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RESULT
SOUTH-BATTERSEA
A GAIN FOR THE LABOUR PARTY
CLOSE STRUGGLE
London, Yesterday.
South Battersea, due to Viscount Curzon's elevation to the peerage, is as follow:
'MOST URGENT”
HANKOW RATEPAYERS RESOLUTION
GOVT. ACTION ASKED
Hankow, Yesterday. The meeting of those interested in the affairs of the two former Special Administrativo Districts of Hankow, Nos. 1,4d (at one time the Ger- man and Russian Concessions), pass-
DIGNITY OF CAIRO'S NATIVE BAR
UNUSUAL CHARGE
MEMBERS ACQUITTED OF ASK- ING EXCESSIVE FEES
A PRINCESS'S SUIT
Cairo, Yesterday.
The result of the by-election ated a resolutiu ndorsing the views The Council of Discipline for the of the British Chamber of Commerce Native Bar have acquitted Mus- of Hankow' and further recording tapha Pasha, Nahas, Wissabey that the meeting was of the opin-Wassif, Gafarbey and Fakliry on ion that the Hupeh Provincial Gov-charges of asking excessive fees to ernment's action (in making the two represent the mother of Prince S.A.D.'s parts of the Municipality) Seifeddin in an action to release were unlawful, and that steps ahould him from restraint and of acting in be taken to secure recession. a manner contrary to the dignity
of the Bar-Reuter.
W. Bennett (Labour) 11,789. H. Selley (Conservative) 11,218. V. Albu (Liberal) 2858. This is a Labour gain.-Reuter.
LT. KNOWLES
BRITISH OFFICER'S FATE ESTABLISHED
TAKEN TO BE A SPY
Grave Danger
The resolution continued:
“In
SUN FO'S SCHEME
view of the grave dangers to which property owners and ratepayers are exposed, this meeting calls upon the 6,000 MILES NEW RAILWAYS Governments interested to make the
IN CHINA most urgen representations to the
BOXER INDEMNITY FUNDS Lieutenant Knowles was mis- Naltonal Government of China and take steps to secure effective pro- taken by the Kirin troops as 1
Nanking, Feb. 2. Shansi spy and shot with his don-tection for their respective nationals key driver at Sungchihkou, a vil- and their fights.” A
At a reception given to news- An international representative paper representatives by Mr. Sun lage in Hual Hsien on or about
committed of five members was ap-Fe, Minister of Railways the October 25, 1927. This is the gist of the findings of pointed by the meeting for the pur public and the press ware urged to Chinese members of the joint Sino-pose of keeping in touch with the give their fullest support to a pro- British commission which left Pek- Chinese authorities for the
pasal submitted recently by Mr. of the Ing last September for districts to time, until a satisfactory settlement sun to the State Counell the west of Peking and Shansi in an of the question of the administra National Government for approval, effort to lift the veil over the mystion of the two S.A.D.'s can be ob, which provided for the issuance of terious disappearance of the young officer of the British legation guard.
Went On. Hunting Trip
tained. Reuter.
mean-
NOVEL UPRISING
AN "EDIPEROR" SET UP WITH A CAPITAL
FLAGS AND EVERYTHING
$408,500,000 worth of loan bonds for the construction of railways. It is proposed that part of the in- creased customs revenues and the Boxer Indemnity Funds be used as securities,
The findings say it will be recall- ed that shortly after the commence. ment of hostilities between Mukden and Shansi toward the end of Sep-
The total mileage of the new tember, 1927, Lieutenant Knowles
lines Is estimated at between left the city on a three-weeks' hunt-
5,878 and 6,102 miles, and the ing trip to the regions west of Pek-
Nanking, Feb. 3.
total cost between $751,521,627 and ing but when his leave expired, he According to a special despatch to $863,329,627, The proposed rail- failed to return. A search imme- the "Chin Pao," an outlaw by the ways are to be completed within. diately was launched but owing to name of Ma Hai-wei prodaimed him-six years. the military operations which were self emperor at Chowtoun, in Shan- then going on between the contend-tung, on February 2. Chowteun, a ing Chinese factions, nothing came small village near Chamhan, was
DR. SUN'S FUNERAL
Nanking, Yesterday.
It is officially announced that the state burial of the remains of Dr. Sun Yat-sen has been postponed to June 1, so as to allow time for the completion of various preparations, especially the construction of the Chungshan memorial highway, work
Four Periods
The construction programme is
out of the Investigation. "N. C. made the capital, and yellow flags, divided into four periods. During Standard."
formerly the royal standards of the arst period. the lines connect- kings, holsted."
ing Canton with Hankow, Tunghai with Kaolan During the early years of the re-
(Lunghal), and public, a secret society was organ- Taangchow with Shihchiachuang ised in that district, known as Y are to be completed. The second Sin Tang, Chin Ti Hul, and Fan group of railways to be construct- I Tao at various times. Ma, who is ed are those connecting Nanking the lender of the group, is an old with Hunan, Nanking with Canton, man of over 60 years of age. It is and Canton with Yunnan. In the reported that the members of the third period, construction work society have to hand over their land will begin on lines connecting and property to the society, and the Paotou with Linghsia, Tainan with on which has been considerably de-food and clothing of the members Taokou, Chengtu with Chungking, Tayed by bad weather.-Reuter. and their family are provided for by and Tatung with Puchow.
the society. Its influence is grad- last line to be constructed is that ually spreading towards Wantai, running from Chingchow, In Tzechuan, Poshan, Chowping, Ling- Kwangtung, to Proching, in Hu- tze, and other districts in Shantung, nan. Many Red Spears and peasant armles have joined the society.
A verdict of misadventure was re. turned at a Hull Inquest on Hilda Pindar, 40, who was fatally injured when she fell from a stool on which she had been standing in order to hang some holly on her brother's photograph.
TO-DAY & TO-MORKOW
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.15 & 9.15.
also
at 7.15. & 9.15 p.m. performances "CATHRYN "
Talented American Danseuse in a repertoire of Classical and Oriental Dances.
NORMA
Money for Hospital
The
The total payment to the British, Russian and Italian Boxer Indemn- lity Funds up till 1949 will reach In order to prevent the Govern- $267,143,812. According to the (Continued at foot of Next Column) proposal of Mr. Sun, the annual
TALMADGE
AT THE
Graustark
Glorious Grautark
will melt
your heart with its touch-
ing story of a
princess, who loved
an American.
MAJESTIC
46, NATHAN
payments may be used as a sink- ing fand for educational purposes, and part of this sum may be loan- ed to the Ministry of Rallways by Instalments for construction of the proposed 'new' railways,
Customs Revenue
According to the proposal of the Ministry of Railways, If. the in- creased customs revenue at the end of 1929 exceeds $16,000,000 and is under $20,000,000 at least |$10,000,000 is to be set aside for the railway reconstruction fund. Beginning from 1930 up till 1943, Feach year $20,000,000 is to be sat
aside.
It is estimated that $198,000,000 will come from the Boxer Indema- ity Funds within three years, and | $270,000,000 from the increased customs revenues. With this amount, $408,000,000, it is expect- ed that 2,537 miles of new lines raay be constructed, and that the total mileage of China's rallways will reach the figure of 8,931. It || is stated that the required funds for the construction of the remain- ing 2,841 miles of railways, can be raised by other means.
THE TRIUMPHANT STARS OF “7TH HEAVEN" win new laurels in this beautiful romance of an artist and “A Street Angel."
JANET GAYNOR
CHARLES FARRELL
FRANK
In
BORZAGES
STREET LANGE
WILLIAM FOX
PRESENTATION
LOVE RIVALS-one, a "Street Angel," dancing her way into the heart of the man she loved; the other, a heartless, hardened sinner, fighting, always fighting. Fate tossed them together and tore them apart in the greatest drama of human hearts ever unfolded on the screen!
AT THE
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
∙AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
A splendid screen version of the famous stage play, "The Square Peg" by Lowis Beach!
THE DENIAL
With
WILLIAM HAINES, CLAIRE WINDSOR
AT THE
WORLD!
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20. Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15. 2.30 & 7.15.Chinese Picture, "TILL WE MEET AGAIN.”
ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, THRILLS! -in a production of towering magnificence from the
famous novel by Raphael Sabatini with the star of "The Big Parade" in his most dashing role i
BARDELYS The Magnificent
AT THE
Starring
JOHN GILBERT-
STAR TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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SPEEDING
PASSING A COLUMN OF TROOPS TOO QUICKLY
At the Kowloon Magistracy 1
yes.
of the Battalion had given him the eignzi.
Lieut. Col. Ponsonby, in evidence Bald that the car passed the column at a speed which he estimated at. 35 miles per hour.
The defence, conducted by Mr.
ment authorities from interfering terday, Mr. H. C. Lee was sum- G. S. Hugh Jones, was that the car with its activities, the society pre moned before Mr. E. W. Hamilton might have been going at 18 or 19 sented to General "Chang Chung-
miles per hour, and Mr. Lee adult- chang, when the latter was the way for the alleged dangerous driving ted that he saw, men of the regi ernor of Shantung, 64 gold bare and of a motor car,
ment carrying red fings, but that
more than $100,000 in cash.'" 'The The summons was taken out at did not convey anything to him money was supposed to be a contri- the Instigation of the Officer Com- until he saw the whole Battalion bution to the military hospital fund, manding the Queen's Royal Regt-coming along, then the car was After the Telnan Incident, there was ment, who alleged that the defen- stopped. arumour that Ms agreed to pay dant falled to slow down while His Worship accepted the evi- $80,000 every month to the Pesos
prasing a column of the Queen's dence for the pros: tion Society at Tainan, pre-Regiment on the march on Taipo- posed a fine of $25. Defen
the organisation of add on December 22 last, this in a previous conviction, in
maintain
peace in Trinam.
epite of the fact that a picket ahead for
had