a wireless message stating that hunters have seen six men walking along the shores of the Polar Sea in the direction of Cape Dejnez. It is
On a vote the matter was ad-| journed until the 19th inst.
More Retrenchment.
a film of adventure.-Reuter.
[Deceased was for many years prominently associated with the well-known London entertainers, and magicians,
The public to the utmost pack-illusionists ed the fourth committee meeting, Maakelyne and Cook] thus testifying to the interest in
PLAYERS OBJECTED TO ON TAKING POSSESSION.
surmised that the men comprise the struggle to reduce next year's KING'S PARK MELEE' the crew of the aeroplane "Soviet estimates of the International North" which set out early this Labour Office which, on the Bri- month in an attempt to fly from tish motion, were finally found to Vladivostok across the edge of the extent of 27,000 francs- the Arctic Circle to Leningrad.] INDIAN POLITICS.
THE NEHRU REPORT RECEIVES COLD RECEPTION.
"MOBOCRACY."
•
Costing Too Much,
COURT SEQUEL.
AAAAA
London, Yesterday. Before the fourth budget commit-
In preparation of the approach- tee of the League this afternooning soccer season certain members Comdr. Locker-Lampson criticised of the Club de Recralo yesterday the continued increase in expen-afternoon visited their ground at
with the work of the Butler Com-ed mission.
"FAIR."
North or
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The anticyclone is central to the north of Japan, Pressure remains low over the China Sea.
expenditure were
King's Park for practise, and on arrival at the place found that a crowd of Chinese were. assaulting an Indian watchman; employed, by the Club to look after the place.
In trying to stop the fight, a num ber of Chinese who had been play- ing on the ground previous to the watchman, interruption by the threw stones at the Portuguese players, and soon a general melee was in progress.
One of the latter party, unfor- tunately, had his head cut by a stone, while another cut his arm.
Bombay, Sept. 16. A cold reception by the Indian States of the proposals contained
the in
Nehru Report,
for Dominion Batua, self-government for India, and a new Council, was forecast by the Maharajah of Bikanir in a speech at dinner given in honour of Manu Bhai Mehta, the Prime Minister, by the diture of the League. He thought Maharajah on the eve of his de- the prestige of the League would parture for England in connection suffer severely if further increas The police were summoned by planned, telephone, and when they arrived Criticisms were being heard in three Chinese youths were found The Butler Commission is en-England regarding the way in with stones in their hands while quiring into the relations between which the League was spending another had a bamboo pole.
An idea was prevalent This morning in Kowloon Court the Government of India and the money. native States.
that the expenditure of the League four Chinese, (who had been In The Maharajah of Bikanir this in general and of the International; Police custody) denied fighting. evening declared that the Nehru Labour Office in particular was too Report appeared to disregard the, great.-British Wireless Service. true constitutional position of
Berlin, Yesterday. Princes and of the Indian States,
"Geneva flasco," "Germany pole. and their Treaty and other rights. sold again" is typical of the news- The magistrate, Mr. W. Schofield,
The proposals of the Report with
paper comment re-echoing the remarking that the charge should regard to the States were imprac deep disappointment in political be altered from one of assault to ticable, he said, and were likely to circles as to the outcome of the that of possession of implements of lead to a "chaos of mobocracy."
Geneva discussions regarding the danger,' asked defendants if they personal The rulers and subjects of the evacuation of the Rhineland. were willing to give a Indian States would in no way Even the Democratic, and Repub- bond for their good behaviour, and, agree to a position implying sub-lican newspapers do not disguise on their agreeing, they were bound ordination or inferiority to the their dissatisfaction that nothing over in a bond of $50 to be of good people of British India, but would definite has been achieved.--Reu-behaviour for 6 months. insist on being treated as equals of ter. British India if their willing co- operation was sought.-Reuter.
SWEDEN'S POLITICS. CONSERVATIVE GAINS IN THE GENERAL ELECTION,
PARTY POSITIONS.
Stockholm, Yesterday,
Germany Disappointed.
SIR THEODORE COOK.
DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH JOURNALIST. DEAD,
EDITOR OF "THE FIELD."
Sub-Inspector Marks said that be had no direct evidence that the de- fendants had been fighting. They were only seen to have stones and a
J
"WALKED FAST."
TWO YOUNG LADS AND CIGARETTES.
Accused of the theft of "two packets of cigarettes from a stall In Temple-street, Yaumati, two Chinese youths appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Court! to-day.
away. but
London, Yesterday. The death is announced of Sir Theodore Andrea Cook-Reuter. One admitted the charge while! [British Journalism suffers a the other denied. The latter said The elections for the second Chamber of the Riksdag, which sovero loss by the death of Sir that he did not run have been held throughout the Theodore Cook. Since 1910 Sir "walked fast." country over the week-end, show Theodore had been editor of "The Sub-Inspector Marks said that that the Conservatives have gained Field," the well-known high-class one of the lads, (Bret defendant) eight seats, while the Social-Demo-sports Journal. crata have lost thirteen. have been other small turnovers in party strength.
There
snatched the two packets from a
Sir Theodore Cook was one of cigarette stall, and the second de the finest of modern English prose fendant and one other (not in writers, a man of wide culture and custody) ran away. They were scholarship. His. publications, chased and the two defendants The position of the partics is at ranged from "Tobogganing at St. were caught. present:
Moritz" and "A History of the Eng the theft, was ordered the birth First defendant, who admitted lish Turf to Turner's Water) Colours at the National Gallery" while the other was bound over in and "Leonardo da Vinci, Sculptor," a personal bond (with his mother). A great admirer of France, Sir to be of good behaviour for a year. Theodore was author of that beau
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tiful volume "Twenty-five Great
The city of Stockholm will elect Houses of France" and a fascinat-
representatives on September 21 to
All the other 18 vacancies.-Reuter.
L..
SOVIET GRAIN.
PROSECUTION OF RECALCI TRANT" OFFICIALS.:
NO EXPORTS THIS YEAR.
FOKI'S FRAUD.
HOW HE OBTAINED $128: WORTH OF FURNITURE.
ing description of "Old Provence." Sir Theodore also wrote exten- sively for the Quarterly, Edinburgh and Fortnightly Reviews. Li Yuk, master of the Taue Les Born in 1887, Theodore Cook won furniture shop, No. 65, Praya East, a scholarship to Radley where he reported to the police yesterday that became Head of the School, Captain at 11 am on September 4, a Chin- of Boats and Captain of Football ese giving the name of Sze To-kau, More triumphs followed at Wadham aged about 20 years, vislied the shop Callige, Oxford, including a 2nd and represented that he was a fokf class in Honour Meds" and a 2nd of the Kwong Fal furniture shop class in "Greats" and, what was of No. 79, Praya East NOVE A Soviet special commission has probably prized far more, theIn the name of the master of the been appointed to prosecute off coveted rowing Blue as No. 8 of Kwong Fai shop, who was formerly cials who do not obey Government the Oxford boat LB89
Yuk's employer, the young man Instructions for the collection of
A He was editor of "St. James" obtained a quantity of furniture
worth $128 and Immediately book de grain.
Gazette $1900 and was also a The Soviet Press, referring to member of the Da the collapse of the rain supply stan before he bec says that the idea of exporting chfer of the "Field" grain this winter must be dropped. A knighthood was
Reuter
1918]
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