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AUSTRALIA LOSE TWO THE KING "SLOWLY NATION GOES BACK INDIA GOVERNMENT EXHIBITION OF DUTCH CHRISTIAN GENERAL LENGTH OF WOMEN'S
MORE WICKETS PULLING THROUGH ".
70 RUNS ADDED
A TURN FOR BETTER
TO SCHOOL
STRANGE SCENE
LOAN
£10,000,000
RAILWAYS
PAINTINGS, ETC. .
IN LONDON
ENDS OF THE EARTH
À DUTCH LUNCHEON
SKIRTS
MOVING ?***
LYES ON HANKOW JUDGE'S REMARKS
LADY PASSENGER SUES M.M. CO.
FOR DAMAGES. ·
KIPPAX AND RYDER THE DIS- THE HOME SECRETARY'S IM-OLD AND YOUNG SUMMONED TO THE MONEY LARGELY FOR PICTURES BROUGHT FROM THE REPORTED TO BE ADVANCING
MISSED BATSMEN
PORTANT STATEMENT
"BOBS" FOR HAMMOND
CALCIUM'S GOOD EFFECTS
London, Yesterday.
A British Wireless telegram
states:-
CLASS ROOM
NEW ALPHABET
SOUTHWARD
GEN. LI TSUNG-JEN RUMOUR
LAUNCH AWNING ON FIRE
of
UNDERWRITING IN LONDON
When play opened at Melbourne.
Constantinople, Yesterday.
Landon, Yesterday."
London, Yesterday. A report has reached a reliable; "I thought no lady would be seei to-day the sixth of the third
The remarkable spectacle was
The underwating: was arranged 820 paintings, drawings and ob-source, whence it la passed on for in any garment of eight years ago,” "Test"-Australia had made 118
witnessed throughout Turkey yes today for the new "India Govern jeta d'art in oliver and glasa, con- confirmation is lacking, to the effect Mr. Justice Jacks (Pulsne Judge)
what it is worth with a remark that
for the loss of two wickets.
A reassuring statement about the terday of the whole nation going ment loan of $10,000,000 in 414
stituting, the greatest collection of that Feng Yu-halang (better known bobrved in the Summary Court [back to school, men, women, old per cent. 1968 stock... Woodfull and Kippax were at but, King's condition was made by Sir and young having been peremptori
The fame be will be 91 per Dutch art ever shown, was open as the "Christian General") is ad this morning. His Lordship asked
and there were
vancing troops southward agaifat if fashions had not changed con- 10,000 spectators William Joynson Hicks, the Homely summoned to the classroom to cent.
ed to-day for public exhibition at Hankow. The new is constitutes the
The report adds that there to watch the game on a fast Secretary, as he left Victoria Sta- learn the new Latin alphabet.
General Li Taung-jen, who has been aiderably and added that he is not Even greybeards shuffled along to largest overseas loan for some time the Royal Academy,
on the length wicket. By lunch-time Australiation to-day for the Riviera:
and and, as the money raised is largely The pictures were brought from in charge at Hankow, will not be an authority He said: "I am glad to say the revive youthful memories
skirts. had taken the score to 168, losing King has taken a turn for better: women, nursing babies, came to for railway purposes, it should be a the ends of the earth, including
help to the iron and steel industry Rembrandts, each of which is ern provinces of Henan, Shenai and being an expert, said that he re- Feng Yu-hsiang holds the north-: Mr. J. T. Prior, who also denied two more wickets in the process. He is slowly pulling through. If learn the A. B. C.
The National Schools for gen-
in Great Brita-British Wireless Kippax was the first to go, after the King had not been better 1
worth a fortune, have been lent Kansu and he has occupied most of membered many years ago when Barvica.
Shantung. making 41. He fell to a fine ball from should certainly not have left Lon-eral instruction in the new char
by H.M. King George, American don. I saw Lord Dawson late last acters were opened with impres-
predictions were made that they Li Tsung-jen is, like Marshal Ei were bound to increase in length. Tate which he played outside the night and he assured me that both sive ceremony, the speechee dell-
Millionaires, British Peers and by Chal-sum, one of the "big four" of They had not done so, he added. the Kwangel military group which His Lordship and that they have crease but which broke in and nlphe and his colleagues were satisfied vered referring to the benefit like-
the Great Dutch Galleries. ped off his bails in double-quick now with the progress the King was ly to follow the new, revolution in
The exhibition will be opened time. Kippax took 94 minutes making Progress must of neces-letters.
for three months.
over his innings and got four
four's.
The
J
Skipper Goes
Australian skipper then came in to join Woodfull, but only lasted a little while, playing-on of
Genry for the score of five.
Four wickets were thus down for 113..
Don Bradmin took Ryder's place at the wicket and at the Interval
had made nine against Woodfull's 90. The 150 went up after 198 minutes' play.
The only signs of the wicket wear- ing ure that the ball occasionally turns and more often keeps low.
For Hammond
In commemoration of Hammond'a wonderful effort in acoring a double-century on the Melbourne j
Lord Dawson of Penn
ground following his double-cenalty be slow, but it is continued.
fund" for his benefit.
It has been arranged to give a year's instruction. In the reading] and writing of the new alphabet to two-thirds of the population-Reu- ter.
$
Reformer Dead
WHO FIRED?
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT
KOWLOON
SMASH FOLLOWS REPORT
It has been arranged by the most distinguished connoisseurs in Eng- Mr. B. Wylle President of the land and Holland, and will be in- Kowloon Bowling Green Club, re-augurated with a luncheon, at ported a somewhat mysterious occur which the flood and drinks will be Angora, Yesterday. [rence to the police last night. brought from Holland.-Reuter. Turkey has been plunged into At about 7 o'clock; while some mourning by the death from appen-members werdtill at the club, a dicitis of Nedjati Bey, Minister of Mrs. Watson, living at the Kings- Education, who was prominently clere Hotel, was sitting in the ladies' identified with the adoption of the room when she was suddenly startled Latin Alphabet.-Reuter.
by a report, which sounded like a cracker being fired. Almost simul-
OH, ARE YOU! -
COLONEL'S LADY AND GOVT. OFFICIAL
A WILD WOOD CASE ·
Lo Chuen, a gardener in the en- ploy of Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, D.5.0., of No. 28, Lugard-road, The Peak, was this morning charged be. Central Magistracy, with the un- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the
"CLEARING LATER"
N. E. winds, moderate, over-. cast at first clearing later is the report to noon to-morrow.
The typhoon le still shown to the N. E. oapan. The anti- cyclone hoppears as a belt of high pucsure stretching from the Yauztsze Valley to 3. Manchuria The monsoon will moderate.
tury at Sydney-the people of the feel that the worst of the fllness is lawful possession of 150 cattles of city are subscribing to a "ahilling over and that there is every rea-green wild wood, which the prose- son to hope that slow but gradual cution alleged had been cut from improvement will take place."
Another fact which is regarded the Government plantation at
taneously, some broken blts of glass The case for the Forestry Depart-fell into the room.
Yesterday's Play
Hammond's magnificent double century, the collapse of the Eng- doctors did not return to Bucking-
as reassuring is that His Majesty's back of the house.
Good Specific
the
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allowed to return
commands a big`army in the
become shorter.
Mr. Prior was for Miss Georgia Gale, whose address was' given as at St. Francis Hotel, Hong Kong, and who unsuccessfully sued the Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Queen's-building, for $200 damagas alleged to have been suffered by her through her clothing being set alight on defendants' launch, by negligence of defendant's ser- vants.
Over Miss Gale's Head
A CAR DRIVER
PUBLIC EXAMINATION IN BANKRUPTCY
Mr. Prior produced evidence given by the plaintiff taken de bene "SIGNING FOR ANYTHING"
case. Plaintiff was not in Court.
Misa Gale arrived by the 8.8. "You will spend all your life In
"Paul Lecat" belonging to defen- bankruptcy if you do your business
dant, he said, on Oct. 22, 1928, like that," the Chief Justice (Sir)
when the ship anchored in mid- stream. Plaintiff, together with Henry Gollan, C.B.E., K.C.) told
others, boarded A steam launch Hua Pak-yan, alins Ah Hau, a
which took them ashore. When motor-car driver employed by the
the launch was about half-way be- Dragon Motor Car Co. since 1914,
tween the Iner and the shore, for in the Supreme Court this morning.
some reason which could only be guessed at the awning caught fire Mr. E. L. Agassiz (Official Re cover) usled debtor, in the course
The outbreak occurred, unfortun of his pubild examination, whether
The "Christian General" ately over Mlas, Gale's head y he would have "signed for any Porno thing" because an Indian money-is in author the southern pro-burning piece of stuff fell on Mr. lender asked him to do so.
vinces of K gtung, Kwangsi and Gals who was wearing a tailored Hupeh in central cloth coat, waistcoat and skirt, and Debtor replied that he would. Hunan and
scorched the shoulder of the coat. His Lordship asked if debtor was
China...
Although the damage was very Both the "Christian General" 'and ! Berlous in giving the answer. lish "tail," and Australia's fine ham Palace this afternoon, and it ment was conducted by Mr. L. R. A detective was sent round to the Debtor said "Yes, because it is the Li Tsung-ion have gone to Nanking, slight it was sufficient to ruin the stand at the opening of her second was anderstood that they would not Andrewes, who made his first ap-club to investigate. He reported Indian (moneylenders') rule to in-the national capital; to attend the coat. The skirt and waistcoat innings were the features of yes visit the Palace again until this pearance in Court in his capacity later that in a pane of glass in a sist on more being signed for that Disarmament Conference, Each were not damaged... terday's play. The tourists were evening.
as an Assistant Crown Solicitor. window facing Cox-road, he found a actually changed hands.
What exactly happened when the dismissed for 417, just 20 more
The defendant pleaded that he small hole, which appeared to have Mr. Agassiz algo questioned Nationalist organisation, that un-fire brake out, it was difficult to than Australia made in her first effort, and the home side went on calcium, which is now being ad-trees which overhung his master's small calibre. From the floor the dians and others in 1922-Debtor and that under Li Taung-jen being the coxswain, who pulled her out A medical authority explains that had only cut down branches of wild been made by a revolver bullet of debtor on his borrowings from Inder the "Christian General" being say; the first thing that Miss Gale known, as the 2nd Army Group, knew was that she was seized by to score 118 for the loss of two ministered to the King, is a well garden. He denied that he had detective picked up pieces of glass. related how he had purchased an wickets.
of the way. The fire was soon put proven specific in cases of thinness gone into the plantation and cut the which had fallen from the broken Austin car for $1,200, a half-share part of the 4th Army Group.
A clash between the "Christian out. of the blood stream. It has a clot-trees there.
window. A careful search was car- In another, car for $250 (which Re General" and the Kwangsi military Measure of Damage ting effect on the blood and, there-
* 100 Cut Down
ried out in the room for the bullet, got back because it made no group (of whom another of the "big Mr. Prior referred to the cross-." |fore, "prevents bleeding. It is very Mr. Andrewes told the Magis- but it was not found.
money), and also a Hudson effective in eases in which tubercle trate that during the past fortnight
four" General Pel. Chung-hai, is in examination Inquiries were afterwards made from his employers on the hire the north and, possibly, in a post Macnamara
by Mr. H. C. is possible or suspected. The some 100 trees had been cut down in by the detective among other club purchase system--$600 down and tion to assail the "Christian Gen when Miss Gate's evidence was
(for the defence)· operation of injecting the sub the plantation, and therefore forest members, servants and ricaha' coolica 12 monthly instalments of $200 eral's" rear) would, to say the least, taken. Miss Gale admitted she stance is simple, being done by a guards were detailed to keep watch. and other Chinese outside the club, each.
be a calamity for China. glass syringe with a hollow needle.
but no one sapr anyone loitering In The skin is punctured above a vein Yesterday the defendant was see the vicinity of the Club, or heard the Hudson car, debtor defaulted Mail"
thought the fire to have been caus- In the opinion of the "China ed by a spark from the funnel of 100 and the contents of the syringe are by the guards cutting wood on the the report which, frightened Mrs. and the Dragon Co., he said, seized troops under the "Christian Gen- the launch. It was also put it to
political cortespondent, J. S. Ryder, c Hendren, b Tate 112 sent into the blood stream.
hill above his master's house, and 79 The statement by the Home Secré- later the guards, from points of Watson and caused the damage to the car under the agreement be-eral" may be marching southward plaintiff that the fire might just
the window pane. Stary suggests that the calcium Vantage in the plantation, on the
from Honan province towards or as well have been caused by a Mr. Agassiz asked debtor if he into Hupeh province (governed cigarette or cigar-end being treatment is having the right hillside, saw a quantity of green
NIAGARA FALLS
thought his employers, after 14 from Hankow) wood stacked on the roof of the
The move may be thrown on to the awning by Bome years' service, had treated him in accordance with agreement, or careless person on the "Paul The following bulletin was issued servants' quarters of Col. Bird's
harshly. Debtor's reply to this was is directed by local commanders.
Lecat" when the launch was lying at 8.15 o'clock this evening:-The house,
NEW WORKS TO BE
that the company treated every- CONSTRUCTED
"At present, it would be difficult alongside, body alike.
to detain General Li Taung-jen ́in In dealing with the measure of Nanking, or anywhere else, with damage, Mr. Pelor said it was true the-object of wresting Hankow that the clothes were 18 months old from the Kwangsi military group. but they were expected to last a
The Szechuan War
long time as they had been tailor- H.M.S. "Tern," a. gunboat, has led by one of the best ladies" tailors- arrived at Chungking, on the Upper in London. Miss Gale" was attired erals Yang Sen and Liu Hsiang different colour, made by the same Yangtze River (along which Gen-in clothes, of a similar cut but of have been waging war), escorting tailor, when she gave her evidence. the Britain as "Kingwo" (Indo She then looked very smart, but
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Australia-1st Innings
W. M. Woodfull, e Jardine; b
Tate
7
V. Y. Richardson,
Duck-
worth, b Larwood
3
c Jardine, b
23
H. L. Hendry,
Larwood
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A. F. Kippax, e Jardine, b
Larwood
D. Bradman, b. Hammond ... W. A. Oldfield, b Geary.
E. L. A'Beckett, e Duckworth,
b White
R. M. Oxenham, b Geary
C. V. Grimmett, a Duckworth,
b Geary
D. D. J. Blackie,. not out
Extras
Total
41 effects.
15
897
6 King has passed a good day and The guards reported their dis
2 there is a slight improvement in covery at the Forestry Department
His Majesty's' condition.
Fall of wicketat 1 for 5 runs
(Richardson), 2 for 15 (Weadfull),
3 for 57 (Hendry), 4 for 218 (Kip
Signed Stanley Hewett, Hugh M. Rigby, Dawson of Penn.
"Much About The Same" Reuter states:-
The King had a fairly quiet night
pax), 5 for 282 (Ryder), 6 for 287 and his condition remains much (Oldfeld), 7 for 373 (Bradman), 8 about the same.
for 389 (A'Beckett), 9 for 394 (Grimmett), 10 for 397 (Oxenham).
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Larwood Tate Geary....
Hammond
White
Jardine
office, and an official thers obtained
SCIENCE BEAUTY
an-
Washington, Yesterday. The State Department has nounced that the American-Cana- dian Treaty has been signed for
a warrant at the Central Magistracy to search the place. The search re- sulted in the 150 catties of green wood being found on the roof. This wood, Mr. Andrewes said, would be the construction of works at the
identified by a person competent to
Search Warrant
car
1
When $350 was outstanding on
tween them.
SMART LADS
CAPTURE BAG-SNATCHING
THIEF
EUROPEAN LADY STARTLED
"The boys, are to be highly com-
do so as wood from the plantation. hood of the Falls, to maintain and Niagara River In the neighbour-
Evidence was given by Mr. J. Rfalls and the rapids-Reuter mended for their prompt and cour-China S.N. Co., Ltd.). "
improve the scenic, beauty, of the
American Service.
Carr, a Supervisor of the Forestry
છે. M. R. w. for 201 (Chapman), 4 for 288 Department. He said that as the
1
.37 3. 127 3 (Hendren), 5 for 864 (Hapmond), result of information he received 46 17 87 26 for 364 (Larwood), 7 for 381 from the two guards in "his office
Mr. E A. Winnington-Ingram ..91.5 4 88 s(Geary), 8 for 385 (Jardine), 9 yesterday morning, he went to No, has been promoted to be an officer 8 4 19 1 for 391 (Duckworth), 10 for 417 28, Lugard-road. He walked some of Class V of the Malayan Civil
1 (Tate),
120 feet past the front of the house Service.
57 80 64
1 :0 10 0
England-1st innings
J. B. Hobbs, e Oldfield, b
A'Beckett..
H. Sutcliffe, b Blackie
W. R. Hammond, e A'Beckett,
b Blackle
A'Beckett
20 Hendry
58 Grimmett Oxenham 200 Blackle
A P. F. Chapman, b Blackla 24 Ryder E. Hendren, c· A'Beckett, b
Hendry
D. R. Jardine, cand b Blackie
H. Larwood; a and b Blackle
G. Goary, 1b.w,, b Grimmett
G. Duckworth, b Blackle
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
and then proceeded some 50 or 60
0. M. RW. feet up the hill at the back of the
.37 7 92 1 house. From here he looked down
ageous action. They have set an An escort was needed because example which I hope will always shipping on the Upper Yangtsze be followed should occasion arise. has been suspended on account of They are a credit to their school." hostilities.
This Was the commendation
those clothes were eight years old!
Is It Short?. His Lordship-Haven't fashions changed considerably of late?. I thought no lady would be seen in
Major G. Willson, O.B.E., gave to Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 2. The any garment of eight years ago? a number of students of St. Paul's American Ambassador to France, -Mr. Prior he would in these College, Glenealy, who effected the Mr. Myron Herrick, la lying criti-tailor-made clothes, arrest of a Chinese who snatched cally ill at his estate at Chagrin His Lordship—I am not an au- a handbag belonging to Mrs. E. M.Falls.". Oxygen is being administer-|thority?—Neither am I
ed to him-Reuters Amerkan Ser- His Lordship: The rascal, Lee Lam (88) was vice.
.20 8 85 1 into Col. Bird's place and on the ed to see the master but was in-Hazeland.
2 roof of the servants' quarters he saw formed that Col. Bird was not in,
0 a quantity of green wild wood so the servant was asked to fetch
6 spread out to dry. The witness the mistress
55 14 114 .35 .11 67 44 14 94
4 0 140 then looked about the hillside, which When Mr. Bird came, the wit Australia 2nd innings
90 discovereds ome 40 odd green stage the roof of the servants quarters.
was Government plantation, andness showed the warrant to her and explained that be wanted to search 5 af wild trece, situated immediately above the house. All the stumpe
****=“0h; are, You!” “e
15 W. M. Woodfall, not out....
62 V. Y. Richardson, b Larwood..
SH, L. Hendry, st Duckworth, 1 b White
8 A. F. Kippar, b Tate
M. Tate, c Kippax, b Grimmett 21 J. S. Ryder, played on, b Geary J. White, not out t
Extra
Total'
8 D. Bradman, not out
Extras
1
417Total (for 4 wits.)
charged before the Magistrate with
the theft of the handbag which
short najakirt? -?
Mr. Prior replied that he had' contained $200 in money, a cheque the ladies attracted the attention marked that in a few years' time not measured it His Lordship res and other articles, valued together of some 30 Chinese schoolboys in ladies would probably be wearing at: $272,
the play ground of St. Paul's College, their skirts down to their ankles According to. evidence, the They all rushed out and took up again, in which case the skirt, if Mrs. Bird asked the witness if he snatching occurred at 2.80 p.m. the chase for the ladies, eventual short, would be of no use at sif.. 12 were fresh, and the stump farthest!
yesterday, whilst Mra. - Hazeland ly capturing the accused after a 41 from the house, the witness calcul as a policeman, and when he re was walking down Glenesly in the briak run wait and see. "Many years ago I Mr. Prior, alked his Lordsbip to 5ated, was some 150 feet away,plied that he was from the Forestry
When searched after his arrest, can remember when skirts first got ment, Mrs, Bled exclaimed: company of Mrs. Millet. The thief
approached the ladies from behind.1.Mrs. Hazeland's handbag, with Its as short as they are now when it are you less and thon and then, after snatching Mrs. contents intact, was found con- was said that they were bound to
witness that be
Hazeland'a handbag, dashed-off in cealed on prisoner's person increase in length, but they had ortalde.She romariced front of the startled ladies. The Magistrate passed, sentence not done so.
two of the wit
With great presence of mind, of six months hard labour and 12 His Lordship: They have be men lopting into her room and a Hazeland and her friend ran strokes of the birch, and then com come shorter Bakdale would phone for the after the thief, calling for abels monded the schoolboys, who were
ontinued on Page 13.) lance na they went. The cries of not present in Court,
Leaving the two guards to watch
the place, the witness came to town
and took out a search warrant at 168 the Magistracy. He returned to Fall of wickets: 1 for 28 runs Fall of wickets: 1 for the Peak at about 1.15 p.m., and (Hobba), 2 for 161 (Sutcliffe), (Richardson), 2 for 60 (Hendry), went to the front entrance of Col
for 188 (Kippax), 4. for 148 Bird's house where a servant
swered the door. The witness aski
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