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RESULT
AT CHELTENHAM
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Hassell declared that he will re- attempt the flight from America to Stockholm via Greenland in 1929. -Reuter..
MR. MANUEL ALVES
DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN- PORTUGUESE RESIDENT
CIVIL SERVANT
LABOUR LAST.
*
London, Yesterday.
MONGERS
A 'DENIAL
NO UNPUBLISHED AIR AGREEMENT
*ENTIRELY UNTRUE"
London, Yesterday. The result of the by-election at Following a report in a Lon- Cheltenham, caused by the death don newspaper that France and Sir Agg Gardner is as follows: Britain had reached an Air Agree Sir Walter Preston (Con), 10,438, ment, the Foreign Office states
that there is no agreement or un-j Sir John Brunner (Lib.) 6,678.
derstanding of any kind with Miss Florence Widdowson (Lab) France regarding aerial mattera 3,963.-Reuter.
that has not been published, and that all rumours to the contrary are entirely untrue.--Reuter.
[At the last General Election in October, 1924, the Rt. Hon. Sir J. T. Agg-Gardner, in a straight fight" with the Liberal candidate,
received 11,909 against his oppon-
ent's (Mr. J. S. Holmes) 9,146.]
"MODEL TREATIES"
The death occurred at his resi-PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF dence, No. 39, Haiphong-road, Kow- INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES loon, yesterday at 9.30 a.m. of Mr. Manuel J. D. Alves, Chlef Clerk LEAGUE'S LATEST
of the Imports and Exports Depart- mont, with which he had been as- sociated for the past 20 years.
A very much respected member of the local Portuguese community
POLITICS AGAIN
Peking, To-day. General Yan Hai-shan, the Nationalist ruler of Shansi province, whose troops are
HARBOURING
CHINESE FINED $100 OR SIX WEEKS' "HARD"
WANDERING "MUI TSAI"
Yesterday afternoon Mr. R. E Lindsell heard. a case, at the Cen- tral Magistracy, in which a Chinese couple were charged with klänap- ping and harbouring a 13-year-old Chinese girl.
The girl, who was a mui tsai, said Geneva, Yesterday. that on August 6 last she ran away
The Assembly has adopted a from her mistress because of a plan for the peaceful settlement of beating she had received. She was international disputes by model treaties of non-aggression and mutual assistance.
Services Offered,
The League Council instructed the Secretary General to communi- |cate a model draft of the peaceful settlement treatles to all the na- ¡tions, members of the league and to the following non-members:— Afghanistan, Brazil, Costa Rica; United States, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico, Soviet Russia, and Turkey and to inform them that the Council was prepared to offer their services if desired.-Reuter.
INDIAN ASSEMBLY
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in control of Peking, in an inter-passes to the correspondents of the view by Chinese pressmen, de- clared that he has quite recovered from his illnces. Reuter.
General Yen did not attend the conferences at Nanking although he set out to do so. Illness inter- vened and he went back to Shansi.
Mr. Alves was a conscientious and hardworking civil servant, whose
Telegraph" have been cancelled to a message from Nanking, the owing to aspersions cast by them date of the state burial of the late upon the impartiality of the Presi-Dr. Sun Yat-sen (the father of the dente ruling on questions connect Chinese Revolution) has been offl- ed with the Public Safety Bill cially changed to March 8, 1929, The passes will be renewed only the anniversary of his death.-- when they have made an qualified apology for their "unjust aspersions."Router.
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under whom he had worked dar MANY KILLED IN COLLAPSE OF ing his, 20 years of honourable ser- vica, with the Import and Export Department. Mr. Alves originally joined the Government Service in) the Post Office and, had also been employed in the-office of the Rail-
accosted by the male defendant, who took her to a house in Yau- mati where she met the female de- fendant and a woman relative: away After a while, the girl ras from the house and came over to Hong Kong, where she was met by the man who took her back to Yau-
Mexico City, Yesterday. Serious floods and extensive mati.
way before being transferred to damage have occurred on the west the I. & E, Office.
There was no question of the girl
The defence was that the couple coast. At least 15 persons have had only given shelter to a home- He was an old member of the been killed in the collapse of less girl. Club Lusitano, and although he houses at Jalisco, which with seldom himself figured in the Sinaloa Penal Colony in the Maria being confined in the house. She sporting activities of the local Por Islands, is the biggest sufferer.had perfect freedom and could come tuguese community, he was always, Reuter.
ready to give his hearty support to all such movements.
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The male defendant was convict- ed on the harbouring charge and fined $100 or abx wooks' hard labour. The woman was discharged with a caution.
HARBOURING.?
YOUNG CHINESE GIRL BEFORE
ANTHE COURT
Mr. Alves leaves a wife, two brothers and three sisters, all re- sident in the Coleny, to mourn hia loss. His death, occurring at the comparatively early age of 41 years, is deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, whose sym- pathy will go out to his relatives. Press a dednite scheme has been
Last evening the funeral book, drawn up by the Canton authori place at the Roman Catholic Cemetes for the establishment of a long young Chinese girl, dressed in tery, Happy Valley, and was large-distance telephone between Hong a red silk coat, appeared in the dock ly attended. There were many Kong and Canton at Mr. R. E. Lindsell's court this beautiful floral tributes, amongst According to a report to hand, morning. She was charged with which were those from Government, the scheme was originally drawn up abducting and harbouring a 18-year- departments fo which the deceased by Mr. Lam Wan-ka! the Mayor of old girl on Sept. 26. sz had been employed.
ARGENTINE LOAN RENEWAL OPPOSED: INTEREST TOO HIGH
Buenos Aires, Yesterday. The Government has ordered the Immediate repayment
American Banks of the inst term loan of $12,000,000, posal to renew the loan at 775 per cent, was refused the 3 ground. that the interest was, too,” “high. Reuter's "American Service,
Canton. Preparations: have now Defendant denied the charges been taken by the Head of the On the application of the prose Bureau of Public Utilities to faci cution, who Intimated that the litate the matter, Secretary for Chinese Affairs
It is said that the telephone poles taking up the case, his Worship re- will be atted along the Kowloon manded it until tomorrow. Canton Railway, a distance of ap- proximately 100 miles. The total. expenses for the whole scheme is reckoned to be upward of some $190,000
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