MONDAY, JULY 1, 1929.
THREE BIG ’UNS
MOVEMENTS OF CHINESE LEADERS
CHANG, FENG AND YEN
Poking, Saturday.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE "NUMANCIA' "ROUND THE CINEMAS
NOW BEING TAKEN TO GIBRALTAR
SPANIARDS DELIGHTED
Madrid, Yesterday.
JOHN BARRYMORE'S LATEST PICTURE
"ETERNAL LOVE"
The high Swiss Alps and the simple folks who dwell in one of the villages provide the locale for "Eternal Love," John Barrymore's latest picture, which
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
General Yon Hsi-shan (Governor Rejoicings continue throughout of Sharai, who stands for better,Spain. for worse between the National Every available British, French, will be shown at the Queen's Theatre HONG HONG WATER SUPPLY Government and Feng Yu-hsiang, Italian and Portuguese ng has from Thursday to Saturday.
Barrymore is a dare-devil hunter whoTT IS. HEREBY NOTIFIED that (the "Christian General") is been commandeered for a monster expected to arrive here from demonstration, organised by the rebels at authority. There are two
commencing on TUESDAY, 2nd the Shansi
of Spanish Aero Club, and parti-women in his life-one, a spiritual typo July, the principal mains in the morning
see cipated in by many thousands, be-(Camilla Horn), whom he deeply loves, City of Victoria and High Level June 301 and he Marshal Chiang Kai-shek (head singing the four Embassies to ex-(Mona Rico), who sets her cap at him. Districts will be CLOSED daily of the National Government, who press their appreciation of the as- The idyllic romance goes on the rocks except has come to Peking from Nanking sistance in the search by means when the hunter. is ensnared into an periods:- with a staff and a formidable body of uproarious ariplause.-enter. guard) before going to Tientsin to rejoin Feng Yu-hsiang.
may
Feng's Short Cut
EARLIER CABLES
London, Saturday.
"Eagle," has discovered the miss ing Spanish airmen, Major Franeo- and his companions, who are safe and well and
and the other a harum-scarum spitfire
"SORRELL AND SON"
affair with the girl he doesn't love.
Camilla tries to forget her sweete heart, but she unconsciously reveals her love for him when he is lost in a {storm Her jealous-crazed husband Feng Yu-halang is also coming
The Admiralty announces that tries to kill Barrymore, but is himself northward by the Peking-Hankow the aircraft carrier. H.MS killed in duel.. Railway but he is not coming quite As far as Peking. From a point a little to the south of Peking, he will branch off from the Peking-Hankow Railway on the loop line which skirts the south of Peking and links up at Fengtai with the railway from Peking to the port of Tientsin. The inference is that both Yen Hsi- shan and Feng Yu-halang will sail from Tientsin on a chartered Japan- cae merchant vessel for Japan, where they will stay at least for the time being.
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Delegates Fail Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's dele- gatos, Mr. H. H. Kung (Minister for Industry), Mr. Wu Tsz-huei ( prominent member of the National- ist Party) and Mr. Chao Tai-wen, apparently failed to persuade, on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Hai-shan to remain in China, instead of accompanying Feng Yu-halang on whom pressure has been exerted
to Force him into exile. Reuter.
Fen's Personal Triumph
Peking. Yesterday.
Yen Haf-shän arrived at 8.15) this morning.
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His arrival was in the nature of a personal triumph. A special guard of honour with two bands met the Shansi leader, in addition to every importent local official and the entire body of the provin- eil Government: Those present included General Ho Cheng- chun, who apologised for Chiang Kaishek's absence.-Reuter.
In Conclave with, Chiang
Feking. Yesterday. Telephonie advice of Yen Hs- shan's arrival was the signal for
The return that their dying boat, the Numancia," is a little damaged.--Router.
[The Numancia" Was On 3 trans-Atlantic Right from Spain to America. A first it was errone- Dusly announced that the airmen had landed at the Azores. she was posted
missing. This
of Herbert Brenon's famous novel "Sorrell and Sou" will be agreen version of Warwick Deeping's
appreciated by many, who may see it again to-day at the World Theatre.
H. B. Warner enacts
during the following
6·1.m.-8 a.m. and
:'
6 p.m.--8 p.m. Commencing on 2nd July, the street fountains which have been CLOSED in the area immediately south of Queen's Road will be opened daily during the above hours.
PEAK SUPPLY.
NOTICE.
HE AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Tof Hong Kong will bex Arr
HOME to their frienda on the 4th July: 1929, 11.30 am to 1 pm at the American Club, Duddell Street.
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929.
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NOTICE.
OWNERS of Motor Teles,
Trucks, Trolleys, Carts, Vans and Drivers of Motor Vehicles ape hereby notified that Licences för same are due for renewal on July 1st, 1929.
T. H. KING, Capt. Supt. of Police. Hong Kong, 28th June, 1929.
WATER EMERGENCY COMMITTEE.
Post Office Building, 1st four.
The supply the Peak will be A Control Office has been opened, his role as turned on daily as follows, com-
as from to-day, Captain Stephen Sorrell, M.C., with mencing TUESDAY, 2nd-July:--
**t superbress and tact. Then
As "Kit Sorrell," his son, Nils Asther Severn Road (Eastern Section Was followed by reports of discoveries acts very well. Others of note in theonly) Barker Road, Magazine Gap
(a) the
derelict cast are Carmel Myers, Ann Q. Nill and Wanchai Gap Districts. remains 'plane 120 miles from the Azores son, Alice Joyce, Norman Trevor, and and (b) a fare believed to be from Mary Nolan.
of
an aeroplane, the position of which flare leading to a suspicion that it was from the "Numancia" if she had been trying to reach New York without stopping at the Azores,"]
Hoisted Aboard
H.M.S. "Eagle" found the
CRISIS IN JAPAN
(Continued from Page 1)
6-8 am, and 4-5 p.m. The remainder of the Peak:-- 6-9 a.m.' HAROLD T. GREASY, Water Authority. Public Works Department,
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"Numancia" in Lat. 36.28 North, affair in Manchuria" (the phrase Hong Kong, 29th June, 1929.
Long. 24.14 West (ie., 200 miles or 80 S.E. of the Azores). The "Numancia" has been hoisted aboard H.MS. "Eagle," which is proceeding
Gibraltar. to "Numancia" has been missing since June 24-Beuter.
The
(Judging from the position given, the "Numancia" probably did not even reach San Miguel, which is between the position where she was found and the Azores. The first rumour was that she had arrived
used in the orders):
Colonel Kawamoto, Staff Officer in the division composing the Garrison in Manchuria in from duty.
1928-auspension AVIATION DISASTERS
Lieut-General Salto, Chief of Staff of the whole Garrison in Manchuria in 1928-indefinitely disciplinary con finement in quarters.
Major-General Mizumachi, Comman der of the Japanese guards in the South Manchuria Railway zone. in 1928-indefinite disciplinary confine- meat in quarters.
Later.
at San Miguel, At any rate, a It is learned in a source which, Portuguese destroyer, four Spanish destroyers and two
squadrons of apparently, is very reliable, that seaplanes set out in search of the the Japanese Government is resign airmen.]
Enthusiasm In Madrid
Madrid, Yesterday,
ing on July 2,
Real Reason
Tokyo, Yesterday.
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MISS GENTRY'S ROMANCE
AND HER "RIVAL"
PATHETIC CALL FOR "BILL”
New York, Saturday.
The crash of Miss Viola Gentry in the competitive attempt on the
endurance flight record (which she began on June 27) is rendered additionally poignant.
On June 28 her 'plane came down tragically, she being seriously hurt.
The rescue of the missing air- It is learned on high authority and her pilot, Jack Ashcraft, being men has been received with tremen-that in epite of the War Minister's killed.
dous relief and rejoicing.
apparent disapproval of the On June 26, Mr. and Mrs. Martin The news spread like wildfire, punishment of the officers in con- Jensen, with a Danish pilot named and shouts of "Long Live England nection with the Manchurian affair, William Ulbrich, started from this involves no real deadlock, but Roosevelt Field. Both Miss Gentry is used as a pretext to enable the and those on the rival" 'plane were Government to resign without the determined to break the world's loss of face,
flying endurance record (with re fuelling from other machines in the air, during the flight). The matters, discussed and the
Semi-Conscious & sterical results thereof remain a closely
It now transpires *hat Miss guarded secret but it is stated un- Bunting was displayed every churian incident, but also in the Gentry is "romantically attached" to officially that Yen Hsi-shan is where, and demonstratora made a mishandling of the question of the William Ulbrich, the pilot of the soon returning to Taiyuan to com- spontaneous processions to the lifting the
gold ban, and the "rival" machine. plate bis preparations for his de- British Embassy to convey thanks failure to carry out the main
Lying in the wreckage of her perture, after which he and Feng to the Ambassador, who when he domestic policy to which the 'plane, Miss Gentry wag Yu-hsiang will leave together for appeared on the balcony was given Government was pledged when it conscious and hysterical. She re semi-
peatedly called "BI" (Ulbrich). Jubilation increased towards It is likewise learned on seem- The latter evening, when despite the rain, ingly good authority that the Privy above the clouds. He learnt of Miss was meanwhile flying bands headed processions in all Counell is by no means, statisfied Gentry's disaater by wireless tele quarters of the city.
that the phraseology of the Kellogg King Alfonso who is at present Fact is in harmony with the phone and frantically appealed from in London wired that he had called spirit of the national constitution, the sky for full details from the on King George to express thanks but and congratulations.
Chiang Kai-shek's hurried-return and the British Airmen" resound to Peking from the country. Oned through the streets. arrival he, telephoned Yen Haj- General Erimo de Rivera rushed shan inviting him to the Peking out of his office almost in tears, Hitel where the two remained and the news was telegraphed all
The real reason lies not only in closeted alone for two hours.
over the country and posted up the dissatisfaction in the highest outside public offices within a few quarters over the mishandling both minutes.
of the Kellogg Pact and the Man-
a trip abroad.-Reuter,
STIMSON SPEAKS
—
CONFERENCE ON NAVAL DISARMAMENT
"HAD BEEN APPROACHED"
ment.
Washington, Saturday,
an ovation.
Further Details
A wireless from H.M.S. "Eagle" informed the Admiralty that Major Franco met with excessive air dis-
took office..
ratification was finally approved owing to the bad effect refusal to approve would produce internationally.
Business Views
aerodrome: officials,
The officials eventually placed a microphone at Miss Gentry's bedside to enable her to speak - perhaps for the last time to "Bill" Ulbrich, who was still flying and not yet aware of the critical injuries sus
FOULED THE TAIL
Two Military Planes Spin Down to Earth
Osaka, Yesterday. Mr. Stimson, the Secretary of State, has disclosed that he had turbances after passing Cape St. The prospective resignation of bean approached regarding the Vincent. The 'plane was compelled the Tanaka Cabinet is enthusiasti tained by her-Reuter's American
'welcomed by business Service. possibility of an immediate Five- to fly between two layers of clouds cally Fower Conference on naval arma-and ocean. A strong north-east men and bankers because, ander He denied, however, the gale caused the flyers to pass the Baron Tanaka they have abandoned report that he had unqualifiedly Azores in the dark, and they found all hopes of better conditions, either approved the dea Reuter's in the morning by the sun that financially or diplomatically. American Service.
they were south-west of the Azores. The business community hope They then flew through the that the new government will be [A conference in London next summer on the political aspects of clouds, and landed, so as to econo- at least more constitutional and Feduction of naval armaments was mise fuel, and re-set the course enforce better discipline in the ad regarded in U.S.A. Government to Fayal. When they took off again, ministration, and improve relations circles as a possible outcome of the strong headwinds were blowing, with China and that it will retrench discussions in London.]
and they exhausted their petrol government for the
the
forty miles from Fayal, from where ing the ground for the raising of the they drifted 100 miles southward to gold embargo.-Reuter.
BRITAIN & RUSSIA St. Maria where the Eagle found
SIR M. LAMPSON'S TALKS WITH DR. WANG
Shanghai, Yesterday. Sir Miles Lampson (the British Minister) has arrived from Nan king where he has been discuss- ing with. Dr. C. T. Wang (the Foreign Minister) the question of the return of Britain's share of the Boxer Indemnity, the rendi- tion of Weihaiwel to Ching and the new Anglo-Chinese commer- cial treaty.
them.
Going To Gibraltar
London, Yesterday. The Eagle with the Spanish air- men is due at Gibraltar on July 2.
Reuter.
"SOUTHERN CROSS”
Reaches Rangoon From Singapore
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BEAUTY IN CAFES
·RED HAIR AND "ZIEGFELD" LEGS
Rheims, Saturday, Whilst two military aeroplanea were refuelling in mid-air, the lead pipe fouled the tail of one of the machines, earthy
Both span earthwards. One righted itself near the ground, but the other was wrecked and two air- men were killed. Reuter.
All inquiries and communica- tions regarding the Importation of water should be made there.
WILL STEAMSHIP AGENTS PARTICULARLY NOTE. Tel. No. C. 2527 & Govt. No. 284. By Order,
H. S. ROUSE,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st July, 1929.
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LOVE
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Today - Queen's Theatre; abigher weekly salary,
20,000 square miles of hitherto "Fleetwing Rangoon, Yesterday. Another catering firm running a
To-day World Theatre; The Southern Cross" arrived chain of restaurants expects its unknown land in the Antarctic here at 410 p.m. to-day. Reuter. waitresses to possess Ziegfeld Ocean is announced by Comman "Sorrell and Son.
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This search for pulchritude, on Lindau, Yesterday the part of restaurant owners has
FALLS INTO LAKE
Sir Miles has requested further Instructions from London regard- meanwhile he will go to Weihai- Two Pilots and Three Passengers
ing the first two issues. In the
vei aboard H.M.S. 'Suffolk.” Reuter,
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The Franco-Chinese negotiations
Air Lloyd Company was about to clare sarcastically that beauty has Capt Hawkes Re-crosses American on the revision of the commercial light on Lake Constance an ex usurped the place of brains in their treaty between China and Indo-plosion was
China have been resumed, the Conversation since resumption ing place on June 29,
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