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RAFT PROGRAMMES and ENTRY FORMS for the EXTRA RACE MEET-
MACAO ́NEWS
MACAO-SHEKKI HIGHWAY
EXTENSION/
STRIPPED AND SHOT
HOW THREE U.S. PRIESTS WERE KILLED
NEWS REACHES LEGATION
Peking, Saturday. The US. Legation has now receiv-
FINE LEVEL STRETCHES
Of late much work has been done in extension of the Macao- Shekk Highway, and the fine ed details of the killing of the PA- metalled highway proceeds evenly sionist. Fathers, along more than fifteen miles Thirty bandit soldiers seized from Macão, past the important them at Huachia, near Chenki, junction of Koo Hok, on to the Hunan, and marched them into the east where, near Tong-ka, it hills about 50 miles to the mouth branches off northwards in the of a mine shaft, 50 feet deep, where direction of Choi Hang, Dr. Sun they stripped, shot and flung the Yat-sen's ancestral home.
naked bodies into the pit. Foremost in encouraging this The motive of the murderers is fine example of development is unknown..
Mr. Tong Shao-yoe, who has set Fathers Anthony Maloney and the about making Chung Shan the Miles Macarthy recovered
With bodies on April 27. model district of China. Mr. Tong, working on the build- The funeral is being held at ing of this read, are a number of Shenchow today.
To Prevent a "Run" A few years ago there was a levy FIFTI ING to be held on SATURDAY, capital. How much invested in
and 18th May
MONDAY,
With these figures as the basis, the themselves natives of the place. 20th May 1929 (Wealber per-
on
each business had to be declared.
young men,
most of
whom are
stenographer for Amey. Reply The (mitting) may be obtained at the Government has fixed a percentage Already there are signs of deve-1
Race Course. Hong Kong Club, and of the banknotes which can be hand-opment wherever the road pesACS,
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ed in for exchange.
The opinion gained from this is that the Government has taken
and in some of the fields the farmers are beginning to make
steps to prevent a "run" on the machines.
1152 of modern ploughing
Bank, as was done when hostilities
Canton.
w
The road will in time come to
broke out recently between the be famed for fine level stretches National Government and
the of road, often running for miles Kwangsi faction then in control at together in an almost straight A Cantonese element has line. From Macao at all times now supplanted the Kwangsi group. motor-cara speed along to the end News about war rumoars concern of the present operations, and then ing Canton follows.
turn-away-to- Tong-ka, where Mr.. Tong Shao-yee has built a lovely Close to the garden is
garden.
DON'T WASTE WATER!
Murderers at Large The names of the murdered men
were!
Walter Coveyou, of Petoskey, Michigan.
Clément Seybold, of Dunkirk, New York.
Godfrey Holbein, of Baltimore, Maryland.
It is revealed that they were cap- tured (on April 24) when travelling between Chenki and Yuanchow, by thirty leaderless soldiers and shot in cold blood without any apparent motive.
The Priests' servants were nxde The
prisoner but released later. servants, brought details of the murders to Chenki, to Fathers Maloney and Macarthy, who set out with a guard of ninety soldiers and recovered the bodies which were brought in to Chenki.
burial.
General Attack Boast ARY GENERAL MEETING
Changsha, Saturday. of Shareholders will be held at An order for a general offensive the Offices of the undersigned on against Kwangsi province-the THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1929, only one of four provinces remain- at Noon, for the purpose of re-ing to the Kwangsi group--has ceiving the Report of the General been issued by General Ho Chien,
A supporter Agents, together with a Statement previously
of the
An inquest was held by the local of Accounts for the year ended Kwangai group in Hunan, who was
of the same Chinese Magistrate, after which the 31st December, 1928.
jappointed the new Chairman of the the ancient village The SHARE REGISTER and Hunan Provincial Government after name, and it is beautifully clean the bodies were taken to Mission Mr. headquarters at Shenchowfu for TRANSFER BOOKS will
he had turned, in battle, against and seemingly prosperous. he
Tong has contributed very great- CLOSED from the 9th to the 23rd the Kwanggi-ites.
The order followed the arrival of ly to the laying-out of the streets hended and it has not been ascer- The murderers were not appre- May, 1929, both days inclusive.
Ho Chien at. Hengchow, in the south and the many modern develop- of Hunan, about half way from ments, one of which is an excel-tained which army they formerly
belonged to:-Beater. Changsha (the capital of Hunan) lently equipped school. Motor- southward to Kwangsi's northern buses ply between Macao and frontier, or about 100 miles from various points along the road, the Kwangsi.
last station up to the present be- Ho Chien has reported to the ing Koo Hak. National Government that the units It is reported that business in of the Kwangsi army defending the district has recently shown Kwangsi's northern frontier, anti-signs of improvement, but the cipuling a rapid advance against farmers are badly in need of rain. them by the pro-National Govern One of the works to be taken in ment troops, are withdrawing from hand by the new Committee of "Everlasting Punishment" was the north of Xwangai to Kwellin. Chung Shan, beaded by Mr. Tong the subject of the Lesson-Sermon all Churches of Christ, Shao-yee, is that of providing for in Schemed for Months water works to assist in the mat- Scientist, yesterday.
The Golden Text was: From Our Political Correspondent) ter or irrigation.
It is expected that Macao will Lord preserveth the strangers
the fatherless Hunan, Kiangsi and Kwangtung be connected to Shekki by this be relieveth
three provinces from road before the end of the pre- widow; but the way of the wicked be which as far na trik goes-an sent year.
turneth upside down" (Psalms 146:9).
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1929.
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Wonderful Chinese Magician Wong Won-sang, Chinese magi- cian, gave a splendid performance of mystifying illusions, accom- panied by a large band of Chinese girls.
NORMA SHEARER
The programme was much ap- preciated by the large audience. Most enjoyed was an item of skill in which one of the young girls was securely nailed in a wooden box (by one of the audience) but Among the citations which com-after a lapse of a few minutes prised the Lesson-Sermon was the only, she was seen to be standing following from the Bible: Thus at the rear of the stage, are al saith the Lord the King of Israel, the Lord of ed to Feng Yu-hsiang in the ready in place, and work has com and his redeemer
the first, and I am menced with making connections hosts; I am Ho Chien is unlikely to move, to subscribers. Messre. Siemens the last; and beside me there is no as he places above all else preserving China Company, the suppliers of
I have blotted out, as a position as "No. 1 in the equipment, are busy attending thick cloud. thy transgressions, | his own Hunan, for which he has schemed to the various details of linking and, as a cloud, thy sins: return
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